It Is 300 years since the Bodleian
library was opened at Oxford.
There arc now ten Jewish M. P.'s In
the British House of Commons.
Among the birds shot recent! y near
Colchester, England, was a stormy
petrel.
Four new' lighthouses have been
erected recently on the ccats of the
lied Sea.
Mixed bathing will be permitted next
pear at the majority of German sea
lide resorts.
Seagulls have ousted the penguins
from their rocks in the 8t. James' Park
Lake, Iionduu.
By the sale of stray dogs the North
umberland (England) County Council
made 14 JOh d last year.
Brightening their intellect" Is a
Birmingham (England) euphemism for
violent assaults on the police.
The Gemshall Sparrow Club, Surrey,
England, has accounted for 25,702
birds during the last sir years.
Pudsey (Yorkshire, England) Me
rhanles' Institute has purchased a mill
In which to hold technical classes.
Maria Sehemmer, a St. Louis woman,
anablc to rend or write, died recently,
leaving an estate vnlued at $JO0,tKi0.
Cardinal Svampe, the archbishop of
Bologna, Italy, has forbidden the
priests In his diocese to use bicycles.
There has been a decrease of 1.&
per cent In the population of the Isle
" ef .Man since lixij. At tlie last census
It was 54.7.").
Specimens of four. Ave. six. seven,
eight und nine-leaved clovers have
teen presented to Queen Alexandra by
a Welsh lady.
One hundred thousand replicas of a
tpeclal medal struck to commemorate
Mr. Chamberlain's tour have been or
dered for the Cape.
Among the fi.iiOO tramway car driv
ers and conductors In Vienna there are
stated to be 400 knights, 50 barons and
i counts, b tildes other noblemen.
Nelson's old ship, the Victory, Is still
to be accessible to the British public,
although she Is shortly to bo super
seded as the admiral's flagship at
.Portsmouth.
Water Is so scarce In the Japanese
Island of Oshlma that It Is the custom
for a bride to take a large tub of drink
ing water with her to her new home as
a kind of dowry.
: Ocos, formerly one of the principal
Mexican ports on the Pacific const, has
almost completely disappeared In the
sea owing to the sinking of the harbor
. twilfmn nftvr ji n nnrrhunnke.
Military spectators present at the
review of the Argentine army are re
ported to have said that the evolutions
and annearance of the troons were
worthy of the best organized armies.
Thirty thousand dollars was paid re
cently for a bronze statue of Hercules
at the concluding sale of the Hardlnl
collection In I-ondon. The total amount
realized by the entire collection was
Scotch lassies dressed In tartan cos
fumes will act as waitresses at a mini
Tier of refreshment (.Vpots to be opened
In London, where oatmeal In various
forms, from porridge to puddings and
cake, will be offered to customers.
In speaking on the advisability of
-urtnl!ing the study of the dead lan
guages, a subject now Interesting edu
cators in Croat Britain. Professor
Kirkpatrlck, of the chair of history1,
In the University of Edinburgh, Is
quoted as saying: "Indispensable us
the study of Ijitlu once was in higher
education, that of one's own language
and other modern tongues has now lie
come more so."
The success of the free employment
bureaus In Illinois seems to carry en
couragement for those who think that
uch establishments should Is? provld
;d In every State. During the last
year a total of -7.771) men and 14.1.'!!
women applied for help, and work was
found for nearly IM.Ouo men and 13,000
women. For the three years the ottlces
have been in existence In Chicago and
Feorlu, IJO.OOO out of 110.000 applicants
have been provided with employment.
Of applicants tor assistance there were
60,000 and 4.1.500 of these allied.
Bishop Partridge, of Japan, Journey
ed all the way to New York City la
order to take part In the missionary
conference of the Protestant Episcopal
church. In doing so he furnished ex
traordinary proof ot the pet-fee-Ion of
modern transportation facilities. lie
wrote to a relative In Brooklyn, giving
details and Itinerary of bis trip, which
was to be as fast as be could pusihly
make it. The bishop crossed ll.it'd miles
of water nnd 3,000 of land, arriving In
the Grand Central station. New York,
exactly at the minute named in his
letter from Japan.
