FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED BVKBT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET AIIOVE CENTRE. SCBSCUII'TION KATES. Ono Year.... gl 50 Six Months 75 Four Mouths 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name oil the labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on tho books 111 this oiHco. For instance: Grover Cleveland 2SJune!>s means that Grover Is paid up to June 28,1505. Koep the figures In advance of the present date, lieport promptly to this ofilcc when your |iuier Is not received. All arrearages must 1 paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will be made In the manner provided by law. FREELAND, PA., JULY 5, 1894. W hat has Congressman ./fines erer done to deserre a rcnomina tlon from the Democratic party ' There is a movement iti Chicago to have Sunday services in tho various theatres, especially lectures with a stereoptieon ou tho life of Christ, and prominent persons are considering topics along this lino. A special list of slides is to be prepared by the St. Andrew Brotherhood. The object of this is to gather the large number of people who ou Sunday will not go to church, but aro ready to enter a theatre. * Senator Brice, who is chairman of the senate committee ou Pacific Bail roads, has a treat in store for the members of that committee, which will combine pleasure with the accu mulation of useful knowledge of the property with which tho committee has to deal. As soon as congress a 'journs ho will take the committee in his private car on a tour over the entire Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. <iet-rich quick schemes continue to flood tho land. Fortunes are oilered people for nothing." The names of men prominent in church and Btate are published as directors used as decoy ducks to draw in tho unsus pecting. On every hand are trans parent frauds-—offers to make you rich for a few dollars, land that will quadruple in a year and so-called benevolent societies that will in a few years give you SI,OOO for about SOOO. and meanwhile take care of you in sickness. The American people love to lie humbugged and schemes that would pay a legitimate interest often fall through, while the fraud gets the crowd. Never before have the colleges and universities sent forth so many gradu - ates into the land as in the month just closed: and it is significant in a time when the country is slowly emerging from a prolonged and severe period of financial depression. The public has been educated up to the truth that college training is not a luxury for the few, but an opportunity for the many. Intellectual culture has its utilitarian value and as an investment is worth far more than its costs. That is the economic side of the question as seen from the individual standpoint: and the t "uth becomes oven more conspicu ous if the question be viewed from the standpoint of social welfare. Pkila. Record. A "Washington telegram to tl e Philadelphia Times tells that Con gressman F.rdman said: "I do net think that the full significance of the nomination of Singorly is appreciated by tho Democratic party in Pennsyl vania. There is plenty of time be tween now and election day for groat advauces to be made. Business is already reviving, and if it continui s to increase, the number of Democratic votes on election day will lie greater j than is anticipated by tho general public today. Mr. Singerly will un-1 doubtedly poll a larger vote in tho j city of Philadelphia than any Demo- j cratic candidate lias received for a j number of years. I anticipate a J sharp and earnest campaign and I shall not be surprised if Mr. Singerly should bo elected." During tho recent labor troubles ' in this and other states the militia ' has been frequently called upon ami troops are generally furnished when corporations make their request. To this uo ono can make much objection, : as it is done through tho county sheriffs and is fully covered by tie law, and the men themselves know j such may be a part of their duty b< - fore they enlist. It is time, however, ; that a stop is put to the national j guard acting as workmen whenever a strike occurs. It has been done re peatedly during tho late miners' strike, and if tho state pays them for pumping water, running ears, etc., as ; as was done in Jefferson county, a j change is needed. The militia of'the present day is, as a general rule, a j crowd of country jays or city dudes who would willingly sacrifice their j lives for the privilege of wearing brass buttons and uniforms, and the money appropriated to them is notli ing more than an annual donation to the corporations of the state. Thoy resemblo soldiers as nearly as mon keys can resemble men. I | LINE-CARRYING KITES. Possibilities Fcuud by a Scientist in an Old Toy. It In Made to Carry Life Lines to Wrecked Vessels and Harnessed So That It Can Haul a Wagon and a Fair-Sized Boat. What can be done with a kite in car i Tying lines and buoys to wrecked ves -1 sols has been the subject of a good deal } of study by J. Woodbrklge Duvis for 1 several years, and he gives a short ac count of his methods in the Engineer j lng Magazine. j The patient investigator preferred the hexagonal shape at first for the purpose in question, because it gives a wider expanse for the length of rib; but as sharper points render the kite steadier and the covering material