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BANDON RECORDER. if POLLY LARKIN Queer India» llolleta. There Is au odd feature in the theol tilt ogy of the small in Co- Bella Coola, which 1 lx* lumbia lu about latit one llcve that there are e it above the other, and our own world, the earth. Above It are two heavens, aud under It are twe underworlds. In the upper heaven 1» the supreme deity, who Is a woman and she doesn't meddle much with tin affairs in the second world below her Tlie zenith Is the center of the lower heaven, and here Is tlie house of the gods, in which live the suu and the rest of the deities. Gur owu earth Is believed to be ar Island swimming lu the ocean. Tin first underworld from the earth It inhabited by ghosts who can return wlieu they wish to heaven, from whirl place they may lie sent down to oui earth. If then they misbehave again they are cast into the lower of the un derworlds. and from this bourne nc ghostly traveler returns. The Bella t’oola arc suu worshipers for Benex. the sun. the master of tin house of gods, who also Is called “tin father" aud "the sacred one,” Is the on ly deity to whom the tribe pray. Each family of the Bella Coola has Its own traditions and Its own form of the cur rent traditions, so that In the mytholo gy of the tribe there are counties» contradictions Whell any one not ti member of a clan tries to tell a tradi cion which does not belong to his clan. It is like a white man trying to tell another's Joke—be Is considered us up preprinting the property right wblel does not belong to him. Hard Dock« to Kill. The screaming Walloon Is a hard duck to kill. Its bide Is very toilgli and 1» thickly covered with feathers and down. Besides the bird is a great diver, one of the kind that used tc “dive at the Hash" when hunted with the old arm that Hashed when tired, li Is of very little value for table use, be ing so tough The only way to managi It at all is to skin it and parboil it in a big pot with plenty of water. The ne groes make caps of Walloon skins. “They are great ducks for diving,’ says a well known Tred Avon rivet progger. "They can deeper, remain under water longer am' come up farther away than any othei duck that frequents our waters. I re member once I succeeded In killing a Walloon, ami. being short of game fot the table. I determined to cook uij bird. I got a negro to skin It. giving him the hide lor bls trouble. After be ing cleaned we put It In a great pot full of water ami under It kindled a hot fire. After awhile 1 wanted to see how the cooking of my duck progressed anti lifted the top off the boiling pot, lint there was so much steam escaping I could not see Into the pot and struck a match over It. The blamed Walloon, sir. dived al the flash of the match, 11 disappeared and has never been seen since.”—Baltimore Sun. her mother she hud been saying the words so fast that she did not get their NAVAL FOOD STORES. meaning. “Fashidie” interpreted was WHAT “JACKY” GETS TO EAT IN “if I should die.” UNCLE SAM’S SERVICE. “Talk alsiut silence, Polly,” said a friend tlie other day, “why, you don’t know anything alxiut it. 1 have sat in a room as watcher beside one who had been called to lay down her earthly cares and troubles and go to a fairer land than tills, where we are told the walls are of Jasper, the gates of jiearl and tliestreets are pure gold. All tlie suiter ing was over. 1 ought to have been glad and joyful, but I wasn't, for I was fond of tlie one wiio had gone from us, and I was sorry for tlie ones who were left and who were heart broken over their separation. Tlie quiet sleeper lying in the casket with hands folded and a look of unearthly peace on the marble face, not even the tick of a friendly and sympathetic clock to be heard and only tlie swaying of the curtain at the open window to break the quiet. The si lence was awful, Polly, but you have been there like nearly everybody else and know all about it, and I really think these lonely vigils make lietter men and women of us. There is some thing so pure about the silent sleeper and there is something so overwhelm ing and heart-rending in death. There is another silence, or rather solitude, I should say, that produces much the same effect on my nerves, and tliat is to sit by myself at the ocean side on a dull, gray cloudy day, and see the breakers coming, wave on wave, until they break into white-caps on the rocky shore. It is grand, Polly, but it nearly al ways overcomes me. But the most overpowering silence I ever en dured was in Virginia City. I had lieen there for months, and day and night the heavy machinery that nearly slnsik tlie town and was fairly deafen ing to strangers, was never still. One night something about tlie machinery broke somewhere about 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning. All (lie machinery stopped and the effect was like magic. Every one in he town, men, women and children, awoke