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Show POPULAR SOME SCIENCE. NOTES OF PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT. Alumlnam Skate Now Being Made Toy from Wonderful New Kite Amusing An A England Miscellaneous Knowledge, . . e "NEW wrinkle" Id skates, which, It is claimed, is en- "rely successful, is I alun linum skates. For the most' part n they are designed m..jm J VVa 'y??2i itktr an" skatine.' and so far they find little favor with the dilettante skater, who gains the from picture the cut to aspires W i tfn. fncf i.ww his ideas books and "Dutch "outer edge" and the 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 reonly ality they are very light. The runstoel in their makeup is a narrow ner, not a sixteenth of an inch thick, which is almost concealed between two strips of aluminum. In comparison with the broad edge of the common skate the runner looks like the blade of a knife. i machine, says the Washington Star, is S. A. Potter of the weather bureaustaff. The idea from which it is deHvArt was original with an Australian Like experimenter named Hargrave. conthe Potter kite, Hargrave's flyer box- cise in its sirrmlest form of two to- and bottomless, joined x j tonless of wood. But the a frame gether by boxes arc rectangular, whereas those of Mr. Potter's kite are diamond-shape- d. By this modification of form Mr. Potter is enabled to make his frame ever so much lighter, so that the whole affair weighs scarcely more than a pound. Any boy can make such a kite and fly it far more easily than one of the ordinary sort. It flies itself, one tossed might say, requiring only ato be breeze fair is into the air where there several blowing. The Potter kite has common of the times the lifting power Inkite, possessing four plain surfaces stead of one. By means of kite observations it is intended to make a sort of map of the atmosphere, which may be valuable to engineers of flying machines when practically completed, Just as charts are useful to sailors. By means of them it will be easy to determine what currents of air are likely to be met wfth at various heights. It is imagined that kite flying on scientific principles may be serviceable in future war. A camera sent up on a line of kites may be utilized to take photographs of the enemy's forces and for- fr v Rens-selaerwyc- k. vj , A Engineer. 14-Year-- Georgia's youngest locomotive engineer is believed to be Alvin Hane-burof 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 supplies. It is stated, furthermore, that he has had charge of the engine since he was 9 years old, and that he is regarded by the owners of the road as an entirely capable engineer. 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 the most delicate mechanical feats imaginmotion of the latter carries the figure able. He took a common sewing maaround in the most laughable manner. chine needle of medium size (length one and inches) and drilled a jhole through its entire length from the opening being Just There surely never anything eye to point, to admit the passage of a Quite so remarkable in Its way as the large enough fine hair. new kite, which Is about to be employed very for studying by the weather bureau The Dead Sea. the almost unknown regions of the up--i astonish the best would No other air. earth uncoverpd It part per hardto 300 One would sinks small feet below the informed boy. by water, ocean. of could the level But here we have ly imagine that such a thing ser-- ! one more than a a hundred jrift more like looks and sixty It possibly fly. from and two miles to ! togeth-"of long, fifteen boxes les strung dry goods r, from falls which sea the level to broad, er than Hko a kite. The boxes, are of silk, and they have no ai deep as 1,292 feet below it at the of the Dead sea, while the bottom tops or bottoms. A string of fire of coast ounces, of the latter is 1,300 feet deeper still. them weighs only twenty-fiv- e the frame work being of very light ' Wbj, Certainly. sticks of wood. But you ought to see ireanne That handsome, impudent the machine go up. It doesn't fly like fellow ought to be an ordinary kite; It gos up into the staring at us ' air with a rush and soars far aloft like ' a hovering bird, almost without perMarieWhat for? of not for speaking, Jeanne Why, ceptible motion. Te inventor of this strange flying course. five-eight- hs f3 of-ou- r how-leve- i : Wonderful Virtues of Grape Oranges and Pumelos. EMPEROR AND QUEEN OF PRUSShe had just returned from a foreign SIA AT TILSIT, grape cure, with a bloom on her cheek and a light in her eyes worthy of a The Conqueror ' Was Impressed with Her Hebe. "It is the esthetics of medical Beauty and Regal Demeanor, bat treatment," she said. , "There is none of Would Make No Concessions to Her the paraphernalia of a battle for health, but sunshine, fresh air and grapes. One Their Parting. can live on them from morning till at first I could only eat a pound T was at this crisis night; a but before long I progressed to of Prussia's affairs tenday, pounds and even beyond that. that the