Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-29
SMART GIRL THIS.
dow . Gotham Maiden Invented q Pleas
ant and Lucrative Occupation.


How . Gotham Maiden Invented a Pleas
ant and Lucrative Occupation.
A clever girl who loves children and
has the soul OF an artist has opened q
new avocation for herself and other
maidens who need money, says the New
York Sun. This girl recently saw a
beautiful child of four years, sitting in
carriage with his mother, in front Of a
shop. But, alas! The boys beauty was
almost concealed by a dowdy costume,
costly, but unbecoming. A bright
thought popped into the girls head, and
| she said to herself: "There's a mother
| who does not know how to dress hei
child. Why not design a costume for
him and send it to herr" She ascer-
tanned who the woman was and went
homo and originated the cutest little
suit that mortal ever dreamed of. This
design she sent to the mother, explain
Ing that it would not be sold elsewhere
should she purchase it. The girl had
| sense enough to ask good price, as the
| woman fancied both the idea and the
| design. Since that first step was taken
the girl has progressed rapidly. Now
she has as regular patrons some of the
| wealthiest and most influential women
in New York. When they wish new
clothing for their children, as they dc
every few weeks, they drop a note to the
young woman, telling her to design a
| frock for school, or afternoon, or party
dress. Thereupon the artist makes an
appointment, goes to see the child
| studies it's form and features, makes e
few notes and in day or two submits
her design. She frequently buys the
materials, thus obtaining the commits
sionaire's percentage from the shop
keepers She reads fashion papers
haunts stores which advertise new i'm
portations of dress goods and millinery
and keeps her eyes open on the streets
She has gone into the work as a regular
business and is making an excellent in
come from the novel work.
InE progress OF stellar photography
s we'll cxcmplifcd in the case of the
nncr satellites Of Uranus, which, al
houGh they arc among tho most diff
cult Of all, have, during tho past year,
pccn successfully photographed.
IN startling paper to the Vienna
Academy of Science, Theodor Gross has
doubted that sulphur is an element, be-
| licving, for reasons soon to BIO given,
| that it is a compound of carbon with
some other as yet undetermined ele-
| ,ncntary substance.
A CORRESPONDENT Of tho British Jour
ma! OF Photography, having found, by
| twenty-five minutes exposure in photo
graphing tho moon, that tho image
travelled nearly the longth of his plato
Turing tho exposure, suggests that pho
| geography might be made the means of
| measuring the movement of the heaven
| ly bodies.
TIE use of nitro-glycerine in cases of
emergency instead Of alcohol is recon-
lnended by an English physician. A
drop on the tongue rouses fainting
man, and it may restore lilo in tho case
| of apparent death, as from drowning. 1t
has quickly relieved headache, heart
pains and asthma, and strengthened
weak pulse in fevers.
MODERN chemistry shows that the
medical loro of the ancient herbalists
had much sounder basis than had
been imagined. In 1897 water crosses
wero recommended for the cure Of
scurvy and scrofula. Chemists now say
that the cress contains sulphur. phos-
phorus, iodine and iron-substances
that are known to be actual antidotes to
scrofula.
PROF. Poe. OF Bridgeport. Conn.,, has
drowned and resuscitated . pet rabbit
eleven times, and suffocated it also with
| the fumes of burning charcoal, aud
restored it to life. The professor uses
a pair of artificial lungs. Artificial
respirations produce muscular oontrao-
ton and expansion. forcing oxygen into
tho lungs and drawing out the deadly
gases.
EXPERIMENTS have demonstrated that
the relation between the velocity Of
projcctile and tho resistance offered by
the air to Its motion differs materially
from Ncwton's theory that the resist
cnce is proportional to the square Of
tho velocity. For velocities which are
nearly equal to that of sound in air the
proportionatc increase of the resistance
is much creator than that Of the veloct-
ty.
For determination Of the air temper
ature at great heights the Berlin So
ciety for Ballooning Is going to try .
method Of Herr Sicgsfeld, who uses q
thermometer which, by closure OF an
electric circuit whom certain temper
aturcs arc reached, gives a light-signal.
Small balloons. each containing such
thermometer, will be sent up by night,
and tho light will affect TYPOGRAPHICAL
ly so-called "photo-theodolite," while
the height then attained will be in
Heated in mechanical wav.
IT'S SAID
A WATCHED pot never boils." The
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