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C'JT THE HENFRUIT IS SMALLER
Jersey Hen In Missouri Would Lay
a Different Sort of n Egg, an Ex
tort Testifies In Court What
Cause the Difference.
Newark, N. J. That a New Jersey
lit n would lay a different shaped egg
if it was taken to Mipsourl was an as
sertion made In an unusual suit heard
before Judge Heisley and a Jury in
the Circuit Court at Newark.
Paul Mandevllle of Chicago brought
suit against the Arm of H. Koch &
Co. of Newark to recover $332, the
value of a carload of Missouri eggs
consigned to that firm. The verdict
was given in favor of the defendant
after a deliberation of two hours. The
defence was that Iowa eggs had been
ordered instead of the Missouri pro
duct. Testimony was given by experts as
to the age of eggs and in Just what
State they originated. It was de
clared by John V. Bain for the de
fence that he handled eg.? for years,
that he was able to ascertain the
thickness of a shell and at a glance
to tell correctly the number of spo's
on an egg. He said the eggs Mande
vllle shipped were laid in April and
kept in cold storage until December.
More than three dozen in each case
were "live eggs." Egg experts don't
say that eggs contained chickens.
3aln testified that not more than two
and a half dozen should be live in
April shipments of Missouri eggs.
When asked how he could tell a
Missouri egg from an Iowa one an ex
pert said the Missouri eggs were big
and brown and the Iowa variety a pe
culiar white and of an odd shape not
discernible to the ordinary mortal.
"Can you tell an egg from central
Missouri?"
"Yes, It is very dark brown."
"What kind of an egg comes from
southern Missouri?"
"Slightly larger, spotted and lighter
in color." Iowa eggs were smaller
Chan the hen product of Misouri,
" Ich Koch received.
'Why are the eggs from Iowa small-
"V,'ell, you see, in that part of
v.," the witness explained, "the
: -r.iera have a scheme whereby hens
i-.e made to lay two eggs a day. They
lool the hens that is, they turn on
electric lights in the chicken coops
about 2 o'clock in the morning. The
hens think the sun Is up and get busy.
After they lay the lights are turned
out. Then, of course, when daylight
does arrive they lay another. On this
account the eggs are necessarily
smaller In size."
"Now, I have some hens at home,"
cald Judge Heisley in the course of
Mandevllle's testimony "Do you mean
to tell me that if I bring one of my
New Jersey hens to Missouri that hen
will lay a different egg to what it did
here?"
"Exactly," replied the witness. "The
temperature, climate, the shipping of
the hen would all work changes in
the product both as to color and
quality."
MICE DELAYED A WEDDING.
Chewed Hole In Editorial Trousers
on Way from Chicago Tailor.
Sioux City. Iowa. Naughty behav
. lor on the part of express office mice
.made the marital plans of Albeit S
f n i Vi mlitni. v V. A . . II- I . )
go awry. He was to be married her.
...in Tlaa Tannla XT Tia n T
When he examined his weddins sr.lt
j which had Just come from Chicago bv
: express, he found the mice had eate
Jbig noles Just where his knees would
'have needed covering. The editor
was frantic and bo was his bride.
tne weaaing was delayed one da)
j while a 8Ioux City tailor got very busy
-,10 remedy tne deficiency. ,
'ho Declined the Post of Ambassa
dor to Great Britain.
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3 Palnetvl
hi. Eighteen ye.l'J
ftg4 Arthur It. Brfty, tt Bodth St;
Street, had an operation performed
fcpon his nose. A saw used was brok
fin off and was auDDosed.to have beaTi
loBt. The oihefdBy wtyle) TJjpty whav
flowing his nose " the ' Srokdn bit-of"
Ji;iw was coughed or blown out. It
bttn secreted iu his head all these
years.
I CHA8. W. ELIOT.
APPARATUS JOJiHOW SEX
Experiments With Saxophone Sce.-n t:
Bear Out the Claims of
Its Inventor.
London. How to determine sex bo
fore birth has long puzzled scientists
especially the Bex of a bird whilo
still In the egg. An Englishman has
Invented an apparatus which, it is
said, will do this. Ho calls the ap
paratus the sexophone, and declares
that with Its aid he can determine the
sex of any living creature.
Recently somo experiments were
tried with the sexophone at the home
of W. T. Stead, the well-known pub
licist. The Inventor had stated In
describing the apparatus that if it
were held over a male the pendulum
would gyrate in circles that grow wid
er and wider, while if it were held
over a female the pendulum would
swing backward and forward.
The sexophone was shown to be a
pendulum of copper wire and a piece
of highly magnetized steel, ending in
a pith ball. It was held above the
subject by means of a wooden handle
with a copper core.
Various tests were made fit Mr.
Stead's house not only with human
beings, but with eggs, a rabbit, a
hedgehog, a guinea pig, and a pigeon,
and in every case the Instrument re
sponded according to the sex of the
subject as the inventor said It would.
