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SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES or Discov-
cry AND INVENTION.
A Bicycle with Third wheel for Use
on Railroad TraeEs--it Eliminates the
Mad Road Feature ~ Long Runs-A
Lamp worked ~ Air Pressuss,
For Lengthy Huns.

This invention seeks 10 provide a
simple attachment by which an or
binary bicycle can be used upon a rail-
road track. the bicycle running upon
one rail, means being provided where
by II IN held in position, says the scicn-
tihc American. Below the front wheel
Of the bicycle a frame Is suspended
from n t9rked brace fastened 10 the
bicycle frame and from a bar running
from the axis OF the front wheel on
the lower portion OF this suspended
frame rollers are iournalcd 70 engage
the track and the adjacent portion OF
the tire. Al the rear OF the wheel.
about midway OF its height. two addi-
tional rollers are journaled In the
forked brace already mentioned and
engage the bicycle tire for the purpose
OF relieving the lower rollers OF undue
strains. The axes Of these latter roll
ers are perpendicular 70 the periphery
Of the bicycle wheel.
Beneath the rear wheel OF the bioy-
Gle a somewhat similar arrangement
h employed. In this case the frame
carries but a single roller and Is sus-
pending IN position by supporting
brace attached 10 the bicycle frame
and by bar running from the bear
Ing OF the rear wheel. As IN the de-
vice used on the front wheel. 10 here
the roller engages the inner side OF the
rail and the adjacent portion OF the
wheel. In order to keep the bicycle
in position on It's track lateral frame
Is fastened TO the lower brace and ls
provided at ~ outer end with a fang
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seductive special sale. or 10 leave hls
once an hour or 30 earlier In order
that ne may bring her home lot OF
hamples'' She has had practical and
personal proof that Il IL through this
sort OF thing that business lnterests
are made 20 suffer. and she does not
propose 70 let this knowledge play her
ialse' a womans appreciation OF bust
ness ana business ways and means In
aurea domestic comfort: n conditions
warrant Il, Il benefits the business man
even more than II benefits the business
woman herself.
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innumerable hooks are attached. lie
catches boat loads Of suckers. which he
sells to chinamen, and Il Is said makes
good living lie starts at one side OF
the river and pulls up the wire cable as
ne slowly moves across. and takes the
hsh on the hooks as he comes 10 them.
II takes him long time 20 inspect the
line from one side OF the river TO the
other lie then returns. repeating enc
operation. and 80 on an day Some
times he makes a big haul. he has
been seen 20 take az many az a dozen
hsh within ten feet. lie has several
hundred hooks attached to the line.
and sucker must be alert 10 escape
the tolls. Portland Oregonlan.
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ed wheel running upon the rail oppo.
site that upon which the bicycle Is
mounted. The fiange OF this wheel Is
opposed 10 the hange devices on the
bicycle, 40 as TO keep the latter In po-
stiop on the track. The attachment
In Itself is lightly constructed. II can
be removed from a bicycle and easily
applied, and. moreover can be packed
In case carried on the bicycle. A
rider ~ thus enabled 20 use his wheel
not only on ordinary roads. but also
on railway tracks.
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BUSINESS WOMEN.
They Know the Trials of the Busy
Man,

They Know the Trials OF the Busy
Man.
Il has frequently been said that wo-
men In business omployments DO not
make as desirable wives as their sis
ters who have lived only domestic
lives. but a recent observer takes a
wholly different view OF the case, rays
the Anaconda Standard. lie holds
that the effect OF the woman In busi-
ness ls not 30 much TO the advantage
OF the woman as 20 the business man.
Such woman has more respect for
him. more regard. more sympathy. She
II altogether less likely voluntarily to
impose upon him or lnvoluntarlly 20
harass and worry him. She has been
there; she knows how II Is herself.
and this personal experience and
knowledge make her more ienlent and
conslderate Every woman wage-earn-
" worthy OF the name learns first.
last and all the time that success ls
attained by close attention ard single
mindedness. The woman who realizes
this must also realize that the same
rule holds good OF the business man. In
present capacity OF daughter and sis
ter, or In a future capacity as wife. she
Is certain 10 show such keen considera-
ton for the business members OF the
household as Is undreamed Of IN the
philosophy Of the other kind OF women.
There Is no danger OF her husband
being hesought 20 just stop on his way
downtown and attend some specially
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IRoNicAL iFs.

