LOST-A THOUGHT. I had a thought—a thln-g so slight It vanished ere 1 grasped it quite. Whence hath It gone? Ah. welJaday! I'an learned doctors tell me. pray? Dr whence it came? That too as well ' would that wisest sage might tell. As lightning parts the cloud Irt twain, And heralds thus the coming rain, So with my thought: both swift and bright, It promised much—now lost to sight! I've searched to-day and yesterday; It sill! eludes, is still astray. I wonder If some greater mind This truant thought may one day find! May quickly seize and hold and use 1 hat which to me elusive proves; To me a tantalizing hint. To him, perhaps, a golden mint. Perchance 'tis this that draws tbe line Where large souls o'er the lesser shine. The master mind hath power to see These flashes from Infinity; Aye. mote than that—to also free The mighty truth, concealed from mo. And yet. withal, 'twas but a thought— A tnfng you'd almost count for nought. Yet thoughts ere this have conquered kings! Have given steam and lightning wlngsl Have sped the arrow speech, to smite To death the wrong—to guard the right. Bui as I thus my loss proclaim. Buck to that silence whence it come llath fled this vexing, ghostlike thing. Where mystic shadows veiling cling; Nor seer nor sage can tell me when 1 11 And that wandorlng thought again. —G. M. Howard, In Clmutauquan. A TELEGRAPHER'S STORY. The Close Shave That Came of Sleeping on Duty. Predicament of a Myjlit Operator at a Lonely Railroad Station Who Was Instructed to Hold a Ccrtuln Truiit. , ELEGRAPII opera tors are usually I reni ' il,scent f e 1 - | lows, and the vet- Cs) fj era ns among t horn b Bpga delight in telling 88their experiences. (' tlheir stories may V* \ be a trifle exugger l J a ted, but they gon r y ) erally possess at S least one unique feature—they are based on something t hat happened over a stretch of wire pei haps 100 or 200 miles in length. Or casionally one. reads of an extraordinary adventure of an operator at a small and lonely railway station.ont west, or of perilous experiences in war times, ami the Impression has become quite common that telegraphers stationed this side of the Rocky mountains sel dom have ot her than the most eoanmon plaee. routine experience, with nothing in it of more than passing interest. As regards the operators for railroad com panies, that sup|rosition is wrong. Within 12 hours' ride of this city there are scores of railroad telegraph offices where an operator is employed day and might to look after both the telegraph and the station. On many of the. roods in Ntnv England the night stations are a dozen or fifteen miles apart, and some of t hem are a quarter or a ha lf of a mile from the nearest dwelling house. At these places a night operator is on duty Trom seven in the evening till seven in next morning. A Sun. reporterchanged to meet, recently a veteran "key twist er" who was for several years in the em ploy of a railroad running through Maine and New Hampshire and up into the White mountains. This operator sometimes found himself in a pretty light Ihin. and his account of the ex perience illustrates t he close shave that, railroad telegraphers have now and t hen. "Station II , where I worked," he said, "is a night station on a single track railroad in New Hampshire. G , the nearest night telegraph sta tion north of it, was eight miles away, and N , the nearest one south, was 12. My duty in summer was solely that of operator: in winter 1 also looked after the fires in the waiting-rooms. There was seldom much opera ting to do at night, and it wns always easy to keep awake until one o'clock, when I usually ate lunch. Even at that hour the time didn't pass very slowly in suminer, but on cold and stormy nights in winter, when I had to stay 'constantly Indoors, the greatest effort was needed to keep from falling asleep. After nine o'clock Jill the trains that passed were freights, and there were half a dozen south bound and as many more north-bound in the course of the night. It. was part of my <luty to note the time that each of the trains |wised njv station and re port it at once to headquarters at A . the same rule applying to all the op erators o:i the line. That was one of the customs which made it dangerous fot an operator to aJI asleep, if only for five minutes. Another tilling that annoyed him, and often made him swear, was the roll call. This consisted in the train dispatcher at A office (.