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THE AMERICAN. FIVE FEET OF LIZARD. asallarrtta W Ik JapMM kUaHl r rawarfal Java aft a KapUla, Superintendent Ohniraua, of Wood ward's Garden a. a few day ago tupped away on of the uglieat and raokt repubuve looking object ever at the gardens or any where elan, say toe Nm r ranciwo hiamuier. It wan the Japanese aalaiuander, Fur six yearn the reptile hat lived in a pood about four fort in depth, and ex cept when the water wax drawn off to to be replaced by eome that was fresher, has been seen but two or three timus by visitors or any body else. It usually rested on the bottom. apparently in a dormant shape, or moving sluggishly about, and lived on animat-ulan and tadpole. The reptile is over five feet in length, and formed very much like an alligator, with the exception of the Head. which is broad and rounded. ' bout twice the size of a dinner-plate. jkt the ends of the short, straight legs are feet with five lingers, resembling hands. The leathery skin is of a dark brown color, dotted with yellowish pots. Sometimes when the water was drained off Mr. Ohnimua would ex pertinent with the reptile, and found that although usually very slow of movement, when aroused it could travel like a flash, and the strong, toothless jaw could snap a large, heavy cane in two as though it were a match. Before it was purchased by Mr. Woodward he secured it for exhibition. paying $50 a day for three months. and the salamander was a drawing card. This specimen is said to be the third one of the kind ever in captivity and the largest known. It was cap tured in one of the interior lakes of Japan, the only place where they have been found. Comparatively little ia known of the habits of this particular speoies. The popular belief has been that the salamander had not been furnished with eyes, but a series of experiments made with this one by the use of a powerful lens and other means, demon strated that it is the possessor of one pair, but so exceedingly small in size that it is very difficult to distinguish them. It has nothing in common with the salamanders of Pliny, Aristotle and Diuscorides, to which were attributed all sorts of malefio powers, such as being as poisonous as aconite, so venomous that a touch of its saliva caused the hair to fall out, and capac ity to put out fire merely by walking through it Asbestos was formerly called salamander's hair, and even Marco Polo insisted that asbestos was the plumage of the salamander. The Japanese reptile at all events is merely a toothless amphibious lizard of huge measurements and are a rare thing under the sun. Baron Henry Von Siebold. secretary of the German legation in Japan, is said to be the purchaser and to have paid f 1.000 for the creature. It was placed in a long box, and with a plen tiful supply of wet blankets wrapped about t, was sent on its voyage to form an attraction in one of the larg est museums in (iet-inany. Baron Von Siebold's father, an emi nent naturalist with a world-wide fame, was the first to bring the atten tion of the scientific world to the Jap anese salamander, and had the privi lege of giving it a scientific name that bears some resemblance to his own. HE GUYED THE FARMER. But the Old Man Wi Only liajrael Oo the Outside. He was a gay young officer, and l'n cle Sam was in luck to have such a hired man, says the Philadelphia Times, lite car was crowded, and he had to set his bright new uniform right down beside a dingy old farmer-looking chap. Well, my avuncular relative," said he, speaking up so that the passen gers might have a chance to join in the laugh, "what promise does she of whom one touch makes us all akin hold lorth touching the particular of farinaceous cereals?" The passengers those who under stood him and those who didn't, sn ick ered. "How's the wheat crop, he?" re plied t-.e dingy personage. "Fust rate, fust-rate." 'Is that which fell alike by the wuy side, into barren places, and upon good ground completely subterranean?" The passengers laughed. Is the seed all under ground, eh?" said the countryman. "Sure, all the seedin's done and things are sprout in'." "Has your retina been impressed by any members o" the advance guard of the canthari9 v.ttt,ta?" The passengers giggled. "Seen any potato bugs, eh?" said the rustic, "you bet; seen lots of po tato bugs, but nary an army worm. " "No?" said the gay young officer, hastily, heading off an incipient laugh. "And why is the army worm no longer with you?" , "Well," said the old professor from the Podunk agricultural college, "I heard that most of them had been jugged for duplicating their pay ac counts." The passengers roared. Taking Flah br Electricity. "There is no longer any need of the fairy tales told by amateur fishermen" said an electrical expert last night "Wizard Edison has turned out a fish hook, or rather a hook