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INTRICATE AND COSTLY
PROCESS.
Five Hundred Parts
Bieyvele manufacturing depends for
upon skilled Ia-
alone lightly
along lightly
wheel ure
AN
in a Wheosl.
its success chiefly
bor. When you skim
and rapidly on your you
apt to think that it is the strength
he component parts that enables
The strength of the
, element, the putting of
2 far more
that
of t
you to do this.
parcs is
them t
tant
t impor-
1d one requires
in every in-
amount if
\ onstruction
materials themselves but
Probably $15 to $20 will rep-
i of :
Cost
material, The
when you buy a
el you buy the best
nt art
Cost
=O
san
I'here are but few, or possibly
ship can pro-
heir propor-
} They must
isted with tl nicety of a
yeder to get the most out of
sre are oO parts in a bic
y
yr each spoke separately
{ odd miniature steel
The rive
the 150 ane
and t
oo er
42
low safety fac-
for
being
ne Another
C3 be to make
machines. The figure
means that if any parc of
mperfect to the extent
quarter of its calculated
the machine may be crip-
rider may
he demand
1st now is
extre:
jency will
ight
25 above
joel is
one
stren
pled suddenly
have a bad fa
It is d
two yanufa
wheel.
vt
gt
and the
subtful if
| if than one or
turers make the entire
Some of them claim that
they do, however. The fact is that
the tires, the wood rims, the chains
and the saddles, and also the lanterns
are in most instances
cianlists., This cannot well be other-
wise, because the four first mentioned
¢ special Knowledge, being
i » most important elements
all good wheels. There are any
number of tires, but a greatly less
number of rims. The wood rim is
one of the great discoveries. The
wood is preferably white ash or hick-
ory firms use three or four
pieces, giued and pressed together—
laminated is the trade word—and
then curved. The connecting ends
are fastened in various ways. It has
been found that wood rims have more
resiliency--that is, power of resisting
shock—than have steel rims. It took
years to find this out. Now there is
talk of paper rims. But whether
more
made by spe-
equi
Rome
ever made is able to withstand a col=
Jision if it is struzk under speed.
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Suicides of Europe.
Germany leads the suicide lat of
Europe with 2.71 a year out of each
10 000 inhabitants. In the
out of every 10,000. Austrin has
ple, while in her army she has twice
the suicide death rate of any
European country—12. Hi.
The happy inhabitants of
Italy seldom commit suicide.
than one person in every 20,000 Ital-
inns dies in this manner.
of Italy has 4.07 deaths by
out of every 10,000,
Spain and Russia, both
armies and in their civil
the smallest number of deaths from
ide. so it is not therefore
to explain these figures by any
between the la and
suicide
their
have
in
’
1116,
suice possi-
ble
comparisot bin
Slavonic races.
CANARIES FOR CONVICTS.
Michigan Prisoners Keep Them for
Comfort and Profit.
ran State
than
that the
silent with
THE CITY DEPARTMENTS.
Reform Administration.
read the
assed by Jonre
Tuesday, )
Is a speciini
Under
Will the
taxpayers ver
were {
1 On
Carman,
for what?
{isinfectant to disinfect
the whole of Long Island City. Here
are other A. Vaughan,
incidental expanses, £5 60, for
what? Willian E £12.96,
forwhat? M. J. Goldner, sundry ex-
penses, for what? F.H. Batterman,
expenses, #7 for what! All of
these named we believe are drawing
good salaries of the taxpayers.
What right has the taxpayers to
pay for disinfectant for the
City Hall cellars? How long
must the taxpayers stand this,
or in the words of Alderman Melee,
mints an extravagance, And surely
any taxpayer that will glance over
the last batch of bills passed by the
Board of Aldermen must agree with
Alderman Mc(iee's remarks on Mints
extravagance and the loose
thie Department of Public Works is
managed. Well may some make it
their bragzadocio that they have
£25,000, when but only a little over
two years ago they did not have that
many cents.
eloquent orator and brainy man, City
Treasurer Knapp, who said without
fear, '‘there is a day of judgment
specimens
Ntowart,
So)
| few years ago and had to ride on
may have to tell where the fast colt
gimme from and a few more little mat.
| ters the public may ask to know.
