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Wood Photographing Itself.
A curious property of wood, where
by it is able to photograph itself in
the dark, is described by Dr. William
J. Russell in a paper recently read be
fore the London Royal society. This
property he showed by experiments to
belong probably 'to all woods, some
woods, however, being much more ac
tive than others. To obtain a picture
the wood must be in contact with or
ati. 4 little distance above the photo
graphic plate, and must remain there
for- times varying from half an hour to
eighteen hours, and be at a tempera
lure not higher than 131 degrees Fah
renheit. The wood of the conifers is
very active, and gives pictures which
are very definite. . It was thought that
(his action was due to the resinous
bodies n the wood, but it has been
remarked, .'. that there is no action
from the dark autumn wood. Resin
exists in the dark rings, but apparent
ly under such conditions that Its
action cannot escape. And again,
with the spruces, the action on the
plate is not so definite. With regard
to woods other than conifers, oak and
beech are both active and give very
good pictures, as do also acacia (Robl
nla), Spanish chestnut and sycamore.
On the other hand, ash, elm, horse
chestnut and plane are, in comparison,
but slightly active. Knots in a wood
generally, but not always give a good
picture.
Removes Old Walt Paper.
. Anyone who has -undergone the , t rib
ulations incident to the removal of
old wall paper in a dwelling will have
sympathy with the Iowan inventor
who, no doubt spurred on by trials in
his own household, has devised a
mechanism for accomplishing this usu
ally very dirty operation with as little
disturbance relatively as is produced
In sweeping by the new universal
American carpet-sweeper, in fact, his
appliance in general appearance very
much resembles a sweeper.
The preliminary dampening is ac
companied by means of live steam ap
plied by flexible hone attachment in a
closed receptacle. This has an open
face surrounded by a flexible flange
or rim. The actual removal of the
paper is accomplished by means of
scraping blades actuated by handles
projecting through the receptacle.
The debris in retained within the de
"ice, and emptied at intervals without
taking any appreciable dirt.
To Test Sanitary Piping.
' There are several methods of test
ing sanitary piping in a house, of
which the use of oil of peppermint
and smoke are the most common. The
smoke test shows the location of a
leak by escaping smoke. The latest
apparatus consists of a smoke gener
ating chamber and bellows. The
smoke generating chamber is sealed
by water which not only provides a
seal against the escape of smoke from
the apparatus, but keeps the smoke
chamber cool. In this chamber oily
waste, tar paper or other material
adapted for producing a dense smoke
outlet and carried to one of the inlets
or outlets of a plumbing system.
Sometimes the hose taking the smoke
from the machine is carried to the
fresh air inlet, and the smoke is
driven up through the building until
every pipe connected with the drain
age system is filled with dense smoke.
Gaa Versus Electricity.
The incandescent mantle has saved
the gas Industry, and not' only saved
it but placed it in such a position that
gas lighting by modern method's of
high- pressure Incandescence, inverted
burners, and so forth, threatens to
outstrip electricity for general light
ing purposes. This is no exaggeration
when it is remembered that Invariably
the finest streets in the great cities
.Of Europe are now lighted with in
candescent gas burners, and it the
high-pressure incandescent lamps be
compared with the electric arc lights
at some of the busy street crossings
in London there can be no question of
the great superiority of the incandes
cent gas system. In fact, in several
places the electric arc lights may as
well not be in use in the face of the
brOJiant 4 penetrating. light of the in
candescent mantl. Nor is it on the
large scale alone that gas is seriously
rivaling electricity. The inverted in
candescent gas burner is hardly dis
tinguishable in appearance from the
incandescent electric light in the ar
tistic lighting of domestic rooms.
Ether Waves.
One of the characteristics of ether
Waves, such as those of light and heat,
la that they produce a distinct pres
sure in the direction they travel. In
the case of the' earth this outward
pressure- from the sun is said to be
70,000-tons, -but this is -a mere trifle
compared with the vast gravitational
attraction toward the sun.
Structue in Use at Prominent Agri
cultural College.
