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Show Be INDEPENDENT. D. C. JOUSsO.V, Pnbllsher. SPRINGVILLE. UTAH Edison may do all he says, but the horse has had several scares before. Presumably the first pitchers battle on record was when the bull got Into the china shop. With the arrival at London of Richard Rich-ard Harding Davis the coronation program pro-gram should be safe. The beef trust has succeeded in converting con-verting the Spanish bull fight Into a very expensive luxury. This is the open season for balloon-Ists. balloon-Ists. It's a dull day that doesn't bring down an aeronaut or two. Young men should not overlook the lack of harmony between a small-sized small-sized salary and a Panama hat. Egypt 13 our latest customer for coal. It is only a question of time until we shall get around to Newcastle. New-castle. Albany, N. Y., has refused to accept ac-cept a Carnegie library. Alas poor Andrew! He may have to die rich after all. People want to get away from Mar-Unique Mar-Unique so badly that they would even embark on United States government transports. A woman is to assist Mr. Marconi in his wireless telegraph business. No doubt this is done to preserve the secret code. Young Mr. Rockefeller says that money is an incident. Yes, but it is an incident that has bulked pretty large in his family. Sir Thomas Lipton will try again with Shamrock III. encouraged, maybe, by the old saying that the third time never falls. That national commission to study the tramp question should take a few ham sandwiches along if he wants to get close to Its subject. The American visitor who asked a London barmaid for a Mamie Taylor found out that the foreign Invasion of Europe is not yet complete. Colorado Is suffering from forest fires. It is strange that no correspondent corre-spondent has succeeded in warping them into a volcanic eruption. Several scientific gentlemen nav peeked Into the crater of Mont felee. But they have not as yet hit mpon a plan for preventing further emotions. The man who was killed by an elephant ele-phant the other day probably didn't suffer any more than has many a man who was killed by a little old rusty nail. Members of the nobility in England are rapidly disposing of their castles and estates in order to make a respectable respect-able appearance in the coronation parade. Mrs. Laura Dainty Pelham thinks ragtime is to be the salvation of American music. But is American music worth saving under such a condition? It Is rumored that when Lord Sholto Douglas, who has been conducting a saloon in Seattle, attends the coronation corona-tion he will be asked to go 'way back and sit down. A New York man died the other day as the result of overexertion in playing play-ing ping-pong. It is in order now for somebody to denounce the game a3 a menace to society. Scientists who want to come home again will wait until Mont Pelee is In better humor before looking down its throat to see what causes it to have that dark-brown taste. That governor of Martinique who refused to let the people flee before it was too late probably had the public pub-lic officeholder's desire to hang on to his job till the last minute. Bishop Spalding says the women are responsible for three-fourths of the sins of humanity. Adam was more liberal than this; he only blamed Eve for half of the sins of his day. Presumably the fad of going bareheaded, bare-headed, which is reported to be still spreading in Washington, is adopted only by such men as have not Invested their last year's savinga in new Panama Pan-ama hats. That automobile fatality at Staten Island proves conclusively that nothing noth-ing short of a track surrounded by a boiler plate fence at least ten feet high will protect the public from these erratic terrors. That sea captain who has discovered In the Caribbean sea a floating island filled with monkeys, which threw co-coanuts co-coanuts at him from tree tops, is entitled en-titled to a vote of thanks because he did not find a comic opera troupe on it also. Locusts as diet are only to be considered con-sidered tolerable, of course, with the understanding that they shall be of the variety that appear only once in seventeen years. Most people, however, how-ever, would prefer the seventy-year kind. It Is said that there is really very little difference In the appearance of a Panama hat that costs $75 and that of a good imitation that costs (2. If this is true, then many men will look long without finding a better opportunity of saving $73. Emperor William says that in the next European war 4,000 men with machine guns will be able to put 80, 000 to flight. This Is a trifle over the scriptural proportion and may subject the kaiser to fresh criticisms on the ground of unorthodoxy. An Ohio lady has