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LONG PRIVE ON AUTO. TO CHICAGO FROM ST. LOUIS IN THIRTY-SIX HOURS. Road* Were Rough and Route* Were Btrange—Mu<i, >an l, und Many Turn« Retarded Hpeed of Horaelea« Carriage —One lire Punctured. John L, French, of St. Louis, Is the first man to make a trip from St. Louis to Chicago ou au automobile. He mude the distance of 450 miles iu thirty-six hours, notwithstanding the fact that he eacouutered bad roads and was fre quently retarded by following wrong directions, lie traveled without a chart and did not try to choose the most direct route. He made the journey to prove that tire horseless carriage could be used satisfactorily ou tire dirt roads of the country, and that it could be de pended ou to climb hills and to wheel through deep mud. The automobile lu which the long drive was made Is of phLetou pattern and weighs 1,000 pounds. It consumed eighteen gallons of gasoline at a cost of st»ep hills. With the general use of ' Kensington. England. He was lt-affei the automobile will come an ideal con of au expedition largely subsidized by dition for farmers, inasmuch as the the Royal Geographical Society, uui popularity of the horseless carriage after a year's march of over 2.000 mile» will compel more attention being |>ald I from Zambesi to Uganda he has com« to the smoothness of country roads. back with hundreds of specimens am i several important additious to th« FEATS IN STR ET TRAFFIC. knowledge of Central Africa. Mr. Moore and the twenty I'jiji boy« Hauling Pine Logs More than Fifty who accompanied him lived on goat» Feet Long Through Chicago. The greatest feat to be seen iu street during the ascent and descent, driving traffic iu Chicago Is the handling ami the goats and killing them when f«><>< transportation of the loads of Norway was wanted. The I’jiji boys were s« pine logs designed for use as piles in struck witli tin* phenomenon of ice thai building foundations. The trunks of they tried to carry bits dowu to I'jiji these pine trees are of such great Tiie tropical suu nearly boiled tile let length that the average passer-by on ou the way. Between Tanganyika and Lake Al the street often wonders how In the world the load of plies ever turns a cor bert Edward is a lake called Kivu. T in best atlas published gives it as about ner. it Is not an uncommon sight to see one-tenth the size of Albert Edward a knot of people collected at a street Mr. Moore, who was accompanied by corner watching the approach and skill Malcolm Fergussou, an English geolog ful turning of the long wagon with Its 1st and geographer, found that Kivu 1» load of three or four piles. Turning larger than Albert Edward. The nortf the corner and entering another street end of Tanganyika was found to bt at right angles Is such a difficult feat fifty miles westward of its ascribed po that as a rule the pines are taken sition. The primary object of the expeditiot through tiie streets at night when there is no traffic to interfere. Recently, was t¥> dredge and sound the lakes however, loads of them have been with reference to the marine form» driven through the heart of tlie city In which Mr. Moore found there foul FROM ST. LO.UIS TO CHICAGO IN AN AUTOMOBILE. $2 for the trip. The average speed was twelve and a half miles an hour, ami the only accident was the puncturing of a tire. It was Mr. French's first inten tion to go only as far as Springfield, but when lie heard of the International race meet In Chicago he went on to that city, where he took medals iu the three classes In which lie competed. “When 1 left St. Louis 1 decided to <ake the roads as they came," said Mr. French, when set'll after Ids arrival hi Chicago. "Th«' highways ami byways of Illinois I found ii perfect labyrinth. The persons whom 1 met ou the Jour uey, ami from which I humbly Inquired the best route to Chicago, so often mis . directed me that I lost much time. , Owing to the section divisions, the roads are short ami I found tlia\ I had to turn a corner every ten minutes. As ( the speed of tiie automobile had to be decreased In order to make each turn. I could not cover as great a distauce as if 1 bad been on a straight road. I am sure that 1 could make a trip ill much better time If I weie to repeat It, as I know Illi' route now. And. by the way, 1 think I happened on th«1 best roads, and I shall take the same route w lieu I uext make the journey. the daytime. Naturally during business hours taking them through the streets Is attended with far greater difficulties limn nt night. When corners me turneil th«' long poles, as they are transported In an angling direction from on«' street to another, practically blockade traffic. Often when going straight across a stret a small blockade is caused, for the poles are so long and are carted so slowly that when