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Pifcident Grover Cleveland
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' Commissioners Petei Bieniiej
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tion and entertainment In it. The old and
learned will find as much mystery in it as the
young and unsophisticated. This great puzzle
s the property of the New York Press Club, for
whom it whs Invented by Samuel Loyd, the
great puzleist, to be sold for the benefit of the
movement to erect a great home for newspaper
workers in New York. Generous friends have
given $25,000 in prizes for the successful puzzle
solvers. TKN CENTt sent to the "Press Club
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New York City, will get you the mystery by
return mall.
Every Header OF THIS
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of a great home for newspaper work
ers by sending one dime to "Press Club
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New York. You will aid a great work and re
ceive by return moil a wonderful puzzle-game
which amuses the young and old, baffles the
mathematicians and interests everybody. Public
spirited merchants have contributed $25,000
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mystery. Everything from a "Knox" hat to a
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DID YOU TRY
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or the "FIFTFEN PUZZLE."
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completed another little playful mystery for
young and old, which Is selling for TUN CENTS
for the benefit of the fund to erect a home for
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PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-five Hundred
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The Winner has a clear Gift of a Small
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that may Bring them in Still More.
Would you like tomake'twenty-flve hundred j
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follows and you may see a way to do it.
The Press Claims Conmany devotes much
attention to patents. It has handled thousands
of applications for inventions, but it would
like to handle thousands more. There is plenty
of inventive tallent at large in thin country
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company propose to give.
NOT SO HAUD AS IT SLK7IS.
A patent strikes most people as an appalling
ly formidable thing. The idea is that an in
ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or '
Bell; that he must devote years to delving in
complicated mechanical problems aid that he
must spend a fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get a new device to a patentable
degree of perfection. This delusion the com
pany desires to dispel. It desires to get into
the head of the public a ciear comprehension
of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventionsthatbringthe best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple, and
cheap ones the things that seem so absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
tcom the patents on all his marveluus Inven
jons have not been sufficient to pay tne cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, so that it would comp
back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-ma
chine Is a miracle of Ingenuity the product
of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through
a hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril
liant result rests upon the Bimple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point in
stead of at the other end.
THE L1TTLKTHINGS THE IUO.HT
VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard themselves
as Inventors, but almost every body has been
struck, at one time or auother, with ideas that
seem calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dis
missed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company make its cai
windows so that they can be slid up aud down
without breaking the passengers' back?" ex
claims the traveler, "if I were running the
road I would make them in such a way."
"What was the man who made the saucepan
thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "He never
had to work over a stove, or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed."
"Hang such a collar button!' growls aman
who is late for breakfast. "If I were in the
business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip
out, or break off, or gouge out the.back of my
neck
And the various sufferers forgot about their
grievances and began to think of something
else. If they would set down the next con
venient opportunity, put their ideas about car
windows, saucepans and collar buttons into
practical shape, and Ihen apply for patents
they might find themselves as Independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron
umbrella ring, or the one who patented
he fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFEH.
To induce the people to keeD track of their
bright ideas and see what there in them, the
Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a
I rize.
To the person who submits to it
the simplest and most promising1
invention from a commercial
point of view the company will
give twentyfive hundred dollur
in cash, in addition to refunding
the fees for securing a patent.
It will also advertise the inven
tion free of charge
This offer is subject to the following condi
tions: Every competitor (must obtain a patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for a preliminary search, the cost of
which will be five dollars. Should this
seach show his invention to be unpatentable,
he can withdraw without further expense.
Otherwise he will be expected to complete his
application and take out a patent in the regu
lar way. The total expense, including the
Government and Bureau fees, will be seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secures a prize
or not, the inventor will have a patent that
ought to be a valuable property to him, The
prize will be awarded by a jury consisting ni
three reputable patent attorneys of Wasliihg
ton. Iuteuded competitors should fill out the
following blank, and forward it with their
application:
' , ( 1H93.
"I submit the within described invention in
competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar
Prize offered by the PreBS Claims Company."
MO BLANKS IN THIN COMPETIO.
This is a competition of rather an unusal na
ture. It Is common to offer prizes for the best
story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the
competitors risking the loss of their labor and
the successful one merely selling his for the
amoun of the prize. But the Press Claims
Company's offer Is something entirely differ
ent. Each person is asked merely to help him
self, and the one who helps him self to the
best advantage is to be rewarded by doing it.
The prize is only a stimulus to do something
that would be well worth doing without it.