king, after Fancy it!" much urging, conwe cannot all visit foreign Although sented to summon cures, still at this time of the year his queen. The ru- grapes are abundant and within the mors and insinuareach of most persons, who would untions concerning doubtedly find a pound a day good econthe czar's undue omy. We must let our imaginations admiration of her, furnish the surroundings of the cure-so industriously the vines laden with purple clusters, spread by Napo the pleasant hotel, the high, pure air but and devote ourselves to the leon, had made him as a last resort he felt the need of her details of eating all the grapes practical possible. presence. She came with a single idea Very few people are aware of the to make the cause of Magdeburg her medicinal qualities of grapes, but these own. She had suffered under the ma- they possess. The pulp is nutritious licious innuendoes of Napoleon regard- and the juice contains sugar, tannic ing her character; she had shared the acid, bitartrate of potassium, tartrate of disgrace of the Berlin war party in the calcium, common salt and sulphate of crushing defeat at Jena and Auerstadt; potassium. she had been a wayfarer among a disWithout doubt the woman who cultiand her but vates the habit of eating a great deal graced helpless people; anof fruit is the gainer in health and apspirit was not broken, and she nounced her visit with all the dignity pearance. of her station. The court carriage in The grape fruit, or shaddock, which she drove, accompanied by her from its discoverer, Lieut Shadladies in waiting, reached Tilsit on July dock, or, to mention its soft Chinese 6, and drew up before the door of the name, pumelo, is highly prized by those artisan under whose roof were the who live in malarial localities. It is a rooms of her husband. Officers and charming rival to quinine and boneset, statesmen were gathered to receive and and is driving them from the field. She encourage her with good advice; but who eats her grape fruit with a spoon she waved them away with an earnest from the natural cup, or relishes it call for quiet, so that she might collect served as a salad, may gladden her her ideas. heart with the reflection that she is not In a moment Napoleon was .an- only pleasing her palate but benefitAs he climbed the narrow ing her health. Like oranges and lemnounced. rose to meet him. Friend ons, the grape fruit has great medicinal she stairway and foe agreed as to her beauty, her virtues. If you are of a bilious tempertaste, and her manners; her presence, ament eat grape fruit; if fevers threatin a white dress embroidered with sil- en eat grape fruit, but in this latter ver, and with a pearl diadem on her case do so only at the advice of a phybrow, was queenly. In her husband's sician, as there may be certain tendenapartment she was the hostess, and as cies which the grape fruit would only The complaint Is often such she apologized for the stair. aggravate. made this fruit is extremely bitthat one not do "What would for such an ter and unpleasant. It is only the end!" gallantly replied the somewhat dazzled conqueror, writes Prof. Sloane white inner rind which is so, and this in his life of Napoleon In the Century. should always be carefully removed. To refer to "eating" cures, quite one The suppliant, after making a few of the prettiest salads I have seen laterespectful inquiries as to her visitor's salad. The large welfare and the effect of the northern ly was a green-pepphad been peppers on climate his health, at once anopened and the seeds a Russian salad, comnounced the object of her visit. Her removed, then manner was full of pathos and there posed of various vegetables, was heaped were tears in her eyes as she recalled within the shells and covered with a These pretty how her country had been punished for delicious mayonnaise. on a bed of lettuce its appeal to arms, and for its mistaken green boats lay leaves and base of them and the about confidence In the traditions of the great shone vivid curled leaves the through Frederick and his glory. The emperor flame-like blossoms. nasturtium was abashed by the lofty strain of her "How very pretty and artistic!" I exaddress. So elevated was her mien that she overpowered him; for the instant claimed. "The cook does not think so," replied his fled, and he felt himself but a man of the people. He felt my hostess with a smile. "Neither she I knew that the peppers must be also the humiliation of the contrast, nor cut or the seeds taken out under water, and was angry. Long afterward he confessed that she was mistress of the consequently she burned her hands." conversation, adding that she stood Exchange. with her head thrown back like Mile. Losing: Enterprise for the State. Duchesnois in the character of California's experiment of printing meaning by this comparison to the 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 The idea was that the books, felt the need of something to save his report. when thrown upon the market, would ewn role, and accordingly he bowed not only fully repay the cost