NOTES AND COMMEN Efforts are being made In this coun try to wrest from England her big coal | trade, Spain, relieved of her colonial in cubus, is making rapid strides toward prosperity. The Eleetrieal Review declares that lightning-rods of every sort and kind | are useless, In the past ten years the Italian na tion has descended from the third to the seventh place as a naval Power. The funeral of the dead railroad King again recalled the Spanish proverb, “There are no pockets in the shroud.” It is possible to say at last that the popularity of the so-called “coon song” it has means of entertainmet be to as a sun wane, Men may yearn to wear as commonly as women, never enjoy discussing shirt fons with equal zest The Cologne of a policy tunately other 1 this Gazette of of terror in imtions will matter, consulted in v An apparatus for condensing sea fo bes by Professor Bell. It will welcome as a desideratum by ocean voyagers Another proof of the the public. The as industrious as he » Ley ov 1 Kissing-bug was last 8 but he doesn't sdine inter est, If a ress Dosw ager In remark lady powder, Emi is odds that his first old gun Pekin would « ha that the According to the United Copenhagen, States Cons Denman: ” 1 HOMER ity of American creasing in that countr) Among other sim is Insane man discovered by specin nervou in disorders that irre 'yebrows are entitled to consideration, A scientist who | electrolysis Is now lighten trolley-ca: motormen who have discover just why thes All buildings belor nese Government 3 a capital offense for any prive to use that color on the exterior dwelling or place of | are yusine R. Harper, of the great University of Ch ll h to materially change their plans, Professor William ag clares that the small colleges will that eventually they must unite, A German surgeon recently cut off a to it proved a very good substitute, and can patient's second toe and sewed it the stump of a missing forefinger be moved by the owner, as an artificial be finger could not In a paper which he recently read before the British Medical Association Dr. Pye-Smith prescribed a remedy that is This for most nervous disorders within the reach of the poorest cure is steady hard work, Bicyele road races have been bad enough. Automobile road races would | be an intolerable outrage. The pub lie highways are for the common and ordinary use of the public, not to be turned into private racetracks for steam engines at fifty miles an hour. The Government is about to pay the final half million and take over Eads jetties, It is still claimed that the jetties are a success, but it will be well to defer judgment until the first report after they are Government property, the ———— The late C, PP. Huntington was not a believer In college training for men who are to follow a business career. And a Western paper. moralizing on his career, asks: “Had be played foot- ball at college until his bearded days would he have been so successful 7 During the recent French naval manoeuvres the squadron under Ad- miral Gervals succeeded in slipping | through the Straits of Gibraltar at night without being noticed by the British observers on the Rock. So at least the French newspapers assert, Experts who have examined rye straw are of the opinion that a very high grade of paper, suitable for books | as well as for newspapers, can be made from that material. Louisiana | produces thousands of tons of rye straw which are now disposed of as | a waste product. An orderly In Bouth Africa who hiap- | pened not to know the Commander | in~Chief, for whom he was bearing a | dispatch, asked another orderly In a | loud volce, “Where's ‘Bobs’? In re- | Vy the cheery voice of Lord Roberts “Here 1 ara, iy lad, What x y £5 The materially fast y Henee t has plainly ceased to grow or than the Last, Provi- $ Paul No almost and York as fast nest and much is outstripping 8 Buffalo growing relatively Milwauker, Chicago in the We Minneapolis and Ww aie to ranks which stern Hist as faster as solutely, $1 Par pnmunicated i% Pasg- to Modecine his discon M. MeotzehnikofY, Iustitute, h the Academie de of a lv: red globules in thinks that w! 01 i% © which regenerates the He wn he has improved his ers nph the blood of lepers goervm he able to rejuvenate body, human which ugo and till NUN it been discovered ifle, was thrown gradually wi in could not Porpolse, 1 again now looks like v8 back and It stands nl sr, with the it forms vr to navigation, ne feet out of wat it 80 that lnreg that no one 80 happy ot miserable as he Ie ruth | etween the The accepts ¢ and scoffs at the f 8 ever thinks he is lf -hearted way in which this % n cepted shows all the difference | pessimist and the optimist optimist ter half rer, pessimist ralls at the “South f sOelie Ol