Besides Mr. Stead, among those who
watched the proceedings were Major
Gen. Sir Alfred Turner. The former
expressed himself much interested
and said that he Intended to go furth
er Into the subject.
ELIZABETH GURLEY FLIKN,
SOCIALIST JOAN OF f.RC"
urn
Three years ago Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, a girl then fifteen years old,
was heralded In New York as "a new
Joan of Arc." She made impassioned
peechee from public platforms In the
Interest of socialism. Afterward she
poke In other cities. Although a
radical and fiery speaker, she was per
sonally quiet, modest and simple In
her e very-day life.
Last January she married, though
he still holds her maiden name, and
for a year she and her miner husband,
John Archibald Jones, have been in
Chicago doing propaganda work there
for the Industrial Workers of the
World.
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FEW BLACK HAND H
Pniminrinup piimiiu Q
uuniiuiiuna or.urvN
New Vork City. The Black
Hand's record of murder and
extortion during the past four
teen months, as known to the
police of New York City and
adjacent towns, is little leas
than amazing.
From Bingham's annual re
port, Jan. 1, 1909:
Black Hand Cases.
Cases reported 421
Arrests 215
Convictions 36
Discharges 156
Cases Pending , . 22
Years of sentences, 54 years, 2
months 5 days.
From Bingham's annual re
port, Jan. 1, 1909:
Bomb Explosions.
Cases reported 44
Arrests 70
Convictions 9
Discharges 58
Cases Pending 3
Years of sentences, 6 years 6
months 10 days.
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THOWN INTO PYTHONS FOLDS.
Man Killed by Great Snake In Mexico
Through Hi Horse Shying.
Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Miguel Es-
plnosa, a plantation overseer, while
down In the Tuxla district inspecting
some lands, met a horrible death in
the embrace of a huge snake.
Coming suddenly upon an immensu
pytnon, wmcn tne rancner did not
see, his horse stopped suddenly and
threw Esplnosa over hU head. The
unfortuuAte a an, who was galloping
In the lead of his party, fell into the
lolls of the Immense sernent and was
crushed to death before Pancho Ortisr,
the next man In the party, could com
yHB pd shoot the snako.
The python was 18 feet 7 Inches In
length.
WOODEN COLLAR BUTTONS.
Produced ller In Enormous Num
bers for Special Uses.
Collar buttons are made not only
of various metals but also and in
great numbers of wood.
Round sticks of wood aro fed inta
machines which turn the buttons and
cut them off automatically. Tak
en from the turning machine the
coIIrt button's thus made nre placed
thousands of them at once, In a bar
rel shaped receptacle containing Jap
an varnish, in which they are rolled
and tumbled until each is complete
ly coated.
To be dried they are placed thous
ands at n time, in a similar drying
apparatus In which they are rolled
and tumbled again, to keep them
from sticking together, until they
are thoroughly Jry; and then there
nre the finished buttons which have
never been touched by hand.
Wooden collar buttons are sold
to. the trade by the great gross, but
they are not counted out in such
numbers, for even machine counting
would take some time and cost
money, so the weight of a great
gross being known, discovered by
actual counting and weighing, they
weigh out the buttons for packing,
such and such a weight of them mak
ing a great gross. In this way they
practically count out 1,728 buttonsat
n time, that ..ui-.ber being In the
trade the wooden collar button unit.
These collar buttons of wood are
sold to dealers in laundry supplies
and to manufacturers of shirtwaists.
Altogether the number used for
these purposes Is enormous, amount
ing to many millions annually.
Wooden collar buttons are one of
the minor products of factories mak
ing a specialty of turned wood goods.
This Ilnsy Age.
"This is a busy age, sure enough,"
said a man who pride, himself on
keeping in touch with old friends.
"We get new proofs of It every day.
Not only do we find that we our
selves have less time to devote to
this, that and the other thing, but
we have it brought in upon us that
everybody is pretty much in the
same fix.
"The other morning I had a letter
from a chap whom I know pretty
well. I say It was a letter it was
and It wasn't, and In that contradic
tion lies the point of my remark. A
bit of good fortune had happened to
him; he had been given a position
that counted for a lot, and his home
paper had printed an item about it.
Wanting to tell me of his luck he
had clipped the item from the Bheet
pasted it on a piece of paper, and
forwarded it to me with his initials
scrawled across the bottom. Five
years ago he would have sat down
end written me. Now he usos
shears and paste. Oh! It's all right;
I got the infornation and that's the
n.aln thing. But we're all pretty
busy, aren't we?" he concluded .
Dislike Curly-Haired Men.
It is not generally known that
there is a well-defined prejudice
against curly-hatred men when it
comes to choosing a Jury. When
asked to explain the objection to
curly-haired men, a prominent law
yer said : ;
"When I was Just starting life my
legal mentor Inculcated that idea
very forcibly into me. He said that
curly-haired men almost Invariably
had been the pampered darlings of
their parents, and in their youth had
been so accustomed to having their
own way that they had grown up In
the belief that everybody on earth
was wrong except themselves. ' In
this way the seeds of opposition
were sown, and as men they made it
a point to disagree with everybody
and everything. If every other man
on the Jury voted one way they
would vote the other. They usually
are as stubborn as the day Is long.
