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There arc flvo times an many people
la the city of Chicago as there nre In
the whole state of" Vermont, says the
Chicago Tribune. Perhaps two-thirds
aa many pcoplo born in Vermont live
outaldo that Rtate aa still reside with
in Its borders. Vermont has been des
cribed as n state composed chiefly of
hills, mountains, rocks, lakes, and
stone quarries. Of its farming land
200,000 acres have been abandoned by
those who formerly tilled it and can ba
bought for (4 or $5 an acre. Since the
war tho population of the state has
practically stood still. Us sturdy sons
lie attt acted
by the great
er opportu
nities to get
rich offered
by the fer
1 1 1 c West
and the
large cities
of the eotin
t r y. They
are widely
scattered all
over the Union. Uut wherever they go
the sons and daughters of Ver
mont carry with them deep
and abiding love for the Green
Mountain States. All over tho country
may bo found associations nf the Sous
and Daughters of Vermont. In the
other New England states alone there
are eight grout societies of the kind,
with an aggregate of 100,000 natives of
Vermont who are eligible for member
ship. So strong is the affection of the Ver
mont man 'for his old homo that prep
arations aro now under way for a
great and unique celebration in honor
of it. In this celebration practically
the wholo state of Vermont will take
part, and tho state legislature, by spe
cial enactment, has set upntt the week
of Aug. 11-16 to be given tip to it. In
vitations bearing the great beul of the
state and the signature of the governor
have been sent out to tens of thou
sand of natives bidding them come
back to the Green Mountains and Join
with the stay-at-home population in
fitting celebration of "Old Home
Week." So general has been the re
sponse to these invitations that the
plans now under way provide for the
entortalnment of more than 100,000 re
turning prodigals. Nothiug could fur
nish stronger proof of the fact that
sentlmont is still one of the ruling
forces of the world.
From Boston will run at least two
special trains loaded with sons and
daughters of
Vermont.
and from al- 5
most every
atato word
has come
that parties
are being'
formed for'
Old Home
Week." In
tho moan
1 1 m o tho
present citi
zens of that state aro making most
. elaborate plans for the reception of
their returning kinsfolk. In
more than 100 Vermont towns and
cities special and separate celebrations
will be held, and every hillside in the
atate will echo with the strains of
"Home, Sweet Home." No matter In
wh' hamlet or on what hlllWdo farm
a native Vermonter was born, he will
be likely to find his old friends and
neighbors gathered together there in
- reunion during the week of the Old
Home colebratlon.
At Burlington, Rutland, and other
large townB of the state, which lu com
parison with the great cities of the
" country are mere villages, local asso
ciations havo been formed which will
recelvo and entertain as their guests
the Vermont associations which are
coming from distant states. .Figur
atively speaking, a beacon flro of wel
come will be lighted on every moun
tain top.
To the nvorage man the enthusiasm
of tho native Vormontcr for tho stony
state which gave him birth is hard to
understand. But if he asks a Vermont
man to give the reasons for tho faith
which Is in him he Id likely to be as
tonlshcu. , "Did you evor hear of the Green
Mountain boys?" he will answer. "Do
you remember how Ethan Allen and
elghty-threo Vermont farmers sur
prUed the great British stronghold of
Fort Tlconderoga and forced Its sur
render 'in the name of the Great Je
hovah and tho Continental Congress' 7
Does Crown Point mean anything to
ypuT Have you forgotten Bennington,
where General Stark whipped the Hes
sians, killing 964 out of 1,500 men, and
capturing all their cannon? If you'll
go down homo with mo In August and
ollmb up to the top of the Benning
ton Battlo Monument you'll wonder,
Room Still for tho Gerinsn.
A German consul In a western city
has warned Germany that immigra
tion from all parts of the fatherland'
to the United States should cease, be
cause, ho Bays, tho crafts and trades
In these states nre overcrowded, and
that no German Inclined to seek new
fortunes can hope to. grow rich In
America. That consul Is evidently a
posslmlat of an exceptionally dolo-i
Jrrous bort. Thore Is still plenty of
room In this wldo land for additions
to tho host of sturdy Germans who
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as I do, how u Vermont tuau can live
In one of these flat prairie states."
These Green Mountain boys, who cut
such a dashing figure In the revolution,
had some practice In fighting befoie
that war began. They wnro busy for
several years before Lexington In driv
ing out tho Immigrants from Now
York, who attempts! to seize their
lands under
a r oy al
K v a n t. In
1877, In fact,
the people of
Vermont got
t o g o t h el
and declared
themselves a
free and In
dopend e n t
btate. with
out walling
to be taken
into the
union o r
as king the
Bennington Monument, commit of
anybody. In this exhibition of spunk
tho ns of Vermont still glory.
