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The Cook County herald., 1904-12-10

telligence in the eye and in the pose.
in the mobile nostril and active ear.
The size of the eye, the thinness of the
skin, the large, open, thin-edged nos
tril, the fine ear, and thin fine man
and foretop, are indications of fine
breeding, which, with good limbs and
muscular power, insures a consider
able degree of speed in the animal
The stupidity lazy. horse that drivers
call a "lunkhead" has dull eye,
usually a narrow forehead and con-
tracted poll. He is always a blunder-
er, forgets himself and stumbles on
smooth ground, gets himself and his
owner into difficulties and is generally
lazy. He needs constant care and
"atchtulness on the drivers part and
you had better let him alone.
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Holding His Tongue.

The man who speaks dozen tongues
when all is said and done,
The talKer cops some @ good things here,
things much to be desired;
The silent man cops sote these t;d% and more and
Oh, you can have life's good things
brought right to you if you will;
Throw out Your chest, put on a froWn,
and just keep still.
tongued' may fool folk for spell;
Some d5Sgo few may ma; II take him n, at his word
About himself for just while; but soon
he'll make a slip,
And he'll be nicely put away, knocked
Oh. you'll get money in the bank and
dollars in your till
If you'll put on a thoughtful look and
just keep still.
Full many men are dead and gone who
died for want of breath,
And many who while still on earth have
talked themselves to death;
More sharper than a serpent'S tooth is
mans own reckless tongue
When hung inside an open face and all
too loosely swung,
Close up your face and ope your ears
and drink in to your fill
This sage advice: Throw out your chest
and just keep still.
In public life's few lower rounds are
some who chew the rag
And SCI sGn e from nd deXy IN 9bn r. till night
Because they like the sound OF it; put
list = while. you'll find
The louder is the noise it. makes the
more it's filled with wind.
Be good and hush and you will get a
great reward, you will;
Throw out your chest and smile, or
frown-but just keep stl1l.
Houston Post
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ShoWman's Trick,

An amusing little game for boys and
girls, one which will produce mucn
laughter and fun, is explained here.
Let some boy of the party pretend to
De magician, claiming to be able to
snow each guest any animal he or she
wishes to see. The guests, all save
the boy acting the part of the magi-
clan, are invited to leave the parlor.
entering an adjoining room. A girl
assistant stands at the door connect
ing the two apartments, and calls ore
person at a time into the parlor, clos
ing the door securely again, so that
the as yet uninitiated may not see
the fate of their fellows
On entering the parlor the. boy or
girl is asked by the magician:
what animal do you wish most to
see?'
The person questioned names some
animal, maybe a monkey, whereupon
the magician says: "Close your eyes
lightly, please Then he quickly re-
moves small mirror from the inside
OF his coat, and, holding It in front OF
the subjects closed eyes, he com
mands: Behold the monkey CT
naming the animal, of course. asked
for. The boy or girl opens his or hel
eyes to gaze at his or her own image
and the laugh is indulged in It the
sofa ones expense.
Then victim No. ! is allowed to sill
down and enjoy seeing each guest ir
TURN sold IN the same ridiculous man
ner' and as the crowd of spectators
becomes larger the merrime1t be-
comes greater, for all the bows al.
girls present enjoy most keenly seeing
their friends turned into animals 81
the pleasure OF the magician.
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Why Cows Dislike Dous,

Why should a COW so hate a dog?
If only an innocent little poodle hap
pens into pasture with a cow you
will see a lowering of horns and a
stamping of feet that sends the poodle
scampering for place of safety. The
reason dates back for hundreds of
years to the time when all dogs were
wolves and all COWS were wild, shaggy
cattle almost as savage. There was a
constant warfare between them, and
the wild cattle, nearly every day, had
to 1lsc horns and hoofs to keep them
selves and their calves from being
eaten by the hungry wolves. Dogs
nave been for SO many hundreds Of
years the close friends Of men that
they have forgotten some of their nat
ural enemies, but the cattle have not,
as You can see almost any day in the
fields.
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New Process in Allows,

