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Eugene City Guard. I. L. CAMPBELL. rrearletor. EUttENK CITV. ORKGON A woman liken to visit the bargain counter and then OOtmt 'tt bargain. The old empress dowager has sup pressed nil the newspapers In China. frtJica Isn't tho went after aJl. Mark Twain says lie ha respect for Satan because ho Is Uie spiritual head of about four-fifths of the race. Not only Is the sparrow plucky In life, but Its acting as a substitute for the reed bird shows It's also game aft er death. With respect to Kugland spreading herself In South Africa, It would seem the BOMI ure disposed to be rabid auti-eipuuslonlstH. Probably one of the "extenuating circumstances" In Capt. Urefus' case was that the Judges had a strong sus picion ho was Innocent In b Western city tho other day a farmer was robbed three times by gangs of footpads. Can It be there's also a highwayman trust? Whales' teeth. It Is stated, are the coinage of tho FIJI Islands. Very like ly there, as elsewhere, the wives say getting money from their husbands Is like pulling teeth. Emperor William says kingship Is the only sure support for the preserva tion of religion. The Kaiser talks very much like a man who suspects that he Is In danger of losing his Job. Two heads may be better than one as a rule, but minor statesmen can't be Bade to MM that knoeklt'4 one of them In la not the proper tiling when It ernes to new candidate's barrel. An association has been formed for the purose of compelling employers to pay women the same wages that are paid to men for similar work. There are uo women In the assocla Hob. A New England man Is suing to re cover $3(SJ damages for the alienation of his wife's affections. If the court has any sense of the lltness of things It will make him pay the other fellow for winning her away. It seems that the word "appendici tis" la uot to be found In the most ambitious of recent dictionaries pub lished In Kugland. It looks from this as If the complaint In question were more or less coullued to themselves. I'oor I. ii. the uoblo red man, has been civilized at last, and dawn Is breaking for the Indian. Fifty Osage savages In Oklahoma have tiled petitions In voluntary bankruptcy. The next step will Iw to elopo with the futids of a sat lugs bank. It Is doubtless an Indiscretion for a public man to say privately what would cause trouble If spoken openly. Hut the man who gives to the world what has been said to him In private confidence commits something more than an Indiscretion, and little less than a crime. There Is such a thing us getting on the right side of a tornado, the right side being the north side. Tho rule drafts! by meteorologists Is to fuce the approaching cloud and then flee to the right. Take refuge In a cellar or cave, throw yourself on the ground and citug to u stake or stump. This Is the surest minus of escaping or sur viving what as yet no human power can mitigate or prevent tirent Improvement In public roads Is ure to atteud and follow the multipli cation of automobiles. One writer pre dicts that "before the end of USX), the total mileage of macadam and usphult will be Increased by fully 100 per cent." More than $:t0O,Ouo,0OO la said to bo pledged already to the manufacture of this class of vehicles. Till the storage battery Is perfected and cheapened, the means of propulsion ure practically limited to gas engines and petroleum products. The Jains of India agree with the HuddbtNts lu disallowing those Hrnb muulcal ceremonies which Involve tho deal ruction of life. Being rigid veg etarians, they tnke extreme palus not to Injure any living creature. They may drive a snake out of the house, but they spare Its life. A rajah or prlMi of this persunslou says: "We endeavor to avoid even green vegetables, under the Idea lhat cutting the plant may hurt It. We would not needlessly pluck a leaf from a tret-, lest the tree should possi bly feel palu." Similar was the super stition of a klndergartner, who taught the children that when It was neces sary to pull up garden woods, they should be carefully replanted In some other place! According to Chambers' Journal M. Juubert has solved the problem how to pro. Ide a ihtsoii placed In a con tlucd space with the practical means of preparing a rosplrablo artificial air i . :iry for life. The chemical sub stance which he has discovered will purify the vltlutcd air of Its carlsuilc acid, Its watery vapor, and all the other Impurities of exhalation, and will