In the record of tho state dutlng the
rebellion Vermont people And anothor
cause for Just, pride. When Sumter
was fired on Vermont had 37,000 en
rolled militia. Out of this number
35,000 promptly went Into the Union
Jinny. .More than 5,000 were killed and
ns many more ruined by wounds and
disease. No other slate suffered o
great n loss In proportion. During the
whole war not a single Vermont regi
ment gave up Its colors In battle, and
what the ermont. man did at Bull
Hun, Cedar Creek, the Wilderness, and
Gettysburg is a part of history. Ver
mont people are jealous of tho lepu
tatlon of their state In producing
lighting men.
If you feel Inclined to pity men born
In a btate which Is xtcrile and Inhos
pitable you will do well not to waste
your sympathy on a Vormontcr. Ho
will tell you that Vermont produced
40,000,000 pounds a year of the best
butter In the world; that one-third of
all the maple sugar In America comes
from Vermont groves; that the yearly
hay crop of the state Is valued at $12,
000,000, and that three-quarters of all
the marble quarried In the United
States comes from Its hillsides. He
will ask whether the horsemen of the
country owe anything to the Morgan,
Messenger, and Black Hawk strains,
and what we should do for fine wool
without Vermont sheep as a founda
tion for our flocks.
Vermont ns the first state to be ad
mitted to membership with the orig
inal thirteen, its admission dating
from 1791. Until a few years ago nlne
tenths of Its population was of Ameri
can birth. 'Recently a large number of
Canadian French have come Into the
atate to work lu the great factories
which arc being built up about the
water powers for which the state Is
f a ni o it h .
1 hoe peo
ple are said,
ns a race, to
be the most
prolific t n
the world
and thero Is
an expecta
tion that the
Mate will,
therefore In
crease some
what more
rapidly than It hub In the past. An
other effort Is under way to fill up the
depopulated farms with emigrants
from Sweden, but the fact that more
fertile land can be uecured farther
west has prevented any great results
In this direction.
Almost equally with Its history, the
Vermont man is boastful of the natural
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land, which have puzzled archaeolo
gists for centuries, are falling and
most of them are now on their sides.
have prospered so well with us and
who ate so devoted and loyal to the
spirit of liberty and true democracy
which gives the keynote to our most
cherUhed Institutions. Thousands of
Gennaiila's sons and daughters have
crossed the Atlantic and havo accom
plished much for the advancement o
what Is soundest, strongest and best
In the civilization nnd tho advance
ment of conditions In this continent.
Intelligent Amorlcnns desire that the
volume of German Immigration may
ho Increased largely. And there Is no
awnory of his state. He alludes to tho
fact that thero are eighteen mountain
peaks more than 3,500 feet In height
within the state limits and talks with
n pang of remembered ploasuro of the
glories of Lake Champlalu, which
stretches for 118 miles In length and Is
fourteen miles wide. Of all tho New
Kugland states Vermont Is tho only
one entirely cut off from tho sea, while
at the same time Its chief city, Bur
lington, on Lake Champtaln, has n
maritime comtnorce employing a fleet
of 1,000 vessels and amounting In the
aggregato to 12,000.000 anuually.
Taitln Warntnxt at Ha.
Twenty-five years havo elapsed
since Prof. Tyndall, at tho Instnnco of
the Trinity House corporation, car
ried out n series of experiments at the
South Foreland, near Dover, England,
to determine the value of various
sounds ns warnings to the marluor of
his approach to dangerous spots In
thick weather. The result was a largo
Increase lu the number of fog signals
nil round the British coast. Much
knowledge has been acquired and
many new Inventions havo been madu
In the Intervening period, and a spe
cial committee of the elder brethren
of the Trinity House, assisted by Lord
Uuylelgh and other eminent scien
tists and engineers have been en
gaged for some tlmo In making elab
orate tests of all the latest Improve
ments Jn the different kinds of ap
paratus for mnklng cautionary noises.
The scone of their opi-.rutlons Is tho
Isle of Wight. One of their chief ob
jects Is to determine the relative mer
its of reeds and sirens as Bound pro
ducers. Much attention, .also, has
been given to tho trumpet and various
modifications of that Instrument.