Prince Jonah Kuils Knlaiilatiole,
who represents Hawaii In Hie next
House of Representatives, is the Ural
- royal person to enter the Congress of
the United Wale. Already there Is
much speculation " lo J"Ht '"'w '"
Mill Ik- addressed. He Is called lit
homo "1'rliiee Cupid." Those who want
to avoid such familiarity designate
him as I'rlnce Kuulo, which Is correct.
Home may Insist on "Mr. Kalaulauole,"
but ttM name Is so long and so Intri
cate In vowels that It Is feared few
u'lts, im ' Ibit avnmlntiMl with
Kanaka language will care to try It.
Amoag tbs many human curios to be
sesa at floats Carlo tola season Don
attracts pan attention than M. ttur
bits, ui ceaotrte millionaire, who
hWMCft
CSM at ha woaJd a placna.
In his splendid villa he has placed sn
enormous elevator, Into which his cur
tained and shuttered carriage Is driven
and raised to his heavily draped apart-'
went when he wishes to take a drive.
Ills Twins are always kept at a Turk
ish bath temperature, and as condi
tions In the gambling rooms of the
Casino are about the same, he some
times ventures there In the evening.
The following Inscription has been
placed above the grave of the late
editor of the New York Evening Post,
at Hazelbeach, England: "Edwin Law
rence Godkin, Publicist, Economist,,
Moralist; born at Moyne, Wicklow,
1831; died at Greenway, Devon. 1WZ.
For forty years a citizen of the United
States. Gifted with a penetrating In
tellect and singular powers, of expres
sion; constant in friendship; tireless In
energy; dauntless In courage; a stead
fast champion of good causes and high
Ideals, he became a foremost part In
all efforts to make government Just,
pure and efficient, and wrought unceas
ingly to strengthen the ties between
the nation whence he sprang and that
to which his services were given
through a long and laborious life."
EAT LOTS OF CANDY.
A Vnt Amount Consumed in United
htaten-lirookl jiiiten Llk s It.
The United States Is the largest
candy producer In the world, Vand
probably also the largest consumer.
The use of the article Is no longer con
fined to the young, and the business
has grown greatly of late years, so
that to-day there are some extensive
establishments, In Brooklyn as else
where, where customers throng at all
hours. In some of these places hun
dreds of persons are employed.
It. Is stated that there Is more money
In the sale than In the manufacture
of candy. A witness not long ago
stated in court that the retailer's profit
was 250 per cent.
The process of the manufacture of
this article may be briefly described.
The sugar Is boiled down In big ket
tles that hold about 1,000 pounds.
Then It Is drawn into other kettles,
from which nearly all the air Is ex
cluded, and subjected to a tremen
dous heat. This process removes all
Impurities and prevents the candy from
sticking.
It Is then drawn out and colored,
and made Into sticks. There is a ma
chine for sizing these, one for cutting
caramels, and, In fact, machines for
converting the candy luto all kinds of
shapes.
Gums of nil kinds are In demand
now. The substance is first boiled and
then dropped into molds of various
shapes and sizes. Chocolate drops are
made with cream and chocolate. The
mixture is boiled and beaten and
shaken and heated and cooled, and
squeezed and shaped, and, In fact,
passes through so many different pro
cesses that It Is a wonder it survives.
The crystal for crystallized bon-bons
Is produced by pouring sugar syrup
over candy. It Is only the very lowest
grades of candy that is Injurious. The
great manufacturers take care that
every article used In the business is
of good quality, as It has been found
that the public judgment in this mat
ter Is fairly accurate. Brooklyn Citi
zen. KING EDWARD'S NEW FAD.
He I Much Interested in B la Kac
intf I'iKcnn.
