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The Roberts paper mill on the bank of Stony Drook In the historic
Norumbega of Waltham Is one of the most picturesque little manufactories
In Massachusetts. The mill site was utilized In 1798 by Nathan and Amos
Upham, two brothers, who had learned their trade of paper making at the
Boles hill, which was located below the Boston mills on the Charles river.
A natural curiosity on the grounds of the Roberts mill Is a tree of oak spe
cles, about eight Inches in diameter at the butt, and at least twenty feet In
height, which Is growing between the spokes of an ordinary cart wheel. The
wheel was carelessly thrown aside, as the record runs, twenty-eight years
ago, and the tree, then but a mere sapling, was seen to be growing between
two of the spokes. Both wheel and tree have been carefully watched since
i that time and now the result is a real curiosity.
AFRICAN'S FIVE-FOOT BEARD
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For tho moBt part tho natives of
west Africa extract all tho hair from
tho body with tho exception of tho
head, tho beard and the mustache.
Our Illustration showB one eldorly
gentleman whoso board, flvo feet long
when braided, Is his especial prldo.
IVORY MADE FROM MILK
Ono of tho latest discovers of ttae
synthetic chemists Is how to mako
Ivory out of nothing more wonderful
than cow'b milk and a very good
Ivory at that, according to all ac
counts. Tho original Idea was to use
the new "Ivory" for piano and organ
keys, becauso It preserves Its original
color Indefinitely, whereas tho genu
ine article turns yellow after a time.
But it hus bcon found that tho new
product 1b not only an efllclent sub
stitute for Ivory, but can easily bo
prepared so as to take tho place of
amber, horn, coral, celluloid, and such
like products, and, It Is claimed, can
hardly bo distinguished from them.
It Is In Its position as a substitute
for Ivory that tho now material has
Paradise for the Birds
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The Fame Islands are famous as breeding places for oca birds and their
rocky pinnacles are almost always covered with guillemots and kittlwakes
and other fowl. The islands, which are several miles off the northeast coast
of Northumberland, England, are seventeen In number and many of them are
mere rocks which are visible only at low tide. The passage between the
Islands Is very dangerous and was the scene of Graco Darling's heroism In
1838 when the Forfarshire was wrecked. '
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caused most surprise, however, be
causo It has tho appearanco of being
another lnstanco of Improving upon
Nnture. The new Ivory takes a very
high and lasting polish, and probably
will not lack a commercial field for
Itself, as natural Ivory continues to
grow scarcer and dearer year by year.
MOST ANCIENT OF JOKES
What Is said to bo tho most ancient
Joke Is related In ono of the Berlin
papyri of the sixth Egyptian dynasty
about 3.200 years anterior to the
Christian era and 1b to this effect:
According to tho papyrus a certain
scribe who worked In the Templo of
Thoth occupied npartments where his
neighbors on either side were a cop
persmith nnd a carpenter These hon
est artisans were Industrious work
men, and made such a noise all day
and most of (ho .night that tho poor
scrlbo was almost driven mad. At
length by n stioke of craftiness ho
buttonholed ench neighbor separately
and bribed him to chnngo hla lodg
ings, which they did with each other
This talo has kept tho world amused
for 5,000 years.
PIGEON CROSSES THE OCEAN
Ernest Robinson of Westmount.
Ontario, received word that a pigeon
he had imported and which had es
caped, has returned to England. It
apparently took twelve days to make
tho Journey. Tho distance from Mon
treal to Liverpool, England, Is about
3,000 miles. The steamship route
from Quebec to Liverpool is 2.C00
miles, whllo that from Halifax to
Liverpool Is 2.4G0 miles.
STORK DELIVERS BY EXPRESS
The stork and an express wagon
had a raco through Philadelphia, nnd
tho stork won when a 13-pound baby
boy was presented to Mrs. Anna
Chutkltefl. Tho driver of tho wagon
saw Mrs. Chutkites sitting on tho
sidewalk. She asked to bo taken to
a hohpltal;sbut a block away, with tho
horses going at full speed, tho baby
arrived.
