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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
THEY OBSERVED THINGS.
And That Is Row These Men Made Their
Great Discoveries.

To q thoughtful observer a moments
seeing is often worth an hours hearing
The origin of the pendulum is traced to
Galileis observation of q hanging la1npin
church at Pisa. Noticing that the lamp
when in any way disturbed continued to
vibrate long and with singular uniform
ity Of motion, he was induced to invest1-
gate the laws of the phenomenon, and his
Investigation led to results of vast impor-
: lance.
The story that connects common tea
kettle With the name of Robert Fulton and
the first ste4. nboat is familiar to every one.
It may be, however, that the story of the
teredo navalis and the eminent English en-
gineer, Sir Isambard Brunei, is not SO we'll
known.
The teredo nnvalis, or, as it is popularity
called, the "shipworm, is a remarkable
laborer and mechanic. To an unobservant
eye it looks very much like worm. Yet
it is in nowise related to the worm, the
elongation of the body being the only fca-
ture common to the two.
The teredo's body is Enclosed in a sheath
or shield consisting of solid mucus. The
shell, which seems to occupy the place OF a
head, is of all irregular, triangular form,
nearly as broad as 1t Is long. Its two
] valves are securely fastened together, both
above and below it's shield, so as to permit
of but slight movement. Thus covered
| with calcarcous, cylindrical shield it
bores Its way into the timber.
/ In making excavations into wood the
(, tereCo always borcs in direction of the
grain and is very careful to avoid the tube
, or cell formed by its congcncr. 1t often
! happens that only a thin leaf OF wood Is
left between them.
One day as Mr.. Brunei was thoughtfully
observing the tcrcdo he noticed that it
bored it's way into the wood by means OF an
! ingenious mechanical device. With tho
aid of microscope he found that with its
| valvrllar shell in front, aided by it's foot, it
worked with a forward and at the same
| time with rotary movement and the
small pieces Of wood passed back to the in
i sects mouth and were thrown out.
| From this wonderful little cxcavator the
great engineer gained ideas of just such
machine as he had long been wanting to
! invent He went to work determined to
! produce the tcrcdo in an enlarged form.
! and after much labor succeeded in dcvising
"shield' for his miners, and also the Dor
ing machine with which the Thames tun-
mel in London was eXcavatcd.
The shield consisted Of II separate frames
of timber, each of three stages, or 36 cells
! altogether. A miner worked in each Of
these coils, protected by the shield in front
of him and above him just like a human
torpedo. Brickluyers followed the miners
and built up the archcd gallery behind
, them. AS soon as miner had finished his
work his shield was pushed forward, and
he resumed his labor.
The son of Sir Is;lmbard Brunei, Isam-
bard Kingdom, was the designer of the
steamship Great Eastern, the largest vessel
ever built-Philadelph Times.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
THE FEAR OF THUNDER.
Safest Place During Storm Is In the
House, Where There Is No Draft.

House, Where There Is No Draft.
"Elcctric storms are far less dangerous
than the majority of people imagine,
writes Edward w. Box in Ladies' Home
Journal "Thut severe lightning storm
is terrifying admits of no question and will
sometimes bring uncasiness to the heart OF
the strongest man. But the real danger is
slight The chance of lightning striking q
house, for example, is not one in a million.
Particularly is this true in cities, strung
as most Of them are with electric wires.
The greater danger from electric storms is
in the country, and even there the danger
may be lesscncd if the simplest and most
common sense Of precautions arc exercised.
The surcst electric conductor is draft.
and if, when a thunderstorm approaches IT
is seen that all windows and doors liable
to occasion Il draft arc kept closed the
danger is at once reduced to a minimum.
If a woman is caught out in a thunder
storm, the safest shelter is house; the
most dangerous tree, particularly an oak
tree.
ut is a peculiar but nevertheless a
proved fact that the oak is the most sus.
ceptible of all trees to a current of electric
ity Over so per cent of trees struck by
lightning storms during one summer, the
government statistican tells US, were
oaks, while the beech tree was the least
harmed Therefore the worst possible place
of shelter in an electric storm is under an
oak tree, while by all odds the safest place
is in house and out of a draft.
"Thc actual danger from an electric
storm is, in truth, not from tho lightning
nor the thunder, but from the nervous con.
dition into which women allow themselves
to fall. And this is danger which they
can avoid A little calm thought and q
few grains of common sense will do it.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
[ LANDSCAPE DRAWING.
Interesting Ideas For tho Amateur In
Art-Sketches For Painting.

