Show joy enough there s loy enough good people when the furrows feel the frost an the illy s lookin lonesome an the violet s feelen lost when the blue smoke s curlan upward from the cabin on the hill an the heart Is makin music though the bockin birds are there s joy enough good people tor the winter s sweets are sown As thickly as the flowers in the gardens love has known the stars still light the darkness the sunshine crowns the day an we sing the night to morning an we re happy as the may frank L stanton in atlanta Coni titu alon surprises in blowing here is a little experiment that will amuse you take a piece ot wood thick enough to rest on a table in an upright position bore beveral boles of different sizes in it leaving some ot them straight that is ot the same diameter all the way through others you must make of a conical shape by cutting ay some of wood on one side now stand the piece ot wood on a table supported if necessary and suspend before it at a little dis taace on the side of the large end of the conical openings a piece of paper this may be hung from the chandelier but it must be low enough to be opposite to the holes in the wood it you now blow through the straight holes toward the paper it will naturally be blown away from you but blow through the small end of the conical opening and the paper will remain stationary or may even be drawn toward you try it with a candle flame and a similar result will follow the explanation is that when yon blow through the straight hole the air current Is kept together in a col dmn and forces the object away from it when you blow through the small end of the conical hole the air cur rent ts spread or dispersed and goes off around the object leaving it un moed in blowing very hard as for in stance it you should use a bellows or even with the breath blown hard the air back of the wood around the hole Is sometimes blown through the hole too and a return current of air Is thus made to fill the space of that displaced causing the paper or flame to be drawn toward the hole instead of away from it the magic penny get a round wooden or pasteboard box about one inch in depth and line the inside of it with red paper past ing it in neatly and smoothly the box should be of just the right inter nal diameter to allow a coin to fit snugly in it say a penny a nickel alve cent piece or a quarter dollar now paste over one side of the coin some of the paper with which you line the box so that when the coin lies in the bottom of the box it will look like the bottom itself this prepared coin you keep con cealey in your hand having been made ready without the knowledge of the company now let us assume that it Is a pen ny you are going to make use of the prepared one carefully concealed in your hand borrow a penny from someone in the company and then dexterously substituting the prepared one tor the borrowed one put it into the box asking the corn pany to look at you as you do it then put the lid on the box and shake up and down when the move ment of the penny in the box will prove that it is there stop shaking the box and command the penny to leave making a pass or two over the box from side to side and as the penny fits closely it will cot move and there will not therefore be any sound tell the company ohp penny has left the box and may be found in a tain book on the tab e or in any one of the places where you have hidden them in preparing tor the trick while someone Is looking tor the penny you slip the prepared one out of the box and into your pocket and when the box is handed around tor examination it is found empty an aston shing egg take a raw egg and empty it means of pin holes As oon as the inside of it is dry fill it quarter full of alne sand and then with a little wax seal up the holes it now looks like an ordinary egg the next time you have boiled eggs tor breakfast take your prepared egg and substitute it for the one that Is given you then you may safely announce that our egg Is ready to obey your corn you can place it at will in any post alon you desire it will stand on the edge of a knife or on the rim of a glass no matter whether you put it endways or sideways in the last case you will canse more aston ashment because it will seem to trespass against the laws of gravity the only precaution you need observe is to tap the egg gently so as to cause the sand it contains fo settle each time at the bottom and thus it will as sume any position you wish along with the digs william corbett was a man ot irons likes and dislikes he hated tea and potatoes with a hatred that was amusing in its heartiness be cause the potato was cheap and the food ot the poorest of the poor he hated it because it can be raked out ot the ground with the paws and cooked without givans any brou trou ble he hated it we have 1 he said but one step farther to go and that Is to eat ft raw side by side with our bristly fellow creatures who by and by reject it as long as they can get at any species or grain or at any other vegetable lie recollected a time when nobody would eat them but alas and alack even those who raised bread for others to eat did not disdain to feed on potatoes it Is hard to see in what words corbett have expressed hatred of sin or of what was truly hateful savi TO there is reason to believe that up to a point certain animals have some slight notion of numbers even fishes which are not thought to be gifted with much brain power are not with out this sense birds have it to a very small degree for it Is doubtful whether they can go beyond two it two men go nto a hut in the pres ence of a carrion crow and one man comes out and goes away the crow will not stir until the other man also departs on the other hand it three mer hide and two retire the crow will soon appear ignorant of the fact that a third man probably with a gun ig still concealed the wood pigeon Is duller two men will scare it away but should only one of the men depart the bird will speedily resume feeding A young edison harker was the youngest of a host of big brothers