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NEW YORK FffllOM
g Designs For Costumes That Have Be
come Popular in the Metropolis.
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Nuw York Citt (Special). "One
i always hearing of that amateur mil
linery genius who takes a few notes
through the shop windows, goes home,
investigates the family scrapbag and
1 CAtXINU GOWN OF Ht'MtEItnY CLOTH
AND BROWN VKLVBT.
produces therefrom a confection be
tide which a Pariaiau novelty seems
positively shabby. One bears of such
Wonders on all sides, but it has never
been my luck to see one of these
torapbag reincarnations that was not
Uamally home-made in every feature,"
laid Mary Dean, the fashion expert,
are from the very first showing of the
coraiog season's wash shirtwaists, the
first one being a particularly desir
able model. It has fourteen box
plaits on the front, a French back,
with Ave box-plaits down the ceutre,
aud the new Dewey collar.
The new V or fau-shaped tucking is
illustrated in the second one, the
front having two bias clusters of
twelve each, and the back has five
vertical tucks on each side of its
centre. The ehapingof these tucks is
very becoming, giving as it does
breadth across the shoulder, and a
taper to the waist.
The third waist shows the use of
embroidery combined with the tucks,
and, while it is more decorative,
many women prefer not to use it, as
they think it detracts from the dis
tinctiveness of the shirt waist, as be
ing a tailor-made garment and an ad
junct to a tailor-mnde suit. Conse
quently they prefer no trimming on a
wash shirt waist other than tucks or
machine stituhiug, depending for a
dressy separate waist on a regular
tight-fitting, trimmed-silk waist.
Notice the clustered effect of the
tucks on all the waists, aud .just on
either side of the centre back and
front, as opposed to the spaced tnok
ing all over the waist, back, front and
sleeves, so modish last season. Any
thing for a change! Foor femininity
evidently will hare to change those
last summer's tuoked all-over thirt
waists that were the pride of her
heart, but wbioh now, oh blighting
words! aro last summer's mode.
Valval J.ckeu Willi Cloth Gownt.
Many protty little velvet jaokets are
seen with cloth gowns. One pretty
girl has one in red to mntoh her clotn
skirt. This skirt is ono of the new
ones, with clusters of narrow kilt
plaits the space of a narrow gore
apart. From the waist down to the
knees these plaits are stitched on both
edges, giving thorn the nppearanoe of
horizontal bands of cloth, but below
THE 1900 8 II I R T WAIST. SOME SPECIMEN MODELS.
recently. "Now, however, with a
half-yard of velvet, a buckle and a
pretty ostrich plume it is a poor hand
that can't contrive as smart a little
revolutionary toque as need crown any
head.
"One I saw this afternoon deserves
telliug about, because the girl who
wore it wore also so sweet a little call
ing gown that I followed her for a
half-dozen blocks iu order to take in
every detail. The frock was a Boft
satin-surfaced cloth of deep rich mul
berry color that is bound sooner or
later to be as popular as fluette blue
ouoe was. Her skirt was slit open
from hem to some distance above the
knees in front to show an nnderdress
of beaver-brown velvet picked out in
buy jet-workod figures. Her shirt
waist opened '.a frout to show a flat
vest and collr.r of tho brown similarly
decorated, and I can assure you that
this study in mulberry brown and
black is quite the moat piquant thing
I've seen iu twe months. Her toque
bad a crown of mulberry velvet, a brim
of one roll of grebe, a dashing plume
fastened by some invisible agent di
rectly in the front of her orown and a
big bow of cream-colored antique vel
vet adjusted a little above the brim to
the left side. That hat, I'll wager,
was her milliner's supreme inspiration."
that they aro free aud give the flare to
the skirt. The velvet jacket has a
collar and broad lapels of chinchilla
extending to the waist, and th)
woather has not yet been cool eu3ug!i
for the girl to find it necessary Ij
close the front of the coat and ti ui.ld
the pretty fluffy white front ji tin
bodice Bue wears beneath it.
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W A1U 1UV W U & M..W1
Wheat Fanning-.
