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Show WILL LIVE. jgGS Fifty-thir- Fifty-secon- d, Flfty- - and d fourth congresses. In the last congress he was third in the minority on the .nANr.lS SMITH WAS A committee on appropriations, third" in the minority on cjoinage. weights and SAMUIP.OAL am ERIC AN. measures and first of. the minority on tne joint commis sion to Inquire into of 'Tia Thee, "America, of the status of law;; organizing the ex Hi Reward" Pa98ed 0' ecutive departments. In the Fifty-fir- ! - 1 Bpoonful) passes from the reservoir . SCIENCE AMD PROGRESS. , j is sr L ef iy Kauai st IU congress, of which Fame to HI Mr. Reed was sDeak- er, Mr. Dingley served on the committee on ways and means, ; i& 0 FAR as concerns "s. LORD MAYORESS. Lady Wllken, Wlh of the Lord Mayor of London Town. Lady "Wllken, the lord mayoress of . Hamilspeech is the daughter of Henry Rid London, one whose ton, and Is a woman of varied ac Dole, ley deliverance great complishments, of a warm and een- dwarfed everything erous. nature. Natiirally of a gentle and else he ever did. retiring disposition, she does not look Dr. English, who forward .with unmixed pleasure to her wrote "Ben Bolt," forthcoming in the Mansion reign . nmo tn time over the House, which accounts for her hips iron! probably f tlat made him famous as the determination to postpone the event un- of a rasual song, but it does Dr. Smith ever com- rr that the concentrated reputation ained to him as tne auinor oi "America" was his great was tne success oi a t.. person, who had the gift "Irvingconsiderable degree, and nz in a good hymns, wrote some very "The one, morning light is Stfthem American adult jSng." which every Vwas the child of pious parents a his general fame, the late Dr. Samuel F. Smith was comparable to the Single-j re to I er : : 3o it-- I : nt t i I," to ne ry 501 )er : bs ea Ice at : ur II" TO-- ien ; toj oca v ike ; That hymn and Mfs by heart. wrote while hie Smith Dr. erica" if a theological student in Andover. In ost life he was a copious writer and ILlator, and it is interesting to know T I was a remarkable linguist and iyter-- or student at least of not less After he gradgi fifteen languages. fitfij. the from seminary at Andover he ed kit! wame a Baptist minister, had a church jflflateryille, Me., and was at the same of foreign languages in jjme professor per faterville college, now In 1842 he came to 3 hey t Colby univer-ji- rt Newton, Mas as pastor of a church there, time edited the Christian ta of his distinctions was One i a. Mister. iii membership of the famous Harvard sachusetts, jad for a raw class reduced now to three of 1829, It was as a members. ... jat iat el suf-riri- ng '29 man Holmes wrote of him in lines have appeared in all of his obit1 A novel craft is the, boat that was seen last summer on Lake George, plowing its way through the placid surface of those transparent waters, under the motive force of what looked like a propeller fastened on the end of a steering paddle. The entire motor and steering apparatus have no connection with the boat, except where the former rests by its own weight on a pivot at the stern, thus enabling the boatman to lift it out of the water in shallow places or to transfer it to any boat at will. The propeller; consists of a steel tube, hinged at the stern and balanced evenly by the weight of the electric motor forward and the wheel and rudder at the sternmost end, so that It is handled with slight exertion. The tube contains a flexible shaft formed of three coils of phosphor bronze, and extends down and out into the water at the proper angle to allow the propeller and wheel to sink just beneath the surface. The tube, with its Inclosed flexible shaft, is partly filled with oil, which constantly lubricates the working parts without attention from the operator. The electric motor at the forward end of the tube is of driven by batteries stowed away under the seats. The combined propeller, motor and rudder weigh thirty-fivpounds for a ten to eighteen-foo- t boat, and the four required batteries weigh from twenty-fiv- e to eighty pounds each. The batteries run from six to eight hours continuously on one filling, and cost to refill at the rate of 5 to 7 cents per hour. r The present cost of the whole outfit is 7 "WHV"$150. The speed attained is an averMdM age of four miles an hour not as much, it will be observed, as that of a naphtha or regularly built electric launch; but as a naphtha launch of similar size costs about $800, the lazy fisherman will probably be content THE LORD MAYORESS. e rate furnished by til after the Christmas holidays, until with the we are the propeller describing. which time she will continue to