WATCHED LIKE HAWKS. Prance Increased Her Naval Force and England Went One Better. The British naval squadron In New fqundland waters this year will be In creased to five ships. A few years ago the service was regarded by both France and England as merely patrol work, for which obsolete wooden corvettes and 1 then slightly more mod ern ships were detailed. After Fash oda, the French vexation found evi dence In sending out the powerful armored cruiser Isly, the British re taliating by calling home the anti quated frigrate Cordelia in the middle of tho season and sending out instead the splendid third-class battleship Charybois. a match for the Isly in every respect. The French the next spring reinforced the latter with the Fulton, a rain-bow, fast-steaming gun boat. The British equalized matters by detailing the Pylades, a ship more than a match for her. The next step of the British was to add a fourth ship, both powers having as their third a small gunboat. The fourth Britisher was an armed sloop, the Co lumbine. RUSSIANS IN MANCHURIA. It lo Unlikely That They Will Give Up Their Grip There. The number of Russian troops in Manchuria is said to be 91.200, but it 1* difficult to believe that the czar has had an army of such magnitude there. As for railway guards, it is said that 800 will be left in Shinking. 700 in Kirln and 550 in Amur, or 2,000 in all, eays the Chicago Daily News. These guards are to be of the nature of po lice rather than of soldiers. Russia, it is alleged, will hand back Now chwang to China in December, but only the most famous admirers cf Muscovite policy believe that the great northern power will ever prac tically retire from Mfnchuria. It is not its -policy to draw back from any land that it has once occupied despite treaties and agreements to the con trary. Polo is probably the oldest of ath letic sports. It has been traced to GOO B. C. 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THE CUNNING MOSQUITO J # Writer Insist, the Insect la Showing R-omnrksbls # \ Educstlona.l Progress A "The man wno believes that the mos quito cannot be educated up to the point where he Is capable of dodging some of the artifices of human kind is simply a fool," said a man who has been paying some attention to anaph- Dles and culex, and whoso devotion has been returned with quadrupled amorousness, "and I know what 1 am talking about, for I have had occasion to observe a few things within the week, in substantiation of which I make proffer of various red splotches on my face, neck and hands. Just outside of my door there is a cistern, one of these uncovered cisterns about which so much has been said and written. It is a great mosquito breeder and at night these humming despera does make a fierce charge into my room. The door, window and transom are not screened, but I have around my bed what is supposed to be ample protection in a good mosquito bar. for a while the bar was good enough. But it did not take any great length of lime for the mosquitoes to learn a few things. One night—just a few nights ago—l was awakened by a humming sound and had noticed that my sleep had not been as even as usual. At first I thought the sound was made by a street ear some distance from my room on the line which traverses the street on which I live. The truth grad ually dawned on mc that it was the #### ## M W M * mm ## M THE OLDEST STOVE |* Richmond, Va,, Cluims One Which Seemingly i Should Rtxnk With the Best mmmmmm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mmmm According to a Philadelphia news paper the oldest stove in this country is at present on exhibition in Minneap olis, Minn. From the description this old stove is something after the fashion of the one which we have here In our state capltol. It stands upon legs or end supports, similar to those of a sewing machine, only that they are about half as high and of much heavier casting. The total weight of the stove is 5l)0 pounds. It Is three feet long, thirty two inches high and one foot wide, with a hearth extending in front. There is no grate in the bottom, the fire being built directly on the bottom of the stove, the heat passing from below the oven, back of it and over the top of the pipe. The outside has scrolls and designs and crowns in re lief, much after the fashion of the stoves of to-day, and on both sides cast with tho metal are the words, "Hereford Furnace, Thomas Maybury, Mfr., 1767." We are assured that the stove is well preserved, in spite of its age. The surface has a finish which •••••••••••••eee®®eo®e©eaoc©o®©• • 0 2 Traveling and * 2 Wandering • 2 .2 •••••••fiessMtsicecaeoeeesessstieseoteit* Jones was in peculiarly expansive humor the other evening. He was packed up for the summer, and was starting off in the morning on a cheap racket walking trip. To traverse the country districts of New England was his program, and an unfailing friend liness his method of getting about cheaply and well. "I have no use for traveling," he be gan. "That, of course, is why you are starting off on the morrow?" I asked. "That, dear friend, is not traveling. It is wandering, and I recommend the world in general to get hack to it, as the ideal manner of getting