HOW VARIOUS PEOPLE SLEEP
Tho American or tho European in
order In it n i-iiml iilrht'n rest or-
dlnnrlly requires a soft pillow under
his bod. but tho Japanese Btrotchos
himself on a rush mat on tho floor,
puts a hard, square block of wood un
der his head, and does not sleep well
If he does not have It.
In China they mako a great to do
with rcferenco to their beds. These
are very low, scarcely rising from the
floor, hut are often carved exquisitely
of wood I.Ike thn .tapnnoo tho Chi
noso never nmlten his bed any softer
than Is possible by the uso of rush
Hints
It Is n curious fact with reference
to the Mopping Inbltx of the various
peoples that while those In northern
count! lea do not appear to be nble to
sleep well unless they have lots of
room In which to stretch their legs,
the Inhabitants of the Tropics often
curl themselves up like monkeys at
the lower nni;lo of n suspended ham
mock and sleep very soundly that
way.
The robust American will cover
himself with a pair of blankets and
throw his window open to tho air
even In the dead of winter, and some
times ho will not complain If thero Is
a bit of snow on tho window sill In
the morning. Hut tho'Uusslan. on the
contrnry, likes no Bleeping place so
well as the top of tho big sonpstonc
stove In his dwelling. Crawling out
of this blistering bed In tho morning
he delights In taking n plunge In n
cold stream, even If ho has to brenk
through tho Ice to do so.
In Lapland tho native crawls, head
and all, Into a bag made of reindeer
skin and stooim wiirni nnd rnmfort-
able within It. Tho Enst Indian, nt
tho other end of tho world, also has
a Bleeping bag. but It Is more porout
than tho Laplander's. Its purpose la
to keep out tho mosquitoes rather
than to keep Its occupantB warm.
Tho American clings to his feather
pillow, but he has long since discard
ed tho old feather bed In favor of the
hair or straw or felt mattress.
WHEN THE PENGUIN PIPES
This odd photograph shows a king
pengino in tho strango attitude which
he apsumes when ho Is trumpeting or
"Piping." When about to "pipe" the
bird takes an enormously deep
breath till he swells and all his feath
ers stand on end. Then ho gives
tonguo, producing n Bound thnt may
bo likened to a rushing wind. Lower
and lower goes tho key. and then sud
denly there is silence and with It tho
end of tho music tho head and neck
aro brought swiftly downwards as
though hinged at tho base. Tho head
Is held down thus for some seconds,
and then nil at onco tho performance
ends and tho bird again waddles
about nonchalantly.
SOME LONG-LIVED BIRDS
It used to bo contonded thnt ravons
lived longer than any other species of
birds, nnd It was said that tholr age
frequently exceeded a century. Ilecent
Ftudles of tho subject Indlcato thnt nn
authentic lnstanco of a ravon sur
pasBlng seventy years of ngp Is on
record. But parrots havo been known
to live 100 years.
Thero Is a record of a golden eagle
which died at Schonbrunn nt tho age
of ono hundred and eighteen years.
Anothor golden englo was kept In the
Tower of London for 90 years. A
third died at Vienna nged ono hun
dred and four yenrB.
Geese and awnnfl aro tonaclous of
llfo, and extraordinary accounts exist
of tho great ago that tluy havo at
tained, liuffon nnd other authorities
havo credited them with eighty and
one hundred years of llfo.
CLUB FOR GRANDMOTHERS
Grnndmothcrs of Chicago nro to
havo a club house, whero thoy can
roceivo friends and loungo, piny enrds
and discuss tho latost fashions or the
problem pl'iys This Innovation will
bo Bponsoied by tho Mothers' Asso
elation of Chicago It Is considered
that tho grandmothers aro tho most
neglected of a city's population, and
to cheer thorn, bring kindred spirits
together nnd revive enrly mennides
a homo club, similar to clubs their
sous and daughters attend, will be
erected.
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WHEN CZAR.
