Show sm MSS TRAIN BALANCED deteel over the occoa niver TIIE texas Is a of suu and extreme of it la over fehrt in height and Is 2180 tact ions yot it 43 supported by stone almara PO email that U seema incredible in che beholder thai they can uio enormous weight of pass ing trains which bly stop n the bridge to allow to ht and view the structure and the bleak desolate dea the is ira what Is locally known as the pecos which Is still under the jurisdiction of the old almo la arriver pacts about microbes Mic robes Is believed that microbes mic robes aro the most IT difficult form at ate to hilll you may bake them and bedl them subject them to extremes of temperature that would make short work of any other 11 vine ato meven freeze for months in ice and they still boroo up smiling and ready tor their deadly work recently a very sample method 0 depriving the energetic bacteria of ufa la reported to have discovered by a well known german proto asor of medicine and there should be chopo ifor the hitherto hopeless he had an idea that microbes mic robes could be shaken to death and proceeded to acm lcm the practicability of his theory ife tied to the body ot a boung man a hot ie many millions of mi clobes he put tho young man through the varying figures of that celebrated gaji hat look london by storm a couple ot rears since and Is now the rage in pa la the cakewalk by this means the e it ie was subjected to a shaking the like at which could not otherwise ibave been a mined and alien the walk was finished and the microbes mic robes were examined such great was found to have occurred in their ranks that the professor his remarkable experiment to the world he national guard of california hag lur included extensive military ma rei in conjunction with the regulars ana has returned to the pursuits of peace di ansted they were marched off their f had to do the ame work as the sea mi d regulars and suffered many hard sh ps under which ano died and were severely prostrated some of their friends assert that the regular officers who planned the campaign did all this deliberate ancient lobster boat tha form of boat in PROBABLY the world to be still in actual use Is the round leather affair now in use at bacdad tha leather boata if the vort boat may indeed be used are ab noward of three thousand years old a i s in their form and general con att ii ion the appearance of these m v ho seen from the photograph they are spoken ot in borki of when he speaks w t T boita that sail down the arver bat lou are circular and made of leather th rin of thee craft has an 1 but little in all these centuries hf planetary satellites effi e ta have been f aind by annerl 1 a i ti r include ton the seven thi a siburn alem s and phoebus tie h birns of marac rna phoebe the n nn of saturn T p c fence in tho world in aoi which has been erected by a A a along the bolder i alve miles in length and ep ar if 11 lv for its entire e the two I kuhui the fence waa built to keep fit irom running j ross ro ss the and an caia 0 o iiii icar cow punchers although it costi deal of money it is estimated that cattle enough will be saved in one year lo 10 more than pay tor it ahle has a larger mcw for lis THIS size doubtless than any othar in ane world the accompanying HiMi ration ahola the ship full with ila grouped about it incidentally the ihla Is stationary and has never beeri by water it la a perfect model of a irrean alp reduced in size it ie uyi or training the young sailors for ahe E navy so perfect Is tho of anis ship 0 o the la b a indent in tia dav learn who enforces als autho uty the aid 0 a aix shooter if necessary while the structure was being erected a beilan cowboy met ahls death by falling frum a girder to the turbid ilver below A postmortem post mortem examination brought to leht a loaded weapon and forty odd dollars on the person of the deceased who iett no heirs the pacos sheriff the situation over and finally ordered the dead man to the amount 0 46 tor breaking the 1 iw the carrying of concealed ne apons and as no one objected the decree held ten thousand pounds for a gown richest and most expensive dress THE in the world la now on exhibition at the great worlds fair at st louis this gown cost and has ban considered the most wonderful creation of the parisian dressmakers art it was made for the famous empress josephine who in the height of her popularity was perhaps rhe most beautiful woman in the world the gown weighs pounds and has a train fifteen feet long it Is made of the heaviest and richest velvet of the chol cert manufacture and Is bordered ermine that cost a small fortune the skirt bodice and train are studded alth hand worked golden bees sym bollo of the napoleonic dynasty tastefully corked into the gown are many costly jewels out of 10 voters in france there are from to who arc cap und owners of interest bearing stock landed holders of parisian bonds railroad bonds credit fonder bonds national bonds mein bers of cooperative bodies people who put by for the rainy ay iy small sums in the bank that serve to assure life or insure death ERB ia a instantaneous photograph vt a race or rather a I 1 I 1 chase in which two dogs and a rab t bit took part every one has seen dog running at top speed and perhaps a rabbit but their motion Is BO rapid that it Is impossible for the ordinary eye