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Show OnpymMHT ISO. BY the NEW TOM BRBAU CMU-ANY- mission school taught and sup- de- ported by the Btleslan Pattern more serves to be distinguished In ways than one. In the first place. It U located In the sou them moat city In the HE i - v,f y L A. i-- ? j'iV . "i.-'V- J s,..5i i & 7 .t'. ,.. SvjTlf ' ' s' V V fW-- ?: ft i Russell, commander of the English Medilerriinean llaat, ail ter tallied 8,0(1 pauile 111 a large garden In Alicante, where he aaraed the Urgent bnwl of punch ever brewed. It contained twenty gnllnni of lime Juice, four hogsheads of brandy, out pipe of Malaga wine, S.IMI lemon, thirteen hundredweight of line wblta augar, three puckagea t united biscuits. flfty-nn- e pound of grated nutmegs and eight hogsheads of wnler. The whole wna prevented from dilution In cane or rain by a Urge canopy, which aprrad over a marble fountain bowl which held the punch. The puneh waa aervrd by a boy who rowed about tha baaln of the fountain In a boat built for the pur-kiand rafllled the empty cups. N ldM Admiral Edward j ; ,,i', . :.. i picture may1 prove a grateful eignt the hot weather, and la a that torrid daira muet paaa way. Tlie Ice fountain In Detroit waa one of tlie curiosities of the city last winter. The fountain la located in Cadillac square, and It la tha custom to have thla Ice display there each season. The city authorities allow the fountain to run all winter purposely for such a formation, hut last winter being so unusually cold the fountain made a record tor alxe. It waa about twenty-liv- e feet across the base and forty to forty-fiv- e feet high, and of clear, blue white ice. THIS w Pattis Fan. Harvest' operations in both tha English and border districts were only brought to a close a day or loro before Christmas. Tha harvest was by far the latest within memory. TRHASt'RK which Mm. Patti vsl-u- h lualily la a fun which heara the autographs of nearly all tha European sovereigns of her time. The late Vtntnrla haa written; If King Queen I,ear madia the truth whan he said Uut a nw net voice waa the nniet precious gift a board of Valontlno Tuiley U alphas travrllod uuuh through tlia I'nlled woman cuuid puwaeea, you, my dear Ade11a twice lung aa bo ia tall, and 'Ktalea and Mesloo. aiya alnce Ilia muat be tlie richest Woman In the la pnmd of lila peculiar rilstlnc-0lv- li war ha liai dune imlhlng but pay lina, world." ion' j1 Vl?? V Frankfnrd, Mn., democratic and Tola the ticket, The Empreea and Engiemr of Austria . tha beard, which la tha lngrf In tlw 1 '1 U have aimiriy written their signatures, but ,ralt world, la more Ilian aUivan fret In lenglh. IV11 Dec Mwaniirla-ntlia Kaleer lme ailded tliiwe word llv' It haa remained uni rimmed alnce tlia civil;1 Tsar Nicholas war. Mr. Taplry lire in the district rap-- ! Preserve bla beard by wrapping It Nachtlgalle allec lelten. resented in t'ongrwia by t'liamp I'Jark and from tha chili down In a allk braid, rolling wrote: ''Itlen comma votes chant." The la a rlnee friend of the atalranun. It up and wearing It under bla ahlrt Queen Regent of Bpaln'a wordi are: "L'Kapagnule, une relne vul la ret Here de Mr. Tapley la an InlereatinK men. He bosom. compter au aomhra de see eujele." The Queen of tha IMgiana has written' Ilia flrvt bar of the "RiieewuJaer. Novel Trap fur Thieves. World's Finest Hotels. eeeeee-ee- some time the pal office a nth in France have tieen much TVeneh society haa begun to rebel at the by an nrgnnisud hand of Ihlevea printed list of wedding pmerntg. It la po whu stole mall day after duy out of hotels In the United Stalea, according iougnr good form In certain sets to run Ilia letter boxes, but now they Imva din- - to g New York manager, down the gamut In public print of the an representing Covered g uontriviuirw which, tln-are, Invented capital of more than ala billion' parental check down to the ibdi oavsr of muthlent, will put a slop to aurti thefts .dollar. Thsee ealaldlslmienls employ' tha servants' haH. Tlie euotom haa te-1- n future. U minds! s of a clockwork parsona. The hotel population laoome very ostentatious, anil haa given rise to each let-- 1 enormous and steadily Increasing. Rome ofite much vulgar speculate ruintcnieiit, which la ju and mental ter box and Is so nmnncled with tlis main, (lie finest Itoustw cost aa much aa W.