Other cnieful experiments arc to de
termine the carrying capacity, In cer
tain conditions of notes of different
pitch, and the effect on the dissem
ination of sound of the conformation
of the coast line, etc. Another point
to be considered Is the question of the
most effective and the most economical
utlll7titlnii of power New York Post.
Tim I.ftnshlntt Want nf ArabU.
The laughing plant Is n native of
Central and Eastern Arabia. It gets Its
nume, not because the plant laughs,
but becaithe It Is the cause of creating
laughter In any one enting its seeds.
The plant is of moderate sire, with
bright yellow flowers In clusters, and
soft-, velvety seed pods, each of which
contains two or three seeds resembling
small black beans, which, if eaten,
produce effects analagou.s to those of
laughing gas. The flavor of the seeds
Is somewhat like that of opium; they
taste sweet, while their odor produces
a sickening sensation. The seeds are
pulverized nnd taken In small doses.
Any one taking them begins to laugh
loudly and boisterously, and then
sings, dances, and cuts all kinds of
fantastic caperc. The effects continue
for about an hour, and, when the ex
cltmcnt ceases, the exhausted Individ
ual falls Into a deep sleep, on awaken
ing from which he Is utterly uncon
scious of any such demonstrations hav
ing been made by him when under the
influence of the seeds of the laughing
plant.
rrotnUntt Show 1'rleit Oood Will.
A number of Protestant citizens of
Toledo. 0 believing that Rev. Edward
Hannln, a Catholic priest of that city,
had overworked himself In the Inter
ests of his parish In the erection of a
new church, quietly collected $1,000
and tendered It to defray his expenses
on a health trip abroad. Father Han
nln declined tho offer on the ground
that he cannot this year sever himself
from the pariah Interests.
To rrciort Trailing: Arbnlui.
In an almost 'despairing effort to
stay the dreaded extinction of tho
fragrant trailing arbutus flower, the
Legislature of Connecticut passed a
law In 1899 forbidding any person to
pull up the plants by tho roots on land
owned by another under a penalty of
$20.
The circle of stones, 100 feet In diame
ter, In a ditch have been attributed to
the Phoenicians, Belgae, Daurs, Druids
and Saxons.
luck of space for our German acces
sions. That western consul vhb buf
fering from indigestion or bllllousness
when he sent word to Berlin that Ger
mans should stay at home because his
purblind vision could seo no open door
for newcomers here. We want more
Germans. They can help us and wo
can help them. Now York Tribune.
Rev. John Bancroft Dcvlns of tho
editorial staff of the New York Ob
server has been given the degreo of
Doctor of Divinity of Center college,
Danville, "
WESTERN WATER FARMINQ.
WUooniln't Manr UkM Cll rromlaa
of (ire I front.
Sciontlsts who make it their busluoss
to look nhead into the far future are
now busy telling what will happen
after all the land In the United States
has been put under cultivation. When
thero are no more quarter sections up
on which the settler can establish him
Golf, It Is predicted that wa.ter farm
ing will become n general occupation.
This Information Is comforting to rcsl
dcntK of Wisconsin. No stnfe in the
Union has better facilities for water
farming than the one famous for tho
number and beauty of Its lakes. When
the time comes for men to fence off
ncrc plots on the crystal waters of the
Inland seas Wisconsin will have n
iioom worth while waiting for with pa
tience. Of course there will be draw
backs to water farming, but the In
dustry, offers great possibilities. Al
though It will be difficult to keep one's
crop of fish from being mixed with
one's neighbors', thero will be no plow
ing or harrowing, no wrestling with
stumps, nnd no trouble over Irrigation.
After the fish arc planted each season
thero will be nothing to do but to wait
until harvet time. By n littlo diplo
matic advertising water farmera may
persuade city men to ppend their va
cations on the lakes ns assistants dur
ing this harvest season. Houseboats
on the water farms would be Ideal
places of residence during tho hot
months. It Is cMininted that the fish
eries of the United States produce food
of the value of $40,000,000 every year.
Aa soon as tho water farming InditHtry
has a good start, Wisconsin will be
able to add millions to this amount.
If the calamity howler cannot find any
thing wotsc to prophesy about than the
water farm, this state can pursue daily
Its business pursuits without any fore
bodliiKU. Milwaukee Sentinel.
HOW TO KILL MOSQUITOES.
Chinatown Vvlla m Cheat) anil Moil Kf
frctlv Oulllarator.
