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NEARLY FOUR CENTt'RIES OLD.
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St. Augustine , Fla. , Has Oldest House
In Amerlct
The oldest house In America Is In
St. Augustine , Fin. This building , by
winter resort. ho-
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1L- ' tell in that town , Is not pretentious
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was undoubtedly one or the principal
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" It Is built of coquina rock . a mixture
; : ; ' . ; or sand and shell , which Is the same
I material used In the building of the
f , Ponce de Leon hotel and the Alcl\mr ;
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Oldest House In America.
1) I ' after the landing of the Spanish
which was on the 8th or September ,
. , . 1665.
The building Is In a fairly good
J state of preser\'atlon. The Interior Is
beautifully finished in highly polished
wood.
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dials during the time Florida was a
I Spanish colony and was later the
home of the attorney general during
the English possession. It Is not now
Inhabited.
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Cravats of Wood Pulp.
" A syndicate or English capitalists
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I ' a market ! In this country for tie sills
made chiefly from wood pulp This
product Is principally obtained In
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'i 4 I South America , Paraguay furnishing n
" " ' , - , large sUPP } ) ' . The vegetable silk has
.1. , Its origin In trees and Is readily adapt-
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able to native looms. 'rhe woven
, threads are sdpercalendered which
. . - process presents a sllly finish resem-
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" 5 , - - , , : ' ; , years past this gloss material has
: ; , : : a . . . ' : been sold In piece lengths to the upholstery .
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\-.y \ holstery trade , by which It Is utilized
II ) for filling purposes The selling test
of artificial slllt for cravats Is anxious-
h' awaited by local manufacturers.
A Thanksgiving Srenad
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o ' I Collecting Bird Statistics.
.1 The bird club at Bellows Falls , Vt. ,
} \ bad been divided Into two sides with
rr the object before them of seeing
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I . which side should see and name the
, largest number or birds during tho' '
season of 190,1. One side saw 89 different .
ferent varieties and the other 83. Six
varieties not seen bye the winning side
I but seen by the others makes the total
number of birds named by the club 95
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Ignorance 1i1 Coal Region.
A student of the population of the
"a r--t" r \nthraclte region of Pennsylvania reports -
o ports that there are 630,000 people
inhabiting that section , of which 430-
000 are foreign born. Of this number
over 50,000 cannot read or wrIte.
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BIRD ' LIGHTED Sn1EET LAMP. I
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Simple SollltJo of Incident That
Puzzled Authorities.
In 0. suburban town , where the
streets ar' lIghted by gus lalllps , 11
carious thing happened A guntlll' ,
lIlun nulictHI ( that for su\"l'1I1 nights the
gas was not lighted In front of his
hOllso antI reported the matter to the
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gas ComIJlIl1 lal1lll-lIghto1' )
had the street In charge was sure that
he had lighted It each night. Later
the gentleman noticed that the lamp
was often lighted through the dar and
decided that some mischievous boy
was responsible for It. Keeping 1\ ,
close watch for the offender , he was '
astonished to see the light Hush up
when not a soul was near It. Ho
placed a ladder against the pORt allli
climbed UII to investigate the matter.
lIe found that the two chains which
turned the light ! on and off moved so
easily that the slightest touch was su-
Hclent to send them up 01' down. But
they cOllld not move uf their own
weight nor by the wind. Still more
puzzlei the man returned to his
watch at a discreet distance and was
soon rewarded br seeing a wren fly
to the lamp , perch Itself on the ring
at the encl of the chain , and , give It
a pull which lighted the gas He
then remembered that u wren hud
reared 11 brood In the lamp that year.
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Newest Style of Lighthouse.
The Hum Island ( ledge ( Maine ) light-
house , now practical ! finished , will ,
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Ram Island Ledge Lighthouse.
it Is claimed , he the best In the world
of Its class. The appropriation was
$1f HOOO.
The tower Is of hewn stone , and
the exterior Is nearly as smooth as
marble. It Is lined with white enamel
tiling , and the interior Is finished In
quartered oak of the finest quallt
The glass is diamond Ihaped. The
lantern Is of bronze , cost $10,000 , and
the salt air will have no effect upon
It , Tile $7,000 lens for the lamp was
made In Paris
The photograph shows the tower as
it looked just before the staging was
removed.
Seven ! men are at work on the in-
terior.
'rhe light will he of the third order
und will he a flash. The lighthouse Is
as firm as the great rock on which It
stancil It will ho of the greatest } 101- ;
sable advantage to all masters of ves-
sels entering OJ' leaving Portland.
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Wood Cut During Coal Strike.
The last of the wood that the city
cut several years ago around Woodward -
ward pond and hauled Into Keene , N.
H" , at the time of the coal strike , Is
now being burned at the fire station
and at city hall.
Potatoes.
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New York , Wisconsin , Michigan and
Pennsylvania lead all states In the
production ot notatoes. Diagram
shows relative production in millions
of bu hcls.
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NEITHER DIALS NOR HANDS.
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Novelty In tile Clod : Line That Has
I Some Adv. . ntages.