The . poultry house represented in
the accompanying illustrations is that,
in use at the Nova Scotia Agricultural
College at. Truro. It has a double
ioof.. .The light, is admitted through a
large window, in the front of .each in
dividual pen; it is hinged at the top
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. Vis- 1 Cross- section of pen showing
ariangement of alley, roosts, scratching;
floor, curtain, window, etc.
and swings up to-open as shown in
Fig. 1. The window reaches within
about fifteen inches . of the floor, - in
.order that the sun may shine on all
parts of -the floor. . It' is desirable "to
have the dustbath stationed immedi
ately below the window. The distin
guishing feature of this house is the
alleyway, which runs the entire length
along the back wall. From this pass
age the drop boards are cleaned and
the eggs collected. The north side of
the building is silled with three-ply
boards and two of building paper, the
rest with two plies of boards and one
of paper.
This style of house may be extend
ed any desired length. The roosting
pens are- separated by boards, and the
scratching part by wire netting above
a board. (IS inches high. The fowls of
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Fijf. 2 Section of floor showing the In
terior arrangement.
two pens are watered from one vessel
which extends through the partition
as shown In Fig. ,2. Montreal Herald
Contents of Silos.
A silo is undoubtedly one of the
most valuable and profitable struc
tures on a stock or dairy farm provid
ed it is properly managed. Its use en
ables one to keep more stock and feed
them better than if no silage is used.
It provides green food in winter,
which is of great importance in keep
ing stock in good thriving condition.
It would be much better to put up
one silo 30 feet high than two 14 feet
and 16 feet respectively, for the rea
son that the silage keeps much better
in a deep silo. No one having experi
ence thinks of building a silo less
than 20 feet high, and they are fre
quently built from 30 to 40 feet in
height. The best form for a silo ia
circular. If built square the corners
should be cut off. which greatly facili
tates the settling of the silage and
the exclusion of air at the angles. A
round silo 13 feet on diameter and 30
feet high would bold about 75 tons
of corn silage. In addition to good
hay and a small grain ration a cow
should have about 35 pounds of silage
per day for a period of 180 days. At
this rate of feeding 75 tons would feed
23 cows during the winter months.
Manure Pit Beneath Stable Floor.
F. R. 1. I? manure from a herd of
cows were stored in a pit beneath the
floor of the stable during the -winter
season. would it pollute the atmos
phere of the stable? 2. Could a con
crete floor be built on planks several
feet above ground?,.
1. If the floor of the stable were
tight, the trap-door close fitting, and
the sides of the pit were open so that
the wind may blow through, the at
mosphere of the stable should not be
polluted by the gasscs from the ma
nure. J ; '
2. A floor of cement could be built
on a plank floor, but it would require
very firm foundation timbers in order
to prevent cracking. A cheaper and
more suitable floor for an elevated
stable would consist of sawed cedar
blocks, laid in hot coal tar, with sand
and tar filled in between the blocks.
A floor carefully laid in this way
would be water tight, durable .and
quite inexpensive.
Lumber Required for Two Rooms.
A. H. How much lumber would be
required to build a room 12x20 feet,
also a kitchen 8x10 feet long, weather
boards, lining, rafters and shingles?
Your house would require 800 feet
of 2x4-inch scantling for rafters,
plates and studding; 600 feet of sheet
ing for roof; 1,600 feet for weather
boards and inside lining; six squares
of shingles, 650 feet for flooring and
ceiling, and 180 feet for joists. The
plan of roof you give extends over the
front of veranda. The above estimate
is based on this plan.
Cost of Windmill.
A. H. M. What would it cost to put
up a windmill to pump from a well in
which the water is 25 feet from the
top; the water to be forced 25 feet to
the house and 450 feet to the barn
over level ground?
An eight-foot windmill on a 30-foot
tower would cost approximately $75.
I galvanized pipe were used it would
cost about ten centsj p( foot, covering
the distance in-whicij the water is can
ried. An efficient , 'pump, to' work, in
connection, with tM .windmill would
cost anywhere from'jllO to $15.