secured an injunction injunc-tion to prevent her husband associating associat-ing with another woman. Now let some lonesome wife secure an injunction injunc-tion to restrain her husband from staying stay-ing down-town after office hours and there will be precedents sufficient to bring about a reign of joy that shall be all-embracing. It is not exactly an impertinence for the unscientific commentator to remark re-mark that the best place for the eminent emi-nent geologists to study volcanoes is at a cafe distance lrom the crater. To a Tomcat. Creature of night; bold, brazenly immoral. im-moral. Responsible to neither gods nor men; From out the dark thy irreligious choral Jars on my nerves and angers me again. When dogs and other honest brutes art sleeping. And not a cur awakes to bay the moon. With low companions thou thy watch art keeping And giving tongue to thy unlovely tun. What demon, deep within thy black hear t hidden. What base promoter of foul deeds and strife, Malignity and hate and war has bidden Thee lead that dissolute and vlclouj life? Art thou provoked by Influence infernal infer-nal To levy war on all thy wretched kind. Profane the air with revelry nocturnal. To gratify thy dark and bloody mindf r Thy fur, once thick, is largely dissipate, Thy ears are notched, thy lips aie gashed and torn. Six Inches of thy tall has been abated. Thou art a thing to look upon with scorn, Yet why waste hard-wrought verses in denouncing Thy manifold transgressions, callous cat? The word for you I'll lose no time pronouncing, pro-nouncing, Take good care that you heed it. Thorn-as: Thorn-as: Scat! From the Portland Morning Oregonlan. Headless Turtle. It has generally been supposed by naturalists that the seat of the animal's ani-mal's Instinct, as of reason in man, is in the brain. An incident related by Dr. Eugene Murray-Aaron, formerly secretary and curator of the American Entomological Society, which came under his observation while one of a party of specimen hunters in the West Indies, would go to show the contrary, says the New York Tribune. He say that a snapping turtle was discovered on the beach of an island where the party was encamped, making for the water. One of the party seized an ax and cut off the turtle's head. Still tha headless body continued moving with scarcely diminished rapidity, leaving the head behind on the sand. The turtle tur-tle was picked up and carried som j distance inland, then placed down, the neck facing away from the sea. As if in perfect condition, the turtle turned round and made for the water again, apparently anxious to escape even without its head. Baby Face In Orange. One of the oddities the navel orange is noted for is its remarkable freaku in simulating at times portions of tho human anatomy. One of the most singular freaks of this kind is a large orange with a child's head protruding from thn navel. The head is perfect, the fave being the exact reproduction of a crying cry-ing child. The orange 13 preserved in spirits at Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Wingless Birds. The kiwi is the sole remnant of th wonderful race of wingless birds that once roamed all over New Ze4-land, Ze4-land, the gigantic skeletons of som j of which have been found in sucU numbers that almost every museum in the world possesses one or more af them. The kiwi is about the size of a partridge, has a rather long neck an.l a curious bill about four inches in length. Its wings are quite undeveloped, undevel-oped, and its feathers have a sort c unfinished character, which may bo supposed to represent Nature's earl efforts In that direction, before tha close, rich plumage of the modern bird was "evolved." Wanting the means of flight, the kiwi has almost been exterminated, and with it also have gone, or nearly gone, all the other leathered denizens of the woods. The invasion of their haunts by the white man has been their destruction. "Forcing" Chickens. Chicken farming as practiced nowadays nowa-days implies the use of implements and foods which would have seemed strange to a past generation. When a chicken has been fed up to such a point that it begins to refuse its food, the fattener uses a "cramming pump" and forces oatmeal and milk flown the throat of the unwilling bird. This can go on for only a few days, for after once being crammed in this fashion a bird will never eat again of its own accord. . To give a final touch of perfection to the pump capon, a preparation of arsenic is added to the food during the last few days before it is to be killed. This make3 the bird plump and glossy, and adds still a few ounces to its portly frame. Th'a curious part about this poison treatment treat-ment is that it does not seem -to injure in-jure the birds in any way for market, nor