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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1902)
Bohemia Nu&get X.CK yT. HKOTIY, Kdttor snd rrop'r. OOTTAGB GROVE. . . .OREGON. Observe tlie promotion of Wu Ting- fang and never mnko fun of the uinn "Who ask question. Along come tbo nx trust, tt wilt bo followed by tho hammer trust Then What will tho knocken do) There la a rumor In Vienna that T,co- pold "U suffering from a mental aber ration." Austria Is catching up to the new. The defunct peanut trust might hare known that It couldn't corner the prod uct, with 10 many peanut politicians In actlre competition. The English name rhtholopnyrrh Is pronounced Turner. Yet we wonder that England Is falllug behind In tho mad race for wcaltbt It has been found that antitoxin will cure rattlesnake bites. It Isn't likely, howcTcr, that the new cure will niako much headway In Kentucky. What does It matter If the Missouri Valley Homeopathic Association did pass a resolution condemning the kiss? who cares for kissing In homeopathic doses, anyway? The superintendent of the public schools says good spellers are born and not made. Still, most of them hare to learn more or less before they get along Tory far. Only a few playmates of Queen Vic toria are living now. According to the number of them that have died recent ly she must have bad a large circle of acquaintances as a little girl. Porto Rico had a lively campaign. At least half a dozen men were killed In election rows. After this who can doubt the fervor of the Porto Itlcans In their desire to be thoroughly American? The succession of patriots does not fall. Aj Secretary Ilay said to the Grand Army men In Washington, "The men of to-day are as good Americans as the men of yesterday, and the men of to-morrow, with God's blessing, will be the same" Our compliments to that German prince who has made an offer for Miss Goelet, and we beg to say that our girls never marry unless they think tbey lore, although. In the case of titled foreigners, they sometimes act on insufficient evidence. The wear and tear on the tires of a heavy automobllo Is reckoned by one expert to be equal to four or Ave cents a mile, which Is more than the cost of fuel. When fines for exceeding the speed limit and damages for accidents caused by frightened horses are added to the cost of the sport. It will be seen that the ordinary citizen must still con tent himself with a special train. "A beautiful building." Bishop Potter once said of a modern but medieval looking church he had been asked to dedicate, "with only three faults: you cannot see In It, you cannot bear In It, you cannot breathe In It." When the question for debate Is why church-go-fng Is on the decline, let the disputants not forget to look Into the matters of church lighting, acoustics and ventila tion. The Indian should bare been taught to do something, lie should have been trained along practical lines even while be was making a scholar of himself. If be developed a peculiar aptitude for languages, some particular science or blgh art, then It might have been well enough to encourage him In every pos sible manner to broaden and All him self, lie, like many others, has been taught to make a show and scatter, and In this day and time the last state of such graduate Is worse than the first Captain Otto Sverdrup, the Swedish Arctic explorer, who returned from the polar regions about the same time as Robert E. Peary, has been invested by King Oscar of Sweden with the grand cross of St. Olaf, and by Emperor Will lam with the Prussian Order of the Grown of the first class. In addition, a pension of $810 a year bas been settled upon him In Sweden. This is the way they recognize achievement in Europe. .When Peary receives the honors and re wards he deserves we will make note thereof. One thing that the census tells us Is that the Indians are not only not dis appearing, but that they actually have Increased 30,000 since 1600. Those who Juggle with figures say, also, that there are quite as many Indians in the coun try to-day as there were when It was discovered. Taking this Into considera tion with the wars they have gone through, not only with the white men, but between themselves, we shall have to readjust our previous opinions and acknowledge that after all they are n pretty tough, enduring nation. Tourists in Switzerland will soon bave a choice of sensational experi ences. If tbey do not care to climb Mont Blanc, they may make a "sub merged excursion" In a submarine boat In Lake Geneva, The boat will travel twenty-five miles under water and a mite and