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-SYRIAN DIVER IS SKILLFUL.
Under-Water Workers Amaze the
World by Their Great Endur
ance—A Few Instances.
Tho divers of the Syrian coast
use no up paratus except a heavy
f«tone for a sinker and a light lim
bi which they come up handover
hand. Some time ago, when the
I'nited States cruisers Brooklyn
and San Francisco were anchored
at Beirut for live months, the
Americans had opportunity to
witness t he skill and endurance of
the divers. The cruisers were in
I<> or 18 fathoms of water.
OOe day a midshipman, on
duty at the gangway, raised his
sword-belt too high, and the shin
ing blade, slipping from its scab
bard, went circling to the bottom
of the sea. The .water was be
tween 00 and 10ft feet deep at the
spot. A diver was sent for, and
Jlie spot where the sword went
down was pointed out. He st opped
in his little bout, pumped himself
full of air, seized his sinker, disap
peared in the blue waters and
fetched the sword almost immedi
ately.
At another time a boat load of
coal was swamped beside t lie ship,
and sank to the bottom. Other
divers came, located the coal and
the boat, and descending time
sifter time in Oft feet of water, they
.placed the coal in bags, and suc
ceeded in saving both coal and the
boat. Officers on deck timed these
divers again and again, and found
that they frequently remained an
•der water as long as one minute
and fifty ti ve seconds.
But the greatest feat was per
formed by another diver some
weeks later, when the United
States collier Alexandra snapped
her cable, and dropped her anchor
aud 40 fathoms of chain in 20 fath
oms of water. A diver was
.sent for and rowed out to the spot.
After being directed to where the
y anchor and chain lay, he divested
himself of his clothing, went
jhi;oijgli_ his pumping process, and
sappeared in over 11.0 feet of
legro fc. 11 . . . .
, ter. One minute elapsed; it
nworth.ned longtime. Then a sec
"^Vmd' minute was called off, which
d seemed a much longer time. But
not until two minutes and fifteen
seconds had elapsed did the poor
fellow come crawling up the rope
greatly exhausted. But he had
found tIk* chain, attached the
grapple and rope, and succeeded
in recovering both anchor and
chain at the first dive. The of
ficers of the ship could scarcely be
lieve that any human frame could
-fit a ml the pressure of the water at
michdept hs,much l.ess live t hrough
flic excessive variations of pres
sure involved in the descent and
ascent of more than 100 feet with
in two minutes and fifteen sec
onds. But these divers along the
Byrian coast do their work with
comparative impunity, and fairly
sustain their ancient fame as the
most skillful divers in the world.
QUEER SWIMMING NEEDLES
A Trick That Is Easily Done When
One Understands the Con
l ditions.
Swimming noodles that will re
main on tin* water, approach each
other and float side by side, seem
bewitched to those who know from
experience how quickly a needle
will sink to the bottom of a glass
of water under ordinary condi
tions.
There a re several ways of making
a needle float on the surface of the
»water. The simplest way is to
place a piece of tissue paper on
the water and lay the needle on it.
The paper soon becomes soaked
•with water and sinks to the bot
tom, while the needle is left float
ing on the top. Another method is
to hang tiie needle in two slings
made of threads, which must be
carefully drawn away as soon as
the needle floats. The needle can
•also be made to float by simply
holding it in the fingers and laying
it on the water, hot this requires a
.very steady hand.
> After two or three needles have
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been made to float in a bowl of wa
water, magnetize a sewing needle
by rubbing it on a fairly strong
magnet* and when it is floated on
the water it will make an extreme
ly sensitive compass that will at
tract the other needles. They will
slowly approach each other until
they float side by side. Do nor
ha ve t he sewing needle too st rong
ly magnetized, or the needles may
strike together so heavily as to
cause them to sink.
WHERE TIME IS NOTHING.
In the Eastern European Countries
People Care Little for Sav
ing- Time.
