Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Page 6

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BAKES TELL AT THEM

SOME RIDICULOUS INVENTIONS FOR THEIR COMFORT. taMHi Gndb and Walker That VmM with a Spring— A Gandy Jumper DadgMd to Imitate Trotting oa Moth, er-e tun "‘■'■"r'r Creeper. ■may Hare Been Patented. From the baby’s poi nt of view the toveotor is a mighty mean man and anything but a benefactor to the huau race. The numerous double, lack-action, spring-lock contrivances filed up in the dingy corners of the Patent Office, every one of which It was intended should be palmed off

WINDS UP LIKE A CLOCK.

apoo the infant as a substitute for a mother's arms, has prejudiced him against the man with an idea to exchange for an annuity, and he wants none of him or his. A baby wants ao patent nurse, even if It may have aoft pillows, flimsy canopy and musicbox attachment For him the good, old-fashioned way is best, and when one of the crazy combinations is tried on him it is no wonder he kicks the air with a pair of chubby little feet and yells the roof off the house. Jumpers, walkers, tenders, creepers, cradles, and several too complicated to belong to any special class are Just a few of those things which have

AN 1876 COMBINATION.

combined to make the baby’s life a sore trial. The first American production, really the genesis of the cradle, was never patented, though It was used extensively in some portions of the country. This was the sugar trough, made and used at a time when the sturdy father was literally hewing a home out of the forest A length of the maple tree, split in the center, stripped of its bark and hollowed out —that was all there was to it, but, crude as it was, it served the purpose and allowed the mother to attend to other duties In this busy time of home-making. In spare moments, the father constructed a more elaborate affair, box-shaped and fitted with roughly fashioned rockers, and then the trough was relegated to its former service of holding the sweet' sap from the sugar tree. At this stage the inventor got a firm bold on the idea, and it was no time at all until there were enough articles In this line to make two generations of babies miserable. J. of New York, got an •arty start with his combined cradle

BABY TENDER.

and walker. He abandoned the oldfashioned rocker and made his little machine work with a spring so it would go up and down with the motion, and noise too, perhaps, of a damp cart It was only necessary to furnish it with wheels to make a walker out of it, not as good a one or nearly so handy as the ordinary chair, but it gave the inventor the chance to claim a dual virtue for his patent something essential in addition to an

WALKER AND CRADLE.

•arty start Mr. Brown never tried tt again, and if he ever had any more Ideas along this same line he trained them into another channel before . they reached the patent stage. Caldwell, of somewhere in j With his jumper. He had an idea

wasn’t Although fitted out like a modern hobby and painted in gorgeous colors It couldn’t sing a lullaby or recite Mother Goose, and where 19 the pleasure of being bounced up and down if these are to be left out? Baby Just looked at it and then cried, and this was the commencement of a boycott which made Caldwell’s venture unprofitable. P. EL Hurd, out of the two or three hundred who were at that time regu-

J. H. CALDWELL’S IDEA.

larly producing something that was of no account, got clear off the track when he patented his whirligig, which was supposed to teach the baby to creep, and later to walk. There was never any litigation In regard to infringement of this patent; its life was as short as that of a sand-fly, and it didn't take the inventor much longer than that to find out that the million dollars or so which loomed up on the horizon the day he made application had taken wings. J. S. Brown, of Michigan, who, by the way, Is no relative of the Brown of walker and cradle fame, had a similar experience with his baby tender. It was a thrashing-machine looking affair that worked with a treadle and might have been constructed from the remains of a dilapidated feed-cutter, for all the beauty and symmetry it combined, but he got a patent on It Any selfrespecting infant would raise the whole neighborhood if such a thing were wheeled into his presence, says the Chicago Tribune, and the irate father would probably hunt for the Inventor with a large double-barreled gun, so It is Just as well, or better, for Brown Na 2 that the demand for his tender was exceedingly limited. Along about this time the paragon

AN OLD FASHIONED CRADLE.

