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POTATO CROP OF THE WORLfX -Mm ss United atsteaw TW abawdanca and cheapness of A rtcaa potato this asaaoa land coa sts rah It Interest to tb culture and sontrlbatlon of those Important and mill artlcis of diet Tb world' averse annual crop for many year has Bcoa eatlmatsd by experts, aided by ofletal statistics, at over 8,000.000,- 000. 000 bushels, exceed lnf the average aaanai crop of fraln by fully 750,000, 800 boabsls. la volum of production tb United State tand fifth on a llat sf couatrlea which are the largest prsdnesra, and whoa avarage annual crops are estimated In bushel aa fol low: Germany, 74,000.000; Russia, 121,000,000; Franc. 8aD.000.000; Ana Ma, 286.000,000; United Bute. 300,000,000. The average annual receipt of potatoea In thl city are about 200,000 barrel, each barrel containing from two and a half to two and three-quarters bushel, or a total of from 5,000,000 to 5,900,000 buahela. Of thl great supply an aver age quantity of about 200,000 barrel 1 exported to the Weat Indie, the Har as ataamahtpe each carrying- from 1,000 to 2,900 barrel a trip, or about 6,000 barrela weekly, learing about 1,740 barrela for conaumption in and around the metro poll. The local supply of potatoes 1 re wired from different source at differ ent time of the year. The new Ber muda crop begin to arrlre about Feb. 1, and come In at an arerage weekly rate of about 2JS00 barrels, which, un der ordinary condition, are usually sold for from $9 to $7 a barrel at whole sale. The Florida crop, which is com paratlTely small, begin to arrive about April 1, and 1 usually sold at about the same price a are received for the Bermuda pot toe. A month or two later Georgia potatoea begin to arrive from Savannah, and are received at the rata of about 10,000 barrel a week, their wholesale price generally ranging from S3 to $6 a barrel Supplies come from seaboard cltle further north a the year advance till the latter part of July, after which the metropolitan market la mainly aupplled by Long Island and New Jersey, whose early crop are dug In July and August, and late crops In September. There are usu ally limited supplies alao received from Canada and Scotland, but on account of the present enormoua domestic crop the Importation from those places thl year will be Insignificant. A small sup ply I generally receired late in Decem ber from Bermuda, but It la too Insig nificant to have any appreciable effect on the market There are only ten State In the Union which extenalvely produce potatoes for shipment to market beyond their wn border. They are Maine. Ver mont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Virginia. Tennessee say soon be added to thl lint, a her product la steadily and rapidly increaa Ing, and among her potato plantations there Is a single one which ha over WOO acres under cultivation. New Tork Tribune. Took the Hint. Clapp waa a shrewd detective and a moat excellent Judge of human nature. He could tell a rogue as far off as he could a black man. and he never made mistake. .' An Instance of hi readlne In read ing character occurred one morning In Court A caae of considerable Interest waa being tried, and the gallery was crowded with spectator. a Two or three reporters were sitting near the door when Clapp, stooping over, whispered: "Don't all look at once, but please observe that nice-looking man with the white cravat In the front seat of the gallery In the middle." We looked. "Now," continued Clapp, "I'll send that man flying out of court on the double-quick In les than five minutes, nor will I leave the room or send him a message." While we were wondering how the feat waa to be accomplished, the vet eran quickly beckoned to a police offi cer, and, taking a pair of handcuff from hi pocket, directed the officer atteatio to the party In the gallery, and apparently gave him some direc tion. The man made hi way toward the door, and at the same inatant the gen tleman with the white cravat bolted lk lightning through the crowd to the door and disappeared. "Gentlemen," remarked Clapp. "I never saw that man before In my life." Plants Thrive oa a Meat Diet. It baa been proven time and again that the so-called "cannibal plants," of which the Venn flytrap 1 the type, are inch more healthy when allowed their regular Insect food than they are when reared under netting or la any other ntoaoer which exclude them fiom their regular meat diet The