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Completed Job Too Well
Some time since a business man in
a town near this city was going to
leave his office for the day, and
hought it. was a good time to have
the place renovated. Calling in a
painter, he told him to putty up the
iracks, paint the door, and otherwise
sake the place more '. presentable.
Then he left. ' .
The door of .the-office was an old
.'asbioned affair, and in view of the
fact that every new tenant had re
moved the lock and put on a new one,
the surface- looked ' as- if it bad been
used as a target for rapid-fire practice.
The keyhole that was doing duty at
he time was about the. size of z. buck
wheat cake.
The painter looked at the job in
iismay for a moment, but, seizing bis
wad of putty, he soon had the cast-
When Age Succeeds Youth
The change in this matter of grow
ing old, since the time when the lady
of 38 felt herself too ancient to wear a
flower in her cap, is Interesting. It is
especially interesting at that dreadful
moment when we first realize that we
are ourselves no longer young. It is
an extraordinary moment; pain, de
nial, rebellion, hopelessness. . it ar
rives in many different ways. It ued
to come with spectacles but nowa
days the babe wears spectacles; some
times it creeps upon us with a little
stiffening of the joints; one does not
run t&Btairs quit- ts lightly as one
did. It may even reveal itself in the
impatience that is felt because people
do not speak quite as distinctly as
they should an impatience to which
the younger generation rudely refers
Patience of
At the close of the morning service
those members of the . congregation
who lingered to exchange friendly
greetings were treated to, a nice exhi
bition of masculine patience, says the
New York Press. They saw a man tie
a. woman's veil. It took him just eight
minutes by the church clock to do it.
The woman had wrestled with the re
fractory ends of the dotted gauze for
five minutes before he undertook the
job.
"I can't do anything with the thing,"
she finally said in disgust. "I always
get it drawn too tight across the face.
It flattens my nose. See what you can
4o with it."
"All right," said the man, and set to
work. i
The loitering worshipers stopped
gossiping and watched the proceed
ings. It was a sight worth waiting for.
Matches a
"Gimme a match." A prisoner in the
lold-over in the city jail pressed his
!ace against the grating and called to
a man passing by. The call for a
match comes from out of the holdover
fifty times every day. About; 95 per
cent of the men and women -Who find
their way into the city jail are smok
ers. They have tobacco, or usually a
few cents with which they can buy
it. They seldom buy matches.ithough,
because spending money for matches
by a man who has but a few cents is
censidered extravagance.
"You can't imagine how many ways
the prisoners contrive to save and get
matches," said Jailer Emmons. "I
have seen forty prisoners light cigar
ettes from a single match. On a day
when matches are scarce a prisoner
will never think of wasting a whole
match. He will split it up into four
Port Resembles a Jungle
This stretch of the Thames from
London bridge to the Albert docks is
to other watersides of river ports what
a virgin forest would be to a garden,
says a writer in the Metropolitan. It
is a thing grown up, not made. It
recalls a jungle by the confused and
impenetrable aspect of the buildings
that line the shore, not according to a
planned purpose,. -but as. if by acci
dent, from scattered seeds.
Like the matted growth of bushes
and creepers veiling the silent , depth
of an unexplored wilderness they hide
the depths of London's infinitely va
ried, vigorous, seething line. In other
river ports it is not so. They lie open
to their stream with quays of broad
clearings, with ntreets like avenues
cut through thick timber for the con
venience of trade. .
I am thinking now of river ports I
have seen ; of Antwerp, for instance, of
Praise of the
Oh, others may talk of the Joys of the
dance . 5
When the music Is dreamy and low.
Or tho thrill of delight when the sail Is
unfurled
And the wake is a smother of snow,
Or the pleasure, a canter on horsebacK
affords. . , ,
Or a day with the rod and the reel:
But give me the reach of a long, level
- Andaf saat in. an automobile!
How the miles' rush away from the tire
less: machine!
How houses and fences fly past!
The town Is a blur, and the orchards and
woods ,
In ribbons of green follow fast.
It's adieu to the carriage we meet as we
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And farewell to the swift-moving wheel.
