SCIENCE AND PROGRESS. J Xew Acetylene Lamp Which M.kn II Own Oh The first patented acetylene lnmp has Just been invented In Franco, says Pop ular Science News. According to Pro fessor Tillmnn, acetylene is one of the knout valuable light Riving emiHtitnents ef common coal gns, bnt it 1" present in urli gas only in very small quiiutity. Prnni n proiwrly Relucted burner its 3snie Ip rmmkeleti nnd emit more light hnn any other gas. -A method of preparing acetylene hnn been developed which render it folly available for illnniiunting purposes. This method consists in heating to gether in an electrio furnuco powdered chalk or lime and mime form of finely ArF.TVI.KNR LAMP. divided carbon. At n very high temper ature calcium carbide is formed. It is composed of five-eighth cnleium and three-oighths carbon. Science News illustrate the lamp and explains that when calcium curhide is thrown Into water donbV; decomposition results, tho calcinm combining with the oxygen of the water und tho carbon uniting "with the hydrogen and forming acetylene, which escapes from tho wa ter with violent ebullition and may be collected in any suitable receiver. The solid calcinm carbide, if kept dry, onu bo handled and transported with per fect safety. The gas is manufactured by simply immersing thevarbido in water. The new lamp consists of n vessel farm ing tbe standard, which is abont two thirds fall of wuter, and of a smaUec glass receiver having a hole in the bot tom stud furnished with a fine glass tube passing through the stopper. In this receiver is suKpowlod a basket of iron wire containing pieces of calcium carbide. When the receiver is immersed in the water, the Utter rises through the hole in the basket. Acetylene forms immediately and is conducted upward to the burner. The Damn is descrilied as pure white, of great brilliuncy, and, when unshaded, alnuMt insupportable to the eye. Acetylene has a peculiar pene trating odor, so that any leakage of the gas wt-uld be immediately detected. rrn irwlra Photography. The things reported from various quarters in connection with the Roent gen rays do not grow less interesting as time passes. On the contrary, they ana more ntmarkable than ever. The New York Journal notes tho claim otf Professor Hummel of the Mary land Normal school that he has secured perfect photographs of hidden objects with die aid of an ordinary horseshoe magnet. Be claims that he secured a perfect photograph of the objects, light and shade included, instead of the rongh ontliue as produced by the X rays proc ess. Professor Hummel says the new photography is not due to cathode rays, but to a new force of magnetio nature, and he calls bis invention maguetogra phy. The New York Herald tolls that Mr. Edison baa obtained a clearly defined radiograph of the human kead, showing its conformation, the position of the ears and the thinness of the hair in spots. In tbe oenter of the plate, near the spots where the eyes were, were found two faint indications that at this point the penetration of the rays was greater than elsewhere. ' One of the results of tbe new photo graphic discovery by Dr. Roentgen is, according to Tbe Herald's European edi tiou, that a letter can be photographed throngb its envelope and tbe oontenta read with as much ease as though the seal bad been broken. This experiment has been successfully made by several members of the staff of Lie Gaulois. This is not possible, however, with all kinds of paper and all kinds of iuk. Several sheets of paper wrapped round the let ter would moke photography very diffi cult, if not impossible. It has been found that a letter wrapped in tin (oil tan not be photographed. Le Temps says tbe Aoademy of Sci ences has been informed that M. tav bon's experiments on the passage of or dinary light through opaqne bodies have been repeated with great success by sev eral other savants, with results in one ease identical if not superior to those obtained by means of tbe Roentgen rays. Lumbar Notes. Improved machinery is decreasing the oost of logging and sawiug lumber. With a steam log loader a Pennsylvania lumberman has, it is claimed, loaded 68 oars with 1,109 heavy hemlock logs in little less than nine hours. Millions of feet of lumber are still floated down the great rivers of Maine to the sawmills, though railway trans portation increases each year. Black spruce is in snob, demand for lumber and palp that tbe temptation if to eat it olotelj. 