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Show .'wii.NTlFIC CORNER. CURRENT N.'iTES OP DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Kanallii I'hoiograph aa nful Ola Ma- la villi toap Haablaa Hamad liluaa Taw paring: ataal laiaa Xutaa at arlauca. I If 0 put photographs ou glass taka tour ounces of gelatin and soak for half an hour In sixteen ounces of water; put the Jar Into a large dish of warm water and dissolve the gelatin. When dissolved, pour Into a shallow tray. Have jrour prints rolled on a roller, albumen side out; take the print by the corners and pass rapidly through the gelatin, taking great care to avoid air bubbles. Hang up with dlpa to dry; when dry, squeeze carefully on to the glass. The better the quality of glass, the finer the effect. Kamovlpg Frnrklaa. Ledger reader asks the best way to remove freckles. Answer: Freckles are a growth in the skin which Is stimulated by a great amount of light and exposure to air. Buying in tbe house or keeping in the shade will prevent them to a great extent When once a crop of freckles gets Into a flourishing condition It la exceedingly difficult to remove. Your druggist can prepare for you a solution of carbolic acid and glycerine, and will give you directions for using It It must be handled with great care, as it discolors tho whole skin, and should only be applied on the freckle itself. A preparation of dioxide of hydrogen and water In the proportion of one part of dioxide of hydrogen to about 4 parts of water Is an excellent thing for clearing the complexion, and will remove many of these spots. New York Ledger. or Bmp Hnbhla. Soap bubbles may be handled In a great many ways with beautiful effects. Some of these we have already described to you, and we are now going to tell you about others, says Philadelphia Times. The trouble is so little and the result is so pretty that you ought all to make the experiment when you can conveniently do It Of course it is necessary that you have a good solution to Insure the perfection and the durability of the bubbles, and this you may obtain by using white c as tile soap and tepid water. Make a strong solution and pass it through a slave to clear it of the undissolved particles of soap. The solution having been made, add glycerine In the proportion of two-fiftr. of glycerine to three-fiftof the 8hake the mixture well and act the vessel away. In a little while a film will rise to the surface; skim this off and pour the mixture into a bowl; It will retain Ita qualities for an Indefinite time. You may blow the bubbles with a clay pipe, or with a tube of strong paper, half an Inch In diameter. If the latter, slit It at one end Into four parts and carefully bend back the parts at a right angle. Now get a piece of smooth wire and bend it Into a circle, about three inches in diameter, adjusting It on a tripod of the same material. Moisten the wire with glycerine and, hav ing blown a big bubble, let It rest gently on the wire circle, to which it will adhere, leaving the pipe. If you shelter It from currents of air It will last some time. Having previously prepared a second wire circle, with an upright handle, moisten that also with glycerine and hold It gently against the upper part of the bubble, to which It will adhere so closely that you may lift the bubble up Into a cylindrical form, as shown in the Illustration, and then drop It again Into the form of a globe. Another pretty experiment may be made with an outline cube of wire, with a handle attached. File the wire well hs hs soap-wate- white Iron pyrites, whlrh some believe A .o be gold or silver. Tbe fine blue color tor palming called ultra piai ine Is mads from lapis laxuli by grinding It Into powder and purifying It from pyrites and other substances which are mixed with It in lu natural state. As painters know well, this color Is now difficult to obtain genuine since a mode of making K artificially has been discovered by chemists. Tbe different in price la great, artificial ultramarine being sold for ? to 10 shillings a rwt., whereas a pound weight of fine real ultramarine would cost from eighty to one hundred pounds sterling and upwards. The artificial cannot be distinguished from the real by even tho most careful chemloel tests, the only means of detecting the former being by the microscope, which shows the absence of the sparkling particles of the broken stone from which the real ultramarine la never free. (Translated (A Mercantile Card.) Innovation la made an Illustration of a Venetian merchants visiting card will give a faint Idea of what extremes the new fad may go to. HmM OIM If glass be heated to the melting point of aluminum, the