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SE TOO SMALL T OF THE EXECUTiVE N CONTEMPLATED. Ssity of Improvencnti-Objec a..u a Entirely New Struc MakeshiftN to Reucler the Ic Relic Safe. news that Congress is to take riously the subject of enlarging White House in Washington es not a day too soon, says the w ork Post. The need of soic elief has long b en plain, but o President since Harrison has moved in the matter. President Cleveland preferred to set up a home at a considerable distance from his office, so as to be sure of refuge where politicians and curiosity-seekers would have no excuse for intruding on his privacy. President McKinley, though using the White House for domestic as well as public purposes, finds it spacious enough for his small family, and has never encouraged1 proposals to enlarge it for his own comfort. But the question has ceased to be one of mere personal convenience. The great increase of executive busi ness has made necessary a correspond ing increase in the President's cleri cal force, and this, in its turn, means more furniture, more heavy books and files, and many more persons continually coming and. going. The lI timbers were evidenly not laid ith a view to such a strain, and I breaks have occurred from -gtain parts of the are relics of The maiu dent Ar ied into radition hidden in a beam under one of the rough which hundreds of sometimes pass in a day several years ago and had to inforced with metal plates and olts. An enterprising mechanic. who attached the cold-air box to the present heating apparatus, finding one of the masonry arches in the cel lar in his way, cut through it to save a deflection, thus muking it necessary to put in a less- satisfactory support after his trick had been discovered. It is an open secret in Washington 0 at the floors of the parlors and state corridors always have to be sus tained by rows of temporary wooden piers when the President holds his receptions, so great have the crowds become. These are a few of many facts which have come to public no tice, showing that some form of relief is not only desirable, but essential to the safety of human life and limb. Congress has had repeated warnings, but has alwvays preferred to spend the Government's money on other things, and treat the White House to a little more patching. If it, had hus banded the fortunes which it has 'n crior works of art and ~, and devoted a! ,ement of the Presi KANSAS'S WORST PRAIRIE FIRE, Thouitlesel Set by an Arm iy om er Who Ms: Since i:e-onec 'zamn::. 1\ The greatest prairi3 fire knon in Kansas waS in the year it0, and it was set by an officer of tihe" Uait States Governmlent. T his ofieer is now in Vashngti, and. diring the Spanish War, his naie was more fr. quently in the papers than any other. One day in 1t;6 he and a narty o: officers froml Fort hays were return ing fron a wild tarkey hunt in the cauons o. the Sail:x. The wind was bu"rin a hurricane. and when a stop was made o: the high prairie some I tean miles niorthi of Hays this olecer r deliberately touched a match to the dry, crisp grass in order to make a I spectaele. When the other oficers k saw what he was about to do they c made a desnerate eTort to stop hi i but the deed had been done and tie e red flnet were reeling across th, q prairie like a frightened autelope. c That fire swept from: where it had been started clear across Kansas into r what is now Oklaho:na. The streams t and roads oCered no obstacles to it whatever. While going foutl it had also turned to the east, and left a trail ot ruin across R:ce. teno, Kingman 1 Harper and other counties. Thou sauds of settlers were burned out, l osig their houses and their feed, their horses and cattle. t If the man who set that fire had been known to the settlers all the troops on the plains would not have t been enough to stay their vengeance. As it was, he suffered remorse boyonC t descriptio'i. When the officers at Hays would bring him papers tegling of the damlage done he wulld groan t and curse himtseif roundly. He left Ha.s for some other post in the fol loting year, and, so far as we know, his name was never connected with the gigantic prairie tire of 1S69.