SR NPE A rl o working. It will be a long time to - and is nly fale that you should have Lrecalied to assist In the housework, as] Was despotic among her own class of v| obs who could carry out ber plan of : ‘work as It should be done, and with a asked the “girl” with a look of sur- “Oh, those are imaginary fignres” iwyer, and I advise you to sues {he * ends, and there will be no trouble ing a snug sum of money that ep ¥ou in your old age without the money will Sraw interest. en Mr, ie Muoson expinined that the awned that particnlar piece of alk; that it was defective, cans £ the fall; that be bad secured several family would go Into court and wear to the large bill of hospital ex. penses wen and the valve of her services, took Mary Biske a long time to be Klea into her head. but once it took complete possession of . and the discharged girl bad to be and the kitchen became a scene of wrangling and dizcontent. Mary Blake people, and no wonder; she found no m 1 worth the kes. of thar | INCOMES oF succEssFuL INVENTORS psala Mr. Mubpson, who saw he hed) {made a mistake, “Now, Mary. Lams town for damages. 1 will eandust * who saw her fall. and that] a the gentleman who first thought of placing a rubber tip st the end of | lead pencils made quite $100,000 a yoar worn oy A pay. m— with the city on ber hands she { eas not expected to do more than keep 4 oof affairs. Lawyer Munson won the ease. His wife and daughters were in the wil. | ness box, where the city attorpey lad. gered them nntil they were frantic with rage. The presiding Judge made eyes] © Ist pretty Mery Munson, caving her to blush distressfully. Mary Blake Waa 8% cool and stolid aw If she had 1 spent Ball ber days io courts, anmwer- ing just as her lawyer Instructed her to, and she was accorded half the yom demanded. Mr. Munson had asked for 53000 and she was given $1500 In thirty days after the trial was con- : The money was paid to Mary Blake horselt, #8 the records show. Mr. | | Monson wanted tt settled In that way, 1: and be then gave ber a bil for law ser. vices, never Imagining for a moment Ie would Lave any trouble in getting his pay. Bot Mary Blake liad been rl{ awakening to the value of ber own ser. 10 lees. The Munsons had sald under | oath that she was worth £2 a day to rh Fet they bad pever pald her bur week during her long term of ser e. She had done a Uttle Sguring on unt, and the result was a counter Bill that appalled Mr Munson ¥ its dimensions, minntenesy of Betall nd summing up. He was caught fo 8 re f his wi construgtion. : 6 at once retired from domestic service, leaving the Munson family to et along as best they might She went ne her in sorrow nor anger, but with a determination that brooked no > Jenving Mr. Munson to mourn “Who I shor asked Mrs. Mitnson, Her dsugbter laughed. but would not ell. Mrs. Munson went Into the par lor with a Sompany smile on her face. : Is It possibile? Mary re. Munson tried to keep from Asughing as she shook hands with ber cook. She was rigged out fu a cheap | ik dress, with many flovnces, wore ja fi ther bedecked hat and in mits. too small : a have Known you," said : Them’ % the first pair of Kia beth I #ver had on. apd me workin® and gavin’ all them Years® “They built a monument in New On leans to a woman who never wore a pair of kid gloves” sabd Mes. Munson { gently. : Pd a heap rather be here than atop a any monnyiceat,” answered Mary i Blake, who had ber own Ideas of mor itary art. "I'm enioyin' meselt now | [like other folks, goin’ to the theayter @ ery | night and the & parks every Sun * common sense and her asefnlness. til then we must worry along with § substitutes Mrs. M. I. Rayne, in the Chicago Record: Herald. NA RL 1 vention of Trivialities. Bome of the largest foriunes appear to Bave been derived from the inven. | : added thelr namics to the Het of mil Plleonires because they discoversid | : methods for utilizing that which bad bean thrown away as waste material tion of frivislities and novelties, such ax the once popular toy Known ax years ix sald to bave yielded its paten- “John Gilpin“—enriched its lveky ine Mr. Plimpton, the