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Show THE DANCE OF THE SEAGULLS. HAR0V FOR FREQUENT MOVUS.; I Does Their Rhythmlo Tread Bring Worma to 8urface? "It la no uncommon sight to ace gulls, or other blrda, dancing or pad-dllnupon the annd, says a writer. g Curlews and moat other blrda do the aame thing, the object being to frighten the worma from their retreat below, when they ap pear to be Inatantly awallowed up. But the really Intereating part of the la why should the performance worma be ho frightened by the shuk-In- g produced In the annd aa to come to the aurface? The inference, of courae, la that they have a greater dread of wmie enemy beneath, whose approach they believe to be heralded by the vibration which hla movements through it Impart to the sand. When the angler wanta to collect earth worma, In a place where It ia not convenient to dig, he la accus tomed to push a stick Into the ground, and by moving thHt about Impart a vibration to the noil around, which has tbe effect of forcing thoae worma within tta Influence to crawl to the surface. This Is precisely the practice followed by the dancing gull and with the aame result. "But on land we are led to suppose that It may be an attack from a mole which the worm fears; while on the wet sands there are, of course, no moles to be dreaded. Are the worma thinking back, through a remote ancestry, to a time when they were dwellers upon dry land and were acquainted with the mole, or hla forbears, or what Is the true solution of the matter?'' Chicago News. Why Venice Still Has Charm Time UnaUe to Rob Ancient City of Its Power to Attract the Visitor to Europe. shore-feed-ln- Hurt Sailors Sense of Beauty. 1 liked the girl, said the sailor, only her ears was too long. He flulshed his drink at a gulp. Like all of them Borneo girls, he said, she was slim and lithe. Her teeth was white. Her eyes was clear. But them ears! The lobes was three Inches long. And do you know why? Because she had stretched them out. had lengthened them by pullin them continually with her fingers from childhood, the same as a Chinawoman from childhood contluually squeexes her feet In a steel box to make them small. "Wherever I went In Borneo I found the same long ears among the native girls. In Samarlnda, in Sam-pl- t, in Kudat, It was the same, and It was the same in Telokopll, in Banjar-maland in Paslr. The young women had ears that nearly touched their shoulders. The young girls all sat In the suit pullin' their ear lobes with their fingers so as to make them long. Sickenin'! n, Woman's Shining Economy. She started down town with her brothei and he was criticising the looks of her shoes. Yes. I know they are rusty, she replied, but I am going to have them shined when I get down town. Why don't you have the dago on the corner do It? asked tbe brother. "He would come to the house for em and bring em back again. But I'd have to pay him, she objected. Yes, ten cents; but youd do that anywhere. "No, indeed! she exclaimed triumphantly; I get them polished at the shop where I bought them for nothing." Don't you tip the man who does it? Inquired the unreeling brother. Why, of course. 1 give him a dime. Now what on earth art you laughing at? You men never seem to understand how a woman can be economical." New York Press. A Short Cut. There, goes a man." observed steamship agent ns he directed a at- - tention to a individual who had just engaged passage for Europe, whose efforts are devoted to constructing short cuts in business methods and in eliminating all time consuming men and their propositions from his busy existence. He is a man of very few words. Some ears ago this gentleman crossed the ocean rnd had a very unpleasant trip. One morning a sympathetic passenger offered him a lemon. expressing a slrcere wish that it would give hint relief. '"The pale traveler seized the lemon, hurled It viciously into the ocean, and growled: 'This Is a quicker way than the other. New York Telegraph. surly-lookin- g A Living Christ. A living Christ! Not far away, but near! To Emmanus. with 1dm, we Journey hero; The hidden mysteries Pt doth still, lllmself reveal to all wno do His will. A Christ who suffers with each Christian soul. Who bids us all press onward to the goal; Who weltf iim-Magdalene, nor over nn s spurns The vilest sinner who. repentant, turns. The hands and feet once marred by cruel nail He still doth show when daikcst doubts assail; He turns to look when fetors still denr. And sorrows when he meets a lialior's eye A living Christ, who still Himself Uuth give; in