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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30
Aftermath of the Dog show,

One, consequence of the dog show
has been a. boom in all things pertain
ing to that animal. Canine designs are
found %obtrudlhg themselves, into pref
ty much everything that makes use of
designs from; papeterie to posters. ST.
rius itself shines more brightly now o.
nights. But most noticeable for the
past few days have been the little side
dog shows in evidence upon every va
riety of street corner. Uptown and
downtown, not TO speak of cross
town. they are to be; found. small coll
lecttons OF mot obviously .~aristocratic
animals for sale rather than on exhibit
tion, and in charge of rather NANCY
looking men, instead of THE we'll
'groOmed- handlers. But all; the, s;sgpe
,latton bench show spirit and enthll-
siasm is there. AT other times, if the
small shows were There. passers-by
would be likely. not to give them a
second glance, and 1t is almost certain
that they would not stop and discuss
the dogs In the way they now do. The
air resounds with technical terms; and
erudite expressions appertaining to.
dog lore. Whether anybody ever buys
one OF the animals that thus make a
bid for purchasing favor Is unknown
but there is no getting away from the.
amount Of attention they attract
among the dog-wise and yould-be log
wise, > In these dog days every dog has
his day. whether he be a bench SHOW
animal or otherwise. | -tso5
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

crate his walls. He keeps them hung
nip In .clusters..as some men have their
guns and pistols arranged with a view
TO proud display before their friends;
A few of-these date away back to the
time when Capt:tCobk landed N .he
coast of Australia and took possession
in the name of King George, for the
ssavages hand these things down rs
heirloOms just as !, Dur Revolutionary
heroes left us their muskets and Mill
tary coats by which to prove Il military
family"tree. 49,;
why is. it: so difficult to make 4
hoomerang?n :" said this connoisseur Of
the crooked stick. well, because it is
SO delicately balanced. that the feast
divergence from.the proper ahglesW1l
, alter. its course in the air and prevent
the perfect revolution which is neces-
sary to its flight when correctly
made, &, boomerang should balance eX-
actlX on. a knife blade at it's CENTER. If
it doesn't balance, some more whiting
must be done OIL the heavy end. ThaE
ems.,eas $ enopgh-to; whfttle-a nfie@e
of curved wood into a fiat shape so that
the ends balance exactlyt and if that
we're an there is!te4it; any boy could
make one, The. hard, part of it is to
cut the edges in such a way that they
will strike the air at a certain angle
in one part Of the curve and at another
in 'another.part,. and so on until every
line Of both edges contributes to the
perfect revolution of the weapon. Then,
when it is whirled, lit 'has two motions,
the rotary=one, which is a result of it's
shape. and the forward one, given it
in the throwing. It's IA pity that the
baseball players cannot get onto those,
black Fellows curves. A pitcher wbe
could do it would make his fortune
The quality of wood used has a
great deaf to do with the excellence of
a boomerang. The Australian btaws
wilttramp miles to find a branch'ofDt he
right shape and a wood of the proper
density. Gnarled trees are at a pre-
MUM there. and the heaviest wood is
the best. 0ur. lignum vitae corresponds
the nearest to the tree they like best.
The piece for the boomerang is. usual
ly seut wheresa branch. curves out from
the tree trunk. for. this is the most
natural crook in the trees formation.
Assthe branch IS bent, SO is the boom
erang fnelined. for its curve must fol-
lew%t the grain Of the wood. One never
sees any, erossrgrains on any of these.
:
&F1W t4aas
@hfnst mensift weighed would be found
wantipgTthe earth
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

thirty tongt The distinction of being
the thickest- skinned quiadruped be
longs to the&tndian ,hipoceros, whose
Hide has a knofty or formulated sur
face, ,and:is so. impenetrable as44o re-
sisL.the Clay s*ofsthe zion or. tiger, the
sword, orthe balls of The oldtfashioned;
muskEt, So stiff and hard iythisskin,.
that we're: il not di7itcI tbYcrreases or
folds the animal imprisoned. III its ar.
NOR could scarcely move u issaayan,,-
featured into leather of great strength
and durability and ttarseEand .shislds.
are madt:ef7it thatE.are-aBsoiutely proof
against darts or sword-strokes. Tbe
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES thafof
tire .rhippoeerds 9ewtd4oselS as. regards
thickness. When dried it is also used
fnr- shields. which re-highly. prlzed. by
he natives of Africa,
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kneads and Forms Loaf.

