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IT DEATH MASK OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY 1 . The death mask of President Mc Tinley, taken soon after death at Buf falo has been sent to "Washington, where It wiH be preserved among the most sacred mementoes which are kept In the capital city. A duplicate of the mask will be made and sent to Prince ton University, to be added to the cel- fl WORD Ift StflSOM "If I have been able to accomplish anything in my life," said a woman fu.mous as one of the most kindly and lovable among leaders cf the beet American society, "it is due to the word spoken to me in the right season when I was a child by my old teacher. I was the only homely, awkward one in a class of exceptionally beautiful girls, and being also dull at my books. I became the derision of the school. I fell into a morose, despairing state, gave up study, withdrew into myself and daily grew more bitter and vin dictive. One day the French teacher a gray-haired old woman with keen ves and a bright smile found mc erring. 'Qu as-tu. ma fille?" she asa. "Oh." .iiadam, I am so ugly!' I sobbed out. "She soothed me. but did not con tradict me. Presently she took me into her room and said. 'I have a pres ent for you,' handing me a scaly, coarse lump covered with earth. 'It is round and brown as you. Ugly, did you say? Very well. We will call it by your name, then. It is you. Now, you shall plant it and water it and give it sun for a week or two. I CLEPTOSCOPE FOR A Homan engineer. M. Triulzi. hs invented a tube with crystal prisms, whereby these in a submarine boat can s?e what is going cn at the surface of the water. The instrument is called the ticptoscope. The experiments have been entirely IV eat her and Drunkenness. Weather h23 been blamed for many disorders. Lately some one has been found to study the effect of weather upon drunkenness in New York. It would need much argument to con vince mcst men that this can be gauged by arrests. But. so far as ar rests show, there is here in New York more inclination to drunkenness in cold weather than in hot; on clear, dry days than on those which are cloudy and wet, and on days when winds are high than when the air is still. Strong winds, it is said, are among the saloon keeper's best friends. In conditions of calm, the debauches, a? indicated by arrests, were 23 per cent below the av erage of three years; in winds of hur ricane velocity. 50 per cent above. High .humidities, as a general rule, seems to increase the consumption of high balls, probably because dampness makes winter days seem colder. New York Post Bagdad exports more than Jl.000.000 worth of wool per. annum, but there 1s not a woolen mill in all Arabia. sBtXL:l rrs S - ft ebrated collection presented to that in stitution some years ago by Lawrence Ilutton of New York. In this collection are the death masks of Cromwell, Na poleon, George Washington. Lincoln, Edwin Booth. Lawrence Barrett, Rich ard Brinsley Sheridan, and many other famous men. planted it and watched it carefuly. Green leaves came out at first and at length a golden Japanese lily the first I had ever seen. Madam came to share my delight. 'Ah!' she said significantly, 'who would believe so much beauty and fragrance were shut i:p in that ugly thing? But it took heart and grew in the sunlight!' It was the first time it ever occurred to me that in spite of my ugly face I, too. might be able to win friends and make myself beloved." Potatoes In Washington. An immense potato crop has been raised this season by irrigation in the Yakima Indian reservation in the state cf Washington. The quantity for export is 2,000 carloads, and one farmer will clear $10,000. It is esti mated that the crop will be 40,000 tons, worth $1,000,000. Alcohol Product in Cerraanj. The producti. of alcohol in Ger many in the year 1S97 was 95,532,300 gallons, two-thirds of which was de rived from potatoes of domestic origin. It was produced in country distilleries, which number about 12,500, of which 5,226 produce only from 264 to 2.C42 gallons. SUBMARINE VESSELS. successful, and photography of ob jects on the water is possible thereby from a vessel beneath. The experiments were made on board the submarine II Delphino, and in the presence of Sig. Morin, the Minister of Marine. Army Impedimenta. Armies are adding so many curious vehicles to their impedimenta that it is a grave question in Bome quarters whether their mobility will not be ser ously impeded in future wars. There were the movable forge, the movable ermatorium. the hospital, the ice machine, and now comes the traveling disinfecting apparatus. The latter i3 a wagon so fitted that it can readily move from camp to camp to disinfect the clothing of the soldiers. Fatality of the Fishermen. The toll which the sea takes from those who trust it for a livelihood is pathetically illustrated in the an nouncement that the fishing season just closed has cost the single port of Gloucester, Mass., the lives of no less than sixty-two of its stalwart nsh-ermr-. The king of England is an excellent bcotmafecr, the trade which he was taught by the wish of the prince con sort, who t ail his children