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A QUESTICN OF TASTE.
Up a certain crooked city street, throu: gh
which T often pass,
There's a narrow little
tiny panes of glass
Where it seems to me Zhe moments must
in sweetness slip aw
For a little candy- Dene
there every day.
He wears a can and apron which are pie-
: turesquely French;
There are snowy flour
all about his bench ;
In fact, I almost fancy,
. spick- and-span,
That
window, set with
stands at work
and sugar scatter ed
seeing things so
this little ‘candy-maker is a little
candy-man
But pow queer a candy man can be I never
really knew
Till 1 happened to be passing when the mid-
ay whistle blew,
And thought to ston and stare a bit could
hardly be a crim
Just to see the kind of candy he would eat
at luncheon-time.
Then “the sight was so surprising that my
yificn seemed to fail,
For fram underneath his sugared bench he
drew a dinner-pail,
‘Aas if he didn’t care at ail for any sort
or sweet
This faginy candy- -maker fell to eating bread
and meat !
And,
Now don't vou think that such a taste was
something very strange?
Considir what a diet he could
On ofa Nings like taffy-balls, for instance,
he. could dine:
easily ar-
For fincheon, candied violets—so delicate
and fine! !
And op leaving in the evening, when the
honeyed day had fied,
He could take 2 box of creams to eat be-
fore he went to bed!
I wonder. now, what vou and I NOS like
if, we were nc
And molded candies
sigared bench?
all the day behind a
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When I was quite a young man
counted among my close friends a pri-
vate detective. The two of us were |
enjoying a quiet smoke and
re
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his cosy little office one day n the
door opened and his boy us 1 in|
a lady client. She was apparently |
under twenty and was q o |}
ably attired. Her form was |
slender, and her face exce {
tractive; but it bore tra
sudden and overwhelming affliction,
for her eyes were red with weeping
“Mr. Banks, the detective, 1 pre-
sume?” she queried, turning, a
quick glance at me, toward my more |
mature companion. !
“At your service, madam. Pray be |
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Seated.”
“I am in sore trouble, sir,” she said,
in tremulous tones, applying her hand-
kerchief to her eyes. “Death has sud-
denly robbed me of a father, and the
prison, if nothing worse, threatens to
take a dear cousin from me.”
“That is very sad,” my friend said.
sympathetically. “But compose your-
self, my dear lady; we may yet avert
the latter half of your trouble.”
“Oh, sir! Heaven grant that you
may, for my cousin, whom they sus-
pect of the murder of my poor father,
was to be my husband,” she said, the
seriousness of the case quite overcom-
ing her natural modesty. “But he is
innocent; I know it, 1 feel it, in spite
of the evidence against him. Oh, be-
lieve me, sir, Harry is as innocent of
this dreadful deed as I am!”
“My dear yoyng lady,” said Banks,
encouragingly, ‘before hearing the
first detail of your case, I am con-
vinced that he is. My beitef in fem-
inine intuition is based upon the solid
foundation ‘of experience. Beecalm,
therefore, and let me have the story
from the beginning.”
The circumstances she related
as follows
Her father, Thomas Kempton, was
the proprietor of a large furniture fac-
tory. He was a man who paid strict
attention to business. and was in the
habit of remaining in his office after
the factory had closed for the night
and the men had departed, in order to
finish up his large correspondence.
One of the clerks in his employ was
a nephew, a fine young fellow, strong
‘of body and generous of heart, but not
free from the folies of youth. Harry
Stanton was a graduate at college and
a thorough athlete, and, being yet
scarce twenty, he had not outgrown
his youthful enthusiasm for sports,
Clubs and semi-incidental late suppers
With the boys. :
Now the old are not always so tol-
erant of the ways of the young as
recollection should make them, and so
it happened that the frequent trans-
gressions of the uncle’s office rules by
the nephew caused between the two
considerable friction. On the evening
of the tragedy there had been quite
a serious quarrel, and the young fel-
low had left the presence. of his em-
ployer in hot-headed haste and with
angry words.
One hour later, and half an hour
after the factory was closed, Mr.