Art-sketches For Painting.
Though it is perhaps more difficult to
excel in landscape than in figure paint
ing, it is easier to produce satisfactory
and even valuable work. This is
pleasant assurance, coming as it docs
from such good authority as Art ANA
teur, which explains as follows:
A long course Of study OF drawing IS
necessary to enable the student to pro-
duce passable figure, but if he have
feeling for natural beauty little prac-
ticc will enable him to do meritorlous
work in landscape. A sufficient mastery
Of drawing may be acquired in few
winters by studying from copy and from
still life objects indoors That is sufti-
cient to begin with, for tho better the
landscape painter draws the easier it is
for him to paint we'll and the moro his
painting signifies.
The drawing which q landscape paint
er executes with pencil or charcoal or
crayon before commencing to paint is
usually nothing more than simple
Unlocking out" or placing of the
principal forms which he intends to get
into his picture. Let Us suppose that his
subject includes large tree with rock
OH one side and house Oh the other.
He says to himself: Il will place my
tree here, near the center of the picture
It is to be so high, consequently so
broad The rock is at such distance to
the right, the house SO far to the left.
Neither is as high as the tree; tho rock
not SO high as the house" And so he
goes on making general observations
like these as to the size and position OF
important objects and indicating his
conclusions slightly and without going
into detail.
The student should continue to work
just as simply, at first, when he takes
I'D his brush. He should go Oh working
in large masses, and should ask himself
to keep to our illustration-just how
much darker is the green OF tho tr>c
than the gray of the rock, how ,luch
darker the shadows than the lights, what
relation exists between the sky and the
objects that appear against it, and be-
tween these same objects again and the
foreground Little by little one will ac-
quirc the ability to introduce minor
forms, while becoming more correct Ill
the drawing CT the larger masses.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
HOW TO GO TO SLEEP.
Try the Possible-We Must Think, but
We Needn't Think Commercially.


For occasional victims of sleepless-
ness in ordinary physical health here is
simple remedy that will be found eff
cacious in probably five cases out Of six.
Do not attempt to stop the action Of the
mind by one supreme effort Of the will.
Do not try to go to sleep or even think
about sleep. But stop making sentences.
A writer in Popular Science News gives
reasons for this advice as follows: AS
every one knows, we think and rcmem-
Der in sentences. We must think. So,
instead Of trying not to think, try tho
possible and break up your thoughts, SO
to speak, into words.
Take for example the first word that
comes ITO your mind. We will suppose
it to be &e word house. Presently an
other word follows, but if this word
bears any grammatical or associative
relation to the word house, let it pass
out Of your mind without notice and
take one of a different class-such a
word, for example. as enthusiasm.
Now you have house, enthusiasm,
and you may add-not exerting the
will, remember, but waiting passively
for the words to present themselves
until your series swells out like this :
House, enthusiasm, Great Britain, walk,
20, tangible, beyond, superior, Washing
ton, etc. Of course you are to avoid a
succession Of names and numbers and
all classifcations Of words
AS the disconnected ideas flow on i'll
your mind you will gradually find your
self taking mild interest i'll the dis
jointed procession. You lose your agi-
tating self consciousness and fall into a
passive state. In other words, you have
reduced the process Of thinking to a
minimum. You wait with slender
thread of interest for the coming words,
knowing that it will make no difference
what they are. Perhaps you may feel
like one sitting on the bank OF river
listlessly watching the objects that float
on its surface. Now it will be q leaf,
now q block Of wood. But your leaves
and your blocks Of wood all have words
written on them, and one after another
; they appeal to your >otico and then
float away down the stream.
BY degrees the intervals between the
passing words lengthcn, syllables be-
come mixed, there is dreamy confusion,
with perhaps all incohercnt fancy, and
then sleen
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
BLACK ROD.
His Last Public Appearance rs Executive
OGlcer Of the House of Lords.

