CHINA'S MILITARY POWER.
WIDELY DIVIDED CONTROL.
The Descendants of the Manchu Con.
querors and Their Allies Are Hereditary |
Warriors. and All Recruits from This |
Class Creat Arsenals Where Useless |
War Material is Made.
The war news {rom China bas creat
ed much interest in the Chinese army, |
and the reports to the effect that tae
Boxer mobs cannot be suppressed have |
caused many how
and of what material the Chinese regu- |
lar army is composed. In this as in
many other things Chinese have not |
kept up with other nations, and thelr |
deficiency was clearly demonstrated |
during the Chino-Japanese War. But |
the warning was not sufficiently heed
ed, and the improvements which have |
been made in the army since then were |
not sufficient to bring the military up |
10 the point where it should be for the |
protection of the country. Althongh |
there are two armies, neither of these |
is known as the Imperial Army. There |
is an army for each province. This
body, known as the of Eight |
Banpers, contains nominally about!
three hundred thousand men, who are
descendants of the Manchu grnquerors
and their allies. Of these about eighty
thousand are maiantain~d on a war foo!
ing, and are divided into three groups, |
Mongols, Chinese and Manchus, aod |
form an hereditary profession within |
which intermarriage
Of these hereditary soldiers about four |
thousand are usually at
Peking as an Imperial Guard
The national army called Ying
Ping. This body is known also as the |
“Green Flags” and the
it being divided into five distinct
readers to wonder
Army
is
compulsory,
stationed
is
“Five Camps,”
parts
This army is subdivided into eighteen |
corps. one for province, and is
under the immediate command of the
The |
nominal strength of this national army
fs about gix hundred thousand, but of
hundred
The
al
each
Governor-General or Viceroy
this nubber only about two
thousand are
Tien-Tsin army
and has about thirty
available for war
the most
five
ind oy
corps is
portant thou
sand men.
foreign officers, and have modern arms
amd do and
These have been dr
and garrison
police duty.
The “mercenary troops” play an
portant part in the Chinese
system. hey are ralsed in emergen
cles. Then are Mongolian
cavalry and other
sumbering about
which bave been described by foreign
observers as no military value.”
The total land army on a peace foot
ing Is estimated at three hundred thou-
sapd men, and on a war footing at |
about one million: but the army as a |
whole, according to the same author- |
ity, has po unity or cohesion: there is
the drill is mere |
|
i
i
equipment,
m
military
there the
irregular cavalry.
twenty thousand,
“of
no proper discipline;
physical exercise; the weapons are long
since and
port, commissariat or medical
But the various provinces spend
is no traus-
ROTrvice,
ohsolete, there
much
money for army purposes, and maintain
great arsenals where war mate;
the shape of guns and ammunition is
made and stored
The arsenal at Shan
in
antique and slipshod
This large place is under the provine
government of the Viceroy of Nanking,
and is full of modern tools and machin
ery, and material of every de.
scription. The arsenal is in every re
spect a well equipped and perfectly
furnished modern iastitution in
order, and If organized under
pean control, Lord Beresford
could supply war material
whole military forces of China. It was
organized by Eurepeans and is pow (in
charge of two Englishmen. The ma.
chinery ot this arsenal! is adequate for
the manufacture of all calibres up to
12-inch fifty-ton pieces
Besides this arsenal there are similar
institutions at Tien Tein, Nanking
Hankow, Foo-Choo, Canton and Ching
Tu. The arsenal at Tien -Tsin nn-
der the provincial government of the
Viceroy of Chi-Li. It ix well supplied
with everything in the way
and machinery. and has spare room
enough for a plant to supply the whole
Chinese army, The plant is in charge
of a British subject, but the actual
head is a Chinese official, whose salary
is 150 taels—abonut $100--a month. A
similar position in Englsod or Amer.
ica wonld, according to the report of a
European visitor, be worth at least
$10,000 a year.
The mint, with a capacity for mak- |
fog 15,000 dolisrs a day, is in this
arsenal, There also is the naval school, |
the Annapolis of China. This school |
has sixty students, sons of noblemen, |
between the ages of sixteen and twen. |
ty, who remain at the school five years |
and Alien are placed on a training ship |
for Curther instruction. At this school
all the pupils are taught English. Next
door to the Naval Academy Is another
school with accommodations for thirty,
where young men receive instruction
in the Russian language, with a view |
to becoming Russian Interpreters, The
money for the maintenance of this
school is provided by the Peking gov.
ernment.
