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o Novel Fire Corps of the Spreewald I not au albino In the sense or merely ^laving no dark pigment. The whole -itructure of the feathers hu> changed. The barbules ure not flat plates and consequently uo brilliant colors cun be devek»i>ed by dyeing the feather i brown or painting the back with India ink." Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to Be Remodeled NO FLYING FISH AT MANDALAY Sea Over 10C Miles Away and China Isn’t Across the Bay— Kipling in Error. Mandalay, Burma.— With Its thou sand pagodas, its deserted palaces and ! its picturesque ruins, the city of j Mandalay continues to be a place of I chief attraction for the Kuropean or American \lsltor to Burma. The palace grounds, surrounded by a wall and moat, are about a mile j In the Spreewald, the Venice-llke suburb of Berlin, are located handsome ' and a half square. The buildings huve i dwellings and estates. To guard these properties from tire a special gondola I a cheap gaudiness about them which corps has been formed by the Berlin fire department. The boats, with their I compares in many ways to that of an American street carnival. Still pre crews uud hand pumps patrol the zone constantly. served are the throne rooms and the The "Old Lady o f Threadneedle Street." otherwise the Bank o f England, will undergo many changes, and “ hns apartments of the king, the senior definitely made up her mind to go In for a new outfit." T h e stodgy building In the heart of the city of London Is to queens. Mlmlon Min, the next to the be rebuilt according to plans o f the architect. Herbert Baker. To provide the accommodation which hns become nec last king of Burma, married 57 wives essary, ua entire reconstruction of the Interior of the building will have to be curried out. — seeking, evidently, to discover what the "57 varieties" are like. From the palace grounds an Amer- « I - -n i lean taxi takes the visitor to the foot | ■ I a | of Mandaluy hill, one of the holy I Awaits Wife’s Return ■ I places o f Burma Buddhism. Here I 37 Years; Then Dies a • those who are adherents of the Bud ---------------------- -------------------------------------------- • I dhist religion and are willing to re- I Honolulu. T. 11.—Colburn II. a i can pick out the Iridescent feathers I i move their footwear may obtain great Cornell Professor Explains What Hawaiian, waited 87 • I Muetuae, In the dark by the feel. | merit by climbing the nearly 400 steps I years for bis wife, Emily, to re aa Causes Vivid Colors of "It Is possible to duplicate the color which lead to the summit. I turn to him before be brought a • effects of the peacock and the hum Many Americans have been con Peacock Feathers. I suit for divorce on the ground a a ming bird by putting a very thin coat fused as to the exact location of Man George of Great Britain Forced cently. Any development causing un I a of varnish over any dark feather; hut dalay by n couple of geographical er- employment at once receives the sym • I of desertion, he tostifled at the a a to Effect Economies in Ex I we cannot regulate the thickness with j rors which occur In Kipling's well- pathetic attention o f the king, who de I bearing of hjr» canr. Maemae nnd his wife were aa I | such accuracy as to produce the pat* known poem. cided to Inspect the Britannia, now It could hardly be I pense of Household. married In Ewa, Aabu. in 1»S84, a I terns o f the peacock. When one con- "where the flying fishes play," when I laid up In the Medina river In the Isle i ! slders that variations In thickness of the sea Is over a hundred miles dls- o f Wight, In order to see what re II the yenr following the corona a Colors Arc Due to Interference of She left a I tion o f King Kalaknua. a hundred-thousandth of an Inch may ! tant. And China Isn’t "Just across the pairs and renovations would be re a I Light Reflected From Upper and change the color completely, It seems | bay,” hut Is Just across the moun quired to render It seaworthy for the I him four months after the mar a a riage. Since then he has waited Lower Surfaces of Film I marvelous that all the tall feathers tains Instead. Just across the buy Is opening of the yachting season next I for her return, hut finally de aa of Oil. of all the peacocks cun be so nearly I India. year. As a result the Britannia will I In Spite of Rise in Cost of Living, the hoist her pennant again next year. I cided she "meant to stay away,” a alike. a I King Has Resolutely Declined to a Pittsburgh.