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Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
sTovEPlPE AND ELBOWS.

An Important Feature in the Business of 10000 Dealers in Stoves in This Country.
 Tin and sheet iron workers dealing in stoves usually make their own stove pipe, while the bulk of the product of stovepipc manufacturers iB sold to dealers ia stoves, hardware and house. furnishing goods. Most stovepipe is made by hand There arc various patents relating to the manner of join ing the seam, and pipes are made that can b. shipped nestled, the seams to be joined at the point of destination, thereby saving freight charges, says the New York Sun.
 Stoyepipc is sold in joints, two feet in length, and in various diametCrs. Tn anthracite regions the pipe averages five or six inches in diameter, but. in soft coal regions it is mostly seven or eight inches in diameter. Stovepipe is much cheaper than fused to be. Such pipe as formerly sold at retail at twen- five cents a joint, can now be bought at fifteen cents or less. There are in the United States about forty thou sand dealers of one kind or another who sell stoves, and the annual con sumption of stovepipe in this country amounts to millions of joints. Stove pipe manufacturers begin making pipe for the winter trade about the middle of summer, and jobbers begin placing their orders about the same time. The distribution to dealers is active through August and September, and it continues until the end of winter.
 While many stove dealers having tin smiths plants make their own pipe, very few now manufacture elbows, which they can buy cheaper from the manufacturer There are numerous patents on elbows, There are elbows that are made all in one piece, and oth- CTS are made in sections. There is more machine work in the manufacture of elbows than in the manufacture of pipe The old-fashionedr riPht-angled elbow of two pieces is still made by hand, but its sale is limited; and most elbows are of the modern kind, with three, four or five sections. There are adjustable el- bows, made with a movable joint, which can be adjusted to any angle or to two angles.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
oGDS AND ENDS.

IF the earth were equally divided among its inhabitants each person would get about twenty-three and one half acres.
 A TYPEsETTTNa machine that can set 5O,OOO ems an hour has been invented by Father Calendoli, a Sicilian Domiu- ican monk
 A USE for compressed air in the foundry in addition to cranes and hoists, which are being introduced everywhere, is in providing q sand blast for the cleaning of castings.
 IS London the German Reed enter tainment has been revived, with no German Reed and no Corncy Grain, by Mir. Rutland Harrington, who offers Gilbert and Clay's Happy Arcadia" as the chief attraction
 FIVE years ago the 4,OOO tourists who visited Egypt were nearly all English; last season out of 7,5OO arrivals, only 45 per cent. were English, while 45 per cent. were American and 10 per cent. were German, or of other nationalities.
 A STEAM dredger, claimed to be the largest ever built in America, has just been finished at Alameda, Cal. It is no feet long, 50 feet broad, and 10 feet deep The dredge bucket weighs five tons, and will lift twelve tons of mud at each scoop.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
FLESH REDUCTION.
How It Is Done by Celebrated German
 Physician.


 Physician.
 It is much easier to acquire flesh than to lose it. There is no royal road to beauty for those inclined to plumpness, and many are the things they are obliged to do to scare of fat, says the Philadelphia Record.
 An Euglishman reduced his weight in one year from two hundred and two to one hundred and. fifty pounds, and kept it there. He lived on beef mutton, fish, bacon, try toast, poultry, game, tea, coffee, claret and sherry.
 Dr. Schweninger, the famous German physician, who has established his rep utation as Q fesh-reduccr through his success in ridding Prince Bismarck of forty pounds avoirdupois in three months, without the slightest deleteri- ous effect upon his patients physical condition, restricts the consumption of liquids at all times, and dcprivcs the patient entirely of fluids during or within an hour of meals, forbids starch and sugar, and advises most heroic physical exercise.
 Physical exercise will, we all know, reduce flesh. The reason is that in un. usual exercise, such as rapid walking, horseback riding, gymnastics or bicy- cling the blood is more rapidly oxygen ated and the result is the destruction or burning out of the fat, and you may have noticed that great walkers are never fat, and that people who live in high attitudes and mountainous coun. tries, where they walk great deal and consume quantities of oxygen, are al ways slim.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
sAIp eY THE SCIENTISTS.