Kempton was found dead in his pri-
vate office. He was seated in his
chair, his head falling forward on his
desk before him. A clasp-knife had
been used to accomplish the deed, and
this lay on the floor in a pool of
blood at the murder man’s feet. On
being cleansed and examined the fatal
weapon was instantly recognized by
the clerks as young Stanton’s.
The safe had been rifled of its valu-
able contents, and there was evidence
that the assassin, in making his exit
through the general office, had stopped
io open Stanton’s desk and remove
such things as the young fellow, in
making a permanent departure, would
be likely to take.
So much in substance had by inter-
rogaiory promptings been drawn from
the girl, when Banks said:
“And now tell me what steps have
been taken.”
“Poor papa's head clerk has em-
ployed a detective—a Mr. Gregg—who,
after looking into the case, started off
in pursuit of my cousin, whom he be-
lieves to be the assassin.”
“Um!” came from Blanks, as he
gazed into the fire. “Then young
Stanton has dis appeared?”
“Yes, tis all a strange combination
of circumstances, but I trust, sir, you
still believe him innocent.”
“My dear young lady, a professional
opinion based on the merits "of the
case would be rather premature. . For
the present you must draw what com-
fort you may from my faith in your
§ntuitions. If you desire it,’ I shall
proceed at once to the factory in or-
der to secure some further data.”
«Has this desk of Stanton’s been
wer:
1] touc
jcrers. : erective
| thumb marks
hed?” 1 inquired presently, pull-,
ing out the upper drawer.
‘Fhe contents have not been m
responded the head
Gregg simply noted
articles and the bloody
1ate-
the missi
finger ma: on the paper where it
had been lifted to get at some oid
letters Stanton used to leave lying
round the bottom. The whole matter
e¢med so clear to him that he was
re scarcely ten minutes before he
started off in hot pursuit.”
“Um!” said Banks in his peculiar
way, and then he proceeded to go
through the contents of the drawer.
Being slightly acquainted with one of
the clerks, I stepped up to him for a
moment's conversation. When I re-
turned to my friend's side he was
pocketing a sheet of paper which he
mining with his micro-
had been exa
scope. A quick glance at his face
#howed me that he had hit upon a
promising clue.
“I think we have seen sufficient,’
he said immediately, and in a few
minutes we were on our way back to
town
“Found something, Banks?”
“A mere trifle,” he responded, “but
mum’s the word, my boy, even for
you. A little spice of mystery, you
know, will sharpen your interest.”
It was about 4 o'clock in. the after-
noon when we again entered the fac-
tory office, Banks carrying a package
about fifteen inches square.
“You will oblige me by gathering
all the employes of the factory to-
gether in this office, Mr. Williams,”
said Banks, addressing the head clerk.
“Let the outer doors be locked, and
when the men are all in here see that
the office door is securely fastened
also. 1 wish to try a very interesting
little experiment.”
“I observe that you use a type-
writer,” he went on, after Mr. Will-
iams had given orders to have the
men called. “Will you kindly remove
the ribbon or if you have an unused
one, better still.”
This being brought Banks procezded
to untie his package. Removing the
outer wrapper, he laid bare a- plain
cardboard box, the cover of which he
was on the point of lifting, when he
looked up to see the eyes of all pres-
ent gazing upon it with eager ¢uri-
osity. ; .
In five minutes the men—looking
somewhat mystifiedl—were all assem-
bled, and everything ready for the
next step. on
“Now, men,” he said, addressing the
gathering, ‘“‘as little more can be done
in ‘the matter cf the murder until we
hear from Detective Gregg, Mr. Will-
iams here has kindly consented to al-
low me this favorable opportunity to
put: to the test a little theory which
it is said that in China all holders of
public offices, and especially soldiers,
ars. known by their thumbmarks. The
arrangement of the grooves and fur-
rows on the s..n, it ‘is claimed, is
alike in no two individuals. As each
man's name is called he will please
step forward, press his left thumb
upon the typewriter ribbon, and then
make an impression upon this strip
of prepared glass.”
Banks eyed each man keenly as he
came up in answer to his name and
did as requested.
“Now,” said Banks, lifting the mys-
terious package, “I have here a small
magic lantern through which I pro-
rose to put the slide bearing the im-
pressions. It is now dark enough, I
fancy ,and—yes— the back of that
large calendar yonder will serve ex-
cellently as a white surface Oblige
me, Mr. Williams, by turning its face
to the wall. Thank you.”
