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Show II At the ball game yesterday, the spec- ' I tator.s with a fine spirit of forbear-j forbear-j nncc, blamed the umpire only mildly for the rain. Anyone could, see that it was Impossible Impos-sible for the Bolifc team to defeat the home players yesterday, as soon as the rain became heavy. ' Prof. Clark was not able to f?ae that ( he was misquoted in the reports In the newspapers until the teachers com plained of what he said. In furnishing such damp' weather at this time is not our meteorologist guilty 1 of dlrloyalty to those lovely royal per sonages, Queens of the May? Visitors spending the Sabbath religiously re-ligiously out ' sight-seeing may have been shocked to see so many home people peo-ple going to the ball game. ' I Did our weather man make the mis- I take yesterday of thinking that the re-I re-I llgious excursionists in town were Bap- tists instead of Methodists? , , "Would there not have" boon much 1 nreater .surprise, though, if, the dls- tlosurc had been that Apostle Taylor had taken two wives that were not ciulte young? Desiring to be certain that, their en- ' ! terprise would be a lucky one, the promoters pro-moters of pnew Irrigation organization i nt Ephraim have called it the Horse Sho'e company. , i Doubtless, the Hon. Sam .Thurman ! j thinks thitt the lion. Sam King should f 1 be'datlsiled with his high position In the ij militia, and the luster of the uniform j that goes with it. . ' Co tigress did not do anything in the I pugilistic line at its recent session, but i a good, many of Its members, will be , concerned In county ring affairs during ' the coining campaign. I1 ' I l j A centenarian in a legislative body ( Is a rarity, Indeed. But New Bruns- j wick has him, and he serves in the up- 1 ( per branch of the Dominion Parlia ment. His name is David "Wark. He i ' has been in the Senate of the Dominion )' 'j since 1SC7, and has never missed a ses-J ses-J ( slop. His hundredth anniversary was ' celebrated with much ceremony the i other clay In Frcderlcton, and, says ' ( Leslie's "Weekly, he received a tele-; tele-; gram of congratulation from King Ed ward. The planting of the single-serin sugar rH ( ( J beets on the Lent sugar factory's farm rHi i at Saratoga for the purpose of propa- I gating the single-germ sugar beet seed Is a most interesting innovation. This rH" ' ' place was selected because there is rH i there r.o danger of the iollcnization bc- rHj"' coming mixed with any other species; It will be propagated in Its purity, and a full test of the seed- so produced will Hi be conclusive as to Its merits. The ad- rH vantage will be specifically in saving rH' the expensive and laborious thinning rH' of the young sprouts, and as the new rHj seed is supposed to germinate beets H ' richer than ordinary in saccharine mat- Hl ' ter, the advantages of the jiew depar- Hj j ture are obvious. r 1 Professor Bell's view of aerial navl- rHi , gatlon with his tetrahedral kite is to rH j make tho kite instead of the balloon rHn' t the model. His device has tremendous rHI sustaining power; nnd.it depends on rH , I nothing for its lift but the air. His ex- rH j perlmcnts at Columbia Station, Vlr- rl1 glnla, were not successful because rHh r there was no wind- to lift tho kites; but rW !( this does not mean that this device Is rH ,,!'' so impracticable that It depends upon rHII ''m! the natural air currents, and that they rW , ': must be from a. certain direction; It rHi means merely that there was no motor rH! ',; attached to give the kite the motion rHj1 ' j required. It is the Professor's hope to rHjl I demonstrate practically that with such rW kites a sufficiently powerful motor can rH,' ' ( be carried to give them direction, and a rH' kj i that a man to control the power can rHI'' m also be upborne. He is eminently a rHi ( (,, practical student and experimenter, rHj j ( ' arul while he muy not have his models rK perfect, "or exactly adapted to what rHji ' they are desired to do, It is always cer- rH ' ,! '' tain that Urere Is something' in his Idea; rH i 1 fuiu la this matter he has been expert- mentlng with the tetrahedral kite so iong that he himself must see great merit in it, to be so confident In his claims and predictions. |
