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Show 0B ecent OF SCIENCE. and discoveries VENTIONS in- - OF VALUE. Speed Regulator aa Escapes-Sim- -p,o provement on Fire Accurate Apparatua and Im- Automatic for teaching Telegraphy. Automatic Speed Regulator. subject of this article la an fire escape, which does not dethe coolness and nerve of upon pend or regulate men to put It In operation when once In action. Recent loss of d Is still an life by Are shows there want In this direction, and John Williams of Belvidere, 111., submits the Invention shown In the drawing, its lm-rov- The un-jlle- chief advantage lying in the control of the speed of descent by the movement in cylinders pivof two pistons sliding oted in wall brackets attached to the huilding. The pistons slide back and forth through a heavy liquid, which must pass from one side to the other nd back again before the revolution As of the crank can be completed. the Internal diameter of' the cylinders nearly corresponds with the size of the is obvious that the flow of piston, it the liquid must be comparatively slow. Thus, no matter what weight Is in the cars attached to the endless chains, ther is no danger of damage from exThe inventor proposes treme speed. to limit the speed of cars still more In passing each window to enable persons to enter the cars with safety. This is accomplished by making one revolution of the cranks correspond to the fall of a car from one window to the next, decreasing the internal diameter of the piston at one end to make the liquid pass more slowly around the piston at that end. As a portion of the cars are always returning to make a Hydraulic Cylinders Cneck the Fail- pew descent there is no danger of any one being left in a burning building for want of means of escape. Expected Comets of 1902. are expected return during the present year. The Two periodic comets to discovered first was originally by Temple at Marseilles in 1869 and revolves about the sun every five and a half years. It was independently discovered by Swift In California in 1880 and was again found by Barnard at the Lick Observatory in 1891. It was not seen in 1886 and in 1897, nor between 1869 and 1880. It is expected to return early in December, 1902. "The second comet was discovered by Swift in California in 1895, and its period Is about seven years. It is not improbably identical with the comet discovered by Messier at Marseilles in 1770. It was expected to return in 1775, but In passing close to Jupiter Its orbit was greatly altered. It will Teturn toward the end of November, the Jat is the Insertion of a valve la the center of the screw top. The mechanism consists of a cylinder and piston, the latter being lifted a hand lever to draw Lie air frombyth rtr through the connecting mouth-ece. When the jar is filled and the cover screwed In place the vacuum producer Is set on the cover with the valve open and the piston at its lowest point. As the lever Is depressed the piston pulls the air from the Jar and when the screw head at the outer end of the lever strikes the projecting rod at the bottom of the cylinder the rod is driven inward, turning the valve and completing the sealing process. The apparatus is then removed, the v&ccum Inside the Jar retaining the valve in its closed position. When it PATTI RENEWS HER. YOVTH THE SECRET: SHE NEVER. WORRIES AND IS NEVER EXCITED When I read in the papers that ae- - Adelina Patti was going to sing at Albert Hall J went out straightway and bought seats, writes Jennetta L. Gilder, I had not heard Mme. Patti since she sang in opera at the old Academy of Music, New York, supported by the long since dead and gone Nicollnl. That was In , but why give dates? It was too long ago for one to be particular about such details. I am sure that Mme. Patti would rather not have me recall the year. And here was Patti the real flesh and blood and no ghost going to sing again. There was no Nicolim this time, but a brand new young husband, whose name was published in brackets under her more famous one; ? . . 1 : MME. ADELINA PATTI. : (Baroness Cedarstrom). t ; To the present generation the name of Adelina Patti is what that of Jenny Sweet Home,- - and Cornin hro th Rye. No one can truthfully say that Mme. Pattis voice is as fresh y as It was thirty years ago, but every one must admit that is is marvelous, considering her age, for she has turned 60. As for her style and method, they are unimpaired. It seemed to me as though her songs had been arranged for a lower key than of old, but I may he mistaken. Her trills were liquid acid brilliant as far as they went, but the famous one, None, they say have I, was much shortened. Do you remember that trill? And then the way, later, that she played with the rye as a kitten with a bal tossing it higher and higher, rolling and turning, till it finally ended in a big, round gurgle and then came to an end. It was in the simpler thing that Mme. Patti was best The Last Roe of Summer and Home, Sweet Home, and the enormous audience that Allied Albert hall arose to these and gave her an