&nt'.OuU arithmetic. IH'rt office tliiil Hie moment any one ateeeeeeeeeeeee-eeoeeeeeetempts to t:iiner with the mail a bell 'Iiibh and nollili-- detectives who ara on TRANSFORMATION OF BULLETS. FANTASTIC he lookout for the rtriprlla dny and night, When a letter la thrown Into a boa or when a postman extracts the letters the. bell also rings, but the pound la different j from thut which Is made when a thief Is 1 HI work and thtrefore there Is no danger on will ever he lad dcteiwtvaa off the that a wild goose clinas. Machinists and ironworkers are greatly Interested In the discovery of the art of welding cast Iron, which W. 8. and I R. Schaap, of Loveland, Col., claim to have made. They declare that the compound which they have Invented will also brass aluminum, so successfully as borax will brass steel. u THE e Old Norwegian Church. Il'lR y the name of "Chrysomphslus minor,1 kills orange trees. Being equipped with a sort of shield, this little creature cannot be destroyed by any Insecticide except where It la very yoifng. Immediately after It la horn, it searches among tha tender parts of the orange tree and, having selected a eorafortuble spot. It makos Its horns there snd thenceforth obtains all Its nourishment from the plant, the result being that the tree soon shrivels up and loses Its foliage. Many orange trees at Florence were destroyed some time ago by this Insect and now it has appeared in two or three places In France. Familiar Objects Misnamed. Hat of well knows objects which are misnamed the Jerusalem artichoke I naturally oecura Ij never came from Jerusalem at all, and la not an artichoke, but a sunflower. The true artichoke Is a member of tlie Cynara family, while tha otter ao called variety struggles along under the name of Hellanthua tuberoaua It Is almply a sunflower whoa, tubers have been developed by cultivation. The peach, nectarine, and aprloot have all been developed from the almond and. consequently all belong to the same family. The wild crab of the hedgerow seems to have little connection with the Newton pippin, yet they are both members of tbs High Price for Poison. same genua In fact, H Is from this same N Australia there la now agreat demand wild species that ths deven hundred variefor poison extracted from serpents, and ties of apples have sprung. Ths pear Is those who offer any for sals are paid at an apple, to speak technically, and so la the rate of t0,M0 for every kilogram. ths medlar and the mountain ash, which Thla seems an enormous price, but It Is hot an ash at alL must be remembered that It ia extremely Though vegetable marrow Is never difficult to obtain auch poison, and 'those served as a fruit, yet, In company with the druggists who can manage to keep even cucumber, it is really a fruit, not a vegetaa few drops of It In stock consider them- ble. The same remark applies to the tomato, selves lucky. which Is also a fruit, and In former days Only three kinds of serpents are useful was known ss the love apple. Tha goosefhr this purpose, the brown viper, the berry, which cultivation haa changed from common asp and ths speckled snake. a sour berry, covered with small but sharp Moreover, the pjson must be drawn from thorns. Into a sweet edible fruit, la a curthem while they are etlU alive, and In a rant; both belong to ths family of Rlbes. healthy condition. The efficacy of the Ths onion was first grown for Its ornapoison In tha csss of certain ailment. Is mental flowers and, indeed, they are said to be wonderful. charming, 'and tha different verities bear , blue, white, yellow and rose colored bloseeeeeeee soms, many produced In drooping dusters Cltlsens of Manchester, England,, are complaining bitterly and writing to the papers because ths conductors on the Petersburg, Ind., wAl send to the World's tram ears "squses. twenty persona Into Fair, Bt. Loula, a block of coal