THINGS that were wont to
llguro as bugbears In tho old
day travel of Russia aro now
but memories, The wiih of
the bureaucracy have become
more liberal and less rigid, ho that
traveling today In that country Ih as
pleasant and comfortable an In mo3t
count! Ics, and a good deal less ex
pensive than In ninny Besides no
other country In Europe "can offer
more beautiful scenery, more objects
of new Interests, or plensanter con
ditions of llfo nnd climate" than some
parts of Russia that aro qullo ncees
Hiblo to the tourist.
The only dllllculty a Journey In Rus
sia occasionally presents. In places
off the beaten track. Is that of tho
language.
Hallway travel In Russia leaves
much to be desired, however. For
example, accommodation on ono
much-traveled road hiBt summer tho
demand for flrst-clnss space was so
pressing that travelers were some
times compelled to wait their turn for
a week, whllo the demands of officials
for "tea-money" Increased with the
competition. This train has neither
restaurant nor sleepers.
Nothing Really Matters.
Russia Is tho land of "Nlchevo,"
the country wheie uothlng renlly mat
ters, oven nB Spain Is the land of tho
tomorrow thnt never comes. Let the
traveler renllzo this at onco nnd for
nil; let him recognize tho fact that
ho haB left behind him. nt tho Gor
man frontier, buslncssllko habits,
"punctuality, scrupulous nccuracy of
statement nnd all such commercial
virtues. Let him In their plnco ac
cept and enjoy tho easy-going and
tolerant attltudn of a peoplo which
facoB life and all Its problems with n
certain leisurely nnd speculative
stoicism, an attitude which, after all,
has much philosophy nnd n good deal
of religion In Rb favor. Let h(m adnpt
himself to his Slav environment nnd
ho will speedily find hlmsolf enjoy
ing tho humnn comedy from a now
nnd InBtructlvo point of view tho
pclnt of view of n raco of "thinking
children," for whom tho world of
ideas Is moro than all the cold facts
and figures of trade.
The man who must needs enrry
with him on n Journey his own coun
try nnd all his fixed habits had bet
tfr remain at homo, for tho science
nnd fine art of traveling consists In
reducing our material necessities and
local fads to a minimum. For nil
that, thoso whofco pleasure It Is to
Journey with "all tho comforts of a
home" can do so today on nil the
main lines of travel In Russia from
Riga to St. Petersburg, Moscow,
Nizhni, Rostov-on-the-Don, nnd Odes
sa. International wagon-lits, polyglot
porters, electric lifts, nnd meals
Bcrved to tho walling of Hungarian
music, nil nro there, combining tho
crenturo comforts of a trip to Paris
with a rapid impression of tho land
scapes and people of RusbU. But for
the mnn who can doff on occasion Iila
garments of custom, to whom tho
cities of men offer something more
than museums nnd meals, tho byways
of desultory travel In Russia open up
n new and liiBplrlng field of recrea
tion nnd knowledge. Espcclnlly won
derful are the unfrequented beauties
of tho Caucasus and tho Armenian
highlands, nil that fertile and historic
lnnd which lies between the Black
Sea and tho Caspian; nnd tho Jour-
tnoy thence, from Tlflls by rnllwny and
stenmer, to Tnshkend and Fergana,
Bokhara and Snmarkland. Hero, In a
summer vacation's wanderings, one
mny seo Europe and Asln overlap
ping nnd dovetailing, their conflict of
ethics and oconnmlcs nctlng nnd re
acting at a thnusnnd points of absorb
ing interest: nnd nil In comfort qulto
Bufflclent for any senblblo man.
Buying Railway Tickets.