A Philadelphia man claims to have
overcome the difficulties besetting
those who have attempted to make
alloys of copper and iron, and to have
discovered process of alloying these
metals perfectly homogeneously. The
process consists of melting copper
with a mixture of oxide iron and
calcium carbide. Any oxide of iron,
either hematite or the black oxide,
can be used. A mixture of three
parts of oxide of iron and one part
calcium carbide is made, and, if it is
desired to obtain so per cent alloy
Of copper and iron, eighteen parts of
this mixture should be used to eight
parts copper. The copper is melted
in crucible and the mixture added,
a little at time, the bath being
stirred and the temperature raised
gradually. When the operation is
completed the alloy is found in ingots
of any other desired form. If an al
10y containing as much as IS per cent
Of iron is required the process is re-
versed, a bath of iron being substi-
tuted for the bath of copper and a
mixture of oxide of copper and cal
cium carbide being AIDED. The invent
or claims that, on account of the fact
one of the metals is presented to the
other in a nascent condition, a perfect
union is formed.
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COMBINED BARN AND. STABLE.
Roomy and Comfortable and compar
a ativeIy Inexpensixe.- ..L1.5 ...l j

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Roorny and Comfortable and compar-
B ativeiy Inexpensive. z.5 5
..}}5'G. M. H Please publish a plan for
a small barn and stable to contain the
following: Box stall, single horse stall,
COW stall, a room for two carriages
and sleigh, room for four tons Of hay,
coal bin, wood house and water closet.
I wish to join it by a hall to the house.
What quantity of shingles, lumber,
etc.; would be required to build it?
The accompanying plan provides
one horse stall, one COW stall, and box
stall, besides coal bin, wood house,
harness room, water closet and car
riage room. The loft above is large
enough to hold the hay required. The
door in the drive house can be made
to drive in at the end as shown or in
the side if desired.
The amount OF material required,
roughly estimated. would be as fol-
lows: Fourteen squares of shingles.
% pieces 2x6 or 3x5 for rafters, 1900
feet Of sheeting, 1900 feet of inch
weather boarding, 1,60o feet of 2x10
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Avoid the Loco Weed.

when I was in Montana last year."
writes John Burroughs, Il heard of a
weed called the loco weed, that made
horses crazy if they ate it. In a
magazine article published since I
wondered if the buffalo had learned
to avoid this weed. A western CORE
spondent now assures me, on what
appears to be good authority, that
buffalo do eschew this plant. A ranch
man in the panhandle of Texas has
crossed buffalo with polled Angus
the black cattle'-and he has found
that an animal with one-sixteenth buff
falo blood will not touch the loco
weed. If this is fact it is a very
interesting one. It shows how dis
eliminating wild creatures become in
the course of ages, and how this wis
dom becomes instinctive.'
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Baby an Accomplished Linguist.

6aoy an Accomplished lInguist.
Little Rejane Lea, who resides vita
her parents in York road, Lambeth,
is something of wonder child" She
speaks as many languages as she is
years of age.
Although not quite three, Rejane
prattles fluently in French, Italian and
English. In addition, the baby lin
guist has invented mixture of the
exclusively to her dolls.
Rejane was born in Cairo. Her
mother is French and her father Ital-
ian. She converses with both parents
in their native languages.
A few months ago Rejane was
brought to London and placed in the
care of nurse whose linguistic at
tainments are infexibly limited to
English.
Rejane is a dainty, sprightly little
miss with raven black tresses. She
explained last evening that *'it was
very dull having no one to converse
with. 1t got very lonely in time. Just
fancy nurse not being able to speak
either French or Italian, and she is
years and years older than I am!
Well, felt must speak to some one
or die! So l set to work and learned
English.''
When, in a few weeks, Reiare
reaches her third year, she is to begin
learning German. Afterward she will
be taught Arabic
Her father is an accomplished lin
guist, so Rejane's is evidently a case
of hereditary talent-I london Mail.
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ORIGIN or THE THERMOMETER.
Fahrenheit Said TO Have Copied From
s$s. Sir Isaac Newton. T.

