Chapter XXX: Jalap and the Dogs Sing a Lullaby (2)

The 100-yards dash will be won by Roche of W.H.-S., Clarke of Worcester Academy, or Dunbar of E.H.-S. These three sprinters breasted the tape almost together in the 40-yard dash at the winter meeting, Roche winning by a few inches only. I consider Ferguson the surest man for the high hurdles, although Chase of Andover will be close upon him. The low hurdles will make a pretty race for Fuller, Cambridge L.S., Heine, P.A., and Seaver, Brookline H.-S. Fuller's success will largely depend on whether he has to run the 220 flat before he takes the hurdles. In that case Heine and Seaver will have a slight advantage. But if Fuller does run the 220 before this, he ought to win it, with Roche and Dunbar behind him. There will be no fast time made in the quarter, and the race will furnish a good opportunity for a surprise by some unknown quantity. Fish, W.A., Carleton, Milton Academy, Purtell, E.H.-S., and Howe, W.H.-S., are about equal in ability for that distance. Albertson, W.H.-S., and Batchelder, R.L.S., will have a close race in the half-mile, and I have no doubt that the record will be lowered. Cunningham of Hopkinson ought to be third.

If Laing of Andover were not kept out of the contest by the age limit ruling he would, beyond any doubt, take the mile for P.A. He ran it at the Interscholastics last year in 4 min. 32-2/5 sec. And so, unless Andover sends down another good man, Dow of E.H.-S. will probably win the event. Moore of Newton H.-S. ought to take the walk, with Delaney of W.H.-S. second, and Barstow of Hopkinson third. For the field events Holt and Dole of Roxbury Latin, and Henderson of E.H.-S., will divide the honors in the high jump, while the broad will be contested by Purtell, E.H.-S. and Holt, R.L.S. The shot event will be won by O'Brien, E.H.-S., with Jordan, W.H.-S. and Holt, P.A., in the places. Johnson, W.A., should win the pole-vault, although Thenoin, R.L.S., may push him. The hammer rests with Seargent of Hopkinson, Coan, E.H.-S., or Barney, R.L.S. With so many men competing from such a large number of different schools, it is not probable that the winning score will be much greater than 25, and the winner of second place ought to come close to the same figure.

The New York Interscholastic Tennis Tournament, under the auspices of Columbia College, had a large entry list that required three days to be played off. The games were all characterized by steady work rather than by any particularly brilliant play, and the championship was won by Waltz of the Leal School, Plainfield. He met Wigham of Harvard School in the finals, and had a comparatively easy time of it, defeating the New-Yorker in three straight sets--6-1, 6-2, 6-4. He will go to Newport for the big Interscholastic tournament this summer, and will meet the other school league champions, Ware of the N.E.I.S.A.A., Sheldon of the Connecticut I.S.A.A., and Beaman, who won in the Pennsylvania I.A.L. Tournament at Princeton. I consider Ware the strongest player of this quartet, and expect to see him win at Newport. He will be heard from at the Longwood Tournament next Saturday too.

The prospects of Lawrenceville being victorious over Andover in the baseball game to-morrow have been daily increasing, and I believe now that the Jerseymen will win. Andover does not seem to be able to reduce the average of errors made in her games so far, and her players on the left-field side must play a sharp game if they wish to offset Lawrenceville's good batters. St. Mark's School, with little over a hundred boys to pick a nine from, defeated the Phillips Academy team, two weeks ago, by the score of 6-3, and the latter suffered another bad defeat from the Yale Freshmen a few days later. St. Mark's victory was in a considerable measure due to the effective pitching of White, who held the Andover men down to six hits. The features of the game, besides White's work in the box, were the catching of Drew, Andover's Captain, and the fielding of Folger. Mills, too, made a beautiful running catch of a long fly. I am surprised that the St. Mark's batters were able to get seven hits off Greenway, as it has been Andover's boast that their battery is as good as any in the schools. It is; and I surmise that Greenway had an off-day at Southboro. He must do better to-morrow or Lawrenceville will have an easy time with their Massachusetts rivals. The Jersey players have greatly improved the past week, especially in team-work. They have won within the past fifteen days two games from the Pennington Seminary's strong team, they have defeated the Princeton Freshmen, and they got excellent practice out of their match with the Princeton 'Varsity. Andover will have the advantage of home grounds and the crowd, but they will need more than that to pile up the runs.