of the whole lot was born, but like Its predecessors It vanished before any great number of people had an opportunity to test It and say swear words at the originator. It was all thought out In the Maine woods. In that country babies and dairies are unmistakable signs of thrift and E. Whitman couldn’t understand why the cradle and churn should not be more closely affiliated, so he combined the two. It might have worked all right and the hand that rocked the cradle In addition to ruling the world could, at the same time, have carried on the more vulgar occupation of making nice prints of yellow butter for the huckster, only the cream was never ready to churn v.hen the baby cried, and when the dasher was fitted In and everything ready In the manufacturing department the baby was invariably asleep or on its good behavior. This is the little point that E Whitman failed to con*

P. H. HURD’S PROPELLER.

elder, so he burled his regrets and went back to the plow, leaving a c lear field. As a usual thing when inventors find a clear field they tax their twen-ty-candle power ideas to covering the entire ground, so as to leave nothing for the man in their wake but lawsuits. J. Erickson was one of these. He Invented a baby-walker with a barrel-stave crib combination warranted to take all care and worry from a mother’s mind—that is, providing the ullttle monarch of the household would put up with It. But, like E. Whitman, he overlooked one important feature. The walker should have been adjustable for the use of the father until the baby was large enough to push it around and break all the bric-a-brac in the house.

Rabbits in Australia.

Mr. Walter Dalrymple Severn recently delivered an illustrated lecture to a large audience at the Imperial Institute, London, on “The Babbit Plague in Australia.” The lecturer said it was at the period of the highest prosperity of Australia and New South Wales that a patriotic gentleman thought it would be a good thing to a few rabbits into the colony, as aSf-'Would serve for food and for sport. He accord^iy' - itopprted three pairs of rabbits, and they were turned loose. It was not long'before it was found that the distil^.question had been transformed into a gigantic rabbit warren. Indewflyit was discovered that a single ■pair of rabbits, under fa vora,bln circumstances, would In three years Have a progeny numbering 13,718,000. Sir Saul Samuel, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer, said the government of New South Wales had 1,800 schemes sent in when the £25,000 reward was offered, but none of them were really of a practical nature, aud the reward was withdrawn.

Rubber Tires.

In the use of rubber tires for bicycles it must be borne in mind that no oil, varnish or grease should be allowed to touch them. Oil is an enemy to rubber. Care in this respect should be had in applying ! the oil to bearings.

Vast Interests.

Commissioner of Labor Wright reports tfeat there are 5,833 building and loan associations In th 3 United States, with total net asset* of 1540,M7.5M.

OUB BUDGET OF FUN.

HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DOINGS HERE AND THERE. JokM and Jokelete that An Supposed to Bare Been Recently Born—Saying* aad Doings that An Odd, Curious, and laughable—The Week’s Humor. Let Us All Laa-h. The more people try to put down liquor the more It seems to go to the head. —Yonkers Statesman. Police Justice —“What’s your business?” Culprit “Machinist.” Police Justice—“ What precißCt?” Town Topics. People who thrust their private sosrow upon the world by using mourning envelopes should be arrested for blackmail.—Siftings. People who go to grand hotels have much to put up with; and they, who ride in crowded street cars Ware! to stand a great deal.—Picayune. Isn t it about time to answer that letter of Uncle John’s from SqueeDteecute Corners that he wrote you last December?—Philadelphia Call. This marrying of rich American heiresses by foreign noblemen has a kind of longing for the dollar of the daddies in it.—Philadelphia Times. Hub —“I hear they are going to call his royal niblets Gotham, Jr.” Cub—“ How’s that?” Hub—“ Because he’s another new York.”—Boston Herald. Husband (very late from the club) —Hum! I told you not to sit up for me. Wife (sweetly)—l didn’t. I got up to see the sun rise.—New York Weekly.

