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RECORD BREAKING
f7T" RECORD load of wool, as regards bothnsndls. The wool Is from the Boorooma
weight and bulk. Is shown In the ao-
I jr truck In this caae carries 121 bales
f of wooL Under ordinary conditions a
single bale of wool Is a difficult bundle to
Safeg-uard!ng King Edward.
TTrTN It Is decided that King txiwara
shall travel from one point to an
other over a line of railway Instruc
tions to that effect are sent to the
general manager of the company whose
syatem Is to be usedk
The general manager, together with the
traffic manager and the other heads of the
line. thn hold a consultation asd decide
how the train is to be worked. When thia
la done all the arrangements are printed
in pamphlet form and sent to each of those
persons in the aervioe of the company who
require to know them. Theae Instruction
have to be kept strictly privates
The exact tlmea at which the train passes
certain points are given, and the detailed
system of telegraphing from one point to
another all along tha road Is set out in
full.
A pilot tralrfjeonslstlng of an engine and
two or three guards brakes, leaves the
station fifteen minutes before the. royal
train and maintains iMs) Interval through
out the Journey.
The most Interesting part ot the Instruc
tions, however, ara those concerning the
condition of the line at the time when the
Toyal train pauses, and of the working of
the royal train Itself.
There are two ohlef guard on the train,
who are accompanied by representatives
from the locomotive and trafflo depart
ment. A third guard, with lamp and
fog signals, accompanies the rear guard of
the train. Should the royal train be
topped for any reason this guard s duty
Is to go back up the line for a certain dis
tance and place the fog signals on the
metals to warn any trains which may be
following. A fourth guard, riding with the
front uard of the train, is mppUed wrth
the same Implements, and. If necessary,
he goes ahead.
Accompanying the train Is a party of
telegraphists, under the charge of the tele
.v, ' irwrrintandant. They have with
tham all the tastrmnenU and appliances
k.. which rvrnimanloation can be estab
lished between tte train and the telegraph
wires whloh run aJongeid. the railway.
t nn-der to minimise tha risk of acci
dents happening to bridges carrying trains
over the railway, no ngni topm bj.u
train Is allowed to pass over these viaducts
later than ten minutes before the pilot
train Is due and until the royal train has
passed.
Babylonian lion.
ONE of the oldest, and at the same
time most Interesting bits of ploto
.Hi work which has been preserved
from antiquity Is that of ths Hon of
Babylon, and so careful wss me workman
ship that even after the lapse of several
thousand years not only the outline but
the color are very distinct. The figure was
used very generally for decorative pur
poses In enolent Babylon.
In fifty years ths average height of
British men has risen an Inch, to Ave feet
eight and one-half Inches.
To each shipping company which
adopts the refrigerator system and
guarantees to make the voyage from
Buenos Ayree to Lisbon or Vigo In fifteen
and a half days, the Argentine government
win pay a monthly subsidy or xz.ow.
Eggs of tha aptornls, a recently extinct
wln1es bird, bring very high prices, fine
colored specimens fetching as much as
I7M to $1,000 apiece. The apteryx, or New
Zealand kiwi. Is a bird which, though still
ltvinc Is becoming scare sr from day to
day, and Its final extinction is only a que
tton of years. These kiwi breed very slow
ly, only one or two very largo eggs being
skid during ths smson. and as yet there U
no record of the successful raing of
yoang In captivity.
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RELIC OP BENJAMIN- FRANKLIN.
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IS quaint old keg Illustrated herewith
as ones the luoperty of Bonlamin
Frinklm. and It is believed was for
many years unci by the .real pliiUu-
la. kag was outdo oi china andth. keg is consular ad a priceless r4iaL
LOAD OT WOOI
Station, In the State of Victoria, Australia,
England poassns twenty-eight cows for
every hundred of the population. Aus
tralia has X80. .
Medicine In tha Kitchen,
EXPERIMENTS hare shown that
dmys which are now used only In for
mally prescribed mixtures or pills are
capable of Introduction Into the more
welooma outtmt of the domastln kitchen.
It la often difficult when a medicine has
to be taken frequently and over long
periods or time to be sure that the patient
does not grow carsless or forgetful. If.
however. Instead of taking hi nil! aftar
his daily meals, that pft. were, without
altering the taste ot the dish and without
losing its own efficacy, combined with tha
patient's dinner, Instead of preceding or
luuuwuij 11, me pnysiciaa-e orders would
bs more consistently earrled out kv mn-
nivanoe on the part of the oook than they
nrw wren in oo-operatlon or the ohwmlst.
