gjflvent.on
Metals got tired as well as living
tilings, a scientist declares. Telegraph
wires are better conductors on Monday
than Saturday, on account Of their
Sunday rest, and a rest of three weeks
adds 10 per cent to the conductivity of
wire.
Alzen Is the name given to a new
metal, which Is composed of two parts
of aluminum and one part of zinc. It
Is snld to equal cast Iron In strength,
but Is much more elastic. Alzcn Is
suiierlor because It does not rust and
akes a high polish.
The singular phenomenon of hard
steel being cut by a rapidly revolving
disk of soft steel has been somewhat
puzzling. A microscopic examination
by au English engineer, F. W. Hnrbord,
bus now shown that the metal acted
upon Is beated nearly or quite to the
melting point of steel, but only at the
')oint of contact with the disk.
A section of the Canadian Northern
Railway, running northwest from Sud
bury and crossing the Vermillion River,
is unique in that It Is ballasted with
gold. Every yard of the gravel used
for ballast has been found to contain
from 50 cents worth to $1 worth of the
precious metal In the "shape of fine dust,
and a (syndicate Is installing machinery
or its extraction.
There was' recently brought to the
British museum about half a peck of
stones asserted to have been taken from
the stomach of an African elephant.
The stones are angular and unworn.
Other instances of the same nature are
known to hunters. The man who gave
the curiosities to the museum has dem
onstrated the existence of the stone
swallowing habit In crocodiles.
Lurlng the year 1!K)7 the Nile reach
ed the lowest level know In Egypt since
1877 and but for the existence of the
great dam at Assnan and the vast vol
ume of water impounded by It to sup
plement the low Nile during the season
of drought the country would have been
plunged Into the horror of a famine.
The year 1!)07 was the eighth successive
lean year, so far as the Nile flood was
concerned.
So great Is the part played by birds
in disseminating seeds and In protect
ing plants by the destruction of noxious
Insects that II. W. Hanshaw reaches
the somewhat astonishing conclusion
that If all birds were exterminated, i.ot
only would successful agriculture be
come Impossible, but the greater part
of the vegetation of the earth would
eventually be destroyed. A permanent
reduction In the bird population, he
says, could not but have disastrous con
sequences. One of the most remarkable of the
high (lights achieved by the free bal
loons, now employed In many countries
for scientific exploration of the upper
nlr, was made on July 2.", 1!M7, nenr
llrussels. The tandem balloons left the
village of Ueole at 7 o'clock iu the
morning, and one hour and six minutes
later they had attained an elevation,
as Indicated by the self-recording
barometer, of almost exactly Ni miles.
At that point the upper balloon hurst,
ami the (light was arrested. At the
height of about miles, as usual, the
fall of the thermometer was arrested,
and a sudden rise of 12 degrees oc
curred In the temperature. At a little
less than 81a miles an Isothermal zone
was encountered, above which another
rise of temperature began, and contin
ued until the balloon burst. The last
temiierature recorded was about
degrees Fahrenheit.
, KINGSTON'S AGED OAK.
Centuries Oltl and Washington and
Clinton Silt Under It.
"I was at Kingston during the Clin
ton reburial ceremonies ou Memorial
ilny," said a New York man to a Sun
reporter, "and I stood a while beneath
the branches of what Is perhaps one
uf the most remarkable old oak trees
to be found anywhere In this country.
"Just how old the tree Is no one
knows, but there are records showing
that 2!0 years ago it was a landmark.
The tree stands to-day more than 100
feet high and Its trunk Is nine feet In
diameter. Nowhere about It did I dis
;iver any sign of decay or declining
'Igor. '
"Hut aside from Its admirable physi
cal condition and aspect this old tree
has historic Interest. The tree stands
not a great way from the old senate
house, where the State of New York
bad Its birth, and It marks one edge of
the plot on which the famous one-legged
Dutch governor of the colony, re
fer Stuyvesant, built a stockade as a
defense for the colonists against ma--nuding
Indians.
"After the revolutionary war, when
General Wushlngton went up from
Newburg to visit General George Clin
ton at Kingston, the two patriots sat
beneath the spreading branches of this
onk and for hours recounted the events
of the long struggle and doubtless dls
tussed plans for the future welfare of
the country. Who may know but that
some of the benefits which we enjoy to
uuy tinder the Institutions of our gov
ernment are results of the discussions
of tluwe two great patriots beneath
this grand old tree? I brought myself
to think so, at any rate.