A new invention by Professor E. W. Scripture, of Yale, will be interesting to all track athletes. The apparatus is one that will measure a runner's "reaction time." This time is that which elapses between the moment the pistol is discharged and the moment the sprinter starts. The brief period between these two moments is taken up by nature in transmitting the sound from the ear to the brain, and the impulse to run from the brain to the muscles of the legs. Professor Scripture believes that the length of reaction time is frequently an important factor, and he argues that with a runner it must be reduced to the shortest possible limit, as one-fifth of a second counts in a race. By experiments the inventor has proved to his own satisfaction that the time which elapses between the firing of the starter's pistol and the actual start of the runner is long enough to influence the winning of a race. The reaction time of a runner may vary from one-sixth to one-third of a second. The new invention is an arrangement by which a runner's reaction time may be measured to within the one-thousandth part of a second. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner, and this thread breaks an electric contact the moment he starts. The distance marked on a cylinder by these two contacts measures the individual's reaction time. Sport may soon reach such a scientific stage of advancement that sprinters will be handicapped with reference to their "reaction time."

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This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the
Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our
maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the
official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen.
Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the
Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership
blanks and information so far as possible.

The run from Brooklyn to Babylon along the south shore of Long Island is perhaps the best bicycle run on the Island, and is the first thirty-five miles of the famous century run which is made every year by the Kings County Wheelmen; and there is no doubt that this 100-mile course along the shore of Long Island is as easy a run as there is in the east United States. The road is macadamized most of the way to Babylon, and is at present finished about as far as Seaford. From Seaford on to Babylon the road is a good one, though not all macadamized. The wheelman intending to make this run should examine the map of Brooklyn published in last week's ROUND TABLE. He will there find the way to get from his residence, whether in Brooklyn or New York, to Prospect Park. Starting from Prospect Park, run up the Boulevard to Liberty Avenue at East New York, and, turning right into this, continue thence to Woodhaven. At Woodhaven take the left-hand fork and run out to Jamaica. The road through Jamaica is clearly enough marked, as it is the beginning of the Plank Road that continues on to Jericho. The rider should keep on this road, which is in good condition, out of Jamaica a mile or more, passing through Hollis and Holliswood Park. At the latter place, and just before reaching Queens, a turn should be made to the right, and after crossing the track the rider will run out over a good road about seven miles to Hempstead. On entering Hempstead he may turn to the left and run up to Garden City, where there is a hotel that is well kept, and a good place for a short stop if one is desired.

Returning to Hempstead, the rider keeps to the main road, running down towards Ridgewood, and comes into the Shore Road, and thence the run continues straight on through South Jerusalem, Seaford, Amityville, Lindenhurst, into Babylon. The whole run from Brooklyn is practically a forty-mile journey, and if the wheelman intends to return on his wheel to Brooklyn he can keep straight on the Shore Road, passing through Freeport, Rockville Centre, and Valley Stream, instead of turning to the right near Ridgewood, and going back through Hempstead. The great advantage of this run is that there are almost no hills along the line of the road, and the wheelman has as "clean" a ride as can be found in the vicinity of New York. When all the roadway along the South Side of Long Island is finally macadamized there will be hardly a single run in the country to equal it.

