Ht COLUi.iDirtu, i . .oOiVlbbUiU-., IViORAiCfl IKIESTHOOD. LIVING IN A SUN BOX. BELIEVES IN HEREDITY. HISTORY OF THE DONKEY. Its Infliinncp In l'lt la llimlnrm, l Viilltlra, anil in Sorliil I. Iff. New AnMratlan Institution ' the Treatment of Coa ' - inmptlon. f He linn n 1. uaty Won Who I in it Troof of It livery liny. a l.lt In the 1'ar Knat the Dlinlnnllve An. mal Has the Appreciation of All Clnr. BSnua ESSES! The priostliood mn nhvajs rrly on the voinoii. They liuve Ihm-ii tlio strength of tlie church, ovon under that yMrin of polygamy which mmU thru) 'living' mnrtyrs." Tliey have the full right of RufTnige, and nono who in not In accord with the church uuthurit iet "need look for their support. The men jnro subject to n constant dineiplini! that Itecpg them at all times In sympathy with the ambitions of the leaders. There, are 1,500 Mormon luisnloiiurU'n now In the foreign work of the church, the brightest of its young men, the fu ture leaders In all mutters. They nvo compelled to sacrifice everything and to labor for two or three years fur from koine la the Interests of their religion, ays the North American Review. None who goes through this expert ence ever forgets the power of the priesthood, and each understands that If he should show too great a spirit of Independence lie may be called uguin to muke the sacrifice. No young man Jn the church may be married in one of the temples unless he is faithful and 'obedient to his superiors, and no young iwomnn would consider herself married In the night of (Jod unless she was '"sealed" by the proper authorities, -In business, In politics, in social life, ev erywhere, the young man meets the church, and he must be of iron if he jdares to stand out agninst it. Many nave done so in the past, but they have Veen the exceptions. Their numbers have never been sufficient to offset the 'church itself. HER BRIDEGROOM'S UNIFORM. She Wanted tlon of It to lie a. Co in l Inn. an Admiral's and General'!. 1 One of the young gentlemen who nave just been appointed in the regular army was married only u few weeks ago, and his bride takes a great deal of interest in his uniform. lie left his measure with a military tailor here the other day, and the next afternoon when she was out shopping she dropped in to give some instructions as to the man ner in which it was to be trimmed, says a Washington letter in the Chicago Rec ord. She told the tailor she did not like the ordinary uniform of a second lieuten ant and desired to have her husbund's different. She wanted to have four bonds of gold bruid around the sleeve, like Admiral Schley hus on his, and after critically examining all the shoul dcrstraps she instructed the tailor to put on her husband's cout a pair that had Bilver birds embroidered on them, because they were prettier than any of 'the rest. . The tuilor tried to advise her that the Tegulationsdidnot permit a second lieu jtenant to wear the insignia of an ad miral of the navy or those of a colonel in the army, but she declared that if he Svould not make that uniform the way etae wauted she would hove her hus jband patronize somebody else. PRAIRIE GIRL'S WEDDING. 8h Seldom Takes at Trip, Dot Goes Direct to Her Jienr Home. i As the prairie girl has grown up jwith her training along practical lines, so sho asks only of her lover that he shall be manly and true, writes Charles jMoreau llarger, of "A Girl's Life on the ifrairie," in Ladies' Home Journal. Thousands of acres of land do not make a fortune, and social degrees are .practically unknown. The wedding Is nearly always at the bride's home. Not once in threescore times is it at the church. The near relatives and a few dear friends are the guests. The bride's white wedding gown is simply made, Hunches of goldenrod or roses deck the little parlor or sitting-room, and from the organ comes the wedding march. Seldom does a groomsman er a bride's attendant take part in the cere mony, and more seldom is there a re ception afterward. Fortunate indeed are the bride and groom if they can es cape a vociferous serenade, for the charivari and the bombardment of rice and old shoes are well-established cus toms on the plains. The papers usually add to the story of the marriage: ''After the wedding supper and con gratulations the happy couple drove to their own home, which had already been fitted up for their occupancy." CAPTURING STURGEON. Mounted Runalan t'axnek. Flnh Through the lea of Swift River. To fish while mounted on tho back of a horse probably would be beyond the capacity of gentle Izaak Walton of de lightful memory, yet that is the way sturgeon is captured in the frozen rivers of the Ural mountains. Russian Cossacks fish in large bands, Bays a for eign paper. They gallop along until they reach the point in the rivers where the current haa its swiftest flight. There they dismount and cut into the lee until they have cleared a small pool of water which extends across the rapid current almost from one bank of the river to the other. A net is then sunk to the bottom of the stream and stretched across it at the open pool so that not a single fish can swim beyond Its meshes. Then the horses are mounted and the Cossacks turn bock and ride along the edgo of the river for about four or five miles. Then the bond wheels about and gallops rapidly ulong