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SUNDAY MORNING. OFFICERS IR FIE SEW FIELD SERVICE IM OF IRE UNITED SHIES. MAJOR-GBNKTJAI. CORBIN. MA.IOU-UF.NERAR YOUNG. Fil’KT LIEUTENANT McKiNLEY. | ESS Sell's Strength ! That It is Easily Broken is Not Due to any Structural Weakness. ! ccvrcecr cg coaDcoctraociccr_■ As fragile ashnu egg shell, as easily broken as an egg shell, are nvo popu lar sayings, based on erroneous oliser rntlons. It is true that an egg shell , . TESTING THE EGG SHELL’S STRENGTH. is tiuite easily broken, but this is not because of any structural weakness in the composition of its material, but be cause of its extremely thin walls. Recent scientifically constructed tests, undertaken in a spirit of curiosity, but continued in wonderment, demon strated that a shell not more than thirteen one-thousandths of an inch In thickness has astonishing strength, ■ EGG SHELL BROKEN BY INTERNAL PRES SURE. comparably with the best of mans artificial products. Albert K. 'dray re cently conducted a number of inter esting experiments to demonstrate the strength of empty egg shells. He made records of the compressive strength and the resistance of external and in ternal pressure. The common parlor experiment of endeavoring to break an egg by pressing upon it lengthwise, when held between the palms of the bands, exemplifies the first measure of its longitudinal resistance to pressure. As it is well known, it takes pretty -* another sample of a bbeak BY in tsrnal pressure. strong hands to squash an egg held jn this position. When mechanical means are suhtituted for manual ones the smashing pressure Is readily meas ured,and was found to be from forty J to seventy-live pounds, the average be- i big nearly fifty-live pounds. This. too. with specimen eggs taken at random. An empty egg shell was subjected to a test by being placed endwise on two rubber cushions and made to support a box into which shot was slowly poured. The rubber pads protected the shell from the hard contact, and this experiment demonstrated the struc tural strength of the shell. Greater in genuity bail to be exercised in sub mitting shells to internal pressure, ow ing to the poor nature of the hen's egg. It was necessary to render the specimen water-tight without increas ing its structural strength. This was finally accomplished with the aid of a toy balloon, which was inserted into the shell through one of the two small holes, and the inflation accomplished by hollow wire. A hydraulic gauge in dicated the pressure at the moment the shell broke, ami eleven trials gave for ty-four pounds per square inch as the breaking pressure. Three specimens withstood pressure of sixty pounds or better. The-most wonderful development of strength was seen in the resistance to external pressure. The average col lapsing pressure of \gg shells was 515 pounds. THE FARM TROLLEY WAGON Horseless Vehicle For t>he Country Roads. The Inventors seem to lie striving faithfully to relieve the horse of all the heavy balding which it has In the past been called upon to perform, and it is probable the day is not far distant when pleasure drivers will be the only ones who will find use for this animal. The latest, idea along the lino of horse less vehicles is the farmers’ trolley road, which will make it possible for the raiser of produce to come to town with his load, dispose of it and return home without the aid of his team, the electric current being mode to do all the labor, through the medium of the HORSELESS CARRIAGE FOR THE FARMER^ apparatus shown in the Illustration. The inventor contemplates the instal lation of private,lines by the farmers in a certain locality, or the rental of electric service from one of the subur ban trolley companies which now cover the country around every large city. As will be seen, an electric motor is placed on the wagon, and power is ob tained from the ' overhead wire, the connecting pole having a flexible ad justment to overcome all inequalities in the roadway. The horizontal por tion of the conductor is divided and insulated, receiving the current from one wire and returning it to the other after it lias passed through the motor to drive the wagon. The reason for using a return wire parallel with the power wire f§ to avoid possibility of shocks to the driver when standing beside the wagon and in contact with it. which might prove dangerous if the return current passed to the earl It after use. By gearing the driving shaft low very heavy loads could be transported with comparatively little expense for current, and ns there are no heavy storage batteries or power generators aboard there is plenty of room in the wagon for the loading of produce, etc, Ihtniel S. I!ergln is the inventor. Janie# J. Mill, tin* Uallmatl Magnate. James .1. llill is the Napoleon „/ transportation in the Northwest. Mr. liill is one of the most picturesque and interesting figures Unit have been upturned by the great industrial evo lution of tile United Stales, lie lias created empires in railroads, but never has a word been said of him that re flects upon his absolute integrity in method. Before the war "Jim” liill used to be a “tnutl” clerk on the Mis sissippi, but a man with Ills brains was never destined to “check” sliip ments for a living. Mr. Hill left his desk and his