A Nebraska paper tolls of a man
who bought n farm there, unou which
there was a mortgage of $700. He did
not make much money the first year,
but be sowed eighty acres of wheat
the next year. It was a poor year for
wheat and the stand was so poor that
he thought he would not harvest it.
He returned to his old borne, and left
the farm and the mortgago to fight it
out as they pleased. The whoat
ripened, fell to the ground and seeded
it well. Thore was a fine crop, and as
some was kind enough to write about
it to him, he went back, hai vested it
and sold it for enough to pay tho
mortgago aud all his other debts. "If
at first you don't succeed, try, try
again."
Food For Monltlnff Hon,
Moat and ground bones are excel
lent for moulting hens aud so is milk.
If the hens are closely conGned, tho
best green food is finely oliopped
clover. A teaspoonful of sulphur for
ten heus may bo added to the grain
mixture on clear dry days, but it will
surely cause them to have rheumatism
and become lame if given on damp
days. For that reason one should be
cautions that the condition povdera
that may be need ooutain no sulphur
as they may be used at au unfavorable
time. If corn and whoat aro fed most
ly without rogard to the need of more
nitrogenous foods, at this time the
moulting period may bo necessarily
prolonged and the hen may be very
fat though not fully iu feather.
Hamming Uarilve KfTefla,
Pretty little bodice effects are soon
iu u good many gowns, soft broad
bands of silk drawn tightly around
the waist, with two poiuts in frout,
aud they are very pretty and a pleas
ant chungo from the narrow line of
stitched silk and velvet that has been
worn so much.
Improving llin FIHil.
The pasturing of a flock on a farm
is one of the most effective and im
portant ways of improving a field.
And in the general rotation of crops
it shonld be made a special part of it
to havo the land uudcr the sheep's
foet one year out of the number in the
rotation followed. Tho profit from
tho use of the land will be more than
can be made in any other way. The
land is improved; troublesome weeds
will bo got rid of and turned to good
use, and the couditiou of the field will
be better iu every way. It is to be re
gretted that farmers on this continent
do not realize the truth of this. It is
the sheep of Great Britain and Ire
land, of Oormauy and France, indeed,
of all European couutries, which have
made the average .yield of tho crops
twice as much as that of our fields.
lCCS For Markat
For most of us it pays belter to raise
eggs for market than to raise fowls or
broilers. In raising eggs one has a
long, steady market, but lor fowls and
spring chickens the aamo is not al
ways true. Besides, after we have
raised a chicken for eggs, and she has
douo the best she can in laying eggs,
we can kill her aud find a market at
some price for her. The question of
profits then is merely a relative matter
)f cost of feed and price for eggs. If
good prices cau bo obtained for tho
9ggs large profits are realized, but low
prices probably meau loss. Conse
quently we must figure out how to got
good prioes. One locatod a long dis
tance from a good market, where land
a cheap aud plenty, would find egg
raising as profitable as breeding fuuey
fowls or spring chickens. The eggs
that come from a groat distance are
generally marked seconds or cnlls,
nd they soil at suoh low prioes that
the producers cannot receive inuoh
for them. Only bakers and confec
tioners will buy these poor oggs, and
they are sold by the case, aud not
jven by the dozen.
Fattening Fovrlr..
Ten or at most fiftoeu days should
be sufficient timo for fatteuiug fowls.
Feed coi n meal seasoned with salt aud
milk in tho morning, at noon whole
corn, aud tho same at night. Give all
So fr-
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DIAGRAM OF A POULTRY TAHD.
I.aca ami Fur Combination.
Lace seems to be a novel fabrb to
combinu with fur.
A Popular Nualittfta Kflaai.
The shops are full of stunuing neg
ligee gowns at this season, and there
seems to be a perfect crazo for or
iginal effects in garments of this de
scription. One of the most striking effects
seen lately is herewith illustrated. It
is from tho Dry Goods Economist,
Tlia 1900 Shirt Walat.
