Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29

hGeDd IUTTbSl. IlG WIS " lOllX SOII OI
fellow, a regular NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
as are a good many OF the younger Per-.
sian mobiles. Although forced to keep
up an outward appearance of piety, in
de ference to the sanctimonious tone OF
society about him, he showed his CON
tempt for orthodox Shah practices by
taking supper on the quiet with q
Feringhi and by consuming a good deal
OF arrack."
Subway Privileges.
At a late meeting OF the Boston board
OF aldermen, the board passed nm order
granting an exclusive franchise to H.
T.. Cobb, Royal M. Pulsifer and +. II.
Chapman and their assigns to construct,
establish and maintain through and un-
der certain streets conduits, in and
through which TO conduct wires for tele-
| graphic, telephone, electric lighting
and power communication. Included
in the order is q provision that the
board of aldermen shall determine the
location in the streets through which
the coduits are to pass. The parties re-
ceiving the franchise agree to furnish
the city, free of all rent and charge, ac-
| commodations for all wires now owned or
| controlled by the city, or that
may hereafter be owned and controlled
by the city, and shall furnish and keep
in repair such wires without expense to
the city. The parties accepting the
franchise shall pay to the city all the
excess of their profits ovet 10 per cent
of their capital actually invested, and
shall also allow their books and ac-
counts to be inspected at any time by
the city auditor or any person whom
the board of aldermen may designate.
The parties also agree to begin work in
-four months from the passage of the or
der, and to grant to all parties and cor
porations, where wires may be required
to go underground, reasonable accom-
modations. and shall charge
form price without favor, par
TALLY or discrimination; all disputes
to be referred to the board of aldermen.
| Should the city construct q subway in
the streets occupied by the conduits the
parties agree to take up their conduits
and place them in such subway at their
own expense, il ordered so to do by the
board of aldermen. After ten years the
city may purchase the franchise. Moth
ing granted shall in any way affect the
right of the Edison Electric illuminate
ing company to lay its own conduits or
the rights granted heretofore to any in
dividual or company to maintain UNDER
ground conduits, or the vested rights,
If any, of any individual or corporation
in any of the streets included in the
order. The order was passed by a vote
of seven yeas and three nays.
Science Solved the Puzzle.
Hartford Times: A Meriden cl othing
dealer recently offered q spring over
coat to any person solving the 'anti-
rattle-box" puzzle. This consisted of a
short cylindrical wooden box, securely
sealed. The point was to shake the box
without rafting the contents. On the
box was printed: "You can't do it; but
1T can be done" Those who get hold of
the boxes, after shaking them in
different ways, cut them open and
found the contents to consist of
method of doing the trick could be
thought of, it was generally supposed
that the puzzle could not be solved.
Charles NJ. Fairchild, assistant to Su-
~perintendent Fitzgerald, ofthe Meriden
Electric Light company, came into pos
session of one of the boxes. He dis
sected it, noticed the bits of tin, thought
a moment, and then, taking a piece of
magnetized iron, replaced the cover
to one end. 1t was strong
enough to attract all the small pieces
of TIN and hold them fast to the end of
the box however violently it was
shaken. He got the overcoat.
Paper Bottles.
One of the most interesting of the
many uses to which paper has been put
is the manufacture of paper bottles.
We have long had paper boxes, bar
rels, and car wheels, and more recently
paper pals, wash basins, and other yes
sells: but o comes a further evolution
of paper in the shape of paper bottles,
which are already quite extensively
used for containing such substances as
ink, bluing, shoe dressing, glue, etc.,
and they would seem to be equally well
adapted for containing a large variety
of articles.
They are made by rolling glued sheets
of paper into long cylinders, which are
then cut into suitable lengths, tops and
bottoms are fitted in, the inside coated
with II waterproof compound, and all
this done by machinery almost as
quickly as one can count.
They are cheaper and lighter than
glass, unbreafable, and consequently
very popular with consumers, while the
fact that they require no packing ma
terial and are clean, handy and economi-
cal, commends them to manufacturers.
Unlike glass, they can be manufactured
and shipped at all seasons, and being
made by machinery, the supply is indie
pendent of labor troubles, which are ad-
ditional advantages to manufactures
who use bottles.
Physical Development in Theory and
Practice.
Popular Science Monthly: 'Every
writer on education, from Plato to Her.
bert Spencer, has advocated physical
activity as a means of attaining that
| full-Orhpd and bnplunniouS daya1opnau
of all parts of the human economy so
essential to robust, vigorous health"
Theorists, then, arc agreed upon this
as the ultimate aim of every kind Of
physical exercise" But we all know
how difficult ii is to get the besttheories
put into practice. They may commend
themselves as the very best, but they
fall far short of their good to men till
they can be made working theories. In
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