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REAL BABY ELEPHANT. HYPNOTIZING FROGS. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. fe ' B- .. j h ,J H. fS. VI dM'V v V OUR MARY LOUISA. Our Mary Louisa Is " 'most nearly seven," And there are things she would like to know. "How do folks wind folks right round little lingers? And whut has become of the &now7 "Can they mend mother's head If It splits with a hcadrtcho? And where do tho doughnut holes bo? And why Is It better to eat bread than candy? And where do the peanut-trees grow? "And once In how often ls'once In so often?' And why won't tho old bellows blow? And who makes small pitchers with big ears to listen? And why Is It best to speak low?" These things and "perhaps Just a very few others" A couple of hundred or so Our Mary Louisa, who's " 'most nearly seven," Is really quite anxious to know. Elizabeth L. Gould, In Youth's Com panion. AN ESSAY ON LIONS. 'Written ! a Ilrlftht Eleven-Ycnr-Old Lull After iv Vlnlt to the ZooloKlcnl Gnrilcn. The boy's teacher had taken him to the zoological garden with his classmates. Upon their return the teacher nsked that each should write un essay on some one of tho animals ho had been. Here is n snmple from a bright-minded 11-year-old: "Lions always walk except when they eut and then they growl. Their roar is most terrifying to men nnd other beasts when heard in the for est, but when they are in cages it sounds like they was sorry about something. Their tails are not so long as the monkey's nccording to their size, but keep switching all the time, and the seals can mnke just as loud a noise and have more fun in the wa ter. They are cats no matter what you think nnd their si.o hns nothing to do with it, nnd they think without talking. Once a donkey stole a lion's skin and went around bragging about It, but the other donkeys got onto him because ho talked so much. Thnt showed lie was a donkey. Keep still when you are thinking." GAME WITH TOOTHPICKS. Try It, nnd Get Your Friends to Try It, Ilcfore You Pronounce It Mere Child' Piny. How often do we sit down to a table d'hote and find that wo have a good long wait before tho first course ap pears. Sometimes we are entirely out of material for a conversation, and begin to break up tho toothpicks. Just at such times a little vexing game THE TOOTHPICK GAME. with these small sticks may como in handy. Let your friends try to pick up five toothpicks from the table by first rais ing the two thumbs, then the two in dex lingers, and so on until the last toothpick is oil' the table. Try it your self and don't blame us for the sug gestion. Chicngo Record-Herald. Hoy PrlKhtencd to Dcnth, Recently at Lewisham, England, an inquest was held on the body of Sidney Hurry Smith, aged 12 years. He was playing with a roller towel and placed his head through it. In some way he must have got the towel twisted, for when tho servant found him five min utes afterward he was dead. A phy sician said death was due not to stran gulation, but to the fright caused by the lad finding he could not get his head loobe. IndiiHtrlouM Nevr York Hen, A peculiur lien was at one time pos sessed by William Fanning, of Corn wall, N. Y. Each of its eggs Invariably had two yolks. Twelve of these he put under a setting hen, and the result was that one of the eggs failed to hatch, while the remaining 11 each produced two chicks. ItH Chief Ue. A little boy, writing a composition on the zebra the other day, was re quested to describe the animal and to mention what it is useful for. After deep reflection he wrote: "The zebra is like a horse, only striped. It is chielly used to illustrate the letter Z." American Homes. Hn Electric Lighted Nef, The bnya bird of India spends its spare timu catching mammoth fire flies, which he fastens to the side of his nest with moist clay. On a dark night tho baya's nest looks liko an electric street inmp. i.jnHIIl I II II II II I I' II III LIU In the Nnme of the Itcmnrknule Little Creature Wlioae Picture ! Here Given. The dwarf elephant shown In the ac companying Illustration Is a remark able little creature called Llli, and claims the honor of being the smallest of Its kind in the world. She is an in telligent little creature and is, more over, a great favorite with the children and ndults, who pet this tiny quadru- LILI. ELEPHANT MIDCIET. ped in a lavish manner. Lill is an Im portant unit of a traveling show, and in addition to being the world's small est elephant she has, perhaps, tra versed more miles than any other an imal in existence. HERMIT CRAB'S HOME. Knturc IIiin Not Provided Him vrlth One, So lie IIIiIcn IIIiiiMClf Avrny In Snail SliellH. The body of tho crab has a famous armor to cover it. His legs are in coscd in armor, and furnished with claws so that ho is able to take good care of himself. But there is a fam ily of crabs that nature seems to have neglected. The fore part of the body is armed and has claws. But the hind part has no covering at all. It ends in n soft