terrified by the awful and sudden silence, and most of them poured into tlie streets to find out the cause of the terrible quiet that had settled down over tlie town. It was just as if tlie universe had stopped sud denly, and there was no more rest in that town until tlie ponderous ma chinery was again in motion. Then the inhabitants went to their couches and slept tlie sleep of tlie Just.” A little four-year-old friend of Polly’s was allowed to visit a school ono Fri day afternoon when there were to be recitations, music and readings to pass theafternoon pleasantly. The program went through without a hitch, then tlie teacher, out of compliment to the little stranger and to please tlie schol ars, asked her if she couldn’t speak a piece for them. She accepted tlie in vitation and toddled up on to tile plat form. Then her courage failed lier for a moment. Every little rhyme and bit of Jingle liad lieen forgotten. She stood looking at tlie sea of faces for a moment, when a happy thought struck her. She would say lier prayers. She recited them from beginning to end, but left off the “Amen.” “Sounded Just like a piece where you left off the‘Amen,’” she said afterward. BRIEF REVIEW Coal Mines in Ocean Depths. Coal mining is being carried on tills summer in the waters of Long Island sound. Scattered all along the shores of Long Island and Connecticut be tween New York and Montauk Point are the wrecks of coal barges and coal schooners that have been abandoned by their owners and by the insurance companies that had insured the car goes. During the past winter one of tlie submarine Isiats that lias been ex perimented with in the sound has lo cated a lot of the wrecks of coal barges while tlie work of testing tlie value of the boat was in progress. The wrecks were buoyed, and where there was proof that the owners of the cargoes had abandoned them the wrecks were charted. Since then a number of ven turesome capitalists have organized a company that will Siam get to work hauling the coal from these wrecks and sending it to markets where it may lie disposed of. We Need Macaroni Factories. After a successful endeavor to intro duce macaroni wheat into this country the Department of Agriculture is con fronted with the discouraging sequel that there is no factory at which to market the product. Macaroni; it should Is- explained, requires a certain species of hard wheat for its manufac ture. Efforts have been made to use the ordinary American wheat for this purpose, but they have not been en tirely successful, and at present nearly all the macaroni used is imported. The department sent abroad and secured from Algiers and Russia the particular kind of wheat used in the Italian and French macaroni mills, and has suc ceeded in making it grow in several parts of the West. Now the authorities say there is an opening for some bright young macaroni maker and an accom modating capitalist. Tlie song, “I Wish the Men Were all Transported Far Beyond the Northern Sea,” must have originated in Besju- kovselitseliina (the name is enough to rattle most men), a state in Russia. It is probably the only place in tlie world that is run entirely by women. The state is made up of seven villages, each All For Love. presided over by a mayoress, and the It was a runaway match. The young whole under the siqicrintendenee of a couple had nothing to live ou but love, and they grew thin on li, for the butch lady named Tasckka, who acts as pres er, bilker, etc., heartlessly refused to ident. There are women magistrates, Diamonds in Meteorites. barter any of the necessaries of life for woman preachers, women isilice, wom The largest iron meteorites come from a bit of love, and the landlady wouldn't en doctors, and in fact every capacity accept even a large slice of It for rent. in the state is filled with women. The the Canyon Diablo, in Arizona, and At last they were reduced to such ex roads are made by women, tlie women were discovered about ten years ago. treniltles that starvation stared them sell milk and deliver letters. If you Of this famous “fall” Professor Ward, In the face. When starvation does have a difficulty with your neighbor in the natural history collector, lias seven this, it, so to say, “puts you out of this state and want to bring an action large specimens and twenty or more countenance.” smaller ones. The surface of the larger “Oh. George." walled the young wife, you must go to a woman lawyer, and if ones is covered with indentations or there is anything in your house to be “what shall we do? I am so hungry'" “Alas, I know not, darling!” he sigh stolen, it is not the courageous man pits scooped out by the air through ed fondly but sadly, toying with her who does it, but a burglar of the fair which they fell, as if by a chisel. Some luxuriant tresses. sex. No place of any importance is times holes were thus bored entirely “But I know, George!” she suddenly filled by a man.” How