 A FRENCH medical authority asserts that death caused by fall from great height is absolutely painless. The mind acts very rapidly for time, then un- consciousness ensues.
 ASTRONOMERS calculate that the sur face of the earth contains 3i,625, ,625 square miles, of which 23,S14, ,l2l are water and 7,s11 ,5O4 are land, the water thus covering about seven-tenths of the earth's surface.
 ALFRED c. LANE writes that ten miles above the earth the cold is far below zero, while ten miles below the surface everything is red hot. This lat ter is not so certain. It is thought by some that the heat of the earth may be wholly due to absorption from the sun, and so may decrease after a certain depth has been reached.
 MUsIc relieves muscular fatigue in man, says Prof. Tarchanoff, of St. Pe- tersburg, who has been experimenting on the subject from purely physiolog- teal standpoint. It helps to drive out carbonic acid in dogs and increases their consumption of oxygen; it also makes them perspire. He thinks it may be regarded as serious therapeutic agent.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26

Advertiser, the London tradesmen have become thoroughly awakened to the importance of catering to this trade, and they are using all manner of means to attract it. In nearly all the shops on the Strand, Regent street, Oxford street and other thoroughfarcs of that character, where prices are given and articles arc displayed in the windows, the United States dollar mark is used in conjunction with the English pound mark. One of the big dry goods stores in Oxford street created quite com motion among the Americans by dis playing very large American flag from their tlagpost. As l happened to pass by saw about two hundred peo- pie loolSing reverently at the stars and stripes. The size of this crowd not only demonstrated the clever move of the ShopBeeper, but the large number of Americans in London, that so many of them could be attracted about the same time and at the same place by this means Naturally they all wondered what it meant, and went into the shop in pursuit of knowledge. They were given to understand that it was in the nature of a personal compliment, and they feel it now their patriotic duty to believe that this is the greatest shop in London, Other shopkeepers are sure to discover the cleverncSs of this scheme and follow the example It may be- come contagious. If it does, the Amer ican flag will be more familiar in Lon don than in New York.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
THE WORLD OVER.


 BERLIN, by census just taken, has 1,616SS1 inhabitants, l20,000 less than had been estimated,
 NEARLY every man, woman and child in Egypt is a smoker of cigarettes, and pipe is never seen in the mouth of a native.
 WOMEN are now employed as letter carriers at Aix-la-Chapolle; their uni form is black skirt, yellow belt and a flat glazed hat with n yellow band.
 CHILL is succeeding in converting her paper currency to a gold basis much more quickly than was expected. The rush for the gold predicted by the op- ponents of the measure has not taken place.
 Ar Bremen, the largest sailing ship atioat has just been completed. She is called the Potosi, is tive-master, 394 feet long, 50 broad, with draught of 25 feet and a carrying capacity of G, 15O tons.
 PRINCE LOUIS LUoIEN BoNAPARTE's s library, q unique pathological collection of 25,000 volumes, for which his execu- tors have more than once tried to find purchaser at s2OO,OOO, is again offered for sale cn bloc
 DuTCH spelling reformers are de- structive. They not only wish to sim plify spelling by dropping silent let ters, but propose to abolish genders and the distinction between masculine and feminine iu the articles and pro nouns.
 RUSSIA is so anxious to colouize quickly the Amur district with Cos sacks, in order to watch the Chinese frontier, that she offers each male set tier eighty acres of land free, n loan of s325 without interest for thirty-three years, and exemption from taxes for three years and from military service for five
 BERLIN will have an exhibition of its own in 1896, even manufacturers from other German cities being excluded, It will be held in the great Treptow park, to the east of the city, the build. ings will be temporary, like those at Chicago, and amusements and enter tainments will be very prominent features
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
BIG BRAINS.
Mammoth Mental Machinery of Bismarck,
 Byron and others.