*>:) miles south of II ) calling each office on the line every half hour, begin ning with the one nearest lii.sown. The station that failed to answer a roll call tiad a black mark placed against it nt A . with 5i record of the time when the call was given. At first the roll call made all the hoys look sharp and toe t lie line, but they scon found away to cheat it. "The main wire running through ll— was considerably more than 100 miles long: and on a wire of that length it is quite impossible for an operator at its 1 rminus to tell by the sound which of two or more offices not more, than 25 tuilcs apart is doing the telegraphing unless the sending operator signs his station call. Knowing this, several of the 'owls' on the line arranged to take, turns with each other in answering the roll. For example, the operator at G would answer my calls between the hours of one and three, and I would at tend to his from three to five. What a cracking good way this was to baffle the train dispatcher, we thought, and the exchange of duty between iis was kept up for a long time; in faet, a Inmost too Jong, so far as my own case was con cerned. I refer to an incident tl *?♦. look place during the winter of 'BS, which for a few hours nearly froze the mar row in my bones. It happened like this: "Through freight No. 241, north bound, was due at niy station at 1:35, and was scheduled to meet south-bound freight No. 254 at 1' , 15 miles further up the road. No. 241 was scarcely ever behind time, and the two trains usually met. at V without requiring tele graphic orders. The night in question was very cold and stormy: fully three feet of snow had fallen and it was still rcming down very fast, while a high wind was piling it in big drifts across the track. On a night like that the in cessant humming of the wires outside of the station is enough, of itself, to put a sentinel to sleep, and that, coupled with the hour. 1:15, and an office tem perature of 80 degrees, was more than niy weary frame could resist. 1 fell asleep, knowing, of course, that G—— would, according to our arrangement, look after my roll calls. After what seemed to me about like 20 minutes, but what was really more than two hours, I was awakened by the sharp clicking of the telegraph instrument near my head. " 'Qk 12,' was being made with great rapidity, the call of my office preceding it. I knew it was the train dispatcher, the abbreviation meaning 'Quick! we want you to hold a train!' "I answered the call, and the com mand came back quick and sharp: " 'Hold No. 211 for orders.* " 'O. K.,* said Land immediately hung the proper signal, a retl lantern, outside the drior. "Then I came to my senses and looked at my watch. "Twenty-five minutes past thrco! And I had heard no train in almost three hours. Had No. 241 got past? I wondered. I found that it had left N at 12:40, and the run from N to II usually took about 50 minutes. I knew the storm would probably delay the train somewhat, but two whole hours? It wasn't likely. Then I heard No. 284 reported from 1* , and knew she had received orders to meet No. 241 some where between I* and I! . "What if No. 241 had got by me and was trying to reach I' for Hie down freight? In that ease the two trains were bound to crash together in t'he storm: there was no help for it. My excitement, wns increased by the re pented calls of the train dispatcher to ask if No. 211 was in sight. " 'Not yet,' I answered, trembling lest my hojies were in vain. "Three thirty-five, and no train. 1 went out on the platform and listened. Not n sound could be heard above that of the wind, and an engine's headlight wouldn't, 'have been visible ten rods away. "I went back, 'grounded' one of the wires, so as to cut out A office, and called G, hoping to find whether No. 241 had reached there. No answer. Then I remembered that from three t(f five was G's time to 'bunk off,' and knew it was useless trying to get him. "Ten minutes more, and the freight had not arrived. " 'Sure it hasn't gone?