OPALS OF HONDURAS.
They Are Plentiful and Cost Very
Littie.
Writing about
and
Spears says in
Quite as in!
means
mines in
When 1 i
into the ne je ry store the
contained
the native opals I
t
1
)
the we 31 i
Honduras
the New
deposits
mines John R
town
asked to see some of
] ' jeweler un-
sloth
of
he
and dig-
various
grades. was one of a
pear very goo i
colors and just about right for a scarf
pin. So I casually asked the price.
“That will cost you a dollar,”’
said, '‘on accoun
are larger ones h
if you like."
I took the
Honduras dollar
68 cents gold
the jewel ainly mounted by
Tiffany and then sent to my address
in the Adirondacks. Now,
pened, the railroad
down on the day of the pin’s arrival
and all
stroyed; so
rolled a len
played a hund
Am
shape that 1s of
ore
he
There
a dollar, the
then worth
New York
was i
as it hap-
station burned
the express g
order
claim with the
the loss applic:
fany’s for an tin
the opal. y replied that th
could not furnish its
than $20.
express comj
n was made if
ate of the value of
+
equal [0
mean to say i
2
3 can |
ian
a shot bag i
Then
ried his si
the money
Wher
later the |
italy
FLEE)
to the
ready 1
ist
Rell
when
That was
have, I
things
money al
fore | foun
next day
precipice
overhanging |
smash with him
nearest D
freshet in
sireams.
than I kr
opals after
He threw away
would not =o
opal.
As the m are described there
is a bed of clay like earth, very hard
but yet soft enough
away with a
tives work out a chunk of this earth
and then gradually cut it to pieces
The opuls, ready polished, are found
lying in this stuff
one
How lev
who
as look ¢
nes
to be chipped
stout knife. The na-
Telepathy Among Insects
Can it be that bugs are end wed
with a wonderful sixth sense? Prof
C. V. Riley thinks he has discovered
satisfactory telepathy
among insects—that is to 2ay a sixth
sense by which they are able to com-
municate ideas from one to another
at great distances, The power, as
illustrated in the case about to be
mentioned, evidently depends not
upon sight or smell or hearing. The
fact that man is able to transmit
sound by telegraphy almost instan-
taneously around the globe may sug-
gest something of this subtle power,
even though it furnishes no explana.
tion thereof. Once upon a time
Prof. Riley had two ailanthus trees
in his front yard. They suggested
to him the idea of obtaining from
Japan some eggs of the allanthus
silkworm. Hegot a few and hatched
them, rearing the larvae and watche
ing anxiously for the appearance of
the first
evidence of
wicker cage and hung it up out of
doors on one of the atlanthus trees.
Thir was a female moth. On the
same evening he took a male moth
to a cemetery a mile and a half away
and turned him loose, having pre.
viously tied a silk thread around the
base of his abdomen to secure subse-
quent identification. Prof. Riley's
purpose in this performance was to
find out «+f the voung male and female
moth would come together for tle
purpose of mating, they being, in all
probability, the only insects of their
species within a distance of hun-
dreds of miles, excepting only the
others possessed by Prof. Riley him~
self, power of locating
previously been remarked
In this case,
enough the male was found with the
captive female the next
The hud been able to attract
the former from a distance of
and a half
This each
other had
in these insects. sure
morning.
latter
a mile
The Muniments of War,
1 ’
_RZo ia
of
interesting
month,
Pennsyl-
“Twelve years
Mr. Beltzhoover,
vania, ‘I had an experi-
ence on the floor of the House over a
term used by me in the course of de
bate. 1 had criticising Gen.
Hazen, who was at that chief
l of the rmy. | pe-
ferred to him as ‘wearing the muni-
ments of war,” and in ways de-
pinces
brainy a
sat in the
st
said
been
time
officer
ing himself
1 was defende n
mrtet of men us ever
They were Ezra Taylor, Gar-
Ben' Butterworth,
Judge CC
UCCOeSSOr:
anverse
ee Ohio mer
diana
{
worth Spoflford
Beecher's Repartee
. .