stretches tighter with a starform, he now adopts the latter and obtains it by drawing in at the middle of each span the cord which goes around the sticks. To each of the six ribs he attaches a string, and the three on its right hand side arc united by ono metallic eyelet and the three on the left by another, and to these two bridles are attached his flying cords or reins. For a tail he uses four or five one hundred-foot lengths of clothesline side by side. The kite itself is about seven feet across and so made as to fold up for easy transportation. To get a fabric that would undego this manipulation, be waterproof and windproof and not bo too heavy, required a good deal of ex periment, but at last the problem was solved, although Mr. Davis does not tell cxactty how he did It. One of the most interesting, if not original, features of this business is the way in which, by letting out one of the two flying lines a little further than the other, the kite can be made to shift its position sideways. When the lines have the same length it stands square to the wind; when the right TIIE KITE AT WORK. hand lino is lengthened the kite swings around to the left and vice versa. Ily this simple means the kite can be compelled to move through a range of 131 degrees of arc, or about three fourths of a semicircle. Operated from the deck of a vessel, or from land, a kite will thus haul a buoy or lino sus pended from the flying lines out through the water a mile or moro. In deed, a five-inch hawser, 1,200 feet in length, has thus been passed from one ship to another. Very little skill is needed in order to steer and otherwise manage this device, and ono lesson is usually enough for a crew. A highly important part of tho apparatus is the pair of reels, set up on shipboard or land, with which the flying lines are controlled. Mr. Davis also makes use of a "top-line," a third oord attached to tho top of the kite, .lp getting the latter up at tho start, and in so tipping it as to raise or lower it afterward. Ainonj tho achievements described j by this expert are hauling a specially I constructed wagon and a boat ny kite , power. The latter craft can thus sail 45 degrees off tho wind and the former fully 90. Those, however, are only mi nor incidents in tho sohemo. which is designed primarily to assist In promot ing communication, for purposes of rescue, between ship and ship, or ship and shoro. which certainly promises tc be exceedingly useful. DeafncH* Cannot bo Cura<l by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to euro deafness, and that is by con-tit utionnl remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the ninc'-us lining of the eustachian tide. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it JHentire ly closed deafness is the result, and un less the inllnmation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed for ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrah, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot ho cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CIIENKY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Heart Disease Relieved in :JO Minutes. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gives perfect relief in all cases of organic or sympathetic heart disease in thirty min utes, and speedily effects a cure, "it is a peerless remedy for palpitation, short ness of breath, smothering spells, pain in left side and all symptons of a dis eased heart. One dose convinces. Sold by William Woolcock. Tho secretary of the Elkhart Carriage and Harness Mfg. Co., of Elkhart, Ind., informs us thattlicir prices will 1m; lower for IK9I than ever, lie wishes us to ask our readers not to purchase anything in the line, of carriages, wagons, bicycles or harness until thoy have sent 4 cents in stamps to pay postage on their 112 page catalogue. We advise tho readers of this Vapcr to remember his suggestion. Do you wish to enjoy good health? If so, use Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, which clean the bowels and purify the blood. _ | See McDonald's 75c lace curtains. I CURIOUS HOME MAGIO. An Enchanted Spiral Produced by Drop ping Soapsuds on a Wire. Make a small spiral of very fine iron wire and coat it slightly with oil. Place this coil CL.efully in a basin of water and it will float on tho surface. Tako a straw or glass tube and im merse the lower end for a few inches In a glass containing soapsuds. Ileforo removing tho tube place the index finger over its upper end, so that somo drops of the suds will, by the air pres sure, remain in it. Hold this tube over tho center vf the coil, and by quickly removing and re placing the index finger allow a drop y — 7i DROPPING SOAPSUDS ON TIIE COILED WIRE, of suds to fall upon tho water. Tho spiral will immediately make several revolutions in a most mysterious man ner. The audience should have its atten tion attracted to the fact that the tube does not come anywhere near the spiral, and that there is no force exercised to move it. Another drop of tho suds in the same manner will produce a repetition of the peculiar action on the part of the wire. The action of the spiral wire is due to the fact that the addition of a drop of soapsuds somewhat modifies the sur face water so as to alter a force known as "superficial tension." The science of this change, however, is rather too deep to permit of explanation here. The exhibit of this trick may be made in two ways. Either the claim of magic may bo made for the spiral, which, with suitable strange incantations and ap propriate gesturings, may be made be fore the eyes of tho audience and anointed with the mystic fluid the oil, or the simplicity of the spiral and oil may be explained' and the suds, to which some slight coloring has been added, may be ready prepared in a bot tle and be introduced as tho great mag netic fluid. There are few whoso knowl edge of natural philosophy will enable them to explain this interesting ex periment in "populnr science."