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CAN OPENER THAT IS SIMPLE. TOO WARM. MA ..'r'.;,V AND vix B?J4. - A. r USE OF CONCRETE PIPING. Material Is Now Deing Used for Buildings of All Kinds, Large and Small. Wrilf iron anil stool nion insist l lull this is an ago of stool, anil elec trical i-nginoeru holil it is tin; elec trical iiKo, concrete builders maintain Mint it i also the concrete ago, and everyone will agroo that while con Mote lias boon utilized for conturios past, it Iibb novor boon so universally employed us at present, liuildings of :U1 kinds-, largo and small, vessels, railroad tics, pavornouts, mine shafts, walls, breakwaters, piers, piles, wa Vr and sower pipe, tanks and wells, ss well as many other kinds of con--driiftiun aro now being made of con crete. At W'aukegnn, 111., a lino of 5,000 toot ot such, pipe is being laid. The diameter of tho pipo is 48 inches. .Mure than 1,000 fen-t of pipo (it! inches in diameter has hi en laid at Atlantic City, and in still another city a lino of pipe 72 inches in diameter has becu completed for a distance of 4,000 foot. I lyiiro electric power plants are also using reinforced couorote pipo. ART OF CURRYC0MBING HORSE Newly Invented Device Has Cleaning Attachment, Keeping Comb Free of Dirt. The process of rurryeonibing a Inure tr- an art, and one not to be Si-ike Wires Against Stall. iean'cil at. first attempt; hut. even a .lovice, equipped with the currycomb : d by an Ohio man will find the Job :!sir than an expert will find it who uses tho old-stylo comb. This r.evv d' 'Ai'-e bases its advantage in the ,.ict that it ha:; a cleaning attachment .a i ;i:is uf which tho comb may be l.opt Hear of dirt as the work goes , a. This consists of a hammer head o adjmttd at tho edge f tho comb I Mat a sli.Jit jar sets it in vibration uul the j articles of dirt are shaken at. Across the P:hU of the instiii .i.i nt are, wires so bent as to engage .he Iciiumcr head and hold it loosely mi position. The hostler needs only in strike tho wires against, the side nl it Mall and the hammer head is sol into vibration. I'tiless a currycomb is kept cl"an it cannot be used ef fectively, as tho corrugations become dogged and it passes over the horse's hide w itiioiit any result. REMEDY FOR LOOsTsCREWS. A convenient method of making a loose strew hold is illustrated hero .villi. Take a soft piece of copper win- ami wind it around the threads A Remedy for Loose Wood Screws. l' the strew as shown, thus in effect increasing the diameter of tho threaded part. This . will save plug ging or using a larger wrew. Scien tific American. Battleflect Cruise. From every point of view tho round-Hio-woidd cruise of the battleship fleet was a pronounced success, and the crowning indorsement of nil has been the recent announcement of the Us-1 sish.nt seetelnry of the navy that the! repairs to :j of tho It! battleships j that pintle tho voyage have been coin- ; iilcted at a total cost to the engineer-1 iag ami the equipment hi:rcn,'.s of i .sM.2Mi. or less than $l,i'iil per ship,! says the Scientilic American. Mav ; were the predictions of tumble, dam-! iige, and vttj disaster, at the time oi ! tho f-tUUilfiT of the fleet; but not one lias been fulfilled. On the contrary, ; tho licnelit. to the navy in the In-, crease of its physical efficiency and , the improvement uf Ws moiale has' been inv alitablo. ; Shipwrecks In Hell Gale. More than $ l.lMtn.noo a ytar Is lost, by shipwrec ks it! the Moll dale chan-1 uels In tho Hast, river, although mll-i lions have been spent on improving ilio tfiitr.oiw channels I Illinois has the greatest number of electric plants of any state, ;;ys; New York is second with :'..'S, and I'ciuis.vl vanfn third with "!. mm M j Every Housewife Would Welcome Oris That Can Be Used Without i Fear of Cutting. Every housewife would undoubtedly welconi the invention of a really simple and substantial can opener, one that she could operate without danger of cutting, her hands. Sim plicity and efficiency seem to bo the keynote of tho one shown iu tho illus tration below, designed and invented by a Detroit, man. In opening n can the point at the end is thrust into tho central portion of the top of the can and the bar brought so that it Hvs Cuts Top or Side of Can. parallel with tho top of tho can. Thw cutter is then regulated on tho tootlted bar so that it will cut either tho to) of tho can or tho side. With a Jinn pull on tho handle tho tin can he easily severed. It will be noticed that there aro practically two cutters, one for cutting the top of the can and another for cutting