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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- Presidents Roosevelt and Loubet of France. Statue cf the Great French 5oidler Who Aided the Colonies In Their Fight for Independence, E. T. II YUK, Publisher. CLALMS MAN IENNSYLVANIA HAVE NCIjELESB GUN. ment and top of the bulb may be diminish ed or increased accordingly. If a definite amount of fluid iu required the tube is first properly adjusted, so that the expansion of tno end of the bulb after contraction will induct the right quantity of medicine into the lube, discharging it as soon as a second depression of the bulb takes place. By adapting the device to be kepi ill tho bottle containing tho medicine it not only serves as a stopir, but also keeps the dropper clean and free from d.ist and the contaminating air of the sick room. Harris Comer of Philadelphia, Pa., is the inventor. UTAH LOGAN. I- the bulb to serve as ar abutment tr stop to limit the depression of the bulb. By twistirg the tube to the TO right or left while the bull) is held rigid, the distance between the abut- WORK OF INVENTORS ROCHAMBEAU STATUE AT WASHINGTON NATION. Y tbituarjr Carving Mtrhlne licit - Can It be possible that ni.hodi going to dramatize Maty .'duel. am The farmers need pot starve so mu as the beef trust tt.min Vihem to 1. vp their cattle. 1 V It is considered no feat at til ft r a Chicago footpad to walk ofT wiih a cliurch boll. 500-poun- d A good many people think that Gordon Ford was primarily responsible for the murder of ais son. The porterhouse steak is now the piece de resistance to ail who kick against the beef trust prices. There are so many schools, it ut none of them teaches people how to know when they are becoming bores. Potatoes command such an exorbitant price this year that they cannot be used aa corks fur gasoline cans. If those volcano manifestations in Central America continue Texas stands a show of losing the rest of its oil. -- 4$ !.?? , ' .V r A MoWel y..,' , Ll y'rjr lj KepruiJncea (lrlglunl Sculpt urn lw Apiwrstun Itnsigiirit for It Study .f DUtjiit ThuuileKl.il in. i Plerpont Morgan might male a hit now by assuming conGol of thou v Ares-rate- till n. The inventor uas lately been turning his atteiuiou to eliminating and rendering unnecessary tho very articles wliiih were before considered ab- 'T' solutely essential in order to perform certain kinds of work. Thus we have the wireless telegraph, the horseless carriage, smokeless powder, etc., and now comes the noiseless gun. invented Htuilr of Thunderstorm. by Joseph 13. Bisaoil of Pittsburg, Pa. electrical devices, including Various The illustration shows a general and Tommasina's a view of the gun and also section prefor used been have coherer, senting the details of construction in The thunderstorms. distant studying In a manner to be better understood. new of J. J. Landercr congeneral terms the invention consists sists apparatus of line of 300 yards, a telegraph of the interposition of a movable body which is put running or between or piston the explosive water to the earth pipes of through projectile, serving to prevent or re- Tortosa and joined to a very sensitive galvanometer. A great advantage is the showing of the direction of the discharge. A lightning flash in the distance giviu a slight shock, followed by a greater one, and the small deviations are always in the same direction during the same storm, the discharge proceeding from north to south in storms taking place east of the meridian and from Bouth to north in storms in the west. One storm rePowder corded waB as far away aa Majorca, a Plunger Interpneed lletwi-ndistance of 150 miles. Huilet. and tard the escape of gases of explosion, atutuury Carving Machine. thereby avoiding the violent and Only the expert artist who haa displacement of air at the muzzle conspent years of practice can carve a OROKERS NIECE ON THE STAGE dramatic line was last November, of the gun. The explosive is rear of a shell, with the Btatue from a block of marble, but the in the tained when she had a smart part with the merest novice ran duplicate the origMh. Daisy Morgan Haa Ilocllad to in contact wdth the front face. Baker stock company that appeared piston inserted in the end inal with the apparatus shown in the is The Eater Vandovllla. projectile for a week in the Criterion theater, of the cartridge, and is forced outward accompanying illustration. Emora T. Richard Croker's niece, Mrs. Baity Brooklyn. She is a clever vlollAist, will on the vaudeville by the movement of the liquid con- Brannan of Baltimore, Md., is the go Morgan, and wil