&!
"ISSkZW
-. i
itrm'immlmmv wn -fcT.;.,,;,, 3&S.
'W -srf lJr - (
" V ',w'WB(P!X'SttS?JiC
V
AT THK GUILLOTINE.
FAMOUS PRENCH INSTRUMENT
OF DEATH.
YTnny Are Called to KnfTrr the Extmnn
1'enalty Iml Tew 1jhhi Aii Inatntiie I
Ar Nover tufouncd of Tncir tuic
Nolo of Sunle l'rlnou.
(Paris Letter.)
I havo Juat Been a mnn escnpo tho
gulllotlnu. It w.ib tun minutes after
tho news came to hitn that the death
penalty hj been commuted to trans
portation; and tho lnefl'nbio Joy, peace
and satisfaction welling up from this
criminal's black hcait to trausllguro
his ugly countouaiicu Into something
almost beautiful left no doubt In our
minds as to the supcilor terrors of cap
ital punishment. This Trench murder
er was simply delimited to go to tho
penal settlement of Cayenivo for llfo.
Ho knew haul work and brutal treat
ment waited for him there. Still he
was Joyful. He had cacipid the gulllo
tino! j It was by accident that we saw him
at the moment when tho prison barber
was clipping his n.ilr and tmuituchc In
to conformity with tho regulation
bareness of tho other prisoners. Wo
were being shown through the Sunto
prison and had come to the hospital
llko section of "the old men," wiiore
tho discipline Is not strict. Hoary old
villains thetc pats uneventful days cn
cagod In inippmg tales of fraud, thiev.
ery and violence. As we stood there a
new man was brought in a young
mnn, attended by two guards, wi.o paid
singular aileution to him. Then there
hastened in the prison governor, at
tended by the barber, and immediately
the whisper went around that litis was
Sallo, the notorious us-assm in wnose
favor President Loubet had exorcised
his clemency. The barber started to
work expeuitloufliy. We hont up our
request to the governor for permission
to stay a moment longer. Salic, n bur
ly, good-natured, siouchy looking as
sassin, seemed unable to get over tho
excitement of his reprieve. Ho talked
Incessantly, in a half-winsper, boast
ing of uif plaus for u new life In a new
land.
j "When Monsieur le Dlrccteur entered
hia cell this morning," one of thb
'.guards wniaperrl to us, ' Sallo was
playing cards with us, nervoau, pctu
,lant, witnout interfst. When ho b.iw
the Dlrecteur he rose, tottering. 'Salic,'
'said tho latter, 'your sentence Is com
muted.' At these words the prisoner
Boomed to bu taken 111. H's f.ico Lo
carno congested with blood and his
words choked in his throat. He broke
IOI
v! " Mil -.
THK GUILLOTINE.
Into 8ob3. Then he fainted! He is
talkative enough now, but you ought
to havo seen him at tho first moment.
Ho must havo been terribly afraid of
the big knife!"
Tho prison guardian, rccontly trans
ferred from tho Grande Koquotte, had
Jjecn on the death watch of many a
condemned criminal. "They arc nil
llko," ho itold us afterward. "Tho
jnomont they enter tho condemned cell
after sciftence thoy are prey to a pro
found prostration which lasts several
Iays, Bometlmea n week. Little by llt
tlo, however, their energy wakens, and
the hope of a commutation which wu
try to rnisi) In their breasts begins to
dull tho effects of tho death sentence."
It seems that It Is particularly tho
duty of tho priest to Jolly tho unfor
unate. "How does ho persuade them
they are. going to bo reprieved?" wo
asked.
j "Oh, ho talks about tho possibility
of tho oentonce being quashed by tho
;Court of Cassation," was tho answer,
7'cases of tho same kind ho has known
Jwhero the culprit geta off on a techni
cality. Thon he goes on to the sec
ond chanco of presidential clemency,
tho great proportion of pardons of lato
years, and tho well-known humanity
of M. Loubot. But chiefly he takes it
.for granted that the worst to bo ex
pected is transportation for life, and
palnto a glowing picture of a new cq
Teer in Cayenne, whero one may be
come nn Independent farmer In time
"with good behavior. Tho miserable
Ifellowo are only too willing to bellcvo
nlm. They hold on to llfo like a drown
ing man to a hencoop."