Mammoth Mental Machinery of Bismarck,
 Byron and others.
 The famous and fitlv named German sculptor, Schaper, who executed the statue of Bismarck at Cologne, was privileged to be on more familiar terms than anybody now living, probably, with his sitter's head. He had that head in his hands for days, says the New York Journal, and surveyed and measured. and manipulated it to his hearts content. The results of his ob- servations and meusurations he sub sequently placed at the disposal of science, and science has proceeded to institute comparisons between the princes head and others-uot only in point of size, but in point of brain weight also-very greatly, as may be imagined, in the great mans favor. The Bismarck head measured 2l2 and ITO in millimeters. This, it appears, is colossal. In Baden, where heads run big, out of 2,50O they measured only one ran to 2O6 millimeters from fore head to occiput, The most extensive bead they could find upon a savaut gave a cubic capacity of l,s00 centi- meters only, Bismarck's goes this lG5 cubic centimeters better. Coming to weight of brain, Kant, Dante, Byron, Cuvier--none of them arc in it with the chancellor Cuvier carried pounds l5iE ounces in his brain-pan. Bismarck puts up pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois. This weight, however, has been equaled in the case of a British subject, re- ported a couple of weeks ago in the Lancet He yielded G5 ounces--the chancellors figure exactly-and he was deaf, dumb, daft, and Scotchman.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
sLooMERs AND BICYCLES.

IN ballet called Venus" per formed at La Scala, in Milan, the priu- cipal scene brings in a corps of women bicyclists arrayed in costumes which are less than rational"
 BICYcLEs are said to have seriously affected the sale of pianos in England. The reason is that when a girl is asked to choose between the two for a pres ent she invariably selects the wheel.
 JAPANESE postmen whose routes carry them into the country use bicycles. Their wheels are made by local manufacturers, who have appro- priated improvements from both Brit ish and American patents.
 SEVERAL bicycling girlsa Coldwater, Mich, have outgrown the bloomer stage, according to a Detroit newspa- PCT, and now ride in the streets and suburbs wearing complete masculine wheel costumes-knickerboclers, golf stockings and short jackets.
 NEARLY siOO,0OO is the amount ob- tained from the bicycle tax this year by the French government, the number of machines declared being just under 200, 900. They are well spread over the whole country, since Paris and the De- partment of the Seine return 3s, 900, less than a fifth of the total
 A FASHIONABLE tailor of New York. who makes garments for those who can afford to pay his prices, predicts that the donning of knickerhoclers by wheelmen will lead to the revival of the old custom of wearing knee brooches; but it is not every dude who who would like to display his calves on Broadway or the Bowery.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES.

WHEN flying at it's highest speed the house fly makes GOO strokes of its wings per second and the dragon fly II, ,5OO.
 A GLOW worm has brush attached to it's tail, because it is necessary that the back be kept clean in order to show its light
 TIE song of the English male sky lark is best when the female is on the eggs. At such times he scars to great heights and sings rapturously.
 ONE of the most remarkable features of earthquake pulsations is their great duration. The originating earthquake may last but few seconds, while the ground at distance may rock gently through a small angle for hours.
 IT is not generally known that, size for size, thread of spider silk is de- cidedly tougher than a bar of steel. An ordinary thread will bear a weight of three grains This is just about fifty per cent. stronger than steel thread of the same thickness.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
ON A TOMBSTONE.
A Human Face Produced in Miracu-
 lous Manner.

A Human Face Produced in Miracu-
 lous Manner.
 In the Oak Hill cemetery at Stony Brook, l.. l., a large tombstone of mot tied Italian marble bears a remarkable portrait of an avcrage-si2od human face. The picture is not the work of a sculptor nor has it been gravcn with the marble-cutter's chisel; it is natu- ral production, the outlines of the face being formed by peculiar grouping of the clouded veins aud dark spots char acterstic of first-class imported stone. The remarkable peculiarity of this par ticular stone has been known for two or three years, and throughout the length and breadth of Long Island it is referred to as "the miracle face" Standing near, as one would in reading an epitaph or inspecting the grain aud polish of such a memorial shaft, the outlines of the face cannot be traced, but at q distance of from thirty-fiye to fifty feet it is as plain as though done with an artists brush, the grouping of the spots, veins and waving lines com bining to make not only a fair resem- biance to face, but complete DOT trait, including hair, eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, chin, etc, Its outlines are clearcSt, of course, when the shadows and light play properly upon it, but at the distance mentioned, and in the proper direction, the portrait is plainly visible atall times. The face Is on the back of the stone, and the eyes are so set as to appear to be looking down upon the grave of the person to whose memory the shaft was erected.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26

