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Show Wealthy Men of York, Pa., HavCost-lEquipment. Fire fighting is a fad among the business and professional wealthy men of York, Pa., and one of the independent companies there has l ist had manufactured at the local plsnt of the American Locomotive works or.e of the finest steam fire engines It is a machine of ever constructed. the first class and built after the famous Atnoskeag pattern. The ordinary cost of a steamer of this type Is $5,000, but this luxuriously equipped and lavishly ornamented piece of apparatus is so rich In costly embellishments that a check for about $9,000 will be necessary to settle for it. Expense, however, was not a matter to be long considered by the company Three which ordered the machine. members of the company are said to have pledged $1,0UU each toward deIt seems that the fraying the cost company is determined to have everything about its quarters in keeping with the character of the new machine. A handsome and commodious new engine house is now being erected, in which will be stalled three magnificent, coal black horses, to he purchased regardless of price, so long as they are perfectly matched and not marred by a single spot of white. Three black grooms will be engaged to care for these animals. The new engine is now ready for shipment, which is being delayed until the building in which it is to be housed is completed. y At Bedtime. TThe trce spreads ok ine where I his mighty boughs lie, tike sleepy flowers kiss my cheek. The wandering wind goes by. Amid a shadowy mist of leave. The shining stars are set: 2 wish that I could pick one off. Just like a violet. Aboe Jf I were fall enough to reach Beyond the rol Idos nest. I'd steal a little inby star And wear it on my breast Phoebe I,jde in IJpplncott'8, Way the Earth Was Formed. You know, cf course, that the earth la nearly spherical, or but not exactly so. It Is fiatUncd a little at the p lea as a rubber ball Is when you place It on the floor and put your foot on It. The distance from the north pole to the south pole, measured through the center of the earth, Is 27 miles less than the distance between two opposite points on the equator, also measured through the renter of the earth. This slightly oval form of the earth Is due to the facts that it was at one 4ime a mass cf liquid like a big raindrop and was then spinning on Us xis as It docs now (or probably a parading the garden followed by five frisky kittens. Then the secret can.e out. Wise Mrs. Tabby, it seems, had hidden her "superfluous' kittens, so as to save them from being drowned. Were the extra three drowned after all? No, Indeed, body had the heart to do that, after the pains Mrs. Tabby had gone to in order to save them. ft Match Scratcher. send a march scratcher that I have made up myself and hope some one will like it, writes a ct respond I imitating the buzzing of a fly. and then made believe to catch the insect The dog, lifting his lips, went through ail the moth ns of biting the imaginary fly to death. 1 thought that I had fooled him, but the joke was on me, for, afier repeated trials, I discovered that "Monad had entered into the spirit of the game and was also making believe." This not only showed Intellect, but also a highly developed sense of humor. and everybody knows thaft while humor may be spontaneous it Is never automatic. The Roman Coliseum. It is very curious to think how much more advanced than we, in some ways, were the ancient Romans. You have doubtless read of the Coliseum, the great amphitheater, the ruinB of which still remain to be gazed upon Nowhere in the world by travelers. is there a building with such a seating capacity it could accommodate 87,000 persons! The work of erecting the Coliseum was begun by the Emperor Vespasian and completed by his son Titus, in the year A. D. 80 almost 2,000 years ago! The formal opening ceremonies Included splendid games or fights. In which it Is said that 5,000 animals and a large number of gladiators were killed. It was lined with marble on the Inside, and some of this has since been used in the construction ot more modern Roman palaces. y little faster). Now, when you whirl a sling, or a stone tied to a string, around, you Lnow that the string Is stretched tighter and tighter the faster you whirl It and It is liable to break If you whirl It too fast. The parth, being liquid, did not