adhesion of the metal la vary marked. It Is possible to spread the aluminum over the surface of the glass with an Iron spatula. It Is suggested that this property may be utilized for cementing together the parts of glass apparatus used in laboratories. Magnesium also adherea much more readily when heated; but the facility with which It is oxidized renders it less suitable for the purpose; and the same may be said of cadmium. Zinc, s at moderately high temperature, similar properties. Ordinary plumbers solder, alloyed with a small percentage of magnesium, can be spread but upon hot glass like sealing-waunfortunately these alloys are speedily attacked by the moisture of the atmosphere. Tin alloyed with ten per cent of aluminum spreads easily, and is more stable, but requires a higher temperature for its use; and an alloy of tin with from two to five per cent of sino was found to work well. It Is advisable not to raise the temperature too high, otherwise oxidation becomes energetic. An ordinary soldering iron may bo used, but an aluminum bit Is preferable. No flux la required, but the glass must be perfectly dean. poe-sse- x; Matas. According to M. Leon Apport, the Introduction of alumina Into glasses prevents, or at least retards, devitrification produced by alow and repeated redso-tion- a of temperature. The presence of alumina in a glass enables one to substitute without inconvenience for a part of the alkaline base Its equivalent of lime. The use of alumina may be exand to drinking-gtended to window-glas- s lasses. It may be best introduced in the state of felspar. Vegetables proper are thus classified: Roots Carrot, turnip, parsnip, beet, salsify, raddlsh, etc. Tubers Potato, yam, artichokes. Scaly bulbs onion, leek, garlic, etc. Stems Asparagus. Leaves Lettuce, endive, spinach, parsley, seakale, cabbage, greens, etc. Celery, rhubarb. Flower-stalk- s e. Cauliflower, Marble may be readily cleaned by the hours of application for twenty-fou- r tbe following mixture: Soft soap, one pound; powdered whiting, one pound; and washing soda, one pound; boiled together for twenty minutes. Wash off with clean water, and polish with piece of coarse flannel. An acute musical ear will detect so slight a difference In tone between two of a semitone. This notes as the means that In the eleven octaves that the human ear compasses there would Leaf-stalk- s globe-artichok- so that it may not be too smooth, and plunge the cube Into the soap solution. On taking it gently out you will see In the center of the cube a sheet of water, very thin and geometrically square, each side of which Is united to tho corresponding edge o I the cube by a liquid film. Now plunge only the lower face of the . cube into the soap solution, and a cubic b at least some eight thousand or nlr bubble will be formed In the center of thousand consciously different notea A tow grains of borax put into milk tho cubs, the whole figure being com' will prevent its going sour. posed of six truncated pyramids ilium! noted with every tint of tho rainbow, Try to remove the stains of old paint If, with a slip of blotting paper, you from cotton or woolen goods by first break away one of the surfaces of tho rubbing over the stains butter or olive cubic bubble, tbe original square will oil to soften the paint and then using chloroform on them. reappear. If a spoonful of borax Is put into tho last water In which white clothes are Lnpl LnsnlL Lapis lasull, a peculiar stone, varying rinsed It will whiten them very much. to dark The borax should be dissolved In a litIn shades from the sky-blof Asia, tle hot water before It Is added to the various from oomss parts bine, ad he usually specks of yellow or rinsing water. ue from the CHAIN. Frc-ni-h- I. Tampering Steal. F. R. wants to know if there la say preparation made with which one can temper steel drills hard enough to drill glass with. Also, if there Is a special kiad of steel made for such purposes. Answer: Experts claim that much of the skill In tempering steel consists In tho handling of It, and that whllo there may be preparations that have some value, they are as nothing when compared with the faculty acquired by long experience and careful study. Aa to a special kind of steel, one must get the very best obtainable, and that Is to be found In almost any market New York Ledger. Vnalhi Yialtlng Cards. Venetian visiting carijs early In tbe century were queer looking affairs containing the calling or business of Go owner. It Is whispered in Paris aad London that something similar may be brought out next winter. If any sueh Srintlb liltOKKX ACUTES ran rapidly up the five stairs uud stopped ou the landing of