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IS SCOOP AND SCALES.
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Invention That Will Be Welcomed by
Busy Housewives.
Housewives who are accustomed to
judging the weight of the Ingredients
necessary for the making or the varl
. . . OU8 Corms of table dainties , and who
are not fortunate to possess a pair of
scales or other means for weighing the
said Ingredients , will hail with joy
the advent of a scoop which is intended .
ell to give them without uselessly
adding to the list of kitchen utensils a
The Weighing Scoop.
means to accurately gauge whatever
of meal or flour or other commodity
they may desire to use.
-t1 glance at the accompanying pic'
tur6 will explain the workings of this
now device more clearly than a column .
umn of descriptive matter could do.
The scoop is mounted on a telescopic
handle , one of the telescoping parts
being graded to represent ounces and
pounds and their fractions. Within the
hollowed handle a spring engages the
inserted part , and the weight of the
commodity in the scoop contfacts this
Slring. The weight is indicated according -
cording as the inserted part falls back
Into the hollow handle. It will ho seen
bow easily the scoop can he plunged
Into the flour barrel and such amount
of the contents obtained as is desired.
Cats Brought Bankruptcy.
Miss Annie Jane Terrill , who was
remanded at Truro on Wednesday on
a charge of arson , has been ruined'by
her love of cats.
She was continually involved in lit.- !
gation with cat fanciers and keepers
of cat : ; ' homes , in consequence of
which she recently passed through the
! > nJ.ltruptcy ! court at Truro.
I Some of the GOO cats with which she
lived the life of a recluse at Perran-
I perth were extremely valuable ani-
mals
Miss Terrill was a frequent exhibitor .
tor at various cat shows and won
many prizes.-London Express.
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The small stars for an American
flag arc cut out with a cutting die.
The large ones arc cut with the scissors .
sors : The star is always live pointed ,
. and set with one point in a vertical
position when stitched on to ho flag.
OLDEST HOUSE IN PATERSON.
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A Pre-Revolutionary Structure GO 8 to
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Make Way for a Church Site.
The oldest frame house in Paterson ,
N. .J. , dating hack for more than 150
years , was demolished to make roots
for the new 'l'rlnlty Methodist Episcopal -
copal church. The building is in two
parts , stone and wood , the stone section .
tlon having been built by Simonon
Van Winkle in the early part of the
seventeenth century. Records of the
Van Winkle family show the frame
piece was added to the original building ! .
ing a few years before the UevoluUon.
The house ] was used by the family
as a residence until a few years be
fore the close of the eighteenth century .
tury , when it became the Black Horse
tavern , a noted hostelry for persons
traveling in stage coaches from Tote
wa to New Yorlt. No stage coach ride
to New York was complete unless a
stop was made at the tavern for re'
freshments.
The house always remained in the
possession at the Van Winkle family.
Its substantial character , with its
hewn oak timbers , split lath and colonial -
lonial ornamentation of the stairways
and doorposts , tells mutely of its age
and the all.around ability of the early
Dutch settlers who made that section
of the new country their home .
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Zulu woman's coiffure.
A Whopper from Phlladelphi
While picking husltleberries on the
mountains along Hagerman's Hun ,
near W111iamsport , on Sunday , D. W.
Mack and son , LewIs , of South Wil-
liamsport , walked Into a den of about
thirty rattlesnalws. An exciting fight
followed , the two men using stones
and clubs. Seventeen of the snakes
were killed , the others seeking safety -
ty in the crevices at the roclts.
During the battle Mr. Macl" , who
held an open jack knife in his hand ,
ripped a gash ten inches long In a
snalte's body , and a mink , which had
been swallowed ! by the reptile , crawled .
ed through the halo and tried to get
away , but was so nearly dead from
time squeezing it had received and confinement -
finement in the reptile's body that It
could not Jet far and 1\11' Mack killed
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it with a blow of his club.-Wellsboro
Agitator ,
Ship on Dry Land.
Some stranded ships take queer positions .
sitlons , and when one looks at the
great fabric of wood and iron high and
dry on land a somewhat clear idea Is
obtained of the tremendous force of
the waves which did the work. This
photograph shows a schooner strand-
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cd in . such n position that it was impossible '
possible to get her off. Added to this
her back was broken , but in the view ,
of course , she gives no indication of
this misfortune. Once in the Mediterranean .
terranean a ; yacht was carried up n
considerable height Into a vineyard ,
whIch was a much more pleasant
place fo strike fast ita ) than the one
here plcturCl1.-New York Herald , F
PRIZE FOR LONDON uZOO. "
Specimen of Antelope of Which There
Arc Few I" Captivity. .
The accompanying sketch Is an accurate .
curate portrait from a living specimen
in the London Zoological Gardens of
one of the most interesting of antel-
opes-tho Saiga. It Is remarkable in
several wa's. First , it is the only European -
ropean antelope , although its range
there is now limited to the steppes or
high plains of southeastern Russia.
