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t .
LANDING AT RAKAHANGC”5
QUALITY OF MILK.
A
I t Can ■ •a lly
Determined by Using
the Candle Taat.
Tr
The flame become« leea bright aa
the level of the liquid rlaea Into the
glaaa. Tha flame la soon reduced to a
dull while spot. A little more liquid
•low ly eddod. so aa to avoid pouring
an axceee, and the flame becomes ab
solutely Invisible. All (bat remains to
be done Is to measure the height of
the liquid In the glaaa, thia being most
conveniently ascertained by dipping
Into It a strip of pasteboard and then
measuring the wet part It should
moasure not over one Inch If the milk
la pure. With good quality milk, di
luted and tested aa atated. the depth
will be about seven-eighths of an Inch
before the flame la lost to view. A
mixture of one volume of milk and a
half a volurao of water should show
a depth of one and a half Inch»«. A
depth of two Inchee Indicate« either
partially aklinmed tnllk or a mixture
<>f one volume of good milk and one
at water, and so on.
The process la based upon the close
relation between the opacity of tnllk
and the number of fatty corpuscles
contained In It. Both skimming und
the adding o f water work lu the same
direction— namely, to decrease the
opacity o f milk. The same cannot be
said of the density. Kklmmlng In
creases It Adding water decreases It.
and the common test that consists In
tho mere Introduction of the lacto
densimeter In milk la worihlona, as
skimmed milk may have a normal
density tf rare baa been taken to pour
Into It a certain amount of wuter.—
New York World.
SECRET WRITING.
Simple Cipher System T hat Keeps
Pestoard Massages Privets.
W hy Shoes H svs Tongue«
Every one that wears, luee shoes
knows that there Is a tongue of leather
under the place where tile two sides o(
tin* shoe meet, but there Is none In but
ton shoes. Probably very few persons
know that tills Is a comparatively mod
ci n Idi n and Is not for the purpose of
keeping the lines from hurling the In
slep. hut Is to keep out rnln and snow
There would he no discomfort If the
Inces touched the sock. but tio matter
how rliisely a sins- may lie laced up
then» Is alw ays a slight space wlihli
would allow rain to reach Bie stocking
—New York Sun.
Nature Provides.
As to the horror of death—this the
spectators may have. But It Is the
rarest phenomenon for him who Is
about to die to "suffer" death. Im
mediately death Impends, the end Is
almost Invariably benignant and peace
ful. What, Indeed. Is there In all the
cosmos so composed and content as
the face of the deadi—Medical Record
Sights Unseen.
WASHINGTON.
Soldier and statesman, rarest
unlsou.
High poised example o f great
duties done
Simply as hrenlhtng. a world's
honors worn
Aa life's Indifferent gifts to all
nieu born:
Dumb for himself, unless It were
to God.
Or for his barefoot soldiers elo
quent.
Tramping the snow to coral
whore they trod.
Held by his awe In hollow eyed
content:
Modest, yet firm as nature's self;
unblnmed
Saved by the men bis nobler
temper shamed;
Not honored then or now because
ho wooed
Tlie popular voice, but that he
still withstood;
Broad minded, higher snuled.
there is but one
Who was all this and ours and
all men’s — Washington.
—Do well.
Back In tha Good Old Bowl Days.
A man o f apparent means brought
two boys Into a barber shop for a hair
cut. While waiting for tho completion
of tho Job. lie said:
“1 never sat In a barber's chair when
I w as a khl. My brother used to go
over to the engine house and borrow
the horse clippers. Then my mother
would put a bowl on my head and cut
around It. Until 1 wns tw elve years
did. I alw ays looked like a window
washer's brush.”—Chicago Post.
Tha Dead Revived.
In a Scientific weekly wo read tho
lieailllne. "Can the Dead Be Revived?”
They lire revived every performance nt
the Metropolitan Opera House. It Is a
most encouraging symptom to see
corpses srlse from the stage after the
curtain falls and bow their apprecia
tion of the applause.—Musical Courier.
Smith (at the clubl Yes. by Jove,
there's very little you can tench me
Sarcastis.
I've been everywhere, done everything,
Hawkshnw Holmes—I wish to be
seen everylhlng! The Scotch Member raeclnnted. Doctor—What’s your busi
—Young man, (lid you ever hnve the ness? Hawkshnw Holmes—I’m a de
D. T.'s? S m ltb -D . T.’s! Grout Scott, tective. Doctor—Bland out Of line,
no! Tho HCotOh Member—Then you've please, and give somebody else a
aeon uow t.—London Sketch.
chance. There is no danger of your
ever catching anything.—Boston Globe.
