w
A vile driver at New Orleans' Is 108
eet high and is supposed to be the
Highest ever built.
A process for obtaining ammonia
from peat has been tried In England
with considerable success.
A su-bmergad city of great antiquity
has been discovered by snonee fishers.
who went down In a diving bell at
Blax, off the coast of Tunis. It Is be
lieved that the land ou which the city
was built subsided.
Iron cloth Is largely used today by
tailors for making the collars of coats
alt properly. It Is manufactured by a
, new process from the steel wool, and
has the appearance of having beeu
"voren from horsehair.
News of a discovery of gold In an
unnamed branch of the Flndlay River,
In British Columbia, was recently
brought by mounted police to Vancou
ver. It is reported that free coarse
nugget gold (100 to the pan, has beeu
extracted.
No sooner has some previously un
used metal been found applicable in
a Home branch of Industry than many
other unexpected uses are discovered
for it This is Just now strikingly true
of tantalum, originally called Into
requisition to furnish an improved
form of filament for electric lamps.
NlrolarrW hn found that tantalum,
and even Its almost Inseparable com
panion, colunVblum, when added lu cer
tain proportions to steel, render the
teel very hard, but leave It, at the
me time, ductile.
One of the most Interesting scientific
discoveries connected with the SLmplon
Tunnel is the existence In the rocks
through which the tunnel was bored of
a surprisingly large amount of radium.
The greatest percentage was found
more than two and a half miles from
the Italian entrance, where every gram
of rock containing about one-four-thou-sand-mlllionth
of a gram of radium.
The presence of such a quantity of ra
dium Is thought by some persons to
furulsh an explanation of the extraor
dinary degree of heat encountered In
he tunnel.
The . astronomer, P. Stroobant, ex
plained to the French Academy of
Sciences recently the utility of long
pose astronomical photographs In fur
nishing data for calculating the orbits
of comets. Such photographs record
the traces of faint comets when thay
' are too far from the sun to be seen
with telescopes. Thus they greatly ex
tend the distance over which the path
of the comet can be marked out, aud
this Is of extreme Importance lu cal
culating with accuracy the elements of
Its orbit When a new comet has once
become visible, the method pursued by
Stroobant Is to search for its earlier
traces on the photographic negatives of
the observatories.
WHERE THE TOYS COME FEOM.
Am Industry Which Germany Re
gard aa One of Her Greateat.
Any one looking at tho store win
dows woulu know when Christmas and
tho holiday season were approaching.
'Hint which attracts the most attrition
probably in all the displays Is the
wonderful assortment of gifts lu the
shape of toys.
A reared dealer observes that Amer
ica Is getting to be more and more a
toy market each year, and that the
Industry is gaining very rapidly. This
Is undoubtedly true. Indeed, public
approval of the manufacture of toys
was foreseen over 200 years ago when
the first patented toy was invented
abroad.
. It is known that In New England,
and especially In Massachusetts, tin
manufacture of educational and me
chanical toys has Increased consider
ably of late years, but the bulk of the
toys that amuse the children so much
come from Germany and Switzerland.
Germany still counts the manufac
ture of toys as one of her greatest In
dustries. She sends at least three
fourtlis of the toys she manufactures
to other lands, the United Slates pur
chasing the most and Qreat Britain
ranking second. Out of a toy product
valued at over $22,000,000 the United
States purchases nearly $tl,000,u00
worth.
In the Saxon Ore mountains wooden,
In the Tburinglan mountains leather,
and In Nuremberg metal toys are pro
duced, while from several other sec
tions there 1b a contribution of other
ypes,
Germany has forged to the front as
a producer of toys because thousands
of families are engaged In the making
of thorn at home. The little town of
Souneberg produces 43 per cent of all
the toys that come to America. A pop
ulation of 15.000 lu this town and near
by hamlets devotes roost of the year to
the making of toys, principally by band
labor, although there are some fac
tories which have achieved a high rep
utation for their products.
The wages paid all workers la Ger
many are extremely low.- A whole
family constructing toy dolls may not
I receive over $3 a week for their labor
In fact, the percentage of wo:nen work
ers in all callings there has rapidly In
creased of late years, owing to the
enormous number of men required Ip
the army. It Is estimated tlk:re up
more than 7,500,000 German worne
who earn their own living, and thin 1
an Increase of more than 1,000,000 I
the last dozen years. The toymaker
get a .mere pittance for their work, urn
all the working women in the empii-t
labor for very small pay. Wages li
the factories are slightly higher tha
In the home industries.
