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Show i IIUMOR OF THE DAY. Success of Electric 1 a The ele. .ric railway is to service for mankind as notable and perhaps ultimately as great as that rendered by its steam operated predecessor, says George H. Gibson in EnAlready It handles the gineering. bulk of suburban and short distance interurban passenger traffic; it carries freight, mail, express and baggage; it operates at speeds reaching sixty miles per hour; its cars are operated on time schedules and dispatched by telephone; its roadbed is often as expensive and heavy of construction as taat of the best steam lines; and, what is more interesting to the investor, it pays large dividends. At the present time $1,600,000,000 are nominally invested in electric roads in the United States, and upon this sum are paid in yearly dividends; 300,000 employes receive yearly in wages $250,000,000, and there are miles of track, on which 60,000 cars are run. In 1899 ten miles of electric road were built for every mile of steam road constructed. Still, it cannot be said that the electric roads have achieved their great success in competition with steam roads. They have opened a field of development which does not compete with, and was not open to steam. The peculiar advantages of the electric system of traction are frequent service, flexibility, convenient location, clean, light and airy cars and low fares. Of these, probably the mint important are loca-tinand the ability to maintain a frequent serviie with small units. By these means electric reads have succeeded where traffic did not previously exist and ronld not have been produced by steam roads. and With oil to prevent evaporation. The 'lower pot or tub is also carefully covered for the same reason, leaving nothing but the plant iaelf exposed to the air. As this evaporates its moisture through its stem and leaves, it necessarily grows lighter, and the air chamber below forces it to rise This dehigher above the water. of The lever. the the presses point actual vertical movement la, of course, small, but it can be multiplied to any extent desired simply by lengthening the lever arm. The diameter of the rod being known, a simple calculation gives the amount evaporated by the plant in hours. Comparative testa twenty-fou- r show which plants evaporate the least, thus enabling one essential for life in arid climes to be determined in a very short time. wAT.ST JESTS EVOLVED BY THE FUNMAKERS. Sweet Girl's Neat Reta.-- t to Lover Why Ho Regretted Hearing the Minister Children Have Fun Playing Daniel. Chet-Tempere- d MOTHER'S BIBLE. MY Tho' relentless time has faded. with rust; And the claspe are tlngt-Tho' the leaves are worn and yellow And Ito gilding dimmed with duet. Tie as sacred and aa holy Aa the night she placed it therc With a bleasing for Its gnldaiu-And a softly muttered prayer. e 'Tie a relic fraught with sadness For my heart, but yet 1 see In its dim, discolored pages Solace that was nuant for me. TC AID IN that mother spirit Lowering gently, hovering near. And in sacred language whispered All lie sweet truths in my ear. Yea. it aenned There it Ilea, where last alie laid it; Years have come anil flown since then. Memory's sadness fell and lingered Hy ita truths dispelled again. 'Tis the same tieloved lllble That she cherished; It can All All the sad hours with i;s halo And bring comfort to me still. NUT-PICKIN- G Domestic Point of Vicv. If there was anything upon which Mrs. Upjohn prided herself it was her coffee. It was always rich, black and strong, and rite trusted the making of it to none but her own fair hands. This is why the visitors in the parlor, from whose presence she had excused herself for a few moments, distinctly heard through the partly open door the loud, horrlfb I voice of the kitchen girl: "Fer goodness sake, mt'am. yuTe not goin' to feed the company on the horrid black stuff you drink yourself, are ye?" It will not be very lurg before the bore a hole with an auger at leant an will send all the boys to the inch in diameter, and deep enough to frosts Hairs of Animals. Just Engaged, Too! neareat nut treea, while nearly ail the rortain the lead. You must also get a foot of rod alxiut a iron do long home at are piece girls do this sort o' thing?) mothers (Why worrying boya' for fear Johnny, Willie or Robbie is and a quarter of an inch thick from the blacksmith. 1 ell him to bend one Qfj end in an eye, like drawing. As Boon as you have poured all the lead in the hole you bored in the block, stick thu atraigat end of the iron rod in the molten lead and hod it until the metal hardens. Split the block and take out the load. !ay it on an Heading from left to right, the hairs arc of a bat. mouse, sable, aud man, anvil or Btone, and with a hammer all highly magnified. pound it until it looks like an egg in shape. After fastening your cord to Increase of Mechanical Power. the eye in the rod you are ready to use In 1830 the total horse power of the queer looking thing. steam pngincs in the United States Take firm hold of the rod near the was about 200,000; in 1900 It was eye, and give it a toss, so as to land it over tne branch you wish to shake. 