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DISHES THAT GROW.
Plate with Carious Growth Upon It Sold
the Other Day for SI,OOO.
The other day there was sold *t
(Manchester, for no less than SI,OOO, an
old-fashioned china plate of the ex
tremedy rare kind which is known to
the collectors aa "growing crockery,"
though no explanation of this strange
phenomenon was given In the news
paper reports. From the plate itself
had sprung, to a height of more than
a thini of an inch, a sort of eruption of
beautiful crystals, that seemed to take
the form of elegant trees and minia
ture pagodas. The growing crystals
were gradually rising higher and high
er, and they had brought up with
them the enamel surface of the plate
at every point where they had sprung
from the body of the latter. Such
plates are a chemical manifestation of
the rarest possible kind,* and only a
very few yearfc ago a tea pot, the prop
erty of a lady in London, that had be
come covered with beautiful crystals
in this way, was sold to a collector for
$5,000. The clay of which such china
is made contains alumina and mag
nesia, and in certain cases these are
so acted upon by the presence of sul
phuric acid as to produce fibrous crys
tals, that are In reality very much of
the character of Epsom salts or crys
tals of alum. The plate sold the other
day had belonged to a poor person,
who had never attached much value
to it. —Stray Stories.
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I RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. 1
ffe ' gf
p TLlc Marvelous Growth and Popularity ||
of the Systern. ||j
C77P tho present '
o Ifti lsl me ier ° ias
rl ft! keen nothing iu
h®l jfijj tho history of tlio
o.\/ l Jos^ service of
Jsr y/'QLz? the United
States," says the
fy/T anuual report of
r I aßS * Btall t
/ fjrJ postmaster-gen
fcjH Ay era ' "so remark
) MM able as the growth
ji 4/ of the rural free
r?*- delivery system."
The daily delivery
of mail at the far
mer's door, by the Federal Govern
ment, is no longer an experiment. In
the words of the report, the system
lias now "to be dealt with as an estab
lished agency progress, awaiting
only the action of the. Congress to de
termine how rapidly it shall be de
veloped." 'I/ie current month finds
rural free delivery of mail iu success
ful operation from 3815 distributing
points radiating over forty States and
one Territory, while other districts
from Maine to Texas are anxiously
waiting for those regular visits from
Uncle Sam which mean so much iu a
variety of ways.
RUEATj rAHItIF.It, BOWLING GREEN, OHIO.
(Twenty degrees below zero.)
This conntry is learning that ethical
considerations like these are most in
tensely practical, and that a study of
such problems is what the country
needs for a truly larger growth. But
figures are deduced iu the report to
convince those to whom figures are
the only tangible evidence. So the
report sets forth that whenever the
system has been started properly, it
has been followed by these results:
Increased postal receipts. More
letters are written and received. More
newspapers and magazines are sub
scribed for. So marked is this ad
vancenient that mauy rural routes al
ready pay for themselves by the addi
tional business they bring.
Enhancement of the value of farm
lands reaohed by rural free delivery.
This increase in value has been esti
mated at aH high aH $5 an acre in some
States. A;moderate estimate is from
82 to $3 au acre.
MAIL To
SUGAR PLANTERS IN .LOUISIANA.
.DtLIVERINC MAIL IN ARIZONA jrJ \
A general improvement of the con
dition of the roads traversed by the
rural carrier. In the Western States
especially the construction of good
roads has been a prerequisite to the
establishment of rural free delivery
servioe. In one county in Indiana a
special agent reports that the farmers
spent over S2GOO to grade and gravel
a road to obtain ru -al fre s delivery.
Better prices obtained for farm
products, the producers being brought
into daily touch with the state of the
markets, and thus being enabled to
take advantage of information hereto
fore unattainable.
In the communities where it has
been tried free delivery is considered
the greatest boon that the Govern
ment ever has conferred on them.
One Missouri farmer has calculated
A SCENE NEAH LAFAYETTE, IND.
that in the last fifteen years he has
driven 12,000 miles going to and from
tbepostofliee to get his mail —all travel
that is saved to him by the free de
livery system.
In the last report of the First As
sistant Postmaster-General there are
some striking illustrations.