3 A LONQ BURROW. Tannel of KearljrTwo Mlli Riraratad be Down along the river bank nftcr the water had receded into a tin row chan nel, through which it tumbled i.n.l ed died and belched up groat riii there was left a broad sand flat. This sand flat fell off in broad stepx, In whirl) hero nnd thero were left shallow pools. Big, gnarly stumps of trees, probably grown many miles np the river, hail oc caxionally stranded, after Moating down on the river's surface, nnd gathered piles of driftwood about them. Harrels and boxes of all sorts of strnngo plun der woro to bo found, nnd it is not alto gether unlikely that one, by looking closely, might have found more than one articlo of value. Tho sand bad dried down ns hard and firm as on nny Atlantic beach. It was springy, too, just tho thing fot brick walking. And walking on it wns a loy. There were neither Jostling elbows nor sweet smells nor sounds, just tho gray sky ahovo, the damp wind and the yel low river oor.ing along, a stone's throw away. Traversing this flat was a remarkable little ridge or welt. It started in the sand whore tlm Inst river bank hnd be gun nst beforu the river receded. Above it the grasMM hnng over the five foot bank, nnd towering aloft was a large cottouwood tree, out townirt tho lhe wolt ran straight , )mn brought out in indigo, marine, na llver 1,000 yards r j ,i .,i,,trin tints una in irmvish uioro. then turned west und wound iu a waving Hue np stream. For ueurly two miles it could be followed, weaving hero and then, never disappearing be low the fiuriuce and never changing in appearance, until it suddenly lost itself to another bank of sand against which it had run. It was the burrow of a mole. And who knows but the littlo blind narrower is still working his way through liulf of Clay county to find the end of tho bank. Or maybe ho started upward after 'awhile nnd cnmo out iu the middle of some farmer's frozen gar den, patch or cornfield. Kansas City JSrur. THE MAN OF MODERATE MEANS. How at I.aftt lie Itrcamo a Trne Kxprt In Vntcha on Hlioes. "I thought I was a connoisseur in patches," said the man of moderate means, "for I had four patches on each shoe. I nse-' to laugh us I looked at them and fancy that I might almost call myself an expert. Bnt, alas, us I soon discovered, I was scarcely more than an amateur. "In the course of time a new crack developed in one of my shoes, iu tho up per, crosswise of the shoe and about midway between tho sole and tho top or highest point -of the shoe. At the Name time a patch along the welt ok the same side started loose, and I took the shoe to the shoemaker. He had put other patches on my shoes in the most perfect manner, und he had always treated me when I cnmo for a new patch with the name politeness us though I had come each time for a puir of new shoes. "Ho looked tlv shoe over, und suid he would make one patch to cover both places, the place along the welt and the new crack iu the top. This was obvious ly the thing to do. It would make one patch inMowd of two, and so would look better, and, with its greater area an wider distribution of the wearing strain, it would lut longer than two smaller patches, do he put it on that way ; run uiug along the welt and then making a turn and running up to cover tho crack in the top. "As I looted at the new L shaped patch I realized how limited my pre vious kuouieilgo of patches had been. I had had many patches, but they had been hut commonplace, just plain, ordi nary patches, but as I looked t tho new patch and looking down at my shoes I saw in them (and in the near future, it I would keep them iu repair) tho prospective steed of other putches, al phabetical and geometrical I knew that I was now iu a fair way to become an expert indeed. "New York .Sun. The Caenlng; Fashionable Bonnet. That plaited straw, yellowish in tint, will form the fashionable bonnet there can be no doubt. But the shape selected will depend this season, more than ever before, on thut fancied by tae wearer. Siuce tbe directoire, first empire and Louis XVI styles are all in vogue, with suggestion of the large bonnets fan cied during thoearlypartot thisoentury, and the small bonnets such as were iu vogue among the beauties of tae second empire, it would seem as if every face should be suited. The fact tiiut the stock and the jabot are growing nearei