At the Nanking arsenal there are no
al in
ghal seems to be |
out of place connection with the |
Chines
army
al
stores
good
Euro
thinks,
for
3
the
is
of tools
Furopean employees, and although the
machinery Is modern it is used In wae
manufacture of useless war material,
‘he Chinese authorities at this place
showed the English visitors with great
pleasure and pride a weapon from
through
“It was heartbreaking,” sald the Eng.
lish visitor,” “to see both officials and
workmen taking pleasure and using
diligence in the manufacture of costly
but absolutely useless war material”
The arsenal at Hankow turns out
eight thousand Maunser rides a
There also much time and money
about
year,
are used in the manufacture of useless
war material, At the Foo-Choo arsenal
hyard, and the whole
of a
Waste of money be.
there Is also a do
plant under
Manchn general,
cause of ignorance as to modern meth.
of manufacture
is the sole charge
ods Is as appareuat at
Poo-Chioo as at the other arsenals,
An old powder factory is one of the
features of the Canton arsenal, There
rifle factory there aud a
has been completes] recently for
is a also,
plant
making smokeless powder,
pacity of 90,000 pounds a y
York
with a «a
MC. NOW
Tribune,
A RRACTICAL DEFINITION.
The Great Difficulty of Defining * Insanity”
in Words.
Safeguard
at?
“How One's Nanity
article in
M. Buckley,
In it he gives a practica
io
the Cen
PD. D.
i detl-
tur
I.L.
nition
by the Rev, J,
I.
of the word insanity
In childhood there called at our
family residence a gentleman
ny
w hose re.
ception as a person of distinction, and
tiention,
After a while he beckoned me to his
ssfale, is
lawns, fine old trees and streams, bis
horses and hunting-dogs, the spacious
halls of the maosion adorned hy works
uf
and his songbirds from every
to spend a month
ny. He
his strangely
Af
art
art
lime, and invited me
with him, promising me a D
thew a spell over me by
expressive aye and glowing wvords
ter he had gone | said to my mo
TiN WN onder
“When may | go to see
ful things and get the pony She
‘Never, a. The
At
added,
answered sadly my
MY regres!
He is
Innatic.” 71 nys
gradually
or
poor man Is derang~d."”
for an explanation, she
is crazy, a fee
tory but
was not dispelled,
the memory of the locident was o
laid by boyish sports aod stndies
Three years afterward was opensd
the great Hospital for the [nsage orect
hie State of New Jersey at Tren
In company with relatives, 1 was
i by
ton
conducted through a ward, and looked
curiously upon abwtractedly
gazing, talking at random, mbaaiug as
if In grief or pain, or laugbiog for no
apparent reason. Passing along
corridor, suddeniy 1
fore me, addressing an
dience, stood the man who
ed me. No one listen>l to
as we approached, an attendant iad Lim
to his which came
wordse Mortal
persons
trembled
maginary
‘Harm
and.
pad
Sain
room, from the
“1 am God!
before me!”
instant 1
pen, bow
down
in
tas
that saw what It is to
enated
No di
“insane.” “deranged. al
“crazy.” “mad,” “a lunatic.”
tionary was necessary.
then 1 anrved
of management of such
Since have mm hoards
petitions, ‘0
cluding that in which this scene o
curred. have attended
tures on the subject, and consulted the
courses of low
heat authorities, and [ do not wonder
that none of the teabers of my <hild
wood could define insanity, for no defi
nition exists that includes al! that this
word suggests and nothing more
Judg+'s Decision Lost Him a Wile.
1t"15 said that one of the judges of
the Prerogative Court in Ireland tried,
on marriage, a
wherein a man was sued for beating
in delivering jndgment
ss his opinion that, although
had no right to beat wife
with such a little
cane or switeh as he then held ia his
hand, a at and
was invested with a power, to give his
These words
eve of his CAR
the
his wife he
a man fin
unmercifully, yet,
husband was liberty.
wife moderate correction
coming
bride, she refused to adventure future
with such an ungallant lover-a dech
sion that evidently met with the nui
versal approval of the jndge's lady ac
to the ear of his prospective
an ad¥anced age. —Tit-Bits
The Cost of a Man.
