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Show the institutor of these competitions, as they are undoubtedly a step In the right direction; and the practical lines on which they are judged cannot but progress of notes be of great use in CUP1 correct from many fields. ideas regarding the fostering best methods of shoeing horses. We commend this idea of Work the to the consideration of Canadian fair Facilitate Hne to A AYithout managers. Ex. Tobacco A Bicycle An Electric for the Feet UP ; TO-DATE- i C , yedl Diving From a Height. lighter In diving from a height, say of six feet,throw the heel3 well up, keep the OF MACHINE simple construction legs straight and close together, and to facilitate the bring the hands forward and in front A PURITAN In One Case It Was a Success and, Possibly Slight Be So In. Others. NO TRAVEL, COOKING; KISSING OR HOUSEWORK. FIlvcI for Not Going to Church Arbl-tiar- y Blue Lawj Not Greatly Unlike Those in New Fork Under Theodore J oosevelt. - t r i j . i 'rv r'- 1 1 f i ' of and above the head. The position required is one everybody takes naturally in first attempting to swim. The hands act as the prow of a ship, for packing of cigarettes, and readily adjustable for packing different numbers is shown in the accompanying illustration. A suitable base is recessed to form a box to which is the a1 lid, siown raised In Jng; at the tront side ot the box is Keway for a plunger, the rear side formed by (tseslldeway being the plunger and the notable Cross bar, frj, har being recessed on their upper movement over tees to permit the rear of ttan of a lever pivoted to the tie box. At the right of the plunger they cut the water. They should, therefore, always be turned just as you strike, the surface. This will prevent you going deep and will also give an impetus to carry you through the water. A good diver can dive from a height of forty to fifty feet and not go a yard below the surface,' whereas the frequent accidents along our coasts show that carelessness in springing from a pier into a shallow w'ater frequently results in a broken neck, r . an-ad-- ; : Bicycling: Without Begs. Here rear freaks. is the greatest of all bicycle a cigarette receptacle, whose It is a wheel whose rider has rearwwall is formed hy a block drawn no legs and only one arm. The rider is ard by a spring and pressed forward Arthur Roadhouse,' a hoy resident of movement De ty a wedge operated by the Kalb, 111. He is 13 years old, bright' of the lever, the wedge sliding between and as active as his physical imperfecfront cross bar and another adjustable tions, which came from birth, will al- cross ban The rear cross bar has extending arms connected by a cross bar moving in extensions from the adjcasing, and the latter cross bar is usted to the desired position by means The cross of screws and wing nuts.' next! a series of the plunger has bar apertures1 registering with apertures in tie bottom of, the casing, at different distances from its front, screws bein paced in different apertures as the bar moved backward,' while numerals adjacent to the apertures indicate how cany cigarettes the receptacle will take then the fastening screws are inserted the different apertures, Plungers of jdifferent widths are used for each position of the harj The cigarette receptaclow. Like most cripples, his mind is le has outer projections over which a precocious. Thej bicycling craze left pper hag may be placed and has a him in body more hopeless and helprparate lid opened by a spring, the less than ever. A neighboring bicycle catch of the lid being released and the manufacturer agreed to make a wheel Li opening automatically, after the which the boy could ride, and hie did so. lever has been moved its full stroke to His one hand guides the handle bar actuate the plunger and push the and bars of steel lead up from the garettes out of the receptacle into the pedals to the short stumps which he frg or wrapper inclosing the package. has known as legs. Strange to say, he The cigarettes lare inserted by hand the lid is closed and the bag or experienced very (little trouble in balancing the machine. He began riding wrapper placed in position. about four weeks ago, and after three or four hours instruction and practice An Electric Lighter. he made a half mile on a track in less The accompanying illustration shows than three minutes. He can now do a a electric cigar lighter that has just mile in less than !five minutes, and exteen put on the market. The device con-L- is pects to reduce this time .to four of a dry battery, a minutes. He has already made a half a spark coil, mile in 2m. 10s. He has learned to dis.rch and spring contact points mount, and can handle his wheel readiwhich the torch slides. The drat i3 broken In four places, so that1 ly and without assistance. He has to be assisted, though, when he mounts, icre is little or no danger of the d and run but expects soon