Eahrenheit Said TO Have Copied From
s$ss Sir Isaac Newton. T. Il
According to Sir Samuel Wilkes,
Fahrenheit constructed his thermome-
ter from one made many years before
by Sir Isaac Newton. In the transac-
tions Of the Royal society for .1701
will be found the paper written by Sir
Isaac Newton, who was at that time
secretary to the society," says Sir
Samuel, "He invented an instrument
for measuring the degree of heat in
fluids by taking a tube and filing it
with linseed oil. On this he marked
the freezing point as zero by putting
the tube in ice, and in the same way
he marked the point when placed in
boiling water. The very awkward
scale which we now use is evidently
that of Newton, for the decimal sys-
tenn not being then in use, he took the
number -12 to denote the heat of the
body; this he found, and made it the
starting point of his scale both up
ward and downward.
ut was some time after this that,
for convenience's sake, the degrees
were divided into two, and thus the
body heat was "a above zero and boil
ing point So. When, many years after
ward, Fahrenheit made his instru-
ment and used mercury instead of
linseed oil, he again divided these de-
grees into four, so if the number be
multiplied accordingly we have PIP
for the boiling point and SO for the
body heat.
Fahrenheit, finding he could get
lower temperature than freezing, made
this point zero, which brought the
number Of Newton's to 80 of Fahren-
heit. In this way the thermometer
was constructed; awkward as the
scale is, yet it is historically interest
ing as having been made by our own
great philosopher and formed on the
basis of the heat of the human body"
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How Arrow Is Made and Shot.
to allow the bamboo pieces to hang
over the top of the bow so they will
not interfere with the arrows flight.
AS the arrow is discharged the bam-
boo pieces tail out behind it and the
velocity of the arrow causes the air
to rush into their open heads and
out again through the small holes
which gives very nearly the same ef-
feet as whistle. The stronger the
bow the more whistles will the arrow
be able to sustain in it's flight-with,
OF course, proportionately greater
amount of noise
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A Concrete Wall for Slidina Doors

"A Concrete Wall for Sliding Doors.
IN. w. McC.-In building concrete
walls would it be practicable to con-
struct them so as to allow the doors
and windows to be showed back into
them instead of swinging open?
r.
You could not ouild your walls so
as to have the doo5s and windows
slide back into them, unless they were
made thicker than ordinary walls for
barns. The writer has built concrete
walls under barns. and never built a
wall over one foot thick. BY building
a hollow wall for doors and windows
to slide into the space your molds
would take up would leave only =
thin wall on each side. Windows and
doors could be arranged to slide back
on the inside of the wall, s;Sz. s5..
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Tar and Gravel Roof.

P. A. L.-Could cheap and durable
roof covering be made with gravel and
some adhesive material? Would it
answer for flat roof? Where could
the material be procured? Would a
roof of cement plates be practicable?
Very fat roofs can be made Of
gravel, tar and felt paper. The sheath
ing for the roof should be matched
lumber, then tar paper should be put
on and laid the same as shingles, the
lower part of tar paper should be laid
IN coal tar for about ten inches up
and nailed down to the roof. The pa
per should lap over each layer, so
that when the roof is covered it will
be three ply. After the paper is laid
cover the roof with hot coal tar and
sift on gravel while tar is soft, so it
becomes imbedded in it. The coal tar
can be procured at any hardware
store. Cement plastering on wood
for roofs would not be a success, as
it would be sure to crack and not be
waterproof.
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A WhistIino Arrow.

Doubtless you've read about the
vlistlins bombs or whistling rockets
but did you ever hear or see a
whistling arrow?
It is very simple to construct one.
First procure a section of thin, light
bamboo; saw it into several pieces of
varying lengths, the longest about two
or three inches. Then cut a hole near
the end Of each one and plug the other
end with a piece of cork. The open
end is to be the head. Tie each to the
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-10
A BOYS CARD SKINNER.

There is something for the boys. It
does not make noise like the danger
GUS toy pistol, but it is more anus
ing and more interesting toy in every
way.
The illustration shows how the toy
is made There is slotted handle
on which is pivoted a slip Of wood
with a notch in the uper end. Around
the notch and the handle is sprung a
strong rubber band. On the lower end
of the wooden slip is short pin and
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Moves Pianos Without Jar.

