Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — MERELY BOBBED AROUND. [ARTICLE]

MERELY BOBBED AROUND.

Hitch in the First Test of the Mt. Carmel Fljlng Mach ne. Thursday night, at Chicago, was the time set for the first public test of the much talked of Mt. Carmel air snip. Quite a crowd of newspaper meu and others having special invitations gathered at the Exposition building. When the doors of the main hall wore finally op< ned the curious spectators saw, high above their heads* floating about in an apparently aimless fashion, the strange cigar shaped Grattan uncanny looking object in the dim light of the great room. After considerable bobbing and a hound or two toward the roof the model was hauled (-own aud the exhibition was prematurely over. The inventor, Mr. Pennington, gloomily claimed that at the next trial there would be no “hitch.” He said that the storage battery j. was insufficiently charged, and that the propeller, instead of having a velocity of 240 revolutions a minute bad onlyforty.

The Workinc Jtan’a Coffeo Bone. A large building on East 23d street. New York, has been fitted up as a resort for laboring men, where coffee, is substituted for beer or stronger beverages. There is a large and cheerful reading-room well supplied with newspapers and periodicals, and certain games are allowed. Wholesome foou_ is provided at a Very low faXfC“"The in tention is to counteract in this way the malign influence of saloons, where the working man is robbed alike of hie money and reason. It is upon the wages of the hard working and pooi that the thousands of saloons with which New York is cursed fatten their coffers. They make their places comfortable and attractive and thus allure theii victims, and no better work in the interest of temperance and morality ear be done than to offset these ptbce.s with coffee houses like the one above described. They have been sue essful. we believe, wherever the experiment has been made, and we yet hope t<» set the good example generally followed. Texas Siftings.