tail. This poor creature cannot swim, like the rest of his tribe, and he cannot run, so that ho is very helpless In deed. He seems to know that he is helpless, for he looks about to find some plnce of shelter. There are a great many shells on the bench. He picks out one that will do and thrusts his tail into it. This serves him for armor. At first he takes empty shells, but as he grows older he gets more daring. If he sees a shell to his mind he will not care whether it is empty or not. Indeed, he wishes for food ns well as shelter. As he prowls about he will catch sight of a snail that has just put out its feelers. It draws them back In a hurry the moment it sees a crab, and tries to get into its house again. But the crab seizes it with its sharp claws and drags it out and eats it. Then ho marches into tho snail-house and takes it for his own. When the crab outgrows his house he casts it nside and sets nbout looking for another. He is called the hermit crab. Cincin nati Enquirer. FLANNEL SUIT ON A HEN. Lout All Her KenthcrN In Cold Weather and AVu Provided with .Nuvcl CurcrhiK, An old lien belonging to Mrs. M. A. Stormont began laying late in the fall, and was so persistent that she laid 2G eggs befoie she concluded to stop. During all this time she had neglected her moulding, and when she finally got ready to shed her feathers it was in the middle of winter, but the old ones had lost their life and were dry and hnrsh, consequently there was no other wny but to make the change. In a short time she was almost bare and suffering from the cold, relates the Kirkwood (111.) Leader. The Misses Stormont, seeing her predicament and appreciating tho value of her service rendered, deter mined to come to her rescue. They accordingly took the old hen into the house, took her measurements, mode her a suit of flannels to fit, and then released her. Her ladyship took the matter very philosophically, rfnd hustled off to her companions, appar ently very comfortable in her new suit. MInIiiKo of the Yuuuir, The most foolish of nil terrors is thnt clever young heads think thnt they lose their originality when they rec ognize the truth that hns already been recognized by others. He ThoiiKht He Knew Metier. Johnny 1 don't think our teucher knows much. Mamma Why not? Johnny Well, she says a kid is a young goat." Brooklyn Life. An Unfair Proposition. Bill I'll bet you hnven't got a dol lar you'll lend me until to-morrow? Jill Now, here; it's not fnir to bet on n certainty, you know." Yonkers Statesman. CONGRESS OF MICROBES. Honm In u London Scientific In nuta tion Contain KiumikIi lincllll to Kill Everybody. Carelly guarded nnd tended in one room in London there are enough mi crobes to kill every man, woman and child in the world. The room is In the Institute of Preventive Mcdiclno building, situated in one of the most densely populated districts of tho big city. Tho microbes nro there in thou sands, millions, mid even billions, nnd they are just yearning to be at their fell work upon human beings. They represent almost every known disease and are classified nnd kept in bottles, fed and developed, and surrounded by nn atmosphere best suited to them, and they nro nursed with ns much enre and tenderness as is given to the fairest and rarest of flowers. The microbe establishment Is main tained for tho purpose of enabling medical men to become familiar with these "mighty atoms" of destruction. Hero they hnvo every opportunity to make a close study of tho precise character, appearance and disposition of the different bacilli; to discover, in fact, everything that can be discov ered with a view to the prevention nnd cure of diseases that are caused by microbes. And one can easily con ceive what u fascinating study bacilli afford. An uninformed stranger might walk through the Incubator room of tho institute without dreaming for a moment thnt ho was in a hot bed of disease. He would more probnoly imagine thnt he was In n novel kind of bakery, where small bottles of va riously colored fluids were stored to be in an even temperature, for around the room are arranged numerous ovcnlike incubators, with glass doors, through which ono enn perceive the long glnss tubes containing the bacilli, whose way of egress from the tubes is barred by nothing more impenetrable than smnll wads of cot ton. There, quietly, nlmost invisibly, reposes a power great enough to sweep the earth of human life. And the bacilli demand the greatest attention, the most dclicntc feeding. Almost every different kind of mi crobe hns particular likes and dis likes, which have to be carefully studied. One kind of bacilli likes to dine off horses' blood, another off broth, while a third will touch noth ing but a peculiar kind of jelly, nnd so on right through tho list of dis eases represented, though, luckily for the catering department of the estab lishment, n few agree in having vry similar tastes. Chicngo American. HANDY CONTRIVANCE. Simple ApinirittiiN for the Collection of AtiuoNplierle