Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA.
Grangemouth Is the name of a Mos
cow editor. Evidently a farmer on
the side.
Waldorf Astor has become so thor
oughly anglicized that he is going to
marry an American girl.
A clergyman says that bridge whist
leads to mental decline. Why doesn’t
he try poker for a change?
Senator Pettus is declared to be a
poor man and fond of poker. The
last explains the first, possibly.
Perhaps boys should be thankful for
whippings, as somebody declares, but
they seldom are before they are 45.
Sweet Spring is now approaching,
and Summer with the rose, so poetry’s
encroaching upon the field of prose.
King Edward was “warmly re
ceived” in Paris, but not in the same
way as when he used to be prince of
Wales.
The czar will reserve the right to
wield the big stick over the Douma.
according to the latest advices from
St. Petersburg.
We learn from the New York Mail
that women are using garters to keep
those long, arm-length gloves in place.
But do they hold?
Manchuria will be finally evacuated
by the Japanese in a few days. It
has taken them longer to get out
than it did to get in.
It is now believed that Anna Gould
is going to give Boni one more chance,
in spite of the fafCt that he has taken
a great many already.
Uruguay should not be blamed for
having a revolution. A review of re
cent South American history shows
that it is Uruguay’s turn.
Asks the editor of the Pittsfield
Journal: “Are there four girls with
gray eyes in Pittsfield?” Apparently
ye scribe means to get busy.
Queen Maud of Norway is losing
her health because she fears her hus
band will be killed. This queen busi
ness is not all pickles and pie.
It was not long ago that all the
“success” magazines were pointing to
the Pittsburg millionaires as ex
amples to the youth of the land.
With 10,000 doctors in convention in
Boston next summer, the rest of the
country ought to have a good oppor
tunity to get well.—Boston Globe.
It is a pity that the great romancers
of the sea did not live in a generation
which affords such thrilling material
as the log of the dry dock Dewey.
A Minnesota man says he has dis
covered the cause of the aurora
borealis. But what bearing will this
have on the price of coal this year?
Much to the surprise of everybody,
some of the phenomenal ball players
added to the leading nines as marvel
ous discoveries will probably make
good.
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Cheer up, mister! The president of
the Dressmakers’ National Protective
Association says that women’s dress
will be less expensive this year than
ever before.
The Japanese, says one of their
statesmen, should adopt chairs and
develop their legs. Well, short legs
did not prevent them from "getting
there” in the late war.
Portia, as quoted by the editor oi
a kind of society paper, is made to
say: "How far that little scandal
throws his beams! So shines a bau
deed in this haughty world.”
News comes from the east that the
seventeen-year locusts will devastate
the land this year. How many times
in the course of a decade do the sev
enteen-year locusts come, anyhow?
As the last suffragist was detatched
from the doorknob and put into the
police wagon, the premier of the great
British Empire crawled out from un
der his bed and sighed a sigh of re
lief
An actor nas become a soldier In
order to escape the adulation of
matinee girls. We know several ac
tors who should be driven from the
stage with a club instead of soft
glances.
Dr. Wiley, the government chemist,
has shown that he can make a glass
of Scotch whiskey in five minutes
•without the aid of Scotland, barley
or s charred keg. Yet this man is
not a millionaire.
The average woman can tell you
how the table was fixed, down to the
relative positions of the salt spoons,
but cannot tell you all there was to
eat at a banquet. The average man’s
remembrance ends with the list of
wines.
The recent mine disaster in France,
which caused the death of 1,000 men,
is said to have been due to the greed
of the mine owners, who refused to
provide proper safeguards. Greed
works out in about the same way the
world over.
The Jamestown exposition will have
a tower exceeding in altitude the Eif
fel structure, and carrying upward of
10,000 incandescent lights, which will
be visible for miles at sea at night.
Nevertheless, most people probably
would rather go to Paris.
Andrew Carnegie declares that
wealth lessens rather than increases
human happiness, and adds: “Mil
lionaires who laugh are rare.” Never
theless, most of us would be willing
to be millionaires for a while, even
at the risk of being always sober.