i% China fust pub of Peru, ts and the Pert will in the dis can States wh ler inside had been hay ne nimals had got nto the car and how been there no one Seemed at on wi tang 1 charg ex of desertic: non-sup He ad an was presented a novel de iis wife had consulted who told Vio, sald the it was had to however vy of reason bonds to the as~ mystery of perf tly is : ighbor's cold, among the tna FF 11 ' one infallible hampered the condition that it by ¢ taken ¢ that 1 What will aust b and a cold until is needed is a cold at iz badly need in t digcover 1 has ae time is medy whi cure " #iey 4k odd a higher we, and such a remeds in the Interests of good feeling and The a vie Providence morality man with the the in fferer and cold Is not tnerely tim of fee of but a indifference Qt the heartless "On even derision of his Benner, of made a few months hy exhibiting a so- called “feathered dog” in of the Sunflower State feathers were concerned the animal of fraud, as has just been discovered through the enterprise of rice Coffeyville, Kan, 5 has small fortune during the past various parts So far as the Wis, COurse, n a country newsaper, been completely covered from nose to tail with a tight fitting coat of Canton flannel on which pigeon feath- ers had been so skillfully sewn as to seem like a natural growth. A report- er who had been detailed to visit Ben ner's show plucked a handful of feath- ers from the animal's back unobserved, and the dog never winced, The fraud was thus exposed, and Benner fled The dog had sso. Butioas Oa Back of Cont. An American, so the story goes, was once questioning a Chinaman as to the reason for many of the. customs which seem absurd to us, At length, after long endurance, the Chinaman replied: “And now, my dear sir, I would like Will you kindly tell me why Americans and Europeans wear two useless buttons on the backs of their coats?’ Unable to answer the American raised the question at home, Investigators set to work, and what do you think they discovered? Long ago, when every gentleman wore a sword and had to hang it from hix belt, these two buttons held the belt to the coat. Years passed, and men left the sword to soldiers’ use; the belt went out of fashion, but the two buttons were left to this very day. * NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMININE TOPICS, Kimona Breakfast Parties a Now Fad-A Prize Shopping or Work Bag ~The New Cloaks Where Men Fail as Lovers~ Ete, Etc. Kimona Breakfast Parties a New Fad. Kimona breakfast parties are a lark. Most of the sumaer givls are as frol ns kittens They lle nights planning fun. But for the Kimona a certain house fete would been voted by five of the Hvellest souls ever cabined in healthy bodies as dull ditch water, Every girl of the five might lay claim to be A woman have things pretty much to her liking, The breakfast freak was started by the prettiest girl of the five, To the shop the «4 their way, brown-skinned French dane fesome Epree Liave ns ing beauty, handsome a manages to The quintet agreed, wend little fis in sel a mischievous had {18 courteons and fellow, S000 ing-master, almost standing on his sleek head, Kimonas for five, giddy cotton crepe adairs in blue, scariest and green: some showercd with perky storks, some with wicked looking dragons, some with erysanthemums as big as cabbage heads The for cherry a hunted bBloggoms almond-ey merchant for blonde heads and brown; for fans to match each robe and for the gayest of gay slip pers, The robes hen the foreign he norning came to first gong sounded, Were make their debut Ther to Was a great fiv scurrying from room root, o The BR RCamper broad comparing notes second Then « down sounded, tinsel feet and a Iii ihe Line the oaken staircase look rare tropical birds, toed The summer mer thelr to brea manly hearts 1 thelr emotions won the day. Sueh made about the break Madame left Oe the h ostess arn the hearty ki her breakfast and dainty girl on went ot her The ns soul to i n nyo “4 sighed nd he looked sly amd ened there to the girls ously as a north w and join The 5 week older. Philadelphia Inquirer, A Prize Shopping or Work Bag. f hand Dag. w at prize offered A obta iseful form o hich tf fie ined the fir le of this arti is Hows Take a of twenty-four fn to it Fold over the co Hes 1 baste closely a lining of Arm «ilk roers un #41 lain ve 3} 0 s+ 1 Hey meet In ae Tire arefulls circle four Hameter draw a ut away cloth Inside Join the meeting odges of fi Beane ress the seams flat, afterward them on the right sido By gathering up the circular opening We meen that a has been formed, with decorated bag a droop hase with four points formed by the joining of the seams right angles with the one outlining the seam. Little tassels of the sil or hut the points. Next sew