II a man has once failed he knows
how 10 enjoy subsequent success.
n Eat man is anxious 10 lose aesh
all he has 20 do Is shave himself
II a woman's face Is her fortune old
age Is pretty sure 70 bankrupt her.
II woman Is ever devoid OF mercy
it'a whHn she gets a mouse In a trap.
II y0i are ambitious 10 become a
prominent citizen locate IN a country
News.
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The Cuban soldiers refuse to work.
saying they arc soldiers. not laborer'.
That Kind OF pride is the moro absurd
In view of their rags and their de-
pendcnco on this government for food.
The American soldier is infinitely bet
ter on. but be b. not too proud 10 throw
up the intrcnchments and build the
bridges necessary 20 his own safety;
and So of the soldiers of every other
government Il Is a pity that these
men. whose uRcrlnFs have won tho
sympathy Of tho world. should prove
themselves 20 be- little better for any
practical purposes than no many over
grown children.
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According 10 New York dispatches
Internal Revenue Collector Treat Of
New York city has received number
OF important decisions. one Of which
will set AZ rest a professional differ
enco OF some weeks standing between
a number OF large banking houses and
the revenue officers. The question was
whether or not the acceptance OF .
draft accoptaneed by an order upon q
bank 20 pay the same should have a
2-cent stamp aflxed The collector rul-
ed that II should and many banks ae-
cepted this ruling. Some. however, dis
puted Il and have not required that ae-
ceptance be stamped. The commission
sT'a ruling IL aa follows: Drafts
drawa upon or issued by any bank,
trust company, or any person or per-
sons companies or corporations, re-
quirs a stamp, and n the acceptance ia
accompanied By an order 10 the bank
TO pay the same and charge 70 the
amount O. ae dFaWee. this accompany
Ing order requires a 2-cent stamp a. an
order for the payment OF money" The
following question was recently for
warded 10 the commissioner: where
a mortgage. executed IN duplicate. is
recorded IN various counties and states,
must a stamp be afhHsd 20 each mort
gage duplicate7" A dispatch Ia reply
says "A mortgage cannot be lawfully
recorded IN any county unless Il IL duly
stamped. therefore duplicate mort
cages must be stamped"
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A correspondent In Connecticut sends
an account Of his own experience with
savings bank deposit when a small
boy. IN March. isi7. he deposited i've
dollars Ia the New London savings
bank. and Ia July, isis. an equal mum
Nothing has been Withdrawn or De.
posted since that time. In 1876 the
amour, 10 his credit was .52lO. IN
1889 Il wac $3.50; IN isss Il had
reached s9l7O; In June. this year. the
original ten dollars has become tiS6Os
But where does the extra money come
from n is not the money added 10
the country's medium of exchange
Then Il follows that somebody Is being
soaked
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The American soldiers. according 10
the London Saturday Review. whipped
bis EnSliHh cousin because he shot
markedly better aud won astonishing
victories We could nave sworn that
that Was the very reason but. be-
yond that be Is generally a volunteer
and hghta a. he prays. We have the
Erandest standing army la the world.
for the reason that every citizen ia q
soldier and ready 20 act whenever
patriotism calls. And be supports hlm-
self AZ the same time that ho contrib
utss money 70 the expense u the Sow
eminent
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For some time the actions Of man
b. a small boat below the steel bridge
have attracted attention lie has been
out In the river even on the stormlest
days. apparently pulling something mp
from the river. The mystery has been
solved. The man is simply fishing.
lie has wlTo cable stretched from one
side OF the river TO the other, 10 which
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Tho expulsion Of Zola from 'hs lc-
gIon Of honor indicates that that body
IL rather legion Of corrupt men; and
u can less AFFORD 10 be without Zoa
than ho can affurd TO have anything TO
do with it
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According TO the Publishers Cigu-
lar the output Of novels ia Great Brit
ain during the lasl year was 2.077.
which is considered more than that OF
1896.
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Now " Spain would only leave that
Cuban debt out over night In the ylcln-
ity OF Santiago II could be readily dis
posed o. Tho Cubans would cany Il
on before morning. hooi. hide and tai
low.
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Ca.tI, nattIs.hln.