ovation. Home, to-da- Egg-Opene- r. egg-open- Contraction of the Handles Clips fh? Shell. to bite into the shell and sever 1L The piaetice of striking the shell a sharp blow with the knife must answer if the person were sure of his aim and the force of the blow, but It is rather unpleasant to cut half-waegg. through the yolk of a d It is especially for use with has eggs that this been designed by Hiram S. Dotts of Thoburn, W, Va. y soft-boile- d soft-boile- egg-open- Pneumatic Canning Device. The principal cause of the spoiling of fruit canned for winter use is the action of the air inside, which induces fermentation of the alcohol in the Juice of the fruit, ultimately passing to the final stages of decay. By ordinary methods of canning it is almost impossible to exhaust this air entirely, and it is to aid in this work that the apparatus here shown has been designed by William H. Fredericks of Portland, Ore. The intention of the Inventor is to make the machine exhaust the air from the can and then eal it automatically without allowing a return of the air from the outside. In order to accomplish this purpose ths only change rendered necessary In bank." y . Go on. He looked at the card and then at the lady. j "What did he do then? Drew out a fountain pen and wrote certified across the face of the card and put his initials under 1L you have made and guard against a repetition of them in the future. Oh, if your diary is only to record your mistakes, replied the thoroughly practical man, whats the matter with turning the keeping of it over to your wife c The Way Now. Twai Impossible. Colonel, do you believe in dreams, apparitions, or anything of that sort? No, he says, with emphasis, toyI do not, ing with the mint Julep. suh. Once I had the delirium tremens, 1 suh, most infernally bad, suh, and saw snakes. Well?" Scrutinizing those reptiles closely, suh, I saw that they were watuh snakes. Watuh snakes! It was, of co&e, impossible! f Nellie was with her father one day while he was hoeing potatoes. There were turnips on the other side of the garden, which, of course, never needed any hoeing, and Nelli' very earnestly asked: Papa, how do the turnips grow?' God makes them grow, my child,' he answered. Well, thats funny, said Nellie. I never saw Him in here hoeing them. industrious child can gain a knowledge of the art of telegraphy, with practice in receiving as well as sending messages. The chief difficulty to overcome Is the training of the ear to catch and distinguish the length and number of the dots rnd dashes, the sending of a message being a comparatively easy task. The former method of attaining proficiency In receiving wa3 to have a person send a message after message to the learner, a tiresome process to the sender, as patience and perseverance are required in the work. With the new apparatus the learner needs no assistant, simply grinding out his own dots and dashes as fast or slow as may be necessary to correspond with his speed in receiving. The ordinary form of key and sounder are used, being wired to the battery in the usual way. There is also a circluit formed between the sounder and a spring tongue resting on the edge of the rotary disk. In line with the points of the tongue the disk is covered at proper intervals with ' which projections, break the contact between the tongue Do you think she is going to marry Negative Satisfaction. Brighteyes I dont know Lord De Broke?. whether I ought to tell you, but I won Very likely. I understand that the $200 from Briggs last night playing expert accountant who has been going over her father's books has reportpoker. Mrs. Brighteyes O, how nice. Now ed very favorably to his lordship.3 you can afford to get me that new A Fit Subject. dress. Mrs. De Jarr Is there an Idiot asyMr. Brighteyes What an unreasonable woman you are. It ought to be lum near here? Mr. De Jarr I believe so. satisfaction enough for you to know Do they take people on their own that Mrs. Briggs wont be able to have recommendation ? a new dress. My stars! How should I know? Why? Different. Entirely I got Oh, nothing! Only Mrs. Timmins John, I must say you are the narrowest minded man I hold of a package of my old love letever saw. You lave rn idea that no- ters.. body is ever right but yourself. Not Personal. Better look to hdme. Mr. Timmins locust is an inI think the Were you ever willing to admit that the lady observed from differed teresting study, anybody was right who of uncertain age. you? It must be," we answered, thoughtThats an entirely Mrs. Timmins different thing, and you know it, John lessly, especially to one who has traced them down from generation to Boston Transcript Timmins. generation. But, of course, it was her own fault His Complaint. Your complaint that she took It personally. only Judge against this woman is that she threw a brick at her husband? Copy Mans Language, Too. I suppose, of course, you disapprove Well, yes. Complainant Then what business is that of the way women are copying mens Judge of jours? She didnt throw it at fashions? Disapprove of it? Great Scott, no! you. I know, but if she