“We have caught our defaulting book-keeper,” said one merchant to another. “Then he is now a spotted adder,” replied the latter.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Guide —Now, you will have to be ‘ careful; many a tourist has broken his neck at this spot. Gent (to his wife) —Augusta, you go first.—Spare Moments. Mrs. Powell —l have such an indulgent husband! Mrs. Qinieron j (spitefully)—Yes, so Justin tells me; | but he sometimes indulges too much, ; doesn’t he? —Fun. Teacher “Detine ‘unsophisticated.’ ” Bright Boy—“ ‘Unsophisticated’ means a boy wot thinks circus season raises the price of lemons.”— Street and Smith’s. Jilson says he thinks a good many women are demanding the ballot with the idea that they are going to get curl-papers at the expense of the State.—Buffalo Courier. The first thing a man does when he finds that a counterfeit dollar has | been passed on him is to study out something to spend it for immediately.—Arkansaw Traveler. Effie (to auntie, who has been reading aloud stories from the Old Testament) —“Yes, auntie, its a very nice book, but I think it’s more fit for boys.”—Pall Mall Gazette. “How,” writes a distracted parent to this office, “shall I convince my daughter that the young man she goes with is a worthless rake?” Have her marry him.—Atchison Globe. “This seems to be a genuine case of buoyant spirits,” remarked the wrecker, as he hauled in the basket of champaign which had floated to shore from the sinking ship.—Buffalo Courier.

“What does a Welsh rarebit look like?” “On a plate it is a symphony In A gold, but when you are asleep it Is a five-eyed elephant with eight feet, all planted on your chest.”— Tid-Bits. Trash* (entering taxidermist’s) — “Do you stuff all kinds of animals here?” Taxidermist—“ Why, yes.” Tramp—“ Well, I wish you would stuff mo with a good dinner.”—Harper’s Bazar. Little Ethel— “l wish I had a new doll.” Mamma—“YQur old doll is as good as ever.” Little Ethel—- “ Well, I’m just as good as ever, too, but the angels gave you a new baby.” —Good News. “I’ve got a cold or something in my ’ead,” was what the simple little chappie said. The summer girl, with roguishness demure, replied: “Oh, it must be a cold, I’m sure.”— Boston Journal. Mrs. Caudle (In the dead of night) —“John, I’m sure there’s a burglar at the front door!” Mr. Caudle (sleepily)—“That’s all right; he can’t get in. You know the latch-key’s In my own pocket!”—Truth. “Wiiat is the cause of the commotion in the house across the wav?” “The son of the old gold-bug that lives there has swallowed a 10-cent Bilver piece and the old man is nearly wild about it.”—Judge. Tue free and unlimited coinage of silver into ice cream and soda water at the ratio of sixteen girls to one man seems to be the popular policy in this town about two hours after dinner.—Washington News. Evelyn— “Do you think Mr. Blake could be so base as to propose to mo for the sake of my money?” Phyllis —“Heaven only knows. It is incredible what necessity will sometimes drive men to do.”—Brooklyn Life. We have noticed that though all husbands insist it will be all right to take a friend up to dinner without letting their wives know in advance, they grow mighty absent-minded when nearing the house.—Atchison Globe. A little fellow had been seriously lectured by nis mother and finally sent into the garden to find a switch with which be was to be, punished. He returned soon and said: “I could not find a switch, mamma, but hero’s a stone you can throw at me.”—Boston Gazette.

Intelligent Reasoning.

A well-known lawyer on the circuit in the North of England, curious to know how a certain juryman arrived at his verdict, meeting him one day, ventured to ask. “Well/' replied lie, “I’m a plain man, and I like to bo fair to every one. I don’t go by what the witnesses say, and I doD’t go by what the Judge says: but I looks at the man tn the dock, and I says, ‘He mast have done something or he wouldn’t be there/ so I brings em all in guilty.*

Which Was Which?