play a solo in the sketch. and with his device, he says, tained in the shell in advance of the stage. Mrs. Morgan has adopted the stage piston. The liquid mentioned by the it is possible to reproduce a piece of A Yankee Amiion. inventor is water and the cartridge is statuary any number of times without name of Daisy Welstead, which was The memory of Deborah Sampson made of the proper size to contain a injury to the original, the repetitions Gannett, the woman soldier In the sufficient quantity of the water to fill being of any desired size, according revolutionary war who fought under the barrel when t lie piston is driven to the adjustment of the machine. the rame of Robert Shurtleff, was forward, thus exerting a steady force To put the carver in operation the honored lately at a banquet at Sha- behind the lull let until it emerges statue to be duplicated is placed on a ron, Maas., where she lived more from the muzzle. To accomplish this fixed pedestal within easy reach of than forty years. Her body lies at In safety it is necessary to increase the operator. Then a block of marble Rockridge cemetery in that town, the strength of the breach to over- or other material is mounted on a where the grave Is frequently pointed come the enormous force of the exout to visitors. pansion. The banqueting ball was decorated with the national colors, and Wlrtltu IIuIm-arge letters were the hisA national patriotism appears to be toric names: Deborah Sampson, Mary influencing wireless telegraphy adopLyon, Anne Hutchlngson and Hamiah tion. Canada officially has recognized Dustin. In a conspicuous place was a the Marconi, this system being an placard on which were the words, "I tdopted child, as it was perfected and Was There. This referred to Debodemonstrated on Canadian soil. Great rah Sampson's saying In Britain, through the Lloyd's contract, her lectures on the battles In which nas practically declared for the same she had participated while dressed as system. Germany is said to have desa man. One of the speakers during Slahy-Arc- o the system as the tie evening suggested that these ignated official system fur navy and coast sigwords be placed upon Sharon's town nal stations. By similar reasoning seal. this country should declare for the Mr. Croker's mother's maiden name. Tesla system, the practical work on A Religion Prior n. She will open in a vaudeville sketch which has already been started in the Make Itirodnrtlon from an Original. entitled "The Last Lesson. Prince Bernadotte, second son of Long Island rta'.on. Tesla, In a re- second pedestal directly above the patMrs. Morgan is 25 years old, and is the king of Sweden, is a deeply recent interview, ib ; lured that he had tern. Between the two is suspended of very attractive appearance. She ligious man. He is president of the solved the problem of secret messages a pivoted bar, with a tracing finger is Mr. Crokers favorite niece. Her Young Mens Christian Association of more than two years ago, when he at the lower end anu any suitable or cutting tool at the top. This mother's name was Honore Victoria Stockholm, the chairman of a first considered the erection of a com- tracing is cutter driven by a flexible shaft i.R Croker. society and of many like In- mercial Btatlon. What, however, will and the operator has only to shown, Her first attempt at anything In the stitutions. He trequently preach os. be the result if each country adopts a model as the cuttings are gradually In its universal system which is not from the removed copy, finally reduscope? Tie value of the new inven- cing the latter to the H)int where the be ' ' il tion to mariner's will certainly tool will no longer oerate at any pormuch circumscribed. tion of the stone, with the tracer in contact with the corresponding porMaillt-liiDWpeniilng lievlra. tion of the original, when the reproIt is obvious that for administering duction will be found complete. medicine to a patient especially one Powt-la Ilnlnn. too ill to be Rcrved by means of a The annual of tlie wire dereport spoon or where a definite quantity of fluid is frequently to be given, the partment of Boston for the year 1501 deviee shown in the drawing will presents among other interesting information a table showing (lie amount anil distribution of Boston's electrical --power. Statistics up to January 31. give i bj following figures: Total of boilers, rated total rated of engines, in Incandescent 120,215: capacity lamps, T:!5.775; capacity in arc lamps. 14. or.:.: number "f motors. 