The new British battleshlp Implaca-
bic Is 10 cost over $1,000, 900. the iarg-
esq sum ever spent In the building OF a
man OF war The armor plates alone
will cost t750.OOO and the guns nearly
as much.
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MEANS DESTRUCTION.
SHELL FROM a MODERN To-
INCH GUN.

What n Shot fro,u our Uneie samuers
0reat Coast Defense Monsters Can no
90 An Encmy's ~hips when n Tits
1hem.
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Bicycle saddles are being made IN
Germany with the rear under portion
formed into leather pouch. vita he
Zap secured by snap buttons 10 pro.
vide a receptacle for tools.
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OUT MnrE.

Jones married my wife a month
after she accepted me-" Brown-"And
I married mine three days after she re-
fused me Puck
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cd q ia only me- -ssary TO give tho
pump az the side few sirokos and the
air Is released gradually from small
holes around the flame steady light
is maintained without ihe aid OF
chimney, but one 10 used as q proiec.
tlon.
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Lamp Worked by Air Pressure.

4 reading lamp, the flame OF which
Is maintained by an air pressure, has
been recently invented by a wissanom-
ing man. The principle Is much the
same as the hand torches used by
painters. when the lamp II FIRST light.
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u ls good 10 reflect that Spain viii
send no more soldiers over herr. u
costs 30 much TO send the survivors
back
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ln saying that he ls not ashamed 20
anything be nas said. Professor Nor,
ton shows a,acluslyely that be- Is sull
that kind OF man
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Bread aud Mlik DIET Cause. rhick II.ir.
Il Is said that rusties Who live ON a
bread and milk diet always have thick
hair 10 an advanced age. while peonio
WHO lunch and dine ON meat rarely
have thick hair after 49,
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man gets the last word In an or.
Eument with woman. but lt's because
che gives 10 90 him.
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Whenever a man falls In an under
taxing he attributes d 10 fatallsm.
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Some women attract attention sim
ply because they make no EFFORT 10 at
tract a.
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boarding houses are necessary evils
intended 10 convince bachelors that
they should have homes Of their own.
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But few people who are born fools
ever succeed In living II down.
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Nine times out of ten the man who IL
lei IN on the ground floor of scheme
lands in the cellar.
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There is nothing now under the sun
o. except spain's Introduction of barbed
wire as munltlon Of war.
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Lots of people are too conscientious
90 lie and yst manage 20 suppress tho
truth
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irs wise glri that is able % Analyzs
her own complexion.
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Rich bachelors never realize how we'll
on they we're until after marrying.
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In "A woman's novel tho arst should
be last aud the last hrst.
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Why don't Cupid use a bean-shooter
when he goes cunning Tor Boston
maldG2
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-01

