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ELECTRICITY
It Hao Taken From Firo Its Suprem
acy as Mans Servant
As wo hear the whir of the dynamo
or listen at the telephone as we turn
the button of an Incandescent lamp or
travel In an electroinoblle we are par
takers in a revolution more swift and
profound than has ever before been
enacted upon earth Until the nine
teenth ceutury lire was justly account
ed the most useful and versatile serv
ant of man Today electricity Is doing
all that fire ever did and doing it bet
ter while it accomplishes uncounted
tasks far beyond the reach of flame
however ingeniously applied We may
thus observe under our eyes just such
an impetus to human intelligence and
power as when fin was first subdued
to tho purposes of man with the im
mense advantage that whereas the
subjugation of liro demanded ages of
weary and uncertain experiment the
mastery of electricity Is for the most
part the assured work of the nine
teenth ceutury and in truth very large
ly of its last three decades It begins
at once to marry the resources of the
mechanic and the chemist the engi
neer and tho artist with issue attest
ed by all its own fertility while its
ra3s reveal province after province un
dreamed of and indeed unexisting be
fore its advent Every other primal
gift of iimn rke carvl Ww -height at
the bidding of tha etosttfkrD 1 Nel
son Tracy In IthWrA gpuday Maga
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CELEST1M WS0ERS
Color of tho Sty Qt tho Moon and
tha Huoo tji 4 iars
It is the atmosphdra that makes the
sky look blue and t moon yellow If
we could ascend t a clavatlon of fif
ty miles above ttxs eacth surface wo
should see that th mooo in a brilliant
white while tho ekj would be black
with the stars antnfng aa brightly In
the daytime as at atsfct
Furthermore as a most picturesque
feature of the spocttcto wo should no
tice that some of te stars are red
others blue yet ottiero violet and still
others greon in cotar Of course all
of the stars if we bar tho planets of
our own system ars burning suns
and the hues tlioy sear depend upon
their temperature
Tho hottest stssa re Wuo Thus
Vega In tho cocdtdlstfex Lyra Is a
blue sun hundreds c tinea as large as
our own solar orb Wo wo journeying
in its direction at Cfes soto of millions
of miles a day aoci soohj future
time It may gobbte EJ cti lit
For after all fcirTia42itftigh tbe
confession bo out Sun a olriy a very
small star of the sixth magnitude or
thereabouts and of an importance iu
the universe so slight as to lie scarcely
within the pale of respectability
Reader Magazine
Ono Seam For Fifteen Years
It lias been said that the most mo
notonous form of labor Is gumming
labels But there are many others
which come very near it In the boot
and shoe trade for instance the work
is divided among as many workers ae
possible One will thus mako a single
cut In the leather aud another give one
turn of tho machine handle In some
cases a pair of shoos have passed
through fifteen pairs of hands before
reaching completion As a natural re
sult there are workers who week after
week go on performing the same work
hundreds of times a day Indeed in
one factory there Is a woman who for
fifteen years has sewed only ono seam
Iler machine works so rapidly that she
spends as much time inserting and
withdrawing her work as in the actual
sewing Westminster Gazette
Tho First Christmas Gift Book
In the General Advertiser of Jan 9
1750 appeared the earliest known an
nouncement of a Christmas gift book
and in this case it was undeniably a
gift book
Given Gratis By J Newberry at
the Bible and Sun in St Pauls
Churchyard over against the north
door of the church only payiuc one
penny for the binding Nurse True
loves Christmas Box or The Giden
Plaything for Little Children by v lich
they may learn the letters as soi as
they can speak aud know how to be
have so as to make everybody i ve
them adorned witii thirty cuts Lon
don Mall
Fieason For Objection
Fond Mother Why dont you Ilk
your roommate at college Reginald
The professor tosd me he would Le a
good companion for you because he
studies so hard
Young Collegian But mother he
uses so many sesquipedalian words
Fond Mother That settles it mj
son I doSt want you to be contain
nated by association with anybody
who uses such dreadful language
Baltimore American
Just Out
Elder Brother Didnt you stop at
the news agents and get that maga
zine for me
Jlmmie lie didnt have none jest
sold out
Did he say so
I didnt have to ask him There ha
had it all printed on a big sign
Magazine Jest Out Chums
Tho Missing Factors
Now then children said tho teach
er what Is It wo want moat In this
world to mako us perfoctly happy
