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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1903)
THE DEAREST GIFT. Ln all the dancing feet are st I l. Le rose's bloom is shed and spend. Li> she has waltzed her happy till Jith Will and Jack and Ted and Fred, Li of the whirl and jollity. Er lovely eyes weighed down wit!» I sleep, p at the last, She comes to me. aid she is all my own—to keep! Ld her gloves and tie her wrap, ■’e say our good nights left and right; L I’m the to be-envied chap! Lh. now, indeed, it is good night! flover’s joy let wooers prate; R hat could a man a*k more in life, hn this best, dearest gift of fate— Fo have a sweetheart for a wife? Imart Set. = JOHN’S TEST Millicent, can’t you see that —er—that 1 love you as no man has ever loved before?” The [ck eyes glowed with suppressed ar- ^ VT, ^»Inferring that no man ever has poor little Milliceut Bigelow be Hre And. to tell the truth. John. Kt's just what's tlie matter that 1» a certain definite point in my lite male creature ever deigned to east ^Liatice at my inslgnltlc.inee. that be- ^Ee Aunt Mary Invited me to spend a ^Kmtli with her in New York ami sent home with a earload of trunks, eon ^■ning nothing but wearing apparel ^fciressly designed ami maunfaetur. d K New York and Paris modistes to forth ami enhance my previously Kdiscoverod beauty, that before I Hine home and lost all my girl friends Kt of jealousy for my better cloth» a. Ku were not in tlie liablt of tumbling over themselves to tell me twenty ^Les a day that they loved me.” Kdie smiled provokingly at the look K genuine astonishment that her sud- Kn outburst had brought to the sen- Klvely lined masculine face before ■r. K'And now. you. whom I considered Hy best friend, have become as non ^Kisical as any of them. It is true you Kve said the apparently enticing Kurds but once, and stumbled over Hem at that, by the way, but. con- Hlering that we have just arrived at Ke picnic grounds and that presently ■ shall ask you to take me out in a Kime on the lake, and expect you to Kk me to go with you again after K»ch, 1 doubt not that by the twen- ^■th time you will become as fluent as Ke others.” K'Millle. I can't deny that I shall Kobably keep on repeating tlie ques- Kn until 1 get the one answer that Kll satisfy me. but when you accuse Me of wanting to marry you because Ku may have more or less worthless Kery on. it’s beyond—” K'John Atwood, 1 don't know what Ku designate as cheap finery, but 1 Mould have you know that this gown, M well as the boa which adorns my Moulders, was a special present from Kntle and Imported direct from ^■rls.” The ruffled feelings sought Mnsolatlon In rearranging the fluffy Mention of lace and artificial flowers Kat composed the neckwear in ques- K>n ^VYou understnml what I meant, Mil- ^Bent. I can’t say you don't look nice that thing around your neck, but I you just as well in the brown Kess that you used to wear with Mown ribbons, and then you used to Mt me put my arms around you.” ■An indignant shoulder turned in liis Mrectlon was the only answer. ■‘‘But won't you please hurry and Mk me to take you out on the lake, as Mu said you would, before I do the Mklng and offend you again.” ■ 1 be pouting face, half hidden behind Me white parasol, looked nlmost as Hough about to refuse to go out on Me lake altogether, but John pullet] M a canoe and quietly began arrang- Mg the cushions. When he had fin- Hhed. a figure behind a parasol stepped K and settled down among them. ■ Nothing was said until they had Moceeded nearly across the lake and were skirting along the opposite shore. ■h>n as John was paddling Idly, watching a reflection In the water, I voice suddenly demanded that he i Barn aside and enter an opening that ■ie shore made at this point and ■irough which could be seen a small Bool of water thickly studded with the White blossoms of the water lilies. I Without hesitation John turned the Bose of the canoe In tlie direction in- ■ rated ami pnddled up to the point |f entering, when be noticed that the ■tater In the Inclosed space was very Blinllow anil covered a surface of dark- looklng mud. I lie stopped progress and waited for |he owner of the voice to observe the ■fate of affairs, but the voice vouch safed nothing but an Impatient com- Biand to continue. Then be sp. *ke In a ■i n-committal voice of the advisabili ty of entering where there was In- ■mnclent water to allow paddling But khe flowers gleamed white In the sun light and n seornful ripple of laughter has his answer. I Manlike, be gave in to woman's Klilni and pushed the boat Into the btddst of the lilies. He reajied a reward mi the lowering of the parasol and a rompanlonable face smiled upon him ■ s the owner proceeded to tuck up the ruffles preparatory to plucking from llie water the brown stemmed lilies. w*ut even before the first flower was obtained the catastrophe happened. A great, ugly-looking green dragon fly rose loudly buzzing from the flow- *r«. directly