“Do you know, my friend,” said the profound-looking man to the dumb-looking fellow, “do you know that there aie tendencies at work In this country which, vampire-like, are sucking the life-blood of our institutions? “No,” said the dumb-looking fellow. “Do you know that the artistic and a?3thetic sens? of our population is being strangled by a sordid and crass materialism?” “No,” said the dumb-looking fellow. “Do you mean to say.” asked the profound-looking stranger, “that you are not aware of the baleful Influences which are at work, the occult, but no less deadly, agencies which antagonize our integral perpetuity?” “No,” said the dumb-looking fellow. “Are you not alarmed, then, my friend, lest these agencies undermine and overthrow this glorious national edifice which our fathers have builded, and for which statesmen have wrought, and yeomen have toiled, and patriots have died?” “No,” said the dumb-looking fellow. Just then a man came from the rear platform, held out his hand to the dumb-looking fellow, and said: “Hullo, Jim! How’s your dog?” “Gosh, Bill, you oughter see that dorg,” said the man who looked dumb no longer. “You ought to see him. There never wuz a dorg like that dorg sence the fust dorg was built. He’s got more sense than you jin’ I an’ this ’ere dood together.” And he pointed his thumb over his shoulder toward the profound-looking stranger. “More sense than all on us. Set him on track of a rabbit, nose to the groun’, tail up, eyes squirtin’ lightnin’, howlin’ like a good un. he’s a sight wuth travelin’ roun’ the world to see. Best dorg you ever see. Got a brain on him like Disraeli, but he’s got fleas. Say, mister,” and he addressed the profound-looking man, “do you know what will cure a dog of fleas?” “No, sir,” said the profound-look-ing stranger. “Don’t know any kind of Mntment nor nothin’ that’ll kill 'em off?” “No, sir.” “No dorg-wash nor anythin’ erthat ! sor?” “No, sir.” “No kind er plzen nor nothin’?” “No, sir.” “Take no interest in dogs?” “Not the slightest.” The train stopped here, and the profound-looking stranger got out. “Stupid clown!” said he to the j brakeman as he glanced at the man of dogs. The man of dogs turned to his friend and said: “Duffer, ain’t he?”

Exquisite Witticisms.

Of Douglas Jerrold, the late Ed* mund Yates graphically related that, as he was escorting the wit one night to the Bedford .Hotel, “up New street we met two or three drunken roisterers, one of whom, after tumbling up against me, apologized and asked the way to the ‘Judge and Jury,’ a popular entertainment of the day. Instantly Jerrold bent forward and addressed him: ‘Straight on young man; continue in the path you are now pursuing and you can't fail to come to them!' It was to Peter Cunningham, mentioning his fondness for calves’ feet, that Jerrold said ‘Extremes meet’.’ To Mrs. Alfred Wigan, expressing her fear that her hair had been turned gray by the application of some strong stimulant, he said: ‘I know, essence of thyme.’” One evening Yates and Jerrold were at a ball, when Pates inquired: “Who is that man there, dancing with Mrs. Jerrold?” “God knows, my dear boy,” Jerrold replied, looking around for an instant; “some member of the Humane Society, I suppose.” A week before Jerrold died, Yates met him at dinner, where also was Albert Smith, whose engagement to the lady he afterward married was then rumored. The host having asked Smith to ring the bell for dinner, Jerrold said: “Yes, Albert, why don’t you ring that belle?” Of his godfather, Edmund Byng, Yates told this anecdote: Byng once asked a guest at his own table: “How did you like that dish?” “It was very good.” “‘Good,’ sir? Of course it was good I Everything is good that comes to this table. I didn’t ask you if it was good; 1 asked you if you liked it”

It Was Mathematical.

Said a well-known recounter of snake stories the other day, by way of a wind-up to several: “I can’t call any more to mind just at present. My wife knows a lot of snake stories, but I’ve forgoten ’em. By the way, though, I’ve got a regular living curiosity down at my place. One day my eldest boy whs sitting on a stool in the back yard, doing his sums, and he couldn’t get ’em right. He felt something against his face, and there was a little snake curled up on his shoulder and looking at the slate. In four minutes h’e had done all the sums. We’ve tamed him, so he keeps iall our accounts, and he is the quickest head at figures you ever saw. He’ll run up a column eight feet long in three seconds. I wouldn’t take a prize cow for him." “What kind of a snake Is he?" inquired the listener curiously. “The neighbors call him an adder.” “Oh, yes, ” said the other, a little disconcerted. “I’ve heard of the species.”—Chicago Times.