also restore to him In exchange Just the quantity of oxygen he requires. BxparbMOOtS by the French Admiralty nave confirmed his assertions. Six to right pounds of the new chemical will Insure life to an adult for twenty-four hours lu a dlvlug bell or submarine boat The homely but expressive maxim f the sporting gent that " a sucker la born every minute" dally receives ex smpllllcatlon. together with the corol lary fact that a large percentage of the "suckers" attain maturity and ac quire money out of which they may tie swindled on uo other theory can we explain the survival of the "Spanish priest" sw indle which has been work ed for many years and yet other years, despite the fact that It has i.ceu ex posed lo the newspapers times with tut number. It continues to bob up. and doubtless will continue te sepa rate fouls from their money for yean to come. KverylsMly should know ol It yet If there be any reader who doel not let us advise him to beware ol letters purporting to come from I Spanish priest, telling of great trens ures to be found at such uud such l place provided a small sum of mone) be advaneid for necessary expenses If he yield to the promptings of ava rice he will never see the color of hh money again. I.Ike the ghlnko tree the Spanish priest nnd his burled treai ure are uon existent. They Is long ti the green goods nnd gold brick ordei of architecture. The downy bird wll none of them. A curious Instance of tho went wan drift of the country's population ap pears In the latest report of the Pen slon bureau. The official reports ol the War Department for lWJl-'tlS show that New York led In the number ol troop furnshed; I ennsylvnula cam second, nun Ohio third. The quotas ol tho respective States In the ordei nnmed were PIT.olT. 3M,107, and Ml), h'0 men. On the pension list this or der Is exactly reversed. Ohio has tb most pensioners. Pennsylvania standi next, and New York Is third. Then aro 106,527 pensioners In Ohio, draw Ing 15,4M,000; 104,1181 In Ponusylva nla, drawing $12,470,"i5; and 87.627 Ii New York, drawmg $12,003,854. 111! nols stood fourth In the number ol soldiers furnished, and It also standi fourth In tho number of enslonera though Indiana is fourth In the amount received for pensions. These changei may tie tracil entirely to natural ant legitimate causes. It Is nothing agalus- Ohio that It leads In the number of Iti pensioners. If It ho usurped the placs that apparently belonged to New Yorl It It becnuse there has been a steady drift gssstward of population since tin war, and enough of the veterans oi soldiers' widows have moved froir Now York and Pennsylvania Into Ohl to cause the change. The westward movement of tho veterans explalni why Kunsns has now twice as many pensioners as It furnished soldiers. From a published statement It ap a i s that In eight Chicago high schools the number of pupils eutered at the be ginning of this school year was 5,500, of whom 1,403 were boys and 4,007 were girls 2,004 more girls than boy a or only four boys to every eleven girls The Chicago Chronicle goes on to say that It may bo stated as a partial com pciiaallon for this excess of girls thai the attendance of the Kngllsb high and manual training school was 530 boyi and young men and no girls. Hut re garding the manual training as equlva lent to the high school, we still have au excess of 2,004 girls, or more than twic as many girls as boys. This fact sug gests the question whether the girls arc' uot being educated away from thf boys, so to speak, to a serious extent. The boys nre taken from school at an enrller nge than the girls and, It Is to be presumed, set to work lu occupatloni uot requiring Instruction In the high school branches. Is It well that M many of their sisters receive so much more schooling? Do not the latter ac quire tast.