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ton are arranged to support a cylindrical
cutting edge. Figs. l and 2, of varying size.
FOR eaeh cutter conical bed piece is pro-
vided, also shown in Figs. l and 9 The
Ded piece is secured to the pliers below its
cutter, and the bed piece which, as held
ey the pliers when open. will be in advance
OF the cutting edge. is forced through the
puncture. By closing the pliers. the bed
piece is drawn up against the cutting edge
SO That small round disk is cut out of the
rubber. The cutting operation, as shown
IN rigs. 8 and 8. show the result. By re-
versing the pliers ana opanine them. the
pug IS held in the other jaws as shown In
rig; 4, and after a thorough fabrication
win the solution is forced through the
aperture into place
peculiar Systemszof totroducinp tho
Plugs Is shcWn in Fig. 4, where a plug with
a nole IN the stem is used piece Of wire
Is heated, Fig. I. in the fame of a match,
a.iu "hlie not IS forced through the pune
lure burning Off thet ends of the threads
ana leaving II ready for plugging. Fig .
ne Wlre' sun hot, or slightly reheated If
necessary, is now inserted in one Of the
hped E OF the plugs, 4. to which it adj
heres The plug, after fabrication, is forced
lnto the puncture by the wire, which is
then drawn back, pulling the head of the
pug up against the interior of the tube.
Burning Out the Puncture.
we mere encounter for the first time the
burning out of the hole with hot wire, and
ior all phases OF tire mending where plug
Is to be used 1t is an excellent plan to burn
out the hole rather than to cut it out by
any means The burning out removes the
projecting ends Of the threads and does
away with the fertile source Of so-called
porousness.
Band plugging is shown In the next cut,
NO. .. A needle about eight inches long
with an end not too sharply pointed and
containing large perforation, IL used
The other end should be bent into a ring
shaped handle: The needle is threaded with
one or more bands Of India rubber. 1t IS
shown as used with a single band If it be
desired to introduce a single thickness in to
the punctufe, on account Of its smallness
OF size. the manipulation shown in Fig
1 Is adopted. The needle is threaded, a
small portion Of the band projecting from
the eye; after fabrication with solution, the
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From the Detroit Free Press
"Orlando,' she exclaimed 1.-The baby has
a toothr'
Has hep was the response in q tone
which betrayed no emotion.
You don't seem a bit surprised"
m not surprised All the babies have
first teeth. If this one didn't have any ia
manage to get UP some excitement. may
be-" A''
II thought you'd be pleased and happy
about it,
NO. I don't see that it's any occasion
for especial congratulations. The baby has
my sympathy"
sympathy! What for?"
For having his first tooth. He has lust
struck the opening chapter of long Story
of trouble. Pretty soon he'll have other
teeth"
''Of course he WILL
his second teeth will come along and push
these out That will hurt him again, Some
OF the new ones will come in crooked like
as not, and he will have to go to the dem
list and have block and tackle adjusted
to them to haul them around into line.
Then he'll cut his wisdom teeth After
that he'll have to go 10 the dentist and let
him drift holes and hammer till his face
feels like great palptatfng stone quarry
l wouldn't want him to go through life
without teeth. But I must say that / don't
see any occasion for the customary hilarity
over an event that means SO much in the
way of sorrow and humiliation"
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used on gloves To apply these, If made of
leather. an India rubber patch is first ce-
mented by solution over the puncture on the
outside of the tire, ard over 1; the band is
ecured.
The band shown In Fig is Of somewhat
thick and elastic India rubber, long enough
to be wound twice around the tire before
being secured. thus producing a very per
feet tension. This or other bands can be
directly cemented over the puncture the
rubber patch being dispensed with This is
not recommended. AS a subst itute for the
Lands leather shoes tring, which is wound
tightly over the rubber patch, is excellent.
In all these cases the tire should be in
completely inflated. SO that when finally
inflated the tension is increased.
Porous Tires.
