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Show POPULAR Some SCIENCE. notes of progress AND DEVELOPMENT. Aluminum Skates Now Being Made- - An A Amusing Toy from England Wonderful New Kite Miscellaneous . . Knowledge. j .r NEW wrinkle Id skates, which, it is claimed, is entirely successful, is aluminum skates., For the most part they are designed for fast skating,; and so far they find little favor with the dilettante skater, who gains his the ideas from picture books and aspires to cut the outer the and edge roll with folded arms, and apparently oblivious of all the rest of the world. But, among hockey players they are quite the thing. In appearance they are not things of beauty. They look clumsy and unmanageable, but in reality they are very light. The only steel in their makeup Is a narrow runner, not a sixteenth of an inch thick, which is almost concealed between twt strips of aluminum. In comparison with the broad edge of the common skate the runner looks like the blade of a knife. " for Old Corks. Corks are thrown away in great quantities, and very few people think there is any value attached to that material after it has served its purpose once as a stopperxof a bottle. Nevertheless it has become one of the most valuable components of citys refuse. GreatNjuantities of used .corks are now used again in the manufacture of insulating covers of steam pipes and boilers, points to be protected from the influence of heat. Powdered cork is very useful filling in horse collars, and the very latest application of this material is the filling in of pneumatic tires with cork shavings. Mats for bathrooms are made of cork exclusively and it also goes into the composition of linoleum. Cheap life preservers are now filled exclusively with bottle stoppers, cut into little pieces. Scientific machine, says the Washington Star, is S. A. Potter of the weather bureau staff. The idea from which it Is derived was original with an Australian experimenter named Hargrave. Like conjthe Potter kite, Hargraves flyer boxtwo of sists in its simplest form toes, topless and bottomless, joined gether by a frame of wood. But the fcoxes aro rectangular, whereas those jf Mr. Potters kite are diamondshaped. By this modification of form Air. Potter is enabled to make his frame ever so much lighter, so that the whole affair weighs; scarcely more than a ijiouna. Any boy can make such a kite And fly it far more easily than one of the ordinary sort. It flies itself, one might say, requiring only to he tossed Into the air where there is a fair breeze blowing. The Potter kite has several imes the lifting power of the common itejpossessing four plain surfaces instead of one. By means of kite observations it Is Inteitded to make a sort of map of the atmosphere, which may be valuable to engineers of flying machines when Practically completed, just as charts lire taseful to sailors. By means of i;henl it will be easy to determine what currents of air are likely to be met WfthT at various heights. It is imag-- 1 nedj that kite flying on scientific principles may lie serviceable in future War A camera sent up on a line of kltels may be utilized to take photographs of the enemys forces and for - than in others. In the better qualities of Sea Island cotton a transverse section shows a central cavity running The longitudinally with the fiber. breadth of cotton fiber is less than that of wool. It is a curious fact that cotton, wool and silk present characteristics in common, being ribbon-shape- d and spiral. The wonders of the micro-scrop- e 1 i i 1 tifications. Kites may even carry bombs filled with high explosives and drop the latter where they will do the most good. Prepared Fnel. Many experiments have been made with prepared fuel pressed into bricks, hut they have not been a pronounced success. The trouble is said to be owing to the coarseness of the particles. A new and practical process grinds the fineness. material into almost dust-lik- e It is then mixed with pitch, coal-ta- r and other ingredients and heated and compressed into cakes sufficiently hard to bear transportation, to burn with the utmost freedom, to be uninjured by wet and much more manageable in every way than ordinary coal. It is ajlso dustless, which is a great point, especially for household use. Origin of the Thimble. A thimble was originally a thumb-bel- l, because it was worn on the thumb are many, and familiarity with this instructive instrument furnishes 'as sailors still wear their thimbles. It an endless source of knowledge and is a Dutch invention, and in 1884, in entertainment. Amsterdam, the bicentennial of the tpimble was celebrated with a great An of formality. The first thimble deal from Toy England. diade was presented in 1684 to Anna A very peculiar and fascinating mevan