"Tholr days often pass agreeubly
nough while waiting for tho commu
tation," continued tho prison guardian,
"because they havo wine, tobacco.play
Ing cards nnd two of us constantly with
them to amuse them, but their nights
are wretched. When sleep comes nt
last It la agitated and feverish. Somo
,tlmcs thoy stay up late in order to
wake up lata in the morning. It Is im
possible. They always wake, w"h n
irlghtened shock, about daylight ."(
the hour they Imaglno the execution
.ought to tnko place."
To Answer n IVw Qnratlnn,
A census of tho Phlllpn'n's ha h "
ordered, and It Is hoped Un A'f'nnl 'o
Wlll stop long enough to b n-1! f
itho enumerator. Dcnvn- Pci1"'
i. i.i- . - . i r.t
"ifiv. ..v,K.-siSmj& f;.5- -M Ki .f
aurora australis.
IdrntMc-ttlnn of Auroral rhenomtna or
the Tiro Ilemlanherc.
Ilcnryk Arctflwskl, writing of the
aurora australls, as seen from tho Del
glca, states that during tho time tho
ship was frown in, March 7, 11198, to
March H, 1899, tho period when tho
aurora could he seen was from March
11 to September 10. During thla period
the ship drifted with tho Ice from C9
degrees 52 minutes south latitude and
82 degrees nud 35 minutes west longi
tude to 71 degreed 3(5 mlnutoa south
latltudo and 92 degrees 21 minutes
west longitude, scattering tho observ
ations over ten degrees of longitude
and two nnd one-half of latltudo. Tho
aurora was seen 61 times during tho
winter of 1S98 and on March 12. 1899,
two days before escaping from tho Ice,
It appeared again, making tho total ob
servations C2. The diurnal period was
from 7 p. m. to 2 a. in. In March and
tho beginning of April there were flno
displays of variable aspect. In July
they took tho form merely of a lumin
ous glow. In September they becamo
once more actlvo and comparatively
bright. A homogeneous arc which re
mained visible for many hours without
change in always the same quarter of
tho heavens was a remarkable clrcum
stanco connected with these displays.
The arc reached to eight or twelvo de
grees above tho horizon, and Its ex
tremities wcro nearly 45 degrees dis
tant from tho bearing of tho culminat
ing point, which was always south
Bouthwcflt. At tho winter solstice tho
arc did not attain so groat an altitude
as at the equinoxes. It thus appeared
that during tho polar night tho auroral
phenomena withdrew to a region near
er tho magnetic pole. There Is a re
markable analogy between the aurora
borealls as seen by Nordeuskiold on
board the Vega whon alio was impris
oned in tho Ico during the winter of
1878-79 in C7 degrees nnd 5 minutes
north latitude nnd ISC degrees and 37
minutes east longitude, approximately
tho same distance from the north mag
netic polo that tho Bclglca was from
tho south. The homogeneous nrc with
Its dark segment is characteristic of
both and in both coses It remained un
changed for houru. It Is therefore be
lieved that tho results obtained by Nor
densklold nnd those obtained on tho
Uelglca will furnish tho first elements
of Identification of tho auroral phe
nomena of the two hemispheres and
that the theoretical considerations ar
rived at by Nordensklold for the Arctic
regions will bo found to apply to tho
Anarctlc also.
One of Hcotla'n Ileft,
Ono of Scotland's most famous
preachers Is tho Very Rev. Dr. Mac
gregor of Edinburgh, whose sixty
eighth birthday occurred on tho 11th
of July. Llka Lord Kelvin, another
great Scotsman, the doctor Is a crip
ple. He Is a man of very small stature
and Is slightly deformod, and among
tho Edinburgh pcoplo ho is known as
"Howdy Mncgregor." On this matter
the worthy doctor himself has told an
amusing story. When he was the min
ister of a rural parish In Flfoshlre he
visited a farmhouse once and found
tho owner oud his wlfo away. The
farmer's boy, however, good-naturedly
consented to take tho minister
round tho promises, nnd ono of tho
places visited was tho pig-sty. Among
tho occupants was a very curiously
shaped animal, which tho boy tri
umphantly pointed out as "Howdy
Macgrcgor ca'd after oor mccnlstcr,
ye ken." Tho doctor Is a chaplain to
tho queen, nnd often preaches before
her majesty at Balmoral. Golden
Penny.
Do Hots Need n Wallow?