the Ice-eovered stream, making a pic ture thot would delight a Schreyer or a Promentin. The loud cannonade caused by tho beating of thu horses' hoofs on (he surface of the ice terrifies the stur geon and they swim quickly in swarms into the net that waits their capture. In two Australian towns away Tip In tho mountains there ore now institu tions for the treatment of consumption by tho "new method." which calls for little beside fresh air and food. The "sun box," which the Australian doc tors consider essential, is described by thu Melbourne Argus as a frame struc ture, open ot the' top, about six by ten feet in size. "Why, I lived In a sun box for years when I first enme to the country, but we used to call it a hut in those days!" some readers will be ready to exclaim. There is this difference, however, be tween a hut and a sun box, that the former Is n fixture, unless a bush tire; or a hurricane comes along, whereas a sun box Bhould be constructed on a pivot, or, failing that, on wheels, so that its front may le readily turned nwoy frrvin the wind. The reason Is that while fresh, pure air and sunlight mean renewed health to the consump tive patient, the wind is injurious. If you have no sun boxes, the patient must bo taken indoors whenever the wind blows, but, given your sun box to present its back to the wind, no matter what quarter it comes from, and the patient may remain in it all day. j In each of these boxes two or three patients ore placed on mattresses, and there they lie all day long and drink in the pure mountain air. If they are weak their food is taken to them, otherwise Ihey get it in the home, j 1'hotographs show the treatment be j inpr carried out right among the gleam ing mountain snows with the con valescent patients engaged in snow balling! FIRST DAILY WAS WRITTEN. London's Enrllest "tewnnniier W'un In tlie Munuscrlot of Its Cor renpoudent. It has been discovered that what may be called tlie first daily newspaper was a manuscript letter written by salaried correspondents and forwarded to them every 24 hours from London to the prov inces. That was in the days of the early Stuarts. Dunns' -he commonwealth these Lon don letters were printed in type nnd circulated in large numbers. Kven so long ago us 1GS0 the luw of libel wos Such us to be characterized by Judge Scroggs as making any newspaper pub lication illegal and tending to provoke u breach of the peace. Defoe, tho uuthor of "Robinson Crusoe," wos one of tlie early journal ists, his paper being called the Review. Then there was Tutchin, whose weekly publication, the Observer, cost, accord ing to evidence he gave in a court of justice, hulf a guinea to print, though the typesetter evidently ruised his price to 20 shillings. The Observer had a cer tified circulation of 200 copies. Afterward there came the Grants, Steele, Addison and Johnson, who might have lived in the vicinity of Urn bb 'street, but were court favorites for all that. , The Times employed the first foreign correspondent in the person of Henry Crabb RobinBon, and succeeded in "scooping" the government itself in the Dews of the battle of Waterloo. A GREAT MAN. u Was Kiom Only aa "Blookrr" When Ills Identity Was Discovered. Talking about bishops, the other afternoon a distinguished, stately man, clad in the garb of a minister, was over at the fish commission spending a half hour in watching the gyrutions of the specimens in the tunk, says the Wash ington I'ost. One of the scientists of the institution, u young ichthyologist, whose papers ou the subject of deep sea investigation are attracting atten tion throughout the world, happened. in passing by the tunk, to notice the minister, lie studied the stately visitor for a minute, and then walked up to hiin. "Am I right," he inquired, "in sup posing you to be Right Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, Episcopal bishop of Rruzil?" j "You are," replied the stately man, regarding his questioner wonderingly. "Well, Iben, hello, 'llloolier!' " said the scientist, jovially, holding out his hand. 1 "Why, hello, there, Charlie!" warm ly replied RightRev.LucieuI.ee Kinsolv ing, Kpiseopul bishop of llrazil, squeez ing the young scientist's hund. Diagram: The two men had been chums in a boarding school down in Virginia when they were boys, and they hadn't seen each other since. The bishop's nickname among tlie boys was niooker." The Cnr as a Hoy. rt i 1 ' 1 1 1 1. 1 ... ine czar wus uiugm j-iigiihii, wim-u he speaks without any accent, by a Air. Heath, a gentlemun who was very fond or boxing. An interesting picture is given by a French writer of tlie early rXcept for a loin loth, a turban and life of the young ruler of the Russians, sandals. The turbun uud sandals hla.e Nicholas and his brothers were brought with jewels, lie prottt rates himself be up with very little ceremony, though j foro u ll ls pagoda, wherein squats an they were well educated, particularly uply ilol with dj;:)omi ey(.s There is in religious matters. But their Sun- nlwavs a crowd to watch these devo- duyi were not passed In a fashion w hie n the old Puritans would have tip proved of, for on that particular duy they entertained at dinner their boy and girl friends, and very lively these banquets were. The manners at the table of the future czar and his broth ers and friends