a half on the surface, tick ets for the trip will cost twenty-five dollars, and each passenger will re ceive a life Insurance policy for twenty-five hundred dollars. The guaranty of Insurance Is not, perhaps, so reas suring as It was meant to be; but as a whole the proposition conveys a pleas ing suggestion that submarine voyages are ceasing to be experimental and be coming safe. President Patton of Princeton declar ed before his recent resignation that our national conscience Is ra Imminent danger on account of the great desire for luxury and wealth which Is pervad ing this country to the detriment of all other ambitions. It cannot be dcnlcJ that prosperity has Its perils and that a dulling of the conscience as to the jatan and method of gaining wealth Is not the lent among them. It la doubtless true that the mere published statements of tho vast sums' of money accumulated by certain Individuals In those days and tho still vaster amou-its represented In the capitalisation of cer tain trusts ami "combines," have tho effect unon some minds of arousing d.s content, Inordlnato desire, and reckless ambition. The corollary of all this would seem to be not to make an end of tirosuorlty or oven of largo nccumti lations of wealth, since these things, on tho whole, work for good rather than cvIL but to press forward more stren uously than ever In the development of higher Ideals among men, In the en forcemcnt of sound morals and puro religion, by which men are taught that tho highest and most enduring nnppl ncss comes not through riches, but throuch right living. If wo nro to fortify ourselves as a nation nud people against the Insidious workings of that spirit of greed, selfishness and sordid commercialism, springing out of the possession of wealth aud Its lux urles. It can ouly be by a still greater Insistence upou those forms of educa tion making for the development of the spiritual nature. Leslie s Weekly. A correspondent of the.. Bookman calls attention to the remarkable Im provemeut In tho mechanical and artla tic makeup of American books In the last decade or two, especially In Juve- nllo works. The illustrations In the children's books of twenty years ago wero Indeed "something fearful nud wonderful to behold" as compared with the averagb Juvenile volume of the present year. In spite of the enormous Increase In the number and variety of children's books, the Illustrations In most of them arc highly creditable. Many of the best artists in tho country are devoting their talents to this kind of work. The fact ! ono of happy nn gury for the artistic sense of tho rts Ing generation. Even the Improvement In Illustrations and binding, however, Is not so remarkable as the Increase In the number of Juvenile books anuu ally put upon the market An exam lnatlon of the publishers' announce ments shows that the list of new Juve nile books Is considerably larger than that of new fiction for adults. Most of these volumes find a profitable market for the publishing of children's books has proved to be a profitable branch of the trade. The next generation will be a generation of omnivorous readers. It a multiplicity of Juvenile books can educate them Into that habit Wheth- er this Is a desirable consummation Is another question. It Is by no means certain that tho phenomenal Increaso In the amount of Juvenile fiction Is a matter for congratulation. The aver age story for boys or girls Is fully as ephemeral as the average adult novel. Happily there Is every reason to be lieve that the boys and girls do not ac tually read as much as the large sales of Juvenile books would Indicate. The sales Indicate the gift-giving propensi ties of prosperous parents and friends rather than the reading habits of the children. The latter as a rule pay more attention to the pictures than to the text except where the stories are read to them. For this reason he increasing excellence of the Illustrations Is most fortunate. Cod liver oil taken Internally will In crease the weight evenly, provided It does not disagree with the stomach of the person taking It For Brlght's disease eat meat once a day; take plenty of fruits, milk, soups and vegetables. Avoid all Intoxicants, and take after meals a tablespoonful of emulsion of cod liver oil. If the Sow of saliva Is excessive dur ing sleep, wash the mouth out three times dally with borolyptol one part. and water four parts. After meals take capsule composed as follows; Sul phate of strychnine, one milligram; phosphate of Iron, fifteen centigrams; sulphate of quinine, three centigrams. The outbreak of bolls should be check