REAL BABY ELEPHANT.
HYPNOTIZING FROGS.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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