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Moreover, the palaces of the Caesars on the Palatine are a grandiose ruin that stirs the artist and makes the philosopher think, but if one sets him self to measure them, to conjecture from the remains the proportions of the entire edifices, he does not conjure up buildings that rival large modern construction. The palace of Tiberius, for example, rose above a street only two meters wide, less than seven feet, an alley like those where today in Italian cities live only the most miser able Inhabitants. We have pictured to ourselves the imperial banquets of ancient Home as functions of unheard of splendor; if Nero or Elagabalus could came to life and see the dining room of a great hotel in Paris or New York, resplendent with light, with crystal, with silver, he would admire it as far more beautiful than the halls in which he gave his imperial feasts. Think how poor were the ancients in artificial light! They had few wines; they knew neither tea nor coffee nor cocoa, neither tobacco nor the in numerable liqueurs of which we make use. In face of our habits they were always Spartan, even \yhen they wast ed, because they lacked the means to squander.—Guglielnio Ferrero in Put nam's. THE BUSY BEES. How the Insects Work When They Are Collecting Honey. Upon the approach of a bee to any flower It flies around the calyx almost always before alighting upon the flow er Itself. This is a cursory examina tion, and with its antennae out stretched and quivering it is evidently scenting the honey contained within. Should this prove a fruitful flower and of the flavor required the bee set tles on the center of the stamen and, .clutching It with its four front leg? steadies Itself with Its longer out stretched two hlndermost ones and withdraws the nectar by its proboscis, the wings of the body assuming a vibratory motion the while. The bee's proboscis Is a most impor tant instrument. It is composed of about forty cartilaginous rings, each of which Is fringed with minute hairs having also a small tuft of hair at Its extremity, where it is somewhat ser rated. Its movement is like the trunk of an elephant and is susceptible of extension and contraction, bending and twisting In all directions. Thus, by rolling it about, it searches out the calyx, pistil and stamen of every llow er and deposits its nectar upon the tongue, whence it passes into the gul let at the base. The gullet, or first stomach, is the honey bag. No digestion takes place hero. In shape it is like an oil flask and when full contains about one grain. It is susceptible of contraction and is so arranged as to enable the insect to disgorge its contents into the cells of the hive.—Philadelphia North American. Menu of an African Hunting Party. in addition to the groceries and can ned provisions carried in their outfits the hunters in East Africa depend for fresh provisions on their guns. Water buck, zebra and elephant are said to be tough eating and are mostly par taken of by the native porters, who keep elephant meat till it is quite high and gamy. Eland tastes like the best American beef; orynx, impala and all gazelles are edible and tender, but the delicacies of the East African Protecto rate are the klipspringer and the dik dlk gazelles. Hartbeest is hard except the prime cut along the backbone. Au ordinary meal 011 safari consists of marrow soup, dikdik cutlets, roast guinea fowl, curried venison and corn flower pudding, with jam, washed down with tea or coffee. —London Let ter. His Success. "John," said a Glasgow minister to his beadle one morning, "I would seem to have been more than usually suc cessful in pleasing the congregation on Sabbath. To which of the three heads of my sermon would you attribute my success?" "Weel, sir," replied the beadle, with something like a leer in his eye, "to tell ye the truth, congregations noon days concern tliemsel's less about the heids than the talis o' sermons. The ane you preached on Sabbath was con siderably shorter than the general rin o' yer dlscoorses, and therefore a body was weel pleased wl't." Hopelessly Out of Style. "When we take charge of the gov ernment," says the wise old suffra gette, "we will make some changes In the naval bureau." "I should hope so!" agrees the en thusiastic yonng suffragette. "Why, bureaus are hopelessly out of style! We will have a combination wardrobe and chiffonier."—Judge. A Sample. Hoax —1 can always tell a woman who takes things because they look cheap. Joax—How? Hoax—Simply by looking at her husband.—Philadelphia Record. Count art by gold and it fetters the feet it once winged.