3uch a relegation of the dispenser's duties
to tns hands of tha ohaf cm nniv h
achieved by familiarity on the part of the
medical man with the work af both his
suDorainates,
ORIGIHAZ, TAZXS AT VTOKK.
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THE streets of ths larger cHles of India
are full ot fakirs of all classes, and of
every description. Originally the word
"fakir" had a religious meaning, but
to-day It Is mostly applied to the beggars,
nondescripts, and mountebanks of India.
The sect was founded on a nh;ie of Prfth-
minlsm, though "saints" of similar nam
and practice are now more com.Ton an'ong
Mohammedans than among Hindus. Their
penances take strange and horrible forms
of expression, tying the hands and feat
Barest American Plant.
Oi
F all rare plants In America the most
rare Is the buckleya, which has dis
appeared from all known places ex
cept two Paint Rock. In North Caro-
llna, ths refuge of plants la hiding, and
Wolf Creek, In Tennessee. Its Collate is
delicate and graceful and It bears oily
little nuts of a rather agreeable flavor.
As for its flowers, they are rather odd.
having no petals and being of two
tlnot kinds, one growing solitary at the
ends of twigs and the other in tiny clus
ters between a pair of leaves. Its fruit Is
a queer, long ridged drupe, dotted with
bright orange and sometimes with a long
fringe at the end. Dr. Asa Oray carried
It to Cambridge, Mass.. and H seemed to
thrive, but he could never raise any more
from It. After a tcr.g ws!!s Rs secret was
found out. It lives usually on . ths Caro
lina hemlock, a perpetual guest to this
host plant and doing no work (or Itself.
In other words. It is a secret parasite, as
the mistletoe Is an open one. It ts named
after Dr. Byckley. who loved flowers and
sought them under all kinds of difficul
ties. The largest roll of pigtail tobacco twist
eve? made is on view In the shop window
of a Chicago manufacturer. It -is three
and a quarter miles tons; and weighs SkO
pounds.
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decorated with quaint ngurea. as the fUuav-
traUuo ahowa. Tha position of th. keg wss
intended to facilitate one In the prooess of
drawing off its contents. Nt--edles to say
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Fish Destroyer.
THE moat Important of the fish deMr'
ers I the common rorqual or xnr
beck, so well known o herring fisher
men, ami who presence is 7 ,,
L. ... .iJ .,-,1. sine It o
tokens an abundant capture of herring.
It
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th. irth of sixty or seventy
The number of herring devoured "ITJ
iT0"?-?' ""r:,T;XnbW .Tol
tui ii'Mij n-.w v . ih
(Bf-ddard). This whale, apparency
lnt!llretv and familiarity mm .--
aulte boia.
en s wj. .
coming olose to the boats ana tB"",'V":
inets as they'are drawn to sel th I
'ring. Their combined tax on the flanes
must be enormou. ss well " cont",!hTn(m
! But. while the sctlvtty of '"
rorqual makes it. presenc. conspicuous In
hulk to the huge Btbbald's rorqual, ths
gteyplrevthr of ths Icelanders, 'which at
fTn?a length of about ty feet Though
Its dietary is varied. consisting of shrimps
oft the Norwegian shores. H J'V?
fUh In the Arctlo seaa, and mint be
placed among ths fish troye The
enormous numwn.oi , .L J
Mcessarv to malrriain a "body of about
ESntyton. In weight Is In Itself a strik-
Ing feature. A lew nunarrue u'c B.
ntie Whales would probably consume as
many fish and shrimps In a year as cer
tain enterprising muom wimuin un
North Sea,
Tn the national Italian lottery a German
trader living at Naples recently drew a
rise of 160,000. ,
At a ball In Bermuda a wonaerrui aress
was worn, In the msklng of which over
hod itimn wsrs used. They were not
ni'i on anvhow. but In an elaborate design
On the front of the bodice was an eagle
made entirely or brown troiumpian stamps
Suspended from tha birds' talons was a
irh mads of very old blue revenue
tamps. On each side of the globe was an
American flag, having stripes of red and
blue stamps. On the ibac or the ooaice
was a collection or roreign stamps in inn
form of a shield. In the centre of which
was a portrait of Sir George Summers, cut
from old revenue stamps. A picture bat.
covered with red and blue stamps, was
worn with this remarkable dress. .
