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Th Awakening of Mr. Blm.
(Continued From Pago 10.)
Tho noxt day ho learned that Heza,
Squeoza & Co. had been closed down
by . tho trust, and Mr. Dim and 900
others wore out of work.
Mr, Blm'a vacation lasted seven
months, and then ho found a Job at
starvation wages In a little shop on
the other side of tho city. JEJut during
thoso, Hovon months Mr. Blm road arid
studied and thought, and when he met
Mr. Heza some weeks after 'finding tho
new job ho morely nodded.
"Hollo, Mrt Blm." said 1-Ioza. 'jSa'y,
I wish you-would help us m our
plan for sending Jlmson to; congress
this fall'.' ;
Mr. Bim grinned, thon winking his
left eye he said;
'Ndthiiig doing, Heza. I'm voting
with' 'my eyes open' now'
Most Reptiles Arc Deaf :
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A German, naturalist, M. Werner
pf Vienna, has recently reported tho
result of observations that he haB been
making for some time on the senses of
inferior vertebrates.
On certain points tho conclusions o
M. Wernor aro very surprising, and in
all thoy aro worthy of notice. Mi Wer
ner has observed 13G Individuals, of
which ' one-third were at liberty, and
ho td'ok all posslblo precautions not
to lot the creatures know they wero
watched. One general ract is evident
that reptiles and amphibians aro
strongly attracted by water. Thoy go
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straight fofc it even wnen they are at
a distance so great that thoy could not
divine its presence by any of the
senses known to us. It seems really
that a sonso of which we have no
knowledge informs them of tho direc
tion in which water may be found.
There seems to be a sort of chemi
cal attraction says M. Werner. But
how does this act, and on what part of
the creature? This remains a mys
tery. Reptiles also seek the light, but
independently of neat; -they are posi
tively heliotropic, and in winter they
often leave a comfortable and warm
retreat to seek the sunlight. Sight Is
probably the finest sense they possess,
but it would still appear to be llmtied.
The caymans .and the crocodiles can
not distinguish a man, at. a distance of
more than six times their length, ad
cording' to M. Werner. In the water
tishes sea only at very close range
about half their own length. This will'
seem, perhaps, unlikely to anglers,
although some of them can cito in
stances showing that the fish can not
see far.- Snakes seejn to have a very
mediocre sense of sight. The boa for
instance does not see at more than
a quarter or a third or us own length;
different species are limited to one
fifth or one-eighth of their length.
Frogs aro better off; they see at fif
teen to twenty times their length.
Prog catchers know this from experi
ence. Hearing is much poorer than
sight, if possible. Most reptiles are
noticeably deaf, except caymans and
crocodiles; tho boa appears to abso
lutely senseless to sound Revue Scf-entlfique.
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' Curious Condeasatlons.
Missouri has farms Dolow the Mis
sissippi river level.
It is easier to domesticate a hum
ming bird than a canary. .
Iron Mountain, tho highest elevation
in Missouri, is but 1,800 feet above
the level of the sea.
More than three nunared native
Puerto Rlcan native teachers will take
a summer course at Harvard.
The blind delight in races of all
sorts. They .do not run toward a
tape, as the seeing do, but toward a
bell that jangles briskly;
There iswa board of guardians in the"
south of London that allows Inmates
who have seen better days to don tho
silk hat when they go out for a noil
day. Football' and many o;!icr outdoor
games are played, by tho'bliud, certain
changes being made so that In each
game the sense of hearing takes the
place of sight.
In tho coat pocket of a workman
who was discovered horribly mutilated'
at Vincennes, near Paris, .were found
manuscripts of poems written by him
in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
A single mesqidte seed, imported
from tho southwest and planted in
Honolulu In 1837, has propagated and
spread until in the Hawaiian Islands
tqday there are 50,000 acres of the
famous plant of tlie alkali plains of
Arizona and New Mexico.
In Russia the native insurance com
panies, which do the major portion of
the country's business. Insure the lives
of single women and widows, but at
at higher rate than thoso of men, and
married women are only accepted in
case their husbands are aiso Insured.
The firat really emclent luclfer
match must be put to the credit of
John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees,
England, who in 182-, praced them on
tho market under the namo nf "rnn.
greves," in compliment to Sir Wil
liam Congreve, the inventor of the
war rocket.
A quaint feature of Samoan life is
kava drinking. This beverage is made
from tho root of tho nn ,r,.w
which being pounded arid mix:ed with?
water ferments and forms a mild In
toxicant. It tastes like soap suds and
ginger ale mixed and the relish tor it
has to be acquired.
The local telephone company at St.
Johns, Mich., which handles an ex
tensive rural service, is seeiting to
make its service indispensable by fur
nishing subscribers with the govern
ment daily weather reports and other
important news of the day. Signals
are rung each morning on all farm
lines,, and. all who desire may get this
report.
An English inventor has replaced
the ordinary grooving 01 a rifle bar
rel with lines of small ball bearings,
along which' the hard steel projectile
slips. The inventor claims that ho
gets 40 per cent greater average ve
locity., penetration and range than can
be obtained with the same weight of
projectile and charge guns made on
the old system,
Mrs. Hester Trudow of Le Suour,
Minn., whose age fs 98 years, and who,
until lately, had been entirely tooth
less for 30 years, began six montus
ago to cut her third set of teeth, ana
nas now a complete outfit of new,
natural teeth, both uppers and low
ers. Sho claims that she has acuuirea
her new teeth "by eating each day a
teaspoonful of powdered oyster sheiu.
Nearly eighty years ago, when the
presidential struggle between uJ
and Jackson was at its height, it w
related that a band of emigrants from
Kentucky and the then other westeru
states commenced to settle on w
north side of the Missouri river wo
called their county Clay and the coun
ty seat Liberty. At the same tine,
says the Oak Groye (Mo.) Banned
Bays tne unit uiuyo yjf,
another lot or emigiuu "-ched
ginia and other southern states pitcnj
their tent on Uncouth side 01 1
pig Muddy and coUed their jumy
Jackson and tfieJtySital Independonc
Pittsburg Dlsifetcg.
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