distance of about twenty-five miles. Leave the Court-House, and run out
Washington Boulevard, through Union Park to Hoyne Avenue; then turning
to the right into this, run to North Avenue, and turn here sharp to the
right, and a moment later to the left into Milwaukee Avenue. Milwaukee
Avenue runs out beyond Grayland, turns here slightly to the northward,
and crosses the railroad track. It is what used to be called the old
toll road, and crosses the railroad track at Jefferson Park. Immediately
after crossing turn to the left, and follow the track up through Norwood
Park, which is two miles further on, thence through Canfield to Park
Ridge, and at Park Ridge leave the railroad track and turn right into
the road that runs northward. This should be followed as marked on the
map, with a sharp turn to the left and right about a mile out of Park
Ridge, and a mile further on another sharp turn to the right, bringing
the rider again into Milwaukee Avenue. Here keep to the left, and run
northwestward through Grove to West Northfield, seven miles from Park
Ridge. Thence the road zigzags three or four miles on to Wheeling.
The road most of the way is reasonably good, partly block pavement, and
partly ordinary country road in good condition. The run can easily be
made in two hours by a moderately good rider; in three hours by any one
who is able to ride twenty-five miles. If the rider has time it is well
worth while to do this ride in the morning, and spend the afternoon at
Wheeling, or running out here and there in the vicinity of that town--to
Deerfield, for example, and back. Or it is quite possible to make the
next stage of the journey to Waukesha in the afternoon, and this will be
given in the coming week.
NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
routes from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford,
Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New
Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814.
Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816.
Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No.
818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No.
820. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822.
Philadelphia-Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West
Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City--First Stage in
No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland--First
Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to
Boston--Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth
Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No 832; Sixth Stage in No. 833.
Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to
Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to
New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839.
Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to
Nantasket Beach in No 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843.
Philadelphia to Washington--First Stage in No. 844; Second Stage in
No. 845; Third Stage in No. 846; Fourth Stage in No. 847; Fifth
Stage in No. 848. City of Washington in No. 849. City of Albany in
No. 854; Albany to Fonda in No. 855; Fonda to Utica in No. 856:
Utica to Syracuse in No. 857; Syracuse to Lyons in No. 858; Lyons
to Rochester in No. 859; Rochester to Batavia in No. 860; Batavia
to Buffalo in No. 861; Poughkeepsie to Newtown in No. 864; Newtown
to Hartford in No. 865; New Haven to Hartford in No. 866; Hartford
to Springfield in No. 867; Hartford to Canaan in No. 868; Canaan to
Pittsfield in No 869; Hudson to Pittsfield in No. 870. City of
Chicago in No. 874.
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hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.
MYSTERY OF SILVER PRINTING--(_Continued_).
Chemists have proved that no substance is sensitive to light when
perfectly pure and kept by itself in a dry place. If silver chloride is
placed in a glass tube, the air exhausted, and the tube hermetically
sealed, it may be exposed to sunlight, and will remain unchanged in
color.
The action of light on the silver chloride is to separate the chlorine
from the silver, but there must be some substance with which the
chlorine will combine, or the light will not decompose the chloride.
(Decompose is to separate the parts composing a compound body.)
For purposes of photography some substance must be used which will
combine very quickly with the silver, and such a substance is found in
silver nitrate. The chlorine set free by the action of light combines at
once with the pure silver in the nitrate of silver. The chemical nature
of the dark-colored substance produced by the action of light on the
silver chloride is not yet fully determined, but most chemists agree
that the silver chloride, when decomposed by light, produces silver
sub-chloride and chlorine. (A sub-chloride is a chloride which contains
more of the base than the acid. A molecule of silver chloride contains
one atom of silver and one of chlorine, while a molecule of sub-chloride
contains _two_ atoms of silver and one atom of chlorine.)
This silver chloride is white, but passes through different shades of
coloring, from a reddish-violet to a deep purplish-black, according to
the length of time it is exposed to the light.