—Louis ville Courier-Journal. LOADSTONE MAGNET. Its Exceeding Age Testifies to Its Excel lent Workmanship. The picture of the old-time loadstone magnet shown below is from the Eleo trical Engineer. It is composed of a piece of loadstone with soft iron pieces fitted to it. One of theso bands which holds the parts together is silver. Or OLD-TIMH MAGNET. this band is engraved: "Melncrt (one 6idc not shown) A Paris, 1753," and on the pole pieces the letters N and 9 in dicated the polarity. This polarity is, according to the French custom, marked Bon the north-seeking pole. The mag net weighs two pounds three and a half ounces and will sustain more than Its weight. The magnet was brought to America about 1775 by Dr. John Francis Vachcr, a French physician who was educated at tho college of Montpclier. Do joined ono of the American regiments as sur geon, and served for some time, no was a member of the Cincinnati, and is buried in St. Paul's churchyard, in New York. It has been tho plaything for his and his descendants' children for over ono hundred years, and its sur vival shows its good construction. It is now in the possession of the family of Vho late Hon. Robert Gilchrist. FOUR-FOOTED BIRDS. Queer Creatures Recently Discovered In the Amazon Country. That there are still numerous chances for the indefatigable student and in vestigator to make new discoveries may be judged from the fact that tho only known species of four-footed bird has been discovered only quite recently. This curious anomaly, which could very properly be styled an "Avis para doxals," is a native of the Amazon river country, its principal habitat being the islands of Ma*rajo. It is only during the period of incubation (at which tiihe the little embryo'B extra legs and feet are seen at their best) and early birdhood that the four footed feature is at all observable. Like tho baby frog, which either "sheds" or absorbs its tail, tho four footed bird rids itself of its useless legs In tho same manner, chicks six weeks of age usually being perfectly free from any signs of the extra mem bers. The ornithologists profess to be lieve that this curious creature Is a survival of some past geological epoch. Its scientific name is Opisthocomus cristatus. The natives call It tho "hoactzin," which means the "evil smelling bird." It is also claimed that there is not a carnivorous animal known that will taste its flesh.—St Louis Republic. A More Fitting Comparison. Cholly Chumplcigh—Do you coilsidei ' marriugc a lottery? Miss Coldeal—No, I do not. I think It is more like progressive euchre than a lottery. Cholly Chuinpleigli—llow extraordi nary! May I ask you in what way? Miss Coldeal—Because there are so many booby prizes in it.—N. Y. World. Did Not Need It. A book canvasser went into a bar ber's shot and asked the proprietor if he eouldsell him an encyclopedia. "What's that?" asked the tonsorial artist. "It's a book that contains informa tion on every subject in the world." Victim in the Chair (feebly)—He doesn't need it.—Spare Moments. Hong of the Sunny South. I would 1 were an icicle; • I would my melting soul Were going on a bicycle Pellmell towards the polo! I'd like to hear a blizzard whizz. And get a goodly slice; My sole desire this moment is To put myself on Ice. —Atlanta Constitution. Doing Nobly. Mrs. He Style—llow is your daughter doing at college? Mrs. Do Fashion—Beautifully. Mme. Rringemupp writes that she is the best dressed girl in her class.—Good News. A CUIED OF FORTUNE. Brake O'Day—l)W dut lucky cent ycr found change ycr luck? Dewey Eave—Well, before I hud dat cent two hours I was clubbed by a cop, knocked down by a cable-car, an' lost me diamond pin. Brake O'Day—What did yer do wid it? Dewey Eave—l put four more lucky cents wid it an' took de same as usual The Now Way. Visitor—You say your mistress is not In? Fresh Domcstlo—She was in the sit ting-room a little while ago, but I can't find her now. I guess she saw you coming, and put on her bonnet, and skipped out the back way.—lndianapo lis Journal. A FlxotJ Iluhlt of 111 M. Maude—You better be on the look out for a proposal from Charley Dood? ley. Ellen—Why? Has he expressed hit) affection for mo? Maude—No, but he proposed to mc last night and I refused him.—Chicago Record. Like All the Rent. Mother—Your husband is growing cold. Daughter—Mercy! Why do you think so? Mother—He does not kiss me half so affectionately as he did before you were married.—N. Y. Weekly. Mini Ilcen There Before. Wife—To-morrow is your birthday, darling, and I'm going to stop at the ieweler's and buy you a present. Her Hubby—(Jet something cheap, pet. I haven't paid him for my last birthday present yet. Sparo Mo ments. f Beyond 11 1M Depth. Dobson —There goes Jones, the ex pert accountant. They say he's going orazy. Jobson—What's the trouble? Dobson—He's been trying to straight en out his wife's household accounts.