ed by drinking a glass of milk with a raw egg beaten up In It twice a day. After meals take n teaapoonful of com pound syrup of hypophospbltes with a tablespoonful of emulsion of cod liver U. Morgan Does Give Tips. My tlp3 to servants on tho Oceanic amounted to $13," said a traveler who came over with J. Plerpont Morgan. The rule Is to give $2.50 to the table steward, $2.50 to the bedroom stew ard, $1 to the bathroom steward, $2 to the check steward, 2 to the smok ing-room steward, $1 to tbo shocsblno steward and $5 to the chief steward, In case be bas performed special cour tesies. As these special courtesies were wanting on my trip, I cut tho chief steward out and gave the deck steward $4 because he took excellent care of me, reserving the best placo for my steamer chair, etc. I saw Mor gan glvo the chief steward $100, and It as generally understood among the help that all would fare In proportion. guess be gave tbo table steward 150." Dotrolt News. Who's Move? When Stelnltz, the chess player, lived In Vienna obo of bis pupils In the gamo was uustave Epstein, among tno rich- eai uausurs' ui uju Auoirmu cupiiui. Waterloo. Ono day tbo teacher puzzled over n po- instead', be sighed, nnd told of sltlon so long that Epstein said, Impa- Mueller's previous defeat at Llgny, and tlcntly: "Welir But soon tbo bank-' gad that as a result there could be lit er himself was In a bole, nnd bis too- ti i,i.o for Wellington. The eloomv prolonged meditations wero Interrupted ' with n ilpRrpsnpptflll "IViillJ" "HI- 1 ...... - - - -..., don't forget who you nro nnd what I am," said Epstein, angrily, but Stelnltz viuricu. wu mo uuurse you are up-1 stein nnd I am Stelnltz; over tho board I am Epstein nnd you nro Btoinltz." j Nashville American, OPINIONS OF GREAT Dad Spelling. NLY BO out of HI freshmen at tht Northwestern Uni versity were able to puna nn cxautlnatlcu In Kpelltntf. They were tested with ordinary words, not with dlitlcult and perplexing ones; and the test was too much for most of them. Probsbly slutlUr laminations at almost any o American university woukl show substantially the same re sults. Spelling Is tiot an accomplishment In which eoltexe youth excel. Nor do the graduates of tlie common schools dis tinguish themselves In this useful, but now somewhat super ciliously regarded branch. The letters of the average public school graduate or university graduate are likely to be prolific In bad spelling. Prof. Clark, of the Northern University, says the trouble U with the so-called "scientific" method of teaching spelling. The public school turn out graduates great peine how not to spell. The undergraduates anil gradu ates of the colleges probably spell a little or considerably worse than the public school children. But the great thing Is the method. Nothing can equal the nllr which the enthuslatta of the new children who have learned to spell without reliance uiwn it. Spelling Is nothing; method la everything. itmf. when we come across a fnntastlc or The worse he spells, the more superior Is the method by which he came to that pre-eminence aa a muddler and twister of orthography. New York Sun. Tho Bible-Reading Habit. HE Boston Herald, apesklng especially of New Eng- T land, says that not many years ago "orators eonld make no point more certain of Instant appreciation than one which turned on an Illustration from the Bible, even from Its leant read portions. Nowadays It Is hardly safe for a popular orator to venture on any allusion outside of the gospels and the Psalms." The reason why it is "hardly nafe" Is that Bible reading has become obsolete in many families, so that quotations from the Scriptures are not recognised by the masses. We tumiect there Is much truth In thst statement. Tlie exodus of the native stock contemporaneously with the Influx of forvlgners has caused many changes In New Luglnud and Is largely responsible for this one. But that Is not the onlr explanatory fact. Formerly the average family had but few books and no dally papers. This gave the Bible a better chance than It has In these dsys of cheap printing, free libraries, a multiplicity of newspaper, an infinite variety of weekly and monthly publications alt at Insignificant prices and a vastly Improved waning of the good old habit or reading the Hlble Is regretta ble on other than religious grounds. Ignorance of the Scrip tures disqualifies one for appreciative reading of many of the best paces In general literature. To Income a fairly will- educated man or woman, a boy or girl should become familiar with the Bible anil with rural scenery and out such helps much