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Tin: crzccn daily journal, rcsTLAKD. Saturday cvn:Tii:o, auoust is. iscj. C; ij( 'mi - - . Models it, , FrTHI? economical war which swept ,1 through the Uit congress la I , JL - aroint; to wlpa out on of. thai , '" ahow places In Waehlngton, In I - Tact, one of tha moat Intereatlng placea to vlalt, for there on exhibition war I the producu of tha brains of America' I Inventors. . Tbo deelalon of eongreaa will abolish tha department of patant mod- . ls . and the 167.606 or mora modela i which form an Illustrated history of I invention In tha United Btatea sr to w swept to the four winds. The claim I -'' was mads some time ago that tha mod I '.' ola occupied space that was entirely I . loo. valuable and that the government would have to relinquish care of this , .. (rest and Interesting museum. ; . , Patents in this country - were first I ranted In 1111 and sine that time thousands of invention have boon filed to b protected. ' The 'majority of these were accompanied by models, showing the actual workings of the invention,' ' Theee modela ranged from the first tl ograph Instrument to the Idsas that came oot of the distorted brain of some crank. They also Tsnge from the ever- f useful sewing machine to th pusslol tnat naa delighted and perplexed tbou- .' sends. They have cauaed laughs and ..they have caused tears. Bids by side would be some model, th workings of I which had brought fortune and fame to o th Inventor, while alongside of it would be th model of something that some man had racked, hia brain and -worked himself to death perfecting, possibly : speeding his last coin to get It in the! patent of flee, only possibly to learn that H waa useless. Everything Imaginable Is embraced in this collection and every on of them. ' whether it was useless or valuable, was ; of lntereat to Professor R. C Olll, the I - aged keeper of th model rooms, who! has fingered, fondled, 'labelled - and ( atowed away models for the pest 40 .yeara. They are to -him Ilk children ' and he haa followed eloaely th course of every model. This one he has eeen succeed, while probably Its neighbor galled, but to him all were the producu of man'a Inventive mind, tnerefore he I respected all.. . Tola great collection of th croatlons of man have been , houaed on three I floors of th Union building, for whloh ' : th government paid an annual rental of 111.600. Th building was prac tically a museum where nfodsls of th ; Th crown prince of Oermany la the only child of th kalssr who Is not left- - handsd. .' - Mrs. Elisabeth Hunt of Brooklyn has . caught tne auto fever at !, and la road , touring in Connecticut. . , e , e .... , -:. i Sir' Andrew Fraaer, governor of Ben-. .' gal, virtual ruler of la.tOO.tOO people, la th active president or tne Calcutta j : - Benjamin Turner, who is believed 19 have been th laat survivor or th wreck of th troopship Birkenhead In 1161, . died at Portsmouth recently at th ag Farmer John Emery i of Columbia county. Pennsylvania, haa just got In Ma eeventy-seventh harvest. He began farm work at It. and he'a still at It an actlv and robust veteran at to. ' e . '' .- ' Pedro Monte has been elected presl dent of the republic of Chile for a term of fiv years. Benor Mont la at pros ent the vlce-oresldent H will suoceed Jermaln Rlesco. who waa elected . fivsJ yeara ago. ' e e "Prodigal as ths Rothschilds were aul .' are, nesrly all of then have on trait In common. Thy will glv thouian-ls - without- a moment's hesitation; thoy ; will not be fleeced a penny after half - an hour's discussion. - . Th German emperor own ths most valuable draftsboard In existence. Th light and dark squares are mad of ail ver and gold and the drafta are also mede of silver end gold, each having a diamond or ruby in th center.- -.. Robert .Jones, a Liverpool surgeon, tells of a patient who was sn old ' poacher and who, while under th influ . ence of cocaine during an operation upon th bones of a leg. regsled th surgeon with tslsa f his poaching exploits. ' Ex-Benator Chandler waa asked by a young woman: "Don't you enjoy going into tha country in your automobile?" -Tea," aflswered Mr. Chandler, "but tb pleasurs Is nothing compared with th aatlalaction or getting nom sueiy.- v : ; . e ,, . .