The Kansas Woodman from Beloit, Kansas • 6

GIRTH OF THE GLOBE. GOING EAST THIS YEAR? 'is. crimson cloth, lined with white' lamb's wool; and this circumstance has somewhat strengthened the theory that the golden fleece was instituted by Philip the Good in grateful recognition of the immense treasures which the duke of Burgundy had acquired from the wool of the flooks bred on his vast estates in Flanders. Be it as it may, the woolen Xlflorts of the Scientists to Ascertain the Exact Distances. For a thousand years men have been trying1 to determine the exact distance around the world.

The distance was long ago calculated approximately at mat ne naa tne approximate distance around the world. He was not far from the truth, but his rude methods would come far short of satisfying the exacting demands of science in these times. He supposed that the earth was round, and took no account of the wabbling in and out of the road, or the inevitable curvature of the path of the wheel from a straight line. The ancients, however, were fully as shrewd as Fernel, and more than 2,500 years before his time they arrived at the same results by methods equally clever. The Chaldeans worked on the problem and reckoned by camel, miles, but the time has passed when scientists can Tbe content with a result expressed merely in round num fbers of miles.

Andrew Braid, execu ltor's advice Is.to take the Santa Fe as far as Chicago. The service is near perfection as quick- witted manag'rs can devise. Being 30 miles the shortest road, you can depend upon getting thro on time. The line is run as a ight as modern engineering can make it. The track Is laid with heavy steel rails.

No tive of the coast and geodetic survey, costume was changed in 1473 at a chapter held at Valenciennes for the more costly materials of velvet, taffeta, damask and gold embroidery. London Telegraph. CHINESE BANK NOTES. recently said that he believed the dis itance would eventually be computed so that the error in the diameter would not exceed 50 feet. steps.

They had it that 4,000 camel The basis for this statement is to be found in the fact that the United steps were necessary to make a mile, ana that 33M miles were one-naif of a States coast and geodetic survey will in a few months take up this huge degree. From this they declared that it was 24,000 miles around the world. In connection with their triangula problem for solution. The task is one of great magnitude, and will require from two to three prettier, cosier and more comfortable trains leave Kansas City than the two fast vesti-buled daily expresses over the Santa Fe route, at 5:30 p. m.

and 7:00 p. reaching Chicago 9:15 a. m. and 11:00 a. m.

Superb accommodation, with respect to dining cars, free chair cars and sleepers. Inquire of nearest agent. tion, the surveyors are attempting to learn what is the exact shape of the con years of solid mathematical "grind Precautions Taken Against Counterfeiting: the Currencv. Chinese bank notes are more like promissory notes than our bank notes. There is not and never has been a national bank and notes are not used as currency to any extent.

The banker merely writes the amount on the note and puts his private seal or chop over it. Such notes are made out for all sums from five to twenty thousand the Chinese banker never goes back on his signature. He pays the notes when they are presented in silver or gold. The silver is usually paid according to weight, in bumps the shapeof toy bath tubs, ranging in value all the way tinent tnrougn wnicn tneir laoors ex ing," such as would turn the majority tend. This has a great deal to do with of students pale.

a correct computation of the distance The most recent authorities differ around or through the earth. In fact, much with each other. The two they know that the earth is far from i Fast Mail Route whose, conclusions are accepted, Friederich W. Bessel, a distinguished being what they call Clarke's spheroid. German astronomer, and Col.

A. R. That is the present scientific name for the earth since the American surveyors RUNS uiarKe. an jungnsn engineer, are at a concluded that Col. Clarke's dimensions variance with each other about the from one to fifty dollars.

The usual 4-DAILY TRAINS diameter to the extent of one mile, and were most nearly correct. A large part of the north American continent bulges during the last thirty years, since the size is worth about fifty dollars, and it weighs about five pounds. The gold is made in long thin cakes, and is twenty out abnormally, like a rubber ball results of Col. Clarke were promul gated, the surveyors of different coun which is squeezed by a strong hand. BETWEEN Atchison St.

