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"Al the indications are that the coming
Washingtons birthday will be fair day,
ventured weather expert to a Star re-
porter. though it is liable to be extremely
windy. ard if the soldier boys decide upon
a parade on the afternoon of that day they
will have rather a lively time as far as the
wind is concerned. but otherwise salts
factory day There will be a strong wind
on the following day also. which Will very
probably be followed by snow. This is the
year thar the 4th of March weather will
be pleasant not unlike Cleveland's first in
auguration day. which, as many will re-
member. was deiigh full as far as the
weather was concerned. on the I'D OF
February the strong wind will hardly come
up before the afternoon. so that if there is
a parade in the morning the wind will not
interfere with it much. l don't think there
is much risk in venturing a prediction for a
fair. though, as | said. before. rather a
breezy day. All the indications and tie
weather circumstances are positive in that
direction. In other words, my calcula tion
Is based to a good extent on the cycle the
Ory. which / have found to be correct in
numberiess Instances As the I'D of Feb
ruary is TO be a public holiday. there is
necessarily some anxiety as far as the
weather * concerned. and 1t is to relieve
this anxiety rather than, to figure as a
of my calculations -
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Raising the left arm as high as you can
will relieve choking much more rapidly
than by being thumped in the back" ex-
planned a NeIl-knOwn resident of George
town to q Star reporter. And it is We'll
that every enc should krow il, for often Il
person gets choked while eating when there
is no one near to thump him. Very fire.
quently at meals and when they are at
play children get choked while eating. and
the customary manLer of relieving them is
to slap them sharply in the back. The eff
feet of this is TO set the obstruction free.
Eo that ii can be swallowed The same
thing can be brought about by raising the
left hand OF the child as high possible,
and the relief comes much more rapidly. In
happenings of this kind there should be no
alarm, for If a child sees that older persons
Or parents get excited they are very fable
TO get so also. The best thing is to tell the
child to ra.se its left arm. and Immediately
the difficulty passes down"
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1T is wonderful how many persons got
their first ideas of what afterward proved
to be valuable inventions while asleep or
dreaming observed a patent office exam
iner to a Star reporter. Others after
working for weeks or months on an in
vention during their waking hours have
had the whole thing come clear to them
during a dream. On the other hand / have
known of inventors to see in their dreams
the imDracticability Of their inventions on
which they had obtained patents and to
Change them so that they would be practi-
eal- In Withdrawing their applications for
amendment oI Improvement there are
numbers of instances where inventors a5-
NIT that they got the better idea during a
dream Some Of the most successful mon
ey-makIng patents were in this way dream
ed, rather than worked out. 1t may be
that the ordinary inventor is more of
dreamer than anything else. Certain il is
thdI nlne-tenthS of the patents issued do
not pay enough to pay even their own ex-
penSeS, and there is not one in a thous-
and that pays anything like big money to
the inventor or any one else. There are a
very large number of instances where in
NentorS have been granted all the way
from i've TO forty patents. not one of which
has paid its expenses or is ever likely to do
50 Like in everything else. there seems
to be less necessity or opportunity for in
NenuOns as time passes along though there
Is as much room and sale for good things
IN this line as there ever was. Capital Is
always ready 70 pick up and advance a
Va liable invention, though il takes but
little stock in any invention unless there Is
something more solid about 1t than a
dream The mere fact that the dream is
indorsed by the official patent plays no
part with ii. unless the patent itself is of
value. Capital don't invest much in dreams
Of any kind
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quite variety of musical instruments.
such as mandolins. guitars banjos, vioIins
and drums, are now made out Of alumni
mum. said a manufacturer of musical in
struments to Star reporter recently The
advantages that this metal has over wood
nv ~rciuY IL
periority of tone Some of the mandoIIns
are made with the body, including the top,
entirely OF alurinum: others with the top
of spruce. the neck OF maple and the other
fittings of the usual kind. Such a uando-
lin Is sold at from SO to 500. The prices
for maudolins made entirely Of aluminium
range some what lower.
Guitars with a spruce top and the back
and sides cf aluminium in single piece are
sold at from ST. to $50 Banjos are made
with aluminium rims, fitted with heads Of
the usual kind. and they are also made with
aluminium heads. Such banjo. with wire
strings, could he played ii the rain vii hout
getting out of tune or being burt by the
weather.
The aluminium violin that is now upon
the market is in its body all aluminium
while the neck and other fittings are All
OF wood. All the aluminium instrunep IS
are handsome. and the aluminium fiddle.
with It's silver-gray body and finger board
and tail piece of ebony. is Of great beauty
II Is a costly instrument. ranging In price
from S-D to $10U.
Kettle and bass drums made with alu-
minum sides and heads are much lighter
and sound better than the old-fashioned in
Strune1ts made of brass, with wooden
heads Aluminium drums are iii great de-
mani, and are worth from $50 to $3.50 ac-
COrdiEs to The size
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Talking about patience observed a
prominent resident of Nantucket to a Star
reporter recently, there is living in my
town an old couple named AIR and Mrs.
Charies H. Chase, who are striking ex-
amples of fortitude and resignation upder
the most trying OF al Observation-Disclosures
Although the husband has passed three
score years and ten and his wife has nsar-