Just how the Portland was lost, wheth-
er she drifted helpless from Cape Ann on
to the shores of Cape Cod, or whether the
Captain purposely put the vessel about
and struggled to get her into Province
town, will ever remain matter Of specu-
lation. The complete destruction OF the
vessel and the loss of all on board have
extinguished all hope of ever establishing
any theory. Even the spot where she
went down is not known. Out of the
gloom and above the roar of the mad bill
lows came to the ears of dwellers on Cape
Gods shore on Sunday morning the Shrek
of I. steamer 8 whistle. and that was all
there was to indicate that a steamer laden
with more than hundred helpless men
and women was drifting about awaiting
the terrible doom which could not be
avertei. She was not seen, and only
this one shrek of her whistIs-a last de-
spairing cry IS it were-was heard.
Probably it was soon after the whistle
was heard that she went down. The first
conclusive evidence that disaster had
occurred was the finding of a body on the
beach stripped of its clothing by the
waves. No one can adequately portray the
horrors OF that night as the steamer
buifeted by the waves in the darkness,
amidst the dismal bowling of the gale.
drifting on to her ruin. Perhaps when
morning came there was CLEAN of hope,
soon to be extinguishsd by the roar of tie
pillows on the Cape Cod shore. Helpless
and powerless the Inflated passengers ap-
preached their doom. Nothing could be
done. No boat could have lived moment
in such ssn. The crash came, above the
roar of the pillows rose for an instant
the shrieks of struggling men and women
and thsn the roar of the pillows was SUI
preme again, Out of the hundred and
fifty persons on board not a single one
is left to tell the tale of that terrible night
when hour after hour the steamer drifted
on to her destruction among tho re-
morseless pillows of the south shore of
Cape Cod.
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A LUCKY CAT.

Mr.. James f. Hunt the clerk of the i'll
fated steamer Portland who resides at a.
Vesper street is the owner of tortoise.
shell colored cat that was until few days
ago constant traveller with the crew of
the Portland.
Last May Mr.. Hunt carried the cat
aboard from his home. 1.-THE cat has been
q great favorite with the men and the
passengers. She had never left the
boat, till last Wednesday when the Port.
land was III this port she made her
disappearance. All traces of the cat were
lost until Thursday morning MIR. Hunts
wife saw her on the piazza of their
home awaiting admission. She was
indeed welcome visitor and seems per-
fectly at home.
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MRS. DIANA LEIGHTON

Frank B. leighton the exprasslnean
of Westbrook, fears for the safety of his
mother, Mrs. Diana Leighton, Free
street, Portland, who was expected home
on Sunday.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-01
ORA LEIGHTON.

Lebanon Commandery. knights of
Malta of Morrills, received telegram
yesterday morning stating that Ora
leighton Of West Falmouth, member of
the commandery in Portland, was on the
Por tland. Leighton was q young man, a
barber by trade, and worked in Portland
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-01

An enthusiastic expansionist minister
of New York says, speaking of the
Philippines;
In the conflict just closed between
barbarism and civilization, between
noral evil and Christianity, the issue was
settled by the man behind the gun and
by the God behind the man behind the
gun. -
When railway train runs into car
riage the carriage is knocked into splin-
tiers and the train is unframed. Every
body says this is the most natural result
in the world, and nobody ever dreamed
that there was anything supernatural
about it. Now our recent collision with
Spain was a good deal like collision
between an engine and carriage, only
ter is generally OCCIDENTAL. A great nation
Of almost boundless resources, with the
best OF ships, manned by the best Of men
encountered fifth rate power. whose
ships were badly armed and manned with
ill-trained crews. The fate befel ths
feeble power that overlook the carriage
in the railway collision. Spain was
crushed, while the United States was
barely scratched The result was exactly
in accordance with what everyb body an
ticipated, not excepting the Spaniards
There was nothing supernatural about 1t,
and nobody would ever have dreamed Of
alleging anything of the kind, had it not
been that there came time when reasons
were Waated for annexing to the United
States lot of savages. Then it began to
be discovered that the Almighty had got up
the war, han carried it on for us, had sunk
Montojos feet at Manila and Cervera's
fest at Santiago IN order that the Pailip-
ines d iea5 be- delivered into our hanas.
= rs psoplu who talk tails way do rot
Vi s. 5eldlg rs this but tbs IS
4ysu Itamoants to W. d.
ut make this kind of
Az / eere, but We feel certain that
Oh many more Of them do not care
q snap about the heather. but have laid
hold of it simply because they find it
stakes with certain class Of people
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-01
rae PRESSES STORY OF THE WRECK.

