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The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
The TeasIe.

No machine has yet taken the place of
natures teasle in finishing various
grades of wooden cloths. In this coun-
try they are grown only in Onondaga
county, in New York state, though a
few have been raised in Oregon.
Teasles require soil of clay and lime
in certain proportions so that their tips
shall be sharper than steel. Such soil
is found in Marcellus and Skaneateles,
where they have been staple produc-
ton for so years. Teasles are also
grown in England and France. The
American product is sitter than the
English, softer than the French. When
the foreign crop fails the American is
drawn On. This year the European crop
is small, the American large-nearly
250,000, ,00O.-Baltimore Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
INVERTED LEAD PIPE.
As Usual, TlaasIgh the Genius Did Not
s'rcGt by Ills Edea.

There was born in Milton, Pa, in 1909
a man of wonderful genius, it is said
His name was Robert Seydell, and he
died j. 1917. -Four children survive
him, two of WON still reside there-a
son, Jacob Seydell, and a daughter.
Mrs. NJ. L. Gray.
Mr.. Seydell was a coppersmith and
was almost continuously working out
some device connected with the ma
chinery in his factory. To him, it is re-
lated by some OF the Oldest citizens Of
tbs place, belongs the discovery of the
process Of making lead pipe, and like
many other inventors the idea Of max
ing the same was stolen from him and
further developed to it's present form
of manufacture.
1t was in the latter part of the '30s
that the idea suggested Itself to him,
and the following is the way it brought
it out: He first took slug, or casting
of lead, placing it on a mandel, or rod
of steel, about 16 feet long and one inch
in diameter; the mandel was highly
polished, and upon this he drew or
AO1ANN ONO bAAS AOSSNl W lllC 1UIi 1NuG1G OF
the rod, thus giving him an inch bore,
and the material was rolled, it is said,
to one-fOurth inch, making a total
diameter of ~ inches for the pipe.
After completing several sections of the
length of the mandel he soldered them
together, making the pipe of whatever
length he desired
ITo ~ 70, L
it to pump-heads and also rur 'ng il
from springs to connect watering
troughs and spring houses in the coun-
try roundabout here Being greatly
pleased with his discovery, and receiv-
ing the most fattering of comments
from his friends and neighbors in this
section, he concluded to make his in
vention moro widely known, and hence
made visit to Philadelphia, taking his
device with him.
At the Franklin institute in that CITY
he gave his first exhibition to quite a
number of inventors, artisans and me
chan1cs. AS it is now related, every one
of whom witnessed it were more than
delighted, and SO expressed themselves
in his immediate presence.
1t was not long that he was allowed
to remain in condition Of supreme
happiness over his invention, for q
short time after he made 4 disclosure
OF his discovery, and while yet in Plila-
delphia, he found out that by the very
persons to whom he hal given 20 ex-
hibitiol of the process of making lead
pipe his idea had been used and i'm
proved upon.
Mr. seydell was a man of great piety,
an enthusiastic devotee of the church
the Baptist-with which he was con
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
The Trolley Cars Uses.

The trolley car has been utilized for
all sorts of local announcements, with
excellent results, especially in small
communities, doing in its way much
of the work that the old bell crier was
supposed to exist for, says the Pitts
burgh Dispatch. On rainy days vii
lage car will often save the school chill
dren a useless tramp by carrying a
placard with the inscription on, mo
School To-Day" and in some places the
local weather bureau now notifies the
road of prospective meteorological
changes, ard the cars, as they go out
of the car barn mount the appropriate
signal in the shape of a flag flying be-
tween the trolley pole and the car. Peo-
pie can thus tell by glance at the pass
ing car whether to carry an umbrella
or not. and what sort of an oYercoat
to put on.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
JOHN JENKINS, M. D.,
III West 117th Street,
New York.