There are two points relating to the sub
ject to be consider ed. One is the alleged
porousness of tires. Single tube tires in
general consist Of an inner lining of India
rubber. surrounded by a fabric the latter
bedded in and coated with India rubber.
The t'~htness of such tire depends almost
entire. en- the maintenance of the integrity
or Its inner lining. If this is punctured or
injured from the inside air will get into the
fabric. and. following the threads, escape
In quantity of minute streamlets, so that
when sponged with water minute bubbles
will be seen escaping from an indefinite
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Snake Poison and Cholera.
From the Medical Age.


A. L. Sandal. NJ. B., municipal commits
sioner, Calcutta, late medical officer to the
local government. Bengal, declares that
the empirical practitioner in India has
wonderful success in combating the raw
ages Of cholera. Case after case, given up
by the faculty as hopeless, is successfully
treated by him. I managed to elicit the
fact that the powerful agent employed Sub
cutaneously) was a tincture of which the
poison of the cobra formed the sole base.
Later l discovered a woman in possession
of small supply of the tir.cture and her
success IL treating cholera cases was on
a smaller scale, as striking as his. l could
not help reviewing the astonishing fact
that many eminent men OF this city re-
peatedly found in their practice that cases
of cholera given up by them as hopeless
were cured-provided a certain charlatan
was called in and permitted to inoculate
his mysterious counterpoison. yet no one
thought himself called upon to investigate
tie subject. am prepared to avouch on
the honor CT a medical nan my thorough
conviction of the repeatedly successful
treatment of hopeless cases of cholera by
the incubation Of the sufferer with cobra
venom.
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DR.. Toner'S Remarkable Zeal for Ac-
curacy.

DR.. Toner'S Remarkable Zeal for Ac-
curacy.
From the Boston Transcript
By the death of DR.. Toner in Washing
ten last week the country has lost one of
its most tireless " orkers in the line of his
torical research. OF late years Dr. Toner s
subject has been the life of Washington,
and aided by a salaried clerk, whom he
paid out Of his own pocket. he has gather
ed mass Of material In the shape of orig
inal letters and documents. books news
papers and periodicals, besides copies
where the originals themselves could not
be obtained. which are certain to be of
enormous value to the historical students
of the future. All that he has gathered to-
Setfer this, DIR. Toner has steadily poured
into the Congressional Library, forming
what is known as The Toner Collection"
whenever 1t was suggested to him that he
should write a life Of Washington or even
compile his letters, DIR. Toner would shake
/ is head emphaticaHy, saying. oh no. |
am not historian. / could not write
books: besides il is too early yet to write
the life Of Washington. All i aspire 10 do
is to get the materials together for some
future historian. That lis enough of a task
for me-. He did, however, consent to edit
and publish one of Washington's diaries
Dr. Toner'S hobby seems to have been ac-
curacy. Wherever ally Of Washington's
letters had all been pull lished he carefully
went through them in comparison with the
originals, and wherever the editors had
changed the spelling or pune tua ton, or
had even placed the letters of abbreviated
words on the line instead of above the line
as had been the practice of Washington
himself, DR., Toner has SO corrected the
published copy as to make Il absolutely
like that Of Washington. Some of the pub
Hshed letters. moreover, are somewhat
conventionalZed. Where Washington had
written three or four letters OF the same
pirport the editors aimed TO reproduce one
letter conveying the whole idea This pro-
cedure was very distasteful to DR.
Toner, who has had each letter reproduced
exactly as it was. His industry in hunt
ing down informa ton concerning Washing
ton was remarkable He made a trip last
spring to small town rear Nashville
Tenn. Tor the purpose Of seeing one I'M
published letter which somebody there
possessed. DR.. Toner was unable to in
duce the owners to part with # and so he
made an exact copy.
As result Of his years of research the
Toner collection, which will have a con-
spicuous place in the Few Congressional
Library, will be mine of wealth for STU
dents or all OF the revolutionary period.
and especially for those studying the life
OF our first President.