Wedy, the second wife of Killien chanical toy; Is being sent to this couna Inside from metal round vjan Europe. Rensselaer, the purchaser of Renstry box just about the size and shape of selaer wyck. In presenting, his useful an old shaving box a spring works a ft. Van Benscoten! begged Mme. ensselaer to accept this new coverrapidly revolving pivot, which just protrudes through the top of the box. ing for the protection of her diligent To work the toy the magic box is fingers as a token of his esteem. surface and held with placed on a level the left hand, ' With Vj right a small Paper Heels. bar is withdrawn slovgf to its full exShoe heels made of paper pulp are tent, and then returned .straightly and the latest improvements in the mong smartly idtodts former position. This snoe line. The pulp is made from white sets the mechanism in motion. Now and similar woods. It is digested place one of the wires or small tins, pine in proper tanks, then mixed with glue, or dancing figures, on the surface of the litharge, alcohol and other necesbox, so that it touches the side of the sary ingredients. After standing for a small pivot, and the toy will operate. short time the pulp is rolled into sheets .The figure placed on top is mounted and placed on rollers and pressed to the on an irregularly shaped, stand made roper thickness. The sheet is then of metal slightly magnetized. The aced upon a table and the heels of the magnetic draws the wire frame of the figure to the revolving pivot, while the shape desired are stamped out a hundred at a time. r tr, ; 1 A Engineer. 14-Year-- locomotive ento be believed is Alvin Hane-urgineer of Spann, Johnson county. He is but 14 years old, and runs an engine on a short road connecting various sAw mills, and their source of sup-ie- s. It is stated, furthermore, that he has had charge of the engine since hu was 9 years old, and that he is. regarded by the owners of ttie road as an eAtirely capable engineer. Georgias youngest y, A Mechanical Marvel. An expert tool juggler in one of the great English needle factories in a recent test of skill performed one of thd motion of the latter carries the figure around in the most laughable manner. Kite. About a Wonderful There surely never anything quite so remarkable in. Its way as the new kite, which is about to be employed by the weather bureau for studying the almost unknown regions of the up-- ! per air. It would astonish the best informed small boy. One would hard- -' ly imagine that such a thing could possibly fly. It looks more like a ies of dry goods boxes strung er than like a kite. The boxes, how-- I ever, are of silk, and they have no tops or bottoms. A string of ,five of ounces, them weighs only twenty-fiv- e of the frame work being very light sticks of wood. But you ought to see the machine go up. It doesnt fly like an ordinary kite; it goes up into tke air with a rush and soars far aloft like ,a hovering bird, almost without per- ceptible motion. inventor cf this strange flying a, f The Conqueror Was Impressed with Her -- j Beauty and Regal Demeanor, but Would Make No Concessions to Her Their Parting. T was at this crisis Prussias affairs that the king, after of much urging consented to summon his queen. The rumors and insinuations concerning the czars undue admiration of her, so industriously Virtues of Grapes, Wonderful Pomelos. and Oranges THE THREE NEW SENATORS She had just returned from a foreign AND THEIR FAMILIES. grape cure, with a bloom on her cheek and a light in her eyes worthy of a Hebe. It is the esthetics of medical Money of Mississippi lias an Interesting1 Group of Children Cannon ofj Utah treatment, she said. There is none of Is a Plrm Believer in the Religion of the paraphernalia of a battle for health, but sunshine, fresh air and grapes. One Brigham' Young. can live on tAem from, morning till Washington Letter. night; at first I could only eat a pound a day, hut before long I progressed to HE ADDITION OF ten pounds and even beyond that. W new senators to the large numFancy it! ber of grave and Although we cannot all visit foreign reverend seignors cures, still at this time of the year and the elements grapes are abundant and within the reach of most persons, who would unwhich go to make the various doubtedly find a pound a day good econup our must We let omy. imaginations phases of American furnish the surroundings of the cure; life are mostjstrik-Ingly'show- n In the the vines laden with purple clusters, the pleasant hotel, the high, pure air different chaacter- and devote ourselves io the practical istics of the families of the recent1 ar details of eating all the grapes possible. rivals, Utah, who has just made her Very few people are aware of the debut! as a young! lady, medicinal qualities of grapes, but these sends two of the