*asked the train dispatcher, excitedly, as though doubt ing inc. " 'Sure,' said I. " 'For God's sake, don't let it gel by you!' lie urged. "Well, four o'clock came, and my courage was giving way. I could sec how two hours or so might be needed for a freight to go 12 miles on such a I HEARD A GREAT RUFFING AND GRATING. night, but three hours and over. So slow a run had never been known on the road. "What was to be done? To admit my uncertainty meant the loss of my job, and to brave it out any longer seemed almost criminal. In my despair I finally decided to tell the train dis patcher the plain truth—that I had been asleep at. my post, and that No. 241 probably went by more than an hour ago. The fact would be known in a few hours, anyway, I argued, and 1 would then be arrested for causing death, convicted of criminal negligence and sent to prison. "It was then 4:15. I drew n long breath and went over to the telegraph desk. Headquarters was again calling to ask if the train had arrived, and I broke in abruptly: "'You ma> as well know that* —but the sentence was never finished. I heard a faint puffing and grating, and, looking out, saw the engine of the be lated train opposite my office window. My heart leaped up about a foot, and, taking a firm grasp on the key of my instrument, I announced: " 'No. 241 h-e-r-el' "Deep snow, a tnrrifie wind nnd the blowing out of the cylinder head on the engine had caused the delay. "Maybe all's well ends well, but that experience put t>n end then and there to my practice of sleeping while on duty."—N. Y. Sun. —There are nlipiit. 3,400 persons in France who are set down as anarchists, and are tinder the constant watch of the police of the*>various European coun tries. LETTERS AND ART. The Hungarian Academy of Scicrcec lias lately taken up Rusklu's 'The Stones of Venice** and is publishing a translation. Soqae years ago Rev. Dr. Crane, the father of Stephen Crane, the novelist, wrote a tract on popular amusements, in which he condemned novel reading ns one of the vices of the age. The Russian imperial academy is pre paring a national biographical diction ary of Russian men of letters and scientists. M. Vengueroy, who has writ ten nlready the bulk of the work, has accumulated no less than 400,000 pages of manuscript. The latest contribution to the sym posium on a suitable memorial to Rob ert LouisStevensonhnsat least the merit of originality. Some one wants to erect a gas lamp to him, because he has in more than one place written of lamps and lamp posts! An Englishman with more money than education recently sent tlie fol lowing order to a bookseller: "1 have 00 feet of shelving. I want ten feet of jMiet-ry, ten feet of history, ten feet of science, ten feet of religion, the same of novels, and fill up the rest with any kind of books." Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin-Riggs* charmingstory, "Timothy's Quest," has been translated into Danish, and, with beautiful illustrations, published in Denmark, where it is a great favorite It may encourage young writers to know that the manuscript of this suc cessful book was offered to the eighth publisher l>efore it was accepted. A eouple of curious and useful little volumes are the rhymed h'stories of England and France, by Mrs. Charles 11. Gardner. They give the main facts of the histories of these countries in such away that tbey win be retained in the memory with remarkable ease, and are found useful not only in the schoolroom, but by adults who want to furbish up their history. TABLE DELICACIES. Nu't Cookies.—Two cupfuis of sugar, two eggs, one-half cupful of melted butter.six tablespoonfuls of milk, a tea spoonful of cream tartar, half a tea spoon ful of soda, one cupful of hickory nut meats, enough flour to make rather a stiff dough. Chicken Piilau.—One pint of cold boiled rice; one boiled chicken, the meat chopped fine; one cu.n of tomatoes, strained. Let the liijuor in which the chicken is boiled jelly. A piece of but ter the size of an egg. salt and pepper to taste. Mix together and serve hot. A Good Pudding.—One-quarter of n cupful of butter, one cupful of New Or leans ni oil asses, two cupfuis of sifted flour, one cupful of sweet milk, one tea spoonful of soda in milk, one tcaspoon ful each of cloves and cinnamon, a pinch of 6alt. Steam in a mold for two hours. Potato Puff.