ent Make the cat four or five Inches the cardboard six inches square; break, but simply yielded a little and tall, make the feelers of Ink on the cardall around the 'bulged" equator, being board and the bow ink or ribbon, just held from going farther by gravitation An Indian Game. or Its attraction toward the center as you like. Indian boys have many delightful And In this 01 the whole mass. and exciting games.' Top spinning Is Lict of Flowers. bulged form it became solid when it Colorado Blue and white colum- one of them, and great skill is recooled. bine. quired to play It well. Winter is the All this can be illustrated very pretseason chosen for this pastime, as Delaware Peach blossom. tily with a simple little apparatus then there Is lee and good hard snow. Maine Pine cone and tassel. based on the familiar toy called a The Indian boy fashions his own top Michigan Apple blossom. buzzer" or "locust," a Cardboard disk Montana Bitter root. and whip the former of bone, horn or with a hole on each side of the center Nebraska Golden-rod- . wood, and the latter of a thong of anti near it, a long string passed Oklahoma Mistletoe. buckskin, fastened to a stick a foot both holes Its and ends tied through Oregon Oregon grape. long, one end of which has been You a of take the loop together. Utah Osage lily. shaped and hollowed like a spoon. In to each hand, turn the card string Vermont Red clover. twist the string a little, then move California California poppy A Novelty In Drawing. your hands alternately from and toHave our clever readers ever tried Georgia Cherokee rose. ward each other and so by the twistIdaho Syringa. what they can draw by means of one ing and untwisting of the string make Kansas Sunflower. continuous line? If not, now Is the the card rotate, now In one direction, Minnesota Moccasin flower. time for them to practice their skill In Rhododendron. . Washington New Hampshire Oak leaf and acorn. TURBINE NOT IDEA. A NCW Known to the Chaldees Some 2,700 Years Ago. The turbine, ot which we hear and expect so much in these days, is by no Was e - f AWise Mrs. Tabby. . Before and After th e Card Earthquakes. One day last summer Mrs. Tabby I mean the damp card over. Set was discovered up in the hayloft with upper face has not, and therefore the flat card Is warped into the shape of them quickly but carefully on the contwo companions two little kitties. .Only two! How lucky! exclaimed a cup. Take It off and replace It with vex surface and wait for the earthher owner, with a sigh of relief, for the damp convex side on top. The quake. Very soon the earth will of all things he lothed the nasty Job rounded card represents the roltnd sink in with a snap, and walls, heads, of drowning superfluous kitties. . earth, or a portion of it, and in a legs and bodies will go flying through the air. The reason Is easy to guess. meant all over two. minute you will see It quake. "Superfluous But to make the earthquake more The upper surface cf the card has .Mrs. Tabby , was always allowed to Interesting your earth should have In- been drying and contracting while the raise two at a time, but no more. You cannot make these lower surface has become moist and habitants. But at last, one day. Imagine every- small enough to be in the right pro swollen so that presently the card has to behold Mrs. Tabby nortion to yonr little earth and If bodys surprise you to bulge down Instead of up I Decadent who has a very ture on The Decadence of p lish gave this address before ans club. At the close of theV very much overdressed woman fuss and feathers type came him, and said, I did enjoy ever and ever so much, and with you that the English lamra48"' decading awfully. Hardly no proper nowadays, and the ia 4lk knows what the next generatin talk like If nothing ain't done Womans Home Compand. it. A lecturer Panorama One of the Most Beautiful I in the World. On every side of us, from our feet to the golden distance far away, the mountains, peak upon The conscientious press, agent peak, as thick as junks In a Chinese Inglanced inquiringharbor, and range beyond range of exhaustible; no sounds of mortal life ly at the group came up inside the rock, while the reporters. "Then we may river, gentian blue, wouud silent In as well begin. Be- transparent pools below. The panofore I am through, rama in Japan on a splendid summer you day is Impossible to describe to an gentlemen. not been