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THE TELEPHONE IN BOLIVIA,
Indians Stole the Wire and Used the Poles
for

Indians Stole the Wire and Used the Poles
for Firewood.
A telephone line had been laid down
by the Bolivian government between
La Paz and Lake Titicaca. forty-fve
miles apart. but the Indians got the
idea that the understanding talk Of
the white ia that could be heard thus
far would disturb the long sleep Of
their ancestors, and they stole the wire
and used the poles for frewood. These
were replaced, but at last the whole
line was ruthlessly torn down, and the
government vas compelled to abandon
it.
The Indians next turned their atten-
ton to the electric-light plant which
was being installed in La Paz, and
awaited their opportunity of destroy
ing it. After the plant had been in
operation a few nights it happened
that there was an eclipse of the
moon. The Indians believed that the
electric light was absorbing or swal-
lowing the moon, and, gathering in a
body at n quarter of the town, moved
upon the plant to destroy it. It was
saved only by the Intervention of a
large body Of troops
The government the next day select
ed several re preventative Indians, took
them to the powerhouse and shocked
them severely, then took them out
along the line and shocked them again
with the wires. After this they in
formed them that the electric light
was an evil spirit, and that they had
better leave it alone. The Indians
were convinced that they could not
fight against an enemy that could
twist their muscles into kinks when
miles away, and there has been no
further trouble.-Chicago Journal.
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a A MOTOR.
A Rat and . Long Glass Pipe All That
are Needed.

are Needed.
Il had a large cork and bung factory
in Grand avenue, and l needed power
to u my machinery. You know, of
course, that there is an immense
amount of stored up electricity in a cat.
The problem for inventors has been to
invent a way to extract it profitably.
In h rear of my factory l constructed
a one-story circular building, some
sixty feet in diameter. On the floor of
this coiled a glass pipe six inches in
diameter. The first coil ran around the
outside of the room, the coils gradual
ly growing smaller till the last center
was no larger than this table. 1t gave
me something like a mile of pipe. The
top and sides of this pipe were lined
with rather stiff hair brushes, the
bristles being a little more than an inch
in length.
AT that time Milwaukee was poverrun
with cats. It was impossible to sleep
nights. / put a notice in the paper that
| would pay ten cents a dozen for prime
cats, delivered at my factory. l got
sixty dozen the first day, and stored
them in the basement of the powder
house. The motor operated thus: Plac-
ing in the outer end of the glass pipe
an imitation rat, made of rubber and
propelled by a small interior storage
battery, l would then adjust a cat i'm
mediately behind it. The rubber rat
would start off at a terrific rate-it was
made to go through the mile of tubing
in from two to three minutes-and the
cat. of course, followed furiously, think
ing to catch the supposed animal
throughout the entire distance.
Gentlemen, it was exciting to watch
a healthy, active cat whip about those
spirals, with a mechanical rat about a
foot ahead, and going like a cannon
ball. The cats back and sides rubbed
against the brushes, and her electricity
was thus extracted. With a storage
battery, and by sending a cat through
every five minutes, | generated enough
electricity to operate my entire plant,
light my factory, and sell power to run
neighboring passenger elevators and
small machinery. Ittook the yowl out
of cats, and gradually the city became
quiet. Atthe end OF a week a cat could
be caught and used again.-Munchau-
senville Record.
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Paint for Iron and Steel.

The invention refers to a new ma
terial, called "siderosthen," for the
coating of iron and steel surfaces,
with a view to prevent the formation
of rust upon them. The compounds
used for the manufacture of this paint
are the tar obtained from works pro-
ducing fat gas, ''goudron," which is
a mixture of about IS parts of refined
Trinidad asphalt and Is parts of re-
fined asphalt oil, or, instead of the
'goudron," sulphur may be used. If
"goudron' be employed, this is dis
solved in the gas tar, in suitable guam
titles, and this mixture can then forth
with be employed for the purpose in
view. If sulphur be used, 8 per cent.
of it is mixed with the gas tar, and
this mixture is then heated to about
100 degrees C.
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For Strangers Only.