-s and ambitions and Ideas of life untitling them for the relation of mnrrUige with the less cultivated young men? This Is not n quiwllou which can be answered positively without much more Information than Is conveyed by the school statistics alone. It may be that many more of the hoys than of the girls pursue icclal studies after leav ing school to qualify them for the work In life which they undertake. If so, these special studies may compensate for tie-He pursued In the schools by the girls and not by the boys. There Is some reason to think, however, that whatever compensation of this kind there may bo It la njt effective In bring ing nlsiut congenial relations between the sexes later III life. It seems to be the fact that celibacy Is on the Increase; that the proportion of old bachelors nnd old maids to the total population la higher than formerly. And If It Is the fact we may reasonably I,) for oue cause of It In the unequal education of the sexes In the public schools nnd the consistent separation of those who might otherwise be happily mated If such Is the case there Is no obvious remedy. The present course lu the mat ter of education Is largely a matter of parental choice, and liberty In this ro s.iect cauuot be restricted. It Is a mat ter for Individual Btudy and not for State rcgulatlou. Chinese Parental Authority A remarkable event has occurred at Talng klang pu. A man by the name of King had a mm who made his falher and mother "lose face" be. a use of the wild, rakish life he led. lie gambled, loafed, smoked opium, etc. If he stole, his father would be taken to the ya men and the whole family would suf fer for the son's villainy, and the vital question was. How could the family b protected? At last they arrived at the conclusion that the omy way to protect the father and mother was to take ex treme measures with the son, which they did with a vengeance. The fa ther and uncle took hliu out among the graves, followed by a curious crowd of neighbors nnd friends, nnd. putting a rope around his nock, each relative pulled on the end, and the sou was put beyond ruining the family lu this world. North China Herald. A Ito.lem Wire-Walker. There Is a rat lu Memphis which give a slack wire exhibition every evttiUug. He gives his iierforuianco at nhout the same time each evening, and he generally has quite a crowd out to see hint. The rodent crosses Front street every evening about 7:30, walk ing on a telegraph wire. He has done the trick fifty times or more, and seems perfectly at home on the high wire. Women as Sailors. Women sailors are employed In Pen mark. NorwAV nnd Finland, and the? nre often found to be moat excellent and delightful uiarluera Irgtnla Itadlehe. In the vicinity of Norfolk. Va., about 1.500 acres la devoted to the culture of radlahe. GREAT SHIP OCEANIC. I.ATEST OF MON8TER ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS Kvolatloa la Naval Construction Mm r Launch of th Plrsl Ocsaolc -lli.ro i of Transatlantic Maritime Development of lbs Centnry. The new steamship Oceanic of the White Star Line haa broken all marl time records and her appearance on the Atlantic marks an epoch In the history of ocean steamship building. The advent couiineuioraU a develop ment of upward of eighty yea re. The Oceanic Is the largest steamship In the world, larger even than that fabled fullure. the llrcnl Kaatern. The enor mous dluieuslous of the Oceanic ap ptal to the imagination. She Is an un precedented feat In engineering, but aside from this her appointments are on a scale of magnificence made possi ble only by her size. This Is concealed largely by her graceful Hue. 'Hie Great Baileill. with Iiit great height above the iratOf line and her enormous paddle boxes, looked more than her size, while lu the Oceanic the lung, trim forecastle deck and poop turtlebuck deck and the central urruugeuient of the deckhouses, ull tend to relieve her of the appear ance of mere bulk. The Great Kastem's length was 001 feet. The Oceanic' Is 704 feet. The former's light draught was 15 feet; the later' Is 22 feet. The respective displacement are 11,844 tons and 12,500 tons, aud when laden It Is estimated that the Oceanic will weigh 28,000 tone, as against the Great Kastem's 25,000 ton. The Oceanic Is well able to steam 23,400 knot at crul Ing speed (twelve knots an hour) with out coaling, or about the earth' girdle. Her saloon Is 80 feet by 04 feet and 0 feet high, with a dome lu the center of great beauty. Some of the state- rapttal wbtcb bad been Inverted in the Collin line was transferred to the Iu- in. m Hue, for year one of the most sue ceful, and It subsequently became the American line. The Scotia, the lart paddle-wheel steamer built for the Canard line, was the first to make the passage In less than nine days, her time being 8 day 3 hour In 18U3. The City of Brussels of the lutnan line brought It under eight day In 1800, with a record of 7 days 22 hours and 3 minutes. The seven-day limit waa reduced by the Alaska of the Gulon line, which crossed In 0 days 22 hours lu 1683. The City of Paris of the Ionian line, afterward the Paris of the American line, reduced It uinler six