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DINNER PAIL IS KEPT HOT
invention of Arkansas Man Attached
to Side of Receptacle Supplies
Heat to Compartments.
A great deal has been said about the
full dinner pail, and now an Arkansas
man has found away to keep the con
tents hot, which while not so Impor
tant as to keep the pail full. Is yet
an agreeable improvement. Formerly
a dinner pall was kept more or less
warm by a pan of hot water at the bot
tom. Usually this water cooled off
long before the lunch hour, and at
best it heated only the things in the
space just above it. The new dinner
pall has a lamp attachment alongside,
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Keeps Dinner Pail Hot.
and this lamp supplies heat to the
■contents of all the various compart
ments. These compartments consist
of a number of nested pans of differ
ent shapes and sizes and adapted to
hold all sorts of food. The lamp is
filled with oil and has a slow burning
. wick. The importance of this improve
ment on the dinner pail Is greater
than might be realized at first. No
■class of people stand more in need of
hot substantial lunches than the la
boring men who carry these pails, but,
heretofore, they have had to be satis
fied with sandwiches and tepid stew
or coffee, that only their keen appe
tite makes good to the taste.
CHIME REVOLVES WITH WIND
Plates Provided to Produce Notes Rep
resenting Notes of an Octave —Idea
of Philadelphian.
The scientific American, in describ
ing chime recently made by a Phil
adelphia man, publishes the follow
ing:
The aim here is to provide a chime
with a vane and a series of plates sus
pended at right angles to the vane,
so that the plates will be disposed at
times at an angle to the direction of
the wind. Another object of the in
ventor is to provide a plurality of
plates which are so graduated In size
<see the accompanying illustration)
that they will produce the tones rep-
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Chime.
resenting the notes of an octave, the
plates being flat and lapping one an
other in two series, with a bar sus
pended between the two series of
plates.
Frequency of Meteors.
An examination of the records of
shooting star observations made in
, Bristol during the years 1866 to 1911
shows that the frequency of meteors is
maximum towards the end of July and
the beginning of August. During the
flrpt six months of the year the "total
number of meteors observed on a
clear, moonless night is only about six
per hour. At the beginning of July the
frequency increases, and attains its
maximum, 69 per hour on August 10.
The mean for the entire year is 24.
meteors per hour.
“Invar” Tuning Fork.
A French scientist has made a tun
ing fork that, It is claimed, is not af
fected by changes in temperature, and
Is therefore invariable. The material
used in the fork is Guillaume steel,
also called "Invar” on account of Its
almost complete insensibility to tem
perature variations.
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BEES HAVE DIRECTIVE SENSE
They Can Fly for Two Mile* From
Hive and Are Then Able to Return
After Gathering Honey.
How doth the little busy bee know
where to go? Gaston Bonnier of
Paris seems to have proved that bees
possess a special directive sense like
■ carrier pigeons. They can fly for two
’ miles from the hive and are then able
to return after gathering their supply
of honey. Langstroth and others be
lieve that vision comes into play and
that bees can see' for a great distance
and can also note objects on the way
so as to find their path.
Others, with Dadent, believe that
bees are guided by a sense of smell,
and that they can smell flowers at a
distance of one and a half miles. But
Bonnier finds that neither sight nor
smell is necessary to the bees. He
takes them over a mile from the hive
in a closed box. They always fly
back to the hive when released.
When their eyes are covered it is the
same.
His experiments serve to show that
bees perceive odors only at short dis
tances. When a needle dipped into
ether is brought near the head of the
bee It shows signs of perceiving odor,
but not so when the needle is placed
back of him or near the other organs.
Besides, when organs of smell are re
moved entirely there is no difference.
At 600 feet from the hive Bonnier
places a supply of sirup and the bees
soon find it, proceeding from and to
the hive. These he marks green.
Then he places a second set 20 feet
from the former. Other bees are now
engaged in the movement to and from
this point, but there are not the green
marked individuals. He marks these
red. There are thus two distinct sets
of bees. And they can distinguish
two directions which form an acute
angle. Here seems to be special di
rective sense. Other experiments con
firm the theory.