During the first half of the last cev.
tury Young America's toy supply earn'
from across the water. Germany eve
then supplied the larger part an
Japan also a share. About 1S50, how
ever, several toy shops started In a
small way In the United States, an1
Yankee Ingenuity has since added this
country to the toyuiakers of the world.
America then being a forest country
began the production of wooden toys of
grades which could be turned out by ma
chinery. In the manufacture of thesp
wooden toys the United States had an
advantage, as Europe had but lltt'.e
wood and - worked mostly 4y hand,
while America bad an abundance of
wood and her inventors were always
perfecting machines to do the work.
The principal advantage of the Amer
ican wooden toy manufacturers was In
the wonderful woodworking machinery,
certain patented forms of which even
the Germans have found necessary to
hny In order to keep abreast of Ameri
can rivals. Mechanical toys have also
flourished in the United States. The
field, however, Is wide, and should be
covered better by Americans. Boston
Globe.
EE WAS SO IMPERTTNENT.
How a Lonsr-Abaent Brother An
noyed Hla Slated by Flirting:.
"He winked at me and annoyed me."
Mrs. Samuel Billings, wife of the
owner of the Sexton Hotel, showed her
Irritation plainly when she Imparted
this Information to her husband a day
or two ago, says the Kansas City Star.
The offender to whom she referred had
registered at the hotel as "M. I. Wil
son, Billings, Mont."
It wns during breakfast that his at
tentions began. He sat at table oppo
site Mrs. Billings and his actions left
no doubt of his desire to flirt.
But when Mrs. Billings told her hus
band of the Incident Mr. Billings was
Inclined to doubt whether Wilson had
Intended to be rude. Besides, Wilson
was a guest.
An hour later Mrs. Billings met Wil
son in a hallway. This time he was
more obtrusive. Not only did he look
at her cunningly, but he actually
smiled, a broad, undaunted, offensive
smile. Mrs. Billings' room was near.
She entered it quickly and slammed
the door hard, believing this might in
dicate to Wilson how unwelcome were
his advances.
But Wilson was persistent, also In
sistent. The following day he tele
phoned Mrs. Billings' room and told
her "a friend" wished to gee her In
the office Immediately.
"Umph!" exclaimed Mrs. Billings
when she-answered the call and con
fronted Wilson.
But WJlson only smiled.
"Say," he said, "just a moment,
ma'am. Aren't you the sister of M. J.
Draper of Hillings, Mont.?"
Mrs. Billings hesitated. The nam,
wns that of a brother she hadn't seen
In nineteen years. Wilson saw his ad
vantage. "Well, he told me to look you up
when I got here," he hastened, to say.
. Mrs. Billings' resentment began to
cool. "Oh," she said.
Then Wilson apologized for having
been' Impertinent, adding: "But I
guess I had a right to smile at you
If I wanted to."
The Ire of Mrs. Billings began to
rise again. "Why?" she asked.
"Because," replied Wilson, "because
I'm Draper I'm your brother, dear."
The Modern Wax,
"Will you have this here woman to
be your lawful wedded wife?"
"That's what I 'lowed I would."
"Will you love, honor and obey her?"
"Ain't you got that switched around,
parson?" asked the bridegroom.
"John," said the bride-elect, "don't
you reckon the parson knows his busi
ness? Answer the question!"
"Yes, sir," said the bridegroom meek
ly. "I reckon I'll have to." Atlanta
Constitution. .
ah nintr.
"Yes," boasted the fortune hunting
count, "all of our old family castles
were on high mountains. My ancestors
all lived on big bluffs."
"Indeed," replied the wise heiress,
"and I see that you take after them,
count."
A Tempting Cbanee.
Jones That young man who plays
the cornet Is 111. Green Do you think
he will recover? Jones I am nfrnld
not The doctor who Is attending him
Uvea next door. London Tit-Bits.
We"hever knew any one who did not
talk "laoD" too much-
EPIDEMIC Or GRIP IS
SWEEP N6 COUNTRY
Tens of Thousands of Cases of Thla
Pestiferous Disease Are Being
Reported.