—Two cupfuis of mashed l>otatoes, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Stir these, with a seasoning of salt, ton light, fine, creamy consistency. Heat two eggs separately and add six tablespoonfuls of cream. Beat all to gether, well and lightly. Pile in on ir regular form in a dish. Bake in a quick oven until nicely colored. N. Y. Ledger. STYLES IN THE STORES. Cloth collets or tiny capes trimmed with small, fancy buttons down the front- Moire brocade in black to make skirts of to wear with low evening chiffon waists. Plain and braided black and light •loth jnckets, the colors running to the two extremes. Imported costumes trimmed with a silk collar edged with silk braid headed with small braid-covered buttons. Black gowns, silk or wool, made up with a small cape to match, which is lined with the bright color usually seen in the vest. Panels, girdles, separate ornaments, boleros and vests of black and white silk braid bordered with pieots of fine gilt soutaelie. Black satin waists made with a box plait fastened with gold buttons, cufTs on bishop sleeves held together by sim ilar buttons, belt of satin fastened with buttons and a red satin stock and tiny linen collar.—Dry Goods Economist. HOME ECONOMIES A screweye inserted in the top of a broom or mop handle is fur more con venient and lasting than a cord. If paraffin© that has been used over ieJJy is carefully washed and dried it ?au lie used over und over again. An iron frying pan with.a close-fitting tan basin turned over the top makes a good substitute for a covered roasting pan. Tie the beeswax used for smoothing sadirons in a piece of cheesecloth or muslin, and it will last longer and be more convenient. A covered tin pail, suspended in a ket tle of boiliug water by a stick or metal rod laid across the top of the kettle is just as good as an expensive farina boiler for many purposes. Stove cloths about 20 inches square, made of coarse crash, denim, ticking or colored shirting, are by far more con venient than clumsy holders to use about the kitchen stove. —Housekeeper. BREAKFAST DONT'S. Don't serve a breakfast on any but a fresh tablecloth. Don't expect fresh cofFce if you are half an hour late. Don't comment on the bills you re seive in the morning's mail. Don't risk the man of the hotlsife what he would like for dinner. * - * Don't ask yoifr husband how ,much mdtfey he intends to leave you f<?r the day's expenses. After dinner is a bet ter time to settle the financial question. Don't become so engrossed in the newspaper that you'eau't address a re mark to anyone. llun rik Loay Time. They had hern /discussing what the.v i*.ould like to be when they became men and women, and the little fellow with the red hair had listened scorn fully to the various views expressed. "Vou all don't know nothin* about ! avin' a gwd, easy time," he said when it came his turn to spcalt. "If we want to get along 'thout workin'or doin*any thing except just tnkiiT the best there is there ain't nothin' like bein' a kleptomaniac."—Chicago Post. A Profound Mystery. Johnnie Chnllie —Mamma, didn't you tell me that the poor heathen in Africa didn't wear any clothes? •Mrs. Chaflie— Yes, iny son. Johnnie Chaffie— Well, then, if the heathen in Africa don't wear any clothes, why, when the collection was taken up for them, did papa put a sus pender button In die plate?—TuramaJiv Times. Ken Way of Potting It. Yes. we're engaged! He called last night, And stayed till after ten. And In the softened pnrlor light This bashfulest of men Blushed sweetly, as he hung his head, ('Shy boys! 1 understand them.) "And don't you think, my dear," he said, "We'd better ride a tandem?" L A. W. Bulletin. JL'ST HEPOftE THE IIHEAK. Doctor—ilow is the patient this morn- Nurse—Well, he has been wandering a good deal in his mind. Early this morning I heard him say: "What at. old woman that doctor is!" And I think that was about the last really rational remark he made. —Leslie's Populut Monthly. The Difference. He paused, the Impcoune, and sighed: "The nigiit Is clear and line. The moon is in its first quarter, While 1 am Just out mine!" —Cincinnati Tribune. Theory and Fact. Teacher—Johnny Jones is ten years old. and his sistor is 15 years older that Johnny. Now, how oki is Johnny's sis ter? Pupil—Nineteen. Teacher—llow can you be so stupid .Pupil—Guess I know what my sistei iays, and she's fifteen years older thar me.—Boston Transcript. Obliging. "Madam," said Meandering Mike "hev ye got any cold coffee?" "No," replied young Mrs. Tor kins in u tone of sympathy, "but you wait a few minutes and I'll put some on tin refrigerator and cool it for you."