20.0oo.oou, an increase of 10,000 per cent. The total motive power, exIf you throw it properly the heavy lead clusive of hydraulic motors, Increased will soar over the branch, and as you in the seventy years from 1,900,000 to hold the other end of the line in your 3fi.000.ooo horse power. The increase aud of trees left hand, you can take hold of the out breaking tumbling Pah! It's no use arHe (savagely) or ixipulation in this interval was 493 various bones. Now all this worry lea led end as it comes down and Electric Fire Engine. The General Electric company, eays per cent. In 1830 the horse power per can be avoided if you will Induce shake the limb to your heart's conguing with a fool. She tsweetly) Hut I wasn't tent. If the frost has been a heavy Electricity, has offered to furnish the inhabitant was 0.15 and 0.7 horse pow- mother to buy 200 feet of stout line. 1880 horse electhe new with you, dear? 1900. Since a in after with find er little difficulty, Get at least a pound of lead and one you will city of Schenectady tric fire engine. If the offer Is ac- power of locomotives alone has in- melt It in a ladle. While the lead Is practice, in cleaning an entire tree One of the Social Troubles. cepted this will be one of the first creased 128 per cent., while the popu- melting get a thick block of wood and without going up at all. cent. 52 Tae Tm with be increased to world lation only dreadfully worried about Jen per cities in the equipped nip," she said. an electric fire engine. The engine is total wealth of the country in this Why? he asked. to be twelve feet long, thirty inches interval has increased prodigiously, MAKE A LOOP-THE-LOO- P 1830 the 900. In she's just learning to write, will and Well, the inches wide and thirty percentage being high, to tell whether the was about $365, will and inhabitant it's The ton. wealth a about Impossible engine per weigh This little apparatus illustrates the row strip of paper on each side. The round hand, back hand or the angular be provided with a cable that will and in 1900 $1,200. It must be noted, and spool may be replaced by a little of centriiugal force, will be fashionable when she is aliow it to be attached to a socket however, that the wealth per inhabi- principle not wagon in which any small objects may style to come out' in does trick the shows cyclist cent why 100 per society. on a pole not more than 200 yards tant, which increased ready wnen he reaches the top of his be laid loosely. Not only will the beset the that the Indeed, from the fire. The electric power thus from 1850 to 1870. increased but 31 fall problems A long strip of cardmodern mother are more serious than received will be used to operate the per cent from 1880 to 1900. Since inverted path. board la bent into a loop and its ends careless man realises. pump, which has a rapacity of 1,500 1853 the urban wealth began notably are fastened to two supports, one of the wealth. rural of to exceed the The advantages gallons a minute. a few inches higher than the His Rights. this engine are that it can be operated former constitutes 75 per cent of the which is bottles of different heights Two other. two 1860 constituted In a steam wages at less expense than engine, total. Say, yelled old Hunks to the you!" form convenient supports. If a spool of total cent and the wealth, a to draw and "Take your beastly one half next horse door. it, but per boy requires shorter than the width of the cardwhile they make seven per cent You're flying it over my needs but one man to operate it kite away! The average wages of workmen have board is placed rarefully upon It at house." increased from $300 per year in 1860 the higher end and let go It will roll To Test Value of Plants. 'I)o you own the atmosphere above off and around the loop without falling Few people know how many Ingeni- to $675 to 1900. house? demanded the Ixiy. your A Spool Looping the Loop, go on the top of the small bottle. To ous devices are continually being in"No, you young hrascal!" snorted prevent the spool running off the wagon not fail in going around the Valuable Fire Fighting Machine. vented to meet the especial needs of "I don't own any of the old Hunks. not tho but the bend to fastened, is advisable load, though track it loop, up workers in all fields devices that are I owns Springfield. Mass., has a fire engine the spars but atmosphere, of the cardboard cr paste a nar will not fall out. seldom used outside the places where trolley truck, which can le loaded In edges alxne my lmusc. all the way up." they are contrived, despite their avail- two and a quarter minutes, and on ability for extended use. Among the which electricity carries the engine Still a Hoodoo. moBt prolific in these things are the to the scene of the flames at a breathYou neednt tell me opals Imogene scientific laboratories of the govern- taking rate of speed, if car tracks run had luck. The one in my ring bring ment in Washington, says Crittenden that way. It is especially designed for dropped out while I was feeding the going to fires in the suburbs or In Marriott, in Popular Science News. chickens In the Imck yard the other An instance has just occurred in the neighboring small towns, which are day. A hen gobbled it up. We killed horticultural section of the Agricul- obliged in case of great fires to call her. and I not only recovered my opal, tural Department, where it was de- iixni the city for assistance. The but had chicken pie for dinner. r'9 sired to rontrive some apparatus truck is built so that it can be easily Belinda Well. It was unlucky for whereby it rould be speedilv ascer- operated hy an electric motor attachthe chicken, wasn't it? tained whether or not a particular ed to the axle of the