I wouldnt have it different for ths Complainant world! Why, it was as good as a had she might have hit aer husband and I wouldnt have this black eye. play this morning to watch and listen to my wife when her collar stud rolled Wanted a Home. under the chest of drawers. Irate Father Young man, if my Two Ways of Doing It daughter marries you I will cut her oft without a cent. Say, pard, who put yoif on ths Suitor O, thats all right, sir; we bum? asked one tramp of another. dont care so much about money; all "Its a short story, replied the othwe expect of you is to give us a good er. Once I was happy and tried to home." be rich. What is the answer in youl case? True Courage. About the same, replied No, L Yes, he was paying atPhyllis Once I was rich and tried to hs tention to her quite a long time." happy." Blanche Perhaps he hadnt the , courage to propose. Reasoning from Experience. O, I dont know. Perhaps Phyllis I see that Weatherman Moore has he had the courage not to propose. patented an Invention to keep houses cool In sutpmer, said the man who What to Do. reads' the papers. He has money, you know." Belle So? queried the man who reasons I Emma Yes, appreciate that fact; It must be something by induction. but how am I to live happily with a on the same order as the furnace 1 man who is my inferior? threw so much coal Into last winter. Dont let him know it Life. Baltimore American. Mr. to-da- y Lind was to a generation past When I told a young American girl that I was going to hear Mme. Patti sing she looked at me aghast Patti sing! I thought that she was aead anL buried ages ago. To prove that she was alive and singing I took the young American girl to the concert with me. Rotary Disks Send the Messages. To my great delight Mme. Patti gave and plate, cai sing the sounder to form her old familiar repertoire. She first the dots and dashes accordingly. The sang Costa Diva, with Voiche to afford sapeta as an encore. Then the jewdisks are interchangeable greater latitude in practice. Charles el song from Faust, wtih Within a El Egan of Durham, N. C., !s the inMile of Edinboro Town as an encore. ventor. Then The Last Rose of Summer, One Locomotives Enormous Strength. Yesterday afternoon the New York Central Companys new tandem compound locomotive. No. 2399, built recently at tne Schenectady Locomotive Works, took a train of 108 loaded cars from DeWltt to Aioany in eleven hours, says the Little Falls Times. The 108 cars were loaded with 4,500 tons of freight. This is the greatest tonnage ever moved by a single locomotive on any railroad in the world. Some idea of the size of the load can be gathered when it is realized that 9,000,000 pounds of freight were moved. The engine was in charge of Philip Eberhardt of Albany. Last week the 'same locomotive drew 100 cars over the division. In the 100 cars there were 4,200 tons. The hauling capacity of the locomotive Is enormous. It drew fifty loaded cars up the Schenectady hill without asfeat among sistance, an unheard-o- f Central enginemen. The Increased power of the monster is gained by the use of steam four times, that is one compound cylinder placed ahead of the other, hence its name tandem compound. To-da- Four-year-ol- d For Teaching Telegraphy. Here is a simple and yet accurate apparatus with the aid of which any Electric Force From the Sun. In the Revue Generale des Sciences M. Nordmann proposes a theory of the propagation of electric force from the sun into space which is based on the assumption that Hertzian waves are emitted from the surface of our luminary, and that the emission of these electric waves must be particularly intense at epochs of maximum solar activity. M. Nordmann admits that hitherto attempts to discover Hertzian waves in the solar radiation have led to a negative result; but, in his opinion, this may be explained by the copious absorption of ine electric undulations In the higher layers of our atmosphere. On this hypothetical basis the theory attempts an explanation of cometary phenomena, of terrestrial magnetism, and of the luminosity of matter in the nebulae and in the vicinity of temporary stars. M. Nordmanns paper thus covers the same ground as the previous researches of Professor Arrhenius. But the distinguished Swedish physicist advocates the theory of corpuscular electric emission, and M. Nordmann endeavors to show that some grave objections may be urged against this point of view, and that, on the whole, the cosmical phenomena here considered are better explained by the undulatory electric theory of Maxwell and Hertz. Boston Transcript 3s not the moonlight beautiful this evtglng? I say to the gentleman with EFFORTS OF THE FUNNY MEN TO th flowing hair and the expression of muttered woe. DRIVE AWAY DULL CARE. Ke glanced at me, at the moon, at the scenery, and at the other surA Lesson In Marriage As It Is roundings with languid interest Horticulture Why Ho Thought His he says. It Is fair only fair, Wire Should Bo Satisfied Those Yob should have seen the moonlight effect I staged for the Heroines of Summer Tennis Mon. th Harem extravang&nza