The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-16

glacial spinal applications This Can.
adian philanthropist has devised an in.
dia rubber bottle which can be fastened
TO any incandescent electric light wire
and which can be heated almost instan-
taneousiy 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 east of Chicago. Inside, the
wire, which enters through lead evil
| rider forming the neck of the bottle.
connects with a resistance coil. This
resistance coil, like all such coils which
are used in electric heaters. is formed of
wire too small TO carry the current, SO
that the electrical energy not finding
an outlet is transformed into heat. In
few moments, IL the current is strong
enough, water can be brought to the
boiling point, but this temperature is
never required, save in Borean climates
and in the case Of unusually recalci-
trant feet,
There is man down In Virginia with
an idea-.not that ideas are rare in Vir-
ginia, nor that virginian with one is
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 change of heart and gets
religion there will be always number
of good brethren who will do their bib
bing away from the profane gaze of the
public. Yet there are occasions, as the
observant Virginian probably knew,
when drink is necessary in o thronp.
even at the risk of reputation for alb
stinence. 1t was TO FIJI this aching void
that he employed his inventive genius.
lie knew that canes had been converted
into drinking TASKS and that opera
glasses had been made the receptacles
of spirituous liquors; but opera glasses
and canes are considered outre in
Virginia, and man developing an
infatuation for either would be regard
ed with suspicion by strangers and with
anxiety by his friends.
What is more innocent in appearance
than clothesbrush with a heavy wood
en- back and stiff bristles? Who would
think that IL contained pint of good
bourbon? Yet this combination of
good and evil was the elimination Of
the Machiavelian virginian's coneen-
tration upon the liquor question.
HIS brush, patented a few days ago,
has thick hollow back which contains
a glass flask securely concealed from
view, with 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 re-
filed.
Out In tho land Of the tornado and
cyclone some restraint Is necessary TO
mold houses in position. These high
winds have distressing habit OF elevat-
ng dwellings and barns and OF transfer
ring them in sections to the next county
,r even state. The first thing farmer
ioes out there after building his house
S To place a heavy mortgage on top,
with the possible object of dishearten-
ng the cyclone; but the tornado is no
'especter OF persons or of farm mort
rage trusts. and when one comes along
he mortgage, however weighty, is |
pretty sure To be lifted together with !
he farmer and the house. The uncer-
ain and unheralded approach of these
errific gales does not tend to tranquil
lty or sense of security.
AT the first apprehension Of a visit
rom cyclone the farmer tumultuous-
y followed by his wife and family,
acks OFT to his cellar or lowers him
elf down a well. Here he waits until
III has quieted. not knowing whether
e will rest In his bed or study astron-
my all night II the house has stood
but 1T rarely does-all is we'll and
ood, but, IL 1t Is gone, then all he can
o is to build another for the fat and
ealthy mortgage TO come back and
post upon.
a man out In Denver has patented an
lea which he thinks will materially
nange this condition of affairs lie
intimate with cyclones. having met
'veral In Kansas, and from his acute
OF their characteristics he
persuaded that he can knock out the
rongest OF them. In the niouant Lam