above Is aa oddity In Itself, especially when we consider the fact that there hi a certain school of botanists which teaches can nibal plant make no use whatever of Mat Insert prey raptured by ttieiii. but It hi nothing compared with the hold assertion made by Francis Darwin. flt noted scientific gentleman bravely Casta the "vegetarian botanists" with ' C assertion that all kinds and classes cf ()(, whether known aa "meat- ' fJjHf c ant, bear more and heavier 'f eaada when fed on meat than . CrOa4 avtaa allowed a flesh dirt twa Um, comprising various f Oa uinTerent com moa 0a tot rejralarty fed af oam) , r r-sf wKA vtr aad th ' 3criC3astfwvs4 while tb unfed plants of the aaass Bomber and original condition bar but seventy four. Also that the pampered plant bore 240 sseda to every 100 born by th plant that ware not given a chanca to gratify cannibalistic taste. This la certainly a discovery worthy of much careful study and extensive ex periment. -t Lout Republic, Rasslm In Russia begging 1 Just a much a recognised profession a the law or med icine, and many a skillful beggar ha a much larger Income at his command than a lawyer or a doctor. Russian beggar are organised upon scientific principle, and, according to a labor commission report, form regular trade unions Some of them follow their pro fession the year round; others only at stated seasons; other go on begging expeditions when the weather 1 fine and live on the spoil when It Is bad. There are many distinctions of rank among diem. The Sondogola beggars, for Instance, who work on the soil for six months of the year, are socially of no account whatever; whereas the Ka louni, who would as soon think of flying a of working, are quite Important per sonagesaristocrats of beggardoin, in fact. The Kalounl call themselves "collectors," and their chief business Is to direct the begging operations of others. As a rule, two Kalounl enter into partnership and gather around rhem a little company of assistants four or five children, and perhap two adults choaen especially on account of their Infirmities. Woe be to the one who goes about with a cheerful air, or is heard to laugh In public. When the firm is ready for action, the KaloOnl, who are often capitalist in their way, buy a horse and large cart, and set out in the world. They go hundreds of mile from their homes, sometimes wan dering from village to village, from town to town. In a fairly good district they will clear aa much a thirty h ti lings a week a huge sum In Russia, where thousands of men earn lea than sixpence a day, and women are paid for their work about a farthing an hour. The assistants, who do all rhe begging, receive their food, the shelter of the cart, and perhaps a few rag for cloth ing nothing more. AU that 1 given to them must be yielded up to their em ployers, and dire I the punishment that befalls them if they are detected keeping back a few kopecks for their own use. Speaklita- I p for Old Ireland. An English gentleman addicted to field sports arrived In Cork last au tumn, and engaged a car and driver to convey him to a village some miles from the city. On the way the traveler re marked: "Ought to be a good country for game, ehr "Game I it your honor?" wa the reply. "Shnre. there' oshtns av ItT "Any snipe?" "Ay, is there! there' more antpe nor peelers, an' more peeler nor praties, an' that's sarin' a good dale." "Plenty of pheasants and grouse, too, I suppose?" "Faith, there's no enpposln' at all about it; there's millions av 'em so there lsr Having proceeded some mile and not seeing a feather, the Englishman observed, sarcastically: "H'm, yes; plenty of small game, but I don't think there are any phono graphs In these parts." "Arrah! don't be talkln'; shure, after a bit av a frost the whole counthry side, and more 'speshly the ploughed lan,' does be swarmln' wld them." No more questions. A Bo w-and-Arrow Duel. Although the silly and wicked cus tom of dueling I still practiced In Ger many, Frame, and elsewhere, It has been extinct in the I'nited Kingdom for perhaps half a century. The two fighters generally used swords, ox pis tols, but there is on record a case in which two men met In the Meadows at Edinburgh, on the 10th of February. 