The architect whoBe competitive plan for a
club house on a certain corner Is not ocoe pl
ed has spent his labor on something of very
Utle use to him. But the person who patentn a
simple aud useful device in the Press Claims
Company's competition, need not worry if he
fall to secure a prize. He has a substantial
result to show for his work one that wil
command its value In the market at any
time.
The man who uses any article In his dai'y
work ought to know belter now to Improve 1
than the nie'-hanifnl expert who studies It
o ily from the theoretical point of view. Get
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rid of the idea that an improvement can be too
simple to be worth patenting. The simplertha
better. The person who best succeelB in
combining simplicity and popularity, will get
the Press Claims Company's tweutv-five hun
dred dollars.
The responsibility of this company may be
judged from the fact that Its stock Is held b"
about three hundred of the leading newspapers
of the United States. a
Address the Press Claims Company, JoSb
Wodderburn, managing attorney. 61h F street
ft. W., Washington, D. C.
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bread stuff fibeap, go to tbe Enterprise
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THE WESTERN PEDAGOGUE.
We are in receipt of tbe Mny numbei
of our state school paper. It exceed
any of tbe former numbers in valur.
Tbe paper this month contains man
new and valuable fenturts. Tbe illus
trated Beries on the schools of the state
is introduced by a paper oo the FrieDd
Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon.
Tbt'so papers cannot fail to be of greai
value both to the schools and to tbi
public.
I hero are also several fine article?
by our bent writers mid tbe departments
"Current EventB,""Saturday ThouffhtV
"Lduoationa! News" "The Oraclf
AuBwers, Correspondents," etc , each
oontHin much valuable reading tot
teachers or pnientB. The nifigazinf
has about 60 pages ot matter, wel
printed and arranged. We pronouuo
tbe Western Pedagogue the best educa
tional monthly on the coast.
Everyone of our readers should bav.
the paper if they are at all interefiteri
in education. No teacher school direo
tor or student can get along well with
nut it. We will receivo subscription
at this office. Price only $1.00 a year
When desired we will send tbe Western
Pedagogue nnd Oiizette one year to one
addreKS for $3.00. Call and exaiuim
sample copies. Teachers, directors aud
parents, now is the time to subscribe, tl
G. A. R. NOTICE.
We tuke this opportunity of iuforiui?;;
nir subscribers that the new oonuuk;
holier 'of pensions has been Hpuninlf
He is nn old soldier, Hud we telidT!
tlust soldiers nnd their heirs will r?
oeive justice at his hmids. We do lint
anticipate that there will be any radii!!'
chances in the administration ot pnrjrii".
affairs under the new regime.
We would advise, however, that V. I
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, tnk
steps to make application at once, if
tbey have not already done so, in order
to Kecure the bene6t of the early film,'
of their claims in case there should b
any future pension legislation. Sud
legislation is seldom retroaotive. Xherf
fore it is of fcreat importance that op
plications be filed in the department o
the earliest possible date.
If the U. 8. soldiers, Bailors, or theii
widows, ohildren or parents desire in
formation in regard to pension matters,
they should write to the Press Claims
Company, at Washington, D. C, and
tbey will prepare and send the necessarj
application, if they find them entitled
under the numerous laws enacted foi
their benefit. Address
PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
John Wbdueuhljin, Managing Attor.
ney, WnfLiiigton, D. O., P. O. Box 38f
tf.
HOW WE GET OUR TEETH.
An Eminent Dentist Makes Koine Inter
esting Statements.
It would take too long to describe the
formation of the teeth, but it may in
terest you to know that the enamel is
derived in the first place from the
epithelium, or scarf skin, and is, in
fact, modified skin, vt hilo the dentine,
of which the hulk of the tooth is com
posed, is derived from the mucous layer
below the epithelium. Lime salts are
slowly deposited, and the tooth pulp,
or "nerve," is the last remains of what
was once a pulpy mass of the shape of
the future tooth, and even the tooth
pulp in the old people sometimes gets
quite obliterated by the calcareous de
posits. The thirty-two permanent
teeth, says the Philadelphia Times, are
preceded by twenty temporary decidu
ous or milk teeth. These are all fully
erupted at about two to two and a half
years old, and at about six years of age
a wonderful process of absorption sets
in, by which the roots of the temporary
teeth are removed to make room for the
advancing permanent ones. The crowns
of the former, havinjf no support, be
come loose and fall away. One would
naturally suppose that the advancing'
permanent tooth was a powerful factor
in the absorption of its temporary pre
decessor, but we have many facts to
prove it has no influence whatever; m
j deed, the interesting phenomena of the
eruption and succession of teeth are
very little understood. I may remark
in passing that a child of six who
has not yet lost any temporary teeth
has in its jaws, either erupted or non
erupted, no less than fifty-two teeth
more or less formed. , .