81 stopped at a small town in West
Virginia not long ago" remarked the
drummer, and as l stood on the plat
form at the station looking for some
body to tell me something about the
place a native passed along"
"Is there a hotel in this town." | in
CURED.
"Thar amt" he replied, quite to the
point.
Isn't there any place for strangers
to stop ate"
"Well, yes" he said, hesitatingly.
''thar's a boardin'-house whar nobody
but strangers stops. Anybody that
knowed anything about it wouldn't
stop thar
The drummer sighed.
81 tried it," he said. in conclusion,
land the native was right."-Detroit
Free Press.
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HUMOROUS.

AT the Electrical Exam.-Examiner
What is the best insulator we know
OFF" Candidate-"Poverty."-La Sci
ence.
-"Did Travers take his photograph
into a session of the board of lady man
ayers, as he threatened to do?" ..Yes.
poor fellow, and the machine broke
Chicago Record.
Little Girl-..I am afraid this isn,t
the kind of tea mamma wants" Gro
cer-'Why?" Little Girl-s.Well. she
said she always paid two prices here.
and I've only paid one for this"
"A Brazilian recently saved his life
by carrying a roll of one hundred
pound notes inside his vest when a
bullet came that way. Yet there are
people who neglect so simple a precau-
tion.-Tit-Bits.
-"Dwiggins is the kind of a man
who never puts anything away for a
rainv day." "Oh, yes, he has"
''What?" THAT ten-dollar umbrella
you've been hunting for the last two
weeks."-Inter Ocean.
do you mean to say that there
are microbe in Rock creek?" she asked
of the young physician. Eyes; it is
quite safe to make such an assertion"
Dear me! How do they ever survive
it?"-Washington Star.
-Willis-'Fd hate to be as hard I'M
as Broker seems to be- Wallace
What leads you think he is hard up?"
Willis-"Why, he's been to see me ten
times this week, to get that flyer Dor
rowed from him six months ago."-Tit-
Bits.
In the Cairo Notwithstanding
don't you like Egyptians, deah bow"
Reggy-"Why, don't you know. thew
all called 'fellahs?' And one ALWAYS
associates fellahs with high hats and
~sack-coats, don't you know."-World's
Fair Puck.
He went out from a Chicago hotel
with three hundred dollars and never
returned" is the heading to a news
item in an exchange. The sensible
man who gets away from a Chicago
hotel with three hundred dollars is not
apt to return.
Now, DEAR" she said, as she ston-
Skop-
ped at the depot gate, you will see
that everything goes right about the
house, won't you?" Eyes, indeed" he
answered. lyon will do everything
just as l would if l were there?" II
WILL" he replied earnestly. 'Tll dis
charge h servant-girl every morning
before go down town."-Wasbinpton
Star.
what are you standing on this
corner for?" queried the policeman of
Old Abner Brown, of Wayback. why.
l jest put a letter in that box there for
my wife, an it's jest occurred to me as
how she amt likely to git it." why
not?' Because she amt comm this
way an even eff she was, she hain't got
no key to git in the box with."-Rar.
per's Bazaar.
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When the job is finished the STYLE, like
the dial-plate, should be immovablv
fixed, as a slight change of position
would seriously affect the value of the
apparatus as a timepiece. The plate
should be placed horizontally. Upon
its face, by tools, acid or other means,
should be engraven the ''hour-lines,"
which radiate from thatpoint where the
pin Gf n be used) is inserted in
the plate, or where the wedge
(f that form of gnomon be preferred)
tapers away to nothing toward the
south. The same center should be
used in describing the hour circle.
There are abstruse mathematical rules
for laying out the radiating lines in
advance. But it is easier to locate
them by practical experiment. Watch
in hand, one should first mark the
noon point on the outer circle, using a
temporary pin to cast the shadow.
Then, in like manner, the points where
the shadow crosses the arc at 1, 2, 8
and the other afternoon hours, and at
6, 7, s and the other forenoon hours,
should be carefully indicated. Halves
and quarters may also be designated if
desired.
A sun dial is set up for boetical and
ornamental, rather than practical rea-
sons; but in the interest of it
ought to be added that only on four
days in the year would local mean
time, Or clock indications, agree with
local ''apparent"' time, or sun-dial
readings. Fer astronomical causes,
there is, during most of the year, a
variation of from one to ten minutes;
and for a few days in November the
departure is as great as fifteen. More
over, most of our clocks and watches
nowadays, instead of registering true
local time, are set to accord with a
standard meridian east or west Of us.
From eastern Maine to Cleveland, for
instance, we go by the seventy-ffth
meridian. East of that the true time
is four minutes later for each degree
of longitude, and westward four
minutes earlier.-N. Y. Tribune.
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TO MAKE A SUN.DIAL,
1t Requires Some Thought and Consider
able Patience.