The royal aviary at Frogmore Is now
in the possession of the ljueen Alexan
dra and Its resources are to lie devel
oped along the lines of her own prefer
ences. Two hundred feet In length, it
comprises eighteen poultry runs, and
the upper part of the building Is de
signed as a pigeon loft. Here, perhaps,
King Edward may keep some of the
racing pigeons to which be has been
devoting some attention of late, and
the pouters, tumblers and turtles
which are at present In residence, to
the number of alxnit seventy, may be
to some extent gradually displaced.
The fowls Include a pen of silver span
gled Hamburg. The egg production
of the royal aviary for many years has
averaged an annual output of 20,000.
All the world has heard of the au
daclous cockatoo, answering to the
sobriquet of "Cockle," who for many
years was Installed In solitary state
In the Queen's dressing room. But
Its screeching was a sore trial for
tlie household generally, and a home
was found for It In the residence of
the kennel man. The bird, which
should not be confounded with a still
more famous one that lived many
years ago at Snndrlnghain, a reputed
relic from the Georgian era, would
permit no familiarities, except from
the bands of Its sympathetic, owner,
who would gravely stroke Its denuded
poll and chide It for the dissolute
habit It had of plucking out Its
feathers In summer time. Cockle used
to rimuse himself In a battle-royal of
oratory alined at the little green par
rot which was picked up by the King
one day from a boy who was offer
ing It for sale In Trafalgar Square.
Itelgn of III" Klli lii n V'ern.
.Muggins My cook left because we
lefus. d to treat her as one of the family-
Biigglns -Humph! My cook expects
to be treated us company, Philadel
phia Record.
A "Demi Cinch."
"You college men seem to take life
pretty easy,"
"Yes; even when we graduate we
do It by degrees." New York Times.
WlMr.
Jerry Is the world ' getting better)
Jack It la getting wlaer; I liuva
an awful lima trying to borrow money.
It la lh worst cigar that is entitled
to Ural rank
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Foot-Ball vs. Base-Bdll.
THE growing popularity of football 'ends to the be
.lLei In sdiiie quarters .that It may replace base-ball as
our national game. There Is little to support this
contention. In the first place, t'je latter Is a more
scientific game; it Is devoid of the harrowing feat
ures Inseparable from a tussle between youthful Samsons;
the grewsome spectacle of men being carried away from
the field on stretchers or In ambulances Is lacking; there are
no heartbreaking occurrences to detract from the pleasure
of spectators. Its victims are not killed or Injured In any
thing like the proMrtlon which gives a crimson background
to the foot-bail Held.
Base-ball management can learn something, however,
from the sMrt endangering Its supremacy in the public
mind gentlemanly deportment and honest striving for vic
tory. These essentials have been Ignored and have resulted
lu smaller attendance and iu lessened Interest In the game
and in the players, not only by the patron but by the much
larger constituency which does not attend but which fol
lows the sport with scarcely less concern than those who
do. Throwing games and bickering over the decisions of
the umpire, and childish freaks generally have forfeited
the confidence of the people In the players, who, too often,
have given ample reason for being unfavorably regarded.
Base ball- will have Its ups and downs, but It. Is destined to
remain the foremost game In the affections of the American
people. Utica Globe.
Should Wives Promise to Obey ?
IN ministerial circles there is a lively agitation over the
question whether the word "obey" iu the marriage ser
vice Is not superfluous. The oiiiciatiug clergyman at a
marriage service represents not only the human law,
but the spirit of the divine law. He is especially anxious
not to require an obligation that will not be considered bind
ing on the conscience of the party to a marriage to whom
It applies. One clergyman has taken the ground that If the
woman was required to promise to obey, the man should be
subject to the same requirement. If this means anything,
It means that the parties to a marriage should take turns
In obeying each other. When au Issue arises both cannot
command and both obey. The advocates of the elimina
tion of the word "obey" from the marriage service plant
themselves upon the Impregnable ground that a woman no
more than a man should be asked to make a promise that
In her heart or mind she did not Intend to keep. The mar
riage Is happy In which situations do not arise which justi
fy a liberal construction of the promise to obey. As laws
which cannot be enforced are the weak link in Ihe chain of
laws, care should be taken not to Impose conditions of
doubtful utility. Better not make a promise than make one
and break It. San Francisco Bulletin.