in w ill 'see-- ' that the English reader who has urgepcj" of my re- the East, for such a one will read belocal color in quest for representatives pf the press tween the lines the Instead of the cure Uf was by no means unwarranted. Even which he was bred. la that atmosphere lining ..a a press agent has some conscience, wholly different tube l Inflamed you haveeruuTbilnTi, rUDa J!1 o, 1 feel the of picture charm and in this ease, gentlemen, heightens the perfect hearlmt.emt when It la emir- air ueM I. the result, tuid uuleaa the luninm.7, luminous that my duty to the public outweighs tt,ere the brilliant, taken out and tbti tube restored to it, J will be destroyed forever-1- ' which invest our eye with telescopic tlon, hearlDfl my duty to my employers. d out of ten are Wat by i atarrli "While it is true that the public an- power and brings the whole landscape but an Inflamed condition of the a hi,h . of We will pise One Hundred lb.liar. fw nouncement of the death of inbad, to our feet; while a soft suspicion Deafnesaf caused by caiarrhithHt I' rend for ci,u0 the most vicious, violent and venom- silky haze seeins to float a halo round by liada Catarrh Cure, 1 J. C H k N Y Switzerland, hill. of foliage-hiddeHue. each ous reptile in the collection Sold bv T) impel .iq Tuls,a 7c. but small Take Halls Family Fill for constipation Meduba, the soporiferous soother of too, is a mountain world, conentire the sinuous serpents, will undoubtedly compared with this; Austrian Marriage Lawa. to Geneva only keep thousands away from her daily tent from Innsbruck The Austrian marriage iaw, the length of this single exhibitions in the side show, of the severe. They prohibit island of Japan a thousand miles of very Ring Brothers Circus, yet yet, genbetween Christians and riages the And romance. quality remarkable the In continuous jZ of view tlemen, Christians between and and infidels manner in which this writhing reptile of the sunshine is what separates, by between a Protestant wo i met its death it would seem unjust to a very wide gulf, a summer's day in marriage a man who said he had and an more In one atthese latitudes irom posterity to withhold the details particular creed has just been !! northerly Europe. Cornh ill Magazine. nulled tending this ly the supreme court Snake dead, eh? interrupted an The Rival Cities. " it How'd Impatient reporter. I do not believe Ptso's Cure tor Coniiuoptio, Well, said the New Yorker, taunt- has an equal for coughs and colds.-J- ou F see dont growany grass you exingly. Twas a case of jealousy, Botzb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. .S, lggq restreets. In our Thats so," ing plained the press agent. For years clever the Phlladelnhian, COST OF LIVING IN A9IA. Sinbad, or the Only Original Sin. as plied Whats that? he was better known on account of his scheme of yours. To keep tearing your streets up so Modern Improvements Have vicious temper, Impoted the grass cant grow. Philadelphia Burden on Natives. unchalin reigned Press. lenged supremacy During a recent tour in Asia of near over all of Mme. ly sixteen months, from February An Easy Way To Do It Medusas snake to June, 1902, in which I visiteq Mineral, Idaho. April 11. Mr. D. 1901, chests. Japan, Korea, China, the Philippine S. Colson of this place has something AH went well to say which will he of interest to Cochin China, Siam and Laos, y,, until the advent Straits Settlements. Burmah, infi. many men. Mr. Colson claims to of Cleopatra, the Syria and Palestine, I found of to rid a found get way have simple most regal reptlls a deep Interest in the changing in the back. Sciatica or Rheupains Inof all wriggling The common cured himself and economic conditions. has He matism. dia, two days ago. There was bad so claims In proof people in Asia care little for politics, experience personal blood between her and the Only Origbut the price of food and raiment method. inal right from the start, but Mme. of his touches every man, woman and child Mr. Colson says:- Medusa hoped in time to reconcile the I had awful pains In my hip. They at a sensitive point two to a life of harmonious happiness. Almost everywhere the old days of got so bad at last that I could hardly With this end in view, Mme. MeI tried several things, but got cheap living are passing away. walk. dusa placed the two on the floor of railways, telegraphs, newspaper relief till 1 began to use Dodds her