- ,. - - - . . Denver Stout, a pilot on th Ohio and Kanawha rivers, is tha first whit child ; IN THE PUBUC EYE "'' - 1 - - - v '- . , born In what la now ths oity or Denver. H was born 47 years ago. His parents traveled by an ox team from Omaha In and reached Denver. In six Weeks. '.v .. . e e Dr. A. I Crampton of Maryland, the chemist of th bureau of Internal reve nue, haa been mad chief of a new division of ths bureau, which la to have charge of th work -or enroretng th provisions ef th denaturlsed alcohol :. ..act-;' '','-' .'''. '.; .,r. ; v Baroness Csderstrom, as plain Mm. e Pattu haa mads as much aa 100,400 In a slngls year, tnoogn at present, it is said, she does not trouble to make more than 160,000. Melba earns 1150.000 when ; In full work, and Barah Bernhardt makea an average of $70,000. v Dr. Emlle rischer. who four yeara ago won th Nobel prise for chemistry, hss 4-annvered. he declares, that coal is edl- t bl. H hss been making an sxtract of coal and flnda that this extract naa in earn nutritive qualities aa are possessed . by beefsteak and eggs. - , ... . r Th lata John J. Toomey' was organ . 1st of th Bprtngflsld, Massachuaetta, cathedral for 14 yeara and mlased only on Sunday ssrvlc In II yesra H had another, distinction; he took th total abstinence pledge at th hand of Father Theobald Mathew in UiO. a e ' Tha Oerman foreign afflc la consid ering the purchase of tha house at Val lima. Samoa, formerly owned by Robert ' Loula Btevenson, as a residence for th . governor. Herr Kunst, who bought It from th Stevenson heirs, dlsd recently, and his heirs offered, th property to ' th government. -. .. a .- . Th English royal family recently celebrated simultaneously th birthdays Of the oldest and youngeet" sovereign members of ths royal house. Th dow- , ager grand duchess of Mecklenberg-1 Btrelita, first cousla l tha MflA'aj ... :.-. a-' srr o.- j, I e-i.-i t, ua :. ; jsr-.. sj.. aix -;.. . t . ' -r- vr. & , i ta r . I ' ':' " I I I : T I 1.1 I .ar'3tS W ! I ( V- s 1 I I I f ' w l II II great epoch-making inventions shared a eV- i 1 I ' iA neap. - Already quite a number' of teah- place with the beautiful theories which Sf BlcaP, ,cW. ,n'aU,;:irei"eUg "Vv.VX would never work out in practice and , . f - - I I I i) -wTri;- ... "T the baple.adre.me that did not need , L, -, I l.l t: , J 9m V eU government protection. In point of in- ' - - f3 . : II I doubt but What tnanjr of them will terest the collection rivalled that of , 11- I I I I . - ' l; ' prove jmportant parta of . th museume the Smlthaonlsn Institute. ' I K-T -! II I oitnese institutions. , To properly protect a patent these , V f II V II I ) i V ? .,M .T"1 ool'ectlon naturally tha models were neeewsrv. Borne of them h W l I 11 I II CSv ' ' moaeis or in greatest lntereat are those are still necessary and theae will be re- i JC I 1 I ' 1 I YXX which wer crude at first, but which talned In the care of the government. V V-J I II r . 1 I I I fiJv . h,v ,rom tlme t0. tlme bMn Improved but th vaat majority of the U7.000 JV-' J m-TTA I I I V. uPn until today tney ar of th great- will be distributed to schools, musetima ' V&r . Fi4. 1 I I A "t bwioflt to mankind. Take for in- and patent agencies, and no doubt many V ' XhLZ-- -n'- f I ISiAt'15 stance th original working model ef of them will find their way to the ssh I . f r N I J " jthe Howe's sewing , machine, now an " . VJ 7 r- mother, is 14, and If she lives afi other year aha will Just break tne record --f her brother, th Duke of Cambridge, .1 tne longeet-iived of the royal houie. Bhe esubllshes a record of her own by keeping up a house In London whMe wife of a foreign aovre1gn.. -Th other celebrant, tha young . Duke of Baxo Coburg. nephew of to king, completed nis twenty-second year. e e . ' ?.' ' The late Henrik Ibaen was one asked nia iaea or Americano, - "Well," said lb sen. smiling, "it is my Idea that the average American bj.by, 6 or months 01a. aits in hla mother s lsp and eyes his own cradle to aee If ha csn't Invent a better one, or at least suggest some improvement ; John P. Hopkins, who tin mavor of Chlcego "before the ymmgpr Carter Hir-J rtson s time snd a "gold Democrat," has climbed into the Bryan bandwagon. "The Kebrsakan has changed greatly for the better sines 11(6," he sys. "He seems to me to be th best man in either party for th .Whit House.. 'j The Kashvlll American telle us that ths Tennessee woods ars full of better fiddlers than "Bob" Taylor, ths coming United Btatea sens tor. "In his earllor days." it says, " 'Bob' offlcated st a few puncheon-floor shindigs In the Watauga settlement, but he can talk of the fiddle more eloquently than he can play It" .. ...