FOR EXCITEMENT SEEKERS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 2130, 8 February 1909, Page 7

FOR EXCITEMENT SEEKERS.

The amusement world has many novelties in store for its votaries this summer, and some of them will be seen at the coming Fraruco-Bri-tisii .Exhibition. All appear to have a scientific basis —mathematical or mechanical—in their method of working, so mention of some of them will not be out of place here. sa\s the London “Science Siftings.” There was one thriller, however, which I’a.ris promised to send us, aud which will not now appear. It was known as .Cadbin’s leap, but the chief actor, tladbiu, was killed a lew days ago during one of his performances

tormances. IHs practice was to jump from a platform one hundred feet in the air, land as a diver would on a long shoot which gathered his body and swiched him willi great velocity down and up tmtil ho landed after a linal soincrsault siyuarely on his feet. As might have been expected, sooner or later, at his last performance, he missed his aim, and instead of landing on the slope of the shoot he struck the upturned edge with his body and fell into the ring below. A wild whirl nearly one hundred •eet in I lie air, a sudden dip to the ground and then a plunge beneath tin' waters of a small lake is another promised sensation to excitement lovers. It is to be built by a well-known railroad engineer and inventor, and will be the first real tost of the “Boyes” mono-rail railroad. Jt will be built at a seaside place, some distance from the ocean, and the round trip made by the cars will be a little over two miles. The track upon which the mono-rail cars will run will oe laid out so as lo make a giant, ligure Scientifically, the Boxes mono-rail railroad is said to he perfect. Each c;,r. which is 60 feet in length, is divided into four sections or compartments. Each compartment is intended to seat twelve persons. As a thriller the Boxes railroad is likely to be a success. Startling from a level platform, the trains, by a series of dips, up and down, "ill gradually reach the highest point of the road, where the track will be nearly one hundred feet above the ground. Rounding a sharp curve, where the cars will

hang at an angle of forty-five degrees. the cars will make a sudden dive downwards into a Lake of real water. By means of fountains the entrance and exit of a tube running beneath the lake will be concealed from the passengers, giving them a genuine sensation without the danger of even wetting their feet.

A further thriller this year will be called “Autos that Pass,’’ or “The Aerial Auto Race.’’ It is a fearsome spectacle of 1.200 pound mo-tor-cars hurled through the air, one somersaulting, the other shooting straight and swiftly under it. The two motors start at an elevation of fifty-eight feet. The runaway before they make the leap is ninety feet long. On this steep runaway is a double track of steel rails, but the cars do not rise the rail side by side. Car. No. 1 rides on rails 1 and o ; car No. 2 rides on rails 2 and 4.

! When the start is made Car No. 1 | begins the descent first. It lias i gone but three feet, when it strikes ! a. trigger at the side of the track that releases Car No. 2, which dashes after No. 1. To the end of the ninety-foot runaway the progress of the cars is the same, but at the instant of the leap their conditions are changed. At the end of the runaway, just where the track curves upward after its steep descent, the forward wheels of Car No. 1 strike a small upright projection of steel. This projection is not sufficiently elevated to slop the car or cause any great jolt, but it “trips tip” the car, causing it to turn a somersault, as it is hurled into the air up to a heigh! of thirty feet. The car having completed its somersault drops on a level platform a nd stops short, having gone a distance of twentyeight feet from the point where it left the runaway. But before car No. 1 has landed, while still it is i>o feet up in the air with just half of its somersault completed, car No. 2 passes, in a dashingly swift straight-away jump, directly under it and lands 10 feet away on a sloping platform. Car No. 2 had encountered no resistance at the foot of the runaway, but was shot straight forward with its full sjiced. The delay caused to No. 1 by its soihersaull gives No. 2 just time to pass under it and to get out of ils way before No. 1 makes the drop (oils landing platform. The two cars arrive in the experiments already tried at their landings with almost a simultaneous “bang,” so close is (lie “race.” The apparatus for this sensational thriller has been constructed by M. Maurice Gar anger, a French engineer. Kach car iu the “Aerial Auto Race” weighs 1,100 pounds. Fach will carry a woman, weighing about 100 pounds.

A good way of using up cold meat is to curry it, and one of the best ways of currying is the following : Take one table-spoonful of dripping, put it into a saucepan to get hot, add one onion, chopped, and fry it till it is brown, then cut half a pound of cold cooked meat into small pieces and fry them also, and stir in one dessertspoonful of curry powder, a saltspoouful of salt, an apple finely chopped, and half a pint of water. Stir them till they boil, then draw the pan to the side of the lire, and allow the curry to simmer with the lid oh for half an hour, so that the water may become reduced. Serve it very hot with plain boiled rice.

Philosophy, it has been said, is the art of bearing other people’s troubles. The truest philosopher I ever heard of was a woman. She was brought into the hospital suffering from a poisoned leg. The house-surgeon made a hurried examination. Pie was a man of blunt speech.

“It will have to come off,” he told

“What, not all of it ?” “The whole of it, I am sorry to say.” growled the house-surgeon. “Nothing else for it ?” “No other chance for vou whatever,” explained the house-surgean. “Ah well, thank Gawd it’s not my ’ead.”—From the Angel and the Author,” by Jerome K. Jerome.

“So you are writing stories,” said the friend. “ Not exactly,” answered the cynical litterateur, “I am merely furnishing a certain amount of text to keep the illustrations from running into one another.”