LATEST IN CASH REGISTERS
Gives Out Sales Slip With Every Pur
chase Recorded on It —Has Many
New Advantages.
A cash register that keeps account
of sales and gives out a slip for each
purchase recorded on it has been in
vented by an Ohio man. The slips
are wound on reels, and as each one
is given out a new one comes up In
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Latest Cash Register.
its place. There are several rows of
them and means for operating them in
dependently. The ordinary cash regis
ter fills an important duty by record
ing sales and systematizing business
generally, but the apparatus shown
here would seem to have advantages
over this. Not only does this record
sales, but It gives every customer a
receipt, and can be made to furnish a
duplicate record for the store. Below
are drawers, one for each roll of slips,
in which money or the duplicate slips
can be kept. With this register, it is
claimed, mistakes can be easily recti
fied where there is any complaint.
ONOTES0 NOTES Or EDI
science y
[invention
There are about 16 deaths for every
birth occurring at sea.
In point of instinct ants rank above
all animals except man.
Sixty per cent, of the population In
Japan live by cultivating the soil.
The application of horseradish to the
temples is said to relieve neuralgia.
The government of Venezuela has
established a national bureau of sani
tation.
The parsnip Is both food and drink.
At different times wine and bread
have been made from the vegetable.
Controlling apparatus of a new aero
plane Is so arranged that It can bd
operated by either of two persons seat
ed side by side.
As a means of ventilation 80,000,000
cubic feet of ozonized air will be
pumped, every day into the railway
tunnels of London.
Man has never constructed a piece
of machinery with the efficiency of
the human heart. It has a capacity
of 4,622 gallons per day.
Jerusalem has evicted its dogs and
• introduced the latest sanitary devices.
The estimated wealth of the United
States is $125,000,000,000.
A special form of camera has been
invented for copying type or pen writ
ten manuscript by photography more
rapidly than it can be done by hand.
Crystals of sodium nitrate were re
cently exhibited In Paris so pure and
perfectly formed that they can be sub
stituted for calcite in optical Instru
ments.
MAKING THE FORTY-EIGHTH STATE
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PRESIDENT TAFT signing the bill that made Arizona the forty-eighth state in the Union. Left to right in the
picture standing back of the president are: Gen. E. S. Godfrey, W. A. Dupuy, M. R. Loring, Delegate Ralph
Cameron, S. P. L. Hubbell, James T. Williams, Special Messenger and new Secretary of State of Arizona Roland
' B. Kirk, Charles Wilde and Charles D. Hilles, the president’s secretary.
SAVE THEIR WAGES
Thrifty Convicts of Minnesota
Prison Hoarding Earnings.
Some of the Long Term Prisoners at
Stillwater Have Balances Rang
ing From SI,OOO to $1,500
to Their Credit.
St. Paul, Minn.—While the capital
ists of the country have patronizingly
advised young persons to “save their
pennies and be rich some day,” the
prisoners at Stillwater penitentiary
have been biding their time, hoarding
their small earnings until many of
them have sums ranging from SI,OOO
to $1,500 to their individual credit, ac
cording to the report of a visit to the
institution made by J. R. Swann, a
member, and J. C. Matchitt, secretary
of the state board of visitors. The re
port was submitted to Governor Eber
hart.
The report does not say how long
these particular prisoners have been
confined in the penitentiary, but some
light Is thrown on their saving ability
by the following paragraph from the
report:
“In December, 1911, the 56 men
employed in the farm machinery divi
sion received an average pay of $4.85
a man; the 205 men In the shoe factory
received an average for the month of
$4.03 a man; the 114 men in the sup
port division (cooks, waiters, barbers,
etc.) received an average of $4.63
each.”
Taking up the suggestion of Govern
or Eberhart that some means be pro
vided for state aid to families left in
need by prisoners committed to work
houses and the state prison, the re
port, referring only to the latter, says
that “but five per cent, of the men
In state prison have families they
have left In need of state aid.”