intimidated through these openings, that the speci exclaimed after a pause. “Sell my the p<«>r men of this state must be. mens might lie suspended for more hair!” They hardly dare intimate that they effective display. The Canyon Diablo “What!” he almost shouted, with a meteorites are remarkable in being one horror stricken face. "Sacrifice your have a soul of their own. They are of tile two kinds tliat contain diamonds. back numbers, and are content to see lovely golden locks! Ruthlessly cut off The diamonds are black and micro the greatest ornament a woman can the women take the reins of govern possess? Never! Never! I will starve ment into their own hands. That the scopic, and have no commercial value. first!” women have succeeded in dispensing The Smallest Postoffice. “But, George,” she assured him, “It justice ina faithful and judicious way does not require cutting off. See!” The smallest, simplest and I test pro is admitted, and that they are prosper Anil she detached the glistening 3 ous in the seven villages is shown by tected isistolllce in tlie world is in the guinea switch from her head and laid statistics. Whether man-suffrage or Straits of Magellan, and lias been there it In his hand. for many years. It consists of a small That night tlie young couple supper 1 tlie right to vote has been given to the painted keg or cask and is chained to stronger sex tlie history of the place luxuriously, but still he was not happy fails to state. The woman-sutlragists tlie roeksof tile extreme cape in a man —Pearson's Weekly. of the United States ought to send ner so that it floats free opposite Tierra tluir fallen brothers a copy of their by del Fuego. Each passing ship sends a The Appeal to the liecord. Little Tommy returned sore nn<l laws. Evidently the women of Besju- boat to take letters out and put others trembling from the torture room. Jukovschtschina rule wisely ami well, in. This curious postofllce is unpro "Doesn’t your papa ever thrash for there seems to be no dissatisfaction vided with a postmaster, and is, there you?” he nsked Ills chum, who is the among the stronger sex, no pleading fore, under tlie protection of all the son of a cabinet minister. for their rights, but they are content to navies of tlie world. Never in tlie his "I should say not!” replied the other let politics and state affairs in general tory of the unique “office” have its loftily. “Every time he threatens to move on in the even tenor of their way, privileges been abused. cane me 1 rend him an extract from Ills grent peace nt any price speech In and have accepted the inevitable with College for Women in Japan. which he said: ‘These barbarians are a resigned and cheerful spirit. If they The rich Japanese family Mitsui lias like wayward children, but have we on want to figure in public life, hold office thnt account the right to take nway and take the reins of government into presented an extensive piece of ground their heaven sent privilege to do as their own hands, the world does not near Tokio for the purpose of founding they please? I.et us treat them ns w< know of their aspirations, for they a woman’s university. Threeother Ja would our own wayward childreu- panese gentlemen have subscribed tlie plead wlth them, beseech them, but never whisper it and keep the longing sum necessary for erecting university hidden within their own hearts. never coerce them with either gun or buildings. Tlie work lias lieen started, rod.’ ” “That’s a good deal to remember." re Children havequaint ways of express and it is hoped tliat tlie university will marked Tommy. ing themselves that are amusing, and be opened at an early date. Many lady “Yes. but now he’s got so used It yet at the same time we would not students are expected to join, many that he drops the cane as soon I have their artless baby talk and ideas Japanese ladies of good family having start.”—London Answers. cl hanged if we could. The following is assisted at tlie medical and polytechnic a 1 baby’s prayer, and if it did not reach lectures at the existing Japanese Uni versity. "As you went out,” whispered the the throne of grace, then there is no observing bonnier. “I saw you pick up chance fertile petitions of the grown-up The hat factories of the United State» something from the floor, tear It In a children. In her little white night give employment to 135,000 persona, dozen pieces and throw It lu the range. gown, dainty four-year-old (trace knelt who turn out a finished product valued Was it n love letter?” beside her crib and lisped: "Now I "No,” responded the practical board lay me down to sleep. Dear Mr. God at $26,000,000 annually. Of the gigan tic business New York lias the lion's er, “It was a little I took let telling how to prepare prunes in 99 different ways. I pray Thee take, if I should die liefore ahare, there being about $0,000,000 in I was afraid It might fall Into the I wake, this little child home to sleep.” vested in tile manufacture of hats and hands of the landlady.”