bills of lading to go to the war and on his return engaged himself in tlie packet business. Through that line he made his way Into railroading. As an upbuilder of railroads Mr. Hill iias no equal. The llill lines are the best testimonial to bis constructive and creative power. Mr. Hill's fame had been secure on past performances, but if his present plans are carried out he will take rank with the greatest of industrial generals in history. A Klic of Waterloo Day*. Reminiscent of the storm and stress of Napoleonic days is the little snap shot reproduced here. 11. shows one of the lookout stations built l>y Napoleon at the time when lie was contemplat ing the invasion of England. This particular lookout which is in a very good state of preservation—stands on the cliffs between Wimereux and Am bleteuse, and on clear days England can be distinctly seen with the naked eye. One can imagine the watchers in those little lowers gazing out across the sea towards the hated land whose laßt - . pfign.; Bast •. e ■ ONE OF NAPOLEON’S WATCH-TOWERS OX THE FRENCH COAST. vigilant fleets and hard-lighting armies were the main obstacles to the univer sal success of the arms of the Em peror.—The Wide World Magazine. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. LEARNED CHAT UN EGGS UTTER READING THIS ARTICLE YOU’LL KNOW I Hi SUBJSGT TH3ROULY. I ’r;-r>i‘ TF:*l, lff'l !'• ■' I t Tiny. W'lilu | (I 111- Makes OUiei- Folk* IGlic.iis li! :i l'ity Mill'd .Viieiuioa In Not: i'aui to Flavor, The fluest CELLS In tie* world are those of the quail, bui no ene likes ;o r-on fess liaviiVL oaten iliciii. as it would be ! unsportsmanlike, writ os Yioior Smith, j in iiis chatty way. in the Now York ! Dross. I have soon a comtiry whole "bob white” was so plentiful as io ho a nuisance to the farmers, ami as no one shot the biru for food, the nosis wore destroyed to proven!: ils natural Increase. A dozen quail eggs would ho a delicious meal, lu cradling wiioat j wo often discovered nests containing ton to fifteen eggs. and as the non would desert those m the stubble it was no crime to appropriate them for the i.ible. Quail are so scarce to-day that any one robbing a nest would go to jail or be shot. THE STPPXiY or EGGS. The annual supply of eggs in the United Btatos is said to be about S.oOi). JOO.ODO, or more Ilian 7<>0,000,000 dozen, and their value is equal to that of the pr >duct of our gold and silvi r mines. Some men eat two dozen eggs a day, some do not out two dozen in a year. They are supposed to render certain folk bilious. A raw egg may be di gested in two hours, olio soft boiled in three hours, hard boiled in three and one-half, fried in three and oae-half. roasted in two and one-fourth. Did you ever roast an egg before the Are'.' Place on top of it a straw, and when it is done the straw will make a hull’ revolution. A well roasted egg is a delicious morsel. In tile days of wood tires it was more common to roast eggs than to boil them. Touchstone speaks of their being •'ill-roasted, all on one side.” and we are indebted to Pope for these lines: One likes the pheasant’s wing, and one the leg; The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. THE FLAVOR OP EGGS. Notwithstanding the vast consump tion of eggs, no sort ol’ attention is paid to their flavor. One egg is supposed to he just as good as another, so long as both are t'resli. In most food products We pretend to be discriminating. We see a wonderful difference between a game chicken and a Cochin, betweeu a Hamburg and a Plymouth Rock, when broiled for breakfast; bet weeu n puddle duck and an Aylesbury, between a bronze turkey and a Nnrrngansett, etc., yet. in eggs we notice hut one quality, namely, that of soundness. We do not notice whether the shells are white, huff, yellow or speckled. We do not cure whether they are laid by a Leg horn, Dorking, Dominique, Brahma or Black Spanish. lawson's egg farm. Thomas Weighandior Lawson raises his own eggs. Ills liens being fed on the choicest food that, money can buy, their product is correspondingly select. A hen fed oil onions for a few days will impart a very distinct, onion flavor to her eggs. It. may, therefore, he as sumed that oilier food will affect the taste in like manner, hence a lien that feeds in a till by barnyard will not. lay so good eggs as one fed on carefully prepared grain and dough. I should think every man able to own a farm would raise his own eggs, as Lawson does. However, some very rich per sons prefer the scavenger puddle duck to the ennvasbaek that fattens on cel ery. There is no poorer food than duck eggs, wild or tame, and no better than turkey eggs, wild or tame. ROME EGGTANA. The man who ‘‘gets eggs for his money” is easily imposed upon. When goslings want to drive the geese to pasture they are “teaching their grand mothers to suck eggs.” to “tread upon eggs” is to walk gingerly. An old-time method of choosing a saddle horse for the mother of the family was to test it on an "egg trot,” that is, place eggs in panniers on either side of the saddle and urge the animal to a trot. If Hie eggs did not break the purchase was effected, other qualities being satis factory. All of us have seen horses that could trot without so much ns addling an egg, not to mention break ing it. Things as “like as two eggs” are supposed