K. L. T.--The cost of a bicycle trip from New York to Liverpool,
thence to France, and perhaps into Germany, depends entirely on how
much luxury the traveller expects to indulge in, and whether he or
she will ride entirely or will frequently use railway trains. It is
safe to say, however, that it is possible after reaching Europe to
make a bicycle tour through France and Germany on an average of two
dollars per day, though that requires the greatest care in
expenses. (2) It would be hardly advisable for two ladies to travel
through France and Germany alone on bicycles, though it could be
done. The difficulty would be that bicyclists still attract
attention, and two foreign women would be much more likely to meet
with difficulties than if they travelled by rail, to say nothing of
the possible accidents to their machines. (3) The necessary luggage
would be comparatively easily carried in the triangular water-proof
bicycle bag, which is carried on a diamond frame machine inside the
diamond, and on a woman's bicycle in a different shape bag attached
to the handle-bar in the front. Any woman going on such a trip
should learn how to take a bicycle to pieces and put it together
again, and in the process of learning she will discover what tools
are necessary. Material for mending tires is absolutely
necessary--a good monkey-wrench, oil cans, a tire inflator,
pincers, and a reasonably good supply of small wire and twine for
making repairs where such material is necessary. In France you will
probably find no difficulty in having all necessary bicycle repairs
made, especially in the cities and larger towns. It would be much
cheaper to stop at houses, and in England, and perhaps to a certain
extent in France and Germany, such travellers are very well
received in the cottages of the peasants in the middle classes. (4)
The best bicycle roads in the world are in England, and England has
for many years been called the "bicyclist's paradise." The French
government roads come next, both being comparatively free from
hills. German roads are by no means as good, and the country is
more hilly. Swiss roads are moderately good, and in some places
very fine, but they are apt to be extremely hilly. Northern Italy
would probably come next; but it is safe to say that for two women
taking their first bicycle tour, England is by far the best place
to travel in. (5) If two ladies travel second-class on a steamer to
Liverpool they might meet with some unpleasant incidents, but it is
now possible to get a first-class return ticket on some of the
smaller steamers of the important lines quite as cheaply as a
second-class return ticket on the larger steamers. For instance, a
first-class ticket and return to Havre, France, or Southampton,
England, can be bought for from ninety to one hundred dollars on
the smaller steamers of the Hamburg and North German Lloyd lines.
It would, of course, be cheaper to buy a return ticket.

NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
route 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.

Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.

BROKEN NEGATIVES.

Sometimes one is so unfortunate as to break a negative which cannot well be replaced. The amateur who understands little about photographic work is, in such a case, quite likely to think that the negative is ruined, and throw it away; but unless it has been broken in many pieces it can be repaired so that one can get as good a print from it as before it was broken.

If there is one clear break across the glass, but not through the film, place the negative in the printing frame, pushing the broken edges closely together, holding them while adjusting the sensitive paper. Fasten in the printing frame, and print in a diffused light--that is, not in the direct rays of the sun. Place the negative at such an angle with the light that the crack across the glass shall not make a shadow.

If there are several cracks in the glass, but not in the film, put the negative in the printing frame, supporting it by a piece of plain glass; tie cords to the printing frame so that it may be suspended by them; hang the frame from some projection where it will not hit anything, and keep it revolving during the printing process. The plate moving all the time, the cracks in the glass do not cast a shadow long enough in one place to make any impression on the sensitive paper. If one cannot arrange the frame in this way, it may be placed at the bottom of a large deep box without a cover, and left to print.

If the film is broken as well as the glass, take a piece of plain glass the size of the negative--a spoiled plate is just the thing--lay the broken pieces on this plain glass, taking care that the picture lines of the negative are true, and bind the edges of the glass and negative together with strips of gummed paper. When the strips are dry, varnish the film with negative varnish. It is better to purchase the varnish ready prepared than to attempt to fix it one's self.

If the negative is badly broken, but not splintered, apply Canada balsam with a toothpick to the edges of the broken parts, and press them firmly together, keeping the negative on a flat surface during the process, a glass plate a little larger than the negative being the best thing to use. When the balsam is thoroughly dry, flow the negative with varnish, and as soon as it begins to set cover it with a piece of glass the size of the negative. When dry, bind the edges together with strips as before directed. If the negative is very badly broken, it should be enclosed between two pieces of plain glass, putting on the second in the same manner, after the first is dry. Bind the three together.

An excellent paste for binding negatives and lantern slides is made of rice flour. Mix rice flour with water till it is smooth and free from lumps. Set the dish containing it into another of hot water, and boil till it becomes thick and semi-transparent, stirring it all the time. When done it should be about the consistency of laundry starch made for collars and cuffs. This paste is very strong--in fact, almost as durable as cement. If a few drops of carbolic acid are added to it, it will keep for some time. The bottle should be tightly corked when not in use.

If the film has not been broken it can be removed from the glass in the same way that films are stripped, and transferred to another clean plate.

For very valuable negatives it is a good plan to make a paper negative, in case of accident to the glass one. A paper negative is made by taking a good print of the negative and waxing it according to directions given in No. 782 "answers to queries." Make a print from this waxed positive, supporting the paper while in the printing frame by a sheet of plain glass. Tone and fix this print, which will be a negative. Wax it, and if you are so unfortunate as to break the original, you will still have the paper copy, which can be used in its place.