occupy is almost It noiseless, perfectly safe the charming and perfectly appointed and or of capable starting, mansion in Gloucester Square, Hyde reversing instantly by thestopping a o turn Park. It may be! confidently stated. little switch just back of the handle-piechowever, that when she does appear in the ofl&cial residence she will fulfill the Ice Bicycle. manifold and at times perplexing du With the ties of lord mayoress of the city of approach of winter comes a heralding of bicycles that can be London with graciousness, as well as used the ground is covered with with a dignity becoming her husband's snow when be and the ordinary wheel has to ingreat office and her own social and of- laid aside. The winter bicycle is ficial obligations. The opportunities tended for use on the ice, and some she will have in her new environment enthusiasts claim that for zest and exof relieving distress will at least be citement it far eclipses the road bicyamong her pleasant memories when her cle. It is said that with it a quarter term of office expires. Lady Wilken is of a mile has been made in twenty secends, and that it compares in point Inclined toward the speed with other" forms of bicycles school of gentlewomen, evincing no of does to the as the predilection toward the ways of the new craft. It is a simple matter to convert woman. the ordinary bicycle into an ice bicyA patent attachment has been incle. A Kingsiey Revival. vented, consisting of a runner to reWhat may be dalled a Kingsley rethe front wheel and a patent vival appears to be now in progress. place spiked tire which encircles the rear There is an increasing demand at the wheel. These attachments are made libraries for the canon's books; his to fit any style of make of the modern brother's romances are out in a new safety bicycle. The rear wheel attachedition and gaining on this side of the ment fits tightlya around the pneumatic tire, forming guard against puncAtlantic some of jthe recognition thy tures, occur without the which might have always had on the other; his niece protection from the jagged edges of is penetrating the wilds of Africa to ice or frozen snow. The machine is secure specimens for the British Mupropelled by spikes with flanged heads on the inner side, securely fastseum, and incidentally doing very hazardous exploring, Iwhile his daughter is ened to a strip of canvas, around soon to lecture to us! It is in the veins which is placed a metallic band which spikes in place. Before adof the niece that! hereditary signs of holds the rear wheel attachment all the Charles Kingsley'p spirit of adventure justing must be taken from the tlfbe, the air are to be found, for this young womaa's and the reinflation is accomplished as daring desire to explore the Cameroons soon as the attachment is in position. To adjust the runner or skate the amazed the authorities. front wheel has to be removed. The runner is very sharp and To Investigate Dunraven's Charges. so that accidents are not liaof one the is who L. Rives, George ble to occur in turning or when riding members of the cjommittee to investiat full speed. A runner is also made Dunrav-efor exclusive use on the snow. This is gate the charges made by Lord was born in 18j49, and is a grandson secured to the ice runner by a key on portion of the blade of of William, C. Rives, senator from Vir- - the front upper the latter. A strap is fastened between the front of the runner and the fork of the frame, which holds the runner securely when it accidentally strikes a rock or any obstacle likely to the bicycle. The whole front atjar tachment weighs only two and a half pounds, and so makes the bicycle no heavier than would the front wheel. who can ride It Is said that anybody a wheel will have no difficulty in using these attachments. Communion Cup. To promote cleanliness in the taking of communion wine, and still preserve to the entire congregation of a church the common communion cup, a patented cup is offered the public by Rev. Paul G. Klingler, of the Trinity Lutheran church of Catasauqua, Pa. The inventor explains his patent as follows: "It is a cup within a cup, the Inner cup revolving upon the stem. There Is attached to the outer cup a GEORGE! L cleanser, through which the rim of the He was cup from which the communicants ginia and minister to France. educated at Columbia and at CamHe is a bridge university in England. member of the New York law firm of Olin, Rives & Montgomery. one-thir- d SAMUEL lad there's a d of coal lent j.'ite was ectly FRANCIS SMITH. nice youngster of excei pith tried to conceal him Smith; Eer- i pit he shouted and the free :.tryj him by calling j a song, for the br.ve ; it rea4 on his medal, 'My