When paper coated with a sensitive silver solution is placed under a
negative and exposed to the sun, the light reaches the paper through
different degrees of thickness, or density, in the gelatine film. In the
part of the negative which represents the sky the film is quite thick,
while in the part which represents the deep shadows it is thin,
sometimes being almost transparent. The part of the paper which is under
the portion of the negative representing the sky is scarcely affected by
the light, but in that part representing the shadows the light acts at
once, and quickly decomposes the silver chloride. When the paper is
taken from the printing-frame it contains different grades of the
deposit formed by the action of light on the silver chloride.
NOTE.--The first article in the series of "Chemistry of
Photography" was published in No. 867 (June 9). This article was on
the chemical elements, and contained the following paragraph:
"Each element is represented by a symbol, this symbol being the
first letter or letters of the name of the element. The symbol of
hydrogen is 'H': of oxygen is 'O'; of gold, 'Au,' the first two
letters of the word 'Aurum,' the Latin name for gold. Each symbol
also stands for the weight of one of its atoms. (An atom is
supposed to be the smallest possible division of a substance.)
Hydrogen is the _lightest_ element known, and is taken as the
standard of weight when comparing the weight of other atoms. The
symbol 'H' would therefore not only stand for the element hydrogen,
but for its atomic weight, 1, or a unit. An atom of oxygen is
_sixteen_ times as heavy as an atom of hydrogen, and an atom of
gold is 196 times as heavy."
In the next number of the ROUND TABLE a list of the chemicals
mentioned was given, but either through a typographical error or an
error in copy, the weight of hydrogen was given as "11," and that
of oxygen as "12." It should have been hydrogen "1," and oxygen
"16." Those who read the first paper would of course perceive the
mistake; but this correction is made for those who may not have
seen the first article, or may have forgotten the explanation.
CAPTAIN JACK AND THE CANNIBALS.
"Well! well! well!" said old Captain Jack, as Bobbie and Tom appeared
before him on the beach in front of the Ocean House. "You boys back
again, eh? Why, do you know, I never expected to see ye again? For a
fact I didn't."
"Why not?" asked Bobbie.
"Why not?" echoed the old seafarer, as he leaned back against the old
wreck and laughed. "Why not? Why, I takes the town paper, I does, an'
las' winter I seed a squib in the town paper as said that two hungry
cannabiles had descended on New York city, an' et up the whole
poppylation. Mebbe you didn't belong to the poppylation. Some folks
don't join everything there is a-goin'. Wasn't ye et up?"
"How you do talk!" said Bobbie. "If we had been eaten up how should we
be here?"
"Simple enough! simple enough!" returned the old Captain, pulling away
on his pipe. "I was et up once, therefore why not ye, says I," he added.
"Eaten up? You?" cried Tom. "How could that be? You are here, aren't
you?"
"Yes, I be," returned the Captain. "But so also are you in spite of the
fact that ar town paper says that two cannabiles has et up the
poppylation of New York. If it's a-comin' to manufacture apologizing,
it's your turn first."
"Well," said Tom, "we don't want to make you mad, Captain Jack. If two
cannibals ate up the population of New York, we escaped. Maybe we were
in the back of the pantry, where they couldn't find us," he added, with
a sly wink at Bobbie.
"That's where I was," said Bobbie, resolved to be on good terms with the
Captain anyhow. "I heard our next-door neighbors hollering away like
everything, so I and my whole family hid away behind the ice-box."
"Exactly," said Captain Jack, with a smile. "You was sensible, you was;
an' so you escaped being et, but I never had no such luck. Cannabiles
got hold of me oncet, an' if it hadn't been for my presence o' mind I
wouldn't ha' been here now."
"Why, what did they do?" asked Tom.
"They et every bit o' me except my head," said Jack. "First they et my
feet, then my legs, then my arms, an' then the rest o' me, except my
head"--and Captain Jack sighed as he thought of it. "An' I tell ye,
boys," he added, with a sad shake of his head, "it hurt awful,
'specially when they were pickin' my bones."
