The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-27

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tie, has done much toward alleyiating,-
il not pbviating, one OF the prfn-
cipal tributorys causes. There is no,
more necessity now for cold anaemic
feet, in compa risOn with which icicles
are cheerful and comforting, nor need
any wife or husband be now tortured
by glacial spinal applications. This
Canadian philanthropist has devised an
india rubber bottle which can be fast
ened to any incandescent electric light
wire, and which can be heated almost
instantaneously by pressing the button
In size the bottle is about one foot
long and some six inches in diameter;
both long and broad enough to heat the
sole of any foot outside of Chicago. In
side, the wire. which enters through
lead cylinder forming the neck OF the
bottle connects with D. resistance cell
The resistance COIL like all such coils
which are used in electric heaters, is;
formed of wires too small to carry the
current, so that the electric energy, not
finding an outlet, is transformed into
heat. In a few moments, If the cur
rent is strong enough, water can be-
brought to the boiling point, but this
temperature is never required, save IN
Borean climates and in case of unu-
sually recalcitrant feet. It is easy to
see. the advantage Of this bottle, which
can be kept at an average temperature
as long as you wish, over the old fash
toned bottle, warm at the beginning,
but which had a most uncomfortable
habit. Of freezing and bursting in the
morning, when it was most needed
Neither will the, hot brick. plain or
wrapped in an old undergarment, bear !.
comparison with it at ALL
There is man down in Virginia with
an idea-not that ideas are rare in Viz
gaia, nor that Virginian with one is
a curiosity-but this mans idea is
novel. He is persuaded that the tip
ping habit will. in all likelihood, con-
tinue until the millennium comes, and
that until humanity in the concrete ex-
periences a change Of heart and gets
religion there will be always number
Of good brethren who will do their
bibbing away from the profane gaze Of
the public. Yet there are occasions, as
the observant Virginian probably knew,
when a drink is necessary in a throng,
even at the risk Of reputation for alb
stinence. 1t was to fill this aching void
that he employed his inventive genius
He knew that canes had been convert
ed into drinking TASKS, and that opera
glasses had been made the receptacles,
for spurious liquors, but opera glasses
and canes are considered Outre in Vir-
ginia, and man developing an infat-
uation for either would be regarded
with suspicion by strangers and with
anxiety by his friends.
Very Innocent Looking
What is more innocent in appearance
than clothes brush with a heavy
| wooden back and stiff bristles? Who
| would think it contained a pint Of good
|, Bourbon? Yet this combination of
good and evil was the elimination of
| the Machiavellian Virginian's concen--
| ton upon the liquor question. ,.
| His brush, patented a few days ago.
! has a thick hollow back which contains:
a glass flask securely concealed from
| view, with a drinking cup fitted snugly
| to the reduced neck Of the bottle
| Either end of the brush can be easily
removed and the flask taken out and
retilled. Down in Virginia now every
one is supposed to have at least one
! brush, and prOhibitiOniStS three.
| .'Come and have your clothes brush
ed is now considered an invitation to-
| imbibe, and if you see any one anx-
| iOusly brushing his coat collar Or cravat
with a heavy wooden-backed brush you:
may safely suspect him of taking sly
nip. 1t is already astonishing how care
fully some F. f. VS. have become of
! their personal appearance, and bear it
in mind, when you see a man carrying
a clothes brush in his hip pocket he is
a Virginian. !;
Out in the land of the tornado and
| cyclone some restraint is necessary to
hold houses in position. These high
| winds have distressing habit of ele-
waiting dwellings and barns and Of
| in SoatinnS fn no
| county or even state. The first thing
81 farmer does out there after building
| his house is to place a heavy mortgage
on top, with the possible object of dis
heartening the cyclone; but the tor
nado is no respector Of persons or of
farm mortgage trusts, and when one
comes along the mortgage, however
weighty, is pretty sure to be lifted, to-
! gether with the farmer and the house.
The uncertain and unheralded approach
of these terrific gales does not: tend to
tranquility or a sense of security.
At the first apprehension Of visit
from cyclone the farmer, tumultu-
ously followed by his wife and family,
packs off to his cellar or lowers him
self down well. Here he waits until
all is quoted, not knowing whether he
will rest in bed or study astronomy all
night. If the house has stood-but il
rarely does--all is well and good but
81 if it is gone. then all he can do is: to
p, build another for the fat and healthy
i mortgage to come back and rOost upon.
A man out in Denver has patented
an idea which he thinks will materially
change this condition of affairs. He is
intimate with cyclones, having met
several in Kansas, and from his acute
observation of their characteristics he
| IL I, IL.
strongest Of them. In the piquant Ian
guage Of the unsophisticated West he
; is willing to bet dollars to doughnuts
that he can stop a tornado in one
round. .-..r ~. ~
r His plan is simple enough. A strong
iron band passes over the gables and
roof of the house, to which it is firmly
bolted; the ends Of the rod terminate
in loops which are buried in the ground
and carefully tackled down by large
wooden stakes, a mallet and the hired
man. As a sort Of additional precau-