Country ' ' 'of Thee.'" It nay perhaps be said that his great- - , iyto" thrust upon him, but it should added; that his merits were equal to is lamej that his renown became him, :3 that he never found any trouble in 'Jig modestly up to his reputation. e was I a Christian in all that the 38 was -- ;3rd implies. i DINGLEY ' I Said to Be OF MAINE.: the Right Bower of the Sneaker. MZ2, graduated from Dartmouth 1855 and was admitted to the ;;ar pame year that he became edi the Journal. From the first mo- J atoflhis Identity with the newspa- pingley commanded public at the force and virility of his iaoapy Itorial utterances. In 1862 he was 4:ected k member of the' state house of juts i 'HE -- 3. HS col-,!?e- .ia and was j re-elect- In ed and 1873. and refl is, speaker during the sessions 1863 ina isu. In 1864 he was ror. of Maine and served dur-thterm nnii fho, noTf At a sne- 1865. 1868 1864, elect-Cgovehi- or at . election t in 1881 sea-goi-i- n, ng: r A Very Old Deed. i - t I? V" j Are All Americans. to be much There does not appear in Tawas of a scramble for public office holds five City Mich.; as one man there marat the present time. He is village offtruant shal street commissioner, icer night watchman and lamplighter. him 1100 Three of these offices pay two $50. a year year each, and the other he is ; 1 Jp9KGRESSMAN DINGLEY. m re why each, which may eWln pooh-baa such to be per-pitt- h. h i ' re-elec- ted . 1rt7-ninth- e sir ed congreas to fill tl caused by the resignation of '. One Exception...' aja P. Frvc whn had been ad- "Are there any exceptions Teacher to a Beat in the senate. Mr. to. trie .rule that hkt expands and cold Vaa to the Forty- man leaves congress as a representative at ToSmyYes'm. The Icechunk since w ruu was successively elected to a lot cflder."-Indlana-twenty pound wFo!rty-sevent- f. Fiftieth. Fifty-firs- t, 4t got polIs ' Pocket Cash Register. ed g hollow-groun- d, r . The accompanying illustration represents a very neat and useful little devic, by means of which one may keep an accurate account of small expense. As may be seen by the "Cut, the device is just like a watch, and may be worn as a watch is. e. i , A Journal. i It is sure to find favor with ladies for use when shopping, for it registers every purchase and adds automatically, so that the shopper may know at any moment just how much he or she has expended. The knob at the top is pressed down when an amount is to be registered, every pressure of it "ringing up" 5 cents. Five pressures, therefore, register 25 cents, and so on. The dollars are added up automatically. This convenient little machine is the invention of a firm in New York, by whom it is sold for 50 cents. To Form a Tandem. A New York inventor has made an attachment for the bicycle by which two wheels may be locked together to form a tandem. This is done simply by removing the front wheel of the Two Bicycles Locked Together. r3ar bicycle and piacing the part in the hub of the rear wheel of the forrod also conward bicycle. A nects them at tiie saddle level. Wire Plugs for Screws. 1 - one-four- j one-four- th n in- troduced to take the place of the wooden plugs generally used when it is desired to screw into brick or plaster walls. The device is simply a spiral, of Iron wire, doubled back upon itself, the inner turns- being of such a diameter as to form a kind of female screw thread, while the outer turns serve to hold the "wire plug" in the wall. In order to fix these plugs a hole is drilled in the wall inch greater in diameter than the outside dimensions of the plug and a little deeper than its length. The whole is then thoroughly wetted by injecting, water from a small syringe, and after-ward filled with plaster of paris. The outer windings of the wire socket are; also filled with plaster, and the socket or plug with its screw is inserted in the hole to the required depth. After the plaster has set the screw may be removed and it should be greased before it is put back. This device will be of great use to electrical fitters for fix lng Switchboards, switches, pushes and other electrical fittings, as well as to decorators, plumbers, etc., especidone In ally when fitting has to be where the houses already occupied, an In new of litter isj object. saving houses the wall plugs are placed in the; plaster at different points where there is a liklihood of supplementary fittings being subsequently required. Chemistry in the Ki tchen. Young Husband (severely) My love, these biscuits &re sour, horribly sour! . Young Wife! (who took- - the chemisat the boarding school) t try prize forgot to add the soda, my dear. But, never mind, after tea we can walk out and get some soda water. New York drink, passes.