While. pseaking my friend had
busied himself in preparing the lan-
tern, so that matters moved absorbing-
ly and without delay.
“To make the test a little more in-
teresting,” he continued, “I will
show you the thumb-mark of a gen-
tleman whom ‘I have a great ‘desire to
meet... We. will elu, the’ cthérs
with this one.’ we
On the disc of light thioW mn up 60’ ‘the
wall appeared a peculiar arrangement
of limes, jagged, runing and ending
in the same place. es $a
Presently Banks’ Shiela the
slide ‘in and stopped at number
For a few seconds he allowed
long
one.
it to
show out beside the first. It exhibited
a conformation entirely different. He
then superimposed them, and placed
the .figure on the moving slide direct-
ly over that on the stationary one.
The result was a confused net work of
interwoven lines.
Quickly he hurried through the list,
treating each in the same manner and
allewing the di to speak
for themselves one of the
cely over the
w
first built four of the great bridges on the
| alarmed?”
stationary one that not a single vari
ation could be observed; there was no
crossing of the lines, ahd no blur. I
noticed a commotion in the back part
of the room. Then came a yell from
Banks. ©
“Seize him—John Trasker—the mur-
“derer! Don’t let hi mescape, men!”
Before a hand. could be raised to
stay him John Trasker had plunged
headforemost through the window and
down the street.
Ere the doors could be opened and
a hue and cry raised he had secured
a leng start. = As it was only dusk
outside, and there were few -houses
near the factory, he was still in.view,
however, and the men tore after him
with cries of “Stope the murderer!
Stop him!” :
Presently a clatter of hoofs® was
heard and a horse and rider dashed
past, them ang gained rapidly upon
the fiying fugitive. Seeing he would
be shortly overtaken if he kept the
road, Trasker climbed a stone wall
and dashed across a meadow.
With a leap the rider cieared the
saddle; with a single bound he went
over the wall, and almost before the
other pursuers realized what was hap-
pening John Trasker was struggling
to his pinioned arms from the
iron asp of his muscular captor.
“Why, if it isn’t Stanton!” cried
Mr. Williams in surprise as he and
the others came up.
Arriving at’ the factory, Trasker
broke down and made a most abject
confession. He had planned to remain
behind that evening to rifle the open
safe. Overhegring the quarrel between
uncle and nephew, he saw how it
might be used to his advantage. On
this way through the general office he
looked through Stanton’s desk and se-
cured his knife. Returning after the
deed, to complete the evidence against
the young fellow, he had left the
incriminating thumb mark. As- for
Stanton, his story was very simple.
He had returned to the premis last
evening with a view, of apologizing
to his uncle, but, pride overcoming
his good intention,
without entering. Shortly afterward,
meeting a friend who lived some
twenty miles from town, he had been
tempted with the prospect of a day's
he had gone away
shooting to accompany him: home.
Three o’clock that afternoon, and just
after they ‘had got back from the
woods, the first information of what
had occurred reached him, and, bor-
rowing his friend's mare, he started
for the factory, with what result has
already been made known. .
Banks received a check and abun-
dant thanks from his charming young
client, and some fifteen months later
an invitation to the wedding.—New
York News.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Near Pontefract, France, lives a
banker who has a museum of old doors
They are from old houses, castles or
abbeys, that have some ‘historic inter-
est.
South Africa is to enter the paper-
making world, it having been found
that a kind of grass which grows there
makes an- excellent grade of paper.
British manufacturers are already put-
ting up mills there.
The South American negroes have
a queer way cf decorating the graves
of their dead friends. It is the custom
dcwn there to make a border around
the grave of the medicine bottles used
during the dead one’s last illness.
A blind man named Green made a
curious defence at Birmingham, Eng-
land, to a charge of smashing a plate-
glass window worth £15. He had been
blind, he said, for seven years. On the
night in question, he cried for assict
ance to cross the road, but no one
came. Then he heard some one at a
distance and struck at what used,
when he could see, to he boards sur-
rounding waste ground. He was as-
tounded when he heard the sound of
broken glass. The jury acquitted him
and he was discharged.
