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Show Things Quaint and Surious Gathered Kere and here i WOMAN FRIEND OF SAILORS. Mrs. Nancy Rose Faithfully Lighthouse Larrps. LEAP OF Attends Marvslou h which ii til cables coulJ be traisfutmid i.uo tehvuoi'e lines was an. utt ui ,i a ,ii tally thought hat ta,Uu air s uu t ai tic would .i c ; ashed fact coils LOCOMOTIVE. A Feat Recently Performed ui i t a. a m rim and min. i i i'i .a d hi .cl this s .t' la is n i! 1 i i i i . i- - A who ! u) tn n -- -- - u mBtiT H I .. 5 rr. n - & jrf ' O n nf p - lil t hull ip i n I i in i I - i I mi his fun ihe leal ( b m ml uni Kli ii i .ill Wlllt 7, C. 's - S- . .V 'V nl. r r. - 7 Stony Point's Two Lighthouses burning every night as regularly as twenty eight feet lay before the locomotive the sun while the river was open. There was no time to stop Mrs. Rose recently rounded out her the engine wbih was traveling at fiftieth year of lite In the govern- about miles an hour, and the ments little cottage high up on Stony only thing for the men on the footPoint During that time she has plate to do was to jump. The driver tended the lights, but for only forty-fiv- e and the stoker jumped and were years as the official light keeper. killed. The locomotive also Jumped, First she did the work for her hus- and, strange to say, landed safely, band, v.ho was appointed keeper in though much battered and disabled, 1852 In 1S57 the government put up on the other side. a ball tower to warn river crafts durTo this day no satisfactory explaing fogs and while at work on Its nation has ever been offeted to aca count for the Mr. Rose ruptuied construction long jump of the locomoblood vessel, which caused his death tive, and It can only he said, in partial six weeks afterward explanation that the engines momenMrs Rose was appointed to be her tum must have beea so great that It husbands successor, but in reality she had, to a certain extent, overcome only continued the work that she had Its own tremendous weight and the formerly done and, unless appear- - natural laws of gravitation, aud made It for the moment a free agent that did, until the speed was slackened, literally fly through space. How otherwise could It without the least support, have passed throuh such a great space? fitty-nin- e BURIAL OF CANINE ACTOR. Dog. Given Honorable Interment New York Cemetery. After playing on the stage before the czar of Russia, the empress of China, the mikado of Japan and others less notable, Tyras, a great Dane . , The Keepers Cottage, ances deceive, she will remain In charge of the light until lack of.phy- steal strength makes her retirement . imperative. It must not be supposed that living upon the Point makes Mrs. Rose's life lonesome. She baa a pretty Jittle cob tage, surrounded by flower beds, with a barn, a garden and all the other dog, has been burled with honors In New Yorks dog cemetery at Scars-dalHis body lay In a rosewood coffin, the head on a pillow of flowers, and was followed to the cemetery by nine automobiles, containing forty mourners. Tyras was 13 years old and belonged to an actor. He had appeared on the stage In nearly every country of the world. He had been twice around the globe, and at the time of death wore a beautiful collar given to him by Cecil Rhodes.. Ten years ago Prince Charles of Denmark gave the dog to the actor, who impersonated "great men of the past and presThe actor always had the dog ent by his sjdo in his impersonation of Bismarck, as Bismarck for years was always a compacted by his reirhs-hund- . e. ' 1 ; "k trouUU atB W?r lUfc nur more Than For fSt s I im 1 mi!d m t k ii- - iiml the ::S f mouth mi - fm - tt of the VT - will ilia'p the air vat lnim will In (Hated Bui befurt the an lias bad time to begin to ci ad pi ess the timer surface of tlie plate a ainst the tim of the glass irertlv but finely, and when you have hi Id It tbi ri u moment It will The reason is hang unsuppoited J da, s boy. wlm will b- - a man. If Katum urns on with- - hia drat great plan; taler or hre, or some fal.il snare, Qrespire not to rob us of this our heir W Jjjesslng, our rest, our tare. Our toimcnt our Joy; 11 Only a boy 8uspnded by Air Pressure. that the atmospheric pressure outside is greater than it is Inside the glass and that pressure holds the The object in two objecta together greasing the surface of the plate ia to make a tight joftat between that and the glass, so that the outer air cannot get inside the latter. For the secoijd experiment expend a plate as shown In the picture and adjust the strings so that it will fited than injured by the discipline ami struggle. It must be 'remembered that the preliminary sifting of the tor-plds. the eights and the trials weeds