War
mwrvia :
v seemed to be
first time
4 the vo
«ar }
& which |
with simple dignity
voice of
the toanla
. L5 JE
he | I
one man."’
Possibilities of Hypnotism.
London is watching with tonsider~
a hypnotist at the Aquarium, whe
put his “subject’’ into a trance fora
week at a time, during which period
he takes no food,
all external happenings, and is, in
fact, practically dead to the world
The hypnotist says there is no ren-
son why the trance should not be
extended almost indefinitely
Humorous commentators suggest
that in this way many of life's evils
might be avoided. One who hates
travel by railway might be hypno-
| tized at the station, and with a label
bearing the name of the town where
he wants to go upon his back be
packed on the train like a side of
beel. _ Those subject to seasickness
would find the process a most useful
preparation for crossing the channel,
| and workmen with no employment,
i rejected lovers, or men ‘‘sent up'’
| for ten days. might all derive advan.
tage from dreamless sleep, prolonged
to any necessary extent.
is
The Realism of Death.
Realism on the stage has educated
audiences to such a fine point of ap-
preciation that when an actor's
clothing caught fire and burned him
to death during the progress of a per-
formance the other evening the
specsators took It for granted that
the accident was a part of the show
~(hicago Times~Record.
THE JOKERS’
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
An Unwelcome Visitor--A Matter of
Business.--What He
Artist Must Draw.
4
AN 1
Does-«An
The physic
seems to leave
The pa
biame it?
ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAM.
yhn Henry Jackson had to fi
To win Miss Hattie Rose
And when he married her at
He gloried over those
Who didn't get her; and he .
In language strong, though nen
A Rose by anyother name (tha
We
ght
' ‘
Palsy
Si
sitld not be near 80 sweet t.
A DIFFICULTY
COMBINATION
or pleasure?
\
to be mar-
Mrs. Watts—Don't you ever do
anything at all?
Weary W
Sometimes |
Iv he suing for her love and is she
spurning him?
Oh, no! He is not suing for her
love,
Why. then, does despair sit upon
his face and cold disdain upon hers?
He is miserable because she says
She is cold because he says he can
fit her only in b D's.
A NATURAL CONCLUSION.
papers
bearing a
tor dreams
was what is Kk
"Sd § lor
now?
nt Hawalian missionary
weeled. but in what the
Neers lascribe ag
won
ent condition, and is
i at £500
who had heard of
was H. J,
“0 The latter gentleman
particularly anxious to secure
i as he had but recent
ly bought the 13 cent stamp
same issue at an anction sale of the
Chicago Philatelic society for $130
and the latter was not nearly so fine
a specimen as that possessed by Mr.
Sturtevant. He arranged an inter
view. and in less than fifteen minntes
the stamp and the letter to which it
was affixed became the property of
Mr. Crocker. while Mr. Sturtevant
carried off Mr. Crocker’s check for
£350
The San Francisco Call says that
this transaction beats the Pacific
coast record for the price paid for a
The nearest thereto
was £300, paid to W. Sellschopp for
tlie # cent Saxony error by Mr
Crocker, and $250 paid W. A. H.
Connor, also to Mr. Selischop, for a
5 cent Baltimore local stamp.
ng others
Crocker, of San
specimen,
of the
Limits of Human Intelligence.
A d———
M. Flournoy, of Geneva, recently
devised a povel experiment for test-
ing the limits of human intelligence,
He arranged a series of common ar
ticles of all sizes, and requested his
class to put them in order of weight,
The weight of all was really exactly
the same, but only one student dis
this fact. The majority
day suddenly piped up with: ‘Say,
mamma, is everybody wicked?"
The
apparently, ranges
the weight of objects in inverse pro-
portion to their size. Only when the
eyes are shut does a true appreciation
answered mamma, ‘Why do you ask
such a question as that?’