It Is the experience of the nvcrage
housekeeper In Philadelphia that no
matter how thoroughly tho doors nnd
windows of u liotiRc arc screened, mos
quitoes will get Inside. Many of them
do not understand that a Bmall pool of
stagnant water In a cellnr or water
standing In pitcher plants Is u birth
place for thousands of mosquitoes. In
flower vases on the table, whero the
water Is not frequently changed, mos
quito eggs nre found In great numbers.
Applications of kerowene oil will stop
that. The general question Is how to
get the small insect pests out of tho
house when once they are In. To per
sons of careful habits chlorine gas Is
recommended. Pour Into a plato con
taining four teaspoonsfuls of chloride
of lime about ten drops of crude sul
phuric acid. This liberates tho chlorlno
gas, which is said to kill the mos
quitoes. The plan can be used only In
"rooms not temporarily occupied, or In
which the gas vapors can bo nllowed
to remain for several hours. The burn
ing of pyrcthrum powders In n room
will also kill them. Tho powder should
bo moistened nnd then made Into lit
tle cones, which are dried In the oven.
When a cono Is lighted at the top It
smoulders slowly, em't'Inc an odor
.which many persons And pleasant. But
a good, simple nnd cheap mosquito
killer may be bought In Chinatown.
The Chinese use pine or junlpor saw
dust, mixed with a umall quantity of
brimstone and an ounce of arsenic
This mixture is put Into littlo bags In a
dry state. Each bag Is colled like a
snake and tied tightly with n thread.
Tho outer end Is lighted. The. colls sell
at 10 cents a hundred and two of them
are said to be enough to clear any or
dinary room of mosquitoes.
Draitle Antl-IJambUag I.awi.
Some little time ago the Belgian
chamber of deputies passed a some
what drastic anti-gambling law. The
bill hay reached the upper house, and
Is being dtscusaed in a somewhat
acrimonious tone, and meeting consid
erable opposition. Somo of the sen
ators point out that gambling Is In
herent to human nature, and that it
tho law were can led Into effect It
would tend to foster clandestine
gambling-houses on an extensive scale.
This argument has been put forward
before, but where tho shoe really
pinches seems to lie in the fact that
the fashionable watering place of Os
tend would bo the principal sufferer.
The casino thero ranks with tho fam
ous gambling hull at Monto Carlo, and
many of the senators aro said to be
financially Interested, and hence their
opposition. It Is claimed that if tho
casino were abolished the loss to the
town would lie between $2,600,000 and
$5,000,000, and that most of the public
works now In progress would have to
be abandoned ns thoy were undertaken
on the strength of tho revenues de
ll ved from the gaming tables.
A tUmarkaUU Vojrag.
The arrival at Manila of the squad
ron comprising the gunboat Annapolis
and tho ocean tugs Frolic, Piscataqua,
and Wampatuck, which sailed front
Hampton roads early last winter, com
pletes a remarkablo voyage. This is
tho longest trip ever accomplished by
such tiny naval craft and was prqb
ably never equaled by similar war
ships. The distance covered was near
ly two-thirds around tho world, cross
ing one ocean, skirting the' southern
part of Europe, thonce through the
tornado seas of the Indian ocean, down
to the Philippines at a season when
typhoons are usual. There havo boon
trips of small ships across the Atlantic
and onco an old monitor wus sent
around to San Francisco by the Horn,
but no vessels of buc1( light displace
ment have yet covered so much dan
gerous water area as tho little squud
ton of American boats.
CRITICISE EDITOR.
YOUNO WRITERS WHOSE MANU
SCRIPTS ARE REJECTED.
I.oiik Upon lit Kdllor ni a Very In
eompatant 1'orton Eittrard Bok
bliow- Hcmv It It Vary Natural for
Thr.ru to Think Ho,
Thero Is a popular Impression, n
very general one In fact, that tho ed
itor of a magazine never reads the
manuscripts which are sent to him by
unknown writers; that all such manu
scripts are returnod unread, or nre
thrown Into capacious waste-bnskots.