out the weaklings at Oxford who could not stand the strain. And every rowing man knows that the trained mas who tumbles baik In the boat after A hard fought race is as fit as ever within a minute. ' - ' er y d L a tr-l- as shown by the dotted lines in the diagram, leaving Just the width of the-nec- k. When the whole figure ha been cut out paste it on a piece of thin cardboard, end, when dry, cut around If it with a pair of sharp scissors. you desire the doll to stand alone, cut a narrow strip of the , pasteboard, tura down one end, glue it on the back of the waist and cut off the same length as the doll. Thus you will ihsve a, prop for the figure. Ha-go- o a Funny A game popular among the TUnklts, a tribe of Indians in southern Alaska, Is called The children range themselves in two parallel llnea. In the center of one line Is s player who holds aloft a pole with a brightly colored piece of cloth floating from It Then, from the opposite line advances a little girl who holds out her hand for the decorated stick, while all her companions make fares, say funny things and cut capers to make her laugh. if she smiles, ever so lightly, she is out of the game; but if she can keep a solemn face she takes the stick and goes back to her own line while one of the opposing players moves across the open space and tries" In tarn to keep a straight face. This goes on until there remains only one player who has not smiled, and this one" wins ihe game tor the Ha-go- 1 ' side. Gama of Slyphs of young; folk the gam sylpha ia the latest form of amusement. It la In reality electric battledore and shuttlecock. The two play- For active one-poun- d much-dreade- pave The Ue, Last Week's Puzzle. Below we give the solution to the Twelve Rings Puzzle which appear-- i on this page last week The prob-k- a was to divide the square (Fig. 1 into four equal parts of similar - Pretty Dolls of Paper, materials required are very few and simple. A few old fashion plates (these can, no doubt, be ob- talned from mother), some thin cardboard. a little tissue and thick colored paper, a pair of sharp scissors and a bottle of gum or paste are 'all that are necessary before you start to work. First cut out the figures from the fashion plates as neatly as possible and If there U an arm or hand that falls at the side, cut around it up to the armhole of the dress, as shown by the dottded lines in the. illustration, so that it is separated tram the body. It war also happen that the hair falls on the shoulders. This should also be cut round- neatly. re- - llk foolish amj som.timt-brilliant lur imp Ills hIzu , As a met ur hurled , From thv p im--t world 1 f of an Investigation regai d- 255 who were then llvipg out of trig -- .t4 who had taken part In the boat races. And seemed to khow that oarsmen were rather bene- wa, -- w the results loin lth M- - iM trunKt boy his Idle houis md his hu his qutn r rni4iks md ins odd . glat. little work, University Oars, In rind -- i ir or hujif V " 111 .iini'i mnri I ml ku il. - hang level. Gel a botUe with a hollowed out bottom all wine botttea k ss a In that way and having liape, so that each part may contain are made rubbed grease around the rim of the three of the rings. spout ilg. 2 clearly shows the way ont bottom hold the latter overa the of a boiling tea kettle for moment el the difficulty. The hot steam will take the place of the air in the hollow, and if you now An Experiment In Air Pressure. j. New and Useful. the bottle firmly against the This U article t press not an advertise-BenThe buoy for swimming and nsela under surface of the plate and hold of a cement to warranted mend life saving, here illustrated. Is freely thlnaware and glassware stronger it there for a moment or two you may a loag tube of india-rubbwith con than it was before, althodgh the pic- take your hand away atid the bottle ends, which can be inflated by tit ture looks like it No cement or glue will not fall off. This is merely anmouth in less than a minute, andli atmospheric tf any kind is used In the experiment, other illustration of and yet the plate and the wineglass, pressure. fa the one case, and the plate and the Rowing It a Great Strain, bottle !h the other, are stuck togetlv Every lad in the land grows enthuer pretty much as if some material of that kind, were the means employed. siastic when he sees or reads about a an.men Tor The adhesive force Ts nothing more close contest between nor less than the pressure of the at- the mastery over each other and Inmosphere; precisely the same force wardly vows that when he grows to that enables a boy to lift a brick or manhood he will show the world feats a stone by means of bis leathery of skill and strength that will awaken admiration. But