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National League News.
Pitcher Jake Weimer has at last
signed a Cincinnati contract.
The Brooklyn club has sold short
stop Frank to the Toledo club.
The Brooklyn club has sold outfield
er Dobbs to the Kansas City club.
Inflelder Harry Arndt of St. Louis,
has been coaching the Notre Dame
team.
“Pink” Hawley will manage a team
in the Wisconsin State League this
season.
The New York club has turned in
flelder Clyde Robinson back to the
Milwaukee club.
Fred Tenney is temporarily assist
ing pitcher Joe Harris to coach the
Tufts College team.
Pitcher Mike Lynch has been at
Boston University all winter studying
like a hope-to-be professor.
Outfielder Fred Houtz of the Pa
cific Coast League, has gone to Texas
for a trial with the Cardinals.
Outfielder Johnny Siegel of the
Reds, has been running a paying bowl
ing alley at Urbana, Ohio, ajl winter.
Catcher Mike Grady has been re
engaged by the St. Louis club at
Manager' McCloskey’s urgent en
treaty.
During the week third baseman
Strobel, catcher O’Neil and pitcher
PfeifTer signed Boston contracts.
Catcher Charley Street, late of Cin
cinnati, is coaching the Condor Train
ing School team at Huntsville, Ala.
Mike Donlin’s younger brother, Jo
seph, has signed to play with the
Whitings of the Chicago City league.
Pitcher Briggs, transferred by Chi
cago to Brooklyn, threatens to hurdle
to the outlaws unless Brooklyn raises
the ante.
Pitcher Frank Ferguson of Stock
ton, Cal., refuses to answer any of the
letters that the Cincinnati club has
sent him.
The Cincinnati Reds on Saturday
started for Marlin Springs, Texas,
where they will do their preliminary
spring work.
The St. Louis club has released
team, has sold all of the season tick
ets that he had printed and there is
a demand for more.
Manager McDermott has received
the signed contract of “Cy” Swanson.
The latter is weaving worsteds and
yarns at the mill and grocery at
Squeevillage, R. I.
George Henry of Lynn, one of the
veteran outfielders of this league and
a member of the Nashua team last
year, has been appointed a New Eng
land league umpire. The league’s of
ficial stair will consist of John Staf
ford, John O’Brien, F. J. Sullivan and
George Henry.
John Murphy of Cambridge, who
pitched great ball for the Institutes of
Cambridge last season, has been sign
ed by Fred Lake for the Lowell club.
Last spring Lake gave him a try-out,
but had an abundance of pitchers.
Lake thinks Murphy a very promising
boy.
Manager S. D. Flanagan of the Man
chester team, has received notice
from Secretary Farrell of the Nation
al association of minor leagues that
Frank J. Eustace has been awarded to
Manchester. The Haverhill club was
also negotiating for the services of
the player, but Manchester was the
first to file acceptance of terms.
The fact that Jimmy Collins is as
sociated with Jesse Burkett in the
Worcester team, recalls to mind that
Frank Selee was once connected with
a Worcester venture. Walter Burn
ham, Malachi Kittredge, Jim Cud
worth, now prospering in Lowell, and
Frank Leonard, now in Lynn, have all
managed clubs in Worcester; also
C. A. Marston of Fall River.
American Association.
Tom Murphy, the best ground
keeper Toledo ever had, has resigned
and left for his home in Indianapolis.
His successor is William Rogers.
The majority of players on the Co
lumbus (O.) team this year have done
time in the big leagues. There are
comparatively few youngsters in the
aggregation.
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In M. W. Fitzgerald, Manager Mc
Graw of the Giants believes he has
picked up a catcher who will become
a jewel. Fitz, whose home is in Al
bany, played baseball for the first
time on the Sharon independent team.
Several times during last season
young Fitzgerald was recommended
strongly to McGraw by a personal
friend and those recommendations
pitcher Swan to Kansas City; third
baseman Suter Sullivan to Louisville
and Hickman to Denver.