— Washington Ststr. A Moornlng Color. Winebiddle—Why are you dyeing your hair such a youthful black,Gilder sleeve? Gildersleeve—Out of respect for tin memory of my dear dead wife, Wine biddle.—Up-to-I)ate. Much More. Smith—No, 1 do not like jokes which make fun in any way of religion. It seems to me we are liable to be called up for them in the next world. Smythe—We're more likely to be (jailed down.—Philadelphia Press. True to the Lnnt. Seldom Fedd—So poor old Slobsy is dead? Ragged Haggard—Yes, hut he died true to de tenets of de perfession. "How was dat ?" "Widout a struggle."—N. Y. Journal. Economy In Kissing. Mrs. CrimsonbenU—l can't imagine why a man should prefer kissing his dog to kissing his wife. Mr. Crimsonbeak—A dog doesn't want a new hut every time he's kissed.—Yonk ers Statesman. A Conscientious Visitor. Judge—lf you were only goingto pay the man a visit, why were you creeping in so stealthily? Prisoner—Your honor, I was afraid of waking the baby.—N. Y. Journal. Not Surprising. lie—l love you better thiin my life. She—Considering the life you lead, I cannot say that i am surprised.—ln diunapolis Journal. A Dnnireroiis Man. Bunting— VVliy are you fellows al ways dodging Bloobumper? bnrkins— His first baby has just com menced to tulk.—Harlem bife. Ills AI>ole. Blinks—Where are you living now? Jinks (gloomily) 1 don't live. Blinks—That so? Where are you boarding?—N. Y. Weekly. The Exact Location. Dollie— Was it a quiet spot where you kissed Mollic? Ch'ollie—No; it was on the mouth.— Yonkers Statesman. Tlic One Exception. She's most sincere, and when she speaks. To question none would dare. Excepting when she rides and says: "Now, dear, I'll pay Ike •• THE SEASON'S VERSE. J An Offlce Seeker** Reraliilacence. i In the simple days of childhood, quite the Buddesl thing in life j Was sitting patiently and still to watch the gleaming knife \s It carved the tempting pastry which must serve for one and ail I to widely varying sections, most of them, alas, too small! I Twas hard to see a favored guest helped to the largest slice, Nor murmur when I got none, as such con duct "wasn't nice." -'hat hour brings indignation through the years that hasten by. When we'd company for dinner and my father passed the pie. And history repeats Itself. That shock o 1 long ago Returns In new disguises, like a sullen. haunting foe ;t Is after an election that you'll see the old-time look On the faces of the men whom Fortune, at the last, forsook. I've seen the thing I labored for and „watched with eager eyes (Jo past me. and another, less deserving. got the prize. And I haven't felt so much as if I'd rrallv like to cry Since we'd company to dinner and my fa ther passed the pie. Washington Star. The XPW Woman. She warbled the soprano with dramatic sensibility. And dallied with the organ when the or ganlst was sick. She got up for variety a brand-new church society, And spoke with great facility about the new church brick. She shed great tears of sorrow for the heathen Immorality, And organized a system that would oper up their eyes; In culinary charity she won great popu larity. And showed her personality In lecturing on pies. For real unvarnished culture she betrayed great propensity; Her Tuesday talks were famous, and her Friday glimmers great; She grasped at electricity wiih mental elasticity. And lectured with Intensity about the marriage state. Hut with the calm assurance of her won d' rful capacity. She wouldn't wash the dishes, but she'd talk all day on s; And while she dwelt on density, or space and its immensity. With such refined audacity, her mother darned the socks! —Spare Moments. In Sllcntla. O'er lintel low gray messes creep. They hide the names of those that sleep- Sweet household names of long ago. Dim shadows waver to and fro, And sunbeams flit with noiseless feet Alongthe silent, grass-grown street. Tell us, O sleepers! which Is best Our troubled waking, or your rest? Mute sleepers, who can never wake For sorrow's call, or love's dear sake. What storms have beat upon their rcof. What trusted friends have stood aloof. What tempests hurled their shafts of ire. What hate hath lit the martyr pyre Whose torturing flames from day to day Their lives consumed, no tongue can say. And yet, we know the birds above To them sometimes have sung