and nearer to the ears means, so say the milliners, the coming In of ribbon ties, and broad oues at that, importers an nounce that the enormous straw hats will be tied by inch wide ribbons under the chiu, while the small bouuets will be pat on securely with three inch wide ties. Ladies' Home Journal. Mr. George Koala's Gem Teat. According to the statement made by Mr. George KuuU, who is an authority on precious stones, one need not take their diamonds to jewelers to find out their worth, bat expose them to sun or electrio light for five minutes, then shut them np iu the hand and go into a dark lloset On opening the band, if the stones let forth a phosphorous light, they are genuine; if not, little more than glass. New York Journal. A Lul Word to tha Lion. Distinguished Naturalist (in Africa) My boy, I guess I'm your breakfast. But juvt wait till you oommeuce to feel the pangs of the dyspepsia I've had for the last 20 years, and you'll wish you had let me alone. Harlem Life. Tbe eartbamlue flower bas for thou sands of years been used to dye fabrics of a yellow color. Tbe mammy cloths found in Egyptian ooffiiis are dyed yel low with this flower. Watermarks were originally used on bank notes as a means of preventing counterfeits. THE HOUSEHOLD. Information hy Tha Itocnrator and Far. Blither For People Ahout to liny Carpftm Many of the new carpets are depend ent for design to a great extent npon the scrolls and tangles and other charm ing conceHs of renaissance fancy. There is no doubt that floriations are tho dom inating fancy in designs rather than ori ental traceries, but the flowers nro not of exaggerated size or in the very viviil colors seen in tho past, bnt appear in proys, clusters nnd festoons of a single kind of nature's coloring slightly toned I down in tint. I One of tho most popular designs scat I ters over a carpet of plain ground color a spray of a single rose or other blossom briiuehed with n few leaves, or n spray of several blossoms with the loaves, the 1 border of the carpet showing festoons of j tho flower which distinguishes the dn ' sign, or a straight garland of flowers of ' magnilled size coursing tbe middle of tho width. Carpets in grounds of delicate neutral tints will hold their own for rooms for ceremonious nse, bnt tho trend of favor is in tho direction of grounds In medi um and deep tones of strong colors. Green is a notable ground color, ap pearing iu several tones of olive, moss nud sage, with jade, and the dark Lin coln tint. Tho blues in carnets have stone blue. Tho reds appear in strong Pompcian, dark Venetian und Indian tints, with Turkey red and vicnx rouge, Mahogany color and other browns nro superseding terra cottu in general favor. Carpets in grounds of the fashionable soft dark olive and moss greens, indigo and marine blues and Venetian or In dian reds, scattered over with sprays of pink or yellow roses, with a border in festoons of roses, are striking and novel in effect, but they are haudsonio nnd at tractive. Varying the enrpots of flowered do sigu, carpets of plain color finished with a floriated border nro in vogne, and still later are borders striped in three tones of solf color, but tho carpets of plain color, readily showing footprints and being ry liable to defacement, clouded and wntered grounds have been evolved, a floriated border lieing the finish. A Flowerpot Cevrr. A dainty trifle, easy to make, is a flowerpot cover, n remarkable design. A strip of silk tho height of t lie pot to be covered, allowing an inch and a half for turnings, will be umled. Sew the twi tides of the strip together, make a narrow hem on cute end nnd a broader one, abont half nn inch deep, on tire other. Run a piece of narrow flat elas tic in tho two hems, gathering the nar rowest one up to fit Ten nd the bottom of j tho pot und the other side, so that it will fit closely round the top. Now cut iu paper wido leaf or don key ear. Lay this pat tern upon u piece sr pieces cf velvet iu darker or can- RF.MOVAIILK FZMWKRPOT COVER. toasting shades to the silk. Younvill probably have some piooes by yon which you oun nse. Cut oat four. Line roar ear with a piece (if stiff maslin uuid then again with the silk. Sew them on to the cover, as shown in the sketch. The sketch given m carried out in uu de nil pongee silk, with ears of olive gaeen velvet. These look extremely punt ty worked round with gold thread an