ing seeds off the floor of the cage, and slowly began to unwind from the branch of the tree on which it spent most of the time. Almost impercep- tibly the loops on the tree disappeared, the body of the snake bccoming moro and more disengagod, but it's head still remaining at considerable distance from the floor. All of a sudden the for ward part of the snakes body shot downward with lightning rapidity, grasping one of the unsuspccting birds, not with the mouth, but with n rapid twist of the body, crushing it at the same time until quite l.foless. This was done so quickly anu noiselessly that the other birds never noticed the absence of the victim. The boa then re- turned to the tree above, and after q little preparation of further pressing the bird and covering it with mucus it proceeded to swallow it's prey with out biting or chewing. As the boas all ways take their food at night or in the dark, this spectacle was thought very curiouS
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
Pnnr Nnnnlenni

The antiquity of modern inventions has often been the subject of remark by way of commentary upon the old saying that there is nothing new under the sun" An extreme case is reported by the London News. A peripatetic exhibitor of the phonograph in Hol- land seems determined to distance all competitors. He was exhibiting the machine in the streets of Utrecht and a number of customers were listening to q selection of tunes. Suddenly the music ceased and there was pause Then in loud, clear tone was heard the one word: "Haltr' What is that2" asked one of the listeners That" was the reply, lis the voice of Napoleon Bonaparte giving an order at the battle of Waterloo"
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
A MUSICAL MELANGE.

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is writing the music for ballet to be given at the Alhambra music hall.
 PADEEEwsKI is having new Scotch fantasy for the piano written for him by Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
 ARTHUR NIEIsCH has been appointed conductor of the Berlin philharmonic concerts for the next season.
 MAscAGNI is publishing his autobi. ography in Q a Cerignola newspaper. His first chapter is "Libretti and Lii brettists," and his second Musical Critics"
 MIME. CALvE is to sing in La Navar- raise" at the Paris opera comique after all; the performances win be in Octo. Der, just before she sails for America.
 ANOTHER sketch book of Beethoven's s, probably that for the year 1909, has been found by Herr Guido Peters, of Berlin, among his fathers papers. It contains the draft for the concerto in E fiat, and the Choral Fantasie, and the sketch for a patriotic song, which he never finished
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
MuoH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Two Elephants Quarrel Over Peanut
 and InIure Several People.

Two Elephants Quarrel Over a Peanut
 and Injure Several People.
 Two elephants fought over peanut and nearly scared the life out of fifteen thousand people at Lawrenceburg, Ind, z, the other day.
 It was during circus street parade, says local exchange. There are six elephants in the show, and one of the two big ones, named Prince, was offered peanut by a bystander, In Stantly his mate, Diamond, rushed at him, trumpeting wildly. Prince knocked Diamond down and the fun commenced.
 The tigers, lions and hyenas added their outcries and beat the bars of their cages. Patsy Forepaugh and Johnnie Kelley, the elephant keepers, rushed on the big beasts. Diamond caught Forepaugh and threw him thirty feet away against a box car, rendering him unconscious and bruising him terribly. Kelley was knocked down by Prince.
 The four other elephants were then called in to capture the two rebels. They crowded upon them, and after a terrible struggle, knocked the offend CTS down and held them until they were chained. They were punished in the most severe manner for three hours before they cried for relief
 Several people were bruised and knocked about in the melee. One circus man had leg broken and was hurled seventy-fve feet. In the after noon the parade was held as usual, the elephants being entirely subdued.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
An old Phonogra pin.

The antiquity of modern inventions has often been the subject of remark by way of commentary upon the ola saying that there is nothing new under the sun" An extreme case is re- ported by the London News A peri patetic exhibitor of the phonograph in Holland seems determined to distance all competitors. He was exhibiting the machine in the streets of Utrecht, and a number of customers were listening to selection of tunes. Suddenly the music ceased and there was a pause. Then in n loud, clear tone was heard the one word: "Haltr' "What is that?" asked one of the listeners. That" was the reply, lis the voice oi Napoleon Bonaparte giving an order al the battle of Waterloo!n
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
TRACKING TREE CRABS.
How tho Natives of Africa Prevent Their
 Depredatioas.