There is, for example, a scene at a
couDtry store, twelve miles from
Lafayette, Ind., from which point
three rural letter carriers start daily,
each making a circuitous drive of
twenty-five miles or more, without
passing over the same load twice. At
the particular point photographed
four cross loads meet, and twenty or
more families, most of them living
half a mile from the store, have each
put up an individual letter box of
galvanized iron, lettered with the
name of the person for whom it is in
tended.
RURAL DELIVERY MAIL BOXES IN VIC
TORIA, ILL.
Into this box the carrier, whose
hour of arrival is known, and scarcely
varies ten minutes, winter or summer,
drops the letters and daily papers for
each family, and collects in return
their mails which are deposited in a
Government collection box, placed in
position at the same spot. The farm
er's children, or such idle hands as he
can spare, gather up the mail and
carry it to the house, and the farmer
is thus spared a drive of twelve miles
to the postoffice, which he would
hardly feel justified in undertaking iu
the most favorable weather more than
twice a week, and then at much per
sonal iucouvenienco aud pecuniary
loss. Under the rural free delivery
I system he gets his mail and his paper
daily without cost of time or money.
and lie is gratified—properly HO —lot
the recognition which the Govern*
ment has given him in bringing the
mails so near to his door.
Rural free delivery carriers, as a
rule, "put on frills" in Indiana, which
State, next to Ohio, has the lion's
share of the existing experimental ser
vice. Most of them provide them
selves with regulation uniforms, at
their own cost, and furnish special
wagons, with pigeon holes and other
postal appliances—all for S4OO a year,
horse hire included.
Out in Arizona, where in the genial
summer sunshine the temperature oc
casionally rises to 110 degrees and
stays there, the rural carrier rarely
wears any insignia of his dignity, ex
cept his badge, which is a nickel
plated arrangement made to fit any
kind of hat. Instead of comfortably
rilling in a specially constrncted'postal
wagon, lie as often as not mounts 1
bucking bronco, or diives him to t
buckboaril, with only an .umbrella foi
shade. But he makes thirty odd milei
a day, nevertheless and the Depart
ment has just issued orders to cut
down this particular route from Tempe,
five or ten miles a day, chiefly out oi
consideration for the bronco, becaust
A CARRIER AT CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND
the carrier can probably sleep as com* j
fortably ill bis saddle as auywhera (
else.
The hardships sometimes encount- I
ered by the rural carriers are showu
in the photograph of a rural carrier iu
Northern Ohio returning from a trip
when the thermometer was forty de
grees below zero. Yet, though the
First Assistant Postmaster-General
reports that there are several girls
acting as bonded rural carriers, few :
instances are recorded of their failing
to make their daily trips, either in
the coldest storms of winter or the
blazing heat of summer.
One question which has received
grave consideration by the Depart
ment is the insecurity and improper
character of the mail boxes put up.
On this subject the First Assistant
Postmaster-General says:
Iu the early days of the service,
when neither Congress nor the Post
office Department, as then organized,
held out any hope that rural free de
livery would prove more than a tran
sitory experiment, extreme careless
ness was manifested as to the kind of
receptacles put up as rural free de
livery boxes. Tomato cans, cigar
boxes, drainage pipes up euded, soap
boxes and even sections of discarded
stove pipes were used as mail boxes,
and were frequently placed in hedge
rows or other inconvenient spots out
of reach of the carrier.
The Department has entered uprn
a systematic effort to correct this co.u
dition of things, and a recommenda
tion is made that the Government pro
vide uniform boxes and maintain
them, charging a moderate rental.
Kaiser*!* Great King; of State.
Wheu6ver the Emperor of Germany
is engaged in au important function,
either imperial or royal, those near
him notice that should he by any
chance take the glove off hi 3 left hand
he wears on the middle linger a large
ring—a square, dark-colored stone set
in massive gold.
The story is that the ring is an old
heirloom iu the Ilohenzollern family,
dating from the time when the ances
tors of the Kaiser—the Margrafs of
Nuremberg—followed their leaders to
the capture of the Holy Sepulchre
from the Moslems.