- Within the cleanser is a cushion of absorbent material, which the rim. This presses firmly against or into material puriflcator, cleansing which has been previously dried an Inodorous and harmless germicide, can be removed and renewed as often as desired. "After each communicant partakes of the wine, the Inner cup is turned round by the hand on the the part of the rim ued and stem, the cleanser before bethrough passes The wine is contained ing used again.with a glass top, and at reservoir In a of the cup, wine for quarter-turacli half a ten-- Weekly. communicant (about n - so-call- st-e- l A very useful invention has been forced upon us by Grover Cleveland and the moneyed interests of New York city. It is true, of course, that the masses, who have been taught that the money question was put of their sphere, and that it could only be mastered by the great financiers, have hardly dared to assert themselves as yet, but there is a deep undercurrent of silver sentiment even in the state of New York. In the first assembly district of Chautauqua county, from which I write, we have just elected by the largest majority ever given to an assemblyman in this district, a member of the state assembly who is an open and avowed advocate of the free coinage of silver at the old ratio, and who made the fact one of his principal claims to the consideration of the people in his canvass, both for the nomination and election. So strong is the sentiment that his opponent for the nomination, at also publicly the close of thelnvass, " conviction his that we proclaimed should return to the free coinage of silver, but his conversion coming late in the day, was not sufficient to overcome Mr. Babcock, who had at the election over 4,000 majority. We have in this state a Republican Editorial association, which meets annually the day before the assembling of the state convention. At the last meeting a resolution was brought in, declaring in favor of the single gold standard. Supposing myself in a hopeless minority, but unwilling to have the policy of my paper dictated by any association, I offered a motion to strike out the resolution in so far as it proclaimed gold to be an honest money, making a brief speech in support of my motion. To my surprise, I was sustained by some of the leading journalists of the state, and on the motion being put it was carried, practically without opposition, the gold standard people not daring to call for a decision of the house on the question. I state these facts simply to show that the silver sentiment is uot local; that we of the East are considering the question, and that, if wisdom shapes the policy of our friends in the West, and they refuse to believe and to assume that they have the burden with themselves alone, there is reason to look forward to a movement all along the line which will prove irresistible. In this connection let me say that we cannot afford to waste much time on the "conspiracy of 1873." Admitting that the legislation of that time was fraudulently procured, the question of today is whether we want to return to the The financial, system of that time. American people are not all of them bo full of the spirit of retaliation as the Irishman who assaulted the Jew, Alleging as a defence that it was a Jew who had killed Christ, and on being informed that this occurred 1800 years ago, and that the particular individual had nothing to do with the event, insisted that the act was justified because this was the first he had heard of the outrage. What the people want to know is not whether the act of 1873 was corruptly secured, but whether we can honestly return to the conditions abandoned at that time and it is our duty to demonstrate to them that we can. Once show to the people that the ultimate and logical result of the attitude of the great financiers Is to drive silver out of this country and out of the commerce 6f the world, as has already been done to a very large extent, and that this policy results in compelling us to pay our debts in a larger purchasing value than existed prior to 1873; once convince them that the American silver dollar will purchase as much tea in China, as much wheat in India, as much coffee in Mexico as It ever would, and that an ounce of silver will purchase as much, with a few possible exceptions, in the markets of the world as it would in 1873, showing that the depreciation of silver is due to the appreciation of the purchasing power of gold, and there will not be gold monometallists enough in the nation to carry a ward caucus. It is only by disguising the real purposes of the financial magnates present under the seductive appellation of bimetallism, that it is possible to secure even