American League Notes.
Second baseman Gus Dundon has
re-signed with Chicago.
Detroit's crack southpaw pitcher,
Ed Killian, has at last come to terms.
Pitcher Chesbro and catcher Mc
Guire last week re-signed with New
York.
Frank Kitson has changed his mind
about quitting the game and will sign
with Washington.
Umpire O’Loughlin and wife have
returned to Rochester, N. Y., from
their bridal tour of the Pacific coast.
Manager Stahl has definitely decid
ed to play Charley Hickman in Wash
ington's left field in Huelsman's place.
The Washington club, as a corpora
tion, has presented Manager Jake
Stahl with a handsome and costly sil
ver tea set as a wedding gift.
Billy Lush, the Yale baseball coach,
probably will be with the Cleveland
club after July 1, when he is through
with the collegians.
Catcher Lou Criger, now at Hot
Springs, is reported as being but a
shadow of his former self. He suffers
from inter-costal neuralgia.
Mr. Somers of the Cleveland club,
complains that since the bringing out
of Joss the Cleveland team has not
developed one star pitcher.
Pitcher Townsend of the Cleve
lands, is dissatisfied with the salary
offered him and, while he will go to
Hot Springs, will not sign until he
gets what he wants.
George Rohe ha3 signed with the
Wlhlte Sox for the coming season.
That would make it appear as though
the Cincinnati boy would be with
Comiskey’s team for a while at least.
The veteran catcher, Charley Far
rell, last with Boston, announces her
permanent retirement, as he has en
tered a partnership with Frank W.
Leary in the management of a hotel
at Marlboro, Mass.
New England League.
Haverhill wants to trade pitcher
Connelly for A1 Weddige. Manager
McDermott Is thinking It over.
' Manager Sayer of the Haverhllls.
has signed Fred Gibbs of Merrimac,
who pitched last season for the Bidde
ford (Me.) nine.
Jesse Burkett of the Worcester
were so much in the lad's favor that
McGraw finally determined to give
him a chance, and signed him for the
Giants for 1906. Fitzgerald is 23
years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall and
weighs 180 pounds. He is active, rug
ged and strong, and, while he has
not had any major league experience,
Johnny McGraw hopes to make of him
a first-class alternate to Bresnahan
and Bowerman.
It is intimated that Kansas City
will have a new ball park. The town
is to have a new Union depot and the
chosen site isn't far away from the
present ball lot.
President Grillo of Toledo, reports
that Chairman Herrmann, of the Na
tional Commission, has ruled that un
der the National Agreement of the
American Association must throw out
the Victor ball and play with either
the Spalding or Reach ball. President
Havenor of Milwaukee, says that he
will fight any commission attempt to
coerce the American Association in
this ball matter. This question thus
adds fuel to the faction fight.
Western League.
Sioux City may take catcher Char
lie Hawkins of Rochester, on trial.
Outfielder Nate Randall has signed
with Denver.
The DesMoines club has transferred
Herman Long to Toronto in exchange
for cash and second baseman George
Magoon.
Catcher Freese of Omaha, threatens
to Jump to an independent team
owing to a row with Manager Rourke i
over advance money.
Condensed Dispatches.
The Newark club has sold second i
baseman Loudenslager to Rochester.
The Nashville club has signed third i
baseman Ernest Moser of Buffalo, •,
New York. ,
The St. Louis American Club has
transferred pitcher P. J. Hynes to Mil
waukee.
First baseman Conn, of Providence,
and first baseman Arthur Brown of
Newark, "have signed respectively
with the York and Johnstown outlaw
clubs.
Pitcher John Powell and catcher
Jack O’Connor have signed with the
St. Louis American League club.
The veteran infielder, Jimmy Cana
van, has been appointed manager of
the New Bedford club, recently sold
to a local syndicate by Fred Doe.
Infielders Lindsay, O’Leary and
Shaefer have declined to sign at the
Detroit club's terms, and O’Leary
and Schaefer have refused to go south
with the team.