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EFFECT OF THE "FRAUMEREI.,
An EXtravaEant Word of Praise for
schumnnn's Composition.

Ioui inc brookfyn Eagle.
If there is any one thing that has lifted
the taste of the American public to its pres
eht standard II Is Traumerei." Astounding
statement. Yet true In the first place, the
public ear had hardly been attuned to the
great things, for 1T had never heard them
The popular music was frothy, and 1t might
even De said that, with the exception of
New York and Boston, the American cities
were without music Then. the grand or
chestra was unknown. and when Mr.
Thomas, with his forty-two men from Cen
trail Park garden. went on tour through the
provinces the band was hailed everywhere
with delight. And its programs never held
anything so popular as Schumann's ..Trau-
merei.''
Old readers and some less old. need not
to be told how the orchestra used to plar
this piece. 1t was set to strings entirely
with possibly some use Of the wind in the
little romance that was interpolated effec-
lively between the first playing of the
theme and the coda. and the end hushing
DOWN In the softest 0imnuendo, to a faint
cream OF note, was revelation of ,the
value OF strings. The laborous brass hand
the cracking piano, the fiddle as solo IN
strument-these were familiar, hut here was
something new. Never before had Ameri-
cans heard the string orchestra employed
alone. Never had they known what a
crescendo and dirninuendo might be The
truth of tonality, the vocal smoothness. the
perfect mechanical control of the instru-
ments. the unison in lingering and bowling
even, were things that they talked about
long after the concert, and when a return
engagement was announced there We're al
ways letters to the conductor or the man
ayers asking that the "Traumerei' be
played.
Of course, since then, we have learned
that the same technic can be applied 10
other things, and that other orchesIras
have strings well as that of Mr. Thomas
We have learned moreover, that the range
of composer like Schumann was not ex-
pressed in this one dainty little piece any
more than the genius of poet is illustra ed
completely in a sonnet or quatrain. The
literature of music has widened to us great
ly in the twenty-five years since Mr..
Thomas began TO play the 'Traumerei"
along with Nogts Might Song" Haydn's
serenade and the "Amaryls'' of Louis
Kill But because We appreciate Beet
hoven ard have become a nation of greedy
Wagnerians, are We to scorn the steps by
which We roSee
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tire. as shown. and the looped ends are
pushed off the crossed piece. The needle is
then withdrawn, leaving the bands in the
hole. to be trimmed off as desired. A
needle may be cut out of a piece of hard
wood, to be used in an emergency in per-
fecting this kind of a repair. 1t should
look like an arrow head with notched
point.
Patches.
patch is built up Of tire tape. by cutting
short pieces anG placing them transversely
to each other. batten fashion. If a cut is
large enough, such patch is placed in the
interior of the tube and pressed up firmly
against the cut by forcing the sides of the
tube together. Another such patch is
placed outside, and the whole is secured by
winding the tire tape Solution msg be
used to secure the tire tape in place if the
tape Is too dry to adhere without it
Cut No. 6 shows puncture band. which
may be of heavy pure gum rubber or of
leather, Figs. /. , and 4. Fig. is arranged
to be secured by strings around the tire.
Fig. has buckle and strap. and Fig 4
has the well-known eyelet and stud catch
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surface with water, using a sponge or
even the hand. and watching for the es-
cape Of the bubbles from the wet surface
1t Is assumed, of course. that the tire is
kept inflated all the time. For burning out
a puncture in an emergency hairpin may
be employed, heated by a match.
As desperate remedy a porous tire may
have a longitudinal slit, about six inches
long. cut through its inner periphery. At
one end a hole half an inch In diameter is
made A weight, such as nut from a
bolt. is tied to a string and is worked
around the tire. An inner tube Ia drawn
by 1t into the tire. The elit Is then laced
up and the tire becomes an inner tube
tire. This Is not practicable except with
tires having a good fabric to hold the
lacing.
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From the Scientific American.

