The Duke Booster (Duke, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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The Duke Booster.
W. i. BELL. r»k
DUKE,
OKLAHOMA
Sunburn la fraa and practically uo
limited.
Haa anyone sighed lately for an old 1 WAY TO SHIP GLASS BULBS
faabloned hot autumer? ( -
Englishmen Invent Receptacle for
Shipping Electric Light Globes
That Affords Protection.
There was a time when people bad
no electric fans to cool them off.
Argentine tobacco Is used to kill In
sects and make campaign cigars.
Philadelphia Is acting like a base
ball team that really wants to win tbt
pennant
Heidelberg has aeon a new comet,
but uo one can revive a Halley sens*
tlon and situation.
Two Englishmen have Invented a
box for shipping electric light bulbs
that gives umple protection to these
fragile articles, yet Is of sruull slzo
and easy to mall. A rectangular box
has a netting, open at one end and
fastened to the box by the other end
This Is a busy world, but somebody
has time to practice on the plane
Avery afternoon.
Pittsburg has discovered a comet
though it would have preferred to dla
cover an Ice wagon.
No scientist has recently had ths
temerity to assert publicly that tb€
sun Is growing cooler.
Files may be scarce this year, but
they won’t be If you don’t swat the
few that have arrived.
At $25 per flight aeroplaning Is still
a long way from being a common and
popular outdoor sport
A magistrate declares that soup Is
not a weapon but an edible. In some
restaurants it Is an audible.
ilEW “FIRE DAMP" DETECTOR
Electrical Appliance Invented Thai
Bounds Alarm Gongs When Ex*
plosive Element Is Reached.
’ Fire damp.” that old enemy of the
miner which Sir Humphry Davy
overcame with his safety lump, has
caused muny disasters since the Davy
lump was perfected, duo largely to
the fuct thut miners fulled to use the
screened torch. Kccently, according
to Popular Electricity, two engiuee'as
a» New castle-on-Tyne completed an
electrical ’’lamp” which promises to
muke the old Davy lamp obsolete.
Thla electrical lump Is not at all a
lamp. A ’’detector" appliance Id at-
tached to trailing wires, one of the - — — -----
detector colls made of copper und the ***•' of which the minister was to he
other of platinum. This platinum coll lilted to read a chapter beforo ths
has the freakish disposition to nb family went to bed.
sorb hydrogen—a fire damp explosive i*ne was not, however, In a voty
element—and In the absorption he- utnlable frame of mind, for careful
comes heated. The front of the de- housewives nre likely to be put out ol
EVIDENTLY SHE WAS ANNOYED
Good Wife's Punishment, Intended for
Husband, Poor Compensation
to Rovlvallst.
A popular revivalist Bad been hold-
ing services at a town In MUsliuilppI
*h*-n a heavy rain came on, and he
accepted an Invitation to pass tho
night at the house of one of the
townsmen. Observing tho preacher’s
drenched clothing, the host brought
out a suit of his own anj sent his
guest upstairs to don It.
I he good mun had made the change
und was on hls way buck to the sit-
ting room, when the woman of tho
•vouse came out of unothcr room hold-
In her hands the big family flible,
lector bristles with wires of unlike
metals having free ends. One of the
sorts by the advent of unexpected
comply. Seeing the revivalist in his
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rretal bristles la of a nature to resist borr^^ud garments, she mistook him
the heat from the platinum coil, while
the other wires bend until the two
metals touch, closing the electric cir-
cuit. At once dauger gongs and red
lights flash up and warning Is given
The great value of this device is that
It will detect as little as two per cent
of hydrogen, a q jantity which would
not be perceptible from the Davy
lamp.
for b*» >usband, and as he passed in
front w her she lifted the book and
brought it down sharply on his head.
•'There!” she exclaimed. "Take
that for asking him to stay all night!"
—Llppincott’s Magazine.
England’s new war balloon, the May-
fly, Is living up to Its name. Some
day It may fly. Who kjows?
Look on the bright side, dear chil-
dren. The Saturday rain that spoils
your picnic may save a corn crop.
New York haa decreed that cold
storage eggs must not be over ten
months old when offered to consum
era.
Never too old to learn Is the mottc
of the New York man who has com
menced to smoke at the age of ninety-
five.
Evidently the Chicago bride who
claims she gets forty kisses a day Is
not afraid of the microbe that lies
therein.
Bulb Swings In Netting.