THE PREss's STORY OF THE WRECK
The PRESS publishes this morning q
graphic story of the disaster to the Port
land told by one of its own staff who
went out on the revenue cutter Woodbur,
from this port Monday night and reached
the scene of the disaster early Tu, sday
afternoon. He returned by train to Bos
ton yesterday and reached this city at
eight o'clock last evening. He speni
twelve hours at the scene of tina wreck,
questioned all the people who had any
knowledge on the subject, saw the
bodies that had been recovered up to the
time he left and identified some of them.
His is the first comprehensive report OF
this terrible disaster and throws much
additional light upon it.
1t appears from his report that the pre-
vailing opinion of the men at the Cape
competent to Judge, is that the vessel did
not go ashore, as has been inferred from
the fragmentary reports that have been
sent out. but foundered and sunk with
ell on board. Strong corroboration of this
view lies in the fact that none of the ves-
sells hull timbers have come ashore, as
would have been the case if the vessel had
struck and broken up. while her upper
works. made.of light material, strew the
beach for miles, Indicating that they were
torn from the hull by the continual heavy
seas that washed over her, and that then
the ship filed and went to the bottom
with all on board. The fact that tAe
wheel was found with lashings on IT
shows that tho pilots had left the wheel
to devote themselves perhaps to an at
tempt to launch the boats or take other
means TO try TO save the passengers.
As to the way the vessel happened to be
where she went down the opinion Of our
representative fortified by the experts OF
the cutter and at the cape, is that it was
| impossible TO keep the steamer up In the
wind and that she gradually drifted back,
the sea pounding her as she went until
her upper works were torn from her hull,
when abe quickly filed and sank.
1t will be some comfort to the relatives
of those who were lost to know that
everything possible is being done for the
recovery and preservation of the bodies
as they drift on shore.
Explicit directions are given in the re-
port in regard to the manner of commu-
nicating with the doctor in charge at the
scene of the wreck and the means that
should be Furnished him for the purpose
of identifying the bodies as they are
washed ashore
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-01
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comes 80 soon to this tragic end.
If men would only take the most COM
mon sense precautions against the en-
croachments of ill-health, there would be
fewer houses Of mourning, and fewer
women left alone almost helpless before
the battle of life Is half over. A mans
liver and stomach are twin machines that
work together, either to make or unmake.
If they work wrong, they deplete and
poison his blood Impure and impover-
ishcd blood mean sickness and death. If
they work right they purify and enrich
the blood. A man whose blood is rich and
pure, and whose liver is active cannot well
be unhealthy. Headaches, biliousness, IN
digestion and costiveness, which men gen
orally disregard, are Natures warnings
that the twin mechanism, stomach ana
liver, IS working against instead OF TOT
him. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry is the best medicine to use under these
circumstances. 1t creates appetite, cor
reefs all disorders of the digestion, invigor-
ates the liver and fills the arteries with
rich, red, healthy blood. AS an invigorat-
ing, restorative tonic, it Is far superior to
ali the malt extracts It is the great blood
maker and flesh builder. It does not build
sickly, fabby fat as cod liver oil does, but
the firm, muscular tissues of health.
For the last nine years. writes William
Miller Esq, of 651 Mulberry Street, Reading
Pa, al have been very poor in health I sui.
fered with q running. sore leg. I tried many
out relief. Then used three bottles of Golden
Medical Discovery and can say that am en-
tirely cured. lean now do as good davis work
as the next man,
Unfailable DIR. Pierce's Pleaoant Pellets
for constipation and biliorsness.