a respectable following for what has been dishonestly termed "honest money," and as soon as the people can be convinced that bimetallism on any other basis than that in which our contracts are based is in effect a recognition of the gold standard, and can have no other effect than a continual contraction of the currency, making us more and more the servants of Great Britain, there will be such a revival of Americanism that there will be no checking of the current until Justice has been done and the money metals of this nation aire placed upon a plane of equality in the commerce of the world. Do not; therefore, allow this question to degenerate into a mere local issue. Do not imagine that because the New York newspapers are clamoring for the single gold standard in response to an environment which seems, to be irresistible that the great mass c Intelligent people of the East are j , , A very old deed was recorded at the Nashua, registrar of deeds' office in The deed other morning. N. H., the 1792. conveys It was drawn March 11, a piece of land in the town of Weare for the sum of 5(L from John Hodgdon to Cabel Peaslee. Through neglect, or deed was for some other cause, the were once never recorded. Both parties town. prominent residents of that ... der with saw teeth at its front edge, the cylinder rotating freely on the spindle and its rearon end abutting the spindle. against a shoulder The cylinder is rotated by three rollers, engaging its peripheral . surface, the rollers being made of India rubbei or similar material and journaled in all adjustable bearings, and being connected with each other by a belt, the shaft of one of the rollers having fast and lopse pulleys and receiving poweT from other machinery. On the standards of the frame are guideways, and when the saw cylinder is rotated and a bar of wood is pushed through the guideways along the lengthwise recess of the spindle against the saw teeth, one corner passes inside the cylinder, the wood being thus cut into two strips. four-mil- he was elected to . described in the Scientific American. Upon a fixed spindle having a lengthwise recess is a revoluble cylin- e Self-Cleani- Congressman Nelson Dingley; Jr., of aine, was born in Durham. Me.. Feb. d. horse-powe- r, ice-yac- ht SECTIONAL. i .fry' old-fashion- b,n -- ft. ' IS NOT means of a valve at the bottom lnt the cup, from which the communScai! receives It. Thus all the unused wine QUESTION 'AFremains In the reservoir and is beyond THE, FINANCIAL FECTS EAST AND WEST. the reach of protruding moustaches or any; particles of saliva that might cling to the rim. Ben S. Dean of New York Gives Ills v "The; appearance of the self cleansing Views on the Burning Issue -- Great cup differs but little from that of Progress for Bimetallism Being Made the ordinary cup; and by It the 'one in the Eastern States. cup' is preserved, while every possiblo danger of Infection is removed." To the Denver Republican As a ReMachine for Moldings. publican and an Eastern silver man, I illuswant to talk to the silver men of the With the machine shown in the tration! a bar of lumber may be cut West, and to entreat them hot to atinto two strips at one operation, pre- tempt to make the silver question a venting any waste of material, one of sectional issue. The issue Is broad the strips having a cove and the other enough for the nation, since it InThe machine Is volves the financial question, not alone being quarter-rounfor the United States, but for the entire commercial world, and it is a mistake to suppose that all of the people of the state of New York; and many, of the Eastern states, are in favor of the English system lof finance sought to be th so-call-ed x . ed ignoring tice, or willing may, be the demands of equity and Jus- that they are noi ready and to make the sacrifices which necessary in bringing about a restoration of an American system of finance. I know the people of the state of New York, and I know that where the question is fairly presented to them they are convinced of the honesty and the soundness of the position of the friends of silver. There are two news- iM wuauutaiiua uuumy, commit- ted to the restoration of silver to th coinage at the old ratio the Grap Belt, published in the city of Dunkirk, and the Morning News, a Republican paper, published in Jamestown and no man would, think of being elected in this part of the state who was hostile to this proposition. It is more than, likely that thft dplPMtM fmm tlila 'rtia! trtct will be free silver men. BEN S. DEAN, j Editor Morning News, x ,1 iiauicawwu, Snapshot Judgments. The gold monometallist press has given snapshot judgment on two features of the election result. Silver is