taught some trade. BEflCONSFiELD AT 22 This is a picture of Lord Beacons field at the age of 22. He was then plain Benjamin Disraeli, and had just published his famous novel. "Vivian Grey." which won high favor in lit erary London. The picture was sim ply published as "the author of 'Vivian Grey,'" and for a time was the talk of the town. Lord Beacons field was born in 1804 and died in 1S81. ALASKA IS FERTILE Alaska Is not as barren a land as people generally regard it. The com monly received opinion is that it is a region of snow and ice. of chilly blasts and utter desolation. Governor Brady however, thinks there is much to en joy there, if one may judge by hij Thanksgiving proclamation, in which he sets forth many reasons for grati tude. Here are some of them: "We in Alaska in comparing our blessings with those which our friends enjoy in other places find that we have much for which to be thankful. We have ao abundance of grass, and where men have attempted to till the earth it has yielded many fold and those who have tried it are satisfied that greater things are in store for them. The sea has not failed to yield of its abundance and our fishermen have been handsomely rewarded for their toil. The mineral wealth of Alaska is more promising to day than in the past. It is here, and when otbained will represent human effort. We have not been visited by destructive disturbances of the at mosphere, earth or sea. While we re count our manifold blessings our thoughts will be tempered by the ca lamity which overwhelmed so many people on the steamship Islander and by the humiliation which we feel in the manner of the death of President Mc Kinley." EXPELLED PROFESSOR M. Edouard Herve, the French pro fessor who has been dismissed from his chair in Paris tor writing anti-military articles, is one of th most dis tinguished scholars in France, and has been an eminent figure in the educa 1S54. when he won the first prize in tional and literary life of Paris since philosophy at the Normal College. He is a member of the French Academy, a knight of the Legion of Honor and has been several times honored by many of the learned societies of Europe. M. Herve was professor of mathematics at the University of the City of Paris. His offense was alleged to Incite insubor dination in the army and to prejudice citizens against military service. M. Herve is 65 years old. but age does not seem to have dampened the fires of his youth, which was marked by that almost defiant spirit with which he opposes his enemies In his present severe trouble. His article and its results are the foremost topic in political circles in the French capital. Predicts Famine In China. The Christian Herald's commission er, who is Investigating the famine in China, writes from Sian Fu, province of Shen Si. that the autumn crops will furnish food for a few months, but be ing the first successful crops in five years will not be sufficient to last un til the next harvest is gathered, and he predicts a repetition of the famine is the coming spring. The commissioner estimates that th deaths from famine in the Shen Si province number 2,500,000. or SO pel cent of the population. He rode foi four days tnrough villages north of th Wei-Ho river and during this time saw hardly 200 persons. The whole region is desolated. Urine In 300 Degrees of Heat. In the bakeries of La Rochefoucauld in France it is said that women enter the ovens when they are 301 degree. According to the Pall Mall Gazette, the British worklngman haa almost abandoned his clay pipe and shag is favor of the two-penny packet of c-gtrettes. 'it1 iit ; H! ' t J GROW OLD GRACEFULLY Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been writing on the subject of bow to ?row old easily, happily and gracefully. She is now in her eighty-fifth year and the say3 life to her is as sweet as ever. She has no pains or aches, no regrets or forebodings lor herself; all her sor rows are for the troubles of others. "I attribute my vigorous old age in part to advantageous circumstances," she says, "in part to a happy, hopeful temperament, a keen sense of humor, sympathies for all my fellow being3 and a deep interest In all the vital questions of the hour. ' One must have an earnest purpose in life beyond personal ambition and family aggrandizement. Self-centered characters do not possess the necessary elements of a hish development. If cne would have a happy old age the first condition is a sound body; to that end exercise, diet, dress, sanitary condi tions are all important. "My philosophy is to live in tlie pres ent. Regrets for the past are vain; the pagf is turnud; there i3 no remedy for hat is done. As to the future, anxi eties are equally vain; we do not know what one day will bring forth; what we hope or fear may never oc cur; the present is all that is ours." New York Sun. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT Q'iniin is the only member of the President's family who can boast of the capital as a birthplace. He was born just prior to the Spanish-American war at 1735 N street, while his father was organizing the Rough Rid ers. He does not think much of Wash ington as a place of residence. The White House iu his estimation is a poo; substitute for the home at Oys ter Bay. He does not relish being con fined to a small part of the mansion, but would like to roam at will through out the building and investigate the progress of public business from time to time. The other day he desired to walk through the flower-beds cn stilts. His father told him that the gardener objected. The youngster answered: "I don't see what good it does for you to be President. There are so many things we can't do here. I wis;h I was home again." THE SUCCESSFUL EYE There are two classes of human eyes, says Professor J. M. Simon, the em inent occulist. First, the cold aud in "fferent eye, which falls upon you ith the same interest that it would fall upon some large building or any thing else. Then there is the warm, flattering eye that indicates human in terest. The gray is the strong one. I have observed in the majority of cases of people who have risen to eminence that the eye has been gray, although I am inclined to believe that the gray eye Is weaker than any other. A gray eye can charm, and in every instance I give a man with that color of eye more consideration than if his eyes are of another color. Liked the Frock. An English soldier's wife once took ier little girl to see her father, who was on sentry duty. The soldier, who was in a Scottish regiment, wore the orthodox tartan and kilt. The little girl, not having seen her father before in such a garb, could not understand it. and looking up at her mother, ex claimed: "Mother, when father has found the man who stole his trousers may I have that little frock?" Volumes In the Itritisb Mnseom. The number of volumes in the Erit ish museum library, according to a re cent counting, is now over 2.000,000. There are more than 16,000 voluraes of London newspapers, about 47,000 volumes of provincial newspapers, counting Welsh as well as English, 10. .000 volumes of Scottish papers, and 9,000 from Ireland. Ka'.lwaj at Damascus. The first section of the Demascm Mecca railway has been formally in augurated with religious ceremonial calculated to appeal to the Moslem sentiment by which the funds have been obtained. There were sacrifices of numerous oxen, of which the flesh was afterward distributed to the poor. England Imports Her Food. That English agriculture as a food producing agency is now almost a thing of the past appears from the fact that of the 32.000.000 quarters of wheat consumed annually la ' the British Isles, no less than 24,000,000 quarters come from abroad, for which nearly 40,000,000 Is paid. 'CUR. DUCHESS Another mark of royal favor has been extended to the Duchess of Mrl borough, who was Miss Consuelo Van derbilt. and who Is now cc-iisort of the head of the Churchills. At the coronation Queen Alexandra vrill be attended by four fair duchesses who will be attired in cloth of gold and bedecked in their robes and coro nets. Not only must these four be duchesses, but they must be among the most beautiful of the duchesses. As filling these requirements the chosen ones are those of Montrose, Sutherland. Portland and Marlbor ough all numbered among the loveli est women in England. FLIRTING IS BARRED The students of the university col lege of North Wales have been giving the regents and teachers a great deal of trouble lcaly by their predilection for flirting. The upshot of the matter has been the posting of the following stringent and somewhat unique rules: "Men students may not. firstly, meet women students by appointment or walk with them; secondly, accompany women students to or from college; thirdly, walk with women students in the grounds of the college; fourthly, visit or receive visits from women 6tudents in their lodgings. "Reasonable association between men and women students will be per mitted, firstly, at authorized social gatherings within the college; second ly, in the college field during the prog ress of matches, and. thirdly, in the college itself for business connected with college societies or class work." These rules may work like a charm in old Britain, but would undoubtedly cause a storm of indignation among independent young America. MATTER OF OPINIO. "I have often wondered." said a thoughtful man to his minister, "what Adam and Eve would have done could they have foreseen the result of their violation of the divine commandment." "They were warned," said the min ister. "True," said the thoughtful man, ' but such warnings make little im pression. But I believe they would have done just the same even if they had realized all that would follow. While they were driven out cf the garden, they entered upon such a life of happiness as Ehould have brought no regret for their idle garden life. I believe they would have sinned Just the same." "It is. perhaps, a sin to discuss the question," said the minister. BOOTH TARKtf.GTON Booth Tarkington. the author, who will be a candidate for the legislature of Indiana, is an Indiana man clear through and takes a kindly interest in the welfare of his state. He is just 31 years old and a r ative of Indianap olis. After a year's study at Purdue university Mr. Tarkington entered Princeton, and after