—Philadelphia Her prayer has lieen answered, and she <*a|w and fully 2500 hands employed. has been taken home to sleep, but it The value of the trade in New York Record. has left a sorrowful and empty house last year was about $10,000,000. Suited tn a Tee. hold. Fox (to bear)—Come over tomorrow, Last year 11,000 tons of American and we'll play a game of golf on the Another little girl in saying her pray links. ers would say them so fast tliat st.e agricultural machinery was landed In Bear-All right. I don’t know wlint would get the words sadly Jumbled to Southern Russia. Three vessels arrived the game Is, but If there's any job you gether. She astonished her mother there recently witli 20,000 tons, in all can put up on the lynx I'ui In wit li one night by breaking off in the mid valued at $1,250,000. you. —Boston Herald. dle of her prayer and asking, “What Many scions of European royaly hold does ‘fashidie’ mean, mama?” “There The statistical returns of New Zea- isn’t any such word,” she replied. military coni nil as ions liefore they are land for the past year show that the “Course there is,” said the little one. old enough to walk. increase in the aiiminl value of the “Now I lay me down to sleep, fashidie The average height of an Englishman trade of the colony for the past live ‘fore I wake,” etc. Then it dawnod on is 5 feet 8j inches. »ears has been about £5.000.00“ the American Navy Is Better Fed '1 11Any Other Navy In the World. W lint It Costs the Ottlcers to Kan the Wardroom Me««. Tin- United states government gives Itx sailors only 30 cents a day each to live on. but tlie American navy is bet ter led than any other navy lu the wot! I. In fact, "Jacky” Ilves better than the a vet age mechanic on shore. A- Hie appetite of a seafaring man cannot lie appeased by angel food the provisions are of the most substantial kind. All mivul vessels are liable to lie sent on long voyages or to lie stationed where markets are inaccessible, and the stores purchased for the crew must be such ns will keep for a long time and not become damaged by changes of climate. Naturally salt pork, corned beef, hard tack, beans, flour, sugar, canned fruits and vegetables are car ried in large quantities aud must of ne cessity constitute the main part of the daily rations. With these staples as a basis many appetizing combinations can be made. At sea fresh meat and vegetables are not to be bad. but while in port or within reach of a market the navy regulations require the issu ance on certain days of these desirable additions to the food supply, in the olden days no fresh meat was Included In tlie navy ration, and “Jacky" was compelled to subsist largely on corned beef, known iu the sailor vernacular as "salt horse.” owing to the fact that some unscrupulous contractor at one time long ago passed off horseflesh for beef In a navy supply. The barrel lu which the salt meat Is kept is to this day known as the “harness cask.” The enlisted men are divided Into messes consisting of from 18 to 24 men each. Every mouth the mess elects one of Its number to tlie position of ca terer. and lie looks after all matters cu linary during Ills term. To him the dal ly allowances of staple foods are issued each morning by one of the paymas ter's men. known as the “Jack of the dust." presumably from his handling flour. The ship's cooks then prepare the supplies for the talde. Each mess is usually allowed from four to six commuted rations that is, the caterer Is given tlie value of such rations In cash and Is thus provided with a fund of from $30 to $54 per month with which to • tty fruits, vegetables, fish, butter and other Items which are not In- Imled In tlie list of articles furnished b.v the government. To furnish the table still further it Is customary for each man to "chip in” a dollar or two each month out of Ids own pocket. The old time shellbacks looked with glee upon a plum duff dinner, but such dainties as that seem commonplace to the new style navy men, who on holi days and frequently on Sundays have delicacies like roast turkey with cran berry sauce, celery, oranges, bananas and even ice cream. If "Jacky" lias one failing in the commissariat line, it Is Ills craving for pies of any constituency or nationality, lie will eat them on any occasion ami in any place. The ship's cook, if lie be ambitious, takes advantage of tills and makes up a tempting array of pies from materials which tie purchases from Hie paymaster and retnlls them to the sailors The government does not discrimi nate In the allowance for food supplies in the navv ns between officer ami en listed man Hint Is. It did not up to a year or two ago. when every man in the ship, from the admiral down to a Coal heaver, received 30 cents each day. New the discrimination Is tliat the coal heaver continues to draw liis 30 cents, while Hie admiral and nil other officers