—A film of oil dropped on This is a fact which will cause the I be said. Peacock Not an Albino. Raise Deer and Elk for Profit. Mrs. Maemae now is a "flsher- Ask Nation for Any In the puveiueut by an errant automo greatest satisfaction In yachting cir I I "The neck feathers of the white Olympia, Wash.— l>eer, elk and even bile contains the same color values as pigeon show practically no Iridescence moose nre so easily domesticated In crease in Grant. cles throughout the kingdom. It Is I lady" nnd resides on one of tlie the highly decorative tall feathers of because the dark background is lack the Far Northwest that a movement ulso now probable that when the nu~ I I small Islands in Kalibl harbor, the peacock, said L>r. Wilder L). Ban ing. If they are dyed brown, the Iri has been started by several owners of London.— King George hns set yet tumn sales of bloodstock open nt lH>n- • adjoining Honolulu bay. croft of Cornell university, speaking descence uppears in full force. On large legged-off areas to attempt rais another example which may advan onster, Newmarket and elsewhere, the at the general meeting of the Ameri the other hand the white peacock Is ing tlu^h for protìt. tageously be followed by thousands of king will order new horses to he ob can Chemical society. his subjects. As a result of recent tained with a view to bringing his "Everybody has noticed the brilli economics In the king's household an racing stud Into line with what It used WAR OFFICER WEARS $9 SUIT antly colored patches on the puve- [ annual saving of something like $50,- to be In the days o f King Edward. incuts where automobiles have spilled j 000 Is being made. This Is the re John Martyn Sett Example for Rigid oil,” said poctor Bancroft. “ The col sult of the special Investigation the Economy With Clothes Made GREEN APPLES RUN TRACTOR ors runge from red to gold to blue uud king ordered some months ago, when. From Flour Sacks. are very vivid qy metallic. They In order to achieve economies In ac Chemist Farmer in Washington Make* change with the angle ut which one cordance with the spirit of the time, Washington.— An example of econ Alcohol From Waste Crop sees them and they are not due to he directed that the whole organiza omy in line with that now exercised From Orchard. pigments, since we have u thin tilui tion of the royal household should Le throughout the army has been set the « ------------------------------------------------------------------------- overhauled. The work of reorganiza o f a nearly colorless oil. Monitor, Wash.— Driving his trnctor civilian employees of the Wnr depart "These colors are due to the Inter ^ a shrine for tourists. No entrance fee tion nt Buckingham palace, Windsor with nloohol distilled from n mash of ment by John Martyn, private secre ference of light reflected from the up Figure Yearly Total in Pilgrim castle and other royal residences has green apples picked nt thinning time, tary to the secretary o f war. He Is Is charged. per and lower surfaces of the Him and ages to Washington and Lin Washington's old home at Mount been in progress ever since. Its com n local orchnrdlst claims he is in n boasting the cheapest suit of clothes they depend on the thickness of the pletion, with the saving mentioned. Is way to utilize many other «a s te prod ever worn by a department officer, Vernon on the Potomac river in Vir coln Memorials. film, which averages about one fifty- nnturnlly a matter of satisfaction to ucts In manufacturing this material. proudly admitting Hint It was fnsh- ginia, 10 miles from Washington, long thousandth of an Inch. They are more the king, whose financial resources nre Tons o f green apples full annually toned from throe flour sacks, pur has been the mecca of pilgrims from vivid when oil is spilled on an asphalt probably much overestimated In the during the regular June drop, while chased In Panama nt a cost of $1 | every part o f the world, who go by pavement than when on a dirt road public mind. Moreover, the economy ns ninny more nre removed to leave each. The tailor's fee brings the total | steamboat, electric train and automo because there is less disturbing light ims boon secured without the efficient room for the growing of the first-grade «Hist of an outfit