Inventor of the rojler skate, made $1.000.000 out of his ides, by means of hia simple improvement. the ordinary umbrelia benefited six in ¥acoo proved a loerative livesiment for the caplialists who were able to remunerate the inventor on 8 colossal O00 per annum. : Rir Josiah Mason, the inventor of the hmproved steel pen. made an enor mous fortane, and on his death Eng {1h charities benefited by many man ions of dollars. The patentee of the pen for shading In 4 8erent colors de rived a yearly Income of about $000. Xr from this ingenious contrivance 1 It 18 stated that the wooden ball with {an elastic aftached yielded over £00. O00 a year, Mapy readers will remone ber a legal action which took place BOE years a2o, when in the course of § the evidence it transpired that the ig | ventor of the motal plates ased for pro : tocting the soles and beels of shoes from wear sald 12000000 plates in faz 1879, and In 1887 the number reached a fetal of HAO GON, whieh realized i profits of $1.150.000 for the year. : The lady who invented the modern | baby carriage enriched herself to the extent of $50000, and a young lady living at Port Elizabeth, South Africa. devised the simple tollet requisite Known 8s the “Mary Anderson’ curling - ron from which she derives royalties amonnting to 5500 a year, It was the wile of & clergyman who designed an | Improvement for the corset and made 8 fortune out of it. The giwlet pointed screw, thi idea of 2 Hite girl, brought inventor. Miss Knight. a young lady of exceptional talents, was gifted with be seen by the complicated mechan. ism of her machine for making [iar bage. We are told she refused £50000 for it shortly alter taking out the pats ent.~8clentific American, ARS LA GR SL ER Why One Talesmas Was Seratehed, “good seen and true” selected for jury duty, Only twenty-two snswered t thelr names, and the Sherity tea sommew lat inquiringly at the Judge, bat {the Intter was calmly wiping his glasses while be uttered the costetiary: “Any desiring to be excused from sery. Ice on this jury will pow come for ward” Twenty two men made 8 movement forward, and the clerk stopped in bis work of noting those who Bad failed 10 respond to the summons to look in wonder at the entlwe venire Gesizing Tx eseape. “Well,” said the Judge, speaking to a long thin, nervous looking young man. "why do you wish to be excused» 1 It please your Honor” spswersd the aforesaid thin dividual, “I'd like 10 be excused on secvunt of Hines. I'm suffering from somdithing that might prove embarrassing to the ether in Tors, abd it is certainly embarrassing ES oe. y “What js the nature of your {ness ? asked the Judge. “Well.” sald the young wan, hesita- tingly, "I'd prefer to tell you in pri vate. I'm somewhst delicate about speaking of it in pablie™ “1 enuoot Bear anything in private” | respunded the Judge Impatieatly, “If mg bere and pow what is the matter with you” "Well #1 I must tell it bere—1 have the Moh” “The ich? echoed the Indgs. anal, turning to the chak, without merking bow apropos his observation was. he! sald, “Mr. Jones, seratch the juror of.” -8t, Louis Globe Democrat, Plague of Housewives; Joy of Botanists The housekeeper who finds a layer of gray green mold covering her pre serves wien she removes the Il from the jar is so tar from seeing suything Interesting. much less Lexntitul, in it} that she throws it away fn disgust. But if she would examine it with & mi- Croseope, 89 the botanist does, she would find it & wass of fungous plants, with brupches of delicate, frost like | tracery and as dainty md clean in the midst of decay as sre the [ies in a stugnant swamp, The niold that thus annoys fruit enn hers 3 the most common of the spe cies. If grows in the form of 8 gray | Ish-grevs mat, which gives off a foe dust consisting of milllons of spores thint correspond to the seeds of larger plants. The spores sprout in every direction on the surface on which they Lie. and a little later the sprouts turn | and grow upward -Philadeiphis Ree | $5 Large Fortunes feriesd From the Ine 3 “Dancing Jimerow,” whiely for several toe an annual fnscome