for all sorts of fish, from the cod down to the min now, that will stun the fish the mo ment it touches the hook. If a man gets a bite at all he is sure of his fish. "The trouble with the amateur fish erman is that he cannot land his cap ture, but with this new electrical de vice he will have do trouble in catch ing all the flih he wants if they are biting." Sew York Telegram. THE USE OF GLASS. IM rtnt Maaatary to Urt la ! tMa Age mt ta rul. Sinv the days whan Pliny's fabled Phtuaician mariner wr guppoatxi to nave diaoovertvl the art of making glass by burning aeawtfr! on the sandy ahora the art of glut-making ha made enormous strides. Hut the I'hirnicUus were nut the diacoverpra. The Egyp tians knew about glana long before them, as is proved not alone by many picture of glass blowers on the old tombs and monument, but by the dis covery of the article itself in many forms in excavations at F-gypt. N ioevuh. Troy and Alexandria, The arU of cutting, grinding, gilding and co.oriug glass were practiced 370 year hWore Christ Pieces in the forms of Irnmw. vases and bottles have been found in Rome. Pompeii, and Hert-ulaneum. but no windows. The tirst glass windows in England were introduce.! by the Abbott Benedict A. I. 671. The Venetian glasstuukers and g'asnbluwers were celebrated in the thirteenth cen tury as they are celebrated to-day. The manufacture of glass was one of the earliest Industries in this coun try, and to-duy the glass tnauufacturem especially the mirror man ufactu rers stand among the foremost und best in the world. The first factory spoken of was at Salem, Mass., and was the property ot one Ananias I'niiklin. the position of his factory is even now known as Glasshouse Field. In 174G there was a factory at Jamestown, Va.. and in 1750 there was another at Ger manlown, Mass. But the first of which any real history exists was organized by Robert Howes of Boston at Temple, N. II.. 1790. To begin to enumerate the uses to which glass is put one would have to enumerate every trade, every kind of building, every walk and employment in life, every step in life from the baby's bottle to the glass covered wreath upon the grave, every science and scientific experiment; there is not a single movement in the life of man or woman, that does not include the employment of gloss. The great firm of Siemens Bros., of Berlin, have for many years been ever trying to pro duoe a glass that shall bo strong enough and flexible enough to act for railroad sleepers, ties and wheels. Some slight idea of the vastness of the amount of glass used for windows, says the Recorder, and mirrors may be obtained when it is stated that for sev eral years past the sum of money an nually paid in premiums for Insurance has reached close upon $700,000. a Sum representing glass to the actual value of 128.000,000. Nor does this by any means include the whole of the glass thus used, for assuredly there are many people who do not insure at all and some who only do so partially. In a large hotel now building in New York city there will be 3,600 sashes, each about four feet square, without counting the large windows on the ground floor. A still better idea of the quantity of glass used throughout the united States may be obtained fiora the estimate that during the coming year thee will be manufactured and imported some 89,600,000 square feet of plate mirror and sheet glass. In detail. 12.000.000 square feet of plate. 40,000, 000 square foet of window or sheet glass. 4,000,000 square feet cf mirrors and 5, 000, 000 square feet of colored, ceiling, floor and roofing glass. This is all to be manufactured in the United States. Then there are orders in hand abroad for importation into America amounting to 3, 500, 000 square feet of mirror glass. 25,000,000 square feet of window glass and 800,000 square feet of colored, ceiling, flooring and roofing glass. THE EMPTY CRADLE. Tbe Woman Sat Hooking It and the Baby W Safe. It was a woman's voice crooning sweetly the old lullaby: "Hush-my-denr-lie-still-and-slumber," And as she sung she rocked an empty cradle with her foot keeping time with its melancholy refrain. From the nestling of the blankets it looked as if the baby had only just been lifted out. A man passing heard the singing and retraced his steps so that he could look through the open door into the little plainly furnished room. "Lxeuse me, ma am,, he said re spectfully, "but I noticed that you were rocking an empty cradle. I reckon you never heard of the super stition" . "I am not superstitious," suid the woman: Holy-angela-guard-thy-bed." "Excuse me, ma'am, but folks told my wife that if she didn't stop rocking the cradle when the baby wasn't in it something would happen an' it did. The baby died when he was a year old!" "My baby won't die," answered the mother, "he's been an angel these three months, an' when I foel so bad