senators and the other they possess. The pulp is nutritious is from the cotton fields of Dixie And and the juice contains sugar, tannic had the Union been searched with a acid, bitartrate of potassium, tartrate of lantern there could, not be found men calcium, common salt and sulphate of more diametrically opposite in the ' views of the sections they represent. potassium. Without doubt the woman who cultiSenator Brown has his wife and son vates the habit of eating a great deal with him at the Ebbitt House for the of fruit is the gainer in health and ap- season. Mrs. Brown is a, handsome ' pearance. lady with dark eyes, brown hair and The grape fruit, or shaddock, very earnest manners, proud bf her Shadfrom its discoverer, .Lieut state and most interested in Its prodock, or, to mention Its soft Chinese gress. There is only one child Jn the name, pumelo, is highly prized by those family, Max, a boy of about 13, who will who live in malarial localities. It is a be put to school in the city. Mrs. J3rown charming rival to quinine and boneset, has not yet joined the Daughters of and is driving them from the field. She the Revolution, but has three different who eats her grape fruit with a spoon ancestors who were distinguished in from the natural cup, or relishes it the early history of the country and by served as a salad, may gladden her whose record she will be more than heart with the reflection that she is not entitled to entrance. only pleasing her palate but benefitShe Is a granddaughter of old Daniel ing her health. Like oranges and lem- Cameron, of New York states her ons, the grape fruit Las great medicinal father, being Alexander Cameron, and virtues. If you are of a bilious temper- her mother Sarah Pauli, a relative of ament eat grape fruit; if fevers threat- Mrs. William Waldorf Astor. One of en eat grape fruit, but In this latter the ancestors of Miss Pauli was John case do so only at the advice of a phyPaul Jones, whose name was, in fact, sician, as there may be certain tenden- not John Paul Jones, but whose last cies which the, grape fruit would only name was spelt Pauli, and whd took The complaint is often the name of Jones for the family of his aggravate. made that this fruit is extremely bit- mother, making the Paul, his reali fami-- . ter and unpleasant. It is only the ly name, his Christian one in his new white inner rind which is so, andethis appellation. Alexander Cameron was should always be carefully removed. one of the pioneers of the West, and To refer to eating cures, quite one went to Kalamazoo many years ago. of the prettiest salads I have seen lateHere it was that Mrs. Brown wag born, salad. The large and her father was one of the first men ly was a green-pepppeppers had been opened and the seeds in that section to own a house. Senator1 removed, then a Russian salad, com- Browns father lived only a short disposed of various vegetables, was heaped tance from the Camerons, and Brown within the shells and covered with a was born only seven miles frojn the delicious mayonnaise. These pretty place where his future wife first saw on boats bed a of lettuce the light. The Browns have green lay in leaves and about the base of them and Salt Lake for some time, andliyed in his through the curled leaves shone vivid native state there Is no one more' popuflame-lik- e nasturtium blossoms. among the young lawlar, How very pretty and artistic! I ex- yers, especially than Senator Brown. Mrs. prown claimed. Is a woman of very decided views, and "The cook does not think so, replied while she was not in favor of the grant- my hostess with a smile. Neither she nor I knew that the peppers must be cut or the seeds taken out under water, consequently she burned her hands. Exchange. . j spread by Napobut leon, had made him as a last resort he felt the need of her presence. She came with a single idea to make the cause of Magdeburg her own. She had suffered under the malicious innuendoes of Napoleon regarding her character; she had shared the disgrace of the Berlin war party in the crushing defeat at Jena and Auerstadt; she had beenj a wayfarer among a disgraced and helpless people; but her spirit was not broken, and she announced her visit with all the dignity of her station. The court carriage in which she drove, accompanied by her ladies In waiting, reached Tilsit on July 6, and drew up before the door of the artisan under whose roof were the rooms of her husband. Officers and statesmen were gathered to receive and encourage her with good advice; but she waved them away with an earnest call for quiet, so that she might collect her ideas. In a moment Napoleon was As he climbed the narrow rose to meet him. Friend .she stairway and foe agreed as to her beauty, her taste, and her manners; her presence, in a white dress