TEE FILIPINO'S CUNNING I PATIENT SKILL AND REAL ART IN NATIVE KNIVES. . Character Reveal* (1 by the National Sin- Renin's Collection of Curloßttlos The Headsman's lllaile To Fit the " Til lit bong's" Curve a Scabbard Is Resigned. Filipino ingenuity and character art revealed at the National Museum a Washington iu a new collection oi hunting and fishing implements, head gear, musical Instruments and weap ons of warfare. The natives of the Philippine groul have developed to a very high degrei the use of rattan, bamboo, vegetabh fibre and palm leaves in the manufnc ture of dozens of miscellaneous art! cles. Rattau is pleated and wovet Into hats, arrow quivers, scabbards foi ' words and knives, and umbrellas Aamboo is fashioned Into telescopi Ashing rods, water and wine bolt Is covers for the swords of executioner! jnd blowpipes. Palm leaves are shnpet , Into a score of designs—into dippers T tides. The native lias apparently } Amnd In the vegetable growths of hi .1 iwelling place material to supply ai A his demands except the need for Iron. H Tossibly the most prominent featnn I: yf the collection is a group of half i m dozen "talabongs," or headsman'.' if jxes. They nre huge knives, three S feet long or more, curved like a seimi Jp tar reversed. In order the better t( if-' itrike the unfortunate victim's neck C i this curve is Irregular—wide at the twe / ends and acute in the middle. It it Anpossible, of course, to slide such an rccentric curve into a scabbard, hut /so Philippine headsmen knve over come thnt difficulty easily. Two pice if bamboo, shaped like the scimitar anil flat on the side nearest the bind-, have been joined together along >ae edge with a fiber which Is a little ela tle. Separating these two slabs i f wood the swordsman can slip his bin- Into It from one side and from the en 1 The fiber at tbe outside joint holds t. bamboo closely to tbe knife, open on'. At one end. Among tbe army officers this neei for a knife fitted to a man's neck ha: not been allowed to interfere with a sense of design. Their swords, ot "campalongs," are a regular, graceful arc of a circle. One such sword, ap parently made from a thick saw brought to the islands by a trading f ship, is chased and inlaid with silver i and lias a mahogany handle. Tin j workman who engraved the blade evl j; dently worked long to carve the handle I into a shape singularly like that of the . swords used among the Saracen tribes | At the curve In the hilt Spanish eoim ■ have been sunk until Hush with tin : i surface. The handle Is decorated witl a'fringe of hair dyed red or maroon. , Another knife is little and curveil| hack toward the wrist when held It A the closed fist. This Is intended for : ■ swift blow at the stomach, and then v when the enemy has doubled over, u- I complete the attack with a stab in tin I back. Many of the knives are decor- I ttted with born or silver handles, an 1 ■ one terminates iu an ivory tusk. Near | ly all of these short knives are curved f into the form of a krls, and look like | highly ornamented bread knives. M ii umbrella in the collection is a work of art, but it is suspected of Ub c uese origin. Palm leaves have been K' cut and trimmed until they fitted to gether for an outer covering, as smooth anil firm as heavy paper. This was „ then applied to a frame of split huin ivboo in the fashion of the ordinary Chi- K'iinese or Japanese parasol. Inside the r frame lias been decorated with rattan split into slender strands and woven about tbe umbrella ribs. Tbe whole , was then given a tone of deep red and the outside varnished to mane it Imper vious to water. Everything used ill tlie . jponsti'uetliin of the umbrella is vegeta ble, even the fastenings at the ends of the ribs and the little rivets used in the frame. ;j| The Filipino blowpipe will disappoint Jlthoso whose ideas of such weapons |tiavc been obtained from the ge a •Chios of fifteen years ago or more. It I lls not ten feet long or two Inch:'-: in Bflhuc tor. On the contrary, it is a ifflinosi Inoffensive Instrument, a out ES.tlii'- quarters of an inch thick and EjEnlv X yard long. It is merely an - a piiiarged putty blower, of the sort pos- K&esse.d by the American boy. The a u PSOTUII use in its manufacture Is a HIT Svjtloti of bamboo, with the openings r' carefully rounded. For darts the IT.- shapes little arrows of split In f. MO. and winds about tbe barb a | little lint of cotton to fill the *ube mil ffcr tlie greatest possible resistance i- So the air. ■ fNotlitng could more fully meet tlie RJIII atlas idea of South Sea Islanders WghTi, the bamboo wine bottle wl ,• i Tests alongside the blowpipe. Ii - fcbout a foot long, four or five ini • ■* I In diameter and would hold posslbiy half a gallon. Holes have been boi- 1 [ In : • fie -I tlie end. and a strip rat' "i f -i'l Into them for n gll gt, ;• ' he last item of its equipment (s a round wooden cork, which is fa encd to tbe "bottle" by rattan. i Tbe musical Instruments an' - equipped with vegetable strings. One ot tliern is much like tlie guitar or the - Tyrol, but more slender and weighted , down will long, highly carved keys. • ;.The other Is somewhat like nil Indian 38 pipe—a queer bowl at one end of a ■Jgllong, hollow tube, with strings from ®the top of the bowl to the further end ffibf the tube. Tlie musician in the Phil- Oppplnes evidently gives his extra time fifto carving hi* instrument, as both gtr RfthiC and fiddle are covered with lit.