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
LIFE IN BRAZIL.
Prevailing Customs in tha 'Rural
Districts.
The People Very Fond of Decorations,
But Are Mot Partial to sn Abun
dance of Clothing Strange
Street Scenes.
Among other queer things that the
stranger observes in Brazil are the vast
numbers of decorations stars and
crosses, etc. which appear to have
been recklessly bestowed often upon
boys of twelve to fourteen years old,
who certainly can have done nothing
to win such distinction, says Fannie B
Ward in a letter from Rio de Janeiro to
the Chicago Times. There is a very
large body of ex-officials in Rio belong
ing to the decayed aristocracy, and
most of them still sport on all possible
occasions the court dresses and uni
forms and decorations of a past regime.
It is their small sons and grandsons
whom one sees tricked out in tawdry
silks and velvets, with stars and crosses
and miniature crowns pinned on their
jackets. These decorations are as likely
to have been obtained by purchase as
by inheritance, for there used to be a
custom in Brazil under which patents of
nobility, with all its signs and emblems,
could be bought for filthy lucre and the
rage for them was unbounded. The
highest of all decorations was "the in
signia of the order of Christ," and at
J one time the keeper of every pudqueria,
as well as his fellow citizens above and
below in the social gamut, appeared on
every holiday with a "habito deChristo"
on his waistcoat front. Church digni
taries and civilians of high degree wore
them also, and, being handed down from
generation to generation, they still ap
pear oiten with ludicrous mappropnate
ness. The prevailing costume of Brazilians in
the rural districts has not changed much
in the last one hundred years. The men
still wear broad-brimmed hats with low
crowns, tied tinder the chin with a rib
bon; velveteen jackets, waistcoats ol
gorgeous colors, bedecked with brass 01
silver buttons, linen drawers, hteh,
black gaiters buttoned to the knee; the
whole topped by a sort of cape, similar
to that stiu used in Portugal, generally
lined with scarlet and thrown negli
gently over one shoulder. This quaint,
old-time fashion prevails only in the in
terior, principally among the well-to-do.
In Rio and other seaside cities the
gentlemen dress in the most correct of
European costumes, and the ladies get
themselves up more Frenchily, if one
may coin a word, than anybody in
France, barring glaring incongruities
in the matter of colors, sometimes so
atrociously blended as to "swear at one
another" in a way that would drive a
French woman crazy. During the few
short trips we have so far made into tho
interior we have been amused to see
ladies promenading the streets with all
the airs and graces of peafowls, wearing
enormous hoops, with "pelerines" and
waterfalls dangling down their shoul
ders, exact copies of tbe fashion plates
of thirty years ago.
But this is a great country for the
study of anatomy, if one were so in
clined, for the majority pf the "common
people" perambulate so near to naked
that the slight similitude of "clothes"
they wear seems altogether superfluous.
The street gamin, and even children of
people in tolerable circumstances play
about their doors and screech and tum
ble in the streets without a stitch or rag
of clothing upon them, with no more
idea of modesty than the mangy dogii
that are their companions. At the age
of eight or ten, or thereabouts (which,
in the tropics, you know, is equal to fif
teen or sixteen in tho far, cold north),
the girls are partially covered by a cot
ton tunic and the boys by equally gauzy
drawers. When fully grown and ar
rived at the dignity of fatherhood and
motherhood themselves which will bf
surprisingly early in life, you may bf
sure their full dress will consist of, fo:
the women, a cotton chemise, embroid
ered around the yoke and armlet, and
generally Blipped on one shoulder 01
the other to tho waist, a short, scant
cotton skirt, a string of beads, long ear
rings, and as many bracelets of brass,
silver, or beads, as the wearer can man
age to acquire; and for men a calicc
shirt, always unbuttoned in front and
worn with flaps outside the drawers, an
a straw hat.
.iKhtcst lilryele lu the World.
Berlo, a European bicyclist, has had
specially made for him the lightest
pneumatic-tired safety bicycle ever
made in the world. It weighs exactly
eighteen and one-half pounds. The
average weight of racing "safeties" if
twenty-five pounds. lierlo had to
"honeycomb" the nuts, bolts and wash
ers and lighten the frame even more
than the most reckless manufacturer
would have dared. The tires weigh
two pounds eight ounces. The rear
wheel is twenty-eight inches. The ma
chine is geared to sixty-eight inches.