Better Ptiy for Teachers.
THE liXH report of Dr. Y. T. Harris, United Suites
Commissioner of Education, gives the following facts
nnd figures: 1'upils In public and private schools,
17,1:99, 10, an Increase of 278,520 over the previous
year, in addition to over half a million studying in
various special and evening schools. Public school property
Is valued at $570,91 !"., iK). agaiust ? 130,380,008 in 1870, an
Increase of over $140,000,000 In thirty years. The total In
come of the public schools was $l!.'M,iHi",91I) against $143,
194,805 in 18!M), an Increase of over $91,000,000 in ten years?
The disappointing fact Is that the average monthly sala
ries of male teachers have increased only eighteen cents
id nee 1895, while the average monthly salaries of women
teachers decreased $1.07 since the same year. This Is not
as It should be. This poor return for generally faithful and
arduous work-that work which tells most for the future
of our country Is In spite of the fact that the expenditure
for schools, per capita of the population. Increased $1.01, In
INTO, to $2.9:1 per capita of the doubled population of 70,
liixi.tsKi, In .19(11. It should also be hot ne iu mind that the
school courses we demand today require teailieis of larger
SHAM GEMS.
Tlicy Are Frequently Worn in J'luce
of I'riicll-si Heirlooms.
Coronation ceremonies and many
brilliant drawing room functions have
Invariably been characterized by a re
markable display of dazzling jewels.
It will surprise many to know that a
goodly portion of these are artificial
gems.
You see, said a dealer In precious
stones, there Is nowadays no purlieu
lar reason why a peeress should haz
ard tlie loss of priceless family heir
looms by wearing her jewelry out of
doors. Anil, as a matter of act, since
the sensational robbery which was per
petrated In Paris a few years ago at
the expense of the Duchess of Suther
land, very few of them do. The sham
genl looks just as well as the real, and
costs Infinitely less. Eighteen months
ago Ihe "reconstructed" ruby, as It has
got to be called, was placed on the
market. Properly speaking, this Is not
an Imitation gem, although In a sense
It Is artlllelal-that Is to say, It Is n
product of the chemist's laboratory. It
Is made by fusing small rubles, or
fragments of rubles, In an electric fur
nace, nnd molding the resultant mass
under pressure Into one perfect whole.
Such a stone can hardly be distin
guished, even by an expert, from one
which Is the natural product of the
mine. It has all the chemical ami phy
sical properties of the real thing. It
is lis hard, has the same specific grav
ity, anil is an genuinely beautiful In
color. In fact, a reconstructed ruby
l distinguished not so much by the
pii sein e of defects as by tlie absence
of (laws. It Is apt to be too perfect.
The Mime with emeralds. Artlllelnl
emeralds are put on the market nowa
days that are as brilliant, as llawless.
Mini as richly colored as the real stone.
These are, however, not made by fus
i ig niiiall genuine gems, as are the ru
bies, but are manufactured outright
by a secret chemical process. -The
.ale Is hardened by heat until It will
t mid the so called file test that is, it
iii'iiot be scralched by n tempered
slci-l file.
This fame paste, bythoby, left un
i oh red, constitutes the basis of all the
t et Imitation diamonds. It nil comes
f Mm one man, Parisian dealer, and
cos s from 3 Ui l!i an ounce, according
to the quantity ordered at one time.
Of course V' old faililoued donblaU
LMTdDIMALS)
to- the professed
influence; absolutely,
are still sold. Doublets are made by
a process similar to veneering In v o:l
work. Two exceedingly thin layers or
a real stone are cemented over an arti
ficial core. This method is also In
vogue for manufacturing artificial
sapphires.