CUTFEBXHS HI" MANY CITIEa
Business in Many Places Is Dtsoi
ganlzed on Account Prostration
from This Ailment
1 v... . v. V4 i ( fi il'l'C BCCllig J
sweeping over the country, and tens of
thousands of people are suffering from
the disease. Pittsburg reports the worst
visitation In Its history. The business
of the city Is disorganized on account
of the large number of people who have
uei-u Buuucuij iorcea to remain aDsent
tlmU ..1 . ,
from their places of employment
Factories and mills, offices and stores,
are affected seriously.
There is a notable uniformity in the
symptoms of the. present epidemic,
which appears to affect principally the
hwinnlilnl rn nn.m T . . i .
i"oibco. uruucnitis ana win mum i-uucisui nus arisen con
pneumonln are its most common accom- cernlng the appropriateness and sense
paniments, and It aggravates fully 60 of patriotism which prompted the se
per cent of the tu'uciculusij cune. TUoo l'-n. Investigation dlscloscr ;.c fct
most Injuriously affected are persons tnat among the women of tbe Sioux,
who before the attack were badly run Cheyenne and Crow tribes of Indiana
down In their general health. In their ar to-day to be found fact's which
cases pneumonia Quickly develons.
while the heart, brain and other or- the new coins and which many be
gans become affected. "eve are more typically American titan
In Philadelphia an epidemic of grippe the features selected.
a ---w vii h..u i. mm: iniui
lies are prostrated by it. Pneumonia in
DinnV PflRPA 1 fallntirarl aIabq tins. Its
w v .vfni unu nr
heels, and last week many persons died
of that disease. Doctors are scarcely
able to keep up with the demands made
upon them. Baltimore, too, Is expert-
?nclng an unusual amount of sickness
Other cities where erlnne has made
Its appearance are Boston, Chicago, Cin
cinnati, Cleveland. Denver, Milwaukee
and New York, and reports from these
places Indicate that the health authori
ties fear that the outbreak is only at
the beginning. Health Commissioner
Evans, of Chicago, has issued a warn
ing to the people, urging them to get
im, U1 ileftu uir uiiu xo exercise in
.... , . . v
knows the danger of grippe, for It has
iuc uiicu us muru us uossiDie. unicaeo
. ,n ' ' uy lue u,3BUBe-
In 1890 that city had 100,000 grippe suf-
fftfor'a tins 1 1 0 A,x.V. 1I.,a.Im a.n..l.J
. Yo uuci.-i.jr .COu.ll.
In 1809 over 300 persons died from the
, ...c "i'""-
of the jialady the city has paid a
tribute of 2,208 lives..
In New York, where the disease la
now gaining a strong foothold, stxtv-
.
eight deaths resulted last week and
there are many cases scattered about
the city.
Boston Is the worst sufferer on the
Atlantic seaboard. There are nearly
100.000 cases there and sixty 'deaths
have resulted. Cincinnati has 2.000
cases and the disease seems to be epl-
1emlc in form.
The onen winter U held reannnslhln H
- -,uvj v. p,iiuin,ij, TV Ll L VllO VLUCO
for the spread of the disease. Where It were collecting their annuity payment
originated no one seems to know. It from the government they took the
travels with wonderful rapidity. In ( "Barnes Outfit" with them. The In
1889, when the gripiie appeared In vlru- dlans thpn held a big feast and dance,
lent form all over the country, it was Mrs. Barnes was Installed as chief
tracked back to Europe and thence to cook, and to this day the red men who
TTnnf? ICnnfV In China Tha CroPin. f nai.tn1. rt .ha. faaaf mn Intntn -..,.
O n wu.i.ut uw C . u vfc
the present epidemic may have come
f .Mm .h. ... . ..
WW LUC EHIII1C jUUKP,
Of'
The New Orleans baseball club will
erect a $30,000 steel stand.
A battle between Tommy Burns and
Roche was arranged to take place in Dub
lin on St Patrick's day.
The Washlncton State football eleven
defeated that of .St. Louis university by
xne score of 11 to 0, at Spokane, Wash. -
The Coney Island. Jockey Club an
nounced that improvements in Its plant
now under way will cost at least $100,000.