except the gunner, carpenter, pharma cist chief machinists and the naval cad. ts receive absolutely nothing for l heli subsistence on board ship. Many wlio visit naval vessels and are enter tained nt dinner or luncheon are heard to remark tliat the government pro vides very good living for its officers, not thinking that tlie entire cost of the repast lias come out of the officers’ own pockets The cost of an officer’s living on one of our vessels varies considerably. In a port where much entertaining lias to be done and where there are high priced markets the mess bill, as It Is called, sometimes runs as high as $35 or $40 a month for each officer and Is rarely less than $25 a month. This rep- rest its merely the actual cost of tlie food and the Incidental expenses of the mess, as the government furnishes all servants, crockery, fuel and table linen. In connection with this subject It may lie Interesting to note Hint the cap tain of a war vessel does not eat with tlie other officers, but lias a separate establishment for himself and is pro vided with a cook and a steward whose only duties arc to wait on him. On flagships the admiral nlso eats alone. The wardroom mess usually includes all officers above the grade of ensign and on most vessels consists of from 10 to 2t> members. Junior officers and naval cadets constitute another mess, known ns tlie steerage mess.—C. A. Mc Allister In Saturday Evening Post. A Kenforky Snaplclon. “Do you agree with the people who assert that milk Is not a wholesome ar dele of diet?” "Well.” answered Cotone) Stilwell, "I wouldn't like to make positive as sertions. but I have heard It rumored that they put a great deal of water Into It.”— Washington Star. The shadows of the mind are like those of tlie body In the morning of life they all lie behind us. at noon we trample them under foot and in the evening they stretch long, broad and deepening before us. At the German lighthouse of Alton- butch acetylene gas lias been experi mented wi.lt. ns the strongest petro leum light proved too weak for this station. It Is stated 111 German papers that the results were entirely satisfac tory. aud it Is expected that acetylene gas will now be used extensively for lighthouses. In the course of certain operations In the Belvedere park In Tunis the work men discovered a huge circle of enor mous stumps of trees ranged round an Immense square stone showing signs of artistic chisel work. __ SPRINKLING WAGONS. The Modern Ones n Ills Improvement on the Old Style. The modern sprinkling wagon Is very different from the old timer. The chief improvement is iu the spray head, which enables the driver to control the flow of water much better than the old style. Thus, whether It is a dirt or a macadam road or a stone paved or as phalted street, there can be supplied from the modern street sprinkler Just the amount of water required to lay the dust in it without waste. The spray head on each side lias its own valve rod running to the driver's seat, with a step there for the foot. The driver can operate both heads at once, or he can run only one head. He can shut off one or open either one at pleasure. With this sort of wagon tlie expeit driver leaves behind him dry crosswalks with perfectly defined lim its, and when lie comes to a carriage or a street car upon which lie doesn't want to throw water be shuts off the flow on that «Ide and keeps the other going. Sprinkling wagons are made in various sizes, ranging from 150 gallons to 1,000 gallons capacity. There arc 20 sprinkling wagons sold In this country nowadays where there were Was one sold only u few years ago. Tills great increase In their use is due In large measure to sanitary reasons, to the great extension of good roads and to the common desire for comfort. Sprinkling wagons are used nowa days commonly In many smaller towns and villages where they were never thought of some years ago. And Amer ican sprinkling wagons are now found all over tlie world wherever sprinkling wagons are used. They are exported to Australia, Cu ba. Porto Rteo, Soutli America, South Africa and Europe. The modern sprin kling wagon that the traveler chances to see in Paris or Berlin or Hamburg came very likely from the same factory as tlie one lie saw here liefore he left home going through Ills own home street.