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together and rolling head over heels for
lung distances (some travelling ttiu, it in
said, for thousands of miles); holding the
hands above the head until the limbs are
withered; walking on spikes; dragging
about heavy chains, or slttlnc In one posi
tion until Incapable of movement.
Tha Tyrolesa government stfll pays for
extermination of poisonous snakes. It
Is tha one European government which
now does so.
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What Forest Urea Cost
nTXIl forest flrss eost us about $26,000,000
a year. In New Tork State, In the
spring f IMS, the loss from conflagra
tkins In tha A A IWvnHa nVa
mated at $3,600,000, without counting $178.
iiMP1,n "fbUng the fire fiend. Twelve
-T;; worth of forest property
Washington and Oregon, In 1MB. s
Forest fires ara miumI in
- rrv lUglsMlCOl
?' 'ow fire to escape Into the
toin.r!?' ,hunter responsible
lor many destructive Mnnxi ....
k,n "hloh spreads from camp fires. Rall-
r a irequent cause of auoh
ZVJS.T ount " h
Se i1Lft.thr.OU'hi to b compelled
to use spark arrestrs. In ths vast Din.
forest, ot the Kar North the ground jZ
Is always extremely dry and tlndervS!
The greatest losses from ' .
...w. 4 .t. . . V nres are
"""" i racino coast. wKil. th
least damage by this caust ?n
c-J-,. V. of the South
Uke nneen'mliTTo ""f
or nearly twentv-four
miles, are flam. swooL tTn7i.."V
ths worst of the damage is done not to the
rees but to the soil, for it takes from
three to five centuries to created tTil,
one foot deep, which IthlnTfcw hour.
Is burned up. making th. land useless for
A IOrett flr vn rrvAi.V. a.
frm' OB mak- own wTnd ow?ng
flm- tJ.nl0Uv1"'1ftuht Jr. The
- '"Km or two hundred
feet, devouring the tree, like so much
straw, and out from th rfv, ..mu .
vanclng wall of solid blaa. shoots of flam
rvP' to explode. oarttogTor!
ward, bridging river, and atartET?.. ell
afreah In advance of the main column, as
If Impatient of rts slower progress.
SI?n1JanCleMd pcl WJ enough
to halt fire-ars commonly made In Pii
t; i en":
TBI. Is on. of th. devlnea i. j
nmJ K ... -..vujf aw
' Hureau,
Indl
m ma consiaeration of
whereby suoh fires may be an
means!
fought. Buch lanes must be ken .-i, .
successfully
tree from bru.h. and the only Imporint
oblctioo to them I. that their maJntance
is somswhat expensive. mnc
nd
. i1B , ln. world fa in ii..
Bay of Fundy. between Nova " .T
New
Brunswick
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Th tide
and the Increase Is occasionally a. Jf.oh
as a toot every flv. minutes UCh
A rrandsnn of General Shrapnel who I
vented in im th. mlils that ha.cS. nch
a figure in the Russo-Japanese war is en
deavoring to obtsin from the British gov
ernm.nt a part of the BO.OuO spent by htm
for the benefit of his country.
Th. Intrinsic value of the Victoria Cross.
nm most n.,-niy pniea aecoratlon tn thei
onciau ar.ny ana navy, n ahout th
cants, it wss instituted by royal warrant
on January iodo, as a reward of !.
lantry of all ranks, and ih. first present.
k flahermen and. taking i imrrai-nii tor Its own particular orrrj,
aterageVr a yr' twenty-five per cent of the points
rtTthuVrrt Arotlo smelts have been being um.sll, awarded for fine head pro
n' h f one example portion, sn-ecual number for legs end
lilt Ilia I 1 1 laa iviiiiu
Uun (of sixty-two crosses) was made by Melbourne to run a halfpenny evening
th. late Queen Victoria in person on Frl-ipaper soon failed because people had not
dsy, June -. 1867. It Is in the. shape of s 'he coin wherewith to purchase It. And if
Maltese cross, and is made to this day out halfpenca are rare, farthings are curlo.1
of metal from old Russian caution captured .ties,
at SebaatopoL
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How to Judge Dogs.
THK average man Is greatly pussled to
flml fne dog awarded a first pr'. and
another, which to him appears to be
Quite as fine a specimen, awarded no
prime at alL A man who knows the rele
itiu. ..i . . , - ..... i.