A machine, about as high and not so
broad as a man, is doing the work of
eight men at a bakery In Indianapolis.
Half Of its height is taken up by it's
legs. so that the working part of the
machine Is compact. A. the top Is a
trap door. opening downward. The
dough falls on this door and passes
through four sets of two rollers zach
placed at different distances apart.
When the dough leaves the last pair
it is one-eighth of an inch thick. and
has been thoroughly kneaded. 1t falls
on a piece of canvas attached to two
rollers. The rollers come together.
forming "A pocket with the canvas.
which forms the dough loaf-shape. and
when the rollers separate again the
dough is thrown out upon a table. Tha
operator, however, usually grass the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30
BAopIpE BOOM IN~LoNDoN.
Players Who Learn the Art for the
Money in 1t.

IfayeFs WnO AtaTh thC Hft ~ AZ
Money in 1t.
The bagpipe boom has again reach
ed London. 1t takes two pipers to do
the thing properly" remarked Miller
Outcalt to his guests at his 57th birth
day dinner recently. says the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. "One of these marches
up and down. you know, playing the
instrument. while another accompanies
him, handling a sheathed sword. The
bearing of both performers. Is, proud
and martial and Scotch. Anybody
could tell they were S~cotch-even q
Saxon infant in arms. An old gentle
man was recently SO pleased by the
aspect of n of these bagpipe couples
that he gave them each a shilling.
saying: Eth, man, do We prefer playing
the music o. the bonny hame land in
musty Lunnon streets to marching
across the heather wi the wind In your
teeth% The first Scotchman looked at
him in surprise. The second said, dis
gustedly: Watcher talkin' abart,
guv'nor? Me an my mite buyed this
ere arm argin' down in Shoreditch
when the bagpipe boom came IN. It's
a lot better'n shown a bloOmin' barrier
tryin' to sell oranges. Oh, the business
amt so bad, 'cept for the chilblines we
gets on our bloomin' knees. Me an
my mite do wish. though. when people
give lis coin they wouldn't go jawin' of
us in a furrin' langwidge.' But how
did you learn?' asked the astonished
Scotchman. ''Ow? Easy enough.
Yer just squeezes the old balloon an
let's 'er squeal 'erself sick and the sick
er she squeals 'erself the more the peo-
pie seem to loike it. But, blimey, give
lis another bob and We'll play annie
Lorrie."'"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30
DEADLY BOOMERANG.
A NEW YORKER WHO MAKES
AND THROWS 1T.
He Learned the Secret from Natives of
Australia the Antipodean Savages
Use sgThis strange Weap1n-rhey Are
ti
Dinicult to Make.

Civilized people, especially of the
English>speaking faces, pride them
selves upon their discoveries in cleo
tricity~ with which they now operate
guns of the great ships of war, and
they point with fear and trembling as
Well as satisfaction to the perfection Of
all sorts Of dynamite bombs and EEK
plosives which they may, on occasion,
use to kill people by the hundreds; but
with all their cleverness they have
never learned to make what a naked
savage a fashion out of a crooked
stick. 1t has been stated that there Is
nothing made Of wOOd which a Yankee
boy cannot copy, with the aid Of his
~Jack-knife, but the man who said that
mad probably never heard of a BOOM
erang. Horace Baker, who spent sew
eral years in Australia, and went
boomerang crazy" Is said to be the
nrst white nan who aver made boom
erangs that would go and he learned
TO- make them by almost living with
the savages and watching them as they
sat whiting away at a piece of wood
with their crude stone hatchets and
sharp shells. He makes them now,
when he has a little leisure from his
regular occupation of wood engraving,
but ordinarily he sits in his little New
York studio working over a microscope
as quietly as if he had never whirled a
kangaroo into eternity with one of
those bewitched pieces of deformed
wood. Besides those which he has
made himself. Mr.. Baker has the larg-
est collection of real Australian black
mans boomerangs in this country.
There are almost a hundred of them,
and a queer lot they are! Some of
them are haggled as if the savage had
used his teeth to- make them, yet as
true to the boomerang principle as the
perfectly carved specimens which dec
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30
CRAMPS OPINION OF WILHELM.