to be able to do so being c.wn when the lighter is not in use. alone. De Kalb seems to have more than her share cf bicycle riding cripThe torch contains an asbestos-packe- d A year ago one of the young ick which will last indefinitely. The,-cc- ples. women of the town had a leg taken off handle is hollow and about once a cars. the She now rides a bicycle by nk the top (i3 unscrewed and a of gasoline or spirits is very creditably, it is said. rured in to moisten the wick. This is La Harmless Cosmetic. cuiy attention the lighter requires, the batteries are been discovered that ladies has to at .It last expected tai year with ordinary use. The who wish to heighten their complexAt is obtained by simply pulling the ions need no longer use paints and unr.h from its sheath, which breaks the guents that are injurious to the skin. nuit and causes a spark that lights "Blackberry or strawberry juice rubbed A wick. The light is extinguished by slightly on the cheeks and then washed V. cirg thej torch in its sheath. .The off with milk gives a beautiful tint. t thows a 'lighter made in the form "The' garden beet is also an excellent - upright piano. The case is of cosmetic. The beet is cut and the juice : Ay polished wood and the metal is applied gently with a camels-hai- r This brush. usings are nickel-plateCountry ladles will thus have "3 a very attractive a for an advantage ovef those of town. There lighter store. Tphe dimensions of the case will be no necessity to apply to any uAe and a' half inches high, ten Mme. Rachel, but they will do their : '3 long jand six inches wide. An-- r painting on the premises. Such aids to ?orm of, the lighter is made for beauty can hardly be called artificial. Lucent to a wall i hotels It is possible, however, they may beclubs, come dangerous ih the bee season. The enamored swain will think it only natural that that persistent insect should be attracted by such flower-lik- e beauty, but the lady, will; know better. ( jS rear-ward- ly l'.3 ys, ia, - V 5-- V by jS , J V V , e . f SCO. be-fr- re A. j be-.Te- cn bat--::e- -s 'short-circuite- ' h t!!j tea-zcnf- ?RE1 ul - c. j t 2.5 ' j - L- d. v - -i tl wa TO. f- -- - 1 -- 1 Ut- - HE attempt to enforce the sumptuary laws in New York has given us a taste of the old Puritan spirit and recalled ifi some degree to a cosmopolitan community the "blue laws of another age and condition. The laws which answer to that name arose in different places out of different circumstances, and the American public owe to the Rev. Samuel Peters the popular notion oT such a code. His blue laws of Connecticut have been shown to he false, ironical and malignant. But it must be confessed he caught the spirit of early Connecticut when he "wrote: No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house or shave on the Sabbath day. No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath. No one shall ride on the Sabbath day or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. Alice Morse Earle has taken the trouble to go through the; old records of New England, and she has presented a curious array of commitments and punishments for violations of the Sab-balThus: In Newbury in 1646 Aquila Chase and his wife were presented and fined for gathering peat, in the' garden on f Sunday. In Wareham Williim Estes was fined Ten shillings for raking hay on t ae Sabbath, and a Dunstable soldier was fined forty shillings for putting a piece of old hat in his shoe to protect his foot on the Sabbath. Captain Kendle, of Boston, sat for two hours in the stocks in 1656 for kiss- ing his wife publicquely In the New Haven code of laws it was ordered that profanation of the Lords Day shall be punished by fine, and if proudly and with a high hand imprisonment or corporal punishment, against the authority of God with death. To drive a horse unseemly even from caurchlwas punishable, and there is a recorfi of a Maine man being rebuked and fined for running on; the Lords Day to save a man from drpwning, and ax late as the year 1831 a (ady was ar- In Lebanon, Conn., within sight ot her fathers house, for unnecessary iavel on the Sabbath. The Columbian Sentinel of December, .?S9, has a paragraph which says that 'Mhe President (Washington) on his to New York from his late tour through Connecticut, having missed his Ttay on Saturday, was obliged to ride a few miles on the Sabbath morning In order to gain the town at which he was to attend divine service. Before he arrived he was met by the Tything man who commanded him, to stop and demanded the occasion of his riding. Nor would he let him proceed until he had promised to go no further than the town. As late as 1774 the first church of at public Roxbury fined 1651 In was Thomas Scott worship. Raed ten. shillings for being absent, unless he have learned Mr. Nortons catechism hy the next court. In 1760 the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a law that any