''It gave Office hours and was to all
appearances the card of a respectable
physiciGsl. He carried case that
looked like surgeons instrument case.
Doctor he said to me, with a forced
little effort at laugh, L am in most
embarrassing predicament. came over
here to see a patient, and either | kave
lost my purse or [ have been robbed,
and / find that [ have no change in my
change pocket. I am obliged to ask
you to let me have car fare home
There wasn't a question in my mind
about him, and of course | produced
dime, that happening to be the first
coin l felt in my pocket and being
enough to take him home. I'm very
glad to be Of assistance to you, DOCTOR
I said. Thank you very much,' he re-
piled, and went out. I heard nothing
more from him until the other day,
when my office maid told me gentle
man wanted to see me in the waiting
room. | went in, and it was DR.. Jen-
kins, white beard instrument case and
all. 1 thought he'd come to give back
my ten cents, but before l could say
word he began by pushing out his card
and starting on the story again. heard
him through and realized that he was
professional beggar. Then I got be-
tween him and the door and said:
"'You confounded old scoundrel, this
is the second time you've been here with
this story. The first time it worked,
but this time it won't. Now, you don't
get out of this house until you give up
my ten cents
''He saw at once, of course, that he
had been caught in a mistake, and so
he begged my pardon and handed over
ten cents, and there's the dime" ant,
the doctor exhibited it.
THAT fellow had mighty good
game" continued the doctor, shut he
should have kept an address book. He
could have got money from every doc
tor and clergyman in town if he had
been shrewd."-N. Y. Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
MiSCELLAiNE LOS lisMS.

A traveller can nowadays journey
around the world in so days.
a new kind of apple, red within as
we'll as without, has turned up in Colo
RADIO.
Washington's birthday was this year
a legal holiday in Iowa for the first
time
America contains 229,7 ,722 miles of rail
way and the rest of the world 2O4,231
miles.
Hard times multiply the enlistments
in the army, and most Of those who en-
list give absence of employment as the
influencing cause of their action.
The largest mule in the world was
bred in Missouri, is 10 hands 21a inches
high and weighs 1880 pounds. He has
been sent to London menagerie.
The town of Bethlehem, in Pennsyl-
yania, was named in 1741 by party of
Moravians, who assembled in a barn
V here the town is located to celebrate
Christmas.
The diminution in the number of
deaths on the great lakes, notwith-
standing the increase in the lake ma
rinc, is attributed to the efficiency of the
weather bureau.
It has recently been claimed that iron
ships fitted with electric plants suffer
rapid deterioration of their pipes hav-
ing direct connection with the sea, due
to electrolytic action.
The cooperative societies in what is
known as the Colne valley, district
starting about nine miles from Man
chester, England, are making an effort
to start wooden mill.
Public libraries spend vast sums of
money to make their collections com
plete. In the Boston public library is
a collection of works relating to Shake
speare which cost $4,000.
Harmsworth Brothers, proprietors of
the London Daily Mail, Evening News
and other publications, gave an order
for white paper the other day that
amounted in value to $780, 900.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
WHAT SHAVING COSTS.
A Statistical Fiend Who Has Figured
Il OF

statistical Fiend Who Has Figured
1t al OCt.
The statistician who had been busy
with his pencil looked up at the man
who hates figures and said:
Didn't have anything to do, and
thought I'd figure little. You know
that if l were cast on desert island
with bundle of lead pencils and plenty
of paper wouldn't care cent whether
sail hove in sight or not. saw that
you needed shave, and that set me to
thinking. Why do you shave, anyhow?
never do. Look here.
Wen suppose that you began shaw
ing at IS years of age and that you keep
it up until you are 20. That makes So
years. You have a heavy beard. Well
suppose that you shave twice week.
That costs Is cents shave, and you get
rid Of one-eighth of an inch of hair.
That will be a quarter of an inch a
week, or one inch month. To get rid
of that inch you pay $1.2o. An inch
month is IL inches year, costing you
$14.40.
"Now"-and the statistician drew a
long breath-"12 inches year for So
years is GA inches, or So feet. It will
cost you $748.eO to get that amount of
whiskers out of your system. Then sup
pose you give nickel tip every time to
the man.
But the fellow who hates figures had
fed. -@-.<..
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23