the side of the can. This will be found convenient when it is desired to remove the Con tent:; without disarranging them. TRANSVERSE WAGON SPRING. When Side Springs Are Sufficiently Depressed They Come Into Useful Action. In addition to the ordinary Hide springs which support the body, a heavy wagon is usually lit ted with a transverse spring which is not fisod to tho axle but rests one inch or 1 Vj inches above it. The reason of this is that when the wagon is running empty or with a light load the ordin ary springs aro sufficient, but when it is fully loaded, and the side spring-; are sufficiently depressed, the trans- Trancveree Springs. verse siuing conies Into action and hilps to boar tho weight and strain. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. North Carolina. South Dakota. Colo rado, Alabama ami Virginia, in the or der named, lead in the production of mica. In their writings tho Chinese use at h ast. 214 groups of signs, each con taining from live to 1 4 separate characters. An international moving picture ex hibition, including apparatus and at tachments of till sorts, is being held In London. France has followed the lead of tho I'nitod Stales in (lie establishment Of a laboratory for tho investigation of mine accidents. Now Mexico produced 2,4t'.7,0P,7 short tons of coal last your, a de crease of a xi more than six per cent, from tho output of 11)07. Lighting Niagara. Plans for the permanent illumina tion of Niagara Falls this summer have boon worked out by Kngineor Ryan of tho (leueral Klectrio company. Tho details will bo laid before a commit tee of interested citizens from Niagara Falls, Out., and Niagara Falls. N. V. The plans, as outlined by Mr. Ryau, call for two batteries of lights, one lo lie known as the Cliff battery, the oilier as the Gorge battery. It is planned lo excavate a recess in the Canadian cliff opposite Coat Island, this shelf to be U'S feet long and 12 feet: wide, and height of the excava tion to be 10 feet. Hero will bo In stalled twenty projectors, each thirty iiu lies in diameter. Tho previous illumination made dining tho progress of tho exposition at Ihiffalo was of l.r.iiii.ouo nominal cnndlcpowtr, v-fcrees the proposed illumination will bo LViiit1 tiun nominal ( ntiiilcpiiwcr. Tree Planting by Dynamite. Holes for tree planting, according to tho Kngineeiing Record, h ive been excavated by tho Long Island railway by blasting with dynamite. A hole about two feet deep was first dug with a posi-holo auger at .Mi angle o,' about thirty-live degree with the surface, and loaded with half n stick of 10 per cent, dynamite, This shot makes a hob' about two feet deep and three feet In diameter, leaving the earth In the bottom pul verized suitably for planting. It, is stated that two men tan thus excavate 2M holes in a ten hour day nt n cost of about. 7'i cents a hoi INTERESTING GAME FOR BOYS; Good Substitute f?r Baieball Where j Large Field for Latter Cannot Be Secured. ! One eiin say nothing unkind about baseball, for it really is a splendid game, livery buy will tell you that. Hut there aro times when an open spate large enough for a ball field isn't near, or a stilllclent number of players cannot be hail. Nor is base ball a game hi which girls readily can join. Kggball is different. Hull) girls and boys can play, in 'most any number, and have an enjoyable time. A very small space, easily found In a back yard, provides tho "Hold." In the center of tho held set a rod upright, with its top about eight feet above ground. Fasten to tho extreme end of the rod a hook or ring, and to this atlach a cord. Carefully empty an egg; then make it secure at the rnd of the cord, by tho method illus trated in the diagram. Kaeh player has n ractpiet. The rim should bo constructed of paste board and covered with stout paper. Little courts are marked, outward from tho polo. No player must move from his or her court while tho game is on. The egghall Is started by a player. Then each player In turn Mrikes at it with tho ractpiet. Any player w ho misses the ball upon strik- Game of Eggball. big musi retire from tho game. It is not necessary to endeavor to hit the ball liming each round. Too tilflicult (hots may bo passed by. That player who remains longest iu the game wins. REFUSED TO NEGLECT BABY. Little Girl, Caring for Small Sister, Wouldn't Let Curiosity Get Eetter of Her. She was a tiny little girl, with sun- j tunned hair, a b!uo calico dress and j bare feet. ,Shr carried in her firms j a baby half as largo as herself, ami ! the baby was so heavy that it sagged I down in the middle, giving tho infant j tho appearance ot b i!,g held by tii 1 loot and the nape of tho node. There was sumo excitement around the corner of the next block, and tie children were hurrying forward lile' mad from all directions. The littl'' girl tried to run, but the baby was too heavy, and her breath gave out. Said I. in a spirit of badinage: "Drop the baby, sis, and go see what, the trouble is." She stoppeil and stared at me. "1 say, put the baby down on tl,. sidewalk and run." "Yer must take mo for u fool, mi ter." "Why?