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Show MINE OF DEADLY QUALirY. FINE OLD TINDER BOX. MET AFTER TWENTY YEARS, Burttlng Charge of from 500 to 1,000 Interesting Pounds of Guncotton. Tho observation mlno Is a largo structure of cylindrical shape, and carnc-- a bursting charge of from 500 to 1,000 pounds of guncotton tho quantity varying in accordanco with the depth of water In which It Is to work. As shown in the cut, tho guncotton Is Jacked In layers In copper tanks or cases having holes In them to penult tho admission of water for wetting. The lower central caso has a holo for the reception of tho primer of dry guncotton and fulminate of s j i id K. l- V f ? t. F Curio That Recalls th "Good Old Days." In these days of electrle lighting tinder boxes stand In the same relation to Illumination as a flintlock does t the modern firearm. They, how. ever, serve as Interesting curios, and many at present In England are or nate to a degree, and show no little artistic and decorative skill. This one belongs to a Mr. Oswald Barron. He procured It In Flanders. It Is of oak and handsomely carved on all Its facos On the sliding lid Is wrought a tuliplike flower, rising from an or namental pot. The box Is seven and a half Inches long and has only one division, which Is longitudinal SENT SAMPLES OF WARES, vK yI , . The rest of the mine space Is left for the sake of buoyancy, the Bum of which Is equal to a tendency to rise of 10 pounds pressure. This mine has an effective or destructive area equal to a circle 60 feet In diameter. These mines are generally planted In series of from six to ten, again, radiating like the ribs of a palm-lea- f fan, each with a 180 feet long. about cable separate Boston Herald. xnercury. 500-poun- d Model Made by Convicts. There is a remarkable model at South Kensington, England. Made to a scale of twenty feet to the Inch, it shows a part of tho additions to' the dockyard at Chatham a great feat of engineering skill accomplished by convict labor. In fourteen years the penal prisoners excavated the docks, made 102,000,000 bricks for the retaining walls, and did an enormous amount of masonry and other work. Altogether the enlargement is one of the greatest feats that can be put to the credit of convicts. In the model which commemorates it there are the figures of 295 prisoners, forty superintendents and other officers and fourteen free By Phonograph and Photograph Man- ager Judged of Actor. "This Is a marvelous age we live In," said a theatrical manager, "and its marveiousness was brought homo to me forcibly last week. "I had written to a French tenor and asked him what he would take to come over here and sing next season. His reply consisted of a letter and two cylinders. T will come for 1500 a week, tho letter said, and I forward In another package samples of my voice and of my acting. "The large cylinder was a phonographic record of one of the mans solos. Tho smaller one was a moving picture of him singing the solo. "I took the two cylinders to a deal-er, and one we put in a phonograph, the other In a moving picture ma- chine, and then started the machtno and the phonograph simultaneously. There he wa3 on the screen, walking up and down the stage and gesticulating, and there was his voice Issuing in sonorous notes from the big phonograph horn. I got from it as satis- factory an Idea of the mans talent as f could have gotten if he had visited Peculiar Circumstance In Which Tho Sea Captain Figure. After roving the seas for moro than twenty years as masters of square-rigge- d vessels two British skippers, A. S. Hatfield and S. J. Hatfield, have at last met In the port of Bangor and shaken hands. The men are cousins, Ive In adjoining towns In the Provinces, and yeL although they have plowed every sea 1q the world and have visited all ports, north and south, east and west, have never come Into actual contacL They have Just missed each other several times, once on tho African west coast and once in New York. But It remained for the magnetism of Bangor to bring them together. Capt. A. S. Hatfield la In the bark Osberga which halls from Maitland. Capt. S. J. Hatfield Is In the barkentlne Eva Lynch of SL John. The peculiar part Is that after seeking each other for so many years in so many parts cf tho world they should show up In a comparatively small harbor, loading from the same dock, for the Jlbbootn of the Lynch swings over tho taffrall of tho Os berga. Missouri Foxes in North Carolina. Will Marshall and W. P. Parsons last spring Imported forty-twyoung red foxes from Missouri, purchasing them from It. (J. Mason of Kfrkvllle, In that state, a gentleman who makes a business of raising them. These youug Reynards were taken Into the country and released, and they are already asserting their presence, ono farmer reporting that he has lost 125 chickens and