Orange in the morning or lose my job
The story went more smoothly as he
got along with it. You see,' he went
On, I'm a railroad man. was paid off
yesterday and came in to town last
night with my money. Well, the fact
is, I got to bucking the tiger and I lost
il all. IF I get to Orange this morning
in time to go to work again I'm all
right, but if don't I'll lose my place.
''That was an explanation of his
penniless condition that would have
caught a great many men and they
would have given up TO him. But it
made me suspicious. Somewhere I had
read or heard that gamblers never ger
nit man to go out of their places in
that condition if they know it. And if
he actually had lost his money in a
gambling house it was certain that the
gambler would have stalIed him to
enough to get home. So I hesitated
about giving him anything, and for lack
of something better TO say said again:
'How's that? ] don't understand
"He went over the whole story again
very gently and smoothly this time, and
put in a few little extra fourishes that
convinced me that he was a fakir. As
he talked he stepped a little in front of
me and noticed the badge of my college
fraternity which [ wore on my waist
coat. 'Ah!' said he, you belong to that
fraternity, eh? I was Psi y from Co
lumbia. He went on with a lot about
college fraternities that made me think
he had eaten a fraternity book. He
knew more about them than I had ever
heard, and I had had foremost place
in the rush line in my senior year He
seemed to be familiar with them all,
and he talked about them in very in
teresting fashion for nearly half an
hour before he got back to the subject
of the fare to Orange. Then said:
"'No, shall not give you any money,
because believe you are profession
al beggar. But you've got good game,
and you probably make good thing
out of it. However, I should advise
you to modify it a little. Gamblers,
you know, will always grubstake a man
who has gone broke in their places, so
that's weak point in your story. Patch
it up little, ard don't be so glib, and
you're all right for some time
"'I assure you,' he protested, that
[ never asked a man for money in my
life before [ saw you. [ realize that I
am not in a position to resent your in
suit, but want you to understand that
It is an insult ard tkat ycu have mis-
aiken me. 1 am actually in need of
that money to save my place, and if I
don't get it don't know what l shall
do; can send it back to you, and will
do SO gladly as soon as 1 get back to
my friends
"'No,' I said, and turned away; 4
don't believe you
"Well, that fellow met me three times
on the street after that, and each time
began his story. At last told him that
he was a fool as well as a beggar, be-
cause he couldn't remember the faces
of the men he addressed, whereas any
man would remember forever such
story as he told. Then he shifted his
ground. and I never saw him again"
The doctor laughed. 'Your expert
ence was something like one 7 had just
the other day, but it didn't result in the
same way. About six weeks ago a tall,
gray-haired, distinguished-look man
came into my Office and presented a
card which read:
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS.

Every City, Great and Small, Has a
Leader of Some Kind.
One who has Travelled pretty much
all around the globe, made q peculiar
observation at social gathering few
nights since. He had noted that every
city and almost every village had a
dominant attraction, no matter in what
part OF the globe the attraction was so
placed. He was somewhat surprised
that Cincinnati had nothing so far out
classed other attractions as to be the
first thing suggested as worth visit
lie was inclined to think that the sum
mer resorts would have been the thing
in the proper season, and then next
to these the Art museum.
"Now," he said, "if you go to London
the first thing is, have you seen Wind
sor or the tower? In Paris they say
have you seen the Moulin Rougue or
the Chat Noir? and neither is worth
seeing. In Texas, if you are in San
Antonio, they will say, have you seen
the Alamo? and in San Francisco, have
you seen the Golden gate?
''As you come east, if you stop in
Salt Lake City, they want to show you
the temple, and in St. Louis they take
you first to Shaw's garden. Then you're
through with that place unless they in
sist on showing you Simmons, the big
gest hardware house on the earth.
cat Chicago they ask you to visit the
stock yards, and finally ask you if you
are stopping at the Auditorium, Of
course, at Niagara it's the falls, and at
Buffalo it's the grain elevators, Once
L was in the valley of the Roanoke, in
Virginia, and a dozen times I was asked
ii 1 had seen the pear orchard of Mr.
Somebody, who has the largest peach
and pear orchard in the world.
SIN fact, 1 never was in place any
where in all my travels where there
wasn't an attraction of some kind,
though it may have been only factory
or q bit of natural scenery. Every
place has a leading attraction, and if
you are a visitor you are sure to be
made aware of the leading place to
t.'-Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
ANCIENT GLOVES.
Made CT Chicken Skin and Worn at
Night in the Sixteenth Century.

Made CT Chicken Skin end Worn at
Night in the Sixteenth Century.
The wearing of gloves is a more an
cient custom than it is generally
thought to be. Homer speaks of gloves
and tells of one who wore them to pro-
tect his hands while working in his gar
den, says the New York Tribune. The
use of some coverings for the hands
was known to the ancient Persians and
Old Testament writer's also mention
them. They were in such common use
among the Romans that they were worn
even in the wild country by the Britons.
st. Anne. the mother of the Virgin
Mary, was, it has been said. knitter
and manufacturer of gloves, for which
reason the glove-makers of France LONG
ago made her their patron saint. At
one time gloves had certain meaning
attached to them, and were chosen to
show the character or occupation of the
wearer. There are records of gloves
being ordered for grave and spirituai
men," About this time, the sixteenth
century, gloves made of chickens skins
were used by both men and women for
whitening the hands and were worn at
night.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Experiment with a sleeper.