tent early this morning. For a no machinery and the IntrI had taken but a and Pills Kidney time everything was lovely. Then, Tew of these pills till the pain left oduction of Western ideas are slowly without any warning the Only Originbut eurely revolutionizing the Orient me entirely. al thrust out his fang and whispered: Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly did Shantung wheat, which formerly had which is an awful me lets of good and I consider them no market beyond a radius of a lev thing for any snake to call another. dozen miles from the wheat field, can a great medicine. yerself! snapped back Mr. Colson now be shipped by railway and steacured The that remedy Cleo. been making mship to any part of the world, and ia At the same instant two black is the same that has cures of Bright's consequence every Chinese buyer ban sensational such streaks flashed through the air, and a Disease. Diabetes, Dropsy and Rheu- to pay more for It. In like manner moment later a sinuous snarl of sissThe new facilities for export have doubled, matism all over the country. was ing serpents seething 'round the name of the medicine is Dodds Kid- trebled, and in some places quafloor. drupled the price of rice in fhina, Siam ney Pills. Clop! Clop! Their jaws snapped and Japan. Centu-- y Magazine. almost simultaneously at what. In the No Wonder He Was Stout. Band rower Bay Press 828 00. general tangle each mistook for the A Scotchman paid a visit to London Greatest, simplest, best invention of tip of its rivals tail. to inspect the electric apparatus of the age. A boy can make regulai Mme. Medusa stepped forward to sized 14x18x48 In. bales like fun, end with a view to its introducthat separate the struggling serpents, but tion city, two boys can bale three tons per day In his native town. On his resuddenly sprang back, terror stricken turn his wife exclaimed: Dear me, easily. SEND THIS NOTICE by the strange sight she saw. Jamiel! That trip has dune ye a power to the John A. Salaer Seed Co., U In the mix-uof the occasion each stout ye hae gotten. I Crosse, Wis., with 5c stamps for snake had mistaken its own tail for of guid. Hoo and get their big catalog, fully did as I telt ye and pua on ye hope Its of that rival and was consequently great Hay Press, so ala clean shirts that I hundreds; this the dizzen of ane of tools and thousands of vviciously devour-inElizaOh, arieties of Farm and Vegetable Seeda aye, every day. ye gied itself. was the reply. I did Just as ye (W. N. UJ Around and beth," said put on a clean shirt every day, CAME TO EARTH SUDDENLY. around, coil within an I hae them a on noo. Pittsburg SAcoil, each internt Press. How its loop. Professor Covtitd ally ly looped Mrs Winslow's fioothlng flyrnp. A sudden click His Up For children teething, softens the gums, reduces tor brought Mme. Me- summation, sllayspaln, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. On e day a certain professor of dusa to her senses. She rushed to ard mathematics at O. University prepaMADE PET OF WILD DOVE. the fast disappearing red to set out on a short journey oa reptiles, but, alas, too late! horseback. He was an Poor old Sinbad, the Only Original English Clergyman's Kindness Tamed person, and while saddling the animal Creature. had Woodland Sin, already breathed his last. was thinking out some intricate proHe had swallowed himself so rapidThe rector of Woolstone, Mr. Gi- blem. Some students stood near and ly that he came to the back of his lbert Coventry, has just told me of a watched him place the head with a suddenness that snapped wild rock dove which one of his stable saddle on hindabstractedly before. part the neck. hoys had reared from the nest. It exclaimed one of Oh, Professor, Cleopatra was rescued. Just as slept in the open, however, and had the group, you are putting the wrong her back teeth were about to pass full liherty. Soon the good things on end of your saddle foremost. in through the front of her mouth. the rectors table attracted it, and It man, 'replied the professor Young Mme. Medusa seized her firmly with would appear through the open win- with some tartness, you are entirely both hands, and by dint of hard work dow at meal times, take hot soup with too smart. How do you know it ti succeeded in drawing her out of hermuch zest, and even sip sherry from wrong, when I have not yet told yo self. But It was a close call. A secthe wineglass. At