"This is because the prisoners as a
whole are men of roving characters,
who have no settled home and who,
accordingly, have no one dependent
upon them.
“In this connection,” the report con
tinues, "a law enacted in 1909 is of
HUNT PANTHER IN FACTORY
Workmen In India Factory Find Sav
age Beast in Building and Call
Marksmen.
London. —News conies from India of
. an exciting panther hunt In the gov
ernment ammunition factory at Kir
( kee, Poona, In which an officer was
badly mauled.
Two European apprentices discov
ered the animal asleep on a heap of
, sawdust In the annealing room and
went to raise the alarm. Two other
! apprentices, believing that the animal
was a large wild cat, endeavored to
hunt it out with Iron rods. When the
panther was roused there was a stam
pede of the native workmen, and a
stoker, while climbing over a wall,
had his heel torn oft by the animal.
Several officers with rifles speedily
arrived on the scene, but the panther
sought cover behind the annealing
! ovens. Captain Kemble, R. A., as
sistant superintendent, and Conductor
Chlsholme, with two shots succeeded
in wounding It, but when Maj. Bertie
Clay approached a window with his
! rifle the animal sprang at him and in
flicted serious injuries to his head,
face and neck.
After two hours the panther was
Anally disposed by a well-directed shot
from T.leutenant Vines. It measured
six feet ten Inches In length.
Strikes Rich Ore.
Cripple Creek, Colo.—After working
his claim for seven years and spend
ing SIO,OOO in its development, Fred
Johnson, a lessee on the Pride of
Cripple Creek mine on Ironclad hill,
has struck it rich. He has uncovered
gold ore running SSOO to the ton.
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special interest. It provides for state
aid for dependent families of men In
the state prison. Families are now be
ing paid as high as sls a month under
this humane 1909 law.”
Commenting on the recently estab
lished prison for the criminal Insane
at St. Peter, the report says there are
ten prisoners at Stillwater so ad
vanced In insanity they are unable to
do work, while there are thirty others
who are able to work part of the time.
Then it adds:
“It is doubtless true that there are a
sufficient number of criminal insane
at Stillwater and other state Institu
tions to fill completely another such
building as now houses this class of
unfortunates at St. Peter.”
“Conditions, from a sanitary and
cleanly standpoint, are excellent at
the institution, the report says, add
ing:
"In spite of the fact that the build
ings and general plant are old and out
of date, the best is made of every dis
advantage—a fact that has given War
den Wolfer for many years the repu
tation of being unexcelled.”
PICKS MONEY FROM A TREE
Kansas Lad Turned 644 Crow Heads
Into $32.20 Bounty—Used Rab
bits as Lure.
Cottonwood Falls, Kan. —A farmer
boy of Matfleld, near here, knows how
to pick money from an elm shade
tree. He made several big trees near
his home yield him a golden harvest
in one week.
The trees have long been a favorite
haunt for scores of crows. Each eve
ning their limbs were black with birds.
The county pays a bounty of five cents
on every crow killed. George Golden
had an idea come to him and he
walked out of the county clerk’s office
with a check for $32.20, the bounty for
644 crows’ heads.
Golden had shot some of the birds
and when that became too slow he
put strychnine in the carcasses of rab
bits he had killed.
HOSPITAL TO COST MILLIONS
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Great Institution Is Projected by
Methodist Church for Dal-
las, Tex.
Dallas, Tex. —Dr. John O. Mcßey
nolds, dean of the Southwestern Med
ical college, says that it is the inten
tion to raise $1,000,000 for the build
ing of a new Methodist hospital in
Dallas.
The hospital will be a part of the
co-related educational system and a
branch of the Southern Methodist uni-!
versity, and will be in connection with
the Medical College of the Southern
Methodist university.
The plan has the hearty approval
of Dr. R. S. Hyer, president of South
western Methodist uni ersity, and of
the Dallas members of the Texas
Methodist Educational commission.
Other members of the board are ex
pected to be favorable to the proposi
tion, and it is hoped to have the
ground broken for the actual building
well within the calendar year.