Instead of giving up the shirt waist,
as fashion arbiters seemed determined
they should, women have decided tbofr
it la the moat useful article in their
wardrobes, and this season will cling
to it more determined than ever. The
differences in stale between the new
-ones for the season of 1900 and those I
of last year are principally matters of I
amall detail. Bayadere and bias ef
feots will be entirely outthis summer,
while vertical effects will be en regie.
Tnoks will again be the height of
vogue. Fan-shaped tnoss are, per
haps, the newest and must novel innovation.
For backs, however, the perfectly
plain Freuch baok fashionable last
aummer will obtain to a certain ex
' tent, while a back with a cluster of
tacks on either side, either parallel or
forming the fan-shape, will have wide
vogue, too, being newer.
In materials, percales, ginghams,
atadras and cheviot are favorites, and
will be more worn than ever. Stripes
will be largely in the ascendency iu
pattern designs. White lawu will be
la-aeh used for midsummer wear.
The sketches presented herewith
they will eat, but bu sure none is
left.
Cleau water, plenty of sharp gravel
aud somo charcoal should be kept
where they cm help themselves.
Fowls fatten much easier if confined
in yards thuu when allowed to range
at will. In the diagram, the sides are
of poultry netting aud the yard is con
nected with the poultry house, where
they may liud shelter from storms,
a a, food dishes; b b, water. The
divisions may bo removed, bnt are
convenient iu separating breeds.
animal. If we have scrub stock in
the fall of tho year that we conclude
will not fay to winter, it is ranch bet
ter to adopt this course of treatment
than to hurry them away at onoo to
tho butchers, being forced then to
accept almost any price that is of
fered. Dralrahl Farina For Orchar.t Cntlnrn,
In the vicinity of most of our large
towns and cities are many desirable
farms that may be purchased for littlo
more than the buildings cost, and
which aro admirably adapted to orch
ard culture. Tho man who possessed
the wisdom requisite to carry out the
details in successfully embarking in
frnit-growing, will at once determine
the character of soil desirable to sno
ceed with the apple. Ho will not buy
a river bottom of alluvial deposit, well
knowing that such a soil is not the
natural home of the apple tree. Not
can such farms bo bought as cheaply
as the rougher and broken fields ol
the bills and uplands; and hero it ii
that the apple tree delights to spread
itself. But here in a soil abounding
in iron aud ferruginous materials an
indicated by the appearance of the
rocks, tho npplo tree thrives and bears
without much cultivation, as is wit
nesscd in scores of orchards in every
natural applo-growiug region, that the
soil has never been turned by the plow
on account of the rough and stony
character of the soil.
Such orchards, it is well known,
with scarcely any attention, produce
abundant crops of tho finest and best
keeping fruit. The one drawback on
such soils is the length of time it
takes to get an orohurd into bearing
conditiou in such locations. Of course,
the trees at first are of slower growth,
and if procured from the highly culti
vated nursery stock it will take a
couple of years for them to overcome
the shock incident to being trans
ferred from a rich soil and the in
fluences of stimulative culture to this
virgin soil, though loss rich in im
mediately available plant food in large
rations. But such orchards, begun
with good stock, will bo long-lived
and constant bearers. Farm, Field
aud Fireside.
When Laying- Tlla Dralni.
Tho cut shows a way to keep the
tiles in a drain perfectly even on tho
bottom. This keeps earth in sus
pension in the water from settling in
the irregularities of the tiles. Take a
narrow strip of board and nail two
strips along the sidos, so the tiles
will just fit in between them. Suc
cessive strips of board treated in this
way will give a row cf tiles that lis
perfeotly even from oue end to tho
other. This conditiou is one of tho
necessities in successful tile-laying,
for any uuevonuess iu successive
lengths of tile is qnito sure to oauso
a deposit of sediment, aud a eonse-
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DEVICB FOR SU(!CBSSKCIi TILB-LA YIN(1.
A GORILLA'S COURTSHIP.
BATTUE BETWEEN CIANT APES IN
AN AFRICAN FOREST.
PAINTY NEOLIOBB.
and is negligee of pink raonssellce
de soio, with bolero of laoe mounted
on satin. The bow is of pink satin.
Keeping Clontl Stuck.