company last season. It made this thing look Old an Trick. Hadnt Forgotten Ilka a burnt match. Judge. Miss Helen Gould was out calling the other day." A Muoh Better Plan. Well? man, said the thoughtful "Every She left her card at one place to keep a diary. It thoorist, ought where the lady of the house was out Is by keeping an actual record The servant who waited on the door of only what you have done that you are was once the cashier of a New York able afterward to see the mistakes A Lesson in Horticulture, Sealing a Jar by External Atmospheric Pressure. Is desired to open the can a turn of the valve admits air and makes it easy to unscrew the cover. As far as manners and appearance go Mme. Patti was as young and She was dressed picture hat perched upon her black and curling hair. To have seen her running airily up the inclined plane that leads to the platform of Albert hall, bowing gayly to right and left, you would not have given her a day more han 20. She is a wonderful woman, is Mme. Patti. I doubt if any prima donna of will have su'h a record of sing. Fortunately for her she has never torn her voice with Wagners mi sic. ever. as in pale yellow with a to-aa- y 1902. The Scissors To be extremely technical in describing this invention. It embodies a movable series of jaws relatively toward each other to contact with the shell of an egg simultaneously at different points in a single horizontal plane, whereby a continuous line of To tell the fracture is produced. story in simple form, this has two drawn together the arms contract the handles and carrying three curved plates. These plates have slots and pins as a connecting medium, and when the handles are drawn together the arms contract the plates. This causes the pins to slide from the outer ends of the slots to the inner ends, contracting the size of the opening sufficiently ta cause the sharp teeth Grand as that music Is it is death to ay but German voices, and even they canno. long withstand its strain. Patti has confined herself to Italian Since ODeras and English ballads. she was so small that she had to stand upon a table to be seen. Bhe has been ednging In public, and before that she played the violin in an orchestra of which her father was the conductor. Notwithstanding her long life before the public, she shows few signs of wear and tear, because her life has been made easy for her. She has always had some one to stand be tween her and all worry. She Is never allowed to be excited. Louisa Loew, the companion of fourteen years, after her quarrel with Mme. Patti published .he story of her life to the world. It was not all a pretty story, particularly the part relating to Nicolini, bat it was undoubtedly true. Mme. Patti has been ueated more or less like a valuable racehorse. Her food, her exercise, her rest, all are looked after by specialists, and have The Mimic World. SPICE OP LIFE IflE Schwabs New York Palace been for years. An article published recently in a London paper tells a differert story. It rays she eats what she likes, she lives as she likes, she takes exercise as she chooses, she has no 'physician in attendance. She has no nerves. If this be true times have changed. When she was last in New York she had hed own cook, her own doctor and her own physical attendant. As for nerves, she had them all over her body. She seldom ventured outside of her hotel, and when she did she drove in a closed carriage and stuffed cotton in her ears to keep the cold out Mme. Patti has not yet succeeded in selling Craig-y-Noher Welsh castle, and she still spends the most of her time there. The place has cost her a fortune and it takes a fortune to run it. Like every prima donna that ever was born, Mme. Patti loves the country. It is, of course, the contrast to the excitement of their public life that makes singers and actors eager for the peace and quiet of green fields. I say again, Mme. Patti Is a wonderful woman, and it is still a genuine pleasure to hear her sing. I would much rather hear her, even though her voice may have lost some of its freshness, than most of the famous Patti was born, not singers of made, and she still sings with all her old time grace and charm. The young girl alluded to at the beginning of this I feel, she letter was enchanted. said, turning to me, as you might have felt if you had been taken to hear Jenny Lind. Not exactly, I replied, for I could only have been taken to bear Jenny Lind before I was born. to-da- CHARLZa It. aOMWAAS HtW AMMfOJ mag-nificie- nt HIS PRAYERS. DOG SAYS New Orleans Paper Tells of a Remarkable Canine. "Down in a rum shop in the old quarter the other evening I came across a praying dog, said an observant man. He was a bulldog, rather mangy looking, with big red hairless and splotches on his head and body, piece he was really a cheap, of dogflesb, so far as appearances went His master was a long, lean,a man, with lank, dissipated-lookinwild, reckless cast of countenance, In that just the kind of a fellow.to fine, in a Inclined dodge be would one barroom. But the dog seemed to like him. The man seemed to suit