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Show vyyjuf OF SCIENTISTS recent inventions and coveries dis- OF IMPORTANCE. TRUTH. A Pneumatic KnVfa. 15 HUMOR OF THE 1)AY. Through its perversion as a weapon of war during the late Cuban conflict nearly every citizen of this country is now familiar with the machete, or knife, which is In com- - Just Engaged, Tool (Why do girls do this sort o thing?) 1 LATEST JESTS EVOLVED BY THE FUNMAKERS. cane-cuttin- g Electrically Driven Clock Which Operates on a New System Pneumatic Knife for Cutting Sugar Cane Cweet Girls Neat Retort to Short-Tempere- d Lover why He Regretted Hearing the Minister Children Have Fun Playing Daniel. Adjustable Lamp Hanger. Adjustable Lamp Hanger. Domestic Point of VL-w-. If there was anything upon which Mrs. Upjohn prided herself it was her coffee. It was always rich, black and lamps, though it is very doubtful if strong, and she trusted the making there is much need for it in that terof it to none but her own fair hands. ritory. The invention consists of a This is why the visiters in the parsprirg roller arranged to raise and from whose presence she had exlor, lower the lamp very much after the cused herself fer a few moments, dismanner in which the ordinary spring tinctly heard through the partly open toller curtain is operated. door the loud, horrified voice of the As shown in the illustration, the kitchen girl: eord is wound on the under roller. Fer goodness sake, taa'am, you're Pneumatic Pressure Drives the Cut- not goin to feed tne company on the ting Knife, mon use in sugar producing countries horrid black stuff you drink yourself, to harvest, the ripe cane and bunch it ire ye? for the crushing mill. In the general Or.e of the Social Troubles. improvement, which is constantly I'm dreadfully worried about Jenin the methods of handling agnie. she said. ile ultural products of all kinds it is he asked. Why? now the turn of th machete to give she's Well, just learning to write, and its Impossible to tell whether the Electrically Driven Clock. round hand, back hand or the angular In an electrically driven clock, the will be fashionable when she is combination with the clock train, of style to come cut in society. two magnets, one of which is a per- ready Indeed, the problems that beset the manent magnet and the other an modern mother are more serious than agnet, the permanent magnet be- careless man realize?. ing adapted to act first upon the train through a limited movement, and the Still a Hoodoo. electro-magnadapted to act at the Imogene Ycu needn't tell me opals bring bad luck. The one in my ring dropped out while I was feeding the chickens in the back yard the other Works Like a Spring Curtain Roller. cirday. A hen gobbled it up. We killed with the connection to the main her, and I not only recovered my opal, cuit through wires leading to posts on but had chicken pie for dinner. the side of the bracket. These posts Belinda Well, it was unlucky for are in direct contact with the plates the chicken, wasn't it? on the end of the roller by means of the two spring tongues secured to the His Little Joke. end of the bracket. The winding deIn to push the missive an effort wound vice consists of a coiled spring of the patent mail one into clear at the end of the upper shaft, which is boxes she had got her fingers caught. geared to the under roller by the He watched her efforts to extricate toothed wheel at the right end of the them.' upper shaft. The winding drum has Beware, he said, of the mailed the usual dogs and notched collar to hand. maintain the lamp in any position, and When she got him home he was sorby throwing the dogs out of action by end of such movement to restore the centrifugal force the springs will re- permanent magnet to the beginning oi ry he had said it. volve the drum and wind up the cord. its working position. Cne Fault Finder Silenced. The device is preferably inclosed in Newton Harrison, New York, is the said the visitor from PhilaYes, a protecting cover, with an opening in nventor. ' your buildings are big delphia, the bottom for the passage of the enough, but the architecture seems so cord, thus making a. neat hanger and The Ice Public and Health. the Supply purposeless so pointless. allowing the lamp to be adjusted at Prof. In pub"Pointless! echoed the New YorkSedgwicks recently any desired height as easily as a winhe on book Huh! Come along and Ill show er. sanitary science dow shade may be raised and lowered. lished The inventor is Henry J. Harrison of summarizes the relations of the ice you our flatiron building! supply to the public health somewhat Juneau. Alaska. The Cycle of the Fashions. as follows: While it is true that some Friend What a perfectly lov. bacteria survive exposure to freezing Some Immense Viaducts. 'ihe viaduct that carries the Chicago temperatures, such conditions, espe- dress you wire lust evening the verj and Northwestern railrcad across the cially if prolonged, are highly unfav- latest Parisian style, too, only received Your dressmakers must valley of the Des Moines river at a orable to bacterial life. Water tends two days ago. Where did you height of 185 feet above the river is to purify itself by freezing, but the be wonderfully quick. A gst it made? 2.G58 feet long. Most of the spans are purification is usually incomplete. Miss Bangupp My grandmother even after 75 feet in length, and four lines of few bacteria may survive found it in my to low temperature. plate girders support the two tracks. long exposure New York Weekly. trunk. old The viaduct terminal of the Chesa- Hence too much reliance must not be peake & Ohio railroad at Richmond, placed on the purification of water by Something Doing. Va., is three and h miles long.. freezing, especially if the ice is artiEo you want to marry Father Stern The highest viaduct- is at' the crossing ficially made. The practical lesson Is of the Kinzua creek by the Erie rail- not to mix ice with food or to put it in my daughter. eh ? Young Man Ycu have said It. road. Its height is 301 and its length drinks. A temperature of between 50 Stern Father Whats your salary? is 2,053 feet. The longest span of any degrees and CO degrees Fahrenheit Is Young Man Oh, Im not particular. simple truss is that over the Ohio sufficiently low to be refreshing, and river at Louisville namely, 546 feet to obtain this degree of cooling it is Just give me a trial for three months, as a The Delaware river bridge on the sufficient to place vessels containing and if I fail to give satisfactionme any you neednt pay Pennsylvania railroad near Philadel- the food, etc., in ordinary cold phia has a span of 533 feet and contains 2,094 tons of steel. , Alaska comes this From method of adjustin the Improvement ing the height of electric incandescent far-awa- y go-o- He (savagely) I no use ar- wasnt His Style of Peaches. said Ascum to Littleton, whom he meets in the market. After Eh? stammered something nice? heilo! n Littleton, blushing guiltily. I Just saw you looking at those peaches. Say, liiey were peaches, werent they? Did you notice the one with the big brown eyes? Philadelphia Press. The Conceited Man. Phyills Harry is the most conceited man I ever met. Maud What makes you think so? Phyllis Why, he first asserts that I am the most adorable woman in the world, the most beautiful, intellectual, and in every respect a paragon, and then he wants me to marry him! electro-m- et great-gvandmothe- Its Pah! guing with a fool. She (sweetly) But with you, dear? The Original Man. Wayning To me there ia cothirg like originality; nothing would give me greater pleasure than to meet an original man. Mr. Ilartless If you had been born a little sooner, Miss Wayning, you would have experienced that pleasure in the society of Adam. Miss Her Unreasonableness Rebuked. Mrs. WiliDling I'm surprised, dinso much at your eating Charles, know are sure to you ner, when you suffer from Indigestion all night Mr. Wibbllng I should think I might be permitted to eat my meal In peace. It is the only time that I enjoy my food. The Reason. rg one-eight- - son-in-la- New Pop Henpeck gretted it New Pop w 1 Henpeck wedding. i1 L Ever hear our minister? Once, and Ive always reTiresome sermon, eh? No. He officiated at my |