The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-05-21

L.
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
MAUD, am almost afraid to 90 and
see your father"
''You needn't be, Harry. When he
asks you if you can support me in the
style to which have been accustomed
tell him you can support me q great
deal better than he could ever have
done if it hadn't been for mama's
money"
Bicycles can be fitted with a new
pavement cleaning device to keep the
wheel from getting muddy which is
made of a cylinder brush held in a
frame ahead of the front wheel and
geared to the axle to reyolye and sweep
the street as the wheelman rides along.
According to German publication,
chemist Of that country has prepar-
ed a fluid that has the power when in
jected into the tissue Of q plant near
it's roots, of anmthetizing the plant.
not destroying it, but temporarily sus
pending it's vitality.
A Brooklyn ,nau has designed a
combined bail and cover for pals, in !,
which half the cover is fast on the
pail, with the other half hinged to it
and provided with handle on its rim
to lift the pail
When newly designed fountain
pen fails to work, all auxiliary pen can
be pushed down to take its place by
operating sliding ring on the holder,
the second pen being intended for
use with an ink bottle.
Robbins and fabrics can be easily
| measured by new device consisting
of graduated strip of paper, which
rolled in the fabric before it leaves the
factory, being unwound and torn off
as the cloth is sold.
From 20 to 25 large and small estab-
lishments exist in New Jersey for the
manufacture of nitro-glycerine, dyna-
mite and other high explosives, and
both black and smokeless powder.
It has recently been claimed that
iron ships fitted with electric plants
suffer rapid deterioration Of their pipes
having direct connection with the sea,
due to electrolytic action, a
Meteors rush through space at the
rate of twenty-six. miles o second.
They are not usually larger than a
pebble, and on striking the earth's
atmosphere they Immediately dissolve
into gas.
| It is said that every thread Of a
SPIDERS web is made up Of about hive
thousand separate tibers, If pound
of this thread were required it would
occupy $4,000 spiders a full year tc
furnish it.
Draughting compasses are being
made with flexible rubber suction
cap on one end to fasten to the paper
and hold the instrument while the cir
Gle is being drawn.
Outdoor chairs and benches fol
parks are provided with hinged backs
which can be closed over the seat tt
protect it from tho weather and keel
it dry when it rains.
On the inside cover of newly-de
signed watch thin pocket is provided
having an open center and slot II
one side for the insertion of pho
graph.
The prefix go" before SO many c
the names of Irish families is an al
breyiation of the word "ogha, NEAR
ing grandchild.
{ Asiatic cholera was first supposed t
, have originated from the consnmptlo
of unsound rice, and was called tn
"rice disease"
An aseptic barber shop has bee
started in Baltimore, where all OF
$ ;ects that touch the face have bee
D. sterilized.
81 George Ford, Of Louisville, KY
II years old, has just married, as b
ry seventh wife, girl of seventeen.
The barking of a dog on the ear
can be distinctly heard by a balloon1
at an elevation Of four miles.
It is estimated that 100000 lar
are sold yearly for food at the Leade
hall market, London.