under the side of the ?'oat. and. perceiving the g ntly sway ing fltifflm s« above the canoe, and per haps deceived into thinking it a new mass of bloom yet unexplored, dived • t once in its direction and succeeded In alighting with a moment's dispatch directly under a pink chin, with the rough wings brushing s dimpled throat. It was all over In a minute. A startled cry of feminine terror, a panic- stricken spring for the other aide of 'he canoe, and John found h.mself kne^deep tn bta* k. slimy mud. with a ••draggled and dripping little figure weeptng hysterically upon his sh>*ul- *nd an overturned canoe with n his reach It was then be saw bls chance. “Mil- POPE LEO XIII., \MIO RECEXTL> CELEBRATED THE SILXlR JLBILEE OE HIS MOMIFICATE. Science fivention Tn a short time It regained conscious ness and seemed about to burst Into tears. I stroked it tenderly, and then, i putting it back upou tbe ground, re sumed my hunt. "That night I camped out about . four miles from tbe place when* I had left the snake. About midnight ; I found it necessary to get out of my blauket and replenish the tire, as the summer was changing iuto fall at the time. I discovered the same snake lying colled up uear the red embers. The poor fellow had apiiareutl.v fol lowed my trail all that day and did not catch up with me until after 1 had goue to lied. “I stirred uiy tire, and In doing so awakeued the snake. He started up suddeuly with a venomous gleam in his eyes, but when he saw who it was he lay down again. I smiled sweetly at him. and be seemed to return my greeting. After having replenished my fire I lay down to sleep again. The snake then crawled over to where I was lying and colled up by my side About an hour later 1 was awakened by a rustling of the leaves close at | hand. 1 opened my eyes aud saw a venomous-looking snake crawling quietly toward me aud my pet snake It was evidently the intention of the serpent to eat us laith while we slept. Anyhow, he reckoned without my snake, for that faithful fellow had lH*eu watching him closely all the while. "Suddenly the serpent made ready for a spring. They both Jumped at the same time and met Ih midair. My snake struck the other fair and square, carrying him back about two feet. Then began one of the prettiest strug gles I have ever witnessed. Each rep tile was hot after the other, and the way they fought was a caution. Final I ly my snake got the other fellow down, ' and lie literally 'chewed him up.’ In ! about five minutes the enemy had been 1 placed out of business. My snake then crawled over to where I was ly ing and affectionately rublted his head against my face. We both then went tiack to sleep and slept soundly until nearly noon the next day.” "Wake up. old man. and light your pipe; it’s going out,” said one of the listeners, according to the New Or leans Times Democrat, and the Veracl ty Club adjourned without date. The electric light bulb at the end I of a long wire has been found by Dr | Forrest Willard to be better than the water bag for applying heat to head, chest or al>domen. In one hundred analyses of the sir on Mount Blanc's summit, not a single mlcrot>e was found, although they were plentiful in the observatory. The num her showed a steady Increase in de scending the mountain. "Weather shooting” has assumed such importance In southern Europe I that not less than three International congresses to consider It have lieen held. The latest report shows that ex perts are mostly convinced that gun firing Is useless for influencing rain or ball, although experiments are urg ed until the possible effects are fully i understood. The mysterious "sleeping sickness" , of West Africa, which has been the subject of late scientific ini estlgation. proves to be a form of meningitis, dlf fering from cerebrospinal meningitis In its chronic and almost invariably fatal character. It is classed with hy drophobia as one of the most deadly diseases known. It is communicated from person to person in some un known way. beginning with alight list lessness, which passes into coma and then into death, its duration being from one to six months. Thus far it has been known only among negroes, it has depopulated large districts, how ever, and its spread is feared through the opening of African trade. The fascinating legend, which has Tope I.eo XIII., who recently celebrated the silver Jubilee of bls pontifi led to many speculative theories and cate. was born at Carplneto, Italy, Marell 2. 