1 REFINISH YOUR OWN SILVER. Directions for Doing Plating Without a Battery. Dissolve eight silver quarters J (money) or silver of equivalent j amount in two ounces of nitric acid (strong), and to this add four ounces j of common salt dissolved in as little water as possible. A heavy precipitate j Is silver chloride. Decant the liquid, add more salt solution to see if all the silver has been taken out. Wash the , silver chloride precipitate with wa ter and then dissolve it in a solution j composed of two ounces potassium cy anide and three ounces sodium hypo- j sulphate in six ounces of water. Filter i the solution, if necessary, and make up U> two quarts with pure rain water. You may, by the aid of this mixture, plate all sorts of things as watch j chains, rings, medals, watches, orna- ! ftients, steel, iron and German silver j articles as spoons, spectacles, etc. j Hang the article to be plated, says j Popular Mechanics, in the solu- j tion suspended by a strip of lead or im- ' merse the articles and boil them for 10 to 20 minutes, according to the i thickness of the plating desired. The ■ articles to be plated must be free from | grease, fat and dirt and by this method take a durable and handsome silver plating. FOLDING WASHSTAND. When Not in Use Folds Up Against the Wall. Among recent devices patented is a folding washstand, shown in the illus tration below. The device was de- ! Showing Plan of Bowl. signed principally for use in bath rooms, lavatories, etc., and is shown in position on the wall immediately over the bathtub. When not in use it can be folded against the wall so as to occupy very little space. The wash basin is of the ordinary type, being supported upon brackets, which are pivoted on the wall. A hose is at tached to the spigot for supplying wa ter to the basin. A NEW ANAESTHETIC. Stcvaine Is Its Name and It Produces Temporary Paralysis. Mr. F. W. Malvin, United States con sul at Nottingham, sends to the bu reau of manufactures at Washington some particulars concerning the new anaesthetic, stovaine. It appears that it produces paralysis of the body be low the point of injection and removes all sensation from the limbs, so that it has been found possible to ampu tate a man's leg while the patient re tained consciousness, and could, had ho been allowed to do so, have even witnessed the operation. The patient could feel no pain, and after the opera tion and when sonsation returned ex perienced nothing but the sense of bruising, which is one of the sequels of grave operations. The curious name of the anaesthetic, "stovaine," is due to its discoverer, M. Fourneau. M. Fourneau was anxious to perpetuate his own name in connection with it, but as the anaesthetic was of the na ture of cocaine and no compound re sembling that could be contrived out of "Fourneau," he translated the name into its English equivalent of "stove" and added the necessary termination. Voice Energy. Dr. Marage recently presented be fore the Academy of Medicine at Paris the results of an investigation of the amount of work performed by orators and singers. It appears from his ex periments that a bass voice, in order to produce the same impression upon the ears of hearers in a hall, requires the performance of from 1" to 18 times more work than is required for a barytone or tenor voice. The bass voice is always at a disadvantage with regard to the amount of work it de mands. Thus Dr. Marage finds that whereas men are always more fa tigued than women and children by an equal effort of the voice, men with bass voices suffer the most fatigue. Acorns Bring $4 a Bushel. A Tennessee farmer has been ship ping acorns north for some time, re ceiving as high as $4 a bushel for them. The acorns are used for plant ing. In and Out of New York Harbor. Outside of the steerage, there were 8,957,328 passengers carried in and out New York harbor lust year on steamers. EXPERIMENTS WITH MIRROR. Interesting Phenomena Explained by Gustav Michaud. Ask your friend whether he can de cipher the following sign, which you pretend to have read over tho shop of an Armenian shoemaker. He will probably tell you that he is not conversant with Oriental lan guages. Tell him that the sign i 3 written in good English and, while he smiles incredulously, lay a frameless mirror perpendicularly on the mysteri ous script, right across the quotation marks. The result is shown. Ask your friend to write anything he chooses, with the condition that lis shall see his hand and read the script in the mirror only. With the help of a few books arrange the mirror and the paper as shown herewith. The writer sets at work, but will not probably go farther than the first let ter. His hand seems to be struck IrtlllU. liA ftll/C THC /~inST£o/OL/A ACP/Pr Ci iOi C£ ux'C" tlLui- Script and Translation. with paralysis agitans, and unable to write anything but zigzags. You take his pencil and write rapid ly and correctly in the same condi tions. Your secret can be told in a few words: First, close your