embroidered with silver, and with a pearl diadem on her brow, was queenly. In her husbands apartment she was the hostess, and as such she apologized for the stair. What would one not do for such an end! gallantly replied the somewhat dazzled conqueror, writes Prof. Sloane in his life of Napoleon in the Century. The suppliant, after making a few respectful inquiries as to her visitor's welfare and the effect of the northern climate on his health, at once an nounced the object of her visit. Her manner was full of pathos and there were tears In her eyes as she recalled how her country had been punished for its appeal to arms, and for its mistaken confidence in the traditions of the great Frederick and his glory. The emperor was abashed by the lofty strain of her address. So elevated was her mien that she overpowered him; for the instant his fled, and he felt himself but & man of the people. He felt also the humiliation of the contrast, and was angry.' Long afterwarfi he confessed that she was mistress of the conversation, adding that she stood with her head thrown back like Mile. Iioslng Enterprise for the State. Duchesnois in the character of experiment of printing meaning by this comparison to theCalifornias text-booused In the public stigmatize her attitude and language as schools of state proves to be a the theatrical. So effective was her appeal that he costly one, the San Francisco papers felt the need of something to save his report. The idea was that the books, ewn role, and accordingly he bowed when thrown upon the market, would her to a chair, and In the moment thus not only fully repay the cost of producbut would yield a handsome revegained determined to strike the key of tion, which In a few years would fully nue, high comedy. Taking up the conversa- reimburse the state for the amount of tion in turn, he scrutinized the beauties of her person and, complimenting her appropriations made to establish the dress, asked whether the material was original plant.nowThis was fallacious. is that the state has crape or India gauze. Shall we talk The estimate lost about $200,000 on the venture. of rags at such a solemn moment? she the establishment of the plant in retorted; and then proceeded with her Since 1885 has cost $400,000 in appropriait direct plea for Magdeburg. In the an estimated value of the and midst of her eloquence, when the em- tions, now is $150,000. Secretary of peror seemed almost overcome by her plant of misbecause Brbwn State that says importunity, her meddling husband takes made in cost of the estimating most inopportunely entered the room. must books have been He began to argue and reason,! citing production the his threadbare grievance, the violation selling below cost. of Ansbach territory, and endeavoring to prove himself to be right. Napoleon ASSORTED ODDITIES. at once turned thefconversation to inProbably in London alone over different themes, and In a few moments matches are used every twenty-ftook his leave. our . hours. You ask much, he said to the queen Gun springs are now tempered by on parting;, but I promise to think it in France. The process is over. The courageous woman had electricity and satisfactory. done her best, hut her cause if, indeed, rapid A postcard message has traveled it was ever in the balance was lost round the world in seventy days the from the moment she put her judge In ou record. an inferior position. Her majestic quickest time If a well could be dug to a depth of bearing was fine, but it was not diplo- forty-six the air at the bottom macy. She might, nevertheless, have would be miles, as dense as quicksilver. succeeded had she been the wife of a A boy of 14 and a girlrof 11 were rewiser man. Long afterward Napoleon in Johnson county, Ga., thought she might have had consider- cently married of their parents. consent full the with able Influence on the negotiations if she A Kansas district has written a conr had appeared in their earlier stages, and congratulated himself that she tract with a teacher to teach the school, came too late, inasmuch as they were chop the wood, make the fire, sweep and already virtually closed when she ar- - find the matches for $35 a month. The teacher Is a woman. rived. There is a movement on foot for the establishment of industrial schools for ' Lost 'rtm. In view of the brevity of time and its the training and education of the Rusconvicts children In the penal setrapid flight the utmost care' should be sian taken in the use of time, lest any of it tlements of Siberia. The aggregate cost of the mainteshould be wasted. The wind that blows nance of the Royal Botanlcal Societys by us may return again on its backward sweep ; the stream that flows by us may gardens and the scientific work carried descend again upon the earth and re- on in them is shown by the societys sume its channel; the sun that shines accounts to be about $30,000 a year. For several years a woman has driven In heaven may shine again; but e, wasted time is lost forever. Wasted the stage between Mancelona and as Mich. She handles the reins health may( be restored; lost reputation as well be wealth any man in that region, and may. regained; squandered never been troubled with stage robhas formay be recovered; but lost time is ever lost, and not a single hour can be bers. recovered.