and sisters his moth er still regarded him as her baby much to the disgust of harker who was 12 and a boy to the ends of his bristling hair it would have taken harker a good while to convince his mother of his growing brain and body had not a happy chance accomplished this work for him it was the night of the last election when the returns were coming in from all over the country harker s father had arranged to have the returns reach him over the telephone but harker found it was entirely too irk some to stand at the instrument with bis ear glued to the receiver harker conceived a brilliant scheme getting one of yie easiest things in the world to make Is a toy elevator they can be made as high as a table that toys may be lifted from the floor to a table or only a few inches high one thing only it Is necessary to secure and that Is a pair ot smooth sticks on which the elevator may slide these sticks may be purchased at any hard warre store they are called dowels are three feet long and are of different one fourth inch thick is the best size to use the elevator may any small w box whose Is removed one may be made of wood halt an inch thick the right size to make such a box would be four inches high and two inches wide screw four screw eyes into the sides through wh ch the dowels will slide double pointed tacks may be aed if screw eyes are not available after the eyes are screwed in and the two dowels slid in place stand it a stove lid litter he fastened it to the telephone hook the weight of the lifter being sufficient to keep the hook down he could carry his idea into et feet he then took the receiver and disconnected it the phone put ting in its place two pieces of wire of sufficient length to reach from the phone in the hallway to a table in the library to these wires he again con necked the car pieces first tying around it a sort of paper megaphone thus equipped harker drew up a couch by the table removed the etolo litter from the phone and proceeded to get all the election returns in a most restful and satisfactory sats factory fashion harker s father was delighted bis mother was broken hearted she real iced her baby was a big boy and a boy with a future before him vast travels of driftwood all arctic travelers have spoken with surprise of the vast quantities ol 01 driftwood that are to be found in the polar seas recently a swedish botanist went to the polar regions for the sole purpose of studying this and be found that most of the wood in the icy seas comes from the forests of siberia and its drift seems to show that there Is a current that apparently la an arm 0 the gulf stream which flows along thoi arctic shores of siberia however he found woods from nearly all the rest of the world there were woods from trees from the west indies plenty of timber from the forests of the united states and some that came even from hawaii and as tar away as the coast ot lower california and the pacific coast of mexico A window puzzle try your wits on this how can a aindow having a height equal to its width be made twice as large without increasing its height or width tin the triangle shows the first win dow the square the second possible no indeed in fact its very simple in the first instance the window Is diamond shaped in the second simple squared TWO NOVEL HOMEMADE TOYS leave the end ot the pin and bend the hairpin around the dowel two or three times put three screw eyes in the top of the elevator and with a stout linen thread string it up as shown in the picture A derrick may be made out of a few pieces of wood in a comparatively short time the best kind to make Is one about a foot high made of dowels the base of the derrick may be made of one or two pieces of wood so that it will be solid and strong halt inch wood like that found on the side of soap boxes make the best make the base about six by eight inches at one end bore a hole and in it stick a dowel about a foot long cut arother dowel about nine inches long to be aed as a boom to fasten this to the mast Is easy if directions are followed secure a ring and screw such as are used to fasten the strings on roller shades with a hairpin burn a hole in one end of the dowel and screw in fhe ring and screw it this the home made elevator and the derrick complete upright so that the dowels will rest on a baseboard mal e marks where they rest and bore holes to hold them the base may be made of one board about an inch or two half inch boards tt would be about six inches eight inches long the top can be made of one piece about six inches long aad an inch wide be careful to bore the holes in this piece just the right distance apart or the elevator will not slide easily the windlass which Is used to wind up the cords 0 the elevator has two sides made of thin wood three inches long and an inch wide after they have been cut out bold them tightly together and bore a aiole through botha the hole artist be one quarter thick so that adorel can be pushed through the dowel in place then nail both sides to the base of the elevator the crank is a hairpin straighten out a hairpin heat one end and bum a hole through one end the dowel Is not burnt in tho wood might split tie a string from the boom to top of mast in which a small nail has been put in a hole burned in the mast to make the crank shafts and sup ports cut two pieces of wood three inches long and an inch wide hold them together and bore a hole in one end large enough to hold a short length of dowel nail these in place after the dowel has been put in place the crank is made by straightening a hairpin burning a hole with it in one end of the dowel and leaving the end still in the ahle twist it around the dowel and into the form of a crank A brake may be made by screwing a small stick on one side as shown in the picture place a loop over the dowel and fasten the ends on this stick by pressing on this little stick articles may be lowered from a table to a floor as fast as desired A good hook may be made on the end ot the lifting string by bending a hairpin into the correct shape |