"But you're here now!" cried Bob.
"Yes," said Captain Jack; "but from my collar down I'm false. I've one
wooden leg, one cork leg--which keeps me up when I go in swimmin'--one
wax arm, and another arm which I've growed since the cataract."
"Cataract?" said Bob.
"Cat-as-trophe, I guess you mean," said Tom.
"One o' the two. I dun'no' which," said the old sailor. "I ain't never
been particular about cats."
And then he rose up and walked away, leaving the two boys wishing they
had brought a few pins along with them to stick into him to see whether
his legs were really cork and wood, as he had said.
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AN EXPLANATION.
"Jacky, you ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Mrs. Harkins to her
boy. "Mr. Hayseed tells me you picked all his cantaloupes and threw them
into the well."
"I did it for you," pleaded Jacky.
"Me?" cried his mother.
"Yes, I did," said Jacky. "They was only muskmelons, and you said you
liked watermelons best, so I put 'em in the well."
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Catching and Mounting Butterflies.
Will you kindly tell me how to catch, how to kill without pain, how
to mount, and on what to mount butterflies?
ZELL STEEVER.
"THE CAIRO," WASHINGTON, D. C.
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To properly catch butterflies for a collection do not use your hat or
your fingers. Provide a net as shown in the illustration. Bend a light
wire so as to form a hoop ten inches across, and fasten the two ends
into a section of a fishing-rod or other light pole about four feet
long. Over this hoop stretch netting as shown. Immediately the fly is in
the net turn the hoop over, that it may not escape. If it be of large
size, catch it at the base of the wings by your thumb and finger. Press
hard enough to kill, but not to crush the body. If of small size, or if
it does not hold its wings above its back, put your killing-bottle
inside the net, drive the fly inside it, and let the poison do the rest.
This killing-bottle is of glass, with a large mouth, and has a cork that
projects sufficiently to be easily handled. Into the bottle put a piece
of cyanide of potassium as big as a chestnut, and pour over it, to depth
enough to cover it, plaster of Paris, letting the latter harden.
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To mount butterflies prepare a setting-board as shown in the
illustration. Put the body into the groove, as here shown, and then,
using a fine needle, spread the wings well, the front wings being quite
well forward, and the hind wings well away from the body. Get the
antennæ in position, and put two pins crossed under the abdomen so it
does not fall. Put over the wings pieces of stiff cardboard, as in the
cut, and bind them down with the string. Let them be on the
setting-boards one week after you think them thoroughly dry. If insects
become too dry to spread they can be softened by putting them, for a few
hours, into a closed jar in which there is wet sand.
There are various ways of arranging a permanent butterfly collection,
but the best way is to provide a light box, two inches deep and 20x24
inches square. Have the bottom of cork, and over the top put a cover
with glass in it. Cover the cork bottom with white paper. Insects should
be arranged as they are classified in science, each with a label below
the insect giving scientific name, date and place of capture, and with
both sexes present. With each ought to be placed the other stages of its
life, if possible: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and cocoon, if it makes one.
Some prefer to set insects on pins arranged to show their color to the
best advantage, but this is not so good a plan from a scientific point
of view. Designs might be a crown, a star, a wasp, or a butterfly, using
beetles, wasps, and dragon-flies to vary colors.
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Storing and Transferring Wheat.
In this city are stored vast quantities of wheat. This wheat has to
be kept somewhere between crops, so to speak. Formerly it was
stored in great wooden structures called elevators. You have seen
such buildings, of course. But there were two serious objections to
wooden buildings for keeping grain. One was that rats, weevils, and
worms easily got through the wood. The other was the danger from
fire, and the consequently increased cost of insurance.
In Toledo the experiment was first tried of erecting immense steel
tanks for storing grain. These tanks would not burn, and rats could
not dig through them. Furthermore, they can be made air-tight, and
hence they preserve the grain.