days, making the westward passage In 5 days 10 hours and 18 min ute In 1k.sk. The Lucaula of the t'unard line holds the present record of 5 days 7 hours and 23 minutes. The Southampton record la held by the big Kaiser Wllhelm dr Grosse of the North German Lloyd Hue. which re duced the westward time to 5 days 18 hours and 15 minute on her last voy age to this port, which ended last week. She covered 3,040 knots at an average speed of 22.08 knots in hour. Hut the present day ship nuit look to her laurel, for the blgnea of the Oceanic proclaim her speed. Certainly great things may be expected from her powerful engines. THE BOER LANGUAGE. Its Pronunciation le Kaey When Dutch Tonsae Ie Understood. The language of the Boers of South Africa la grammatlcaLly the language of the people of Holla jd. They speak Dutch as their forefathers In Holland spoke It and -; ak It now. They are called Boers because that Is a Dutch word which describes them. It means a farmer, nnd agriculture Is the main pursuit of the peuce-lovtug compatriots of Oom Puul. A knowledge of Dutch would supply an explanation of tne Pretoria, the caDltal of the South Af rican republic, is named In honor of Its first President, Pretorlu. who led the Dutch In the great trek, or Journey, out of Cape Colony sixty year ago and Into the Transvaal to escape the dominion of England. Johannesburg Is easily translated luto English, as Johnstown. The term "Afrikander" Is used to des ignate the Dutch from the other white people of South Africa. Value of s Laugh. The value of a good-natured laugh may be rated low by some people, but many writers have attested Its worth In uo measured terms. It Is not surprising that the merry Charles Lamb should have sold, "A laugh is worth a hundred groans lu unj market;" but from the lips of the somber Cariyi one is scarcely prepar ed to hear, "No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be al together or Irreclulmnbly bad." It was Douglaa Jerrold who boldly stated that "What was talked of as tne golden chain of Jove was nothing but a succession of laughs, a cbromutlc scale of merriment reaching from earth to Olympus." "I am persuaded," wrote Lawrence Su-rno, "that every time a man uillet -but much more so when he laughs It add something to hi fragment ot life." Last of all come the verdict of Dr Holmes, given with l is own tabaltobU humor: "The riotous tumult of a laugh, I take It, Is the mob lnw of the fea tures, and propriety the magistrate who reails the riot act" Feeding the Baby. The care of babies Is never a sine cure, as many of our readers can tes tify, aud the ordinary difficulties of the cuse sometimes assume extraordlnarj proportion. An English lady In India was recent ly worried about the falling health of her Infant. The milk was suspected aud the doctor ordered that the child THE FIRST AND THE LATEST OF QREAT ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS. The Oceanic, the monster Iron teuuihlp, on her maiden voyge to New York, and the great Britln. the firt Iron steamship to cross the Atlantic, 1R45. People often say, "The doctor aays," so an so, as though that settled It A doctor know very little more than the rest of ua There are very few men who have bulla and very few who don't havs trouble with their kin. The story of Job should be revised rooms ure 13 feet U Inches by 0 feet and the vessel surpasses the wildest concep tions of Jules Verne's "Floating City." Her speed ou her trial trip was twenty three knots. The main saloon will accommodate 850 pusengers at one silting. There Is accommodation for 410 llrst clue , 3l second-class and I.ihh) third class pas sengers. Besides the transients, I vessel will carry 300 lu the crew, nnd when tilled, In the season, she will have ou Uinrd 2,1ini souls. I'scd as a trans port the Oceanic could accommodate an army of 10,000 men. The tlrst steamship to cross the At lantic wns the Savannah, uu American ship built at Corlears Hook, oil the Kast Hirer, and launched Aug. 22, IMS. She was originally built for a sailing packet between New York and Liverpool, but was purchased before completion by William Scarborough & Co., of Suvuu nnh nnd tltted with machinery. The paddle wheel were so construct ed as to fold up aud lie stored ou deck In stormy wenther; I he wheel was In closed In canvas held In place by Iron rims. Her model was considered tine aud her passenger accommodation were thought elegant. She weut to Savannah in 1S10 and left that port for Liverpool