to make them unwholesome. Life In a Common Cheese. Prof. Adametz, who has devoted considerable time to the study of the fragrant subject, says that the population popu-lation of an ordinary cheese when & few weeks old is greater than the number of persons upon the earth. He has made some interesting researches re-searches dealing with the minute organisms or-ganisms found in cheese. From a microscopic mi-croscopic examination of a soft variety va-riety of cheese he obtained the following fol-lowing statistics: In 15 grains of cheese, when perfectly fresh, from 90,000 to 140,000 microbes were found, and when the cheese was 70 days old the population had increased to 800,-000 800,-000 In each 15 grains. -An examination examina-tion of a denser cheese at 25 days old proved it to contain . 1,200,000 in each gram (about 15 grains), and when 45 days old 2,000,000 in the same particle. par-ticle. Living "Walking Sticks." Quite the largest of all the "walking sticks," as insects of a certain kind that imitate twigs are called, is to be found in Brazil. It counterfeits a little branch quite wonderfully, even to the joints. Of course, the object of nature - in making these creatures so like twigs is to enable them " to conceal themselves from their enemies, such as birds. They have no other means of defense, and if they were conspicuous conspicu-ous they would very quickly be goo-bled goo-bled tip. The "walking sticks" vary consid erably In appearance, always counter-felting counter-felting the twigs of the kind of tree on whicn they happen to live. Even the knots and the bark are copied bo accurately that it is almost impossible to distinguish the creatures, even if one Is looking for them. . License Nine Years Old. Jacob Groff, a faithful lover of 62 years, was married at Mayton, W. Va., a few days ago to Miss Rebecca Gleisbury, three years his senior, the "girl" for whom he had waited for forty years. Nine years ago he secured secur-ed the marriage license, but the bride-elect bride-elect refused to wed him. He folded the license, put it away and waited until she should be ready. His persistence per-sistence and his faithfulness finally won and she agreed to become his bride. The minister, the Rev. D. S. Thomas, hesitated when he saw the date upon the license, but when he was told the circumstances he married mar-ried them under the license nine years old. Baltimore Sun. Homing Pigs. A friend of mine bought two young pigs, about three months old, and they were carried home six miles in a covered van. They managed to escape es-cape from their new quarters, took a bee-line back to the place of their birth, and swam across a swift river fully fifty yards wide, on their way home, says a London paper. In due course they were returned to the man who had bought them and within a week they were back again to their original homestead. We hear a great deal about the homing Instincts of the pigeon and the dog, but no one, apparently, appar-ently, has a good word to say for the gentleman who used to pay the rent- Lamp That Talk. Electric lamps not only can be made to talk but also to sing An ordinary arc light can be made to produce pro-duce sounds in two ways. One Is by placing the arc in the circuit of a telephone tele-phone instead of the ordinary receiver, receiv-er, and the other is by placing It In the circuit instead of the ordinary transmitter. trans-mitter. In either of these positions It will pronounce words, which can be heard distinctly at a considerable distance. It naturally follows, also, that the electric arc can be utilized as the receiver re-ceiver and also as the transmitter of a telephone. Valuable Storm. The great storm of red dust that swept up from Africa over Europe last year performed a service for which men of science should be grateful, by coloring the glaciers of the Alps on a grand scale, and thus producing a stratum in the vast ice streams the red hue of which wil render it recognizable recog-nizable for many years. The importance import-ance of this consists in the fact that by noting the position of the dust-stained dust-stained layer the movements of the glaciers can be studied more accurately accurate-ly than would be possible without the aid of so extensive and distinct a marking. Russian Kettle Bridges. Perhaps the most remarkable bridges in the world are the kettle-bridges, kettle-bridges, of which the Cossack soldiers are expert builders. The materials of which they are constructed are the soldiers' lances and cooking kettles. Seven or eight lances are passed under un-der the handles of a number of kettles and fastened by means of ropes to form a raft. A sufficient numbei of these rafts, each of which will bear a weight of half a ton, are fastened together, and in the