-Kau sas City Journal. CURIOUS FACTS. Tienna, Austria, has a 300-year-old < medical school. Not a single inIeetious disease is known in Greenland. Cairo. Egypt, has a citizeu who is said to weigh 570 pounds. One of the Buflao newspapers runs its entire plant by electricity furnished from Niagara Fais. A Sicilian advocate chargel with fraud was recently sentenced to 189 years' imprison:nent. It is assert-ed that one hundred mil 0lion peonle lived and died in America before Columbus's discovery. A woman died in London the other day from perforation of the heart, caused by a needie which had entered her ear four months ago. Near Grobogaua, .Java, there is a lake of boiiing mud about two miles in circumferenee. I?umense co:um~ns of steanming mud are constantly arising and descending. A retired Mississippi steambloat cap-. tain intends to make his will by talk i g into a phonograph, and having the iOMPRESSED AIRS USES. 'ARIED WORK WHICH IT IS BEINC MADE TO DO NOWADAYS. Inn ages Railroad Trains: Iandle.s iag ag; Rings Cathedral Chimes: Builds 7;rldge-: Makes Baskets; Gives Sham poo.: Dusts Carpets; Does It All Well. All are familiar with the uses of ompressed air in bicycle tires, in .oor brakes, in pneumatic mattresses, ud in the department store cash tube ystem, to mention a few modern ap lications, which. however, are novel o longer. But does every one know Lat baskets are now made by com ressed air, that statuary is chiselled y it, that carpets and furniture are leaned and dulted by it, that build- I 1gs are painted by it, and that a mod rn train service would be out of the uestion were it not for the practical i:iency of air under pressure? Out ide of the engineering world how :aiy people imagine the scope and le multitudinous uses of airtools and i:chinery in the building of bridges, a the carving out of tunnels, in al aost every branch of mining, in ship mnilding, etc.? A NECESSITY IN 1tAILnOADING. Riding on a modern, thoroughly :juipped railroad, did it ever occur o you that air is used to signal and teer the train andto work the brakes? hat the carpets, the cushions and he furniture of the coaches are cleaned nd dusted by pneumatic brushes; that he cars are painted by pneumatic aint-spraying machines, and, to aention the latest appliances, that he baggage is handled by air elevators, he bell rung by a pneumatic ringer? After eighteen years of costly and xtensive experimenting, the pneu iatic interlocking signal and ewitch vsteia has been made a success and a ixture at the leading terminal sta ions in this country. By its aid one uan now does the work that would )therwisc require the combined efforts )f six operators, and he does the work )etter, the chances of his making mis akes having ' een reduced to a mini ana. The system in use at the Bos :on Southern station in the larget ,nown. There are no fewer than 238 >neumatie switches in operation, leven trains may move simultaneous y into or out of the traiu shed, 148 emaphore signals are provided for the L0 possible routes presented in the switch system of that terminal. AIR AS A CLEANSER. Cleaning car cushions and carpets )y compressed air has lately been in :roduced. A pipe flattened at the end antil it is almost the shape of.a spade .s used. The air rushes through per 'orations at the thin, wide end, clean ng the material without touching it, t a much swifter rate, and much uore thoroughly than ordinary brooms >r brushes could. Besides, thew and tear consequent on be tnaterial is done away wit >f itself, a great savin~ a single pneumati' :an do more w three men com pers anil so on, all of which cuter intt the werk of modern construction, ac celerating production immensely,whilc improving the product. But if there 75 is any one tool that is more indispen-. sable than the rest it is the pneumatic hammer, which makes possible the various and difficult forms of riveting. It caiking and chiseling. This ham.mer ! ht consists of a cylinder in which a piston D reciprocates, delivering a continous hi series of blows against the end of the " die. The hammer is light and row- si erful. For small rivets it can he held n in the hand, but for heavier work it i:' supplied with a yoke support, and pi thus fitted it will drive and lit the W largest size rivets in use, which are i generally one-inch in diameter. Prob- l ably the hardest manual labor in ship ut and bridge building is riveting. Coin- ti bined with this is an amount oo tech- gi nical skill acquired only by long and of arduous apprenticeship, and vrrying R with the class of rivets driveu. In m addition the necessity for Ireavier is plating. doulings, etc., requires the 01 use of larger nd longer rivets, which Iit cannot be properly e!sed down by n hand. The pneumatie hammner is the P). practical device whicl ias enabled builders to surmount