The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, August 24, 1894, Image 4
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
STBONOE3T AT TBX BOTTOM.
, ^hen yon are pouring tea that ia
made properly—by pouring boiling
water on the leaves in the heated tea
pot—remember that the strongest liq
uid is at the bottom of the pot and gov
ern yourself accordingly. It ia best, if
you have half a dozen cups to fill, to
pour just a little in each one, filling the
last one quite full, then returning fill
the next one and so on; you.Trill then
serve all alike. If you pour each one
full os you go the first one served will
get slop and the last one lye. Neither
ia palatable. The Japanese under
stand this better than we do, and both
they and the Chinese serve tea by put
ting a few grains in each cup and
pouring the boiling water on that.
Then each guest gets a cap of good
tea.—New York Journal.
WASHKO AXD CLSAXISO 0LOTOS.
The so-called washing gloves are an
excellent choice for utility purposes
all summer, as they can be cleaned
once and again by washing them in
water that is more than warm, but not
scalding hot, using a piece of pure
white soap in the process. It is best
to wash them upon the hands, as the
chamois is less likely to shrink in dry
ing. Wash and then rinse in clear
water and dry by rubbing with a
Turkish or other soft, rough towel.
For kid gloves of light color that are
but slightly soiled, but not stained,
there is no better mode ot freshening
than to wind a bit of oilefi silk around
the finger, rubbing vigorously to re
move all traces of the mark. Any
woman who tests this easy way of
cleaning kid gloves will be sure to
keep thereafter a strip of silk in her
possession. A quarter or even an
eighth of a yard is enough to purchase
at once, as in fancy drygoods houses,
where it is sold, it is kept moist in a
large roll and is thus very pliable.
Moisten the silk, however, when using.
—Brooklyn Citizen.
QUICK DliYINU F0H BILKS.
Quick drying is the best method for
silk garments. An authority on this
subject says: “Keep on hand a dozen
bits of steel on inch and a quarter
nquare and eighteen inches long. Ex
actly midway screw in a good-sized
hook. In use, hang a shirt or pair of
drawers over a strip, and button the
neck or waistband, then catch the
hook over your line. Pull the gar
ment in shape, and i save it to dry.
The hooks need r.ot be more than six
inches apart on the line, thus enabling
you to dry half a dozen garments in
less sj ace than is otherwise required
for one. Also, by the use of these
strip:, and hooks, it is possible to dry
each garment in shape and to avoid
the wrinkles that it is next to impos
sible to iron out of wool or silk with
out injury to the fabric. White silk
underwear needs just the same treat
ment, with the addition of bluing and
a little liquid gum arabio to the last
rinsing water.”—New York World.
PBOTBCTIOX AGAINST MOTHS.
The fumes of burning camphor
gum tr sulphur will suffocate moth
millers. It is a very disagreeable oper
ation, but is so effective that any
room where they are known to be
should be fumigated at once. To do
this with entire success remove the
contents of trunks and wardrobes >nd
hang on the backs of chairs; close
doors and windows; set a pailful of
water in the middle of the room at a
safe distance from all the hangings
and furniture; in this place ' small
iron pot half filled with a: m and
camphor; for a room fifteen ' light-
een use a piece as large as ’.alnut;
saturate with alcohol and set the cam
phor on fire. It will burn fiercely at
first, but if proper precautions are
observed there is no danger; leave the
room as soon as you are satisfied that
your furniture is in no danger of tak
ing fire; allow the mass to burn itself
out, which it will do in half an hour;
open the windows and doors for an
hour. Moths prefer soiled to clean
garments. The first step toward the
safety of garments before putting
them away is to turn the pockets in
side out, beat all dust, saturate and
clean with benzine if necessary. Allow
the clothes to hang in the sunlight for
several hours. Moths hate the light.