that I can't live another minute I come in here and make boliove he's asleep. It does me good an' mebbe God lets him know, and it comforts him. Is that superstition?" "No, ma'am, I reckon not. an'. I hope you'll excuse me. " The man walked on bearing his own burden of sorrow with him, and the desolate mother rocked the empty cradle and resumed her plaintive monody: 'Heavenly-bleaslngs-without-number Qently-f aU-upon-tby-head. " Detroit Free Press. Prevention of Imprudent Borrowing. The Egyptians had a very remark able ordinance to prevent persons from borrowing imprudently. An Egyptian was not permitted to borrow without giving to his creditor in sledge the body of his father. It was deemed both an impiety and an imfamy not to redeem so sacred a pledge. A person who died without discharg ing that duty was deprived of the cus tafiary Honors paid to the dead. GEORGE PUT HIS FOOT IN IT. He Has Native: I be t-raity Waller Ulrte a4 Laacbean. "Why ia it. Oorge." began lira. Maun, according to the Boston Trans cript, "that you never cwne home noons now? Can It be that you are grttlnc tired of your little wife?" "NonarnaeV exclaimed Mr. Mann, with a laugh. "Then perhaps it in my cooking that you objeot to. I suppose they have ever ao much better things at the place where you go down-town." "Oh. It kin't that at all. The fact la, I have ao much to do now; I am ao hur ried, you understand, that really I can't take the time to come home." "There la one thing I want to ask you. George?" ' Well, what is It?" "Do they have girl waiter where you take your luncheon?" "Yea that is, I think ao; why do you ask?" "Oh, It doesn't matter If you never took enough notice to find out; but they tell me that in some of Uie reatau rants they have girl waiters, and that the men flirt with them awfully." "But, of course, darling, you would not think that of ma?" "No. George I don't think you would flirt with anybody." "Of course not; but you did worry Just a tiny bit about thoee pretty table girls?" "Why, George, what are you saying? Tou speak of them as being pretty, and you know that you were unable to tell me for certain whether there were any girls there at all. Oh, what a blunder ing fellow!" "I mean that I have heard the men speak of pretty table girls at places where they lunched and I suppose I got from that the Idea that all table girls are pretty." Mrs. Mann (after a pause): "George, do you think you would enjoy your meals better at home If I should put on a white ekirt over my dress and put on a white waist, with a big broad collar around my neck?" "What in the world put that into your head?" "Why, that is the way the waiter girls dress. Isn't it?" "And what of that?" "Nothing; only, perhaps, If I looked like one of those waiter girls you would Just as lief come home to lunch as to go to an eating-house." "But. my dear, do you think you could ever look like a waiter girl, what ever you had on?" "You mean by that, I suppose, that I ain't pretty enough. If that le what you think of your wife, George Mann, the sooner we separate the better for both of us. To think that I ever should be treated In such an outrageous man ner as this!" CbU-ag-o't Wdl-L.oit Library. The report of the public library board for the fiscal year ended June 1, sets forth that the number of books taken to homes from the library and sub-stations during the year, being 1,173,686 volumes, is greater than In the case of any similar institution in the world. Manchester, England, Is not a close sec ond, with 975,944 volumes. Iloston, Mass., comes next, with 847,321 volumes. Birmingham. England, Is the fourth, with a record of 818.312. The total num ber of volumes held by the library is 217,203. Accessions for the year equaled 10.485. The aggregate number of books, periodicals, etc.. In use dur ing the year. Including books of ref erence, was 2,542,244, an Increase of 57, 192 over the previous year. The at tendance at the central reading room, and at the sub-stations, was materially greater than for the preceding year. A great demand Is noted for additional reading rooms throughout the city, notably in those districts of dense pop ulation where the poorer people live. Lack of funds has prevented extension to as great a degree as is desirable. For the reason that space is limited, as well as money, comparatively few volumes were purchased during the year. All this will be changed after January 1. when the move will be made to the new building on the lake front. More money will be available, while space will be ample. Chicago Inter Ocean. More Than a Trifle. It was only a little blossom, Just the merest bit of bloom, But it brought a glimpse of summer To the little darkened room. It was only a glad "Good morning," As she passed along the way; But it spread the morning's glory Over the livelong day. Only a song; but the music, Though simply pure