Louis B. McNanny. a player well .
known throughout Indiana independ
ent circles, died at Indianapolis,
March 1, from tetanus, due to step. *
ping on a rusty nail. ,
Trust to Nature.
A great many Americans, both men
and women, are thin, pale and puny, with
poor circulation, because they have ill
treated their stomachs by hasty eating
or too much eating, by consuming alco
holic beverages, or by too close confine
ment to home, office or factory, and in con
sequence the stomach must be treated
in a natural way before they can rectify
their earlier mistakes. The muscles in
many such people, in fact in every weary,
thin and thin-blooded person, do their
work with great difficulty. As a result
fatigue comes early, is extreme and lasts
long. The demand for nutritive aid is
ahead of the supply. To insure perfect
health every tissue, bone, nerve and
muscle should take from the blood cer
tain materials and return to it certain
others. It is necessary to prepare the
stomach for the work of taking up from
the food what is necessary to make good,
rich, red blood. We must go to Nature
for the remedy. There were certain
roots known to the Indians of this
oountry before the advent of the whites
which later came to the knowledge of
the settlers and which are now growing
rapidly in professional favor for the cure
of obstinate stomach and liver troubles.
These are found to be safe and yet cer
tain In their cleansing and Invigorating
effect upon the stomach, liver and blood.
These are: Golden Seal root, Queen’s
root, Stone root, Blood root, Mandrake
root. Then there is Black Cherrybark.
The medicinal principles residing in these
native roots when extracted with glyc
erine as a solvent make the most reliable
and efficient stomach tonic and liver in
vigorator, when combined in just the
right proportions, as in Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery. Where there
is bankrupt vitality — such as nervous
exhaustion, bad nutrition — and thin
blood, the body acquires vigor and the
nerves, blood and all the tissues feel the
favorable effect of this sovereign remedy.
Although some physicians have been
aware of the high medicinal value of the
above mentioned plants, yet few have
used pure glycerine as a solvent and
usually the doctors’ prescriptions called
for the ingredients in varying amounts,
with alcohol.
The “Golden Medical Discovery” is a
scientific preparation compounded of the
glyceric extracts of the above mentioned
vegetable ingredients and contains no
alcohol or harmful habit-forming drugs.
CUBES COMSMlioT
Relief that comes from the use of
pills or other cathartics is better
than suffering from the results of
constipation, but relief and euro
combined may be had at the same
price and more promptly, for |
Lane’s Family
Medicine
is a cure for constipation, and the
headache, backache, sideache and
general debility that come from
constipation stop when the bowels
do their proper work.
Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Children will never disobey you if
you never give them any orders.
A man would like to go to business
early if it caused scandal in tne
church.
If money could stick to one's des
cendants the way red hair does,
everybody would be rich.
When a man wakes up fifteen min
utes before it is time to get up he
swears he never slept a wink all night.
Generally you can tell when a wom
an is a mother by the way she doesn't
think any children she medts are
pretty.—New York Press.
Two swelled heads are not better
than one.
Don't lose your head if ambitious to
get ahead.
No, Alonzo, a woman isn’t necessar
ily an artist because she paints.
With some men an emergency is but
another name for an opportunity.
Seeing America.
The Passenger Department of the
Chicago & North-Western Railway an
nounces that as a means of increasing
the efficiency of the “Seeing America
First” movement, round trip tickets
will be sold over that line to all Pa
cific Coast points, good on their fast
limited trains, at the'rate of $75.00
from Chicago, daily June 1st to Sept.
15th.
Every facility is being provided for
In the way of stopovers and other con
veniences, and the tourist movement
to the Pacific coast, for the coming
season promises to show an increase
of many thousand people over that of
any season ever known.
THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION.
Tuskegee is to receive $3 *0,000 from
the Dotger estate of South Orange,
N. J.
Fifty-five million volumes in public
and school libraries of the United
States.
A well-equipped and well-regulated
playground is second only to a good
school.
