Popular Science Monthly 



211 



The Latest Style in Handcuffs. 



LAWBREAKERS may be nipped 

 in the bud most effectively by the 

 police nippers invented by John J. 

 Murphy of Norwich, Conn. The police 

 nippers or "leaders," as they are some- 

 times called, are clasped about the 

 wrist or even the ankles of the ar- 

 rested man. 



The advantag-e of the new nippers 

 is not alone in their effectiveness but 

 also in the fact that they may be 

 quickly and easily operated with one 

 hand. The closing- of the hand about 

 the . handle portions of the nippers 

 causes the jaws to close. These are 

 pivotally connected by opposed ex- 

 tending arms with a sliding tubular 

 member attached to the T-shaped 

 inner handle. This tubular member 

 slides on a basic rod to which the 

 outer T-shaped handle is mounted. It 

 takes but an instant to clasp the 

 nippers on the wrist of an oft'ender. 



Have You Eaten Your Cow? 



EVERY man, woman and child in the 

 United States eats, each year, a 

 whole steer, sheep or hog, according to 

 United States government figures, which 

 show that one 



Of one's beef, mutton or pork, how- 

 ever, one has to give up one and one- 

 half per cent, on account of condemna- 

 tion by government and city officials, for 

 this proportion of the meat slaughtered 

 is thrown out as unfit for use. The fed- 

 eral inspection covered, last year, fifty- 

 eight million meat animals slaughtered, 

 and condemned 299,958 whole carcasses, 

 and 644,688 in part. This represents 

 considerably more than that number of 

 cases of ptomaine poisoning which gov- 

 ernment inspection saved Americans, but 

 it also represents a considerable saving 

 in other diseases. 



Tuberculosis was the chief disease 

 condemned, 33,000 beeves and 66,000 

 pork carcasses being entirely condemned 

 and parts of 48,000 other beeves and 

 440,000 other swine being removed. Hog 

 cholera was responsible for the next 

 largest loss, nearly 102,000 swine being 

 condemned entirely on this account. 



It cost the taxpayers $3,375,000 for 

 this protection, or four cents a head for 

 the population of the country, which was 

 paid for when they bought their beef, 

 sheep or hog for the year. In selecting 

 one's diet for the year one should bear 

 in mind the additional fact that over 

 half the number 



It will be difficult for a thief to escape the clutch of the law if these new "nippers" are 

 adopted, for they can be quickly and effectively operated with one hand 



