Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-04

| half-peck measure, and is run by cleo
| tricity. I am told that a large number are
1 in use in confectionery establishments
| throughout the country, but the public sell
| dom has opportunity of seeing them In
| operation. A little hole in the center is
| filled with ordinary confectioners sugar;
| the power is then turned on, the machine
| begins to whirl, and from little holes on the
| outside of the llange strands of crystal as
| fine as cobwebs begin to pour out and coil
upon tray
Ingenious Machines.
There is another machine for making
caramels which is entirely automatic. The
chocolate or other material is mixed on
the outside, dumped into a kettle which
contains beater. and heated to the proper
degree When the time comes it is tipped
up little so that the liquid flows out and
finds its way into cooling cell surrounded
by ice water, and then. in long strings, 1t
is drawn under. gang of forty sharp
knives. which cut it into cubes of the size
des-red.
There are various other machines for the
use of confectioners and cooks. and some
OF them may be introduced with economy
into private houses. There is an automatic
dish washer which ought to be popular
where the lady of the house has to do her
own work, because it will wash up the din
ner dishes without making her put her
hands into the water. A nickle-plated wire
basket is lowered into tank of hot water,
and a lever agitates the dishes without
breaking them After the first washing the
basket is lifted and transferred to another
compartment in which they are rinsed.
There are all kinds of machines for peel
ing and cutting potatoes into fancy shapes.
and an automatic potato masher which
operates by electricity or steam. There Is
an egg boiler also, which may be useful
for dairy lunch room or similar institu-
lions in which eggs are consumed In large
quantities, but Is rather superhuous TOT
| private families. 1t is built on the plan OF
a grain elevator. Little wire baskets are
attached to band which passes over
pulley and moves automatically through a
tank of boiling water 1t can be regulated
for any speed. You put the eggs in the
little basket, as many as are needed, set
the thing going, and 1t will slowly. lower
them into the water and keep them there
two, three, four or five minutes, or even
longer if desired, and then hoist them out
when notified to do so.
Some Interesting Exhibits.
In the agricultural building the exhibits
made by William Jennings Bryan, farmer
residing in Lincoln, Neb., attract a great
deal of attention, and suggest the thought
that he is much more successful in raising
we than he is in running for President.
His samples of rye are by all means the
best in the building, and 1 understand that
the jury have voted to give him gold
medal. although somebody ought to tell
tnem Indt d silver Hieudl WOuid NC uiOiS
appropriate.
On the lawn outside of the agricultural
building is a map of the United states COW
ering five acres of ground, and made of SD
different species of plants.
In the varied industries building there Is
table with inlaid top, representing
map of the United States, made of forty
different kinds of wood.
The famous Liberty bell is hanging in
the Pennsylvania state building. and to the
public generally is one of the most inter-
esting of the many historical exhibits on
the ground.
In the German section of the mining
building is a collection of 500 600 worth of
amber, and it is a beautiful spectacle. Am
Der is petrifed gum, the resin on extinct
pine trees found only on the shores of the
Baltic sea- near Konigsberg, Germany. a
greater part of the deposit is under the
water where it has been buried in the sand
for ages, and after severe storms the ma
tives are able to collect considerable guam
titles among the driftwood along the beach,
In the forestry building is a tree 800 years
old.
Geronimo Making Money.
In the Indian camp living alone in an
ordinary canvas tent, is that murderous old
savage, Geronimo, chief of the Apaches,
who has given more trouble and has COM
mitted more murders and devastation along
the southwestern border than any other In
dian. For ten years he has been a prisoner
brought up here as an object of interest.
Thousands of people go to see him every
day, and the old man is picking up a good
deal of money. He is too dignified to beg,
but holds his hat in his hand in a sug
gestive way, and people drop nickels and
dimes and quarters into it, He is an in
offensive looking old rascal, but his record
bellies his face.
In the mining building Idaho presents u
nugget of silver weighing ten tons, and the
people of Birmingham, Ala. have sent a
colossal statue of Vulcan, which they claim
is the largest that was ever cast A horse
and wagon may be driven between its
feet. 1t stands ffty-six feet high, and
weighs 100000 pounds The face is seven
feet and half long, the back ten feet
broad, the chest twenty-five feet nine
inches in circumference. the waist eighteen
feet three inches in girth, and the neck
eleven feet six inches The arms are ten
to toe At the close of the exposition the
statue will be sent back to Birmingham,
where 1t is to be placed in the city PARK
A solar engine is exhibited by Portu-
guese priest. A concave mirror sixty by
one hundred feet in size concentrates the
rays or the sun SO to produce heat
equivalent to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit The
inventor claims that it may be easily util-
lied, but thus far 1t is only a curiosity
Boston firm has two solar engines of n
smaller type In operation in southern Cali
fornia, where they have been quite success
full.
SCHLEY AND MILES.
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