“"Beeause you haven't said a nice
thing about anyone to-day!”
sensations of innervation, by which
the support of different objects calls
forth the same expenditure of ener.
gy, do not properly exist,
How Xzbongula Died,
A gorrespondent, writing to a South
hie states is the true story of the death
of the great Matabele chief, Loben-
gula, It is a pathetic story. The cor-
respondent relates: Lobengula, suf.
fering from smellpox, worn ont by his
long flight, disappointed in his hope
of peace, and altogether broken down
by the loss of his country, his power
and possessions, came to a Lialt at last
among the north of the
Shangeni Hiver.
Here he begged his witeh-
give him poison with which to end his
life, but the man refused. The de
spairing chief went up a hill to the
foot of the crag it, and,
sitting there, he gazed for a long
time at the sun as it slowly = toe
ward the west. Then ds he
again demanded poison of his doctor,
and insisted, till finally, it
to him, more
elope, he seated hi azains
krantz, took the poison and gazed
the setting $un, stoli lly
death which presently put an
his sufferings and his
life.
There
grand in the pictu
scene
mountaing
loctor to
which tops
ank
seending,
WAS gi
Once ascending
meelf
awaiting
blood st
IR 8
of the great
of Matabeleland.
him seated there
en
Hi
in death, ana
by
i i x
8 10110W
stones and rocks and around hin
1 3 » 4
left him, Whether he was plac 1
h i flank
is royal chair,
covered over with
other possessions
South African Revie
All this
strong
plant
$i
may be true, and
palisade of
A Japanese Paper Unilorm,
As we write we areclal
plied to the
itis tho
ier the armeand
WOeArs
rigiot,
Type ol Locomotive,
comotives have just been
ordered {or the Paris-Livons-Mediter-
ranean Road, whieck
parture inc
are of
INArK i=
The
pe, with
new
instruction
the comp
ard 5 .
eviinager Ana
engines
four
driving
and ty
HOLL C Hse
wheels coupled, The novelty eonsists
in she]
gistance to
cab and fire
BU angie
roadbed, wl
semble the
peri
the speed ol An
ment Ls
. CXPrecs
sistance on the front
multiplied more than
ct —— 5
Venezuela Mullet by Us,
AWAra
on the Orr
Two Bt,
hat of 1834
y oles
or being
hore wi
B8TAT: oy Ona
Frawe J, Cu
SONG
“A Fresh English (omple
} i
Prominently in the
Public Eve
h
n 1 -
1 00a4YV.
His Own Little Railroad.
About a year ago a complete railway
a mile and a half in length laid
down by a London firm of small en-
gine builders in the grounds of the
Marquis of Downshire, who nets as his
own engine driver and stoker. The
train in connection with this private
line, which was also supplied by the
firm in question, consists of a locomo-
tive—the exact model of a Northern
Railway passenger express —weighing
threo tons, one carriage, and a guard's
van,
The engine cost 1200 guineas, can
travel forty miles an hour, and con-
sumes something like 200 pounds of
coal per day. This railway precisely
resembles a big railroad, only, of
course, it is in miniature. There are
the usual signal boxes and switches,
these latter being strictly necessary,
as his Lordship's railway rans across
the carriage drive. Besides this, the
Marquis of Downshire has a model of
a Great Eastern Bailway engine five
feet in length, which is fitted with
Joy'spatent gear, It cost 800 guineas,
and runs through the conservatories.
a distance of about a quarter of a mile.
~Chambers’s Journal.
EL... a ——————
The Colorado Canon,
The longest canon in the world is
that of the Colorado River, in the
Western United States. It is also the
most marvelous of all the wonders of
nature known to contemporary man
kind. If some rich man would explore
it with a corps of artista and scientists
as thoroughly as it deserves he would
confer an inestimable boon upon his
fellows. —Frank Leslie's Weekly.
Was
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