FOR YOUNG FOLKS,
MR, TURNIPS COMPLAIN,
Mr. Turnip sat sighing,
And this was his moan
* : +
*“Those tiresome young rabbits
Won't leave me alone,
“They nilxle nnd nibble
On this side and that
They think I've no feeling,
Becavse I am fat.”
So sighed the poor Turaip,
Wit/a tears in his eyes
«Oh, could that those rabbits
Were made into pies!”
{St. Louis Republic,
Y/HAT A POTTED PLANT CAN DO,
8 little potted plant was given to a
Ȣk boy by a kind-hearted neighbor,
Phe boy's family was poor, and their
manner of living wis not as neat as it
might have been, Every member of it
prized the pretty plant, however, and
sought the best means of caring for it.
ao that the plant might get more hieht,
Then when it was not too cold, they
would raise the window for the plant to
fiave fresh air, hoping thus to i
grow better
When they
was they suddenly found the
saw how clean the window
coom untidy.
ht —y " a” 13
*‘put things to rights” generally
Gradually it dawned the
that several chairs needed
upon
mend them he stayed at home several
evenings, and the habitues of the “loaf
ing place” missed him. After awhile
they missed him altogether,
found that it was a pretty good idea,
after all, to stay at home in the evening.
being the better for it in other respects,
The whole family was the
Can you profit by the moral of this
and give. your neighbor a
{ New Orleans
LO,
tittle
ported plant, too! Try it
Yicayune,
story
THE SOLITARY CHESR PLAYER.
kind, venerable Turk. His charitable
| Coarse burlap from cotton bales made
the tail, which was owe hundred fect
long and weighed cleven pounds. The
burlap was cut in strips twelve inches
wide, sewn together end to ena, then
knotted with streamers four feet apart,
The flying rigging was constructed
upon certain plans of Uncle Sam's, and
was similar to those described in previous
numbers of 8t. Nicholas, with the exocep-
tion that the upper nart of the kite was
strengthened by two additional staying
cords. These cords were hooked into
rings on the frame half-way from the top
to the hub; then the flying-cords of
proper length were fixed, like the cover,
with snaps and rings, and were snapped
together in a common iron ring about
one and one half inches in diameter, to
which the flying-cord was attached, The
flving-cord ‘and flying rigging were of
one-quarter inch manila rope, stout
enough to bear a strain of five hundred
pounds,
On Monday morning, August 31,
strong, steady wind blowing,
much excitement, the «
t was laid face downward fn one of the
largest of Dudley pastures, the frame
put upon it and snapped into place. The
excitement increased as the six men who
handled it took their place to aun h the
for had there not
who doubted
to raise a fift
we
found a
and, amid
Wer
great air-ship; beet
plenty of scoffers,
{ ability of the wind
i pound kite?
“The Uncle Sam” was lifted fr
face by two men at the top walking down
i hy its and seizing the two lower
a third man
from the face of the kite held the flying
line. Three other men were at the reel
When the word was giver, *'The Uncle
| Sam" steadily of own accord,
| and after hovering on the wind for a few
| seconds, ai if in doubt, finally took the
line as it was paid out and rose toa
height of one thousand feet, followed by
cheers from the enthusiastic spectators,
old and voung
Some idea of its pulling power may be
gained from the fact that four men were
ust able to hold it. A large pair of ice
scales were attached to the and it
was estimated that the pulling capaci
varied from one hundred and
| five to two hundred and fifty
Nicholas,
V
111001 6.