A short distance from here, on the line of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway, a new method has just been tried for
putting wheat into and getting it out of these tanks. The grain is
transferred by a system of tubes, through which are strong
air-currents, and the wheat is carried by the air just as a chip is
carried along by a stream of water. These air-tight tanks make the
flour you eat better than formerly, and the tubes for transferring
the wheat lessen its cost.
FRANK F. CLARK.
TOLEDO, O.
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Answers to Kinks.
No. 14.--Pope Gregory IX. Found by using capitals.
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No. 15.--Spear, pear, ear, ar.
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No. 16.--Hot-ten-tot. An-a-gram, Mush-room.
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No. 17.
Turtle, cod, salmon, duck, goose, onion, pea, olive, tongue, orange,
plum, strawberry, sugar, milk, cold water.
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No. 18.
1, General Sher (Shire) man. 2, U. S. Grant. 3, B. Franklin. 4, Chauncey
Depew (chance, seedy, pew). 5, Salmon Portland Chase. 6, P. T. Barnum
(pea, tea, bar, numb). 7, Patrick Henry (pat, rick, hen, rye). 8,
Abraham Lincoln (a, bray, ham, lin, con). 9, G. Washington (gee,
washing, ton). 10, James A. Garfield. 11, Noah Porter. 12, Phil Sheridan
(fill, sherry, den). 13, Daniel Webster (Dan, yell, web, star). 14,
Benjamin Harrison. 15, Henry Ward Beecher (hen, reward, beech, err). 16,
Oliver Wendell Holmes (olive, are, double u, homes.) 17, Thomas Edison.
18, J. Russell Lowell (jay, russ, cell, low, well). 19, Kit Carson. 20,
Captain Kidd (cap, tun, kid).
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Questions and Answers.
"Can you tell a New York city boy, who is interested in architecture,
where he can get a chance, without expense, to read the illustrated
architectural papers or magazines as they come out? Can you suggest the
names of those which are best suited to help a boy ambitious to become
familiar with this study?" You can read all the periodicals and books on
this subject contained in the Astor and Cooper Institute libraries free
of expense. Consult the _Architectural News_, which you will find on the
Institute table; also _Gunton's Magazine_--advertisements as well as
contents. Lewis J. Mather: No pins of the Order are in stock just now.
Notice will be given on this page when a new stock is ready.
"Would-be-Marine" should read the article by Admiral Gherardi in
_Harper's Round Table_ for June 30 last. He can procure it through any
dealer or direct from the publishers for five cents. In it he is told in
great detail how to enter the navy, the requirements, pay, and chances
of promotion.
Will "H. K. M.", an autograph-collector, send us his or her full name
and address? A Knight in France writes: "Will any Western Knight or Lady
write to Sir Victor Cartier, 3 Rue Beauregard, Troyes, Aube, France, how
farmers are making their own oatmeal, and about sweet-corn culture? He
shall answer them any question concerning France. Sir Victor would like,
too, to trade French stamps with people living in Africa, South America,
China, Australia." Josephus Cinquemont: Ask your newsdealer for HARPER'S
ROUND TABLE, which is HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE under a different name. You
give no address. To insure a reply it is always best to send your
address. Evon Foucht, 105 Bank Street, Dayton, O., is interested in
magic, and wants correspondents who have ideas to trade with him. He is
informed, in answer to his question, that the St. George and the Greek
crosses are one and the same in form--as nearly as the types will allow
us, this +. Look in Webster for a picture of the Greek cross. The St.
George is not given there.
Frank W. Dougherty, 1751 North Thirty-first Street, Philadelphia, is a
"Shut in," aged thirteen, who has had to keep his room for three years.
He is what the daily papers call a baseball "rooter," and is saving up
colored pictures of ball-players. Can you send him some for his
collection? Henry F. Schermerhorn: It is better to apply for a patent
through an experienced attorney than to attend to the matter yourself.
Models are no longer required.
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AN UNEXPECTED RESULT.