The practice of reducing t It j stock
every year, "weeding ' out the poor
animals, as it is called, has two sides
to it, which may be worth "considering.
Poor stock sold in the fall of the your
simply to save the expense of feeding
Ihem through the winter, when cost
of food is high, invariably prove a loss
to the owners. PrioeB are usually low
for such stock at any time, and espec
ially in the fall. Everybody else is
weeding out, too, and the only mar
ket for them is the butchers. It
would be much more to the purpose
to recommend early in the full or late
iu the summer to weed out the poor
animals that it will not pav to winter,
and make extra exertions to feed
them up to a standard whioh will
make them sell for a deceut prioe.
There is hardly an animal, no mat
ter how poor and iuferior, whioh can
not be bred up and fattened with ju
dicious care so that it will sell for a
fair prioe. The lean, cadaverous sidos,
the scrawny hair and the half-starved
appearance of the animal can all be
changed for the better. Shut the animals-up
iu some clean, healthy pens,
where they cannot exercise much,
feed them systematically ou fattening
food, water them as they need it, and
even curry down their rough coots oc
casionally. This trautmeut followed up careful
ly for a month or six weeks will add a
good many dollars to the value of the
quent clogging of the drain. Where
so much expense is undergone in open
ing a trench for the laying of tile, to
say nothing of the expeuse of the tile
itself, it seems a great pity to have a
small mistake made in laying tho tile
which may soon destroy its useful
ness altogether. Thousands aud
thousands of rods of drain tilo are
laid every year, the cost of which is
almost wholly lost through so small a
fuctor as the irregular layiug of the
sections one section not having the
saino slopo as its next neighbor, thus
cuuHing a halting in tho flow of water,
which is aura to cause, in its turn, a
deposit of earthy particles that are
held iu suspeusiou by the water.
Though such a deposit may scarcely
be appreciable at iirBt, it amounts to
a great deal in the course of a year,
and the pipe is all too soon out of
order aud must bo taken up. New
York Tribune.
Problema of Noll KxlianMIon.
"According to the report of Secre
tary Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture," says the St. Louis lie
public, "certain divisions of that De
partment are devoting most of their
time to the study of tho exhaustiou
of soils by successive crops and the
restoration of the soil to its former
eflioieuoy.
"The problem in the great West
has not yet risen to the importance it
has attaiued iu tho Atlantic seaboard
States, where farms have been yield
ing for several centuries. Even in tho
East it has not reached the impor
tance it possesses iu European coun
tries -France, Germany and the Neth
erlands.
"The problem is not so easy, how
over, as it appears at first sight. The
samo constituent elements, such as
carbon, uitrogeu, hydrogeu, oxygen,
irou, lime, phosphorous, even taken
in identically the same proportions,
may make as different substances as
com and sawdust or charcoal and dia
mond. Then, too, the absorption of
the fertilizer by the soil aud its con
version by the soil into forms iu which
plauts cau assimilate it furnishes an
other complication in tue problem, so
that, altogether, it is as complex a
any iu applied chemistry.
"The suientitio study of the ele
ments which each crop abstracts from
a soil aud the means by which those
elements can bo restored to the soil is
a modern development of agrioulture.
This development has not mude the
progress which the apparently simple
nature of the problems iuvolved would
lead oue to expect. It seems au easy
matter to analyze chemically the pro
ducts corn, rye. oats, barley, cotton,
tobaaoo taken frcm the soil and to
ascertain definitely the exact elements
they have carried off. It seems an
easy a uiatt-ir to replace these constit
uents by luoaus of fertilizers , of
known composition.
"At present the problem is not
prehsini: upou tho United States as
forcibly as the problem of supplying
water to the arid plains, which only
require suoh additiou to become first
class farm laud.
"The time will come, however,
when the problem will be the gravest
with which tho Agricultural Depart
ment will have to deal, and tho work
done iu that field now will get its re
ward then."
Tli Flares Foaa War Flchtlnc For a
Mnta anil the Moielaa nf tha Yonngar
1'rovad Too Much For tha Exparlanc
nl tha Older.
"After tho Civil War," said Cap
tain Jack Benton to a Now York Sun
nan, "I drifted back into civil life.