Louis (EQUIPPED WITH carats fine. The banker stamps with his private tries have been divided against them This is one of the things that puzzles the wise men. The great western selves on this question. seal every piece or" silver he pays out, plateau is elevated above the level PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS The preparation for this mammoth undertaking of the mathematical men of equilibrium probably more than and even the Mexican dollars are marked thus with India ink. RECLIMG CHAIR CARS () 10,000 feet on an average.

The of the survey requires the actual Every big bank or company has a theory is that the mass of the earth is AND ELEGANT PARLOR CARS measurement of the longest possible man who takes all of the silver dollars thoroughly viscous, but this immense that come in and fits them into holes plateau, weighing billions and billions made in a board, so that when they lie oi tons, is supported in some manner at the great height, when on general them their surface is just level with the board. He then takes a brush and principles, it should sink down to the water and washes them as white and clean as though they had just come from the mint. He now stamps his level of the sea. On the contrary, the great plateau is probably rising, and plumb bobs and pendulums, which are ron Mountain Route THE ONLY LINE TO THE Famous Hot Springs ot Arkansas (THE CARLSBAD OF AMERICA.) All principal cities in the United State? ire'reached via the Missouri Pacific Railway lYour Nearest Agent for Tickets i A and particulars, or, address i utilized in reaching conclusions on chop on each of them, and this means that he guarantees their payment. these put scientific theo Any one who has been in China wilk ries to flight.

Washington Post. distance on the earth's surface. This is what is technically called an arc, because it comprises a portion of the Jearth's circumference. The surveyors jwill soon have an arc of 8,000 miles in length, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, which has been determined with precision by the use of the most accurate instruments and the employment of the most skilled men. This line is along the thirty-ninth parallel, and will be completed with the system of triangulation through what is called the continental divide, the present season.

The principle for determining the circumference of the earth in this case is easy of comprehension. The surveyors are able to determine the difference-in longitude of the two extremities of this long line, which begins in New see the necessity of this. There are no THE GOLDEN FLEECE. shrewder counterfeiters in the world than the Chinese, and they are especially adept in the plugging of coin. ti The Most Hiffhly Trized of All the Surviv ing: Orders of Chivalry.

Of all the orders of mediaeval chival- The other day an American got a CHAS. E. STYLES, ry wnicn nave survived tne snock oi successive revolutions on the continent Pass. Ticktt Agt. ATCHISOJf, KAS.

silver dollar in a trade at Hankow, and attempted to pass it at the bank there. He was told it was not good, and upon of Europe since the great cataclysm of I. C. T0WNSEND. Gen'IPass.

ST. LOUTS. IA 1789, that of the Golden Fleece is per haps the most distinguished and the his questioning the matter the 'Chinese cashier sent for a candle and lit it. He then held the coin over it and lo! in a most highly coveted by personages of Jersey, near the southern part of Cape royal birth or of illustrious patrician moment it began to melt The sides ni i a ai i i 1 1 ra ii i lineage, otuaenxs oi tne nistory oi ten otr ana in tne center tnere was a the art or science of heraldry will learn piece of copper. The counterfeiters with interest and pleasure that the Or- had split a genuine coin and had hol May, and ends in the lower part of Mendocino county, California.