Thev work in the dark. Bags of var
ious sizes made ot ceersuckcr and
stitched with double seams are safer
recepticles of clothing than trunks,
and are fully equal to expensive cedar
chests.—Philadelphia Record.
RECITES.
Hessian Sauce—Put four tablespoon
fuls of freshly grated horseradish into
a bowl with four of fine, fresh bread
crumbs, one of sugar and a little salt;
mix well and dilute with a gill of sour
cream.
Turnip Slaw—Pare and slice two
medium turnips. Leave them stand
ing in cold water over night. Drain
and chop very fine. Dress with salt,
pepper and vinegar, adding oil, if it
ie liked.
Chocolate Ice Cream—Put half the
cream, the sugar, and four ounces of
grated chocolate on to boil. When
dissolved and smooth strain through
fine muslin, add the rest of the cream,
and cool and freeze.
Cnstard Pie—Mix two enps of milk,
two well-beaten eggs and two table-
spoonfuls of sugar together. Line a
pie plate with crust, pour ia the
mixtate, grate a little nutmeg over
the top, and bake in a quick oven
until the custard sets.
Apple Custard Pi 3—Beat the yolks
of one egg and half a cup ot sugar
until very light, then stir in one oup-
fnl of apple sauce; flavor with lemon
extract. Bake with one crust in a
qmok oven. Make a meringue of the
whites of the eggs and brown slightly.
Cream Salad—Chop fine one-half
head of cabbage, mix thoroughly with
one-half cupful of sweet cream and
one-quarter teaspoonful of salt; into
one-half cupful vinegar stir one beaten
egg, one teaspoonful of sugar and one-
half teaspoonful of made mustard;
pour this while very hot over the cab
bage and serve immediately.
Cherry .Cups—Stir together and sift
a pint of flour and two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, making it into a
soft dough with water. Having
buttered some large enps, drop into
each a little dough for a foundation,
then a UblespoonftU of stoned cherries,
covering with dough to half fill the
oups. Place them in a pan of hot
water. Set that in the oven, cover it
and steam for half an boor. Cherry
sauce or sweet cream may be used as a
dreeeing. ^
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The newest soienao is seismology,
the study of earthquakes.
The bed of the ocean is supposed to
be of mountainous formation.
The application of electricity to the
smelting of iron is being experimented
with in Sweden.
It is asserted that in ninety-nine
out of 100 the loft aide of the face is
the more perfect in outline.
The number of telephonic stations
in Germany, which was 1501 in 1831,
had increased at the beginning of the
present year to 63,558.
A bullet from one ot the new rifiea
in use in the Italian army will pene
trate five inches of solid ash at a dis
tance of three-quarters of a mile.
The German Government has decid
ed to paint their topedo boats bluish-
gray, this color being, they consider,
the least visible under the electric
light.
Annealed glass has not yet come in
any practical form, but an advance has
been made recently in making sheets
of glass with fine wire threaded
through them, so that in ease of break
age the parts will hang together.
In Germany they have been analyz
ing and experimenting with dust
swept from the floors, seats aud walls
of the railway coaches.- One hundred
aud seventeen animals were inoculated
with this dust; many died of various
contagious diseases, three of marked
tuberculosis.
The average weight of the brain of
an adult mala is three pounds eight
ounces; of a female, two pounds four
ounces. The nerves are alt connected
with it directly or by the spinal mar
row. These nerves with their blanches
and minute ramifications probably
exceed 10,090,000 in number.
Dr. Bembo, of St. Petersburg, Rus
sia, advocates cutting the large blood
vessels of the neok as the most hn-
maue mode of slaughtering animals.
When this is done unconsciousness sets
in in a few seconds, and the move
ments observed are due to cerebral
auiemia. Moreover, the flesh of ani
mals which have been blel to death
keeps best.