Jt seemed monotonous, however, after
tho excitement of campaigning, aud,
receiving an offer to go to Africa and
collect animals for menageries, I
jumped at it. My work took tue into
the interior of upper Guinea, which
was then about as wild a country as
thero was in the world.
"One morning I left camp to make
a oircnit of some traps we had set in
the night, and, as I wasn't on the
lookout for big game, I took only a
light rifle with me. Trudging through
the woods, I came ou a littlo olearing,
and there, not fifty feet away, I saw
a big male gorilla. He was on all
fours, half-squatting on the ground.
"Equipped with only a light rifle, I
had no ambition to meddle with the
beast. I slipped back into the under
brush, and was about to make off as
quietly as possible when the peculiar
ity of the gorilla's notions attracted
me. Ho seemed to be trying to look
as amiable as was possible for sueh
a monster, and a second glauoo
showed me the reason for this. At
the right of the clearing was a second
gorilla, smaller, but equally ferocious
looking, a fitting mate for the firstbig
brnte. I had evidently discovered a
gorilla courtship.
"The male gorilla, trying to attract
tho attention of thefemalo by nnoonth
motions, wan beginning to advance
clumsily toward her, when suddenly
a dull boom! booml sonnded from fur
away iu the forest. Up to that in
stant the male gorilla, while savage
looking, had given no sigu of being
augry, but now all was changed. His
huge jaws shut together with a suap.
Then through the silence which had
fallen ou the jungle when the first
sullen challenge was heard camo a
sharp bark, followed by a deep hum
ming sound. It was the torriblo bat
tle call of a full-grown gorilla, tho cry
seat out wheu he is about to fight to
the death for a mate. At the eud of
each echoing challenge the hairy
giant boat with his big hands on his
chest, while at the other end of tho
clearing, waiting to beBtow her hand
on the victor, sat the female gorilla
wboso charms had inspired suoh jeal
ous rage.
"Suddenly there was a little flurry
at the left eud of the olearing, aud the
challenger broke through the bushes
into plain sight. Ho was worthy to
do battle with the firstgiant. I could
see he was a veteran, with the scars
of many battles on him. His big lips
were rolled np in a grim snarl, show
ing broken teeth And great gaps, the
result of former battles.
"Neither of the big animals wasted
time in preliminaries; they bad worked
themselves np into such au insanity
of rage that only killing would satisfy.
Each advanced ou his hind legs nntil
within six feet of the other. Then the
younger gorilla began to fight. Stop
ping forward with marvellous quick
ness for such an nngainly animal, he
struck a flail-like blow with his hugo
paws. Had the blow gone home, no
mere flesh and blood, not even the
big-boned frame of his antagonist,
could have withstood it. But the old
gorilla had been iu too many death
grapples to be caught so early in the
fight. Eveu as tho big arm swung
around ne sprang forward, coming iu
close so as to miss the full force of the
swing. Tho next iustant he had
swung his own arm around the younger
gorilla's neck, enciroliug it with four
feet of stoel muscles aud holdiug his
enemy's head stiff upright, so that he
could not bring the terrible teeth iuto
play.. Theu the old gorilla opened his
heavy jaws, aud getting a firm grip on
tho right shoulder of the younger go
rilla, hold on like a bulldog, tearing
his way through the knottod muscle
and sinews aud shoulder blado of his
opponent. At the same time the left
arm of the old fighter wrapped itself
about the youuger gorilla in a rib
breaking grip.
"It was only for an iostaut, how
ever, that things looked so desperate
for the younger fighter. - The first go
rilla's splendid fighting ability aud
tremendous strength showed them
selves. Whirling np his loft arm he
fastened his long fingers about bis an
(agonist's throat and tried to break
his grip and shove his head back. At
first the ouly effect of this was to
make the old fellow tighten his grip
on tue other's shoulder. Theu the
younger gorilla put forth all his
strength. I could see the muscles of
his arm, shoulders and back gather
themsolves into big knots aud bunoh
up as if they would break through the
skin. Tno murderous deep-sot eyes
started forward, until they were level
with tue oueekbones. A last desper
ate effort and tho big head went baok.
tho tightly closed jaws of the old go
rilla tearing tue nosh and sinews as
they were shoved away, bnt not an
gripped. Thon the old fighter's right
arm slowly aud reluctantly uncoiled
from the other's neck. The younger
ion II nad broken the death arm,
Both big fighters were momentarily
tree ana stepped back to regaiu
lireatu.