For negatives that can be replaced it is not wise to spend the time in repairing them if broken, but it sometimes happens that a valuable one is broken which cannot be duplicated, and with careful handling it can be made "as good as new."

SIR KNIGHT HARRY T. LUTHER, New York, asks what causes his
negatives to turn yellow, and if there is any remedy for it. The
reason why negatives turn yellow is usually because they have not
been washed long enough. They should be washed in running water an
hour. If running water is not convenient soak the plate for two
hours, changing the water several times. The yellow stains may
sometimes be removed by soaking the negative for a short time in a
solution of one ounce sulphite of soda and nine ounces water, to
which a few drops of sulphuric acid have been added. Sir Harry
also asks what toning solution to use with the plain paper
described in Nos. 796 and 803. The combined toning solution used
for aristo paper is the best solution for the plain paper. It
works quickly, and gives soft clear tones.

SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM KELSEY asks if a combined toning and fixing
solution can be prepared for aristo-type paper--how long negatives
and prints should be washed in running water--and what use is made
of hyposulphite of soda and alum in developing negatives. A
combined toning solution for aristo may be bought ready prepared,
or one can prepare it at home. A formula comes with each package
of paper, and half the quantity given is enough to prepare at one
time, unless one has a large number of prints to tone.
Hyposulphite of soda and alum are used for fixing the negative
after developing. The hypo can be used for fixing without the
addition of the alum. The alum hardens and clears the film, and is
good to use in warm weather to prevent the frilling of the film.

SIR KNIGHT GEORGE H. BENZON, JUN., Philadelphia, Pa., asks for the
best solution for fixing plates. A solution of 4 ounces water and
1 ounce of hyposulphite of soda is the formula used by the editor
of this column both in warm and cold weather. In warm weather the
tray containing the fixing solution is set in a pan containing
pieces of ice, which prevents the frilling or softening of the
film. A formula for a fixing solution with soda and alum is given
in No. 808, answer to Sir Knight Frederick Kopper.

SIR KNIGHTS D. G. STANBROUGH, A. SMITH, HARLOW BROWN, and LADY
FLORENCE CRANE all ask for a good formula for a toning solution,
but neither one says for what kind of paper. The formulas for
toning baths are very numerous, and different chemicals are used
for different sensitive papers. As aristo paper is at present a
very popular paper, we give the following standard, combining
toning and fixing bath for prints made on this paper: Water, 10
ounces; hyposulphite of soda, 2 ounces; sulphocyanide of ammonium,
1/8 ounce; acetate of lead, 30 grains; nitrate of lead, 30 grains;
chloride of gold (neutral), 1 grain.

This bath must be made up twenty-four hours before using, that it
may clear and settle. In preparing, add the ingredients in the
order named, dissolving each before adding another. Put the
prints, without washing, in this bath, one at a time, taking care
that no air bubbles form on the print, as they will leave spots on
the finished prints. The prints will turn at first a
yellowish-brown, then to a warm red, and finally to a rich brown.
Remove from the bath as soon as the desired tone is obtained. Wash
for one hour in running water. This bath keeps well, and by
multiplying each ingredient by four one can make four times the
quantity.

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Round Table Chapters.

No. 720.--The Nathan Hale Chapter, of Philadelphia. Pa. Blair Baker, Thomas Bleint, Howard B. Rote. Section E, No. 5, Girard College, Philadelphia.

No. 721.--The Rugby Chapter, of New York city. Officers are N. J. Spiro, W. W. Gleason, H. F. Small. Other members are R. Mantell, N. Marluff, F. B. Engler, H. C. Moore, R. Heather, L. Peabody. Chapter address, H. F. Small, 54 West 85th Street.

No. 722.--The King Arthur Chapter, of Urbana, Ill. Its color is white, and its emblem white rose and clover. Marjorie Forbes and Ethel Ricker, Urbana.

No. 723.--The Thespis Dramatic Chapter, of Chicago, Ill. Lola Lewis, Laura Welch. Other members are Marie Rosenfield, Eleanor Lydon. Chapter address, 4454 Oakenwald Avenue.