night it often slip- In which direction I intend to go! ond later and Cleopatra would have ped In and slept In the rector's bed, Llppincott's. swallowed herself entirely. on Its back, under the coverlet. One How many times was the snake Sunday morning during the reading The Meeting of the National Irrigation coiled round in Itself? Heavens! of the lesson, the dove flew swiftly Congress. don't know. Mme. Medusa became through an open window Into the To he held at El Paso, Texas, this fall, dizzy after extracting the thirteenth church and settled on the rectors promises to be of great Interest to loop, and lost all count. head. Broad smiles spread over the dwellers In country, But you can figure it out for yourfaces of the elders, and audible titters and addresses will be made by Amor self easily enough. The problems came from the youngsters. A gentle lean and foreign Irrigation authorities simply this: If a twelve foot snake touch sent the bird down to the edge An interesting program, including a takes Its tail in Its teeth, and eats its of the clerks desk below, where It sat genuine Mexican bull fight, will b given by the citizens. For further iway routd to the hack of its neck, undisturbed. Pall Mall Gazette. nformation regarding date of abovs how mat.? times will the tip of Its etc., address railroad fares, meeting, the tall pass any given tooth? But all and Stops Cough C. No. 411, D& F. room Works Off the Cold Warren, of that, course, is a mere detail. Laxative Broom Quinine Tablets. Price 25& block, Salt Lake City, Utah. New York Sun. Marketable Snake Venom. Catching Pigeons in Queenstown. 'a n Elastic Wheel, For a risky and exciting and profitThe ragged children of Queenstown able if you survive mode of earning catch pigeons In a curious way. Seaa livelihood, a new Australian Indus- ted In a row on the edge of the pavy try can be confidently recommended. ment, they each have a string stretchIt ts the collection of Bnake venom, a ing Into the road, at the end of which substance, that, like radium, is valued Is a noose surrounding some tempting pigeons Homeless by the grain. A pound of It is said to bread crumbs. be worth 5,000. It is in active de- pounce on the meal, and are as quickmand by chemists. It Is obtained ly Jerked to the pavement by ths from three species the death adder, cheering youths. London Graphic. the brown adder and the tiger snake. Hoof Carpets can be colored on the The reptiles must be caught - uninwith PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. jured, and it goes without saying that the industry demands considerable More Useful Study. In an English school recently knowledge and skill in capture. Tiger snakes are the best, for they certain boy was regularly absent due carry most venom. Snakes are still Ing the hour In which Latin was the M. Roussel, a Frenchman, has Innumerous In the Australian bush. taught. The teacher called upon I vented a new wheel for heavy freight boys father, at whose Instructions Ventriloquial Fowls. wagons. As will be seen from the had been learnen he remained sway, The M. Emile Merwert, drawing, the spokes are replaced by secretary genera and asked for an explanation. 1 of French Guiana, has Bent to the father said; flat steel springs that are bolted to It Is all right. During the felloes. It is said to be an Ideal Jardin des Plantes in Paris two pairs the Latin hour I am teachingfarJlmJ more of ventriloquial fowls. These birds wheel for touring automobiles. something that he wjll find are greatly amusing to visitors to ths useful in his progress Latin than A Curious Dog Tax. gardens, who assemble round their through life. The teacher was Intel In Brussels the dog tax is managed cage by their cries, which at one time ested, and asked what this subject on a very odd system, dogs being appear to come from the trees, at might be. The father replied: I taxed according to their value Instead others withfrom the sky and sometimes teaching my son how to shave of at a fixed rate. The various suburbs irom the midst of the crowd Itself. out a looking glass. have different rates, too, so that a man living at Ixelles pays perhaps a trifle less for his dog than he would if he had a house in Boisrort. A rlfth Belgian, who was noted among his friends as being a trifle near, as the Scotch say, owned a very valuable When one wakes up achin from head to foot, and with the flesh tender to the touch, when dog. When looking about for a house in the capital ne selected one In the district where he would have to pay the least for his dog. Unfortunately his cleverness was misplaced on makes every motion of the body painful, the aurest , this and quickest way out of the trouble le to use occasion, for his work lay at some distance from his house, and the sums expended for cab hire more than made up for the extra dog tax. New York promptly. It warms, relaxes, cures. Price, 29c. and SOc. Hprald. Sinuous Snarl of Sissing, Seething Serpents, and Its Result. "We are all here, I believe? I world-stretche- J HIUUBW , cau-e- i -- fc, -. Lap-pen?