to be exactly alike; which is an error. “From the egg to the ap ples” means the whole dinner. A “bad egg” we are all familiar with, and oc casionally one of us is it. There is a “duck’s egg” in the game of cricked. “Golden eggs” are great profits. EGGS ON A SKEWER. To roast an egg properly is to first boil it, then, after removing the shell, take out the yolk, braid it up with spices, put it hack again, put the egg on a skewer and roast it. If you have not eaten an egg thus prepared you have something to live for. It is the best of the 240 ways of cooking an f\r*tr * oa* TIIF. MUNDANE EGO. The greatest of eggs was the “mun dane egg.” The ITioenioiaus, Egyp tians, Hindooos, Japanese and many other ancient nations maintained that the world was hatched from an egg made by the Creator. That is as good a theory as any. To accept it is to re move a million doubts. watch the basket. “Don’t put all your eggs in one bas ket” is as old as the hills, and lias been the guide of countless successful mm. Recently Andrew Carnegie j changed it to fills: "Rut all your eggs ' in one basket and watch the basket.” j Knee, points to a useful moral. RAISING CHICKENS. Frank Charles, who has had years of experience in the care and breeding of povUrj. maintains that he is an ex pert. aud declares that he will give a bond and guarantee that with less than :v'otN) capital any one that understands the business can start a plant that will pay three per cent, the first year, twelve per cent, the second and third years, and fifty per cent, “for the bal ance of time;" and at the end of the third year have an establishment that can he sold for S I O.OOO cash. A Pointer Tor Sum Mon. •‘Not one man in a hundred knows how to handle a lady's wrap when he acts as her escort,” remarked a promi nent woman's tailor the other day. Look at that man now carrying Ids Lady's iihtcl; silk coat. He lias it al most in a roll, and when she goes to put it on it will lie a mass of wrinkles, and it will never leek so well again. i don't see how she can go on talking so pleasantly to him when she sees her coat, unless he is her husband anil she is sure he will pay lor anew one. “Yesterday I saw a man with a lady’s full-length coat over his arm, carrying ii so carelessly that one corner of its handsome lace collar dragged on the ground. 1 could not stand it. and so I said: "Ranlon me. sir, aud 1 will show you how to hold that coat." And 1 took It and shook it out from the hack seam, then folded it lightly almost through the middle, taking care to put the lace and long silk ties inside, and then laid llie coat over his arm. He did not seem to he very grateful; hut it hurts my feelings to see beautiful clothes spoiled, even if I know that I will get the order to replace them. It is always easy to fold a coat from the hack seam, and usually, if it is a woman's coat, It is just as well to carry it so the handsome lining shows. An unlined coat should, of course, not he turned wrongslde out.*'—Philadelphia Record. l>rir<l Potato***. ' “Dried potatoes” is the name of a new product evolved by the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Sta t ion. The potatoes are boiled, peeled and evaporated in a cannery, and will remain in perfect condition for years. The preserved potato becomes til for eating after being soaked in warm water for an hour. Like many other new ideas, this promises to lie a big thing. It insures to the farmer the perfect preservation of one of his most prolific aud most important general food crops, at. the same time fitting it for safe and economical shipment to distant markets heretofore closed to it, and effects these ends by a mode of preparation which Is so simple and I cheap that it can be employed on any : Farm. When it is noted that in one ! case stated in the table an acre of ; land yielded Fib? bushels of raw pota toes, which in turn yielded 105 bushels of the dried product, the possibilities of the process in the way of developing the culture of the vegetable in the South and introducing it to the world’s commerce and comfort begin to appear in truly vast proportions.—-Charleston News and Courier. StAinped Cheeks by the Ton. Commissioner Yerkes, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, lias been compelled to rent an outside building in which to receive aud stock cheeks and drafts bearing Imprinted stamps now being sent in for redemption. The original act providing for the redemption of these Imprinted stamps limited the time within which they eoulil lie pre sented for redemption to two years from the time they were purchased from the Government. .Subsequently Hint time was extended to January 1, 1304. Almost immediately after the act was passed banks and large business houses began sending in their surplus stocks, and in a short time the quanti ty had reached the point whore the weight threatened the walls of the rooms and corridors where they were stored, necessitating a prompt removal. Up to this time 134 tons have been de stroyed or returned to the senders af ter earn llailnn, and there are now about sixty tons on hand, with the daily receipts almost equal to the can cellations.