three and rata constructed for eighteen," and, a half feet square and eleven feet thick. worse still, allow some people to stand The block waa taken from tha Killian mines, and weighs thres tons up." S any DEAD FRIARS AS ORNAMENTS. Giants of This Century. historians and other wiitm us of many tall men. but they lu verify their facta with measure mente. Even Goliath, the of giant Biblical times, haa left no Beam of his stature In hard figures. The tallest man of whom there la authentic nvxi waa named Farnum, a native of BeotliM who stood no less than UVfc feet (teetea the Greek, la said to have been the height of this Scotchman, but In the case of the Greek fancy, not fact. Is responsible la his measure. Tradition credits tne Gatabro with being tea feet la ft An-bta- Chinese laborer In British Columbia eannertee have formed a union and demanded MB and 150 and board instead at Floral Mystery. there are trick in all trades ths An IF haa a right to some of tlia nqitfffrf ha practices upon hie euetawn A Japanese gardener haa been aMe is produce arhat Is known aa the eknr-abl- Thla flower blooma white h shade and red In light. At night in i Out room the rose la a pur white, but wlm once transferred to the light ths ciusp begins, th rapidity depending upon the degree of sunlight and warmth. First the petals aaau ms a kind of washed or fedri blue color and then quickly change te i taint pink. Thin tint gradually deepen till the enow white of an hour before k aa rod as thf brightest Jacqueminot , eteeesee church at llorgund, Norway, Is preserved house of worship In country, and the oldest. It dates from 1UM, and Is first mentioned In a document written In 1J8U. The Interior consists of a nave and alnla with twelve columns. The churches of this kind have no windows, the light coming from little openings In the wall. Norway had no window glass In those days. The small tower to the right Is the original bell tower. The a ornamentations of the portals are of all the Norwegian churches. eeee THE beat Hllist SlfW. N most cases when a bullet enters a llv-- 1 In most esses tn having enme In contact mg hmly It remnlnn Inlaid, tha flesh nnl with some hone. The two on the left are offerlng sufficient rcNlalance to flatten or the famous dumdum bullets, which are made of metal so soft that they may split It. The tllnet ration shows several .ten nut ami spread ns much as posslbla tn after having hern removed from an Idlers. Tha curious splitting la duc tearing through ths flesh. ts lr-- j the1 Valuable New Tree. " ERMAN exslorers have dlscovM near Tohad a tree of tlie mlmiu L? Jlly which ia remarkable fur Its lira, ness, its weight being far has Ou that of cork. The trunk of the tree, vkl grows to. a height of from twelve to u. teen feet la oval and the biosxoms an very targe and of a yellow color, in our respects the branches resemble those poplar, but they are full of thorns The natives call the tree ''maref e It to make canoes. From vsiIm testa which have been made It lievidM that title wood would prove superior k many cases where cork is now mat though the tatter will continue to be In preference In any work where ls required. rose. -- Tlie Founhin Tree. a e e oeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeweeeee- world and Its pupili eoneUt wholly of am Indiana. The MMon U at Puna Reynas, oa const of Terra del Fur go, the southern th tremlty of South America, - Miotopraphs cm Colton. riSTAN In Mains has recently rompleted charac-terlatlc- several of ths Italian and Spanish monasteries ths bones and even the mummies of ths dead friars are carefully preserved and evan used for decorative purposes. The accompanying Illustration shows a group In the Capuchin monastery at Palermo, Blclly, which are still exhibited, dressed In tha garments they wore Match Dipper. when alive. Bo carefully have these ghastly rellca been preserved, that In some cases even ths likeness remains. On the shores of Oyster Bay, I I Is a grist mill which was built MO years ago and la now run by Jesse MoUlneaux. mill Is soon to be torn down. FRENCH explorer. V. Henri