space of an hour a bridge is formed on which an army may cross with confidence and safety. Baseball Wrecks Train. An innocent baseball almost caused a disastrous wreck on the Pottsville branch of the Reading Railway at Ta-maqua, Ta-maqua, Pa. A number of boys were playing ball close by just as an accommodation accom-modation train from Pottsville, composed com-posed of several freight cars, a passenger pas-senger coach and a caboose, was pull-iDg pull-iDg out. One of the boys missed a thrown ball and it rolled under the wheels of the caboose and derailed it. The passengers were frightened, but none were injured. Traffic was delayed for nearly two hours. Grandfather's Clock Mystery. At the death of aged Gottleib Hey-ler, Hey-ler, of near Liberty, his old clock, that had not been running for more than eleven years, slowly struck five times. The old man had a premonition of death two months before. At that time he sold all his property and stopped a newspaper that he had taken for twenty-four years. Two weeks ago he fell ill. and Saturday he died. Wil-liamsport Wil-liamsport (Pa.) Correspondence Philadelphia Phila-delphia Record. An Experiment it is very wonderful what effects are produced by different kinds of light. Here Is an experiment to try with the help of a "grown-up." Put in a soup plate a few tablespoonfuls of salt, then pour enough alcohol over the salt to thoroughly saturate It. Put the dish in the middle of a table in a perfectly dark room and ask your guests to sit around it; light the mixture mix-ture and see how peculiar each person will look. Limit for Divers. Submarine divers have not yet succeeded suc-ceeded in reaching 200 feet below the surface with all the advantage of armor, air supply and weights to sink them. The effort has been made to reach a wreck in 240 feet of water. The accounts state that at 130 feet the diver began to experience serious trouble. At 200 feet, after suffering terribly, he lost consciousness. Seven Pairs of Twins, Fishermen who have just returned from a fishing trip along Hickory Run report that a family named Henderson, living deep in the woods, has been blessed with seven pairs of twins in succession, and two other children who came alone, all within fourteen years. All are alive, and are sound, healthy youngsters. Baltimore Sun. Bear's Skeleton Filled with Honey. The well-preserved skeleton of a large bear, whose skull was. filled with several pounds of honey, deposited there by bees that had turned it into a hive, was discovered the other day by John and James Osterhort of Sherman, Sher-man, Pa., as they were sawing a large hollow beechwood log. Only a mighty mean man will send hi3 wife downstairs to request a burglar burg-lar to make less noise, - Italy9 JVotorious "Bandit I "Proud erf Mi Itecord. MUSOLINO, HIS FAVORITE WEAPON. AND SCENES AT TRIAD Sm m . I ' The eyes of all sons of Italy, at home nd abroad, are directed toward the notorious bandit, Giuseppe Musolino, who for months baffled the troops sent out to capture him, but who was at last taken and has for two weeks been on trial. Fair women are composing ballads In his honor, and from all parts of the world letters complimentary to the prisoner are being sent to the Procurator Pro-curator of Lucca, where the trial is held. Musolino was captured on Oct. 16, In the streets of Urbino. His career as an outlaw is said to have begun two fear ago with his escape from prison, to which he had been condemned as he held, undeservedly for the murder of a man who had stabbed him.. He rowed, it Is said, to kill the judge and prosecutor, and the fifteen witnesses icho had procured his conviction, and he is charged with the death of 11 of ihem. For months he held a large tract of Calabrian territory in his grasp. His mountain stronghold was blockaded, but by the aid of the peasants, with whom he was very popular, especially with the women, he made his way through the cordon of guards. Disguised Dis-guised as a priest on his way to see the bishop, he chatted affably with the soldiers, and offered to execute commissions com-missions for their officers. Now, after four months of impertur able stoicism, the bandit has told the story of some of his exploits. "I became a bandit," he said, "because "be-cause I was cruelly wronged. The injustice in-justice done to me has taught me to feel a hatred toward all mankind a just one. "But I am not a brigand bent on plunder, gentlemen. No, I am an honorable hon-orable bandit who kills his man because be-cause he hates him; because he has been injured by him; because he is the enemy of his clan. "When I escaped from prison I went into the mountains and joined a band of brave fellows. On the death of their captain I was unanimously chosen to command. Chosen for my