about. Traveling is a distinctly modern in vention. It aims at two things— speed and the attainment of a definite locality. It is done for a purpose, and the means are always sacrificed to the end. The scenery through which the victims of the system may steam, is blurred. Cards and papers are found necessary to slay the time, and when the travelers dismount from HIS JOKE COST HIM DEAR. An Interesting Little Story About Han nibal Hamlin. "Why don t you comb down that cowlick V said Senator Mallory, laugh ingly, to one of the pages, whose hair was standing straight. "Some of these days your wife will take hold of it and pull your hair." The hoy glanced up at the senator's very bald pate. "Senator," he asked, is that the way you lost your hair?" There are quite a number of sena tors with baid heads. Senator Stew art is among the number. And Mr. Stewart says that it docs not pay to make fun of a man who hasn't any hair on the top of his head, in the place where the hair ought to grow, as the oid song says. In proof of which he telis an interesting story on how Hanniba! Hamlin was defeat ed for the senate. "Up in Maine," said Mr. Stewart, "there was a man who was very bald. One day Mr. Hamlin came along anu tapped the man's smooth skull. 'I just want to tell you,' he said, 'that one of your two hairs is crossed with the other.' "The remark was made only in fun, hut the bald-headed man never forgot it. Long afterward he was a member of the upper branch o( the Maine drone of mosquitoes which had been In the habit of slipping out of the cistern and Into my room at night. They were making a fierce attack on the bar, and I concluded that I would get up and make a little Investigation—an after midnight study, as It were —of this winged assassin. I did so. "I never saw so many mosquitoes before. They were mad, too. The fact that they had encountered the bar seems to have made them furious. They were buzzing like a nest of dis turbed hornets. But what surprised me more than any other thing was the fact that several dozen had managed to get through and were actually on the Inside, and had really begun to chew me. On the outside of the bar I found a perfect swarm. Some of them were fastened in the threads of the bar. They were trying to squeeze through the little holes of the bar, just as the others had done. Their long legs, or their wings, or some part of the body, had become tangled and they were hopelessly tied. Now how did they know how to get through these little places by the squeezing process? How did they know this was the only possible way to reach the food they wanted? I tell you the mosquito Is capable of learning a few things, and he is being educated up to some of the artifices of human kind, and that's all there is to it."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. is techincally known as "pebbled." The famous Virginia stove also stands upon legs, Is about seven feet high and is handsomely ornamented. It is "three stories" high aiul of pyra midal shape, and was made in 1770 for the house of burgesses at Williams burg, whence it was removed to Rich mond when the seat of government was removed hither. The founder, one Buzaglo, whose place of business was in England, wrote of the "warm ing machine" that "the elegance of workmanship does honor to Great Britain. It exceeds in grandeur any thing ever seen of tho kind and is a masterpiece not to be equaled in all Europe. It has met with general ap plause and could not be sufficiently admired." So, notwithstanding its advantages of a few years in age, the Minneapolis stove must pale its ineffectual fires when compared with our big. highly ornamental and aristocratically con nected (historically speaking) old warming machine. Richmond Dis patch. the deck or platform they breathe out a thankful 'Here at last,' as if that were the point. The ancients got about in a different spirit. They wan dered where 'sweet adventure called them.' They merely roamed, setting themselves no goal. They were not whirled in hot compartments from point to point. Under the wide and starry sky they tented; these fine old tramps, Arabs, gypsies and all no mads of the Ulysses type. The peri patetic hoboes should organize a great league to prove that scenery is better than speed, and that every foot of the open road is as good as the place named on tho guldo post, toward which the wanderer's face is set. "And no epitaph is more appropriate for the mundane wanderer than this: " 'Under the wide and open sky. Where he loved to live, there let him lie; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter Is home from the hill.' legislature and Hamlin was a candi date for the United States senate. Hamlin was defeated by one vote, and that one vote was east by tho man who was bald."