they cut a thorough- far«' all of the cross current of cars, wagons and carriages is held at a standstill for as much as a minute, sometimes more, and a minute Is a much longer period of time in such a case than It seems in mint. All of the poles ar«» fifty or more feet In length, and th«* largest ones are In tin* neighborhood of a foot in thickness at th«' largest end and a few inches smaller at the tip end. Th«' wagons ar«* about forty feet In length. They are very simply contructed and are of great strength. The wheels are over tlv«' feet In diameter, and the two sets ar«' placed the full length of the wagon, or about forty feet away from each other. Th«* load moves slowly enough at the best, but when It approaches a corner where a turn is to be made the I years ago. Th«* 1 question was whethei ; the Jellyfish and crustaceans originally got into ranganyika by way of tin | Nile or the Congo. Having determined that these marine species are to hr found in none of the lakes north of Tanganyika, Mr. Moore believes that Tanganyika was once Joined to the sea by way of a great basin in the Congo state. Wlii'ii Tanganyika was left high, if not dry, In the center of Africa, the Jellyfish and crustaceans of the sea re mained behind, nnd their descendents 1 ar«' flourishing to-da.v. They have been there many thousands of years, for fossils they resemble are to be found below th«' chalk level. Should Avoid Certitin Shades. A famous Parisian dressmaker de clares that bin«' ami pink of any shade whatsoever are fatal to the beauty of u woman with red hair. He refuses pointblank to use even the most frugal touch of either color, no matter how earnestly Ills red-haired patrons may desire them, ami tells them with deep regret but unyielding firmness that only black and white in judicious combina tion, soft, warm browns and delicate Fiftv Mile« on Wn»u Roads. “Leaving St. Louis at 8 o'clock In the morning. I spent tiie night nt Divernon, eighty five mill's away. 1 ran 125 miles during the day. but lost fifty miles by going out of my way -according to di rections given me by iHsrsous of whom I asked information. 1 took luncheon at Staunton. Near Litchfield one of the tires was punctured, and I had a bad time until I reached Divernon. The people had never seeu an automobile, and my ntachlue created a great deal of excitement. Men. women and dill dren rushed out of the houses to look at the horseless cnrrlage. I was sur prised when I saw the astonishment with which the automobile was exam toed. Even tli«' tioraex were amazed. ■ nd many times I was compelhal to •top my vehicle In order to prevent run a w ay s. The ilogs barked at me. but they tied In terror when the maeblm* whizzed by them. “At Divernon I patched the punctur ed tire with ro|s- and went on to Spring field. After leaving Divernon the roads were much Improved for a long dis tance. In, Springfield I had th«' tire mended, and then I decided to go on to t'bleago. From Middleton to San Jose the roads were good. At Pekin I w Ins led Into d«s>p sand as far as Chilli cothe. Near Peoria I was compelled to get out and push my machine. From Chillicothe to Henry th«' roads were tine, l b«* next morning I had a splen did drive to Seneca. 1 ran Into a heavy storm nt Minooka, nnd the trip for the remainder of the way Into Chi cago was through mud. In some places ■ lx Inches d«*ep." Mr. French believes that before many years the automobile will lu1 as common as the bicycle, and that the summer trip on the horseless cnrrlage will I h > a popular ami fashionable recreation, »laps of the best routes will lie Indis pensable, however, for the amount of misinformation that he gathered con cerning routes, roads, distances, and towns was varl«*d lie found saml mon- of an obstacle than mud. and en- countered no difficulties in ascending PILOTING LONG POLES THROUGH THE STREETS. driver pulls up a little and goes still slower. Several rods before he reach«'» the corner he begins drawing up as closely as possible* to the curb opposite to th«» direction In which he Is about to turn, in order that lie may have as great a space as possible for making th«' turn to prevent running the sides of th«' long, straight poles Into th«' buildings. • HOW JELLY FISH EMIGRATE. One Investigator Says They Climb Mountains an I Cross Deserts. purples are permitted to them. Anothei Paris dressmaker says that there is » touch of green In every womau s col orlng. anti that he makes It a point te discover It and to bring that es|»eeia shade Into th«' finishing of the gowu. 11«' also adds a touch of white to every costume that Issues from his atelier claiming that all colors are improve« by Its contrasted effect. llemar - able tinttt*. The most remarkable knife in th« world Is that In th«' curiosity room oi a firm of cutlers In Sheffield. It ha 1.890 