5.IMI; horse- ti fr v i R n v p. n n m .i power of nmiors, 1.7, .'iii." ; number of c station. .'Mi; the capacity of generan ? pc t w S n ' r in tors for isoluii-- plants iu kilowatts is I. U ? '- e electro-radiophon- s nort.i-northeas- t, n It is suggested as a probability that the French do their voting on Sundays to make their calling and election sure. The travel in airships will be temporarily depressed by the unfortunate accident to Senor Severn, the Brazilian aeronaut. Venezuelan rebels are about to be- come the government and thus allow the other fellows to be the rebels for a change. With a cannon that will throw two tons of mcial ninety miles at every effort, Germany ought to be able to keep the iicaee. If a man's greatest Joy is in anticipation William Waldorf Astor Is certainly being allowed to get the full benefits of that peerage. Bud-de- n inter-mingloi- EvtGvit Vi4nltr Wu Ting-Fan- cbnfesscB publicly that he doesn't like ping pong, but considers it a "childish game, there are otners. There is enough mischief cooked up on top of the earth without the interior of the pesky thing cutting in with volcanic eruptions to add to the sum total. Life In New Jersey is indeed The farmers are not yet skilled enough to dodge automobiles and the mosquito season comes on apace. strenuous. Bob Fitzsimmons will attend the coronation festivities in lamdon, and expects incidentally to land a few crown punches where they will do the most good. The Ancient Order of Hibernians has staruJ a crusade against Irish comedians. Not as patriots, but on behalf of playgoers, we take pleasure in enlisting. At last accounts the Ancient Order of United Hayseeds hud not formally pretested against the further caricaturing of Reuben on the stage and in the pictorial sheets. University of Chicago girls have gel to knocking one another senseless while playing Why not avoid tin dun!! r by letting them have the use of tin gridiron? inis-sena- - ry - a r Klf-rtrlr- i w n rv linrse-pow- er lOii.'J-PJ- hoise-pow- tt )- - - r- - ; er -- 1 rp - ZZ 15,151. s-- -- T- V - - - 1- -. Mew Ss fw for Him WlrrlrM. the summit of .Mount Zugspitze, in the Bavarian Alps, more than 5,(00 feet above level, there is an important metroriilngiral observatory, which is occupied a the year, but in winter i cut off from communication with the lower carlli because storms i!i troy tin and teh phono A wires. wireless Installation lias been made there now. connected with a postollice in tin valley, three miles Alljuat.llll to SlMI Ilf ltll. away, and tlie observer is thus nimbi It pnnu .;ntiiii!;irly independent of the storms as (lie wind In uli cork and mi'ilii'lne droplias no cfi'i'ct. on tin. ether waves that per, and is cpiiuhlt or ii'ljii.slmeiit to f MuM recarry hi messages. to tlie vary the quantity rubber The lias amount. bull) quired its lower wails thirkennl and an open lletty flrpcn' Son on fntontor, E. H. B. Green, president of the in:; is provided for lie Insertion of Tininterior wall of the Texas Midland Railroad and son of the titiie. opening is iindded with a thread to .Mrs. Ileily Green, lias bet-.- awarded ro operate with n corresponding a paten, on a system of wireless telegthread on tin head of In- tithe. The raphy wliieli Is to lie put Into operaupper end of Miu tube extends Into tion mi his line. On n-.- i i tji Fifiincs smi!i Mill cumceiling ship, and scores of raw naval bersome hulk of the liiiiibiiip Ver- recruits can trace their first expert-mont. The shin roomily ivn placed fin es baek to this beginning. For a on llio rctir-.-.lir. and is tu he mb long time the Vermont has been staat auction. After it has been stripped tiered in tie Brooklyn naval yard. of everything of v:m In- f,,u:id and during the late war with Spain on it. v!at remains nf t.:o old many squads of naval recruits were lioat will in ad probability In- leimed. assembled on its decks. and all tra-- e id ifiu1 id t'.c vesThe Verne mt is u character type sels iu lint I'nltcd Stalls fiuy will of the then formidable friraics that then bo obli'eravd. ii cured in tho early wars of the coun-- , There mn a time when the Vf. try. It was an ungainly housed in nf- as a fori. .j.:, iront was fair, and win built by the governagent of war. but for si lend years it incut in tho Boston yards in Ifiis. p,,. From lli at time until the snip was has not been in active cause it was recanted us uid'.t for converted into a receiving station it use on the sea. After its direct lalue saw much active service. The Ver- to tlie navy ilcpartuicrt ended tha mont is li; feet long, feet Vermont was irnuefcrmed lr.to a re- - wide, and displacemertt of 4.15U tons. ; ! j l - - ic - r.in-s- - j fifty-thre- e fisi-ful- . rom-pi'he- s I - i 1 - |