whom we each of us may By I've; To whom icitiboni" some mlnrlnjc cry Whilst others shout tic- - cun-- Helen Coolldge. Demand for Labor. Labor is so scarce In New Zealand that the government of that colony has asked Its high commission In London to find in England and send out 1,000 laborers for the construction of a new railway in the North Island. Three years work Is guaranteed, and Induceteents will be offered them to There is also remain permanently. great demand for agricultural laborers la western Australa. Furniture Easily Put Together and Taken Apart Knockdown furniture," or furniture which can be quickly taken apart for transportation and as nulckly assembled again at the next point of destination Is of very great value for certain purposes. An Illustration of n knockdown table is shown here, the WILLARD NEWELL. (Special Correspondence.) No other city has been the subject of ao many glowing descriptions aa Venice. The terms of praise in all the languages of the civilised world have been well-nig- h exhausted In describing her charms. She appears more often In the descriptive literature of the nations than any other city, not excepting imperial Rome Itself. Nor Is she famed in description alone, for her history is writ large In the record of the centuries tint have rassed since tbe Middle Ayes, nnd her gifts to mankind, In the advancement of rerain j, have ligion, the arts caj been numerous, and amply recorded. The traveler y is drawn to Venice by the image of Its beauties, and he lingers a willing subject to its charms, even after the first warm Impression on the senses has been dimmed, to feel the subtle stimulant to dreams conveyed by the mellow It to-da- This actor's rendition of Cbatterton, the critics. The Marvelous Boy, r ' the development of painting and of printing Is too well known to need extended mention. The fame of its great artists ta imperishable; and the books It produced when the art of printing was young are yet examples .to the ambitious who would be good printers. Its place In religion has been second only to that of Rome, and Its chief church, St Mark's. Is the richest specimen of Byzantine architecture In Europe, and the finest example of architectural coloring In the world. Its walls are encrusted with gold mosaics and its art treasures are beyond price. So adaptable aro the beauties of Venice to pictorial representation,' that no city has been rendered more familiar than the Jewel of the Adriatic. Its canals, of which It has more than 150, Its tall, beautifully colored houses, its many churches, Its world-famepalace of the Dogea, its lagoon The Herald Square Theater, New York, is to be converted into a vaudeville house. Marie Dressier is to invade London next season with her rubnst humor. She will sail In August and appear in a musical comedy. the biblical drama writ''Mizpnh, ten by Kiln Wheeler Wilcox, lias found public approval uud critical commendation In the east. The Social Whirl," a new musical comedy offering, presented by the Messrs. Shubort. had its premiere In New Haven. March 18. The Heart of Odette Tyler of Maryland. Is to lead a stock company at Washington, D. C.. her home, opening the latter part of April. Miss Florence Roberts will begin her first starring engagement in New York April 2 In a new play entitled The Strength of the weak. Eleanor Robson presented Jerome K. Jerome's new play, Susan in Search of a Husband, at Portland. Me., on March IB for the first time. J. E. H. says In the Topeka Capital: Hanford can draw more of the to the theater In any given town west of the Missouri river than any other actor." Charles Frohman has signed contracts with Mrs. Edith Wharton and Clyde Fitch by which they are to make a dramatization of Mrs. Wharton's novel, The House of Mirth. Clara Bloodgood is to be a star again under Mr. Frohman's manage-men- . and her vehicle will be another play of Clyde Filch, who wrote The Girl with the Green Eyes for her. Lillian Woodward Gunckel of Chicago has been giving readings of In Paris, Stephen Phillips Herod France. She has a number of engagements to road next month In Lonhlgh-browe- d don. Kelly and Violette. the well known singers In vaudeville, have been compelled to Cancel several recent hookings, owing to both suffering from at- tacks of tonsilltls that made their appearance Impossible. Therese Raquin Is the Zola play which Mme. Kullch has added to her repertory. She produced ii recently In Washington and was the recipient of unqualified praise at the hands of the ablest critics In the national capitol. James