1791, to satisfy their "wounded honor" with bows and arrows. Each combat ant bad a second, but there was only one surgeon between the two. After firing three shot apiece without bit ting anything In particular excepting Mother Earth, the two archers parted, their honor, no doubt, being greatly the better for the pleasing pastime. Still, th Scotsmen were shrewd and canny enough to choose weapon that gave both of them a very fair chance of coming out of the encounter un harmed, whatever might have hap pened to a mere onlooker or even a passer-by. Hulclde of a Waa p. A short time ago M. Henry, a French man, being curious to see the effects of ben sine on a wasp, put some of It under a glass in which a wasp wa Imprison ed. The wasp immediately showed signs of great annoyance and anger, darting at a piece of paper which had introduced the benzine Into his cell. By and by he seems to bare given up the unequal contest In despair, for he lay down on his back and, bending up hi abdomen, planted hi sting twice into his body and then died. M. Henry allowed his scientific interest to over come his humanity so far as to repeat the experiment with three wasp, only to And that the ober two did likewise. He Is therefore of the opinion that wasps under desperate circumstances commit suicide. The Crank. The word "crank" I frequently used. Its orlginvmay not be generally known. Th eranke was one of the rogues and vagabonds of Hhskspeare's time. It was tM character name oi one who reigned ua raiuag aicai I? Ops aha tb Kskianw Ton. LatwL PMfr asti laaraad to ansaktb H M ataaaat aaaMr to pals as to acqarr raat FAMED DEAD BEATS. Msa Who Uvs Dsn th ladastrr sf Others, "The fact m this dty swarm with dishonest persons whole families, I mean who move from flat to flat with out payment of rent I am not exag gerating the least bit when I aay tbit there are hundred of families In ti l city of seeming respectability who hav scarcely paid f 100 a year In rent In th last Ave years. And they have lived In very nice apartments, too, apartments costing anywhere from $50 to S1A0 a month." "Why, how in the world I that tuau aged?" I asked. "It I very easily done," replied the real estate man, "or rather It waa very easily done before wa west side agent were forced last aummer to combine for self-protection. But, notwlthatand ing all our effort, flat are so numer ous and competition among ownera and agent 1 so brisk that there Is srlll plenty of opportunity. After the regu lar spring renting season is over, say In midsummer, the owner cf an apart ment bouse with several flai vacant is. you know, willing to make conception. These concessions are not usually In the way of a reduction of rental, but consist In giving one or two months' rent free, say until the regular fall sea son begins again. The man bent on beating the agent takes advantage of these conditions. He picks out two or more flat and plays the agents against each other for the best terms obtalua ble. He does not ask a reduction of rent, but secures just as long a prelim inary period rent free as possible. "He puts on a good front, refers to several persons who know him in a so cial way and are free about vouching for hi respectability, and takes the apartment He asks for and gets re ceipt for the rent of the months be get free and move in, bag in1 bag gage. All goes well until the time come for the payment ol the first month' rent The mooy doe not come, and the collector nevr finds hi in at home. His wife make excuses and assures the agent that u is 'all right' "So time goes on, and tLo next month's rent becomes due. The agent begins to get a little alarmed aoJ writes some pressing leuer. Thy are answered In a lofty manner, with assurance that a soou a ertaln ex pected remittance eoine In a check will be sent The agent see the tenant's references agsln, all of whom ay, uo doubt In good faith, that they have al ways found blm a man of his word, and that he will undoubtedly pay up. An other month passe, and then tiie agent 1 satisfied he has a beat oa his hands. He takes legal measures to dispossess him, which also require time, and It generally happen that the beat, who has meantime mad arrangement for another flat in a dla'ant part of the town, packs up and moves off before th summon can be served. And so It goes on. Occasionally the beat c?i caught for a little rear. Perhaps be falls to secure a new flat before he get ousted from the on ha U llviu? in, and has to aettle dowa ou a hard cash basts for a month or two till be can get a fresh start" Nsw York Herald. The Engineer Waa Color Blind. A story 1 told of the late Railroad Commissioner Stevens, on the occa sion of the