That tho hog confined In tho dusty
pen or tho pen with n plank floor does
not increase In weight as rapidly A3
tho hog that Is permitted to havo Its
wailow of mud and water Is admitted,
but on the other hand there Is tho un
deniable tendency on tho part of swlno
raisers who permit tho wallow to lot
tho hog3 drink tho filthy water and
genorally to noglect them. There Is
no objection to the moist earth in the
corner of tho orchnrd or on the range
whero the hogs may wallow at will
during the summer, provided always
the animal Is kept well supplied with
pure drinking water and tho wallow
kept reasonably clean. It Is the filth
which gonernlly surrounds such places
that Is objectlonablo, particularly so
when the hog, from thirst, Is forced
to dilnk this unclean water. Havo tho
wallow for tho hogs, If you will, but
keep it aH clean as pooslblo and keop
tho hogs woll fed and wnteiod, remem
bering that it Is mainly through the
stomach that diseases like cholera aro
contracted.
itaw All the World.
Alexanderweopingbecauso tho world
was eo small has a counterpart in an
old Inhabitant of Luss, a pretty little
vll'age on Loch Lomond side, Scot
land, who at last has been persuaded
to climb the mountain which has filled
so large a part of his life. In Luss
ho has lived, as his fathers lived be
fore him, and from Luss he has never
had the ambition to Journey, ovon as
far as Glasgow. Hut someono got htm
to the top of Don Lomond the other
day. "Eh, mon!" said he, with great
self-congratulation, "but tho world's
big place when ye come to view tho
whole of It!"
rnpulnr Klectroptione.
Tho oloctrophono Is meeting with
favor in England. Thero aro many
places In tho leading streets of London
where any ono can, by tho payment
nf a small fee, bo switched for a quar
ter of an hour onto any of tho music
hniN
SUNRISE
(New York Letter.)
This Is the season of tho yoar when
every woman becomes a law unto her
self In the affairs of tho toilet, nnd the
power that at other times dictates tho
very set of one's necktlo and height of
one's heels Is set at naught or defied
or forgotten.
What every daughter of Eve strug
gles to atUIn Is comfort, let the sacri
fice to looks be what It will. Of courgu,
whero comfort nnd beauty go hnnd In
hand content suptema holds rolgn and
sometimes theso elements do combine
to chnrmlng effect.
I'or Instance, tho golfing girls hare
got It Into their aspiring little heads
that there Is nothing like exercise "In
tho morning, 0, bo early!" when tho
air is cool and the grnss wet nnd th
prospect of sunrlBo and a sharp break
fast appetite quite glorious.
Then she wears, this fashionable
early worm, a skirt of khaki brown
sorgo speckled over with black or dark
er brown dots, and with this not a
shirt of porculo, but of wash flannel.
This Is supposed to keep out tho ma
laria microbe, If thero is ono in tho
THE WATERPROOF
(Who Nover Falls to Take Hor
nlr, and it Is an uncommonly pretty
garment when made and worn in tho
right way.
Around tho neck of thoshlrt a silk
handkerchief Is knotted. If the morn
ing Is peculiarly hot, or a white pique
stock folding over tho chest like a
coachman's plastron takes its place,
and absorbs tho moisture of honest
toll.
Often as not the muscular mnldon
rolls hor shirt sleeves to hor elbows,
for In tho morning there Is no sunburn
to bo feared, and a pair of flno, round
whlto arms Is always a goodly sight
On tho head of this indomltabla
AN AMERICAN MANDARIN.
Detroit'! Health Officer KnJoj the Un
uaunl DUtlnotlnn.
Dr. Heneago Glbbea, health officer ot
Detroit, enjoys tho distinction of be
ing tho only Chinese mandarin to hold
an American ofTlco. Ho acquired his
tltlo after a series ot adventures that
would make Slnbad tho Sailor look to
his laurels. Dr. GIbbes Is an English
man by birth. He ran away from homo
whon 14 years old and went to sea.
Attor several years as a sailor he was
shipwrecked on tho coast ot China and
fell into tho hands of pirates, who took
his clothing and turned tho sailor loose
In the garb ot nature-. Finally ha
reached a Chinese town. Then ho foil
lu with an Englishman, who gavo htm
monoy for clothing on condition that
Gibbes would work out tho debt, and
who informed him as soon as tho bar
gain waB closed that he would be ex
pected to go Into the camp of a robel
nrmy and sell smuggled arms. Tho
young Englishman nover hesitated and
became an enomy of the ?hlneso gov
ernment From that he drifted into
tho Chinese service, wns placed in com
mand ot a gunboat, and sot to patrol
lng tho coast, looking for pirates and
I
M r l
GIRL
SUP. PLAYS (10LF
AND WHARS
WASH FLANNEL
DInna goefl a cream colored grass hat
with n scarf around it, and white wash
leather shoes aro tho coverings of her
nimble llttlo feet.