Time will tell all and the people will
have to confess they were damnably
fooled in reform administration.
DR. EDWARD BEECHER.
the Great Plymouth Divine.
The Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher was
when he died in his 92nd year. The
venerable clergyman had enjoyed
good health all and sank
gradually into a state of coma, which
continued for ten hours before
death. ns in the case of his m
tinguished brother, Henry
Beecher.
his life
ost dis:
Ward
Fast-
] S013.
and was born at
hampton, 1. I., on Augi
was prepared
his father's care
from Yale in
following years
For
tutor In
at Yale
WAS an
culture
1822
was
Schoo
the fou
he
and
his life he
{ physical
while a
¢riti-
yrs by engaging in
8, and
qurred the
with ul
Neckar River
ties into the R
winding defile
The river abuts =
tain edge there is scarcely
a town
stroteched oun niong one
street. i
strasse, reet,
course, neither wonderful nor beau-
tiful, It is simply a winding road-
way, where one may observe various
phases of German village life. The
shops are nearly ai! located here,
where not only the natives trade,
but where are found all those vari-
ous novelties and souvenirs which
are distinctly of the place, and which
tourists are so addicted to carrying
home with them The other lead-
ing street, and the one most fre-
quented by foreigners, is the s80-
called Anlage, a broad, earth path
beneath a double line of trees, ad-
joining at one end a small park.
This is the aristocratic quarter, where
nearly all the hotels are situated.
In common with all German towns
and cities the soldier life on this
street and elsewhere is very much in
evidence, A regiment, with its
stirring music, goes marching
through the town once or twice a day
to keep alive the martial spirit of
the people, and to impress them
with the power of the Government
room
80 that » houses have been
or Main st which
is,
pretty little towns, such as this is,
perhaps excluded from the military
jurisdiction, where those people
might resort who are not so fond of
the army. The German Government,
however, trusts so little in the innate
goodness and reliability of the in-
dividual that such a course has
never commended itself to it, :
MOCKING BIRDS.
HOW THEY ARE CAUGHT FOR
THE MARKETS.
A Curious Industry Described by
One Who Has Devoted Years >» It.
Methods Employed to Capture the
Singers.
and successful
birds in this
He goes to
The most famous
hunter of mocking
country is John Jacobs
Texans every spring and’ captures
from 2.000 to 3,000: his average for
a season is about 2,500. Long ex-~
perience has made him familiar with
the strange ways of these interesting
y
feathered creatures. Said he yester-
day
A mocking
out a ran
South }
winter on a patch «
yield berries and ot
to ’
The
boundari
Inst
tract
i
ed ¢ white |
geeds upon t
Thus t
own
is vers
ing. hir les or more from any
water; but @ in the
way of moisture is ybtained from the
cactus and other juicy fruits
Some mocking birds are taken
from the but ordinarily they
are captured by means of traps and
decoys. For a decoy I use either a
male or a female mocking bird,
fined in acage. The cage has a trap
attachment. 1 put the cage any-
where in the range of a mocking
bird. He regards the decoy bird ns
an intruder, and marches around the
cage until he finds an entrance. He
walks in for the purpose of attack-
ing the captive bird, and the trap
closes behind him. 1 come along at
my leisure, take out one of the birds
and set the cage in the next range.
It is very ensy. The birds 1 catch
he brat
hey may be said
The
iry, and ¥y«
is 0m
¢ : (313
Arms count
ya will
what they need
nest
con-
|
of no inasmuch
sing.”
use,
CLEARED FOR ACTION.