Miss Mary E. Dunham lias
made an eiitertaining book out of
her travels through the Balkan
states. She found that the idea
of women traveling without a
male escort in those countries
struck t lie people whom sin* met as
most singular. A Montenegrin
was also astonished at an expendi
ture of money upon travel which
seemed to him without adequate
purpose.
The English, he had been told,
wanted to see and know every
thing; they traveled everywhere.
It must be a very expensive habit.
It had perhaps cost me eight
pounds, he suggested, to come this
distance. I admitted that it had,
and he expressed great astonish
ment at the lavish expenditure.
“And it takes not only money
but time,” said my companion.
He laughed merrily. “Time!
What is time? Time is nothing.
You live, and then you die.” The
idea of reckoning “time” amused
him vastly.
“Time.” said a Hungarian, who
was of the party, in order to show
his superior knowledge, “is
thought very much of by the Eng
lish. I have been told that they
have a proverb which says: ‘Time
is money.' ”
We corroborated this report, to
the astonishment of both men, for
even the Hungarian thought this
was going rather far. The Mon
tenegrin thought it one of the wild- j
est statements he had ever met
with, and shook his puzzled head.
Seeding to Alfalfa.
Alfalfa may he seeded either fall or
spring. When fall sown it can be cut
for hay the next summer, whereas, the
spring sown crop should be clipped
several times during the first season to
kill weeds and left to mulch the
* ground.
Freak Ear of Corn.
A freak ear of corn is reported from
Shelbyville, Ind. It is composed of
about 200 small ears, each the size of
a lead pencil.
The dairy cow is a great factor in
•very civilized country.
WONDERFUL SILK OF SPIDER
Astronomer Finds After Year’s In
vestigation That Insect Has
the Best Article.
The astronomer after the expe
rience of many years lias found
lhat the spider furnishes the only
! thread which can be successfully
used in carrying on his work,
writes Ambrose Swazey, in the
Scientific American.
The spider lines mostly used are
from one fifth to one-seventh of a
thousand!h of an inch in diameter,
and, in addition to their strength
and elesticity, they have the pe
culiar property of withstanding
great changes of temperature;
and often when measuring the sun
spots, although the heaUis so in
tense as to crack the lenses of the
micrometer eyepiece, yet the
spider lines are not in the least in
jured.
The threads of the silkworm, al
though of great value as a commer
cial product, are so coarse and
rough compared with the silk of
the spider that they cannot be
used in such instruments.
Spider lines, although but a
fraction of a thousandth of an inch
in diameter, are made up of sev
eral thousands of microscopic
streams of fluid, which unite and
form a single line, and it is because
of this that they remain true and
round under the highest magnffy- j
ing power.
An instance of the durability of
the spider lines is found at the Al- |
leghenv observatory, where the
same set of lines in 1 he micrometer i
of the transit instrument has been
in use since 1851).
Inscription on Battle Monument
On the shaft of the Battle mon
ument at West Point appears the
following inscription: "In mem
ory of the officers and men of the
Regular Army of the United
States who fell during the War of
the Rebellion, this monument is
erected by their surviving com
rades.” On the pedestal of the
monument appear the names of
all the officers of the regular
army who were killed in action in
the civil war or who died as a re
sult of wounds received in action.
The names of all enlisted men who
were killed in action or who died
as a result of wounds appear on
bronze girdles surrounding gran
ite spheres which form a part of
the base of the monument. The
shaft is surmounted by a figure of
Victory designed by Frederick
Macmonnies.
Blind Woman Lawyer.
Miss Christine La Barraque,
now 28 years old, who has been
blind since she was a baby, is a
lawyer. She was graduated at
the head of a law class in a Cal
ifornia law school and has been
admitted to the bar in that state.
Miss La Barraque is a remark
able young woman. She is a grad
uate of the University of Califor
nia. a finished linguist, an ac
cqmplished equestrienne and a
musician. She is now in New
York city completing hermusieal
education. Realizing that a
blind woman can hardly practice
law successfully, she has decided
to make her living out of music.
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