-hRe- v. G. B. Strickler. If teeth were not provided with enamel they would be constantly breaking, Relics of De Soto. their nerves would be irritated, and the .The United States government has whole human animal kingdom would be taken possession of several mounds re- afflicted with a never-endin- g toothache. cently found near Charleston, La., of taste Is believed to be The power which some seem to think were built due to the fungi-forpapillae of the by De Soto. Recently a farm hand plow- tongue. These are from a twentieth to ing near the mounds turned up Span- a fiftieth of an inch in diameter, and ish coins hearing dates of 800, 1307 and are found on every part of the tongue, nor. but most thickly toward the tip. , over-sensitiv- e; full-fledg- ed j . wan-nounc- . i EMPEROR AND QUEEN OF PRUSSIA AT TILSIT- - THE CAPITAL. . dusky southland and he? those of the women cf ter r.v " the land of the oracy-- ar.,1 the fields of the olden plantations Money is a brunette, small, digu willowy, her face bright with ino gence and animation, her eyes most a purple tint, and her black. She was a Miss Claudia p, (,r? of Jackson, Miss., and was educated jl Kentucky. She met her huv Jackson, when he was with his C: at ment and they were married thirty-thre- e years ago. The Moneys have a lovely hone Carrollton, in the state of MiscjgcjD , and a large plantation of two thouni acres on the Tallahatchie river, huge farm is planted in cotton, but ab has fine game preserves in which ca be found large deer and even bear There are five children in the faffin' boys, who live in the south, a Mrs. Hill, whose home at Winona, and two young ladies whoia are with their parents. The oldest of the young ladies is Miss Lillian, a petite Hi- to t Jig- lfflt fg- most delicate mechanical feats imaginable. He took a common sewing machine needle of medium size (length one and inches) and drilled a hole through its entire length from eye to point, the opening being just large enough to admit the passage of a very fine hair. five-eight- hs s ' The Dead Sea. other part of- our earth uncovered by water, sinks to 300 feet below the level of the ocean. But here we have a rift more than one hundred and sixty miles long, and from two to fifteen broad, which falls from the sea level to as deep as 1,292 feet below It at the coast of the Dead sea, while the bottom of the latter is 1,300 feet deeper still. - ;No Why, Certainly. ' Jeanne That handsome, impudent fellow staring at us ought to be horsewhipped. Marie What for? Jeanne Why, for not speaking, of ' course. , ed. . Brel !3n mar-daught- brunette, soon to be married to Beverly Reed," who is a nephew 8 Cl U goft Mr grai ter and adopted son of Congressman Culberson of Texas, and a near relative to Goy Culberson, of the same state. After the toil liini TTve-t- wedding the young couple will go Christi, where 'Mr. Reed will practice his profession of law. Miss Lillian is an excellent musician. s ir ' ciat. IV ! sitti for ed his do s Chi-men- e, ks 20,-000,0- . to-d- ay Bel-lair- - m : 00 WOU ' and cak Tl are live 4nd CpOJ 7- - call' plat Tl LILLIAN MONEY, and a splendid shot, often goingjumt-in- g on the home plantation and thinking nothing of bringing down a bird on the wing. Her younger sister, Mist., Mabel, who has large blue eyes and. dark hair, is quite a social favorite, and both girls are gifted with charming manners. Mabel, when little more-thaA. baby, accompanied her parents, on a visit to the Cannibal Islands and. sat on the lap of King Kalakaua and was mhde much of by his dusky majesty, She s a fine violinist. Mrs. Money is a woman of great literary talent and for 'some years contributed regularly to prominent periodicals. She-Imuch opposed to the new movement, of worsen and believes in the old southern view that a womans sole province-iin her home and not In the world of business and politics. Both of her daughters share these views and Mrs. Money has even contributed to the press a long article in which she upholds her ideas with great spirit and vigor. Having lived in Washington years as the wifA of Congressman Money the capital is glad to welcome her back as the wife of a senator. In the Carroll mansion, lately purchased by Chief Justice Fuller, such men as Clay and Webstt were frequent visitors and old