Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — House-Cleaning Wore Him Out. [ARTICLE]

House-Cleaning Wore Him Out.

The man of the house took to the sofa .n the sitting-room, with a newspaper, lireotly after breakfast, while his wife went on with the house-cleaning. She was dismantling the front room, tnd while he pursued the sporting colimn she carried past him, in turn, seven chairs, three tables, a desk, four footstools, all of the pictures, a piano stool, a bookcase and the rest of the furniture. Then she lugged in a pair of steps and a big pail of water and began to dean. “Maria, do you want any assistance?" said the man just then, rising and foldtag his newspaper. “Not just yeh dear,” said Maria. “Well, then, I think I'll leave you," said he, and he started for the office. On the way down he told three men that If there was anything that wore him to the skla and bone it was that confounded house-cleaning. Said he: *We are in the midst of it now, and I ell you I’m about used up.”—Bt. Louie Pod Jispatck

AN emery wheel twelve Inches in diImeter by one inch thick was run at 8,000 revolutions per minute, when it burst and killed a man. This is called “a singular accident” by a contemporary. A solution of gutta percha in bensine (consistency of cream) is a simple preservation against rust cm metal. It can be easily applied with a brush and as easily removed by the application of benzine. Halliday, the inventor of the cable atreet car system, states that the sight of six horses vainly endeavoring to draw a car up a steep hill at Ban Franoiso first suggested to him the foundatioa for his invention. The distance of the horizon Is governed by the height of the eye above the earth or sea. Gn the sea, with the eye at a height of five feet, the distance would be three miles; at sixty feet bt height, ten miles.