"Although wounded, it was tho
youuger gorilla that made the attaok
This time he did not waste any efforts
ou blows with his huge paws. When
they had approached almost within
striking distauoe the younger of the
fighters made a rush. He received a
blow on the head that would have
crushed a man's shall. It saaroely
atuggered him. Thon both his long
anna wrapped themsolves about his
opponent's neck and holding his au
tagouist tightly clasped, bu began bit
ing with fieroe energy, not a steady,
grippiug bite, but furious, tearing
gnastiings, wuiau ripped skin and
flesh from face aud shoulders and
onest.
"The older gorilla was taken by
surprise at tuis sudden rush aud
chauge of tactics by his opponent.
But though at a disadvantage, he was
too old lighter to be easily dismayed
First he secured a grip on his oppo
neui's inroai, aud strainiepr every
musalo tried to tear himself free from
the lufuriated grasp of the younger
beast. He might as easily b';va
broken a steel cable as the strangling
held of his enraged opponent. Thea
the older fighter relaxed his grip on
tun other's throat, aud plaoing both
his big hnman-like paws ou the
yonnger's face tried to foros his head
back.
"This brought out a terrific trial oi
strength. K tho old., gorilla could
force the other's head baok, he would
be frso and might perhaps break his
enemy's neck. Each of the hug
fighters seemed to know this and put
orth all of his giant strength. Back,
shoulders, arms and neck were called
into play, the heavy musoles rippling
up and gathering into big knots. The
snarling growls, whioh had marked
tha beginning of tho fight, htd died
away. Each animal was silent. A
stillness seemed to have fallen on the
whole jungle, and the crackling of tlx
twigs and dry leaves Boomed nnnatur
ally loud as the two gigautio fighter
oamn to the supreme struggle.
For what was probably half a
minute, but scorned nn hour, the two
semi-humau shapes stood thero put'
ting forth every energy. At last the
younger fighter's faoe was within two
inches of his oppomout's head. The
younger gorilla made a supreme offort,
twisted his head suddenly and before
his opponent could dodge had fast
ened his teeth iu a death grip on the1
throat of tho veteran fighter.
"Up to this tune tho battle had
boen fought in silence, but as the old
gorilla gave np tho ooatest and felt
the teeth of his antagonist sinking
deeper and deeper iuto his throat,
the pain was greater thsu hn could
bear. He broke into a wailing cry
that echoed through the jungle. I
have heard tho death cry of many
animals, but never a call like that of
tho dying gorilla. Tho half human
wail broke out again, but while I was
standing irresolute it ooased. Tho
fiorce, hard fighting, hard-biting
younger gorilla had beeu working hi
way through his antagonist s throat
and had at last bitteu through the
wind pipe. The great fight was over,
aud the votoran of many similar con
tests had met the fato he had meted
out to others.
"I wAtohed the younger ape, as if
fascinated, while ho wreaked his re
venge ou the body of his dead onemy.
Then with a start it oconrred to me
that I would suffer a similar fate if I
stayed in that vicinity. But I had no
real cause for anxiety. The gorilla
had other matters to think of. The
last glimpse I had of the conqueror
was a, with the glare of battle still in
his eyes and covered from head to
foot with his own blood and that of
his enemy, ho marchod off iu triumph
toward her for whom he had fought
so desperately and so well.
CURIOUS FACTS.
The Gaioowar of Baroda has a SI,-
000,000 necklace.
The first steamboat plied the Hud
son ltiver in 1807.
At Japan's Atlantic City (Ikaol
everybody goes naked.
Amoug the relics of cliff dwellers in
Colorado is one building that sheltered
probably six thousand people.
