Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — Page 7

Scientist Fooled by Students.

In his lecture on magnetism Lord Kelvin used to define an ideal magnet as “an Infinitely long, infinitely thin< and longitudinally magnetised bar. - The bewildered students in the back benches always received this definition with noisy* Jramplng of feet, and Kelvin would shout sharply: “Silence!” Before the end of the session the definition and reprimand had been repeated so often that one day the students entered into a plot, and when the definition was given they did not tramp as usual. Kelvin, however, from force of habit, shouted “Silence!” just the same.

Still More Counterfeiting.

The Secret Service has just unearthed another band of counterfeiters and secured a quantity of bogus bills, which are very cleverly executed. Things of great value are always selected for imitation, notably Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia and constipation.

Sunday Baking in London.

A crusade has been started in London against the “Sunday baked loaf.” It appears that there is an act of George IV. making it illegal to bake bread on Sunday in the' city of London, though the fact has long been Ignored. The question of Sunday baking is now to be taken up in Parliament. Of the 1,600,000,000 people who constitute the population of entire world, about 1,400,000,0000 were represented in the peace conference at The Hague.

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NEW YORK'S POUND

EW YORK’S dog pound is known JMI by the more comforting title of shelter for homeless animals. It is the temporary abiding place, chiefly, of the smaller animals that once served as household pets, but have at length lost home and friends because no longer amiable and pretty, and have been brutally turned into the street, or because they have wandered away and can’t tell where they belong. Dogs, cats and goats make up the endless procession of unfortunates to a shelter over whose door, In spite of its beneficent purpose, might in truth be written the inscription, “Abandon hope who enter here.” Very few of the poor brutes that find their way to this temporary home ever come out alive; in fact, it is for the purpose primarily of humanely ending their existence in a world which cannot or will not tte good to them. This shelter for homeless animals is not a municipal institution. It was brought into existence and is controlled and supported by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This society is supported, in turn, by popular subscription and by the income from legacies. But it has the sanction of the municipal govern ment and is authorised to exercise cer-

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tain authority, such as the collection of homeless and diseased animals and to make arrests of persons who are guilty of cruelty to animals. So far as the work of the society relates to the shelter it employs three wagons in Manhattan borough, three in Brooklyn and one in Richmond, or Staten Island. These go out daily with driver and catcher and scour the streets in every direction. They may go in answer to specific calls from householders who wish to be rid of their former pets, but otherwise they go up one street and down another, in this part of the city to-day and that tomorrow, always on the lookout for a stray dog or eat or goat. If one of these is found without master or collar it somehow runs its hapless neck into the noose which the catcher handles "so deftly and is landed in the wagon. These seven wagons turn in from 225 to 250 small animals daily. At the shelters, of which there is one in each of the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Richmond, they are put into clean and roomy cages, given good, square meals to eat, nice beds of straw or sawdust to sleep on, and, best of all to most of them, kind words make the world a paradise. All are kept in the cages for forty-eight hours, except those that are hopelessly afflicted with disease or injury, «o that owners may have opi>ortunlty to redeem them. Any properly identified dog is delivered back to the owned on payment of $3, the fee for a license, if it wears no collar to indicate that it had no license. Dogs with license tags attached, if any such are brought in, and cats are returned to the owners without charge. It is possible, too, for anyone ,in need of a household jet to secure a dog or cat which is perfectly healthy if assurance can be given that the animal will be given a good home and good treatment, and on payment of the $3 license fee in the case of the dog. This money is turned over <o the city. All small animals that are gathered In as described are put to death at the end of forty-eight hours unless reclaimed or given new homes. The method is a speedy and painless one—asphyxiation by ordinary illuminating gas. In each of the shelters in the several boroughs of the city there ia an iron box. whose dimensions are something like 10 feet in length, G in width and 4 in height. Access to it is had through a door, which is one entire end of the box, hung on hinges at Ute top. In the top of the box are windows of glass, through which can be seen everything that takes place within. An iron pipe 3or 4 inches in diameter, connected with the street gas mains, admits the deadly vapor in so great a volume and so quickly that the box full or dogs or cats, when the time of taking off comes round, soon contains only their corpses. The dead bodies are turned over to the board of health, which transports them to Barren Island. Here,- skins, bones, hair, claws and fat are reconverted to new uses, for the wastes of a great city are all put to some use. A Year’s Work. * According to one of the recent reports of the society which has thia work In charge 21,741 dogs were received In one year. Of this number 3,192 were returned to their owners

and 397 were placed in desirable homes. Of cats, 24,140 were received. Twenty-four were returned to tbeir owners and eighty were placed in good homes. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was organlezd and incorporated April 10, 1866, and was the first society organized in America for the protection of animals. Its founder and first president was Henry Bergh. Among the originrf charter members of the society were many of the most eminent citizens of the city and State of New York. The purpose of the association, as set forth in its constitution, was “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States, to enforce all laws which then were or might thereafter be enacted for the protection of ani-