'rho latest development In the clock
line has resulted In the elimination of
dials and honds. 'l'lw result Is n timepiece -
piece that serves l admirably for cor-
lain purposes , hut will hardly prove 0.
formhla rival to the familiar clock
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vita ! Its dial and hands 'rho special
claim made for this now tlmepluce Is
that the correct ! time Is always ex-
pos d ( In hours and minutes and In
Arabic figures. As 11 novelty this dial-
less clock Is certain to win 11 certain
amount of favor but there Is
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deniable charm about the ohl-fash-
loned timepiece that Insures Its pres.
ervatlon ns un essential adjunct of
household decoration und equipment ,
despite In:1Ovations. :
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Street Shaving In China.
The topsy-t'III'v metholls of China
are curiously ! Illustrated In the case
0 : the Pelln barber who , Instead of
waiting for customers goes out to
seek them. He carries his shaving
apparatus and 11 stool with burn , and
rings a bell to attract the attention
or likely : customerH 'I'he man who
wishes to he shaved halls the barber ,
who places his stool on the ground for
' the customer's use , puts II howl ,1f
water on the little stove he carries ,
and having lathered hlH [ brush sets to
worlThe charge Is not high. For
a sum equivalent to a cent ho shaves
the customer's head and sl1looths out
his eyebrows.
Palace of a King.
Tire palace of Alexander the Great
was an Imposing structure In Its time ,
and the wonder Is that any vestige of
It stands to-day. It was built In a
manner much more substantial than
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that of today , though advocates of
steel construction claim that the mod-
ern structure will defy time flS long
as any of those built by the ancients.
1'Ime alone will dptormlne how much
truth there Is'ln this contention. On
the Asiatic plain are the massive rem-
nants of an ancient gateway Cringed
with weeds , und , vaguely knowing who
he was , the natives tell that this Is all
that Is left of the palace of Aloxander.
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Cigars for Russian Soldiers.
A Prussian firm has received an order -
der from the Russian government for
4,000,000 cigars for the army In Man-
churill. They are to cost $1.20 per
100 ,
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ODD INCIDENT OF WRECK.
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Collision of Such Force That Two Cars
Are Made One.
In :110 ) recent railroad accident 01\
the Wca ) castor , Nashua & Portlatul
division or the Boston & 1\lalno at
gllf\t : Bal'l'lIlton ( , N. I I" , when liS extra
II'l'h.h train fl"OlII " lashuit crashed
hUlldon Into nn extra freight from
Portlllud that was wlIllIng there to
meet It , a Boston & 1\llIlno car on the
train slanliing still disappeared and
for hours limo efforts of the railroad '
lIIon to find It were una\'al1lng.
'rho accident OCCIII'I'od 1\ little after
mldnlghl. From that time until daylight -
light the railroad telegraph operators
along the line 1'1'011I time scene of the
wreck to Portlllnd ( i mallo the wires hot
In their efforts to trace time JIIlsalns
car , liS It was thought that It might
have HOt. IIIH'JuIJJc.11 IInd ) jumlJlJlI front
thc tmln , OJ' hud been left at Homo +
sta tic III.
1'111 mystery or the lost cur was
solved It ! dawn when the car was 1 ,
found driven cOllllllotely Into a car of
the Pcnnsyh'anla I'll II rolld , 'rho cars
had been telescoped In such 11 way
that hy lantern light tlmey t looked lllto
one wholu CIII' , and had thus om cHpod ) Ft t
notice.
The telescoping these cars was
regarded as roumarltnble , Inasmuch as
they were In time train Hlallcllngstill. .
So ' tremendous was the shock that
the engine of the stationary train was
forced lIuclt ) agahst the HOHlon &
1\1alno car powerfully mlllligh to 1101111 (
It through t time [ 'cnasylvluiia 1 CIU'-JOll'
lOll Glohe.
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Long Finger Nallo.
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They belong to a wealthy native or
Annum , who prides himself on their
length as proof that he doesn't wOJ'le.
Reported Meteoric Display.
John 1\1. Snofleld : , a clerIc In the
steamship ofllce at Bath , Me" , whoso .I ,
duties required him to rise shortly
after midnight reports ) that at 3
o'clocl on a recent morning ho was I
law : led by a meteoric display In the .
norlheast In the form of an object
about the size of a harrel. It was
straight UI ) and down and illuminated I
the entire sly with 11 brilliant light , I
lasting several Heconds. Time sumo
flash was reported hy time officers : and = :
men on various craft along the coast. ' 1
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Frame from Historic Wood.
Capt. C. A. JIoCfnaglo recently pre- , !
ent11 the Seth Warner
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Daughters of the American Hevolll'
Lion , at Vorgennes , Vt. . with a frame
for Its charter. 'fhe frame waR made
by Capt. Hotfnaglu from wood taken
from one of the boats of Arnolcl'g fleet
which was sunk ' in Arnolcls hay , a few
miles from Vergennes , Oct. 11 , 1776.
Record of Missouri Church.
Antioch Presbyterian church . Jal1a. . s
way county cast , of Mexico , MI'J" , has
n. 'remarlmlJlo record. During trio
elghty.five years of Its existence It has
never been without a pastor more
than a month at a time , and In all
that time it bas had only three pllS'
tors.-Boston Globe. \ ,
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