The rat-trap pedals weigh exactly twelve
ounces.
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AN INDIAN SCARE.
Disaster Feared by Tribes in In
dian Territory.
Traditions Which Presage Dire Trouble
Visions of Phantom Warriors la
Deadly Combat Produce
Consternation.
Indians in the neighborhood of Tisho
mingo, I. T., are predicting a disaster
of some kind. They say that something
terrible is about to happen to their
tribes or to the invading white men.
The phantom tribe has been seen and
heard in deadly conflict, and this is a
sure indication that many dead men
will lie on the fields. For years there
has been a legend among the Indians
of this territory of a phantom tribe
which was supposed to be the ghostly
remnant of a once powerful nation that
was completely annihilated by an op
posing tribe. This occurrence was so
far back that it is now one of the tradi
tions that has grown misty with age,
and the Philadelpnia Press says it has
been many years since there has been
any indication that there was a founda
tion of truth for the legend which at
taches to a certain valley in the western
part of this territory. In this valley,
which is always shunned by the Indi
ans of all tribes, are many mounds, in
dicating where hundreds of people lie
buried. In this valley, long ages ago,
a great battle is said to have been
fought, and in this battle one whole
nation of red men was wiped from the
face of the earth by a victorious in
vader, who thereafter possessed the
land.
The traditions of the Indians are so
strong that ages do not wipe out the
legends, and where one or more Indians
have seen uncanny things and tell of it
it becomes a part of the nation's his
tory, and where a spot is found to be
possessed of spirits the Indians never
afterward question the truth of the
story, but forever abandon the place.
Such is the history of the little valley
where it is said the great fight occurred
long years ago.
In this valley, full of those little
mounds, the Indians claim they have,
on several occasions, seen the warring
tribes in deadly combat, and closely
following the ghostly battle came
trouble to the Indians. Either pesti
lence, famine or war has invariably
followed the apparition, and while the
Indians have not heard of the phantom
tribe for many years the legend is vivid
in their minds, and now they believe
they are again to be visited with trouble.
John Willis, a deputy t'nited States
marshal, is now responsible for the
scare among the Indians, for he is the
man who heard the deadly conflict be
tween the phantom tribes. Willis did
not know it at the time, and, while he
is a brave man, he heard such sounds
one night recently that he lay per
fectly still. Willis was on the trail
of a band of horse thieves, and was be
lated one night just as he entered
Into a little valley covered with
small mounds. He had never heard of
the phantom tribe nor of the battle
which was fought in the valley, lie
was far from a house and picketed his
horse and made his camp, lie had been
asleep for some time when he was
aroused by his horse, which was snort
ing and jumping about in terror. Willis
jumped to his feet, thinking he was at
tacked by a band of outlaws from the
noise which was made. It was bright
moonlight, but he could see nothing.
All around him there seemed to he an
invisible host of men, some on horse
back and some nn foot, and these men
appeared to be in deadly eonllict. The
noise of the trampling hoofs and rush
ing men could lie plainly distinguished,
while blows were struck so forcibly
that the sound could be distinctly heard.
Backward and forward the battle of
ghosts seemed to rage for over an hour,
yet all the while not a thing could be
seen in the valley and V-,;.is was almost
convinced that the sounds were the re
sults of a dream. His horse continued
its frantic efforts to escape and at last
Willis was compelled to saddle tho ani
mal and get away from the valley. Just
as he got beyond the confines of the
valley all sounds eeas.Ml and he was
tempted to turn back, but just as he en
tered the valley the war began again.
He told his story to the Indians and
then the story of the phantom tribe
came out, and the Indians told of the
disaster which was sure to follow the
appearance of the phantom warring red
men.
jCsqiiltntutx for the Fair.
The schooner Kvelina is being fitted
out at Halifax, N. 8., for a voyage to
the northern part of Labrador. She
will go as far north as possible, when
tenor twelve families of Esquimaux,
about fifty or sixty persons in all, will
be engaged to go to the world's fair at
Chicago. Uogs, fishing gear and all
implements used by them will be
brought along. Messrs. Tabor and
Vincent, of Washington territory, are
here superintending the fitting up of
the schooner. Prof. Ueid, of Harvard;
Dr. Baur, the eminent naturalist, and
one of the first scientists of America,
will join the vessel hero the first ol
next week and proceed on her to se
lect the Esqumaux. They will also be
accompanied by a professor from
Quebec and one from Newark. On her
return, which will be in about two
months' time, the schooner will pro
ceed to Boston with her strange carjo
and they will be sent to Chicago from
there
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