"A few miles from this historic olo.
oak, an old resident informed me, Is an
other tree which besides being an an
cient landmark is something of a curl
slty. It Is a chestnut tree, with a
trunk twenty-one feet in circumference,
from which about six feet from the :
ground a white elm of large size has
grown. The chestnut trunk completely
Incloses that of the elm, and the ex-
planatlou of the curious association Is
that at some time a branch of the chest
nut was broken off, leaving a cavity In
which In time mold and vegetable mat-,
ter collected and made suitable depth
of soli for the seed of the elm, which
lodged therein to germinate and grow
and become a tree, a veritable part of
Its unprotestlng host, the mammoth
chestnut trunk."
Mud Hooim Built by Wupi,
A naturalist has thus described the
habits of a species of wasp that makes
Its nest of mud, says the Dundee Ad
vertiser. The mud of which their nests
Is composed, he said, is often carried
for some distance, as It Is essential for
them to use good, stiff clay. At the
edge of some pond or stream you may
see these Insects roll sticky little balls
out of the stiff mud with their strong
Jaws. ' M'lth this henry !'nd of mini
they rise slowly, and, having gained
some height, they get their bearings
and fly In a straight line to their nest
In this way they resemble the bees ; In
deed, all the wasps and bees seem to
have a wonderful faculty for Hying
directly home from any point. When!
the wasp has gained the place select
ed for a building site she puts the tiny
ball of mud against the wall of the
building and rubs It tight by moving
her head from side to side very rapid
ly. The outer surface of the nest shows
a series of rings, with sharply defined
lines between most of them, but the In
terior Is always extremely smooth and I
almost a perfect cylinder. While build
ing her nest the Insect continually runs
In and out of the tiny cylinder, exam
ining It minutely with her "feelers."
If a rough place Is felt on the inner
surface she carefully sets to work and !
rubs It smooth. When the cylinder Is;
finished the wasp goes bunting for spl
ders.
A Paychta Phenomenon
An extraordinary incident is connect
ed with Prof, von Ilerkomer's famous
painting, "The Last Muster," which
was the picture of its year at the acad
emy. '
One morning soon after the exhibi
tion was opened the artist was aston
ished to receive a letter from a lady, a
perfect stranger, who said she was
not aware until she saw "The Last
Muster" at the academy on the pre
vious day that her mother, then dead,
bad ever sat to the professor for her
portrait.
Now, the figure in the picture was
painted solely from imagination, and
the artist hastened to explain this fact
to his correspondent. She thereupon
asked for an apioIntnient and took an
oil painting of her mother, asserting
that it was a faithful representation of
that lady.
The academician was astonished to
perceive that he had really portrayed
on his owu canvas a fac simile of the
figure In this other painting, although
It was that of a woman whom he had
uever seen In his life. London M. A. P.
Shipwreck and Courts Martini.
The custom of holding courts-martial
in the British navy after every case of
shipwreck 'has a curious origin. In
1741 tlie Wager, one of Commodore An
son's vessels, was wrecked off the coast
of Chile, most of the crew being Baved.
The i:ien and some of the junior olU
cers held that they were no longer
amenable to discipline because their
pay ceased with the wreck, but the cap
tain, whose name was Davy Cheap, dif
fered, treated them as mutineers and
shot one of his midshipmen. He was
then doK)sed, and most of the crew
made off In three of the boats. Later
when It was proposed to proceed
against the so-called mutineers the offi
cers of the crown decided that the men
had been correct In their view. This
discovery led to the framing of Section
!)1 of the articles of war, which pro
vides that In the case of shipwreck, de
struction or capture by the enemy a
ship Is held to remain In commission
pending inquiry by a court-martial.
"In de Nntchul Way."
A rich Northerner, walking about in
a Southern negro settlement, came up
on a hoiiso around which several chil
dren were playing. Seeing that the
family was destitute, he called the old
est negro boy and gave him a dollar,
telling him to spend It for a Christmas
turkey. As soon as the generous man
had gone, the negro woman called her
boy and said, "Thomas, yo' gimme dat
dollah and go git dat turkey In the
uatchal way." Success Magazine.
Money Is the root of much evil when
it gives a man a fashionable wife.
Old Gentleman And if you had five
hundred dollars and multiplied it by
two, what would you get? Boy
'Nautinoblle! Harper's Weekly.
Teacher Parse "court" Pupil
"Court," a verb, active, indicative mood,
present tense, and agrees with all the
girls In the neighborhood. Tit-Bits.