of the best of the world's literature It but a desert waste. Washington Post Universal Language Again. IN the Educational Science Section of the British Association. Sir Frederick Brsmwell took down from a high shelf thst out-worn dcbai'ng society topic, "A Universal Language," Justed it carefully, and tried to aet it In a new and attractive light The learned baronet eschews Volspuk, snd thst must be accounted unto bim for wisdom: but in point of practicality his suggestion that England, France, Germany and the United States should agree upon one language, unlverssl use in commerce nnd literature, advance of the proposal that the nations own tongues In favor of a common gibberish, however scien tifically bssed and built We csnnot. in our mind's eye, picture the pushful bagmsn of Chicago studying an Italian grammar In his spare moments at a quick-lunch counter, or his Glasgow rlvsl taking evening classes at the Athenaeum. Are we not freouentlr advised that the Latin races are their languages arc doomed to extinction? AN INHABITED INHABITED Bill DOE IN THE KWANO TUNO PROVINCE. At Chau-Cbau Fu, In Kwang-Tuug, there Is an extraordinary bridge, which at once attracts the rare tourist who finds bis way to the town. For one thing it Is an Inhabited bridge, and the inhabitants have not only chosen a site In which they obtain more fresh air than Is usually to the taste of a Chinaman, but havo embellished their ramshackle box dwellings with lltle pot-gardena. A market, too, la regularly held on this bridge. But the greatest peculiarity about tlTe struc ture It the pair of hurdles which we see suspended in mid-air. At nightfall they are let down, like a portcullis, to the level of the stream, not at you would Imagine, to bar the passage of stray cattle, but to keep devils from going through. The Chinaman, though described oftn as a materialist, has a profound belief that the air is full of wandering spirits, and the notion that foreigners are a kind of devil Is due not only to their light hair and un-Chlneie features, hut to the very fact that they have wandered awny from home. PROFITED BY WATERLOO. Nathan Rothschild Made - Ix Million Dollars a lfetilt of Battle. There Is probably no more pictur esque and unique bit of financiering In history than that by which Nuthan I IIUIUBCJJIIU UJUUV fW,WV ua u ,iu, of the battle of Waterloo. The story Is told by Henry Clewa In bis book, "Twenty-eight Years In Wall Street" Itotbscblld bad followed Wellington during bis campaign against Napoleon, nnd nt Waterloo the "man of money" sat like a soldier In a shower of rain and bullets, watching tho battle. As soon as be observed the arrival of Hlucher and the rout of tbo French, Itotbscblld set spurs to bis horse and rode swiftly to Brussels. A carriage whirled bltn to Ostcnd, and the next morning be was at the Belgian coast The sea was so rough tbat be had to 1 pay $500 to n boatman to carry blm across the channel, and be landed at Dover In the evening. The next morn ing be was In London before the open ing of the Stock Exchange. It was known that be bad come direct from Wellington, and must havo the latest I news. He bad outstripped all tho cou riers and messengers of tbo nation. I There was no telegraph then. In an swer to the anxious Inquiries for tbo T I ... 1. .... 1 . 1 1 ... .1 . . riiA lV.fl na n waul, II news of Wellington, liotnscliliu ais- creetiy aia nothing of the battle of report caused a panic on tbo exchange, , i. - .nn.t. t..l Hr.....i.. mm wuen t u c uiu.nv. mwu iruwucu tuv bottom Nathan Itotbscblld bought ev crytblng that he could find money for Bij being done quietly inrougn nia brokers. Then came the news of tbo battle of Waterloo, England's victory, the final defeat of Napoleon. Securities PAPERS scale? It seems tracked to the learned sway from a purely Glasgow Herald. T who have learned with of vlror. Tht ! haa the will power mar not lie able at method bestow upon I.et us rememtier blundering speller. Detroit News-Tribune. 