Three of the five women on the Rev-
olutionary war pension roll are New
Englanders. They are Hannah Newell
Barrett of Boston, Mass., aged 3103,
pensioned by special act as the daugh-
ter of Noah Harrod, who served two
years as private with the Massachu-
setts line; Esther S. Damon of Ply-
mouth, Vt. eighty-nine, pensioned as
the widow of Noah Damon, who served
in the Massachusetts line from April,
1775, to May, 1780; and Rhoda Augusta
Thompson of Woodbury, Ct, aged
eighty-two, pensioned by special act
as the daughter cf Thaddeus Thomp-
son, who served six years as private
in Col. John Lam's New York regi-
ment.
An engineer named Knorr, a German
who has become a naturalized Russian,
Trans-Siberian Railway including the
big Yenisei and Obi Lridges, which
cost, respectively, $2,350,600 and. $2,-
000,000. They were great ergipeering
feats, and brought him international
feme in his profession. But he was
pursued by al!curious fatality. A writ-
er in-“T. A: T.” says: He had five
daughters, who were famous in Russia
for their. beauty, and whom he loved
deurly. Just after his first bridge was
completed one of them died; and as
each of his three succeeding bridges
was built, another died. He would not
build. a fifth bridge. : = -
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In Chicago.
“Why do those men look so muc!
“They have just read in their morn-
ing papers that the woman who had
five husbands is free again.—Cleveland
was flying. with terror at his heels,
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By I K. Funk. -
them to a, cheaper r
self-denial.
Senator Frye, Th Wanamaker, Booker T. Washington, Senator Tillman and
Before submitting the pe
other nromiment Americans.
advanc e, but it does not go far enough.
Is it not wholly reascnable to ask
tate an increase in insurance rates for
ematical and log
to help foot his liquor bi
Rufus Choate once s
11.
aid that justi
well-nigh kicks the beam. It is
counted on to do the right thir
bread depends on their populari
and right doing are on the same side.
things will make more money for
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practically extinct.
126,778 to 119,050, a
1903,
San Francisco for th
and returning volunt
sand Chinamen. The Chinese ccnsul-g
women, and children,
crease is seen in other places.
Alaska, so that, at the beg
the United States proper only 89,000.
150,000.
immoral purposes by their parents, thu
of an increased population.
America; and is rapidly approaching o
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claims and privileges.
He builds your home according to
of the relation. You have really made
not break, without good and sufficient
tinsmith; if the plaster cracks, you mu
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By 5. M.
A Prohibitionist Leader on
> Life Insurance Premiums.
The request was granted.
the trepidation of the balance, but this
not a
insura
couragement to the gencral conscience to add a cubit or two to its growth.
Ree The Passing 9)
of the Chinese
How Nature is Solving the Problem of the
“Yellow Peril.”
HE prediction is that
if the present laws remain in effect and a
—the Chinese population of the United States will become
more than six. percent. |
more than four thousand voluntarily left the port of
there are now n
It should be borne in mind that the total num-
ber of Chinese now in the United States includes
inning of this decennial period, there were living in
The main adult pcpulation is male;
For each master car
OSV Abstainers and
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Insurance 3
F it be true—it seems now after years of battling a recognize¥
fact—that total abstainers
from 20 to 30 percent than are moderate drinkers,
deal, no more, no less,” as Roosevelt would put it, entitles
as a class are longer lived by
‘“ square
ate of insurance.
Several years ago a petition was sent to a leading New
York life insurance company requesting the organization of
a total abstinence class which would secure to total abstain-
ers the increased profits which accrue from their habits of
tition, I had it signed by Abram Hewitt,
This was a distinct
that the expert actuaries of our best in-
gurance companies figure out earefully from the now recognized facts the av-
erage rate of longevity of total abstairers and adjust premiums accordingly?
I understand that this change is being agitated by leading insurance compan-
fes, but that it is opposed in certain directions, largely because it will necessi-
moderate drinkers. If that is the math-
ical result, the moderate drinker should have the courage of
his habit and take his medicine like a man.