Hoisting large and bulky articles
to the upper floors of building takes
skill and experience, and is seldom
attempted except by those acquainted
with the business. The method or
dinarily used is to put up a block
and tackle, which is always very cum
bersome and in which heavy timbers
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Getting Ready for Winter.

Al! nature is now getting ready for
the long, cold winter. The trees That
!eai early in the spring are protecting
the coming buds with down and wool,
inc plrds and beasts are putting on
their winter changes of plumage and
fur and even certain of the insects are
growing soft, warm coverings. Not
cnly is the fur of outdoor animals
growing longer and closer. but most
OF them are putting on underc]othing
or dense. short hairs growing among
the roots OF the longer fur. The beau
tiful cashmere shawls are made from
this inner wool on tho Goat.
Ovcrshces are worn by a large num-
Der CT birds. In the late fall fringes
OF sharp points grow on the toes of
the rutfled grouse, and the feathers on
the feet Of the ptarmjgan are much
broader and sitter than in summer,
and really act as snowshoes to keep
the feet from sinking into the soft
snow. At night. by the aid of these
feathers, these birds can scratch their
way into a drift and lie there well
sheltered, or dig deeply into the snow
for the wintergrcen and partridge ber-
ries that lie close 10 the warm earth.
Some Of the smaller animals also
wear srowshoes. The hairs grow SO
long and so stiff on the feet of some
of the rabbits that one Western spe-
cies is called the snowshoe rabbit
Fun Alive.
Fun Alive is a game played by any
number of persons with eight large
cards, called game cards." and forty
smaller forfeit cards." The game
cards are all blank except one, called
the "catch card,'' on which the words
Fun Alive" are printed in large let
ters. On each OF the forfeit cards a
forfeit is printed. The forfeit cards
are spread, face downward, in the
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middle Of the table, and tie game Is
begun by one players taking the
game cards, shufling them and pre-
senting them to his left-hand neigh
Dor, who draws one. If it be the catch
card, he must at once draw a forfeit
card, aEpd do as it directs. Then the
player who draws, shuffles the game
cards and presents them to his left
hand neighbor, and so on. When a
player draws a blank card he takes
no forfeit card, and the next one
draws at once. The game continues
thus as; long as the players choose.
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a slight cone.
To use the skinner, you stick the
card on the pin, and pull back and
suddenly release the slip. The card
swings around on the pin, strikes the
cone, is thereby lifted off the pin and
goes flying through the air to great
height or distance. A little practice
will enable you to skim the card 100
feet. ....:~.. ~-;s=, r@.s.
Study the illustration and you can
make the skinner yourself. :. ....s.z
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It is difficult to give an estimate OF
the cost Of the addition to the house,
as sufficient details are not given re-
garding the colstruction-wheth the
roof is a gable or just a lean-to. Esti-
mating on building ten by fourteen,
eight feet high, with a lean-to roof,
with walls sneeted on outside with
inch lumber, then paper, and weather.
boarded, the addition should cost
about fifty-seven dollars, including ma
son work.
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Kept Well Posted.

eyes, SIR" said the village grocer,
II take the big weeklies to keep track
of the worlds affairs and the big city
dailies to keep posted on what is go
ing on in this country"
But don't you take your home pa
per?" asked the drummer.
Nope" -
But you certainly ought to feel
interested in local AFFAIRS
"Oh, I know everything that goes
on. MY wife belongs to the woman's
club and three church societies, one
OF my daughters works in the millin-
cry shop and the other is in the de-
livery window at the postofi Z S..
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BujIdinu a Bedroom.

NJ. NJ wish to build a bedroom
about fourteen feet by ten, to the end
OF sitting room. 1t will be warmly
built of frame, and well, but not ex-
pensively finished. It will contain one
window and there will be no upstairs
over It. I would be very much pleased
to obtain from you an estimate of
what it would cost to- build it in this
county.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-10
First knowledge of Ice.

