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.