Life — February 28, 1884 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- | momentum after the cyclone has passed, so that the COMBINATION. Tue WesTERN RoTaRyY ANTI-TORNADO VILLA AND PNEUMATIC ASCENSIONAL SAFETY APARTMENT. Patented Feb. 29th, 1884. HIS ingenious and self-acting device will be found to fill a long felt Western want. For airiness and beauty of construction it takes precedence of the Queen Anne species of cottage, and at the same times durable and absolutely safe. Plate I. represents the ap- paratus complete, as designed for protection against either cyclones or floods. The vertical shaft is of granite or iron, thoroughly morticed snd cut with the grain. It is erected on a foundation of polished red marble 71 feet un- der ground. The figures shown are both useful and orna- mental, ex- hibiting at anymoment the stage of the water. The dwel- ling - house is of corrugated sheet iron, lined with fire-brick and cork. It is water tight, and is supplied with pumps, bowling-alleys, a shooting gallery and saloon. Tiers of life preservers for the hogs are ranged around the pantry, and wire hen-coops are provided abaft —so to speak—in which the most fas- tidious poultry may be accomodated and made happy. The action of the apparatus is simple and effective. The shaft referred to, being carefully buttered, slips easily PLATE It. through its grooves, and enables the structure to rise | in case of a flood, or revolve with great smoothness and rapidity during a cyclone, as shown in Plates II and III. Brakes are provided, which may lessen the | 10 hours after a change in the weather. 123 structure will automatically cease from revolving within The rudder is reversible, and by it the direction of rotation may | be instantly reversed while the dwelling is making 2500 révolutions a minute, thus avoiding all possibility of monotony. At the same time gearing is connected with the stationary shaft in such a way that all the coffee grinders, hand-organs and grist mills in the establishment may be run without trouble. This renders the invention complete. Agents willing to assume all risks, and whose lives are insured, can get terms at this office. SHE WAS INSULTED. RS. MULROONEY, you are charged with assault on Mrs. McGinniss; what have you to say?” said his Honor. ; “Troth an’ faith, yer worship, I was goin’ down Perril sthreet paycible an’ quoite whin I met Misses Mugginty. “**Good mornin’, Mrs. Mugginty,’ sez I. ““« Good mornin’, kindly,’ sez she. “Where wor ye?’ sez I. “Down at the Fulton market below,’ sez she. ““*Pfat hev ye in the bash- ket ? sez I. “** Fish,’ sez she. “*Tt shmells,’ “cc * Wid that I dhrun off an’ hit her a welt for sphakin’ —= suchanunman- nerly word to a Mulroney, from Ballyna- hinhiskin; bad cess to her.” ScRABBLES has come back disgusted, from Florida, Among the repellent things, he says he was driven out of his hotel by a young lady, weighing two hundred and twenty - two pounds avoirdupois, who came there for health, and getting possession of the drawing-room piano, continually did sing, “Do they miss me at home?” Scrab- bles saw her at din- ner, and thought they did. PLATE Il. Nistetts :—“ Aw, mi boy, how did you like the opwaw?” Hobletts :—‘ The dewce, mi good fellah. How do think a fellah can listen to an opwaw, when all the glasses in the house, aw! are on him?”