- e Siena-era- . Revolutionary Game. Send one of the players out of the room. The rest agree on the name of some man who was famous during the revolutionary war (Franklin, for Instance), then give one letter of It to each player so far as the letters will go around. Call In the outside player. He must find out what revolutionary name you all agree 1 upon. This Is the way he must do. Beginning with one end of the line he asks: What animal?" this direction. Make the tleverest This player must answer with some picture you can, using only one connow in the other. Make one or these creature which begins with his letter. tinuous line; that is to say, the pen his letter Is R. Then he must not be raised from the paper toys of very thick cardboard and stick Supposeanswer F might an- until the whole drawing Is made. rat. In its legs, at equal distances, four might halves of hairpins pointing straight swer fox; A answer "ant; the and A Prince. out like the spokes of a wheel, or two "N8m answer "nightingale K answer The king of Italy has had at least respectively; better, glue two disks together with newt, "kangaroo; L answer lion, and one narrow escape from death which the ends of the pins between them. appears almost to be forgotten. When, Now make two bands, like envelope "I answer insect." The questioner then puts the Initial as a boy of 15, he was staying for a of stiff a trifle larger bands, paper than the disk. Place them at right letters together, changes them around time at Spiez, on the Lake of Thun, a little, and very soon succvds In he ventured out alone in a small boat, angles, one inside of the other, and which he contrived to upset when guessing the name "Franklin. paste them together. some distance out. Fortunately the Make holes through the pasted parts The Dog That Made Believe. accident was seen by a young Swiss and midway between them in each My little dog Monad hated flies, clergyman, who promptly swam out band. Now slip in your buzzer, passand would hunt them all over the to his rescue, and with the utmost difing the strings through the holes In house. Thinking to have some sport ficulty managed to bring the and the pasted parts the pins through, with him I made a noise with my Ups prince safely to shore. the other holes. Set the machine going In the good old way. At first, as it turns slowly, TUMBLER EARTHQUAKE. you notice that the bands as they turn look like a complete sphere, just This Is a funny little trick that Is could they would be too small to see, as a spark whirled round gives the easy to do, and needs no apparatus. so you will have to make them as Impression of a circle of fire, but as Nearly fill a tumbler with water, wipe small as you can say, an inch or two the speed Increases note how the the edge dry If you happen to have high. Make them of paper, stand sphere flattens. The faster it goes the wet it, lay on it a card which is large them carefully on their feet or seat flatter it becomes. There you have enough to project at least half an Inch them on bits of cork on your earth an illustration of the flattening of the all around and let It stand undis- before It quakes. You might also add a house built earth. turbed. In half an hour or so you will The earth's axis is the string. Its find that the card has become hollow, up of four bits of card walls, held poles are the holes through which the like a cup, and has sagged down in- together only by the weight of a fifth Is and of This is the equator the side the glass. caused by piece laid on top of them for a roof. string goes All your figures anti projecting circle made by the hairpins the vapor rising from the water. The buildings 1.3 they fly round. lower face of the card, being moist, there isnt room for many must be has