1t Requires Some Thought and Consider
able Patience.
In reply to an inquiry, these hints
are given for the construction of a sun
dial. The essential parts are a style,
or "gnomon," to cast the shadow, and
a perfectly level plate, with an arc de-
scribed thereon, for registering the
hours. Nothing need be said about di-
mansions, for these vary from those of
an instrument small enough to be
mounted on a pocket compass card, to
ten or twelve or even twenty feet in
diameter, where a spacious lawn is
used for the hour circle, and foliage
plants, strongly contrasting in color
with the green sward, form the figures.
A ~favorite design employs a metal
base two or three feet across.
The shadow may be produced by
either a slender pin of heavy wire or .
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-16
MINES ANO MINING.

MEXICO has $50 mines, worked by 1o0,-
600 men.
Coal mines were begun in Pennsyl-
vania in 1884.
SOME of the Australian gold veins are
$50 feet thick.
THERE IRE copper mines in every
country in Europe.
GOLD was discovered in the Ural
mountains in 1745.
THE first oil company was formed in
New York in 1854.
THERE are now gold mines in every
country in Europe.
THERE are gold washings in almost
every part of Idaho.
THE great Nevada silver mines were
opened in 1859.
THE tin production of the world in
1891 was 90, 1858 tons.
SPAIN is n of the principal copper
producing countries.
THE worlds coal mines produced in
1883 4S5, 900, 900 tons.
COAL mining in the United States be-
gan at Pittsburgh in 1884.
THE British Neurological society
was established in 1900.
THE British government school of
mines was opened in 1851.
GOLD in paying quantities was dis
covered in California in 1849.
In every ton of sea water there is
about n grain of pure gold.
THE annual production of gold and
silver is about $500, 900, 900.
THE United States produces IS per
cent. of all the lead in the world.
GREAT BRITAIN, Australia and Java
are the three leading tin countries.
ITALY has Al, 900 miners. The marble
quarries employ 90, 900 more.
THE first iron mine in the United
States was opened in Virginia in 1858.
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adapted for a village or suburban
home where one has land enough to
sat off the house. The plumbing be-
ing directly owe the sink makes a saw
ing and is less likely to freeze. Height
of stairs 8 feet 6 inches or 8 feet 3
inches; finish white wood or elm. Cost
$4,000 to 50, 400. Many additions such
as freplaces, piazza on front, ETC.,
could be made if one desired to pay as
high as s $500 or s 5000. The archi-
tects are J.. F. & G. III. Smith, Boston,
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"The amount of toll and ingenuity
you have put into your calling" said
the city missionary to the burglar,
"would have made you comfortably
well off if you had engaged in some
honest business"
"Mebby it would" answered the
burglar, but a man in the burglar
business has the satisfaction that he
don't have to ask nobody to give him a
job."-Indianapolis Journal.
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Is Lightning Caused BY RAIN

1t is popularity supposed that the
sudden %downpour which usually fol-
lows a bright flash of lightning is in
some way caused by the flash. Meteor
ologists have proven that this is not
the case. and that, exactly to the CON
trary, it is not only possible but high
~ probable that the sudden increased
precipitation is the real cause of the
dashl
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A SUBURBAN COTTAGE.

venient, that may be cheaply built,
and yet that will be a credit to any
neighborhood, is quite another matter.
There is a much greater demand for
the latter style of building, and in the
design here shown it is the belief of
the author that the problem has been
fairly solved. The design here shown
illustrates a very pretty cottage of
ample sized rooms. that could be
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Hasty Conclusions.