—Washington Post. Februarys Without Full Moon. A correspondent corrects some er roneous statements about a month with no full moon, which appeared recently In a paragraph quoted from a Missouri paper. "As a matter of fact," he says, "the month of Febru ary, 388G, had a full moon, which fell on the IBth, as reference to the al manac for that year will show. The month of February, 1893, however, had no full moon, nor did that of 18(16, and this is no Infrequent occurrence, but happens evci-y twenty or thirty years. The month of February hav ing, except in leap year, only twenty eight days, and the moon's phases be ing separated by an average period of twenty-nine days, it of necessity follows that in February frequently only three such phases occur. The phenomena Is therefore neither raro nor of any interest, and the only won der is who could first have started so foolish a story as that no month without a fell moon had occurred since the creation of the world, nor wonld recur again for two and a half million years."—New York Tribune. GRIM OLD NEWGATE PRISON. Soene of Much Crime and Mlaory Con demned to Deitructicn. Grim, forbidding old Newgate prison, which in the course of Its cen tury and a half of existence has housed so many men and women condemned to destruction, has been condemned to destruction Itself so many times 'and still remained undisturbed In all its ugliness and dinginess that it would not be surprising if any further an nouncement of the historic prison's Impending doom weie received with polite incredulity similar to that which greeted the young man's cry of "Wolf!" However, such an announcement must be made, for it has now been decided definitely that the long-de ferred destruction and rebuilding of the famous jail shall begin May 24. Al ready the wardens are beginning to move. Temporary cells are being built in tho "Old Bailey"—the scarcely less famous court houso which adjoins Newgate—where the prisoners now awaiting trial can be kept, and on the day mentioned the soot-blackened jail house where Jonathan Wild, Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Brownrigg and many other criminals almost as famous were confined and executed will be at tacked by an army of workmen, the great blocks of granite of which it is built will be loosened one by one, and so one of the most interesting remains of old London will pass away.—Lon don Exchange. NEW TRANSVAAL STAMPS. King's Head Replaces Boer Legend —Orange River Coat of Arms. While peace negotiations were pending in South Africa, tife new colonial government went ahead just as if the war was over and the terri tory already at peace. The Trans vaal government issued a set of post age stamps, which are In great de mand by collectors. There are ten va rieties, each of a different color, rang ing in price from one cent to $2.50. All of the stamps bear the head of King Edward, facing to the left, in an oval within a finely beaded frame, in gray black. Above the head is a crown and at the foot the word "Transvaal." The one-cent stamps, are a bluish-green, and the colors of the others range from a scarlet to orange, olive green and purple. The British Colonial Office, mean time, Is considering a new coat of arms design by Lockwood Kipling, father of the poet and novelist, for the new Orange River Colony, which was formerly the Orange Free State. The coat of arms consists of a plain heraldic shield bearing an orange tree and above it a Tudor rose; on the ground are waved lines, the symbol of water, typifying the name Bloemfon tein. Two springboks support the shield. EXPLAINS PELEE'S ACTIONS. Views of Prof. Verrill on the Recent Eruption. Some of the phenomena attending the destruction of St. Pierre have been difficult to explain, especially the sheet of flame that seems to havo accompanied or closely followed the violent explosion of gas. Prof. Verrill of Yale states his view to be that the heat is sufficient to cause the dissociation of hydrogen and oxygen from water coming sud denly into contact with the lava In the crater, and that in the case of sea water chloride would be dissociated from sodium. These gases suddenly ejected with great violence and exploding in the air above the crater would produce the effects manifested on so great a scale at Martinique. The people were killed by the sud-' den explosion of a vast volume of 1 hydrogen and oxygen; and this ae-; counts for the sudden burning of floc-li and clothes, as well as of buildings' and of vessels in the roadstead. Tho chlorine combining with some 1 of the hydrogen would produce hydro-, chloric acid, which is poisonous and i suffocating and would quickly kill all: those not destroyed by the first ex- ' plosion. RELATIONS STILL STRAINED. Little Incident in Church Did Net Tend to Unite Lovers. Growing out of a misunderstanding in a figure in tho german, strained re-1 lations existed between Miss Guard and Carruthers. Next morning in j church, Carruthers was thinking over! the situation, planning some delicate j means of mollifying his sweet foe. While mentally perfecting the details | of the scheme, he felt an insect on j the back of his neck. Steadily the thing advanced, and he | could almost feel the touch of each ' separate leg as it marched over the j sensitive skin. His first impulse was to smash the creature then and there,' but he took a momentary pleasure in* seeing how long he could endure the sensation with masterly stoicism. | At last he made a fierce backward grab for the marauding bug, and found in his hand the dainty feather ed hat of Miss Guard, whose pretty head had been bent in prayer. The