Her shoes, by tho way, arc qulto
waterproof, with a specially troated
silk lining to Bhut out the damp, be
sldo having rubber soles, nnd nowa
days nine out of ten golf playing wom
en wear palm protectors.
Theso aro gloves that fit Ilk the
aandal shoon of yore. The palms and
ouo-halt tho insido of tho fingers nro
covered with a fitted piece of stout kid
that is hardened with a rosin prepara
tion to ensuro tho grip.
Tho pleco of kid is made fast to tho
hand, either by straps running across
the hack or a perforated back of linen
that has no weight and supplies pcr
foct ventilation.
Thus arrayed, Is It any wonder that
the enterprising modish ntulcto loves
to hall tho rising sun from somt lofty
tec, and at tho first hint of heat m
tho nlr tramps home to eggs nnd ba
con and absorbs melons nnd toast nud
tea in the most surprising quantities.
Thla Is tho same typo of fashionable
RAINY-DAL GIRL.
Early Morning Constitutional.)
girl as tho damsel who never puts off
her morning walk because of a trifling
matter of rain. She Is warranted wat
erproof, and It you wish to sec hor In
nil her Impervious perfection you must
go up in tho woods to camps or to tho
shores of tho St. Lawrence Her shoes
aro made by tho men who manufucturo
golf sticks and bags.
The leather of them Is weatherboaten
by a special process and tho sketch
that shows her in a storm shows how
frankly unbecoming, useful and serv
iceable and comfortable her shoes,
laced nearly half way to her knees,
ara.
w
opium smugglers. Ho had a mixed
crew compewed of men from nlmost
overy nation on earth. But tho crow
was made up of fighters and Gibbes was
successful in capturing some bad out
laws. On ono occasion ho made a dash
up a river which tho smugglers prac
tically controlled. Ho seised a cargo
of contraband opium and made for tho
sea. But pirates and smugglers open
ed on his boat from tho banks and
gavo him tho closest kind of a call to
capture. Onco thoy tried to board his
vessel with canoes nnd ran into a dls
chorgo of grape and cannlater that
tore them to pieces. Gibbes nnd his
men escnped with an immense cargo
of the captured narcotic, and when this
was reported to the government Gibbes
was summoned into tho presonco of
royalty and made a mandarin. Satur
day Evening Post
Colonel toe Horn In Canada.
Colonel James D. C. Lee, the assist
ant quartermaster general, who, un
der tho ago regulation, has Just been
retired from tho army, was a native
of Canada, but camo to this country
while quito a boy and was a captain
of volunteers in tho war of tho rebellion.
JOUENM AS -OF-OIiD;
PERSECUTED JEWS DEdlN A
OHEAT EXODUS.
Tlioy Qnlt Ilia Land of Rotitnnnla lie
rtuttv They Are Tated Ilrnvlly for the
II lull l'tlura The (let for Merohaii
dlaa Bold to ChrUtlaui.
(London letter.)
If wars and rumors of wars nnd
assassinations and massacres had not
filled overy spare column In tho nows
papcrs lately, general attention would
havo been attracted by n remarkable
exodus of the Children of Israel from
a modern laud of Egypt for pretty
much the samo reasons as tlio-o
leading to tho momentous exodus tin
der Moses nnd In somewhat similar
circumstances, for roiuo of them set
out to trnvel on foot to tho promised
laud America.
Tho scope and significance of tho
rxodus havo heon veiled by tho fact
that tho pilgrims havo not marched In
a body, but havo boon coming along
In squads and companies. Some nro
already In the United Stntes nud Can
ada, u few linger in Iiudon, noma aro
ou tho way across Europe and tho
rest aro trying to uacnpo from tho
twentieth century Pharaoh tho gov
ernment of Uoumnnla.
Of courso tho persecution of tho
Jews in several of tho European states
for years has grown moro nnd moro
bitter, but In Uoumnnla tho limit of
their enduranco has been reached.