edge
Corners; about fifteen feet
rose its
ine,
seventy
pounds
i
Lf
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
not overabundant means, he |
the method
rich of the land a percentage of
noble purpose to collect the
wherewith to relieve his suffering fellow
men, So systemati
that he Kept himself
revenues of the different
had Ben Ali lost severely at the
table since his pre edine visit other
wise met with financial reverse
tribution was lowered, and
unformed of the
i and
liviuals,
card
ind
his con
enriched thereby correspond
ereased
Once. when starting n one of
regular sem-annu uw of colle
and riding through a
CRBC upon x
his
tion,
dense fo rest, he
utk deeply engaged in a
of Prompted by
he reined in his male, and after
by
solitary fram che as,
* uriosity
a while opened conversation wking
who was the
Fhe player
interested to
ments, then
gust, he replied
RY Lio won’ ’
Allah
“*Allah? low
assed the vem
winaer,
3 tine !
was to 5
apparently
notice
arising with
deep
¥
him fos Ww mo
>
i {
ent dis
Visi} ' gn"
rable Turk, in surprise
Twenty piasters
“And how d
tinued
Thereupon tne
Was his
chess on that
daily habit to play
soecinded spot with
Allah
t, ! irthy to
ns opponent, ne -
take his losings, and that Allah at regular
intervals sent an emissary in the
some traveller bounty due
him. Io this
the person beta
he handed over Lis
piasters, thi .
Much pleased at this unexpected con
tribution to his fund, and
by the same way
return trip and collect All
tlues, the venerable man rode on.
Returning after
days, he again fell in
prin ar
“Who won
other rose,
alone being wi
form of
to collect the
instance it was undoubtedly
him, and
purse containing 100
Loan rer ve trai es
losings of five gan
14 TH i ¥
mentally re
on fils
further
solving to come
th's
five
an interval of
with the cceentric
to day he asked, as the
“I won to day,” was the reply.
“How much did vou win?"
“You see,” was the explanation,
‘Allah is a much better player than |
When | lose, iv me
when | win, 1 1007
costs
t
a
ge
pilasters, and
his debts, Pay up, old man.’
With these words, and levelling a pair
of cocked pistols at the stupefied trav.
eler, the brigand captured his purse con
claimed as his due from Allah,
Harp
er's Young People,
HYHE LARGESY RITE IS THE wort.”
place for Kite-flying; and
was planned and built. It wae the result
of much studying and calculation by a
certain Uncle Sam and his pephew, and
its great size, together with its beauty,
makes it deserving of more than local
repuiation,
The frame was made of six ash sticks,
split back about four feet from the center
and bolted to a hub six inches thick and
eight inches in diameter. The sticks were
about two and a half by two inches,
tapering to one inch by three quarters,
‘The whole frame weighed thirty-four
pounds, was twenty-two feet high, six.
teen feet wide, and about seventy feet
in circumference. With its wire and
coarse twine to keep the cover from bag-
ging and to strengthen it, it looked like
an immense apider-web. When not in
ase it was strapped under the eaves of a
large barn, as no barn door was big
‘enough to admit the hugh frame.
| The cover was made of unbleached
cotton cloth, strengthened in the six
corners with canvas; and it took forty
yards of material, A quarter-inch manila
rope was bound into the and the
«corners were provided with small snaps
which f into rings on the ends of
the sticks,
' The cover clone, when completed,
weighed thirteen pounds.
