The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-18

URINARY telegraph wire may be uSed for
stays, but it does not look SO we'll after
the first day or two, and has really no adj
vantage in lightness, stability or, cost,
11Che stays being affixed to each side, the
cabin comes next. In the very rough this
can be made of an ordinary dry goods
box cut down to two inches, or, what is
better. 60 to Ian uphol sterer, explain to
~aim what you wantr give. him. the ncccs-
.ary dimensions and let him pad it so as
n a rough cabin when there is a strong
wind blowing is a severe trial. This
cabin is firmly nailed to the strngpiccc,
md care SHOULD he taken that the nails
are properly driven home and protected
The skate blades must be of steel,
about twenty inches long. and from an
inch G. an inch and half thick, formed
foot, ahd eight inches deep. About an
nch and half from ete:top of the blade
there should be three holes bored large
enough to admit five-eigfth inch bolts
The plates should be tempered and hard
2.ned as highly as the blacksmith's knowl-
edge viii alloy. Now take some blocks
II extra seasoned ash, eighteen inches
wide. Six of these will be needed, two
for each skate blade or runner. Through
Zach of these three holes must be care
fully bored with an anger, so that they
shall correspond exactly With the holes in
the upper part of the steel runner. This
:xactness is imperative. in order to pro-
luce the minimum strain upon the wood
warped or dried a trifle. These holes
oeing bored, turn the blocks over and
bore two more holes through the three
nch thickness upward or ut right angles
% the other three holes, being careful to
sset the TRANSVERSE holes as far from each
.,ther as possible, SO as to avoid weaken
ng the blocks. This being done, take the
irst runner, fix it in wise or holder.
place a block at each side and pass
through the first block, the runner and the
second block, a twenty-six inch long five
eighth thick bolt, and screw it up at the
other side loosely, then pass in the othcr
one first, screw all as tight as your ap
olianccs and strength will permit. Fastcn
one runner to each end of the crosspiece.
Great care must be taken to get these two
crosspicce runner blades exactly parallel.
The rudder is affixed by fitting the third
runner to a; rigid rod, which passes
through the stringPiece at the rG6r of the
as big as the clenched fist, placed 80 tint
the stringpicce, resting on it, will be hell
on a level with the other runners. II
need not be feared that the weight of the
boat will make this hard to run.
+ The mast should be a sixteen-foot picrc
OF good pine or ash, stepped into n foot
block rivcted ut the junction of the string
piece and crosspiecc, or a hole can be
bored through them both and the foot
foot block is better. Stay the mast in the
usual way, using telegraph wire, and be
very careful to keep Tightening it IN for
some days until it is thoroughly taut.
The sail should be of rs light texture
as is consistent with strength, but in a
homemade boat an old sail is usually
adapted. This should be catboat sail,
ner. 1t should work more easily than
on sailboat so that it can be- lowered
very quickly. To do this some people
hang ten-pound weight to the jaws of
the GAIT. The jaws and rings should be
we'll rubbed with soap, not coated, but
we'll rubbed. This will not freeze like
grease, and the wcttcr it gets the more II
will>slip.' .
As to sailing the iccboat. there il no
royal road to success. Get the rudimcnts
9of sailing from some competent hand;
learn how to raise the snil and secure
the SNil sheet, how to lower the sail
quickly, how to keep it full, how to bring
the boat up in the wind. and then take
your courage in both hands. and when the
and stagger around alone until you are
able to manage the boat. A man will
never learn by taking someone constantly
with him. It is like learning to swim
with a cork belt. As long rs the belt
is, there YOU can swim like duck, but
take it away and down you go.-Ncw
York Sun.
f. - y Kacli-Kachi Yama.
! In that curious country, Japan, there
once lived an old man who cultivated a
lonely little farm away up on the Kachi-
Eachi mountain. Ono day while ut work
this old mans good wife brought him his
dinner, but a sly little badger stole it and
ute it. This made the old man very an
cry, and he caught the badger alive and
carried it home with him: Then he hung
It to rafter by the feet Then he said
| to his wife:
Let us have this badger for soup. Have
it we'll cooked and wait till como back."
I He went back to his work in the field.
leaving his wife pounding barley in Il NOR
tar and singing. In distress, the badger
IF you will spare my life I will pound
tho barley for you" Now. as the old
! woman ,was kind-hearted, she united the
cord and let the animal down.
;AH at once. the badger sprnng at the
old woman and killed her and made her
| into soup. Then he assumed her shape
and sat waiting until the old man re-
turned from the Held. Just rs he was
about TO- partake Of the soup the badger
assumed his original form and cried ont:
Yous wifc-cating, old man, you! Did
you not sec the bones under the floor''
And, laughing derisiyely, It ESCAPED out OF
15FsThn nL1 man <hrNxv dn,vn hia shny.