-ii. Ths pop haa given hla sanction to th publication of a postcard produced in London. It ia ornamented on the front with an illuminated picture of th Vir gin snd a colored portrait of tlrie pop. Th Illuminated back haa a aettlng by Leoncavalla of th "Ave, Maria" pub lished for the flrat time. . An autograph letter from the pope Is also printed on the card. In which he beatowa the apos tolic benediction upon ths originators of ths project ; .-, v' ' ; : . ; r - . ' - 5 ..: V ..-.' , Arbert B. Cumnrrings. Oovemor Albert B. Cummins h . again been nominated by th Re 1 publicans of-towa. It waa a strenuous fight, but ths political sagacity 'of tha govsrnor won, when many of hla friends thought h faced ds- tsat ...'. 9&mjmmm&mmi0mmfm0mtm0m1 , -.( I'll . . l ' f ' In the center of the picture ia a photograph of R. C Gill, who for 40 yeara ; haa been keeper of the modela. ' On the upper left ia a photo of the first Morse telegraph tounder, on tha lower left one of Eliaa Howe's first ' sewing machines.; On the upper right ia Alexander Graham Bell's orig- .. inal model of receiver and transmitter for his phone, wrhile below la a photograph of the firat typewriter ever made.. STUDENT CABIN BOYS. waaMBSwaswHB - Lads From Berkeley - Ship 1 on the Transport Logan. They wrote poetry when' not other wise engaged, did these husky lsds from th University of California, who shipped on the United Btatea army transport Logan as - cabin-boys snd messboys. Ths Logan returned yester day,brlngtng ths boys and the poetry home after many exciting experiences, but th poet Is particularly bashful and declfnea to own hla authorship. He says the rolling' of ths boat was re sponsible for the meter. . Th poetry folio: "I haven't been sorry I'm abroad,'' wrltee th poeV'Het vn "When th cabin portholes are dark and green "Because of the sea outside. "When the ship goes wopMwlth a wig gle between) ; 1 t 'And the steward . falls with a . soup- ' tereen, "And when the trunks begin to slide. "When the nursery lies on ths floor in a heap, . "And mummy tells you to let her sleep, "And you aren't waked or washed or . . dressed, "Then ' you know (If " you 7 haven't guessed) Tou'r fifty north and forty west Wsyne Patterson, who is the son of Colonel B. F. Patterson when he la ashore, but simply bellboy No. S on the Logan, aaya he Isn't responsible for the above. Malcolm Bottoms, No. 6, PEOP LE P R ",. .. and brother of Captain W. Bottoms, wanta to know "why he should writs anything like that" and R. R. Ran kin of th University of California and late of the steward's department. United Btates army transport Logan, thinks It must be th result of combined effort I. D. Wheeler, '06. California two mile runner, and O. Colby of th North' western university aren't her to -as- plain th mystery, although they were in the steward's department when the transport left San Francisco on May It. The two boys dealded to stsy over In Manila end make-th trip around the world If they can. or elss to return home on th next transport Rankin Is a university athiet and a member of ths Accacla fraternity. He says he enjoyed the trip, slthough he was seasick immediately after, paaalng through th Golden Oat. It waa hla duty to tend to the rooms, and hla com panions wer obliged to answsr bell calls. None of the lada will admit that it la a part of their dutie to writ vers to th rolling of th ship. '.'' Vnol Mam, Voliawauum, From the Baltimore Newe. It la not yet known what tha Central American republics are fighting about but like a good policeman. Uncle Sam will atop th row first and Isarn th causa latar. - t - . . .. Forf Part of It rrem Jndfe. Can roe reoeet the declaratlea ef Indesea- desret" he aaked. ' I sera to t to i to." ae rerun: -Hit Sbest all I reoieaiher ef It sow le. To se nr sot le be, that Is the aoeetlea.' " - OMINENT n 1 1 in 1 rt .. , . George . United fttstes Judge Qeorg Orsy of Delaware has again won publt-o ap proval by refusing to bs s csndldats of the offtvere of th Mutual Life Insurance company for director, but will b a candidate of thai Interna tional policy holders' committee. Judge Gray la a .sound min snd th fact that he retired from the senate poorer than. Ha entered it ia teetl mony of hla honesty. . . J, . - i . .. t t jl . , vr vJir.A mi nr gwv j The women cooks of Now Tork are forming a union, . '. ' .''' ' ' Tll-layers have secured a II per cent