Most Progressive Monarch Who Has
: T. Reigped. SINCE Peter the Great
Charles H. Cramp, the great ship
: builder, in commenting ON the enter
prise OF foreign countries, is quoted in
the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying this
about Germany: 1.-THE magnificent en-
terprise of Germany at the present
time-covering almost every. branch of
'industry-1is an. example for the whole
world to gaze on with admiration, Her
manufactures, her y. commmerce, her
merchant marine and her navy; are
alike receiving an attention and en-
'-oouragement hat are developing them
rapidly into the most %stupendous mon
umentss of Industrial enterprise and
back of it all Is the young German EN-
peror, who is regarded as crazy by
half the people Of the world He Inlay
be crazy, erratie' or anything else they
like to call him, but / tell you that the
manner in which the Kaiser William
has stiffened the backbone Of Germany
since, his accession to the throne pro-
CldluiS uIul " NC tAC uuOSt pTORFeSSIEG
monarch who has reigned In Europe
since Peter. the Great. One Of his loft,
lest ideas Is TO make Germany para.
mount on the, seas. the result of which
Is the shipyards in Germany were nev,
er so busy as they are today; Germany
Is not only building vessels for her
own navy, and merchant marine, but
she IS ..nialing every effort to control
fhe ship9building industry of the world,
This size can never do, but eher, pluck
and enterprise are extraordinary in
this particular. She has her agents IN
every county theoretically seeking td
obtain contracts for war vessels. and in
her oveftures to Turkey she not only
offers to build 1t a new navy but tc
take its old navy and put it1thfough
repair by overhauling and underwriting
vessel" @' ~
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

A Wyoming stock raiser, dissatisfied
with his surroundings and in haste to
be rich, recently sold his land and
started for the Klondike. A few
months later a French mineralogist
discovered neal the despised ranch a
mine of cobalt, a rare and valuable
metal. The whole district promises to
become a new center of wealth. 1t
was upon land sold to enable the for
mer owner to start for the gold mines
of California, that the great oil wells
of Pennsylvania were afterward found;
and both these incidents %accentuate the
fact that we are continually within
reach OF important discoveries and
great opportunities, missing them by a
hairs breadth of impatience, failure
to observe or lack of preparation.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30
FROZEN WITH LIQUID AIR.
COMPRISING Everyday Atmosphere Re

COMPRISING Everyday Atmosphere Re-
suits In Peculiar Phehomena
Perhaps the most striking exhibition
or liquefied air and Its properties which
mas yet been made vas given by Prof.
Barker in his laboratory at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Jan. II. A
report was given In the Philadelphia
Ledger of the following day. The air
was liqueaed In, New York, two and a
hair gallons of it, being conveyed to
Philadelphia in a milk can thickly COW
cred with felt. In the process employ
ed for liquefying the air 1t Is compress
SEQ by a pressure of 1000 pounds and
cooled by passing through a copper coil
to normal temperature. 1t is discharg-
ed through a very minute opening.
lei 1t expands and It's temperature
rails, and. coming in contact with a
second coil. coois that and its con-
tanned air at 1000 pounds pressure.
This cooled air is discharged also up
on a third coll. also containing air at
n high pressure, and in this coll
the cold produced is so intense that the
air runs out in a liquid stream a quar-
ter of an inch or so in diameter. The
liquid air remains liquid, just DIS water
does, until Its temperature rises to the
boiling, point, and then, as the opera
ton OF evaporation requires heat for
its maintenance, the evaporation pro-
ceeds slowly or rapidly, according, to
the rate of heat supply. The intensely
low temperature must, of course, not
be forgotten. Ice dropped into the
liquid causes 1t to boil until the ice is
cooled. The boiling point at ordinary
atmospheric pressure 1871 degrees
centigrade or-320 degrees Fahrenheit.
AS the boiling point of nitrogen is
o than ten degrees below that of
oxygen, 1t is found that it bolts out
first, and by a careful control of the
evaporation the. liquid oxygen may be
retained separate; this process, there
fore. affords a Of obtaining oxy7
gen for the many purposes for which
1t is required in the arts. The refrig-
erative phenomena exhibited were nu7.
merous and interesting. An egg placed
in a tumbler Of the liquid caused it to
boil furiously. When the egg was
finally Cooked" or cooled to the tenn
perature Of the air it was taken out
and struck with a hammer, flying into
the finest fragments! Tin became as
brittle as glass, while copper and plat
mum were not affected in this way;
Mercury was frozen. so that it vas used
to4drfxe a nail.in.a board. Cotton sat
urated with the liquid oxygen exploded
and burned brilliantly,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

