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MINE OF DEADLY QUALITY.
Bursting Charge of from 500 to 1,000
Pounds of Guncotton.
The observation mine Is a. large
structure of cylindrical shape , and
carries a bursting charge of from CiOn
to 1,000 pounds of guncotton-the
quantity vnryiug In nccordnnce with
the depth of water In which It Is' to
work. As shown In this cut the gun '
\ , 'r ' cotton Is jacltClI In layers In copper
tanks 01' cases having holes In them
to permit the allmlsslon of water for
wetting The lower central case has
a hole for the reception of the primer
of dry guncotton and fulminate of
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mercury. The rest of 4he mine space
Is left for the sake of buoyancy , the
sum of which is : equal to a tendency
to rise of 10 pounds' pressure. This
5UU . pound mine has an effective ur
" , destructive area equal to a circle 60
feet In diameter These mines : are .
. generally planted In series of from
six to ten , again , radiating like the
ribs of a palm . leaf fan , each with a
separate cable about ISO feet long-
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Model Made by Convicts.
There Is a remarkable model at
o South Kensington , England. : Made to
n scale of twenty feet to the inch ! , It
s shows n part of the additions to the
dockyard at Chatham-a great feat of
c engineering skill accomplished by
convict labor. In fourteen years the
penal prisoners excavated the docks ,
made 102,000,000 bricks for the retain'
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Ing walls , and did an enormous amount
of masonry and other work. Altogeth ,
er the enlargement Is one of the great
est feats that can be put to the credit
of convicts In the model which com
memorates it there are the figures of
\ 295 prisoners , forty superintendents
mr and other officers and fourteen free
+ ' men.
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A No. 6 glove today Is larger than
the same size five years ago. The
girls play golf and are athletic and
their bands have grown
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FLOWERS THAT TELL : TIME.
Punctual to the Minute In Closing
Their Petals.
There arc flowers that act I\B time
keepers for those who have by obser
\'nUolI studied their ways und habits : ,
111111 so punctual are they hint laboring -
ing ! lien In some cOlllltrles tell from
them whclI the hour for dinner aid
leaving work has come : while 111 COI"
taln districts the school children : ! are
Said to he dlsmlHscll when the JOllt'S'
heard closes , which It does : punctually \
at the same time every duy The
gardener to n mllllonlllre hM provided
a flower-clocl , In the shape or 1ell"
cular flower bed , with twelve divi '
SIOl ! ! ! , Each oC the divisions : , from ! one
to twelve , contains flowers which opener
or close at the cOI'I'CSPOlllllu hour
Thus the two space Is occupied by II
II , made of hnwltReoll , which closes
sa 2.p , m" , precisely , and so on lie
hud no difficulty In finding flowers to
suit. the several : ! hours , and In some
cases he t figure hal : been made of
more than one 1I0wer. Amongst the
.flO\\'C's ! used are the snow thht1e
blue chicory , Illmlle1'nel , marigold ,
Star of Bethlehem , and evening Pl'lm ,
rosc The Yellowstone park contlllnl :
the most unique greenhouse for flow.
( ii. cultivation In the worlll , the heat
being obtained from one of the natural -
ral hot springs , 01' geysers , the water
of which Issues from the earth at a
temperature nelli' boiling point The
shortest-livell flowers are the dew
flowers of the IenthVniley In Call
fornla Heavy dews are wafted by
the winds from the mountains over
the parched pllllll , and un hour 01' two
before sunrise the moist sand , with
Its undercurrent of warmth , dives life
to the dew flower When the light he.
gins to glow In the east , myriads of
tiny pink flowers hurst into bloom ,
hugging the sand for the few minutes
they are destined to Ih'e The sun's
rays come slanting across the sur ,
face , ailtl as thought a touch of lire
had passed over them , the dew flow-
ers wither and ( dlsnppelll'-\Iontreal :
Herald.
A Rubber Neck
The effect of opium III reducing the
body to a mere skeleton lifts many
illustrations nmollg the Chinese of
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of the effects of the drug Is Illustrated
herewith The Chlnamun In question
weighs only eighty-seven pounds aI ,
though he Is over five feet In height
and was originally a man of normal
size The skin of the fate it will he
seen , Is stretched tightly over the
skull while the hones of the neck are ,
painfully prominent. The proportions :
of the neck add a curious mixture at
comedy to this tragic figure.-Xcw
York Herald
Productive Pumpkin Seed.
From 3. single seed ! Jerome Jordan
of Webster , Ia8s , . has produced just
466 pounds of pumpkin From a su- : -
gle seed , of the ordinary garden pump
kin variety he has this season pro -
duced twentytlree Immpldns on the
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vine , the largest individual vegetahle
weighing twenty-seven pounfs.
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CRACK SHOT WITH REVOLVER. :
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Dr Sayre Has Held Championship
Many Years ,
'he ( ro\ ' oh'er C'hamillolllhip ! : which
Dr. Stl're has helll ( sll long is shot tit
ranges or twenty "flve , fifty said so\'en-
ty , live 'llI'lIs. 'l'wontylI\o shots are
tired nt cnch range , fifteen seconds he'
Ing allowed for elicit string of fi\'es
The contdSt 18 oJll'n to till CHlIl'I'S ; ,
whether ' ' ' clvllllln mal'ltf
milltnl' 01' ! '
men , the only restriction being that
the arm Shall he II mllltlll'y wcapon.