Do things we aint got shoated the
bright boy In tho back seat Philadel
phia Presa
Tho less religion a man has tho more
he thinks his wife ought to have Chi
cago News
II PECULH0ITE8
The Fierce Man Eating Crocodile
of Australia
A PATIENT CUNNING BRUTE
This Powerful and Savage Saurion
Sometimes Twenty savcn Feet in
Length Viil Tackb Anything From
a Sheep to a Half Ton Bullock -
The crocodile of the Nile differs very
Utile from iiiat of Australia whicii is
generally termed alligator though in
reality a true crocodle The head of
a true alligator is ml shorter
than that of the c ocodl There is
also considerable difference in the teetli
and their disposition in the jaws The
teeth of an alligator are unequal and
the larger of the lower canine outers a
cavity in the upper jaw while that or
a crocodile simply fits iuto a groove on
the outside of the upper jaw leaving
the tooth clearly visible Avheir the
mouth of the monster is closed There
are also differences In the webbing of
the toes aud the form of the legs
though to the general observer there is
little or no difference
The crocodiles no doubt feed largely
upon fish but aa tiiey grow okTer and
stronger and require great quantities of
food they will when hungry attack
unyihiug from a cheep or kangaroo to
a bullock a big crocodile making short
work of a bullock weighing over half a
ton Some of these monsterN measure
as much as twenty seven feet In length
aud possess Immense strength besidci
wonderful cunning and patlonco Oih
will fie In wait at any vuteriug place
frequented by anlmulB hardly dis
tinguishable from a log of wood so
still and impassive it has become The
animal coming down to drink Is seized
in the crocodiles huge Jaws and drawn
Into the water and drowned
At other times the tall Is used to
sweep the animal Into deep wator
where even though Its proy may be a
heavy bullock It has little or no chance
against Its enemy which is specially
provided by nature with an arrange
ment that prevents the water rushing
down Its- huge throat even though its
jaws are fully distended through hold
ing its prey Thus after a few brief
seconds the unequal struggio Is over
and the saurian takes the carcass in
tow to some favored locality where he
can enjoy It at his leisure
In the early daya at Port Darwin
South Australia bathing In the open
sea was forbidden owing to tho danger
from crocodiles there and nearly ev
erywhere else In Australia called alli
gators though In reality no true alli
gators exist in Australia A young
trooper named Davis a fine swimmer
disregarded the general order and one
morning early went for a swim Far
out in the harbor he noticed what he
and others took to be a floating log
Many of the northern trees float and
are washed down In tha wet season to
the open sea Out went the strong
swimmer nearer and nearer to tho
supposed log until too lata ho recog
nized his mistake and that ho was ap
proaching instead of a log a huge and
apparently listless crocodile
But tho knowledge came too lato to
be of any service to poor Davis though
some men called out to him from a
small craft close by to Go back Go
back and Davie did make an attempt
to retreat and was swimming manful
ly shoreward when the huge bruto
flashed down upon him at a terrific
speed and opening his great jaws to
their utmost- capacity came down with
a smack that was heard even to the
shore and inside their cruel grasp was
Trooper Davis head Then with the
quickness common to the saurian It
had disappeared with its victim
Crocodiles at nighttime low and bel
low just like cattle especially like
bulls and I have spent some nights
in an open boat in Cambridge gulf
northwestern Australia where the
whole place seemed to be alive with
them and what with their splashes and
cries the weirdness of the whole scene
and their close proximity as they at
times rocked the boat sleep was impos
sible for there are several Instances
on record where crocodiles have taken
or have attempted to take men from
out of camps and boats
A poor fellow named Reed the mate
or second mate of the Gulnan had
gone in his vessel to some river in
Carpentaria gulf I believe the Roper
The vessel was at anchor near the
mouth of the river The mate Reed
had Leen dispatched in charge of a
watering party and was some dis
tance up the river in a large open
boat Water had been obtained and
they were all ready for a return to the
chip All being made snug the tired
follows turned in having made their
enmp in the boat The night was a
cry fine one the moon shining bright
ir when toward midnight the sleep
ing camp was aroused by some terrific
shrieks These were the cries of poor
Reed who enveloped in his bedding
and mosquito curtains was being