0: F the 23,391 foreat tires, Probably m other the Irrigation of postal service. The country life. With such ss Italian, for is not very much in should discard their moribund, and tbat So far ss the Isn- BRIDGE IN CHINA. of all kinds went up with a rush, and Nathan Itotbscblld, being well stocked nt small cost, made great profits; about $0,000,000. He was one of the live Rons of the original Mayer Anselm Itoths child, who began bis career In n llttlo money-loaning shop In Frnnkfort, Ger mnny, and founded tho richest family In tbo world, Le'slle's Weekly. MILLION8 FROM COTTON8EED. What Wat Once Deemed a Nuisance Is Now a Boarce of Profit. One of the romances of tho census Is tho story of tho cottonseed oil and the millions of dollars It yields annual ly, whero a few years ago tho seed was a nuisance, outlawed by tho States of the cotton belt In tho Mississippi laws of 1857 was one Imposing a fine of $20 for every day that cottonseed was left around a glnhouso to menace public health. In 1870 a process for extracting oil from cotton seed bad been discovered, and a product worth $14,000 was realized. What was deemed a nui sance In 1837 continued to prove valu able through Invention, until In tho census year of 1000 It gave a return to tbo mill operators of ovor $42,411,000, Cottonseed oil Is used on tho tnblo, rivaling that of tho olive and threat ening to drive tbo latter from the mar ket. Tho oil nlso enters Into soap and butter making, says tbo New York Commercial, ond Is burned In miners' lamps. The bulls are used In making paper, fuel and. fertilizer, whiie enor mous quantities of tbo seed Itsolf find a mnrket as food for cattle. Every candid man must occasionally admit that the churches would have a bard time getting along If no one gave more than be did. There Is nothing like politics to un mask a man's egotism. ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS guage of commerce Is concerned. Is not tht rivalry bttween Knillah and German, to the exclusion of other tongues, with the weight of American Influence thrown Into the English prohable that the considerable audience at baronet's lecture by curiosity went empty academic discussion, which Invariably walks round the primary philological principle that languags Is a growth and not the product of any process of manufacture. Tho Demon of Worry, HE demon of worry seems to Invade almost tvery home, and more frruuently seeks out at Its victim the mother of tht family, with all her cares snd vexations, worry leaves tht system exhausted, and the mind suffers Iota habit, however, may be cured, If only one to assert the fact and then keep to It. Thera in many practical ways In which tills can lie done, mi la to restrain the outward expression of the feeling Itself, W.s ence to ssy, "Peace, be still," to every sni jcty that wells up within ua, but we can by effort reprets Its exhibition. We need not pour out our fancied woe Into another's ear; we need not carry a dismal countenance with which to afflict our neighbors; we can at least keep our worries within our own breasts, and aa a plant that It shut out from fresh air will soon wither, so these anxieties and fears. If de nted an outlet, will lose much of their Innate force. Let ua encourage the cheerful smile, the frank, clear look, tht hearty hand grasp, the cordial Interest In those we meet, and while shedding brightness upon others, we shall find many of our own worries slipping away even from our own anxious hoarta. Irrcgatlon and Deforestation. square miles of primeval forest not long arc existing In the State of Washington nearly one-third has been destroyed, and the major part of tht portion de stroyed by tire. That report was made before tht recent which nave awept on some thousands nl miles more. What haa thus been done and la being done In Washington haa been and la being done In nearly every State. country In the world wst ever so rapidly, so recklessly and so disastrously deforested as tht United Mate. Now, here la the grimly Ironical significance of the situation. While a national Irrigation congress la being held to promote arid landa, and while vast sums of public money are about to le spent for that purpose, recxtesi snd criminal men are making other landa arid at a atlll more rapid rate. The so-called lumberman, wlio wastes ten times aa much as he marketa, nnd the man whom we shall not venture to characterise who wantonly sets fire to forests, are doing more harm In one year than all the Irrigation promoters can undo In ten. It Is a good thing to water land. It It a better nnd s wiser thing to protect watered land from becoming arid. Mill ions of acres of the best farming land In America, hitherto amply supplied with moisture, are now menaced with drouth because of reckless timber cuttlug and forest Area. Turn the water on desert lands by all means. But let nt not cut off the water supply of the fertile regions. New York Tribune. Pasa'ng of tho Cloy Pipe. IT Is curious how the long clay pipe haa dropped out of usage. But Its tradition lingers. Last evening sn American dining tt an old-fashioned Fleet street Inn which trades on Its tur vital, called for a long clay and smoked it In the belief tbat he was doing la