Uppen-Hello, old fellow. How did
you enjoy your trip to England?
Cummings (explaining)-I haven't
been to England. I'm wearing this
ill-fitting suit of clothes because | got
it at a bargain. Chicago Tribune.
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The Only Way.

Tommy-Towser just run around in
a circle about a hundred times to catch
his tail.
Papa-Did he catch it?
Tommy-No: he did not. l should
think the only way he could ever catch
it would be to run after it BACKWARD
Puck.
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In Front Of Hat store.

Salesman lin hat store)-That's an
awful shabby hat you've got on. Why
don't you come inside and let me sell
you a new one?
Mr.. Sylcuss-Not much do 1 buy a
new hat. My wife says she is not go
ing out with me as long as / wear this
hat.-Texas Siftings.
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Faith in

George Washington" said Tommy
in the course of his regular Friday
composition" was a man who IL he
pointed a gun at a man and told the
man it wasn't loaded, the man would
not get . bit scared. "-Indianapolis
journal.
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Not Dangerous.

Careful H~ousekeeper - Have you
boiled the drinking water?
Faithful Servant-Yes'm.
"And sterilized the milkP'
"Yes'm."
"What is this in the SOUP"
"Oh, that isn't no bacillus. mum.
That is only a roach."-N. Y. Weekly.
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The trustees Of the military acade-
my in Macon, Mo-, have brought an
action for heavy damages against Ave
ministers for issuing a boycott on the
academy because dancing was taught
the cadets.
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A Lucky Son.fn Law.

Piddicombe-This talk about men
not getting on well with their mothers
1n-laws is all nonsense. Now. nv
mother-in-law is an angel.
Bostwick-Ah; visits few and far be-
tween, eh:-Brooklyn Life.
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A Stern Remedy,

"Does the buzzing of mosquitoes keen
you awake at night?'
No; not at all. My baby cries so
much that / never hear them. --Jndr.
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And Very Few wome,

Pugilist-Why, Blufiey can't fight.
l don't believe he could put a baby to
sleep.
Newwed-No, neither do I. There in
no man who can put a baby to sleep.-
Truth.
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triangular section of sheet metal. If
the former is used it is better not to
set it vertically, but to incline it due
northward, so as to be parallel with
the earth's axis. In north latitude 43
the angle formed by the style and a
true level should be Al degrees; in lat
itude so the angle should be 40 degrees,
and SO on. If plate be substituted
for the pin its plane should be vertical,
the slanting edge should form the
angle with the horizon, just prescribed
for a wire, and the edge which is ver-
tical should be set toward the north.
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Mass, and the designs here given are
reproduced from the Mechanical News.
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SUBURBAN COTTAGE.
a Neat Cottage That Can Be Built
at Moderate Cost.
Although Costing But q Little Over I've
Thousand Dollars 1t Would BE q
Credit to ANY village or
~Neighborhood.

1t is comparatively an easy matter to
plan a large house where the cost limit
Is not rigidly defined; but to plan a
very small house, that shall be con-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-12-23
|DOMEsnCID IDEAS.
The Art of Patching.