blades, and ten blades ar«* adde every ten years. Another curiosity it thre«' i»alrs of scissors, all of whit»! can be covered with a thimble. The problem of how the appi«* got into the* dumpling sinks Into Inslg UlUcance la-sid«* that of th«* jellyfish, the crustaceans and I-ak«* Tanganyika; but J. E. 8. Mentre, who has just «•ome back from (’entrai Africa. In'lleves he has discovered how the fish from the Big Vessels May Rea<-h Brnsaels. sea got into the lake In the middle' of ! By the enlargement of a ship caua the continent. aiuetee'U mil«'« long Brussels become« a Mr Moore Is one of the young men p«»rt for ships of 2.000 tons. The ok: at the Koval College of Scleuee, South Umlt waa '< -seis of 300 too*. ■voldtng all varieties that give out an "YOU LIE” NOT DEADLY INaULT. uupleasant odor, those which are tough So Decided a Kansas City Jury in a Pe or in a state of decomposition, aud by culiar Lawsuit. examining the Insides to see that they Is 't a deadly insult to call a man a THEY ARE OFTEN MISTAKEN are free from grubs aud the larvae of liar, aud is a man so insulted justified FOR MUSHROOMS. Hies aud beetles. iu slugging the man who impugns his veracity? A Jury iu Judge Gates' court BELLE ARCHER. Some Interesting Information by I>r. at Kansas City decided iu tiie negative, Farlow, Professor of Cryptogamic A Well-Known Actress Who Died Re ami awarded Neils Johnson ?1,<XW dam cently of Em hot lam. ages for being beaten up by H. C. Bed Botany in Harvard University—How Belle Archer, the well-known actress. ford. botii farmers in eastern Jackson to Tell Edible from Poisonous Fungi. I died recently of embolism at a hospital County. Bedford made the unique plea in Warren, Pa. She had beeu long ■that he was born in Kentucky and Besides the cliauee that the toadstool 1 known as one of the most beautiful ami raised iu Misouri, aud that iu those may be mistaken for the edible mush I taientetl members of the theatrical pro States it was a deadly insult to call a room, danger is said to lurk lu that fession In America. Before she made l'iuau a liar. He* also made the peculiar which under ordinary circumstances her hit in "A Contented Woman” Miss plea that he was suffering from neuras might be eaten with impunity. It is Archer won fame as the leading lady of thenia, a disease of the nerves, which absolutely esseutial that mushrooms In 1 Alexander Salvini, whom she was cone deprived him partially of his self-con tended for the table should be gathered trol. iu their prime aud prepared for eating Some months ago Johnson, who Is a as quickly as possible, lu their chem small man, was a tenant of Bedford’s, ical construction they are much the aud the two got into a dispute over same as meats. In fact, many authori some ground. Bedford, who is large ties claim that they are a good substi and brawny, maintains that the plain tute for meats, and In some countries tiff called him a liar. He badly beat the peasants and poorer classes have bis small antagonist, and for a long no other meat for weeks and months. time Johnson was confined to his home. Just as the meats taiut and become un When he was able to be about he com fit for human consumption, so the menced suit for $2,500 actual and $5,- mushrooms decompose aud become dan 000 punitive damages. gerous. It was known that Bedford's plea Probably the deadliest of all, as well would be such as to create a stir and as one of the most violent and fatal of the courtroom was well filled when the vegetable poisons, is the amanita ver- case was called. The answer read: uus, aud of all th«' poisouous varieties "Th«' defendant for his amended an it is the one that may most easily be swer denies each anil every allegation mistaken for the wholesome variety. not hereinafter expressed. Further an With this variety all tests for distin swering. the defendant states that on guishing. such as pleasant odor, boiling or about tiie 25tli of July, 1899, lie was with a silver spoon, tarnishing indicat suffering from a nervous disease known ing poison, change of color w hen bro UEI.l.K AKCIIKK. as neurasthenia,, which tends to the ken and peeling of the cap are said to be at fault. The amanita lias au in pel led to sue for her contract money In general Impairment of health, and tend viting odor, its taste is very pleasant 181)5. Soon afterward Salvini was at ed to make the defendant irritable and and it peels easily. The latter tests are tacked with the disease of which he to deprive him of his usual self-control; not considered conclusive, however, for «licei not long ago In Italy. Since that that plaintiff was the tenant of the de the reason that many of the varieties time Miss Archer had been very suc fendant, and on said «late, while they that are edible do not peel easily. The cessful as an actress. She was born at were discussing business, without any one unerring mark by which amanita Easton, Pa., in 18(10. cause or provocation the plaintiff called may be distinguished is a little socket the defendant a 'd—-d liar.’ The de in which the stem sets and which is de fendant was born in Kentucky and ELECTION DAY. nominated the poison cup. This cup reared in Missouri, and under the cus may be under ground aud must be How It Came to Be Tuesday After First tom prevailing in said States such lan Monday in November. searched for if the novice would be cer guage was the deadliest insult which The designation of the day for hold one could inflict «upon another. That tain that he has not plucked bis own death. Any mushroom that has even a ing the presidential election Is left to on hearlug said words defendant was, suggestion of such a socket should be Congress. The first act passed by it owing to the character of the words, relating to that subject was iu 1792. It unable to control himself, and he struck left severely alone. In an extensive paper entitled "Some provided that presidential electors the plaintiff about tiie head and face Edible and Poisonous Fungi,” prepared should be appointed “within thirty-four several times witli his list; that defend by Dr. W. G. Farlow, professor of cryp days before the first Wednesday in De ant di«l not put his whole force, but, togamic botany in Harvard University, cember.” This left ea«'h State free to never having struck a man before in for the United States Department of select a day to suit itself within those his life in anger, «lid not know how Agriculture, are given some rules for limits. Pennsylvania chose electors on much force to use, and dhl inflict some distinguishing th«' common mushroom the last Friday In October. Other States slight injuries about tiie head and face from the deadly agarics. Dr. Farlow elected theirs on different days be of the plaintiff.” tween the beginning and middle of No says: When the attorney for the defendant "The common mushroom has a pileus vember. had finished there was something of a When Harrison was elected in 1840 titter going around over the room, and which is not covered with wart-like scale; gills which are brownish purple the Democrats asserted that his suc the Kentuckians recollected their na when mature; a nearly cylindrical cess was due partly to fraudulent vot tive State with considerable pride, and stalk, which is not hollow’, with a ring ing, which was made possible by the those that had been born in Missouri near the middle, ami without a bulbous lack of a definite election day. It was thought the days of chivalry had re base sheathed by a membrane or by alleged that Kentucky and Ohio Wliigs turned or the code duello revived. Bed had voted in both States, the election ford himself, who is a very large man, scales. “The fly agaric has a pileus marked being beld on different «lays. So in 1845 was about Hie only one In the room who with prominent warts; gills always the Democrats passed the law now oil did not smile, but Judge Gates could hardly suppress himself at the unique answer of the defendant, which was based on the code of honor of tw’o great States.—St. Louis Republic. AVOID TOADSTOOLS. My Mither-ln-Law. When T courted wi’ Maggie her nuther did cry That nane could be suited like Maggie and I; But since we’ve got niairret a change is owre a’; Noo, I eanna get on wi’ her mither ava’. When she tak’s a rin up by the fireside she sits. An' gets on to Maggie for cleaning my buits: She says. "Dinna learn him sic fashion ava'." white; a stalk with a large ring around the statute books making the first Tues She’s a middlesorae lady, my mrther-in- the upper part, and hollow or cottony day after the first Monday election «lay. law. At that time but five of the twenty- inside, but soil«! at the base, where it is six States had their State elections in She picks fauts wi' this, and she picks bulbous and scaly. “The deadly agaric has a pileus with November. In Michigan and Missis fauts wi’ that; out distinct warts; gills which are al sippi voting was carried on through two She even picks fauts wi' oor innocent cat. ways white, ami a hollow stalk with a «lays—the first Monday and the follow She scolds at oor-wean when he greets on his maw; large ring and a prominent bulb at the ing Tuesday. New York had three elec base, whose» upper margin is membra tion days—the first Monday. Tuesday She's a heidstrong auld lady, my mither- in-law. nous or baglike. Other minor points of and Wednesday—but bad finally con difference are Hie different places in fined voting to the middle day. or the which these species grow, and also the first Tuesday after the first Monday. When she speaks o’ our neebours she rins them a' doon. colors, which, although they vary in Massachusetts chose State officers on An' she thinks there's no mony like her each case, are brillhint yellow or red iu th«' second Monday in November, and in the toon: the fly agaric, white, varying to pale Delaware on the second Tuesday. So If she doos ony guid turn fu’ loudly she’ll olive, lu the deadly agaric, and white, Congress selected the first Tuesday blaw. usually tinged with a little brown, iu after the first Monday to consult the She's real fond o' herself, my auld mith er in-law. the mushroom. convenience of three States out of five, "A word should be said as to the size one of the three being th«' important and proportion of the pileus and stalk State of New York.