of upward of {| $75.000. The sale of Another toy venior to the extent of $100,000 a year as long as it continned to enjoy the unexpected popularity that greeted it when first placed upon the market When Harvey Kennedy lotroduced the shoe lace be made $250.000, snd people by as much as S10.000,000, | The Howard patent for boiling sugar scale. It Is estimated that bis Income averaged between $200,000 and $50. | many millon of dollars to the clever | wonderial mechani! powers. as will | 18 a certain case the Judge ordered | the Sheritl to eall the roll of thirty five Fou want to be excused you aust tell | WLLIONS of BOLLARS oue ouT oF SCRAP PILES. | fommerable Cant OFF Phiege Are Rescued From the Garbage Danipy and Made | Inte Aviicies of Commereisl Yalow Little Wasted in the Industrial World, & One of the Gind-honored Jokes at he | : Chicago Stockyards Ix that every part | (of a ple is saved except its =peal | Meu in the packing business have Great factories ars running the year round in Chicago whose raw material 8 the cast-off staff gathered by scay engers and rag men. Men of selene are ever at work tearing by-products And waste material to pieces to re { group the elements into new material : which bas a commercial or industrial { value. Little Is wasted io the indus. rial world, Ohl iron is worked over into new fros. Liven rags are reinchierated (and live as paper. Woolen mags are shredded ad made loro shoddy. Bones are made Into bone back, fo clarify sugar syrup. Old rualbibers, bits of garden hose, exploded bleyele tires, | and caxt-offs In which rubber Is a pari are made over into pow robber, Warn steel ralls are reralled into lighter sections. OM rasty pipe isi diawa down into bright new pipe. i The tin cans which are gathered ap In alleys and from garbage boxes ape melted down and ast into window gash welghis and counter welghts for bascule bridges : The blood which rans iota the : : TREC ; | Himatier diy and the proces is ool ged until the pipe is down lo the et Haumeter, Then 1h gow pipe | Ci stralghtenad aul is ready for £40 slaughter botke Wolls ls transformed polish, and inte fertilizers. Boys and gil collect cigar sults which are made over ito sinff, smoking tole. | eo siad cigarettes. Rags and old car peta are cut foto sirips and woven inte hapdsome roge. The Het of old cast off things that ave rescued from ash piles and garbage dunips fo be bern Rin cas be extended for columns, and the list would BUver cease grow. Ing, for every day sone new gee for | sone wasted product 8 discovered, There was 3 thine when tops of Blond, fresh from slaughiered cattle, flowed onbesded through the sewern {into buttons, and other articlem peo} f quiring dense bodies sod taking high under the stockyards. Today this Blood is saved pet through several ar Su the for of eases which are sent to sugar regnoties to ausist in elari? ng the sweet Yguor. Some of the processes and comies ont as a fertilizer | Ai3 iid rated in a forsacs. For nisking plow sein the pleces of reall are pissed throush tolls wiih reshape the bead i Fala to wateh the baat rice Knew bandsomiest buttons ween on new dreseds ones PRL BS Warm Yd thromzh the veins of fat steess Heat sud hydraulic pressure are the | agents Which separate the water from | ne ALT RS the albumen in the red fal, asd pre. Toad Iv worked down mre squares, pare the dried blood for the pulveriz. | : pa : F | web Is rolied ddan to hurrew tooth | steel, baby eacridgn sprigg steel light | Ing process which fits It for ude as a fertilizer. After belar boiled down, pressed, crushed and ground to oa in powder, the dried blood is mixed with | GUL an a omoplete fertilimer Many years ago in England a wool famine confronted the weavers, A bright man with a eurryeomb took ade vaniage of the siluailon and started the “shoddy” business. He bought up old blankets, Saunel and old woolen clothing. This old material was emt and torn inte small places, and then stripped into shreds with curryeomba, This process rescived fhe woolen! fable into something akin to ts origh nal elements, wool Shere and the man with ihe curryeomb mised