—New York Sun. BATH OF THE ORANGE. Tlie Fruit Need« Mach Groomlair Be fore It I m Heady For .Market. Fresh from the tree an orange is still very much alive, with tlie oil cells ex panded and the mystery of growth not yet suspended. Cut off from the sap supply, a change takes place. The skin draws closer to the pulp and gives off moisture tliat would cause sweating if the fruit were packed at once. But first these dust stained travelers must have a bath. By the bushel. If only this were the hunt of the good old bushel basket, the newcomers are dumped Into a long, narrow 14111k of water at one end of which Is a big wheel with a tire of soft bristles. Tlie wheel revolves so that the lower edge works In connection with another set of brushes In a small er tank below, and the oranges, after bobbing about in the big tank, pass lie tween the wet brushes and come out bright and clean. This washer Is a neat machine and does away with the more primitive yet picturesque method of hand washing. At some of the smaller packing houses may HtIII be seen groups of wo men. sometimes white, sometimes brown skinned, each with a tub of wa ter and brush, scrubbing busily away at, the yellow plies that never seem to grow less till tlie last hour of the day. After tfielr bath the oranges are spread out in tlie sun to dry on long, slanting rucks. At Hie lower end they roll off Into boxes, to he carried away to the warehouse for tlieir rest. An orange needs a deal of grooming. It would seem, before it Is ready for market The washing was not enough. There must be a brushing too. And after the days of curing the oranges are fed Into a hopper which drops them single tile on to a belt that runs be tween revolving cylindrical brushes, tills for a smooth, shiny look.—Los An geles Herald. CHOICE MISCELLANY FACTS IN FEW LINES A Queer Loudon Organisation. There \v.i u peculiar aud significant conferemv the other afternoon at St. George's hall. Westminster Bridge road, a conference of husbands met to gether for the purpose of devising some method of protecting men affiicted with drunken wives. The outcome was tlie formation of a protection society for such unfortunate husbands. The seriousness of the subject In volved was duly emphasized by the promoter of the meeting, whose sad ex perience had been, he informed the conference, that during his 24 years of married life he had been compelled to buy Ills home back from the pawnbro kers four limes over owing to the In temperate habits of bis wife. Many thousands of husbands, he add ed, were In a state of abject slavery. Horae after home had been rendered miserable by the overindulgence of women in alcoholic liquors. It was urged that while the wife had redress against the husband the latter had no remedy against the wife, who could pledge his furniture or break up his home at will. Having formed themselves into a protection society, the husbands passed a resolution In favor of amending the bishop «f Win cheater’s bill so as to reach drunken wives. This will be forwarded to the prime minister, the home secretary, the bishop of Winchester and various mem bers of parliament.—Exchange. American Telephoue« Abroad. An American house, one of the lar gest manufacturers of telephones and supplies In the world, recently received an extensive order for telephones and switchboards to be used In the new telephone system of London. The or der, which is said to amount to nearly $1,000,000, was received from the Brit ish government through the company’s London house. The company’s New York manager says: "The orders thus far received are merely advance orders. We expect larger ones. It was reported that our contract amounted to $5,000,000. Thnt was an exaggeration, but it is quite within the bounds of possibility that the orders will soon grow to that pro portion. "I don't believe any English firms complained because we received or ders, for there Is no house in England able to till sueli an extensive contract for telephones and switchboards. It will largely depend on the government whether the telephone ever becomes as popular in London as it is here. “There are 60,000 telephones in New York, while In London there are less than 20.000. Tliat Is due to the poor service as compared with ours.”—Lon don Mail. Men- York’s Pie Market. More pies are made In New York than In any other city In the world. The daily output of the regular pie factories Is In excess of 125.000. The pie baking record was held by Boston until two years ago. The pie habit Is growing on New Yorkers. The biggest pie factory In the coun try turns out 20,000 pies a day. There are scores of smaller factories which turn them out Uy the carload dally. The work Is under tlie direction of au expert baker, who receives a large sal ary. These factories claim to use tlie very best materials in making pies. Until recently there was a prejudice against factory pies, but this is disap pearing. Tlie most popular pie I b tliat made of apples. For years Its popularity lias not lieen shaken. The standard pies next to apple are lemon nnd custard, rumpkin pies are In great demand in tlie fall and mince pies In the winter. I’cach pies are the most popular after these. Until the factory made pie ap peared New York was several times lion Piccadilly Wan An tiled. It’s curious bow the names of towns threatened with serious pie famines. and streets come from something that Coat of Collealate Rowlaf. has lieen the fashion of the day. Who Tlie annual cost of a big university knows where the word "Piccadilly” originated