A Queer Town.
“Who Is the Nestor of the bar here?"
"I don’t believe we have one. I’ve
never heard of any such thing here
abouts."
"Wlmt! No Nestor of the bar? Say.
what kind of a town Is this?’’—Chicago
Record-Hern M.
Why DID George Davis resign,
anyw ayf
4
T he Long Chats.
•T understand that your spinster
friend has gone Into one of tho profes
sions?"
"Yes."
"Indeed. And what Is her particular
pursuit?”
"Man.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE.
Ha Massive Vertical Base Cheeks tho
W ildest Sea«
CAVITIES IN THE SKULL
Room
Enough Inside One’s Head to
Hid« Bulky Articles.
LOVE
AND
POVERTY.
One sat within a bung and light
ed room.
A little shape, with face between
bis wings.
And In the light made o f all
golden things
He seemed a warm and living
rose abloom.
And one without sobbed In the
night and gloom.
And all about him w as a pil
grim's weed.
H is little hands and cold he held
for meed.
Of bis long waiting, sad as by a
tomb.
He entered at the door: the other
flew
Out at the casem ent And with
sudden day
The lamps burned faint, and he
who came most new
Was fulr. and he who went wns
wan and gray.
“For I am Love who came." and
“be content.”
Sang this one. “It w as Poverty
who went."
— Elisabeth Pullen.
Every one Is not aware that there la
The Eddystone rocks form a very
space
Inside a person's L t d for storing
dangerous reef, lying In the English
channel nbout fourteen miles from away heavy and bulky foreign articles.
One man who bad made a specialty of
Plymouth, and here. In 1G(K>. Henry
burglary and Jail breaking now shows
Wlnstunley built the first lighthouse,
how he was aided In his work by util
which lasted but eight years.
izing this human attic storage room.
W lustanley's tower was swept av-ny
He concealed a large skeleton key and
by a tremendous storm, and every <>ne a saw tw elve Inches long, colled like a
In It ut the time. Including the builder, watch spring, in the cavity reached
wns drowned. Three years later Itud- through his nostrils. But In the Lon
yerd's tower was built, only to be de don Lancet Dr. Itushton Parker relates
stroyed by fire In 1755, and then came a more rcmarknble case of the carrying !
John Biueaton's.
of a large foreign body In that space of
Modern lighthouses really date from the head, and that without the rictlip
1759. when this third one was com knowing that bis head was so filled up
pleted. Bmenton's design was faulty, and weighted down.
but It served ns a model for lighthouse
A young farmer consulted Dr. Par
construction In masonry, which has ker at the Liverpool hospital for a nasul
been followed In Its general features ubscess that had troubled him some
ever since. This lighthouse stood for time. Probing the nostril, the surgeon
over a century, but It was not high found that a loose mass, apparently of
enough to keep the waves from dash uietal, occupied a considerable space
ing the lantern and so was removed behind the nose and above the roof of
and the present one built In 1882 by the mouth.
James Douglass.
So large was this object that it was
At the time o f the completion of the removed with difficulty through the
new lighthouse two bells weighing tw o side of the face. It proved to be a gun
tons each anil struck by mechanical breech and an iron b o lt The breech
power were Installed for fog signal nii*asured 3 by lty by 1 lncbe« The
*
Funny Man.
ing purposes. Since thnt dale an ex bolt w as three inches long. The weight • Henri Bergson In his recent book.
plosive guncotton fog signal hns been of the two w as a quarter of a pound. “Laughter."' lays stress on the fact
erecied. the hells being removed. Prob This mass of metal had been In the thnt man. long defined as "the laugh
ably the most interesting thing about man’s head for five years, though he ing animal," Is also the only laughable
the lighthouse now on the Eddystone bad not suspected its presence there. animal. There Is nothing really com
is its solid vertical base. Heavy sens A muzzle loading gun had exploded In leal except human beings. The animal
striking the mnsslve cylindrical struc his hands and shattered his face. The world Is solemn beside the so called
ture are Immediately broken up and wound healed without leavlug any out lords of creation. Man alone is an ob
rush around to the opposite side, spray ward deformity. His only affliction ject of ridicule.
alone ascending to the height of the was symptoms o f a nasal entarrh. The
lantern gallery. On the other hand, young farmer made a rapid recovery to '
Agreeing on a Point.
w aves striking the old tower nt Its perfect health with the removal of the
“I wish yea could make my w ife look
foundation ran up the surface, which iron from his head.
on the bright side of things.”
presented a curved face to the wav^s,
“Perhaps there la no bright side to
and. unimpeded by any projection un
her life.”