Margraf, of Ulricb, who lived in the
thirteenth century, was an adventur
ous prince, aud it is believed that the
ring which the Kaiser now wears came
into Ulrich's possession after a hard
fought battle under the walls of Jerusa
lem. It belonged to one of Saladin's
successors, and in some unexplained
manner it found its way on to the lin
ger of the German Knight.
Some one of the Nuremberg Mar
grafs obliterated the sentence from
the Koran which originally adorned it
and engraved a Latin cross in its
place.
A Hard Tli i nt; to UiidorHtuiid.
One of the hardest things to under-
I stand in this workaday world is how
so many incompetent men get such
' desirable jobs.—l'uck.
Due* All th Talking lleraulf.
; A clever woman cau always give a
i alow man the impression that he has
said a lot of bright things himself.—
| Chicago Becerd.
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Fighting a Shark.
A lively experience with a twelve
foot striped shark came to Boatmen
Harry Johnson and Bob Barnard, re
lates the San Francisco Chroaicle.
Tney were fishing between Mission
Rock and Goat Island when they saw
the shark. It followed them persist
ently, and once when it came boldly
up to the boat the boatmen set upon it
with oars, stretcher and gaff. A blow
from the big brute's tail came near
capsizing the Whitehall. Barnard
barely escaped being drawn into the
sea through sinking the gaff into the
body of the shark, which set off at a
terrible speed, pulling the boat after
him. It was so weak from the blows
and from loss of blood that it was
finally conquered. In the fight the
boatmen broke one oar and a stretcher.
KlephanMne Minoliler.
Five of the elephants attached to the
circus of Lord George Sanger escaped
from the large tent in which they had
been hobbled for the night at Dart
ford, England. They were found de
vouring the contents of a baker's shop,
having smashed a large plate-glass
window in the shop front and eaten all
the bread and pastry they could find
and then beginning to destroy some
bags of flour. Four of the elephants—
Charlie, Edgar, H. R. H. and Mary—
were escorted back to the tent, but
Minnie could not be found anywhere.
She subsequently was discovered a mile
and a half away, quietly sleeping near
a conservatory in a market garden.
She had amused herself by smashing
the windows of the conservatory, de
stroying a quantity of valuable flowers
and eaiing a big lot of vegetables.
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Ito'os and Violet*.
The scent of the sweetest rose be
comes noxious and iae humble violet
seems to be scowling up at you from
under its eyebrows when you know
that these flowers and their fellows are
indebted to the deadly microbes for
their colors and scents. The delicate
pink of the Rothschild rose is com
posed of the bodies of thousands of the
identical microbes which bring death
through consumption to so many of
our friends and relations. The violet
and pansy get their odor from the can
cer microbe, the tulip from the gout
germ, and the gerani(;~ from the scar
let-fever bacillus. Likewise, every
time you inhale the scent of any flower
you are in reality gulping down
mouthful after mouthful of some ter
rible disease. There Is no way of dis
infecting flowers, as they are actually
composed of microbes, and if you take
the latter away no flower is left.
Switzerland cxnorts regularly to other
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The children may drink it without
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j the most delicate stomach receives it
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WOMAN'S WAY.
When her duty's manifold,
And her hours of ease are few
Will a change come o'er the spirit
Of the woman who is "new?"
When she's drawn upon a jury,
Or is drafted for the war,
Will slw like her freedom better
Thau the "chains" she now abhors?
When she's running for an office
And gets "left" and has the blues,
Won't she wish that she was back in
The "oppressod" old woman's shoes?
When,the Ship of State is steering
'Mid a storm of mad abuse,
Won't she wish that forfhe ballot
She'd ne'er thought she had a use?
When she finds that she is treated
"Liken man." O, tho' she's longed
For just that, won't she be tempted
Oftentimes to think she's wronged?
When no man e'er gives his seat up
In a car, or deigns to hold
Her umbrella when it's raining,
Won't she wish that she was "old?"
Won't she thibk the men "just horrid,'
Left to hustle for herself,
Where she's looked on as a rival
In the race for power and pelf?
When the man's revorence no longer
Is accorded as her due,
When he treats her as a brother,
She'll be sorry that she's new.
—Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"Ah," sai<l the doctor. "Cable car,
evidently." "No," replied the ambu
lance man. "Football."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Johnny—"Pa!" Pa—"Yes." Johnny
—"ls an Indian reservation a place
where the Indians are allowed to livo
until the white ipeii want it?"— Puck.
"Oh, what a tangled web wo weave
When llrst wo pructlse to deceive;"
And ere we get expert, perhaps,
Our memories begin to lapse.
—lndianapolis Journal.
Husband—"Why, I thought you
were goiug to pay these bills out of
your allowance." Wife—"Cut I didn't
buy these things until I had spent it."
—Brooklyn Life.
Jones—"There comes Small. How
jjisurd for a big, burly man like him
to have a name like that." Bowlder
—"Well, you see, he was little when
they named him."
School Examiner—"What is the
meaning of false doctrine?" "School
boy—"Please, sir, it's when the doc
tor gives the wrong stuff to the peo
ple who are sick."
"I guess " . "Oh, don't guess.
You Americans always guess, you
know." "No, I don't know. You
English * always know, don't you
know."—Chicago Tribune.
Teacher—"How dare yon laugh at
me, you youug rascals?" Chorus of
Pupils—"But we're not laughing at
you, sir." Teacher—"Well, then, I
don't know what else there is to laugh
at."
Stranger—"Do you alwnys have this
kind of weather here in spring?"
Native —"Do you mean the weather
we are having at this moment or the
kind we had live minutes ago?"—Ynn
kers Statesman.
Mr. W ickwire—"What is that womau
across the road trying to sing?" Mrs.
Wickwire—"My Sweetheart's the Man
in the Moon." Mr. Wickwire—"Well,
if he doesn't hear her it isn't her
fault."—Tit-Bits.
"I shall never apeak to him again,"
she said. "Why not?" "Well, we
were alone iujjtho drawing room last
night when tho gas suddenly went
out." "And what did he do?" "Noth
ing."—Stray Stories.
His Wife—"lt's just 1 o'clock. I'm
goiug to my milliner's to try on my
new hat aud I'll bo back in ten
minutes," He—"All right, but re
member that we have dinner at 8
o'olock."—Chicago Tribune.
Merchant—"And Jwhy wouldn't tho
customer buy that tiger skin?" Office
Boy—"He said it wasn't genuine."
Merchant—"Aud didn't you make it
appear plausible to him that it was
genuiuo?" Office Boy—"Why, of
course. I even told him that I shot
the tiger myself."—Fliegcude Blatter.
-"Young man," said the old gentle
man, "my daughter is too young to
marry. A girl of her ago cannot be
■lire of her own mind iu a matter of
such importance." "I fully realize
that," replied the young man, who
had just secured the fair oue's con
sent. "That's why I don't waut to
wait."—Chicago Evening Post.
Steamers on African I.altes.
The lakes of Central South Africa
are no lenger sacred to native canoes
and the roughly constructed sailing
vessels rvhich have formed so impoi t
ant a part in the trade with the in* t
ior of Africa. Lake Tanganyika is lie
latest point to be invuded with in
iron steamer. Her name is ( il
Bhodes. '"v
She was shipped from Lone . •
Chinde to be transported in s>. iocs
through the mountains on the if
this lake, which is tho ceutr< he
chain of lakes of which aria
Nyanza is the northeast link.
The importation of this ass of
steamers will, it is thought, iicilitutu
the trade with the natives of Masai
land aud other countries which the
lakes traverse, and will prove far su
perior to the previously used tyooden
vessels because of their speed aud
durability. The experiment wii I t
watched with interest hi v. and it
sucoesftful, will revolutionize the
methods of trade now in vogue in
Central Africa.
A Novel of Sentiment.
She was explaining the plot of a
novel of Bentiment. "Yon see," she
sai l, "she's in love with him, and
i thin ira she isn't. And he isn't in love
r, and thiuks ho is. Aud she
thinks lie's in love with her, of
| course, while he thinks she isn't in
love with Uim at all. Then they get
married, aud ho liuds out that she
really is iu love with him, and he gets
, to love her, you know. But she lias
' found out that he isn't in love with
her, and so she doesn't love him any
more. That's as far as I've read.
I It's a splendid idea, isn't it?"— New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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