— Puck. I'lcartAiit All Around. "Wasn't it awful? The minute aftei they were married she happened to dis cover that he wasn't a real duke." "Humph! Think of his predicament The fact cropped out right at the tiin< when he discovered she wasn't a rich heiress."—Chicago Record. Not True In Ills Case. Thespo—How stupid it is to pay any attention to these current sayings. Rialto—What is the matter now? Thspo—There is a popular adage that "every man has his price." 1 haven't had the price since the close ol last season.—N. Y. World. Protesting Too Much. She (doubtfully)— Have you really tol<? me of all the sins you ever committed' He (stoutly)— Yes. All. She (sorrowfully)— Then I ain not worthy of you. Farewell for—for— forever.—N. Y. Weekly. Short Period*. \Y atts—l understand that Lushfortlj has the impudence to call himself a periodical drinker. Potts—So he is. Ho gets full oner every twenty-four hours.—lndianapolis Journal. Compensation. "I should think bicycle riding would contract the chest," said Dawson. "It docs," said Ryder; "but see what fine, full, rounded shoulders you get.' —Tid-Bits. Matrimonial Item. "Is that the parson's new wife?" "Yes; he married for love, they say." "Well, if he did, there's no mistake about love being blind."—Texas Sift ing*. In the Hot Weather. Tboy soon will clash, these old-time foa Callod out by woather fickle— The man whose head Is slightly bald. The fly with feet that tickle. —Wuahiiitfton Star STEAM TREE FELLING. An Knglltli Mnrhtno Which Seems to l)o Its Work Well. Tree felling by means other than manuul labor lias been an engaging subject to many inventors, and for some time past a more or less interesting ar ray of appliances designed to accom plish it has been paraded before the readers of mechanical journals. One of TREK-FELJJNO MACHINE. the more recent of these machines brought out in England by Allen Han some, of Chelsea, reminds ono very much, in appearance, of the now so fa miliar rock drill, the drill proper, of course, being supplanted by a recipro cating saw blade, substantially in the manner shown in the accompanying sketch. The piston to which the saw blade is attached works in a cylinder of small diameter but rather long stroke, pivotally supported on a pair of wheels, so that the whole arrangement is read ily portable. Steam is intended to be supplied to the machine from a portable boiler through a long steam hose, so that the boiler can remain in ono place until the machine has felled all the treos within a considerable circle around it, the space cleared, of course, depending upon the length of the hose. Cutting down a tree, how ever, is not the only function to which the machine is limited. Ily par tially rotating it on its axis the saw can be set to cut in a vertical di rection, or at any angle between the horizontal and vertical positions, so that, after having been felled, a tree may be quickly cut up into desired lengths. It generally happens that when a large tree falls it does not lie flat, as its branches hold the upper part of its trunk from tlio ground, and in order to squarely cross-cut trees lying in such a position it is necessary to in cline the saw somewhat from a vertical line. This is readily done by the adjust ing capacity just mentioned.—Cassell's Magazine. BURNING A NEEDLE. How to Perform This Carious and Appar entiy Impossible Experiment. To perform the curious experiment of burning a needle, all that is required is a jar of oxygen and a few bits of cork. Oxygen may be prepared in the following- way. Procure some chlor ate of potassium, which is commonly BURNING ▲ NEKDI.E. sold in a white, crystallized form. On being heated, this substance yields all its oxygen, of which more than a third of its weight is composed. The decom f>osition of pafts, at first slow, becomes n a short time sff rapid that there is danger of an explosion, to obviate which it is well previously to mix with the chlorate an equal weight of bioxido of manganese, a black powder. These two Bubstanees should be placed in a glass connected hy a rubber tube with a jar or bottle containing water, and heated until the oxygen is all obtained. Now take a long, coarse needle, impale I a bit of a match on its point and insert j its head in a small cork attached by a wire to a large cork stopper, which will cover the mouth of the jar. This apparatus is shown separately in the cut. Set fire to the match end, and in troduce it while burning into the jar of oxygon. The bit of wood burns vivid ly, then the needle becomes incandes cent, and with ft crackling noise sends sparks In every direction until all the oxygon 1R consumed. The effect is somewhat like that produced by a roman candle. The bottom of the jar is protected by a good depth of water, otherwise it would be inevitably shat tered by the drops of melted oxide of iron shed by the needle. When the process of combustion is ended a little round knob is found at the end of the needle which has not been burned. This is melted oxide of Iron, caused by combustion. A thin knitting needle may bo burned with equal success in the same manner.