Black Rod Is an important and pic
turesque functionary of parliament. He
is at once the policeman of the house OF
lords and the parliamentary messenger of
the sovereign. He executes the warrants
issued by the upper chamber for the arrest
of tho persons who have been adjudgNl
guilty of breach Of its privileges or con-
tempt of it's dignities. But in these days
the curiosity of the public or its love of
sensation is never piqued by the appear
ance of Black Rod in the role of police
man. Indeed it is 70 years now since
poor, trembling wretch stood, in the GUS
tody of Black Rod, at the bar of the house
of lords, charged with having outraged its
awful majesty. He was a tradcsman Of
Westminster.
One winter evening, after he had put mp
the shutters of his shop, he strolled across
Old Palace yard to hear debate in the
house of lords. He had with him an UNI
brella, which he deposited in the charge of
one of the doorkeepers before he entered
the strangers gallery. He never saw the
article again. Another stranger, yielding
to a too common weakness of frail human
it,, carried it off, while its rightful owner
-trustful of the might of the imperial
parliament to protect, at least within its
own sacred precincts, the properly OF us
subjects-was drinking in political wis
dom from the lips perhaps of the Duke Of
! Wellington.
The tradesman Of Westminster was nat
urally indignant over the loss of his: UNI
brella, but the expression Of his feelings
assumed form highly subversive of the
ancient privileges of parliament. He ac-
.tually issued PROCESS against the door
keeper of the house.oi lords for the recovery
of the value of the lost article This was
moro than the house of lords could stand.
One of its doorkcepers summoned to ap~
pear as a defendant in a court of lawl
Black Rod was dispatched to arrest the
daring shopkccper, who was brought forth
with to the bar and soundly rated by the
lord chancellor on his presumption in out
raging the dignitics of the house of lords
because of the loss Of u miserable umbrella.
Happily he was not Consigned to the tower.
He humbly apologizcd for his conduct,
promised to take 10 further action against
the doorkeeEer, and after another severe
reprimand was escorted by Black Rod to
Old Palace yard ard there discharged.
That was the last public appearance Of
Black Rod as the executive officer of the
house of lort,s-Gocd Words.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
Casserole of Mutton.

Wash half cup Of rice, put it in a
double boiler with pint Of milk, cook
until all the milk is absorbed, add tea
spoonful salt, saltspoon of pepper and a
tablespoonful of butter and a beaten egg
mix and line small custard or timbale
cups. Have the cold mutton chopped
fine and seasoned, fill it in tho center,
cover more rice over the top, stand the
cups in baking pan of boiling water
and cook 20 minutes. Turn out and
serve with cream sauce.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
FRAME FOR AN AWNING.

made at homo, tho plan sketched for
Rural New Yorker being easily carried
out.
A three-eighths inch iron rod is bent
by blacksmith into tho form shown,
and this is supported by screw eyes in
the window case and wires extending
from the outer corners to the top of the
window case, hooks being placed there.
These hooks .lso support the top of the
awnings, eyelet holes being made in the
cloth.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
How to Prepare Pulled Bread.

Take a loaf Of freshly baked bread,
while it is still warm and rather under
done, and pail the inside out Of it in
irregular shaped pieces about the size
Of an egg. Put these in good oven and
bake delicate brown. They are crisp
and full Of flavor and make delight
full combination with cheese and tender
stalks Of celery. or the white inner
leaves Of lettuce, in which case the
bread may be served with the salad
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
On tho Mend.