A German surgeon, whose man ser
of his face by the explosion of a shell,
has calculated the cost of manufactur
ing an artificial man, A pair of arms,
with hands, joints, ete, complete,
would cost about $156; a pair of lege
about 2140; a false nose in motal--un-
distinguishable from tae real article
costs S80 to $100, and for $110 a palr
of ears, perfectly natural in appear
ance, and furnished with artificial
drums. can be produced, A complete
set of teeth would cost $40 to $65, and
Thus the
total cost of supplying deficiencies to
a man who has lost all his limbs and
the major portion of his face is 3500 to
$000,
Canaries bave been Loown to live
twenty oie yearn
Minister Wu must admit that the
prejudice against the Chinese in this
country has never reached the violence
of the "Boxers."
The Missourl Supreme Court has
sustained the principle of arbitrarily
assessing property for street improve
ments at a front-foot or square-foot
foot rate,
Ohlo and Indiana are in litigation
over the Ohio River, The river is un-
conscious of the trouble and at last ac-
counts was wending its way unruf
fled to the sea.
rest ou the cool waters, with refresh.
lng salt alr, Dioner will be served on
the hoats for 50 cents. There will be
no liquors sold, nor disorder permit
ted, The idea is to furnish the opper-
tunity to avoid the city turmoil, heat
and odors without interfering with
business. It is announced as a solely
experimental sanitary and beneficent
enterprise, not inspired by a desire to
make money, It ought to succeed,
To give an idea of the extent of the
greenhouse culture of flowers in the
United States it may be stated that
there are considerably over 500 acres
under glass devoted exclusively to
which at retall aggregate a
grand total of about $22,500,000, or a
dollar for each square foot of glass,
of
the
One
which
brought into exisience
which the attendants
how to see the fair,
the
Paris
peculiar institutions |
Exposition has
is a school In
are
a b— i
Famines are not new in the history |
of India or the rest of the world, A |
thousand years ago families in Great |
Britain and Europe often occurred, |
costing the lives of many thousands,
————
The British poets are either out of
luck or their theme ls distasteful to
the muses, Swinburne has tried war |
poetry and has apparently made as
rank a falluore of it as the poet lau-
reate.
Germany proposes to establish a rig-
orous system of examination of all
meat food products of domestic origin,
and to require similar treatment of all
such imported, from what
in that she is impartial
products
ever country.
and pot uareasonable.
Engineers say a 100-foot-wide canal
12 to 15 feet deep. between Lake Su-
perior and Grand Forks, N. D,, an
The scheme in
in
engineering possibility.
agricultoral
and the
wants it carried through,
a graml
one,
northwest
Of roses there are sold each year 100,
000,000, worth $6,000,000; ax many car-
nations, worth $4,000,000; 75.000,000 of
violets, worth $75,000. The single
item of chrysanthemums alone repre.
sent half a million dollars a year,
while the value of the 100,000,000
plants sold lu pots is set at $10,000,000,
The demand for flowers is constantly
increasing, no social function is com-
plete without them; never have they
been so highly apprecizted as at the
present moment,
Since 1875 the rallway
Europe has nearly doubled
it amounted to X3.080; at
it had reached
increase of R35. 700
mileage In
That year
the close of
167.430 miles, a.
The greatest num-
constructed in any one
that period by
has 15.142 miles to its
credit, Germany comes next with 14.-
640 France built 12.908 mile;
Austro-Hungary, 11.72 Italy, 5181;
Englan, 5.088; 4.618; Sweden
4.12%. and 1.255
Greece had only 7 miles of railroad in
ules
country during
Russia,
was
which
miles,
Spain,
Switzerland miles.
ITS; pow it has O01,
One of the facts brought out by the
recent census of Cuba is that a very
considerable proportion of the inhabl
tants live in the cities, If among cities
Log
Rome time ago the Connecticut »
Islature. following the precedent estab
lished by the Swiss Cantons in case
passed a law pro
This
sald to be the first law ever passed in
of the edelweiss,
tecting the trailing arbutus, is
any State in the Unlon for such pur
Dose
sir J. Crichton Browne is of the
opinion that consumption (n the United
Kingdom will, in the ordinary course,
disappear in sixty years. He believes,
that with
nursing of patients it
of half that
however, caution In the
may be got rid
in ime,
Eighteen years ago the first news
paper published Japan. Teo
day there are 070 newspapers, a large
was in
11 scien
This is
Japanese
numbers of religious papers,
rw
amd
titie and wedical journals
very convianciag evidence of
There has been a marked
improve
ment in the state of trade in Palestine
3
since the opening up of the country by
the Jaffa-Jerusalem tallway. The
transportation of goods from the coast
to the
easy
interior is now rendered vers
it is an ill wind that blows nobody
A mild case
plague in one of the coffee centres of
any good, of the bubonic
Brazil resulted in a rise of 60 per cent
in coffee prices inside of three months,
The Industry is sald to be now in a
better condition than for some time,
and with the very marked increase in
the of Brazilian coffee the
tee in
tinue at the same level
Professor Metehnikoff has some fine
theories abotit checking the inroads of
old age. but somehow the serum and
other things that have used to
arrest decay of the powers have all
proved futile. Oliver Wendell Holmes
made a very careful study of the sub.