There is a small ice plant at Jeru-
salem which has been in operation for
three years. An oil engine Of three
horse power furnishes the power,
while the freezer is Of French manu-
facture. The sale of ice amounts to
700 pounds day, and the capacity of
the works is c1,400 pounds daily. The
demand is increasing among the in
habitants, who, until this plant was
established, had never seen ice. -.
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Proof of Fine Workmanship.

Mrs Mary L. Hull of East Fairfield,
VT, has in her possession spread for
a linen stand and a towel spun and
woven by her grandmother and great.
grandmother.
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Sunshine Soma.


Would you make some saddened heart
just a little lighter?
Just a little brighter?
Drop a word of hope and cheer,
Set the echoes ringing
WIN your notes of endless Joy,
AS YOU go a-singing
Would you smooth the rugged path
Down along life's highway?
Would you plant the rose Of love
In some lonely byway?
Just g! deed Of kindness done
Clears the path before us;
And the lilies Of Gods love
Bloom and blossom DER US.
Just little word of cheer
Lightens every duty;
Just a smile will often show
Faces wreathed in beauty.
Sprinkle sunshine as you go;
Comfort the distressing,
And your glad reward shall be
Heavens choicest blessing.
e. A. BrinninStool.
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You can case your we'll with con-
crete tile as you describe, but there
would be danger of the tile sinking in
the quicksand. if the sand is very bad.
Tile four inches thick would be suffi-
cient. 1t would require abo:it one-half
barrel of Portland cement for a tile
three feet long. Very fine screened
gravel will make a better tile with
less cement than if sand were used.
Sand may be used, but it will require
more cement in doing so.
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Cement Curbinq for Well.

S. D. MI am sinking we'll and
have come to running sand bottom
so that I cannot stone it up. Could
I make pipes of cement concrete and
put them down in sections? How
thick would they require to be and
how much cement would be needed,
provided the inside diameter we're
three feet?
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Horses Character.


The favorite pet for boys and girls
is a dog, but the most useful is a
horse, only it is more expensive to
keep and therefore city boys and girls
are debarred from this pleasure. But
if you should buy horse, big or little,
be sure you buy a good one shying,
kicking, biting horse is worse than
none.
The simplest plan is to buy a horse
you KNOW; horse you have seen
ridden and driven at least year. If
you don't know any horse you had
better get friend to buy one for you,
or, better still, learn how to~detect his
good and bad qualities.
A horses head Indicates his charac-
ter very much as mans does. Vice
is shown in the eyes and mouth; in
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Story of Deadhead Eruin.

AS a passenger train from. Cedar
Keys to Jacksonville was running at
a lively rate, some cattle on the track
caused the train to slacken speed
almost to a stop. When the ira
slowed up, to prevent running over
the COWS, a large black bear tr0tte,
leisurely out of the woods and climbed
upon the platform of the car to see,
probably, if there was anything of an
tatable nature aboard. He had got on
the front platform of the express car,
and, finding the door open, decided to
continue his search in the interior. In
side he found three nice strings of
fish, all of which he transferred to
his stomach. During the time the bear
was taking his lunch the baggagemas-
ter discovered him and notified the
conductor, and the two men coulI
think of nothing to do but start the
train. When the train started, the
swaying of the car shut the door,
and all thought an important capture
had been made. The bear soon be-
came tired of his ride, and looked
about for means of egress. Nothing
appeared so vulnerable to attack IS
the windows in the side of the car,
which were protected by iron rods
about a half inch in diameter. He
selected one of these and clawed the
woodwork about it very badly. He
then evidently caught three or four of
the iron bars with his paws, and, Civ
ing them a hug. broke and twisted
them off clean. His numbering body
was then forced through the aperature
and struck the ground like a rubber
ball. He turned two or three somer-
saults and ambled off into the woods.
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stall; D, box stall: E, coal bin: F. car
riage room: G. wood house; H, water
closet; I, harness room
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Good health and good sense are two
of life's greatest blessings. .1...@z#2
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inch joists, 900 feet of inch flooring
for upper floor, 500 feet of 2x4 scant-
ling for balloon frame. The lower
focr is not estimated, but should be
laid with concrete or made of earth,
especially in the wood house and drive
hOuSe