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Show Economic! Trvlcr who from choice or forco of circumstances desire to save money c.m do so easily and with no discomfort to themselves if they: take the free and comfortable reclining chair can on the fast trains of tiie Union Pacific, Ticket ofllco 201 Main street. j j Unfailing Symptom, Anxious Mother 1 am afraid Johnny (a 111. Father My goodness I What loee he complain of? Anxious Mother He hasnt begun to complain yet; but I forgot to lock the jam cupboard today, and there isnt a bit missing Pear ions. The Adirondack Mountains. The heart of thia wondtiiul region of mountains, lakes and streams ii traversed by tbe New York Central A Hudson River Railroad, and to more fully inform the public regarding Its beauties and easy means of access the Passenger Department has Issued a book entitled "In the Adirondack Mountains, describing in detail each resort, and containing also a large map in colors, giving a list of hotels, camps, lakes, etc., together with their location; it has also issued a large folder, with map, entitled "The Adirondack Mountains end How to Reach Them, giving complete Information regarding atage lines, steamers, hotels, etc. A copy of the book will be sent to any address on receipt of two temps, or the folder for one SUmp, by GEORGE H. DANIELS, General Passenger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York. V i. i ibe first iron . i in the state of Ohio has bridge e.i. . be:-11 Thia bridge was over Salt CiKk, on the Central Ohio division r.f thr- Baltimore und Ohio railroad, in Mubkiugum county, and was built in is:l. It was a single span, 71 feet In iength, and was known as a "Bollman deck truss bridge with plate girders." Bollrnan was at that time chief engineer of construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Ilia Undying Lot. Intimate Friend Has yonr husband's love grown cold? Sarcastic Wife O, no! He loves himself just as much now as he did when we were married twenty years ago. Tliefnnsuimiiatiwi of l.uxury demanded by people of wealth und refined taste is found In the siix-rdouble drawing room vestibuled Hlcupers on tho Overland Limited of Pucilic railroad. Ticket office 201 Main street. The American navy bus supplied hundreds of the inventions which have played Important parts In the development of the modern navy. The first essential step, the introduction of the ironclad and the monitor, was American born. Another initial advance quite as Important In its way was the construction of the modern rifles, requiring in their design a high order of mathematical ability and an Intimate knowledge of the characteristics of modern steel. All guns in the navy have been designed by Professor Philip It. Alger, a former graduate of Annapolis, who has since been transferred to the corps of the professors of mathemuties in the navy, and who is the highest authority on ordinance matters in this country, if not in the world. Professor Alger received a diploma from the World's Fair Commission for his Bystem of gnn construction, now in use in the navy. In order to make these guns efficient, methods had to be devised for handling 'them oxi board ship; opening and closing the breach for loading, mounting for sighting and them on carriages training, protecting them with armor, supplying them with powder and shell, developing smokeless powder for their use, designing primers, fuses, telescopic sights and a hundred little accessories used in connection with their services. It was also essential to provide the necessary appliances for using the modern automobile torpedoes Lu be fired from our ships and torpedo boats; apparatus for signaling orders from the conning tower to the guns and to every part of the ship, for measuring the distance of the enemy, for counter- high-pow- a.-- I n mm-ml- - b tlio-Unin- er guns are now placed on this and the World's Fair Com- id-fi- re gun-mou- nt missioners awarded It a diploma. Brieftechnical ly described and without is the applicaterms, this tion of to the upper of the gun, with a hydraulic check to take up the recoil after firing, and a spiral spring to return It to Its and place. There is also elevating training gear of a complicated character. Mr. Fletcher is the inventor of several other devices. One of these is a breech mechanism for heavy guns. This mechanism is used for handling all the heavy breech plugs, weighing from 500 pounds to half a ton, of our and guns. The army has also recently adopted It. These plugs were formerly handled by hydraulic machinery, but Fletchers device enabled this to be done by hand power by one man. Bo successful was the device that one man, with his left hand turning a crank, can unlock from the breech of the gun its plug, weighing 1,150 pounds, withdraw it to the rear and swing it clear in seven seconds. Finally Mr. Fletcher is the Inventor of a rapid-fir- e gun which is now the standard of the navy. His device is being used on all the and guns in the service. gun-mou- nt ball-bearin- car-'riftg- e' , 12-ln- ch h, 13-ln- ch ch ch Just before the war with Spain began Secretary Long recommended to Congress an appropriation to build a big powder factory for making smoke-lespowder. At the same time he announced that a satisfactory smokeless powder Lad been made nfler many R i A policeman in Now Haven arrested a special delivery lettor carrier on his wheel for scorching wlillo on duty. i Golden Russett anil Silver Moon are the leading high grade 5 cent cigars. Call for them. On Chinese railways tho highest paid employes are the telegraph operators, who get $17.80 per month. NEW SLEEPING CARS. e well-kno- one-pound- er er self-lighti- ng To Denver, Omaha, Kt. Louis, Chicago and Boston. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad Scenic lineof the World announces new and imKrtant additions to their already well arranged sloeping car servieo. In the future, this populur line will run through weekly Pullman Tourist sleepers to Omaha, Chicago, New York und Boston, also to St. Louis without change. These cars will start frum Portland, Oregon, thus giving benefit of through service on Oregon Short Line, as well ns from all Utah points. The excursions are personally conducted and furnish all the conveniences of regular Pullman sleepers at less than half the cost. Tho St. Liuis cur will leave O. S. L. station every Thu's lay and Ogden via itio Grande Western railway, every Friday morning. The Omaha, Chicago. New York and Boston sleeper will leave O. S. L station every Wednesday and Salt Ijiko every Thursday evening, thus affording the inestimable privilege of in Salt Lake City. s twelve-hou- r For rales and all details, write to B. F. Kevins. General Airent. or II. M. Cushing, T. P. A., D. A H. G. Railway, Salt Lake City, or any Oregon Short Line or Klo OFFICERS WHO ARE Grande Western tick ?t agent. Pious Russians do not eat pigeons because of the sanctity conferred on the dove in mining harbors and clearing channels the scriptures. and many other devices mors or less diTravelers U ho Smoke, Smile" and Rnd rectly connected with the ships as appreciate the generous nnticqwtion of fighting machine. their wishes by tlio management of the To perfect these devices In foreign Union Pacific in equipping the Overlaud the government have hnd to pay navies Limited trains with that popular Buffet millions of dollars for improvements and and declare Car Smoking Library they will use no other line. Ticket office and inventions that tended to make their guns and ships more powerful SOI Main street. In their keen competition for supreLast year the output of rubber from macy. In thia country, the home of Mexico was 1,000, (MX) pounds. the inventor, our government had paid little or nothing. Nearly every ImTIME TO PAST CHICAQO provement has been invented by its Tie Rio Grand Western Railway. naval officers. One Instance of a naval Commencing February 5, the new time officer who received compensation for card of the Rio Grande Western goes Into an invention was that of Chief Coneffect. The Atlantic Express leaves Salt structor Wilson, now retired, to whom Lake City at 9 s. m., arriving at Denver the Navy Department paid 310,000 for But most of the at9:!!0a. m. the following morning and an air Chicago at 8 ;15 p. m. the third day; mak- work of naval officers brain have been ing connections with limited trains from given tto tbe government free. How much the Inventive faculty of Chicago to New York. The evening train leaves at 7:40 p. in., arrives at Denver at its officers has meant to 9:15 p. m. the following night and Chicago the Navy Department is' Illustrated at 8 a. m. the third day, making close con- in the case of Lieutenant Frank F. nections with tbs fast morning trains for Fletcher, now on duty in the ordinance Now York and Boston. Both of these bureau. It was said at a hearing bethrough trains are splendidly equipped fore a committee of tbe Senate last with all latest applia-'i-o.and eonvenlencee winter, on a bill to give naval invenend carry Pullm.iu Palace and Pullman tors compensation, that a Tourist sleeping cars as well as free Re- of Mr. FletcherB had saved tbe govclining Chair Cara. Ticket offioo, No. 108 ernment more than $500,000. All rap- West Second South street. ' (Postoffice Lu-cl- lay-ov- port-hing- e. keen-mind- ed i gun-mou- fcoinor.) years ago a range finder for automatically finding distances at sea. It iSi one of the most useful contrivances on' shipboard, and is worth an immense sum to the navy. Another of Lleut.j Fiskes Inventions was the stadlmeter, very clever modification of the sextant, by which it is possible to measure the distance of a ship from the height of its mast or smoke stack. Still another was a range indicator an electrical device for signaling from the conning tower to the gun captain the direction and distance of the enemy. This1 la fitted on nearly all our ships. Captain Sigsbee of the St. Paul, Is an inventor. The navy now uses a deep-se- a sounding apparatus and parallel rulers for navigation of his invention. Lieutenant Dashlell invented a breech machanlsm which was a great Improvement on all that had preceded it. It was adopted by tbe navy department in 1892, and was Introduced on many rapid-fir- e guns. This device enabled the man at the breech of the gun to do with one motion what had always taken two. In the breech mechanism the plug had to be turned with one motion until it unlocked, and then withdrawn with another motion. But by an arrangement of cogs Lieutenant Dashlell made the pull of a lever turn the plug until It was unlocked and then withdraw it. The reverse motion of the lever drove the plug home and then turned it until it locked. The Dashlell machanlsm has been supplanted by the FlPtcher mechanism, but it is still to be found on some rapid-firguns. Lieutenant W. H. Drlggs and Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder are the Inventors of a rapid-fir- e mechanism, which is of the same class as the Hotchkiss gun. It is applied to and guns. This invention is owned by a private corporation, unlike most of the navy inventions, which belong to the government. Commodore John A. Howell is the inventor of the automobile torpedo, which bears his name. Its mechanism consisted chiefly of a heavy cog wheel made to revolve at a high rate of speed before the torpedo is put in the water. Commodore Howell sold this invention to the Hotchkiss company, and for a time drew a royalty on it. Of late it has been supplanted by tbe White-hea- d torpedo. Lieutenant Joseph StrausB is the inventor of improvements in mounting turret guns. He conceived the Idea of the double turret, having an eight-inc- h turret placed on top of a thirteen-inc- h turret, as used on the battleships Kearsarge and Kentucky, which were launched not long ago at Newport News. Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn Invented the Franklin life buoy, and sold it to a concern In Bath, Me. It Is a buoy. Two small tin cases attached to It contaliuphosphide of calcium. Stoppers to these cases are, attached to the ship, so that when the buoy Is thrown into the water the stoppers are withdrawn, and when the buoy strikes the water the combination of the chemical with tbe water makes a bright flame. Lieutenant Very, late of the navy, devised a set of signals which are now in use, not only in our navies, hut in all the navies of the world. Lieutenant Herbert O. Dunn Invented a stock-les- s anchor, which is now in use on some naval vessels. Lieutenants Van Duzer and Mason were the Inventors of an ingenious electric steering gear. Lieutenant Flske and Lieutenant Young are the joint Inventors of a boat detaching apparatus. Chief Engineer Harry Webster Invented & clinometer, used to determine the angle roll of & ship. Chief Engineer Nathan P. Towne is the Inventor of an Improved boiler. Lieutenants Diehl and Gibson are Inventors of a "compensating binnacle, designed to neutralize the magnetism of a steel ships .hnll. Passed Assistant Engineer Tobin is the inventor of the famous Tobin bronze, much used for hulls of racing yachts and for the shells of torpedoes, and Prof. E. C. Munroe, of the navy, is the Inventor of the high explosive "Jovite." These are only samples of the many contributions to inventions which naval officers have made. Their inventive talent and their skill In designing have made the ships of the United States navy superior in every convenience and efficiency to those of Europe. In fact, many foreign governments pay tribute to the superiority of American ideas in royalties on the inventions of American naval officers. nt FAMOUS INVENTORS. years of experiment, and that this powder was superior to the smokeless uowders made abroad. "Lieutenant J. B. Bernadou showed special aptitude for this work and capacity for the solution of the problems involved In the prosecution of the experimental work of this nature, Bald the report of the Inspector in charge of the torpedo station at Newport. This Lieutenant Bernadou is now at Key Weet recovering from wounds rereived while in command of the Wlislow at Cardenas. It was in fact Lieutenant Bernadou and Commander G. A. Montgomery who Invented the smokeless powder just adopted by the Navy Department. The navy is particularly proud of this achievement. Foreign governments possessB a smokeless powder, but It contains which makes It unreliable and dangerous, and besides a develops heat high which soon ruins a gun. All countries have been working for the ideal smokeless powder containing no and we are the first to get it. As In many other matters, our Navy Department stayed behind Europe in the adoption of a smokeless owder until we had one that was perfect. Lieutenant H. A. FLVo, prolific inventor in tl(.j(,:rii',:il ibi made some nltro-glycerin- nltro-glycerin- e. e, en Important to Mothers, The msnufaoinrers of CnKtarla lists been con; pe1 led to spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to familiar. zo the public! with the signature of Chas H. Flutrhir. This has been necessitated by reason of pirihi counterfeit ins the Ccs.oris trade mark. This counter-fellin- g Is s rrlme not only against the proprietors of Cavtorla, but against tho growing generation. All persons should be careful to see that Castoria Dears the bignitoro of Chat II. h teher, if they would guard the health of their children, larei.ts and moth i a. In particular, ought to examine the Cantoris advertisements which have been appearing in this paper, and to lememlu-- r that the wru pper of every bottle of genuine Castoria bears the signature of Chas. IL Fletcher, under whose supervision It has been manufactured eontinuouely fur over thirty yearn I1 cur-full- e A Reminder of God. The simplest and most obvious net of sorrow Is to remind us of Ood. II would seem that a certain shoek li needed to bring us in contact with reality. Wa are not conscious of breathing till obstruction makes It felt We are not aware of ths possession of a heart till some disease, some sudden joy or sorrow, rouses It into extraordinary aetlon. And we are not ooneeious of the mighty cravings of our humanity; we are not awars of ths Ood within us, till soma chasm yawns which must bs filled, or till tha rending asunder of our affections forees us to become fearfully conscious of a need. Frederick W. Robertson. half-divi- Blood-Cleanin- ne g. is a duty in every household. People dont wail until tha filth becomes painfully apparent, but it stands to reasou that in every day use more or lew duet or dirt accumulate-I- t is eo with the human blood. From the enormous variety of eatablea taken into the stomach, a quantity of useless material is bound to accumulate in the blood and clog tha free and wholesome flow in the vowels. Every person should from time to time have a lilood cleaning and the best cleanser and blood purifier ii Cascareta Candy Cathartic. We recommend them to all our readers. House-cleanin- g well-regulate-d -- What must a nun do, doctor, to attain a ripe old age? Live. Dost Tsbaces Spit ana Smeks Tour Lila Sway. 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