ject and had high hopes of living to be
100. but he died at 85, despite all his
precautions,
been
be acquired only by farmers
During the last two
ia can
and settlers,
for the purchase of land have been
asked for by werchants, engineers and
istry is now considermg the question
tem.
Red, white and blue, though the col
ors of the Unlon Jack, were not used
generally in England as marks of pai
triotistn before the Queen's diamond |
jubllee three years ago. The old col
ors were red and white and the Inno.
vation Is said to be due to some deal
er's importing a large stock of French
decorations left over from the French
national fetes, Englishmen are cheer.
ing the three colers now, however, as
vigorously as though they were Amer:
{cans or Frenchmen,
A Brooklyn philanthropist proposes
to run boats, leaving the city pliers at
6 p.m. and returning the next day at
# a. m., which shall go out to sea thir
ty or forty miles during the night, ard
of 85,000 or more, there are 498 682 peo
or Se
in the
ple. per cent. of the whole, living
cities. If the basis be widened
so as to include places having a popu
Iantion of 1000 found
among the inhabitants of cities a popu
lation of 741 the
w hole
or Dore, we
ye
we § By
or 47 per cent. of
Naturally enough, the popula
tion Is very unequally distributed, for
of the
inhabitants live In the country, In Ha.
the other band, 77 cent
in the cities The total popula
of the island is very large,
1.572.797 at the date of the tak
This in thay
of the Greatm
average number
while In Rantiage 67 per cent
Yana, on Der
not
ing of the Jews
half the population
York The
inhabitants per square mile is thirty
it
Census
New of
nix, or nearly what is In lowa.
The
about
known
Africa
has seemed always
it
vention of the powers for the preser
greatest game law ever
to into effect
human life
is go in
where
to be held rather cheap is a con
vation of the wild animals within their
dominlons Lions, leopards, hyvaenas,
baboons, all birds of prey except val
tures: owls, crocodiles, and polsonons
suakes, are all given up to the destroy
killed at wight. AD
including elephants
rhinoceroses, giraffes, deer of all Kinds
and buffalos, are to be protected by
local laws, the drift which will be
to prohibit absolutely the Killing of
their females and their young, to de
mand licenses from hunters, to estab
lish in certain cases a close time, and
to define and preserve reserves with
in which the beasts may multinly in
security, The contracting parties agree
to promulgate the measures for carry
ing out the convention within a year
they are to encourage the domestica
tion of zebras, elephants and ostriches
and the convention is to remain i»
force for fifteen years and so on from
sear to year unless any party, twelve
months before the expiration of that
period, “denounces” it.
era and may be
species,
of
Miss Hecker's victory over Miss Un
derhill and Miss Hoyt in the contest
for the women's championship of the
Metropolitan Golf Association adds
another name to the growing list of ex
pert players who have attained ts
championship form, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser, There
are now five: Miss Hecker, Miss Hoyt
Miss Underhill, Mrs. Fox amd Miss
Nix years ago there were
practically none, and Mist Hoyt's ten
ure of the national championship for
three years gave her a “splendid isola
tion” that one was apt to ascribe nol
cleverness in the
game, but to the lack of sufficient com
petitive interest in it. But golf has
jumped into immense popularity dur
ing the last two years, and the supply
of champlons has, of course, increased
with it.. It promises to be no tempor
ary increase, for the game has come
to stay, judging by the social inter
ests that have grown up with it,
NL SRA HE
A Large Zulu Tribe.
The Basutos are a tribe of Bechuan.
as, and they number about 250,000,
They are a race of recent origin, being
really an agglomeration of peoples
who had been scattered during the
Zulu conquests at the begloning of the
present century.