Hunt for Micro- Nconlc Examination. In the accompanying illustration a simple and inexpensive apparatus for collecting atmospheric dust is shown, which will probably be of some inter est both to bacteriologists and ama teur microseopists. . The apparatus consists esentinlly of a wire, the middle portion of which is coiled into a spiral to fit over and turn on a vertical support. ATMOSPHERIC DUST COLLECTOR. One end of the wire is bent so us to hold a strip of glass, and the other end is bent so as to clamp a piece of cardboard, serving the purpose of keeping the plane of the glass at right angles to the direction of the wind. The support comprises n ten penny nail driven into n block of lead. Soldered upon the head of the driven nail is the head of a second nail. The heads thus placed In juxtaposition servo ns a shoulder upon which the coil of wire rests. The glnss plate is smenrcd with glycerine upon which the dust ad heres. The apparatus can be set In any convenient place where the wind blows, and the plate examined from time to time. Thomas It. Tinker, in Scientific American. Loud-Voiced PhniioKriiiih. A phonograph that shouts ho loud ly that every word can be heard at a distance of ten miles has been test ed at Brighton. """wtllllllllfnl I fl'l "l(l''lJ'-"''" "'-" experiment of Great Scientific Vnluc Conducted by m HclKlnn AVoiiuin InvcatlKntor. It is regrctnblo thnt in tho Btudr of psychological phenomena, nnd more particularly of those manifesta tions, renl or imagined, that are known under tho general name of hypnotism, thnt experimentation has not been carried on more extensively with ani mals. For, though results obtained with them would necessarily fall far short of those reached with humnn.be ings, they would nevertheless bo frco from any possible conscious or uncon scious collusion between the patient and tho operator. At tho fifth international congress of psychology, which met in Turin, Miss M. Stefanowski, of Brussels, de livered nn address in which she re lated her experience in hypnotizing frogs. According to this lady, frogs, which have lived in un aquarium through tho winter, nnd have becomo very much emaciated by spring, ns n result of long fasting, are particu larly well adapted for experiments of this kind. It appears it is only ncces- FROGS UNDER HYPNOTIC SPELL. Bary then to turn them on their backs to have them at once fall into the hypnotic state and shortly into tho cataleptic, in which condition tho sense organs suspend operation, that of feeling, including sensibility to pain, becoming dulled, while the pu pils of the eyes contract, the action of the heart slackens and tho respira tory movements become barely per ceptible, this stnte lusting for n half hour or longer. Other experiments referred to by Miss Stefanowski showed thnt when they were deprived of water that is, kept in a comparatively dry place, they were also susceptlblu to hypnotic influences, and that frogs freshly re ceived in the spring had the snmo tendency, but were more resistant, though gradually losing this quality with the prolongation of fasting. She also found that from this profound hypnotic condition they could be re vived immediately with the vapor of ether, chloroform or alcohol, nnd that the sudden or progressive elevation of temperature interrupted the hyp notic state, while on the contrary tho lowering of the temperature seemed favorable to it. In commenting on Miss Stefnnow ski's address, Prof. N. Vnschidi re marks, referring to the accompanying illustrations, that in looking at them, it is Impossible to resist comparing their positions with those taken by hysterical persons when in the hyp notic stnte and noticing their similar ity. He then goes on to give some ex periments of his own in hypnotizing frogs, in which he icpeated tlioso of Miss Stefanowski, obtaining substan tially the sumercsults, but in addition he tried what he could do with well fed frogs, in perfect condition, by sim ply fixing their gaze with his own. This was somewhat difficult to accom plish, but by holding them in his hand on their backs he succeeded in a num ber of instances in putting them to sleep, nnd though his success wns un even, he expresses himself as being satisfied that they can be hypnotized by the eye ns effectually as human be ings .He next experimented with frogs in their natural condition by placing them in a basin or bowl of water on a table where he could fix himself in nn easy position. Ho de scribes these attempts as very ardu ous, and states that he had to gaze at them for a long time, but that event ually he succeeded, ns was abundantly shown by the attitude of attention nnd ecstucy assumed by tho frogs, to gether with the fact that there was no reaction when they were touched with a feather or red-hot Wire. From this condition, however, though profound, he says, they revived very quickly and frequently with n jump. We have here, he remarks in conclusion, a con dition which makes us wonder at the nature of this mysterious