of producher to a chair, and in the moment thus but would yield a handsome revegained determined to strike the key of tion, which in a few years would fully high comedy. Taking up the conversa- nue, tion in turn, he scrutinized the beauties reimburse the state for the amount of of her person and, complimenting her appropriations made to establish the was fallacious. dress, asked whether the material was original plant.nowThis is The that the state has crape or India gauze. "Shall we talk lost estimate about $200,000 on the venture. of rags at such a solemn moment?" she of the plant in Since retorted; and then proceeded with her 1885 itthehasestablishment cost $400,000 in appropriadirect plea for Magdeburg. In the an estimated value of the midst of her eloquence, when the em- tions, and now is $150,000. Secretary of peror seemed almost overcome by her plant Brdwn of misbecause that State says importunity, her meddling husband takes made in estimating the cost of most inopportunely entered the room. He began to argue and reason, citing production "the books must have been 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 the conversation 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 T)y on parting; "but I promise to think it in France. The process is over." The courageous woman had electricity and satisfactory. done her best, but 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 an inferior position. Her majestic quickest time oi record. If a well could be dug to a depth of bearing was fine, but it was not diplo- forty-si-x 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 girl of 11 were rewiser man. Long afterward Napoleon married in Johnson county, Ga,, thought she might have had consider- cently full consent of their parents. with the able influence on the negotiations if she A Kansas district has written a conhad 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 for $35 a month. The already virtually closed when she ar- find the matches teacher is a woman. rived. There is a movement on foot for the establishment of industrial schools for XiOst "rtme. 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 by us may return again on its backward nance of the Royal Botanical Society's 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 society's 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 Mich. She handles the reins as health may be restored; lost reputation ' wealth as well any man in that region, and may. be regained; squandered never been troubled with stage robmay be recovered; but lost time Is for- has ever lost, and not a single hour can be bers. recovered. Rev. G. B. Strickler. If teeth were not provided with enamel they would be constantly breaking, Belles 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 The power taste is believed to be which some seem to think were built due to the fungi-forpapillae of the by De Soto. Recently a farm hand plow-in- s tongue. These are from a twentieth to 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, ISOf, but most thickly toward the tip. The . ! over-sensitiv- e; so-call- Ue 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 stopper of a bottle. Nevertheless it has become one of the most valuable components of a city's refuse. Creat quantities 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 tiflcations. Kites may even carry bathrooms are made of cork exclusively bombs filled with high explosives and and it also goes into the composition of drop the latter where they will do the linoleum. Cheap life preservers are most good. now filled exclusively with bottle stopPrepared Fnel. pers, cut into little pieces. Scientific American. Many experiments have been made with prepared fuel pressed into bricks, The Microscopic Examination of Cotton. but they have not been a pronounced Cotton fiber, when magnified about success. The trouble is said to be ow150 diameters, has the appearance of a ing to the coarseness of the particles. band of ribbon twisted in a spiral. It A new and practical process grinds the fineness. is thicker at the edge than in the material into almost dust-lik- e coal-tar and It is then mixed with pitch, middle, and has irregular surface markcomcharand and heated some In other cotton the ings. ingredients spiral acteristics are much more apparent pressed into cakes sufficiently hard to than in others. In the better qualities bear transportation, to burn with the utmost freedom, to be uninjured by of Sea Island cotton a transverse section shows a central cavity running wet and much more manageable in The every way than ordinary coal. It is longitudinally with the fiber. breadth of cotton fiber is less than that also dustless, which is a great point, of wool. It is a curious fact that cotespecially for household use. ton, wool and silk present characteristics in common, being ribbon-shape- d Origin of the Thimble. and spiral. The wonders of the micro-scrop- e A thimble was originally a thumb-bel- l, are many, and familiarity with because it was worn on the thumb 