Show IN THE TH ODD coriner COU I 1 it SOME QUEER AND CURIOUS FEATURES OF LIFE 1 faint I rif f 1 11 l 11 4 ant an all incle nt alk I 1 liturgy source ot of tale jil alier ary it I 1 hottat baui les N lonel spot all vu I 1 aci N P ilc ile tIlOt lh bull 1 and rain CA rt it 1 n boft one 0 a e liborn as et the dew sp arkil 1 I on m mi sw ba bit A caiti and pressed hib lips warm anil and red with lift s oung blood upon in snowwhite snow white ro fatia tips ups and lo 10 thero surge I 1 a crimson hood flood throughout my aih dd ded lay my breit hs jis never neier sun nor rain could do and soft cich eich morn hh ili fond lips III esse I 1 my afy perils till I 1 rosier gre grew hut but voe isme Is met one luckless s d lly ay iy pissed a plon I 1 lo 10 cl on oil his ills roin 1 ho plucked me in his e pi eliy ay iy and LI d timed limed me for hia his own ON n I 1 faded in his ruthless grip lie ile cast me here alone to die dle 0 love once more to feel our clasp ami and bre breitha ithe a list good bye shih a library in the of the tile stubs of pc rali at teheran Is i t room hung with G aeb tin tip Vip estr ind id next net to it the librae libra r tilled mith ith pric dess cless in of ill the alir seems to bo be the most and his v riling 1 is rallied allied at two a line at this rite the manuscripts b him in the halls tw aslon must be worth him hull ads of thousands of ponds T the lie armon ct thi palice Is sm ill and in ferloin to man Luro pein ane cron jewels ire re borth orth man millions among them Is the tile sister dh it mond to our Kohl noor Moun nin of I 1 light ight it Is 1 i I hupe huge diamond an inch and R half halt long and an inch aroid but not iera er bright and coull coul I 1 be pardon abl ab mistaken ryliS taken for glias it dates from B C and Is billed tile the dira I 1 nur r or bei seii of likht light clot clothile hilr ironi I 1 roll I 1 et at the newest no anest thins thing in spinning Is to preserve pr ere tho tile clippings ot bour our live lle or the entire hair of 0 3 o ir deceased fanine pete pets ind ec eme them into some thing to v wear car one sentimental att pric practical iada lad has spun the hilr of het defunct terrier it ir hi been i sakne shirel sure si irel into a tarn tam 0 06 blunter A gool hairy pomeranian dog might yield quite a respectable shearing dogs hair when ft hen looks somewhat v hat like hibbits hair and II 11 R 11 princess beatrice deatrice of battenberg hie his long been in thy the hibit habit of having the hair bair of her pet hibbit prez preserved emed and boven ft oven or knitted into coolly woolly cuffs cliffs for the poor at a sile of work just before christmas her royal highness even boullit mittens it f rabbits hiar tor for both herself and the late prince henry lines of lire tire you have olten often noticed the man tinted bars and bands bonds that rise in the hape of forked tongues of limes from arod burning in the grate it Is ten to one however ho eer thit you never have we thought to figure on the cause of the varl var gated hues presented by flames to bring the matter to the point we will pay say that the man min colors are the result of combustion among the different ferent df elements of the the light bluehs blue ie from the hydro een gen and the w hite from the carbon the violet la Is from the manganese the red from the magneski magn mag esli and the ellow from the boda doda which are constituent parts of the wood old col J V brower Br minnesota MInne eota state geographer has made the sens sensational aUona 1 discovery that the source of 0 the missouri river la Is not red rock lake I 1 mont 43 has been stated stilted col brower has explored the whole region of the upper missouri and now makes public tho the of his discoveries he ile says the longest upper branch of the missouri does not flow through the loner loer red rock lake in montana but comee comes from a hole in the mountains volcanic in itt its character chir acter at the summit of the rocky mountains west of Ifer leys lake ice idaho and at a point bordering abe boundary between that elate and A tate of baturo nature tells a tale of a pair ot of rooke rooks evidently young birds that strove in tain faill to ulla a neat nest the rind each kinle ae blew the foundations down while the e rooks which fly by far for nest ma bals instead of taking those close it hand were away at last do despairing of building a home by legitimate legi timae ill ans I 1 they fell upon a completed nest at 01 a another ther pair while the arnera were bent tore it to pieces and built a nest fo indi tion that would stand tji f the wind then thi tilt made a cupl structure tuie tule in the clairn cli irn an I 1 IneX inexperienced Perl wa tint thit birds alway always do 1 lit I tot rhe finest an fn invers in the world orld aluir ir size