1810. He Is the son of Count fantastical stories, of the former ex Louis Peccl and was baptized by the names of Vincenzo and Gioacchino. istence of a great and populous conti He was ordained in 1837, was made bishop In IMG, proclaimed a cardinal In nent in the Atlantic ocean west from 1853, and was elected Pope Feb. 20, 1878. He was crowned on March 3 fol the Strait of Gibraltar, occasionally lowing. occupies the attention of men of sci ence. Such an occasion took place at a meeting of the Koyal Irish Academy licent, stop your crying. I never saw like that would take down In a coun in November, when the Atlantis prob a worse looking creature In my life.” try where yeller-legged chickens are lem was discussed by Dr. II. F. Scharff, A white face of astonishment turned thicker'!» bees, and where watermel- who contended that the evidence show up to his. “And, for heaven's sake, | oils Just pop out of the soil out of ed that the fauna of the Atlantic Isl take off that black, oozy thing around 1 tlielr own volition. The ignorant blacks ands was mainly derived from a for your neck.” Unconsciously a muddy i fell to those little bone charms all In mer land connection with Portugal and t»ne on in-pew. fist stole up and dragged off the cling 1 a bunch, and they dug up from 55 to Morocco. I>r. Scharff also defended Returning recently from one of his ing mass of slime and dropped it with 515 apiece for the things at that. the theory of a land bridge, in the a shudder. "They absolutely and implicitly be- same latitudes, connecting Europe and annual trips to Europe, Senator Chauncey M. Depew was, ns usual, “Now, Millicent, will you marry i lleved that the wearing of the charms America, and persisting until Miocene the center and life of the group which me?” Not till then did the face show would render them Invisible, aud for times. hud gathered in the steamer's smoking any comprehension of the words 1 icing months the darkles down our way In Austria and Germany an auto room after dinner, and all of his most spoken. Then a flash of color appeared provided with these charms have been under the streaks of black and a quer jittempting to help themselves to all matic system of stopping fast railroad ancient stories were brushed up and ulous little sob escaped from the sorts of things that didn't belong to trains without the co-operation of the made to do duty once more. Nearly trembling lips as. burying her face them, right in the presence of the own engine driver or the brakemen has re all of the other passengers volunteered again on the wet, heaving chest, she ers of the property, and In broad day cently been tried with satisfactory re various contributions to the general answereu. sofely, “Yes, John!”—Phila light. under the belief that their sults. Tlie apparatus consists of two entertainment, but one old country charms screened them from the vision parts, one carried by the locomotive, man sat in a corner every evening, delphia Item. of men. It took a long time, and not a , close to the rails, and acting directly smoking his pipe in silence, broken little buckshot, to convince them that upon the brakes of the train, and the only now and then by a guttural BOUGHT MAGIC BONES. their bone charms didn't amount to other attached to the track and con chuckle. As tlie steamer neared New Florida Nezroei Seeking Invisibility much, and then they came to the front nected with all signal points at curves, York Mr. Depew proposed to tlie oth Realized that They Were Seen. with the story of how they had got gates, and so forth. If it becomes nec era that he should have a little fun “For a good many years,” said a hold of the charms.”—Washington essary suddenly to stop an approach with this old hayseed and try to get ing train, the turning of a lever throws a rise out of him, and, calling across Florida man, who was up this way I Post. up a connection from the track to the the room, he said: recently, “we have been familiar in the Hallway Company's Logic. apparatus under the locomotive which far South with the schemes which de “Mr. Jones, all the rest of us have A woman in Belgium whose husband governs the brakes. At the same time signing negroes with the money-mak been doing what we could to amuse had lost his life in a railway accident , an automatic signal whistle warns the ing Instinct have been working upon the company durlifg the voyage, but received from the company 10,(MX) engineer of what has been done. The their ignorant fellows to coax the coin we have not heard from you. Can’t francs by way of compensation. Short brakes can be released in a similar from their clothes. I'd hate to say you tell us a story?” ly after she heard of a traveler who manner. Between Vienna and Krems how many thousands of dollars the Mr. Jones could not think of any had lost a leg and had been paid 20,000 the device has worked successfully more Ignorant negroes of Florida alone story. francs. The widow at once put on her with trains running 62 miles an hour. give up every year for concoctions, “Well, can't you sing us a song?" bonnet and shawl and went to the of manufactured out of nothing worth Oh. no! Mr. Jones could not sing. fice of the company. HUNTER'S DEAREST TROPHY. while by the crafty negroes, for ‘whit "Well, you certainly ought to do “Gentlemen, bow Is this?” she asked. ening their skins.’ Then there are the your share; perhaps you can give us “Y’ou give 2 ii ,ooo francs for a leg and Sportsman's Ambition Marred Unless multitudinous lotions or ointments or a conundrum." He Has Kitted a Bear. you allowed me only 10,000 francs for I whatever you call them on sale by Well, lie had been thinking of a co the loss of my husband.” A big black bear Is the trophy that nundrum, Mr. Jones finally admitted, foxy negroes down our way for 'taking the kink out of wooly hair on negroes’ 1 “Madam,” was the reply, according all sportsmen who have been in the and It was this: • to the New York Mall and Express, woods are after. Shooting deer is all "What is’the difference between Mr. heads. Colored women, especltlly the “the reason is plain. Twenty thousand right, and a moose, of course, is a younger ones, fall victims to this kind Depew and a wild turkey?” francs won't provide him with a leg, sportsman's ambition until be gets one; of stuff for all of their spare change, When no one present could suggest but for 10,000 franca you can get a hus then be must have a bear. It sounds and there are plenty of young black the answer Mr. Jones drawled out: so much bigger, you know, to say that bloods who eagerly give up 5’> and even band." "Wall, a wild turkey ain't stuffed you have killed a lieur, comments the with chestnuts till after he's dead.” Beautifying Mot Machine. 510 for fake contraptions that are al leged to be designed to make their I A beautifying automatic machine Is Bangor Commercial. Bears are sup Cats of All Kinds. the latest slot novelty that Is now to posed to be very dangerous and only noses aquiline instead of flat. shot after hand-to-hand encounters and A dangerous cat (catastrophe). be seen In Berlin. The machines are to "But an ancient black schemer was thrilling escapes from death. An aspiring cat (catamount!. put away down In Florida not long be placed in dressing rooms at dancing Bear hunting, however, is not so A cat that can swim (catfish). ago for springing and successfully halls, In cafes, on railway stations, and precarious as the sportsmen often A cat that can fly (catbird). working an entirely new one. The like places where people congregate. make it out to be. The killing often A cat that will be a butterfly (cater foxy old darky made literally thou * You drop your money in the slot, and In consists of merely running across one pillar). sands of dollars out of his dodge be return you receive powder, eyebrow in the woods and shooting him before A library cat (catalogue). fore be was nailed. He passed the pencil, lip pomade, rouge and other ad- he can get away. Then dogs are often A cat that asks questions (cate word around among the ignorant ne purrcts to female beauty. With the aid used in hunting bears. While the dogs chism). gro men that lie had a consignment of of a mirror one's money's worth can by their barking and snapping are A cat's near relation (catskin). charms. In the shape of small pieces of then be satisfactorily used. keeping the brute excited, the hunter A cat that is good to eat (catsup). bone, that would come pretty near The truth is that tlie long hair found has time to take a good alm and get A horned cat (cattle). making their purchasers bosses of ev on a husband's coat doesn't enter as bls game. Bears are often found in A cat that throws stones (catapult). erything in sight. The owner and often into family quarrels as visits their dens and smoked out. They nre A tree cat (catalpa). wearer of one of his bone charms, lie from his wife's kin. sometimes Inclined to be ugly when A water cat (cataract). announced, would lie rendered com this is done, but do not stand much A cat that flavors grapes (catawba). If you accomplish anything, you must pletely Invisible to human eyes. Well, chance against two or three 45 Dos. A cat that covers acres of ground you can readily Imagine how a charm do it In spite of the critics. Practically all liears which are shot (cataclysm). hy sportsmen are brought out of the A subterranean cat (catacomb). woods and either mounted whole or A cat that, living, appears dead (cat made into rugs, or the bends are set alepsy). up with tbe mouth open to give them a A cat prized as a gem (cataeye). fierce expression. Bears are outside A cat with a cold (catarrh).--Ladies' tbe pale of the law In Maine and may Home Journal. be shot, trapped or killed In any other Rebuke to ■ Chari. way wherever they may be found A small negro boy went Into a gro Whenever a bear comes down from up river tbe owner can always be cery store a few days ago and asked a found at the western depot. Perhaps "smart” clerk for a match. Tbe clerk he has a deer or moose along that he said they sold them aud didn't give has to Identify. After doing so he will them away. The boy fumbled in his always ask If It is necessary for him pocket, got a penny, bought a box of to prove property In regard to the matches, took out a few and handed bear, and he smiles proudly on the tbe rest to the clerk. "Put these on the crowds which are always gathered counter, and when a gentleman