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...electrical paper reports a new device for aiding base ball umpires in their arduous duties, An underground wire forms a circuit with all the bases. When the base runner touches the plate, an electric bell rings in a small tower near the umpire's position. It is to be hoped that this device will be fully tested this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find...
...that cigarette, will yer?" or similar remarks such as we have been accustomed to hear form the "mucker." It is manifestly impossible. Another theory that has been offered is that the "mucker" is a sort of gnome or underground sprite, bent on evil. Evidently this is a far more complete theory than the other, although it in turn fails in certain points. The latest theory is that they are a development or manifestation of Spencer's "Unknowable," and this brilliant thought is as yet receiving hearty approval. How long it will be accepted is, of course, another question...
...Then our dear Alma Mater is not put to the expense of putting in underground drainage, honey...
...explosion in a mine in Chesterfield county, Va, has confined thirty-two men underground...
...street-car arrangement, and how much you lose by being so far from the literary air of Boston; so, when I learned that there was no chance of an elevated road to Boston, I decided to tell you of my invention. I propose to put a pneumatic tube underground from Cambridge to Boston...