For tho last year measures of cruelty
of nil kinds havo been pushed by a
flerco Antl-Semltlc I.enguo with a per
fect organization throughout tho
wholo country, of which the chief min
ister of tho government and the edi
tors of tho most powerful newspapers
woro actlvo momuoro. What money
tho Jowa had was oxtortml from them
by grinding tnxes, and tho possibility
of their getting moro was removod by
a goncral nnd completo boycott of tho
representatives of this race, both an
shopkeepers uml employes In factories
and businesa houses. Many profes
sions oltlclnlly woro closed to them,
tholr children wcro oxcludod from tho
schools, thoy thomselvcs wore sub
jected to assaults and Indignities at
tho hands of tho mobs, disenfranchis
ed, forbidden to scttlo outaldo the
cities, forced to servo In the nrmy
without tho possibility of receiving
commissions, and uiado aliens in tho
land of tholr birth until at last such
of tho victims as could manngo It have
turned tholr backs on everything thoy
still owned and hurried out of tho
country.
Within tho last few wcoka 5,003
REV. DR. OASTER.
havo left, men and women, but prin
cipally young men. Most of them
wero too nearly destltuto to think of
paying railroad or steamboat faros, so
they resolved to go ou foot across
Europo to moro friendly countries,
begging by tho wny, if necoEsnry. They
left in companies, many of them over
a hundred strong, each mombcr of
them carrying a passport from tho
Roumanian government These pass
ports wero not given by tho govern
ment until tho prospective emigrant
had paid up every farthing of tho
racking taxes that hud been piled
upon him, and when given thoy wero
marked officially, "Oood to Go." Tho
emigrant was told that if ho camo
back tho pcnnlty was imprisonment
with hard labor for not loss than six
months, or moro than two ycarB, with
tho additional claiiBo that after this
lmprlsonmont tho returned fugitive
would again bo placed outside tho bor
der and mado an outcast anyway.
So from Bucharest, and Ilerlad and
Galntz, theso little bands started out
of tho houso of darkness. In the hopo
of somo day reaching Amorlca. Tho
first few companies marched out in
triumph, but then the government be
gan to get scared. Llttlo Roumanla
couldn't spare so many artisans. Tho
police wcro ordered to make tho prog
ress of tho others as difficult as pos
sible, and they did. In some places
their Interference texik the form of as
saulting tho refugees, in others they
refused to let tho people lenvo in
batches, nnd so they crawled away by
twos and threes and met outsldo tho
cities. Onco there they made straight
for tho border of Roumanla and Hun
gary. Ftxid and sholtor wero glvon to
them by tho peasants along tho coun
try roads, nnd so they covored tho 125
miles that lay between their starting
placo and Predeeal, on tho boundary
line.
Their tho rahbla and their proplo
raised funds and sent tho pilgrims on
to Uuda Pest by rail; tho Jewish com
munity thero sent them to Vienna by
boat, and bo, passed from ono city
to another, thoy finally found them
selves in Frankfort and Nuremburg
and Rotterdam, and It was from theso
places that thoy woro sent to England,
finally arriving in London. They
thoueht Encland was the first install-
- '
uiont ot tho proinlaeUrlH(L- but to
tholr nstpnlahmontj no milt and ,honor
Las' (lowed for'themTn London. On the
qontrary, tho coldest houldar, hof
havo encountered since-' leaving Ilou
mnnla has been turned' upon thorn
hero, and turned by their own pcop'..v
For tho Inst month English Jowr
havo disagreed about the Roumanian!
refugees, nnd tho strife having begun)
whon the Jewish Hoard of Guardians!
refused to ntd tho travelers. Tho
board is a commlttco of moneyod mon
through whom most ot tho organized
Jewish philanthropy Is effected, and
the organization has taken a definite
stand ngnlnst tho Itoumanlaus. Ik
forms ono of tho two conlllrtliiK par
ties. Tho other pnrty In less strong as
regards money, but makes up for
that deficiency In numbers nud steal.
It In formed of tho poor Jinvs, tho Jows
of Imdon's East End, n good many ot
them Koumnntnns themsolves, led by
Uov. Dr. Gewtor, a former Itnutnanlan.
OUT OFT KAD STAGE.
lllrjrle Now Uieil Mora for Hailneea
Kmla nnd I.rn. fur l'leit.uce.