Prof. Mosso, the Italian psychologist,
it could be accurately balanced in the
middle when the slightest change Of
weight would make either end incline.
A man was laid upon it, balanced in
horizontal position. AS he went to
sleep his head rose and his feet sank.
As he awol1e the opposite occurred,
proving that the blood left the head in
one condition and returned to it in the
other.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
rGouLiAa CHINESE CUSTOMS.
fhe Young Are Buried with Few Fu-
neral Rites.

HSFSsI RITES.
The customs of the Chinese in the
matter of death and burial are certain
~ peculiar. Infants are buried sum
maTily without cofiins, and the young
are inferred with few rites, but the fu-
herals OF the aged of both sexes are
elaborate in proportion to the number
OF the descendants and to their wealth.
When childless married man dies. his
WIDOW may perform all the duties Of
a son toward him, may remain in his
house, and may edopt children to rear
as ms heirs, and as woTshipPers of the
family names. If his widow purposes
marrying again, young male relative
may, with the consent of senior mem
bers of the elan, undertake the services
expected from son, and may inherit
fhe estate of the deceased When one
is about to die, he is removed from his
couch to a bench, or to mat on the
floor, because of belief that he who
dies in bed will carry the bedstead as
burden into the other world He is
washed in a new vessel, in warm water.
in which a bundle of incense sticks is
merged. After the washing the vessel
and the water are thrown away togeth-
er. He is then arrayed in full suit
of new clothing, that he may appear
at his best. He b~eathes his last in
the main room before the largest door
in the house, that the departing soul
may easily find its way out into the
air. A sheet of spirit money Drown
paper having patch Of gliding on one
surface) is laid over the upturned face,
because it is said that if the eyes are
left uncovered the corpse may count
the row of tiles in the roof, and that
in such case the family should never
build a more Spacious domicile.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
x1,.n Niopsra VIII No Longer Flow.

From discoveries in the history OF
Niagara it is found that the land is ris-
ing at the rate of IL to ~ feet CEN
turv in that district, more than two
feet northeast of Georgian bay, and
over four feet a century at the outlet of
Lake Ontario. This northeastward ele-
vation of the land is causing the waters
of the lakes to overflow the low country
about their southwestern eXtremities.
The inundation continuing, it is esti-
mated that in 600 or 700 years Lake Erie
will be on the same level as Lake Huron;
in 1000 or 1900 years all the upper
lakes will have two outlets, namely, by
way of Niagara river and also by way
of Chicago and the Mississippi. In 2,400
wears Niagara falls will no longer flow,
as bv that time the waters of the upper
lakes will be emptying into the Missis-
sippi and Gulf of Mexico. In 5000 years
the Niagara river and Lake Erie at
Buffalo will be drained. But the Chi
cago canal, which is now being built,
will greatly hasten the change of drain
age, but save the low country about
Chicago from being submerged.-Dr.
]. w. Spencer, at Canadian Institute.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
The Drink n Man needs.

An average man requires 50 ounces of
food per diem. He needs 81 ounces
of water for drinking, and in breathing
he absorbs so ounces of oxygen. He
eats as much water as he drinks, so
much of that fluid being contained in
various foods. In order to supply fuel
for running the body machine and
make up for waste tissue he ought
to swallow daily the equivalent of 20
ounces of bread, three ounces of po-
tatoes, one ounce of butter and one
quart of water. The body is mostly
water. The body of a man weighing
154 pounds contains o6 pounds, or 46
quarts, of water.-Chicag Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
ARAB WEAPONS.
Held in Great Reverence by Their
Owners.

