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June 25, 1894 (4 pages)

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) ] .. that, .has.not.yetbesome-charged:with: evada City Daily bd go i= a anscript. VOL. LXVI--NO. 10315 NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1894, Established Sept.6, 1860, by N. P. Brown Co, eeeinaaanec. = Sa ee TAMING THE OCEAN. WONDERFUL POWER OIL EXERCISES OVER THE ANGRY WAVE. The Active Agent Is Oleic Acid, a Discove ery Made by German Investigators—A Thin Layer of This Acid Possesses a Potency Which Is Simply Marvelous, The effect of oil in calming the surface of a stormy sea, the original discovery of which was accidental, has of late been the subject of scientific investigation, and it is now possible to choose such oils as are best suited for the purpose, and also to point out the source oftheir peculiar power over the waves. The statistics collected at the hydrographic office of the bureau of ‘navigation show, by the’reports of sea captains themselves, that many a vessel has been saved not only from serious injury, but from. foundering, by the use of a few gallons of oil slowly trickled into the sea. The influence of the oil is frequently described in such reports as wonderful, magical and almost incredible. ‘ It is not difficult to see upon what this calming effect of oil depends, although the complete. explanation of it involves a mathematical process of demonstration, The oil acts like a thin skin drawn over the water, resisting the tendency of the latter to break into spray under the force of the wind. The danger to aship from storm waves arises from the breaking of the waves. As long as their surfaces are smooth and their crests unbroken the vessel rides them easily and safely. But when they break, and secondary waves are formed, it is quite otherwise. Then theship plunges into the: foaming walls upreared around it, with frame racking shocks; immense masses of water thunder down upon its Sweeping everything clean, and ometimes even the strongest hulls and the best seamanship are unable to prevail in the contest. This is the danger that the spreading of oil over the waves removes. At first sight it seems almost. impossible that a thin oily film resting on the tremendous sea waves could éxercise a controlling influence over them. -:The display of resistless energy made by the breaking waves is sd imposing and terrific that one might well believe no power less gigantic than their. own could withstand them. The effect of the oi] resembles that of the apparently insignificant force of chemical combination holding in restraint the explosive energy of gunpowder. It is o German investigators that we owe the discovery of the active agent which enables oil to exercise its calming effect.upon the sea. This agent is oleic acid, an ingredient found in lard, olive oil and: many other. oils. . Those oils that possess the largest proportion of oleic acid are the most effective in controlling the waves. It is through ita gradual separation from the rest of the oil and its diffusion in the water that oleic acid acts. When a dropof oil rests upon water, the oil flattens out through the effects of its own weight. At the edge of the flattened disk of oil the oleic acid tends most rapidly to dissolve in the water, and the very act of dissoly‘ing evolves energy which causes the oil to spread still farther, thus keeping its edges constantly in contact with water oleic acid. This spreading continues with great rapidity until all of the oleic acid has been dissolved. Sometimes the layer thus formed does not exceed a twelve-millionth of an inch in thickness! It would not be easy to explain, without entering into technicalities, how the forces involved in the dissolving action just described result in a resistance to the rising of waves. Mathematical considerations prove that such an effect exists, and it has been shown experimentally that oleic acid spreading over water . an is capable of