—Washington Rost. The JJoj; atul the Kettle. Air. C. J. Cornish, in Animal Life tEngland), tells a story illustrative of the sound sense of A dog. A retriever not long ago was sent into a ditch to bring out a winged partridge. The dog picked up the scent, rushed along the not tom of the ditch under the bram bles, and after a little groping about .-■merged on the bank of the ditch with : uu old rusty kettle, holding it by the handle. Laughter and chaff greeted (his performance. “Stop a bit,” said tic dog's master. “Here, Rover, give it to me,” and the dog brought the kettle to him. Taking it from his mouth ins master put ids hand into the Icttle, the lid being off, aud took out the partridge. Chased by the dog it had crept into the kettle to hide, and ;iie dog, not being able to draw u our, just brought the lot. Fume lititl Success- It is justly observed that no man be comes famous except through the news papers, and a philosophical advertiser says that no man can become success ful in business except by the same means. The latter is the easier, be cause the business man can regulat# the amount of his publicity himself. In ISSO only one woman worked for wages to every ten men; now the ratio is one woman to four men. A CURIOSITY OF NATURE N’\v ZcaJantl Plant That Starts I-ile im an Insect hater. Oliver Bainbridge, a young English man who has been touring the world and is at present staying in Los An geles, possesses a strange curio in the shape of some dried caterpillars, from each of which the shoot of a young plant is growing. This interesting ex ample of parasitism, a drawing of which is shown herewith, is from the interior of New Zealand, and Mr. Bain bridge's story of the manner in which lie Obtained liis specimens and of his twn observations regarding them is is follows: While in the hot lake region one day my curiosity was aroused by some pe culiar caterpillars the natives were carrying. I asked them what they wore, and my interest was intensified upon learning that they were what is generally known as the vegetable caterpillar. It was about nine miles from Rotorua, the wonderland, that the natives obtained these specimens. Their idea was to test them in the stewpot. and they laughed at me out right when I paid them fifty cents each for them and told them that I had never seen anything so remarka ble. For fully a radius of 100 miles from Rotorua ihe country is poor and in many places wretchedly barren, a con dition caused by the poisonous gases emitted from the various hot springs and geysers. Upon arriving at the spot VEGETABLE. CATERPILLARS. where the Maoris obtained the speci mens, 1 pitched tent and made a very careful microscopic study of the cater pillars I had bought. They were dry ami hardened as if sucked clean of their juices, and had growing from them the slender stem of a vine that measured from two and a half to four inches in length. Now the problem for me to solve was how this vine got located in the caterpillar. I made a careful search and was re warded with three specimens, each in slightly different stages. I first noticed a little stem, resembling that of the specimens I had bought from the na tives, showing some three or fouT inches above the ground, and, carefully removing the dirt with my knife, found the poor little caterpillars, stiff and hard, about two inches beneath the surface. The thought first struck me that, its I made my finds only under the great Rata, a parasitical vine, it would be a good idea to examine this for a so lution of the mystery. 1 found that the seeds of the plant were extremely small and covered with tlie sharpest of prickles. Crawling about on the vine I found large numbers of the cater pillars. It occurred lo me that the ease must lie a parallel to that of the Insect-eating plants which set traps in leaves or stems. The caterpillars, feeding upon the vine, of the leaves of which they are very fond, are likely to get one of the sharp-pointed seeds eaugiit under the skin, where it takes root. In the juices of the animal’s body. The point at which the seed more us ually penetrates seems to he just at the ridge where the active head sec tion joins the rest of the body. The irritation caused by tlie working in of the sword-armed seed is so great that the caterpillars probably drop off the vine and bury themselves in the ground in the attempt to escape their tormentor. The seed, however, takes root, and in growing absorbs the nour ishment afforded by the animal’s body. When the vine rises above the ground it continues its parasitic career, this time preying upon vegetable matter. Reaching out for some convenient tree it twines itself about this, en circling the trunk and spreading out over the branches, thrusting rootlets into the bark, every few indies, as it grows, until it finally kills tills second victim also. In the meantime It has itself grown, in trunk and branches, to tlie proportions of a tree. lla.vpilan K. y. The keys used by the ancient ! Egyptians wer ■ hooks which passed j through the door from the outside and i caught the holts, so as to shoot them home or draw them hack as required. A Home. Some reels of thread in a factory at Brauntou, Devonshire, have been chosen as a home by a solitary bee, which is now actively engaged UShig them with honey. Wood intended to tie made into pianos requires to he kept forty years to he in perfect condition. The world’s output of coal in 1900 was 707,030,000 tons. OCTOBER 25