A great many writers bellevo this be
cause they want to believe It. And,
really, anything becomes platmlblo If
one only bollevo's It hard enough and
long enough. It would never "do for
those who write, nnd whose Writing
aro not found acceptable, tp bcllovo
anything else; for the braln-chlldron
of a writer nre as precious to hint at
aro the blood-chtldrcn of a mother to
her. Each Is perfect In tho eyes of lis
patent. Therefore, tho editor cannor
hnve had any acquaintance with these
liraln-chlldren. If ho had had they
would hnve been Immediately adopted
Into the magazine family. So, you
see, the case Is perfectly clear nnd
easily proven against the editor. Hero
and there It Is conceded that the ed
itor does occasionally read a manu
script. But that lu only when some
famous name is attached to It. And
some persons go so far as to nay that
the editor does not read ov.cn these
manuscripts. They prove their ground
again by saying that It the editor had
read the manuscripts by these famous
folk he nover would have printed
thorn. So there the editor Is again
trapped. The bimple and natural de
duction Is, therefore, that he roads no
munubcrlpt nt all. If 1 may drift for
n moment lntopcrtonal romlnlscencc,
I' will recall a case where a consider
ate lady, who had ascertained in some
occult manner that 1 had n great deal
of leisure on my hands, sent mo a
manuscript, and said that, as a test of
u personal reading, she had left out
every "a," "and" nnd "the." nnd It
was for me to supply the words
wherever missing as proof that I had
read the manuscript. It was a brief
article of some eleven thousand
words! It so happened, unfortunate
ly, that at that particular time I was
very busy. It wua true that my occu
pation was not Important; it was sim
ply that I wns preparing a number of
tho magazine for my readers! I pre
sume I could have put the work off for
a week. But 1 didn't, and the manu
script went back without the missing
words supplied. I see now that It was
a mistake. For that particular lady
has had me In the pillory In tho pub
lic prints a number of times, nnd has
clearly proven tho case of an unread
manuscript against me. She ban thus
far withhold the facts of the missing
words, but, of course, that is an un
important detail In proving her caso!
I remember another instance of a very
sweet young lady who Inserted somo
pi ber most beauM"! ribbons between
the pages ot a mahllsctlpi. it so hap
pens that I have no particular taste
for ribbons, and as the members of
my family do not care for the com
bined colors ot bright orange nnd a
rose scarlet, I had no special use for
the ribbons and so put them back in
tho manuscript. Naturally, It was an
other case against me. I was caught
"red-handed" as It were. With tho
knowledge of how it Is done, any one
can easily figure out how imposalblo
It Is for a young writer to get Into
one of the modern maguzlues. " Tills
Is 'particularly true ot the young au
thor of distinct promise. Tho mora
ability he shows In his first manu
script the tighter arc the lines drawn
to keep him out. And as all tho mag
nzlno editors think and act as one
man In this particular respect it is
easy to seo what a formidable front
the young author has to faco. It Is
hard on the young author, I allow,
but to give way for an instant would
mean calamity to the argument of the
unknown writer that a writer without
fame cannot secure an audience for
his wares in tho maguzlncs of to-day.
And tho editor must make good the
unknown writer's argument. In fact,
that is what he Is there for, puro and
slmplo. Every publisher of a maga
zine employs an editor solely to keep
merit and unknown writers out of his
periodical! That Is all an editor does!
The magazlno editor, In other words,
is a man to bo envied! He lives n Ufa
of perfect ease and luxury! His per
sonal friends write the contents; the
compositors act the typo; the printers
print tho magazine, and the publisher
publishes It. So, what is thero loft for
the editor to do? Nothing but to play
golf! Edward Bok In Ladles Home
Journal, -'
Woman Havo UoTrniuent Contract!.
There are, In the United States, a
number of women who havo contract
with the government for work. In
Texas a woman has hold a contract to
carry the mail from Kolie to Solrnal
Hall. To Georgia also has belonged the
honor ot having a woman mall contrac
tor. This woman not alone dollvercd
tho mall on hor littlo black pony over
n bloak and sparsely settled region ex
tending about forty mllea, triweekly,
but she managed a largo farm as well,
doing most ot the manual labor her
belf, and thus supporting her aged
parents and a crippled slBter, all of
which this ambitious woman did be
fore, sho had reached 30 years of age.
- -Homo Magazine.
The sting of Poverty Is not always lit
Its tala.
SMALL HOUSES FOR WAR.
Vnj of Hajr caralrr on 111 Charger
! )rr.
Tho rocont cxporlonco In Bottth
Africa proved to the Intelligent Eng
lish mind that, the day of heavy
cavalry mounted on slxtoen-hand
chargers was almost an much over aa
that of the knights ot Aglncourt. I'
havo myself moro than onco discoursed)
upon this very themo, nnd Insisted on
tho necosslty .of producing a war hors
capable of moro durablo servlco on
worso rations than any now bred In1
England, advocating, too, precisely Sir
Walter's plan of breeding from Arab
sires. Nevertheless, tho pronounce
ment of so high an authority on horao
matters ns Is Sir Walter Glllwy Is an
ovent of Importance, for thore Is no
body the English public listens to more
willingly, nor by whom It is more
ready to Ije convinced. Tho argument
for Binnll horses In war Is one capable
of almost mathematical demonstration.