merit. I governed them by opinion. They knew that I was brave and prudent, pru-dent, I had many times an opportunity opportu-nity of showing that ' I had all the qualities that constitute a good general. gen-eral. Had I commanded an army, like Napoleon, I should have been invincible. invin-cible. "Once we were besieged in the upper ranges of the Abruzzi by a company of those maledetti Carabinieri. We were enclosed on three sides by the troops, and on the other was a precipice preci-pice of many hundred feet, which plunged, without a shelf or ledge of rock, into the plain.. "I had eight companions, but access Most Remarkable Book The most remarkable volume ever issued in this country has just been published by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. It is an exact facsimile, in the colors of the original, of one of the finest and best preserved ancient Mexican manuscripts in existence the long lost codex owned by Lord Zouche of Harynworth. This facsimile facsim-ile reproduction has been named the Codex Nuttall, in honor of Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, an honorary assistant of the museum, who discovered the existence exist-ence of the original after it bad been lost to view for centuries, traced it to its present English owner, spent months in a careful study of its contents, con-tents, directed the work of reproducing reproduc-ing it and has written a careful introduction intro-duction which explains its peculiarities peculiari-ties and text so far as they are explainable ex-plainable In the light of modern archaeological arch-aeological science. The Codex Nuttall, like the other examples of the same kind of picture-writing, picture-writing, is painted on strips of prepared pre-pared deerskin which are glued together to-gether in such a way as to form a long folded band, and so lasting are the colors employed which were made by a secret process that the native artists ar-tists refused to disclose to tneir Spanish Span-ish conquerors that even now, after Daniel Bradford's Bnoy Life. Daniel P. Bradford, seventh in line from John Bradford, first governor of Massachusetts, has just celebrated his ninety-first birthday at his heme in the village of Tynaall, S. D. Born in 1811 at Plympton, Mass., he was a millwright and engineer and ran one of the first locomotives on the Boston and Albany railroad from Worcester to Boston. Later he went west and erected the first mill and the first schoolhouse in the territory now embraced em-braced in the state of South Dakota. He served two terms in the Dakota legislature, but of late years has lived in retirement- He has four children living, eighteen grandchildren and thirty-four great-grandchildren. Pistol and Lump Com lned. Shooting in the dark and hitting the object it is desired to bring down will be easy when a combination revolver and dark lantern just patented by a man in Seattle comes into general use. The Seattle inventor's pistol is one of the most curious devices which m to the crag on which we bivouacked was so narrow that only one could mount the pass at a time. This our enemies knew, for several of them were wounded in making a reconnois-sance. reconnois-sance. "But our provisions failed us. We were on the point of giving ourselves up, fearing starvation, when I discovered discov-ered an eagle's aerie. To the wonder of our foes, we contrived, by plundering plunder-ing it of hares and kids, to support nature for many days. At last the eaglets flew, and then our distress returned. re-turned. With it came the thought of surrender. "I recollected, however, that opposite oppo-site to where a single sentinel had been posted there was a chasm, a deep ravine, the top of which was covered with wood. One dark night, leading my little band, I crawled on hands ard knees, without being perceived, and poniarded the vedette. He fell without with-out a groan. "We then, .after overcoming incredible7 incred-ible7 dangers, reached the brink of the abyss. "My troop eyed the fissure with terror. ter-ror. It was narrow, but at the bottom roared a mountain torrent which at its immeasurable depth looked like a silver thread. "I came provided with a rope, to which when he dared not go Into the plain, we were in the habit of attaching at-taching a basket, which we lowered to the peasants for provisions. To this rope I adjusted a heavy dagger and hurled it across the chasm. By good fortune it was entangled at the first throw among the brushwood and stuck fast between two of the branches. "Having drawn it tight I fastened it to a tree on our side of the ravine. My companions watched me with anxiety, wondering what next I was about to do. I spoke not a word, but suspended myself over the abyss. Hand over hand, I reached the opposite bank