It is In imitating pearls, however,
that, some of the cleverest work is
done. A really first-class artificial
pearl Is now made equal In sheen, color
and size to one actually the natural
product of tlie oyster. Practically It Is
Impossible to tell them apart. Even
the "ancre," which Is the fluid in the
shells of the oyster, tlie deposition of
which Is responsible for the pearl, has
boon chemically reproduced. Its com
position also Is a secret, and it costs
alsmt a guinea a pint, put up In her
metically sealed bottles. This Is used
to coat the artificial gems.
Imitation pearls, I may tell you, are
not: now blown, as they were a few
years back, but are dropped In a tower
like shot. By this means It Is possible
lo turn them out perfectly round, of
almost any requisite size; and, most
Important point of all, minus the small
nub which marked as artificial the old
fashioned blown pearl.
Ho I think It will ever be possible to
turn out a "reconstructed" diamond?
Yes, I do. In fact. It Is being done
now; but the process Is an expensive
one, and the stones, when finished, al
though they possess the hardness, have
not the fire or tlie brilliancy of the real
gem. But the thing is In the air, so to
speak. Improvements are being made
dally. And there Is no real reaon
why, In the near future, an nrllficlal
Koh l-noor should not he turned out
which shall be lu every way equal to
the fatuous Indian Jewel. -Tit Bits.
ItiilMirig I lie W ind.
When a certain late Shah of Persia
became temporarily embarrassed for
money he had quite a unique method
of filling his purse. He would go to the
market, where, after examining tlie
shops, he would select one and. turning
to the proprietor, would say; "Will you
take me in ns a partner lu your busi
ness for the day?" The offer was, of
course, accepted. The Shah would Inke
his seat near the shop entrance nnd say
to Ills courtiers, whom he always took
with him on these occaslonn: "Now,
I'm the salesman. Who'll buy?" The
latter, not daring to refuse the offer of
the royal njer-h-jut. r abo'ii elenrli'jt
education and higher capacity than twenty or even five
years ago. Our school teachers should be better paid if
Americans are consistently to say that we are living up
Americanism of to-day -Troy Times.
Westward Course of Empire.
A MONUMENT placed recently in a lonely field be
tween Wlgg's Station aud EllzabeLhtown. seven
miles southeast of Columbus, Ind., marks the center
of population of the United States proper at the end
of the nineteenth century. It also commemorates
the folly of those who at the century's beginning thought
It Impossible that seaboard civilization would ever pass
beyond the Alleghanles.
In 100 years the center traveled westward 478 miles, or
about three feet per hour. The line made by Its progress
was drawn to its southernmost poiut in 1830 by the develop
ment of Kentucky, Tennessee and the lower Mississippi re
gion, way-drawn to its southernmost point in 1830 aud
northward again in 18!K. Its longest Jump was eighty-one
miles between 1850 and 1800, because of the California gold
fever; the shortest was from 1890 to 1000, when because of
the growth of the Eastern cities It traveled but fourteen
miles west, and when the development of Texas, which
gains as many Congressmen in the new apportionment as
New York, and of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, de
flected it three miles south. At the end of the century it is
very nearly due west of where it started. New York
World.
Church-Going in Chicago.
OUT of an estimated population of 1,289,815 men and
women In Chicago only 204,507 were found In the
Protestant and Roman Catholic churches of the
city on a recent Sunday, au actual count being made
in 125 of the 000 churches, and an estimate formed
of the total attendance by the attendance in those actually
investigated. It would be quite unfair to generalize on the
matter of Sunday church attendance In the United States
on data gathered in Chicago at any time, or on the habit
of church-going anywhere by the census taken. Still, with
these limitations in mind. It is suggestive to find only 15.8
per cent of the population of a great city resorting to a
place of worship on Sunday. Very different this from Ihe
time of the Puritan forefathers, but not as alarming as It
appears to be on the surface, although by no means en
couraging. For to the Puritan forefather Sunday was the
day and the church the place where he and his family got
not only the spiritual food, but the intellectual stimulus
and social touch which the modern man gets from other
institutions than the church and on other times than Sun
day. That attendance on churches is declining is by no
means indicative of waning interest in religion, or absolute
loss of Influence of the church. Relatively, there is less
not, Harper's Weekly.