New Two-Coror Prixtise Prrss
i Mr. F. X. Hooper of Baltimore, Md., has
2» rotary printing press which
at onee from Princeton
curved stereotyped plates,
| invented
print % tWO CO Ors
The press is
e-color
print
rotary
going steadily in the thwes
| panile of St. Paal's Cathedral,
but, although the works remain
it condition, the authe
BG
. eeller sities orders
and it
to make room {or
structi People in the city are ask
i why this should
curred, for St, Paul's clock was one
few which )
nt
parently
| its removal, has been taken dow
a clock of modern «
expense have been
ew kept acearate time
ie 3 i 3 "wr,
was i
reason
auld not |
continued to
day clock, and st
The ie
the bob wely
P was an eight
| hours
sixteen
and quarter
f ert
few
: t
and
wae suspended by
probably dark
clock tials y iti
ute hands,
{ inches in and wel
hour hands are
f.ondon Tels
pounds. The
feet shorter, — graph
Coons oF THE (JCEAX A
interesting charts, illustrating the colo
number
| the ocean, have been prose; ted to the
| Paris Prof. Pouchot,
accom pe ng explanations. It is
wn that M time
| proved, after extended investigations, that
{ the differences in the gsolor of
parts of the ocean are due to differences
{ in the water itself and not to the presence
i of vegetation and insects, and
| charts in question confirm this view It
that he and his associate, M. d
{ Carfort, watched together the Atlantic
from Spitzbergen to Scotland and the
i Norwegian coast. and with such thorough
to admit of nothing escaping
attention. Their observations
that the transition from one color
| to another is often very rapid: that near
pitzhergen the water is blue, then it
changes to green as the Nor
| wegian flords are entered. For such
sudden changes no sufficient cause has
| up to the present time been assigned;
‘and, though it has been known for cen
| turies that blue is the prevailing color in
| active water, the most recently published
i of
Museum by with
we il
Pou hot some
ALY
various
the new
| Seams
ness nas
| their
i sho %
as *O0n
i . . Sad
| tinguishes other localities also.
Varvapie Resvrrs oF Exrenivesrts
Urox AxiMars, in a recent article Sir
| periments upon animals,
useful drugs, such as digitalis, chloro
tro-glycerine, and many others
experiments on animals we have discov.
ered the nature and relations of infec.
tious diseases, and how in some measure
to control the development and spread of
fevers, cholera, anthrax and septicemia,
Through experiments on aanimals [the
legs of Galvani’simmortal frogs. Ed. | we
have received the electric telegraph, and
nll the various services which electricity
now renders to the conveniences and
uses of man. And yet with all these
services before us, one cannot (in Eng.
land) scratch the neck of a rabbit for the
advancement of knowledge without be.
coming a legal! criziinal, But, on the
other Bra, for your pleasure or for your
profit, or for any other object than the
promotion of knowledge, you may, with.
out let or hindranee, , Wtarve, mu.
tilute or destroy as many animals as you
lease, Knowledge can only be advanced
Dy aeporitrent . . and lastly, if experi.
mental Yewvarel uirde ns the vamts ol ox.
perimenters it is only too plain t an
active antagonism to it Sone a disre-
gard of accuracy, a violation of charity,
and a spirit calumny that have no
parallel among ordinary men. "={Ilnde.
pendent,
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE,
Querr Facts and
tures Which Show That
stranger Than Fiction,
Mu. J. B. Dyke, a Colorado capitalist,
cured a cuse of dipsomania the other day
very promptly, though unintentionally.
Truth Is
»
Wynoochee River, Washington, for five
weeks during Februray and the begin
When the storm
which snowed them up eame they ex-
hausted their stock of provisieas and
had killed eleven elk. They lost their
game and were three days without food,
Later they
fouud an elk powerless in the deep snow,
They lived on elk and eagle alone for
over an month. The snow was eight to
fine gold chain. Sometimes the
animal sprawis with outstretched legs on
Mr. Dyke's shirt bosom, sometimes it
takes refuge under his vest, In shape it
is ungainly: in motion ungraceful, but
as it lies peacefully breathing upon his
shirt front, scarf or coat lapel, its ever
changing flush of beautiful,
hrouch the green sometimes shines the
gold ; upon an inhalation purple mingles
with and drives away the gold: next is
a hideous black, and then a glow of red
and
chase each
colors is
1: a
orangee, SO on ad infinitun
other until
rer makes the reptile seek «
erfectly bh A few
traveling, Mr. Dyxe w
s friends
drink A party of traveling men
there for
them
many
rmiess
with some of hi tO tuke a
Were
the sa and of
purpose On
ne
evidently been ther
times. He was
lass to his lips with an
when he caught sight
Hazard He put the glass d
and remarked to Mr. Dyke
irfpin wear
had
YW tnt
you
took in the situation at a glance,
plied “What pin? I wear no pin
brushed his hand over his scarf, and the
chameleon ran over on his coat collar
Yareat Heavens, cried
“
man, it's alls
s drummer ; t's on your eonllar
‘My dear fellow, youre mistaken.”