rear-end collision at West Komervtlle three or four yean ago. The engineer of the following train waa careless, and ran by two red light without a stop. At the hearing the engineer testified regarding the lights, and said they wer et at white. After the other commissioners had asked the witness all the questions tbey could think of, Mr. Steven quietly re quested William, the office boy, to take a "Baby I'athflnder" railway guide, aud hang it on .the ventilator outside the window, but In full view of the witness, and when his turn came to examine him, he merely asked the engineer what color the little book appeared to him. The engineer squinted at the book, which was some twenty feet away, and then said. In a rather uncertain tone that It was sort of brownish. Thl wa all that Mr. Stevens had to aay to the witness, but the cause of th accident wa pretty conclusively proved to have been due to color blindness of the en gineer, for, as everybody knows, all the "Baby Pathfinders" are bright red. Boston Traveler. HI Wife's Qseatlon. A man Is known by the questions be ask. And the same I true of a wom an. Mr. Hayes has a mind that delights In facta. He collects them as a boy collect postage stamp. The other night h laid down hla paper, waa si lent a moment, and then said: 'That odd." "What la it?" aaked hla wife. "Why, here la a man who aaya that It would take twelve million year to pump the sea dry at the rate of a thousand gallona a second." The wife sat thinking the matter over. Then she said: "Where would .they pot all the water?" A Mulberry' Growth. In the year 1KJ4 Captain A. 8. Allen, then a boy on his father' farm near Zebulon, Ga., aturk a mulberry sprout In rhe ground. At that tin the sprout waa not larger than a lead pencil, and had been used by tb boy as an ox "gad." To-day It la a tree almost nine teen feet In circumference at a distance of two feet from the ground, and la said to be the largest mulberry tree In Georgia. ' Bacon Doc that young man who I payla attention to your daughter Isav at a aaaaaaablo boar at Bight? Efbsrt Yss; I hav as reason to kick. xoahsfs Krsa a dead sack can claim that as diso gams. DCMRT OBTRIOH FARMS. Bswrta tas (Most Mrds Aasoaa; the Ba4 of askawm. A wrltsr la La Revu Sdsntlflque au-geta that the French Sahara, upon ths southern edga of Algeria, may be profitably used for ths breeding of os triches. The Barbary ostrich wa once greatly prised for Its plumage, and the ostrich feather houses of Pari made . their reputation by tb curling of these ' plume. The wild Barbary ostrich Is nearly extinct, so that there are uo more plume of the sort to be had, and th Parisian house have lost their mo nopoly of ostrich feather curling. In deed, a large portion of the business has been transferred to other countries, no tably the United Bute. It Is estimat ed that the world ue annually about 120,000,000 worth of otrich plumes, and the writer in La Revue Sclentlfinuo says that In view of the early addition of the European dress in the East, es pecially in China and Japan, the de mand for this sort of personal adorn ment Is likely to Increase. He urgm. too, that the Increased use of oxtrich feather throughout the civilized r orli? Is likely to protect other bird of fine plumage from destruction, and he calls upon the various societies Interested In the protection of such birds to aid In making ostrich plumes more fatilona ble than ever. It Is believed that there are now In south Africa at least 350,000 ostriches, domesticated and bred for tbelr plum age, and the writer says that there is no reason why northern Africa should not become quite as Important a region in this industry. The Sahara, it Is ex plained. Is by no means the exclusively arid and sandy waste that the popular imagination makes It The ostrich cannot exist In the absolutely dry por tions of the Sahara, but there are large areas which are not, properly speaking, oaaes, but they do produce con'Mcrs- ble vegetation. It is upon thes sronx that the French people are urged t. undertake ostrich farming. There have been two or three unsuccesnful experl ments to thl end In Algeria upon the edge of the desert, but they have fail ed for reasons that would not necessi tate failure in other parts of the desert. It is true, the writer admits, that the Sahara can probably never maintain a large European population, but Its notes that it Is the oases and not the lesa fertile parts of the desert that are