eyes; as long as you strive to follow the pencil in the mirror, your efforts to write are vain. Second, write in printed capitals and makf> no attempt to write any thing but the pseudo Armenian sign and a few other sentences which par ticipate of the same characteristic. What is that characteristic? it is not hard to find. Find it. The peculiar inversion of objects viewed in a mirror is of course the cause of the difficulty felt in reading or writing. The writer is left free to write from left to right, but finds that while he is so doing the mirror upsets hiß letters. There is an entirely dis tinct kind of inversion which can bo best observed with the help of a mir ror. The most suitable time for the making of the following experiment is after a meal the menu of which in cluded soft-boiled eggs. Take an egg shell and trim it with scissors so as to reduce it to a half shell. In the hollow bottom rr ighlv draw with your pencil a cross wuh pointed ends. Bore a hole, about the size of a pea, in the center of the cross. Place yourself so as to face a window, the light falling upon your face, not upon the mirror which you hold in one hand. Close one eye. Place the shell between the other eye and the mirror, at a distance of two or three inches from either, the I concavity facing the mirror. Through the hole in the shell look at the mir- A Case of Temporary Illiteracy. ror as if this were fo; distant ob ject. While you are so doing, the con cave shell will suddenly assume a strongly convex appearance. You may then examine it directly in all its parts; no amount of auto-suggestion will allow you to get rid of the illu sion. To destroy it, it becomes neces sary either to open both eyes or to withdraw the shell away from the mirror. The nearer the shell to the 'v An Extraordinary Inversion. mirror and the farther the eye from the shell the more readily comes the illusion. The hole in the shell acts as a diaphragm, and its position, at some distance from the eye, favors the lo calization of the luminous pencils in the crystalline lens. Those which are emitted by the marginal parts of the egg are refracted exclusively by the marginal parts of the crystalline lens. They are more bent and give smaller images than the pencils which are sent by the center of the shell. The decreasing scale of reproduction from the center of (he shell to its periphery offsets the influence of distance on the appearance of images of points situ ated on the anterior or posterior parts of the shell. —Scientific American. Inducing Variety in Expression. "Maude has such a mobile counte nance." "Yes, the auto kind of mobil# face —Haiti more American. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1908 /CM.CT3 r fik WCJES 11= Bill Papke, the western cyclone and present claimant of the middle-weight championship title, is certainly mak ing plenty of money out of the fight ing game, if success sticks to him he ought to come very near having a swell bank roll when he retires from the game. Tiill first began fighting November 20, 1900. Since he has been a professional pugilist he has made $15,500 out of his battles, including the wagers he won on himself. The smallest amount Papke ever received for boxing was $lO. which he got for engaging in a limited round fight with the Mexican Wonder. He made short work of the Mexican Wonder, putting him out in four rounds. This victory gave him confidence, and he started out to make his living as a pugilist. His next battle was with Hed Mor rissey, whom he put away in three rounds. Since then Papke has been going right along the line meeting all the fighters th;\t were willing to take liim on. The largest amount which Papke har, drawn out of a battle was $2,288. He received thin sum for his ten-round fight, with Hugo Kelly, at Milwaukee, which was declared a draw, although the majority oi the spectators and fight critics claimed that Hill should have had the decision. His other fights have netted him from S7OO to SI,OOO for his end. He has also had a few weeks' theatrical en gagement, for which he received SSOO for each week. Besides theso engage ments he has also taken part in three exhibition bouts and got SIOO for each bout. Since Papke began fighting he has only engaged in 26 battles, 18 of which he has won by knockouts, fought four draws and was awarded the decision in four others. Pennsylvania university's intercolleg iate chances were dealt a hard blow the other day when Guy Haskins, the mile champion, was dropped from the dental department of the university. That means that he will not be al lowed to compete for the red and blue. Last year, besides winning the in tercollegiate championship for the sec ond time, he lowered the mile record to 4 minutes 20 3-5 seconds. The for mer mark was held for several years CC/y by Orton of Pennsylvania. In the in tercollegiates last, year Haskins made a wonderful showing, winning not only the mile race, but also the half mile, in 1 minute 57 4-5 seconds. Has kins was also the