person able of body who shall absent themselves from pub-lic- k worship on the Lords Day shall ten pay shillings fine. In 1647 William Blagden, who lived In New Haven, was brought up for absence from meeting. He pleaded that he had fallen into the water late on Saturday, could light no fire on Sunday to dry his clothes, and so had lain in bed to keep warm while his only suit was drying. But of this reasonable excuse he was found guilty of slothfulness and sentenced to be publicly whipped. -- Tj 00-cal- ed ; , ' h. . j - . j re-ta- rn non-attenda- nts in-spit- Popular Science. The sting of a bee, when compared with the point of a fine needle, under a powerful microscope, 13 hardly discernible. The point of Itbe needle appears to be about an inch in diameter. electric in an artificial way waves have been produced, having a length of about an inch, which would give per second as many as there axe inches in 185,000 miles (11,784,950,000). There is no lower limit to wave An electro-magnetlengths in the ether. once a second Is wave produced to wave a affect tae 186,000 miles long; an inch of eye is bubble phenomena show long, and soap waves much shorter. The temperature of the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, as determined by the resistence of the Atlantic cables, is said to bo 38 degrees F, which is a mean fer the whole year. That at the bottom cf the Mediterranean, measured in the same way, is said to be 57 degrees F. A sound vibration is the motions of the air molecules, if the sound be in the air, the motions being in the line cf the movement of the air wave; that is, longitudinal vibrations. The air particles act upon the tympanic rnembrano and cause it to move to and fro at the came rate. of There seem to be two possible ways to Is One disease. totally eradicating to is other destroy all the bacilli; theas to en.ab.iO fo strengthen the system to resist their attacks. it i ncc4 be Ntitlur of these plans can probably a t Tri- d out fully; our safety lies in j'i iliioss combination of them. era licr rirl liai tL rev- Uro-t- flr&t : if-f ' in to like Al Cf r at 1 k:u;a. so-call- Hem nr" rS-ai- . .Bvar cti ,ji CO. 10 dwellings, where one or Urs are needed in every tcom r does away with burnt bring thrown on the carpet or 1 also keeps the woodwork, chairs, etc., from beinj It is located in a convenient La t:ch room, and the batteries r- - in the cellar or some out-o- f i ':f , -- or T6S1 Ugsntp iarI those' C ACS sairr , ;!y 3 ' CC. in q corner; all the lighters being on the one circuit, use the a I chr m. y I j Atterios and ;rf ' of J This spark-coi- l. metal and is silver-plate- d. vjr.t. X c- -- 3 piti l& tslmelr," Competitions. t (England) and Iligh-ac- l) shows were conducted A competitions, with cart r hers s. The total points A diviicd as follows: 8 for A.o nid hc3, and trimm lag f'r making the shoe::, and h Slity to th 3 i?a cf the v l C r ft' ere t! rho.s; f ho 4 fer e t- - tting on for general hnl.h and th r he; j to th gn: I 8 titers acre r t h. i . j r la the r; ; e a ful-- h n, ' t r : , ..13 :x r', r h r.i. ret t a h o '.-- f I , V ' ic dth to-and-- fro fyal . r- ed ; c- - 3 r a 1 f a1 e ; Editor Metcalfe on tfapan. James F. Metcalfe, literary editor of Life, arrived in town recently after a four months tour in Japan, says the New York Telegram., Mr. Metcalfe left New York In May and proceeded to Yokohama by .way of San Francisco, going thence to Nagasaki, Kioto and Nikko, with many excursions by the way; and returning to New York through Vancouver. Mr. Metcalfe is not favorably impressed by Japan; and considering matters from the point of view of an experienced journalist, he says that more news may be obtained cf what is going on there through London, Berlin and St. Petersburg than can be had in the country itself, since the only information that is disseminated is through the diplomats of the various European states. Nevertheless, fom observations he has made throughout Japan, Mr. Metcalfe believes that the country is to be the scene of important events, involving the rest of the world within the next year or two, significant of which is the jcrcumstance that the person of the itassian ambassador Is guarded more sacredly than that of any person in the empire, aside from the mikado. A Delicate Sllcer. Guest "Do you have machines for mrkio these Saratoga chips? Waiter No, eah. Th fust assistant cook shaves em eff with er knife. T dont see tow he gets them so uniformly thin. carver in Tie useter te deli rcas tt beardin' house. CURE FOR WILD OATS. SUNDAY. BILYER IS THE THING. cau; i' WITHOUT IT AS MONEY WE ARE From the Washington Star; The Star BEATEN. man was talking to an acquaintance the other day, when a young fellow, who Free and Unlimited Coinage Would Do has blown in the bulk of a fortune cn for America the Keverse of Everything himself, and is liable to finish it before That English Gold Standard Advocates many