He surely would not ask others
ce deems worthy of careful notice even
is a case where one side of the balance
rare thing to find men today who can be
e teeth of opposition, even when their
r in this case longheaded selfishness
Conscience is also contagious, and few
nce companies than the successful en-
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in fifty years—perhaps less than fifty,
re rigidly executed
From 1890 to 1900, they fell away from
decrease of nearly eight thousand, or
In the fiscal year ending June 30,
e land of their birth, the total deported
arily being 5020. A very large majority
of these Chinamen were advanced in years, and went home to die.
A generation ago, there were in San Francisco from thirty to forty thou-
eneral there told me that, counting men,
ot 10,000. The same pronortionate de-
26,767 in Hawaii and 3116 in
A generation ago, there were at least
According to the most liberal estimate, there are not more than one hun-
dred and fifty legal Chinese wives in San Francisco.
ese women is estimated at between one thousand and two thousand.
female children as are born to the low est class, a large proportion are sold for
But the number of Chin-
Of such
1s still further reducing the possibilities
is unmarried, or, at least, wifeless in
1d age. Thus by 1930 or 1940, the main
Chinese life in America will have become extinct.—World’s Works
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OVVY—
] Trades Unions in Japan
By the Late Lafcadio Hearn. ¢
ET us suppose, for instance, that you wish to have a good
As a general rule you will apply to a master
You cannot select and hire workmen; guild reg-
You can only make your contract, and the
master carpenter, when his plans have been approved, will
undertake all the rest—purchase and transport of material;
plasterers, tilers, matmakers,
screenfit-
stonecutters, locksmiths and glaziers.
penter represents much more than his
n every trade related to house-building
and house-furnishing, and you must not dream of trying to interfere with his
contract, but that is only the beginning
with him an agreement which you must
reason, for the rest of your life. What-
ever afterward may happen to any part of your house—wall, floor, ceiling, roof,
foundation—you must arrange for repairs with him, never with anybody else.
Should the roof leak, for instance, you must not send for the nearest tiler or
st not send for a plasterer.
The man who built your house holds himself responsible for its condition,
and he is jealous of that responsibility.
the plasterer, the roofer, the tinsmith.—From “Japan; An Attempt at Interpre-
Nore but he has the right to send for
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Your Name
Crothers.
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RPE STE
sist thet he shall live
ciplin
name at first,
was also professor of the arts and
buildings.
ucation.
tory.
plant,” introduced me to the student.
of great intimacy, and that discipline
seemed mere pretentiousness.
why not call it that and be done with
that it aimed at being a university. I
“Dispise not the
things;
tic.
Plain Dcaler.
a howling wilderness are denominated 4d. city.
but if all goes well,
tures are added in due’ time.
ing visit which I once thade to a ugiversity ina new {eom-
monwealth. The university consisted ‘of a board of regents,
an unfenced bit of prairie for a “campus,”
sciences), a janitor, and two unfinished
.A number of the village children tock courses, which, if persisted
in for a number. of years, might lead to what is usually termed the higher ed-
One student .from out of town dwelt in Solitary state in the dormi-
The president met me with great cordiality, and after showing me “the
day of small things.”
and then they have a trick of growing big before you know it.—Atlan-
Frcs mes
, OT orly do a man’s friends, but particularly his enemiés, in-
up to his name. It is a wholesome dis-
e. *In a mew country two or three houses set down in
It is a mere
other metropolitan fea-
I remember a most interest-
-a président (who
It was evident that they were on terms
in the university was an easy matter,
owing to the fact that the student body was homogeneous.
Now it would be easy for one under such circumstances to laugh at what
“It was nothing more
than a small school;
it?” The reason for not doing so was
t's name was a declaration of purpose.
The small things may be very real
“EYES AND SEE NOT."
Simple Affairs of Everyday Life That
Pass Us By.
~ How many buttons have you ‘on
your waistcoat? This is no ‘‘cateh,”
just a simple question, but if you can
answer it without counting, it will
show, says Pearson’s Weekly, that you
possess powers of perception abeve
the average. It is a fact that nine
en out of ten cannot tell offignd
‘how m many buttons there are onfthe
‘garment which they put on every
morning and take off every evening.
This exemplifies how many peFsons
fail to cultivate their powers of. ob-
servation. One could multiply such
instances to almost any extent. It is
safe to tell almost any man, exeept
an architect, that he does not Know
how many steps there are in any par-
ticular fiight.in his own house, even
though he has climbed those stairs
thousands of times.
