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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

the player to reach several octaves
with single hand. thus rendering GER
tain effects of execution possible which
could not be obtained on an ordinary
keyboard. There are several devices
by which the performer is enabled to
improvise on the piano and TO have the
improvisa tons recorded with self-ink-
ing pens or otherwise. Afterward the
record may be translated into the COM
mon notation.
Music boxes nowadays are made in
all sorts of queer shapes. The glass
water bottle on the dinner table plays
a tune while the guest fills his tumbler.
The cigar holder becomes tuneful when
a match is struck upon it Toilet sets
have music boxes concealed in them.
Fruit plates. on being placed upon the
festive board, start up with jigs and
waltzes. Photograph albums become
harmonious when opened. Clocks, in
stead of striking emit operate frag-
ments every hour, Artificial singing
birds, run by clockwork with bellows
and whistles. carol melodiously. One
may buy an imitation canary, robin or
nightingale in a cage Music boxes run
all the way from 40 cents up to 81 ,00C
for a complete orchestra in a box, with
reeds, bells and rolling drums. One sort
will play any number of operas, the
music being fed to the machine in the
shape of a perforated strip.
Queer Things from Paper.
Patents have been granted for max
ing innumerable queer things out OF
paper-such as carpets, electric con-
Quits, lead pencils, roofing material
car wheels boats, pals, collins, brushes
and combs. Mattresses are manufac-
tured out of paper pulp and ordinary
sponge, springs being embedded in the
composition. A cloth paper for bank
notes has been invented, the notion
being to render such money less perish
able and more difficult to counterfeit
Paper is used nowadays for architect
ural decorations, interior and exterior
Cornices, panels and friezes are nodded
out of pulp. Paper collars, which
used to be produced in such enormous
numbers, seem to have gone out OF
fashion. Only the other day a rural
looking person with a gripsack, after
wandering up and down Pennsylvania
avenue for a long time, walked into
the Metropolitan hotel, and, addressing
the clerk, remarked:
This is a hi of town. I have
been to fifty stores, and not one paper
collar could I get. What do you wear
here-celluloid?
One of the most successful of recent
inventions as a, process for making ar
tificial straws out of paper for drinking
iced bevera ges. Everybody knows that
real straws are apt to be defective; but
the imita tons are always satisfactory
and never fail to draw. After they are
rolled, they are treated with paraffine
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
THE NEW TEA YEAR.

Garden teas are gathered in Japan as
early as April. The steamer now due
from Yokohama may possibly have
small consignment of these new teas. pro-
vided the season has been as forward
as in former years. The tea trade OF
China and Japan is now carried almost
exclusively by steamers. The tea intended
for the United States enters the. country
through four ports, three of which are
on this coast. Tea steamers for New York
go by the way of SueZ canal A steamer
is now due at this port from the tea
markets 1t is the last of the season,
and she probably has little cargo OF this
kind. The first steamer to arrive at New
York direct via the Suez canal with the
crop of 1898 reached that port August 5;
with the crop of 1898. This is seven less
than were reported in the previous crop
J ear. The steamers this year have put
market against 910,S26 packages for the
previous year.
Other consignments of tea intended for
distribution in the Atlantic states come
into the country through three ports on
the Pacific coast, and are reshipped by
rail. The principal source of these sup
plies is San Francisco. Two steam lines
bring their cargoes to this port. During
the tea year just ended thirty-eight
steamers arrived at San Francisco with
lis, 179 packages of tea for this market
These are larger totals than for the pre-
vious year. The quantity received for
local consumption is about 5000 packages
more. and in transit the total shows an
increase. of $4,000 packages. This gain in
trarsit trade has been at the expense of
the Suez route. Under judicious manage
ment it is believed that more of this
through trade may be diverted from the
longer to the shorter route this way. Con-
siderable tea is imported into the United
States through Tacoma. Wash, and Van
oouver, B. c. Each of these northern
ports maintains monthly steam line
with the tea ports. Some cargoes under
The natural route from the Orient to the
United States is via the Pacific coast
San Francisco Bulletin
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