and sweet, Brought back to better pathways The reckless roving feet. Only! In our blind wisdom How dare we say it at all? Since the ages alone can tell us Which is the great or small. Selected. The Oraat Widow. Mr. Frankstown "There goes young Mx. Homewood cycling with that pret ty grass widow." Mr. Point Breexe "Tea; he's deeply infatuated with her. He tells me he can't live without her." Mr. Frankstown "That's odd. I know her former husband very well and he confided to me that he could not live with her." Washington Times. A Compliment Indeed. He I'm going to pay you the high est compliment a man can pay a wo man. She This is so 'sudden He T know It. but I came awav wtthnnr in pockttbook can you lend me a dollar uuui lu-tnurruw 1 PAT KOI MS In the Year 1900 Rome Will Take This Country and Keep It Ilccker. She BatnThat Religions Liberty la Only Eadared I'aUl the Oppat.it Md eaa lie pat InU Effort Wltseut la J art U the Kemaa ( harrk. Education outalde of tne Catholic Church I a damnable heresy. Pope Plus IX. Education matt be controlled y Catholic authorities, even to war and bloodshed. Catholic World. I frankly confess that the Catholics Und before the country aa the ene mies of the publlo schools. Father Pnelan. I would as soon administer sacrsr sent to a dog aa to Catholics who send their children to public schools, rather Walker. The public schools hare prod need nothing but a godless generation of thieves and blackguards. Father Schaner. It will be a glorious day In this country when under the laws the school system will be shivered to Dleces. Catholic Telegraph. The public schools are nurseries of rice; they are godless and unless sup pressed will prove the damnation of this country. Father Walker. We must take part In tbe elections, move In a solid mass In every state against the party pledged to sustain the Integrity of the public schools. MeCloskey. The common schools of this country are sinks of moral pollution and nur series of hell. Chicago TableL The time Is not far away when the Roman Catholic Church of the Re public of the United Slates, at the order of the Pope, will refuxe to pay their school tax. and will send bullets to the breasts of the government agents rather than pay iu It will come quickly at the click of a trigger, and will be obeyed, of course, as com ing from Almighty God. Mgr. Capel. "We hate Protestantism; we detest It with our whole heart and soul." Catholic Visitor. "No man has a right to choose his religion." Archbishop Hughes In Freeman's Journal, Jan. 29. 1852. "If Catholics ever gain sufficient nu merical majority in this country, re ligions freedom Is at Bn end." Cath olic Shepherd of the Valley, Nov. J3, 1851. "Protestantism, of every form, has not, and never can have any right where Catholicity is triumphant" Dr. 0. A. Brownson's Catholic Review, June. 1851. "We have taken this principle for a basis: That the Catholic religion with all Its rights, ought to be exclusively dominant, in such sort, that every other worship shall be banished and Interdicted." Plus IX. In his allocu tion to a Consistory of Cardinals, September, 1851. "Protestantism why, we should draw and quarter It, and hang up the crow's meat We would tear It with pincers and Are It with hot Irons! Fill It with molten leaa and sink it in hell fire one hundred fathoms deep." Father Phelan, Editor Western Watch man. "Religious liberty Is merely endur ed until the opposite side can be car ried Into effect, without peril to the Catholic Church." Bishop O'Con nor. The Roman Catholic Is to wield his vote for the purpose of securing Cath olic ascendency in this country." Father Hecker, In the Catholic World, July, 1870. "Undoubtedly it is the intention of the Pope to possess this country. In this intention he Is aided by the Jes uits and Catholic prelates and priests." Brownson's Catholic Review, July, 1864. When a Catholic candidate Is on a ticket and his opponent is a non Catholic, let the Catholic candidate have the vote, no matter what he rep resents." Catholic Review, July, 1894. "In case of conflicting laws between the two powers, the laws of the church must prevail over the state." Plus IX, Syllabus 1864. "We hold the stare to be only an Inferior court, receiving Its authority from the church and liable to have Its decrees reversed upon appeal." Brownson's Essays, p. 282. "We do not accept this government or hold It to be any government at all, or as capable of performing any of the proper functions of government It the American government Is to be sus tained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the principles of the Reformation (that is, tbe gov ernment by the people), and the ac ceptance of the Catholic nHnninle, which is the government of the pope." Catholic World, September, 1871. "I acknowledge no civil power." 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