Members of the British Parliament
are required to raise their hats wheu
alluded to in the speeches of fellow
members.
Tho smallest size soissors have
blades n little less than one inch in
length; the largest hand shears ex-
oeed two feet.
The Icelanders will not burn ash
for firewood, because they believe
that those who sit about fire will be
come enemies.
High heels, it is said, owe their
origin to Persia, where they were in
troduced to raise the feet from the
burning sands of that country.
In 1702 the first row of houses was
built in Boston. They remained un
tenanted for months bocanso the citi
zens said they reminded theiu too
strongly of London.
Melbourne, Australia, recently ex
perienced the first fall of snow in its
history. It came late in the Austra
lian winter and was heavy enough for
the children to make snowballs.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo
tubes was utilized in China years ago,
and one of their writers mentions
boxes which repeated the sounds of
persons voices that were dead a
machine similar to tho phonograph.
A Natal man has attracted some at
tention by his discovery that the
dreaded looust can be got rid of by
smearing a few of the iuseots with an
infectious preparation and liberating
them to comraunioate their fatal mes
sage to tho swarm.
Coal was first used at Newcastle-
on-Tyne about 1230. About fifty
years luter it became au artiole of
trade between that plaoe aud London.
It was generally considered so in
jurious to health that it was regarded
as a public nuisance.
Buenos Ayros seoms to have the
largest "rooking-stone" yet discov
ered. It is situated on the slope of
the niouutain of Toudil, in the south
ern part of tho proviuce, and meas
ures ninety feet long by eighteon feet
broad, and is twenty-four feet high.
Its bulk is 5000 cubic feet, aud '
weights at least twenty-five tous.
Wliaa I'at Cornerait Nanaen.
Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer,
came across an Irishman on oue oo
oasiou who declared that he hud
traveled farther north than anybody.
"What neuBense!" exclaimed the
doctor, getting angry. "Why, sir,
do you, know I calculate to have trav
eled as fur as any humau being can
possibly get."
But Btill the Irishman persisted,
and went ou to say:
"Now, listen to this. How do you
know that ye've traveled as far as any
humau being oun get?"
"Because," replied the doctor, "I
camo to a huge wall of ice that no one
could get around.."
"Whut did ye do theu?"
"Well, I conversed with my staff of
men on the subject,
"Ah, yes, begorra," explained Pat.
"Oi heard ye. Oi was ob th' other
soide o' the wall 1"
And he walked away in triumph,
Spare Moments.
A Very lltautllul 1'aarl.
The most beautiful pearl iu exist
ence is iu the orown of one of the former
Czars of Russia and is ou exhibition
in the Kremlin at Moscow. It is i
perfect sphere, aud so pure as to ap
pear almost transparent. It weighs
ninety grains.
v ii! g
io, than come to )ff'
nl a redettptio;! (.
troyed money, f -a
itate before tbut
... . "
3UEER ACCIDENTS TO Ba-
L'aad as OaallKhtara, 'Iiwm;-
and Dolled Willi Cat
"While it cannot be nj
is an American habit to j tVi
snd gas with mouoy," W'ju j
.'ifficial of the redemption iJn 4
Ihe Treasury Department tL,
ingtou Star reporter, "tuf '
number who appear net iift,fr" '
money to bnrn, and hof"n
then burn it. There are
burners, too, than come
and demam
partly destroye
peoplo hesitate
ins to nimear in such nn
position. I don't want to 1
stood as stating that it of Kor
day, for that would probaWj ii V
ing it somewhat, but it is ipi
it occurs many niorotimovi 1
be supposed. A case 0! i Pf
came to the division last x4
a fellow lighted n match S
of bis room and from tl: Btl!
what he supposed rat ijT1'0
paper which ho had in If'"'
Ho started with the lighte 0";
find the gas jet. He fiun, . 4l
he blew ont his lighted mr-
1 i 1.:. :..
that bis tapor was a tec
more than onc-hslf of wlu .
burned. Iu his conmi'r, f.
tho Secretary of the T:?L
whom ho was advised to t o
mittnd that be was a fool at.