May 20, 1811. She arrived In twenty-lwo days, having used her engine for fourteen dtiys. She then went to St. Peters burg, returning to Savannah lu Novem ber, 1810. Her machinery was after wards taken out and she was convert ed Into n sailing packet. She ran some time bttWtea New York and Savannah, B nelly running ashore ou Umg Island. She was of IW Ions burden. The tlrst ship to cross the Atlantic prepell.sl all the way by steam was the Koyal William, a Canadian boat, built In 1S33. Within the uext decade the tlrst Irou trans Atlantic steamship wns launched lu Knglaud. This was the Great Britain, the forcruuuo-r of the Great Eastern, nnd designed by the same engineer, Brunei. This ship was provided with a screw propeller and crossed the sen in tlftccn days at an average speed of nine knots au hour. It was the famous Cunard Hue which first established a regular trans Atlan tic service with regular dates of de parture. The Britannia, the tlrst of the four ships, left Liverpool on her maid en trip on July 4. 1840, and reached Boston on July IP. The Cunard Line made such Inroads on the business of the American packet that OOsgTMaV, Unpolled by the clamor of American pa triotlsm. granted a suitably to K. K. Collins, of New York, for an American Hue be! wean this port and Liverpool The new VOM ill were swifter and more elegant than the Cunurdvrs, and, like the sailing ships of the old Collins line, won many laurels. The Cuuard vessels slopped calling at Halifax, but in spite of this were easily beaten by their American competitor. The Pacific, of the new line, made the (issange from New York to Liverpool In less thnn ton days, her time In May, 1851, being 0 day 20 hour and It) tuluutc. The Mil year the Atlantic crossed In l days hours and IS minutes. The line, how ever, wound up with disaster The Arctic was sunk by a collision In 1854 aud went down with 540 soul. The rai-iflc left Liverpool the next year and was never heard from. The American odd-looklug words that are used now .ind then lu the news reports from the sturdy little republic. It would also enable one lo pronounce these words as they should be enunciated. Dutch dlpthongs are no: given the same souuds as their equivalents In lOngliah. The double "o" for Instance In Dutch has the same souud as "o" In Koine, while the dlpthotig "oe" Is pro nounced by the Dutch as we pronounce "oo" in lioot. The English pronuncia tion of these two dlpthongs Is the re verse of Hint given them by those w ho speak Dutch. And "ou" has the sound of "ow" lu owl. The souud of "ul" is nearly like that of the Kngllsh "oy" In boy. The Dutch double "an" In the same as the English "a" in war. As there I uo "y" In Dutch Its place is tak en by "IJ," which Is sounded as "y" In defy. If one, therefore, would pronounce Oom Paul properly he would say It as If It were spelled "Oma Fowl." The family name of Gen. .lo ib Tt would for the same reason be pronounced as If It were spe'.lcd "Yowbert." The word Boer Is pronounced by the Afrikander as If It were of two syllables; the tlrst long and the second short, thus: "Boo er." The plural Is not "Boers." It is "ltoeren." and It Is pronounced "Boo er eli," because the final "n" Is slurred. Here nre some of the Dutch words thnt nre oftenest In print In connection with the news of the Transvaal ntid their pronunciation and meaning: Ulneiul mte'.n i bloom-fun -tluei Flower f. 'lunula. Boei B00-erl Farmer lluiteiilauiter itMjr-ttQ-ioul ri Fereliiuer liiiiKh r ibubrkeri I'ltlien lliirsjerreaji ibuhr k.-r r It) CI Ul ilp li..... a-M iuubr-kr vokt) I'lllieu an diory. Joukherr iycok haeei. Member of the Volks r i .a gentleman. Oera i naif I t'liele senate senator .Sftiatf b uei' .Margin; cjgf stat ih.li Itlllllt Unit Jnii w iriib.la hnr.'l Itnailbuls iraUd-husj Hand irahat , Suit latahtl Staatkua.Ki ,aiaht knhn del Politic Sttra,l .stabta rabJi ...Council ot State smu laoui . Stf miner ittf nmrrl . . . i .... i nious rsbh , Tr. k ur.Tki Tiekken urerk f ni . . . Trvkpaard itnvkimhrdi I It inyti I It I n.ler inri-ont-rl fltr . . . .Voter; elector . . .Circular valley .Draught: Journey to ilrsw; to traiel Draft horse out. ' at of Fore . . r T V. coit- gaier at irabh vilify VaderlauaslioMe , ft t ter lontiYeef ie). Love .. .. i l1"'' country; patriotism. SfflJfii,.' , FI-L open lsn,1, J e, l ieer '(fell harel liem-rsl; oorumii,lsat Jf .tsachter ifeli vod-teri Rural guard Volkaraad .fnlks rahJl Lower House of t sagreaa VoolTesrl ir.ire-rekt) reelila,i nrlHi.,.., ve