IL may be, as the Spaniard, who
wants to fight him says. that Sena-
tor Mason would not resent a slap in
the face, but We don't believe he would
turn the other cheek. There are de-
grees of courtesy to which a proud
and sensitive nature cannot submit
without a feeling of extreme regret
and humiliation. But there is a way
to find out. Has it. occurred to the
Spaniard that he might come north
and make the experiment?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

Some reformers at Washington have
brought3up the question of the deslra-
bility OF changing the metals out of
which tie minor coins Of the United
States are made. After some consider
alton Of, the matter the house commit
tee on coinage, weights and measures
has reported f%avorably a resolution au-
thorizing the secretary of the treasury
to make experiments to determine the
best materials for minor coinage and to
submit new designs for coins to con
gress. AS the result Of its deliberations
upon the subject, the committee has
reached the conclusion that the copper
eent is undesirable because it becomes
dingy and dirty and by eorrosion poi
sonous. and that the five-cent nickel,
three-quarters copper, should be dis.
placed because it is too soft.
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@ - /.
HARD ON THE. RICH.

(. .n~@. 5.-
Every sin makes it's own he'll.
Walking is learned by falling.
Owls have their orgies .>Mhjle, doves
f'slasEesncx 3!
an old tune.
Keeping your eye OF. Christ keeps it
off the @f6ad!t :
A lie is the devils attempt t~ese5aa.
terfeit the truth. isE.. =:
Conscience Ia wofaS1hat once had a
definition-obsolete.
Those who know when to speak
know when to be silent, *'s1S y
Don't cover your neglected duties
with the cloak of excuse. \ :
seThe,,man.-w who works for the Lord
kilxnsver-be ost1 of a Jos.
Fidelity in little thingsts one oftthe
surest tests of character Rah'ss Horn.
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Scraping the lining of a chimney I

Scraping the lining of a chimney to
get gold and silver is a form of min
ing which the books do not recognize.
but 1t may be profitable under certain
conditions. The chimney of the ASSAY
office In Wall street, New York, is
nearly two hundred feet high. A new
lining of fire brick has been put in it.
The old lining, over forty years old,
yieldedralmost fifteen hundred dollar
There were fifty-twc ounces of go.
and eight hundred and sixty ounces
of silver in the scrapings. Smoke which
has a market value through the de-
posits of precious metal it makes ought
to be treated with great respect.
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From the Philadelphia Press: A
prominent educator, talking to moth
ers, says that with all children there
are nascent periods-that is, there are
certain times when q child can learn
10 do things easier and better than at
others. The growth Of the brain is not
generally understood. There is. how
ever, an ebb and flow of interest. The
children apply themselves assiduously
for a time. then comes arrest. and edu.
Gators are now disputing whether to
vrge the child along or after the ebb
wait for the certain return of interest
in their work.
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have been discovered with this instru-
nAent, many of the new stellar systems
being large and brilliant, and therefore
OF the highest interest. Some of these
new stars are very close and are bare
ly separated in the great telescope,
while others are very unequal in
brightness and require the best atmos-
phere for ~effecting a good separation
Of the images. Curiously enough, 1t is
proved that the two inner planets, Mer-
curry and Venus, rotate on their axes
in the same time in which they revolve
in their orbits. -
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The Russian government has decided
to adopt the metric systems: The Unit
ed states and the British empire will
thus soon be the only important coun-
tries which have not adopted the deci-
mai system Of weights and measures.
An imperial commission has also been
appointed at st. Petersburg to con-
slider the best means of abandoning the
russian calendar in favor of that which
prevails in other parts of the civilized
world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

A novel flower has been fothd az tks
Isthmus of Tehuantepee.. at~has u fac.
nlty :pfx ohanglnsst'lts color during the
day, In the morning 1t is whitss &fKn2
the II Is at its zenith 1t is red and at
night. it is blue. The red, white and
blue flower grows on a tree about The
size of a guava tree, and only at noor
does fr.give out>any--perfnme.s
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Picture 'Way on,

way, pps.a," said Frances, yHa: vas
looking at the family albim,@ Surely
this isn't a picture@@o ,yo'u?" Yes" re-
piled papa, that is a picture 81 me;
taken when l was quite young. .
We'll" commented the little gfrl, lit
doesn't look as much like You as Sou
look now."-London Figaro
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30
Foreign Patents Ruled Ont.