—Once a Week. Old Shoes In n Now Eight. A French savant has invented a new science which he terms scarpology, whereby he proposes to diagnosticate mental qualities from the appearance of the shoes worn by the subject. He claims that shoes that have been worn are full of faithful indications as to lack of energy, fickleness, bad temper, or the opposite qualities as the case may be. If the sole and hcol of a shoe, after two months' wear, are equally worn, the owner is an energetic business man, an employe that can bo relied on, a good wife or an excellent mother. If the outside odgo is most worn, the owner is adventurous to rashness and of a bold and persistent turn of mind. Wear of the inside edge indicates irresolution and weakness in man and modesty in woman. llow the Weather Shift*. It Is a remarkable fact that in the temperate zone of both hemispheres the weather is constantly shifting from west to east. This is true to a degree hi the lower polar regions—we know little about the higher—but it is not true of the tropics. In the tropical zone severe storms are likely to travel westward, and the smaller local storms travel in all sorts of directions. INSTEAD OF THE BONE. Vulcanite Supplies Missing Sec tions of the Human Frame. Dr. Michael*. of the French Academic at Pari*, Replace* a llrokon Ilone of the Arm by a Rcully Won derful Operation. At the French academic a very deli cate operation of prothesis was recent ly performed, showing- just what could be accomplished in replacing a portion of the skeleton by means of aseptic artificial pieces. The surgeons have proved that artificial pieces made of vulcanite or metals that do not oxidize can be buried in the tissues and left there with impunity. I)r. Michaels performed the opera tion. The patient had had tuberculosis of the humerus and shoulder Joint, complicated with suppuration and fis tulae. An operation was imperative, but the removal of the diseased tissues would have left such a hole that the wound would never have healed, and the functions of the limb would have been lost if an artificial joint had not been interposed between the lower fragment of the humerus and the scapula! Dr. Michaels' apparatus to supply the deficient bone is described in the Paris edition of the New York Herald as fol lows: It is composed of three parts: First, a straight rod, eight centimeters long, P THE APPARATUS. destined to replace the piece of hu merus removed; second, another straight piece, representing the neck of the same bone; third, an irregular sphere for the head; the whole four teen centimeters in length and made of vulcanite. We have not space to describe it in detail, but can only say that the three pieces were fastened to gether in such away as to admit of all the movements of rotation and circum duction of n natural joint. It is a me chanical oh<f d'oeuvre. It was not enough, however, to make it; it had also to be put in place. Ily means of fittings of platinum adapted to the upper and lower ends of the apparatus M. Michaels was able to fasten the lower part to the humerus by means of screws going through the bone. The head ho fastened to the glenoid surface by driving a platinum wire into the neck of the shoulder blade to a depth of three centimeters, and by passing two other loops of wire over the top of the bone, the wires boing naturally tightly fastened to the arti ficial head without hampering its movements in any wuv. In order to facilitate the grafting of the perlostouin and muscles onto the artificial humerus M. Michaels had adapted to it little ridges perforated with holes for catgut sutures. In the same way to fasten the capsular ligament he had provided two platinum rings to *keep it in its normal position. The apparatus once adopted the wound was closed with the ordinary THE ARTIFICIAL JOINT FITTED* precautions. The operation was per* formed a year ago, and the patient's condition has since improved in every way; in fact, his health would bo per fect but for some small abscesses that have had to be opened on four occa sions. Sound and Light Compared. The velocity of sound through the atmosphere with the temperature at 08 degrees Fahrenheit is at the rate of 1,185 feet per second. Through water it is 4M times, through-iron it is ten times, and through wood of the differ ent kinds it travels with a velocity from 11 to 17 times greater than that with which it travels through air. The velocity of light is 102,500 miles per sec ond. Estimating the distance to be even 05,000,000 miles, light would pass from the sun to the earth in a fraction over eight minutes, and in one-eighth of a minute would flnsh around our globe. If an explosion should occur on the sun to-day that was so gigantic in its na ture as to ultimately penetrate to our earth we would not know it until the year 1008, simply because it would take the sound fourteen years to travel the intervening distance. Files Are Fond of Alcohol. If several men are asleep in a room and one of them is drunk the flies will gather on the tipsy man and avoid the others. The reason is that insects revel in tho odor of alcohol and sometimes get drunk on it ■SCIIIPTI! i Mi Subscription to the TRI BUNE, $1.50 per year, entitles you to the best reading twice a week. • 1MIPT1! * Advertising in the TRI BUNE is valuable be cause of its extensive circulation. ■ . I j 1 ■MUTISM! IB PRINTISGI • .. Job work of all kinds at the TRIBUNE office in the neatest style and at fairest prices. I
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