London aa London does. But the man who wants to buy long clsys would be puiiled where to find them. Yet thirty ytars ago there wss not a provincial town without Its shop devoted exclualvely to the aalt of specially manufac tured clay pipes, snd the business wss a flourishing one. The long city, of course. Is a serious thing, and, unlike tht cigarette, csnnot be combined with walking or writing. That perhaps la the explsnatlon of Its present disfavor with smokers. London Chronicle. POOR MEN KEEP 8ECHET8. Refute to Divulge Them, Though Tempted with Much Wealth. Some men poor In this world's goods bold secrets tbat are worth fortunes, but refuse to divulge them, though tempted by the prospect of money enough to enable them to pass the re mainder of their Uvea In ease aud lux ury. In England there Is a small cot tages among the marshes on the Thames which holds a secret that RussTa offered $200,000 for less than ten years ago. It Is tho spot tbat Is the key to tbo situation of the sub marine mines, guarding tho world's metropolis. It Is situated .among doz ens of similar structures and five men who go to and from their dally work like ordinary beings alone know which It Is and how the electric switch-board It contains can bo so manipulated as to sink a powerful fleet In ten min utes. At a certain seaport on tho cast coast of England 'thcro lives a grocer who could let his premises to a European power at a rental of thousands of dollars a year If be chose. Adjoining his cellars are tho passages communi cating with tho mines which control the entrance to the harbor, and even he Is not permitted to gratify bit cu riosity, for sovcral sets of doors fitted with secret locks defy the Intrusion of any unauthorized Individual. Whenever a secret treaty Is arranged between this country nnd foreign pow ers It Is duly "set up" nnd printed by government printers long before the public has any Idea tbat negotiations are In progress. The printers are paid no exorbitant wages for their silence, though any ono of them could sell tho heads of the treaty to a foreign nation for a small fortune. In an American battle-ship thcro are said to bo over 500 secrets, any one of which would command a fabulous price If put up for sale. In building tho ship a small army of workmen are engaged, to whom the mnjorlty of these secrets are perfectly lucid. But, In spile of tho fact that their wages average about $20 n week, It Is an unheard of occurrence for a piece of secret Information to leavo a dock yard. The postmaster of a smnll village In Ohio owns a secret which many un scrupulous folk would pny much to know. His name Is Gustnvo Francks, and, being nn experienced chemist, he lilt upon a method of removing In It stnlus from used postage stamps n short time ago, and to bis credit bo It snld that ho laid tho discovery be fore tbo government. Ho was offered $50,000 for his silence, a brlbo which ho stoutly refused on tho grounds that bis honesty was abovo price, I English Fakirs In India. Ill British India tbero bavo been dur ing tho last thirty or forty years qulto , a number of Englishmen wbo, yield-1 Ing to somo monomania, bavo adopted the rolo of fakir and havo ended their days as hermits, subjecting themselves to nil tlioeo dreadful forms of oscet- icistn ana or penance practiceu uy tue Indian dervishes. No matter bow poor a man Is, he seems to think that ho Is rich enough to engago a hack to rldo to the court house when bo gets his license. A VV IIUTW I.V i Savage Bushmen A strnngo experience was (tint of Jo seph J. Gill, unco n resilient of llrook lyu, whii illud recently on shipboard nnd vm burled nt sea, llu disappeared tunny years ago, nnd, supposing him dead, bis wlfo lunrrted again and raised it family, mid, acting upon tho reported death of Ills llfst wife, Gill bad also ngulii married, Had he lived to reach his old homo In Itrooklyn tho reunion probably Would lmvo been un paralleled In fact or fiction. GUI's adventures In Australia would scarcely sound credible If presented In a dlmo novel, llu left" New York for Australia Iu.l8.sil, After bis arrival no word of hi m found lis way to his anx ious relatives for four years. Menu, while ho was given up as dead. Four years later nuws reached Brooklyn rel atives that hn was alive, nud some cor respondence followed. Gill was tho son of the Into Thomas (llli; a Brooklyn soup iiniiiufiicturcr. His mother, Mrs. Isabella Gill, of Greene nvenue, Brooklyn, and a broth, er, Thomas GUI, nro nl III living, Joseph Gill left New York to look after some mining Interests In IHSii. Four yenrs Inter the family received