arresting the progress of P floating chips driven by the wind, and even of forcihg such chips to move against the direction of the wind. ' The power of a wave is made up of the combined energy of all of the particles of water composing -it, but every particle at the surface of the wave is. opposed by the foree brought into play by the oleic acid, and thus the tend of the surface of the wave to break i resisted. Of course. the formation oi the wave as a whole cannot be prevented by this mere surface resistance, but the character of the action going on at the surface is controlled by it, and that is the important thingso far as the safety of ships is concerned, The discovery of the essential part played by oleic acid explains why petroleum has never been found so efficient ‘as other oils—olive oil, for instance, in smoothing waves—for petroleum contains a cormmparatively small proportion: of that ingredient. The German investigators would recommend the use of pure oleic acid except for the fact that it freezes at about 18 degrees above zero and consequently is useless in very cold weather. They have found, however, that a mixture of oleic acid and alcohol-remains liquid at only 5 degrees above zero, and they accordingly reoommend such a mixture as being the best wave calming means yet disvovered, Almost-any animal or vegetable oil is better than petroleum. Soap water has been found effective, if a soap containing plenty of oleic acid, which all soaps do not contain, is used.—New York Sun. Sy : His Earnest Wish. Oltope—I wish I was a barrel. Hisfriend—Why? Oan’t you hold enough? hd ' Oltope—Yes. There’s no trouble about that, The advantage is that no { matter how often the barrel is filled or . sEASONED LUMBER AT LOWEST G how full, its head never gets any bigger. —Detroit Free Press, . Just His Way. equalities of our SPRING . GREETING. Come Early and Don’t Get Left. I am going to sell Goods this Spring . by the Irresistible Power of Low Prices. Kk KK KKKKKKKAKKREKRERKKEAREKRKREKKK: Read Our List of Bargains. Every Department Complete. ERARARERERARKAERRRR REDE BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! Read Them. MEN’S SUITINGS——e—. Round Cut, Square Cut, Cut-a-Ways. Wobby, Stylish and Neat. Three lines of Men's Suits $5; worth $10. Four lines of Men’s Suits $8; worth $12. Three lines of Men’s Suits $10; good value at $14. Five lines.of Men’s Suits $12; reduced from $17 50. Dress Suits reduced to’ low figures. Just received from the East, a large invoice of Boys’ Stylish Knee Suits—latest cuts and latest pattern. I offer same at astonishingly low prices, ' $250 to $6 00 will buy an All-Wool Suit. The latest. -Don’t miss this chance. Parents, bring your boys i store and buy them one of my stylishlong-pants suits I offer for $6, ‘$7, and $9. ou will save thoney, . I buy all my goods for Cash, direct from the factory, thereby saving the expense aying jobbers,,I make that gain yours, ; . if I have secured the Sole Agency of the. Largest Hat Manufacturing Establishment in America.Extra values in Hard Hats. ‘ Ask to see my $2 50 Derliy—latest style. Fedoras reduced to $1 50. Stylish Boys’ Hats, Fedora shape, reduced to, 75 cents. Call and inspect my new stylish line of Shirtings justout, First to receive, first to offer, Stanley make, they go at $1. Madras, 50 cents, 75 cents and $1. An elegant line of Negligee Shirts—new and nobby, , Neckwear in all Styles and Shades. Twenty dozen Scarfs worth 50 cents reduced to 25 cents. 