LUGK IN MONEY MAKING,
Good Thing and Knew It.
and lost several fortunes, were
cussing In a broker's office one after
in money
said:
“How YOU suppose
made his fortune?”
making, when oue of
do Mr,
The man whose name was mentioned
has made millions In the past few years
a8 the half owner that
manufactures a machine as well known
of a company
As the typewriter
“Blank had some money to inves! and
ind be put his money io it
shout that,”
“It was all «
man, ‘and when |
No chance
ald cone of the party
the
first
you the history
imnes, sald
tell
of this company as it was told
the Inventor
ARTE ne
story is the truth,
to me
by of the machine you
will 1 know that
The inventor knew
with the
that his patent was all right, and that
the article which described would be
world its
merits could be made known.
avested $17,000, all
i
sold all over the a8 soon as
He had
hat he could raise
Slik.
An soquaintapce
call
this patent, and be peeded
more (0 complete
f
+ had
and
his whom 1 may Irown
sown some interest In the paten
a ex the
1
n
His Spe rgen:
hi
to discuss
nventor appeal
to mn hey met In a Broadway
te] i# question The
He
1etly bow
in
ventor
is
ald
pleaded Case, showed
his plans and
£17.000
vou will
bh 1
Hires!
eX he had
spent
“lf
while
i periecting then.
give me the $1.08) now
i
need will give you a half
n this patent.” sald the inven
“and 1 a
in it
or, Im sure there ix a big
have g
wer the ground carefully and | kKoow
what | am talking sbout.’
“Brown listened to
1! over, and then said
une for ach of ux. i Jie
Lim. thought i
‘What
on thinking
a RO
I
YOu say
sounds all right, but
I have decided not n
{ am
lear 1
The
had
sorry tha
o do it”
nvenia
kilo
hope heme 3
be said that
sod
for
0
£ Bim to do ex
Bridge
tying
Brown lef!
uplis papers
who had been sitting st
Bim came over and sald:
"Look here, would
that
werheard your
vig
He I have
and if
plaining patent
10
conversation you
dn Sow me that
bing &
u“
You Lave good
ave 3 little money to gamble
My name Blank, and when
time
is
will satisfy of
Are
{he comes | you
my financial
mg 1o talk
“The inventon
standing sou will
overY
unroiied his plags and
wan to describe them In a perfunctory
way, as he had describes] them many
imes before Siank showed his inter
#t by asking intelligent quest and
After
9 i
Ons
the inventor took heart
talk Mr
any
TW
hours Blank =aid n
am ince that vou have a
i
i
good thing here, bu! vou will need mor
han $1,000 to push it. If you can con
vince fe that
I will
niterest io
“Mr. Blank
following
her's standiog
partnership
was completed and protected
and
the articles
Fou are a trast-worthy
man advance $10.000 for a half
patent.’
fhe
this
and inventor spent
the day javestigating each
aod as a result the
waz Torined The patent
I every
way, an expensive salesroom,
where might bw exhibited,
was openad on Broadway. You know
how the article bas pushed. It
bas salesrooms in every big ¢ity here
and abroad, and it the field to It
self. Mr. Blank and the inventor have
rach made a fortune out of it. and the
end Is not yet, Now, didn’t
chance have a good deal to do in shap
ing Blank's fortune? If he had gone
to some other cafe, or if he had set
at some other table, he wonld not have
pverheard Brown and inventor
talking. Chance alone gave him the |
opportunity, and Blank's little money |
and good business sense did the rest”
New York Sun
been
has
then,
the
A Peassylvania Patriarch,
People whe visit the ancient “public |
burying ground” beside the OM Con’
ord Schoolhouse, In Germantown, are
apt to receive a shock that is, if they
fall to reading the epitaphs, as visitors
in a graveyard usoally do,
Concenled In a modest, nnfrequented
corner is a grave which, half hidden in
tangled grass, seems in no wise differ
ent from Its sunken fellows, It is only |
when the eye of the explorer falls upon
the tombstone at its head that the!
shock is received, for the lascription, |
in time worn letters, reads:
EE
IN MEMORY OF
ADAM SHISLER,
WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE DECEMBER THE
22, 1777. AGED 9
YEARS.