"It la wrong to nay that tho popular
ity of tho blcyclo la on the wane," ro,
marked tho mam who mnkeu his liv
ing repairing nud! dickering In tho ma
chines. "Tills ycur, (ho trado is hcav
lor than over before I will aduilf
though, Uint wheels are used less for
pleasure rldtm than formerly, ana tnnt
while tho Sunday crowds of riders nro1
thick enough on the boulevards nnd
In the parks, they are not so great as
they used to bo a couplo ot years ago.
Tho fact Ls. tho blcyclo U gutting to
bo moro and more a business proposi
tion. Mon nnd women who hnvo wheels
rldo them to nnd from work as a rulo
and do not take as many rides of
oTenings for diversion as they onco
did. The wheal Is an actual venial
ot business as adopted tor telegraph
messenger hoys, special dollvory lettor
carriers uud tho llko. As an outcome
of this tho nverago speed of Chicago
wheelmen and wheelwomon has In
creased. Nino out of ten porsons you
sco on a bicycle aro riding In n hurry.
That Is becauso they aro going to sot
destinations and nearly always havo
limited their time for getting there.
The life of a wheel Is longer, too, for
tho samo cnuso, but tho very fact that
we get moro work to do this yoar than
ever proves that porsons owning bi
cycles aro moro numerous now than
ever before."
Ttojn and Orris ha China.
Roys aro always woicomo whon they
appear In a Chluoao home, girls never.
Doys often marry at 18; and It Is said
to bo a not Infrequent circumstance
for these Juvenllo husbanels on occa
sion ot somo grievance to run crying
to tholr mothers for comfort, as thtjr
have beeu In the habit of doing, unet
to bo mot with tho chilling lnnulry;
"Why do you como to mo7 It you
want anything go to hor!" Tho ratio
in which fortune-tollers allot happi
ness lu the Chinese family Is genorally
about flvo sons to two daughters.
"Whatsoever Is moro than those com
cth of evil." Tho murdor of fomalo
infants accordingly prevails to a vory
largo extent. Many Chlneso girls aro
sold by tholr parents, and in somo
provinces the trade In stria Is con
ducted as openly as any other traffic.
In cases of poverty husbands occa
sionally dlsposo of their wlvos. Dr.
Smith mentions a Chinaman who, be
ing deeply in debt, was thrown into
prison, from which he found dollvor
anco hopeless. Ho accordingly sont
word to his relatives to havo his wlfo
Bold, which was done, and with tho
proceeds tho man was able to buy his
cscupo! Westminster Rovlow.
Women' Feet tprradlng.
It may bo a dlsagrueablo revelation,
but It Is nevertheless a fact, that in
dulgence In outdoor athletic sports is
having a tendency toward Increasing
tho size of women's feet Tho shoos
worn at tennis and golf aro of nevss
slty roomy, nnd In tlmo the feet "N:
cupy nil tho spuce allotted to thou.
Ono young woman who took to golf
three years ago finds herself compolled
to wear Bhoes two sizes largor than
those that formerly fitted her foet.
This fact Is genorally known among
members of tl.o sox, yet they go on
golfing and walking and cycling, and
tho result Is that the avorago woman's
foot 1b at least one olzo larger than
It was fifteen years ago. Tho most
elementary nrlthmctlclan will thus
sco at a glanco to what podal favor
wo aro bound to como If we go on
taking outdoor exorcises. Only a
comic draughtsman, however, could
adequately convey tho Idea of what
the "Trilby" of two generations hence
will be like.
Iterorl of Ancient Rime.
Sig. Constantino Macs, the Italian
archeologist, lias submitted to his gov
ernment a memorial in which he af
firms that 3,000 brouze tablets, consti
tuting tho records of ancient Roma
from Its foundation to tho tlmo oi Voa
pasian, aro burled In tho marsh at Os
tla, near Homo. He says that tho tab
lets were carried to Ostla after having
been rescued from tho tiro wlilch de
stroyed tho capital in the year 69 A. D.
Slg. Maes wants tho Italian government
to drain tho marsh lu order to recover
theso Invaluable records, and' a com
mission will he nppolntcd to investi
gate tho matter.
Flrrrrtt of All HpM r.
Thero Is a spider lu i..o London zoo,
obtained from somowhcio in the Sou
clan, that Is tho fiercest best of his
kind that ever Gpread out his legs in
a menagerie. Tho ordlnwv spider has
only four lcgB on a sldo. This croaturo
b.is five.
i
i
fcj
1
'HO
-!l
111
hi i
U
4
jt
E&sswm
"!aS4r'jSS?a1
lnl3MMurfk