the circular opening a bias frill, joining in a seam at one side. Run a row of stitching a little way from the lower edge of the to afford a casing in which to run a ribbon for a draw string. decorate the caring with a row of feather-stitehing When the draw ' strings are in position a very shapely i bag will completed. It may be Iald flat on the table to hold work. or ‘it may be hung over the arm to carry For use as a garden bag for work it may be fashioned of eretonne or denim, feather-stitched in white. For the street a heavy, black-corded silk or cloth line] with a contrasting color will be serviceable, {io and be ———— The New Cloaks. Long lace coats unlined, save for an accordeon pleating of mousseline de "sole, are stil] a fad of the season. They were Introduced In Paris early in the summer, and will be worn until late in the autumn, There Is some little warmth In these very airy-looking gar: ments because there is a lining across the sleeves, but they are very thin, and are entirely a fad to be worn with the handsomest of gowns. There are also cloaks In the old- fashioned circular shape, made of lace over mousseline de sole, but these have A yoke and short point of lace and | hang loose, with long tabs of silk or Jet passementerie put on at regular in- tervals around the yoke, in both front and back, which hold the lace down over the mpusseline de sole, Lace jackets, as they were worn years ago, are coming In again for house wear to take the place of the rather smarter separate walat, They Are cut square in the neck and have elbow sleeves. They are made almost as long as a jacket, over a tight-fit- ting lining, and can be worn with or without a belt as desired. They have , Sat trimming around the peck, and 3 1 bands of flattrimming around the how They are quaint and pleturesque look ing, and best made in black: but they a8 yet an extreme fashion, and not been definitely decided wheth they will be popular, They | #8olved the problem, of what to do with black lace, for not only can points of CHS applied to purpose, but and strips of lace may be | gether to make these | most satisfactory azar, are it | has | er have gh, thon lace on short be ap this flounces to with a Harper's sewed jnckets result, Where Men Fail as Lovers. “There are few girls who do not cherish the idea that they could man the minor points of courting far better than the majority of men,” says CLristine Terhune Herrick, discussing the man's and woman's side of a ro “In an engagement the femi nine genius for detail comes out at its mance, strongest. Perhaps the girl does not the nck in this re gard during the weeks and days pre ceding the hour when the question 1s asked and answered the futter of the glamor of expectancy, render her But the that appreciate man's momentous great Possibly uncertainty oblivious to minor matters when affair is settled, nimble of engagement the Jjog-trot of fairly under way It Ix at this point of the proceedings that one man tlie when agree able pre figures matrimony is she has time to ob serve triflies, in one thou The nine sand scores the success of his life and nll eR 1o get the other nine hundred ninety put in thelr time unconsciously in teaching their finn rot of their ideals; for wl of life an BYery young - al thie {el idenl of this an [reel iw essential of race 14 par woman's equipment Woman's Home Con panion, A Whistle at the Pelt. A small silver whistle weit of dangles at the T it and Mothers of of anything, ul the most nowadays sounds as a signal warning summons, in fact, eXer vocal mall When gi to be wi {Ne spares the boy know the =mall boy it a nurse th all Invaluable: at all time ConYenielce that vided smanll he only sine the mot] pro themselves with whistles many boys have equipped themselves they all. other in the same way his BAY. is Actua Much Johnny off the to the mother's « answer” ally : to call each is onfasion at colang naturally CHRIeR mas ROY convenient season put #t his mother's call, upon excuse that he supposed it, of course his victims of this was Tommy that 0 of the of al reward for the manufa was calling Rone maternal confusion whistles are ready with a substant) turer who will put on the market two pistakably different to 1 brands of whis O11 w used only by mothers, small boys Queens in Uniform. ung Queen Wilhelmina's joy knew ago the colonel the not long when ¢ appointed her of igh it The with Hussars, thot was not her command Queen of Saxons her ry He highly d often duplavs thie popular soldiers, = drills of her the Second Royal Saxon Queen's The of mnfisla md a hier SOE uni form at monthly COT Huossars Que Greece gets tion a falr amount ad iri. his Mn her nati if Iwing from ® the glory in niways extremely the only lady Alexander fond Enowing miral world