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HIDDEN GOLD
The Hoard ot Precious Metal That In
Secreted In India
It would bo an Immense benefit to all
mankind if the stores of gold held by
Individuals in India could be made
available for general use Ever since
the dawn of history that country has
been gathering gold and hiding it away
Treasures of almost incalculable value
are possessed by many Indian princes
When the mnharajah of Burdwan died
the stock of gold and silver left by liiri
was so large that no member of th
family could make an accurate esti
mate of It A report made to the Brit-
Ish government by a secret agent slat
ed that on the estate of the defunct po
tentate were a number of treasure
bouses one ot them containing three
rooms The laigest of these three
rooms was forty eight feet long siurt
was filled with ornaments of gold and
silver plates and cups washing bowls 1
jugs and so forth all of precious met 1
als The other two rooms were fuil of
bags and boxes of gold inohurs and
silver rupees The door of this and I
other treasure houses had been bricked
up for nobody knows how long
These valuables according to an an
cient custom were in the custody of
the mabarajahs wife the vaults being
attached to her apartments but none
of them was allowed to be opened save
In the presence of the master One
vault was filled with ornaments belong
ing to different gods of the family The
natives of India commonly bury their
hoards and among the poorer classes
a favorite hiding place is a hole dug
beneath the bed Disused wells are
sometimes employed for the same pur
pose It is undoubtedly a fact that
very many hoards thus deposited are
lost forever Gold is also valued on re
ligious grounds The gods take up
great quantities of gold silver and
precious stones The temples contain
vast amounts of the yellow and white
metals The habit of hoarding seems
to have been induced by ages of mis
government during which oppression
and violence were rife No feeling of
safety existing it was natural that the
natives should adopt the practice of re
ducing their wealth to a concentrated
shape and hiding it Brooklyn Eagle
POINTE PARAGRAPHS
The day after you meet the average
man he asks you to take sides
Flattery has a pretty bad name but
it gets better returns than disagree
able candor
Of this you may be sure that the
black sheep in every family was once
I the most petted lamb
When a baby cries in its fathers
arms he discovers that it is crying be
cause it wants to go to you
A man never knows until he has
fallen into a hole how many paths he
might have taken to avoid it
When two men get their pencils
mixed ever notice how jealously the
owner of the longer pencil insists on
getting his own back
Time flies so rapidly that it seems
only a few months from the time a
boy is crying for a jumping jack until
he is paying for it Atchison Globe
Prog Ess Cariosities
Frogs eggs are laid before they real
ly become eggs In the true sense of
that word They are always laid under
water and when first deposited are cov
ered with a sort of envelope in the
shape of a thin membrane In this
shape they are very small but as soon
as they come in contact with the water
they rapidly absorb that element and
in so doing go through a queer transfor
mation The thin membrane contain
ing the little seedlike eggs is quickly
changed into great lumps of a clear
jelly like substance each section joined
to the other the whole forming a string
from a few inches to several feet in
length On the inside of each of these
lumps of jelly the eggs come to perfec
tion and in due course of time add
their quota to the frog population of
the world
Costly Competitions
When a new cathedral or a new col
lege is to be built it is well that archi
tects should compete for It for then
other things being equal the best man
gets the job and the best possible kind
of building is assured Few persons
though realize what it costs an archi
tect to enter a competition They do
not understand the time and labor that
must be devoted to the design the esti
mates etc There is one firm of archi
tects in this city that spent 2500 last
year on a single competition This firm
entered ten competitions altogether
winning four of them and the total cost
to it was 7000 Philadelphia Bulletin
A Tislit Ring
To remove a tight ring from the fin
ger take a long thread of silk and put
one end under the ring and draw It
through several inches holding it with
the thumb in the palm of the hand
Then wind the long end of the silk
tightly round the finger down to the
nail Take hold of the short end of
the silk and holding it toward the fin
ger unwind it and the silk pressing
against the ring will withdraw it
Time Limit Fixed
Jane hasnt that young man gone
yet
He is just going papa
Jane
Yes papa
In precisely sixty seconds you will
say He has just gone
Yes papa Cleveland Plain Dealer
Medical Etiquette
Medical etiquette Instead of being
kept up as people so often imagine In
the Interests of the doctors is main
tained in the interests of the public
It is they not the doctors who would
suffer most were it done away with
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the Seustc Chamber
Thomas Ilenry Carter of Montana
who after an absence from the United
States senate of foifr years Is again
a member of that body was born
In Ohio In 1854 and took up the prac
tice of law In Iowa soon after being
admitted to the bar but in 1882 remov
ed to Montana and later was sent to
congress as a delegate Montana being
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THOMAS H OARTEB
then a territory After its admission
as a state he was Its first representa
pointed commissioner of the general
land office by President Ilarrison In
the presidential campaign of 1S92 he
was chairman of the Republican na
tional committee was chosen to the
senate in 1S93 and served until IdOl
Senator Carter relates an Incident of
a trip he once made in the south I
was introduced he says to the wife
of a man who was running for con
gress I wanted to be pleasant to her
so to start a conversation inquired
So your husband is running for
congress
Yes she replied
I suppose it keeps him pretty
busy I ventured
Yes was the very short reply
This rather froze me but I came to
the front again with what I thought
was a humorous remark
I suppose he kisses ail the babies
In the district
This was unfortunate She flared
up angrily
Dont believe a word of It He
hasnt had time to kiss his own babies
for two mouths
THAT CHINESE BOYCOTT
Metliods of tlie Celestials In Keep
ing American Goods Ont of China
The boycott in China against Amer
ican goods continues and the problem
of securing satisfactory adjustment of
the difficulty that has arisen becomes