In buying tickets nt a Russian rail
way station, ono toon learns also
that It Is wiser to book thorn In nd-
vance, for tno drawbacks or the
"Nlchevo" system of philosophy nro
now hero bo conspicuous as at a
.ciowtled ticket office. To tho writer
It has happened on nearly every rail
way In RusMn, Including tho Trans
Siberian at Mohcow, anil nt Khnrbln,
that, utter being Informed nt the tick
et office thnt no sleeping-car accom
modation was available, a coupo has
been forthcoming on1 tho train ns tho
result of largesso to tho conductor
and other douceurs. On ono occa
sion, boarding tho Rovcl-Potersburg
express at Welninrn station at I a. m,'
I was Informed by tho conductor that
thero was no room except in the cor-
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G0K3 TRAVLLING
rldor, only to discover Hint every de
partment was occupied by a single
pashonger with a single ticket, each
of whom had paid the conductor for
undlstuibed privacy. Incidents of this
kind nre contrary to tho Anglo
Saxon's Ideas of the tltnohs of things,
but they can usually be adjusted by
invoking tho Intervention of nny dis
interested member of the staff, say,
the next Htatlon ninslcr. 'I he patience
with which the avciago Runslnn.
suckled In the "Nlchevo" cieod, en
dures those things, Is at first a source
of constant surprlso to the foreigner;
not only u rnco that has home for
centurloH with bureaucratic Ineffi
ciency could thufl nccept them ns part
of tho established order of tfilugB Im
mutable. 1 remember, one hot afternoon last
July, watching tho sain of tickets to
passengers by a Black Sea steamer at
NovorosBlsk. Thero was a surging
crowd nnd but ono ticket office, with
n tiny window, somo four feet high,
nt which ench suppllnnt squirmed In
turn, nnd inside it sat a weary clerk,
apparently utterly Indifferent to time
nnd tide nnd nil the things that strug
gled under nn unkind heaven. In tho
lntervnls of hla toll, after writing out
nn officer's special ticket In duplicate
with a reluctant pen, he would light
a cigarette, slgliln;; heavily, and sip
his lemonade ten, oblivious of tho per
Bplrlng crowd. And again, when he
had Issued to an ordinary passenger
IiIb pnasago ticket and his berth tick
et, his wife's ttcketB, nnd a special
ticket for the baby, and had care
fully blotted all tho endorsements
thereon, tho chnngo out of n ten
rouble note had to bo laboriously cal
culated, and then checked on an
nbneus in tho corner.
WOMAN RULES INDIAN STATE
Begam of Bhopal Has Governed Coun
try Wisely and Well for Eleven
Years.
Thero havo been n few opportuni
ties to know something of thnt Inter
esting nnd unusual woman, tho Begam
of Bhopal, who has for tho last eleven
years been ruler of her country, tho
small state of Bhopal, In the mlddlo
of Central India.
Tho Begnm was born In ISfiS, nnd
tho free, Independent spirit of her
fnmily Is shown by tho fact that
though a girl her advent was not un
welcome. When sho waB seven years old nr
rangoments wore mado for her mar
riage, and tho boy selected for her
husband was brought to tho court and
shared her studies. When tho Begam
was fifteen they wcro married, and
strangely enough, tho marrlago was a
happy one. The Begam found In her
husband a faithful friend, and It is
said that she mourned his death very
deeply.
In 18S8 tho Bcgnm'fl eldest daugh
ter died. Sho would havo been her
heir, tho first born, Irrespective of
sex, being in Bhopal tho heir ap
parent. In 1901 sho becamo ruler owing to
tho death of her mother and nt onco
sot about improvements nnd reforms
In all tho various state departments.
Ono of the Begnm'H chief Interests
was education, particularity, too, the
education of girls. Sho decided, there
fore, to opart nnd patronize person
ally a girls' school. Tho education of
girls In Bhopal was chiefly limited to
a study of tho Koran and tho null
monta of tho Urdu language, with
hero and thero somo slight knowledge
of writing lenrned from fnthorfl and
brothers. But their attendance, nt
schools and thejr ndvancoment In gen
ernl knowiedgo was looked upon as n
dangerous Innovation.
Montenegrins Fatalists.
It Is only In recent years that Mon
tenegrins havo begun to appreciate
tho services of tho hospital. Hulmo
Ileaman, nfter visiting tho country In
1880, wroto Hint the people "take very
llttlo caro of their children, and only
tho sound and tho strong grow up.
