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Show NOTES Portland. Ore. The intention cf the inventor la to make the machine ex;5rS'i,1 haust the air from the can and yten RECENT DISCOVERIES AND IN- seal it automatically without allowing a return of the air from tin? outside. VENTIONS OF VALUE. In order to accomplish this purpose the only change rendered necessary in Automatic Speed Regulator an Imthe jar is the insertion of a valve in The Thrush. call they would not rise to the surprovement on Fire Eacapea Sim- the center of the screw top. The uu th Uipnnikt The thrush face of tlte water, nor would they high sings and Accurate for ple Apparatus mechanism consists of a cylinder and bough pay much attention, usually, when Teaching Telegraphy. piston, the latter being lifted by a I.OW, louder, low SKain: and now his tree know nut food was thrown to them by persons hand lever to draw the air from the He has whom they did r.ot know. Hut when bow. jar through the connecting mouthAutomatic Speed Regulator. For you saw no flitting wins. the little girl chirruped her Ailed When the is and the jar The subject of this article is an Im- piece. notes the trout flocked to her All the notes the forest of throng. cover screwed In place the vacuum proved Are escape, which does not dereed and string, are in his song; outstretched innd, jostling and crowdFlute, 1b on set cover with the Never a fear knows he, nor wrong, , the pend upon the coolness and nerve of producer ing each other in their eagerness to Nor a doubt of anything.' men to put it in operation or regulate valve open and the piston at its lowroom Small In that soft breast; reach the tiny fingers filled witi food. It when once in action. Recent loss of est point. As the lever is depressed All weiilhrr for that cornea to him Is the The little maiden was as fond of her life by fire shows there is still an unbest. pets as she could be, and she would While he sees his mate dose on her nest, not filled want in this direction, and John permit any of the trout to be Ami the woods are full of spring. Williams of Belvidere, 111., submits the caught. The fame of her finny friends He has lost his last year's love, I know-l- ie, spread in' the country roundabout, and invention shown in the drawing, its too but 'tin little he keeps of woe; chief advantage lying in the control of it Isoou ' became one of tbe treats of For a bird forgets In a year, and so of movement the speed descent by the travelers, on the Shasta road to halt No wonder the thrush can sing. of two pistons sliding in cylinders pivK. It. Sill. and see the curiosity. j oted in wall brackets attached to the Captive Fairy. Magic Pills. building. The pistons slide back and The fairy in the picture Is held capAn entertaining little trick can be forth through a heavy liquid, which done with two pills made of bread. tive jn the crystal. Rut there are must pass fri.in one side to the other "One of the pills 1 throw away, the and back again before the revolution lierfonuer says, "the other I put in of the crank can be completed. As my left hand, which I close. At the the internal diameter of the cylinders same moment the pill which I have nearly corresponds with the size of the thrown is obvious that the flow of away will come back and join piston, it the other in the left hand. And, the liquid must be comparatively slow. opening the hand, he shows the two Thus, no matter what weight is in the little pills. The whole trick lies in cars attached to the endless chains. the right hand of the performer. Taking one of the pills, ho shows it between the thumb and index finger, and, under the pretext of throwing it away, slips it between the index and Sealing a Jar by External Atmospheric middle finger by a slight pressure of Pressure. the thumb, opening the hand with a the piston pulls the air from the jar motion of throwing. Taking (he slight ami when the screw head at the outer second little pill,' he places it apparend of the lever strikes tlt projecting ently alone in the left hand, but in rod at the linttoin of the cylinder tho reality also the other one held berod is di i veil inward, turning the valve tween the index and middle finger of and completing the scaling process. the hand, closing it immediately. right The apparatus is then removed, the Opening the hand,. he shows the two vacciim inside the jar retaining the pills. After a little practice this trick valve in its closed Portion. When it can lte related several times without is desired to open the can a turn of fear of detection. cracks in the crystal through