strained relations still exist, j Unique Idea fcr Boston Square. ! It is hoped to make Lafayette square at Boston a center for the statues of distinguished foreigners who have drawn swords In the cause of America. Tho square already has Btatues of Lafayette and Rochambeau, Rnd It iR proposed to place there those of Pulaski" nnd Steuben. Some horses are fast, but the aver age mule is behind with his business. A Lynn (Mass.) firm made a shoe In thirteen minutes. WjWNDUSTBjMh A firm in Germany controls a pateni [or extracting fibre from wood, and is ipinning yarn from the material. It rannot be bleached easily, but is capa ble of being dyed with good results It Is asserted that cloth manufactured from this fibre is suitable for tailors' linings, bed tickings, curtains, etc. A factory to manufacture such goods will be established at Bilbao, Spain. A very curious case of acetylene lighting is reported from Germany, at Stadtbach, in Augsberg. At this poini there is a large cotton mill, which de rives its power from a waterfall a little over a mile distant. The natural con clusion would be that electric lighting would be adopted, but, owing f'o the liability of the turbines being stopped at intervals during winter, owing to ice, it has been decided to employ acetylene, which can, at least, be de pended on for continuous service. One of the astronomers at the Brus sels Observatory has taken several ex cellent large-size photographs of the sun when near its setting that show very distinctly the oval appearance it sometimes has at that hour. Every body is familiar with the fact that the sun appears larger when near the hori zon, by which the lower edge of the ! sun seems to be lifted with reference | jto the upper edge, giving the disk the ' appearance of being compressed. In ! pne of the photographs referred to the | joval shape is very noticeable, the ratio I (of the vertical to the horizontal diame j tor being as seventy-five to eighty-four. j In the city of Tacoma some scien tific sharps have discovered away to do in two days what it has lieretofre taken nature 1.000,000 years to ac ' pompllsh, according to geologists, j Gypsum is what has been called for j convenience "young marble"—that is. If left to itself some thousands or mill ' lons of years it would become marlfie. j These Tacoma sharps are now shaping their gypsum with lathes and chisels- It. is soft and easily worked—and then (subjecting it to a secret treatment I which makes it really marble of a very ! jiigh quality. The gypsum is brought from mines in Alaska. It is said to bo . pxactly the same substance as goes to 1 form marble. i Photographic surveying is being used (y the United States Government en gineers in the work in Southeastern Alaska. Captain Pratt, of the United plates Coast and Geodetic Survey, in i recent paper before the Pacific North- West Society of Engineers, called atten | tiou to the cheapness of this method, | especially in surveying the mountain j pus coasts along Bering Sea. In many j cases where ordinary surveys were ab j folutely prohibited by their cost, he I said, the camera could be used for ex j (ensive surveys at a very small cost as ; compared with other methods. The j Canadian Government has also adopT ! Ed photographic survey methods in I tarrying out similar extensive work. Bruin and Intellect. The exact seat in the brain of the | highest intellectual faculties has ■ jfonncd a moot point in science since j the functions of the organ of mind be ; gan to he investigated with accuracy, j The general opinion localized what we I term "mind" in the pre-fontal lobes of I the brain, but by another school - of thinkers the hinder lobes have been credited with performing our highest : cerebral duties. The balance of evl j dence is decidedly in favor of the for j mer view, and recent researches and i observations by Dr. Phelps, an Amer j lean investigator, would appear to as i sist in strengthening the opinion that ■ the most important portion of the brain I is its anterior region. In the course of t the investigations In question some ! 295 cases of brain injury and disease ! were examined. In all save two it was | noted that Interference of extensive | nature with the pre-fontal region re j suited in serious disturbance of the I mental faculties. Less severe injury | produced less marked effects. These 1 facts parallel the researches of other : investigators, and they are further sub- I stantiated by what is observed iu cases I of idiocy connected with a want of ' development of the froutal lobes of the brain.—London Chronicle. ' ! Gn.es In the Air. i When Lord Italeigh announced that i the air contained other gases besides j those which had for long been known i to outer into its composition there was i for the moment a gasp of almost in : credulous surprise. If anything were i well known by chemists, surely it was | the composition of the air. One now constitutent suggested, however, the gas argou, was proved by mauy ob servations to have a real existence. A little later other elements, some of them hitherto unknown, were found to exist in appreciable quantities in the atmosphere. 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