word from tho Hulled States consul at Sydney, N. S. W that J. J. GUI, a wealthy miner, nnd four companions had been ambushed and killed by bush, men In tbo Interior of Australia. The Information, from such n source, was accepted without question. Yenrs went by and no word was received from Gill, He was mourned as dead. His wife, whom ho had last seen In ISStl, married again In 180.1, some three years after his reported death. Mrs. GUI had two children by her first bus band. Sho Is now Mrs. Frank Johnson, of Brooklyn. Mennwhlle GUI was living as a slave nmong tho bushmeii In Central Austra lia. It appears that four companions with 11 in nt the tlmo of the capture were nil put to death, but GUI was al lowed to live. He was kept as a slave. He was forced to do the moat menial work by his captors, and altogether ho led n life of horror. So fur, however, had ho boon removed from civilization and so closo wns the watch upon him Hint for years no opportunity of escape pre sented Itself, He wns, of course, com pletely shut off from all communica tion with the outside world. Finally, however, after twelve long yenrs of slavery, nnd sixteen yenrs of nbsenre from tho United States, GUI succeeded In escaping nnd making his wny to the const and civilization. He escaped with his life, nnd little else. Ills property was gone, bis Aus tralian friends hnd died or moved away, lie determined to remain In Australia and mend his broken fortunes beforo returning home. He sought Information through a detective agency, nnd after some deltly was Informed that his wife was dead. Thereupon GUI married In Australia. Ills second wife and a child survive htm. In March of this year GUI again sought Information of his relatives, this time with more success. He wrolo from Australia to -Inspector McLaughlin, of the Brooklyn ponce, to aag ir his broth ers wero still living. Inspector Mc Laughlin found and notified the family Somo correspondence had passed be tween the brothers, when Joseph J, GUI wrote that he was about to visit bis family In Brooklyn. It Is a notablo fact that most of the subjects of King Edward VII. are Hindoos. It has been observed that a man's hair turns gray five yenrs sooner than a woman s. Copper money In France Is So be gradually replaced this year by alii milium brouze pennies of a pale yellow color. There arc 2,055 counties In tbo Unit ed Stales. Texas has the largest num ber, 21(1, and Delaware the smallest number, three. According to official central market statistics recently Issued, night hun dred tons of snails wero sold In Paris during tho year 11)01, As a rule, dwarfs live much longer than giants, Tho latter usually have weak constitutions, their blood circu lation Is sluggish and flicy have brittle bones. The Gulf stream flows at the rate of nbout two and a half miles nn hour. Five miles Is exceeded In some places, and tbo rate varies much with condi tions of weather and tide. M. Hamard, the French sculptor, bas Just completed In Parts the model of n statue of Marshal Itochambeau to be presented to the city of Washington as a companion statue of Lafayette It will be ready to send to the Unltod States In April. Cows nro scarce In Labrador, be cause It Is difficult to keep them In tho extremely cold weather. The natives procuro their milk for the winter nnd then kill their cows. The milk Is kept In barrels, wbcro.lt freezes and never turns sour throughout the entire sea son. When one wishes to use any milk he has simply to go to the barrel and cut out a slice. Last winter, during a spell of freez ing weather, at a quarry In Aberdeen, Scotland, n large stone weighing six tons hnd been drilled for blasting, when tlm thought struck the foreman tbat tho severe frost might be utilized. Water was poured Into each of the boles, nnd It was found after a couplo of days that the block of granite bad broken Into pieces. All Corners, "As the earth Is round," said the learned professor, "there are no corners on It." "Think notT" spoke up the listener. "How about the wheat corner, the beef corner and a thousand other comers;" Next to naturally curly hair there comes a gift from heaven of hair that needs curling not oftener than ouco a week to "stay In." OLI :: FAVORITES Tht I.tnd o' the Leal. I'm weurln' awn', Jtaii, I.llio tnaw wrrntha Its tuaw, Jtsn, I'm wear In' nnt' To the bind o' Hit leal, Thero's nun sorrow there, Jean, There's neither cauld nor cart, Jean, The day la aye fair In Hit land o' tho leal. Our bonnto li aim's there, Jean, She was hnllli glide snd fair, Jean) And, O, we grudged her snlr To the land a' tht leal, Hut sorrow's