The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-08

| Don't file kick;
For you are not the only guy
| VINO gers the dOwn-to-zerO eye
Ihat makes Ice thick
! There are others!
| II maiden fair goes back on you.
Anu woe makes an attack Oh you
/ I'LL you're broke up;
len Meme 'mss many trusting lout
| has puhed the pipe till 1t went out,
| And then woke UP
| There arc others!
/ IT she becomes isis" to Won.
/ anu DlOWs farewell kiss to you,
! just hold your ground;
| console yourself by thinkign that
/ Your voice still penetrates your hat,
/ Anu look around
l. There are others!
Baltimore News.
Making Skates.
| 1t is i'll Newark, n. j., that modern
| skates were devised, invented, manufac g.
tured, and it is in Newark that the best
improved skates are turned out now.
I 2oOO pairs or more every day.
| Steel strips, little thicker than a
skate blade. some three inches wide and
twelve or fifteen feet long, are the raw
material for the most important part of
the skate. But it doesn't take any black
smith with an anvil to shape them. A
! steam hammer stamps runners out from
the steel strips as easy as Dnah makes
seed cookies.
Because the rolled and welded steel
straight edge. One thump of the next
hammer corrects that. and the blade has
| the slight curve from end to end that has
[ been found most elegant and CXDcdient,
Twenty seconds against big, wet grind
stone is enough to reduce it to the right
| thickness.
Aonther grindstone gives the hollow
edge and makes it sharp in a few Sec
onds. The blade is put to soak in a
| bath of hot lead until it is cherry red,
| and then dipped in salt water, to keep its
temper.
a fter that nothing hurts it. Emery
dust on hard wheel gives it Il polished
| surface, IT it is to stay steel. The more
elegant blades arc electroplated with
nickel. and then buffed till they shine
beautifully.
Mechanical processes have been in
PRODUCED all the way through, most of
them within the last five years. Mr.
his son-in-law,. and superintendent of the
factory. have been the first to find ways
of using machinery at several stages
One of those steel cookie stamps bites
foot plates out of strip Of steel, anoth-
er heel plates; another chews out
clamps; another nonchalantly punches
washers. 1t takes a drop of the ham
mer to make one fat piece into the sort
of shoe. with two wings, that holds the
heel. Ono stroke cuts out the lever:
another binds it into shape.
The main screw has nut in the mid
die for a thumb screw. 1t used to
be one solid piece with the screw, which
slipped over the screw, and two gentle
strokes Of the hammer swudge it on as
tight as if it grew there. Most of these
things are done by boys.
One of the neatest things is the lathe
that turns the main screw. It rounds
the end while you wink. 1t runs the
saws off the finished screw and begins
on the next
The small parts are tumbled in re-
volving barrels down cellar to smooth off
the rough edges. For the best skates
the foot plates and the inside of the
blatCS are chamfered. that is, a neat slice
is cut off the edges.
In the slack months the small parts
are accumulated and put together. When
the busy season begins there are tons of
them, enough for 100000 pairs. That is
at the beginning of the fall. By this
time the first rush is over and the stock
need only to be tackled to the blade.
That is the only hand process left. Mr..
Goodman says tho machine-riveteds skates
have a way of falling to pieces. and
theirs are all clinched together by hand
IN January the busy season is over.
Then they begin working up stock for
tool department. But they are making
skates tho year round.-Ncwark Daily
Advertiser
Lcthargy Dispe led by Music.
The soft. swelling strains of the violin
awakened Mamie Steinhaus of Philadel-
phia from her sleep of lethargy. in which
she had been for nineteen days, thus
demonstrating, the marvellous effect Of
music on the human nervous system.
Mamie Steinhaus was first afflicted
with mysterious malady. which has
puzzled her physiCidi1s. when she came
home talking incoherently and in state
of nervous excitement, saying she had
been frightened by a policeman.
She was put to bed and relapsed into
a state of lethargy from which DR.. Stall
arouse her. After a lapse of three
weeks he decided to try the effects of
music on the patient, and two girl vio-
linists residing in the neghborhOod were
summoned. The sleeper did not move
at first, but as the strains increased in
volume Mamie twitched nervously, then
she turned over. and with her face
in her slumbcr.
n few moments later she opened her
eyes and asked for drink of water.
4 glass was placed to her lips and. TAX
ing sip. she sank back. but only for
moment, and then she appeared to awak-
en- more thoroughly. although she re-
fused food. Then she was seized with
,c brc%rrsool In ,,rhfnr x,-Iioh
tinued for two hours, then, apparently
tired she ould have again rclapscd into
slumbcr had not DR.. Sta]ler ordered her
plunged i'll il cold bath. This entirely re-
stored her. AS she emerged, shivering
and cold. she recognized her parents and
twin sisters. and then fell into nat
ural sleep. Her ultimate recovery is as
sured.
The music, the physician claims. quiet
cd the Slu1nbercrs nerves to such an cx-
tent that her will succeeded in gain
ing the mastery. and, assisted by the cold
bath. it was able to retain control.
Oracular Horse Hairs.
If perchance at any time you see Il
man stealthily pull hair from a horses
tail by the curbing, you may know. that
horsehair fad.
The idea is this: Suspend a gold ring
from u piece of hair over half a glass
Of cold water and the ring will begin
TO swing to and fro until it hits the sides
Of the glass. Furthermore, it will strike
the exact age of the horse. or if it be a
PERSONS hair, of the person upon whose
head it grew.
Recently Il horse stood by the door of
q shop OH Il side street. 4 hair from
his tail tied to the gold ring and duly
suspended swung twice only. tho ring
striking out the two clinks audibly
against the side Of the glass. 'Ho ho!'
quoth the skeptic, that horse is II years
Old Not So" said the owner Of the
year-ol1 colt" a hair from the head Of
a very interesting young lady was alb
stracted by her from among it's compan-
ions. The same experiment was made
aud the ring struck twenty-well, no
matter just how many-but she said: |