An Epidemic of Prodigality.
T seems to cost a great deal to live nowadays. Most
persons notice it, especially persons who are hard put
to it to find tlie money to pay their bills. The statisti
cians report that commodities in general use cost on an
average about 10 per cent more than they did last year.
The rise in the price of meat contributes a good deal to this
advance, though breadstuff's have been high, too. Articles
of luxury, like good clothes and country houses, have grown
dearer In proportion than most articles of necessity, be
cause the huge influx of money that the country has sus
tained has made a brisk market for luxuries. Rents are
higher, houses cost more, servants get higher wages, board
Is higher at resort hotels. The living expenses of any
given family are very much affected by the expenses of
other families of their acquaintance, and the scale of living
of "other families" seems Just now to have become Incon
veniently liberal. Prodigality Is so conspicuously preva
lent that it has become more or less epidemic Philadelphia
Inquirer.
the .shop of its contents, paying some
times two hundred and fifty dollars for
goods that were not worth fifty dollars.
No one was allowed to beat down the
prices or to leave the place without
making purchases. When everything;
was sold the Sliah had a list of the
cost price of each article made out, and
loyally shared with the shopkeeper the
amount of the profits realized.
To Tell a Man's Are.
You can tell a man's age pretty well
by the texture of his skin, by the rela
tive abundance of the hair on his
head, and especially by the quality of
his voice, but the real touchstone Is
how much he thinks of the women.
This may mean either: That his mind
Is on them most of the time, aud that
the rustle of a petticoat (any petti
coat) is the most rousing of nil susur
rous sounds; or it may mean that he
rates them high, mentally and moral
ly. Something really ought to be done
about the English !-'tirnage. It Is get
ting nmblgnous 1 amblguotiser
every day. But !op now to fix
It. 1 must be ; n. After all,
it doesn't matter m us particular In
stance. It comes to the same tiling in
the end in either case, for if a man
thinks highly of women and does not
think of them long at n time, he Is
no longer young; and he Is a boy of
21 that thinks of them most of the
time, but holds that, though mighty
alluring, as far as Uielr having much
sense Is concerned, It Isn't worth talk
ing about.
An apparent exception are tlie old
beaux, the men who make a virtue of
having nil their own teeth, that con
sciously hollow their backs, and hold
hcifds up by rule when they go out
walking, whose eyes trail after the
girls coming home from high school
with their" books under their arms.
These are apple trees blossoming III a
warm October. But. they emphasize
the fact 1hat apple trees blossom lu
the early spring. Alnslle's.
Cause f Hlccp.
That natural sleep Is due to the
drugging effect' of accumulated car
bonic acid lu the body Is the view
taken by n French physiologist, Dr.
Itaphr.el Dubois.
Home men get more aatlnfactkm ont
of the'- ltlness than othen do out of
tin C-il,r ttey tell tar.
STARVATION DIETS.
Bailed Rape, Seaweed, Raw Boot i
Uurnaclea Have (Saved Lives.
The hardest fare that six strong mea
tud a boy of 15 ever kept alive on waa
:he daily menu of the Wiudover's sur
rivors, who were cast upon the Irish
Kiast near Kilsegg a few weeks ago.
They lived for sixteen days on stewed
rope-yarn, without a erum of auything
Mse to help digest It, except water;
md, though it made them ill, they kept
Hive on It and did not waste away
very much.
The Wiudover was a bark carrying
salt between Spain and the States,
R'ith an English crew, and she waa
lismasted and abandoned about a
thousand miles out on the Atlantic.
Three of the crew were killed by fall
ing masts, and two others were wash
fd overboard; but the other seven took
to the whaleboat and set out for Brit
ain. Being in too much of a hurry
they took too little food, but three
large butts of water, besides the tauk
the boat already held. The result was
they ate up the provisions in four days,
but had water enough for a month,
and, after starving two days more,
they tried boiling lengths of tarred
hemp rope into a pulp and swallowing
It. They had a keg of parafline wax,
and, though it made them very lil at
first, they eventually contrived to bve
un the boiled hemp, the tar, boiled to a
jelly, adding to the nourishment of the
rope. They landed in comparatively
good health.