i b 1 1 muif ua ling i Bl nioriWWIM ult vol t.TS of the while water. i rout) rsiu:. r .Margin be fed w ith asses' milk. The lady spoke to a native officer of the district, and receiving a satisfactory reply drove with a man-servant to the station where the ass was to be In waiting. To her amazement there, tied to a post, all ready to lie milked, stood n huge she lienr. It seems that In the native dialect, the words ass and lnar are so nearly nllke as to be scarcely distinguishable In the mouth of a Eu- roiH-an. A variation of the milk problem was presented to F. G. Jackson, the Arctic explorer, when he found und adopted the lnrunt cub of a polar bear. There seemed DO wuy to feed the poor little Is'iist until Mr. Jackson hit upon the following ingenious method: Taking n bit of songe, he covered It with chamois leather nnd fastened ltj to a rublier tube which had previously' been Inserted lu a (Kittle. Fixed Into the cork of this Isittle was a piece of glass tubing through which air might Is- blown to make the milk ruu freely. The cub took to the bottle like any other baby, and sucked away In most ravenous fashion, with a contented look uiHin her face, as If the last of her troubles were ended. Clear Cut. The Bev. F. W. Greenstreet fur nlsehs the London Spectutor with an amusing epitaph. When he was curate of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. In the fifties, the par ish church contained, and no doubl stIU contains, a marble slab near th west door tnicrtbM as follows: "In a vault underneath lie several of the Snutiderses, lnte of this parish. Particulars the last day will disclose. Amen." An Original One. A sign over a negro cabin In Liberty County reads: I Tenches Folks to Heed in Kite an do Aggers in their heads. Atlanta Constitution. An Aid to Vision. "I suppose a DOtWCll aids vision." ' Yes; It helps people to see through the man who weans It." Detroit Jour- nul. A man who can be fooled the same way four times Is a fool. Is -A Violin. S2d - 2 ierV 'd Art: nfffifcdb, 6V Chun) AM aj ttif wn. cLV'&OT leV" iropr-vd Ifty fo0a s tp&t .r jnli s f.Ak. f bwr. TBu fyt Sjjaf f)a roust- sf.ll Impart TV JgrkCfci hArrrionisj oots koWo. put ny, by nwr turJ ufSrwr. Wriicr) roo.k $ fl-rr)bl bnok.en sfort. Sy rydjt o- fr, 1r intuit ld and ow. ill crotrt wAry aoi fir-d" hAiO. npf r'K WAv ny t.yiy waj r dw. Wicl) darly ja.K of rryjfr grif aoohaio... And fTuk All AO..U MrOxj uO.,nM 1 rf.lr, A rfjou Aurssfly jirygtjf , trKrr itraio- POSTOFFICE FIGURES THAT WILL ASTONISH YOU. men. in ciump. To prffc,.... r" tUnl tree, after othel f tried In vain, a solution used, and the ground ii Hm watered with u .. ...... roul . -' mm n. . Rnonsih Two-Cent Btsmps Issued In the Year 1HU3 to Keach More than Once and a Uslf Around the Earth at the tquutor. i ii.se Sam's printing office has an enormous output of postage stamps during a year. A gentleman long con nected with the service has collected a mass of statistics rogurdlng the issue which Is simply paralyzing, lie soys that the number of V.-ceut stamps Is sued during ISPS was about 2,500,000, 000. Such a number obviously Is be youd the grasp of the human mind, but perhaps the matter may be made more clear by putting it otherwise. An ordlnnry 7,-ceut stamp Is exactly oue Inch long. From this fact, by a little calculation. It Is easy to discover that the number of stamps of this de nomination Isirued in li0, placed end to end, would extend a distance consid erably exceeding 30,000 miles. In other words, they would make a continuous strip of stamps, each one adorned with the head of thij futlier of bis country, stretching In a beltmore than once and a half around the equator. Of course, though the 2 cent stamps are those principally used, there are others. Enough s-cent postage stamps have been Issued. during the year 1SP8 to stretch from New York city by way of Europe aud Asia to Bombay, India, If similarly arranged In one strip. All other stamps as to production and sales are of minor Importance, comparative ly speaking, but It la Interesting to know that abnost exactly one mile of $1 stamps wsyre manufactured for the demund of 18U8. Of $5 stamps the production was equivalent to a little more than half n furloug, or about one nfteentb of a mile. Now, If all the postage stamps print ed by the United States Government In 1808 were placed one on top another ns nearly as might be without putting them under pressure, how high do you suppose the pile of them would be? There