leaving that uni versity in 1S93 he began writing the stories which have inc made him famous. A Versatile Genics. A Laredo, Tesas, business man has Issued a circular in the form of a typewritten letter which shows him to be a versatile man and a humorist. He advertises himself as proprietor of a "hotel, annex, sample-room, res taurant, fish hatchery, gas plant, chicken farm, saloon, lunch room, bil liard hall," etc. At the head of the sheet appears the line, "Me-an'-the-Old-Woman. Sole Proprietors." On either side of this line are pictures; finder one is the caption. "This Is Me," and under the other, "This is the Old Woman." lArfest Sinjr'e pan Itridc. The great bridge in the course of construction across the Valley of Petruffe, in Luxembourg, will when finished surpass Cabin John bridge, now the longest single span of masonry in the world. Over 40,000 Hungarian residents of New York city recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot. La tliat city in 1S51. UNDER TV. 0 FLAGS "The man without a country" Is generally regarded as an anomaly, but there 13 something far 6tranger a postoffice that does business under two flags. It is located at Beebe Plain, a town that is half in the state of Vermont and half in the province of Quebec. The building was erected some seventy-five years ago exactly on the line between the United States and Canada, so that it stands in twe countries and serves the postal serv ice of two nations. The cellar of the building connects the two countries, and some years ago when the postofflce wa3 a general store, whisky was known to be sold in one country and delivered in an other without ever having gone out from under the roof of the old struc ture. This combination postoflke is now being run by parent and child, the father being postmaster for Can adian Quebec and the daughter post mi:tres3 for Vermont. Standing in front cf this rtrar.-e postoUce is a large pect which mark:: the boundary line, and it is szii that at one timo a man who wanted to get a roadway to his premises moved this post, and many thousands of dollar and no little time was spent in es tablishing the exact line again. SINGERS HONORED Miss Mary McFarland and Mirs Marie McFarland. twin sisters of Den- SIlss Mary McFarland. ver, Colo., who are well known as much for their beauty as for their tal ent as songsters, have been chosen to sing at the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII. to be held next sum mer. The Misses McFarland have been great travelers and it was upon one of their journeys through Europe that they met the present king of England, Mis Marie McFarland, at that time prince of Wales. It is stated that the royal command to sing at the ceremonies proceeds directly from the kins and is not the outcome of the plans of the committee which has this matter in hand. ApparatuHcs for Making Coffee. Thousands of apparatuses for mak ing coffee have b?en invented. The Patent Oiiiee is packed with pots. etc.. some of which cost ?25 apiece. Some experts say boil the coffee; some say Con't boil it. Some foreigners prefer to make it in a saucepan, and they have it as clear as crystal and as strong as alcohol. While I was in Su matra, several years ago, I drank cor fee made of the dried leaves of the cof fee tree instead of the beans. At first I supposed they were brewing tea. Eu it was as fine coffee as I have eve.: tasted. ' Voice Carries Klght Miles. Eighteen miles is said to be the longest distance on record at which a man's voice has been heard. This occurred in the grand canyon of the Colorado, where one man shouting the name "Bob." at one end, his voice vls plainly heard at the other end, which is. eighteen miles away. American Vines In Frenrs, The very large 3'ields of wine in re cent years in French vineyards are at tributed largely to the impoitation ol vigorous American vines to replace those killed by phylloxera. The qual ity, however, is said to be inferior to that, of the wine made from the old French vines. Religions Orders Increasing. Everywhere religious orders are on the increase. In Belgium, for in stance, in 1846 there were 779 con vents and monasteries, with 12,000 inmates. In 1900 the number had in creased to 2.200 convents and monas teries, with 27.000 inmates. Irrigation and Its Ittwalt. About 58.000,000 was Epeist on the great Chenab irrigating canal In India; but the crops of last year from the ir rigated canal are valued at twice that amount. Statistics recently published in Paris show clearly that good surroundings aScrd comparative immunity from pul monary tuberculosis. ! 