moons, passed by, just a little Say It Will Do Plain Talk. too heavily loaded to be comfortable. "See that young chap? said the man. "Yes, and its a pity about him, too. Nice fellow with good abilities, if he would only use them as he should. "Very true, and he isnt too old to be cured, if he went about it right. If youve got a cure for that sort of thing, and will get it patented, you will he a millionaire before the year is out. a cure, but I know I cant say Ive1-go- t of one now in course of experiment. He didnt go right ahead, and the Star man nudged him with a question. What is it, and where is it? he asked. Well, I neednt tell yon just that, but Ill tell you what it is. I happen to The Nebraska democrats, those of know a rich man with a relative who is the goldite persuasion held a convenjust such another chap as the one we tion at Lincoln, Neb., the 5th instant, have been talking about, only more so. with about six hundred delegates from That is to say, he was that kind, but ha all counties, present. isnt now. He was quick and bright, No silverites were allowed, therefore, and had a good nose for business, but be the convention declared itself the regwould spend money and make no eflort ular state democratic convention. to acquire it. He had about $50,000 left The resolutions, as a consequence, to him when he was 21, and he went were infamous. They indorse the presthrough with.it like a train through a ident in emphatic language in his robtunnel, and tken fell back on his uncle, bery of the people in the last issue of or step-uncrather, and the old man bonds, and in his policy .of misinterhad him on his hands. He became ut- preting the currency plank in the demterly worthless and was drunk and in ocratic platform upon which he was trouble all the time. One day, however, elected. he had a sudden attack of common They continue: We insist upon this sense, and he braced up and stayed that policy (that of the president) as way for a month. especially necessary for the protection Then he went to his uncle and made of the farmers, laborers and property a proposition to him. This proposition owning debtors, the most defenseless was to the effect that if the old gentlevictims of an unstable and fluctuating man would take an insurance policy on currency. his life for $30,000, and let him have What clap-traProbably nearly were $10,000 on it to go into business with he every one ,of those delegates would guarantee to pay the $10,000 back either usurers by profession, or borwith the premium, and assume the pol- rowers of money in the clutches of icy himself within five years. If he usurers to an extent that they dare not failed he would commit suicide and the say their souls are their oWn. old man would make $20,000 less the With this cla:s, that is the spokespremiums, which,' he thought, was a men, it Is always? a case of professed fair percentage on the investment. It interest In the plain people, laborers, looked to the uncle something like etc., merely to deceive the public. murder, but he thought there was no They know very well that they are d other way to pure him, so he took the talking for their own man has upi and the experiment youfig profit, and care mighty little for the now been in operation two years, and up people they rob In their method. to this time the young fellow has been The resolutions go on: Free silver as straight As a string, and Is $7,000 to means a poorer money and less of it; it the good, which he has set- aside for means less wrages for the laboring man emergencies, and is going ahead making and less actual money for the farmer, just as much more as he can. The old and very much less credit, as well as man is so pleased about it that I dont money, for the business man; it means believe he will ask the hoy hes nearly bankruptcy for all save the mine own30 to fulfill the contract at the end of ers. five years, in case he shouldnt have What lies! Free silver would do the the full amount in his clothes just at very reverse of all these things, because free silver puts more money in that time. Where did you say the young man circulation rather than less. It would restore the farmers normal price of lived? inquired the Star man. I didnt say Washington, he replied. cotton, wheat and other allied products, to double present values; render safe the manufactures of this No More Bad Men. In the evolution of modern civiliza- country, who, In competition with siltion, the bad man, namely, the des- ver basis countries, are now threatened with ruin; increase the wages of the perado and tough, who gloats over killthe demand for his products ing his fellow man, disappears, said worker inmore money and better InA through Col.. F. B. Jenkins, of California. few years ago we heard a great deal comes to the farmers; make credit betof characters like Sam Bass, Jesse ter for the business man in stopping this currency contraction due to the