Counselor “Therefore."

Sergeant Kelly, a celebrity of the Irish bar, had a remarkable habit of drawing conclusions d rectly at variance with his premises, and was consequently nicknamed “Counselor Therefore.” In court, on one occasion, he thus addressed the jury: “The case is so clear, gentlemen, that you can not possibly misunderstand it, and I should pay your understandings a-very poor compliment if I dwelt upon it for another minute; therefore, I shall at once proceed to explain it to you as minutely as possible. ”

Baby Carriages.

A baby carriage, designed especially for the use of those who live in fiats, which can be folded together, so that one person can handily carry it up and down stairs, Is a New York invention.

LEPERS OP SIBERIA.

MISS KATE MARSDEN'S LABORS AMONG THEM. A Brave Young English Lady Who Endured Untold Hardship* to Alleviate the Minty of Russian Criminals —Noble Example of Extreme Unselfishness. All for Humanity. The world has never witnessed a nobler example of supreme unselfishness, unless It be the untiring labors of Bather Damien among the lepers of Molokai, than that furnished by Miss Kate Marsden, the young English woman who spent some time with the lepers of lar-off Siberia. It required a total self-forgetfulness and a love of humanity that not one person in a million possesses to undergo the hardships she endured and the risk of life which she counted as nothing, and all this for a people who were strangers to her. Four years ago Miss Marsden became so interested in the stories of the horrible sufferings of the lepers

KATE MAESDEN.

Empress of Russia. The latter replied, expressing great pleasure if she could be of any use. It was owing to her efforts that Miss Marsden secured written recommendations to all the authorities and officers of the country. She left England for Siberia the latter part of 1890. When she reached St. Petersburg the Empress gave her a reception and presented her with a large sum of money, to be used at her discretion. She left Moscow for Siberia Feb. 1, 1891, her objective point being Yakutsk, the extreme province of Eastern Siberia. She left the train at Slatust, and from there had to travel by sledge. She was on these sledges for months, traveling thousands of miles. And then for a long time she used the tarantas wagons. She stopped at the different capitals in order to rest as well as to gain the assistance of the governors, churchmen and

A WOMAN CRAWLING TO HER HUT WITH HER ALLOWANCE OF FOOD

other influential persons and, through the recommendations which the Empress of Russia had given her. she was enabled to organize several collection committees and was assured of substantial assistance. She reached Yakutsk in June, where official notices of her intended visit had preceded her. It is to Yakutsk that the Russian Government banishes the most dangerous criminals, and it was here she found so many lepers compelled to live in the forests among such horrible surroundings as to occasion extreme suffering. The inhabitants refuse to have anything to do with the lepers, as they believe the disease is not only contagious but a direct curse of the devil. Nothing had been done to alleviate their sufferings or to assist them in any way before Miss Marsden’s visit. Looked Upon Death. When she left Yakutsk to visit the lepers in that vicinity she was accompanied by fifteen men. comprising

BRINGING FOOD FOR LEPERS UNABLE TO LEAVE THEIR HUTS.

farmers, soldiers, and state officers. They took with 1 them thirty horses, and covered 1,800 miles before they made the rounds. The dangers and hardships of this unprecedented ride were of so incredible a nature that Miss Marsden carefully prepared official reports and affidavits in regard to them. Many a .time she looked •upon death'in such appalling hideousness as to haunt her for weeks and months. Worn out she persevered and visited the different groups of

BURIAL OF A LEPER.