A party of American college graduates on a trip around the world were
spending a few days in one of the smaller cities of India. Near by was a
temple, in the grounds of which were always to be found a number of
fakirs and jugglers and performers of wonderful tricks. One evening the
Americans were joking with one of these miracle-workers, and succeeded
in making him believe that they considered there was nothing wonderful
about his performances. One of the Americans who had a knack of doing
sleight-of-hand tricks, and who had cultivated his ability somewhat by
entertaining his college mates with various feats of dexterity before he
graduated, thought it would be a good joke to challenge the fakir to a
competition. The juggler accepted, and called his assistants about him.
It was decided that the American should perform the first trick; and he
confided to his friends that he would make the fakir believe he had
swallowed a lighted cigarette. Knowing how well he could perform this
feat of sleight-of-hand, his companions smiled confidently. The American
youth rolled up his sleeves and pulled from his pocket a cigarette,
which he passed around among the Hindoos. He then took a match from his
pocket and scraped it on the heel of his shoe.
To the amazement of all the American travellers the natives uttered
howls of dismay, and gathered up their goods and fled. Nothing could
persuade them to come back again, and the Americans were considerably at
a loss to know what had caused their fright. They learned a few days
later from a low-caste Hindoo that the fakir and his friends had been
scared almost out of their wits by the lighting of the match. "They are
willing to do tricks with human beings," said the man, "but they have
great fear of one who can pick up a small stick from the ground, and
with it draw fire from his foot. The fakirs fear no man, but they would
have the Prophet protect them from devils."
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A SLOW TRAIN.
Southern railroads have a reputation for slow travel, and in some cases
it is well merited. A Western travelling-man, making a trip on these
lines, suffered a great deal of annoyance from this particular failing,
but up to the time of the following incident he had enjoyed himself
immensely guying the conductors, trainmen, or any persons having to do
with the roads, about their rapid transit.
He was travelling one afternoon on an exceptionally slow train, which
came to a stop every now and then without any apparent cause. After
expressing himself very audibly to the passengers he resigned himself to
the inevitable, and dozed off into short naps, which were interrupted by
the sundry jerks of the train, at which he complained. The passengers
showed their annoyance at these complaints by angry looks. The conductor
had excused the engineer in every possible way. The last apology had
been that cattle obstructed the track. The train had started again, and
had proceeded about ten minutes, when it halted with a jerk. Up waked
the impatient traveller, and petulantly remarked:
"Dear, dear! I suppose, conductor, this worse than slow train has struck
another herd of cattle?"
"Struck another one?--not much," replied the conductor; "we've simply
caught up again with the first herd we ran into, that's all."
The traveller subsided, and the conductor was left in peace.
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NO HIRING ABOUT THE MATTER.
Probably one of the neatest bits of sharp bargaining ever enacted took
place not long ago between an apparently ignorant German with an
abundance of wealth and a sharp dealer in horses. The German wanted a
day's outing, and decided that a long drive would suffice for his wants,
and applied to the horse-dealer for the hire of his best horse and trap.
The dealer, not knowing the applicant, demurred at supplying his wants.
The German, determined to have his ride, finally pulled out a huge roll
of bills, and offered to buy the horse and rig, provided the dealer
would buy them back at the same price. This surprised the dealer, but
not wishing to offend the owner of so much ready money and possibly a
good future customer, he agreed to the deal.
The German departed with the horse and rig, and at the end of the day
returned them in good condition, expressing his satisfaction at the
pleasure the drive had afforded him. The dealer, according to the
agreement, paid him back the money, and the German started to leave the
place.
"I beg your pardon, sir," exclaimed the dealer, "but you have forgotten
to pay for the hire, you know."
"Pay for the hire? Why, my dear sir," coolly replied the German, "I fail
to see that. If you will exercise your memory a trifle you will agree
that I have been driving my own horse and trap all day, and, now you
have bought them back, they are yours. There was no hiring about the
matter. Good-day, sir." And he left the astonished dealer to reflect.
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