Indiana is the only state whose
Congressional delegation has only col
:ege-bred men.
Nearly forty per cent of the stu
Jents at the Mt. Pleasant, Mich., nor
nal schopl are men.
In 1900 there were 56 per cent of
he Harvard graduates living, now
here are 60 per cent.
Pennsylvania has but 187 high
schools with a four-year’s course,
rhere should be 1,000.
The school nurse is no more a fad
han a family physician when typhoid
'ever invades the home.
Other things being equal, the fel
ow who learns most from his mis
akes is the most successful.
Every state should have an inspec
or of high schools, but he should be
l man equal to the duties.—Journal
>f Education.
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MC«a BROS.. Os.
This Marvellous New Plan for Driving
Great Steamships across the Ocean is
Like a Series of Pinwheels on a Shaft
with Blades to Direct the Current —
using Steam instead of Air.
Every schoolboy knows what a pin
wheel is and how by blowing he can
spin, yet there are few educated men
outside the ranks of engineers who
have any but the vaguest idea of
what a turbine is. Therefore, it may
astonish many people to know that a
turbine is nothing but a series of pin
wheels, one behind the other, fixed
to a shaft which turns with them.
For the breath with which the boy
blows the paper pinwheel a jet of
steam is substituted, and fixed to the
inside of the cylinder in which the
pinwheel s revolve is a series of sta
tionary blades projecting into the
space between each wheel and set at
such an angle that they will deflect
the stream of steam to strike the pin
wheels at the angle which will give
the most force.
There is the simplest description of
a turbine ever written.
W. Owen Williams, member of the
Institution of Engineers and Ship
builders in Scotland, and a famous
naval architect, in the introduction to
his book on turbine steamers:
“The Parsons turbine consists of a
cylindrical case with numerous rings
of inwardly projecting blades. Within
this cylinder, which is of variable in
ternal diameter, is a shaft or spindle,
and on this spindle are mounted
blades. The diameter of the spindle
is less than the internal diameter of
the cylinder, and thus an annular
space is left between the two. This
space is occupied by the blades, and it
is through these the steam flows. The
steam enters the cylinder by means
of an annular port at the forward
end; it meets a ring of fixed guide
blades which deflects it so that it
strikes the adjoining ring of moving
blades at such an angle that it exerts
on them a rotary impulse. When the
steam leaves these blades it has nat
urally been deflected. The second
ring of fixed blades is therefore inter
posed and these direct the steam on
to the second ring of rotating blades.
The same thing occurs with succeed
ing rings of guide and moving blades
until the steam escapes at the ex
haust passage.”
Any boy of average intelligence can
make a turbine that will run a good
sized boat, but unless he has had
some experience in the use of tools
and solder he will do well to employ
a tinsmith to help him. The model
turbine illustrated here was made of
tin, and the picture shows the princi
ple upon which it works, the upper
half of the cylinder having been re
moved.
This little machine is exactly the
same in principle as that w'hich drives
the giant Cunard steamer Carmania
across the Atlantic. But these differ
ences must be noted: Where the mod
el has only five rings of eight blades
each the turbine of a steamer has
perhaps a hundred rings, each com
posed of many hundreds of blades,, as
may be seen in the upper picture; and
the stationary blades on the inside of
Solder these upon the shaft, spaced
evenly. This is the spindle of the tur
bine.
Have a tinsmith cut and bend two
pieces of tin three and three-quarter
inches long and of such width that
when soldered together they will
form a cylinder one and ooe-eighth
inches in diameter. Place your spin
dle with its blades in these half
cylinders and with a pencil mark a
line exactly in the middle between
each ring of blades. Upon these lines
must be soldered the stationary
blades.
The easiest way to make these
blades is to cut strips of tin about
one-half inch in diameter and in
length to fit the inside of each of
your half cylinders; before bending
these, cut them into teeth, shaped
like the teeth of a saw; with a pair
of pincers bend these teeth back, be
ing careful that they point in the
direction opposite to the blades on
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Shaft of Real Turbine Showing the
Blades.
the shaft. Then solder these strips
of teeth upon your half cylinders
along the lines drawn with your pen
cil.