full of queer ideas in musical instru-
ments. Patents have been sought for
lyiolins made of metal, of earthenware,
Lof glass. of leather. and even of glue.
Plain wood however, maintains its
place as the accepted material for this
purpose. How many people have ever
heard Of the 'doorophone?' Its con-
sists Of a frame and a sounding-board,
with tuned wires and little metal balls
suspended. The contrivance is hung
upon door. When the. latter is
opened, the balls swing back and forth
and strike harmonious chords.
There is a patented device for play
ing the banjo by electricity. 1t requires
no skill, the instrument being operated
by sheet of paper with perforations
which control the making and break
ing of circuit. Mechanical fingers
thus actuated pick the strings and de-
press them at the frets. Another in
strument is so arranged that one may
play the banjo by manipulating the
keys of keyboard like that of piano
on small scale. The same idea is
varied by a combination of piano and
violin. the strings of the latter being
fingered by the use of a piano-like
keyboard. Of course. that is the diff
cult part of violin playing, the handling
Of the bow being simple enough. The
the fingers of the left hand strike the
KEYS
Within the last few years many
musical instruments that play them
selves have been invented. These
ought to be a Godsend in non-musical
households, not to mention the saving
of money for teaching and of distress
to the nerves of those who are not do
ing the practicing. For example, there
is the piano organ. which is operated
by strips of perforated paper like an
orguinette. 1t is either a piano or an
organ, or both together. and it plays
itself much better than most people
who understand the piano could play
it. because the mechanical arrangement
| is made with high degree of musical
skill. The performer simply works the
bellows. But there is a continuance
with mechanical hands which may be
showed I'D in front of any piano and
will do the playing.
Contrivances for the Piano.
Another patented contrivance for the
piano furnishes the instrument with
auxiliary strings. which sound in
sympathy with the ordinary strings
though they are not struck. They are
i tuned in harmony with the primary
strings and augment the volume OF
tone. There is a kind of piano that
holds a note as long as the finger is
kept on the key; the string is kept
vibrating by an electro-magnet. The
Janko keyboard is already becoming
we'll known. It's ARRANGEMENT enables
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
BICYCLE LOCOMOTIVE.

What is called the bicycle locomotive,
invented by DIR. Mahana, of Sunnysde
stands on the Hawthorne railway track at
Mount Tabor, where the inventor is max
ing it ready for the trial trip, shortly to
be made on the Mount Scott and Portland
railroad. The engine rests close to the
track, all of the bearings being on center
rail, and is altogether different from any
other traction machine The engine con-
sists of tender and a driving portion.
The center wheels on either side of the
middle rail press the rails in such a way
that derailment is impossible, while the
weight is carried by the drive and. one
rear and one front wheel. The whole To-
connective is ballasted on these center
wheels. There is also a set of wheels on
either side of the locomotive. which acts
as a balance. preventing the engine from
upsetting. The weight of the locomotive
equipped with water and fuel. is fifteen
tons, and it is expected TO develop a speed
of 100 miles an hour and have the power
of a 75-ton engine. About half a mile
of track on the Mount Scott line has been
prepared by laying a third rail in the
center of the roadbed. The bicycle engine
is constructed so it can run on any stand
ard gauge road by simply laying down a
middle rail. DR.. Mahana is confident it
will revolutionize the railroad world, and
is looking forward to the trial next week
with the greatest enthusiasm.-Port
Oraoonian
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