more and more complex The Chinese
merchants declare they will not handle
American imports until the American
congress makes satisfactory changes
in the laws governing exclusion of Chi
nese from the United States Although
congress has been in session since early
in December no such legislation Is yet
in prospect The Chinese minister at
Washington recently telegraphed his
government that It was extremely im
probable legislation such as the Chi
nese desire would be enacted
The methods of the boycotters are
unique and characteristic of the orient
The Chinese who are engaged in keep
ing American goods out of their coun
try do not hesitate to threaten with
death those who refuse to obey instruc
tions At Shanghai the Chinese agents
of leading American firms have been
notified by their fellow subjects that
they must give up their employment
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A BOYCOTT NOTICE
unless they wish to be shot or have
their throats cut their houses burned
down and their familes destroyed
The inscription reproduced in this
column Is a notice which has been
posted in many parts of the Chinese
empire It Intimates In terms which
tho oriental understands that any mer
chant having to do with American
goods should look out as a boycott has
been decided upon to be In force from
the 18th of the sixth moon There is a
figure of a tortoise upon which are
characters meaning cold blooded anl i
mal The notice ends with a threat1
which signifies more than the English
equivalent of the characters express
but which may be translated thus
Those who buy American goods read
this They shall receive adequate
treatment
WONDER- hJOF
The Burnt Ulnan nx n Iemoniitrn
tor ot the Snna Heat
The suns heat Is so great
But an intelligent young woman In
terrupted the scientist Impatiently
After all she said It is guesswork
this talk about the excessive heat of
the sun You cant prove any of your
claims
He was dl3gusted
I cant he cried Why It Is tho
easiest thing In the world to prove that
the sun is hot enough to melt iron
granite the hardest substances known
into liquid into steam
How would yoUinake such a proof
she asked Incredulously
With the burning glass said he
A burning glass is slightly rounded
Thus It bends Into a focus It concen
trates upon one small point a number
of sun rays The tiniest burning glass
catching only a few rays will light a
fire set off a gun or bore a red hole In
your hand
Yes
The solar heat which the burning
glass collects for us Is the tiniest frac
tion of the suns actual heat We can
prove this by focusing with our glass
rays from a powerful lamp or a great
fire We get a small bright spot a lit
tle heat but this heat is nothing to
compare with the heat of the lamp It
self
So knowing now that the solar
heat which the burning glass gives to
us is but a fraction of the heat of the
sun we take a burning glass a yard In
diameter such glasses have been made
for the sole purpose of convincing skep
tical persons like yourself and this
glass concentrates many hundreds of
sun rays for us and it gives us a heat
tlve In congress and In 1S91 was an- Tlo ii
nace a heat that will melt rock into
vapor
The scientist smiled triumphantly
There is your proof he said The
burning glass will only collect a tiny
portion of a burning objects heat and
the tiny portion of the suns heat that
it gives us is yet sufficient to change In
a jiffy a block of granite Into a puff of
steam Exchange
A FEARFUL PEST
The Ferocious Mosquitoes That
Svrarra In Scandinavia
Hunters find the mosquitoes a terri
ble pest in parts of northern Scandina
via One writes The warmth of the
sun is rousing our deadly enemies the
mosquitoes into active warfare At
tacked as we are by a few score of
viciously piping skirmishers from the
mighty host we have before advancing
to look to the joints of our harness and
don our gauntlets then in descending
the long slope toward our bivouac the
scores of the foe are gradually multi
plied to hundreds the hundreds to
thousands the thousands to myriads
till we are at length enveloped in a
dense cloud of winged fiends The
horses are a distressing sight From
nose to tall from hoof to withers their
unfortunate bodies are covered with
what might be taken at a casual glance
for gray blanket clothing but which is
really a textile mass of seething insect
life so closely set that you could not
anywhere put the point of your finger
on the bare hide
For such small creatures mosquitoes
exhibit an astonishing amount of char
acter and diabolical intelligence They
dash through smoke creep under veil
or wristband like a ferret into a rabbit
hole and when they can neither dash
nor creep will bide their time with the
cunning of a red Indian We wore
stout dogskin gloves articles with
which they could have had no previous
acquaintance and yet they would fol
low each other by hundreds in single
file up and down the seams trying ev
ery stitch in the hope of detecting a
flaw
And the same writer concludes The
problem presents itself Why are these
vermin so horribly bloodthirsty and so
perfectly formed for sucking blood It
is one of the great mysteries of nature
On the uninhabited stretches of Fin
mark they must as a rule exist on veg
etable diet the chances of blood so
rarely occur
Genesis of Cotton In America
The first planting of cotton seed in
the colonies was in the Carolinas in the
year 1G21 when seeds were planted as
an experiment in a garden Winthrop
says that In 1643 men fell to the
manufacture of cotton whereof we
have great stores from Barbados In
173G it was cultivated in the gardens
along Chesapeake bay especially in the
vicinity of Baltimore and at the open
ing of the Revolution it was a garden
plant in New Jersey and New York
but its real value seems to have been
almost unknown to the planters until
about 17S0
The Chameleon
The American chameleon a small liz
ard inhabits various parts of the south
ern United States The little animal
has the remarkable habit of quickly
and completely changing its colors
varying from brown to yellow and pale
green Its food consists of insects
The little animal is perfectly harmless
to higher forms of life is often kept
as a pet and has been worn attached
to a chain as an ornament The toes
are provided with adhesive pads which
enable the lizard to run upon smooth
vertical surfaces
The Room at the Top
All the lower berths are taken said
the ticket seller Youll have to take
an upper berth
Of course grumbled tho professor
Theres always room at the top
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In the British museum are books
written on oyster shells bricks tiles
bones Ivory lead iron copper sheep
skin wood and palm leaves
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