Pasteur, the French scientist, has
shown that all fruits and vegetables
when undergoing even partial decay
contain bacteria, which, if taken into
the stomach, may cause disease. Frql|
grown near to the ground may contain
the bacteria of typhoid fever, tetanus,
diphtheria or cholera, which may have
fotmd their way into the material
used for fertilizing, or may have be
come incorporated with the dried
dust. Hence one should never neglect
to cleanse fruit. Especial care should
be taken with imported or shipped
fruit—more particularly that from
districts where there are infectious
diseases.
It Came Back to “Loving Tom.”
“Do yon know,” said Mr. Man to
his friend the other evening at the
roof garden, “that the boys at the
clnb have a merry and most distressing
‘find’ on me. I suppose it’s one of the
inevitable consequences of renonnoing
bachelorhood that a man lays himself
open to attack from the most unsus
pected quarters.
“Now, loyal citizen ns I am, I have
received a bitter blow from the United
States Government. It stabbed me,
using the Dead Letter Office as a dag
ger. It waslike this: Just a month ago
nt the clnb I wrote a letter to the girl
I am going to marry. I had told only
one or two of my intimate friends of
the engagement, and we a aren’t going
to announce it until fall. Well, as I
was saying, I wrote to Alice Jevons
that day at the club, and told her how
fond 1 was of her. I loved her very
hard that day, and I used some strong
expressions: I suppose my heart ran
away with my pen, so to speak.
“To make a short story a little long
er, I sat down by the window to di
rect the envelope. I got to gazing oat
on the fleecy clouds floating across the
blue depths of the sky, and thinking
about her, as a man does, you know.
Well, I suppose 1 directed the letter
wrong. It never reached her. In
stead of that, a mouth later, came a
nasty-looking official envelope ad
dressed to'Loving Tom,’ in eare of
the club. The postollicepeople hadn’t
been able to find tbo girl, so they tried
to send the drivel back to the one
who wrote it. and their only clew wag
the signature and the engraved letter
head.
“Well, nobody at the clnb could
fancy who‘Loving Tom’ was, go the
Bouse Committeee opened the envel
ope. The first thing they caw was
'Dearest Alice,’ and the first sentenoe
was absolute insanity. Then they
recognized my writing and forebore
to read farther. ”
Mr. Man stopped to wipe from his
brow the perspiration which sprang
forth at the thought of his mortifica
tion. “Well, there’s just one thing
about it,” he added thoughtfully,
“1T1 never again sign myself anything
but my full name, even if I live to bo
a regular Methuselah and write to
Mrs. Methuselah every day.”—New
York Tribune.
Athletes and Consumption.
“There is very great danger of an
athlete dying of lung trouble if he
ever ceases his sports,” said Professor
A. 0. Mathews. “In athletic exer
cises large lungs arc required, and
they become inflated beyond their
natural size. If the athlete ccasos his
practice and adopts anything ap
proaching a sedentary life, the lungs,
falling largely into disuse, easily de
cay, and the result is quick consump
tion. It is frequently the case that
young men in college who arc athletic
leaders after graduation go into
stores, offices, or counting rooms, and
in a few years die of consumption.
Every one is surprised, and it is said,
'Such a stronc, healthy man when be
left college. Who would have thought
he would die with consumption? Must
have been hereditary.’ As a matter
of fact, he bronght it npon himself,
by failing to keep np the practices
that expanded bis lungs. ’’—Cincinnati
Enquirer, . , - ,
SLELTING~OLD^ JEWELRY.'
HBXBLOOXS nr THE LOAN BK03C-
KB'Sr CBUCIBLE.
The Silver and Geld Turned Into
Coin at the Government’s Big
. Mints—Pawnshop Secrets.
OOKS funny, doesn’t It?
All the same there are a
dozen of those machines
_ going at least ones a week
in this city that the public never
heard about before. When yon un
derstand it yon will bo able to tell
yonr friends what becomes of the gold
and silver they leave with their 'uncle’
and never redeem. 'On the dead,'
now; don’t give me away and I’ll tell
on some of the secrets of the pawn-
rokers* trade.”