- " 'Cos this Is our baby." "Well, supposo it Is? Jil stay h ami watch it for yon." "No, yer won't mister, Yer mtgt.t rnrry It off." "What if I did? Aren't you tired of carry.Vig it around and making ymr back ache?" "Naw, I ain't. Say. mister, this in the only baby we've got, and if yer only knowed how she can crow ami laugh, yer wouldn't want mo to do no such thing. This baby hain't got no ma, Yept nio, and pa and mo couldn't do 'thont her. She sets up In n Iifgh chalr at the table and crows and kicks while me and pa eats, and at night I rock her to sleep like ma used lo do. When ma tiled the baby didn't know no letter, but just laughed ami hol lered, and I e,i(.d so I couldn't keen licr still, put her down on the side walk! Fool-kllleNI get you. mister, of yer stand around here long." Jamie's Bath. It was Jamie's l,ath night. He lia I several each week and he hated t! ,.i all. On Ibis particular night, om e started, ho soaked ami ppiasl'icl i i the tub for a full half hour, then h s mother hnled him forth. Ho (: out of the room in his pajamas v, v i his lace all st ranked nnd dirty as :t was when ho went is. "Mercy!" cried his mother. 'I thought you took a bath!" "So I did!" answered Jamie mmm rally. "A bully one!" "Ihtt your face Is black!" said I is mother. "Oh!" .Tnmlcs smiled undeisti.i: ! Ingly. "My faee is nil right. I have to wash that In the morning, bath or no bath. You don't s'poso I'm go: ig to waste time bathing my face! I always begin Just below my ears and work down on my arms and legs; but I always leave my face ami hands -(Iioho ends I 'teed to in the morning " .j j Yin wiiini lo wets In tin- Hummer, Willi liir.v lianilM tiil feet; I'lO if it iiliTnieUiii Is cut "lis never Inn w .inn lo i':it. I n) warm In wmk In tlm minimcr; Hut If Hmtc's n IiIk -1 r-ti ; ulievv ''en's In low it, Willi :i J i ! I - ilnvvn, "I'U never Inn warm In K". V "' warm tn wnrU I" ite niiiinie-r; Cut In rump unit pliiv nmt run I - such a very illtTi leiit tliiiuc. 1 "i- its never In" wit nil for fun. VERY FOOLISH LITTLE BOY Forgot That People Who Live in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones Disastrous Result. There was onco a little boy who lived In a honso all made of glass. Il lived with his mother and his father and his nurse, and be used to have ti lovely time sliding on tho glass doors. And everything went well whllo ho was good, bill one day ho wasn't. I lo was cross. When ho slipped on tho glass floor, instead of thinking It fun, l o was angry, and when ho went down to breakfast ho slid down the glass banisters, which ho ought not to have done. And ho spilled bis milk on tho glass table and made marks all over Hie glass walls with soap. And finally lie looked out of tiio win I mean tho wall, for, of course, all tho walla were windows and saw some children playing and making lots of noise. That made him crosser, so ho went down to tho back yard and collected a lot of stones anil went upstairs again and threw them at the children, which was tho naugh tiest thing yet. Ho couldn't dodge out of sight, because tho whole wall was glass, so when tho children looked up they saw hint there. They worn quite indignant, so they lacked up the stones and threw them back at the httle boy. They hit the house In all directions, and math such' alarming jagged holes that the little boy's mother and father came running In, and taking Iho litilo boy's hands ran downstairs and out as tpiickly as po'i siblf. The house collapsed complete ly. The fathere shook his head. "We'll have to take a brick cot tage," he said. "Ob, my boy, don't you know that people who live In glass 'bouses shouldn't throw stones?" LITTLE STUNT WITH CORKS Pile Them In a Column and See if You Can Knock Them Off One at a Time. This picture shows a little cork "stunt" that seems quit" simple. To one end of a piece of string Is tied a cork ami to iho other end Is at tached a rod. Pile up a number (f corks iu a single column a difficult feat in itself. Then "fish" with your roil, trying to knock one cork at a Getting One at a Time. time