remind one rather of the days of Peter the Oreut nnd the way in which that monarch "carried ou," for we are told that "there was no end to the tricks the host and their small guests played. From end to end of the table there used to be continuous firing of bread pellets, which were per petually striking princely noses or jMdlng in royal mouths." "Do I believe In heredity?" sold a well-known local professional man to tho Cleveland l'lain Dealer man. "Ol course 1 4o. 1 believe in it good nnd Ktrong, t.y. Why, I have a living proof of the theory right before me every blessed day. My own son. Yes, thut's right. He's a chip of the old block. "You see, t like to get out In the yard -I have n pretty fair-sized one with the rake and the spade and the lnwn mower, and tidy things up a little. I don't hunker particularly after the job, but I know the exercise is just what I need and I do it. Of course, I'd be glad to have my sou help me a little he's a strong, lusty fellow, but do you suppose I can get him to touch a tool? Why, ho hides when he hears me coming to call him. Thut's right. So I go out alone and putter around, and every time I think of his dodging mo I laugh till I shake. "You see I was just like that when I was a youngster! My dear old dad would say: 'Come along, boy!' but do you suppose 1 came? Not much. 1 sneaked and hid and made myself scarce every time I sow him start for the gnr den. And he hod to go out and do the work alone. "I only hope thot my boy will hove a boy of his own some day who will serve him the very same way. And I'll bet you something handsome he will. It's according to the rules of eternal equity thnt he should. "Yes, sir, I'm a firm believer in heredl- ty." A NAME WANTED. Australia I Trying- to Find a hie One for Her etv Capital. Snlt- The correspondence columns of the Australian papers are teeming with novel nnd original suggestions for the style and -title of the federal capital ol the early future. "Cooktown" is pro posed ns a posthumous compliment to Capt. Cook, the Columbus of the Aus tralian seas. "Ophir," the Riblical gold en city," is also considered appropriate, us gold is n principal Australian prod uct. "Augusta," the name of the lirst known settlement on the site of Lon don, is regarded by one correspondent os a capital symbol for "u noble, ma jestic, imperial city," soys tlie London Chronicle. Alcxnndrinu, Guelph, Southern Cross, Australopolis, Australburgh, Victoria Regiua, Atlantis, Federal City, Queen Victoria City, Fcderu, Southniinster and rritannio are a few of the titles culled from a considerable variety of epis tolary samples. An admirer of the pre mier of the parent colony recommends Jieidville. l'erhnps the most sensible suggestion is that of "An Australian Girl," who would leave the selection of the title of the federal capital to the queen. Her majesty has not been asked to play this role of godmother since she bestowed the name of New West minster upon the first capital of British Columbia, then an Independent colony, now the most western province of the Canadian dominion. The present cap! talof British Columbia bears the queen's own name, Victoria. POMP OF POWER. Great Ceremony Attends the Mithtly Lock Ins of Gibraltar's Onto. Ferhaps the favorite Bight of Gibral tar Is the daily procession at sundown for the locking of the town gates. The keeper of the keys, looking very like a prisoner despite his uniform, marchea through the town in the center of a military guard, preceded by n regiment al band, which ploys inspiring and fa miliar tunes. The keys, of enormous size, are borne uloft before him as an outward and visible emblem of the vigi lance of Britain in guarding her prime military treasure. On arriving at the gates the guard Milutes, tho martial btrains strike up with a redoubled paeon of triumph, while the great doors slowly swing to nnd ore solemnly locked for the uigfit. Then right-about-turn, and the proces sion marches bock to the convent to de posit the keys in the governor's keep ing, conveying by its passage un assur unco to the people and garrison that they muy rest in peace. Once the gates ure shut it were easier for a camel to pnss through tho eye of a needle than for any unauthorized per son to go into Gibraltar. Even a be lated officer returning from pig-sticking beyond the lines would be confront ed by so many formalities and the ne- cessitv of inconvcniencinir so nianv hiirh personages Hint he would probably pre- 4 .1... .!! .r.,... ... - fcr to encounter the discomforts of a Spanish inn without. The Nnkril sinn'a PTayer, 1 . . ..... Hastings, r.ngiand, lias a free circus every day at noon. At tlmt hour an old gentleman parades In the front garden i 0f his fine resilience, nerfectlv naked. tlons. If one questions the old gentle man he answers, testily: "Whut am I doing, eh? I'm praying for the conver sion of this benighted land to Bud dhism. That's whut I'm doing." Precious 8tonrs Ills Fortune. The present shah hus just celebrated his forty-sixth birthday. Tho shah Is enormously wealthy, and almost tho whole, of his fortune consists, of dia monds and precious stones.' The royal family of Perstn Is one of the largest In the world. There nre some thousands of nrlnces and princesses, and the nres- f J exit occupant of ffio th-rone has a family I ' of about 