I The remark was made in a little
dark room in the roar of one of the
big loan offices of Chicago to a re
porter for the Tribune of that city.
The proprietor went on to say the re
ports show that ten to fifteen per cent,
of all artioles placed in “hook” is
never called for. Then often gold and
silver is purchased ontright by the
pennyweight or onnee, and in one way
ar another a large amount of the
'precious metals is accumulated. To
turn old-style goods into ready cash is
the problem that confronts the loan
broker. Bankrupt stocks of new de
signs and fresh goods fill the cases in
the counters and show windows, and
the old material goes into new golden
eagles with Uncle Sam’s stamps npon
them.
; On the floor of the back room,
reached after setting half a dozen
electric alarms going and the pressing
of numerous buttons, was a peculiar
contrivance looking like a six-inch tile
'stood on end with a brass barrel cov
ered with pipes by its side. A copper
pan, some iron tools and some bowls
that looked like common flower pots
lay on the floor.
j “This copper barrel,” said the pro
prietor, “is Ailed with naphtha; these
pipes leal to this tile or furnace;
this handle here is for the forcing of
air behind the naptha so it will make
a strong blast; these pots are crucibler.
Into the furnace we place the crucible,
into the crucible goes the gold. Hot,
isn’t it? So hot that we are compelled
to wear colored glasses to see what’s
going on. But that’s nothing to the
way the thing is done in Uncle Sam’s
furnaces. Now here goes to fill the
crucible. ”
Into the stone jar went gold watch
oases and chains with family histories,
crests, and initials, souvenir spoons
and breastpins of forgotten dates,
rings that oould have spoken of wed
ding bell 1 ; and birthdays in the long
ago, golden charms, scarf pins with
the jewels removed, and odds and ends
collected in a week’s trade. The esti
mated value of the hatful of stock was
$1000 in pure gold. Into the melting
collection went a handful of borax.
That was to make the gold flow when
sufficiently melted. There was no
smoke, nothing but a siokly smell of
naphtha, the noise of the blast, and
the glittering whitenese of the cruci
ble. .
! To get a closer look at the melting
gold a pair of green glasses was fur
nished. As the broker stirred the con
tents of the oruoible with an iron poker,
black bubbles would come to the top,
pieces of coarser metal would be seen
struggle to the surface, only to sink
back into the yellow gold, now turned
to fluid. Tne broker lifted the cruci
ble out of the furnace and poured its
white hot contents into an iron mold.
The mold rested in a pan of water.
All the gold settled into the mold and
the borax, turning black ns it bit the
water, stayed on top. In a few min
utes the borax was knocked off and out
fell a bar of gold weighing several
pounds, eight inches long and proba
bly three-fourths of an inch square.
After cleaning, the bar was laid aside
for shipment to the Treasury.
“We do this once a week,” said the
proprietor, as he shut off the valve to
the naphtha barrel “From here the
bars go to Washington by express.
Before its value ia returned we will
pay oat nearly $1 on $1000. At Uncle
Sara’s works the bar will be remelted
by a fiercer heat. Then the melted
mass will be poured into water, where'
it will form into shots or pellets of
gold and silver aud copper. These
pellets are then placed in acid and the
different metals separated. No, you
can’t fool the Government for a min
ute. Science does the work in good
shape. After this process the Treas
ury ships gold eagles for the gold
and silver coin for the silver metal
contained in the bar. So you see the
old battered wa’ich case, the broken
chain, or out ol date ornament comes
back in new coin of the realm. Over
$200,009 worth of gold bars is an
nually sent from Chicago brokers in
just this way, and not one person in
10,000 ever sees how the melting is
done. Of course many gold coins are
made into jewelry, and in course of
time are sent back through our cruci
bles once more. This is on account
of change of style in gold ornaments
of all kinds which is constantly going
on. Any profit? Oh, yes, we Ugure
all such things. An article pawned
means to us only its weight in the era-
cible with a profit deducted. Thia
profit may be six or it may be twelve
per cout. A chain weighing $10 worth
of gold we buy for $8.50 or some
less. The $1.00 is for profit, handling
and the risk. Yes, it’s quite a busi
ness, and many a family history has
been told in the golden heirloomsthat
have fallen into a loan broker’s cru
cible.”