The first new building of the sani
tarium or the group of buildings, if
a cottage plan shall be determined,
is to cost from $300,000 to $500,000.
The $1,000,000 fund is to be the en
dowment. It is planned to have each
bed of the establishment endowed, so
that whether the patient in that bed
is wealthy or on charity, the work will
go on without impediment. If the pa
tient is able to pay, then the money
so received will be for adding to the
endowment fund or for improvement
of the establishment.
The announcement is that the big
undertaking will be for a sanitarium
EARRINGS KEEP EARS OPEN
Italian Girl Tells Court That’s Why
They're Worn—Not Needed
on Mouth.
Kansas City, Mo. —Why do Italians
wear earrings? Style, you say. Not
a bit of It. Listen to the explanation
given by -Rosa Bruno, 15 years old, to
■Judge E. E. Porterfield In juvenile
court. The judge wanted to know
why an infant in the arms of Mrs.
Pasquale Bruno, Rosa’s mother, wore
two big gold hoops which dangled al
most to its shoulders, and Rosa re
plied:
“Us Italians, you know, we are dif
ferent from you people. We don't
believe In our baoies’ ears stopping
up. So we put in the big earrings to
pull down the comers and keep ’em
open, see?”
“Quite an idea,” agreed the judge.
“But what do you Italians do to keep
their lips from growing together?”
“Oh, dat’s funny,” laughed Rosa.
“Dat’s a joke. The baby he cries with
his mouth too much, or we'd hang
earrings there, too. Maybe sometime
baby he cry with his ears and then
we throw away hoops altogether."
An attache of the court hereupon
stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth,
but despite this precaution he led the
laugh in which the court joined.
DEEPEST WELL IS DRILLED
New Shaft to Go 6,000 Feet Near Pitts
burg, Pa., to Find What’s
There.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Oil and gas pro
ducers in this part of the country are
greatly Interested in a well that Is
now being drilled on the Geary farm,
in Washington county, between Mc-
Donald and Candor.
The well is being put down by the
People’s Gas Company, a subsidiary
company of the Standard Oil, and is
to be drilled 6,000 feet deep, to find
out what Is in the earth at that great
depth.
Everything in the equipment for
drilling the well is double strength.
The derrick Is eighty-four feet high.
It will take almost a year to com
plete the well, even if the drillers
have no bad luck.
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whos^ system will cover at least one
block, will be centrally located, so as
to be within easy access to the bulk
of the emergency demands and so
equipped as to be a drawing place for
all the southwest, a hospital establish
ment as complete as may be found
anywhere in the world.
The matter of site, except that it Is
to be in Dallas, is to be left to the ed
ucational commission.
WASH COAL TO ADD HEAT
Kansas University Proves Laundering
Process Is Profitable—Leaves
No Clinkers.
Lawrence. Kan. —Wash your coal if
you want to get mye heat from it.
That is the advice Instructors and stu
dents of Kansas university give for
keeping down the family fuel bill. The
advisers have just finished a job of
washing a ton of coal. One hundred
and sixty pounds of refuse was taken
from the lot by the washing process
and the remainder produced almost
twice as much heat as a ton of un
w’ashed coal. .Besides, the washed fuel
left no clinkers, which form on grates,
shutting off the draft and causing
much of the efficiency of fuel to be
lost.
To Bar Dances at Ball.
New York.—Having ' received a tip
from Mrs. E. H. Harriman and other
wealthy patronesses the Junior
‘•prom’’ committee at Columbia has
barred the “Turkey Trot" and the
. "Grizzly Bear” from the annual ball
KIONEY TROUBLE REUEVED
IN TWO HOURS.
A SPEEDY CURE
I derived so much benefit from the
use of Dr. Kii.ner’s Swamp-Root that
I believe it will be most Important foe
the public to know of its worth.
Last November I was suffering se
verely with kidney and bladder trou
ble. The burning pain was terrible. B
sent to you for one trial bottle of
Swamp-Root and it relieved me In
about two hours. After taking the
small trial bottle, could feel no more
pain, so purchased one fifty-cent bot
tle of Swamp-Root. After taking the
contents have not felt one pain from
the kidneys or bladder since.