winner of the in tercollegiate cross-country race last fall at Princeton. The announcement of Haskins' sus pension was made known by the fac ulty committee. It is caused by Has kins tailing to keep up with his work. That "Rube" Waddell did not cost the St. Louis Browns a cent is the word conveyed to a Pittsburg sporting man by a player on the Philadelphia team. The letter says that Connie Mack was so disgusted with Waddell that he determined to get rid of him this year, even if he had to give him away. Mack asked waivers from every club in the league and promptly got them from all except St. Louis. As the club refusing to waive claim must take the player at the waive price, $1,500, that is what "Rube" cost the Browns, and all stories that ho cost SB,OOO are being laughed at by the knowing ones. However, in his tele gram telling McAleer that he was wel come to Waddell, Mack said: "if you take him 1 will forfeit the waive claim." Many circumstances led up to "Rube's" disposal. The other play ers revolted against him and declared they would not play when he was pitching. Not that they had anything against him—they all admired the erratic country boy—but they never knew when he was going to take a trip In a flying machine and spoil all their good work. They had no confidence with him in the box. Consequently, for the good of the cause he was turned over to McAlear. ' TRACK AND FIELD RECORDS BROKEN MARKS ARE BEING CONTINUALLY SMASHED BY THE PRESENT DAY ATHELTES. KRAENZLEIN BEST HURDLER Efforts of Kilpatrick in the Half Mile and Conneff in the Mile Still Re main the Best—Century Dash Joint ly Held by Nine Men —Rose and Sheridan Supreme with Weights. In estimating a season's perform ances on the cinder path and on the field the fact should be borne in mind that many events which were on the regular program years ago are not looked upon as "standard" at the pres ent time, writes Walter Eckersall. Consequently marks made in these events stand because races of such distances are not run at the present time, such as, for instance, the 51- yard dash, 660-yard run, 15-mile run and 200-yard hurdle race. The standard events are the 100, 220-yard dashes, 440, 880, mile and two mile runs, 120 and 220-yard hurdle races, shotput, running high jump, running bior-d jump, polo vault, discus throw and hammer throw. The rec ords in these events have been broken innumerable times, and hardly a meet takes place that one or more of them is not equaled. In the 100-yard dash Dan J. Kelly ran the distance at Spokane, Wash., in 0:09 3-5, but his record was not al lowed on account of a favoring strong wind blowing on his back. The offi cial mark for the century dash to-day is 0:09 4-5, held jointly by J. V. Crura, B. J. Wefers. J. H. Maybury, J. 11. Rush, Clyde Blair, Archie Halin, Dan J. Kelly, A. C. Parsons and N. J. Cart well. In the 220-yard dash there should bo a distinction between a straight away and a curved course. 15. J. Wefers ran the distance straightaway in 0:21 1-5, and on a fifth of a rnilo track he negotiated the distance in 0:21 4-5. On a quarter of a mile track J. H. Maybury went in 0:21 4-5. Around a turn on a one-third mile track P. J. Walsh ran it.in 0:21 3-5, but Dan 5. Kelly went the route around a slight curve in 0:21 1-5. Maxey Long holds the undisputed record in the quarter-mile run, both on the straightaway and around the cir cuit. At Travel's island in 1900 he ran the distance straightaway in 0:47 and around a 352-yard circuit path he made 0:47 4-5. In the half-mile run C. H. Kilpatrick made the phenomenal time of 1:53 2-5 in 1895. This record has not been ap proached, and from the present out look it is not liable to be beaten for some time. Kilpatrick also holds tho ail-American colege record made at Union college. The mile record is held by T. P. Conneff, 4:15 3-5, made at Travers island in 1595. This mark has been approached on a few occasions, but has stood, and it, and that of Kilpat rick's show the superiority of the mid dle and long-distance runners of ten years ago. The two-mile record, 9:27 4-5, is held by Alexander Grant, and was made at Travers island in 1903. There is not a runner at the present time who ap pears capable of beating this mark. Rowe, the Michigan two-miler, de serves commendation for the new college record of 9:34 4-5, set at Franklin field last April. Alfred Schrubb holds the world's two-mile record at 9:09 3-5, made in Glasgow, Scotland, June 11, 1903. The 120-yard hurdle record is held by A. C. Kraenzlein, at :15 1-5, made in Chicago in 1898. The former Penn jumper also holds the American col lege record jointly with S. Chase of Dartmouth and F. G. Moloney of Chi cago, at :15 2-5. Johnny Garrels of Michigan went the distance in:ls 1-5, but his record was not allowed by the conference committee because a strong wind was blowing at his back. The record for the 220-yard low hur dles, which is ten hurdles, each 2 6 inches high, is also held by A. C. Kraenzlein, at :23 3-5. Ho holds the college