lepers, helping and consoling them with promises of lasting assistance. The heartrending scenes that she daily witnessed made her all the more determined to leave no stone unturned La bettering thejot of.these unfortunates. She consulted with the officials who accompanied her in regard to the best location for her fir are colony, which should comprise

cottages, hospitals, etc., and was so enthusiastic in she did as to awaken the greatest confidence wherever she went The lepers had lost all confidence in mankind owing to the unsuccessful attempts made by the local governments of Eastern Siberia to alleviate their condition. The only assistance they had was given them by one of the men from the village who visited their locality once or twice a week. He never saw them, but left food in a certain place, to which the unfortunate creatures would crawl until they had secured it. Kate Marsden, after a short rest in which she was not hy any means idle, as she arranged the plans for the different buildidgs and adopted measures for organization, started on her return trip in August. Of course, the journey from Yakutsk to Moscow was as difficult to make as the one from Moscow to Yakutsk, but with 1 the indomitable courage so characteristic of the woman she bore the hardships of the return trip. The receptions that she met with at different places on the road were most gratifying. She conferred with the different committees, and everywhere large donations were made for her work. She accomplished what she had deemed impossible even in her wildest expectations. When she reached England she received the hearty approval of Queert Victoria in a letter recommending her efforts and the work which she had accomplished and wished to accomplish. This was the means of awakening a wider interest in her work throughout England, and numerous contributions came to her from all sides.

of Siberia that her heart was touched and she determined to ameliorate their condition. She first went to Queen Victoria, (who wa 8 so pleased with the project that she interes-ted the Princess of Wales, who wrote to her sister, the

People who visit the east coast of Florida, and especially the Indian River and the Lake Worth region, often wonder why the climate of that section is so delightful at all times of the year and so different in almost every particular from what one would expect in those latitudes. The explanation is simple enough. The difference between northern and semitropical Bio ida. apart from the latitudinal distance, is due to the elevation of the former and the distance from it of the Gulf stream. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico temper the immediate coast line. Their effect does not extend far inland. The stream is pressed close to the east coast shore along Dade County by the Bahama banks. Atlantic steamships southward bound, to avoid the force of the current, stand in so near the shore that they can at some points be hailed from land. The Gulf stream is an old story, but it is a great fact. This vast, deep blue river, a thousand times the volume of the Mississippi, is thirty miles wide, 2,000 feet deep, and has a velocity of five miles an hour the year round. The temperature of the stream is eighty-lour degrees, or nine degrees higher than the waters of the ocean through which it (lows. The trade winds blowing nine-tenths of the time, winter and summer from the eastward, bear the stratum of warm air formed by the Gulf stream westward across the land. This is why the east coast is milder and more equable than the west coast in the same latitude. With the Gulf stream are found three other equalizing agencies—the trade winds, the Blverglades, with a water surface preventing a land breeze, and the zone of high barometric pressure. The midsummer heat, that might otherwise be ninety-five degrees, is reduced to something like eighty-eight degrees. The midwinter chill, which might get down to thirty degrees, is warmed up to something like forty degrees.

The cream of tartar tree belongs to the category of plants yielding ready made products. They are members of the genus “Adansonia.” The height of the tree is from forty to seventy feet, while the top is over one hundred and eighty feet across. A Venetian who has left us the most ancient description of the tree, tells us that in 1454 he found one at the mouth of the Senegal with a circumference of one hundred and twelve feet. The tree is very disproportionate, as may be gathered from the fact that Gregory—after whom the Australian species is named—saw one eighty-five feet in circumference at a height of two feet from the ground. The acid is found in the farinacious pulp surrounding the seed, and has at all times been highly esteemed by travelers, who mix it with a little water in order to make a refreshing beverage. The bark of the tree contains a remarkably strong fiber which in s ime parts is made into ropes, in others woven into cloth. A bitterprinciple, to which the name of“Adansonin” has been given, is extracted from the bark. It appears in fine white needles of a smell similar to that of aloes or gentian, and is extremely bitter in taste. It is interesting from the fact that it is the only product known up to the present that has an antagonistic action -to the Strophanthus arrow-poison, a a deadly poisonous seed used by the natives on the West and east coasts of Africa, to insdre their arrows inflicting a fatal wound.