eighty-seveturkeys. Nearly all theso original foxes are alive, except a few that have been shot by farmers. They havo reared families and are rapidly repopulating tho forest of Anson. Tho red fox is of an entirely different nature from the gray fox, and always gives his pursuers a run for their money, so to speak. The gray fox runs in a wide circle, never going very far from the place where he was Jumped; the red fox thinks of some nook several hundred miles away and he strikes out for it in a beeline and fast must be the hounds that overtake him. These Missouri foxes aro said to be long, lean and wiry, and the hunters cf Anson are anticipating some rare chases. Charlotte Observer. VVw iNveNrnasL Automatic Pump of Great Power, C. A. Arnsoerger, an engineer ci Rudy, Idaho, has Just received pat- ent letters for an Invention that he has been working on for years, and which promises to revolutionize certain features of mining and Irrigating operations. It consists of an automatic quadruple action force pump that Increases the outflow of water by four times that of tho ordinary force pump requiring tho same motive power. Some of the great advantages claimed for this pump are that It can bo operated at any speed; that It can bo made up in any size; that it works an a central pivot and Is at all times on an even balance regardless of tho depth of the well or tho volumo o water being raised. There Is no lost motion. It throws Just as much water when tho lever Is going up as It dooa when It Is going down. It Is ablo to raise water at great height without much additional power, for the reason that It both pushes and putts at tho olumn of water. It can bo adapted o n Worlds Oldest Statue Diagram of the Pump. When plunger box B la down as shown m the illustiatlon. the water enters aa Indicated by the arrows. As the plunger x ascends, the lever pushes the In closing the same and plunger valve preventing the escape of the watet, which Is forced up through the shut-of- t valve into the pipe 1). As the pipe descends, a vacuum is created In the suction valve above, thus causing a continuous flow of water upward whether th pipe and plunger box are going up or down. The movable section of the pipe above the suction valve is operated in a. ball and 3oeket joint, thus giving free movement at' all times when the pipe from the central approaches or recedes standard. The main pipe E cam upright be extended to any height desired. to all uses to which any force pump can be put, such as raising water from wells, mines, ponds or lakes, with any kind of power that is used in operac-W-g other pumps. men. His Mascot. Bend five matches until they are almost broken and place them as shown. Then drop a little water on the broken ends and see the extremities stretch till they form a star. Volcano Still There. Workmen were driving an artesian well near Pisa, in Italy, recently,) when a huge column of gas rose up, from the boring made In the ground, followed by an eruption of warm water. sand and mud. Frightened at this ur expected turn of events, the men ran away. Engineers came up and were Investigating the phenomenon, when a workman approached with q lighted match. This ignited the es-- j c&ping gas and a column of fire rose very high, which lit up the neighbor-- j hood throughout the whole night. Efforts were made without success to extinguish the fire, which continued for days, accompanied by eruptions! Athletics Enlarge Girls Hands. is larger than of sand and subterranean noises. In A No. 6 glove times a volcano, known as the the same size five years ago. The ancient San Glullano, existed on a neighborgirls play golf and are athletic and ing hill, but has long been inactive. their hands have grown. to-da- y CJXl One of Niobe. Sausage for German Soldiers. The Prussian war department has determined to establish a sausage factory at Spandau for the purpose of supplying the garrisons in that vicinity with a product made from wholesome materials at the smallest possible cost. If the experiment proves successful other factories will be established at points where large bodies of troops are quartered. Measurement of Dew. The measurement of dewr has always difficult because of the fact that no method heretofore has given exact results. In Das Wetter, M. Ferb describes a new sort of drosometer, which has given satisfactory results, and which is composed of a piece of paper which has been put through a special preparation and dipped in a chemical solution. This paper is exposed In a box placed during the night on the ground, the quantity of dew being indicated by the discoloration' of the paper. A scale of tint3 Is determined experimentally, vMch is usel for the purpose of conparison, there being further used thrse sorts of paper, the first for small quantities of dew, the second for large quantities and the third for very heavy dews. |