In the contests at Fort Riley , Kan" ,
Dr Sane was neeOlll1 among fifty
contestants In the revolver lIIutch Ills
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Score was laO to lJG : for Sergeant
Michael Cary , U. S , A. Most of the
competitors were arum' men. ' 'he [
range was : new to Dr , Sayre , 111111 his
score Is considered excellent. Returning
Ing from Fort Riley he wont to Sea
Girt , with which range he is familiar ,
and promptly.on the SII\II\lIlecl revolver -
\01' match , with a score of 10 : ; nt fifty
ral'll ! Fourteen natlonlll ' '
lilt guard 01'-
ganizlltlons tool part In this contest
Amazing Pigeon Story.
\Vhon you 110 n thing do It well
When you do a friend do him well
also , and when you toll n story let It
be the host of its : 1lnd. I" . H. S. Mor-
risen tells the most nnHtzln ! pigeon
} 'nl'l1 ever hoal'l ] "During the Fl'I\nco-
Prusslaq war the French caught n
homing pigeon which was being sent
to transmit ! InfOl'lJ1utlon Into the ho ,
sieged city of Paris The bird was
made a prisoner of wllr and kept In
confinement for ten years.'hen
given Its liberty It ut once returned
to its old homo " That bird must
have been tortured dally In prison to
make It hate the place and long always -
ways for Its cote In ( Jerman ' , -New
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Real Ple < 1sure.
Her hair of some hue forgotten hut
beautiful through thickness of Its pul
Ished coils , a countenance chlscled
for a sculptor'H Ideal.
She was clothed In purple
The shift which she propelled In the
Central park lake moved forward like
a snail while the prodigious splashing
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from her oars dl'enched tle young
man who helll the tiller ropes
lIe dodged what he' could and endured -
dured the rest cheerfully. lIe leaned
forward eagerly when she spol\e
"Ain't the water nice ! " she sng est-
ell , chopping off u bucketful perhaps
as a sample. "I do so love to row u
boat , don't 'ou'/-Ncw York Tele ,
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Crane Was a Monster.
A CI'I\1l0 was ! recently shot In Col-
rain , Mass. , which was five feet tall
and measured six feet from tip to tip
of wing.
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ORIGIN OF MODERN CARTOON
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In 1841.
The birth of Punch In 1841 Was the
beginning of" the ( node ( ' ( ( caricature ,
although these cartoons , noflo fn-
nunls , did not Start nlll 18.13 Plllwh ,
It. i Is alleged , did far nun ' e than merely
to change ho t luruihullugy of carlclI-
taro : ho ro\'ohlllonl.Od : Its Spirit : he
made It possible for OIadHtono to say
of It that "In his curly days when nn
art ( ( 1st was engaged to lll'Oduce l1olltlt'nl
satires ho nOllrl ) always descended to
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Punch TRAITOR" ,
gross personal 1.'lIrlClllul" , nnd SOlDO' G ,
times hldeeency. ( " 'ro.llay the hUIIIUI'-
OILS press Showed n totlll absence of
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vulgarity and a fairer trel\tmcnt ,
which \ made this department of \var
faro nlways I plonHlng The history of
Punch Is practically the story of car
Loaning In 1I1001el'l1 ( I'ngland ' : Punch II !
to gnglaml ( what Ln Caricature Is to '
FI'I1tH'I. . IIncl HIHl1I.'thtnI ; mOl' , far 1\ \
has the flavor at least : or Iluthorlty
' 1'he death of the Czar Nicholas ,
who had \ boasted of his Generals Jun-
entry and February being the officer
, . ho most depended upon , which oc-
CUl'l'cd In February , 1855 , culled forth
; olle of Punch's historical cartoons , en-
titled "General "enler } Turnel1 1'ralt-
or " As 11 matter of fact , hut not of
history , the Czar commltte(1 ( suicide
nnd his loath was not duo to pneulno
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nla , us was then statell.
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"Leaven" of the Ancients.
The yeast mnplo'ed hy the ancients
In malting bread Was II'Uhllbly ) of the
same hind as the Israelites or time
da } 'H of the great Phuroah the op'
presser used ( , calling It "leaven. " This
was what Is known nowadays as 11
wild yeast , Its germs or spores being
alloat everywhere In the nil' A hit
of dough was presel'vell out or each
hatch prepared for Ow ovens , and
when . this was added to time next
dough the yeast contained In It fIulcl-
Ir Slll'll1d through the whole , only 1\
little being refIulred to "leaven the
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A Marvelous Tunnel.
Tile Swlal1l tunnel on the Transcau-
ca31an railroad In located ( nt an altitude -
tude or nearly 4,000 feet amid Is two
amid a half miles In length It 1mb
been completed In four years , 1'110
flVel'l\e advance In twentyfollr hours
was about eighteen feet.
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4,000 Years Old.
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was takes from an Ass 'rlan docu-
ment Perhaps one should not expect -
poet even a queen to live up to u
reputation for beauty for .1,000 'earf.l.
Crippled In Removing Boot.
Andrl(1 ( J. Curtiss of Bristol , Conn. ,
has been Ii cripple since last ! June.
Mr. Curtiss wears hoots , und while
pulling one of them on ho dislocated
his hip joint. "
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