And good-bye to the trolley car we soon
overtake
When out in an automobile.
off keyholes plugged up as tight as a
star session. After covering the door
with a dose of pant, he gazed on the
job with pardonable pride, and then,
shutting the door, which fastened with
a 'spring lock; he wandered home.
It was some time after the moon
had gone down that the business man
returned and went to the office. Pull
ing out his key, he tried to insert it,
but for. Eome reason the usual result
was not forthcoming. Once he sought
the abundant aperature where the key
was wont to enter, but there was noth
ing doing. Next he struck a match
to take a look, and then he talked too
fast for publication.
' The painter, had not - only plugged
up the old keyholes,, but also puttied
up the new one, and the tenant was
shut out in the cold zero worM. Phila
delphia Telegraph.
as deafness. These are gradual inti
mations that we are not as young as
we were. There are abrupt ones es
pecially there is the glance Into the
mirror some morning, after a sleepless
night. Probably every woman over 45
has known the start of astonishment
and dismay that comes -with that
glance -a creased and tired- com
plexion, dull eyes, wrinkled- throat ;
well! . these' symptoms need iot be
catalogued, they are too unpleasant.
The woman who has had this slight
shock before breakfast glances with a
growing comfort, for aa tfe day passes
things change; her face is more alert,
ber eyes brighten, her double chin it,
somehow,' firmer. No; It was only
fatigue from a bad night; not age, oh,
no! Margaret Deland in Harper's Ba
zar. Married Man
The woman was tall and the man was
short, and while she bent and ducked
he balanced himself on his tiptoes and
tnted backward and forward and side
ways in his effort to adjust the veil
becomingly. At last, after much ardu
ous toil, he succeeded in draping it to
his own and the woman's satisfaction.
Then he asked for the pins lo fasten it
in place. . -
"Merciful goodness!" ejaculated the
ft oman.
"What's the matter?" asked the
man.
"What shall I do?" she wailed.
"They are in my mouth. I can't get
at them. 'You'll have to take the veil
off."
Being in church, the man did not say
much. He took the veil oft, but it was
noted by the interested observers that
he did not put it on again.
Jail Luxury
pieces. This can be done easily, with
a pin. Then he announces to the
crowd that he is about to light a
cigarette and a crowd gathers about
him with papers and tobacco. The
man strikes the match with great de
liberation and those who Can't 'light
up' from the match do so from the
lighted cigarettes of the others.
Everybody gets a smoke off of one
match. Those on the outside of the
cells are accommodating to those on
the inside.
"The ' women, too, often want
matches. The women are in a separ
ate apartment, but there is a small
hole through the door between the two
rooms, and it is nothing uncommon to
see a man hold a lighted cigarette np
to the hole in the door so a woman on
the other side can get her light."
Kansas City Journal.
Nantes, or Bordeaux, or even old
Rouen, where the night watchmen of
ships, elbows on rail, gaze at shop
windows and brilliant cafes and see
the audience go in and come out of
the opera house. But London, the
oldest and greatest of river ports, does
not possess as much as 100 yards of
quays upon Its river front. Dark and
impenetrable' at night, like the face of
a forest, is the London waterside. '
It Is the waterside of watersides,
where only one aspect of the world's
life can be seen and only oae kind of
men toils en the edge of the stream.
The lightless walls seem to stand on
the very mud upon which the stranded
barges lie and the narrow lanes com
ing down to the fine shores resemble
the paths of smashed bushes and
crumbled earth where big game comes
to drink ' on. the bank of tropical
streams.
Automobile
If perchance It is springtime, we lunch
as we rest
On a bed of blue violets sweet,
With a thrush or a robin to thrill over
head A silvery song while we eat.
We linger a while under blossomy boughs.
An armful of fragrance to steal '
From apple trees freighted with dewy
pink .buds, .
Then away in the automobile.
Should somebody dear on the seat nestle
near, - - '; ;
Then slackens the speed, of -the car,
Gliding slowly along in the amethyst dusk'
By the light of the' bright evening star.
There's no question to. ask. and .,aa an
swer to hear." '
And a promise with kisses to seal; :
And later, .the bliss of a. honeymoon, tour
For the pair 'in tho automobile';'"-'
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