*- I®*--rations cut with a knife. yjHttke last feature of tlie collection is irniless looking cane that rattles | S-o picked up. yc* one might hunt , . I'M an hour without discovering how j I. HB vpaned. Inside is a steel blade, ' ong enough for a duel. Another cane pens at the cud and lets out a sort of spear. But tl - greatest surprise 1 he cane with a rew cap at the fer ule. When fin. ly that cap has lieen worked of am- the cane has been shaken, the wi .1 grows longer and longer, until tin icetator holds in his hand a light, tapering, beautifully joined flsldng r d. To ltan 1 Irtl iteitanrnntl, Kenosha. Wi .. women have gone into n scheme f r making their town a regular "Bird C' ty." They have formed a club, which t ally every villager has joined, for 1) iag bird restaurants in their front hack gardens. Each member of the tub has agreed to erect a tall pole wi a shelf on top largo enough to holt a saucer of water and a tray of fo :. which will contain seeds, lettuce, alt ebone and any other dainties birds rave. Once the bird restaurants become popular with Kenosha's birds, tlie 1 women believe the feathered onc3 will Impart the glad tidings to their neighbors In other suburbs, and Ken osha in a little while will have a. mon opoly of the songsters of the North shore. Some of the women will even go further than to establish bird eating houses. Moss and other nesting ma terial will bt laced in the trees, where it will be easy access, and the women reus, that, with all this liome butldlng ma -rial at hand, the birds will look no , urtker for a cozy spot In which to settle and begin housekeep ing. Increase of Cheap Telephones In Chicago. It Is only a year ago that the nickel in-the-slot telephone was introduced iu Chicago. Now the demand for this - lass of Instruments Is enormous, as I they fill a place hitherto unprovided I for in the telephone service of that (city. Two classes of nlekol-ln-the-slot machines are used—one cn a two-party and the other ten-party line service. The rate at which these instruments are put tu is limited only by the rapid [ ity with v hick they eau be turned out rom the factory, and the necessary ! wires run nil provisions made on the exchange switchboard; in fact, the company is overwhelmed with new 1) isin< and is even going to the ex tcnt letting out different portions o Its work of placing Instruments, running win and building pole lines tn vat,ous contractors. Tbe number el five-cent telephones put in since tl is s n ice was started about a year no Is In the neighborhood of 7000, which i leans an enormous additional load on the company's exchanges. The Knlßor's Futility. Emperor William is the fortunate father of six bright boys, and each of those boys has a sister, as the old conundrum puts it. Her name is Vic : torht Louise, and she was born Sep tember 13, 1802. We saw her at tlie 2 uiogieal Gardens, in charge of a ! a- verness and au aid-de-camp, laugli \ In-: m tlie capers of tlie monkeys and lx cling ilie lions and tigers, just like ' hundred.- of other children tvbn go to the park every day. Mingling in tbe I throng, no one noticed her, although ! iimpld entering at one of the gates I might have observed that some mem l-i of tlie royal family was there, be- I i-i. -c oi a carriage bearing the Em- I pxi-or's private crest, with a coachman ' nut! footman iu bis private livery. By ! l hose signs the imperial family may always be distinguished in the parks, boulevards and streets. Tbe coachman ami footmnu wear black, trimmed with silver braid, and a wide hatband of silver marked with black eagles.—Chi cago Iteeord-Herald. Amerleun FORB. Tlie recurrence of a foggy season directs attention again to a serious municipal problem. It causes us to wonder whether tlie heaviness of the atmosphere of Philadelphia Is due most to the dampness or to the soot and gas which are emitted from every ! flu<- and chimney pot, and are unable in ascend during these periods of me teorological depression. It is a well known fact that a London "particular" is little more than the smoke of the great metropolis, which for the time being refuses to rise and overwhelms man and beast. The heavy atmosphere of Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Cleveland | banc- over those cities like a, pall, and when dampness accompanies tlie ha bitual condition -of smokiuess the evil i aggravated, becoming at times In dexible to people wlio have ever known a clearer and happier clime.