the sixth floor. There he stood a between niouirut two doors which faced each other, gazed longingly on the left, took out bis key and opened the door on the right; turned once more toward the door on the left, heaved a deep sigh and slowly entered the room on the right. Once Inside, he removed his coat, donned a smoking Jacket, placed a chair near the wall, took his favorite position astride It, and, leaning over, applied his ear to the partition, evidently anxious to hear from the other side. Then he lighted a cigarette and watched the smoke as be blew It into fanciful shapes toward the celling. He had already smoked several cigarettes and repeated the listening operation many times when his face, dark He until now, suddenly brightened. She oould hear some one moving. Is In!" A clatter of knives and crockery was now beard. She Is getting her dinner!" And leaning still farther forward he strove to catch every move of his unconscious neighbor. Never seeing her he still felt happy to feel that she was living there so near him. That he saw her no more was Indeed a cruel fact and a cause of much grief. At one time he used to see her almost every day. He would plan accidental meetings so cleverly that they really appeared a pure favor from a kindly fate. They were the result of much scheming, no doubt, and it required a great deal of patience to bring them about. For Instance, Jacques would watch for hours In front of the house to see her coming home. As soon as he caught a glimpse of her approaching form he would quickly run up the stairs, wait an instant to give her time to reach the house, then slowly go down as If chance alone brought him thus to meet her as she was climbing up to her room. Unfortunately at that important point his would always desert him. Her modest, unconcerned mien aa she passed by so upset him that he would find himself bowing awkwardly, casting down his eyes and feeling like a bashful schoolboy. Afer such failures he would remonstrate with himself severely, vow to be leas timid next time, practice grace ful bows, invent pretexts for addressing her and study subjects of conversation. But all preconcerted arrangements would tumble confusedly to the ground the moment he stood near her, end the consciousness of defeat but Increased his nervousness. One day he clumsily dropped his hat and then he determined to never see her again. Thus, thought he, "I may at least avoid making a bad Impression, aa I can't make a good one Her name was Charlotte; be had learned that somehow, and her occupation that of a seamstress. She generally was out all day. She was a good, honest girl, to that he oould swear. of her dreea, the moving of a chair, the nolse of the dishes, all spoko of her occupation at that particular moment. She Is layli.g the cloth aha is clearing up she Is sitting down now she is going to sew. I wonder what alia thinks of me? Does she suspect I am so near? If only she knew hoar I love her!" Often he felt tempted to attract her attention, even though It were silly, but again the fear of displeasing her held him back. And yet ahe must t'llnk of me sometimes. She knows I live here. She cannot help seeing the light through g door. She moat be a my little curioua, being a woman. She muet notice 1 am always In. Ferhape I did attract her attention in spite of my blunders: on account of them, perhaps. Possibly she knows I love her and la expecting an avowal, and, seeing I dare not speak who knows (so much may be expected of women)? She may some day drop her work, cross that landing, push open my door which I never shut enter my room and aay: Since you will not come I aball!" Ah! but that might be a long time coming! Still straddling his post of observation he would ruminate on the many devices presenting themselves to his mind in order to hasten matters. To slip a note under her door? He had often thought of that, but would ahe read It? And supposing ahe did, would not tbe first passionate word offend her and cause her to tear up his missive In anger? To get some one to speak for him? Whom? They bad no mutual friend. Decidedly none of theae means were practicable and the cnly thing to do was to wait. How . UKttlng ever-gapin- loug? II. It was getting iate, very late. Charlotte, still at work, began to sing to keep from falling asleep. Jacques kept time, following the rhythm by rocking himself to and fro, which went very well when the movement was alow, but when tt quickened with the spirited passages of the song the game became a dangerous one and taxed the poor old chair beyond its capacity for gymnastics. The whole modern repertory was reviewed. Now came Faust." Ah, if he were