dead, they say; and Grover Cleveland is V , j j ': Ck ninlrr Te,m nn.n j. ci. 1 m-- . ' l l ja monometallists are unanimous in declaring these dicta. Their unanimity now reminds us of their unanimity two years ago, in declaring that all th country needed to make it prosperous again was the repeal of the Sherman h silver was repealed and prosperity did not return. It may be that they are right now. The record is against them, however. Concord Monitor. The Colorado newspapers have but little to say any more about silver, for various reasona The, subject has been extensively discussed, and Its iteration conveys the false impression outside that the state depends on the silver industry for prosperity, which is by no means the case. But the silver question is still a live one in the states east and south. Such plucky and persistent papers as the Topeka State Journal and Kansas City Journal daily contained editorial items like this? "Whn ia it that opposes free coinage of silver at 16 to 1? Federal s, those s, who hope to become federal bankers, capitalists and a few peo- law-jwhic- . office-holder- office-holder- Pueblo Chieftain. The sound currency committee of tho Reform club has issued another tract. This is Vol. II., No. 23. On the fourth page of the pamphlet is found the following paragraph: "The free coiners claim free coinage of bojh gold and silver will cause us to retain both as our primary money. I ask you will the owner of 23 5 grains of gold take it to the United States mint to be coined into a dollar when 23 5 grains of gold will buy about 800 grains of silver in the markets of the world? Will he not refuse to take it there, when his. 23 5 grains of gold will buy one grain more than 3714 grains of silver in the markets of the world ? That is all ther is to the question." The answer to this is in the asking of another question t "Would anybody in the markets of the world possessing 37H4 grains of silver take any less than 23 5 grains of gold 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- United States mints and have it stamped into a dollar whose purchas-i- n power would be equivalent to the 23 5 grains of gold. If this is "all there Is to the question," and we are willing to concede that it is, the settlement is not difficult. Topeka Journal. Sidelights on the Conspiracy. . . Mr ' TTnTxroir. . Tn no lntownnto1 .AAWAA V.J WV J T ha.A sentation of demonetization 1-- " condition, morally, of congress at T Hm rf tVna nacctiira rf o f tho- - Via1 ferred to impeachment charges against Vice President Colfax in 1873, for fraud in connection with legislation;, to ttm resignation of Secretary of War Belknap for bribery, 1873. I now proceed, after first stating for Mr. Horr's information, that Del Mar, the English historian, says that the tct of 1816, demonetizing silver in England, had a clause in It that it msght be reinstated by th king; that that clause, giving a right to reinstatement, was repealed in 1871, and that the act in which it was repealed was within two weeks in the hands of Mr. Knox, the comptroller of the United States treasury (applause), and was the basis of the act in this countr.. From the Great Debate. Silver the First Money. y Mr. Harvey: The Chicago Tribune, which will be regarded as good authority by those believing in its present policy, said, on February 23, 1878: "In 1792 congress enacted that 3714. grains of silver should constitute dollar; that this dollar should, be the unit of value of American money and be a legal tender in payment of all. debts. Dublin and nrivafpr finrinp-- tiia, eighty years that followed, though the size and quantity of pure metal in the gold coins were changed more than once, the silver dollar, the American unit of value, remained unchanged." I now read from a text book on finance by Roswell G. Horr, page 42: "The first unit of value in the United States was the silver dollar. The act Of 1873 made the gold dollar the unit of value, instead of the silver dollar."- From the Great Debate. in-pa- rt the-America- The Bunko-Steer- er Again. President Cleveland has again tried tiie old game of persuading the American people to invest in his reburnished of his 22,000 gold brick. About one-ha- lf word message is expended in assuring the dear innocent people that If they accept this glittering gold brick it will cure them of their "financial illness." in the crime th.9 His are clapping their money lenders hands with joy over the earnestness and skill In his presentation of the case, but we venture to predict that th manufacturers, the producers and work ing men generally in the United States . will refuse to be the foolish victims otr this grd brick bunko steer's gams.-co-partn- ers |