record for the distance in the same time. This Kraenzlein was a great all-round athlete and held the running broad jump record for a time, and also was a sprinter of ability. In the shotput there is one man who "has it on" all of his rivals, but there is a strong possibility his records will meet the same fate as those of Duffy's. At the present writing Rose is liable to suspension from the A. A. U. on the grounds of professionalism. His shotput record now is 49 feet 7*,4 inches, which beats all his competi tors, with the exception of Wesley W. Coe, by several feet. In case Rose is let out by the A. A. U. the record will fall to Coe, who has a mark of 49 feet 6 inches. G. R. Gray in 1893 put the ball 47 feet, which stood for a num ber of years. In the discus throw, Martin J. Sheri dan holds the undisputed title with a throw of 143 feet 4 inches, made at New York September 9, 1900. in the Olympic games at Athens he threw the missile, free style, 137 feet 1-3 inch. Throwing the 16-pound hammer, in cluding the weight of the head and handle 172 feet 11 inches, was the record at Long Island City in 1904 of John Flanagan. There are many ways of throwing the hammer and a record for ca<Ji, but the above is for the best tlirow to date under th« method almost universally used. A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE PRIZE RING A condensed history of the prize ring championships is given below: 1719 —Fig, who conducted boxing, sword and singlestick contests at. his theater in Oxford road. 1730—Pipes, who was succeeded by Greeting. 1734—George Taylor, champion of England. 1740 —Jack Broughton beat G. Tay lor. 1750 —Jack Slack beat Broughton in Figg's theater. 1700— W. Stevens won from Slack, London. 1761— G. Meggs beat Stevens, Lon don. 1704 W. Darts beat Meggs, Shepton Mallet, England. 1769—Lyons beat Darts; retired aft erward. 1771—Peter Corcoran beat W. Darts, championship, at Epsom race course. 1776—Harry Seller beat P. Corcoran, 38 rounds. 1791—Ben Bryan beat Johnson; re tired afterward. 1792--Dan Mendoza beat W. Wcrr, 300 guineas, 23 rounds. 1795—John Jackson beat Mendoza, gave up title In 1803, and Jim Belcher succeeded him. 1805--Jearce beat Belcher, 500 guineas, 18 rounds. Pearce gavo up title in 1808. 1809—Tom Cribb beat J. Belcher, 35 rounds; held title 15 years. 1824 —Tom Spring beat John Lan gan, afterward retired. 1825—Jim Ward beat T. Cannon, $5,- 000, ten rounds. 1833—Deaf Burke claimed title on Ward's retirement. 1839 W. Thompson (Bendigo) beat Burke. 1841—Ben Caunt beat Nick Ward, 35 rounds. 1845—Bendigo beat Caunt for cham pionship, 93 rounds. 1849—Tass Parker beat Con Par ker, SSOO a side. 1850 Perry (Tipton Slasher) claimed championship. 1851 —Harry Broome beat Perry. 1853—Perry again claims title. 1857—Tom Sayres beat Perry for championship belt: retired 1860. 1860 —Sam Hurst beat I'adock. Both claimed championship. 1861 —Jem Mace beat Hurst, eight rounds. 1862—Mace beat Tom King for championship and belt. 1860 —King beat Mace, but after ward conceded Mace's superiority. 1865—Joe Wormaid beat Marsden for the championship. Mace again claimed the championship belt. 1866 —Jem Mace fought a draw with Joe Goss. FITZ SHOWS KNOCK-OUT PUNCH Ruby Robert Gives Demonstration Much to His Sorrow. Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons is always ready and willing to illustrate before sporting men just how he knocked Jim Corbett out at Carson City with his memorable solar plexus punch. Not so very many years ago his former manager, Percy Williams, now a well known theatrical magnate, asked Fitz to show a number of friends just how Corbett was annihilated. Robert was in fine form then, as he was training for a fight at the time. lie promptly complied with the re quest by calling Reggy Williams, a brother of his manager, to stand up and be a victim. Reggy, however, had been there before and knew the power of the Cornishman's blows, so he was not over-eager to take part in the ex hibition. So he said to Robert: "Wait a minute, Bob, until 1 go and get a stiff bracer, for 1 need courage." "All right," replied Fitzsimmons with a grin, "but hurry." Reggy stepped over to the bar, took a nip, and then, picking up a thick board he slipped it under his vest. Then he came back with the remark: "Go ahead, Hob, but not too hard." Fitz jumped about, feinting and sparring for a few moments, while Wil liams squared off like a real fighter. Then Robert shot out his terrible left and hit the mark with a crash. It sounded like a blow on a board fence with a sledge hammer and, though Williams was knocked down, he jumped up quickly and laughed until his sides shook. Fitz was standing around on one foot, with his left hand under his arm and a look of intense pain on his face. "What's the matter, Hob?" asked Percy Williams, who was next to the trick. "What's the matter?" roared the angry Cornishman. "Why, me bloom ing 'and is smashed! That funny brother of yours 'as a sheet of iron under his vest!" Fitz was a mark then for a lot of guying, but the joke was a serious one, for his left hand was in poultices for six weeks. Wabash May Lose Cayou. Students at Wabash college are ma king a strong effort to keep Francis M. Cayou athletic director at that in stitution, it being his intention to leave fit the close of the present school year. Cayou, who is a famous Carlisle In dian athlete, has brought Wabash to a high place in the matter of athletics, and his loss will be a severe blow to that institution. 