Increaaa In Boston. e Olove-workers of Wheeling, West Vir ginia, wr secently organized. e e . . .; ' ' . Beventy-five maater eteamflttere of New Tork City have offered their men It a day. beginning Auguat 1. . e e ; Tha Lake Beamen'a union haa voted 11.000 to the International Beamen'a Union of North America for tha purpose of organising oa tha Atlantio coast . e - ' Barbers of Buffalo, Now Tork, have been granted an Increase of 11.60 per week. They haa also been granted aa afternoon and evening, off each weekv " : . - mm Tha union bakera of Chicago auoeeed ed in estsbllshlng a new wag scale In every shop but on In that city. They received a flat Inoresee of 11 per week over th old scale. . e e ) . The San Francisco Building Trades council la vigorously fighting a propo sition to bring In 1,000 Jspanea labor ers to work oa tha ruins as brick- cleaners. Tha United Cloth Hat and Can Makera of America have placed a per capita tax of 10 oenta per year for support of th tuberculosis sanitarium conducted by th organisation at Denver for the benefit of ita members. , , ... Th locomotive engineers employed on th hundreds of work trains operated by th United Btates In dlrt-hnullng In the canal aone have mads th following de mands: Incress of pay from 1110 to 1226. a month, time and a half pay for Gray. IN PUBLIC LIFE ; ' i' ', -v '-" Isrtlcl that has soma Into everyday us Isna wnirn nas provca ox act nucn wvn A mam . Th.n ,hrA la - tha first locomotive, ao crude and ungainly-look series of inventions by which man is I nnw anaMM in travel Ions' distances in la ahort space of time. There is also Iln this great collection' tne nrsi tele graph - Inatrument of Morse, .who waa mfiHin ver 'trt 4liiUne, but thlt I e ...TKlia.V.awt Kaa aa1aav'm nh 1n -MltKniitk atyViIrh tnrlflw that world WOUlst jb. puHled liow to get lon. Thi- Ii Professor-Ber -the- first. modsLjot ths M.niin. .utrtmAhll,' an1 other .fnven Itlons that have msrked the progrees of I th worm, i n urst mourn 01 1 really greet. Inventions wilt no doubt rind a rsstlnx olaoe.la the National museum In Washington. , . . 1 Th. fliuAiuriAB inn BrraaK nniiM. I tin. oamaa to Profeaaor Olll. tha keener I of tha medola. aa a severe blow. Any I ona who haa talked with . the aged keeper knows of tha Interest he felt ii a ha a vseef red each model when It I came to the department For 40 years I ha naa arrangea. cataioguea, ucseiea and exhibited them wlth-ae much loving pride aa though they wer th children I or hla Drain ana nie personal prepany. It waa not neceessry, that the model mmm a.wIm f trrmmt nrartlpal value to atand well ia tha eettmstlon of tha keeper. Th faot that it had refuge In th houee of modela waa enough to I gala for It aa xeuon oars as mm omrra. I t iiul.l)ulln tha anllactlon of mod- ele th government la making arrange- 1 mente to return to living mnnion im 1 Maia now in waaninston. 11 tne in- venter ao desires It Thomas A. Edison I aiMaa renuaatad hla and ther will I be returned to him. with the exception I pf thoee wnica in governmwm iu of flelala -deem neoessary to reuln to i ... nrntaotloai or those Inven tions which are now being litigated. I Edison fUsd his rirst patent ana mrai In 116. Since that time ha haa taken i 111 natanta. aoma of them Calling I for oulte large modela. If Edison gate I back ell Of tneaa mooeia, am win mm I k.vi aulta a aollectlon with which I ta atart a museum to ahow th progress lot electrical inventions. all work dona In excess of sight hours. double time for Bundsys and holldaya. and free transportation, to and from tha United Btates when on leave, , Nearly all employers In th carpn tering trad In Manhattan, whether members of tha Maater Carpenter' as sociation or non-easociatlon men, so of flclsls of the Carpenters' union report have granted an Increase In wagea from 14.60 to 14.60 a day. Revised figures Indicate that tha Im migration to this country during the fiscal year ended June 10 laat waa 76.- 674 greater than, It waa during. the fis cal year of 1606. Th immigration dur ing last ysar aggregated 1.100.071 agalnat 1,010,40 for tha provloua year, e . e . . Th Centre! Federated union, repre senting lbtt.009 organised laboring men fn New Tork City, recently decided by an almost unanimous vots to enter th field of polities, t wag war agalnat tha enemtee of tradea-unionlam. and to work for tha election of only such maa aa ar favorable to union labor. e 7tfamhaa a IV. At... trt1 . J Manufacturer and tha wage eommltte of th National Olaaa Bnttla Bion. aaaoolatlon. . reprtaentlng th 10.000 workmen In th factorlee of th United Btate and Canada, adjourned recently In AtlantlA fltv Mu T.