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
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i of the TIMJU M: should know of the suc
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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
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lowed its use, and a permanent cure re
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It is used with a similar success in
cases of scrofula, nervousness, kidney
and liver complaints, and in ail diseases
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nerves.
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