No. 724.--The John Burroughs Chapter, of Winsted, Conn. Elizabeth Kennard, Ruth E. Whiting. Other members are Mabel Churchill, Grace A. Smith, Grace and Mary Kennard. It is a natural history Chapter, and devotes spare moments to the study of birds, trees, and flowers. Ruth E. Whiting, Winsted.

No. 725.--The Lincoln Chapter, of Glasgow, Mont. Roy E. Hall, Wallace Kelleson. John Sherry; Walter Fryburg, Glasgow.

No. 726.--The Margaret Sangster Chapter, of Germania, N. J. Augusta Guenther, Christine and Julia Gaupp; Christine Gaupp, Germania.

No. 727.--The Frances H. Burnett Chapter, of Minneapolis, Minn. It is organized for the encouragement of goodly fellowship and improvement. It desires to communicate with Knights and Ladies of the Round Table living in Minneapolis. Its officers are Fred H. Stevens, Lottie Kluge, Myrtle Jones; Florence Kimball, 3600 Bloomington Avenue.

Lovers of Play Journalism.

Odd, isn't it, how everybody loves to see what he writes in print? The oldest editor in America is not free from this vanity, or whatever one may call it. So young persons who play at making small papers are in good company. Besides, they are engaged in what affords them experience they can get in no other way. Three excellent amateur papers reach the Table: the _Amateur Collector_, R. T. Hale and F. W. Beale, editors and publishers, 23 Federal Street, Newburyport, Mass.; _Our Young People_, Robinson Bros. & Co., Box 255, Brunswick, Me.; and the _Little Magnet_, Louis O. Brosie, editor, 3405 Butler Street, Pittsburg, Pa. All three are splendid examples of the editor's and printer's "arts." Here are some members who are interested in journalism, want sample copies, and can contribute morsels: Waldemar Young, 174 C Street, Salt Lake City, Utah; J. T. Delano, Jun., 12 White Street, Newport R. I.; James F. Bowen, 36 St. James Avenue, Boston, Mass.; and Samuel T. Bush, 1104 East 15th Street, East Oakland, Cal.

R. C. Megrue asks what it costs to start and run a small paper. That depends on how large it is, and whether you have a press of your own. The cost is considerable per copy if you go to a regular printing-office, because the edition is rarely above two or three hundred copies. The charge in one case we know of was $7 per hundred. Will not R. T. Hale kindly give us a morsel on the subject? Louis O. Brosie and Clement F. or Arthur L. Robinson may give us morsels too. Please tell the Table about the cost, size, and mention some of the other difficulties. Never mind the fun of the thing. Pleasures take care of themselves.

What a Copyright Is.

A copyright, dear sir Harry, is a legal right to a copy. Suppose you and your friend Delano, four doors away, should publish a book that proved as popular as--well, let us say _Trilby_, or _Ben-Hur_, or _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ did. If you send out a few copies and put upon them no legal proprietary mark, other persons seeing the demand could and would take your work, make copies of it, sell them, pocket the money, and give you nothing for what perhaps cost you a great deal of effort. If, however, you observe the legal forms, and your book proves saleable, other persons are prevented from making additional copies. Those who want copies must buy them from you. The legal form is very simple. Before you publish the book, paper, print, or whatever it is, you mail two copies to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, with $1. He returns to you a paper, duly signed, setting forth the fact that for a certain number of years that article belongs to you. You state this fact on each copy published, and then the profit is yours, and the law protects you in it.

Some South African Birds.

Following the example of other members of the Round Table, I
thought I would write and tell you about some of our birds.

My brothers and I have just been talking about the blue hawk. It
is not a particularly large bird, and is grayish-blue in color. It
is comparatively harmless, its chief prey being rats and mice. Its
nest looks like a pile of sticks roughly laid together, but at the
bottom of the nest it is very soft. This is the description my
little cousin gives of its eggs: "If you were to take a pure white
egg and rub it all over with blood, leaving a few white specks, it
would be just like a blue-hawk's egg." In shape it is round, and
the color is really a dirty red. The bird's call sounds very much
like that of a cross fretful baby.

Another peculiar bird here is the hammerhop. It is a large brown
bird, and has a crest upon its head which looks like a hammer,
hence the name. It preys upon the frogs. It makes a tremendous
nest in the shape of a hut on the top of a high rock. I am told
that it plasters the nest on the inside.

