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Show Ihoaa With I'aaomallo Nolat. It Is not a Yankee but an Italian Inventor, In-ventor, Blgnor Pablo,who has designed an Ingenious sole for men's shoes, on tho pneumatic principle. Under the ball of the foot and attached to the solo Is placed a tube of India rubber, somewhat some-what stiff. In horse-shoe shape, with three openings, ono at each end and one In the middle. Those openings connect with tho outside air by means of a channel leading from tho horseshoe horse-shoe tube to the heel. When the foot Is lifted, as In marching, the tube fills with nlr and when It Is placed on the ground It rests on a species ot air cushion. This furnishes a diminution of shock and thus a porceptlhle relief from tho fatigue of a long manb. In England they have for some time mado pneumatic boots for runners on a race track, At the tip of the boot Is the air chamber, and tho foot rsU on a sack nbovo. |