Testing a Horse’s Wind.
While talking about horses the
other day an old farmer said: “Wal,
I’m a pretty good judge of horses and
can always tell whether a horse is
short-winded or not.
“Before I buy a horse,” he contin
ued, “I just borrow it for about an
hour or s< and then I get out on some
lonely road and see what kind of stuff
ho is made of.
“I just let him choose his own gait
for a couple of mile posts and finally
give him plenty of rein, making him
go for all he is worth. All the time I
just keep my eye on his haunobes, and
if I see any rotary motion there it’s a
sign he's thick-winded, and, of course,
every one knows that kind ain't much
good."—Philadelphia Call
HISTORY OR BALLOONING,;
IBB ART OP AERONAUTICS TOLD
PROM ITS FANCT.
The Latest Inventions In Europe Are
Steered Against the Wind — Bal
loons In Warfare.
T is only 111 years since the Mont
golfier brothers sailed in the air
a balloon filled with heated air,
a crude affair at best; now the
latest developments and investigations
of Langley, Maxim and Holland are
becoming well known to the public.
Bat it is only within a few years that
any real progress has been made. On
the 5th of June, ITS’, Joseph Mont
golfier, at Annonay, France, assisted
by bis brother Stephen, sent Up a
balloon made of varnished paper.
They are credited with being “the
first that ever burst into that un
known sea.”
The first ascension with passengers
was undertaken by the Marquis d'Ar-
landff, and Pilate de Bozier, coming
down in twenty-five minutes at a dis
tance of five miles from the starting
point. Dr. John Jefferies, a graduate
of Harvard, made, in 1785, the first
passage by balloon from England to
France, with the aeronaut Blanchard,
paying him over $3500 for the cost of
the trip. The trip occupied two hours
only. A monument was erected at
the point of debarkation, aud Mr.
.Jeffries was much feted by the munic
ipal council of the city of Guiues, in
France, and its Oompte—having de
scended in the forests of Gaines. Im
provements were made soon after in
the safety valve, hanging the car in a
net, the method of using ballast, etc.
Gay-Lussac and Biot reached an ele
vation of 7000 meters, or 21,000 feet.
No further progress was made in the
construction of balloons and the sci
entific development of aerial naviga
tion for nearly a century.
The employment of balloons in war
fare was found to be practicable dur
ing the siege of Paris, in 1870, when
Nadar and others established the bal
loon postal service. Gambetta him
self did not hesitate to escape from
Paris in this manner. In Tonquin, in
the late French war, balloons were em
ployed. The balloon rose to a height
of 150 meters, or during battles to 250
meters, and from that height it was
possible to inform the commanding
officer os tc the point where the pro
jectiles fell, the strength of the enemy,
etc., by raising tho voice, or by drop
ping writtencommunications weighted
with stones. It was also through this
means that the Chinese were prevented
from retiring from Bac-Ninb, and that
place was taken without firing firing a
shot.
The nse of the balloon in the recent
great military maneuvers in France
has perfected tho science greatly, ns
shown by M. Debureaux, an officer of
engineers, in his report. In conclud
ing his report he claims that if Na
poleon at Waterloo and Bazaine at
Saint Privat had had a balloon service
at their disposal, a different result
might have been expected from both
battles, and thereby the course of his
tory would have been changed. M.
Debureaux thinks that at a distance of
three miles the balloon would be be
yond the reach of artillery, and would
command the ground for a distance of
more than six miles; and even at night,
the country is sufficiently illuminated
to be compared with a map. It is dif
ficult, however, to distinguish the
movements of troops in a wooded coun
try, and there are other drawbacks.