to render them watertight and non-ab-
sorbent. The same patent covers
mouthpieces for cigarettes, which are
manufactured in similar fashion.
Medals are made out of paper and
colored to initiate silver or bronze.
Cigar boxes are manufactured from
the same material. favored with cedar
oil to give them the customary smell.
Hollow telegraph poles of paper pulp
are new invention. They are coated
with silicate of potash to preserve
them. The making of paper bags is an
enormous industry in this country.
Four billions of paper bags are used in
the United States every year. OF
these the Paper Bag Trust turns out
60 per cent. Not long ago a process
was devised by which three-eighths of
an inch of material could be saved in
the cutting of each bag. On this ac-
count the trust obtained a complete
new equipment of machinery at an
immense cost, but the saving for the
first year by that small economy Of
three-eighths of an inch was $40 000
One machine for making paper bags
will cut and finish $4,000 bags a day.
The business of manufacturing envel-
opes is even greater The envelopes
are cut, printed, gummed and folded
by the same machine.
For Making Paper.
Many strange materials are utilized
for making paper One of these is pea
nut shells. Tobacco stems are reduced
to pulp and made into paper that is
stained with tobacco juice. This paper
is employed for cigarette wrappers and
for wrappers and filters of cheap CT
gars.
One of the oldest inventions record
ed at the patent office is a sort of gun
intended to be fixed upon the head of
a steer that is to be slaughtered. The
stroke Of hammer on a pin fires a
Cartridge and discharges a bullet into
the brain of the animal 1t is almost
noiseless and death is instantaneous.
There are several ideas for death
alarms, to give notice in case a person
comes to life after being buried The
trouble with most of them is that
they would be apt to be set off by the
decomposition of the body. the gases
developed often causing a corpse to
turn nearly over.-Exchange
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
TREATMENT FOR OBESITY.
A Patient Loses More Than Fifty
Pounds in SIX Months

savill gives an account of his treat
ment of obesity that presents some fea-
lures of special interst. A man ) feet 10
inches in height and weighing 2S4 pounds
was admitted to the Paddington inflrmary
to be treated for an ulcer The patient,
chiefly by reason of his bulk. He was
put upon a. diet of one pound of cooked
fish. and one pound of lean cooked meat
a day, and a pint of hot water slipped
and the meat were distributed in meals
according to the taste of the patient, but
no bread, vegetables, milk or any other
article of food was allowed. The patient
was a person of intelligence, and did
everything toward the success of his treat
ment, managing to drink five or six
pints of hot water during the day. Weight
decreased steadily On admission, Sep
2 it was 274 pounds; on November IS it was
25S pounds, and on December 2461s
pounds On Christmas there was some
latitude given in diet, and the result was
pounds, but by January Is weight was
reduced to 230 pounds. After four months
treatment the diet was modified by the
addition Of two small slices of bread and
butter at breakfast and supper, and milk
and sugar in his tea night and morning.
On February Z he returned TO ordinary
meat diet, such as other patients had,
with the exception of potatoes. He then
slightly for a time after resuming ordin-
airy diet; but on March q, when the pa
tlent left, he weighed 2301a pounds having
lost over 90 pounds in six months. The
ulcer healed within four weeks of his adj
mission and pain and stiffness soon dis
appeared, permitting as much walking as
the space in the ward would allow.
Weight remains the same (23015 pounds),
drinking no beer. His health is excellent.
London Lancet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
A FARMERS BATTLE WITH CARP.

Carp have become so plentiful in the
sloughs along the Columbia that fisher
men have offered to supply farmers at
Scappoose with any desired quantity for
manure at IS per ton. No one can with
justice call the carp worthless fish after
that. AS tending to show how numerous
the carp are in places, farmer states
that a few days ago he was crossing a
slough with a lot of green grass in his
cart. The grass slid off into the water,
and the carp came around and began
eating it. He jumped into the water with
his pitchfork to throw the grass back on
his cart, and regular pitched" battle
took place between him and the carp
for the possession of it. The carp ran
against his legs and nearly threw him
down, but he worked away like a Trojan
and managed to save about half of the
grass, and with it pitched about half a
ton of carp into the cart. The rest of
the grass was eaten by the carp he did
not catch. He was on his way to the
city and the grass was intended as a
lunch for his horses. When he arrived
here the carp among the wet grass were
all alive and kicking, and he sold the lot
to a Chinese fish dealer for $3.50. He
thinks of repeating the experiment the
next time he comes to the city.-Portland
OraOonian
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
SAVING A PoPE,s LEE.