—Ouida. THE GREEN MORAY. A Savage and Voracious Eel Found In Bermudian Waters. The experienced sea fisherman takes ; care to kill every large conger eel as ■ soon as it is brought into the boat. The conger has not only extraordinary jaw power it can triturate shellfish, shells and all—but is also so abominably ac tive that the fisherman's opinion of it coincides with that held of the Indian by the western plainsman, * "No good I tuger except dead conger." " k *t!y and savage brute as the conger is, 1 's a lamb compared with its rela tive. 0 green moray of Bermudian waters. This great eel is of an un naturally *Uliant green and has an eye which \ *hc very epitome of in tense and nm -uant ferocity. It is voracious and s age beyond words. The negro boattne. 'vivo such a holy horror of it that tU absolutely re fuse lo allow a mora> ">to the boat. An acquaintance of the , "tor, a ma rine officer, fishing in a snu boat off Bermuda, hooked one of thosfe 'h. but as soon as his boatman saw t. hid eous head above the water he whi t Hi out his knife and made to cut the Hi, The officer shouted to him to stop, but had to threaten to throw the man overboard before he would put up his knife. When the great eel was pulled over the side the negro went absolute ly ashy with fright. As for the moray. 110 sooner was it In the boat than it doubled upon itself, and its jaws met with a clash In its own side, cutting out a chunk of white flesh as neatly as a scoop would cut cheese. That was enough for the officer. He picked up a boathook and forked the uncanny creature overboard—Chambers' Jour nal. A MANUFACTURED CLIMATE. Methoda of the Paris Market Garden ers In Forcing Nature. The gardeners of Paris get their products 011 the market weeks before the regular season for them. This forcing of nature is described by Er nest Poole In Success Magazine. The secret Is simply this: The French maralchers have manufactured a cli mate to suit them. As one observer has said, "They have moved the cli mate of Monte Carlo up to the suburbs of Paris." Some new prodigy of modern sci ence, this? Not nt all. Only enor mous expense In money and In time. The gardens, whenever possible, are placed on land with a slope to the south and are well protected by walls 011 the north and east, walls built to reflect light as well as to give protec tion from the northeast winds. The ground is practically covered with glass* Mot as in a greenhouse, but by glass frames in the open, "three light" frames of uniform size, 12 by 41/j feet, and also by glass bells. These, too, are of a uniform size, about the shape of a chapel bell, a little less than seventeen inches in diameter and from fourteen to fifteen inches high. The French call them cloches. You may often see over a thousand frames and over 10,000 glass bells in one two acre plot in the suburbs of Paris. A more recent innovation is the em ployment of hot water pipes run under the soil, making of the earth a verita ble steam heated hotel, with tills es sential difference, that the hotel keep or here is desperately eager, not lo keep his guests, but to persuade them to leave 011 the earliest possible day. A Memorable Wreck. The most memorable wreck in the history of the American surf was that of the bark Mexico, stranded on Hemp stead beach, Long Island, early in the morning of Jan. 3, 1837. She carried 104 passengers and a crew of twelve men. Four passengers and four of the crew were saved by a surfboat from the beach under the command of Ray uor Rock Smith. All others were frozen to death, though the wreck was so close to the shore that their cries and even some of their words were plainly heard on the beach. It was the story of this wreck, as published throughout the nation, that led to the establishment of the United States life saving service.—Scrap Book. The Bayonet. The bayo"et was due to the fortu nate inspiration of a Basque soldier, who, when tie and his regiment, having expended their ammunition, were driv en to bay on a mountain ridge near Bayonne, suggested that they should fix the long knives with which they were armed into the musket barrels and charge the enemy. Tills advice, which was followed with complete success, was the means of introducing the weapon to the notice of military Europe. What He Lacked. It is related of a South American general, who was extremely well pleased with himself, that once when about to sally forth to a grand dance he surveyed himself contentedly In the mirror and then soßloquized thus: "Ah! Thou hast all—bravery, wealth, position, good looks. Ah, what dost thou lack?" Whereupon his orderly, who, un known to the general, was close at hand, remarked: "Sense, general, sense!" The Difference. Little Lester Livermore—Papa, what i 3 the difference between a vision and a sight? This book says— Mr. Liver more—The difference between a girl before and a girl after she is married —Puck- Very Plain. Restaurant Patron—That isn't a very | good looking piece of meat. Waiter— ! Well, you ordered a plain steak.