RIVAL TO SILKEN FANS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2154, 28 October 1902, Page 2

RIVAL TO SILKEN FANS.

Dvvtc* That Looks Dike an Bars Bwter, But It Make* a StunaiQK Dranght, A man without sens* of romance has invented and patented a mechanical hand fan and sets it up as a rival of the toy gauze and lace which has been a feminine weapon through untold ages. His fan buzzes and is not beautiful, but it provides a stead} draft of cool air, say« the New York Sun. In appearance it is a cross between an egg-beater and a glove-stretcher. It is made of wood and brass, and he asserts that in expert hands it car be made to reach a speed of 8,000 revolutions a minute and will throw a current of air as far as an electric fan of the same size. It works by compressing In the hand two wooden handles of a glove-stretch-erlike arrangement. A ratchet and two small cog wheels at the end of the arms transmit this force to the blades of the fan, which are miniature electric fan blades. Both of these art detachable, so that the fan may be easily carried when not in use. The inventor says that he has disposed of 4,000 of his hand fans in a few months. He isn’t sanguine of its general adoption by the gentler sex. but he thinks that lots of men would use it in hot weather. Sentiment oughtn’t to play any part in comfort seeking, he says, but he has to admit that it generally does. Earned HI» Sobrlqnet, Col. William Frederick Cody is said to have earned the name of “Buffalr Bill" by killing 4,280 buffaloes in If months (1857-8), having contracted tc furnish the Kansas Pacific railroad with all the buffalo meat required to feed the laborers engaged in construction. Cooks In the British Army. That the art of cooking ranks high in the estimation of British army officials is shown by the recent granting of 82,500 to the widow of the late chiei instructor of the array cooking school at Aldershot, in recognition of the valuable services rendered by her husband. Inventor of Whist. The father of the game of whist. Edmond Hoyle, lived to be 97 years old. His treatise on cards has been published in all languages, and probably no work except the Bible has passed through more editions. Hie original work in London in