borne off by a crocodile
It Is said by those who knew him
well and accompanied him on this and
other previous trips that he had the
habit of sleeping with his foot on the
gunwale of the boat and no doubt this
afforded the crocodile an easier oppor
tunity of seizing him
The crocodile has a remarkable eye
It can arrange the pupil to a vertical
or horizontal position at will to suit
Its requirement by day or night It
has a special natural protection to tho
eye and through a duct escapes the
fluid whan tho monster weeps In
fact he Is a peculiar brute altogether
with many special gifts besides hlfi
huge Jaws that help to make of him
the terror he Is Sydney Mall
BEAU FIELDING
He Was th6 Enigma of English Social
Life In His Day
Beau Fielding was a young man of
fashion in the reign of William III Ills
house was sumptuously furnished Ills
hunters hacks and racers were of
great value and he kept a table of
princely hospitality He had no os
tensible source of income All that was
known of him was that lie was the
fifth son of Thomas Wilson au impov
erished gentleman of Leicestershire
Evelyn describes him as a very young
man civil and good natured but of
no great force of character and very
sober and of good fame All attempts
to discover his secret were vain In
his most careless hours of amusenioit
he kept a strict guard over his tongue
and left scandal to conjecture what it
pleased
He redeemed his fathers estate and
portioned off Ills sisters and when re
monstrated with on liis extravagance
replied that however long his life
should last lie would always have
enough to live in the same way Some
said It was he who hul robbed the
Holland mail for which another mat
had suffered others that lie depended
upon the gambling table though lie
never played for large sums He was
the enigma of social life till his career
was cut short ity a- duel His adversary
was nt that time a youug umu about
town liko himself John Law wk
afterwapjt became the founder of tlw
fatuous Mississippi scheme by which
half of Frauco was ruined When the
mysterious Beau died he left only a
few pounds behind him and not a
scrap of evidence to enlighten public
curiosity
HOT POTS OF HEBER
Tho Ckiriouo Natural Formations
Found In Utah
Of ever increasing Interest to natu
ral curiosity seekers are the hot pots
about three miles from Heber City
Utah on a branch line of the Denver
and Rio Grande railroad running up
through picturesque Provo canyon
This region is a level plain upon the
surfaco of which arise In strange con
fusion numbers of conical shaped cis
terns tho largest of thein being all o
fifty feet high a hundred feet In diam
eter at tho top aud twice that at the
baso and containing la their dark
depths Immense volumes of water
heated to a high temperature In the
furnaces of tha earth The waters con
tulu tho usual chemical properties of
thermal springs and aro used for bath
ing and drinking with excellent effects
These pots have evidently been form
ed bj tho slow deposition through
couutless centuries of the silica aud
soda which enter into tbe composition
of tho waters that once welled over
the rim The hot pots are found In the
midst of cultivated fields and thriving
orchards notwithstanding the peculiar
rocklike soil composition
Ono of the marked peculiarities of
the region Is the hollow rumbling
sound caused by carriages and horses
as they mow over the roadways for
miles around Is there an enormous
cavorn just bolow the surface and will
it over cavo iu is the anxious
inquiry of overy visitor alarmed at
tho strange underground sounds Ex
change
Sweet Cane From a Far Country
it has boon supposed that sugar cane
was the sweat cane from a far coun
try mentioned in Jeremiah vL 20
and in Isaiah xliii 24 According to
Strabo Nearchus the admiral of Alex
ander tho Great describes a kind of
honey from an Indian reed which
was probably sugar cane Europe
seems to bo Indebted for the plant to
tho Saracens who Introduced it into
Rhodes Cyprus Sicily Crete and Spain
In the ninth century The crusaders of
the twelfth century found It in Syria
The Spaniards and Portuguese carried
It to Madeira and the Canaries In the
fifteenth century and on the discovery
of America it was taken to the West
Indies Now York American
Real American Aristocracy
It was through the Declaration of
Independence that we Americans ac
knowledge the eternal inequality of
man for by It we abolished a cut and
dried aristocracy We had seen little
men artificially held up in high places
and great men artificially held down in
low places aud our own justice loving
hearts abhorred this violence to human
uature Let the best man win That
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