from the column without destrov ing the balance of tho other corks In tho heap. It takes a skilful person to do this trick successfully. Tiny Magnificent Slippers. When the now baby princess of Holland puts down her royal foot by way of emphasis, it will be with tho most beautiful American footwear that ever graced the sole of a pro spective monarch. Her slippers have bel li designed and made) by an Amer ican shoemaker, from the daintiest r.nd finest piece of white kid and calfskin ever turned out In Paris. One : pet dally beautiful pair have been lined with pieces of (J'leen Williel mii.a's wedding gown, and the cost was $"mii. What Am I Doing? The players in tills gaum seat, them selves iu a row and tho leader of thn game takes his place behind them, be ginning at tho top of the row. Ilo makes ronn1 absurd gesture and then asks the person behind whom ho Is standing: "What am I dolus?" If tho players replies Incorrectly, and ho generally does, he Is doomed to stand iiji and Imitate iu silence tho w'sture he could not guess, until he. has leave to sit down. TTih development of train nervtco Is often not f;illy realized until our at tention Is called to tho number of trains running between our chief towns. Taking tho summer time table of 1 DOS, for example, there were 22 down and 29 up trains between London and (ilaagow; between Lon don nml F.rilnhurgh there were 30 down nnd "S up; while between the metropolis and Leeds there were 4(1 down and ,0 up, nnd between London and .Manchester no less than liS down ami ."3 up, that Is, on an average, a li-mlnuto service. It must be homo In mind, how ever, that different routes are taken by many of these trains and consequently different towns are con J'octod up by trains running between tho same points. Although comfort nnd frequency of service arc two important features In railway improvements, tho Increase In speed and In tho number of long non-stop runs daily being performed on many of our main linos emphasizes perhaps more than anything else tho high degree of oflleiency our railways have attained. Hurlng the par.t sum mer the timo tables of our chief lines fhowed n total of over l.V) runs of more than 100 miles without n stop. Of these the fastest running Is done by two expresses on tho (Ireat West ern railway, which cover tho HSi miles between l'addlngton nnd Ilrlstol In two hours, giving a start to stop average speed of r.9.8 miles per hour. Next to those comes a run on tho Croat Northern railway from Crant ham to King's Cross, 10r.'4 miles, nt an average speed of 57.7 miles per hour. To maintain such high speeds for so many miles demonstrates what vast Improvements have taken place In the steam locomotive, fur In 1870 the quick est average speed in this country was only 41! miles per hour. It Is only by tho aid of water-troughs that these long non-ston runs can bo made; the troughs, which are about &00 yards in length, are placed between the rails nnd are automatically kept full. Water can thus bo picked up whilo running by a scoop under tho tender, which Is lowered Into the trough by the engine men, tho speed of the train forcing tho water up he scoop Into tho ten der tank. In the 'development of train work ing nothing has played a 'bioro Impor tant part than the locomotive, for. as the traffic and the demand fur rapid transit have Increased, so has the lo comotive been brought up to the nec essary Btato of efficiency, not only as regards speed, but In economical working, without which It would have boon an Impossibility to give the pub lie what they desired. The modern locomotive Is an evolutionary product, nnd although the main principles re main much the game as In the early engine, it would he hard for tho lay mau to recognize any of the old In tho new. Tho Invention of the loco motive Is nowadays absolutely Indis pensable to our dally existence. In Its earliest days It has been likened Iu appearance to a medieval engine of war and was originally used only on ooIil'Vy lines because It could pull a few more t nicks than could a horse. The Idea of speed never seemed to enter Into ths minds of its promoters, and at the opening of the Stockton and Darlington railway In 182.", when the locomotive made Its first appear ance In tho interests of the public, considerable surprise was caused by the sieed It attained of some 12 miles per hour. It Is recorded that the horseman who preceded It with n flag hud promptly to clear out of the way, to the wonder of the assembled crowd. At first It met with a considerable amount of opposition nnd many strange objections were taken