Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — A SELF-TIPPING HAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SELF-TIPPING HAT.

li house cleaning a sport or a feost1f bogs gat much dearer the newly Vtefe su) adopt them as household ▲ pessimist Is a person who believes the leaning tower of Pisa is going to «*IL * China has 250,000,000 people. This Is an estimate. There are too many to eeunt. Surely the professor had a bad ear ter music who killed himself because the baby cried. After looking through a seed catar legos one is led to wonder why anybody eats meat. Mr. Carnegie found 93,000,000 that he didn’t know he had. That sort of thing doesn’t happen to many men. Herewith the wild animals of Africa are confronted with the necessity of beginning afresh and restocking the Jungles. - South Dakota divorces are held by English courts to be worthless. It was fortunate that Rene had become available before this awful blow fell. Prof. Hllprecht has rendered an important service in discovering further evidence that the deluge took place substantially as described by Moses. Any proposition to “retire’* Mr. Roosevelt on a pension should be communicated to him with extreme caution—preferably by long distance telephone.

Dr. Wiley says: ’ln fifty years the world will be run by wind, water and alcohol.” The addition of water and aloohol will tend to take some of the ■train off Congress. A Harvard botanist declares that Leif Erickson was never near Boston, that he got no farther south than Labrador. All history must be in loubt Did Eliza cross the ice? One of the scientists announces that the germs in a dish of Ice eream outnumber the germs in a kiss three to one. Still, a good deal may depend upon the ice cream and the kiss. A psychologist is experimenting with the hope of determining beyond question whether monkeys are mentally superior to men. Even if they are no monkey can ever be elected President l The details of the latest Kansas City "high society” scandal, “endurin’ ” and after the event plainly show that, while money may still contrive to ■take the mare go, it has not yet removed the difficulty of making silk purses out of porcins materials. Another fashion note: The value of the wings taken by Japanese poachers sn the protected islands of Lays&n and UsUnsky, near .Hawaii, and captured by the United -States revenue service, reaches one hundred and twelve thousand dollare. They cost the lives of three hundred thousand terns, petrels and albatrosses.

Persons at whose houses the mall Is delivered once or more a day may inswer the bell as Quickly as they can; tevertheless, the aggregate time which the letter carrier loses by having to wait for the door to be opened is considerable. The Post Office Department Iguree It as averaging thirty seconds tor each call, and as representing a less to the government of tour hundred thousand dollars a year. For this reason the post office apropriation bill provides that after June SO, 1911, carriers shall not deliver mail at any house not provided with a suitable Stall box accessible from the outside. How the government encourages gambling in land homesteading is shown by the Belle Fourche irrigation project in South Dakota. Here are only 10,000 acres, rendered very valuable and immediately productive by irrigation, forty acres of which with water rights cost only 91,200, payable in ten yearly Installments. Tet all claims have not been taken. Per contra, when a like amount of an Indian reservation in Idaho was opened under the gambling plan last year in Idaho, there were ten claimants for •very tract, and each claimant spent enough to pay two years' Installments on a real irrigated farm, while only one in ten got anything at all, and what he got was not so valuable per acre. It is the gambling feature of the Indian reservation openings which attracts, and not a home-making opportunity on a sensible business basis. Life holds many pleasant surprises tor even those whose fate is not the most fortunate. That fact was discovered by a Michigan woman the other day, who began a search for her brother and sisters. They had all been put in an orphan asylum on the death of their parents, and had been adopted by families in different parts of the state. In the Course of her search, the woman learned that a little girl with whom she used to .play when she was small, and of whom she was very fond, was her own sister. Her fosterparents had moved to t£e town in which the family dwelt that had adopted the sister, and they lived sl4e by •Ida Whether the funnies knew the

girls were sisters does not appear, but the girls were unaware of the And new comes the delightful knowledge that these childhood friends were sisters, aad had known each ether tor years—how delightful only these who have vainly longed for intimate association with their own kin can understand.

While preparing recently for their examinations, the young men of a Western university voted net to shave nntll after the on the ground that growing beards would serve to remove temptation to neglect their work for social diversions. About ths same time the newspapers told of the solemn decision of ths yonng ladle" in another institution to entorcs s social boycott against the male students who were wearing, or coaxing into existence, mustaches. Ths two Incidents illustrat# the present attitude of the social world toward Shaven and unshaven men. Not that a bearded man is ostracized by the world at large, whatever may be the esse in undergraduate circles, but that cleanshaven faces among men of all ages are now becoming the rule. It was not always thus. In ancient times the beard was the badge of manhood, the insignia of dignity and authority. This is still true in the Jewish race; and the strongest oath of the devout Mohammedan is “by the beard of the prophet" Note the long braided beards of the kings of Assyria Babylon, as indicated by the sculptured images which have survived. In those days slaves were compelled to be smooth-shaven, and the beardless youth was an object of scorn. In Greece and Rome the custom varied with the periods. Most of the great Romans of latsr times wers beardless. In the middle ages and In ths Elizabethan era beards wers generally worn, although occasionally a beardless monarch led a change in style which made ths barbers happy. In Great Britain and this country the beard was almost unknown in the eeventeenth and eighth eenth centuries. In the nineteenth century it came into general favor. Most of the yonng men of a college graduating class of ths fifties and sixties wore all • the beard they could raise. Then the young men took to the moustache, which is now far less common. When man accuses woman of being a creature of the arbitrary whims of fashion, she may well retort by pointing to hie beard—or to the place where it might be.

One of the most curious of all la-bor-saving devices is that for a selftipping hat. The Inventor, believing that even a Beau Brummel wastes much valuable energy in the frequent lifting of his hat, describes his invention as "a novel device for automatically effecting polite salutations by the elevation and rotation of the hat on the head of the saluting party, when said person bows to the person or persons saluted, the action of the hat being produced by mechanism therein and without the use of the hands in any manner.” The hat is provided in the crown .with a clock gearing which is set into action by a pendulum. When the man bows the pendulum swings and the spring gearing, being released thereby, raises and tips the hat.— Popular Mechanics.

MECHANISM OF THE HAT.