— Philadelphia Times. migration of liinectH. Not long ago a ship from one- of the trop - al countries was followed by a ' flock of butterflies, which persistently | •ire! -d around the rigging of tLe ves [ -el until the shore lind faded in the ; lisbmce. Then the insects lighted on I iip nasts and decks. A few dlsap warisl iu the night and were destroyed I n tte water or reached the shore in 1 afdr. Some of the others crawled way in the cabins and bold of tbe . hip. After a trip of thirty days the c-j, 1 reached New York, and from heir hiding place In the ship a few of lsoae butterflies emerged and flew slime. Thus au entirely new species f butterfly was introduced into the ount ry. ' Th girls of Smith College at North mp:- ii. Mass.. arc indignant at a new et of rules, one of which forbids any ae it: them taking a carriage ride itli .my students of Amherst College nle.if engaged to be married (o him. " -re must always be two girls, but hei - a.v also be two men. provided hey r • all In the same vehicle. An nouncements of many engagements are expected.—Philadelphia Times. fSilillp A Now Solution. THE -world may become indebt ed to Russiafora new method of overland transportation. The device in question la that of Prince Khilkoff, the Czar's Minister of Wayd and Communication, and la so simple that one is inclined to won der that it was not thought of before. The plan contemplates the employment of automobiles of from three to six horse power for hauling ordinary carts over tramways made of boards, sheet iron, cement or any material that may be found readily at hand. Stone, iron and wooden tramways have been used for transportation from time Immemo rial; traction road engines are not new, nor can the idea of drawing farmers' or carters' wagons in trains front farm to factory to the nearby market towns or railway centres be regarded as a novelty. The traction engines hith erto thought of in this connection, however, are comparatively slow, ex pensive and so heavy that a consider able portion of the power generated by them would be required to haul their own weight. Moreover, a pre requisite for their successful employ ment Is a hard, smooth and costly road. Prince Khilkoff's initial experiments were conducted in the park surround ing his home. Ordinary sleepers were laid down, and upon these two lines of planks were nailed. Instead of rails, at a distance apart corresponding to that of the nutomobile wheels. Wood cn combings were placed on the outer sides of the planks as guards, to pre vent the machine from leaving the track. With an ordinary three and one-half horse power carriage a cart laden with bricks, and weighing with its contents nearly two tons, was easily hauled over the Wooden tram way at a speed of twelve vcrsts an hour. The estimated cost of n tram way constructed like the foregoing is less than 2000 rubles per verst, while the cheapest macadamized road would cost five times as much. The first prac tical experiment of the new system is to be made between Tsarkoe-Selo and the new water works, which are being built a few versts from that city. The line will he laid over swampy ground, where an ordinary road could not be built. Various substances will be tried for the new automobile rails, such as iron, cement and different Iliads of wood. In the event of the success of this experiment, of which there is no rea sonable doubt, the system Is to be ex tended throughout the empire as n sup plementary means of transportation between points not reached by rail ways. Another consideration moving the Russian Minister to extend the sys tem is the impracticability of ordinary Russian roads for carriages and carts in the spring and autumn, when the wheels are apt to sink hub deep into mire. The considerations are as valid in the greater part of this country as they are in Russia, and it is quite pos sible that the general adoption of Prince Khilkoff's plan would be the solution of the haulage problem in the rural districts of the United States. An automobile can be bought at a price but little exceeding that of a team of horses, and costs incomparably less to keep. The cheapness of the timbpr tramway would lay the road tax bogy, which fills farmers with apprehension whenever improved roadways are mentioned. The point which would count most heavily in favor of the tramway principle is its adaptability £o all locations. On any sort of soil the sleepers and board rails could be laid with equal celerity and ease. No clay would be too soft, nor sand too deep for it; the road could be made to follow the rubble stone bank of dry river, and it would not be necessary to make long detours around marsh lands. On grounds of economy and general utility, the plan appeals to one so strongly that It would be surprising if some of the freeholders or supervis ors of our progressive rural communi ties should not give it an early trial.