putting his hand to his collar
under
Have a
drummer stared i
lizard had been «11
looked like a lizard on fire,” he remarked
t brain or
stop
shot his vest
drink
xt the
with me
collar where
“hut I guess it is my
stead, I reckon I'll
and he walked away,
untasted
Heanixa the
Sorings, Miss,
man freak lived only a few miles from
this t
leaving
statement made io Holly
that a remarkable negro
yw, a Times-Democrat correspo
ined to obtain the facts in the
ged pegress
t determin
the brads
went mans
dropped it
eed n
wi as hick
the head, but t
*
i 5
Hi #8 0 man =
the
spring to
of a finger
na measunn
and
rio
avs
happening
BIO Ene we
burexi from his head to such
that the pulsation of the brain could Ix
felt Very little medical
given him. only household
being applied. The
half of the skull Now, alter a year,
the bony substance of the skull is being
reconstructed and bids fair to completely
heal, making almost new bony covering
for the brain The has few:
than he had before the accident
sind is clear and he now does the
{ an ordinary farm hand
bone
ittention was
remedies
burn removed one
man r fits
work
of
’ »
A vEny ind of trex in
one's front vard is reported as growing
near some springs about twelve miles
north of Tuscarora, [Its truly wonder
ful characteristic is its luminosity, which
is so great that on the darkest night it
can be plainly seen a mile away, A
person standing near could read the
finest print by its light. It is about six
useful to have
Even
tually they reached a deserted camp and
found an axe, with which they split
wood and made rude by
means of which they got back civili-
zation,
BHOW slioes,
to
Tie novel charge of stealing a house
ind the furniture
a sheep corral, a load of hay, and
sundries, and
away, was preferred against a
Walla Walla, Wash
day, He was formerty a reside
it contained, together
other the whole
i
business
carting
man the other
nt of that
town, and ay
ear nao he took up a rand h,
idioinine a
sheep farm, in
The owner of the
ibs
nee of
versity
rs noo, to study
snies and philoso ]
Ph. D. a {ew
1 dissertation ug
i
ree Of
Bay
id in the «
un Heral
the
VERTS Iosto
Grand Manan fisherm
Winchester
BYR
i
i ivy i t
ad Elidad Frank an
Nn
One if
feel and
oor the
ann inch king
Two of them ar
t in height
Md M«
remembered as
of Their o>
down as woodamen
without their caps o
seven fed
iittie ods
: 1
snl fim
Frank
heiny
more that
other is
their
taller than any one
father, is
thom
cupation put
farmers, hunter« and horse swoppors
Axotuenr fastance of the
petrifaction of a human bonly is reported,
this time at Carivie, IH
John Russell, who was buried there six
sears ago, were exhumed and were found
campicts
" : :
lie remining of
the size of an ordinary
man's wrist Its foliage is extremely
rank and its leaves resemble somewhat
those of the aromatic bay tree in shape,
size and color. The luminous property
is due to a gummy substance, which can
is three times
Funerals in Mexico,
A funeral ic treated with much rey
in Mexico, Noae so proud who will not
jift his bat to do it reverence. The
burial is on the day of death if possible,
and the priest repairs to the house and
celebrates divine service for the repose of
LRN
The principal objection to the use of
this kind of tree for a street lamp would
soem to be that its luminosity is probably
due simply to phosphorescence, and
place and if the sun did not shine every
day, it would not be up to candle-power
at night,
i
§
in the shape of an electrical storm is re.
well, on her voyage from Bremen to
Baltimore, says Lightning. The elec.