5 I REFORM IN MEN'S DRESS. Club Formed at lierlln Will I.'ndearor to K.T't n Change. Under ihe Ieaderh:p of Prcf. Her man Widner. a number of noted men of artistic taste have formed at Berlin the only male dress reform club in the world, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A great e.msade has been inaugur ated against the never? cut of ihe pres ent day attire which forves one of tbr sterner sex to put aside hi own In dividuality and follow a fashion re flected upon every roan he meets. While the members of tL? German Male Dress Reform club do not favor the ruffles and lac es of Louis XIV. they wo'ild compromise between that mode of dress and the twentieth century fashion. Prof. Widner has irsuel a call fr suggestions, and many hundre Js cif de signs, some practical and otl.ra very grott t-que. have ben submitted to these orKttnized reverters aainst th laws of fashion. The idea firKt s le. ted is a detign worked out at a muss meet ing by the artists of the club. It U a modified form of the uniform worn by a German Hussar regiment. The short coat cr Jacket fits rnugly at the waist and suggests the use of stays, though these reformers are aftr solid comfort. Rowg of braid, silver or gold, to match the cloth, as the fancy dictates, outline the graceful curves of the spinal column, the sleeves are a trifle fuller than men usually wear iml the shoulders have that long, graceful slope so much desired by the society "belle" and so strenuously avoided b men until these artists changed th fashion. American "Beau Brummds" scoff at the idea cf wearing a coat the shoulder Ream of which commences aiout two inches down the arm, lor. lxsldes bing in their eyes effeminate that awful word which stands for everything man should avoid and ugly, they m. -t be uncomfortable, or it seems to the p"i . unenlightened fashion's slaves and fol lowers of long established custom on this side of the water. The German Male Dress Reform Club trousers fit tight, loosening somewhat llow the knee, and they are trimmed with but tons from the knee down. The waistcoat is thickly padded, showing to good advantage the chest formation. With the thermometer at zero, this is comfort. But is the com bination of the broad and manly c with the slender, willowy form artit. tic? As the chief aim and object of these reformers is to be beautiful as well as comfortable, the question is a reflection on the good judgment or the club. The garmenta are to le manufac tured of gay-colored cloths, varied in tones, this being intended to give th portrait painters a relief from the dull monotony of the present colors. The club has written to artist fraternities all over Europe soliciting further de signs, and whole volumes of drawings and suggestions have been received in reply. All the members are wearing the at tire firEt selected until something e!- is decided upon. Heat of Volcano. The Maoris of New Zealand cook their potatoes and other v potables in volcanic heat. There ere a few vol canoes in New Zealand, an 1 ome of the Maoris live up in the mountain near them. They make the volcano- do several useful things for them, but the queerest is the rooking. A f w cf the vo'canoea have a sort cf pe-io i action. They heat up the ground ir the fall and then lie idle the remaind er of th; year. Those volcanoes are of a quiet disposition and never brek loose, but they heat th ground J ist enough to do the native cooking. Th plan of the Maoris is to dig a pit ab tut five or six feet deep and bed it with rtraw. Then they put in their vege tables, filling up the pit quite full, and then cover it over with more straw and then a layer of earth. And then then they go away and lie low. Then the volcano begins to heat up and gets in its fine work and the potaioe-.; and mangoes cook. The native let them stay ther for a Ion.? time after the beat depart from the earth, t.ike them out whenever thry want tb-ni. and eat them. So the earth I at onc a stove and a storehouse D-troit Fre Press. Eastern I arm 1-m n 1 1 ft. In the eastern states prices of agri cultural land have generally fallen in recer.t years, in some cases about riO per cent of the figures asked during the time of high prices. One of the chief causes for the decline In th value cf land in the east appear to be a loss of fertility in the land itself, due. perhaps, to careless farming. In the central and western states there appears to be no such marked decline in fam values as In the cast. In ..he northwest land seems to have been in creasing in value, and in some locali ties to a very marked ds:ec. Farm laborers seem to have profited more in the pas"t,few years than their em ployers, or, since the fall in the prices of farm product, even better off than some of the farmers who employ then. It is also said that there i. n greater opportunity for laborers to riae to In dependent positions in agriculture than ever before. Detroit Free Press. Tbe Most ValnaWle I'laat. The most valnable flower In th world Is surpeed to be an orchid be longing to MM. George . Wilson of Philadelphia, for which the asks $10, 000. At the rec ent Cower show in Phil adelphia Ma Wilon exhibited eighty varieties of orchid3. wonderfully CJry like things, the butterflies of the vege table world. Of an eighty-first variety the PLaleonopsis Harriett she showed one flower. The plant she would not risk. It Is the only one of its sort iu the world and U valued at $10,000. I is a hybrid, originally grown in the greenhouses of Erastus Corning of this city. He named it after bis daughter Harriet. After his death the best of his collection patwd into Mrs. Wilson's hand, including this unique plant. A ruddy and lusty old dame, who de lights in all weathers and seasons, and Is like!y to outlive all her children yet. Thorcau.