he does no stop to sucker. Let us take the plate add the wine- consider at what cost the uaismen of reach the perfection necessary glass first. Suspend the glass from the celling or from a chandelier by to insure a triumph over their rivals, A mcdkal paper discusses the means of a string tied around its stem. Have ready an ordinary china health or the oarsmen and comes to plate, over the inner surface of which no very definite conclusion as to the you have rubbed a little butter or effect of tialnlng and racing on the after life of the varsity star. Some lard. The Serpentine Buoy. Now light a piece of paper and let years ago the late Prof. Morgan In hia then wound about the body as shows It is nineYeet long, but very thin, thus HOW TO PLAY RAINY DAY MARBLES. being easily carried in the pocket it! has the advantage of not impeding respiration, and has been recommend ed for use In the French swimming1 schools. country comforts to be found In a less mountainous place. To the north of the cottage, but a few steps away on slightly higher ground, stands the larger lighthouse of the two, white and solid, on the hill top. An eighth of a mile away, rising from the edge of the water. Is another tower containing a red beacon light and a fog horn. Both lights must burn all night and every night until the ice gets so thick that even While returning from Australia last the big river crafts that bucy in rough eight-incice have to tie up for the January with his master the dog became blind as the ship erossed the winter. equator. Arriving in New York he was taken to a dog hospital, where NEW RAPID FIRE GUN. he died of Bright's disease. A large Invented Destructive granite monument will mark Tyras Weapon Terribly last resting place. Great Britain Is this year providing by Cleveland Man. for the construction of three gret It is believed that a gua pe.fected Submarine Telephones. vessels of 18,000 tons displacement, or by Dr. S. N. McClean of Clc eland, A year or go ago when Prof. Puplns 2,000 tons more than tho has which and large ve-- f been inspetied by invention of a system of inductance sels congress has just authorized. high officials of the 1m luding army, MURDER THE COMMON RESORT OF THE MAFIA. Gen Miles and the ordnance board,- - will prove a terribly destructive weapon. The rifle of the ordinary size will shoot from 1,000 to 1,500 bullets a minute with an accurate range of between two and three miles, while the machine gun of the ordinary field type projectiles a throws 800 minute with accuracy at a range of three to five milea. Given a gun of that aort with absolutely no recoil which can be mounted and fired from as wheels with A carriage light as those used for a bicycle, the marvelous features of the invention will be understood. The cartridges are fed Into the gun An Areenal of Arme Used by Mafia Murderers. from a wheel magazine, which turns with each discharge. Each magazine The recent Mafia murder iu New of the Mafia are bound together by holds twenty-fiv- e cartridge and when York city has aroused anew interest the strongest oaths and fear of bringinone Is empty It may be removed In this Sicilian secret ing down the societys wrath makes ts one full that and by replaced stantly order. Tlje Mafia is one of the oldest the task of ferreting out and punishwithout seriously Interrupting the acin the world, ing the crimes attributable tq the secret 'organizations tion of the gun. and was started in Sicily with the order almost impossible. A decade ago New Orleans was the purpose of fighting the Italian govern-menIs Without a Country, cene of many violent" disturbance Headquarters of, the .society because of The Mafia, Chpt. Henry Marmaduke, a son of tnd the trouble former Gov. Marmaduke of Missouri, are at Palermo, but scarcely a vil- finally culminated In the murdei of Is now a man without a country. He lage on the Island la without a branch. Chief of Police Hennessey in 1891. gave up his United States citizenship In this country nearly every large city Sixteen men were and to take part in ft recent revolution in has a branch of the order, and for charged with the crime,arrested but the Tory so was cennow Orleans New its failed, America, many years whicji South failed to convict any of them. This so enraged the people that a mdb sebe is not a citizen of any land. He is ter in the United States. - Originally the society did not re- cured Is business in SL Louis. eleven of the men whose guilt sort to violent means, but gradually seemed indisputable and Grandniece ef Beecher an Actress. the members sought to gain their lynched them,. This action summarily caused-Mrs. Isabel Beecher Albert, a grand- ends In any manner possible, and la serious diplomat! altercation th has Ward Beecher, niece of Henry just recent times murder has been . fre- tue Italian government, but since it made her appearance on jhe lecture quent as the result of this vicious or? time New Orleans has been slngt y ganizatkm. .The fact that members platform. free from trouble w 1th the Mu h cm,. i ' i- the and ai the air cools a partial ria--.