this new Taw material with wools and made a cheap, serviceable cloth. The shears | and carrreombe of the original sholdy : man have long sities passed from use, | for expensive and intricate machinery | : LH fo apened. | He bought eran iron and tin Low is required to make shoddy, There ls shadddy aud shoddy. A man © wlio makes shoddy said there are more than forty different grades and gquall ties of the commodity, and thet many | Kinds of wool cloth in whicn shoddy i | 2 ehuatitent eletoent are tiot cheap. | infer ior fabrics, but are more service : able aml the beter for tha sihoetdy, shoddy {8 a wseful product of waste! material It I never usd alone, but in combination with new woels. The | : : : of dellars are walting to be dug ont woolen rags from which shoddy is made are first thorooghly dusted by machinery before they are sorted. Any ceution whlch may be in (he rags is Bot rid of Ly dipping the rags ia a bolling mixture of sulpburie acid Loug experience bas dmmonstrated the exsot proportion of the acid re quired to eat cut the cotton fhers without destroying the wool. The ef- fect of dipplag the rags ate the water aud acld is to rot the eotton so that the woolen part of the falivte falls to plvies easly. After being dried, the rags are run through a machine that remioves every hut oo dust, leaving the pure, clean wool. The women rags aml cloth are dyed, and then run through a machine whose thousands of steel plus not only shred the rags, but split the threads so that ithe rags which enter the machine leave It in the form of wool fibers The wool is pat through a capling machine, which thorpugbly combs out the woolen particles, mixes them and turns theta out in the form of lang Bully rolls, which are packed fn bales ready to De suipped to the woolen mills, where the shoddy Is mized with | Bew wool the paper will There they are we chanically cleaned and then deftly sorted by girls und woanicn, who throw | DUD every rag that is not luen. The selected rags are cut Into bits by a wachine and then bolled in lime water to remove the colors, after which ther it Is sent to the piper machin fo e | made into fine Huen paper. ae The “old ron” which forma half the Burden of the Mginen's soug i= the asia of a busines whose CoTput ie valved annually in millions of dollars. Evory plece of oll fron. wronght or eet, ronty or clean. ean be uiliteed. The old fast iron is sent to foundries ind paddling fornsces. the old wrogght iron, bara, shewts and plates, 1% ment to the rolling mille. Cast {ron sent to foundries In remseliod with pig iron, and begins 4 pew fe of oseful ess nnder new forms and shapes. The wrought irom goes to the sorap pliew in rolling mill yards, There it ported and cut to convenient lengths, then made up nts “box” plies or fag. ots, heated to a white heat In fur lvaees and ron thepigh the rolls, witch first weld the pleses of row nto # solid billet and thea reduce the billets to bark A profitable business his been found fn the redrawing of old bon pipe and beter tubes. Mont of this waste una: lerial Is thiekly eovered with rust when it arrives ai the factory, and the rust ls removed by the simple prov cess of heating us odd pipe 16 a cherry read and plunging it into water. The sudden contraction loosrps the rust seales and the pipe is sont to the seting farvsee clean and eight. A dpod welding Hegr preparel the pipe for the redrawing provess This cone | sixix jo pulling fie white hot pipe | through a dis. whi pot only reduces {ite diameter Bot rales i oso It ir beated again and drawn through a HiT Rer. ; Seed rails whieh have lest Bats reread amd dartendd hy tw Boge drive ers of eomatived are watid asd re rabid through the Bolshing passes of & rail mil This provess of entree, ricduces the size of the rill but It i tiaews the Ife of the all 4: com | paratively sight ecpense. Old steel ris and the sawai of nis of new shee] palin are mule Its bars. harrow teeth, plow beanie tire. springtatos] | atl other forms pl shapes used by fiakers of agricultural impletaents, wagons sud earriiges. The rails are fut by luge power ledrs inte convenient