One of our prettiest birds is the gilded cuckoo or diedrich. The
color of its back is green, and looks as if a lot of bronze dust
had been sprinkled on it. Its breast is white spotted with brown.
Like other cuckoos, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests. The
color of the eggs is pure white. It has a very musical
call--"dee-dee-dee-diedrich."

The aasvogel is a species of vulture. It is of a dirty white
color, and has no feathers at all on its neck. Almost as soon as
an animal dies the sky is darkened by aasvogels flying to prey
upon the body. The leader or king perches upon it first, while his
followers sit round waiting until he is finished. He claims the
eyes as his portion, as a rule. As soon as he has satisfied his
hunger he flies away, leaving his followers to have their share.
The aasvogel builds his nest of sticks on the top of some
inaccessible krautz (precipice). The eggs are white, I believe,
spotted with brown. I would like to correspond with Ladies of the
Round Table in different parts of the world.

ISMA FINCHAM.
ROYDON, QUEENSTOWN, CAPE COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA.

Do Your Rabbits Ever Drink?

Mr. Chase says rabbits drink. I think there are two sides to that
question. I know a boy who has a dozen rabbits and not one ever
drinks. I have two and neither ever drink. Another friend had two
that he kept seven years. They drank milk, and, at rare times,
water. I believe that rabbits can be trained either way. What is
the experience of others?

VICTOR R. GAGE.
VINELAND.

A Florida Gopher.

A Florida gopher is very different from those we read about as
living out West. In shape and size he is nearly like a common
fresh-water turtle, with this difference; he lives on land. The
gopher has a very hard shell covering his entire body except the
head and feet. His front feet are nearly like a turtle's, with
four or five claws, but very hard. They must of necessity be hard,
for this animal burrows very deep in this hard, clay ground. His
hind feet are round, with a flat bottom, four to five claws on
each, evidently made for pushing when walking or burrowing. They
look like a miniature elephant's foot.

His head is also very much like a turtle's. When alarmed he draws
his head and feet into his shell and remains quiet. He is a very
peaceful animal. I have never known one to bite anybody nor
anything else. The gopher lives in the ground, burrowing a
molelike passage several hundred feet long. There is no use trying
to dig for one. It would take a week of the hardest kind of work
to reach the bottom of his tunnel.

He comes out every day about noon for his meals. He eats grass,
weeds, clover, etc., for his regular meals; but when he finds a
farm with pease, beans, and other vegetables, unless he is
discovered in time he will do a great deal of damage, for he eats
such things voraciously. In raising their young the female lays
from five to six eggs in the dirt she has thrown out when digging
her tunnel. She buries them, and in a few weeks hatches out a
great number of the cutest little things you ever saw. They do not
stay with their mother, but go immediately to forming a little
burrow for themselves, which is from five to six feet deep. They
can live a long time without any food whatever. Their flesh is
also eatable, tasting somewhat like chicken. May I write again?

HARRY R. WHITCOMB.
UMATILLA, FLA.

Certainly you may write again.

Blackberries Nearly the Year Round.

Down here we have a great variety of fruit. We have blackberries
nearly all the year round. They commence in March and last until
about the end of November. All are what we call wild in the
States. Indians peddle them in big baskets on their backs. They
are a great deal smaller than yours, and can only be eaten when
cooked. I would like to exchange Mexican postage and revenue
stamps with some Knights of the Round Table.

ROBERT L. MILLER, JUN.
P. O. Box 319, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.

Mounting Paper Money.

A California member asks how to fix paper money so that it may be examined without having to take it out of envelopes each time. There are two ways of mounting your specimens. The first and most difficult is to take very stiff paper and make a leaf with an opening of the exact size, like the opening in a photograph album leaf. Mucilage the tiniest edge all around, and press till thoroughly dry.

The other way is to cover the four corners, but this prevents the back from being seen. An ideal way would be to have two specimens--one to mount one side front, the other the other side. Rare manuscripts are mounted according to the first method, and then the heavy albumlike leaves are bound into a book.

Want Corner.

Do you live in Chateaugay, N. Y.? Please favor Blanche French, West Dedham, Mass., with some account of the place, its size, location, and any interesting information. She will be most grateful. Hubert B. Stephens is the new secretary of the Bollman Chapter, and his address is Box 274, Sharpsburg, Pa. It is a corresponding, stamp, and botany club with ten-cent fee and five-cent dues. Of course it wants to hear from anybody interested. S. J. Tucker, 2818 Mary Street, Pittsburg, Pa., wants to find old copies of _Notes and Queries_. Have you any? He will reward you if you write him.