Mrs. White--How is your wife, MIR.
Brown?
Brown (pointing to where his wife sits
in the next room at work on his coat)-
She's seW-sew.
Mrs. White-Oh, see. She Is mending
sure enough.-Bos TRANSCRIPT
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
PICTURESQUE YACHTING DRESS.

white ribbon at tho side. The smart
tailor made bolcro CT blue cloth is lined
with white satin and faced with white
hemstitchcd pique and open, showing a
fine white tucked muslin front, with
blue silk boz Tho straight cut skirt OF
fine white serge, stitched at the foot, is
finished at tho waist with a blue and
white striped kid belt.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
American kingdom For Louis XVIII.

Pouches pet scheme Of an American
kingdom for Louis XVIII was further am
plifled, by the suggestion of an Anglo
French expedition to establish it. Labou-
chere having returned to Holland, much
of the negotiation had been carried on by
letter, and Napoleon, getting wind during
his Belgian visit of Ouvrard's presence,
suspected trickery and called for the cor
respondence. Its very existence enraged
him; that such matters should have been
put in writing was compromising to his
entire policy. Ouvrard afterward declared
that he personally informed the emperor
of what was going on, but he could never
prove it. The only basis which can be
found for his statement consists in the
seizure of some 100 American vessels lying
In Continental harbors, but base as that
deed was it proves nothing
Sloane's Life of Napoleon" in Century.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
How to Wash Windows.

The enterprising housewife Of today
washes her windows with water in
which little kerosene has been poured,
and finds that she can polish them at
once with her soft, lintless cloth. Or
she dips rag in alcohol and then in
whiting She rubs the glass with the
mixture and polishes with channels.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
GunpoWder.

Such hold to be the genuine use of
gunpowder-that it makes all men alike
tall. Nay, If thou be cooler, cleverer than
I; if thou have more mind though all but
no body whatever, then canst thou kill me
first and art the taller. Hereby at last is
the Goliath powerless and tho David re-
sistless. Savage animalism Is nothing; In
yeutiye spirttualism Is aI.-Carlyle
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
For Yachting.

Blue serge is a scrviccablo and at the
Same time popular material for yacht
ing gowns and coats. Young women
who desire something especially pictur-
csquc cannot do better than copy an Eng
lish model. The cap is Of /. lovely shade
of blue silk, crilamentcd with o bow Ut
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
The Un0ttQin0ble.

"Talk about the misery of unattainable
aspirations, unused the fat lady who had
something of a penchant for philosophy.
"You weren't here, guess, when the four
legged girl first got the bicycle craze.''
No, the india rubber man had not been
there at the time mentioned.
However, he laughed hoarsely.-Detroit
Tribune
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
Tho Darner Glorifled.

The darner is one Of many prosaic ar
ticles which have become luxurious at
the silversmith's hands The up to date
darner consists of fine china egg with
q long silver handle.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
Awnings For Country Homes.

Awnings let in the light but keep
out the suns heat, affording just the
conditions needed in summer: Blinds
keep out heat, but make q room dark
and gloomy. Awnings may easily be
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03

The title of emperor Is of such exalted
dignity as to outrank that of royalty. An
emperor is the supreme head of countries,
some or all of which are governed by kings.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03

Previous description in a printed publ
cation Of the machine or device or pre-
vious patent issued for it will prevent al
application being granted.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03

Our humanity were q poor thing but for
the divinity that stixs within us.-Bacon
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03
HAS MANY ENEMIES.
CANADIAN TORIES OBJECT TO HON.
oR,NG PROFESSOR GOODWIN SMITH.
The Action of Toronto University In Con-
ferring tho Degree of IL. ID. Aroused
Storm OF Criticism, and the Professor
Declined the HOnor-EIis Career.