here!" But he is there! Jacques almost cried. In turn came selections from Trovatore," "Barber of "Rlgoletto," Seville, etc. Hours flew by and Jacques never tired of listening to this concert. Charlotte herself must have wearied, for presently the programme altered. Romances and reveries succeeded and operatic airs. The vibrat ing tones of her voice were subdued to suit the low, sweet melodies which followed her former efforts, one of the soothing effects of the change being to lull Jacques into a slumber, though even In hla sleep he kept alive to the music and followed every note uttered by the fair singer. All at once Charlotte, who probably decided she must keep awake at any cost, started into a lively long, La Valae des Roses." by Oliver Metre, one of those wildly dellrous waltzes which would make the dying long for the use of their feet. Jacques must have been dreaming and dreaming he was waltzing, for. enfolding hie chair, he started, whirled two or three times and then both madman and chair fell to the floor WYJ a crash. There was a dreadful commotion; the floor shook. A scream rang through the air but it did not Inane from Jacques' lips. It would have been Impossible for him to utter any sound. He bad fallen on hie face, split hla forehead open BAd fainted. When he came to himself, few hours later, he was lying upon the bod, his head was bandag1, and a wotian eat near watching him. "What! you here, mademoiselle?' "Certainly, monsieur, I heard au?h a noise In this room last night I feared some terrible tragedy was taking p'Ace. I came quickly and found you Ding It if all upon the floor unconscious right now, there Is no danger. In few days no trace will remain bTt a alight scar. But, tell me, how did you happen to fall in such an absurd ran ner with your chair?" Jacques made no reply, but blnUted uneasily. Women are quick In seeing a pas slon they inspire; Charlotte soon read Jacques heart. They chatted quietly until breakfast time. The first step was taken. Tbe Ice broken. How easy to wait now! They are now married and happy. Charlotte does not work by the day any more. Jacques has reached that happy state of things which comes to all who strive and his paintings are sold quite easily, bringing enough to provide for the demands of their un pretentious mode of living. Two things have been and are still a matter of wonder and comment among their friends. On their - mar rlage day the "Valae des Roues'- was played on the organ and a conspicuous plaee In their drawing room Is filled by an old broken chair, so weak and xirkety that Charlotte has to fasten It together with ribbons In order to make It aland. cav-ateri- aa FOPUL A HR ALLY WAR I) FAMOUS ONCE THE MOST BELLE OF LOUISVILLE. Haled Over Hrllliaat aad IlMatlfal Soalkara Surlcly Kvaa After At Had at Ita Mark I'pun liar Dlvorrad bv a Special dr t- - ALLY WARD, who died tn Louisville the other day, was the most famous belle of the South In her day. A few may have been more beautiful, some were wittier, but none was more dashing, none had more admirers, end there was none whose word was so eagerly listened to and whose acts attracted so much attention. She married very young and a divorce ended a short and unhappy wedded life. That was in the time when a divorce was such a rarity In the social world that the handaomt young womun was stared at wherever she went, but her wonderful tact, her beauty and high position wo her back her social leadership. She was married twice, but, though once reduced to poverty, her successive widowhoods never lost to her her hold upon the leadership of her circle. Where she le.l sooner or later tbe others had to follow. Her last marriage was contracted after her second husband had been dead a decade, and when she had passed her fiftieth year, and it still was tbe most exciting event that the upper ten of Kentucky knew. Her family was one of the oldest and beat of the planting aristocracy of tbe south. Her father was Robert J. Ward, who was once speaker of the Kentucky legislature. Her mother was a Flournoy, daughter of Major Matheus Flournoy, a revolutionary soldier, likewise of an old and wealthy family. Sally was born In Srott county, but the familys home was In Louisville, though another residence was kept In New Orleans. Mr. Ward owned one of the largest cotton plantations In Louisiana, and he was also an extensive dealer and speculator In the great southern staple. His Louisville home was a fine mansion, large and peculiarly well adapted to entertainments. In those days persons were not as wealthy as now, yet Mr. Ward at his Louisville home spent (50,000 a year, and his hospitality was boundless. The entertainments