to $9, Mr. Martyn bile. Kept ns nearly In Its origlnnl reflected from the black background. and effective administration o f the fruit, and ns a ruK these are wasted said. Big Share of Guests in National Cap j state as possible by the Ladles Mount royal household being Impaired In the because of Immaturity. Feathers Are Iridescent. Vernon association. It is n delight to ' ital Make Trip to Mount Vernon— slightest. It has to be borne in mind A graduate of an eastern college “ The brilliant colors of the tall all Americans. During July approxi that the amount o f money granted by nnd n student of ex|H'rlments mnde by TREE SET BY KING IS DEAD Recently Completed Lincoln feathers of the peacock and the ap mately 21 *. ink ) persons visited Mount the bouse of commons annually for the the government In distilling alcohol Memorial Popular. parently self-luminous reds In th e 1 Vernon und during the year admissions maintenance of the crown and the from by-products, this owner hns been Soil In Front of Pennsylvania Capitol throat feathers of the humming bird numbered 230,000. The proceeds of a I t Too Rich for Tree Planted royal household remains at the same conducting n chemical laboratory of are not due to pigments. When one Washington.— More than 1,000,000 25-cent entrance fee help keep the es- figure ns in 1914. by Belgian Monarch. his own. He will soon explain his looks through a peacock's feather« one persons make pilgrimages each year to ; tate In first-class condition. method before the fall session of the Refuses to Ask Increase. sees only a brown due to the so-called Washington's home. Mount Vernon, The house where Abraham Lincoln Harrisburg, Bn.— Tbs larch free melanin pigment which Is equivalent the beautiful Lincoln memorial aud the | died, located opposite Ford’s theater In spite of the general rise In the state grange. planted by the king o f the Belgians to the nsphalt pavement. In all the i Washington monument, the latter be at 510 Tenth street. Northwest, this cost of living nnd o f all commodi nt the time of Ills visit to Harrisburg Iridescent feathers the barbules are ing the most popular of the three city. Is another shrine visited by many ties, the king lias resolutely declined In 1920 nnd the companion tree plnnt- flattened plates of brown which there shrines ainoug visitors to the national tourists. It was bought by the United to apply to the nation for any In j ed In honor of Queen Elizabeth In At Age of Nine Months fore give the colors of thin films. The j capital. crease. This has meant, inevitably, j front of the state capitol haw died I States In 1890 for $30.000. Boy Whistles Fluently $ because the ground was too rich. The structure Is so marked that an expert that be has had to draw heavily upon Visitors numbering 34,113 went dur his private reeourcea during the past frees were planted in the midst of ing July to the top of the Washington DIG UP PREHISTORIC BONE eight years— to an extent that would Youngstown, O.—Claim Is i flower beils where the soil has beer monument, located u few hundred mnde that Mervln, nine months- cause considerable surprise could the ! fertilized for more than a century for è yards south of the White House. More old son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Max Echinodermante Probably Roamed in figures be published. f gardening purposes. In bis task of # "Dead’’ Opossum Revives * than one-fifth of them clambered up lleyman of this city, “can whis Region Thousands of Years Ago, reducing expenses the king lias been The Koch tr«-o planted by the «'reach 0 the 898 steps In order to see the me and Car Runs Into Ditch 0 tle like u canary.” "He’s been When It Was Marsh. | marshal M thriving. fortunate In having the assistance of t morial tablets on the various bindings whistling since he was six so experienced and astute a financier 0 Inside the shaft. The remainder rode 4 When a "dead” opossum came 0 months old," declared the proud i Boonville, Mo.— Workmen excavat as the veteran Viscount Farquhar, lord Yank Relief Cute Ruse Cholera. # to life and peered ovei the shoul- 0 0 to the top In the electric tdevator ing for pier No. 2 for the new high steward o f the household. father. “ Em sure he Is the Tills Is Petrogrnd.