truck, or can lie plant would probably prove adapted drawn by a trolley car or snow His Little Joke. to growing uniler arid land conditions, plough. The invention consists of to push the missive In an effort which our country then was unfortuSheridan's West Point Shoes. without going through the long process two trucks, on which are placed Iron Into one of the patent mail clear To better their fortunes, Philip nately waging with Mexico. Tales of The question platforms. To tills rear truck Is atof actual field trials. her flngera caught. she had boxes got exmoved so from Interested and west Sheridan's service connects which the military parents was to deviBe something that would tached a platform to extricate efforts watched He her quickly measure the amount of evapo- two trucks, and upon which the fire Albany, N. Y., the year after Sheridan cited the young bookkeeper that he them. 1832 a to in in to conceived and West the go great desire ration of any given plant. The prob- - engine is carried. The length over was born tbat is, "Beware," he said, "of the mailed To be a cadet became his wholesome country air of Ohio the fu- Point. the platform railing is twenty-eigh- t hand. feet eight inches; the extreme length ture general grew strong and ath- great ambition. When she got him home he was sor from edge of footlxiard to fender is letic. One day he happened to hear that ry be had said it. When Sheridan was 14 years old. the boy whom the district Congressthirty feet teu and a half Inches. a In store. he became clerk country man appointed had failed to pass his The Reason. His services were bargained for at examinations. Sheridan at once Dwellers in the Amoor Valley. Th condition or the inhabitants of thought he might stand a chanre of the Amoor valley deserves the esobtaining his wish. He wrote the Repon resentative and asked him for the appecial attention of ethnologists most account of t lie contradictions between pointment. The answer was the ciiKionix which there obtain in pleasing and substantial a warrant for the class of 1848. practical, intellectual, social and reThe life. indigenous people ligious But months of zealous study must aie fishermen, the hunters are Intervene. And in addition there was flnQi the herdsmen are Mongols, and the getting of the required outfit. It the villagers are Chinese or Coreans. it here the matter of the shoes stepped lire rood, clothing, The tnateiial in. house '.told goods: the intellectual life The specifications read that a pair language, writing, literature; the of "Monroe shoes" was necessary. cussocial life Idrth and marriage What were Monroe shoes"? In Ohio toms. education, property relations, at that time Monroe shoes were not Dtvics for Testing Evaporative Rate funerals: are all In complete logical known, could not he found. Not a of Plante. cnnliadii-tioiiThere are few parts of shoemaker could tell, not a merchant. hortilem was solved by I,. Corbett, the world that afford such opport unNo Intelligence could be had of this culturist of the department. The ap- ities for the study of the influence of requirement for the outfit of a young It consists of the different culture conditions upon paratus used is simple. Not a Shoemaker Knew, candidate fur examination. New Pop Ever hear our minister? two cylindrical cans, one inside the one another. the rate of $24 a year that le, at Meanwhile 8heridan was studying Henpeck Once, and I've always reother, with a water jacket between, about 47 cents a week. After a year's with all his New Method of Steering. to kpep the temperature uniform. The might and passing sleep- gretted it. An English New Pop' Tiresome sermon, eh? engineer's plan for experience and gain the boy was less nights, and not the least of his Inner can is also partly filled with steamers consists called to another counter at the sal- worries were the ''Monroe shoes." At Henpeck No. He officiated at my water, on which rests a float, through steering of $60 a year. And still later he a member of the family found in which a slender rod runs freely. Above of a special throttle valve attached ary last wedding. was made bookkeeper at double hla Baltimore the water this rod siipixirts a rest on to each set of engines, the valves that this name was given a extraor-dinan was Thia second salary. to a tiller h.v bell Is plaeed a sit nr tub containIng sort of footgear very familiar, but Playing "Daniel." v case and an unusual advance work. ami When link the i cranks in Mother it Below in Ohio name. Why, children, a hats all the known another question. plant by ing A tiller is moved either way from its for a Imy so young. this anise about? terminates in an air chamber. hiring these years in a store SheriLittle Freddy We've bad grandpa lever arm extends from sotm- plae on central position one throttle valve Mines in South Africa. dan's Imp of knowledge had led him of set. its of and It to far outside, where is placed a tab-- j reduces the steam Uncle Henry locked in the cti and interest The mines of South Africa give on which any motion it inav make glnes. diminishing the speed of its to constant good reading for an hour, an' when they get a hoard n fin.iimi and To.ouo One ques-- i work to hewc.-of the day. I'm going to play going is traced by a p.- '1 The float and serew to a degree varying with that in questions little aitRrlcr war men. on much discussed was the Into the Huns cage. 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