-—Ex change. A Bad Man. Herman Whitaker wrote a story of | the Tehuantopec rubber plantation. Guadaloupe, the mandador on one plantation at which Mr. Whitaker stayed, was Informed that he was to be one of the characters in his story. "He never failed to question ine each day as to the things I had made him do—in the story," said Mr. Whitaker. "When one morning I informed him that I had killed him off, he expressed groat surprise. "'Porque, senor, porque?' " 'Because you are a had man, Gua daloupe.' Which was perfectly true. "'I, senor?' he questioned, greatly surprised. " 'SI, Guadeloupe, you are bad. Think of how many men you have killed, ac cording to your own count.' "He thought for awhile, then looked up with a humorous smile. 'Oh, well! Did 1 put up a good light?' " 'You bet you did, Guadaloupe.' "Whereupon eyebrows and shoulders went up in a shrug. 'Bueno! Bueno! Then it ees all right.' "—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. The Colleges of Oxford. Each college is built round a quad • «ngie with a lafge entrance gateway which often rises into a quasi tower. The rooms immediately over the gate way are invariably designed for the residence of the warden, provost or principal of the college, so that the eye of the master may be over all who en ter or leave the place. This mode of building still exists in India, having been introduced into Europe by the Moors when they conquered Spain, where we find that the compound, or quad. Is still used for the tethering of all kinds of animals. Around the quad are arranged the chapel, library, hall or refectory, president's lodgings, but tery and kitchen. The students' rooms generally occupy the upper floors. William of Wlckham. the celebrated architect, wisely placed his taller build ings—the chapel and hall—on the north side to keep off the cold winds, the lower buildings on the south more free ly admitting sunshine. Rainbow Upside Down. Not very many persons have ever seen an Inverted rainbow, although the phenomenon sometimes appears. At the Italian geodynamle observatory of Rocca de I'apa not long ngo the di rector and u party of visitors were fortunate enough to see one. The morning was showery, and as the party looked down from an elevation of 2,300 feet they saw in the Cain pagna a perfect rainbow with its con cave side up, the middle point bearing to the northeast. From the Eiffel tower In Paris one has also been seen, in this case the rainbow being dou ble and extending above and below the horizon to form two concentric circles nearly complete. Generally the Inverted rainbow is to be seen only in the mountains and then very rarely The phenomenon, of course, is due merely to the position of the observer, which must be above the refracting agent instead of below.—Pathfinder. An Old Ash Wednesday Custom. At ono time it was on Ash Wednes day the custom to appoint an official of the English palaces to crow the hours of the day, like a cock, as a re minder of the denial of St. Peter. This: practice excited the furious indigna tion of George 11. Ills ignorance of English made it very difficult for the courtiers to explain that the royal cock crower was not making fun of him. The cock crower was a salaried officer at the English court as late as 1823. A Boy's Idea of Parsons. Not long ago a class of boys in an elementary school had an essay set. the subject being "Clergymen." This is what one youngster wrote: "There are 3 kinds of clergymen, Bishups, rectors and curats. the bishups tells the rectors to work, and the curats have to do it. A curat is a thin married man, but when he Is a recter he gets fuller and can preach longer sermons and becums a good man."—London Scraps. A Dreadful Analogy. The hypothetical question had just been asked, and the prisoner fell for ward In a faint. All was confusion in the courtroom. " What is the matter with the pris oner?" demanded the judge, hammer ing his desk madly. "Nothing, your honor," groaned the unhappy man as he came to."I was only thinking how long I should have to serve If my sentence was as long as that."—Harper's Weekly. No Price Limit For Brains. If a young man develops a first class business ability he needn't bother about a fortune. Ilis professional tal ents will find employment at rates which will make the possession of a fortune superfluous.—Saturday Even ing Post. The Cause. A Irving Washington (wiping his Hps) —That was really the sweetest kiss 1 have ever had! Louise Barkis—l thought you would think so, Irving. My face powder gave out. and I used confectioner's sugar.—Judge. Very Gently. "How do you tell bad eggs?" queried the young housewife. "I never told any." replied the fresli grocery clerk, "but if I had anything to tell a bad ec:g I'd break it gently."