bagths and aid Banve to the required shape. If it js desired to male Bary ihe places of vail dest pass through the slitting isle, wideh slit the wall into three pieces-the head, web aod flasge. The rounds and other toring of bars: the rinse and spoke sicel: the flange is reiied Gute fads aud sprog weal Thou potash and phosphoric sell asd sent | Mods of tans of old Bessemer steel phospt i radl have bea transferisod into mers cliant steel and aurienitural shapes in the couper district of Montana, strap fron, a waste material, and the waiter. whivh might be called waste materinl. fram a copper mite are hwught together to save ithe copper, which is carried off In the water Nome years ago some Don tools were eft for a time in the strewn of water which slowed from ope of the large copper mines. A niiner passing saw that the ron bad disappeared sud that Capnet had taken itu place, EL Belang a clever mon, he made some | experinients, aml ston satisfied Bim | gebf that thers was a fortune In the wiuter which bad wen reuning away utihesded ever sinde the mine was cans aud placed them in tonks inte wihiteh be ron the wilpr from the mine amd Inn tie the ita, By chedslend ae thom, Meant ihe eoppes which wis afterward refined Railroad companies, large manu fatarers and the "iaptains of indus | Ly” are ever on the lookout for ways | Be bad received only ose vote, his op sud methods fo torn waste material into useful by-products, Portubes are bhikden in garbage boxes and millions of the scrap piles -Maleohn MeDow- ell, in Chicago Ek recur: Herald, Amushient From Precedent. Lincols wan ence rguing a case adiust an oppon il whe tied fo cue pattor to law, acd (hat custhm makes tiungs legal in all cases. Lincoln's | reqily, given io Miss Ida Tarbell's lite! uf the great war esident, was one of his wany «fective analogies lg the fot of a story. Lincoln told the jury that he would | arse the case in the same Wy as hiv opponent. and began: “4d Squire Bagly, from Menard, CCRT lhe ly office one dav and sad: “Lincoln, | want pour advice as a lawyer, Has a nian winat's hee pleted uation of the peave a right to issue a marriage Heese? =f told bhm sor; whiceupon the old squire throw hlnsedf back i hia dlinte very imligeantiy and sakb “rhanwein, 1 thea: vou was a noe ar. Now, Bob Thomas sod ue had at Det on this thing, and wo agreed to it you decide] bat if wis is your opine tut, ¥ doen't wani it fie § Know a than. White woolen rags are sent ts the : decin’ sight bettvr. Uve been a squire shoddy wills, linen rags naturally | €igit years, and bave done i all the start rot the ragan’s stocerools to tae Cierny a caliion Bre Hire times as Big as Devsell, those of France wighs teen tones and Britains aliwiyseven thames bigger than Bensell. ab rE tel Eat Ta hn Seatland has Hue {rcishes witnout papers, | pouesates, OF puklic houses Par Back | in he mountain fantiisses ot Cagayan, in unper Lusen, fu 8 tribe of irreconciinbles kKuown as Kalingas or “Lend huotsrs” from thelr horrible practice of cotiing off the heads of all their priscmers. An interesting sketeh of these bloodihiesty , people Ix com tained (0 a recent account of an x pedition into (heir stronghold under “the Jeadetrhip of Senior Constabulary Taspector Frank Geere, stationes at Tagnegarso, province of Cagayan. “The Kalingas." says Inspector Geere, tyre nou-Christiaus aod vory primitive people. ‘Their intelligence ix of a mite oviter. though they are sharp. #irewd, lithe and sclive They war a dood den! among themselves, They never sleepy at nights in order to guard #gninst attack. Their gnethods of ar. tack dare by stealth. Burling a spear from the lense ‘cogon’ at the umsnss pecting traveler, stepping inte his tracks froin coneealinent in the jungle. and splitting his bead with a ‘pinapar ing or beadax, a weapon with & eon j eave odge and a long hook behind to ad fn cligibing mcantains. The head } of {he viciim is then backed off with thin ax and carried to the village, where It Is placed an a pole planted In the earth, avound which they dance, feasting in thelr houses for nine days “Thelr method of defense is