made in a few minutes. We Illustrate sew
eral methods Of repairing such tires, which
methods are divisible into three classes,
plug repairing, patch repairing and band
repairing.
The first cut illustrates typical forms of
plugs, one with a cylindrical stem, two
double-headers shaped somewhat like cuff
buttons and another with conical stem
They are made of various sizes and pro-
portions.
One of the simplest and most popular
means Of inserting a plug is shown in the
cut No. 1. where pliers specially made for
the purpose are employed. The approved
method of operating is to tie a string or
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From Harper's Eound Table.
Papa, is Mrs. Bigelow very poor?"
mo. Cedric. Mrs. Bigelow is well OF:
don't you know what nice house she
has?"
But she sleeps in the hen coop. papa
why. Cedrici''
''She said she did"
What do you mean
Don't you remember when she was here
to dinner night before last she excused her
self and said she must go home early be-
cause she went to bed with the chickensc''
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number of places. The tire may be pune
tured by nail and the puncture may be
mended so as to be perfectly tight, yet the
nail may have punctured the inner Goa ting
on the opposite side, too. without cutting
through. and this puncture may be enough
to start leaks producing So-called porous
ness. There is no way of finding the loca-
ton Of such an inner lining puncture
another point relates to the putting on
OF a patch by means of rubber solution
The adherence of these patches does not
depend on cement. like action OF the In
Ola rubber, but on cohesion. The best way
OF doing it Is as follows: The surfaces to be
fastened together are coated with the So
luton, which is allowed an hour or more to
dry: If possible. it is well to give ten to
twelve hours. Or, after drying two or
three hours, a second, and after a similar
interval, third, coating of the rubber may
be given to the surfaces. the final drying
being as long as possible. When perfectly
dry the surfaces are placed in contact The
instant they touch they adhere. and the
operation is complete. In mending on the
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road. where time is an object. the surfaces
coated with solution may be dried more
rapidly by exposing to the sun and by
blowing upon them.
A puncture in a single tube tire may be
readily found by immersing the tire In
water, and still more simply by wetring the
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strong thread tightly around the stem of
the plug. which plug is then grasped by
the pliers In the manner shown, is well
fabricated with solution and is forced into
the aperture with the head innermost; the
solution is then squeezed out of the flex-
ibie tube. which is supplied with special
nozzle for the purpose, through the pune
ture. to fall upon the head of the
plug within the tire The tube of solution
is withdrawn. the plug is drawn into place
by the thread and part of The protuberance
Is cut on. The double header plug. such as
shown in Fig Of cut Nc. /, is inserted
by this instrument with the small head in
nermoSt. The large head iS cemented to
the outside of the tine by covering it's inner
surface and part Of the tire adjacent to
the puncture with rubber solution, allowing
the surfaces to dry as perfectly as possible
out of contact with each other, and by then
pressing them together when they instant
ly adhere.
A Simple Apparatus.
Cut No. shows a method Of introducing
plug by very simple apparatus Fig /
is metal tube with cross handle The
tube is cut of obliquely at It's lower end
With 1t is provided bent piece of metal,
Fig. 2. by means of which a plug, pre-
viously moistened with a solution as a Iu-
brlcant only, Fig. 4. is forced into its OBJ
lique end. Figs. / and 2. The tubular tool
Is then driven into the puncture. and the
hoi Ecu uo"ii through it dIleI
introduction. Fig. 3. SO to expel from it
the head Of the plug On withdrawal of
the two tools the plug Is left in the aper-
ture, and it's head may be pulled up by
means Of its projecting stem against the
interior of the tire. Fig. 5 shows the plug
and in the section of the tube one plug is
shown in position.