Justice 'ffaney used every Sunday to dine with the family. The .father of. Mr. William Thomas Carroll was Charles Carroll, of Belleview, the grandfather was Charles-Carrol- corn bale in t eerv fum To the den-t'he van' El's spai 11 trou :ai i does At plac ther rule shot ' cousin to Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. The family of Carrolls are descendant from one of the early kings of Ireland. William Carroll had eight children, the only surviving girls being Mrs. Bowles,. Mrs. Brown and the Countess Ester-hazwho now resides in this city. While originally on a level with the mansion Is now on a terrace formed by the cutting1 down of the streets during the time that the city was beautified by the direction of Shepherd. The house is a large, square, red brick, with a high wall, which encloses an garden on the right side. In the front hall one finds the stairway leads down to the front door, and all of the numerous rooms are grouped about this central stairs, whicl form a sort of an open court in the center of the house from top to bottom. The mansion was furniied in things which have been in the family for years. y, the-stree- old-fashion- At ! s of Carrollsfeurg, who was a first womans suffrage at first, she explained to a recent caller, it is now something of the past, and it is useless to discuss a dead issue. I accent the right, and mean to do all in my Ipower to make of the women of Utah as; many good citizens as I can. A womans highest duty is to her home, children and husband. If she is going out into the work-da- y world she must not expect men to treat her with all the little social courtesies which havb been her portion in the past; she must no longer lead a butterfly life, or spend her time at teas and lunches, but must educate herself to the hard work and sober, serious duties and responsibilities of the business world. Sendtor Cannon, of Ogden, Is stopping at the Auburn and has in the city with him only his wife and one daughter, the rest of the children being at home in the west. Mrs. Cannon is a tall slight lady with blue eyes, a blonde complexion and very gentle manners. She was a Miss Martha Brown, was horn In Ogden, educated in the same city and there married to Senator Cannon at the early age of 19, both she and her husband being of the same age exactly. There are four children In the family, the eldest being a girl, Martha, who is 15; the second, Rosannab, who Is 13; the third, Frank, who is j.1, and the fourth, Olive, who is 9, Th!e Cannons have lived in Ogden since their marriage, which has been a most happy one. Mrs. Cannon was one of tne dele gates accredited to the recent meeting of the womans suffragists in tbis city, is she is an ardent sympathizer, though hot much of a worker in the cause. Both Cannon and his wife belong to the Mormon, or Latter Day Saints, And are Implicit believers in the doctrines of Voung and Joseph Smith and (firm in thq faith of the righteousness oi plural marriages though, since the parsing of he law prohibiting this doctrine being put into effect, thei Mormoni have Abandoned this practice. The wife of the third new senator is tuite a different style of woman from the ladies from the bustling west. She b a woman such as one finds,' in the ters s l, t WOE Say e MABEL MONEY. lag of suffrage to women, she intends to accept the judgment of the people and take an active part in all thAt will tend to the good of the state. "While I was not in favor of having mi eh ; er self-assuran- ce - fCC I ! fr The Microscopic Examination of Cotton. Cotton fiber, when magnified about 150 diameters, has the appearance of a band of ribbon twisted In a spiral. It is thicker at the edge than in the middle, and has irregular surface markings. In some cotton the spiral characteristics are much more apparent The FROM so-call- Uses American. SOME WINTER FRUITS. NAPOLEON YS. LOUISA. , gav hom the U tfaoi 'Or an r ran; cam the. 'fie hou: was and the stoo to f into Nc Ann Tiir to h prist bad well won gooc root Sov coul gave the fdg Ju lane ed on 1, VV him, On fiefs each rat i tuin thoi bant to s1 tie tv he cane Ih plat, and brea had the the bur filTf At -- ( i 1 a ?u; ROSANNAH BROWN. .but most of them have been dispose of at private sale to the members of ths Immediate family. Just why Chief Justice Fuller wished to desert the lovely part of the city Which he now resides for the sober an more sombre quarter in whidh the old Carroll mansion now stands, is not fins His present honie is a aveone on the corner of Massachusetts nue and Nineteenth street, right in heart of the fashionable section of town and surrounded by many magnificent homes of diplomats and wealthy privat , citizens. -- i L. W. Palmer of London has one ol his house entirely papered with 000 canceled stamps. i ' 2 i fa XL t |