to detect jt how they run the accompanying picture may bo described as frozen curious cures Is claimed to be an excellent MUSIC medicine for many ills it properly administered for those suffering biorn nervous diseases a soothing influence may be exercised over the patients by 1 alous notes and sounds of var force and intensity patients who undergo this cure have to he on a sort of co uchIn reality a sound ing board directly over the keyboard of a specially built organ the pipes of which anc lose them on three aldes the performer at the keyboard then plays selections suitable to tha treatment for persons of weak digestion there Is the cold air cure the cold being produced by liquid air going into the cald chamber the patient Is dressed in a flannel suit he remains in a temperature many degrees below freezing point for six or seven minutes which has the effect of stimulating the circulation and causing a tremendous appellee appell te tho hot ajr cure in the of baths Is well known but it Is not of such general knowledge that mud bathis arf dally reemi bcd to by persons buffering from certain skin diseases treatment it will be remembered hag its precedent a long way back in history when a coital king cured of a skin disease by tolling in tho mud ot a hot spring taking a mud bath in the crater of a volcano if not pleasant sant certainly has icv elty to recommend it in mendocino county southern california ar a number of such i tural mud baths on a mountain okli a few miles out of cahas here the cattlemen took their dally alp if suffering from a skin peculiar to that region in the craters in summer when the volcanoes are not active ar with blue gray mud that Is aco old alia kiisel alu as a prize for this veara manoeuvres a completo itald for an including 00 oo knives forks and spoons revolver topographical survey appliances ances and bigar and cigarette tie name and utility ot every rape and spar the twenty floh anniversary of the introduction tro of electric traction into germany will soon be celebrated in berlin tho eastern market men have paid to the melon of rocky biord fo too ot ibe famous mi lam hours for dining N the days ot the tudora the higher classes dined at eleven and cupped supped at five but tho merchants seldom took their meals before twelve and dx the chief meals dinner and supper were taken in the hall both by the old english and the norman for the parlor did not come into use until the reign of elizabeth dr murray in the oxford dictionary gives 1463 as the date of the earliest quotation in which ahn word breakfast occurred the meal did not become recognized until late in ane century dinner was alwais the great meal of ohp da and from the of henry IV to the death of queen elizabeth the dinners as sumptuous and extravagant as am of those now served carving was then B fane I 1 art each guest then brought hla own knife and spoon for the small fork was not introduced anto england until thomas foliate foi ate of Od combe published his cru in 1611 tha absence of forks ltd to much stress being ald upon the act of washing the hands both before and after meals and to the rule that the left hand 1 alone should be dipped in th common alfh the right hand being occupied with the knife the perfect i dinner at the best time of english cookery consisted of three courses each complete in itself and terminated bi a subtlety of delce the ahola being rounded off with after which the guests into another room where pastry sweetmeats sweet meats and fruit wre served with the choice th english were meat eaters and it rt aa not the elmp of the commonwealth that attained ftp extraordinary popularity indeed the first mention of pudding in the menus of the buck feast did not occur inell 1710 and in 1712 Is an item ot as tor ice modern ways in japan ions since copied european JAPAN methods of warfare to excellent purpose today to day she U adopting the fri polities voli ties until recently jewelry for instance was tabooed tabo oed but now even gentlemen are otten ken with a thick sold rin made out of an old japanese coin called koban the study of the introduction of a new custom Is As to it Is rather delicate to touch on but it cannot be dismissed with a general statement that in affection and icae the japanese ate undemonstrative stra tive all depends upon circumstances kissing as practiced practised in the west Is still strange to them but no one who knows about it would wonder if a boung couple of modern japan should lake to it to express their love twomey were charged with stealing slippers from a chuch at Clon tara ireland and the were on the later it aaa discovered that a sacrilegious dog had stolen the slippers the amassed na ls of the orld include battle alps cruisers 1255 gunboats gun boats and 1600 torpedo clafli motion th snide of the dogs and of the rabbit has been raught it nah be ticen that all ihne participants in the race arc literally doing their best glass houses of a very substantial kind can be built now are turning out elass bricks or all sorts of purposes modern plague english church missionary society THE calls attention to th fearful ravaged of pestilence in several countries in which its agents are at work in uganda the sickness has desolated and the northern shores ot the victoria lake and Is fast iner the sese islands the plague in the