In the next cut. No. 3. more compli-
Gated apparatus is shown. used for intro
dIcing the plug shown in Fig. 6 of ssch
cut. A pair of pliers of peculiar construc-
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Taxed Already ~.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Miss Stout Cbicyclist)-'1 think IL would
be great shame If bicycles were taxed
Miss Slender (ditto)-"Then why do YOU
ride one? You must be a great tax on il"
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ANA ~ DE- ID
cycle tires have be-
C o m g d e servedly
pop ular a m o n z
American riders. AL
though 1t Is some
times more difficult
to effect in them q
positive and perman-
ent repair than in
the inner tube tire, a
temporary air,
good for a thousand
miles or more OF rid
ing NAV n8ton ha
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PA, what are neighbors?'
Neighbors are generally people tn
your mother says we must not get a
quainted with."-Chicago Record.
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Stratton. the MininE King.

: Take. fer instance W. s. Stratton, who
owns the great Independence mine, which
has been turning out nearly 5000 day for
the past year. and in which it is estimated
there are from four to seven million dol
lars of gold in sight How would you like
TO own that? 1t would be enough for your
self and your family for ages to come. 1t
is one of the richest gold mines of the
world. and the man who owns it was work.
ing five years ago at a carpenters bench.
Up to that time he would have been glad.
venture. to have Melted from the work of
his hands 81, a month His mine last year,
It is SAID. produced $4,000 at a cost of
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REPAIRING 'PUNCTURE
Various Methods of Stopping Holes
in Bicycle Tires.
ALL SORTS OF PLUGS AND BANDS
The Trouble Encountered With
[eaky. Porous Tires.

TO ETECT APERTURES
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Fortunes Dug From the Earth by
Poor Men.
CRIPPLE CREEKS STRANGE ROMAECES
How a Carpenter, a Plumber and a
Teamster Became Rich.
TALES OF MILLIONAIRES
Copyrighted, 1896. by Frank G. carpenter.9

CRIPPLE CREEK. August TO- 1896.
Thousands fail in mining. Hundreds
make living. Tens amass competency,
but 1t is only now and then one who by a
lucky stroke of the pick, finds enor-
nous fortune and keeps it. David Moffat.
the mining king. says the failures are not
50 great as In other businesses. 1t is certain
that the successes are more phenomenal. 1
write today not of the failures, but of the
successes, the millionaires OF Cripple Creek.
Out of this gold camp, within five years.
has come s13.0O0.OO0. The gold dug out last
year was worth Ss,O00.OO0. and this year
the output promises to be fully large.
The stories l hear of gold dug out and gold
in sight make my ayariciouS mouth water,
ard, like the hungry, ragged newsboy on
the street outside the confectionery store,
/ press my nose against the glass and long
for the riches within.
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l could give numerous other instances of
fortune making in mines. l could find per-
haps ten thousand times as many in
stances of men losing in Mines but min
Ing is In reality legitimate business and
believe If followed with the same care,
investigation and business ability as ar.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-08-19
Bursting Fly-Wheels.

The bursting of a fly wheel is almost
unheard of in England, notwlthStand-
ing the high speed engines we now have
wheel casualties have become a matter
of weekly report. In England we have
many thousands Of high speed cast iron
fly wheels and very large wheels up to
sixty tons weight running with very
high periphery speed, and they all run
safely, and yet in the States they say:
The sudden advent of the electrical ap-
para tus and its high speeds found peo-
pie making fly wheels of cast iron, with
narrow factor of safety, or, indeed, no
factor of safety at all, If we consider
the impossibillty of detecting inherent
strains and imperfections in this mate
rial. No one can know the value of
ma terlal nodded into form at a tenn
perature of 1000 degrees and then cool
ed down to 10th of this tempera ture,
nor can they judge internal structure
by surface Indications The fact is that
cast iron is not suitable material for
fly wheels that are to be driven at high
speed, nor Is 1t necessary to make them
of this material. There is not even the
claim of cheapness in their favor if the
methods of making such wheels of
wrought iron and steel were once work
ed out"
Twenty years ago Scotch firm, who
had to make large fly wheel for a
spinning mill, riyeted up a box rim.
made from rolled plates, and filled ii
with cemented masonry or "grout," and
did very sensible thing.-London En-
gineer.