In after llfo, too, thoy nro extremely
averse to sanltnry precautions or
medical trentment, nnd n slclt Mon
tenegrin Is almoht tjynonymoiiH with
a dead man. At least, ho nt once
gives himself up, and If ho recovers
looks upon it as a curious freak In
nnturo's laws. Tho few who
reluctantly submit to losing nn arm
or , leg Invnrlablyrefuee anaesthetics
and converse with their friends, sinok
Ing n clgnretto whllo tho knife and
snw aro at work."
WAN SHOOTS WIFE
WHO SOUGHT DEATH
Paris Stirred by Piteous Story
of Love and Suffering of
Couple.
ParlM. State and medical authori
ties hero are discussing the quoFtlon
whether a husband Is Jut tilled In end
ing tho Bufferings of a wlfo aftllcted
with an Incurable dliteaso.
Emllo llreguory, foimerly a magis
trate, Blxty yearn old, tho other day
fired three ihots fioin n revolver Into
tho head of hit wife, killing her In
stantaneously. Shu was fifty-llvu
years old, and suffering from enncer
of the liver. She had begged her hus
band for das to put her nut of her
misery.
For many ears the couple had
lived happily together In the villago
of SnniiolH in the Department of tho
Seine and Olse. A your ago,
For Hours He Sat Oistracted.
Madnno Breguery had an attack ot
paralysis, followed by tho develop
ment of cancer of tho liver Tho
doctors concealed the truth about thn
cancer from both tho patient and her
hUHbnnd.
Tvvie" Madame Breguery tried to
end her misery. Thu first tlmo her
husband snatched a revolver from
her hand nnd thu second tlmo sho
tried denth by gas. So great wns her
pain that after cacl rescuo bdo
begged her husband to Kill her.
A few days ago thero waB a heart
rending scene. Madame Breguery
Implored her sister, Madamo Baron,
to end her life. Thn sister refused.
Frantic with pain tho sufferer called
her a coward. Shu called her hus
band and then for four days follow
ing begged him to help her tako the
only way out of pain.
Driven wnll-nlgh mad by thn pray
ers and Buffering of his wife, Monsieur
Breguery took a revolver and shot
her three times. For two hours ho
sat distracted by tho body of the
deud wlfo, then went to a police sta
tion and told what ho hnd dono. The
wife's sister praised him for hla
action.
Thero Is a strong sentiment hero In
favor of exonerating Monsieur Bre
guery. BEAR BREAKS UP A SCHOOL
Pupils Flee In Panic When Bruin
Saunters In Boldly Examinations
Thrown Aside. '
Illoomsburg, Pa. A bear Intruded
Itself bodily into tho curriculum ot
tho Hoffnaglo school In Mlffln town
ship, Columbia county, broke up an
examination und created no end of ex
citement Just as ono of tho pupils com
pleted her examination and waB about
to leavo tho room sho exclaimed:
"What a funny dog, teacher," and
pandemonium reigned when tho teach
er declared It to bo a bear. Examina
tions were thrown astdo and tho chil
dren dashed for tho door. Tho bear
beat a retreat with tho children after
him, but tho chase was reversed when
ho tired of running away, and turning,
stnrted toward tho children. Tho
schoolhouso becamo a place of refugo,
m Howard Steely, ono of tho pupils,
rnn homo and got his Flobort rlflo
anJ gavo chase. Ho hit tho animal
sovcral times and drew blood, but
bruin cooly sauntered off. School
was nut resumed.
COW FALLS INTO DEEP SHAFT
Animal Is Rescued From Old Hole of
Oro Proprctor In California
Mine Field.
Orovlllo, Cal. After ton dnys' Im
prisonment In the bottom of a forty
foot prospector's holo, left In tho early
days, a dredger tho other day com
pleted the task of digging a cow from
tho hole, which nt tho opening was
only threo and n half feet wide. The
uovlno was tho proporty of James
EdwnrdB of Thermullto, nnd a year
ago a dredger performed a similar
feat for him, when one of his horses
fell Into a pit on tho same land.
For Boveral daya the disappearanco
of tho cow mystified tho .owner, and
hla son and another man weroBent
on a seaich. Tho sound of breathing
coming from tho holo led to tho din-covery.
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