Depredatioas.
 In Africa there exists a certain mem Der of the crab genus commonly known as the great tree crab. This peculiar shclIRsh, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, has an offensive trick of crawling up the cocoanut trees, biting off the cocoa nuts and then creeping down again backwards.
 The theory is that the nuts are shat tered by the fall, and the great tree crab is thus enabled to enjoy a hearty meal. Now the natives who inhabit regions infested by this ill-conditioned crab are well aware that the lower DOT ton of the crabs anatomy is soft and sensitive, and they believe that the "bivalve' was thus constructed in or der that he might know when he had reached the ground, and when, conse- quently, he might with safety release his grasp of the trunk.
 So what they do in order to stop his deprcdations, which often ruin the cocoanut crops, is this: While the crab is engaged in nipping off the cocoauuts they climb half way up the trees and there drive a row of low nails right around the tree, allowing an inch or so of the nails to project.
 The crab has no knowledge of dis aster, nor yet the fitness of things. As he desccnds, the sensitive part of his body suddenly touches the nails. Think ing he has reached the ground, he nat rually lets go. Instantly he falls back wards, and cracks his own shell on the prrOund
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
FIGHTING WITH CHEESE.
A Few Broadsides of the Dutch Article
 Won the Day.

A Few BroadsIdes of the Dutch Article
 Won the Day,
 The most remarkable ammunition ever heard of was used by the cele- brated Commodore Coe, of the Monte vidian navy, who, in an engagement with Admiral Brown, of the Buenos Ayrean service, fired every shot from his lockers What shall we do, sir?n asked his first lieutenant.
 It looked, says the Pittsburgh Dis patch, as if Coe would have to strike his colors, when it occurred to his first lieutenant to use Dutch cheese as can non balls. There happened to be a large quantity of these on board, and in a few minutes the fire of the old Santa Maria Goes ship, which had ceased entirely, was reopened, and Admiral Brown found more shot flying over his head Directly one of them struck his mainmast, and as it did SO shattered and flew in every direction.
 What the dickens is the enemy tiriug?" asked Brown But nobody could tell. Directly another came in through a port and killed two men who were near him, and then, striking the opposite bulwarlts, burst into pieces.
 Brown believed it 10 be some new fangled paixhan or other, and as four or five more of them came slap through his sails, he gave orders to fill away, and actually backed out of the fight, receiving parting broadside of Dutch chepgo
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
TIPS ON AMERICANS.

GEORGE T. ANGEIL, the well-known friend of dumb animals, is seventy-two years of age.
 ANDREW CARNEGIE has aroused Brit ish wrath by saying that it would pay England to burn up her railroad equip ment and replace it with American models.
 TIE movement to erect a monument to the memory of Anne Hill Carter, the mother of Robert Edward Lee, is gain ing in the south.
 THE late o. H. P. Burnham, the Bos- ton bookseller, who conducted his busi- ness for years in the basement of the Old South church, left nearly S40O, ,OOe to various charities
 Mas. MARY E. HUNT has sued the city of Nashua, N. H., to recover $50, 900 given by her for memorial library. The suit is brought because the city, after having the money for four years, cannot agree on a site.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-26
MEANNEss EXTRAORDINARY.
The Name Of Hog Would Be Compli-
 ment to This Man.

The Name of Hog Would Be Compli-
 ment to This Man.
 The champion mean man paid San Francisco visit the other day, says the Post of that city. He was a big, long legged, raw.boned fellow, with a nose like the blade of hatchet His eyes, like little black beads, were set within half an inch of each other and glistened and gleamed at everybody and every thing at once. He clutched the arm of n sad faced little woman with long, bOny hand and clawed at his whislsers with the other as he ordered the waiter in Market street restaurant to give him a cup of coffee. The waiter brought it with some bread and butter and laid down a check for ten cents.
 Would you give me an extra pitcher of cream?" asked the mean man. The waiter brought it,
 Yes, by the way, give me cup of hot water, will you, please?"
 Tbe waiter brought it and watched the mean man curiously. He poured the cream into the hot water, put lit- tie sugar in it, showed it to his wife and flung one slice of bread without butter in her direction. The little woman ate it hungrily and the waiter added five cents to the mean mans check.
 The row was heard three blocks up Market street. He declared he was be- ing robbed because he was from the country, but he finally paid when threatened with arrest