OLD FAVORITES.
til arriving at the lantern gallery, were
"Nonsense! Hasn't she got u home
partially broken up by the cornice and
A P R IL .
and a husband?”
then spent themselves In heavy spray '
PRIE, violet klused and fair,
"That's what I was thinking of—her
Blue eyed. crowned with golden husband.”—Houston Post.
over the lantern. The shock to which
hair.
the cornice of the gallery wns exposed
Tiptoe« on the purple hill«
wns so great thnt stones were some
And in the vales her sunshine
Lasting.
spills.
times lifted from their beds.—Lookout.
Hoax—I wonder why Tightwad al
ways wears those salt and pepper
Frolic famed, but never vain.
suits? Joax—I suppose because a salt
Scampering from sun to rain,
In her old. capricious way.
and pepper suit should be good for two
D U T Y , F R IE N D S H IP , L O V E.
With all weathers paints the-day.
seusons.—Philadelphia Record.
The bright Illusions cherish
Ä
Of duty, friendship, love.
Without them that would perish
Which buoys us earth above.
But why Illusions call them?
What else so long survives
In mortals to enthraty them
To live their human lives?
Believe, for they are real.
Those visions pure and high.
Pursuit of the Ideal
Fits men to live and die.
—John Goadby Gregory.
The pain of life but sweetens death;
the hardest labor brings the soundest
sleep.—Albert SmltH.
Now we have for scarce an hour
In the west a dancing shower
Caracoling swiftly by
When clear sunshine fills the sky.
Fleets of clouds of fleecy white
Slowly sail above the height
Of the hilltops' fringe of trees,
Fair aa ocean argosies.
Dewy wet, from early dawn
Crocuses have starred the lawn,
And the daffodils with these
Flutter In the toying breeze.
She Must Have Been Peppery.
Daughter—Papa. Jack Is coming up
tonight to ask your consent to our mar
riage. Be kind to him, won’t you?
Father—Very well, daughter. I’ll say
no.—Boston Transcript
M etallurgical.
Doctor lafter examination)—Madame,
you have a constitution of iron. Obese
Gay birds and streams of laughing cheer Patient—I have often wondered what
made me so heavy.—Judge.
And flowers In retinues are here.
While, fervently by spring caressed,
I note the robin’s reddened breast.
—Joel Benton.
Sin has many tools, hut a He Is the
handle thut tits them a l l —Holmes.
ve«
coral
»'ie south »
tflasa.
e
-
Rakabani
flora la a vary aliuple way In which
to taat tha quality of the milk you .
buy. Ftrat «Hr tha milk with n spoon
In order to dlaaauiluata Into tha whole
liquid the cream which may have
coma to the aurfaca. Than one vol-
uma o f milk la poured Into flfty vol
umes of water—one fluid ounce to two
and a half pints. A candle la lighted
In a dark room. Take an ordinary
drinking glaaa with a tolerably flat
and even bottom and hold It right
above the candle at a distance of
about one foot from It, eo as to be
able to see the flame o f the candle
through the bottom of the glaaa. Then
pour slowly the diluted milk Into the
Poe tai cards would undoubtedly be
lu much greater demand than they are
for purposea of correspondence but for
tho fact thut the messukes they convey
are oiieu to all through whose bauds
they may pass. Yet thia objection Is
easily overcome.
There are some beaatlfnlly simple
ciphers thut are almost Impossible for
any uue not In the secret to read. Only
by luck, for Instance, can eveu the ex
lM*rt find the key to a short message
written lu the "trellis" or ••grill'' cipher
It la extremely simple, and thousands
o f people use It to bailie folks who take
an Interest In the conteuts o f post
cards.
To use It all you have to do Is to cut
a few oblong boles In n blank post
card, place It over the postcard you
mean to write on and writ» your uies
sago In the holes. Then take the upper
curd off and write some tinturul read
lug aeuleucus round the cipher words.
Any Inquisitive parson reading Hie
card when It reaches your correspond
ent's house will find a message of no
Interest whatever. Only your voire
s|siiident him self - or h erself-can read
the reul message, mid that by plat lug
on the curd u blank curd c u t in exit lly
the »nine way ns your own l'earsm.'«
Weekly.
Risky Feet end One T h a t Sorely
'a r fr„ .
’ In
w
Zealand
eve,
it,
and to Judg*
- count lu Mr.