A cap for each end of the cylinder
must be made of tin bored in the cen
ter for the ends of the shaft, and hav
ing two one-eighth inch holes cut in
each, opposite to each other, those
on the fore end to receive the steam
pipes and those at the rear the ex
haust.
Before soldering the two halves of
the cylinder together and the caps
on each end place the spindle in posi
tion, see that its blades do not en
gage the stationary teeth and that
the latter point in the direction op
posite to the former.
You may find it necessary to solder
a tiny washer or two at one end or
the other to prevent the shaft from
slipping back and forth and the teeth
from catching, bnt if the tin has
been carefully cut the square part of
the shaft should just touch the inside
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second circle of blades upon the shaft
at the right angle and so on, until
the steam has done its work upon
each of the five “pinwheels” and it
flies out at the two exhaust holes.
You can mount a fly-wheel or a
screw propeller upon the rear end of
your shaft and you will be astonished
at the speed with which it revolves.
A boy who has been through a
good manual training school will be
able to make a turbine of brass,
which will be more serviceable than
that of tin,-but he should file out his
blades, both the stationary and mov
ing ones, and make them much more
numerous and of much smaller size
than it is possible to make of tin.
It is not necessary to go into the de
tails of such a turbine, for any boy
who has the mechanical skill to lkake
one will be able to discover how.
On an ocean steamer—and there
are now many operated by turbines,
the nfew Allan liners, the boats that
cross the English channel and several
warships and yachts, besides the giant
Carmania—the spindle of the turbine
gradually increases in size, to make
better use of the expansion of the
steam, and on many three turbines
are used, one operated by high pres
sure steam, one intermediate and one
low pressure.
The turbine is really very simple,
for after all it is nothing but a series
of pinwheels on a shaft.
VAST PRODUCTIVITY OF CHINA.
One Fact That Has Greatly Impressed
Sir Ian Hamilton.
One of the impressions which Sir
Ian Hamilton of the British army ob
tained while accompanying the Japa
nese army in Manchuria and which he
describes in his "Scrap Book of a
Staff Officer” is the tremendous pro
ductive power of the Chinese. He
says that he never saw anywhere in
the world men work more industrious
ly and in some respects more intelli
gently. and this upon a basis of com
pensation infinitesimally small when
compared with that demanded in the
western world. He entirely supports
the contention of the labor leaders of
the United States that Chinese labor
must be excluded, because he affirms
that if it were permitted to enter into
competition with the ordinary labor of
America it could not fail to acquire an
ascendency over it, not on account of
degraded habits and methods of liv
ing, but simply because the Chinese
put their shoulder to the wheel of
work with a determination and per
sistency which workmen elsewhere do
not exhibit.—Boston Herald.
Civil Above Military Rule.
The English public will probably
await with interest the result of the
action of John Morley, secretary ol
state for India, who has just indicat
ed his purpose to recognize the su
premacy of the civil government in
matters relating to the conduct of af
fairs in India, even including mill
tary affairs. The clash between Lord
Curzon and Gen. Lord Kitchener ovei
exactly this point was decided by the
Balfour ministry in favor of the lat
ter. Mr. Morley’s purpose may bring
about a resignation of Lord Kitchen
er, just as Mr. Balfour’s decislor
brought about the resignation of Lore
Curzon, and just^how the English peo
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This is the only essential difference,
and it is one of proportion, and not of
principle.
To make a model such as this, buy
a square steel shaft one-eighth of an
inch in diameter and five inches long;
turn it round in a lathe, or have it
turned if you possess no lathe, for
three-eighths of an inch at each end.
Get a tinsmith to stamp five circles of
thin tin, each one inch in diameter,
and to bore a square hole one-eighth
of an inch in diameter in the exact
center of each. With a pair of shears
cut eight radiating slits in each of
these disks, and with a pair of pincers
twist the blades thus formed until
they lie like the blades of a propeller
at an angle of about forty-five degrees.
thus hold it rigid.