The bulb Is Inserted In the open end
of the netting, which Is then closed
by means of drawing strings and fast-
ened in the box, so that the glass is
suspended therein with room enough
on all sides to prevent contact. A
piece of cardboard, dotted to fold
over and Inclose the wooden box. is
attached to the latter and forms an
added protection for this. When the
cardboard is folded over and fastened
the package can be sent through the
malls with safety. Without some spe-
cial device of this kind It would re-
quire a bulky box filled with excel
slor to assure safe transportation of
one of these fragile globes.
NEW ELECTRIC ALARIVPCLCCK
May Be Set to Ring at Any Prede-
termined Time—Lamp Arranged
to Show Time at Night.
A new type of alarm clock is
shown in the diagram. It is fitted
with an electric lamp ao placed as
to illuminate the dial. This lamp Is
controlled by a push button on the
end of a cord, which may be long
enough to extend to the bed, so that
the time may be ascertained withoul
getting up. At the right of the clock
is the usual alarm bell which may bE
Boston’s official dog catchers are
wealthy men, which Is almost enough
to rub the scales off the codfish aris
tocracy.
We are thoroughly ,in accord with
the Philadelphia Physician who ad-
vises us not to overwork. Likewise,
the physician Is a thorough Philadel-
phian.
English Is no longer to be taught
in the Cuban public schools. Tbe fear
seems to be that it means the substitu-
tion of baseball instead of bull
fights.
It makes a man peevish after he has
walked a block out of his way on a
hot day to look at an Imposing ther-
mometer if the mercury registers
only 93.
A Chicago man weighing 38 pounds
has married a girl four times hls
weight. Wa suspect that be will have
a hard tlma posing as the bead of tbe
household.
CAREFUL OF THOME TALK
Copenhagen Exchange Arranges
Gramophone to Record Unseemly
Language of Subscribers.
Exasperated telephone subscribers
who, unable to “get through” as
quickly as they would like, Indulge in
harsh language towards the girl
clerks, have been cleverly brought to
book by the telephone administration
of Copenhagen.
At first It was found difficult to
Identify the offenders, so a gramo-
phone apparatus was installed at. the
central exchange. The moment a sub-
scriber began to use unseemly lan-
guage the girl would have it recorded
by the gramophone.
Some of the worst offenders were
summoned to the directors’ office,
and when they denied their hasty re-
marks they were convicted by an ex-
act repetition in their own voice on
the gramophone. Telephone manners
in Copenhagen have as a result great-
ly Improved.
In the Church Militant.
Henry N. Cary, the secretary of the
Chicago Publishers’ association, has a
negro cook he took with him to Chi-
cago from St. Louis. The cook is
very religious and immediately joined
a church in Chicago.
Cary saw the cook going out of the
house one evening with a large carv-
ing knife in her hand.
"Where are you going, Mary?” he
asked.
“J’se gwine t’ church.”
"Well, what are you doing with that
knife?”
“They’s a religious dispute goin’ on
down there,” said Mary, “an’ I wanter
see my side gits de best of it.”—SaL
urday Evening Post.
Father Time.
“Time flies.”
“Got the old man in an
have they?”
airship,
Electric Alarm Clock.
set to go off at any predetermined
tune. At the left is a bank for valu-
ables which is so arranged that if it
is tampered with the alarm will ring.
Mr. Coghlln of Boston predicts that
men's attire will shift toward femi-
nine lines while women’s will become
■sore masculine. Wbat will be re-
quired to develop a new brand of
if
Wireless Feat.
One hour by wireless from Glace
Lay, C. B., to Dakar, ou the coast of
French Western Africa 13 the aston-
nhlng feat accomplished by a recent
message.
ElECTRIOl
i NOTES
V-
tg&
Records Power Consumption.
A recent type of electrical measur-
'ng Instrument records the power con-
sumption correct to within one per
cent., regardless of temperature and
current <haogcs
Telephone service in Denmark coots
about $5 a year.
1 he l nited States has 87 telephones
for each 1.000 residents.
Japan now has 31 electric railways,
with a trackage of 5C7 miles.
A semi automatic telephone system
is being tried out In Amsterdam.
The repair and removal of instru-
ments costa the New York Telephone
•omoanv S6.000.000 a year.
“That’s ]
Good”
Is often said of
Post
Toasties
when eaten with cream or
rich milk and a sprinkle of
sugar if desired.
That’s the cue for house-
keepers who want to please
the whole family.
Post Toasties are ready
to serve direct from the
package—
Convenient
Economical
Delicious
“The Memory Lingers"
Sold ky Grocer*
POSTT’M CEREAL CO.. Ma ,
Battla Creak. Mich.
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