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 thimble was celebrated with a great An Amnnln; Toy from Kn glanddeal of formality. The first thimbie A very peculiar and fascinating memade was presented in 1684 to Anna van Wedy, the second wife of Killien chanical toy is being sent to this couna van Inside from metal round Rensselaer, the purchaser of Europe. try box just about the size and shape of In presenting his useful an old shaving box a spring works a gift. Van Benscoten begged Mme. rapidly revolving pivot, which just Rensselaer "to accept this new coverprotrudes 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." placed on a level surface and held with the left hand. With right a small Paper Heels. bar Is withdrawn bov to its full exShoe heels made of paper pulp are tent, and then returned .straightly and among the latest improvements in the smartly Into its former position. This shoe 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 alcohol and other necesbox, so that it touches the side of the tar, litharge, sary ingredients. After standing for a email pivot, and the toy will operate. The figure placed on top is mounted short time the pulp is rolled Into sheets on an irregularly shaped stand made and placed on rollers and pressed to the of metal slightly magnetized. The proper thickness. The sheet is then a and the heels of the magnetic draws the wire frame of the placed upon table are stamped out a hun"figure to the revolving pivot, while the shape desired dred at a time. I FE0M THE CAPITAL. SOME WINTER FRUITS. NAPOLEON VS. LOUISA. ' j horse-wtippe- d. ed er self-assuran- ce Chi-men- e, ks 20,-000,0- to-d- ay Bel-lair- m , 00 dusky southland and! hr the land of the orange and the " fields of the olden . fuuiunna Money is a brunette, smalli face bright with I,1 wijlowy, and animation, her eyes dark : Money of Mississippi Has an Interestln er gehce a most purple tint,- and her Group of Children Cannon c Utah black. She was a Miss Claudiahair Bodi?' Is a Firm Believer in the Religlo n of of Miss., andjwas educated jjackson, THE THREE NEW SENATORS AND THEIR FAMILIES. ! :" V "''r' hr ; fl, - Brlgham 1 Kentucky. She met her husband It Jackson, when he was with his re Washington Letter. m$nt and they were married ahm ? iHE ATmTTTfiN OF thirty-thre- e years ago.! :: 1 G77 irss tnree new senators jThe Moneys have a lovely home t it to the large num Carrollton, in the state of MississinnJ1 :r11i ber of; "grave and and a large plantation of two thousand reverend seignors" acres on the Tallahatchie river. Th" and the elements huge farm is planted in cotton, but th which go to make has fine game preserves in which the various be found large deer and even bearf up phases of American There are five children in the famil life are mostjstrikr t 3 boys, who live in the south a t, inglyshown in the pffcd daughter, Mrs. Hill, whose home il different character- ax winona, ana iwo young ladies who istics of the families of the recejnt1 ar- are with their parents. The oldest 'of rivals. Utah, who has just mae her the young ladies Is Miss Lillian, a petit debut as a young lady, brunette, soon to be married to Mr sends two of the senators and thci other Beverly Reed who is a nephew and is from the cotton fields of Dixie And adopted son of Congressman Culberson had the Union been searched with a of Texas, and a near relative to Goyl lantern there could not be founfi men Culberson, of the same state. After more diametrically opposite in the the young couple will go to views of the sections they represent. Corpus Christi, where Mr. Reed wilL Senator Brown has his wife and son practice his profession of law. Miss Lillian is an excellent musician with him at the Ebbitt House for the Young:. f . j P i -- j full-fledg- ed g season. Mrs. Brown is a handsome lady with dark eyes, brown hair and very earnest manners, proud of her state and most interested in its progress. There is only one child in the family, Max, a boy of about 13, wno will be put to school in the city. Mrs. Brown has not yet joined the "Daughters of the Revolution," but has three different ancestors who were distinguished in W 4tf'',y VK; M V..' ."''W 7 the early history of the country and by whose record she will be more than entitled to entrance. She is a granddaughter of old Daniel Cameron, of New York state, her father being Alexander Cameron, and her mother Sarah Paull, a relative of Mrs. William Waldorf Astor. One of the ancestors of Miss Paull was John Paul Jones, whose name was, in fact, not John Paul Jones, but whose last name was spelt Paull, and who took the name of Jones for the family of his LILLIAN MONEY, and a splendid shot, often going hunting on the home plantation and thinking nothing of bringing down a bird mother, making the Paul, his real fami- on the wing. Her younger sister, Mist ly name, his Christian one in his new Mabel, who has large blue eyes and appellation. Alexander Cameron was dark hair, is quite a social favorite, one of the pioneers of the West, and and both girls are gifted with charmwent to Kalamazoo many years