The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-24

port Of Philadslphia, indicates that Tho
Prince, dushed over his signal ssccess In
making . mes OF u NJ Helena, y g0ing 10
90 right into Washington this winter, crab
the American eagle by the tail and terk
the screaming bird all over the old man's
harm yard. II good Mother Harrison
should gently glide into his room some
night just after he had retired, take the
lad across her knee In the good old way,
remove her slipper and apply IL To the
proper pl ace with all the energy and rap
idity Of which she Ia capable. the entire
country would look on with the hcartiest
admiration.
Tn right Of an American citiscn tn jug
gle I'm whatsoever N may please his
fancy In about 10 he tested I'm the courts.
near Belleville, N. j.. was recently an i'm
terested listener tn some stories about the
marvellous performances Of Hindoo Jug
Rlers. A few nights ago he determined to
try to initiate some of them, and dis
Quising himself according 10 his ideas of
AN East Indian, he soon collected n num-
her of men and boys and attempted to
entertain them with some tricks. He was
not very successful, for the crowd recoR-
nized him, and playfully hustled him into
the icy water Of Second river. He was
half frozcn, and now he threatens to have
several of his assailants arrested, claim
ing that he was privileged to juggle under
any character he saw nt to assume. II
he had confined his juggling to the returns
from n few election precincts, the Repub-
lican press would have fumed at any man
who dared question his p~rcroRative.
Along comes a man with AN idea for n
tower for the worlds fair OF 1892 which
will knock the Eiffel tower into q cooked
hat. This is a description Of the proposed
tower of towers:
II Is an immense swinging tower loo feet long
which will describe u complete semi-circie, pass
ing from the horizontal to n vertical position and
continuing its course until IL again assumes a
horizontal position. Al the extreme cad of the
tower will he 70 platform Of "a car capable Of ac-
communicating one Thousand people and SD con-
structed that IL will adjust itself to the motion Of
Thus i'm Its course the tower will describe "a semi
circle, the diameter of which will be two Thousand
feet, constituting what may be termed ga thrill
ing aerial flight" When the tower In i'm "a verti-
cal position the passengers On the self adjusting
platform will be- something more than i,O0O feet
from the ground which In "a greater height
than they can ascend by means Of the Eifel tower,
The swinging tower will serve the purpose Of
transporting people from one part of the grounds
to another. II may be feasible to have two such
towers, one swinging from east to west and an
other fruin north tO south. r. n. Powers, u me
chanic. is designer of the proposed tower. II
consists in the application Of u colossal scale Of
the leverage system. The swinging arm rests ON
a heavy steel axle In the center of the base or
truss-work pedestal. At the shorter end Of the
arm is u huge cylinder To counter balance the
weight Of the longer arm, at the end of which Is
attached the self-adjusting platform. The motive
ISp"Ni WI MINK thC toweE Viii DO IuTtllSueu
Ivy n steam engine connected by "a heavy cable
running an "a large wheel which is attached To the
tower and revOlves II.
Talk about the leaning tower of Pisa,
and the mausoleum of Artemisia, and the
Colossus of Rhodes, and the statue of
Olympian Jove, and the hanging gardens
of Babylon, and the Cronin jury, and the
Honicstake tunnel, and Lse Nantes as-
pirations tn the senatorship. and all the
rest of the seven wonder of the world
this Mr.. Powers double-back, reflex, cyl
indrical acting, self-clonGating and inter
nal supplementary adjusting, horizontal
esoteric swinging, and altogether perpen-
dicular whooI-her-up of n tower, il emit
tied tai the respectful regard of the world
as the great horn spoon and veritable
James dandy of them all. Towers may
come and towers may go, but Mr.. Powers
tower will keep coming and going across
n Rme Of tho worlds circumference
two thousand feet long forever. And the
exhilaration of the passcngcrs-the pc
culiar sensations of going way up
i'm the world and coming down again !;
the dreamy music of Inc band; the vast
expanse of nature slowly unfolding and
body like q spirit floats through the balmy
air, while your brain reels i'm delicious de-
lirium, and the souRhinR wind sou9hs
gently through your whiskers, and the
low, passionate wall OF the girl from Ho-
boken breaks upon your slumbrous ear:
40, ma, tell Them to stop -
such was the cry Of Marier.
hut the more she said "WhOa!"
The more they let go,
And the tower went u little bit higher.
II is hoped that Mr.. Powers will make
that platform work all right. for IL with q
thousand passengers OH board the him
should get stuck and refuse to perform
it's functions, by the time the tower began
to go down grade all the ladies and gem
tlemcn on board would discover that they
were descending very rapidly without the
aid of the machine and with all their feet
pointing towards the sun, a position which
would give rise to considerable embarass-
ment and confusion.