particularly unwholesome for Euro peans. He believes there is a large field for Immigration In parts of the French Sahara that are suitable for ostrich farming, and urges that the War Dc partment should aid In establish! ig the Industry; that the natives could n di rected by French immigrants snd Paris could rejeover something like her iiij- nopoly of the ostrich curling business. He points out that 30,000 Frenchmen emigrate to America every year. And thlnka that some of these might profit ably be Induced to aettle In nor' icrn Africa. We Mhall Fly By and By. Mr. Hiram Maxim, In an article In the new number of the North American Review upon "Birds In Flight and the Flying Machine," aaya: "I have proved that It Is possible to make a machine that ha sufficient power to lift Itself into the air without the agency of a balloon, so it now only remains that I should obtain very much larger prem- m, unincumbered by trees or build ings, where I can learn to maneuver my machine. 'I am only able to devote a small frac tion of my time to these experiments. as 1 am, and have been for many years. the managing director of a great Eng lish company, but I have put In all the time that I nad to spare for the last five years, and the ex peri merits have led me to believe that the flight of man Is KMialble even with a steam engine and boiler." Mr. Maxim advises young engineers, If tbey wish to do something to ad vance the acience of aviation, to turn their thoughts in the direction of a petroleum motor. Petroleum may le obtalued in any quarter of the globe, and no other substance that we can obtain on a commercial scale contain such an enormous quantity of latent energy. Women Agrlcsltnrlsts. A farmer' wife wants to discover the reason why farmers' boys are provided with agricultural colleges while girls are left to get along as test they may. Why not Introduce co-education In the agrii-ultural colleges? she asks. In Minnesota there la a girl' school of agriculture, whl-h la, so far as known, the only one In the country. It Is quite old now and the results are quite satis factory. The students receive Instruc tion in cooking, canning, household chemistry, entomology and sewing. This plan of educating the women with the men Is working finely In Denmark, and if once our women are roused to a sense of this opportunity such education might work wonders for our farming districts. An Odd Injury. Russell Daggett, of Iewlston, Me., was In the United State navy during the war, and a block fell from a rigging one day and knocked his right arm out or place at the shoulder. Since then the arm has troubled him exceedingly. It Will slip out of place at the slightest provocation. One day recently a lot of boya got Into his orchard and were tealing his fruit when be saw them and gave chase. Stepping Into a hole, he fell, and In falling tried to save hi weak arm by falling on the other, but for toe first time In his life the left arm was thrown out at the shoulder just a ths other oqe had been. He had It set and la doing well. Poor Holland's Wavy. Hollands navy has grown antiquated. It Wfl! tak ao.OOO.OOA to put It into wtorkhir order, bat ths mlalstry doss aot darn to ask for ths money. A Cheap bat Dsrable Road. Avoid all steep grade, and where aurticlent gravel 1 not near to make a road that will not get muddy, put In a pavement of poles, like the old cor duroy roads, and spike on this by bev eled edges two steel rails about twelve Inches wide by oue-fourth luch thick, for the wheels to niu on, says the Agri culturist At the present low prices of steel rails aud spikes, the metal for such a road would cost but little over $4 per rod, or less. Making Bc-tter Boads. ' Capt. Sligii with his chain gsug have been doing some good work on the pub lic roads in the Crane Creek sectlou of the county. The roads there have been in very bad shape, and Capt. Sllgh ha been remedying these Imd places and has put them In splendid condition. The improvements are evi dent on every hand. The chaiu gang system has been a great success In tills county, aud the prisoners who gen erally lie up in Jail are made to do work which has long been needed. Columbia (8. C.) Register. Bicycler and Good Hoada. Advocates of road improvement in town and country will welcome the "Federation of Wheelmen of Kansas City and Jackson County," which was organised Saturday night for the avow ed purpose of accomplishing "good Streets, good roads, proper street