It is not that man has not the faculty
bt remembering such things That he
does possess this is shown by the feats
of memory each performs daily in his
or her especial line of occupation. |
A cook will carry in her head hun-
dreds of different recipes, a shipping
clerk hundreds of addresses, a shep-
herd can recognize an individual sheep
out of a flock of several hundred.
The mischief is that so few persons
train their observation outside their
dwn particular lines. Perhaps mo-
where is this better exemplified than
in courts of law. ?
In a recent murder case a man sus-
pected of the crime was seen by three
tiifferent persons. One, a laborer, said
that the individual was rather short
and stout, had a beard and mustache,
nud wore a dark suit of ciothes and a
derby hat. A second witness, a wo-
man, declared that the man was above
medium height, had a black beard and
whiskers, but no mustache, and wore
ft cap. Of his clothes she was mot
sure, but thought they were light in
color.
The third witness, another laborer,
was positive that the man was short,
thin, elderly, had a beard and
mustache, and wore a brown coat and
corduroy, trousers. Luckily for the
cause of justice it turned out that the
gray
“suspect” was innocent—for it would
have been a pretty Lard matter to
identify him by such descriptions, to
the satisfaction of a jury. t
With a view to throwing light on
this subject of the contiict of evidence,
an interesting experiment was recently
tried at Berlin ‘by Professor Von
Liszt. He arranged a quarrel in Lis
classroom between two of his students,
the other twenty-three students to
have no Suspicion that the event was
“gotten up.”
At the time appointed the quarrel
took place, amid ‘tremendous excite-
ment. The professor tinally put a stop
to it. A week later he lectured on
“Evidence,” having in the meantime
taken the testimony of those who had
witnessed the made-up quarrel.
Out of these twenty-three well-edu-
cated young men the testimony of no
two was exactly alike. No fewer than
eight different persons were named as
the ariginator of the fight in which,
actuaily, but two had been concerned.
The actual firing of a pistol was ac-
curately described by nearly all, but
there were four separate versions of
the period of the quarrel at which it
was fired. The professor's way of
quelling the disturbance was described
in eight different versions.
“You are like most persons,” Profes-
son Von Liszt told his students, after
reporting the result of this inquiry.
“You look but you do not see. It is
not wilful perjurers who impede the
course of justice—such persons are
few—but careless people like jyour-
selves, who have not trained the eye
to report to the brain.”
The Yonmest Span Bridge.
There is now under construciion
across the St. Lawrence at Quebec a
cantilever bridge wnich when complet-
ed will contain the longest span of any
bridge yet erected, not even excluding
the great cantilevers of the Korth
Bridge in Scotland. The structure is
of the cantilever type, and consists of
two approach spans, of 210 teet each,
two shore arms, each 509 feet in length,
and a great central span, 1800 feet in
length. The total length of the.bridge
is 4220 feet, and although in extreme
dimensions it does mot compare with
the Firth of Iorth Bridge, which is
about one mile in total sength, it has
the distinction of having the longest
span in the world by ninety feet, the
two cantilevers of the Iorth Bridge
being each 1710 feet in length. "The
total width of the floor is eighty feet,
and provision is made for a double
track railway, two roadways for vehi-
cles, and two sidewalks. In a canti-
lever of this magnitude the individual
members are necessarily of huge pro-
portions, the main pests, for instaace,
being 325 feet in length, and each
weighing 750 tons.—Scientific Ameri-
can.
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Things Wrongly Named.
Titmouse is a bird.
Catgut is a'sheepgut,
Sealing-wax has no wax,
Blind worms have eyes and can fee.
Irish stew is unknown in Ireiand.
Rice paper is not made of rice or the
rice plant.
Kid gloves are not made of kid.
German silver is not silver, nor of
German manufacture, it having been
made in China for centuries. —Chicago
Post.
With the withdrawal of the training
ships Northampton and Cleopatra from
the active list, the other day, the last
shrad of canvas disappeared from the
British Navy.
A new use of vanadium is announced
in a forthcoming invention by Wilhelm
von Siemens, It concerns a vanadium
glow lamp.
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