The Benjamin Harrison Chapter, of Lee, Mass., wants suggestions how to make its meetings interesting. It also wants correspondents. Won't you write? Ernest A. Chaplin, Somerset East, Cape Colony, South Africa, writes to the Table: "There is a beautiful mountain just outside our town, and on it a place called 'Rabbit Rock.'" Sir Ernest says he collects stamps, and has many rare ones to trade.

The fee for admission to the Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, 910 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, is ten cents, and it wants members, both resident and non-resident. By mistake we announced the fee as $1. The Sylvia Chapter was prompt to give us the asked-for facts about it. Its president is Mary B. Yohn, 5813 Jackson Street, Wissinoming, Philadelphia; secretary, A. Grace Owen. One of its members, Harriett O. Bender, wants to trade flowers. Address care the president. Will the Sylvia's president tell us how its meetings are made interesting? We wish to publish the information.

You have noticed the disagreeable odor of clothes just from the wash. That's the soap. Cheap soaps do not rinse out. Ivory Soap rinses readily, leaving the clothes sweet, clean and white.

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THE TRICK BICYCLE-RIDER AND THE OBSTINATE BULL-DOG.

Though well he rides and does the trick,
The bull-dog's pace he finds too quick;

On yonder limb he'll get a hold,
And leave the bull-dog in the cold.

He swings himself high in the air,
And takes his bicycle up there;

Then with his pump he'll downward slip,
And let the bull-dog get a grip.

The bull-dog never will let go.
Though he's pumped full of air, and so

When he's as full as he can be,
The next thing happens as you see.

HELPFUL HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS.

1. A good bicyclist is careful of his roads, therefore when taking a header be careful not to hit the road too hard with your forehead. You might make a dent in the pavement.

2. In falling off your wheel do not fall on both sides at once. Failure to observe this rule will result in dividing you against yourself.

3. Always be courteous. If a trolley-car has the right of way over the track do not dispute with it. A boy in Massachusetts who broke this rule broke his right arm and his cyclometer at the same time.

4. Be cautious. In riding from New York to Brooklyn keep to the driveway. Don't try to wheel over the suspension-cable. Yon might slip and fall into the smoke-stack of a passing ferry-boat.

5. Keep your lamp lit when riding at night. The boy who thought he was safe because he had a parlor-match in his pocket came home with a spoke in his wheel that didn't belong there.

6. Do not be rough with ice-carts and furniture trucks. If you must run into one of them do it as gently and tenderly as if it were a baby-carriage.

7. A merciful rider is merciful to his wheel, so do not force a bicycle beyond the point of its endurance, unless you want to walk back with your wheel on your shoulders.

8. Keep cool. If in the course of a ride you find yourself in a tight place, with a skittish horse to the left and a steep ravine to the right, and a bull-dog directly to the fore, take ravine. You'll go into it, anyhow, and if you take it alone without dragging the dog or the horse after you your chances will be improved.

9. Never use spurs on the pneumatic tires of your wheel. The use of spurs in this manner is likely to leave your bicycle in a winded condition. Spurs are not comfortable, either, in case of a throw.

10. Do not be stubborn with a balky wheel. If the front wheel gets in a rut going east, and the hind wheel in another going west, dismount and argue the matter standing, unless you are tired, and want to lie down by the road-side without making the effort to do so unassisted.

CHANGED HIS MIND.

I didn't like to take my bath,
Until one summer morning bright
I made believe I was a whale,
And now I think it's out o' sight.

A FACETIOUS VISITOR.

"See yat 'ittle boy over zare?" said Mabel. "Yat's my 'ittle buzzer, an' his name is Nat."

"Indeed?" said the visitor. "Well, I think gnat is a very good name for a buzzer."

A SINGULAR DRESS.

"My big brother belongs to the Seventh Regiment," said little Nell, proudly, "an', my, how noble he looks when he's all dressed up in his unicorn!"

A LOST TUNE.

I've heard a German band play tunes,
I've heard 'most every other thing;
But one tune I have never heard,
Is that which boiling kettles sing.

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895, by Various