Is no use guessing, you would never get It nearly right, unless you went to work to calculate It for your self. The 3,500,000,000 stamps of all denominations printed the current year the statement Is of course approxi matewould tower to an elevation of twenty-one miles. This Is more than three times the height of the highest mountain In the world Mount Everost In the Himalayas. If the same number of stamps was piled up In the form of the ordinary sheets of 100 each It fol lows that the, stack would be over a Of th of f. mile high. During the year 1898 the number of special delivery stamps sold was about 5,200,000. It Is only reasonable to sup pose that the average Journey of the special delivery messenger Is half a mile. Indeed, that Is an absurd under estimate, but let It go at that. On this assumption the total distance traveled for special delivery In 1808 was about 2.025,000 miles. That Is a very consid erable space to traverse, as may be re alized when It Is considered that n messenger boy In order to accomplish the total distance would have to go about 1,100 times around the world, or five times to the moon and back. It appears from figures furnished by the Postofflce Department thnt the nv- erage person In Massachusetts, Includ ing men, women and children, spends $2.30 on postnge per annum. New York comes second with an expenditure of $2.27 and the District of Columbia third with $2.10. Colorado is fourth with $1.(13 and Connecticut Is fifth with $1.80. The States ranking lowest in this regard arc South Carolina, with 23 cents per capita; Mississippi, with 34 cents; Alabama, with 35 cents; Arkan sas, with 37 cents, aud North Caro lina, with 41 cents. aud the branches, srkks. daily drenched. This treat"' lleeeasfnl Tl, ..... """lit ered, ant . ... ., ... .....I s t 111 S ro. I. Kill .11111 I IHHIIIU... . I since shown the sltas ... .sal n. wniteness In it leave, a by no mentis urn,',. ..... , . ' the otherw ise dark grc, i.., dou Standard. "JH LAW AS IkJTcrnn I -je.jsnrrip.Tjrj jsonee tnat an unenmet will be restored and holding toi, i. , t i . . ii... n ... .. held, lu Tlsdell va H. Fire Insurance Coiniii.r.v m ' L. R. A. 705. Insufficient to Mt'T obligation of on insurer to rw premium as a condition of Qw J policy. t a.. . iuc uuiy oi an operator or m J of a coal mine to employ 4 J t.iln,, Iwtiia luilnn I . . tilfll '"h imposed e - held, lu Williams vs. Thackw i " ' C. to , - AuacaSffjaej Company (W. Va.), 40 L bTm be fully performed h n,. . 85 ment of such a mine boat, latter' negligence the operate, Is held not to be liable. A "standard guaranty ttMiLm per cent. Insurance," stxalJTr" face of a policy of Ore It!, held to Cutler v. IbiyrS-!! Company (Coun.) 41 L. a Ha? effectual to inpersede a proW, I""" B"a" w.' void lu case of otw insurance at east u l.n .k w ,.ir . , : r. . . ""iwrji ";" more man ni nee mm . niue oi me property. insurance on Illerr inrwll.. k. . an I fiml hod,,...,., , ' o " " . i.i o.s. b ue ri hi aia . i r i'n .-in, i. ... . " in uum im nv n .......... ! ,1,1 rmf .k V. " . .. TT permit required kU '"em. is upheld. In Erb rs r-. man -American Insurance Compm uowaj, HJ x.. It. A. M.1 oi.. m. claim that It was void as against pnbb policy. With this case Is a revwof the authorities on thli sonievbit unique question of the validity of knur, ance on property Illegally used. A FUTURE KING. Prince Kdward of York, Grandson of the Prince of Wale. "Prince Edward of York, Our King to Be," Is the subject of an article lu the Ladles' Healin, and concerning him there are one or two amusing stories told. The royal nursery, It seems, is uot without skirmishes between the two young princes, who are evenly matched In the matter of spirit Prince Edward makes the most of his slight seniority, but Prince Albert has no Idea of accepting the place of younger sou when It Is a question of riding a rocking-horse. One day the Duchess of York was quite shocked on entering the nursery to find the two young princes "having it oat" in proper style, aud was about to have them punished, but the Duke said: "Oh, let them right it out; they will be the better men for It." It Is customary for the roynl children to kiss the Queen's hand, not her cheek. But Prince Edward objected to this arrangement and declined to fall In with It. One day he heard two of the servants speaking about "her majes ty." "1 know who 'her majesty' Is," said Prince Edward; "It's 'granny.' " "And who was the naughty little Prince who would not kiss