There will be half a dozen Smiths In
the major leagues next season, the Ajner-
lcans Having four players of this name
and the Nationals two. -
Elmer Collins, tbe Lynn bicycle rider,
continues to add to bit already enviable
record in Paris, and Is hailed by the
Frenchmen as the coming world's cham
pion. Cincinnati has "asked for waivers on
seventeen men. Provided all these play
ers are turned back to the minors, the
next manager of tbe Reds still will have
twenty-two athletes to aid him In captur
ing a second division berth.
The baseball critics seem Inclined to
tho belief that th'e Bostons got all the
best of the big deal with New York. Th
Bean Eaten, it would seem, should occu
py a higher place In the raca than they
have held for tbe past few yeam -
FACE OU THE NEW. C0DJ3.
Prettjr Irl.h Girl Who Serve aa th
Typical American,
( The new one-ceut and the $10 ean
pieces which are being Issued from the
' """ """ m"it bear the likeness
or Mary Cunning
tain, a bright-faced,
louest Irish lass,
vhoin the late fa
nous sculptor, Au
tustus Salnt-Gau-lens,
selected as
laving a typical,
'real" American
ace to serve as
nodel for the head
f the Goddess of
liberty.
Mr. Saint-Gaud
ns was commis
sioned a a lnno
" r o w uw vuuicui;iaiVU
new 00111 lssue- He searched In many
dlreetions for a face meeting with the
necessary requirements, but It was not
untI1 ne 8aw Ma"y Cunningham, a new
s811 In his household, but lately
arrived from the north of Ireland, that
Anntamnl n -A
v uctlutu " mu uiscoverea mat lor
urhlh Vi n Vi n ,1 I... - ,.,
which he bad been seeking.
The government ofllclals, having faltL
In Mr. Salnt-Gaudens' Judgment did
not object to his selection, but since
i tne fa bas become generally known
that on Irish lassie's face graces our
nan, rw I n . . ..I. .... t . t . . I t ,
nieet all the reauirementa of mn.in!
I bvuijiivi a awub urnm ItlHI
th departure of Miss Cunningham's
Uflpf llltlPRa aa m vnntnl i t .
----"w ca uivuu iUf AllJl'l J (. ! U
money Interest In her In the Saint
Gaudens family has waned, and qiiltu
recently she wns notified that her serv-
Ices were no longer reaulred. Then
she went to Boston In the hope of se
curing work as a waitress,
COOKED HEE WAY INTO TEIBE,
Indian Bravea Adopted the Family
of a Woman.
Twelve Otoe Indians w n
paid by Agent Newman at the Otoe
PffantP In aMl i. .. ma
"Barnes Outfit" now combed of
members, was with them. Kaon
T,.,it ,... . .
uuu rcvciveu a rew cents more man
$888, while each one of the ' ouJif!
received about $1,800. As a whole the
"Barnes Outfit'' received nearly S
1 ... r I
uoo, ani belng fuIj Iadlon Cltizag tllPV
received also as such, when the Otoe
lanas were recently allotted, 2 in ares
nt inri th. v v..,- it...
old
The "Barnes Outfit" la tbe name by
" uvm w luuiitj auicuiuicis HUB
been known In northern Oklahoma for
the last thirty years. All are now adopt-
e(j members of the Ot rrlho nrirh
which mnnv of the hnvA inw..,,..
rled.
I It nil hnrmenerl heem.sA fAtlAr
his 'wife, drifted among tlie Otoe In-
'dlans about thlrrv vmra m?o whon
,1,1 HV,IX W . 1,1 1, k ..U7i U1U1UU11U LU 11 1.
never before had they eaten such excel-
I I . 1 . . t -
lent barbecued veal
From that date henceforth Mrs.
Barnes cooked her way Into the tribe.
Whatever feast was held, she had to
be the chef. Within a few years Mr.
and Mrs. Barnes had become so popu
lar that the Otoes by a unanimous vote
adopted them into the tribe as full In
dian citizens.
Clever.
Mrs. Petter Did you see that? Dix
on seized that rocking chair and was
Into It before his wife had a chance to
reach it And on "his wedding trip,
too.
Mr. Petter That's Just It. There's
where Dixon Is smart. Nobody will
suspect that he Is on his wedding tour,
don't you s?e? And besides, he gets
the chair. Boston Transcript. '
All That He Had.