in safety. All followed me, with like FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION OP ANCIENT MEXICAN MANUSCRIPT AT HtRVA&ll MUSEUM. more than 400 years, they are still bright and fresh. There is a belief among archaeologists archaeolo-gists that the codices were not complete com-plete records, but rather in the nature of notes which were used to preserve legends, and perhaps history, for bards and poets, who recited their have reached the patent office at Washington recently. Below and in line with the barrel, and slightly less in diameter is a small incandescent lamp in a reflector tube, connected with a battery in the handle of the revolver. A slight pressure of the trigger connects con-nects the electric wires between lamp and battery. The moment the pistol is fired the connection is severed, leaving leav-ing it3 user again protected by darkness. dark-ness. The idea is that a householder, say, suspecting that there is a burglar in the house, can use his revolver as a dark lantern and insure taking good aim before he fires. Incidentally, however, how-ever, the combination might be equally useful to the burglar. Bnllding Declining In New England. A statistician who has been figuring on industries in New England finds, that building and engineering enterprises enter-prises in Massachusetts and the neighboring neigh-boring states are declining. The total value of contracts awarded on new building and engineering enterprises success, save one, Pietro Pentuccl, whose strength or courage failed him. He unhappily sank into the boiling gulf, but he was dead long before he reached it, so that his sufferings were lees than had he been taken by the Carabinieri. This is but one of the many exploits Musolino recounts with pride. His long and bony, yet athletic, form might have served as a model for a gladiator, for the muscles protrude pro-trude like one of Michael Angelo's anatomical figures, his cadaverous, sallow countenance was pale with crime, his eyes deep sunk and overhung over-hung by thick, bushy eyebrows, emitting emit-ting a gloomy light as within caverns. cav-erns. His thin and straight upper lip with the lower underhung like that of a dog-fish, fitted him well for the bourreau of Musolino. "Have you no remorse for all the murders you have committed?" the court asked. "Remorse," replied the iron-faced wretch, as though he did not understand under-stand the meaning of the word. "Ought not a good soldier to obey the word of the commander? Whenever the captain said 'kill I killed." - "Did you kill many?" was the next query. "Si, signor, moltissime (yes, sir, many)," he replied, with the greatest nonchalance. His eye lighted up, as he spoke, with gloomy joy. Profound silence reigned in the courtroom. The judges shuddered and turned from him as from a basilisk. Statue of Richard P. Bland, The bronze statue of Richard P. Bland, which is to be erected at Lebanon, Le-banon, Mo., his old home, has been completed and will be mounted as soon as the pedestal can be completed. com-pleted. The figure is posed as addressing ad-dressing the people, with the right hand upraised. in America. epics or ballads in impromptu song or verse as they traveled about the country, much as Homer is supposed to have first told his story of Ulysses. The average American citizen is willing to die for his country in office. of-fice. to the end of April has been only $19,-079,000, $19,-079,000, as against $25,715,000 in the same period last year. The decline for the first week in April was more than $150,000. Only 11 per cent of the contracts were for the construction construc-tion of factories and manufacturing buildings. Her Childish Faith. A little gh-i on East Third street, who is noted for her slangy conversation conversa-tion and has besides the sublime faith of childhood in the providence of God, startled the household the other evening even-ing by her irreverent speech, which of course, she didn't mean in the way she put it. After she retired her mother heard her calling, "God, God," several times and hastened to her crib to learn what was wanted. The child asked petulantly as soon as her mother arrived: ar-rived: "Mamma, ; can't God hear?" "Yes, dear," replied her mother, "Why?" "Well, I've been calling for Him for half an hour and He hasn't made a sound!" Duluth News-Tribune. f GAYETIES OF PARIS 1 rjtiiiiiiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiitiAiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiimiiiiiiii I llfcr The extraordinary annual fete of the Quat'z-Arts ball in Paris was or ganized, for the first time, in 1893, by students of the four divisions of the national art school of the Beaix Arts -that is, painting, sculpture, engrav ing and architecture 1 whence Its title of "Quat'z-Arts," the Philistine mispronunciation mis-pronunciation of quafcu arts, the four arts. Its ideal is a fir eat spectacular show, all In movemff&t, all artistic in a high sense, and for the eyes only of those who take part in it. This is the thesis of the Quat'z-Arts ball's defenders, de-fenders, and there are great names among them. It is the studio enlarged a thousand times. In the conclave pass nude-tor-soed Roman gladiators, slaves loaded down with chains; enormous blood-smeared blood-smeared sacrificers; sullen Gaulish chieftains leading fair-haired drooping victims; prehistoric girls, their bare waits girded with strung tiger claws, imperious Cleopatras gleaming in transparent draperies; soft-smlllng Aspaslas, all rosy In white blossoms. The costumes, and the lack of them where there Is lack, are those of painters' masterpieces. Not-only tourists and stray sightseers, sight-seers, but the great ones of high society so-ciety in Paris, have pleaded in vain for admission to the Quat'z-Arts ball year after year. Curious tries are told of art-worshipping Philistines and their ardor to obtain admission.- One such (an American, the representative of a great commercial enterprise) costumed cos-tumed himself (bribed an assistant and eat for six hours in a dark ;loset off the Moulin Rouge hall, to be let out ana into the fete at the proper moment. mo-ment. Another (this an Englishman of title), having bribed his way In at the price of a year's living for some needy student, only saved himself from prompt ejection by a supplementary supplement-ary offer 01 such magnitude that Latin Quarter nerve could not withstand it. The sum was put to a noble use. In particular the BaJ de l'Internat of 18bd and, again, that of 1901, will live long in the annals of the Latin Quarter. Quar-ter. According to one enthusiastic artist, ar-tist, the Quat'z-Arts ball has never reached the artistic heights it ought to attain, because the majority of its supporters will not permit the fete to be sev-erely regulated, all its costumes cos-tumes defined in advance, and indl- vidual fancy made subservient to the ensemble. Just as the Quat'z-Arts balls are held invariably at the great darse and promenade establishment of the Moulin Rouge, so the Internat balls take place at the. historic students' rendezvous, the Bullier Ball, once called La Closerle des Lilas, "Tho Lilac-Close." The immense nave, of the old hall, unchanged since the days when Oliver Wendell Holmes danced In it as a gay young medico, saw one by one the orderly corteges pass and break up. At one end a Greek temple of true classical correctness raised its pillars; and it was to this temple that the "Greek cortege" of Bellery Des-fontaines Des-fontaines proceeded. It Is the mingling of the sadness and the joy oi life that has for the A STEANQH MIINO OP BLOOD AND LAUOHTEB. last five or six years given their peculiar pe-culiar character to all these artistic fetes. No one, excepting the Gavarni Ball, has been without It. This spring's Quat'z-Arts triumph was the "Car of Human Butchery," although the "Car of the Phoenician Bull" won the first prize for beauty. In the "Triumph of Messalina" it wasvsaid that no Parisian theater had ever yet arrived at such a figuration. The third effort was the "Roman Orgy." In it the fair heroines had easier poses. Sprawling on rich stuffs and tiger skins, in the perfumed haze of burning incense, they seemed to sleep on in immense contentment just as they had fallen. "The world is ours!" howled Latin Quarter voices. But who are these funereal "folk, alone in black evening dress clothes, with crepe hanging dismally from their high silk hats? They look like undertakers, and they bear a coffin. The nice girls who walk beside them are draped in black gauze and wear long black silk stockings! Two lug- ACTTVTTT. brlous undertakers bear an immense funeral wreath; and its inscription tells the story. "To their colleagues who sleep peacefully, the survivors of the Hotel Dieu hospital!" says the Inscription. And the tale is the tale of one great hospital that could not make a showing show-ing worthy of Itself because of the indifference of the majority. The splendid spectacle of a great fete with everyone in costume was there; the distinction of a rigidly selected se-lected list of spectators was there; and the privilege of rubbing shoulders with distinguished artists and no less distinguished models was there also and amply. Gavarni, as' the world knows now, was a designer who caught Paris life with a light pencil in the days of Louis Philippe. In his day he enjoyed enormous vogue, then lived his later life amid the almost complete indifference of hi tea- poraries. To-day he is looked upoa as the precious mirror of the gayety and