n kick instead of anything
said us Riass was rather .fcrrr
him he would have lo nim.,!
domplion. Ho furnislinl j0y
nary affidavits which uni ac
havo to bo hied in such
new bill was sent him ft-cn ,
burned note which ho son: fj
domption. Lots of times 0mk
money, but make no chat.
dcmptiou, supposing thnl the
no redress in the matte: fpp
Treasury Department. ilie at
rulo hunt up trouble, oD't
claim is made none is sug.'-tjeva
"I hud a case somewhat a0n;!
lino recently, aud there ar-iy Q
similar occurrences, as wi-ej i
dollar dog puppy ate np ts fl f0
a five-dollar note. 'The jthc:
a playful disposition,' wroi of
who owned it, 'and. tkJov
him playing with the note, ft wi
recognize it as mouey. V) it ti
play any more iu my lt, b
Later on, when tho j"ip: 'tee.
playing with it, tho owner gf a
that the dog had been aitis so
self with a note which had ST"
fallen on the floor. TUci T'
tho case wore very amusiu.f
man got his remnant o! ijiia I
deemed at its fnll value. ! '
and gas lighting people at ! WTO
odds in tho majority. Oij'D.
ber of such cases tho petfi
women sufferers is so smal us
Almost be said they don't !frl (
by usiug it as lighters. Ilhd
woman who boiled almost k
istenoe several bills whie.iWM
means got in the folds of
of a head of cabbage,
dropped into her basket c
back from tho market.
were protty well wrccke'
cabbago was being cut
were discovered,
enough loft ou wh
domption."
nasi. 4
vrccke'L-
;ut or I
bnt 'S
lick tufTr
tae m
befit
Signaling- Willi Ilia 11 "If,
Tho heliograph which lu'
so much by (loncrals WIA
at Ladysuiith, is tho trit.j
visual signaling, for it pi
four cardinal military v it;
!.:: .......... m..1.
is an instrument for direfj".
fleeted rays of tho sun oc
distant station by menus'
mirror, but mav be ilescr. f
ourately, though more gri
a shaving-glass mounted jDr
tripod. By the aid of an10'
the mirror is placed in ""'t11"
that the eun is reflected tj
tant station. Whon thintF11 '
nals cau be made by depr'j
lilted to the back of uVfy
that the light can bo finli rr .
required point in tho (loiF"1
method. f n(S :
The "helio" is extreme0-
weighing with its stand P
ous virtue of secrecy, bef-
pie standing even at a 1
tance from the point u"H
rays aro directed its nig".
invisible, uut tuis iaci'-i
needful it is to have the" v
full ou tho distant sUtik4 ,
insure this the helio Last hi . c
sun as he travels tiiroi
Two screws, one giviuij
movement aud the other'
movement to the mirroiJ
centre, effect this, and U"
be manipulated by the J
in the act of sending " j
terruption to the uiofl
Cordovan I.athV
At the court of Elixl.
topped Spanish boot 1'-f'
to our eyes, theatrical lJJ;
lar among the rival court' ' f
deavoring to outvie tho iu.
queen's eyes. The w',!t--,'
and admired of all word .
Cordova leather, edeJt
l('ft. and bavin ir aold ':7
times buff nud red hum
rarely the now provaiuo'1
was the material. HW
seem to havo gone out in;
ing the Stuart era, so f'j
classes went. Your rj
alwini nllw).nil in n MO'P
stautiul shoe when ut !
dom drew ou boots Te
journey a terrible esp'
ever short the distou"
iniddlo of the last cent
Charles II. 's day Owl''!
Dr. Thomas Snrut fronH
to Loudon as CbcrtHC.T,
might very convenient1)
"the way of Hnnipto"
there oue night." 'I'1"
Magazine.
Old Uarinan VM
The old German l";1
strange way of keep1"'
olothes she gavo out tos
was nothing less thsu
.,,wl.,l ....,!. list i
i,D,i,t,"ll " .
possibility .of making
had a picture of each :
ply wrote down the u'1
thing opposite its pic'
of chulk whioh was ''
thing was returned n""
the following week,
wash lists are prettT '