— New Sfethotl of Road Building. A novel system of road construction bn3 been successfully resorted to in Monmouth, 111. The ground was pre pared for It by grading and being al lowed to remain so for two months. It was treated to an occasional scrap ing, so that It would pack evenly, be ing thus rendered hard and even for the laying of a surfnde of brick, the chief constructive feature. The first tiling was the setting of a curbing, made of two by six inch plnuks seven l'eet apart, held by oak stakes eighteen inches long and put down every four feet. Inside of this was a five-inch bed of sand, ail evened up, and a single course of No. 1 paving brick then put down, a fine roadbed being thus ob tained. Outside the curb two feet of crushed rock were laid, graded up to make an easy approach, this plan in suring away of eleven feet in width, and, as the earth on each side was graded and worked, there was alto gether a width of some forty feet, af fording trucks on each side for use In dry weather. Such a brick road costs snout ninety* cents a running foot. The lnduntrlul Discoverer. It Is not the boy who is surrounded by the be3t Implements and tools that ingenuity can manufacture, but au Eli Whitney making a cotton gin in a cel lar in the South with the simplest tools, or a Cuuard whittling the model of a ship with a jackkuife, that makes greac Industrial discoveries.—Success. Old Joe* the Night Watchmen# TFrom the Pall Mall Gazette, London.) How often on returning home late on • dreary winter'a night has our sympathy gone out to the poor old night watchman as he eat huddled up over his cage fire, overlooking the excavations which our City Council in their wisdom, or otherwise, allow the different water companies to make so frequently in our congested streets. In all weathers, and under all cli matic conditions, the poor old night watch man is obliged to keep watch over the companies' property, and to see that the red lights are kept burning. What a life, to be sure; what privations and hardships; they have aches and pains, which nothing but St. Jacobs Oil can alleviate. "Old Joe" is in the employ of the Lam beth Water Works, and is well and favour bly known. He has been a night watch man for many years, in the courso of which he has undergone many expe riences. What with wet and cold, he con tracted rheumatism and sciatica, which fair ly doubled him up, and it began to look a serious matter for old Joe whether he would much longer be able to perform his duties, on which his good wife and himself depended for a livelihood, but as it hap pened a passer-by, who had for some nights noticed Old Joe's painful condition, presented him with a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, and told him to use it. Old Joe followed the advice given; ho crawled home the next morning and bade his wife rub his aching back with the St. Jacobs Oil "a gentleman gave him," and undoubt edly his wife did rub, for when Old Joe went on duty at night he met his friend and benefactor, to whom he remarked: "Them oils you gave me, Guv'nor, did give me a doing; they wuz like pins and needles for a time, but look at me now,* and Old Joe began to run and jump about like a young colt. All pain, stiffness and soreness had gono; he had been telling everybody he met what St. Jacobs Oil had done for him. Old Joe says now he has but one ambition in life, and that is to always to be able to keep a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil by him, for he says there is nothing like it in the world. St. Jacobs Oil serves the rich and the poor, high and low, the same way. It has conquered pain for fifty years, and it will do the same to the end of time. It has no equal, consequently no competitor; it has many cheap imitations, but simple facts like the above tell an honest tale with which nothing on earth can compete. Denmark leads tiie world in per capita interest in agriculture. Each inhabitant has on an average a capital of $385 invest ed in farming. Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 20th.—For many years G aril old Tea. The Herb Curo, has been earn ing n roputation that Is raro—it is 'universally praised ! 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Y. | WHEN RUSSIANS EAT. No Fixed Meal Time—Many Peculiar ities at Table. The Russian has no fixed meal time. He eats when he is hungry, which is often. He has about six square meals a day. He has at least a doz en lunches, a little bit of salt fish or some caviare, or a piece of bread and cheese, washed down with a nip of fiery vodki. He never passes a station without a glass of tea —marvel- ous tea, with a thin slice of lemon floating in it. You get a fondness for Russian tea, and forswear hemilked decoctions forever. The table man ners of the Russian —such as you see in hotels and buffets—are not pleas ing. He sprawls with outstretched elbow on the table, and gets his mouth down to his food rather than raise the food to his mouth. He makes objectionable noises In his throat. He has a finger bowl, and rinses his mouth as the rest of us do when cleaning our teeth in our bathrooms. Then he squirts the wa ter back into the bowl. Thackeray's House. 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