— Christian Guardian. The Very Highest. "What is the highest form of animal life?" was a question set for the pupils in a school some time ago, and one lll tlo girl was heard to reply, "The gi raffe." How He Worked the Artist. This account of bow an intimate friend of the great Jjrtist Kyosai ob tained one of the painter's drawings is from Mrs. Hugh Frazer's "Letters From Japan:" Kyosai always refused if asked out right for a sketch. So his friend be gan tiie negotiation by offering the art ist an excellent dinner. When Kyosai had drunk deeply and seemed in a mellow humor his host called for drawing materials, saying that be felt an artistic fancy taking possession of him. No one was surprised, as Japa nese gentlemen often amuse them selves in this way after a feast. The servant then brought an enormous sheet of white paper and spread it on the floor with the brushes and Indian ink beside il. The crafty host, with out looking at his guest, sank on his knees and began to draw, apparently absorbed in his occupation, but. inten tionally producing weak and incoher ent lines. Kyosai watched the feeble effort in silence and growing irritation, and at last jumped up, dashed the tyro ?.gide and tore tin? brush out of liis band, exclaiming: "Out of the way. you wretched bungler! I will teach you bow to draw!" And the result was a priceless sketch, which remain ed in the possession of the wily enter tainer. A Max O'Rell Story. Before he attained fame with his va rious books M. Blouet (Max O'Rell), who was for several years French master at St. Paul's school, related how he obtained his post there. After two or three earlier applicants had re turned unsuccessful from their inter view with Dr. Walker, who was at the time headmaster of the school, M. Blouet's turn came. "I want," said the doctor after a few words, "a French master who can preserve discipline. My last was a perfect gentleman and a good fellow, but he could not keep the classes in order. The end of it was that after being much worried by one of the boys the poor fellow went home and shot himself." "Sir," replied Max O'Rell, "that is where my countryman made a little mistake. I should have shot the boy." The doctor rose, says M. Blouet, and grasped my hand. "M. Blouet," he exclaimed, "you are my French master!"— London Captain. Tips Costlier Than Treats. They were going out of the Waldorf when he saw her look so longingly in at the big, beautiful roomful of white tables laden with roses that he said. "Will you go in and have a cup of tea or something?" She assented willingly. "Your hat and overcoat, sir," said the waiter firmly. "You are not allowed to sit in hero with your overcoat on." "But," objected he,"l shall stay only a few minutes." "No matter, sir," said the waiter and took his hat and overcoat with an air of determination and disappeared. "That's tlie third time," sighed he, "that I have started togo home, met somebody and parted from my hat and coat to treat them. If it happens again the tips to the waiters for keeping my hat and coat will amount to more than the sum I have paid for the trcats."- New Yurie Press. A Bad Mixup. "Say," remarked one government clerk to another, "I'm up against it good and proper." "What's the trouble?" queried g. c. No. '2. "I got two medical certificates from two different doctors yesterday," ex plained the party of the first part. "One was a certificate of health for a life insurance company, and the other was a certificate of illness to be sent to my chief with a petition for two weeks' leave of absence." "Oh. that's nothing," rejoined ills fellow clerk. "I've done that myself." "Yes," continued the other, "but I mixed the certificates in mailing. The ill health certificate went to the in surance company and t lie certificate of good health went to my chief. See?" —Chicago News. A Threatening Comet. M. Cainille Flammarion, the great scientist, after many years of study, arrived at the conclusion that the world will in the twenty-fifth century come across the path of the comet Beila. On this occasion a collision will take place, and, Beila being infinitely greater than the earth, a shock may be expected which, be calculates, will be 8(53 times greater than the shock caused by the collision between two trains, each traveling at sixty-five miles an hour. Loving Letters. Never burn kindly written letters. It 'is so pleasant to rend them over when the ink is brown, the paper yellow with age and the hands that traced the friendly words are folded over the hearts that prompted them. Keep all loving letters. Burn only the harsh ones and in burning forgive and forget them. More Than Pleased. "Did Miss Flavllla seem pleased when you asked her togo to the thea ter?" "Pleased! She wanted to keep the tickets for fear something might hap pen to me."—Chicago Record-Herald Gallant. t Beautiful Widow—Do you know, I'm brty years old today. Gallant Bach elor —Madam, you are just twenty. I never believe more than half of what I hear. Saturate yourself with the philoso phy of optimism. It softens the kicks and takes the jar off the bumps. De troit Free Press.
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