:; - " or me uiueren.. n ..... .
nt i
Is
veritable walking
Geneally speaking, the beat do. I. one
Wfl Rh mml taa.f ,. .lanarrl of r
simimr numwr ror m " -"'
- "," " r J.
In the Dalmatian, for Instance, thirty
points are glve.n for color end markings,
while head, eyes and ears have only fif
teen: the bulldog, on the other hand, has
forty-five for head and ears, while coat
and color amount to but five points; me
collie has twentv-flve for coat, color being
Immaterial, and twenty-five for neaa ana
ears.
The St. Bernard has forty tor head and
ears, and five each for coat and color; the
Pomeranian has but fifteen for head and
ears, forty-five points going for coat, color
and tall, with fifteen for appearance, it
may be set down as governing In all breed
of dogs thst whatever Is the typical fea
ture of that breed Is the feature upon
which stress Is laid in the allotment of
points. f
A Freak Chicken.
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POLICEMAN JOSEPH LUSSIER, of
Wllllmantlc. has a queer freak chicken.
The question which perplexes the ob
server Is whether the freak Is a hen
or a duck. The hen-duck' was hatched last
May. and It has always borne the eccen
tricities herewith described. Her breed Is
the whit. Wyandotte. It ha. the head, of
a pallet and other characteristics, but Its
walk, posture, etc., are like the duck.
When walking Its body assume, the up
right position, as in the picture. Its tail
Is short and stubby and has that peculiar
wag suoh as only tne duck can give It,
and its legs and feet resemble those of a
duck, though the feet laok a web. ' When
It tries to oaokle U makes a sound which
is seemingly a mixture of a cackle and s
quack. It eats from the ground like s
duck and drinks a great amount of water.
As yet the freak has not laid an egg or es
sayed to swim, and these may determine
later to which family It belongs.
Dried currants given to horses occasion
ally. Instead of oats, are said to Increase
the anlmaki' powers of endurance.
Machine Chin of 1530.
V
11E machine gun Is of very recent man
ufacture, yet the Idea of such a weap
on date, back to a sumrlslnalv remote
period. Ths mitrailleuse gun, whloh Is gen-
erslly supposed to have been invented In
mi, was, as a matter of fact, anticipated
by mora than three hundred year.. A d
sign for such a gun made In 1530 Is illus
trated herewith.
- John Burns, a proepeotor, walked Into
Virginia City, Nev., recently, with hands,
feet, ears and nose frosen, having spent
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ill."-.. "ZjjUi-
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glnla In a snowstorm waking around a ve matter. Ewn I c.Tli runs
pine tree to keep from freezing to death.! will cost not less than $3,000. and It runs
H. was out twenty hours. from that up to $10.0JO.
At ana election a candidate paid out on
Out of forty-nine school children In the ' 0f jjo for each vote, but this is
lowest class at Nordhausen, Germany, th.'an av"fT.. v.e record orioe, the cost run-
mVBcal offlcer reports that thirty-eight had
drunk win., forty spirits and all more or
leas beer; while out of a class of twenty-1
elght glrU sixteen confessed to having been,
drunk.
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A nder Box.
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NH of the earliest forms of tinder
box is shown In the accompanying
Illustration. The box consisted of a
rough wheel sgalnat which the flint
was pressed so that the twirling of the
wheel world send a shower of sparks Into
ths tinder laid In the trough of the box. In
this way some oi the sparks were sure to!.
ignite. The box was an fc-ngllsh invention:
At the wedding of a Southend flremsn
the members of the total fir. brigade
formed up outside the church and made an
. .. -,4th tKeir axes, ulder which -H k-i.1a
and bridegroom walked. The firemen thenj" P f the Admiralty, has contributed,
drew the wedded couple home in a car- , be called th. Royel Artillery Thea
riage. blowing their whistles ss they paused t bold, twelve hundred soldlsrs and
Halfpennies ate veiy scarce In Australia.
so much so that aa attempt one made In
Diapparlns; Plants,
Iff ths Southern mountains certain flow
ers have been lost for nearly a century
and rediscovered By chance In a different
locality, thriving and abundant. In some
cane, the Interval of time has been shorter.
on tne other hand, all of them have
not been found yet. No on. knows the
oaus. or their disappearance, nor by what
were removed, nor why they
prefer their new habitat One curious feat-
tnese vanished flowera. or
,J r"DV r "ot as a rule Insignificant
XI , ,n"t one might overlook. On the
g, f7- th beautiful variety of sumach.