sprink ling and systematized street cleaning." The movement began with eighty-eight name subscribed to the constitution and by-laws, and the list includes some of the most prominent professional and business men In the community. With the wheelmen at work In aid of road Improvement, success Is lu sight All men aud women who ride the bicycle, and the nurnlx-r Is Increasing dally, will be interested In the movement, for It means more comfort and enjoyment, and greater safety. By banding togeth er the wheel meu can exert an important Influence In the loc-.il election and make It possible to choose officials who are favorable to good roads and well-kept highways. Kansas City Star. Why Good Koads Arc Needed. It is reasonable to predict that the road Improvement Is destined to spread with great rapidity In the uext ten years, and that capital, which hereto fore built railroads, will now seek In vestment lu line macadamized roads, say the New York Post The first ne cessity for developing a country of the size of the I'nlied State wa a system of railroads that would bind together the widely separated points of Industry and population, and the construction of such a stupendous system absorbed most of the energy and capital of our financiers. But the country now Is bet ter supplied with railroads than sny other on the face of the glotie, and the limit to the extension of long railroad lines Is practically reached lu many part of the country. It Is Impossible to have every small hamlet and village connected with the mala railroad lines by short branches, but the transporta tion problem cannot be said to Iw solv ed until every small place and farm of any size I connected with the great ar teries of commerce by means of line macadamized roads. It is this neces alty for building more and better com mon roads that makes the question such a burulng one to-day. The next generation must devote Itself to the construction and Improvement of com mon roads, feeding the railroads with the product of the great agrimiltural roglmis. Favorite Perfumes. Odors bsve played an Imixu laiit rt In the world' history. So far Iwk as the fourteenth century the fad of the hour was the "Itlrds of Cyprus." They were aromatic herbs, ground and mold ed Into the forms of bird, and they were bi.rned at bamiucts. No descrip tion of Ihelr composition has come down through the age, but the supposi tion I to-day tint they were very much the aame as the "seraglio pantiles," which street venders. disguUcd as Turk, sell on the highways of conti nental capitals. Charles V. of France had among his most treasured iokm-s Ions, It J well known, a hollow t'olden pomegranate to hold his perfumes. Ixul XIV. of France whs given iy the Queen of Sicily n rosary of iiitik. Odorous chaplet were quite the fash- Ion lu those days, and tbey exist even now in some pari of Spain and In some quarter of the Orient In the early part of tb sixteenth csutnry the age of powder and cosmetics began, and the use of perfume became widely spread. During the reign of Iouls XV. Versailles was known throughout the world aa "the perfumed court" A cen tury and a half before that powdered heads bad come In, and this custom be came so universal that the cViatume of deepest mourning and the greatest sor row was to go unpowdered. The pow der used waa made ol starch, and It seldom happened that It was left uu perfumed. To such an extent was th art of scsotlDg th person sanied that It was part of the tmpsrlal program ernch day to asms ths particular sdor to b adopted by ths osartWrs and grsai ladlsB la order that a mUtnr of might not result The revolution killed, of course, thl gentle art. but under ths lnflusno of Josephine It waa glvn a fresh Impetus In directory days, for the Empress' Creole origin and tempsr ainent made her jealously and passlnu atsly devoUftl to every sweet odor that could bs derlssd. (Miemlstry ha ad vanced so far that nowaday scsnt can be made without flower quit as well as with them, snd at much less expense. Still, however, in ltMiminla and In Asia Minor, tb world-famed attar of russa continue to be made, a litre (approximately a quart) coaling three thousand franca (six hundred dol lar) at Constantinople. There I an Imitation of thl essence In distillation from the geranium that are cultivated in immense fields In Algeria, but Its puriouanea can be easily detected. Lisbon. I saw very few miserable people; beg gar were not at all numerous; In