20. ' The best donkeys come from Arabia. Vley hove clean, smooth conts, hold their heads high and are used only for riding purposes. Many ore sent to Per sia, where they sell for high sums. They are well looked afler and their harness Jugs are of tlie richest. In the far east tho donkey for cen turies has received the opprecintlon of all classes. A (hie Arab atccd, used fcolcly for the saddle, exists In Syria nnd u smaller kind is devoted to the use of the women when they wish to ride abroad. As one goes farther cast the don keys diminish in stature, and In India the tiny animal called a donkey is used only by the people of the lower caste. Europe, Malta nnd Spain supply tho finest donkeys, and in parts of Italy and Franca good specimens may be se cured. Although the donkey was known in England in the reign of the earlier Sax ons, it wos not common, for it became extinct till the reign of Elizabeth. The wild origin of the donkey is supposed to have been the koulnn or onrtger, which exists In herds In Persia and sim ilar lands. The skin is used for mak ing shagreen leather. The donkey is coming into general favor abroad, and even America may soon become accus tomed to seeing children driving don key carta or invalids taking ft much- 1 needed airing drawn by the patient lit tle animals, which make good pets and are so much less expensive than n pony- GOLD MINING. There I Reason to Relieve It Mny lie tarried on I'rolltalily In the rhlllpiilnea. At this distance, nnd with the slight exploratory work which has been car ried on in the Philippine islands, says the Engineering Magazine, the miner als thnt can be profitably exported are best known. Mr. George F. Becker in his recent invest igat ion has given a very clear view of the present mineral explorution in tlie Philippines, and has shown that gold is found in a great number of localities in the archipelago, from northern Luzon to central Min danao. In most eases the gold is detrital, and is found cither in existing water courses or in deposits now de serted by the current. It is snid that in Mindanao some of the gravels are in tin elevated position nnd adapted to hydraulic mining. There are no data Dt hand which indicate decisively the value of nny of the placers, but the fact that they arc washed largely with eoeoanut shells for pans by the natives Is un indication of either rich deposits or quite conrse gold. In the province ot Abra, at the northern end of Luzon, there are placers, and the River Abra itself yields auriferous gravel. In Le Planto there are gold quartz veins ns well as gravels, nnd here also is the best developed deposit of copper ores, although these are also reported from r great number of localities on the is lands of Luzon, Mindoro, Capul, Mas bate, Pu nay and Mindanao. The last island is practically unexplored end full of possibilities. ' USES FOR CORUNDUM. For Auranlre Turpoaea In WorU on Metals It May Supplant Kmery. There will probably soon be employ ment for the lurge deposits of corun dum in North Carolina, us uses for thot mineral In the arts are being found. I This mineral is the crystallized oxide of alumina, and, though it is essentially of India, It is found in gem form not only In North Carolina, but to some extent in Georgia, and there ore valu- able deposits of it in British Ontario. In Nature is an article setting forth I the uses and vulue of corundum, and it I nppenrs that it is employed chiefly iop abrasive purposes, mostly in the form of corundum wheels, which are said to . be twice as effective and durable as , emery wheels. Corundum wheels may be regarded ns rotary files, the cutting points of which never grow dull. They are rapidly replacing hies lor cutting down metal surfaces, oud taking the place of grindstones for sharpening tools. We are told that while a file is useless when it has lost five per cent-' of its weight, tho oorundum grains throughout a wheel retain their cut ting power so that it can be worked tintil quite 90 per cent, of its weight is worn off. Thus, while it has been cstinnvtcd that to remove one pound j weight of iron with a ft ' tin annie nmoiint of w file costs CS oents, ork cun be done I with fin emery or corundum wheel in ' .l !.,. .1. -. 1 n. UUOUl UllC-Cllllll UL IUU IJUIU UllU nit one-seventh of the cost. Gold Production. A close race is that in gold production' In the United Slates, Australia and South Africa. Last year the United States lost tho first place, but may be expected to regain it. The figures for 1S08 were: South Africa, $30,000,000;' Australia, $7,"(.)2,000, and the United Suites, $Gj.7S,0U. Australia, like this country, is getting more gold from low- grade ores, und gold is iilso obtained by dredging machinery from the ooze at the bottom of streums. Australian' gold coins orlginiilly had a greenish tint, but the silver that cuused it is now extracted by a chemical process. Ammunition for Old Iron. A cargo of sheila, originally intended for the use of Spunlsh guns in the war with the tinted States, recently ar rived at Glasgow, Scotland. The charges bad been extracted from them and needy Spain took advantage of the recent rie. in the price of nietul to get I hold of an honest penny by selling them for ld iron. The shells are ol ail sizes. 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