which the valve admits air and makeij it easy OF SCIENCE. - siawr well-know- n . Hydraulic Cylinders Cneca the Fall, there is no danger of damage from extreme speed. The inventor proposes to limit the speed of cars still more1 in passing each window to enable persons to enter the cars with safety. This is accomplished by making one revolution of the cranks correspond to the fall of a car from one window to the next, decreasing the Internal diameter of the piston at one end to make the liquid pass more slowly around the piston at that end. As a portion of the cars are always returning to make a new desrent there is no danger of any one being left in a burning building for want of means of escape. The Scissors to unscrew the cover. For Teaching Telegraphy. Here is a simple and yet accurate apiiaratus with the aid of which any industrious child can gain a knowledge of the art of telegiaphy. with practice in receiving as well as sending messages. The chief difficulty to overcome is the training of the ear to catch and distinguisn the length and number of the dots rnd dashes, the Bending of a message being a comparatively easy task. The former method of attaining proficiency in receiving was to have a person send a message after message to the learner, a tiresome process to the sender, as patience Egg-Opene- r. To be extremely technical In describing this invention, it embodies a series of jaws relatively movable toward each other to contact with the shell of an egg simultaneously at different points in a single horizontal plane, whereby a continuous line of fracture is produced. To tell the story in simple form, this has two drawn together the arms contract the handles and carrying three curved plateB. These plates have slots and pins as a connecting medium, and when the handles are drawn together the arms contract the plates. This rauses the pins to slide from the outer ends of the slots to the inner ends, contracting the size of the opening sufficiently to cause the sharp teeth egg-open- ntraction of the Handles Clips the Shell. bite Into the shell and sever it. be practice of striking the shell a larp blow with the knife must If the person were sure of his m and the force of the blow, but it rather unpleasant to rut egg. rough the yolk of a is especially for use with has eggs that this ten designed by lllram S. Dolts of boburn, W. Va. an-v- er half-wa- y soft-boile- d soft-die- d egg-opene- r Pneumatic Canning Device. The principal cause of the spoiling I frait canned for winter use is the Btlon of the air inside, which Induces rmentatlon of the alcohol in the juice the fruit, ultimately passing to the nal stages of decay. By ordinary lelhods of canning it Is almost to exhaust this air entirely, d It Is to aid In this work that the pparatns heie shown has been defied by William H. Fredericks of The Butterflies. Two butterflies cut out of tissue paper fly about as if alive, set in motion by a fan. They light on the fan. play in the air, descend on a flower, in short imitate real butterflies to perfection. All that is needed to make such butterflies is colored tissue paper and a pair of scissors. Fold the paper and cut the shapes of the butterflies bs shown in the circle of our she may escape, if site cun discover them. These are represented by the dotted lines. Find in the dotted linos the exact space taken up by tbe fairys figure and through which site can get out. Houses Built of Grass. The grass houses formerly built hy the Wichita Indians of southern Oklahoma are exceedingly interesting. The grass is gathered early in the spring, when it is yet fresh. The sod cutting usually takes place immediately after a rain, the sod being removed to a thickness of about eight inches. Buffalo grass sod is the only kind that will answer the purpose of the builder. He commences to lay the foundation as does the stonemason, digging away the earth to a depth of about one foot The grass itortlon of the chunks of sod is laid to the outside and the hcAise is built to a height of twelve to fifteen feet, in the form of a pointed dome. There is no hole in out, the latthe top for smoke to ter being carried away through a pipe outside of the but. The door is usually in the south and there are no windows. Through each tuft of sod is run a willow reed string and thesfe strings are bound clear around the structure. The grass remains green and will grow If there is plenty of rain. It is nut at all uncommon to see the sides of these grass houses turn green as spring approaches, just illustration. Fasten the butterflies to as do the