Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-17
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the housetOps. one Professor Hoffman, an
imperial councillor. attached to the gov
eminent patent Office, appeared before tho
polytechnic Society and ~cXpounded the
merits Of his latest flying machine. con-
structed on the principle of Il dragon. with
steam propeliers. Preferring prudence to
mere yalor. the professor Contented himself
with sending a small model up into the air.
and on the strength of its performance
asked for a subscription Of some 5000
marks wherewith TO finish the COnstruc-
ton Of his dragon. II the Polytechnic So
ciety did not raise this fund Emperor Will
lam is expected to come to the rescue Of
this would-be aerial navigator.
The third rail- will revolutionize rail-
roading in mere ways than the mere met
amorphosis of lOcomOtion would at first in
dlcdte. says an enthusiastic admirer of tho
plan. 1t will enable every engineer to have
in his cab a block system signal. by means
of which accidents such as front and rear
end collisions will hardly be possible. He
viii be no more the unfortunate victim OF
careless s~witchmen, fiagmen. dark nights.
storms of snow and enveloping fogs. His
ear in the blacklist night will tell the po-
sition Of trains in front of him. of trains
behind him, Of trains 10 right and left OF
him. at the same time Informing othe- en-
gineers of his position. The plan is ready
for adoption. and President Clark is prob
ably the man who will first give it a prac-
teal test.
Military journals are at present Interest,"
ed in a new self-moving car which is to
be a veritable carriage of death. 1t is 10
be driven by a sixteen horse power engine
al the rate of forty miles an hour over Il
country reasonably level. and. Of course.
free from fences; il has four broad tire
wheels. But the climax and purpose OF
this remarkable machine is to carry two
rapid firing cannon. arranged on pivOts to
sweep the entire horizon. One man only
is needed TO run this terrible wheeled weap-
on of war and this same man also attends
to the firing, loading. etc.
Reform has struck the imperial court OF
Vienna. Since the days of Maria Theresa
each servant has had given him two i'm
mense wax candles daily in summer and
three in winter. beside everything left on
the royal tables after meals. 1t has all
been a source of great profit to the serv-
ants. but a new master of the household
has come into power who says that Maria
Theresa is behind the times and will be a
long time dead. The wax candles must go
and the ~leavings be warmed over for an
other meal.
A novel use of the Y rays has transpired
in Massachusetts. A lady last week, whilst
baking some cokes. lost her ring in the
paste. but did not discover the loss until
the cakes were out of the oven. Afraid OF
choking some member of her family. sine
was struck with the happy expedient Of
taking the cakes TO a photographed, VINO
placed them under the y rays, with the
result hat the ring was Immediately dis
covered.
Just for a joke DR.. Frank Linbarger. at
Asbury Park, in 1895, had a friend intro
duce him 10 Miss Mae Sanford, of Red
Bank, n. j., as DIR. Lee Acquaintance
ripened into love. Miss Sanford had $1,000
in her own name. The doctor was afraid
of "queering" his suit if he told of the de-
ception, so he kept right on and married
her under the name of Lee. Now he asks
the circuit court OF Union county, N. j.. to
change his name from Linbarger to Lee.
Or. Bueb. chemist Of the Continental
Gas Company. of Dessau, Germany, has
found a plan for preventing the freezing
of water in gas pipes. IL consists in tho
introduction of alcohol fumes into gas
mains where they leave the gasometers.
Only enthusiastically small quantities arc
necessary. at a temperature Of Is degrees
Fahrenheit. Five drains of alcohol are
found to be sufficient for each Loo feet
of gas.
Three of the six lepers who were confined
on North Brother Island, near New York,
have now escaped. The latest one TO leave
was a West Indian negro. He put a dunn
my in his bed. borrowed a boat and rowed
away to parts unknown. The sanitary SUI
perintendent of the board offers the con-
ISOLATION to nervous folk that it is not so
dangerous to have a leper at large as a
sufferer from consumption in its advanced
stage.
Last summer General ]. Madison Drake,
OF Elizabeth, N. J., said that he would let
his hair grow until Bryan became presi-
dent. He kept his vow until one day last
week. when a resolution of the Veteran
of which he is the commander de-
Ginning to march with him until he had a
hair cut. made him see how foolish he had
been to put so much faith in Bryan.
The universities of Gottingen and Jena
in close competition for the doubtful
honor of being the center OF German stu
dent dueling. In Gottingen not a day
passes that a duel is not fought. Not long
since twelve duels with more or less seri-
results were fought there within TWEEN
ty-four hours: the record at Jena is TWEEN
ty-one within the same length of time.
DR.. William Judkins, of Cincinnati. has
TeSlBncu ITOm the nuHdHt SOGlelS OF LudL
because when he wished to experiment
on a vagrant dog. in order to demonstrate
10 his students at the medical college a
delicate abdominal operation. on whose
performance human life often
the society refused to let him use
dog for such vivisection.
A photographers error. In writing pro
gided" instead of prohibited" in a copy
II the proposed a~nti-gambling constitu-
amendment lin a bill for the special
in September) has compelled the
,alling of a special session of the New
Jersey legislature.
In Brooklyn there is a shaving palace
which holds out the following inducements
Facial Operators. Uranium Manipulate
and Capillary Hair Cutting, Shaving
With Ambidextrous Abridger Facility"
Mrs Logan was given the right by the
Illinois legislature to select the site for
he monument to General Logan which
he state Is to build. and she has designst-
"a as such site the lake front, opposite
Court, Chicago.
The man who was most largely RESPONSE
Die for the passage of the act in the low.
legislature making the wild rose the state
was Major S. II. Byers, the author
}. 'Sherman's March to the Sea"
Among the Old Families.
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