Knowing that the whole circumference of the earth comprises 360 degrees of a circle, and reckoning the Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment. A certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Old Chronic Sores, FeTer Sores, Eczema, Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Nipples and Files. It is cooling and soothing. Hundreds of cases have been cured by It after all other treatment had failed. It is put up in 25 and 50 cent boxes.

der of loison d'Or, of Spain, having lowed out the two pieces on the inside been conferred on the duke of York, so that the copper could be fitted into this circle, his royal highness was recently invest- them. Thev were then patched to fractional part of which is covered by 1--v I ,1 i- -r 11 I-' 1 'it il l1 i kiac aiv, Liio eu. iiu luanuorouirxi nouse. wnn tne m- rrAT.nfvr fin npat T.na.T, rvn iv t.ma vnwi. i 1 x.

signia of the order by the prince of enced ear of the Chinese shroff could detect the fraud. Philadelphia Times. Wales, himself a knight of the order, acting in the name of the queen regent and on behalf of the vounsr kinsr of CLIHATE AND CROPS JUST RIGHT. ine secretary of the bpanish a r.nnt.emnnrnrv rMAnt.lv nnh. At-- I AT tl I mil i-i l.iii'i'i i ir aii i.iit w'l i read the royal commission creating the liehed a long article upon investi duke a knight, and the august cere- gatinc: committees and pertinentW 1 ii .1 1 1 at -i i was awu an uy we UUKe OI linn invmJn-n in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Due d'Au- JA1 '1J.

A 1 male, as knights of the order, and by miliees investigates" in IOO many of an in the Spanish ambasador and the earl of cases appointment lWinafloTr riot. mQifleTT'o ofif-si4-nmm- -t I vestiffatinsr committee is a mere state for foreign affairs. Oklahoma has thousands of acres of the finest farming land in the world, waiting for you or anybody else with a little cash and lots of gumption. Climate and crops are just right. Farms will cost more next year than this.

To find out if this is the country you want, ask G. T. Nicholson, G. A. Santa Fe Eoute, Topeka, Kansas, for free copy of Oklahoma folder.

IF GROWN IN TEXAS ITS GOOD. The Texas coast company vies with California in raising pears, crapes and strawberries. The formality, and the committee do no more than sifin their several whole distance is readily 'computed. The difficulty comes in reducing the observations taken from the series of triangles extending across the continent to a sea level, for many of the lines from which the distance must be measured are situated on the mountain tops and in many cases above the clouds, especially in the mountainous regions of the west, through which the parallel passes. The measurement of the earth's circumference is to be accomplished incidentally to the other work for which the triangulation is designed, and therefore the final results will not be obtained for a considerable time.

more primitive times men made many attempts to ascertain the dimensions of the globe. A Frenchman named Fernel, court physician to Henry in the early part of the sixteenth century, had an ingenious but crude scheme for measuring with a wagon wheel, which would have been facilitated by the use of the modern He traveled due north from Paris to Amiens, what he calculated to be a degree, and, returning jby the country roads, counted the revolutions of his wagon wheel to the number of 17,024. Those amounted to 68 Italian miles and 9G paces, according to his computations, and in tnultiplying this by 360 he believed The duke of York only received the badge of the order, in the shape of the figure of a sheep in embossed gold suspended from a heavy chain of gold, but at a chapter of the order or at great court functions at Madrid he would be entitled to wear the full robes, consisting of a long mantle of crimson velvet, cut in the fashion of a sacerdotal cope, richly embroidered at the borders with emblematic devices of stars, half -moons and fleeces in gold and lined with white satin, over a doublet and hose of crimson damask. The full robes also comprise a "chaperon," or hood, with names, relying upon the assertion of the member who introduces the applicant that he is all right. This ought not to be the case.

When an investigating committee is appointed it should make diligent inquiry into the antecedents and condition of the applicant, and find out all the facts that bear upon his desirability as a member. 1893 record of H. Jtf. Stringfellow, Hitchcock. Texas, who raised nearly 86,000 worth of pears from 13 acres, can be duplicated bv vou.

G. T. Nicholson, G. P. a long flowing streamer of black satin; but this headgear has in modern times been generally dispensed with.

A. Santa Fe Eoute, Topeka, Kan- In that case we have more 4. Originally the robes of the order, sas, will oe giaa xo iurnisu who-out charge an illustrated pamph Smaller death rejections and which was founded in 1429 by Philip the Good, duke of Burerundv. were of rate. Overseer.

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