J. Corbett, after flirting with several managers regarding his future, has signed with Mlttenthal Bros., for next season, and will be seen as the ajar in a comedy melodrama to be written for him by Langdon McCormick. Miss Edna May. who sailed for Eng- land last week, denied that she was going over to get married, as rumored. I am going direct to London," she said, and am in for hard work. I expect to appear three weeks hence in The Belle of Mayfair. " Orrin Johnson signed a five years contract with Edward .A. Broden, Harry E. Converse and Mason Peters, whereby they agree to star Mr. Johnson in several plays, beginning with Thomas W. Broadhurst's The Plainsman. which will be produced during next month. Sidney Drewy has Joined the ranks of actors who have gone into bankruptcy under the new Federal law. Drew says that he owes (3.172 to various creditors for things bought nr and that his for money borrowed available assets are a lot of clothing valued at (250. "The Transcoso Trail, a Western play, recently produced by the Peters Converse Company in the East, has been transferred to Henry Jewett, who will use it as a starring vehicle. Jewett has worked the play over con slderably and made It more of a melodrama than anything else. The- one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Edwin Forrest was observed in Philadelphia. Forrest's grave was decorated and commemorative exercises were held at the Edwin Home. Addresses were delivered by Colonel A. K. McClure and S. G. Thompson, president of the home. Jessie Mill ward, who was well known there during her connection with various Frohman ccUHtCes. has Used as a Table. At regular Intervals on the plat is a series of keyhole slots, recesses being formed In the rear, of each slot. At the upper end the locking plates are bent at right angles over the post. The crosspieces are made with plates projecting at the ends, these plates fitting over the plates at the tope of the corner poets and held In place by luge, if desired, additional crosspieces can be added and drawers Inserted between them, the top of the table is made with cleats on the under surface, these cleats fitting into grooves on the upper crosspieces. - has been lng plate. - been resting for several seasons In her English home. Reports from London have It that she has been secured to play an Important part In the new comedy, "A School for Husbands, soon to be produced In London. Walter N. Lawrence announced that he will next season star Miss Carlotta Killson. leading woman in The Man on (he Box." in a four-ac- t play that will give opportunity for the display of both the light and serious sides of the actress' talents. The play is said to lie by a woman, a newcomer In the field of playwriting. Julian Mitchell, tired of having nothing strenuous on his hands, Is reported to be contemplating a trip to Purls, with a view of taking a hand In big productions over there. Bessie Clayton (Mrs. Mitchell) will likely accompany him and play an engagement In some of the productions, doing her well known dances. Harry Davis, the' Pittsburg theatrical magnate has decided to branch out. Davis last week secured a site tor a new theater in Philadelphia, which will be made a part of his vaudeville and stock circuit. He has already taken over a big piece of property in Germantown, Pa., where he intends to erect an Indoors amusement arcade. Lincoln, a drama founded upon the life of the great president. Is be lng produced In the east. It is said to he a play of considerable strength and Gov, Roberts of Connecticut said In comment: It Is a lesson in patriot ism and should be seen by ever) American who loves his country and reveres the memory of the nations martyred chief." Henry Clay Barnabee. the dean of comic opera comedians. Is not discourtour ' in aged after his disastrous Cloverdell." Mr. Barnabee is 74 years old, but claims he can sing and dance and act as well as any of the comic opera stars of the time, and he insists that as long as he feels this way he intends to remain In active work on the stage. William Laekaye is seeking the At the Telerights of the drama phone," the one-ac- t play from the French which was presented at the Garrick theater In 1902. Charles Frohman controls the American rights. Edwin StevenB played the role of tbe min who hears over the telephone the death screams of his wife, who is being killed by burglars. Miss Cecil Spooner will be a star again next fall. The Vehicle for starring her has been written by Charles E. Blaney, and it Is known as The Girl Raffles. Th