ago. ing manners. Mabel, when little more Here it was that Mrs. Brown was born, than a baby, accompanied her parents and her father was one of the first men on a visit to the Cannibal Islands and in that section to own a house. Senator sat on the lap of King Kalakaua and Brown's father lived only a short diswas made much of by his dusky matance from the Camerons, and Brown jesty. She is a fine violinist. Mrs. was born only seven miles from the Money is a woman of great literary place where his future wife first saw talent and for some years contributed the light. The Browns have lived in regularly to prominent periodicals. She Salt Lake for some time, and in his is much opposed to the new movement native state there is no one more popu- of worsen and believes in the old southlar, especially among the young law- ern view that a woman's sole province yers, than Senator Brown. Mrs. Brown is in her home and not in the world of is a woman of very decided views, and business and politics. Both of her while she was not in favor of the grant- - daughters share these views and Mrs. Money has even contributed 10 the press a long article in which she upholds her ideas with great spirit and vigor. Having lived in Washington so many years as the wife of Congressman Money the capital Is glad to welcome her back as the wife of a spnator. In the Carroll mansion, lately purchased by Chief Justice Fullpr, Rich men as Clay and Webste4? were frequent visitors and old Justice Taney used to come every Sunday to dine with the family. The father of Mr. William Thomas Carroll was Charles Carroll, of Belleview, the grandfather was Charles Carroll, of Carrollsburg, who was a first cousin to Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. The family of Carrolls are descendant from one of the early kings of Ireland. MABEL MONEY, William Carroll had eight children, the lag of suffrage to women, she intends only surviving girls being Mrs. Bowles, to accept the judgment of the people Mrs. Brown and the Countess Ester- and take an active part in all that will hazy, who now resides in this city. tend to the good of the state. While originally on a level with the "While I was not in favor of having street, the mansion is now on a terrace woman's suffrage at first," she ex- formed by the cutting down of the plained to a recent caller, "it is now streets during the time that the city something of the past, and it is useless was beautified by the direction of Shep to discuss a dead issue. I accept the herd. The house is a large, square, red right, and mean to do all in my power brick, with a high wall, which encloses to make of the women of Utah as many an garden on the right good citizens as I can. A woman's side. In the front hall one finds the highest duty is to her home, children leads down to the front door, and husband. If she is going out into stairway of the numerous room? are and all world she must not exthe work-da- y grouped about this central stairs, which pect men to treat her with all the lit- form a sort of an open court in the tle social courtesies which have been center of the house from top to bottom. her portion in the past; she must no The mansion was furniAJed in things longer lead a butterfly life, or spend her which have been in the family for years, time at teas and lunches, but must educate herself to the hard work and sober, serious duties and responsibilities of the business world." Senator 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 born in Ogden, educated in the same cijty 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, Rosannah, who Is 13; the third, Frank, who is 11, and the fourth, Olive, who is 9. The Cannons have lived in Ogden since their ROSANNAH BROWN, marriage, which has been a most happy but most of them have been disposed one. Mrs. Cannon was one of the deleof at private sale to the members of th gates accredited to the recent meeting immediate family. , tf the woman's suffragists in this city, Just Justice Fuller wished10 why is she is an ardent sympathizer, though to desert theChief lnvelv nart of the city dot much of a worker in the causb. Both Which he now the sober and Cannon and his wife belong to the Mor- more sombre resides for 010 quarter in which the un mon, or "Latter Day Saints," sjnd are Carroll mansion now stands, is not fl"e Implicit believers in the doctrines of derstood. His present home is a aveYoung and Joseph Smith and &rm in one on the corner of Massachusetts tho faith of the righteousness of plural nue and Nineteenth street, right in the since of the marriages though, parsing of town, he law prohibiting this doctrine being heart of the fashionable section and by many magnificent put into effect, the Mormon$ have homessurrounded of diplomats and wealthy priw Abandoned this practice. The wife of the third new senator is citizens. tuite a different style of woman from L. W. Palmer of London has one roo the ladies from the bustling west. She of his house entirely papered with b a woman such as one finds in the 000 canceled stamps. old-fashion- j ed |