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mals, and to secure, by lawful means, the arrest and conviction of all persons found violating such laws.” As a matter of fact, the only law of that kind then to be found on the statute books of the States of the Union, was that which had been passed by rhe Legislature of New York nine days after the incorporation of the society. Within twelve months, however, another “act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty of animals” was passed by the Legislature of the same State; and from time to time additions have been made to it, so that now there is hardly a phase of cruelty which the society has not the legal power to prevent within the boundaries of the State of New York. The legal definition of the word "animal” now includes every living creature except members of the human race, and the words “torture” and “cruelty” Include every act, omission or neglect whereby unjustifilable physical pain, suffering or death is caused or permitted.

THE WHISTLE SPLITTERS.

You Will Find Them in Nearly Every Large Hive of Industry. There is an old joke about the laborer who leaves his pick in the air and hurries off to dinner when the 12 o’clock whistle blows. He does not care about the pick, it will come down all right, but he does not want the “boss” to have a minute of his time that is not paid for. His noon hour is 66 full minutes, and they begin as soon aa the whistle lets out its first toot and lasts until it has exhausted itself at 1 o'clock. This man always has the

“SPLITTING THE WHISTLE."

privilege of working with a pick if the “boss" needs a man very much. In factories about towns there are always a few employes who come to be known as “whistle splitters.” Their splitting begins in the morning when taey cross the threshold on a run just as the sound of the whistle dies out in a sob. At noon they are out of the door simultaneously with the first blowing of the whistle, and at night they have their coats and dinner buckets all ready to be grasped as soon as the whistle starts to blow. These men see their fellows become foremen or get better positions elsewhere while they stay at the same old wages year by year, because they are too mean to give the “boss” two minutes more of their valuable time than he has paid for. Every one In the shop knows the “whistle splitter.”

BUBBLES THAT WILL ENDURE.

Those Made by a New Process Will Keep for Several Daye. Nearly all the boys and girls like to blow soap bubbles, but the trouble with these pretty many-colored globes is that they burst so easily. This need not be the case if they are blown with the mixture the recipe for which is given here: Cut Into very thin shavings one-fourth of an ounce of castlle soap; dissolve this in ten ounces of water, which is kept warm (not hot), and when this soap mixture Is cool filter it; put this into a sixteen-ounce bottle (a full pint bottle bolds sixteen ounces), and add glycerin to It until the bottle is full; put the glycerin in, a very little at a time, corking up the bottle and shaking it as hard as you can after every few drops of glycerin. When the bottle has been filled and

thoroughly mixed by shaking as above, directed cork it up and set away where it wilTnot be disturbed for a few days. In a short time the mixture will become muddy-looking, but after a few days a white layer will be found floating on the top, while the rest of it will be clear. This clear part must be drawn out without stirring up the top layer and this can be done by the use of a siphon. A siphon may be made from any piece of small tubing. The tube must first be filled with water and if it is a small tube it may be pinched near the middle and the water will not run out even when the ends hang down. Lower one end of the tube to the bottom of the bottle and let the other end hang down outside. Be very sure that the outside end hangs lower than the bottom of the bottle. If you have managed this right, first the water that was in the tube and then’ the mixture will begin to run out of the tube and will not stop until the bottle is emptied. Let the water run out of the tube first, then as soon as the mixture begins to come out catch it in another l>ottle. As soon as the white layer on the top of the mixture comes down to the bottom of the bottle take the tulie out, as you only want the clear part. Large and beautiful bubbles may be blown with this glycerin mixture and If they are allowed to rest on a bone teething ring or soft woollen cloth they will keep their shape for three or four hours. If a glass shade is placed over the bubble it will keep for three or four days.—Boston Herald.

Some Useful Animals.

