SPIDER FARM. A QUEER INDUSTRY IN PENN. SYLVANIA. to Wine Merchants~-~-Making New Bottles Look Like Qid. There is but one United States. As for the Philadelphia there are only *wo in t has only to go four a lelphia on the and ask fort aire to where el abroad only in the depa Pierre Grantaire at so much per hut tion in the w chant and the trad chiefly merchant, who is jaf with new, d bott le = em vi that the storage i8 secu The Lan highway that of marching tion In or houses, hu Pierre Grantaire French army, wh as a id father’ Prussians. lived among around him. Grantaire tar as a writer Press ean learn world. One les from Phil- caster pike I ierre Gsrant- wht ar be » found no- in l i in a i rtment of furni dred 1 Me } » ne |60 Se vauits AUX wit] ine nouv is abelle see th eliect tramp op ge here Lae them more ; can watch architect, knowledge i knock him He will not you. They are harmless. He wishes to make your acquaintance, You wish to know the ness first? That is like you bp ~money first, then the sentiment. There are 2,000 spiders in this room all raising families and minding their own business. Is not that a teach- ing to the world and a lesson already? You see, in these frames [ breed my pets, and when the infants are big enotugh to run about I take them in- to the next room, where they can set up for themselves, as you say. It is from there I most. They are great cannibals, my pets; they eat their children and the children each other. Bo I must get » good price for those that survive their child- hood. ‘ It is not all kinds of spiders that make webs. There are those that live in holes in the ground, and make for themselves trap doors, and some make soft nests in cracks, while othe ors spin small homes in the grass or | in the room corner. No, indeed; I have sought out kinds that weave themsolves fine large webs of lines and circles. They only look artistic in the wine cellar or on the houteille They are the selected ones, ‘A customer comes tome, Helis a wine merchant from New York or | Philadelphia, or perhaps he writes. He says that he has just stocked a cellar with five-year-old portor Bur- gundy, or something else, The bot- | ties have been brushed clean in ship- | They look new and common. Rey will not sell for old wine. He has attached to them labels of twen- iomast n His bsaviy . aaving. Don't cian. is ite of bDusi- oO G51 i 14 8eii , thirty or forty years ear of a grand vintage. ty Ago, Ve so many hundred bottles. 1. know h h i" t some 10W nny of my pets will soon cover is cellar in cobwebs of the Ind. I put them in littl er boxes, a pair ina 1em in a erate, with many air. Maybe I send two, { hundred spiders. For them halfa franc each. $10 for every | dred In two months you think this cellar was not disturbed | for the last fifty years. It has cost { him $40 or $50 maybe, but he may | soll tl wine for »1 000-—yes, more than that—above what they had brought without my pets had dressed tt tho of long avo.” the bot Wanted to Die Rich, le small pa- box. $4 1 holes for three, four hun- Ve 10 los in robes ¥y years ago, cording of the sea told by have be pres- hip having t+ f riyiniont « maine ol to one yarns n Spani wrecked to the sot up the been bolts and sterng frames riveted and ar ribbands run In model new boat is similar to Britannia and Valkyrie, a Keel but with her i cutter atures carried to a greater k 188 and the the i the stem ost ug set The original report that to be plated with nickel lonbted at time, and wisdom of the doubt is shown, fon ghe ateel was was now the Nickel | has greater tensile strength than piain steel, and therefore allows the use of a smaller and lighter frame. Ailsa’s frames are also of nickel steel, and it would not be at all surprising to find that the frames of the new Herreshofl cup defender are of the same material. Exact in~ formation on the latter point is not | obtainable, but the cup defender’s | frames are certainly very light in| color for plait steel, and come much | 1earer nickel steel in looks. They are also of unusually small | za. and this would seem to further indicate the use of nickel steel. the si Lonely Mont Blane. The highest peak in Europe, Mont Blane, has been ascended thirty-nine | times in 1804. Fifty-eight persons reached the summit. Among them were eighteen French, fourteen Americans, fourteen English, eight Germans, two Russians, one Austri- an, and one Bwiss., Three ladies | braved the cold, the hardships and | i difficulties, 80 ns to be numbered among the successful tourists. The | lust ascension in 18094 was made on November 4 by Guide Payot .nd throes | carriers, who carried up the scientific instruments for the observatory on the summit. They remained at the I building three thing in the | turned over mer arrar that ri days to rooms ire to public use ne RODE A DEER. Perilous Adventure of a Hunter in Florida. ft Of James I, Harn, un Maze wi hunting uietly { wis re out fine buck away. It should stalk | ford re i A od { be: i agreed the deer mained with the hors 1 dismounted an i Ue it was n After tear- Harn with I ¥ i ae brings the at any suitable remmu- tien and wor { to compu number of id would novels neration spent upon And, if it careful figures of the els of whi were possible OO copies smallness of the percen amaze the public. Ever of well known writersdo n reach this figure in their the fa yuld be given it would surprising to people what really small editions of novels of some of the best known writers are printed-—es. pecially at first And the novels which get beyond their first edition nowadays are very, very few and far between. And yet the novel is really the most productive form of writing to-day. are ¢ ' if ge the wt sales, is ¢ A Study in Grammar. A teacher in one of the lower grades of a city school was endeavor. ing to impress upon her pupils the fact that a plural subject takes a verb in the plural. * Remember this,” she said ;]' ‘girls are, boys are; a girl is, a boy Is, Now, do you understand it?"’ Every hand in the room was raised in assent, “Well, then,'’ continued the teach. er. "who can give me a sentence This time only one hand was raised, and that belonged to a pretty little miss, ‘'‘ Please, ma'am,” she sald, with all the assurance of a primitive reasoning, ‘'I can give a sentence. ‘Girls, are my hat on straight?’ A chain of small daisies between two flexible gold bands composes a new bracelet of an admired style. JOHNGSON'S INAUGURATION. When He Took the Oatn. ' “8 LO say A Magnifying Show Window. of the most extraordinary ting custom on a M ordinary plate iber of rough mag the window panes di recor dian } rac Wis that of a fruiterer in town. Instead of the a large nun formed ’ al ie of these aAxs, : ify Seen throug yrange looked as large as a pumpkin and cherries large as apples. A great disadvantage attaching to this novelty was the fact that at the dis. tance of a few yards from the win. dow it was quite impossible to see into the window. Everybody knows that you must hold a magnifying glass very close to the eyes to see any thing through it Nevesthuless, for some time, at all events th snterprising proprietor did a roaring trade. ng glasses h or ng as The Year of the Wolves. During the severe weathor, which lasted so long this year, wolves have been making their appearance in great numbers. They have been seen in Brittany wandering about separately and in bands over regions wiiich hitherto they had not dared to approach, and in some districts they tarmyards, and actually terrorized the inhabitants, forest of Hunanday a farmer was at beasts, and only secured an escape by means of a dagger which he fortu. sately possessed. | | POPULAR SUITE r. Woman in the Cas® 14+ i a . gry tse . sya wl Boston has an electric carriage. TERS rode up to a house wl y . . un } ’ d 1 x bud Bulphate of zine is used to rende fo molasses a pure amber color. Several British scientists claim indi- vidnal credit for the Woman has not only a less mortality but greater longevity than man, There is also a plurality of female births, An Engl surgeon recently lowed ont a new socket for cial the old one not being enongh, It is said that moths: green fabrics. Arsenic ing green, and the enough to shun that des discovery of argon ish hol. artifi- large au eve, | not attack French Eon; that the TH0,! ter into the lal always los attle . Wash. , State baeteriole the wats of typh of Baying Hard Things. w Way to Fell ’ Very Costly. h an excess, 1 mon that the an better classes for a time aban «1 the practice, which eventu- ally fell i into disuse generally. 3 according the authority, the ens. tom would have been entirely lost *“if lovers were not tous to preserve it in all its full power.” r Cot D. 1 « N04 loo inaed one an} 84 pill new pair of shoes usually dee j & new pair of corns. Look Out for “No, lily Condition Calls for a Good Your First Duty 18 to Yourself. Your Box thre Help to be Found in pring Medicine The Lest Preparation for this Parpose is ood’s Sarsaparilla ** 1 eannot speak too IH saparilia it has worked wonders in m3 east, lam 74 gore of age and have besy afflicted with salt rheum on my hands for a groat many years, 1 tried many things t cure them but fatled. My hands would crack open and bleed profusely, and the pain was terrible t Rines taking Hood's Bars. parila the flesh: has healed and the skin {sas smooth as any farmer's, I recommend Hood's Sarsapariila as a reliable medicine and al ways speak in ite favor,” Laowo D Casas, | Bwansea, Massnchusetis, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Only ‘True Blood Purifier Ba Spring is the season for cleansing and renewing the blood. During the winter it has erept sluggishly through the viens, gathering impurities from indoor air, from fatty substances in the food, and from many other sonroes. The great blood purifying medicine | especially prepared to do this work is Hood's SBarsaparilla. It will give to the blood purity, richness and vitality and these will bring health and vigor, strong nerves, agood appetite, refresh. ing sleep, and powers of endurance. Cleanse your blood by taking Hood's | Sarsaparilla, a renovating preparation : especially prepared to make pare | blood, then you may enjoy the season | of flowers and birds and out door pleasures, for you will be healthy, strong and well, Hood’s Pills highly ¢ vids Bare Ww } DBAY. care all liver lls, billions. | Lrominantly it tho public eye today. ness, headache. $5 couts, | #ure £2 got Hood's and nly Hood's, in re
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