"fJTr1 "-ft"- Mlchaux. a French botanist.
wa ,,8t "ny years and has
n ihiu f crwimy blossom first, and later
on thick clnxr. . -i j ...
truit. its leaves in
IV .."T". o that It seemed to flame
a Ih movmtain sides.
trilin-i- 1 Plant, also a shrub, the
innt TL .trt"ln beauty. It be-
!hi ?u whU b'onis. each blossom
shaped like a fL Anr , ,,h
has'owan. !,U,t0U, !
"L "ow vnlshed as completely as If it
werenfne,3t'rted- the Plant.
tTSmli - nat?ljr 'wt' in 1878 by a gen
dZJ?f Augusta, O... so that It has
cenurT?n "J""" .than ",art'
whom it nb0tVlUU or the IPle among
-Jt y P'ant nd one which meets any
.change of condition easily. 7
Th.WLFed,ral uhcll has put be
fore the Federal Assembly a bill to pre
"i. the.exPrt of electrical energy nro
eelln from the Swiss waterfalif
out special authorisation from the Fedl
eral Council. All concesal
part of existing International treaties are
. i" " .Ho eiwvo rwnncuon.
A girls' school at Hlngora. Siamese Ma
laya, was opened November with forty
seven pupils, a number which has since
Increased to slxity-three. Apart from the
mlailonary, school this Is the first school
for rlrls to be started In Slam outside
Bangkok. There Is no oreiudlce in ftm
against education, and there Is plenty of
evidence that all over the county official
and others In good positions would wel
come any provision ot education for their
daughters. The great difficulty, of course.
as also In the case of boys, im th. want of
trained teacners.
AN EGO WORTH $1,500.
Tf
HE most valuable egg in ths world
to-day Is that of the great auk. The
record pries paid for one of these eggs
Is $1,500. Herewith Is reproduced a pict
ure of an auk egg which was sold th. other
day In London for a trlfls leas than this
figure. The egg tn question Is very finely
What Artist. Say.
IT Is not very often that the quaint. say
ings and anecdote, of artist, get Into
print This worthy body Is generally
very retiring, and their pun and sayings
ars generally among themselves. There
Is a good story told of the foremost Ameri
can artist, 1. 8. Sargent. .
Some years ago. when Sargent and Fred
erick Barnard (the Illustrator of Dickens)
occupied studios In South Washington
square. New York, the larof the
house supplied Sargent with his breaJtfsn,
but. he being a rather late riser, the break
fast would very often remain on the floor
at the top of the stairs for some time be
fore it was taken In. The family cat wa.
well known on these occasions to nipl
the butter and toast. On this P"t'ul"
morning Mr. Barnart who wanted to
sneak to Sargent, picked up the tray ana
fflt ln Sargent at onoe bega. to
rxrtak. Of th. meal. Taking an egg.
which TwaTqnui cold, and cracking -It. , M
remrkeTay Barnarold man do you
know how to tell a good egg wnVy
see ErNose It, chappy." was the lacon
Jenlv bur as quick a. a flash came Bar
Zn?: retort "It 1 had a nose like your,
fat wolo be vsry easy"-arnard being
he poeseaaor ot an unusually large nose
rulahed amateur, and was escoricu
fu'JA ths collection by his daughter.
""When he. remarked tc . her the ans.nce
cr .,, ,rprlse, 'No. papa only has
rep ."Zie.
h work OI Anient.
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English Elections. .
uniinH there are stnci
laws
n.Vln.r"bribery In th. English elec-
r t..,. standing ror a seal
In Per
il. T,nt is bv no "means an Inexpen-
rTR ' ,, . oollsr a head.
k..iiv of a vot. disqualifies the
1 even though he may r inno-
enu7 "' oarUclpation In the bribery.
..... ..I tha r vnrk.
and as a result canu.-.-.
. . . 1- . in Pnrlanri
:rr.' mort careful that their action, shall
be above suspicion.
Dinners may be served a constituency
but payment ev.n to the women of
. ramily is regarded as bribery and the
.-dldates are compelled
to trust to
...... house to house
canvasses and
both tor hand distribution and
literature,
'Vive Son dwou.d not cover th.
co.t of the January elect!,,. d Ft there
are but 0 seats to be filled.