If the proposed balloon ventures
snoceed a new era will have been in
augurated in aerostatics. The greatest
of these is the navigable balloon,
based on the theory of Lieutenant
Clement de St. Maroq. It consists in
sending an electric current to a motor
placed in a casement, which is sus
pended by a balloon, thus operating a
propeller situated in the anterior pari
of the casement, the current to be con
veyed to the motor by means of a pli
able cable towed by the balloon, and
sliding along an elevated aeriel way
by means of a trolley. The balloon
is an elongated or cigar-shaped
form. The central part of the
casement is tho governing station,
where the motorman has access to all
the actuating levers. The anterior
part is reserved for passengers, fitted
up like a saloon steamer, and will ac
commodate twenty-five to thirty peo
ple ; the posterior port is reserved for
machinery. Hero is located a motor
of 145 horse power. The speed of the
balloon is estimated at twenty-five
miles an hour. Tho electric current
is generated by two dynamos of 200
horse power each. The track is to bo
laid from the house in the city to the
fair grounds, a distance of about a
mile.
The other venture in aerostatics—
3e chateau aerian—consists, as its
name suggests, in having a castle sus
pended in nud-air by means of a
balloon. The gigantic enterprise is
not expected to bo in operat'ou until
lute iu the summer. Tho imket or
“chateau" will hold 100 persons at a
height of 1300 feet; connection be
tween tho chateau uud tho ground is
to be established by ui3ansof fast
elevators between heavy cables. Tho
balloon, the chateau aud tho elevators
arc to bo equipped with parachutes,
in cose of accident. The moorings of
this aerial monster will consist nf
forty steel cables, so arranged that tho
airship can bo drawn to the ground in
a very few moments.
Among tho numerous inventions in
the field may bo briefly mentioned
the aerial balloon of M. Champaguon.
The propellers of this are not screws
or paddle wheels, but eight oblong
wings, similar to those of a dragon
fly; and they arc claimed to de
velop a propelling force of twice the
strength of screw or paddlo wheels.
Delprad’s aerial velocipede seeks to
bring tbo unaided muscular power of
man into service for tho working of
tho screw flight. Tho ideal of flying
machines is of course one that will en
able man to simply imitate tho flight
of birds, but it is greatly feared that
this machine will fare no better than
ite predecessors. Lillenthal's appa
ratus has bat-liko wings, iu which the
flying person hangs without tho as
sistance of any mechanism, using sim
ply his own muscular power. It is a
means of gradually and gracefully de
scending from heights aud tho inven
tor has traveled through tho air a dis-
tanco of nearly 1000 feet, tho curved
wings demonstrating a very respect-
»Wo carrying power. J
In France balloons have boon made
within the year that can bo steered
against tho wind when blowing ut
twenty miles an hour; while in Ger
many a balloon has been produced
which can bo steered, which is used
in warfare solely, hence the manner of
its construction is not made known.
Our own country is far behind in this
respect, but in the making of flying
machines is taking the lead, as wit
ness the efforts of Prof. Langley,
Hiram Maxim and John P. Holland.
—New York Advertiser.
WISE WORDS.
To tell the truth is to teach it.
Kindness is not always lenient.
No rabble is ever conservative.
Boarding house life is canned homo.
It is easier to marry than it is to love.
A great many wise words ore un
spoken.
Tears that come easy, go easy.
Ditto, love.
Man’s good opinion of himself is a
great stimulant.
Walking is slow traveling until you
overtake a snail
The present is made up of tho frag
ments of tho past.
Don’t nurse a good intent; give it
immediate exercise.
Man’s yesterdays should bo his
proudest monument.
Ignorance is sometimes so dense that
yon cannot even stir it np.
It is the man who is “on the fence,”
who is pierced by the palings.