— Cholera hns been re- J der of the man who was driving 0 which has a capacity of 35 persons. way bridge across the Missouri river not the first Instance In which Lord champion baby whistler of the I dured to an almost negligible number # a car in which the animal was • More than 5,250,000 people huve vis at Boom III« ran across what lias been i Farquhar has been culled upon to world. Why, when that hoy of case« this summer In Petrograd ns ited the top of the monument *lnce It J being tflven a ride, an automo- t declared trt he part of the vertebra of 1 act In tills capacity. lie served King grows up he ought to bo In great j a result o f sanitary measures Invoked # bile ran into a ditch near Yin- 0 • «u s opened for observation purposes the echinodermante, an animal that Edward In similar fashion after he demand. Think what Mr. Sousa j by the medical forces of the American J cennes, Ind.# and was wrecked. 0 October 9, 1888. No entrance fee Is « a s In existence thousands of years came to the throne, when It was found would give to have such a whis relief administration through luirlflcn- 0 charged. 0 The driver was not Injured. tler In his baud!” | ago. 0 that the entire royal household re (Ion of the city's water supply and the Lincoln Memorial Popular. William W. Cassell was driv- * This echinodermante, no doubt, quired to be remodeled, and the many 1 Inoculation of 75,000 itersons. * # infc the car which hit the opos- 0 The Lincoln memorial, recently com roamed the fields about what Is now sinecures that had grown up during \ sum. Thinking that the animal 0 pleted and oj>ened to the public, was Boonville at a time when It was a \ the later years of the reign of Queen * J was playing dead, Cassell struek 0 visited by 31,383 persons during July. marsh. Ills genus Is now extinct and : Victoria rigorously abolished. t it several times with a wrench 0 Located In Potomac park, directly it took a long time to find someone I Early In the present year Lord Far- J and threw it Info the back of •• west of the Washington monument, it who could give the prehistoric bone qminr was able to submit a balance 0 # Ida car. The anim ^ ! is rathe* inaccessible for pedestrians; Its proper classification. sheet showing how the money was 0 pearing later over his shoulder 0 visitors usually go there by automo W. K. Criswell, car;»eater foreman being expended In the royal house # 0 caused the man to lose control 0 bile. On a recent Sunday 2.000 per on the bridge, has had the bone pol- ! hold nnd where reductions might 0 J %f the machine. 0 sons were recorded as entering the ¡shed and varnished and « i l l keep It profitably he mnde without any loss # great building. It Is rapidly Itecomlng , as a souvenir. of efficiency. This the king consid ered for some days with very particu lar care, and In the end gave It his hearty approval, and this work o f re organization nt his various residences nt forward In tlfe meantime hie majesty decided It « a s necessnry for him to retrench his personal expenses In every manner (»osslhle. Therefore he gave directions that his racing stud he cut down to a minimum nnd that no unnecessary expense was to tie In curred In connection with his stables. He decide«!, as a farther economy, that Ms famous old racing cutter Brit annia should not he put Into commis sion this year. This, however, hnd an effect upon which the king bad not cal culated. Britannia to Race Again. The withdrawal o f the yacht from the races In which It was customary for It to take part In the past M to oth«-r owners o f big yachts deciding to lay their boats up. An unfortunate Mow was thus hit at the sport, and not a little unemployment was caused among those who had been sccus- tftned to man these large racing According to a recent announcement, Wilhelm Ilohenznllem, former kais craft. This aspect o f the matter was These are thè girl» of Psthflnder lodge In camp at Lake Ot*ego, near Cooperstown, N. T.—thè camp nt thè brought to the n<>tl«-e o f the king er o f Germsny, Is planning to marry U p Princess Hermine o f P re u a a . T b « ri.eatherstocklng Tribe" o f thè Woodcraft League of America. Each o f tbem hai an Ind.an asme a« un awfcrd of when he was staying at Cowes re- | photograph shows the princess with two of her five children. ■nerlt. Rainbow Tints Reflected Light King Lops Off $50,000 Yearly SAME TINTS IN OIL PUDDLE CUTS DOWN HIS RACING STUD Million Visit Three Shrines MANY CLIMB BIG MONUMENT J To Become Wife of Former Kaiser J Woodcraft Girls Enjoying Their Camp Life 1 S I I