There were U.f fewer death. In London
int ending the year with th. Saturday
before Chrlstma. ma
- . iast ten years.
municipality of
uu.
has trained
brush fixed
The municipality oi
. .mw a corn witn
to the end of it through the small sewers
oi the city, and so clean tnero.
Lord Robert, has opened at Woolwich
. ih.tre. toward the erection of whloh
. be converted Into a ballroom
The NewTork oclety for the Protec
tion of Italian Immigrants hss takes
steps to establish school, among th. Ital
ian labor camps of Nsw Tork, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey. Th. Intention Is to
Interest local authorities so thaf they will
support tli. sUtool. wiicu ones estab-
Usned.
OUTDOOR MIDWINTER ATHLETICS.
fcssSBjsysajsafSjfaMsWIWsKlss issBtlllSJMla
t
TrSMAIJi club which has been muoh be
l fors the public In the lat few veura
I lis the Brookllne
Swimming Club, ot
Brookllne. Mara.
Its membership is limited and, Its taeui-
ties smell, but enthusiasm makea .d for
thrs. Captain Boyee, who coaches the twm.
Is a firm believer In strenuous sports anil i
outdoor exerclso, anl before each practice,
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Robert Louis
Steven son
as an En-
graver.
T Is not very generally
known thst
Robert Iuis Stfvenson
had artistic
aspirations In more than one direction.
He one. while In Switzerland, engraved
n wood and printed a lot of crude but
. . . i-1 ,1, , . i - . nmr-
on
original ana Biriniiipi iiiuBirnuuna lur v '
tain little books which were given away to
friends. The only complete set of tnese
curious little books belongs to Mrs. Charles
FViirohlld of Boston. The blucka tnem-
selves ara, I believe, In the Boston Mu
seum.
.
Soaln fha. a law suit, still unsettled, that
has been In the courts JSJ year, or since
1517. The case, which concerns a pension,
bea-an between the Marquis de VI an a and
the Count Torres de Cabrera, and the ac
cumulated sum In dispute would nave
reAcheo. fabulous million, had not four
centuries of attorneys, barristers and court
officials taken eonaldorn'te measures of ap
propriation Ho prevent the amount becom
ing unwieldy.
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marked. There are at present but eighty
of these eggs In existence.
Stuttering children have lately become
alarmingly numerous In Germany. The
public schools contain 80,000 of them. The
increase, In the number Is largely due to
mimicry.
Alonso Cano's Brilliant Son Mot'
"THE following amusing anecdote is re-
Iiatea or Alonso Cano: In ltiug he re
ceived a commission to csrve a srtatu-
"ti. or Bt. Anthony of Padua for a
Judge of QmriAA wh a-iv.. ..
rfuugv came to ee. It, expressed himself
J. ana inquired th. price. The en
ewer was one hundred Hiwhiiv,.. n-i...
excited astonlahme.it in the patron and he
t?f.r veniurPa to inquire how many
days the artist had . . t ,
Cano replied :veaX,-rr'.,-
"But," Mid th. OalCUlatlnv Judre "thlt
come, to four doubloon, a day."
'TlMrdBM9 reckon, wrong." an
swered Cano, "for I have spent fifty years
in learning how to execute it In twenty-
uvo oajrs. "
'That 1. all verv well." -ni(. h.' .v.
but I have spent mv uttrimnnr .oh ...
youth la .tudylng at the university and in
a higher profession, and now here I am
Judge In Granada and if T dM
a day It 1. .. much as I do." Th. artist
scarcely, stayed to hear him out.
A higher nrofesalnn. Ins.i" v. .
;""" " me esrin, but It Is reserved
aione to make Alonso Csno," upon
saying which he took un th. .. .
dashed It to pieces on the floor. The Judge
M ouii lur ins own sarety
rushed away from a man wh '
demolish a aalnt. It was Indeed a capital
.i. r" never to nave reached
w i vi ins xnquuution.
Th. late Hcrr Theodor Kutzner. a Berlin
mllllonr.alre, has left to that rdt-r th. ..m
of 1800,000 marks to create a fund to be
Known as me i neooor and Karl Kutsner
Foundation." The revenue, of th rit.i
left to the city are to be used for providing U"1"' but wh,le 11 wa being Inspected,
pensions of 250 marks each, to be given tl,ay" the T'clou P"ny. horse passing
servant girls, seamstresses and embroi-lby ne'h,a tne norl, represented In the
derers. They must be at least thirty-six plece' euppo:nng It to be alive, upon whloh
year. old. ' x 'the painter remarked that th. horse was a
In recent years the construction of rail
ways proceeded in Germany at the rat of
about 621.5 miles a year. The entire mile
age exceeds at present 31,183 miles.
electrification of railways is still confined
to a few suburban line., where the system
work, satisfactorily. '
REMARKABLE JAPANESE WORKMANSHIP.