Two men who went to a small island
off the Irish coast a little while ago
kept themselves going for ten days on
a diet almost worse. They landed in
i boat, which was smashed by a wave
an their trying to relaunch her, and
they were left on the bare, rocky isl
and, which lias only a slight scalp of
coarse turf, without food. Fortunately
there is a spring on the island, but
nothing in the way of food but gulls,
which they could not catch, and noth
ing to make a fire with as a distress
signal. There are not even any shell
fish, as there is no beach, and tlie pair
had to subsist for the ten days on cold,
raw seaweed washed upby thetide. For
two days they starved, but after that
they tackled the seaweed, making three
meals a day off it, until rescued. When
taken off they were a good deal ema
ciated, but no ill effects resulted. The
same thing happened off the same
coast five years ago, when four fislier
women were imprisoned on an inlet by
the loss of their boat. They lived on
"kelpie" grass for six days.
A diet of boots is one of the common
est of last-resource foods; and, though
it is hard for a well-fed person to
mnglne that any one could masticate
md digest shoe leather, a pair of long
seaboofs will keep a man alive for a,
fortnight, If he has a little water, Cap
tain Maboly, of the foundered steamer.
Gwallor, and his second officer created
1 record last year by living for seven
teen days on boot leather and a pint of
water per day each.
Of course, no teeth can tear cowhide
boots; they have to be cut up and
shredded with a knife, and the shreda
chewed and swallowed. Boiling, even
when possible, does no good at all, but
fakes from the boots what nourishment
they contain. A few ounces of leather,
being so bard to digest, slays the stom
ach for fifteen or twenty hours.
The best known and most useful of
starvation diets for wrecked or cast
away people, however, is that of bar
nacles, and If anything of the kind
happens to you they will probably be
your staple food. Barnacles are long,
tough, half shellfish, half vegetable
creatures, that grow on the undersides
of vessels. Three Englishmen aud a
crow of Ua scars who had been forced
to abandon the sailing vessel North
Slar a few months ago kept them
selves going for over a week on bar
nacles and only two of the crew died.
The worst of them Is that they giva
one Internal cramps and cause an in
sufferable thirst; but they do nourish
the frame. You have to reach under
the vessel's side and pull them off,
taking care not to leave the best half
of them sticking to the planks. Only
n starving person could possibly eat
them. Many a castaway crew, how
ever, has found them better than noth
:ng. Answers.
No Significance In Names.
Many familiar objects have names
that are misfits. You must not think
that turkeys first came from Turkey,
for they are natives of America. Nor
that Irish potatoes came from Ireland,
for they are American. And the Turk
ish bath originated In Russia. Nor
must you think camel's hair brushes
tire made from the hair of the hump
hacked quadruped. They are mostly
made of the bushy hair from the tails
of animals. German silver not only
Is not silver, but It was Invented In
China eenlurles ngo, and It Is an alloy
of some of the Inferior metals. Por
poise hide Is not made from porpoises
at all. Cork legs are not made of
cork, nnd they do not come from Cork.
The willow tree usually furnishes ma
terial for them. Cleopatra's Needle,
'hat wonderful obelisk of Egypt, was
nude a thousand years before Cleo
patra wns born; nnd renlly had noth
ing to do wllh her. Irish stew Is an
Ungllsli dish. Prussian blue, the bean
.Iful color, Is not n special product of
Prussia, but of England.
High Authority.
A rebellions husband was objecttnu
to doing certain work about the house,
ind he quoted Scripture to his wife,
mowing that the household dutlea
ihould properly be assigned to IIm
Roman. The good wife replied by
reading to her astonished liege 2 Kings
11:13: "I will wipe out Jerusalem oa
i man w1xth a dish, wiping It and
turning It epalde dm." That bos-,
band has wlpsd tbs dJsbss svsr sines.
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