Because the University of Toronto con-
ferred the honorary degree of LII. ID. on
Professor Goodwin Smith, Mr.. W. &. Fal-
conbridgc of the Ontario high court of
Justice announces that he has resigned his
seat in the senate Or governing board OF
that institution. Justice Falconbridge
says that he concluded that the university
senate was not the place for men loyal to
the British flag and he ventures to predict
that the result Of comforting this honor on
Professor Smith will be that thousands
of British Canadian fathers will ask them
selves whether your institution is an en-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03

himself in Canadian affairs. He had not
been there long before he revised his opin-
ion about the emancipation of the Dolnin-
hon and came out as the champion of an
nexation with the United States. This
made him more unpopular than ever, and
the offense is one for which he has never
been forgiven by a majority of Canadians.
He has stood his ground, though, and re-
tanned his enemies, as witness the recent
outbreak.
Professor Smith has done al immense
amount of literary work and has contrib
uted to the leading English and American
magazines. He married an accomplished
Canadian woman of some wealth and lives
in q fine marion, whose ample grounds
are located in The very center of the city OF
Toronto, CHARLES WARNER.
The evening times., 1896-07-10
WILL VOTE FOR MCKINLEY
Cowen Advises Gold

Representative Cowen Advises Gold
DemOc rats to Do the Same.
New York, July 1O.-A special from Bal
timcre says: Representative John X. Cowcn
announced yesterday that lie will not sup
port the ticket to be panied at Chicago.
He criticised severely the platform. stat
ing that it declares for free silver, nat
money and free riot He said:
.It is the most reactionary program that
has ever emaDated from party conyenuon
in the United States, and, in my Judgment,
it is the duty of every good Democrat to
deBounce the platform in season and cut OF
season, and to vote against the man who
stands upon it.
Il think that reaction will set in when
the sober and Conservative classes or the
community appreciate the widespread panic
and ruin which will follow the success of
the men who have sto,en the Democratic.
livery. / think il is not only the duty or
Democrats to vote, but to work against
the ticket and platform adopted in Chicago,
and shall do that.
speaking for myself alone I think II
would he q grave mistake for the sound
money forces to divide their votes. The
Republicans boldly took position for the
gold standard and the nominees Of the
convention stand firmly on the platform
then adopted. Ishail unhesitatingiy vote for
William Mckinley. although / IN On cut
and out free trader. and advisc other Demo
Gratis to do the same"
The evening times., 1896-07-10
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS.

Next to getting a sufficient number of
school buildings to accommodate all chill
dren in the District and give them a
full day, instead of only half, as is now
the case in many OF the schools of the
lower grades, the most important thing
TO do next year is to work for the esfah-
iishment of manual ltrainingschools. There
should he one for the white and one for
coiored children, and provision made in
each for girls as well as for boys. It
has surprised good many people that the
Commiss sioners have not heretofore urged
this matter with persistcncy upon Congress,
especially as the board OF trustees was
very urgent in its recommendations on
the subject. There is reason to believe,
however, that in the next estimates they
wiilinciudeone formanual trimming schools.
If they do, they may rest assured OF
the support or the people of the District.
Among the working people the neces-
sity for such schools is more kccnly felt
than among any other class. They realize
the advantages their children would derive
from them. Properly managed. such schools
would send out their graduates well equip
ped for the practical as well as technica;
parts of any trade they might choose to
take up. II means for the boys shorten
ing of their apprent!ceships and their read
Ter adaptation to the essentials of the craft
they may select. Not only this. but it VII
enable them the sooner to command good
wages and 10 occupy places superior to
| young men who have not enjoyed suc.i
training. Although Washington is not a
great manufacturing center, yet her boys
and girls should have the Opportunity to
| acquire the preliminary knowledge which
will qualify them 10 make their mark else
where.
The colored people are full of cagerncss
for manual training school To their
boys il is of even greater importa nee than
TO those of white parents, for they do not
enjoy the same facilities for entering the
counting room or the store. II they can
obtain the advantages offered by man-
| ual training school, their children will have
| a fairer start in the race of life than at
present. But whether one race or the other
| these schools are one Of the necessities of
| the times and Washington should no longer
| lag behind other citiesin isrespcct.