''Can you give bond?" asked the
Judge. "Have you got anything?"
"Jedge," replied the prisoner, "sence
you ax me, I'll tell you. I ain't got
nuthin' In the worl' 'cept the spring
chills, six acres o' no 'count land, a
big family, a hope of a hereafter an
the ole war rheumatism." s Atlanta
'Constitution. -
The Head of the Family,
Mrs. Hoyle Mr. Boyle Is looking for
a horse that a woman can drive.
Mrs. Doyle That's a fad of hers,
getting things Bhe can drive. Her hus
band Is that kind of a man. New York
Press. ,
Occasionally tbe dead are praised In
a way to slam the living.
, fc f
! f
For Lung
Troubles
4
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cer
tainly cures coughs, colds,
bronchitis.consumption. And
it certainly strengthens weak
throats and weak lungs.
There can be no mistake about
this. You know it is true. And
your own doctor will say so.
" My llttU boj hid torrlbl conrh. Itrtea
Terythlnpj I couM hear of but In Tain anUI
I tried Ayer't Charry fntoral. The Brat
night ha waa batter, and ha iteadilr tmprorad
nntll btwn perfectly welf-Maa. aW.
Stbm-b, Alton. 11U
A
.tUd by J. O. jrr Co.. IowU,
WV aUaUlUIMtUrnri 01
SARSAPjUULA.
PILLS.
dais vigor.
yers
Kaeo trtn hnwula niFiiluiih a
Pills ' and thus hasten recover.
Coming; to Th tat
First Brokar How is business?
Second Broker Improving a little. I've
rot a good barker -out in front of my
office now.
Another Natare Storr.
To tbe tail of the dof
They tied a big log,
And patted him on th head.
Old Tray couldn't make
His narrative saake,
And the tail wagged th dog Inateal
-Cliicago Tribune. '
A Great Kaa'a Little Pleaaaatrr.
"Senator," said the correspondent, "yon
are quoted aa advocating tbe abolition of
capital punishment. How about that?"
""Veil," answered 8enator Lotsmao,
if.) B grin, "don't you think capital bit
ten punished about enough V
ADVICE TO VICTIMS
TCI1S READERS HOW TO PROMl'TLV
CURE RHEUMATISM AT HOMf.
Directions to Mix e Simple PrepaoKJcn
and the Dose to Take Over
comes Kidney and Bladder
Trouble Promptly.
There is so much Rheumatism every
where that the following adv-i -e by an
eminent authority, who writes for read
ers of a large Eastern dally paper, will
t highly appreciated by those who
suffer:
Get from any good phai macy one-hall
ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, olb
ounce Compound Kargon, three ounces
or compound byrup Baraaparilla.
PUke these well in a bottle and take
in teaspoonful doses after each meal
and at bedtime; also drink plenty of -good
water.
It is claimed that there few victims
of this dread and torturous disease who
will fail to find ready relief in this
simple home-made mixture, and In
most cases a permanent cure is the re
mit. Thfs simple recipe la said to strength
en and OreanBe the eliminative tissues
of the Kidneys so that they can filter
n4 strain from the blood and system
the poisons, acids and watte matter,
which cause not only Rheumatism, but
numerous other diseases. Every man
or woman here who feels that their kid
neys are not healthy and active, or who
suffers from any urinary trouble what
ever, should not hesitate to make np
this mixture, as it Is certain to do
much good, and may save yon from
much misery and Buffering after while.
Bneonran-lnc
Said an ambitious youth one day U
a young lady: "Don't you think I'd
better dye my mast ache?" caressing tha
faint! V vltilhla nrnrnnv.
"I think If you let It alone It will die
itself," said the young lady. Woman's
Home Companion.
Syrup rffiOs
" JLiixir
wenua
Cleanses the
unity. Dispels
emJCffecT-
sandneni ,
i.i.
acnes rlnn tn P,
onslinaiion:
Acts naturally, ac
aLaxative.
its truly oh
'orMenAVomcn ard Child,
ounci and
has The jull name of the Com
pany v
"CALIFORNIA
. Bo Syrup Co.
by whom it manufactured printed on the
SOLD Ell lMg SfTuGGISTSL
one sue only, regular price 50tar Wllst
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