In every campaign horses havo neces
aarlly to pjit up ,wlth short rations,
often with scml-starvatlon, and tho
horse that can do with the least and
worst food lasts the lougest, andthei
longest lasting win, if, then, airmail
horse can maintain himself where' a
big ono stnrves, doing equal or Jioariy
equal work, tho small horso Is demon
strably the better. Apart from artil
lery nnd transport, whero heavy
draught power will always bo necdod,
a pony ot 14.2, It properly bred It has
been proved In South Africa will do
nil the work of a horso ot 16 hands,
nnd on equal rations (whero these nro
scanty) will last twice as long. The
small horse, too, Is easier managed;
he Is less troublesome to mount under
fire mid to dismount from on the
march. This Inst Is no small advan
tage when men am weary, The
Bedouins on their raids are constantly
up and down, on and off thslr mares,
running hcsldo them half the night,
and so easing and saving them. The
small horso, too, Is a smaller tnrgot
to tho enemy, Is easier hidden In the
folds ot the ground, and Is easier
stowed on shipboard. He needs a, Ubs
stout rope to tether him, a scantier
shelter to screen him In rough weath
er. It Is not necessary to have been
to tho wars to know this. Nineteenth
Century.
THE FORTY-DAY PERIOD.
roriUUat Uf of Munibar Forty alnco
Karl lot Tlino.
A man who has done readers and
students notable service In collating
many of the curiosities of literature,
calls attention to the peculiar and per
sistent use of tho number forty ever
Einco the earliest time. The Deluge
lastod for forty days and forty nights;
Moses an Elijah fasted forty days; tha
Israelites wandered In tho deaert for
forty years r the spies Pnt forty days
examining the land of Canaan, before
making their report; and Jonah, It
will be remembered, gavo the In
habitants of Nineveh forty days In
which to consider his prophecy, and
repent. The miraculous fast of Moaes
and Elijah Ik reproduced In that of
Christ, and tho latter Is now observed
by the church In the forty
days of Lent. The mysterious.
Import of the forty-day perloa
has been recognized In the leg
islation of France and of England from
tho earliest ages. Louis IX., ot France,
called Saint Louts, established the
King's Quarantine, during which no
man could avenge an Injury We use
the word quarantine to algnlfy, apecl
flcally, an enforced' stoppage of travel
to prevent the spread ot contagious
diseases, but Ha real meaning is a
period of forty daya. William tho Con
queror ot England ordained that no
man should )w allowed, to rcmajB Ij
England longer than forty daya Unleaa
he was enrolled In some tithing. The
Magna Charta provided that a widow
should be allowed to remain In her
husband's mansion for forty days af
ter his death, during which time her
dowry was to be turned over to her.
These are only a few limitations of
tno use of tho forty-day period. How
that uso originated, no one knows.
Forty days is not a regular division of
time like n week or a month, but is
wholly arbitrary. The only pluuslble
explanation Is that this period approx
imates a division of tho early lunar
year by the mystic number 9.
Whan Lady rUliot right.
Supt. Spencer of tho aquarium, spoke
ot tho fighting fishes hohas down there.
"Strango to sny, the lady Ash la the
hardest fighter to be found. Now, some
lady fish ogreo and ure happy togeth
er. When they disagree and fight
they go at it Just the same ns women.
They bite, gouge, and, so to apeak,
toar each other's hair out. Tho only
difference Is that tho hulr on a fish is
Its scales, When a scale Is once torn
oft it never grows on again. Angel
fish sometimes flgbt. Trout In .some
of tho basins start to tight, and we'
have to aoparato them. But when it
comes down to a rough-and-tumble
fight tho lady fish will beat any of a
similar size and weight." New York '
Times.
Franco to LajrMwra CaMr.
The question of an extended iaystem
ot French submarine i cablaa, Iwhlcu
has been so long Intermltteatlyjoccti
pylng tho attention of the geyernnent,
now promises to come speedily 'Co an
Issue. Ever since December,ytlSW, a
special committee has been studying
the matter, calling in expert advice to
help thopi, nnd thf renult Is a bill; Juit
finished, whleh the government ''pro
poses shortly to present to the cham
ber. This bill outlines? un agreement
w(th the French cnblo company .for
tho constrttctlpn and earn of un" ex
tended network of cables, aggregating
nearly 10,000 miles In length and 0,
OOft.000 In cost.
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