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th
IE fan In its moat artistic development
louna in Japan, where for centuries
th. best artlsOo skill ha. been em
ployed in their manufacture. Here is a
fan, for example, which wa. mad. about
the year 16u0 in Japan, which has scarcely
an 'equal In any other country. The fan
measures nearly two fset across when
he makes all his candidates take a rua
thronrh the surrounding nark In their
bathlng ),,. Westhrr conditions at
ncvet considered, as our llluatrstlon shows.
11 ,aKfn recently while the naray
swlmmera hnd paused for a few minutes on
tneir run tnrougn the deep snow to Indulge
In a good old fashioned snow frolic
ee - e - ere .-.--.-
'Floating Islands,
OF all
rrnti
'nter
passengers carried by ocean cur.
s floating Islands are the moat
resting. Many of them have been
j found voyaging on the Atlsntlo. Thee.
were originally parts of low lying
L- .,Jnk "hich broke awav under stress
1 111 Storm OP finH . a . ...
im uuateu OUt 1
7 noaica out to m.
- "'"'"V lne Amason, th. Ia
"'iiiut'i . r.n a AmeKnK ai ...
bits of land r""7s:.som. '
animals. lnBW,t, ;V" carrr
.eTv. rft roou'ofThloh
oran" he. .nd w ,nUot' "ll.Th.ir
wind o6ri ?y" "nt wlls for th.
Elands rto?Sy.rt.'rTnTe' brMk Up tht"
linilA. , .
tliev , vwiu,oie
LT1 lon distances.
viiiiujiionB,
.unrest voyage of
a floating
thlcklv nou-. " V lrees- "ut it
was
olace t U...w'ln "uan. nd
la cne
. " M
thi .... . , '. -1
level. It -is X .ZrX. " th.
r im I nir rwrnuti. i. v "cis wls
mlngtonhDde.re"voe?Brthe
which abound In the tropics. By the ena
Of August it ha,1 n,. j l" na
veering toward tnTTxU.? an-1 TV
lowed th. .. uiimi, Jt r0.
raTev 'team . route, quite .ecu
rately and a month later It was In mM
ocean, northwest of the Axon? "
t .ErlSnd Nordfn'tlold. wlio baa re
turned t0 Kurope from South America,
whore he spent about eighteen month. In
exploring the wilds of the Andes moun
Ulns. reports, the -existence of at least
three tribes that, two years ago. were
practically in the state of men of the. .to
age. one tribe had neir been visited by
a white man. He passed through the ter
ritory of anot.h-r that refused to come
into any kind of communclation with Ma
party.
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A Curious Stamp.
THE Victoria Falls In South Africa
seem exceedingly remote, so that It
comes as a surprise to find a picture
of this famous waterfall elaborately
engraved on a postage stamn. Desnlta th.
remoteness the Falls of Victoria. it is
promised, will eventually become a popu
lar winter resort. The population whloh
has already sprung up about them war
rants tha use of a special postage stamp.
Highest Priced Picture.
T may not b. generally known, perhaps,
that th. highest pries paid for a picture
has not been In modern times, but was
at so remote a period ks that of Alex
ander the Great, who gave Apelles a sum
equal to $211,000 for painting his portrait. '
The King was represented holding thun
der, which, Pliny says, was so lifelike that
the hand seemed lo oome Out of the plo
ture. Alexander was delighted with th.
portrait, had it placed in th. Temple Of
Diana, at Ephesus, and foVbade any on.
but Apelles henceforth to draw his like
ness. Apelles attempted another portrait
which at first sight did not please his royal
better Judge of painting fhn the King.
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Dr. William R. Brooks, director of th.
ftmtth OhfiervA.tnrv at Deneva. N. T.. vhA
r,leldlsoovered the first comet of the year, ha.
now twenty-five discoveries to hi. credit.
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open. It is mads of lacquer sticks, figured
with pur. gold work in th. most elaborate
design.
Paris ha. an srtist who decorates "art"
stockings, and hi. charges are from tlx a
pvr to almost any ainuuut. accordm lo
design.
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