was of young relative, and her Jexty’'s passion for the sea, gave ships instead of troops —Cinecin Enquirer From the Beauty Doctors, Starched linen collars are condemned by beauty doctors, because it ix claim vd that make the neck stringy and otherwise take from its comeliness, they Nothing, however, seems so appropri ate with the new waistcoats as a man- nish collar, and latter are likely have a new of life, Finger nafls are at last to be cut to conform to the shape of the finger tips and made reasonably short, Talons are out of fashion. No coloring is now added to nails by up to date manicurists, The tendency to overcoloring has put the ban of vulgarity on the hitherto popu- | lar practice, the to lease The Daughter of Duse. | EHzabeth Duse, daughter of the fa- | mous actress, is a gil of nineteen, | who has just completed her education | in Munich. Her desire is to become a | teacher, and she has an aversion to the | theatre, in which her mother strength- ens her, —— Tiger Kifliag From a Train. Writing from Ootsl, a correspondent of the Buluwayo Chronicle states: “As No. 1 traln was going its usual patrol to Lobatsl, a tiger ran across the line, and it was noticed that it had a trap on its foot. The train was stopped, and several of us jumped off and followed the spoor. Eventually we came up to the tiger lylug on the grass, He gave a growl and then got Bell, a son of the BR. M., who is a trooper on the traln-—fired at and killed the beast, The tiger gave a big roar before he died, The body was carried back to the train In triumph." Lon. don Globe, The varieties of stamps now current in the world pumber 13,811, ACRES IN THE VALLEY. Ancient That Many of its Structures Have Been Abandoned - Still Increasing in Size— Wonders of Ant Construction, the there Perhaps there 18 no district in h State of Penpsylvania of whic is so little known Warrior's Mark Valley in County, says the Philadelphia It is bounded on the northwest by the the benutiful Huntingdon ans Bald Eagle ridge and on the southeast by the Bandy Hills, known “the Barrens.” This is the us county, It kind in the in the U tants of Its largest habl the State; contains largest city perhaps, the and its in by the g£ the is situated on the hills from Spruce nited States 8 may be numbered hun of moth ant city and it of the Warrior's Valley, dreds millions. This | main north barren which Mark This great belt of tending along the eastern side separate (reek ant city is situated on a sandy soll ex base of the Bedford County In a northeasterly direction to fi point tre County Allegheny Mountains, from near the State College in Cen belt there be found All along this are communities of ants to varying in numbers from a few tered hills, or mounds, to the thou to Iw seen in the metropolis, wonld Thi tunnted prised in this particular ¢f veral thousand acres # ie city is al open wood, con rod 1 GOW oak, white oak, with pine, ood and other trees spersed 1 ue existence of such » poses] {fo clear it children of the woods has disturbed seen at least two distin the reddish-brown ture of a dull bia they mony dwell togethe he ante have not only manifested great wisdom the ch of their healthful con in view location so as 10 secur but the construction of their moumls they have exhibited i ditions, in arrangement nnd eof that intelligence hes In some measure the wis The hills, « TOT Sila approad dom of thw human race r mounds, are In size they + mostly conical In ary re cluster from a { sand with apparently a single 0 story ground and to the covering a vers great BRS an art of view haps fifty point stories, and two to five feet in cir or hill, from the largest, it! measur umference cone wma llest a fants Is appare: 3 although ¥ Kingdom itaelf, and the ¢ 1m irom various mounds ooCupy a portion the same territory, they get harmoniously A magnifyin veals some remarkable fact with are ted nection these ant structures tastefully and sides exteriors very neat and The a that it and frost. Thousands of open ings lead into the interior of and fro constry are tops covered with material that is so “@ al durable resigis rains ools now 3 the larg er mounds galleries rise above one another m the base to the top These ant to be found mostly in groups of three and four and mounds are wmetimes a considerable space will in tervene between the groups this mammoth was regarded by Tradition says that ant city the Indians with a remarkable degree of venera tion, and was frequently them vation that these little crestures could discern the a i of rain with unerring precision, and that when they to the removal of thelr eggs a coming. It also said dians would throw thelr robes and blankets which had become filthy from long usage, and the ants would clean these articles perfectly