him, carand when the poor dog was not masof his Instructions rying out the ter he was rubbing his head against his masters leg and otherwise giving The dog evidence- - of his devotion. was well trained. He had learned to do a great many little things that would amuse men who are in the A double track electrical railway Is of whiling away their time In habit projected which is to follow the Mis- barrooms. ( sissippi river from New Orleans to the After he had carried the dog Lake of the Woods. low-dow- n g through tie oo urte ptfUy well he yelled out to him, Say your prayers. The dog looked at him for a second, as if he wanted to be excused, and it was a long, pleading, pathetic look. But the master did not heed It Say your prayers,' he said again, sternly. The dog threw his paws up on an old empty beer keg, buried his red, rough-lookin- g face as nearly as he could beand began tween his mangy fore-fea lew murmuring growl, as if repeating something be bad been taught to say. Say amen, said the man with the dissipated look, and the dog raised his voice to a higher key, and, as nearly as he could, said amen. Then he pulled his paws oft the beer keg, put them on the floor again and looked wistfully at his master. It was a pathetic sort of thing, and I was just wondering if the man hadnt taught his dog a lesson which he, with a suNew Orperior mind, had forgotten. leans A Man of His Word. Not His Experience. dkeres said the convict, some things in the prayer book I cant believe, though Id like to. What, for instance? inquired the prison visitor. Well, for instance, where It says, We are here and gone to- You her it . to cook anything. I didnt think he could keep a servant girl. He couldnt; but his promise held He lost his job shortly after good. the wedding and then she didnt hava to-da- anything to eookJ, Goat Wanted. Wifey (who is doing her own cooking now) I cant seem to make little enough of anything. I wish some poor hungry creature had what we have left every day. Hubby (who hasnt much appetite Yes, we ought to keep a lately) goat They say a goat can eat - Miss Million Mr. Bluffs serving was marvelous! Miss Billion No wonder; hes a waiter at the best hotel in the city. Absent-MindeBeggar. "Have you really no affection for any other girl, dear? she asked of d her Not 8trenuous ' Why, papa, she Enough. argued, yon drug clerk, have something just known Arbuthnot never drinks, plays fiance. No, replied the absent-mindedl- but 1 His Little Ideal. Ha, ha! exclaimed the Bummer as good." boarder, you actually bought a gold Doomed. brick! The Count I tell your fader I canYes, answered Farmer Comtossel, as he took the specimen tenderly and not live midout you. The Lady And what did he say, laid It on the mantel shelf. All the Ferdinand? city folks that came here expected to The Count He say I vill die von see one. It seemed like they wouldnt believe I was a regular farmer unless horrible death py starvation. I could show a gold brick. So when Concerning Length. I went to town and this was offered "Have you been married long? me I give the fellow $99 in confederate money and a Canada quarter, asked the lady, who was making conMemorial of Murdered Czar. qF. the It is said that the bedroom of Czar which is cheaper than I could have versation, as long as I am now, he Just as one it made Is II Alexander kept exactly mys' TImes-Democra- know, he promised shed marry him she wouldnt have morrow, half-smoke- d Be Bluffed. No. 17! No, was on the morning he left to be brought back in an hour fatally torn and mangled by the assassins bomb, A recent traveler was given the privilege of viewing the apartment, which is simple almost beyond belief in its appointments. A few toilet articles, including a couple of well-wor- n brushes, lie on a little table, and the cigarette which his imperial majesty laid down before leaving the room still reposes in the ash tray where he put it. to Not I will have to have three more days out a week, and receive my company in the parlor, said the cook lady firmly. Bridget, replied the mistress of the house, I warn you not to push me too far. You seem to forget that I belong to the Housewives union IN MW YONK. Charles Schwab, head of the great Every device that adds to the comfort sursteel trust, is building a palace in of modern life or turns barren New York that will outvie in splen- roundings into spots of beauty is to dor any of the mansions of the money be used. When finished and ready for the steel magnate will be kings that adorn the great metropolis. occupancy is as It will, with the grounds, occupy one able to boast that his home as any abode on earth, with entire block, and the cost, exclusive of of royal residences. furnishing, will be close to $3,000,000. the exception - These Summer Tennis Men. L r. cards, smokes, bets on horses, o swears. Yes, I know, tho rugged, u. mantle old man answered, but I a want a chap for a merely doesnt do things. son-in-l- GUiity. "Do you know anythin rotum? asked the girj waist "Well, replied maid, as she held to display a sparng 80 better advantage, yu caB yourself." J f |