pastures near them. The a long hair with the help of a diminu- houses are very warm in winter and tive piece of wax. Tie this hair to an- cool in summer. They never leak. other which is fastened to your head Match Trick. likewise with wax (as shown in illusEighteen matches are needed for this tration. Throw the butterflies in the trick. Assort them in such a way that air with the left hand and move your you have three single ones, three lots fan underneath them to keep them in of two. and three lots of three, septhe air. It Is very amnslng to have a arately on the table. The task is to hunch of artificial flowers on which group the matches in three lines, each the butterflies can alight, only to fly containing three parts, in such a way away at a motion of the fan. that the aggregate sums of all lines. iss Rotary Disks Send the Messages. and perseverance are required in the work. With the new apparatus the learner needs no assistant, simply grinding out his own dots and dashes as fast or slow as may be necessary to correspond with his speed in receiving. The ordinary form of key and sounder are used, being wired to the battery in the usual way. There is also a circluit formed between the sounder and a spring tongue resting on the edge of the rotary disk. In line with the points of the tongue the disk is covered at proper intervals with which projections, break the contact between the tongue and plate, cat Bing the sounder to form the dots and dashes accordingly. The to afford disks are interchangeable greater latitude in practice. Charles E. Kgan of Durham. N. C., is the inventor. Electric Force From the Sun. In the Revue Generate des Sciences M. Nordntann proposes a theory of tho propagation of electric force from the sun into space which is based on the assumption that Hertzian waves are emitted from the surface of our luminary, and that the emission of these electric waves must be particularly intense at epochs of maximum solar activity. M. Nordntann admits that hitherto attempts to discover Hertzian waves in the solar radiation have led to a negative result; lint, in his opinion, this may be explained hy the copious absorption of me elect rir undulations In the higher layers of our atmosphere. On this hypothetical basis the theory attempts an explanation of rometary phenomena. of terrestrial magnetism, and or the luminosity of matter in tho nebulae and in the vicinity of temporary stars. M. Xordmanns paper thus covers the same ground as the previous researches of Professor Arrhenius, lint the distinguished Swedish physicist advocates the theory of corpuscular electric emission, and M. Nord ntann endeavors to show that some grave objections may lie urged against this point of view, and that, on the whole, the cosmlcal phenomena here considered are better explained hy the undulatory electric theory of Maxwell and Hertz, Boston Transcript. The Boys Own Hammock. There are times again and again in dens camp and in the that ltoys love to have, when a place to roost while reading or a place to ont-of-doo- drowse through a day of drizzling rain is in great demand. Generally, just when one most wtntii it the forest branches and twigs are too wet to use for a lied, and. besides, it is too much trouble. Now here is a way to make a really practical hammock that will just fill the lilll. Get several barrels, break them up and remove ail the nails from the staves. r Kore a inch hole in each end of each stave with a heated IKiker. Then lace th!- - rope clothesline is good through the holes. This can be accomplished easily. The stay hlorks at each end of the hammock should be twelve inehes .ong. The hammock can lie made entirely comfortable by placing upon it several couch pillows and covering them with a shawl. IHP three-quarte- horizontal, perpeudirttlar, and diagonal, is six. The illustration shows how the matches must be arranged. Chances in Life. Hundreds of boys in this country are bemoaning their small salaries and lack of opportunities, when they are right in the whirlpool of business or trade, the finest school possible for them. If they would keep Little Girl Trained Fish. their eyes open and their minds alert A pleasing story Is told of a little and learn to see things and absorb girl who lived on the stage road from knowledge they would no sooner comShasta to Yreka, In California. Her plain of no eltanee or say that luck father nad caught several trout, and is against them. They would realize had placed them in a small pond near that they have been set on the road the house. The little girl mde friends to fortune, and