1807 —Joe Wormaid claimed cham pionship belt on forfeit from 10. Bald win, who failed to appear at the ring. 1867 —Jem Mace fought a draw with E. Baldwin, and the championship belt was held in abeyance. 18G8—Joe Wormaid battled for the championship to a draw with K. Bald win in America. 18G9 —McCoole won the champion ship of the world from T. Allen in America. 1870—Jem Mace beat T. Allen in America for the title. 1872 —Jem Mace fought a draw with J. Coburn for the championship. 1882 —John L. Sullivan beat Paddy Ryan in nine rounds at Mississippi City, Miss., for championship of America. 1885—Jem Smith defeated Jack Davis for championship of England. 1887 —Jake Kilrain fought Jem Smith a draw for the championship of the world; belt offered by the Police Gazette and SIO,OOO. 1888—John L. Sullivan and Charley Mitchell fought round draw at Chantilly, France. ISS9—John Li. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain for the belt and j 10,000 a side at Richburg, Mius., Jul.. 3, in a notable contest. 1889 —Jem Smith battled with Fraul| P. Slavin for the championship << England, Dec. 13, at Bruges, it was a draw. 1891—Robert Fitzsimmons beat .lark Dempsey for the middleweight cham pionship of the world at. New Orleans, Jan. 14. The contest lasted 13 rounds. 1891 —James J. Corbett fought Peter I Jackson to a draw at San Francisco May 21. "No contest," was the de cision of the releree. 1892—James J. Corbett defeated John L. Sullivan for the championship of America in 21 rounds at New Or leans, Sept. 7. The purse was $25,000 and the stake $20,000, being a total of $45,000, the largest amount ever fough; for. 1894—James J. Corbett beat Charley Mitchell of England in three rounds at Jacksonville, Fla., .Tan. 25. 1897—Robert Fitzsimmons beat James J. Corbett for the championship of the world in 14 rounds at Carson City, Nev., March 17. 1899 —James J. Jeffries beat Robert Fitzsimmons for the championship of the world in 11 rounds at New York city. 1907—Tommy Burns defeated Jark O'Brien in 20 rounds at Los Angeles, May 8. Tommy Burns defeated Bill Squires of Australia in one round at Frisco, July 4. Tommy Burns defeated Gunner Moir of England for the world's champion ship Dec. 2 at London, England. M'GRAW SHOWS JUDGMENT Scores Two Runs on a Single and a Pass Through Quick Thinking. "I will never forget a game I played when I was with the Baltimore club, and how two runs were made on a. base on balls and a single," said Man ager McGraw of the Giants the other day. Matty, Dan Brouthers, the office boy and Fred Knowles pulled around their chairs to listen. "I led off," con tinued Muggsy, "and Willie Keeler fol lowed me at the bat. 1 got a base on balls. Keeler came up and pulled over in right field for a base hit. "One Bill Joyce was playing right field at that time. He had me figured to slow up at second base on the hit, but 1 put one over on Joyce and kept ongoing. Joyce got the hit on tlio first bound, playing it safe, and, just as I expected, lie lobbed it in. When I was sliding for third base the third sacker was looking all around for me, and I got up and kept ongoing. "Duke Parrel was catching, and 1 slid around the Duke. By (he time the Duke got his hearings Keeler was right on top of me. Bill was the run ner up all the way. The crowd liked the way we pulled off the unexpected. Of course we had the dope right after Keeler made the hit. They laid for us in every game after that." Then Dan Brouthers got busy and toW how McGraw saved his team from defeat twice during a game with the Chicago team and then won out in the tenth inning. WINTER BASEBALL NOTES. Pitcher Lakoff, late of Detroit, has been sold to the Portland club of tha Pacific Coast league. President Dovey has decided that ho will not retain Knotts, Sline, Frock, Bushee and Barberich. Roosevelt is the name of a pitcher in the Northwest league. He is quite a twirler, they say, but he doesn't wield a big stick. Of course his front name is Teddy. Pop will be sold as usual on the big league grounds this season, but woe to the unfortunate who leaves the bottle around promiscuously. The commission has voted to fine tho club that fails to push the offender's prosecution. William J. Delelianty, the youngest member of the famous baseball fam ily, has been sold to the Wilkesbarre team of the New York State league. Ho jumped the O. and P. league last season. This year he will play third base iu place of Zimiucrmun, who waa sold to Chicago. 13
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