swollen or expanded while the in readiness before you turn the earth Paper Doll's Wardrobe. ,, Little girls who are fond of playing with paper dolls will find it entertaining to he able to make a change In the childrens costume as often as they wish. Of course this is always paper possible with the ready-madlolls which are bought in the shops, but little girls who are devoted to paper dolls always prefer to cut of papers and books both, dolls and ward-- : xoibes. as In this way they are able to possess dolls' unlike any one elses. ?In order, to be able to change the costumes, select a pretty head and fasten It with beeswax to the top of a short strip of pasteboard. All sorts of costumes may then be cut from fashion papers, etc., and fastened to the beeswax. A much greater variety of costumes can be had in this way than with the purchased costumes. To be sure, before the costumes are beeswaxed on, the bodiless heads will present a rather distressing appearance. But Dame Fashion demands 'many sacrifices, and everjf intelligent paper doll would prefer-- to have her head in one costume chopped off to staying ' VjVir- ' ' '' all her life. IN THE HILLS OF JAPAN. PRESS AGENTS SNAKE STORY. FIRE ENGINE COST $9,000. labor-savin- means an Idea new in mechanics. hundred years ago. In the little nation of the Chaldees, adjoining Armenia, the water turbine was known, and built, and used in milling. It was then called the shell The wheel was used In a wheel. horizontal position, no effort being made to secure the greatest value of the water pressure. The wheel was connected to a vertical shaft which turned the stone and ground the grain into a coarse flour. Near the city of Van, believed to have been built 2,000 years B. C., there still remain canals in a good state One of them, sixty of preservation. miles long. Is now used for irrigation and power. At one time, centuries agone, there were forty mills on this the remains of these canal, and ancient institutions may be seen. Flour mills, driven by these simple turbines, of the same type as was used there 2,700 years ago, are still In operation. The Detacher Mueller, Berlin, says; These turbines were brought to the notice of the modern world and quite generally adopted in Europe from 1750 to 1830. These Chaldees are not to be confounded with the Chaldeans of Messopotamla. Twenty-seve- n A Study In Genius. Le Rli e. PRIZED BELL IS RECOVERED. Remarkable Salvage Feat Recently Performed in Burma. One of the sights of the Shwe Dago; 9 Pagoda in Burma Is a gigantic bell of bronze weighing forty-twand a quarter tons, and said to be the third largest bell in the world, the largest being in Moscow and the next largest in Mingin, also in Burma. After conquering Burma the British undertook to carry the great Rangoon as a trophy, but bell to Calcutta dropped it overboard in the Rangoon river, where it defied all the efforts of the engineers to raise It. Some years later the Burmese, who had not ceased to mourn its loss, begged to be allowed to recover It. Their petition was granted, and by attaching to It an incredible number of bamboo floats the unwieldy mass of metal was finally lifted from Us muddy bed and triumphantly restored to its place, Asleep Seventeen Years. Dr. Herbst, in the Wiener Medizint-sche- n Presse, tells of a woman named Gersine Meyer, who, falling asleep in 1886, remained In that state for seventeen years. During that period the womans eyes were closed, but she was otherwise In possession ot her She was nourished with faculties. pap, milk and eggs and- - Invariably made movements with her mouth when she wanted to drink. During the seventeen years she suffered from colds and an attack ot influenza. These ailments had no effect on her sleep. When at last the woman awoke she had the feeling that she had only been asleep during the night. Quickly Answered. Me., traveling man had been planning all the year to be in attendance upon the golden wedding anniversary of his parents, but when the time came he found that he was too far from home to get there in season. Accordingly he sent a valuable present to the old people and a to his father. The latter read: Dear Dad Is marriage a failure? The answer came back in an IncrediNo. but the results bly short time: ttmetimas are.' A Portland. tele-era- , g mail-in- g Quick-Witte- d Absent-Mindednes- absent-minde- i n r A Bad Fix Soreness and Stiffness St. Jacobs Oil |