from, the name of that won crew under present training methods derful street of which it is written is from $6.000 to $10.000. This does thin "some make love and some make not include the amount spent from poetry lu Plccndlll?” The street was time to time for Improvements and built by a tailor named Higgins, whose new equipment. It cost $8,000 to put fortune was made In a kind of collar Cornell crews on the water last year, called Piccadel or Plckadlll or Picca- and nearly as much will be spent (Dis dilley. which was worn by nil the beaus season. The principal expense is the of the day. Of course it is not meant salaries of the professional head coach that the street as It stands today was nnd the expert boat builder. These built by turn, but he erected a few two Items alone cannot cost less than houses to which he gave the name the $2,500. A steam launch Is kept In com street now bears. mission for three months every year at a cost of $500. The training table costs A Tlioronuhbred. tlie navy management $1,200. although Don’t be a thoroughbred. A thor the men p:iy part of their board. Then oughbred Is well enough In cnttle nnd there Is the tinal expense of $1,400 for hogs, but very disgusting among men. race week. Tills Includes transporta for tlie reason that among men a thor tion to the point of meeting for men, oughbred mentis a man who devotes shells and launch and tlieir sustenance too much time to having fun. to being while there. Frank Leslie’s Popular a good fellow. .Make a specialty of re Monthly. liability, Industry, fairness. Make your specialty a worthy one. Instead of World'« Larireat Moose Head. seeing how late you can stay out at The American museum at New York nlglit go to lied nt regular hours. Sleep has just received aud will soon put on will do you more good than a good exhibition after being mounted what time. There Is no better man than tlie is thought Io lie the largest moose head good citizen, the good husband, the in the world. The antlers of tills great good father, the good soli. A thorough fallen monarch have the enormous bred Is never noted In these directions. spread of 74 Incites, more than euougli • Atchison Globe. to take in Hie figure of an average size man. Made a Hail Matter Worse. This head is tlie result of a natural The honeymoon was over, and they ist expedition sent out by the museum were comfortably settled In their snug which traversed Alaska and the arctic little home. The husband, returning regions for the purpose of obtaining from business, was grieved to find his specimens of fast disappearing big little wife crying bitterly. game. “Oh, George." she sobbed, “a dread This monster in life Is said to have fill tiling Ims happened! 1 had made stood some 22 hands high, larger than you a beautiful pie all by myself, nnd nn ordinary horse, and weighed In the Fldo went nnd ate It.” neighborhood of 2,000 pounds. The “Well, never mind, my dear," lie said n verage moose weighs from 800 to 900 cheerfully. "We can easily afford an pounds, and tlie antlers measure only other dog.”- Exchange. 40 to 50 in-’hes across.______ Poaiahment and Reward. The orange came to Europe from At Whenever 11 certain Atchison boy Is rlea In the eleventh century. Sir Wal bad. Ills mother makes him put on his ter Raleigh brought It to England In Bunday clothes. She tluds thnt tills Is the sixteenth century. it was first punishment enough, though It Is re planted In Australia In 1788. ward for her girls when they lieiiave.— A peculiar archieologieal <llscov"r> Atchison Globe. Is reported at Pleguien. near St. Brieuc. While working In his fields a farmer named Pierre Lefevre disco», Most I'nrlooa Thin«. Mrs. Quizzer iwlio wants to know ered a cavity In the clay lu which everything) Now. wlint do you eon were 180 bronze axes of grent nutlqul sider to lie the most curious thing you ty. The field Is elose to an old main road, and antiquaries believe It was ever saw, profeasor? Professor Trotter A woman.madam. part of the slock of a Celtic merchant, as all the axes are the same size. — Harlem Life. Ireland produces 140,000,000 yards of linen a year to England's 45,000,000. Gibbon says that sugar was first brought from Asia to Europe A. D. 825. All efforts to Induce artificial humidi ty In cotton spinning factories have failed. The quill peus now used In England come from Germany aud the Nether lands. In Turkey when the present sultan plays chess even business of state must waft. The Salvation Army Is at work In 47 countries and has 55 periodicals printed in 21 languages. About a dozen hospitals In Massa chusetts have both allopathic aud homeopathic physicians on the staff. The secretary of state for India has sanctioned a scheme for five large cen tral asylums for the Insane in India. At Wlttkiel, near Kappeln, In Sles- wick, there ts a successful Installation for generating electricity from a wind mill. The growing demand for women In the factories