The machinist employs a dog on his lathe; he takes, a hog cut, if the tool will stand it, and the castings are made from pigs of iron. A mechanic puts his work upon a horse or buck, and punches or bends it by a convenient bear. Hoisting is done by a crab, and a convenient cat is a part of the outfit of a shop crane, and a kit of tools is ever on hand. A crow helps to straighten work, a jack to lift it; a mule pulley aids in driving machinery that a donkey-en-gine turns. A fish connects parts end to end, or strengthens a broken beam; shells are used all over; a worm does powerful but quiet work. A cock shuts off the water, one kind of ram lifts it aud another does heavy work. A printing press has a fly, the first locomotives had a grasshopper valve motion and drive and butterfly valves are common. Herring bone gears are used by the best builders; turtles fit printing press cylinders and fly wheels are running all over the world. In drilling, even, an old man is called into service, and doctors prevent faulty lathe work.

She Smuggled the Coffee.

A woman who has just returned from the continent brought home with her some pounds of delicious coffee, whieh she came across in Paris, the like of which she had never drunk before. On the way over she made up hei mind that she wouldn’t pay duty on it, for she felt that no really patriotic English woman can conscientiously pay a tax on coffee, so she made herself a petticoat, and into the lining tbe-eof she quilted the coffee. When the steamer left Calais she put on the garment. To wear it was martyrdom. It seemed to weigh a ton. but she passed the customs house officers successfully, and in a congratulatory mood got into the train for Victoria. Her husband met her at the station. He marked her pale, worn look. As they stepped into a cab she told him the story. “I wasn’t going to let them get the better of me,” she said proudly. “Wasn’t it a lovely idea?” Her husband fell back on the seat and roared. "Lovely!” he said. “Lovely! I should say it was. Why. my dear, there isn’t any duty on coffee.”—Pearson’s Weekly.

Just Where People Hung Out.

“I was traveling through a, thinly settled district in the South some time ago,” said a drummer, ’’and had occasion to stop at a small town off the line of the road. The only vehicle I could get at the station was a ramshackle bugy driven by an old darky, and as we snailed up the road I amused myself by pumping him about people and things. Finally it occurred to me to get some pointers on the best place to lodge. Look here, uncle,’ I said, ’where do folks generally hang out here?* The old man gave a sudden start and glared at me with evident apprehension. ’Well, boss,’ he replied in a hoarse whisper, ‘they mos’ gener’ly hangs out on that thar big ches’nut tree yonder, second Um’ frum th’ bottom.’ ”

Fruit for Children.

A great many people are afraid to give young children the fruit they need lest it should induce intestinal troubles. But in the season of fruit that which is well ripened is far more healthful than the pieces of cake or pie that are substituted for it. Wellripened fruit never injures children past the age when they are weaned, if given with the skin and seeds removed. It is tne Indigestible skin of fruits that injures the intestines. Oblige the child to chew its food, giving a piece of bread and butter or a piece of wholesome cake and requiring the child to take an alternate mouthful of one of these with its fruit. r No Patents for Inventions. Switzerland is to be the only civilized country In the world which grants no patents for inventions. A woman may be a “good woman” In the church, and still be of no use to her home or husband.

THE TARANTULA HAWK.

A Wasp that Preys on the Dangeronj Tarantula. “Low down on the Rio Grande River,” said a man from Texas, “where the sands are heated almost red-hot with the sun, there grow the biggest centipedes, the biggest rattlesnakes and biggest tarantulas in the world. If you can look at one of these tarantulas when he is pinned fast to a board with the naturalist’s thin steel pin, and you are sure that he 18 good and dead and cannot spring at you and shoot his poison into you, he forms an Interesting subject to study. They are horriblelooking hairy things, with eight legs and eight eyes. Their colors are dark brown and black. The female tarantula is said to be a fickle spouse and to have a summary way, all her own, of getting rid of her consort when sbe is tired of him. . She woos and weds all right, assumes the entire care and support of the young family. The first matrimonial jar she has she turns to and kills her husband. Not content with killing him, she eats him. “The female is the larger and stronger of the two; they are simply gigantic for spiders. I have seen those that measured six inches between the stretch of tbeir legs. They are the terror of man and beast. But there is one little animal of the insect family that wicked Mrs. Tarantula stands in as much dread of as man stands in dread of her, and that is a big wasp that in Texas is known by the name of the tarantula hawk. The tarantula hawk has an exceedingly bad opinion of the tarantula. It will fly around over the head of the tarantula, make a lightning-like dive down, get a good clutch of the monster spider, fly away home with him, then all the tarantula hawk family sit down to sup. "The tarantula hawk will not hurt men. On the contrary, it is a blessing, and ybu never hear of a Western man harming one of them. It is said that these Rio Grande cattle rangers are indebted for the tarantula hawk to an old New England professor, who. while down In that country in pursuit of his studies as a naturalist, was stung by one of these monster spiders and nearly died, and would certainly have died had it not been for the whisky flask of his guide. In that country where rattlesnakes, tarantulas and centipedes are so big and plentiful, no rancher leaves his house without his whisky flask. Shortly after the old professor left that part of the country the rancher received a small box of these tarantula hawks, with instructions what to do with thejn. He turned the big wasph loose, they increased and multiplied, and now they are holding their own against their enemy, the tarantula.”— New York Sun.