Lackily, the oldest inhabitant is usa: |
ally at hand to explain the situation |
and chuckle anew over an anclent |
Joke. Adam Shisler, so he explains, |
of 09 years, The stonecutter mistook
ered his mistake. Thrifty, > ieee {
‘his hours of toll, he coversd up |
a A A AAA
years the coment wore away, and some
ghoulish wag with a pocketknife did
the rest,
The inaccuracy of the epitaph is pro-
Philadelphia North
identified Against Her Will,
A richly dressed woman entered the
trust Philadel-
other day to rent a box.
company in
phia the
“Have
asked the attendant,
you any one to identify you?"
said the woman, in-
who |
“Certainly not,”
“everybody knows
“That be
I don't
that
Just
“but
WOIIAn
may was the reply
Know that vou are the
name.”
who had
raised her
rigid nod passed between
thea another woman,
been transacting business,
head, and a |
them
“1 Know
bank official
“1 don’t want to know her,” snapped
the woman
vou this woman?’ asked
the
“she lives next door to me,
and instructed her footman to kick my
dog just because it chanced to be on
Yon needn't ask me lo identi
for
“I wouldn't let you identify me,” re
torted the applicant a box; 4
bave acted horribly about
your old dog: and you left the Iorcas
her step
fy her, I won't”
for
think you
Society, telling everybody
long as |
you
Was a
wotnldn't belong as
member. A nice Christian spirit
bank official
thie identifica
the
that
In the meantime
entirely satisfied
over the
H-concealad
who had
was complete, banded
to the box, to the
chagrin of + other woman
identified ist her will
1Za
The Corpse Came to Life.
al yrepared to state that the
fe.” said H, RR. Pet
experience of a friend of
not §
ta It
dead can com
rx. “but the
mifne in a Pennsyvivania German town
recently would seem to Incline one that
where Lie was visit
in the tow}
requainted the
with
and In that
WHY Was
jresent funeral
had expired
fall
Bot burt
the
at
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ay He
, to all
the
husband
was
intents and
ne
proverbial
The body
was laid out In the
and all t relatives apd friends
Lo
had assembled to pay their last re
spects to the dead As Ix customary in
that locality. a big foveral dinner was
serves]. | of the meal the
| and in walked the
t minute to
aving the intruder
un the midst
parior door opens
a
Ors 8 Cd
hye mm. le
clear 1
the
sion Ti
fr in sole
undertaker finally
to the
room. and found his subject enjorving
spirit world THOR ery
plucked
dining
Gl
1e
up courage return to
1 fter enforced fast
‘Was
ladelphia
hearty al bret
Her
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hurt moch? "-1"hi
ne
Jake
first question was
tecord
Monument to 8 Teacher.
the
America
oldest and oddest monn-
Mount
Teun.
the
Western
of
{ine
ments 1a stands
Mivet Cemetery, hnoxville,
and was erected in memory of
teacher of
Her
ploneer ionsd
Pennsylvania name was Rebbe.
ca Lang
The only legible words on the stone
read as follows
n Live
September
15. 1790." The
believed that life was nol
it bad passed the cen
tree carved
“Born rpool, Eng
20. 1700, Died October
decegsed
complete until
mark. and a broken
on the monument signifies that ber ex.
tury
istence was unfinished
Mrs, Lang came to this country from
Liverpool in 1730, and erected a small
schiool in the place now called Knox-
ville. Rhe was the only teacher in the
vicinity for twenty years, In 17570 her
was burned to the ground by
and Mrs, Lang had a narrow
escape from being cremated, Nhe es
caped, however, and despite her age
tanght a building erected in
the place of the one destroyed. Phila-
school
in new
Made a Shilling.
At a certain cloth factory In Scot.
land it custoin to fine the
workpeople for turning out bad work,
One day a workman brought a piece of
cloth to be examined, and the manager
found two little holes about an inch
apart. He then showed these to the
man and demanded two shillings fine
“Is it a shil
the man.
“And i= it
the same for every hole, big or little?”
“Yes, exactly the same,” sald the man
ager. “Well, then, I'll save a shilling.”
and putting his fingers in the bolex, be
quickly made the two inte one, Argo
naut,
was the
A DASARI HRI
A Hea of Many Eggs.
Thomas Hamblen killed a hen re
cently that proved to be a phenome
non. The hen was exceptionally fan
and weighed when dressed nine and
one-half pounds. In dressing he
twelve fully developed oggs with soft
shells and twenty-three partially devel
er eggs varied from the size of a mar
ble to that of a walnut. The eggs have
to the museum of the ul