of Germany Is bringing the servant girl problem more and more to the front. It has been calculated that the hair of the beard grows at the rate of 1*4 lines a week. This will give a length of G*4 Inches In the course of a year. A new law requires that there be kept constantly on hand at the bnrean of engraving and printing at Washing ton 100,000.000 2 and 20,000,000 1 cent stamps. Englaud Imported last year nearly a million pounds of calcium carbide, about two-thirds of which came from France and about one-fifth from the United States. A curious effort In behalf of temper ance Is noted on the part of the Belgian government. A prize has been offered for the best picture showing the evils of drunkenness. The total number of women over 18 years old employed In the factories and workshops of the British Islands is about 500,000, of whom 11 per cent be long to trades unions. The medals won by Canadians who helped to sustain British military su premacy in South Africa are to be pre sented by the Duke of Cornwall and York when be arrives in Canada. Great Salt lake is beginning to show the drain upon It due to Irrigation and Is receding. A canal to the lake from the head waters of the Snake river has been suggested as a possible remedy. Since William IV’s time the organ of Hampton Court House In London has been blown by some member of the family named Mlllest, but In future It Is to be b’own by hydraulic pressure. One Yarmouth mussel of deteriorat ed character contained no fewer than 3,000,000 of harmful bacteria, while the water iu the shell was certified to contuiu 803,200 bacteria of the colon bacilli type, the forerunner of typhoid. Visitors to the Pan-American exposi tion at Buffalo will have an opportuni ty of seeing a small building made of aluminium. This lightest of metals is manufactured at Niagara Falls with the electricity which Is generated there In large quantities. The use of acetylene abroad Is very much more general than It Is In this country. As an instance the Holland Railway company Is erecting at Am sterdam a factory for the production of carbide, their Intention being to employ acetylene for car lighting. Just as stone and brouze have given place to Iron, so shall iron give place to aluminium. The people may not call It aluminium, but some shorter name, aud there is coming an age when the white metal will surpass all the previous ages of man’s development. During the last national fete at Lima the public square where the principal outdoor demonstrations took place was lighted by 348 large acetylene burners having a total Intensity of some 18,000 caudle power. In addition there were 3,500 gas flames and 1,200 Incandescent lamps. There are few Socialists In Iowa, but Eugene Debs polled 1,643 votes in the Hawkeye State last year for president. Of these 540 were cast in Scott county, which includes the city of Davenport, with a considerable German popula tion. The vote for Woolley, Prohibi tionist, In Scott county was only 66. So far as the British regular army Is concerned there are ten battalions the men of which wear kilts. In addi tion to these there are several volun teer battalions in Great Britain and a few others outside the United King dom, such as the Cape highlanders and the Forty-eighth highlanders of Toron to, Canada. The historic plains of Abraham, near Montreal, have been appraised by an expert in the pay of the Dominion gov ernment. He declares the land to be worth $137,000 as real estate. The Ursuline nuns, who own the land, offer to sell for $30,000 if the government will give them another piece of prop erty worth $50,000. Grape fruit Is no longer a luxury for the rich alone. The market for It has widened materially, and Its culture Is growing rnpldly In Florida, particular ly on the Indian river nnd along the Florida East Coast railroad. The fruit is grown on the same kind of land as oranges and is cared for. harvested and packed In the same manner. One-sixth of the entire area of Colo rado Is excluded from the application of the homestead law. according to at torneys nnd land agents. Colorado is recognized by many as one of the most desirable states In which to locate, but Investigation shows that government land In a large part of the state can be taken up ouly through the desert land act, as mineral or under the timber and stone act. In any event the settler Is obliged to pay at least $1.25 an acre for the land The Casino at Monte Carlo, the most gorgeous gambling establishment In the world, was opened by M. Blanc, a famous gambling resort organizer. In 1863. He offered the late Prince Flor- latan II of Monaca $2,400,000 and an annual rent of $30,000 for the use of the Casino for gambling purposes, and It was accepted. Engineers have taken a hint from the beaver In building a dam with an arch facing the current. It Is said that they are indebted to the clam for the Idea of using a water jet In sinking piles In sand.