How many patch clothes, particularly
children's clothes, with little regard to
the stripe and check, and sometimes to
the shade CT tie garment patched. Then
some seem to think the larger the patch
the better, according to the New England
Farmer. OF course, the thinuess OF the
cloth near the hole will have something
to do with the size Of the patch, but
when three cornered tear is mended
take piece exactly matching the check
or stripe of the garment, and just large
enough to leave space equal to the
fell taken on the other side between tina
hem and the run; then on the right side
make cut in each corner equal to the
depth Of the fell, aud much squarer
neater patch Is made. If a wooden gar
ment, it should DE dampened, and the
fell thoroughly pressed with a moder
ately hot iron. A patch should never be
put on the right side Of au outer gar
ment. If the rent or tear is near a seam
insert side of the patch into this, and
sometimes two seams are so near that
the patch can scarcely be noticed. Gen
orally people fasten the patch on the
wrong side by running the tread along
the edge. A better way is TO catstitc Gil
the patch on to the garment.
Here is good way to foot stock ings
To J. bo Gnoly fnlH IL he
seam, and where the heel merges into
the leg begin to cut, and keeping hall
way between the two edges, cut off the
under part, then cut open the heel seam
and spreading out the part cut away
from the stocking, make paper pattern
from which to cut out a new bottom Of
cloth. Fold this together in the middle
| and stitch together the rounded edges
for new heel, then unfolding, stitch
the new bottoms into the stocking
holding the former toward you, as OF
account of the room for seam and shrink
age, which, of course, was allowed il
cutting the pattern, it will be larger thar
bhO SlOChlIS
Wooden or cotton stockings past veal
ing should rot be thrown away, as Otter
one pair is useful in mending another.
A good way to deal with underclothes
is according to the old saying, IAN ounce
| of prevention is worth pound of cure. ,
This means in this case, woolen stocking,
with double heels, cotton stockings will
heels lined before wearing, the binding
and sleeves guarded from fraying out BY
pretty narrow trimming, which can bt
bought cheap, or knit at odd moments
when the time would not be missed. L
goes without the saying that boots
waists, undervests, etc, should never be
worn without first fastening on the but
tons securely.
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Milk as Poultry Food.

We have been trying milk as poultry
food aud can confidently recommend it
to villagers and farmers who keep one or
more cows for family USE. writes the
editor of the American Agriculturist
When butter is made and skim milk is
plenty. it is very valuable addition to
the fare of the POULTRY yard. OIe main
difference between winter and spring
laying is owing to the absence of
animal food in winter. Toe milk sup
plies this and is devoured with eagerness
The skim and butter milk may be
poured into thu feeding trough and kept
constantly by the fowls, Or it may be
mixed with scalded meals of various
grains. Indian meal is a good ration
once day, but it should be varied with
oat or rye meal, and whole grains of
wheat, buckwheat or barley. In warm
room, with a good southern exposure
and plenty of light, there is no difficulty
in getting plenty of eggs from early pull.
lets, and this is the time when eggs are
of great market value. Later in the
season, when the broods come off, milk
which will then be more abundant, will
be an excellent feed for chickens, turk
eys and all kinds of young poultry.
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Shelter for Cows in Winter.

Bulletin No. II, Vol. ~, from Pur-
due University Experiment Station, G.
S. Plumb, director, Lafayette. Ind,
treats of shelter for mich cows in winter
and skim milk as food for calves. The
following is the summary given in the
Massachusetts Plowman.
/. Other Thugs being equal, dairy
COWS sheltered from Indictment winter
weather will eat less food than unshelt.
cred ones.
2. Exposure to all sorts of winter
weather will cause cows to give less milk
than the same animals would if properly
protected.
8. The live weight of unsheltered
milch cows IN winter will not be main
tanned so we'll as where they are Shelf
cred.
Will it pay to feed calves simply
skinned milk as has been done in the
above examples? The six calves con
sumed 9.345 pounds of skim milk to
make gain of 59S pounds. This in
creased gain in this locality would sci!
for five cents q pound, or 5000. The
milk drunk, estimating its market value
at fifteen cents hundred pounds, would
cost $14.02, showing a difference of
s15.SS.
The writer believes that still greater
gain would have been made by these
calves if the fat removed from the milk
had been replaced by flax led or some
other substitute.