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FP il ow qd a { : PR IE OOS Ge Bt ae A Nghe get) en oe EASE sg &. - | _ * af Lees oye z «== > . ae } . , ait i’ ~~ Here, for instance ce of brass. 544 Mit ; Va vi ! ~~ Hs ty He é, : y= : : 4 . pony — a,* .* ¥. N . md Ne. PRE ~~! THE GOLDEN ARGOSY. Yo . ) \ iqumee- , omg 15 At x A _—- a UNINTENTIONAL TRUTH. ENTLEMAN.—" Liltle boy, don’t you know it is very wrong to use tobacco?” G SS Boy.—* Who's a usin’ lerbacker? Dat's a cigarette!” 8’ DUTIES AND DANGERS. :to an interview of « reporter for | Express with No. 1 of the New livers, t) vould seem that a good many tories set afloat about the condition of things nder water after the wrecking of a big at stes mer are made ont of whole cloth. For nee, drowned persons are never dis- sitting or etagding in exactly the ley happened to down. the wreck is older than a days they are much more likely to the n ceiling. divers, | spipesrs are sent for tp rts of .¢ : world, on account cplained the A No. ne. ark; for it’s : water around New it’s on aecount of the m Other waters can’t und . But a New work in the clear waters else- et ‘as fast as the local divers, be- cause his sense of touch—sense of touch under oS oi so finely developed. “We New York divers can tell various metals apart, if they are under water, by sense of touch; but if they are not under water we can feel no difference between them. is a piece of copper and a ut them on the table and nd 1 can’t tell which is which. the basin and pour water over an tell the moment I ikrs the s the ndfold me, uck ’em v them, and eces which is the copper and which rass. Yousee we New York divers have to ply all kinds of trades in the dark.” “Do you dive mueh for treasure?” “There’s not much of that going on now. The nee ile fo of that kind was the Hussar. The work on that wreck had to be done many feet under the bed of the river.” “Right where she went down?” “Right where she went down over a hun- dred years ago. A wreck remains just on the same spot where first she reaches bottom. As years roll on she works dowr, down into the bed of tne river, and so, where the Hussar sank so long ago, lies her hulk. The divers got out the sternpost but didn’t find any treasure. "I don’t believe that any treasure will be found onthe site of the wreck. I have heard that official documents in England show that, after the Hussar struck, the treasure was loaded into ber barge, which upset from the shifting of some boxes of the coin opposite a red house on Randall’s Island. “Some people have acrazy notion that Cap- tain Kidd’s vessel, with a vast deal of treasure, went down off Peekskill, and notlong agoa syndicate employed a diver for two summers. e didn’t find a trace of wreck. Some divers, who haven’t been long enough in the profes- sion to be constantly employed, and have a good deal of time on their hands, work old wrecks. For instance: The Commodore, off Stonington, the Isaac Newton, off Fort Lee, and the Thomas Morgan, off Yonkers; but there isn’t a fair day’s wages in such jobs. “Sometimes, however, we hear of old wrecks that haven’t. been worked yet, and they are worth looking after. Two years ago one of us who was building the foundation fora pier of the bridge at Saybrook heard that a schooner loaded with coal and copper had gone down there some thirty-five years ago. He‘ placed’ the wreck and got out the carge which was still in prime condition.” hat does a diver’s outfit consist of ?” “A boat, a pump, hose, lines and dress. The dress consists of layers of duck and rub- r. The shoes weigh twenty pounds each. On his chest and back he earries forty pound weights. The helmet, when it has n placed over the diver’s head, is firmly screwed into a copper collar that is attached to his dress. A weighted line is sunk to the spot he is toreach, and down that line he in when the| | dangers. oo goes with the life-line around his waist, and the hose, through which the air is pumped, attached to his helmet. Those who handle the life-line and hose must regulate these as he moves about below.” r ‘What are a diver’s working wages ?”. “Four hours and $6. If he furnishes his own apparatus his wages are higher—$35 to. $0 aday. For getting a hawser out of a steamer’s screw I’d charge $0 if I furnished my own apparatus.” ‘I suppose part of the charge is for the risks you run?” “Yes, a diveris exposed to a good many One of them, you'll be surprised to learn, isfalling asleep. On a hot day the @ trast between the heat above and the i oolness below water is apt to n IT once Slept an hour anda at the bottom of a wreck near Kingston, where I was Jaying pipe. Suppose that had happened in the channel near Governor's Island, where the tide runs so swift that a diver can work only during the one hour of slack water! IfI’d slept over that one hour the deadly rush of tide would have snapped the life-line and hose. Then in eat Sipe wrecks there is the danger of getting jJamme in between freight or of getting the hose or line tangled. When the hose snaps the fright- ful pressure kills the diver. He is sicken- ingly distorted by it.” —___—_—_ > oe __—_—- —_ A FOE TO THE SWEET TOOTH. Tue New York Herald announces the discovery of certain odd properties of a plant well-known in British India, which our American housewives will now doubtless be eager to have imported and put up as a barri- ende across the “jam” corner of the pantry. For this “‘ peculiar property ” is nothing more nor less than the ability to destroyin him who eats it the power of tasting sugar. The plant’s scientifiC name is gymnema sylwwestre, it grows widely in the Deccan Peninsula and is also met with in Assam and on the Coromandel coast. A late Governor of Madras and other resi- dents of India who have tested its properties eertify that chewing two or three leaves ab- solutely abolishes the tongue’s power to taste sweetness. Professor Dyer’s experiments with leaves, sent to him at Kew, in England, eorroborate their testimony. This plant is likely to prove a most valuable addition to the modern materia medica. Its power to destroy the taste of sweetness suggests its use by physicians to correct morbid craving for sweetmeats, which is a souree of widespread disorders of digestion. General Elles, of Madras, is reported as having found that gumnema also abolishes “the power of enjoying a cigar.”’ While smok- ers may not relish this, physicians may prize immensely a plant which, administered tu utients who use tobaceo to excess, would, or a time at Jeast, check inordinate smoking. The power of the plant to render tasteless many drugs which are extremely nauseous, ponle to commend it to the medical pro- ession. day and his ea a —_—_—_- - oq _—_—_—— A HOMESICK SNAKE. Dogs and horses have been credited with a vast amount of intelligence, but itis certainly surprising to learn that the rattlesnake pays attention to conversation going on around him. Yet it is related that some Americans recently going through the Jardin des Plantes stopped to look at a Virginian rattlesnake in a cage. 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