asks around the wardens If the bear Is all for a match give him one." said the dig the game be has. why he will make a nlfied little man as he walked away. big touse about not being able to find How They C«l< ulate<l. tbe warden so as to Identify bls bear; "How did you cotue to re elect that for. of course, he wants to be sure that man who was so generally suspected tbe bear isn't seized. He wouldn't of Irregular method»?" have that happen for anything. Oh. "Well," answered Farmer Corntos no. Nor would he have the crowd re sei, “we figured It out and concluded main ignorant of the fact that be got that he ought to be pretty comfortable bls bear. and satisfied by this time, an' that It ud tie tietier to let him hang on than A GRATEFUL SNAKE. turn the office over to some one that would come In fresh and hungry "- Rtory Told of One in « New Orleans ••Veracity” Ctnb. Washington Rtar. “Did you ever know that a snake American Cenienartann. could feel grateful toward you just Mr Simon, addressing the Hundred tbe same as a dog. cat or any other an Imai?” asked tbe old story teller. ' Year Club In New York, cited figures "Well. If you fellows don't believe this furnished by the United Statm cetis is I will ell you a story of how tbe grat bureau recording 3.435 centenarians, in itude of a snake saved me from a bor eluding elghty-alx of upwards of 12’> rible death once. It happened Ibis years old and fifteen upwards of llNi way: Early one morning, while out on The oldest white American la 12*<. and Bill «tewall. the veteran Maine guide, otherwise William Wingate a hunting trip. I accidentally Stepp» d there are an Indian of 130 and n negro gewali. his wife and daughter and Mr. and Mrs Fleet-rood Pride, of Island of 145. The oldest women is a uegress Falls, where Bill I’ve«. and two other old friends of President Roosevelt on a targe snake, badly Injuring It aged 137. The snake had magnificent eyes and wi re n ently the gwsts of Pre» dent and Mrs Boo*evelt at the W hite cast them In my direction. In those A man can't marry every w< mau he House. Sewall Is • picturesque ciarncter and a typical Maine woodsman. He first accompanied President R - «evelt on his bnntlng eipedltlona when eyes, tmys. was an appeal that I could falls In love with. the tatter was a delicate tad of 18. The acquaintance thus formed baa not resist, and I picked up tbe poor Must is bom« wl Ignt a taiUs* fallow and tenderly if Use wound developed into a warm friendship» BILL SEDALI, THE MAINE GUIDE. AFIER ail , what is fame ? I’ncle Sam Hobson. Hobson? Seems to me I can't place him. dldu't be kiss somebody or sink a ship? THE PANAMA CANAL. Some of the Main Features of a Ureat Engineering Work. Now thnt the diplomatic obstacles lu the way of the construction of tbe Panama Canal are removed, many peo ple, tbe Tribune Farmer believes, will lie glud to refresh their memories cun cernlng th»* leading engineering fea tures of the plan. The Isthmus Is thirty five miles wide In a straight line, but the canal will be aliout thirty-eight and a half utiles long, not including channel dredging in tlie terminal harbors. The general direction from the Atlantic (Caribbean) and to tin* Pacific outlet Is from north west to southeast. The Pacific port. Panama. Is about twenty miles further east than Colon on the Atlantic. Tbe highest ground is off to the south, and th»1 elevation here Is sometimes 300 feet above sea level. The water sup Kot-TK or THE TAXAMÄ CAN At.. ply comes from the Chagres River, to the eastward of tbe canal route. That stream Joins tlie latter near Gnmboa. and widens out Into a lake (Bohlo) twelv»* and a half miles long. Much of this < an I»* utilized for the canal at very little cost. The general course of the Cliagres Is northwest want aud It empties Into th* Caribbean several miles west of Colon, having flowed through a low, marshy country much of the way. From Lake Bohlo the ■■anal follows a different route from the river. It Is propoaed to have the tiottom of tlie canal 150 feet wide. The slope of the banks, and bene* the width at the top. will depend on the nature of the swill through which the enr.al Is cut. Tbe canal la to be thirty five feet deep. To th»* first stretch of twelve am! a half miles southward from Colon there will probably lie no Interruption. In order to reach the level of ljike Bohlo two or three locks will b* necessary General H. V. AEibot advised having the take, whose height will be deter mined by a dam acroas tbe old path of the Chagres. only seventy feet above sea level. The United States commission sd»»pted ninety feet st the standard, although tn th»* driest season this may fall »iff to eighty-two. Where the canal tape the lake two or three l»i» ks are to be Introduced. The com mission favored only two, each making a difference of forty two or forty five feet In the water level. Although such locks are feasible, it 1» remotely possi ble that three may finally tie adopted, as It 1» saf» / ■ U • k up an*! down only thirty fe»-t as a time. If a thiril lock Is Introduced perhaps It will not be located clo*e to the other two, but be constr»iet»-d at Tiger Hill. An enor mom dam, blocking the course of tbe Chagres. Is to be built a little east of the Bohlo locks. Engineers say that there will lie less danger of seepage, or leakage through the soil. If there Is a head of only sixty firs to seveaty feet here. Instead of one of ninety, mill. !f there Is another lock st^Tlger Hill th«* same effect would be secured. A »pillway U> diMbarga lb* surplus Oh. yea. waler of Lake Bohlo. will be construct ed throe miles to th»* aouthweat of the dam and locks, on a small tributary »•ailed the Glgante. A natural cut ex ists hero, sixty five feet altove sea lev el. of course the spillway must be higher than that to maintain the de sired level In Lake Bohlo. The com mission proposes to have it eighty five feet above th»* sea. From the Glgante the water will drain off through swamps to tlie lower (’liagres. a little excavating helping the flow her*. It Is expected that the Glgante spillway will serve ns an automatic safety valve In time of floods. As already stated, about twelve ami a half miles of rout»* lie through Lake Bohlo. For fully seven miles there will be deep water. Only a little drodg lug will be necessary ns (innboa is ap proached. To the southeast of the lat ter point !'»*s the heaviest work along the whole route. For nearly eight miles (7.96, to be exact) a cut In the backbone of the Isthmus will be need ed to bring the canal down to the proper level. This Is known as the Culebra cut. Tbe water will be no higher here than In Lake Bohlo. ami there will be no locks. However, as It may be desirable to drain the Culebra level some time, gates will be Intro duce»! near Gnmboa (at Obispo). It may be remarked. In passing, that the depth of tin* Culebra cut bears a close relation to tlie height of the Bo hlo dam. Th»» amount of excavation In tlie former was lessened twenty feet when the commission decided to raise tbe level of Lake Bohlo to ninety feet alaive the sen, Instead of seventy feet. On the other hand. If General Abbot's recommendations ha»l been adopted. It would have been necessary to go twen ty feet lower In the cut. Part of the material to be removed here Is rock, but a good deal is merely clay. Tartly to control the excesses of th* Cliagres In very n»lny weather. It has lie»*n proposed to build a dam at Alha- Juela. ten or elevon miles east of Gam boa, near tbe source of the stream. An artificial Itjke there would serve as a reservoir, take care of part of tne sur plus water when tbe precipitation was heavy, and thus relieve Lake Bohlo of a part of Its responsibility. By af fording storage, too. It would be able to reinforce the lower take In tbe dry season. At the southeastern end of the Cule bra cut. at Pedro Miguel, there Is a drop of sixty two feet, managed hy two locks. At Mlraflores, a mile and a third further, another lock lowers the level twenty-eight feet more. Beyond that point to Panama, over four miles, the canal Is at sea level. Dredging in Colon Harbor to the extent of 2.6 miles and at Panama for 3.6 miles will add materially to the work required, but th»*se figures are not Included In the estimates already given for th* canal proper. Hpontaneous Combustion. Cotton waste moist with lard or oth er animal oil will Ignite from the sun's rays. Ho will damp lampblack. Nitric add and charcoal create spoutan<*ou» combustion. New printer’s Ink on pa per when in contact with a hot steam pipe will Ignite quickly. Boiled lln- seed oil and turpentine In equal parts on cotton or linen rags or cotton waste will Ignite in a few hours under a mild beat, and will In time crests enough beat to Ignite spontaneously. Bituminous coal shoukl not b« stored where It will come In contact with woo»len partitions or columns, or against warm buller settings or steam pipes. This cosl should not be very deep If It is to be kept on storage for a long period. If piled In tbe base ment of a building It should be shallow and fr»*e from moisture and under good ventilation. It Accommovlated Hurclara. A placard reading "Will Not Return Until De«?ember i." plat-ed upon the door of a residence In We«t Philadel phia, was so Informing to burglars that when the family did return at tbe date flx«*»I they found the house ransacked, anil »llverwar». Jewelry and much clothing missing. The police wtwe noti fied. hut the thieves had not been so accommodating and left no bints on their part. The Problem Novel. Naggaby— What Is a problem novel? Waggvby It ta one In Which the motive of tbe author and tbe Judgment of tbe public are equally pussling to tbe reader.—Baltimore American. Cellar« tn Berlin. Recent statistics published In Berlin •how that there ar« 25.769 dwelling eeL lara In that city. A l»)irerr** e in Weight. A body weighing one pound on earth would weigh twenty-seven and a half puuuda up*»a tba sun.