James, Ben Thompson and Rube Burexclusive gold policy; and if honestly rows, but today there is not in the out hy an administration at United States a single individual with carried a national reputation for wickedness Washington, it would at once stop this such as any of these robbery of the people in the shape of and bond Issues, and would acquired. .There are a few men left more toinfamous make trade stable by stopping who have records for desperate courage tend due to the and nerve in trying emergencies, men these constant agitations of the Bat Masterson order, but they scare induced among usurers and moncan be counted on the fingers, of one ey lenders through raids upon the counbe the effect hand. ' Masterson never figured as a trys gold; all this would as The Item bandit or reckless taker of human life. of free silver, although, even free silver is said, has recently He is a peaceable man, and if left alone ll cure-aour of currency situawill harm no one. In Denver andall not the over the West and South he has a host tion. It Is in that direction, that is all. of friends. The day of the desperado is It is in the direction, of more money and less misery. ended, and monstrosities like ThompBut this convention does not stop with when in his of son, who boasted cups the number of victims he had slain, the above declarations; it resolved that the governments outstanding paper will henceforth cease to afflict humanmoney is a menace against the naPost. ity. Washington tion, therefore it must all be destroyed as accords with the presidents messWOMEN OF NOTE. age in favor of another currency decurvised hy a competent Mary Brandon, of Texas, is a blacksmith and wheelwright. rency. commission. Worth once told Mrs. Langtry that This part of the resolution was the Americans were the best dressed brought fresh from London, where it women in the world. was originally concocted; the chairman Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun, Gen- of the convention having only arrived eral Custers daughter, read a poem at the same day of the opening session for the purpose the Atlanta Fair on Blue and Gray straight of presiding. As the resolutions were Day. The most enthusiastic woman horti- all made and passed on the day of his culturist in Europe is Miss Alice Roths- arrival, in all probability they were all child, whose collection of roses alone is prepared in London for American insaid to be worth $50,000. dorsement. And indorsement they obTwo energetic young women are em- tained with no delay or opposition ployed by Uncle Sam in Brooklyn as whatever. The haste was remarkable. What a convention! And in a silver .deputy collectors of internal revenue. They are Miss Lucie Ball and Miss state, too! However, it was packed to Mabel Butler, and their names were the order. first of their sex to be entered on the But it does make the spokesmen of colas government pay rolls deputy delegates of this class howl when they lectors of internal revenues. read dispatches such as the following, showing the present prosperity of silbasis countries. This is taken from ver smiles between sermons. the Boston News Bureau of the 5th Hoax: Bilkem is a sort of inst., it being reproduced from the Boshe can do anything. Joax: ton Herald: Yes, or anybody. PJiiladelphia RecCity of Mexico special says the counord. try i3 booming. Hotels are full of peoThe Usual Question. And you will ple and mills are running extra time. never forget me? asked the summer There will be a bonanza corn crop thi3 resort girl of her lover, the dry goods autumn. Mexican capital is beginning clerk. Never, he said absently; is to enter new lines of investment. The Detroit banks are gorged with funds and the there anything more today? Press. Free government has. large revenues. So Maud has a title at last, said Travelers in all parts of the world the dear girl in pink. Yes, but its a are now daily sending home corressecond-han- d one, replied the dear gil pondence to show that the only prosIIow so? The nobleman perous nations in the world today are in blue. a was widower. married she Chicago the silver basis countries. Every one Post. of them is expecting a degree of prosWill you think of me when I am all perity heretofore unknown. This ofIs 103 Mr. asked gone? Linger sentimentally, due to the unnatural premium as the hands of the clock moved toward per cent they now possess in thesellpres-at 12. Miss Certainly, replied Kittish; ent price of siher when they th r how soon shall I have an oppertunitv homo or to gold-bascountries; to tegin? Detroit Free Preos. le p! short-sighte- - - dare-devilt- ry - I " non-partis- an . ; from-Londo- Jack-of-all-trad- this wall of n es; e-- is 1 co t of U n cent p-- eonsaimntly they rrc C ing and manufact nrir. ; kinds at a tremendous this at the expen-- cf cur j m uuvtl Cj exporters and manufacturer-- , r- -. Vvfd as of that of the same Lucir.c in other gold basis