25 dozen Windsor Scarfs—they go at 25 cents, Fancy Bows, all shades. View my display of Gents’ Furnishings in my New Window. It will convince you I am the leader in Styles.and Fashions. Do not overlook the fact that I have invoiced a large stock of Gerits’, Ladies’, Misses’, and Children’s Shoes. I offer Gents’ Mule Skin’Shoes for $2 50, best value in America, My $3 50 Kangaroo Goods are bargains. Hand Sewed. Try them, Ten dozen Ladies’ Cloth, Top Kid—they go at $1 75, 25 dozen Dongola Kid, worth $3, they go at $2. Children’s Pebble and Kid $1 25 to $1 75,Correct Styles and Shapes, All sizes and widths. Leading CHAS. GRIME » Clothier. @@SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO COUNTRY ORDERS, apy CITIZENS BANK. BROAD STREET, te: ua GRADUATES’ BALL. Class of ’94. ‘NEVADA CITY HIGH SCHOOL. NEVADA CITY CAPITAL PAID-UP;--=~-= $50,000 We issue Sight Drafts parable in NEW YOR SAN FRANCISCO, \ SACRAMENTO. E i Also Bills of Exchange payable at sight in the principal cities of Great Britain and Furope. Collections on any part of the United States a : ' 5 widteet puice paid for County and State WarFriday Evening, June 15th, qq rants. -aT—
ARMORY HALL, Gold and Silver Bullion purchased. Assay Office at the Bank, OFFICERS: Floor Director.....J. M. Hussey. . Pe 66505 caves hiesadans PRESIDENT. . ¢ pee Picea agitrtteees: Vier a sp eet — NT. aves s EPS TE ASHIEB ; a D.&.MORGAN.. .Ass’rOAsuine and Sgo’y FLOOR COMMITTES : rcsaae G, J, Rector, G. M. Noyes, ps. ae PO sent © Moncca L.A. Garthe, Ralph Gaylord, Gue. M. Hueuss, D, E. Mozean, Ralph Webber, M. M. Baruh, NILEs S£aRLs L, Hoveman, George Barton, W; H. Smith, Jr, RB. M. Pruston, > New York—Mationel Banke’ North Ame-. Tickets, per couple, $1, Extra’ Ladies, rica. : 25 cents. Admittance to Gallery, Ladies Ba: cisco—First National Bank. ie , Ssoramento—Watioual Bauk of D. 0. Mille] 25 conta ; Gentlemen, 50 cents. °. Business for Grass tors 4 can be transacted with advantage at this city. DR. N. E. CHAPMAN, Dentist. NEVADA CITY, + + GOAL Fe Local Anesthetics {f desired. Ae. Office at the residence on Sacramento street, G SWEET BRIER CAMP, A New and Beautiful.. MOUNTAIN RETREAT ..In the Vicinity of Castle Crags & Mt. Shasta, Page Read what the Rev, J, K. McLean, Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Oakland, says of it : Haze. Oneex, April 14, 1994. I‘am more than pleased with it— delighted. The piace seems to me to embody all available points fora camp— dry, firm soil, good water (the very best) fine chances for drainage, and scenery unsurpassable. The view of Mt, Shasta is i one of the very best to be had from any point; . MT. ORO LUMBER CO, COOPER BROS,, ~ Prop’s Manufacturers of it is visible from every part of the ground, The view of the Crags also is fine, The gen eral environment is of the best. It is an oval-shaped amphitheater, three miles long N by one-fourth to three-fourths of a mile Matched Flooring wide, with receding walls two to three ' thousand feet in height, with lines and Dressed. Siding er al tieww at “every reach. I ; doubt if a better plece can be found in Fencing all Morthern California, REDUCED RATES Campers Outfits, Tents, Poles, BedMARKET RATES. ete,, shipped ag baggage. For full information * address T. J. LOFTUS, Castella, Cal. i purposes lwayeon hand oranwed to MIN . OrT. HEGOODMAN, Gen. Pass, Agent.SouTHERBN Pacivic COMPANY, San Francigco, Tes his ‘wito cary the. baby Sims w a man who howls about . 1NG wayson hand or sawed toorder. sa enna of ** and “‘inoie bh oy ‘the aay Cal, *. Event of the kind ever witnessed in this part of the State, As also any other FIRST CLASS (doods ‘in New Jewelry to. order in Any Design. Fine Watch Repairing By Skilled Mechanics. ~~ SPRING MILLINERY. E verything ts Ni ew, Everything ts Stylish. Everything is InexpenSve, Everything 7s Guaranee Everything is Correct. Continuous Sales Every. Day. ~ Mrs. Lester & Grawford. rad th of Jly Cain N BVADA ———s . ——THERE WILL BE——— A Brilliant Street Parade, In which the Military and Fire Companies of Nevad Civic Societies of both towns, will participate; Floats and other attractive features, ja City and Grass Valley, and the alsoa Car of Liberty, numerous Floral Literary and Musical ExercisesOf a Highly Interesting Character, : : “ pea Street Games and Contests in the Afternoon, anda Rock-Drilling ontest, Magnificent Spectacular Parade in the evenin Handsomely Decorated Floats, brilliantly illuminated, display of Fireworks, ; » including a Gorgeous Array of the whule embellished with a fine OFFICERS OF THE DAY. President,..,,, espahisimionines CRC WN NTH’ oe etch oe Fe ere eee eee F, 'T. } Grand Marshal ; TMOTOn EV EONEESUEERE CES 6408 040 O8 U0 44 6c bSkn oe tine K, J. RECTOR OL, Per Rae ae GUS Cee Ch VST KO rSE 8s 60k bs 8c ckae ave GOVERNOR H. H. MARKHAM MUU os catalan ie ek a ona es GEORGE ALLEN WATSON Poet. seusruee PA CCEEN AC VOLE TEM ETs POETS TR EEMIEN Eien LEONARD 8.