force thai proceeds from flic w indows of our psy-cho-organlu life, affecting in a tnfly anaesthetic manner both men and ani mals. ' DlneiiNcn of Motnrmeii, Tho Berlin electric tramway con ductors, or "wait men," as they are called on the continent, are subject to special ailments. One is an oph thalmia, caused by the air current; another is nn Inflammation of the knee, due to ringing the alarm bell, and a summer disease is a kind of sunburn with blisters on the hands, owing to their exposure to the sun iu controlling the car. -JT""' Tho now nmccr of Afghanistan hao declared ngalnBt tho admission of missionaries to his country. Dr. A. P. Camphor, of Liberia, places Mohammedanism, superstition nnd po lygamy ns tho thrco hardest prob lems in Africa. Mohnmmcdnnism in to-duy a missionary rcilgon, very ag grcsslvo and successful. Uganda is to build a cathedral. For n foundation stone the gravestone of Rev. Mr. Pllklngton, who was killed by the Bngandn somo years ago, Iiub been used. Ho was a graduate of Cambridge, where ho distinguished himself ns an athlete. Two scholarships have been estab lished In tho woman's law class at New York university. They nro en titled tho 1902 nnd the Mrs. Itusscll Sngo scholarships. They nro Intend ed to encourage young women who work In lawyer's offices uud would like to becomo lawyers. There Is not an Indian trlbo in tho United States which is entirely with out missionaries. The work has been nided In recent ycaro by the efforts of many native Indian preachers, who have tho nrtvnntngo of n thorough knowlcdgo of tho lnngunge nnd cus toms of the people among whom they Work. Tho new $50,000 endowment for Oberlln college will give nn annual incomo of $20,000 at tho nverago per centage of the college's invested money. Tho yenrly deficit hns been $10,000, so that $10,000 will be left for expenditure in now wnys. This money is for the college department alone, and will be used for its needs exclu sively. Tho old gymnasium nt Harvard will bo used as a German museum, hav ing been given up by tho corporation for tho purpose. Prof. Francko is se lecting objects for it nbroad, and tho building Is being thoroughly remod eled for the purposes. Tho third floor hns been tnken out nltogcthcr and the partitions removed in tho first two floors, thus giving large and well-lighted exhibition rooms. Tho German emperor Is said to be much interested in the museum. NEW USES FOR NEW F URS. IlUMNlmi Pony nnd "White Cnlf-Shlim Are Sent to London for Mn- torlxtft' Hull. Russia is sending us n couple of very novel pelts, the skins of ponies nnd of calves for making motor-car dresses and conts, and for tho Rus sian blouses wealthy women nro wearing so much this winter, says tho London Mnil. Tho skins of tho ponies nro not very large and are forwarded, manca nnd nil, to tho furriers, but so far tho manes have not been made use ful. Perhaps the toy trade will eventually profit by them, and tho fiery nursery steeds of tho rocking horse nnd Gray Dobbin pcrsunsion bo .equipped with tho long silky hair of these creatures. , Anyone who hns traveled in Russia will know tho pale, tawny shnde of tho native pony, almost lion-llko in color. It is nlso the commonly met huo of tho little Scandinavian horses driven in Norway almost exclusive ly, nnd much seen, too, in Sweden nnd Finland. The skin dyes brown nnd a lovely jet block most success fully, and is so strong that it is un commonly suitable for rough-wear wraps. Nor is It outrageously expensive. A Russinn blouse made of It comes to 8Vi guineas. Motorists in tho femi nine world nro wearing enormous conts still, but newer thnn theso aro short, jaunty fur skirts and pouched boleros to match. Russian pony suits aro certain to plcnsc them, and fur caps of tho pelt are sent out with tho toilette, so that the whole picture is com plete. The Russinn calf makes very pret ty snow-white coats, tufted with black, and charming rovers, cuff, ties and muffs for cloth rcdlngotes. To some eyes this pelt will rcsemblo miniver, but there is n huge mon etary difference between it and er mine ns well as a visible one, espe cially as miniver which is really ermine tufted with tho black tips of the tails only, instead of tho tails themselves is daily going up In price in view of the coronation and its requirements. Mental Effect of Clothe. Ajux defying the lightning is not in it with the womnn who knows her gown suits her ubbolutely, and is so perfect it may be safely criticised by her dearest enemy in any light and from any point of ieiv, A sense of su periority and well-being makes her love the whole world, and she is amiable and sweet even to the people she dislikes most eordlnlly. While for those sho likes she is a companion no adjectiver. can adequately qualify . London Coun try Monthly. Kellow KeelliiK. Mrs.. Meekfa How do you know that stranger you were talking to is a mar ried man? Did lie sny he wns? Meeker No; but he looked sort' or sympathetic when T told him 1 was- Chieauo Daily New. 1 I