It takes a philosopher to find any
kinduess in effective criticism.
Man’s mind to him a kingdom is,
while woman’s heart is that to her.
No matter how popular one may be
he cannot live on thanky work alone.
Don’t refuse to do good in fractions,
when you can’t work in whole numbers.
The ambi tions young graduate now
goes forth to hunt up some tides to
stem.
A woman has a right to change her
mind often, because she can’t change
her heart.
After man makes a prediction he
forgets all about it until it happens to
come true.
A patch on the seat of a poor man’s
trousers may be honester than the
crown on a king’s head.
Young man, remember that a dia
mond stud cannot light up the dim
corridor of the county jail.
The material for making other peo
ple happy doesn’t cost as much as the
material for making soft soap.
Woman may not get her rights, bnt
she will continue to take the first car
seat in w hich overcoat and bag have
been left.
Do not settle in a community devoid
of public spirit, where there is no at
tempt at adornment of the homes or
improvement of the highways.
A man ought to remember that his
children must and will mix with the
society which surrounds them and
t hey cannot help being influenced by it.
Some husbands seem to imagine that
their wives are built expressly to sniff
the approaching norther from afar
and run around after them with their
flannels.
A Pictorial History on Canvas.
Tho “Bayonx Tapestry," called
Bnyeux from tho place whom it ia
preserved, is a pictorial history on
canvas, more minute iu some particu
lars than written history, of tho in
vasion nud conquest or EnglauJ by
tho Normans in 18(>(i. Tradition says
it is tho work of Matilda, wile of
William tho Conqueror, nud tho ladies
of her court, and that it was prosoutod
by tho Queen to the Cathedral of
Baycux a a token of her appreciation
of the services rendered to her 1ms-
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great qualities warrant them in
making a trial of it.
The ROYAL BAKING POWDER
takes the place of soda and cream of
tartar, is more convenient, more eco
nomical, and makes the biscuit, cake,
pudding and dumpling lighter, sweeter,
more delicious and wholesome.
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The Oldest Mathematical Kook.
The oldest mathematical book iu the
world, which dates some 4033 yean
back, and was written in Egypt, con
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says tho Engineers’ Gazette. The rulo
given is to shorten the diameter by a
ninth, and on the line so obtained to
construct a square; aud this, though
far from being exact, is near enough
for most practical purposes. Since
then the amateur squarer of the circle
has been a thorn iu the side of the
professional mathematician. Learned
societies at last, in pure self-defense^
made a rule that all solutions of the
problem sent to them should, without
examination, bo consigned to the
flames. In tho last esntury a French
man named Mathulus was so sura he
had succeeded in squaring the circle
that he offered a reward of $1003 to
any one who proved his solution er
roneous. It was shown to be errone
ous if not to his own satisfaction, at
least to that of tho court’s, and he
had to pay the money. Mathema
ticians have long been convinced that
the solution was impossible; but it is
only a few years since they were able
to demonstrate this. A German pro
fessor named Laudmanu published in
1882 a demonstration, which was ac
cepted by the scientific world ns satis
factory , so that would-be squarer* of
the circle may now rest from their
labors, seeing that it has beou mathe
matically proved that tho thing can
not be done.
Bicyclists in the (Icrman Army.
The sum of $25,000 is included in
tho German Army estimates for the
present year for the supply of bicycles
to tho infantry. Two bicycles are as
signed to each battalion. An instruc
tion has been issued dealing with tho
bicycle service. Bicycles aro to be
used for communications between
columns on the march and for com
munications between advanced guards.
When troops aro in quarters bicyclists
are to fulfil the functions of orderlies,
especially where mounted orderlies
are wanting. They will also relieve
tho cavalry from relay and intelli
gence duties. In great fortresses tho
whole of tho duties now devolving up
on cavalry as message bearers will be
transferred to bicyclists.—Chicago
Herald.
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1000
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A Chinese engineer, educated in New
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