pathos of romanticism; and it was to raise money to erect a statue to him that the admission tickets to this fete were sold at 40 francs ($8). For these reasons, if for no others, a good section of Parisian high life-dressed life-dressed itself In Louis Philippe costumes, cos-tumes, paid Its money and for one night frankly revelled amid students, artists and Bohemians, as in the leg- MT7CK SRALL BS PAH DO NED HER," BECAUSH 8B"B HATH DANCED MUCH. endary days of the good old French gayety. Models, actresses and leaders of society romped as they are said to have romped at the Opera balls of the days of Gavarni. Indeed, the "Car of the Opera Ball" had the honor to hear Gavarni's bust upon it; while another large float, with a sleeping beauty of the epoch sprawling in the abandon which revived tne souvenir of "Sarah Brown" and 1893 and entitled "Much Will Be Pardoned Her Because She Has Danced Mucn!" was made the central figure of the great procession. pro-cession. New Map of the World. Consul General Williams of Singapore Singa-pore writes to the Independent to pro- TO OUR COMRADES WHO BLEEP. pose a reconstruction of the map ot the world. He would have us make an exchange with England of our Philippine Phil-ippine possessions for Newfoundland and the British West Indies and the Bahamas, and Incidentally he would have England cede Honduras to Mexico, Mex-ico, and have Great Britain, France and Holland give up their claims to Guiana which should be made a separate sep-arate nation under, our protection. He thinks that It would be good riddance for us if we should thus transfer the Philippines to a power that wants them, and that we should gain in prestige and power by confining ourselves our-selves wholly to this side of the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The Marrying Age. ' The marrying age, according to statistics, is steadily advancing. This accounts perhaps for another fact, that women are beginning to look younger and more girlish in the shady twenties and the early thirties than they used to do. Twenty-five years ago a woman of 32 who was unmarried unmar-ried would have been regarded as a hopeless old maid. Now she is quite a girl at that age and her marriage ia still thought of. If we continue to grow old in this leisurely fashion the very name "old maid" will disappear from our vocabulary, if indeed it has not done so already. True Philanthropy. Few men are better known in the down-town district of New York than James Reilly, the man who is almost an exact counterpart of the late Gen. Grant. Mr. Reilly was long connected with a leading navigation company and is very wealthy. He is now arranging ar-ranging to buy three hearses, which will be for the free use of the funerals funer-als of poor persons, "for," says he, "nothing so enrages me as to hear of an undertaker grabbing the last penny of a poor woman for the burial of her husband or child." To Frustrate Letter Thieves. Experiments are being made in France with one invention and in England Eng-land with another for the purpose of preventing thieves from extracting letters let-ters from public letter boxes. In the French invention steel teeth are placed close to the mouth of the box, while the British invention consists of a wire arrangement inside the pillar box. The weight of the letters carries them through the cage, but they cannot be pulled up by a piece of string or something sucky, the usual means adopted by the letter thief. Missed the Whiskers. Representative Babcock of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin shaved off his luxuriant black beard the other morning and the doorkeepers door-keepers refuse.! to admit him to the floor of the house until he had been identified. Mr. Babcock had not been shaved beiore in fifteen years and is h3 walked down the aisle toward his seat the members looked searchingly at him, many failing to recognize their colleague Decause of the absence oi ids wniskers. Senator's Gaudy Raiment. When it comes to originality In shirt designs and colors Senator Lodge of Massachusetts always takes a long lead over his colleagues, but in his latest effort he has outdone even himself. him-self. He appeared in a waistcoat and shirt of identical material, a delicate purple, which is said to have been specially woven for him. Nothing approaching ap-proaching it has "been seen -at the capltol before. Few Bachelors in Congress. There are S56 sitting members -"of the nauonal house of representatives. Of this number all but twenty-mree are, or have been, married. In. other words, the bachelors In the popular branch of congress constitute but slightly more than 6 per cent of the whole membership. In thirty-four , of the forty-hve delegations in the house there is not one unmarried man. |