some fancied design. A ptetty cover is also made with the sutra in four differ ent shades of color. A Fair at Hotter. A pair of blotters suggested in Tbe Household afford pleasing models for women who delight in snaking fancy ar ticles. One of those blotters bas a cover of dnll blue undressed leather, with these lines inscribed oa it in gold let ters: E'ea copious Drydon wanted or forgot Tbe last and greatest art, tho art to blot. The other blotter, no leas attractive, baa the cover of tan colored undressed leather. On it, iu quaint letters, appears familiar couplet : Blot oat the false. Blot In the troa. Orate re ea Crackers. Split as many crackers as desired and rpread generously with bntter. Lay on each half cracker as many oysters as it will hold. Salt, spriukle with pepper and a few drops of lemon juice. Cover with the other half oracker and bake in a hot oven until the crackers are brown d. To Cleaa India Hatting. Avoid washing, if possible, but when absolutely necessary use warm soft wa ter with a small quantity of salt dis solved In it (a tablespoonful of salt to a quart of water). This will prevent the matting turning yellow. Never nse soap ; it spoils tha color. How to Boll Kgge. The right way to boil eggs is dot to boil them at all, but to drop them in oold water and place on the stove. When the water bas reached the boiling point, but does not boil, they are ready to eat A.. !D. DcMmior. A. D. Deemer & Go.'s Up-to-Date JlTjTirN"O.L.T)SArIL:LlS, PA. Our increased trade shows not only that we have bought well but that our pat roup appre ciate what we have placed before them for their selection. In thin age it if not sulficient to have one piece or pattern to select from, which means practically no selection, but to have dozens or capes of them. Our Corset Department Is certainly complete. We have exclusive control of the celebrated Langdon As Batchellers, T h o m son's glove-fitting corset. There is something about this corset that when a lady once trier it she will be content with no other. Hut that is not the only good corset we handle. We have a full line of the Schilling Co.'s corset, such as the American Lady, Model Form, Cut-away. This last is a corset espe cially intendd for stout people. We have them iu extra sizes. , Imperial ami Jacknin Corset Waists and, for the warm weather, 'So Cool" nnd "lireeze" Our corset come hi white, creaju, ecru, -drab aii fast black. Ladies' Muslin Underwear We fcave a full line, from tho cheap to tbe high priced, fancy trimmed; something to suit even the most fast idiom In Dress Goods cut patterns, the most exclus ive style;, no two itttern alike. Nor will we duplicate them, eveu if they are good sellers. We take great pride in our Black Dress Goods, from the low priced to the fancy Mohair Crepons. One advantage of buying goods at an up-to-date store like this is that we sell bo much we are compelled to be always buying. Not a day passes but what we are in receipt of goods; so if there is anything new in the market we have it. Call and see our line, A. STORB, i : ! i Silks . j i i I Viv V!i5sfs. dri-Mrit-si.f liinini mrs - ...... ...... - - - n and capes. Such an endless variety, styles and Patterns; Dresden, Persian, China, in fact, all kinds from all countries. Spring Wraps Ladies' Capes, silk, velvet and cloth, plain and fancy trimmed. Infants1 Long Coats and Children's Short Jackets. Ladies' Separate Skirts In plain and fancy Mohair, navy and black Serge. Our Shirtwaists Were made to order. We had them made both with and without detachable col lars. Wash Dress Goods Organdies, Lawns, Dimi ties, Swisses, Ginghams, Seersuckers, all styles, pat terns and quality. We have bought them 'way down and will give you the benefit of our purchase. I D. DEEMER k CO. S. "V. Shick. Lace Curtains Of all kinds and prices; Dot ted Swisses, Tapestry, Chen ille Curtains and Portiers. Shoes This store has the reputa tion of handling the finest line of Shoes in town. Best Quality for the least money. We sell our shoes with a guarantee. Men's 0 Boys' Clothing We have a full line of and are able from out of our stock to fit any size. Men's and Boys' Stiff, Soft, . Felt and Straw Hats. Our Grocery Department Has just been re-stocked with a New and Fresh Line of Eatables. All kinds of country produce taken in ex change. Goods delivered free.
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