trical display occurred after dark. The
most peculiar part of the occurrence was
that while the lightning flashed a winter
gale was blowing furiously and the sea
was running very high. The storm
Insted about two hours, snd the captain
states that it was the most remarkable he
ever witnessed. The ship at times seemed
ablaze fore and aft, and, while no d ©
was done, it was several times thought
that she had been struck. The very
beauty of the scene was awful. The
blackness of the night was converted
into unsurpassed brilliancy, Even the
seemed ablaze, and the waves as
they dashed upon one another resembled
tongues of fire,
Pour hunters were snowbound fn the
mountains at the headwaters of the
altar of lowers and candles,
full view of passers by on the street,
who respectfully Kneel on the pavement,
children on the open street in attitudes
describes the practice of the poorer peo
ple, The upper stratum of society is more
reserved in its devotions,
Palace, ealled the Calle Tabaqueros, is
filled from end to end with coffinmakers,
whose wares, in different stages of com.
pletion, are piled on the curb in grue.
some confusion. The wayfarer who
pauses a moment to look at the unusual
scene is immediately surrounded by the
tradesmen, who inguire, in voluble Span.
ish, if he wants a coffin,
Of course he doesn’t, but that makes
no difference, and he has to run the
ntlet until he gets out of the street,
fast na ple Liere have to do who pass
the clothing dealers on Baxter Street, —
{New York Times,
Ax association of artists, architects
and citizens with artistic tastes is to be
formed in the endeavor to mise the ar.
tistes standard of the public buildings
of New York City and the statues and
monuments in the parks and other pub
lic places,
NOTES AMD COMMENTS,
Tre six counties in Texas that border
an the Rio Grande River between Eagle
although rich in
soil, especially the bottom-lands, receive
scarcely any caltivation because of the
Inwlessness prevailing along the frontier,
For cotton and semi-tropical fruits there
is no better soil in the State. Neverthe
less it is given up to stock-raising, and
even this industry is
renson of the raids of cattle thieves,
The Dallas News says “The only way
to protect this country without a stand-
ing army the entire distance is to buila
a railroad from Brownsville to Eagle
Puss running within a few handred feet
of the river all It in
true this
would three
times us long as one would be if built on
an air line, but would
protect the country a road would
not be a
ase and Brownsville,
not extensive by
alo jr the route
require a road
other road
Such
for thers
nu expen LIT Wong
be no heavy grading to do or bridges to
build larger than a culvert Vith such
the
the Con
3
8 ros bye protected
101 Lroons
LHrow {
thi
xiTy Unione
#1 the
i church «
At the clos f each sion of the San
day school th iperintendent briogs
forth an i
box with « slot in th ef It is called
the birthday box The mw of discr
sho have had birthed
the preceding week 10 come
sated redd-letiored
an
ites al
ckel for each
1
JENA,
Nn
of mm
IVA 8B man wil
nd Japan for
American family
+ European
feed a
it i* not
it is
as Hhroen |
#OME Years
throws
family from starving iI would
Chinese or
merely food ti
Look at this
der of bron
“Here is a
With four
away woul Op
Japanese family,
we waste jel,
tuced a evlia-
hat,
i Oven.
and he pro
large as a ‘plug
Chines ‘
picoes of charcoal a
Mongolian will make tea and cook rice
and over that, while an American
domestic would use up at least a hod of
in the same operation. Lucky we
rich couldn't keep up our
national extravagance,’
stove,
or five
eons
ronal
aes oar wr
Tie English Horticultural College re
ports that several applications have been
rocvived for women head gardeners, and
one for a woman to take eatire charge of
conservatories and green houses, The
students are trained in all branches of
fruit, vegeiable and flower cultare, as
well as taught how to make jam and
fruit juices, and the science of canning,
erystalizing. and evaporating fruit. The
course also includes botany, chemistry,
horticulture, bookkecping, and physics
Tux London General Post-office will
soon lay a telephone between London
and Dublin, Glasgow merchants will
soon be able to communicate with Bele
{ast by the same means, In time itis
intended to form a complete circuit by
which the cities of Dublin, Belfast, Glas.
gow and London will all be enabled to
have telephonic communication one with
another,
Avsost invariably the latterday inven.
tions of war materials have tended to in-
crease the destructiveness to life and
property of the instruments employed.