Within the historic period it wag to
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be found all over Russia , except in
the Car north , and eastward into Hun-
gar ' . Prehistorically ! as its remains
found in caverns and shell heaps testify .
tify , it inhabited all ot Europe , and
was one of the animals upon which
the cave dwellers and their more civ.
Ilized successors , the lake dwellers
and Neolithic men , depended for toad.
Eastward or Russia it ranges into Per-
sia , Turltestan and the Trans.Casplan
region generally going about in small
bands , which accumulate into herds
in the fall and winter.
This antelope Is larger than the gazelles -
zelles , which its , ringed and somewhat
lyrato horns resemble ; or than our
western prong.horn , which , it resembles .
bles In its rather robust appearance.
Like the latter , It is set apart from
ordinary antelopes , so that some naturalists .
urallsts place It in a separate family
by itself , by the inflation of its muzzle ,
which , as shown in the picture , is
more camel.like than anteloplne in as-
pect. This singularity does not arise
from enlargement of the bones of the
face or nose , but by a mass of spongy
tissue , which gives a quaint and 'un
comely swollen uppe I'ance. What advantage -
vantage , It any , it is to the animal , It
Is difficult ] to see. Its colors are dull
reddish and white ; it is swift and
wary , and its flesh is excellent eat-
ing.
Rocking Temple.
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110 utility other than Interesting curious .
ous visitors. But the strangest use to
which one of the stones has been put
! s in Bllrmah. The Cheyto pagoda is
built upon a huge rocking stone poised
on another at a height ot two thousand .
sand feet. The shrine is annually , : Is.-
ited 11) thousands of Buddhist pil-
grims. It is probably the oddest place
or worship in the world so far as location .
tlon is concerned , but if it was in the
practical mOlle.maldng West it is not
unlikely ! that It would serve as a show
at some seaside.
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BOON FOR LATE SLEEPERS.
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Automatic Match Lighter Operated by . .
Alarm Clock.
The automatic match lighter shown
in the accompanying illustrations is
the invention ot Mr. E. Max Gotter-
man 'Melbourne , Australia , and it
Is an exceedingly simple , yet in-
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Match Lighter Set , with Cap on Hood ,
Ready to Be Released by Alarm
Clock.
genlous , apparatus , capable of being
put to various uses. The apparatus
consists ot a mechanical arrangement
for lighting a match at any desired
time , the releasing of the match-mov-
ing mechanism being accomplished 'by
an ordinary alarm clock.
For this purpose , the alarm-winding
thumb piece is enlarged so as to , form
a lever that will strike and release a
catch which in turn releases a coiled
spring that sUddenly pushes a match
holder over a piece of sandpaper , thus
lighting the match. -r
The lighted match is thrust beneath
the grate of a stove and lights the
fire. It can also be made to light a
candle , a lamp or a gas stove in the .
same manner. /
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The whole arrangement , as shown , _ I
is mounted on a bracket that slides on I
a vertical rod extending upward from
a pedestal , and the bracket can be
clamped at any desired position on
this rod. -
To set the apparatus It is only necessary .
essary to set the alarm of the clock
at the desired hour , place a match in
the end of the central rod and push
this into the cylinder as far as Ii will
go , so as to engage the curve wire l
that holds it in the notch at the end Jl
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or the long slot in the cylinder. The' "
cap is then placed on the box at the
front end and the apparatus is ready . I
to work.
This device is evidently capable of i
various applications for industrial as
well as for household use. It can be
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After Latter Has Been Released.
employed in all cases in which a lamp
or a fire must be lit at a certain time.
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Jap Men Teach Women Stitches. 'I ;
Native Japanese men are employed '
i. many of the great department ,
stores of New York nowadays to inl- R
tiat.e Americans in the art of Japanese \
emhroider It Is a very strange sight
at first to see a man teaching a worn- :1 :
an how tu ew , or to evolve fine
stitches , but it only needs a glance to
see that what seemed so easy to the
foreigner is a matter of assiduous labor .
bar on the part of American women
to come anywhere near their profi-
cienc ' .
With lightning rapidity the nimble
brown fingers fly over the worl There
Is nothing slipshod about It and ene
side shows lip as well ) ) as the other.
It Is In this Imrtlclllar that an American .
can woman falls ) ) short of perfecta
The wrong side of her embroidery ! IrJ t
decidedly wrong.
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Kept Election Oath Long.
Samuel Grant , who has just died It I
Somerset Ohio , had a beard with a -
histqr He had been an ardent supporter . t
porter of Gen. John C. Fremont , and 1
upon his campaign for the presidency :
in 1856 had registered an oath never i
to shave if his favorite wa'3 defeated. 1
From that time to the day of his
" death his beard grew unrestrained bj'
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razor or shpars. _ . , .
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