Buy five cents’ worth of one-eighth
inch brass or copper tubing, attach it
to the two holes in the cylinder head
and connect it with your boiler, which
you had better buy at some shop
where they sell mechanical toys,
though you can make it yourself with
out difficulty, or have a tinsmith make
it for you.
The steam will enter at the two
holes, one on either side, and strike
the first circle of stationary blades
which you have been careful to bend
to an angle which will turn it to strike
the first of the circle of blades upon
the shaft; these in turning deflect it,
but the second circle of stationary
blades will again turn it to strike the
one of their great military heroes is
problematical.—Boston Herald.
High Praise for Tobacco.
At the University club banquet In
Washington a few nights ago they
gave “Uncle Joe” Cannon a cigar
three feet long. It may or may not
have been made of tobacco.
Representative Longworth, return
ing to his duties in the House after
his honeymoon, brought for Uncle Joe
a cigar made of the best Havana to
bacco and about eighteen Inches long.
Uncle Joe took it, smelled of it,
turned it over and over, and caressed
it lovingly. “By gum, Nick,” he said,
“it looks good enough to put cream
on and eat.”
MATERIAL FOR KEYS OF PIANO
Elephant Tusks by the Ton Arrive at
Boston.
When the steamship Philadelphia
arrived here yesterday she brought
among the other things in her cargo a
consignment of elephant tusks, or
teeth, as they are called in the ship’s
manifest
There are about 300 tusks in the
consignment, and in weight they run
from about seventy-five pounds to the
weight of an ordinary man. Few of
them are less than a yard in length,
and one is fully eight feet long, having
evidently been the property at some
time of an elephant that would rival
the famed Jumbo in size.
According to those handling the big
lot of ivory on the ship the tusks are
valued at about $3 a pound, and as
there are about sixteen tons in the lot
they must be worth close to $30,000,
or an average of $300 each.
The firm to which the tusks are con
signed is engaged in the manufacture
of piano keys, and only the best grade
and whitest of ivory can be used for
this purpose. The work of transport
ing the tusks from the ship to the
Cambridge factory was begun this af
ternoon. As may be supposed such
consignment of ivory are not infre
quent at this port, but the present
shipment is an unusually large and
fine one. They will be cut np into
slivers and then cut into sizes for the
tops of the piano keys before being
polished. —Boston Globe.
Prize Flying Machine.
Santos-Dumont has constructed a
flying machine with which he expects
to win the Deutsch-Archdeacon $10,000
prize for machines heavier than the
air. This new machine is to be a
“helicoptere,” or screw flyer, an ap
paratus which will raise, support and
propel itself through the air solely by
the power of horizontal and vertical
propellers.
A Farce.
Bacon—“I see they are playing a
piece called ‘The Duel’ in New York.
Do you know what it is like?”
Egbert—“No; but if it represents
one of those French duels I guess It’s
a farce.”
RELIC OFFERED TO SCOTLAND.
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Seal of Robert Burns Bequeathed by
Its Late Owner.
A curious bequest, which will inter
est all Scotchmen, is conveyed in the
will of Mrs. Martha Burns Thomas, a
great granddaughter of Scotland’s na
tional bard, Robert Burns, which was
read recently. The bequest was as
follows: “I give the Poet’s, Robert
Burns, my great-grandfather’s, original
seal, chained in bog oak casket, as ex
hibited in the Burns Exhibition, to
the Maseum of the Bums Monumext at
Ayr on condition that the sum of
£100 be paid yearly for ten years to
my cousin, Robert Burns Hutchinson,
of British Columbia, great-grandson of
the Poet Burns, as I value the Poet’s
seat at one thousand pounds, and I
wish to secure it for Scotland.”
coing ana coming.
“A man who is as big a fool as you
are should never have married.”
“But, of course, if I hadn't been as
big a fool as I was I wouldn’t have
married. It works both ways, my
dear.”