a week I was only asked twice for alma. One constantly hears that Lisbon is dirty, and as full of foul odor as Colo ridge's cologne. I did not flud It so, and the bright sunshine and the line color of the house might well compensate for some drawtmcka. The bouses of this regular town are white, and palo jellow, and fine worn-out pink, with narrow, grecn-palnteri verandas, which soon lose crudeneisf In the Intense light The window of the larger block are numerous, and set in long, regular lines; the street. If narrow, run Into open square blazing with white, unsolled monument. All day long the waye ar full of people, who are fairly but unos tentatiously polite. They do not stare one out of countenance, however one may be dressed. In Antwerp, a man who objects to being wondered at may not wear a light suit Lisbon 1 mora cosmopolitan. But the beauty of the town of Lhrtwm Is not added to by the beauty of Its In habitants. The women are curiously the reverse of lovely. Only occasionally I saw a fa which was attractive by theodd conjunction of an olive skin and light gray eye. They do not wear man tillas. The lower classes use a shawl. Those who are of the lourgisl class or alve It differ little from Iondoncr. The working or loafing men for they hiugh and loaf and work and chaff and chiltter at every corner are more dis tinct in costume, wearing the flat felt sombrero, with turned up edges, that one knows from pictures, while th long coat, which hns dllaced th cloak, still retain a smack of It in th way they disregard the sleeves and hang It from their rtioulder. The man are decidedly not so ugly as the women, and vary wonderfully in site, color and complexion, though a big Portuguese Is a rarity. The strong point In both sexes Is their natural gift for wearing color, and for choosing and blending or matching tints. Keeping Track of Oram mere. lu some houses that send out a great many drummers there are In use cer tain peculiar little maps pasted on ths bottoms of cabinet drawer and con stantly studied by rhe proprietors and clerks. These mans are uauallv nf nn at a time, and are dotted with peg or flags of many colors. The flag are tiny bits of colored cloth, with pin to serv a staffs. The K-gs are In reality tacks, whh the heads covered with colored doth. These maps show many things to those who study them. The different colored markers often represent different drum mers who are then out on die road. - As each one writes home where be has been and where be 1 going next, hi partdular peg Is tuck upon th map ai me piace ne names, me rnr- thest peg away show where that par-' tlcular man Is at any given time. Or, again, the pegs or flags may show much more than that. Tbey may show what towns bare been canvassed, what ones are finished, what one need a second call In the winter, and which one hare not been vlalted at all. New York Sun. More Gold. tiold strikes of wonderful rli lin. are reuorted to have been made in eral parts of British Columbia in the last weeK or two. At Kiburn, a few miles from Vancouver, a man boring for water lu a lot adjoining the Meth dlst church, struck quantities of flake gold L'liO feet below the surface Um galloped Into Westminster and staked his claim, and returned to prospect Ills find ran nearly f'Jl an ounce. It Is believed he struck the bed of an old river, and prospects are belni? mii. all over the neighborhood. Itltr i rt If are reHrted from Cariboo County and rrom roiitii Kootenai, twetity-flve mines of excellent promise using been recently opened in the latter re gion. Klks In Harness. A man living In Exeter, Ontario, has succeeded In breaking a pair of elka to harness. So accustomed hav tbey be come to the sights and sounds of dty life that they are dally driven about the streets with perfect ess and safety. In fact, the elk feel less txcltemsot than tliey cause. They are perfectly matched In lze. color and weight, and are driven in a light, but atoutly mads two-wheeled rrt which tbey draw about the city and country road at a brisk pace. Iuke of Westminster' Property. The Duke of Westminster hlmaail lis not auyiMng like an eiact Idas what hi Iotidou property, if ft watt realized, would be worth. Hs dots know, however, that ths amount won hi be considerably la excess of $40,000,000. Nsadlass Worry. "Station master, ar there bo moan trains to-day? I am loottaj tnt mw iwhr la-law." "No, thai art aa mora trains hvdayi w rest qsk."-rsda Blaetisr.