of love; The fair flowers breathing faith and trust Each spring-time waked from out the dust. The glad earth smiled with joy so sweet. Heaven seemed afar, this life complete. They dreamed the dreams we dream to day; They saw their hopes flit swift away, As ours do now—till 10, at last, Earth, held so long and held so fast, Had faded slowly out of sight, Lost in eternity's clear light. And Htlll we wonder which is best- Cur troubled waking or their rest. —Ellen H. Chase, in Woman's Journal Hold Your Tongue. Don't start your tongue a-going in a care less sort of way And thoughtlessly forget it till It runs n half a (lay. The pleasant art of talking Is a happy gift indeed, But, oh! the art of keeping still Is what the people need. Don't think that you can multiply our meager stock of joys By jtrfnming every quiet space chock full of talk and noise. If you've a big two-bushel thought, why. sift it to a cup Of plain, terse words, but otherwise shut up! SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!!! The men who have their words engraved on monuments to-day Are not the ones who always tried to have the most to say. Ah, no! they thought for years to get one sentence new and bright For us to put In copy books and have our children write. And so If you would render glad the ones who have to hoar, Why, find somo real good quiet place and think about a year, And get a thought so deep and broad and true and great and wise That it will hit this dull old world rigriit square between the eyes. —Nixon Waterman, In L. A. W Bulletin. The Pagentry of Spring. There came from Heaven one happy day A sunbeam, bearing on its way A message to the earth; It called tiie south wind from Its home And whispered, softly: "Northward ream. G.. hail the violets' birth." It touched the blade and leafless tree. And said: "Awake! spring waits for thee. Put on thy dress of green!" It kissed the rosebud and the vine. And said: "Come forth! thy blossoms en twine The at'bor ways between." The bluejay and the robin heard The music of Its magic word, Burst forth in sweetest song; The daisy In its grassy bed Arose to greet It us It said: "Come, join the merry throng." It passed o'er hill and qncadow land. And soon appeared on every hand A wondrous marshaling; From ocean shore to inland plain, Lo! I beheld a beauteous train, The pageantry of spring. —Alexander P. Iluston, in Ohio Farmer A Song; of Hope. What though the day be dark and storms rage over the seas? What though the fields are brown, and leaves fall fast from the trees? What though the birds are flown, and skies overhead are gray? What though the sun goes down so soon on a winter's day? Spring will come with her joy and glory of bud and flower, Spring with her song of hope In every bright'nlng hour. Spring with her dress of green em broidered with woodland bloom, Spring with her April tears and sunlight after the glocm. Deep In the earth's warm breast the flowers are living still. Hid till the spring shall come, proclaiming her roynl will: "Wake! oh. ye sleeping flowers. and bloom on the earth once more- Wake! for the spring has come and the winter time is o'er!" - —Golden Days. HUMDSECHT'S DICYCLE. A Somnvliat Striking Novelty i:i the Velocipede Line. Humbrecht's dieyele, patented No vember 10, IS9O, is a-striking novelty in the velocipede line. Two wheels are mounted on a V-shaped axle, between which the rider sits. A crank-shaft having foot-peilals is suspended from the axle convenient for the rider to op erate. Sprocket wheels are mounted at cither end of the crank-shaft, and con nect by drive-chains with loose sprocket wheels on the axle. The hist named sprockets are loosely connected to the hubs of the supporting wheels, and suit able clutches are mounted on the axle adjacent to the sprocket, whereby the latter are coupled to the wheel-hubs, and the machine driven or propelled I j n||jl \ c ~ . - CAVALRY OF THE FUTURE, either forward or backward. Handles are provided on the clutches to readily throw thlru into and out of gear when it is desired to slacken lip or to turn the machine. The rider's seat is swung be low the bearings, so that he can't upset. The dieyele will doubtless become popular, as it is especially adapted to those who do not care to go to the trouble of learning to ridea bicycle, and it is easily ridden, and old and young