You are at liberty to publish this
testimonial should you wish to.
Yours very respectfully,
W. H. WARREN,
R. R. No. 2, Box 39, Gainesboro, Tenn.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
W. F. Dodson, enacted Justice of the
Peace of Jackson Co., Tenn., this 14th
day of July, 1909.
w. F. DODSON, J. p.
E Letter to
Kilmer Ar Ce. I
hamton, 5. T. |
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Yoe
Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. It will
convince anyone. You will also re
ceive a booklet of valuable informar
tion, telling all about the kidneys and
bladder. When writing, be sure and
mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent
| and one-dollar size bottles for sale at
all drug stores.
Awful.
I "Is my hat on straight?”
“No. One eye shows.” —Life.
’ TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT
: Take LAXATIVE BBOMO Quinine Tabled
Druggists refund money If It fails to cure. a. W.
ÜBUVE'S signature Ison each buz. 3m.
, A woman doesn’t care what her
. husband earns; it’s what she gets out
’ | of it that counts.
' It's the contrariness of her sex that
. : induces a woman to agree with a man
just when he doesn’t want her to.
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Romance of the Rail.
It was on a Pullman car. The man
who traveled for gents’ furnishings
had succeeded in working up a con
versation with the lonesome-looking
young woman. He leaned over her
’ and breathed in her ear:
“Peaches, I’m taking a little trip to
New York. Don’t you want to go
along?"
■ “Sir,” she said, angrily, “you are go
ing too far!"
But she didn’t object to accompany
him as far as Schenectady.
Too Thin.
' “The greatest curiosity I ever camo
• across in the course of a long expo
rlence,” said the first broker, “is a
1 • man who comes into our office every
day, watches the ticker like a hawk
for five hours, and pays cash for
everything he buys.”
“I can beat that by a mile,” replied
I the second broker. “A man came into
our place a while ago and started to
trade actively in Reading and Union
; on a five-point margin. He had $50,000
. when he began. In six months ho
had $50,000. Then do you know what
he did? He put his money into first
mortgage bonds —and quit."
The first broker looked almost
dazed. “I hate to do it," he mur
mured, “but I’ve just got to. You’re
a liar!” —Puck.
FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
Where the Winters Are Cold and the
Snows Deep.
Writing from the vicinity David
Harum made famous, a man says that
he was an habitual coffee drinker, and,
although he knew it was doing him
harm, was too obstinate to give it up,
till all at once he went to pieces with
nervousness and insomnia, loss of ap
petite, weakness, and a generally
used-up feeling, which practically un
fitted him for his arduous occupation,
and kept him on a couch at homa
when his duty did not call him out.
“While in this condition Grape-
Nuts food was suggested to me, and I
j began to use it. Although it was in
the middle of winter, and the. ther
mometer was often below zero, almost
my entire living for about six weeks
of severe exposure was on Grape-Nuts
food with a little bread and butter and
a cup of hot water, till I was wise
enough to make Postum my table bev
' erage.
“After the first two weeks I began
i to feel better and during the whole
winter I never lost a trip on my mail
route, frequently being on the road
7 or 8 hours at a time.
“The constant marvel to me was
i how a person could do the amount of
work and endure the fatigue and hard
ship as I did, on so small an amount
of food. But I found my new rations
so perfectly satisfactory that I have
continued them —using both Postum
and Grape-Nuts at every meal, and
often they comprise my entire meal.
"All my nervousness, irritability and
insomnia have disappeared and healthy,
natural sleep has come back to met
But what has been perhaps the great
est surprise to me Is the fact that
with the benefit to my general health
has come a remarkable improvement
In my eye-sight.
“If a good appetite, good digestion,
good eye-sight, strong nerves and an
active brain are to be desired, I can
say from my own experience, use
Grape-Nuts and Postum.” Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a reason.*
Ever read the above letter t A new
one appears front time to time. Tke»
are genuine, true, and full of humaw
latereat.