- FRIEND. Splendid Record Made by Mrs. E. & Pickcrt cf SL Louis. Mrs E U luki-t- i it St. Louis hal had Large iljr.ug (.Been years, of no 501 children With this reco-d- , 6he retires hum the HJsllIO i of ma tron of the South Side Day nuisery in SL lands. An Interesting fact is that she disapproves of whipping When It Is considered that none of the thildren in her care had passed the age of years, and that the majority ranged in age from three weeks to four year, the prodigious taFk that Mrs. Pickert accomplished can be readily appreciated. Still a young' woman she doe not look a day over 40 Mrs. Pickert relinquishes her arduous duties to confine her attention to the proud development of her only son now a bright young man of 19 years. All of the thousands of children that Mrs. Pickert cared for as only a woman and a mother can, were housed from time to time in the bmfdlng at 1621 South Tenth street, the commodious home of the South Side Iky nursery. The object of the nursery was and Is to rare for the small dren of mothers who are forced earn a livelihood for themselves ftsl children, and also for the children1, of widowers. burn uii'h it Orly a Will, h s Vili-. ltc c i HAS BEEN jl a!11 - X w" hate ac-smintion Intend - tween points t i Mediterranean, i i th seas Direct i.iiiii. ..on between $ i and lleilln. Copen-hio'iii bv the aid of anied as feasible. a Uii.hu.iic and technical stood"Tll the it is re; orted i .. As tie loiimiuuve was rounding a henii in the lint it was Been bj the 'river that the swinglrg btido ow a aial was, iptii, and a tliar gap it - i i 'ii the service is priih mar it Sue 1b Mrs. Naut) Ho-- e and fir fifiv vears she has trimmed the lamps of two lights on Ston Iont and hun them iiyMBWW ers hold a wand each, these wands saving been electrified by friction. The shuttlecock is represented by a butterfly made of collodion. The butterfly Ii thrown Into the air, and one orotberplayer approaches" the tip of his wand to the aylph; toe d Rainy Day Marbles is a pretty good game and can be played by two or as many at seven; .one for each black Cut out the pic- dot In the ring! Jure, with the following directions, and place the whole thing on a sheet of stiff paper or cardboard. Each player takes a pin and after first It Is decided who shall have hot and Its wtfct (inter the rest of the players shall follow, the game . begins. The object of each player is to reach one of the black dot,- - or marbles which is then hts proper- ty and counts one for him, but at the same time to keep any one of th players from reaching one. He can do this by moving In front of another In such a way that that player cannot move forward. In such case, if a player can neither move forward nor to either side, he must go back a electrified wsnds repel the butterfly, which skims away aa the wand draws to the outside of the ring and start near. 'In this way the butterfly Is sent flying hither and thither without being again. Each player can move one space to touched. A very good game, with propthe next circle in front or to the aide er rules, is made from this Idea. of the space he occnplea, but cannot ' move back, Stone Forests. When a player reaches a black dot The regions of the Little Colorado or marble he leaves his pin in It to river in Arizona abound In wonderful ' show that It Is out of the ring, and vegetable petrifaction whole forests after that, every other marble he being found in dome places which are captures counts him two, for he must hard as flint, bat which look as if but go outside and start over again on recently stripped of their 4 foliage. Some oif these stone trees are standing another line with a new pin, It I ener11y -- The-, best policy to Just as natural as life, tohtle others devote your earty moves to blocking are piled across each other just like another player, and when this has the fallen monarchs of a real forest brought you near to a marble to make Geologists say that the trees were once c sudden dash for it. covered to the depth of 1,000 feet with Each player may choose any start-play- marl, which transformed them from ' lng point he wishes, and when all the wood to solid rock. This marl, after "marbles have been knocked out the lapse of ages, washed oat, leaving the player having the largest number some of the trees standing in an upto hi, credit wins the game. tight position. 1 - er |