are certain south Am ints fannus ILLIs constructed b them alle hue ln lien tried tricel a distan distance of ano miles 4 01 e ot 0 them passi passing ilg enier a itil lift ards nide linth frkan ints have hie ibo consider able belll as in some of their honus have hane heen been foun I 1 end I 1 bridges p from one orie gallery to another ind bp anning gulah loul to ten tell 1110 es alde ide ii i in t I 1 iturry ir Antl Anti quiri quirl ins ills N will ill feel i 1 11 alvel ea inter pst est in n a IN work ork ibo viboit it to little ir in ili I 1 ng land it 1 Is til 0 reprint of the tile hii masil sll cun cull taini tig tit alic c filst liture bici to I 1 ind probably pro bibly tl first pill list I 1 ina titie 11 1 e time tim ngo mat 1111 tin till unit disco diso vereil ered in th tho 1 n I 1 I 1 mr of al i brillo tile Ills missal sal brout lit bv 13 st ct all stine to kiil liil ind with b U E ti tip e gre apt rpt it mr lloil till Is s thia alth in it hin linne irtle boc wc lilt ita the unit i i Is a st ito it it hil I 1 I 1 abo viboit it 4 kopul I 1 tion or nn all 1 elick of liss thin I 1 III person to tell of its 12 USO s juare nill s of traitor in it ila hal I 1 I 1 N ikhil stants or in I 1 gertr ier erbig tR of nearl nc irl fort ort periods u ta to 1 sauile mile ne pirl I 1 r I 1 all the Inc itic rei is s from mm the natle stock 20 19 bing foreign 1 b born 0 rn and on 33 2 5 7 of the itie nitie n niti e born burn belu ot of foreign born parents I 1 1111 I 1 at it the est ite of mr nir george Nander vanderbilt bilt la Is a t willman pi phradie radie there ire 9 acres u in the find the yaten L of is Is so per feet thit mr lir Nander bilt who w ho Is i i ili pan can go i ii dundr d miles oer mer i I 1 roid without lt hout going olf oil his estate I 1 ader A it lie ile I 1 of f oal al the discovery disco ery of a human skull in lit i I 1 a good elite of pre preservation b ur 11 diggers at a depth of 40 fc feet et beneath a build four our foot toot eln elii of coil is at tricking ting a good deal of attention at I 1 Diel S D i w 1 it A dl dh coer of platinum Is reported to have bae becil divide neat Cordo bolln new south bales ales some ottelie hundred ounces of the metal had been obtained b bi list advices containing 75 per cent of platinum 1110 h lart of t many the first sah white it e thild child b born 0 rn on united states poll soll was yas the grand daughter of valte the goer governor nor of roanoke island she aas christened b bv the name of virginia dire and her birthday was aug 18 issa of about 2000 sailing sal ling ebels ot of all kinds disappear in the sea every ear I 1 doan dovin humia human beings I 1 and involving liing a lobs of about repair repairs to the stone biall all at the angle Getts gettysburg burg made the other di div uncovered over oer bul lets pieces of shell parts of guns etc etc it if the armies of europe should ma ach at it in eight mile gait five abreast abrea at afif alf teen inches apart it would require nine ind ini one hilt diya for them to pass i x given point glish r the aeronaut hits his that the voice oice of a woman noman Is audible in a ballon at tho the height of about two miles while hile that of a man has never reached higher thin a mile I 1 from rough calculations lately made 11 i by contributors to the zoological record 1 it 11 appears that over specie species of animals have been described by I 1 1 naturalists up to the present date bounting Joun ting in clerk hire mileage and incidentals a member of congress now i receives i i total of about 12 tor for his two ears ber ice daniel Ne debater ebster used to get for the irame period 3 eighteen miles ij au the longest distance on record at which a mane mans vole voice has been beard heard thia this occurred in the grand canyon ot of the colorado colora do where one man dh outing the nune n une bobi at it one end his voice was plainly heard at the other end which Is eight eighteen een miles away asay fully ot of the population latic ln of india are annually killed by snake bites with a blew to reducing the mortality the government offers a bethard tor for snakes he acids ids which instead of diminishing the number of these rep tilea tends to ln Inc cruc reize it as the natives breed 1 snakes solely to secure the reward A stone blotting pad is being introduced it Is made ot of a bibulous stone that la eald said to absorb ink more readily la III use it than any blotting paper Is formed by compressing the Jedin lent deposited by certain hot springs which having been accumulating for ages agell ie its available in inexhaustible quantities it la Is highly porous and will it la is said take up a surprising quantity ot of ink requiring only occa I 1 signally glo sio nally scraping with a knife te to keep it clean and ready tor for use |