that by sturdy trudgwith the fishes by feeding them daily ing they can arrive In triumph at the with crumbs r ' bread. To a strangers goal. O. 8. Marsden in July Success. Boys to-da- BRONCHO HAD TRICK BAD A It Proved Too Much for a Rash Indian. There was a fatnms rat tail broncho pit ked up in Sul st Basin whose his riders trick was to try 11 handy obuealnst trees, rorll. A half struction. .ft his spurB ride him of a tobaewned against leg to death. The animal was eaugbt up. thrown and saddled, and the mounted. liuck? Not a bit of it. Away he went right for the cook tent, aul without the slightest hesitation weijt p,. smash into it. The tent was only a and what would be called rotten. In a trice all was confusion; tent torn in shreds, hissing of steam from, the overturned water on the stove, yelping of the various scalded curs, the followers of the offal pail; yelling of cowboys, each scurrying for his pony, many of which had run away, as bad the pack- mules from the rope corral near the tent, scared like antelope by the squealing and bucking deniou as he plunged altont in wild fury, disabling pans, kettles and tho like. As he emerged from tin debris be set off up the flat at a high run, and Frank, to our horror, hung left foot fast in the stirrup, while at car It jump of that big cayuse he was snapped about like the buck end of a hull whip, now tinder tlte beast 'h forelegs, then at the mercy of his hind legs. As we cached the body nntler sumo stone and earth, says writer in Monthly. ho dead man's brother remarked, while he wiped sonietning from his elteek with It is brawny arm: "Poor boy. he was al a s rash, lie no careful, uud ail for hit u takat-caHalf-Bree- d . half-bree- d ten-ounc- e - s 11 -- . GALLANTRY OF A FRENCHMAN. Count de Rochambeaus Compliment to a Washington Belle. During itis re' cut visit to Washington Comte ib Riieliauil.i'iiu was seated for a short time mu evening on the vetandii'.i of the home of an eminent host, witli whi uu and oilier guests in was holding eotiveri'.alioii, says the Saturday Evening Host. Presently front the house came a i the party of the younger family ami their visitors. Itu w ling a young lady noted in tin capital city for her social gifts and in knowledge of European languages. The host presented them io his guest, paying special distinguished attention, in his introduction, to the young lady i quest ion. As she was on her way with her companions to keep an engagement she delayed but a moment, saying in French as she prepared to go: "Comte de Rochantbeau, you will have to speak to me first when we meet again, for 1 cannot see you here in the dark. Nor can 1, my dear mademoiselle, see you; and hence, he added with characteristic gallantry, "your invitation will now givj me the privilege of bowing to every handsome young laily 1 meet in the city of Washingt ton. uu-n- 1. he-i- f 1 . - -- Kept Awake by Prayer. that's gtxwl and holy on this earth! exclaimed a guest at the St. Charles yesterday morning, rubbing Whom did you have in his eyes. the next room to me last night? What's the matter? inquired Clerk Babbitt, without answering the question. "They came in late and kept it up' for three hours. "Kept what up? "And I never closed my eyes until after 3 o'clock. Here they are. Room 99, them's em. They must be "By all I Hoo-hons- :' The guest's finger rested on the names of two divinity students. "Were they snoring?" inquired tho clerk. "Oh. no, it wasn't that. They were singing, and. now you speak of it, 1 their music guess they interpolated with prayers. "Thats Just what they did, Interpolated another guest, and they kept me awake the greater part of the night, too. They may have made a point in their own souls salvation, but their efforts were not beneficial to mine, as I fear the recording angel has a strong account against me as a':, result of their praise and prayer service." Then the two disconsolate guests joined hands in commiseration anil went to the sample room. Milwaukee Sentinel. Remarkable Filial Love. iR being toiil about M. Captier, the famous Paris sculptor, whose tragic death took piace recently. He wanted a model whose feet were perfect for his statue of "Venus, and experienced great difficulty in getting one. When be did succeed In this he found that the lady could not sit for him, as she was engaged at other studios. She. however, offered to have her feet cut off if M. Captier would buy an annuity for her aged mother. Needless 0 say, the sculptor had to refuse this offer, much lo Fie apparent of the pluck V -- loilei. A remarkable story ref-r- t |