Alexander Devine, in the Manchester
City News, tells the following remarkable
anecdote of the late Sir Harry Verney:
One of his famous exploits was riding
across Argentina. One day his attention
waSsdrawn to figure lying on the road
sidefsome miles from Santiago, under the
shelter of a rude hut of leaves and
branches. Pulling UP, he discovered a
priest, who turned out to be in high con-
dition of fever Verney obtained assist
ance, had the PROSTATE man carried to his
own rooms, and practically nursed him
into convalescence and eventual recovery.
After some months OF friendly intercourse
and conpanionship, the two separated,
sid probably never thought to meet again.
Many years passed, so many that the
majority of men had lived their lives and
died, but the two who had met under such
striking circumstances still lived-the one
Sir Harry Nerney. the other no less a per-
son than Pho Mono, pope of Rome.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
To Parents.

Commencing with this issue of The
Herald. an opportunity will be offered
every father and mother to put in the
hands of their children the most COM
persons and events ever published. 1t
will be sold on the coupon plan only.
Read the big descriptive ad in this is
sue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
Such Has Butte Been Rightly
Named.
NIGHT SCENES In
THE MINING CAMP,
Free Passion For Gambling and At.
tendant Vices.

Favorite Resorts of the Men Who
Seek to Woo ard Win the Tickle
Goddess of Fortune-In the Midst
of it All Quiet ReiGns in the
Greatest of All Americas Mining
Camps-Fom n Business View.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03
Have You Read

How Mr.. D. w. Wentz, of Geneva. N.
Y, was cured of the severest form of
dyspepsia? He says everything he ate
seemed like pouring melted lead into
his stomach: Hoods Sarsaparilla eff
fected a perfect cure. Full particu-
lars Will be sent if you write c. I.
Hood & Co.'S Lowell, Mass
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

The highest praise has been won by
Hoods Pills for their easy, yet eff
ficient action. 1872
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

TO Picturesque Subscribers.
Successive parts to Picturesque Amer
lea. received weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

come to Butte and have a chat with
Mrs. Angus Mcqueen. Then you will.
NELSON ASHLEY.
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Again We

Brighten Business by Inter-
estiug mothers. The Chill
dren, the Wee Ones are Not
Forgotten.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-07
MEN CRY FOR MERCY
Union Strikers Morbid Thirst for
Human Blood.
SHERIFF'S POSSE PARADE STREETS
The Widest Excitement Prevails at Nc
keesport. Penn. Where Labor Riots
Grow TragicaIIy SeriOus-Law
and Order Abused.

MCkEEsPORT. Pa. June 7.-Gesterday
evening when the National tube works
men who have taken the place OF
strikers. came out they were met by a
mob Of several thousand. Many OF the
wOrkmen returned within the enclOs-
ure. but a number attempted to get TO
their homes. These were set upon by
the strikers and terribly beaten. The
entire police force were on duty, but
they were pOwerleSS. As far as known
no one was killed, but several were
badly injured. One man started up
Fifth avenue and a mob of fully 1000
gave chase. He jumped on an electric
car. but the mob surrounded the car
and pulling down the trolly, cut the
wires. The cars sOOn stopped running.
About s o'clock the mob surrounded
the works and took possession of the
plant. The sheriff was called upon
and two hundred deputies left for the
scene on the first train. The mob has
heard that the deputies are coming and
threats are made that they will kill
them. The widest excitement prevails
throughout the city and thousands OF
strikers and their friends are on the
streets. Whenever a nOn-uniOn man Is
seen a rush is made for him. If he IS
caught, he is given u thorough drub'
bing.
Many OF the men are weakened at
the sight of the mob and CRY for mercy
at their hands.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-07
GOSSIP FROM BROADWAY.
Or. Calls Upon Ta:rcI:;cn 10
Testify About Police G~nErnption.