How the Chinese Vessels Got Ready
for the Yalu Fight.
in an account of the Yalu
fight
Japanese vessels, written for the
Century by Philo MecGiflin, Com.
mander of the Chinese man-of-war
Chen Yuen, the writer says: From
the outbreak of hostilities, officers
and men had worked incessantly to
put our ships into as efficient fight-
ing trim as possible. Profiting by
and Kwang Yih's hapless encounter
with the enemy off Baker Island,
Koren, on July 25, all boats were
left behind, save one six-oared gig
for each vessel. In case of disaster,
quarter was not expected, nor was
surrender contemplated. The fate
of the ship was to be the fate of the
crew. The Tsi Yuen's had
been shattered and set on fire almost
immediately, and had xtin-
guished only after much trouble,
and after they had been rendered
totally unserviceable,
bonts
Deen ©
gun-shields, one
thirty feet
The heavy steel
inch thick and over
diameter, which covered the
pairs of 85.5 centimeter (12.2
Krupps on the ironclads, were also
removed As they revolved with
the guns a shot might easily
them, and, being
out any but light
giles, they would have serve
in
two
inch)
am
man
pass directly over
on when
intercepted by
have penetrated and
filled
flame
meetin
the er
and fr
{ xper ence provi
IL tor
THE OSAGE INDIANS.
A Picture of Them ex
Trader
By an
emarked
| his face
my $0 am inaeed
Here he lai
side and ro
were sures)
My heart is very heavy
uncle,’ 1 said in the tongue
Will he not tell me what has caused
this case of Katy-bar-the.door?’
‘** “Oh, my * said the Osage, ir
accents of weary dejection, ‘I hired
a white man to plow for me, and he
is very wicked. If 1 leave him
a minute he will not plow. So I
must stand by the field in the hot
sun and watch, or nothing will be
done. 1 have been obliged to stay
there all day, that this white mar
should work, and now I fear I shall
die.’
‘“*Of course, my poor overworked
Osage friend did not die. He lay
down on the floor and rested his head
on a sack of coffee. Then I gave
him a stick of cinnamon to chew,
which he denominated ‘big medi-
i y
head ©
lead his
jed his eves, as though
has last appeerance
for my
Usage
son
for
’
“The Osage,’’ continued Mr
husbandman. Wrapped in his red
blanket. he scorns labor, and defies
Were you to offer him his choice
mower and
reaper and a deck of cards he would
reach for the deck of cards.
“Once in three months the Great
Father goes down in his pocket fo
Then it is ‘pay-
ment day.’ But this is pot exactly
largesse on the part of the Great
Father. The fact is, he has in his
he keeps for them. So in this in-
stance it is only the poor Indian re-
colving his own."
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The cattle plague is prevailing in
many parts of Russia.
FASHION NOTES.
Short Jottings of Interest to Our Lady
Readers.
I'he Oriental stripes and cs
Xd
fash are
flowered ribbor
feature of many)
mn
Jiue is
rese
CR
color in millinery and g
Big Fly Wheel of Wire.
Among the most recent and novel
applications of wire, perhaps none has
greater interest to mechanical
world than that presented by the wire
fiy wheel lately erected at the Man.
nesmann Tube Company's Works,
Germany. Heavy fly wheels, driven
at high velocities, obviously present
dangers of breaking asunder from the
great centrifugal force developed. The
wheel at the factory mentioned con-
sists of a cast iron hub or boss, to
which two steel plate disks or checks,
about 20 feet in diameter. are bolted.
The peripheral space between the
disks is filled in with some TO tons
of No. H steel wire, completely wound
round the hub, and the tensile re-
sistance thus obtained is far superiot
to any casting.
This huge fly wheel is driven at a
speed of 240 revolutions per minute,
or a peripheral velocity of about 2 8
miles per minute (250 feet per second,
approximately), which is nearly three
times the average speed of any ex-
press train in the world. The length
of wire upon such a constructed fly
wheel would be about 250 miles. The
use of paper is also regarded with fas
vor as a face for large fly wheels, the
tensile strength of paper being enor
mous, and it is quite possible that
some of the new big fly wheels will
be built up with a paper rim.
the