tel' wears past, Jtsn, Aud Joy's a-comliig fast, Jean, The Joy Hint's nye to Inst In the land o' tho leal. O, hand ye leal and true, Jean, Your day It's wenrln' through, Jean, And I'll welcome you To (lis laud o' the lent. Now fare-ye.wcol, my nln Jean, v This world's cares are vnln, Jean, We'll meet, and we'll bt fain, In tho land o' the teal. Lady Niilrue, Aboii lieu Ail he in ami (lit Angst, Aboil lieu Ail hem (may hit trlhe In. create!) Awoke one night from n deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight of Ida room. Making It rich, and like n Illy In bloom, An angel writing In a lamk of gold Exceeding pence hnd mailt Urn Adliem hold, And to the pretence In the room he taM, "What writes! thou?" The ilslon raised Its head. And with s look made nil of aweet accord, Answered, "The unmet of those who lovt the 1-ord." "And It mint onr tald Ahou. "Nay, not to," Iteptled the nugel. Alton spoke more low, Hut cheerily atlll, and snlit, "I pray thee, then, Wrlto mo at one who lorrt his fellow men." . The angel wrote and vanlsh'd. The licit night It came again with a great wakening light. And thow'd Hie names whom love of God had hlesa'il. And lo! Hen AJIiem's name ltd all tht rest! Ielgh Hunt. NEW I OHM Or SHOE rASIEMR. For the man In a hurry to get lo work lit the morning or for the man who oversleeps and hns to ruth lo make up lost time. Inven tions which ennbls him to drrss quick ly have a peculiar Interest, nud there Is no doubt that many a person wuuld like to util ize an apparatus -linlfar to that which Is employed snog rASTENrn. ,y tiro companies for harnessing the horses If It could be applied to the clothing of a human be ing. At present, huwuver, the shoe Is nbout the only article of apparel which the Inventor hns sought to Improve on, and In our Illustration we show a new fastening device ivhlch can be applied to a shoe which has lares to draw the edges together. Located Just above the top lacing eyelet on each meeting edge of tho upper Is a short lacing loop, prtf. erably of leather, with a metallic tube section Inside to give the lace free move meiit. Located above the short loops Is a pair of long loops extending almost to the top of tho upper, with slightly curved mctnlllc tubes Inside. Tbe lacing Is Inserted In the eyelets In the ntual manner, and la then passed through the short and long tubes. When tho shoe Is on the foot It Is only neccssnry to give a pull on the lace ends and tie the knot drawing the edges of the upper close enough together to fit snugly on the nnklc, the slight curve In the tubes causing tho lace to exert Its pressure along the whole length, Milton S, Brown, of Washington, I), 0., la the In ventor, QREEOIE8T FI8H OF THE OCEAN. Haa Davit, or Ooosetlsh, Una lhl(i At pstltc Itats Anchors Tbe sea docs not bold a more vora cious rascal or n greater hypocrite than tbo goosc-flali. Not Hint this Is Its only name. It hns nt least seventy others. Each locality where It occurs gives It ono that Indicates Its great greediness. lu Connecticut It Is cnllcd "greedl gut," In England "sen devil." "wide gape," etc. Its month Is enormous and its capacity unlimited. It Is a mntlcr of record that seven wild ducks were taken from tbo stomach of one sped men, states the Morning Oregoulnn. LIvo geeso nro not too largo for them, and a fisherman told tho lato Dr. Goodo of one Hint had swallowed the head nnd neck of a Inrgo loon, which had pulled tho fish to tho surface nnd was trying to escape. Tho goosellsh hns been known to sclzo n boat anchor when It could not have anything else to devour. It will even make a meal of fishes of Its own kind, so that It might properly bo called the "cannibal fish." Tbo nuko of Argylo writes Hint tho goosefish Is admirably adapted by tin. turo for concealments, generally nt tho bottom of tho sea, with Its cavernous Jaws ready for n snap, From the lop of Its bend rlso n pair, or two pairs, of clastic rods, llko tho slender tips of n fishing rod, ending In n llttlo mem brnno or web which glistens In tho wntcr and attracts other fishes. The goosellsh can afford to go to sleep, knowing his bnlt Is nlwnys In place, nnd ns soon ns lie "gets a bite" tho clnstlc rod bends over, coming closo to Its lingo Jaws, which Imineill. ntely open, engulf thu victim nud closo ngalu. From Troo to Nowspnpor, In two hours nnd twentv-llvn min. utes n growing tree In ISIseiitlinl, Aus tria, wns converted lulu iiowsivm.n. At 7:35 n. m. tho treo nt 9:31 tho wood, hiivlng been strip' peu or mo nunc, wuh turned Into pulp nun inline imo impel , ai iu o clock tho paper was printed mid sold on tho el roots.