punjab nan been claiming as many as twenty thousand victims a month cholera which has laid thousands low in palestine Is now rasing in persia f in a school was established at darmstadt which at a later dato grew into a polytechnic school in iao after seventeen ears of deliberation and hesitation a polytechnic school was opened at karlsruhe an arctic home af 1 runal or nt a TUB p of hem ae d tho thin reluctant full fit iund allds poor crops while the spa Is rich in ishtie to dry the elsh caich the have conf been in he habit of them on coleb th hang for safe keeping about theli huts home of one of these thus decorated Is illustrated heie alth there are not ahat is possessors of or in all france in round numbers persona possess a capital of from to a capital of 1930 to have from bais to 1930 and another hava from as 50 lo 10 curious lance drill figures in alie ai compan ing 11 TUB luat ration are not i ollige bo 1 in the latest football armor as might be supposed the suits and which so completely cover them arc worn by english soldiers in their lance drill it la possible it will ba seen for one of the men BO encased to be struck on any pin of the heal or baly without being rl outly injured the manre drill i i iv r in th arm cricket on shipboard cricket on shipboard has its PLATING drawbacks and it pleasures as well only a fellow cant wak a brilliant plays ag he can on firm earth still white time bianas lianas heavily during a voyage there may easily be many diversions less acceptable than athla play at marine cricket the picture shows a participant stealing a run of course the ship daei not always run on an even keel and when it lurches the runner frequently alls and Is stumped but after all it Is not ahe merits of a cricket match that the players seek but the mere diversion 0 the thin every time a player falls hero Is more or less laughter in which he himself joins animals and fire animals are arald of fire and fly from it aiji terror to others I 1 there Is a fascination about a flame and they will walk into it even though tortured by the heat in a burning stable goos mad with fear tout a dog Is as cool in a alre ai a i at any time lie keeps hs nose down to the floor sacre the air 1 purest and seta himself calmly to find in his way out cats in alrea howl alle couely they hide their faces from th light and crouch in corners when their rescuer lifts them are as a rule quite docile and subdued never biting or scratching birds em to be hypnotized by alre and keep perfectly still even tho loquacious parrot in a alre has nothing to say cows like dogs do not show alarm they aye easy to lead forth and often fand their way out themselves the brotherhood of locomotive engineers Is agitating the abolition of or a change in the present system of mall cranes several have been struck and killed recently by the deice the london of music medal for pianoforte placing counterpart and harmony lias been pon by max Dar enrid eight years old there were thirty nine other competitors atre youngest of whom is twenty five year old although comparatively never of any great importance ui imports ot raw cotton from china to germany so far this year are considered less than they in 1903 on the other hand the exports of calicoes cali coes and canton ft annela to china have been margerin lar gerin fact double what they were during the same period in either lina or iya it appears as if german cotton mills evere supplying the chinese bets with a part of the kinds of goods which up to the present time have been imported from the states gate of solid silver NE of tie most h and at ahe 1 0 sime tibne chun h addora 1 alon in the world aie the silver of st cathedral at malta i the gates are nearly twelve feet in height vet are made throughout if soh aller As may be been from ohp accompanying illustration the arc very elaborate there are elaborate crolla crol lt panels with figures in high relief and a or of exquisite woi A famous timekeeper worlds beat timekeeper Is said to THE be the electric clock in the basement of the berlin observatory which was installed by Prot eanor in IS it ts in an ajr tight arlas cylinder and has frequently run for periods of two or three montha ft ath nn ddlly deviation ot fifteen of ke ond yet astronomers are not satisfied even with this and efforts are being made to secure adeil conditions for a clock by keeping it not only in an air tight case but in an underground vault where neither of temperature nor of barometric pressure shall ever affect it japanese ship names i lew of the periodic about IN the appropriate of war ships it is of interest to learn ahat japan lias chrag her big babue ships after great mountains and the small war vessels roni socio well known natural of the country it may also be mentioned that at the did of the name of every japanese ship 1 cither the termination kan or niazi kan means war vessels and la applied ot course only loi the emperors loot maru which means round la applied ti essel why it is to say boiling point of water bolh at different baten turea according to the cleall in trove hie nea level in london water bolla practically at dc sri hi in germany at arajs in iho city at W degrees and in he at an tie atlon of thousand feel the leval ot ahr ea at ISO degrees these tire 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