Home t curly-haired man never goes
on the Jury if I can prevent It."
Temperance In England.
A century ago drunkenness was a
prevalent vice among all classes In
England. So little was thought of
It that William Pitt could appear in
the House in a state of beastly Intox
ication while Prime Minister, with
out provoking any unfavorable re
mark. To-day our upper and mid
dle classes are as sober as any peo
ple in the world. ' How has the
change been brought about? Cer
tainly not by acts of Parliament or
compulsory restrictions of any kind
upon the consumption of liquor, I
suppose it is due to the progress of
education and refinement, a better
understanding of the polBonous ef.
tects of alcohol, and the formation
of a more wholesome public opinion
in consequence. As a matter of fact
the same Influences have been work
ing with good and interesting effect
in the lower strata of society . for
twenty years or more past. Truth.
Unrequited Genius.
The world has never learned the
name of the genius who conceived
the Idea of spreading butter upon
his bread, a combination of food
elements, more palatable, more
wholesome and more universally
popular than any that the combined
wisdom of all the professors who
have ever lived have been able to de
vise. The Epicure.
The Ocean a Salt.
It is estimated that there are in
the world's ocean 7,000,000 cubic
miles o. saJt, and the most astonish
ing thing about it is that if all the
salt could be taken out In a moment
the level of the ocean would not
drop one single Inch.
PRAYER BROUGHT DROUGHT
Holiness Preacher "Punished" Lunv
ber Company That Denied
Him Wages.
Dokhoma, Oklahoma. Like Moses
of old. calling down Judgment
of the I.ord on the land of Pharoah,
Hie Rev. Charles Ford, a holiness
preacher,, called down a plague on
rtokhotnri, in the form of a drought,
and after his public prayer scarce a
drop of ruin had fallen here for six
months until the minister prayed for
the drought to end.
The remarkable prayer was made
Rfter the Rev. Mr. Ford had been de
nled a sum of money, which he claim
ed as back wages, from the Frisco
Lumber Company. During the drought
business was paralyzed, and hundreds
of men moved their families that were
in actual want to other parts of the
State.
The Rev. Mr. Ford's congregation
at Dokhoma is small, and, in addition
to his clerical duties, the minister
w orked at the mill of the Frisco Lum
ber Company. Six months ago the
pastor resigned his position at the
mill, nnd said he did not receive all
the salary that was due him. He then
announced his Intention of asking the
Lord to withhold the rain from this
locality indefinitely. The followlug
Sunday he made his prayer from the
pulpit.
The water supply gradually grew
smaller, and the mills shut down. At
the end of three months the big pond
which supplied water for the Frisco
Lumber Company was ns dry as tin
der, and the plant was forced to shut
down. When the workmen's families
began to suffer the minister an
nounced that he would pray for
enough rain to enable the mills to
resume operations for a week.
In answer to his supplication, a
heavy rain foil that night and con
tinued throughout the next day, and
the mills started up and workod Just
eight days before the supply again
gave out and operations ceased.
In his farewell sermon, the Rev.
Mr. Ford told his congregation he
would pray for rain as soon as he had
crossed the river into another county,
and bade them prepare to return to
work. He took his departure, nnd
three hours after he left Bokhoma the
heaviest rain in more than a year set
in. For six hours, an hour for everv
month of the drought, It poured in tor
rents.
THE LATEST.
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CARNEGIE'S IDEA OF FIRST
STEP FORJAfORLD'S PEACE j
Washington. Andrew Carne- j
gle, as president of the Peace n
Society, being asked what was,
in his opinion, the next easiest
and most practical step that
could be taken to limit further
naval expansion in the Interests
of International peace, replied:
Britain and Amerioa to agree
as follows:
America will defend against at
tack the British possessions
upon the Atlantic, Including
the Islands In the South.
Britain will defend against at
' tack the American Coast upon
the Pacific and Hawaii and
the Philippine.
This agreement to terminate at
the end of five year' notice
given "by either party.
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OIL CAPTURES WILD GEESE.
Feathers Are Clogged and Men Sleze
Helpless Hock.
Mount Vernon, 111. A party return
ing from a hunt on the Wabash Riv
er report the capture of a flock of wild
geese in a peculiar manner. The
geese alighted in a quiet cove which
was heavily coated with oil from the
Illinois fields, and the feathers or the
birds became heavily Impregnated.
. They attempted to fly, but their ef
forts were fruitless and twenty-five
birds were captured.
Marriage Ampng the Immortal.
Eliicott City, Md. A marriage
license has been issued here to the
following:
Hood Tink. James K. Hood. 24;
Rosle Majr Wink, 23, both of BaltU
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