TESTIFY ABOUT lOilce iEEraTfIHH-
New YORK. June T.-.Alhcrt :. Cald.
well. a we'll known member If :he Pro
ducc and Consolidated Exchanges. died
suddenly last night at his residence,
SIS st. Nichols avenue. Mr.. Caldwell
had been connected with various bank
ing interests in this city for the past
thirty years. Several years ago he
married the Hidowcd daughter Of Elias
Howe. the sewing machine magnate.
Mr.. Caldwell. was 4 director of the
Consolidated Exchange. He was 30
years Did. Death YVES caused by apo
pleXy.
Forty-nine men working on ex-Com-
modore Elbridge T. Gerrv's new pal
ace. at Fifth avenue and SiXty-tirst
street, struck this morning. The rca-
son for the strike i the importation
from Paris Of the marble for the man
tie pieces. nGer : rule OF the trade
unions OF New York. enacted June LIST.
last. no member of the organizations is
allowed to work on any building in the
construction of which foreign labor IS
employed. Yesterdays strike is the
first one under tie new rule.
The Rev. DR.. PaEkhurst yesterday
issued an address to the patroinen of
the police force Of New: York City. lie
insists that the charges made by his
society have been proved by the testi-
monv taken before the LeXow commit
tee. He then urges lie men TO aid the
investigation Ky canning forward and
testifying to all thr facts III their pos
session. TO induce. them to 30 SO he
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-07

plexion or hair, she is given several bits Of
practical advice, with perhaps a harmless
PRESCRIPTION tackled on that she can have
made up at any chemists shop, On the
contrary, the correspondents column Of a
French fashion paper is a mere string OF
addresses of business firms whose merchan-
disc is recommended by the person having
charge of that department of the journal
over his signature. The French are a
thrifty nation, and it may be reckoncd that
a comfortable income is netted from this
sort Of journalism, which cuts both ways
1t is a very good sort of scheme from a
financial point of view. but the American
Duhlic is better served for our journal
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-07
How, Why, Wheo and What.

The question is often asked. How
can D. T. Swindell sell a superior class
of goods so much cheaper than other
merchants. We will answer this Ques-
tion by asking one: Did he not buy the
entire stock of the Durham Supply Co.,
which is by far the largest and finest
stock in your city for 60 cents on the
dollar? Yes, this fact admitted. We
feel sure that no intelligent person will
doubt our ability to offer you greater
bargains in our line than you can posi-
bly, get elsewhere.
Why Please bear in mind that every
dollars worth Of goods in this stock of
SOS, 600, cost US but 60 per cent. With
this advantage of 40 per cent less than
New York cost, you can readily see
how vain any attempt to compete with
US will prove either in qualify or price.
Again with US the cash buyer does not
have the long profit to pay to make up
the losses on the delinquent credit custo-
mers. Every one pays US cash on deliv.
cry and we treat all alike.
When Now and as proof Of this asser-
tion our cash books will show the amount
Of our sales 10 be increasing every day.
What Our stock consists of one Of
the finest lines Of silk and wooden dress
SOUNSS "doh olHoS OieohblSSS NudItIC -
sattines, batiste, laces and all of the latest
novelties in trimmings, ribbons, etc,
west Of Raleigh.
Our wash goods department is replete
with bargains of every texture and kind.
Our piece goods and dOmestics are as
good as the best and as cheap as you
will ask them.
Our shoe department is filled from the
best manufacturers of misses, ladies and
children's shoes known to the trde.
Our clothing and gents furnishing
goods department is filled With the latest
styles and novelties and at prices TO catch.
Have our statesmen show you our line
of carpets, mattings, etc, Don't fail 10
see our line of lamps, crockery, etc.
Be sure and see our table linen, nap
kins, sheeting, etc.
Four cases of green and black tea that
cost - cents per pound at 40. Respect
fully. ID. T. SwINDELL.
Durham and Raleigh.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-07
A PRETTY PARIS GOWTS.
It i of White Lawn and Green Velvet.
French and Yankee Fashions.

We are fond of affirming in a dissatisfied
name that European fashion papers and
fashion writers are superior 10 those in
America, a i everything else abroad. az
cording TO the critics. Their pictures are
certainly better and their articles are we'll
expressed. but It Is astonishing TO how
large an extent their professedly original
text i made up of recommendations OF
particular dressmakers, ~hairdressers. per
tuners and cosmetic manufacturers II a
writes to a reputable American
publication for advice concerning her com