his gran ny's hand?" "It was I," said Prince Edward, unabashed, "and I am not go ing to kiss granny's hand." Now. of course, lielng 5 years old. and consider ing himself quite a big boy. Prince Ed ward kisses the Queen's hand In the most approved fashion, and doffs his cap quite prettily when In her majes ty's presence. An Albino Tree. Much Interest has been caused lately by the appearance of a horse chestnut tree In the Thlergarten. The numerous branches around the lower part of the trunk have a pure white foliage, such as Is seen on trees growing in dark places, where no chlorophyll can de velop on account of want of light The same whiteness of the leaves Is also noticeable lu a few of the neighboring branches through the crown to the top. People are often putaled as to the cause of the pecularlty. and many strange explanations are sometimes given. The singular appearance of the tree has been noticed regularly for some years. This particular tree. It sfems. had been attacked hv of caterpillars and other creatures of me same species, and the foliage had already been destroyed, but still mass es of caterpillars continued to crawl up aud down the truuk, aud anally clung A Polish schoolmaster, Btcepanlk bj name, claims to have invented an elec trical device which utilizes betm of light to explode bombshell. Helitlio alleged to have perfected an lustra ment by means of which objects at i ennaldernhle distance ran lie seen tint ed with their natural colors. x-...... I . I. ....... .1 1 . .. ,, . ... I,.,.. i.p.r ........ n. 111. rill on. I k ' I Oi. HI II !. . .... 11.. , U spite of the attempted explanation a1 such phenomena in some nopuUrboikj on science. Prof. N. S. Shaler up k Is Inclined to disbelieve In the uu ence of these luminous appwiMa lie nns sunned swamps tot wnj years, but has never seen a wlll-o'-f. wisp, and he suggests that .-: about moving lights risible is swamps may be due to suhjectlnl presslous Induced by gazing Into to ness. Following an Idea first develop!; Oermauy, pictures have recentljl printed in this country which, I viewed through spectacles, appt stereoscopic relief. The object plct Is first photographed from two p like an ordinary stereoscopic M Then the two pictures are nrlntrfl two complementary colors, nearly I . . " - ' 1' V. ,. -I.auill ""I V U . II, V, t-. 1M).11!U,. . HI p.. ...... - tti. i view In,' ciu.ef ,i , ..-s nr.. aiso ,if : plementnry colors corresponding, those used In the printing, and w the picture Ib seen through these gla ee, It stnnds forth with a startling pearanec of solidity. A writer In Forest and Stream o . . . .i.i.i. i. ' serines a victory wuku oaw f.i- over a rattlesnake by the Insaassal of a prairie-dog village in tie hlUa Territory, 'ihe ugly Invader crawled into one of the dog-holes, whereupon fifteen or twenty dogs gathered about the place, nnd began to push dirt Into the hole. The snake stuck bis head IJ through the dirt, nnd the dogs took flight; but the moment tne nc " thev flocked abott It ngaln. and this time pushed In dirt so rapidly that the rattler was- foctlvely entrapped. Then tne e tamped the dirt down hard with am r ...... k. annVatt. noses, nnd left tne sna As Is well known to bouuiWj. w not so well known to tne n lie, the white powdery costing on NM leaves aud fruits is W and is called "bloom" ln. tecvh.n'rf works on botany. Its W" celved some attention. . having made It the object of ome .W ies In his later years. In a ffnl tier of the Laboratory Bulletin otuwr lln College Is a short paper oy Roberta Bey nobis, giving the n of a series of experiments inai wncn me uiwm nf the epidermis the transp.no- ter is greatly Increased. , of agave utnhensls the loss was two and one-half times a. the leaf which was without Me from that with the bloom, it . served also rnai ou u.i ference between tt leaves w . , .t-o. an tim. uu.- r inn nn ir uau o, a TCBSJ l... .tirrornneo In the case 01 1 loavos than wnen oiu uu.e . .... a. "" T. : ,.t a p"1 SrJTam it c- uaav SHHsasv" , . . ,, makes use of a tooi. - , y analngous to Uie ipw ,0 , man. Spielers naie rW nails for ancbora.-Sclent.flc Antra- .. .billed. Women Students w..,un .indents at the I"'""1" .... n nai n lowed to . . . . flie r i.lihs- tin u in ui , . In M girl students who persisted In this were expelled. 1 ' '. I,.!.. -nril OneoftheplUfulthlnn Is the value a sen.."- sri upon an InvltaUon to a seustle" clal affair. h-i "nni"- . a ,.f tne sn""" . A goou ... , Htf Ineut" people, are pro"" Inga