-..M . disagreement over th wag seals for me coming year. . 1 0ot the aTOTT. Dollle I don't believe that lovelv Captain Tymmld Is half aa much of a hero aa the newspapers say. -' Polly Why not? Dollle Becaue h will never coneent to atand' in front of hla tent and be photogrsphed with his favorite dog at hla side. " Ndson VV. Senator Aldrich occupies an unenviable position In ths senate. - Aa is tha father-in-law of John D. Rock sfsllar Jr., ha somes la for tstu etitlelsm, being regarded aa sponsor for legislation favorsbfo to trus's. -,:. K It ' "." Alexander del Spina mad The flrat pair of spec tac lea in 1166. , . e e ','. The flrat armored train waa used ta th siege of Psrls In 1171. v . ) ' ,. e e ' . rndla, at laat advlos. had 116.900 par. Sons on Its famine relief roll . . ' Blrthdsys were celebrated aa long ago aa the time of the Pharaoh, , ': ' '' -.a e . - , '' .:. ..:.'..' Giraffes . and anteatera each have tongues nearly two-feet in length. v ' " ' e e ,.. . ;'. . .. 1 Tne nrst hooks were bound by Atta lus, king of Pergamua, in 111 B. C . ' ; j" , .i : Afghan soldiers' ar not admitted aa witnesses in law courts of their : own country,-,., ,,..' ; A9Uren Anne fsrthlng bearing th aaie ins wss poia lor iuv in ijonaon rcntly, . lirn nr, in numi 111 mvnmrnvi snd convents, with 11,711 monks and i.viv nulla.- , . . ..... : . Th British home office haa- ordered that henceforth con vie ts shall be fed oa only colonial canned meaa. ; Recently tha postage on Jomsstla- let- tera In Franca waa reduced from oents to 1. Postal -card a, hswavsr, will cost t oents. , . " ' . . . Insanity la Infrequent In India, ao- . cording to a blue-book. In Bengal In 1104 the ratio ef Insane waa l.lt pef 1.000 population, agalnat 14.71 ta Eng land. - . ..',.,....; Chines eoffln ar made at timber I to 10 Inches thick. It Is calculated. therefore, that over 1.000.000 feet of timber la utilised yearly for offlne la China. . ,. .. . a .-....... A camel begins work at foar ysara old, and frequently ' eontlnnea la use for over bslf a Century. It will carry 1,000 pounds on its pica, wnus rew . horses can earry mora than 111 pounds, ' -..".'.'. . ,;.(".. e : Locust ar ravaging Austria. Al ready 60,000 acres of crepe near Vteana have been destroyed. At on place IS steam rollers were used to crush tha locusts, but mad no apparent Impres sion. '.- ',...;. , ... .... .;.'.' Blx Bailors In th Baa Franaiao Ma rina hospital refused to go ta bod th othr night becaus they deeraed th hour too early, but th nure la charge pulled a pistol aad th sailor went ta bed at th musala of a .44. , , a. '.' , According to historians, Ihs flrat striking clock waa Imported lata Khi rope by tha Persiana about 800 A. D. It waa brought aa a p recent to Charle magne from Abdella, king of Persia, by two monk of Jerusalem. . 1 . v a e ; In Germany If Is considered nece. tora It goea down In tha world, so It. la carried upstairs as soon aa It la hem. In eass ther sr no stairs, tha nurs mounts a tabla or chair with tha In fant . . .. ' e e " ? Ladles seldom rise In Bp tn to re-' celva a mala visitor, and they rarely accompany him to tha door. For a Bpsniard to give a lady even his Wife hie arm, when out walking. Is re garded as a decided violation Of pro- pn.ty.; , . Th silver wedding preeent that la said to have- most - pleaeed tha .kaiser -wss from th combined rowing and sailing clubs In Germany. It consist ed of six silver modela representing th different styles of shipbuilding from . th viking galley to the emperor's yacht Meteor. e e . .-. Th evidence before th British army ' stores commissioners as to graft dar ing th Boer war ahowa that there waa only one regiment th contractors wer unable to cheat That proud distinction belongs to ths Seventh hussars. They weighed everything and cheeked th qua my of evertyhlng supplied these. e e , A special poetage-atamp was Issued by th Jspanas government to com memorate th return of th troop from th war. Two of theee stamps, of th face value of H aad 8 sen, respectively, wer leeued. and ther wer - availahta for postage for letters only on tha day of tha recent great review. Not more than on of each kind waa aold to every applicant at th general potaoffleaa, . Aldrich. r ,mmmmrmmrmmm I