to It; but ns soon as It began to bo recog nized what commercial prosperity was wrapped up In i's development all these ohjcftious disappeared. It was not, however, until tho famous loco motive contest at. ItalnhiU In 1SL") that tho hitherto doubtful question of Its practical success was settled once and for all. On that occasion the Itocket, dt signed by Stephenson, astonished the spectators by running .V. miles In one hour 4a minutes and attaining a speed of nearly 30 miles per hour p'llllng a load of 13 tons. This historic engine weighed 111 working order 41; tons and was enr rled on four wlculs; Its Unikr fully ';rrs loaded weighed 3!i tons. The driving wheels, which wero the foremost of the pair, were four feet 8Vi inches In diameter, ami the cylinders, placed outsldo on the sides of the firebox, were eight InchoB In diameter with a; stroke of Ifi'i Inches. Hut the chief fcaturo which, undoubtedly contrib uted nioro than anything elso to the success of this crude-looking innchlne was tho tubular boiler with which It was litted. These tubes greatly In creased tho evaporating power of the boiler and enab)cd the engine to run nt higher speeds without getting short of steam. The Rocket is now to be seen In tho South Kensington rnu- scum, having, however, undergone several alterations from lis original state. Somo idea of the bIzc cf this engine compared wlih one of our modern plants can bo obtained when wo find that the tolal weight of the Rocket was not half as much as Is carried on one of the driving wheel: of tho Great Hour. Tho natural outcome of Stephen son's success was the appearance of ninny other engines of various de signs nnd embodying somo irp.r ideus. As, however, the railways bo gan to Fpread over tho country and the great trunk lines to bo formed, so the work of the loromotlvo grew heav ier and development becamo essential to cope with the Increasing traffic and to meet tho demand for faster trains. Tho Litest development of locomo tive building on our railways is shown in tho Illustration of the Great Hear. This engine, which was con structed last year at tho Swindon works of tho Groat Western railway to tho designs of Mr. 0. J. Church ward. Is the biggest running In the kingdom. It weighs In working order S7 tons, and with its tender 14.'' tons; It has four cylinders, all lf Inches by M Inches, and driving wheels six feet eight Inches in diameter. On nccount of the great size of Its holler It Is carried on 12 wheels, so that the ex tra weight Is spread out over a longer wheel-base and tho strains on tho per manent way and bridges are rot In creased. When e compare this mon ster with its predecessors of 70 or SO yours ago some Idea of the vast change nnd development that has taken place In the steam locomotive can bo realized. The Iron horso has indeed revolutionized the social and commercial life of the world and in Its present form represents perhaps the greatest of the many triumphs of steam. J. It. Bazln. Church as Smugglers' Cave. i Owing to the presence of the fleet In the Thames, Canvey Island has had a great Influx of good class visitors. Kverybody vIsitB the one little church with Its many stained glass windows, which Is famous for some amazing smuggling exploits. The present vicar, the Her. Watson linger, M. A., relates how within the last half century, before he was ap pointed, the church was served from tho mainland village of Henfleet. The bishop of the diocese had arranged for 26 services to be conducted during i ho year, Intending of course that they should be held fortnightly. Instead, however, they were held consecutively, so for six months of iho year the church was never opened. Taking advantage of this extraordin ary state of things a band of smug glers used the building as a very safe hiding place for storing kegs of ruin, bales of tobacco, laces and other con traband goods. Some of these daring smugglers aro still living on the Island - London M. A. P. New Idea for Long Ll,. A novel method oi attaininr longevi ty was practiced by Mrs. Yetta Schul man, who died recently In New York : at the advanced ago of 10a years. Mrs. Schiilnian paid no particular attention to points of diet, exercise, sleep, etc., which usually figure hugely In rules laid down for those growing old. Sho believed that the lives of aged per sons could be prolonged It they asso ciated constantly or nearly so with young people, and she apparently veri fied her theory, for she spent the greater part of her time In company with children, even taking part in their iports with lively Interest. Leslie's Vekly.