Now, however, a German genius comes
to the front with a preparation to make
a cloth enirase, or breast armor, bullet.
proof. This is a pleasant departure-—if
there must ever again be war,
I A S35 le
Music Needed by Invallds,
1a the Medical ine Doctor Black
man says that the t of music is trans.
mitted Ly the roflex action of the nerves
which govern the blood supply, that it
directly affocts the circu { the
blood, blood
ARMOR YOR SOLDIERS,
Semi
American Officers Take Little Stock in
the Alleged Bullet" roof Uniforms.
A serics of experiments with so-called
willet- proof uniforms recently been
Dowe, a tailor, is th
His idea 2
wear in action a
composition, faced
: buttoned over or under
he uniform He claims that steel faced
vats from modern rifles have failed to
wnetrate the stuff at any distance over
00 metres At less than 200 metres the
shock of a bullet might render a man
: RIOT unconscious What
sver may be the real value of the inven
ion, rinin that a Berlin
flered Horr Dowe an enormous sum {or
ne mmient,
hans
nventor of the
hat soldiers
nillet proof, fl
new
should
sible
HErmnmor
vith cloth, ana
r
!
asl in Lhe
ion. it ix « firm has
Major General Howard, of th
A # not believe
d into
i 1 orn
at least,
nod
o decades
{for marching
nde ately
With reg Herr Dowe's
am foclined to think
OYEIIe]
*aough 10
ira to
that
he invention « ard
WAS
intries some vears
SCaIned, tested in several
Scarned’s
c¢ther a
una }
orgugh
fy
iv
hud
Beine quite
{ ’ fi%iL
movement of
ATIDROT WAS RG
vo apped Pe h 31 wa
!
by ho
t heer
ogreln
sks
Fhe Rock of Gibraltar
lw
appearance,
wonderful
pense
utwardly
line
ingenuity and at
There
above another
heavy
two
80 in
with
enormons
are three tunn
HIAaTINRICSS
been tunoeled
‘ is, ong
ted at inter
They contain
facing as
from some
led. Here
the eve sweeps over the Atlantic and the
beautiful Mediterranean at the same
time, and also two quarters of the globe,
The highest point is 1,430 {eet above the
level of the and is called the Signal
El-Hacko., The rock is three miles long
and from one-half to three-quarters of a
mile wide, [It is six miles in circamier
ence. The extreme end of the rock fac.
ing the sea is “Europ Peint.” It is
crowned by a light-house, and defended
by strong batteries. In 1797 it was
taken from Spain by the English at the
battie of Trafalgar, in which Lord Nelson
lost Lis life. Since then an enormous
amount of work has been done by the
English government, a million dollars a
year being speot there on its fortifica.
tions, — Indianapolis News
and all conne
vals by iron gates
thousand cannon,
The view
loop-holes is
Wer
many loop-hoies
of thes unris
sen,
The Robber rab.
a
The steam tug R. C. Bishop, which re
turned to this port a day or two age
after an unsuccessfal search for the mis.
sing boat's crew from the wrecked bark
Lady Lampson, brought back with her u
monstrosity in the shape of a robber.
crab. The ferocious looking crawler
was captured on Fanniag Island. Strange
tosay, very little soems to be known of the
crab sround Honolulu, It is a fact, how.
ever, that it makes its home in the hol
low of a decayed cocoanut tree, and that
it climbs live cocoanut palms and sawsat
the stems of the nuts until they drop to
the ground. ‘Then the crab descends
with marvellous mpidity, and by the aid
of its powerful nippers strips the husk
from the nut.