chiefly planting sharpened poisoned stakes in i the trails and gress bordering them, around thidr houses or In other vant age plates. They are sald to some times poleon water, but | do pot be lieve this Is 8 common practice. They take the women and children of their efismies ciptive. They are stalwart, fuely bail men. expert monntsinesrs, apd their ilothes are a gee string and & andy toga. Their arms are barbed Fpears. axes and woolen shields. They cuitivate thee, maize, sweet potatoes, tobueve, abd other produce In swall i quantities, and the wilder ones grow only such proguce as they need for thelr awd sustenance. Those living in proximity to the civilised native are more industrions and less warlike, hav: ing adopted some of their customs, 1hourh nol their religion. These have incurred tlie eumity of the wilder set. tiewents, and are referred to In my report as ‘friendlies "Washington Star. : : An Foglish Legend, The various old legends convected with places are more easily forgotten in London than in the provinces. How miany, for instance, of the erowd that i! swarmed on the banks of Putney aud or recalled the old fairy story whieh docounts fir the naming of these two districts? The story goes that *two Rlautesses Were enh building a ebase) en opposite siden of the river (and there stand, the churches now to give verlpimiliGide to the jegend). Petween them they sonld only nruster one ham mer, so when the Surrey giantess i wished to drive a nail she called 15 Ber friend, “Put it Bigh.” and when tho Middlesex glantess text dealt with wn nall she silouted, * ‘Send it full home” Thes the churches and the districts fae to be known as Fulham and Putney, while the story goes on to tell Bow the Bead of the hammer was ‘broken, so thatthe friends were obliged 10 go in search of a smith, who, being found, gave the name to yet another district—Ham persinith. This is an excellent example of the phonetic method of Interpretation of names which is accountable for many inter. ‘esting legends trawsnitted to us from the past. Koew the Soutes of is Supports, Speaking of campaign deceptions we Are reminded of an elettion bold In a Confederate company during the Ciel War. A rather epotistie momber de Celded tora for a Heutenaney which i wis vacant The member. Shon we will exll Dick, went vo his messsinte, whom we will call Jack, aud ssked his Bein in the election. Jack promised to Work for his friend. and assured him that he could be elected When the ballots wery counted Dick found that postent reesiving all the other votes Cindigoant orer such a defeat Dick ape ‘proacbed Jack and exclaimed: “I thought you were my friend snd you progiised to electioneer for mw Answered Jack, composedly: “I am your friend and I did my level Dest to elevt you. Bur the Boys who prowiised oe that they would vote for you went Vince the jury that precadent fs sue | still id ad best aud pat in ene vote for you” back on towir promises. 1. Bowever, This wade Dick madder than ever. “You've a Hear™ he ered: “i put that vote in mys." Nashville Banner, Rubice in Places of Ashon, “Metals wmiy be breed for tie sala of the heat and Lght they produc, Just as ordinary tuels are barged.” ‘8ald Professor Robertw Austen, in a recent discourse at the Royal 10stit tion, London. But the borning Detalles, he proceeded to show, Re x | from that of ordinary fuels in that the products of combustion are not BRseous but solid. “The burning of | aluminum gives sapphires and rabies is the place of ashes” An instance of® burning Bett for the sake of Uglht is furnished big the “maguesivm star™ 8 euntrivapey by which a shell packed with nr Mgomkimn am! atacled to a parachute s fred clectrically high ia the air. thos pralgcicg en Hhacyian. ton of (he ground beneath at Bight. Klis finds its use fa warfare. Recently altmisury Lis beea found to Oe an adusirable fuel for Iradueing an in- tonse Beat to be used in welding, This kind of wietaiite fuel has assutied mueh industrial importance at Essen, In Germany, where, in Consequence, mealiurgy tiers ea a ew Phase,
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