Father Got a fall, did you? Well, 1
hope you didn't cry like a baby. Son
No, dad, I didn't cry. I just said one
word the same as you'd have said.
Punch.
"What sort of a looking chap Is Gus
sy?" "Well, If you ever see two men
in a corner and one looks bored to
death, the other one is Gussy." Loudon
Opinion.
Mother (crossly) Tommy, haven't 1
told you you must not talk when I am
talking? Tommy But, mamma, you
won't let me 'stay up after you go to
bed! Sketch.
"Do you think he can afford to keep
an auto?" "He ought tp. He's been
an amateur photographer for three
years and that didn't break him." De
troit Free Press.
Stranger Been -a cyclone or an
earthquake round here recently? Offi
cer Naw this hyer's a college town,
an 'ne of the students had a birthday
party. Harper's Weekly.
Mistress Now, remember, Bridget,
the Joneses are coming for dinner.
Cook Leave It to me, mum. I'll do
me worst! They'll never trouble yea
again! Illustrated Bits.
"You say you' acted like a perfect
lady throughout?" "Sure, yer honor;
when he tips his hat to me nu' me not
knowln' him, I ups with a rock an'
caves In his face." Houston Post.
Medium (Impressively)' It's the
spirit of your late husband, madam,
lie wishes to speak with you. Mrs.
Peck It can't be poor Henry: he
never had no spirit. Boston Tran
script. Teacher What Is it, Tom? Tom
Jimmy's swearing ! Teacher What
did he say? Tom Well, marm, if you
say over all thfe cuss words you know,
I'll tell you when you come to it
Kansas City Star.
The American globe-trotter Talk
about traveling. Why, In' America
trains go so fast that it takes two peo
ple to talk about 'em one to say
"Here she comes," and the other to
say, "There Bhe goes." The Sketch.
Mrs. O'Hoollhan This, pnyper says
there do be sermons In sthones. Phwhat
d' yez think av thot? O'Hoollhan Oi
dunno about the ser-rmons, but many
a good ar-rgument has coom out av a
brick, Ol'ni thinkln'. Chicago News.
"I tell you," said Sinnick, "men are
getting so deceitful these days that you
can't trust your best friends " ?And
what's worse," interrupted Burroughs,
gloomily, "you can't get your best
friends to trust you.". Philadelphia
Press.
"So," remarked the boyhood frleno,,
"you are in the swim." "Mother and
the girls think I am," answered Mr.
Cumrox. "But my personal feelings are
those of a man who has fallen over
board and ought to be hollering for
help." Washington Star.
Teacher If you are kind and polite
to your playmates, what will be the
result? Scholar They'll think they
oan lick me! Philadelphia Inquirer.
He That fellow over there cheated
me out of a cool million. She How
could he? He Wouldu't let me marry
his daughter. The Pathfinder. .
"Just this way, sir," said the courte
ous clerk In the rnllroad ticket office.
"Let me show you some summer guides
entitled 'Where to Go' and 'When to
Go."' The man with the modest in
come shook his head. "They don't In
terest me," he sighed. '"What I want
to know is 'How to Go. " Chicago
Dally News.
"Professor," said Mrs. Gaswell to the
distinguished musician who had been
engaged at a high price to entertain her
guests, "what was that lovely selection
you played Just now?" "That, madam,"
he answered, glaring at her, "was an
Improvisation." "Ah, yes, I remember
now. I knew it was an old favorite,
but I couldn't think of the name of it
to save me." Tlt-Blts.
III Anifutxhi-d Speech.
Eventually our finest products will
be cheap enough to he within the reach
of all. Then the story of the hoy and
the hothouse grapes will be as ,dead
and antiquated as the theater hat
stories of the past. This boy he was
a bootblack entered a grocer's one
day, and, pointing to some superb
Ijrapes, said: .
"Wat's the price o them there, mis
terr "One. dollar a pound, my lad," the
clerk replied. ,
A look of anguish passed over the
boy's face, and he said hastily : "Then
give us a cent's worth o' carrots. I'm
dead gone on fruit'
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"How does It happen that Brown 1$
treating; everybody in sight?"
"Why, you see, years ago he presentej
his wife with a little toy bank in whicft
the children could keep their pennies."
"I see. And now he finds himself th
head of a frugal, industrious family."
"No ; now he finds the bank." Puck.
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The Constable Yes, your worship,
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Ah done wore dat razor to er ball las
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