title role Is what is known as a Ceci Spooner part. Fencing, dancing and specialties Introduced throughout the play serve to give opportunities to Miss Spooner. The manuscript was recently read to the Spoonera, and the star's sister and her mother are en- thusiastic over - d well received by Personal Msntlon. Invention of n North Carolina man. It la strong, durable and efficient nnd can be readily assembled without the use of nails or screws. When taken apart it can he packed within a small space for shipping or storage. On the Inner side of each of the legs of the table Is a metal lock- - It. Spurred on by the unusual success of Bernhardts farewell American tour, David Belasco has been busy of late trying to tempt Lotta to return to the stage for one brief season of farewells. It is said that there Is a bare possibility that the once fam ous actress will listen to the persuasions of Belasco. In the event that she does make this tour Lotta will be seen as the Marchioness in a version of her former great success. Little Nell. Fred Walton has produced something new In vaudeville which Is big hit. It is called Clssle's Dream, and shows the nurse putting a little girl to bed after she has had a play with her toys. Following a dgrk change the toys march out In 1 itemize and Indulge In a fight that Is said to be grotesquely amusing. Walton as the wooden soldier introduces his familiar specialty In a neat way. With the toys broken and tumbled in mass the scene changes again with the little girl pictured sitting up in bed screaming for the nurse. She tells her of the fight, but the nurse protests that she has only been dreaming, and to prove It opens the closet displaying the toys arranged In rows as neatly as they were when put awi'y. ' THE STUDENT'S LOST CAP. HAD Lady Hastily Departed, After Making Restitution. She was apparently from Barnard. Flushed and pretty, her Jaunty Jacket and voluminous plaited skirt flapping madly In the breeze, she rounded the corner of One Hundred and Twentieth street and Broadway Just as a Columbia student issued from the big gate, head down, toward her. In a trice the tiny cap which covered a dozen hairs in the region of his gray matter was wept Into space. When he looked His eye up It had disappeared. searched the horizon. Nothing but a maidens petticoats describing aerial circles met hie gase. Say, foleter, cried a shrill voice from the corner, want yer cap? Why dont you ask her to hoist?" indicating the swirling skirts with a comprehensive gesture. A little shriek, a little shake, and down came the cap from the concealing draperies. 1 beg a thousand pardons, began the youth. But the girl was racing through One Hundred and Twentieth street as though the furies Were after her. New York World. Young On a Canal. trumion tnat makes Venice, of all citall its features-havheed rendered ies, our modern Ideal of what was familiar to most of us. great In the brave and glorious past. e Were Traders and Fighters. Here again we feel the spirit that led the Venetian traders and fighting men to the Beae of the East, where they conquered islands and cities, levied on Dalmatian, Greek and Turk, and brought back the gold, the pearls, the slke and spices that came by caravan from the fabulous eastern land pf Cathay, to which no white man penetrated until young Marco Polo, a Venetian, traversed the vast, mystic deserts of Asia and visited the realm of the great and hitherto unknown Khan of all the Tartars. No way was too long for the Venetian of old to travel, if It brought good to hla beloved city; no wealth too hard to obtain. Venetian Through hands passed all (he goods of the Orient used in Europe. The men of Venice were fighters, because the path of trade must be blazed with the eword. They cleared the Adriatic sea of pirates; they subdqed coasts and Islands aa far as Constantinople and levied tribute. They were rich and powerful for more than six centuries, from about 900 to about 1500. The Splendor and power of their government, under an elected ruler called the Doge, and In latter times under a dictatorial council, dazzled and awed the weaker peoples about them. Waning of Venetian Glory. From refugees, driven before the rude rulers north of the Alps to seek shelter on the marshy Islands in the Adriatic lagoon, to the richest and most accomplished people in Europe, A City of Silence. Yet one thing, and that its chief charm, can never be conveyed by pic-- . tue or description, and that la the curloLs sense of silence that one feels upon entering the city of the sea. None of the