Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — A NEW LAWN-MOWER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A NEW LAWN-MOWER.

The Inventor Claims It Has Points of Advantage Over Old Styles. The lawn-mower here illustrated was invented by a Pennsylvanian, aud the Scientific American thus describes it: The knives are driven by crank and pitman connection with the ground wheels, the driving mechanicism being located entirely within the outer face of the frame and there being no projections to collect the cut grass. The axle carrying the ground wheels is journaled in depressions of the side or cheek pieces of the frame, the wheels being cupped on their outer frame. The wheels are loosely mounted, and ratchet wheels on the axle adjacent to the hubs are adapted for engagement by a dog on each wheel, the dogs turning the axle when the mower is ahead and slipping over the ratchets

when the mower is drawn backward, the cutting mechanism being then inoperative. In each of the side pieces is a horizontal depression or well having near its center an opening. The shaft of the cutter is journaled In the inner walls of the wells, and on the shaft are spiders which carry the spiral cutting knives, extending from the inner face of one side piece to the inner face of the other side piece, the knives being thus protected from obstacles at the sides of the machine and adapted to cut a swath of nearly its full width. The grammar class was on the floor. “In the sentence ‘I love you,’ what is the mood of the verb?” asked the teacher. “Sentimental mood,” replied one of the larger girls, who had spent most of the summer at the sea shore.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Miss Innersent—You say you object to Charles because he is too much In the swim? Her Father—Most decidedly. Miss Innersent—But, papa, I am sure he would give up bathing altogether if he knew.—Boston Courier,

NEW LAWN HOWES.