A decision by the United States court
of appeals at st. Louis seems to estab-
fish as a principle Of law the fact that
a foreign manufacturer working under
a foreign patent and manufacturing an
article which has also been patented in
this country cannot import and sell in
this country the Article so patented,
the American patent giving to the
American patentee the exclusive right
to manufacture and sell here. :.it
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

The editor of the Voice. prohibition
paper, is as tickled as the daily news
paper that has a beat on its besotted
contemporary across the way. He
finds that Cornell is nearly as intemp-
crate as Yale.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

The radiator is a new glass globe
the lower part of which %refracts the
light from the burner downward, on
the same principle as the compound
lenses used for lighthouses. The ap-
~plication Of the dioptric principle,
which is universally adopted for con-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

There Is a plant in Jamaica called
the life plant, because it is almost i'm
possible to kill 1t or any portion of it.
When a leaf is cut off and hung up by
a string it sends out white. thread-like
roots, gathers moisture from the air
and begins to grow new leaves.
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+"~
Thick-Skinned Animals.

The whale. which belongs to the
mammalia, has a skin nowhere less
than seven inches, and in. many places
fully two feet in thickness. The skin
of the whale is the substance usually
known as blubber, and in a large spec
linen will weigh altogether more than
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

A TACT which has attracted no little
attention In astronomical circles Ia the
superiority exhibited by .the.4twenty-
four-inch telescope lens of the Lowell
observatory. at Flagstaff, Art, as COM.
pared with the greater Yerkes and5Idck
lenses. About 500 new double stars
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-30

Electric magnets capable, Of pickine
nip 4 .lead- pot-exceeding. five. tens: are
used by an illinois steel company IN
transfer steel beams or plates from one
part of hssifoBs to ffasprhere
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OPShg AAa hAaSSS
it in the pans on the table ready for
the wen. srf2e
Running at easy speed, the machine
will knead and mold thirty-four loaves
a minute. The dough is fed into the
machine by a chain carrier, on which
tin cups as large as a saucer, but Deep
er,. are fixed every. two. or three inches.
Each cup holds enough dough for n
loaf of bread. Just; as the cup reaches
the trap door it turns over "a pulley to
go back to the dough table and the
dough falls on the trap door. Two
men at the dough table I'LL the cups as
they pass, Only two machines have as
yet been made, and they are being
operated In Chicago and indianapolis
bakeries, owned by the inventor.
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Dear Charlie, if'I marry you, viii
you get up and make the. fires in the
morning.. -,
Darling girl, we will get married In
the summer Before wirter you will
get used to the idea of making the fires
yOurself."-Ghioago Record.
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Far away from the influence of civ
.ilized man. gesture language is still
.eXtant in Australia. Some of the tribes
possess such an excellent code that it
is almost as efficient as, the spoken
language. $50. ~
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Lavender water pisinf.ct,,,.

1t is not generally known that laven-
der water is one of the pleasantest of
disinfectants. 1t is said that, sprayed
through the rooms of a house situated
in n malarial district, it FORMS a Very
efficient protection against the disease.
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fSiIenced by the First shot.

: sAVhat made those. noisy, and loud
shouting men scatter and run SO sud
denly?" "~r
They were talking alSut wiping
Spain out, and somebody's bicycle tire
happened to eXbl0de in their midst
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SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES or Discov-
cry AND INVENTION.

How the Eyesight Tires-A New Life
Belt-Kneads and Forms Loaf-A
New Glass Globe - About Human
Magnets.
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The graduating class of the Pitts
burg college OF Pharmacy consisted OF
thirteen pharmacists and one pharma.
sister Pittsburg Chronicle.
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~naShEN
<~gs~+r"Sykseo s%o.irr.,.

Observation-Disclosures f. GoshenatN. s:Y.,
has a pure white squirrel which che
found in a tree he cut down. the other
CLAY, :.