are equally suited to it. As there is no straddling necessary, the modesty due to the ladies is always present in the dieyele, as seen in one of the accom panying cuts, and no unbecoming bloomers or short skirts are necessary. The wheel can be used advantageously by soldiers and messengers in time of war, as it cannot be injured to any great, extent by a few bullets, or disabled, as can a liorse, whose life is always at stake, even by a single missile. I'aggage and equipments can be carried to quite a large extent, nnd the cavalry of the future will doubtless be mounted, as shown in the cut. NEW ENGLISH TIRE. Its Inventor Claims TSint It Readily Inflates Itself. A self-inflating tire has been invent ed. so it is claimed, by an Englishman. It is self-influ.ting, inasmuch as the air comes in automatically, and also "self deflating, because the air escapes al most on the same plan in which it comes ilk Strictly speaking, the invention is an alternating inflating and deflating tire, working automatically, instead of the usual endless tube, which is com mon to all or most detachable tires, a piece of tubing of about half the di ameter and twice the length is em ployed. This tube is coiled twice around the wheel in a direction opposite to that of its rotation, and each of the two ends taper, where it is sen led. These ends overlap one another to the extent of the tapering, and so till up the space. A valve of the ordinary kind is fitted near one end of the inner tube, and the first coil occupies a position in the hollow of the rim. This part of the tube is thinner and of smaller di ameter than tho other half, which is coiled outside of it, and is situated im mediately beneath the tread of the tire. An outer cover of ordinary character and attachment, is used. The automatic inflating is jxr formed as follows: If the tire is empty or has little air in it, the weight of the rider nnd the machine compresses the tube, more especially the bore of the thinner part lying in tlie rim, to the end of which the valve is attached. This part is flattened under the pressure, and as the wheel goes around the pressure travels along it, leaving behind a vacu um into which the air flows through the valve. This operation goes on until the tire is fully inflated, being renewed at every revolution of the wheel. The ingress of air follows the flattening of the tii*o, making the inflation of the tire an automatic process. The tire works, whether there is a puncture or not, afnd the claim eon also be made that it is non-punt'turable. Dicyelcn Driven Iy Wiml. No less than three attempts to cause Ihe wind to aid the bicycle rider iu driving his machine have recently been made by inventors, one American and two French. In the case of the Ameri can and one of the French inventions, an apparatus coast rue ted on the plan of a toy windmill is attached to the ma chine, and geared to the front wheel in Kiie.li a manner that the force of the wind can be utilized in turning the wheel. Tho third contrivance also acts pn the principle of the windmill, but its motor, instead of having fans nil facing one way, is shaped like an empty pumpkin shell, with the segment slightly stparaU'fl and inclined inward. The practical usefulness of these de vice® remains to be demonstrated. Chloral and Alcohol I'Hors. The Rhode Island legtakit tire at its re cent session enacted a law which pro vides that persons addicted to the use cf chloral or alcohol may he, committed to nn asylum for th^-insane until their normal condition has been restored. j and Eczema en rod. Theso two com ! plaints are so tenacious that the readers i of the TIMJU M: should know of the suc cess obtained by using Dr. David Ken nedy's Favorite Remedy. Where all other treatments have failed, it has made a complete cure, j No more horrible case of salt rheum j was ever reported than that of Wilbur j L. Hale, quartermaster, Pratt Dost, U. jA. R.. Rondout. N. V. Several physi cians utterly failed to render him any I relief; finally 03. DAVID KENNEDY'S nhfuiillfc REMEDY was tried and steady improvement fol lowed its use, and a permanent cure re sulted. It is used with a similar success in cases of scrofula, nervousness, kidney and liver complaints, and in ail diseases brought about by bad and shattered nerves. 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