Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-10-23
NEW KIND oE Hoaa-.
Cork Held In Position By Sheet-Iron ria:s,
to Prevent Shining.

Sork Held In Position by Sheet-Iron Piassi
TO Prevent slipping.
The London General Omnibus Com
pany Is about to make q through trial
u an improved horseshoe, which Is said
to have been subjected to severe test,
on tho European continent with very
satisfactory results, says the New York
Post. The idea, which Is the invention
OF 4 Frenchman named Pigot, IS a very
simple one, consisting merely Of tho
athSing to the under part Of the sho.,
OF two strips OF cork, one on each side.
The cork strips" says q printed do
scription. ''arc held In position by two
very thin shect-iron plates firmly fas-
teicd together by u rivet. Tho outer
edges of these plates are slipped be-
tween the shoe and the hoof. The inner
edges are turned upward, forming
nangcs, between which and the Inner
edge of Il shoe the cork blocks aro
lightly fixed. Between these nanges Ia
lifted Il screwed bolt, with nuts ut either
end, so that when the nuts are tightly
screwed against the hangcs the whole
is perfectly ~itnnovablc. In order to
hold the cork still firmer in position. tho
corners of the ilangcs are turned down
over 1t, thus forming q couple Of sockets
iato which the cork, which at first
slightly projects over the surface of tho
shoc, Is damned and compressed moro
iriniy every day by the weight of tho
morse These shoes arc said to enable
II horse to obtain such q grip upon n
shppery surface that slipping is almost
impossible and straining Is greatly di.
minished. The Brussels Tramway Com
pany, after trying them for six months,
has adopted them for general use. Tho
extra expense Is estimated at s7.5O n
year for each horse, against which must
DC put = saving on the wearing of tho
shoe and q prolongation Of the life of
the animal.
los CNLY WOMAN FREE MASON.
She Wa, sIndc n Member Of the Order to
Preserve Its Secrets.
Tho only female free mason in tho
world lives in Oakland, Cal, at No. bIo
Tenth street Her name is Mrs. Salomo
Andersen, and her portrait adorns the
temple of Live Oak lodge, No. Oh, where
it is placed in aposition OF honor among
the pictures OF the past masters.
The story Of how she Became ono of
the craftsmen Is interesting. She was
born in Alsacc-Lorrnine in 1918, and
becoming an orphan at an early age
she went to Paris to reside with her
uncle, who was n Jealous and promi-
ncnt mason. The lodge meetings wcro
held in his house, and with TIL curiosity
of her sex she concealed hersel: in the
room during n couple of the sessions,
and thus learned some Of the mysteries
of the order.
She was, however, caught while thus
hiding, and the secrets that she had dis
covered were then mnde n sacred trust,
fo- she was received into the fraternity.
She located in Oakland in 1851, and in
1865 her husband was elected to the city
council, says tho San Francisco News
Letter. He died in 1856, and since then
che has devoted herself almost entirely
to charity, her attention being, how
ever, forcmostly directed to masonic en-
tcrpriscs.
She wa elected q member OF tho
board of trustees of the masonic temple,
q circumstance unparalleled in the his
tory Of frccmasonry. She is also n
charto> member of Garden Gate chapter,
No. l, Order OF the Eastern Star, and il
q member Of Oak Leaf chapter, No. 8.