Mrs. Ward gave were the talk of the south. She set tbe fashion in dress, and Sally Ward hats, Sally Ward shoes and Sally Ward shawls were displayed in shop windows In Louisville and New Orleans. This was due as much to her remarkable tact and personal magnetism as to her beauty. Although to young, ahe dis- - Lawrence soon returned to Louisville, and by a special act of the Kentucky legislature at lia next session she became Sally Ward again. Of course there wae a great row. and much talk in the newspapers of that day. The Lawrence aired their feelings In the pi cue. and the Wards were bitter In their denunclatloni. A few yeara later she was married to Dr. Robert W. Hunt, much agalnat tbe will of his family, who opposed his making a divorced woman his wife. They entertained lavishly for many yeara but at hla death he left the young widow Impoverished, and ahe returned once more to Louisville, She did not marry again for some time, but she finally chose an early admirer, Vere P. Armstrong, a retired merchant. The marriage took place over the barber shop, and the wedding breakfast was served there. They moved to the Galt House afterward, and there ahe made her home until her death. Of late years she had lived very quietly, but her social leadership was never disputed. VEAL CURE FOR SUNBURN. Damaged rempteiloa Hay Ha KaatoraH by YmI C'atlat Application. The cry which rises annually from every seashore, country and mountain resort In the land this year met with a new response. Pasty lotions of mors or less harmless properties are no longer advocated aa a cure for sunburn. Complexions which have been given a crimson tinge by too long exposure to summer suns now find their speediest cure In a veal cutlet. The real cure," as It la called, has leaped into a popularity which Indicates that It la more than ordinarily potent. Butchers at the summer watering-plac- es have ceased to wonder at the loud demand for veal. They know that when the summer girl returns from her sea bath, walk or drive, her first thought la for a veal cutlet that shall preserve the delicacy of her complexion. The proper procedure is to Lave the cutlets shaved Into very thin slices. These raw slices must then be carefully laid all over the face, and lightly kept In place by pausing narrow ribbon or tape over them. The result is not becoming. but that Is unimportant The victim then retires to a perfectly darkened room and lies down for at leaat half an hour. When tbe veal becomes warm by contact with the face, It should be turned over and again applied. When the face has cessed to burn tbe. veal may be removed and the face gently washed with elder flower water. The fare should- not be again exposed to the sun the same day, and no soap should be used on It for a day or two. When these precautions are observed the veal cure la guaranteed to be effectual. Philadelphia Times. A Military Telephone. The Belgian authorities have recently made some Intereating experiments with the telephone Instrument and electrical appliances of tha Single Wire Multiple Telephone Signal Company, of London. In addition to the apparatus to test the adaptability of which the experiments were arranged, a new portable combined telephone and telegraph Instrument, specially designed for military purposes In the field during operations formed a feature of Interest, the extreme portability and light weight of the whole apparatus attracting considerable attention. It was proved that although the wires connecting tbe Instrument were cut, Morse algnals were quite audible even when several feet of damped twine were Interposed In the circuit It Is understood that the British military authorities are taking an Interest In the instrument. and that a demonstration of Its special suitability for military purposes will shortly be given. loud-apeakl- fire-alar- m loud-apeakl- ng MRS. SALLY WARD, , played unusual force of character, but the politeness of her runners and her kindness of heart were so great that she was a favorite with both sexes and with all classes. Mrs. Ward and her daughters were known at all the famous watering places In the south snd east, from White Sulphur Springs to Saratoga. At the latter place she met her first husband. He was Bigelow Lawrence, of Boston, son of Abbott Lawrence, one of the wealthiest merchants of New England. The elder Lawrence had been tn Congress, and was one of the commissioners who arranged with Lord Ashburton the northeastern boundary FELL WITH A CRASH, treaty between England and the United Slates. He refused a seat In President for he knew that she often worked late into the night How he admired the Taylors cabinet, and had given (50,000 to Harvard College. brave, beautiful girl who alone in the Hla eon was a great catch, and the world had so well resisted Its tempmatch was thought to be a moat eligitations! ble one. But there was no congeniality He wondered when and how he bebetween the gay young southern belle gan to love her! She had come to this and the son of the Puritan merchant. house the year before. At first he had The elder Lawrences were plain peonoticed she was pretty but for a long time had given her no further thought. ple, and quickly showed their disThen by degrees this sentiment had approval of southern ways when they came on to attend their sona wedding. entered his heart and finally possessed This was celebrated at the Ward home his whole being. How had it coice? In Louisville on the customary scale of were. It Is as It the walls, Through sumptuousness. the attraction of the woman one feels The young couple remained at the living near. At night we wonder, Is Ward mansion some weeks and then she In? In the morning, Is she up? went on to Boston. The mother-in-la- w mill all our thoughts are of her. was shocked by the appearance of the Be it aa It may, Jacques had not the Kentucky girl In a very attractive, but least doubt as to the nature of his feelrather unusual, traveling costume, Had she Charlotte. aliased for ings made up or a pink dress, flower trimhim to speak, and admitting such a med hat and slippers. She undertook possibility, had he but had the courage to reform her new daughter's taste in declaration would his to address her, dress and her ways of life. She was have been short and to the point: ordered to leave off cosmetics, to rise I love wilt you you; "Mademoiselle, early and attend prayers and to dress be my wife?" would have been the more simply. In particular did she obspeech to convey all he thought, felt and desired. ject to the bride taking so much time at her toilet when friends called. But. then, one cannot offer ones Fata'i The young and spoiled southern Iareenltj. was woman! to a hand Jacques empty Knorkitt Did you hear about poor beauty did not take thl correction with poor, lie was a painter one of those He was run into by ah One evening, when her good grace. aspirants whose wealth is still a mat- Scorclililgh? fellow on a motber-ln-lakilled wheel and other gave an entertainment dreams. and Juat at ter of hopes pres ent he found no sale for his canvas and Spmrkitt (Interestedly) la that so and sent a message to tho girl's room, in order to pay the last quarters rent What make of wheel did the other tel telling her to come down to the parlor, sa all the guests had arrived, the Bosthe room had been relieved of several low have? New York Journal. tonians were shocked by the speedy apa In and bed furniture. of fact, pieces A bicyclist in Marquette, Mich, saw pearance of a blue-eye- d young woman a chair were about its sole ornaments. In a loose wrapper, who made the I'pon this nhalr our young artist spent a small animal In hla path, and as his evenings, ever on the alert and in made no effort to move, he ran over iL laughing excuse that she had not had 1 proved to be a porcupine, as his eni time to dress. terpretlng every movement of tho The end of tt all was that young Mm. girl in the next room. Tee lapsed tires quickly demonstrated. w Feld la Their Owi Cals. They had been telling fish stories,, and the quiet, unobtrusive man looked weary. The idler who spends his time In thinking up foolish Questions broke the Hence to Inquire: I wonder what finally became of the whale that swallowed Jonah?" I dont know, replied the quiet man, but I have an idea as to some of his movements. What Is it?" I don't doubt that he hunted up a party of other whales and bored them nearly to death telling them how the largest man he ever caught wriggled loose and got away." Milwaukee Sentinel. Fireproof Hall. At the recent meeting of the National Association of Fire Engineers, at Montreal, was exhibited a complete suit of fireproof (asbestos) clothing. A fireman thus clad entered a burning wooden house, where he remained for several minutes, at the same time going through a performance calculated to and to exhibit the Illustrate advantages of his dress. life-savi- Mot Firkins 'Km. Judge You are accused of picking pockets. Criminal I plead not guilty. Judge Not guilty? Why, you were discovered In the act. Criminal Your honor, I was not picking pockets. I Just took them as they came. Washington Times. When II Snored- - Louise Harry, I hato to ask you, but tell me. do you snore in your sleep?" Harry "Sometimes, darling; you know an active business man doesn't gel time to snore when he's awake." Standard. |