Held in Great Reverence by Their
Owners.
Here in Muscat I saw the pure bred
Arab man, sinewy. but not tall, dom
ineering, staggering nCbieness in his
glance, and a brace OF daGgcrs in his
waist. When I recognized beautiful
haft or noticed q slender inlaid native
gun or singular shield, offered to buy.
But nothing could induce them TO SELL
"Sahib," said one man, II killed my
deadliest foe with this blade, right
through his black heart! You see this
dint in my shield? All! that dint was
caused by a spear. The shield saved my
life; shall ], then, sell it for money?
My gun? No, sahib! 1 an an Arab,
and my gun is my other self. Eow
could I be an Arab if had no gun?
This sword-it belonged to my grand
father It has killed 40 men. By Mo
hammed! it is true. These marks, sa-
hib-you see these marks-only one of
these marks is put there when a man
is killed" I offered three times the
value. The answer always was ''No,
sahib, will not; / cannot"
Everybody, from the frolicsome boy
Of eight to the tottering irlbecile of 80,
carried weapon. The old men had
rusty swords that reminded me of the
unwieldy, double-bladed monsters that
Richard Occur de Lion and his knights
swung in the face of the Saracens. These
Muscat swords are four feet six inches
long, the blades three inches wide, and
the handles provide room for both
fists to grasp. Law is an unknown
quantity in eastern Arabia,-Chambers
JO0rpoI
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
united states Mnu Protcctors.

The United States governmentisso is some
times served for years by valuable serv.
ants who are not even boarded at the
expense of the government. These
servants are cats. Rats are one of the
persistent dangers that threaten the
United States mail. They destroy the
bags and the mail matter. The post
office building in New York city is a
large building, and now many years
old. 1t is said that there are so cats in
the building cared for by the clerks.
Some of the cats have never lived any
where else; others have come in from
the neighborhood. The cats who have
known only this home are very shy of
strangers and will come only to the
clerks in the building. So you see that
the government is served without pay
by these faithful servants who prevent
the destruction by rats of valuable
property and all that is given them is
shelter.-Outlook.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Dotted Veil House.

A doctor has moved into a new house,
one of the finestin Washington. He calls
it the dotted veil house. When people
seem surprised he explains. This physi-
clan is a specialist. He devotes himself
to diseases of the eyes. The money to
build the mansion was accumulated
from fees which were earned in the
treatment of eyes injured by wearing
dotted wells. Not all of the profession
are so frank as this Washington oculist.
st. Louis obe-Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Some Millionaire Statistics.

Berlin boasts of 2,0O2 millionaires,
reckoned on the basis of incomes that
would represent a capital of 100000
marks-that is, $4,000 year. Only
1,103 of these, however, actually have
the $250,000 of capital; 78 have 100000
marks or over, and only five have the
20,00O,000 marks that would make them
millionaires in England.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Great Rabbit Catch

A cat owned by Mrs. Henry Hastings,
OF Poultney, VT, has captured 175 rab-
bits during its life, which have been
eaten by the family. The cat carries
the smaller animals home itself, but
leaves the larger ones for some mem
Der of the family to GO after.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Finders Arc Not keepers.

In the case of an individual who had
claimed a reward for the restitution OF
diamond ring which he had found,
Judge Finletter, of Philadelphia, rem
dered a decision to the effect that the
mere fact of finding the ring gave the
finder no lien upon the property. The
article had been lost; it's loss was adver-
tised, and to keep it was practically
larceny.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
One nnrcntt Declared Legal.

Lawyers in England have no legal
right to ''get their names in the paper"
according to a recent decision of JUS
tice Hawkins. The suit of Birming-
ham lawyer who had sued two newspa-
pers of that city for conspiracy in pur-
posely leaving out his name whenever
he tried cases was dismissed before it
went to the jury.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Now Comes an Automatic Doctor.

NOW Comes an AutOmatfc DocTOr.
One of the most remarkable develop
ments of the automatic machine is
DIR. Cureall" in Holland. 1t is a wood
en- figure with compartments all over
1T labeled with the names of various all
ments. If you have pain. find its cor
responding location on the figure,
drop coin into the slot, and the proper
pill or powder Will c lmc out.
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
British soldiers as Linguists.

British officers serving in Indian regi-
ments are now required to learn the
dialect of their men in addition to Hin
dustani. Pushtee, Punjabi, Hindi,
Khaskura, Tamil and Mahratti are
among the languages they must ac-
o1Jira
The Winslow mail., 1898-04-23
Orchids the World Over.

Orchids are found in almost ali parts
OF the world. except in extremely dry
climates and on the borders of the
frozen regions. Over 5000 species are
now known to botanigts.