countries. In plain English, this ccnvcntbn c 1 Ncl-- , contained a lot of s who dont know that they are cuttirg their own business throats, as well t those of the entire country. Philadelphia Item. c i hort-sight- 3 - Gold Standard for England. London Cablegram: Replying to an to him by Mr. George Peel, secretary of tho Gold Standard association, and son of Viscount Peel, formerly speaker of the house of commons, to express his views on tho question of bimetallism, Mr. Gladstone writes that he has not altered the opinions which he expressed in parliament two and one-hayears ago. lie adds invitation extended lf that he regards the bimetallic schemes at passing humors, doomed to nullity and disappointment. He is convinced, he says, that if London stands firm for the gold standard no power that bimetallism commands or is likely to en- list will be able to overcome It. Mr. Gladstone adds that he regrets that ago and its disabilities prevent his active participation in the controversy. For the benefit of those who do not know that Mr. Gladstones opinion, &a expressed by him in February, 1833, in the house of commons, was, we will reproduce it here. It is as follows: England, says Mr. Gladstone, is the great creditor of the countries of the world; of that there can be no doubt whatever, and it is Increasingly the great creditor of the countries of the world. I suppose there is not a year which passes over our heads which does not largely add to the mass of British investments abroad. I am almost .afraid to estimate the total amount of the property which the united kingdom hold beyond the limits of the united kingdom, but of this I am well convinced, that It is is not to be estimated by tens Or hundreds of millions-probablmillions. One thousand would be an extremely low and inadequate estimate. Two thousand millions or something even more than that is very likely to be nearer the mark. I think under these circumstances it Is rather a serious matter to ask this country whether we are going to perform this supreme act of self-sacrifi- ce. The act of self sacrifice to which he refers was whether Great Britain should eVen discuss the question of giving a larger use to silver. The above dispatch rmust be very pleasant reading for bimetallists of the Jimmy Campbell stripe who think we should wait in this country the action of Great Britain. In point of fact these men are at all; they are simply gold- -, bugs without the courage of their convictions. J. II. s f Ready for Rusinegg Chicago Press (free silver): - ' Leaders of the silver movement exhibited wisdom in consolidating their forces and establishing their headquarters in Chicago. The cause of silver has been checked by the lack of a common head and a united system of education. Heretofore there have been three leagues working independent of each ether and the shortcomings of such a method of campaigning are obvious. These three leagues have determined to consolidate and place Gen. A. J. Warner of Colorado In charge of the work, which will be carried on from Chicago. Gen. Warner is an honest, capable and conscientious friend of silver, and under his exicu-tiveshthe work of spreading the gosof white metal will succeed. the pel ip i International Agreement? Bonhtj The; Mining and Industry Review, Denver: Why should there be an international agreement about money, when there is no such thing as international money? Our gold coin in England sells by weight, just as gold or sliver bars or wheat or cotton or pork. A dead hog, fit fon market, is just as much international money as gold. International balances are always settled by swapping. The London creditor of an American firm apks for exchange, or gives an American order for that commodity out of which he can make the International money is most profit. or Ignoramus. a scoundrel of the talk i j Would Bring: Belief. Industrial News (Farmers Alliance and Pop.), Jackson, Mich.: Free coinage of silver and a declaration by con- gress that all money bearing the stamp of the government shall be full legal tender and that It shall be at Die option of the government, as well, as all other debtors, to pay in either gold, silver or paper money, would bring speedy relief. Supplement this with a law declaring that all contracts which discriminate against any of the different kinds of money issued by the government are contrary to the public welfare and therefore void. A Tight Fit. In a certain district of Bradford there is a man who has caused his friends a great deal of anxiety, through hi3 strange behavior of late. Having lost sight oi him for a short was recently made In time, a search on and reaching the attic, hl3 house, him found hangh.g from a beam they fastened round him unthe rope being f der his mip lie was at once released, an j,n being asked the reason for this strange net, I tied it around my neck, be replied: I found couldnt breathe. but Moments. C-a- rc. |