—Chicago Tribune. Some nicht I will open my mind on her yet. In these three species. In the mush An' tell her o' something she winna for Lost Arts of Egypt. room the pileus averages from three to get: Analyses of weapons and tools, dating four Inches ill breadth and the stalk Is I’ll tell her she winna come here an* from very ancient times in Egypt, have generally shorter than the breadth of misca’ the pileus ami comparatively stout. The convinced M. Berthelot, the French Folks wha niver hae herm’d her, my pileus remains convex for a long time, chemist, that the old Egyptians used mither-in-law. and does not become «itille flat-topped pure copper in the manufacture of such —Glasgow Mail. until quite old. The substance Is firm objects. They displayed much Ingenu- Education a Test In France. A and solid. In the fly agarle the pileus, I ity iu • manipulating that metal. The French potache Is only a boy, at first oval ami convex, soon becomes chisel was made by folding thin strips fiat anil attains a breadth of six to of copper over one another and then anywhere from fl to 16 years of age. but eight Inches, ami sometimes more. The , forging them into a solid blade, while he Is at once high sc.hool boy. collegian stalk has a length equal to or slightly ; hollow needles were formed from cop an«l university student from the t«egln- exceeding th«» breadth of the pileus an«l per leaf by a method very similar to ning. In France. unl«»ss a young man Is comparatively slenderer than In the that which is employed at the present has been a potache, he can all his life common mushroom, but nevertheless day in making helical tubing for bi be nothing except a shop clerk or a day laborer. He cannot be a physician or quite stout. The substance Is less firm cycles. a horse doctor or a chemist's clerk, a than In the common mushroom. Extraordinary Township. notary or a full-fledged advocate, an "The pileus of the deadly agaric is The most extraordinary township In army officer, or even a school teacher, thluuer than that of the common mush room. and. from being rather bell England is that of Skiddaw. in Cumber or a responsible agent of commerce, shaped when young, becomes gradually land. It contains but one house, the unless he has passed the proper uni ver flat-topped, with the «renter a little occupier of which is unable to exercise sify examinations. raised. In breadth It Is Intermediary th«» privilege of voting, because there One of the Ironies of War. between the two preceding speclt»s. The is no overs«»er to prepare a voters' list, Capt. Lans of the German navy, who stalk usually is longer than th«' breadth and no church or other place of wor of th«' pileus, and the habit Is slenderer ship or assembly on which to publish took such a prominent part in the cap ture of the Taku forts, writes home than in th«' two prtreeding species. All one. that the Germans capture«! at that Freak Potato in Maine. three species are pleasant to the taste, which shows that one cannot infer that A most curious freak potato was place seventeen gun# of various calilter a species Is not poisonous because the raisesl on the farm of J. C. Hammond, and much ammunition. "These,” de last«* is agreeable. The fly agaric has of Greene. Me. The potato not only clares Capt. Lans, "are the guns which scarcely any «»dor. The other two spe hail eyes, but a good-sized tooth, prob have killed and wounded so many of cies have certain odors of their own. ably a horse tooth, and grew until the my brave fellows, and which, alas! like but they cannot be describe«}.” cavity was filled and the tooth hard almost all the enemy's guns and am munition. come from our native conn- While there are over 100 varieties of an«l fast in the potato. try. The gems are all modern quick mushrooms and toa«lst«»ols which may Adam must have been swift-footed, firers from Krupp's.” lie eaten, there is no general rule for their Identification, and each must be inasmuch as he was first in the human Hypocrites frequently lay themaelveg learne«l as a sp«reies. Th«' gatherer rn.ty race. open to discovery by overacting the«» safeguard himself to some extent by Live not to eat. but rather eat to 11 v* parts.