Frank Bor
..
Through Tropic
Seas" of the difficulties that at ad a
i landing there none would care I" go a
second time.
At Bakahanga the feeling I* that
only by a miracle can a safe pi -sage
be made through what, by a -uretch
of the Imagination, is called the en
trance to the lagoon. Imagine a one«
good entrance obstructed by a wall of
coral rising to within a few feet of the
surface of the water. This coral wall
Is built by that wonderful er< ’ore,
the coral polyp. Over It break with
Inconceivable fury huge ocean tilo w a
that travel with the speed of race
horses, lashing and churning the water
Into a milk white foam and with a
deafening roar throwing the spray to
snch a height that it may be seei. mlle^
away.
J
The backwas’ o f every h-enker
forms, on the outside of the wall of
rock, a chasm fathoms deep, which la
again filled up by the next rushing
wave. To cross the abyss and reach
the quiet shelter of the lagoon Is a
difficulty that the Islander shows the
greatest skill In surmounting.
His boat—a long, low, flat bottomed
affair, bnllt much like a halibut dory,
manned usually by six paddlers be
sides the steersman—is brought to tha
very verge of tha boiling faldron, and
there It Is held till the opportune mo
ment arrives. Since that sometimes
does not occur for five or ten minutes
the passenger has plenty of time to
reflect upon bis misdeeds, to survey
the sublime scene and to wonder bow
In the world that fearfnl turmoil of
water is to be crossed.
The delay does not tend to compose
his nerves, but i f he is observant ha
will notice that abont every five or
six minutes three giant billows in
quick succession roll majestically In.
When the last of the three has passed
and the chasm has been tilled up the
padillers give a frightful yell that ter
rifies the unsuspecting passenger al
most to death, dig In their paddles and
shoot the boat forward like an arrow
from a bow.
Before the backwash can re-empty
the chasm the boat Is across. The
passenger has hardly time to grasp
how It Is done before the paddlers
have sprung to the reef and pulled
the boat clear o f the next roller, usu
ally a small one.
In entering the lagoon the chief risk
Is that o f an upset after crossing the
chasm and a ducking In tw o or three
feet of water, but on going out. If the
boat does not reach the smooth water
before the next succeeding sw ell
breaks, woe betide It and Its crew, for
nothing will prevent Its being swamp
ed and carried, with all hands, back
Into the awful abyss by the inrush of
broken water, out of which only the
strongest and most skilful swimmers
can emerge.
The T ru th About Iceberg«
Many existing theories regarding lee-
bergs require modification. For In
stance, It has generally been believed
that for every cubic foot of ice above
water there are seven below, and a
berg, therefore, that towers, say. 100
feet above the orean level has a total
height of 800 feet. Lieutenant Peary,
the conqueror of the north pole, de
clares thnt this is not alw ays the case.
"It Is true." he says, “that the heaviest
portion o f the berg Is submerged, but
It Is wrong to say that seven-eighths of
Its height Is under water. I have noted
several Instances where only two-thlrds
of a berg Is submerged."—St. Nicholas.
A Q uaint Notice.
Here Is a copy of a notice that w as
posted up In nn art* 1 exhibition In To
kyo: "No visitor who Is mad or intoxi
cated Is allowed to enter in. If any
person found in shall be claimed to re
tire. No visitor Is a lloweil to carry In
with him self any parcel, umbrella,
stick and the like kind except his purse
and Is strictly forbidden to take with
in him self dog or the same kind of
beasts. Visitor is requested to take
care of him self from thievly.”
Ready to Resume.
Lady (to neighbor at anniversary din
ner)—U nless I am mistaken you and I
sat together at this table twenty-five
years ago. I remember you told me
about your researches into the history
o f ancient Babylon.
Professor (eagerly)—Quite right. Let’s
see—where wns I when I left off?—
Fliegende Blatter._________
Impossible.
“You are going to Inherit all m y
money,” said the rich old man.
“Yes," sobbed the youth.
“I wish to goodness I could fix it so
that you could also inherit my ability
to take care of it,” was the old man'»
last expression.—Detroit Free Press.
A Délicats Position.
"That was an annoying coincidence,”
said Mr. B iggin« “It took great tact
to manage IL"
“What’s the trouble?”
“The pension examiner and the life
Insurance doctor both called on me at
the same time.”—Washington Star.
A Good Rulo.
I f yon wish success in life make per
severance your bosom friend, experi
ence your w ise counselor, caution your
elder brother and hope your guardian
genlu«