The Wonderful Gulf Stream.

Nature’s Laboratory.

Good Advice

Sixty years ago the incumbent of a church in Hull used to he called Vicar Bromby. In appearance he tvas not unlike Socrates, and peiple did say that he was better acquainted with Seneca than with St. I%ul. Just after the passage of the first reform bill, in 1832, he preached a sermon in which he uttered this wholesome Socratic passage: “In these days we hear a great deal about reform. Let me give you a piece of advice: the best reform is to make one person better. I need not say who the person may be. ”

Tea from Africa.

In the colony of Natal tea continues to be largely grown in. the coast districts, chiefly in Victoria County and the Lower Umzimkulu division. The area under cultivation may be put down at about 2,200 acres.

Frosts of ’52.

On the night of June 11, 1852, there were heavy all over, New England, and In Livingston County# New York, 300 sheep that had been sheared a few days before were frozen to death.

WILL BEAT THE WORLD.

George Vanderbilt’* Princely Do malm la North Carolina. Near Asheville, N. C., Is the estate of George Vanderbilt, named Biltmore, on which be has spent already •5,000,000, and which will cost as much more before it finished. The house, now only part finished, is probably the most magnificent private dwelling in the country. It is built of Bedford stoDc on the model of a famous French chateau. It has been in process of building for three years, aud at the present is not more than half completed- The largest room is the banqueting hall, with a ceiling sixty-five feet high, a salon as large as an ordinary church, and a li-

VANDERBILT'S IMCOMPLETE CASTLE.

brary somewhat larger. The house will be heated by open fire places, since Mr. Vanderbilt has a horror of steam, and these are placed in nearly every room. Adjoining the bouse is the stable, as beautifully built as any mansion on Fifth avenue. The interior is finished in white enameled brick, such as most persons are glad to have about their fireplaces. The grounds surrounding the house cover whole miles, and are laid out with the greatest care and taste. Mr. Vanderbilt bought up homesteads for a long distance about to form a parK. There Is a little farm, however, of nine acres, worth perhaps $45, that Mr. Vanderbilt cannot buy. It belongs to an old negro

HOUSE THAT VANDERBILT CANNOT BUT.

called Joshua Moore, aud stands half a mile from Mr. Vanderbilt’s house, on a line with his front door. The millionaire has offered SIO,OOO for these acres, but Moore says he doesn’t mind having Vanderbilt for a neighbor, and refuses to sell his property.

BALL-BEARING HINGES.

They Render the Door’s Motions Positively Squeakless. A ball-bearing door hinge? Why not? No squeaking of the door, no working up of the pin, no greasy butt

BALL-BEAING HINGE.

coated with dust and lint, no wearing down of the butt and rubbing on the threshold, no crowding and pushing to open the door; compact, simple, and cheap. Surely it is a very appropriate use for ball bearings. The

THE PARTS OF THE HINGE.

engravings show the whole thing In a nutshell. Ais a steel plate washer, B the guide, C the cover, and D is the whole hearing washer placed between the two parts of the butt.

PORTABLE FIRE ESCAPE.

A Usef al Invention Recently Patented by an Albany Man. The cut shows an extension fire escape recently patented by an Albany man. Its operation can readily he understood, consisting mainly of a duplex system of lazy tongs, which can be extended by the operation of

PORTABLE AND EXTENSION FIRE EXCAPE.

x crank working In the toothed bars Jf the arrangement of tongs. The :op is mounted by a platform, which .xtends to the side, and which is controlled by the tooth and crank mechanism.

This Is Distressing.

If hosiers know what they are about, the feet of American women are larger than they once were. Three dozen pairs of women’s hose used to be assorted as to sizes in this fashion: Six pairs No. 8; six, No. 8$; twelve. No. 9; six, No. 9s; six, No. 10. The No. B’s have now disappeared from among woman’s sizes, and the number of larger sizes in three dozen pairs of hose has increased.