without any apparent injury to the material i The name of the valley originated | from the fact that not far from this | ant city were located certain oak trees | having a crescent, or half moon, cut | upon them with hatebets, Only one of | these trees is now standing, however, These marks were originally so deep that traces can still be seen of them. The significance of the marks was known to the Indians aloue, but it is evident some meaning was attached to them, for during the Revolutionary War every time a band of savages came into the valley one or more war rior warks were put upon the trees, Scattered here and there through- out this ant world are mounds that are entirely depopulated. All the en- trances are closed or are covered over with grass and seem to be marked with the same degree of undisturbed solitude that prevails in the deserted structures of some abandoned city that had been Inhabited by human beings, These mound bullders have never been known to encroach upon farmers and others living in thelr vicinity. Their little world Is lUmited to within a few feet of their mounds, where they are to be seen tolling day after day visited The Indians learned by by obser approach of wiriod active rain was that the In the mounds were sees be in is aver jm with characteristic diligence, They are slowly increasing In num- and each a few mounds are I added, Although the fot | fered with the Interests of mankind | this nit have inter “ in section, the have been doing ¥ | useful and valuable work for the soll tlie They have been enriching the soll by years thes baeeeny in have laboring it the alr of leaves “xXposing to action of sun, and rain; with the quantity with which they filling their store by vegetable unre r and the soll Xing and in Wilh houses i i with gnitn mintter They to a considerable depth. Bome of their i i have also perforated the ground subterranean galleries have been trac i feet still lower. down fifteen and found to go 5 OPPOSED TO Ral VALVES An Old Detective Tells How One of Them Figured in His Prisoner's Escape. » “I never had but one prisoner escap? an old railroad dete Was started Lake Fo as Ir requisition papers for Cousiinptive chap consider it nee ven put the handcuffs vist 1 conld Besides i care to cause him needless with him Kansas City. ail a womnn, apd I didn’t 1G © With Hin £ RSary oan have didn’t humiliation im Cid broken 11 I blow’ that the Le eon wad stays Like a f ie ra ae violently ie blew the furnace the little fell den face, i ¥ are end same instant | ns if a had sud mes right see, | racing raging ily belebed its 4 into my cond: nt athe: for a 1 ent couldn't or two 1 and Ere BOL #YeH ove My throat and 1 felt literally nos i5 Were on fire my bad been burned ies . Lot “ir stockets “What had ' happened was envel of and 1 had pe was full red received the charge a six-inch range, » seoundrel ran has a don’t Oricans Liability of Beekeepers. At Bi terday, Judge Gye de istingstoke County Cork, ves alt with 8 case Hability of bee keepers, dealer Mr ¥ Of oi sued the Longley, for the recovery of part the value of an ee which 1 defendant's bees old 3 giung to death mare ihe also 10 on account of from bee wt suffered of wmimaster'a pain plaintiff, of field garden, where ings by of the Hs for loss uN part a adjoining the plaintiffs laborers could not work owing to the bees. and for extra I: make a hayrick Pi wor through having to in another position It was suggested on the defendant's belialf that person's were at fault, but the plaintiff and established to the. fact the some other weg iis His Honor's that the defandant’s Judge giving judgment for the amount claimed, said that a bee keeper Kept bees at Lis own risk, witnesses satisfaction from Give, a CAme hives. in London Times, The Telegraphone. In the Revue Generale des Sciences, M. louis Olivier gives some further particulars of Poulsen's “telegra- phone,” which is attracting attention at the Paris Exhibition. He describes several devices for increasing the vol- ume of sound, or “intensifying” the record, to use the language of the photographer. The steel band with the consequent poles, which forms the original record, is made to pass be. tween the poles of an which transfers the record to another band. This may be done several times over, and the record taken simultane- ously from all the bands. In another arrangement the record is Intensified by passing it very rapidly through the second magnetic field, which, as we know, has the effect of tncreasing the Induced currents, and therefore also the intensity of the secondary record. Nature, India-rubber heels on shoes, decreas. ing the fatigue of marching will be adopted, it is said, by the Freach army.
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