street noises of other cities exist here. Its waterways are thoroughfares that give no echo and leave no track. No vehicles rattling over stony pavements, no shriek of horn or clang of bell offend (he ear in Venice. AH is serenely still, and ao beautiful is the calm that the native and the stranger .alike seem Instinctively to speak softly and move quietly for fear of dispelling the charm. The conditions here favor rest, and as the climate is soft and equable, Venice Is an ideal place for the mentally or physically tired, and Is much frequented by persons wishing to escape from the wear and worries of modern life. But while quiet and restful, Venice Is by no means an Idle place. It has large business interests, manufacturing lace, mirrors, gilded frames and many other things. Its fishing business Is also considerable. Although built on many small Islands the number is said to be 117 dnd. having canals for Its principal arteries of traffic, Venice is not without streets. To be sure, there are no horses or carriages ever seen In these streets, but they are lined with shops and always well filled with pedestrians. They are at the backs of the houses, like alleys in a modern city, and are connected where the canals Intersect them with bridges, of which there are 378, great and small, In the city. All the houses on the Grand Canal have an exit on a street In the rear; and though one goes to his hotel by gondola, and steps out of it directly Into the hotel office, he may go out for a stroll at any time by the back d all over Vendoor, and walk ice. Cheap Dentistry In 8kowhegan. n Doc Fooler Is a dentist in Skowhegan, Maine. One day a log driver called to have a tooth ex-well-know- dry-sho- Office Boy or Smalt Man? business man who was In a hurry called up an establishment that had failed to deliver goods as ordered. A small, boyish voice was heard at the other end of the Hue: Whom do you want? Mr. Brown, and hurry up, my A boy. All right, and the receiver was hung up. In four minutes it was taken down and the email voice said: "Mr. Brown la not in. Can I aid you?" See here, my son, snapped the man who was in a hurry, I want te talk with some one who can do business. When I need the office boy I will call for him. The way for yon to get along is to let other things Bridge of Sight. alone and attend to your own duties." That Is what I am trying to do, was a transformation the Venetians were slow in affecting; and their glory sir, responded the small, soft voice. I am the president of the company. began to wane only when internal Rochester Herald. strife weakened them so much that they could not resist the onslaughts of Novelist's Home in Demand. their foes by sea and land, including It is reported that the Samoan resitheir most powerful rivals, the Genoese. Little by little the great repub- dence of Robert Louis Stevenson, lic oC Venice lost I power, until It Vallima, will become a tourist hotel, fell under the wajr of first one for- or it may be that it will be made the eign dictator atitr another. Austria official residence of the German repcoveted it, and In the eighteenth cen- resentative. A syndicate of Philadeltury held It In subjection; and Napol- phians Is negotiating with the present eon made It a stepping stone to his owner of the villa with the tourist goal of ambition, when, in 1797, he en- hotel plan In view, while the German tered it, and stabled his horses In the government Is desirous of acquiring the property and contemplates making courtyard of the Doge's palace. The place Venlee has occupied in an offer. Had Tooth Out Without Coat tr acted, and asked the doctor if II would hurt. If it doesnt, you neednt pay," re plied the doctor. After considerable yanking and twisting, the tooth was taken out Did it hurt? laughingly inquired the doctor. Not a bit, replied the log driver marching out Boston Herald. Bavaria Supplies Skeletons. Trade in human skeletons, which Ii a regular business with certain house: Is most active In September, when th medical schools and colleges open foi the year. While some skeletons an obtained in this country, the grea bulk of the supply comes from Bavs rla, and the price rules high or low ai the death rate In that country move: up and down. Hard to See Justice In This. One Woodrow of Mineral connty, V Va., killed his own baby in its mot! er's arms. He was convicted on h testimony, hut appealed on the groun that a wife is not a competent wl nesa against her hnshand. The S Feme court of the State held that hi claim is rorfect and he probably wl g- - free. |