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A Playgoer’s Revenge.

The Parisians are mightily amused over an action pending in Brussels. A gentleman took a stull, a program, and a book of the words for some opera. Directly the curtain went up the lights were lowered. He accordingly claims damages on the ground that it was impossible to read the book he had paid for, and that the artists were so completely incoherent that it was impossible to hear a word. He also claims for waste of time.—The Referee.

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The Doctor’s Prescription.

Abernethy, the celebrated surgeon, was no respecter of persons, and for plain speaking was a terror to many a purse-proud man. A lazy, wealthy individual asked him in fear and trembling what was the cure for gout, a disease caused by his luxurious mode ’ living. “Live on sixpence a day,” was the doctor’s reply, "and earn it!”. — 4 : ..J. Piso’s Cure for Consumption has saved me large doctor bills.—C. L. Baker, 4228 Regent Sq., Philadelphia. Pa„ Dec. 8, ’95.

The Highest Bridge in Europe.

The bridge over the Wupperthal at Mungsten, Germany, which was opened to railway traffic on July 1, 1897, is 360 feet high, 1,030 feet long, and has a central span of 530 feet, it being the highest European bridge, with the exception of the Garablt viaduct in southern B'rance, which is 405 feet in height. —Boston Traveler. The total area of the coal fields in the world is estimated at 471,800 square miles. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness ■lter first day's use ot Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE *2.00 trial bottle ana treatise. DIK H. hIdSK. Ltd., »31 Arch st.. pnuadelpula. Pa. Mr*. Winslow’s SooTunra Sraur tor Children teetblM; aottena the sums, reduces inflammation, allays pain. cure* wind 00110. 25 cents a bottle.

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Motor-Hauled Maxim Guns.

Great Britain has advanced a step beyond other nations in the use of the bicycle as an adjunct to the military service by the introduction of the motor cycle. It has been enlisted for the purpose of hauling a Maxim gun. One of these motor-hauled Maxims was shown at the eastern maneuvers of the Twenty-sixth Middlesex cyclists, V. R. C., which took place at Aidershot. The cycle on which the gun, one of the regulation pattern, was mounted, derived its power from a two-horse-power oil motor, which was built in the frame of the machine. It was fitted with 2%-inch tires capable of wlthstanding the inequalities of the worst road imaginable without Imparting too severe a strain to the mechanism of the machine or the gun Itself. This twentieth century gun carriage during the maneuvers was accompanied by a team of six men, mounted on single wheels propelled by themselves. Each man carried 250 pounds of ammunition.

The Tomato as a Tonic.

According to the North American Practitioner, Dr. True, of Philadelphia, has made quite extensive experiments with the juice of the red tomato for the purpose of discovering its virtues as a medicine. Dr. True’s investigations have led him to adopt the juice of the tomato in cases in which the blood needs toning up. The United States Government and the German Government have also made experiments, and many facts of interest have been discovered. During the recent war with Spain the juice of the tomato was utilized extensively as a health preservative among certain bodies of troops, with results which were eminently satisfactory.

A Lesson in Manners.

Talleyrand, the great French statesman, was entertaining one night An officer arriving lute su’d that he had been detained by a pequin, the French soldier’s nickname for a civilian. Talleyrand, affecting not to know, asked what a pequin was. “Oh!” remarked the officer with a free-and-easy shoulder-shrug. “We call everything pequin that Is not military.” “Indeed!** answered Talleyrand. “Now with us, we call everything military that is not civil.”

Cattle Feeding on Asparagus.

Asparagus is so plentiful on the Russian steppes that the cattle eat It like grass. The seeds are sometimes dried and used as a substitute for coffee. The value of bicycles owned in Maine is $324,420. This is only $7,000 less than the value of the entire street railway properties of the State.

What a Little Faith Did FOR MRS. ROCKWELL

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