tLese a d other s" obstacles. The air tool al saves W money. xOLIA cN mz. th New York may know that in the chimes of St. Patrick's Catl dral on Fifth avenue, the city poss3sses one of the finest orchestras of t - kind in the world, but does ewv Y -k knowi that these bells are now run by com- d; pressed air? Nineteen btis the heaviest of which weighs bout six thousand pounds, the light st about three hundred pounds, con Litute the I set, which has been plac in the northern spire, 180 feet ahto e ground. h Electricity is the trigger, nc com pressed air the power in t is opera- a tion. The largest or liestr 'icne in 1 the world is that of t chu of 5t. p Germain L'Auxerrois : P , which t< set was finished in 1878- Leir con struction consumed fiftee' years, but ci they never ran saccessfall until last t year. There are forty-f ir bells in the set, which, it is said, wr be onera- ( ted by compressed air to -eicome vis- M itors to the Paris Expo-i n. b It might bore the lay -der to de scribe the new air-tiga system for t pumping artesian wells. e hundred P and one handy little iuv lions, such : as pneumatic track sand for loco- a motives, sand-blasting \ines for a rmoving the scale from a.s of all1 kinds, coal cutters, etc.; t there are ! a few things in the way "air novel- r ties" which are most' teresting. Take the work of b: t-making. Surely no one ever he of any of the old machines tnr; out "18 bushel bask + b : or 1800 baskets a co resse.l air basko'' ow doing air-brush, >e adopted or'on can d is but TlE PIANO ON ARCHEY ROAD, Author of --Mr. Donley" Writes of it! Agcacy as a Sec!al Factor: In the Ladies' Home Journal is pub- I ied tIe first of the "'Molly Dona te" sketches by the author of "Mr. >oley." It tells of 1"Molly Dona le's" ambition to b-ve a piano, for n Archey Road a iano is the one re and visible symbu of the achieve eut of social ambition. One may be, iry dacint p'ople' and not own a ano, but wne cannot be 'fine people' less one boasts of a dark m:thogauy x which takes more than half the tle parlor. and is only opened Sat day mornings. when _Miss O'Brien, e church organist. comes down to ye Mary Ann a lesson in the 'Child the 1tCinu'nt.' or on state occasions en the said Mary Ann provokes the arelh from 'Norma' out of its weird terior. At vther times it stands un eued. gloomy and forbidding under ; purple pail. with its great legs :illy en"I(a1ed inl puckered cambric lntaluons. It is not regarded as a ediuin for th'e expressio-n of music much as a landmiark of progress to ard wealth and culturo. 'The Mur r-v- o runs like fire down , road, and the~i 1 s have 'ar ed.' But w-hen th . 'pianny' conies t. -hen the rumllO of lost jobs and less culminiate in he wIthdrawal of hemoth en the ioulders of swear ; G:srmaiins. than is the day of trage The Murpl$s are down: HIopc es out with ' ' pia' jh'.-J)(" ' 1:pp ened in on the on>hues on Archey Itoad and imie ately joined the family discussion to whethr' Mr. Donahue should ty a piano for his daughter. "II'n," id IMr. Dooley. "I'm no musician, i' th' eight iv ne enjiyment is f'r to r a German band. consistin' iv a kle-oo an' a bass drum, playin' 'Lis n to th' Moekin-Bt''rd.' But, as ary here says, whin it comes to de din' quistions iv etiket, rm th' boy do it a ian ti' wurruld. F'r forty -ar l've ladled it out be th' pint anl' ar. to il' fashlnable society iv this ard, an' Dooley's etiket f'r man an' ist is known fr'n wan (nd iv th' )unthry to' th' other. An' I say this ye, MI:lahii, that its not on'y th' roper an' rale thing to have a pianny. lt seemI' tha:t Tim Clan''y. th' assist at foreman on th' North Side. an' [ortimer Casey, th assistant foreman :out Ii (hicago. hoth has wan it 1n't anny sure thing that whin tli ews gits out that ye're scrapil 'long -ithout wan ye won't lose yer job. et a pianny. Mahnchi, an' thank eaveu they didn't ask f'r a steam ilio pe."' Kharoua as a W!nter R:scrl. Egym~ will be the popular winter re >t of England tourists, but not just et. Locrd Kitchener's ideal is to have rapid railway service to Khartoum, e climate of which is said to be fiae. airo) has long been a favo.rite place in r.ch to escape the rigors oi an Eng itwinter, buthmn ~-iv i Mirs. Winslow's Soothir.g Syrup for ealidre teetbing,softens the gums, reducing inatn;a t:on, allays pain.cures wintd colic 25o a bottle After six year-'suffering I wascured by pi eos Cnre.--M ry Tio3-os. s9;' Ohio Ave Aleghauy, Pa.. .:t::h 19, 13894. 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