-CALKINS Chaplain. . . NUE s CRE CRETE LAER AO OT Tee TS eee Era ama rere Oe REV. L. J. GARVER Goddess of Liberty, CEET ERIN FEST EV U8 PERO 1 OEE Ena MISS. HONNOR STEVENS Marshal of Evening Parade bt CORNER CES 4 05994455 000K Ce JOHN MICHELL PRIZES Will be given for all the Street Games and the following special purses are offered: Drilling Contest, double-hand; $75; Drilling Contest, sin e-hand, $50; For Best Floral Float, $25; For Best General Float, exclusive of Car of Liberty ie non GRAND FIREMEN Ss BALL : At Armory Hall in the Evening. Everybody is invited to come and join in the Celebration, which will be the Greatest siovlons slau All visitors are guaranteed a Come One, Come All, Both Great and Small ! This{Cut Represents the ~~ _ Best Watch in the ‘Market ~~ AND CAN BE HAD or— 2 a REE i ax ’ LUETJE & BRAND, ERERERAE RE RHO their line. =p , Our stock in every line is CompLere and Prices* Low. We cordially invite -“ would-be ‘purchasers to inspect the same. Remember that we Repair and Make ——e JETJE, gq.” C. J. BRAND, Watchmakers and Jewelers. A ° é A BROAD $TREET, above Pine, > = = = « NEVADA CITY. Wednesday, July 41894.) > deemed A Chance New. Owing to the unusual weather for this . time of the year there has not been a great demand for Spring Goods, and as Summer weather will soon be with us L. Hyman & Go. Have marked down everything in their three stores to prices never known, before in “this city. The’ goods are the best manufactured, and yet the new. scale of prices are what are charged at other places for a lower grade of goods. we The Bargains We.are offering are only about the cost of the cloth, Before Purchasing Call at our establishments, see the goods and prices.It Will Pay You Now to lay in enongh to last for a long time, as you will never get another such a chance as is now being offered by L. HYMAN @ CO. Inq Phe Daily ‘Franscript 1\. Inv And the The Daily S. F. Call Only NINE DOLLARS A YEAR for the two by Mail <Y When paid for in advance. The TRANSCRIPT is the oldest and most hewsy paper in Nevada county—bright, pros greesive, fearless, clean, The CALL is one of America’s greatest newspapers— gives full foreign, domestic and State dispatches, fights corporate greed and organized attempts of all kinds to rob the people, exposes rascality wherever fonnd aud-in fact is the breeziest,; nowsiest aud most dependable paper printed in San Francisco, The regular subscription price of each of these papers in $6-a year in advance, Hundreds of neople have THE TWO for only $9, Are you among the number f why not. it is 9 business offer to thinking, reading, saving people, Nn.. CLO Sy An Analysis The sworn. certificate of a Ban Francisco chemist gives the following result of an analysis of several brandsof tea puychased in the open markets ays 718 No, 1, (Black.) Colored with plumbago and indigo, No. 2. (Black.) Colored with ndigo, plumbage and um, 0. 8. (Green.) Colored with Prussian blue and yellow ochre, No, 4, (Green.) Excessive coloring, consisting of digo and alumfnous earth, No. 6. (Unooigred? alleged.) Colored with plumA \ “et. . bago and clay, \ ay" Does dot this condition eall loudly fora brand ef 7 Fure Japan Tea Beech’s Tea is {he pure unadulterated undyed gum @ured Japan Tea, There is no headache in if, & ehild oan drink it, Draws canary oolor of delight ful fragrance and twice the strength of common tea, You use only half as much per cup. Sixty cents per pound. Never sold in bulk. Bold only im sealed packages bearing this trade-mark, —AND— Shurtleff & Son., 2 Ashe eee ler , $ oe tg