process for photographing In indeli-mgcointr. recently returned from Tenement Houses Run by a Lord. i Air in a Subway. tells some curious details of a flDle Ink on cotton cloth. The process Mortar Defies Zera Is exM In he exceedingly simple, the fountain tree. It grows to a great is not generally knuwn that the Right English physician haa made an BITWTANtE recently brought from IT Lord Rowton, who as Mr. r.KM AHKATIi.B height and usually In dump pluciw. The sensitising, toning and slilng being done of the air In the underground Hlnne. Iiearlng at lha same tlms with one solution. Tlie with la trunk and It was renders to large Corrle to provided oouven-regular of London with aatonlahlng Hie resenibhiniv I possible lo private secretary lay railway triking will medium keep for a long Lord Baconsfield, and waa by him named masonry in frreslng weather. The subresults. The amount of oxygen In the Ilona I picture of Christ, socked by branches which hear finely disserted seiuhlslng time unless the tn When the' Ilka base the exposed the Is light. divided at stance ia a liquid, which, when mixed hie literary executor, runs a number of atmosphere was only 10. GO porta In leaves, it cloth Is exposed to tha light In with the mortar, ennMes near the seen'. of the Y'n sH.iii It to set property model tenement houses In the poorer and gblurae, while In the worst courts in Lonat 'mangrove, and cntirs the earth through n:w,nsltlxed a frame a in few When printing the seconds ramlflcntlons. of of anmlsv coldest weal her. It Is claimed that more crowded porta of London, auch a a don it was never found lower than 20.86. the only In ta ,rMr were first made, me ilaviiriu. Tin, f ire Oherammergaii, sr required to print tha outlines the mortar made with tha addition of the. King's Cross, Kennington, White Chapel Pure air contains SO.M per cent of oxygen. WHEN matches rut at a hclgtil of about five feet I'll a r II though it ass' a on mu. sml ,re It waa common m years ago, or the Imime, which rievelupee fully to a. new substance shows even slightly greater and ao on. Ths Mills hotels In New York And with diminution of oxygen there was with a rhsnge in the angle the light thst fr,,r to make or. dip their gnunil a large qnniillty of water In M. water. trom this flow to dear vigorous The section. n print Strikes color strength than that madeup with 'water, are conducted along the asms lines. a proportionate Increase In tha carbonic matches. glie (he effect of npeimig and1 'hs'rvcdcut For thiii purpose WI ime at this height that hnd a,l a solid engraving block, but by a aim-- ! Tha liquid, which la marketed under the eli'sing the vc. The reilr I Tbs English sstabllshments, however, acid gas. The normal quantity la 037 in well to do house was equipped with a ply Ini before and the of noma toning process diameter tlie ' larontv then.N Inches, are. Is in calchllmn. are a solution prints IjoiuI'Mi. of chlorite iv.tiirrir, among the most remarkable poorl100 parts, but the expert found that In one kin, or small cup of tin. In some cases funning a gutter along the trunk, placed dried can lie changed to a warm brown, ' of ralnimn and htia a frees Log point far men's palaces" In ths world. These Bow-- 1 of tha Metropolitan Railway tunnels (the silver, for holding the sulphur. hHMA. next The ThM rotors are fait and bt low wo. fiill lit the morumpc thcbUok, tan bouaea accommodate about six hun- carbonic acid gas was .IS per cent Thla The sulphur was melted in th plphh will stand washing with tuspk BIiniJ of Athldfs. jmII, which held nine quarts, hnd dred men, and an all round charge of la excessively high when It le taken Into !JUid at the proper oonslstency the m The sat or Is drinkable, I hough It twelve cents a night la mad;- entitling the consideration that whenever the carbonlcl sticks were dipped In and afterward w to lr. V. B. Ilswk. who Is rich In clilmlrtcs Hnd nllmr salts. lodger to every luxury th establishment acid gaa In the atmosphere exceeds ,1U0 lowed to dry. The match sticks in tM Ginger Bread Doll Menu. Couldn't Remember. Iselin the Mwd of amides, Including hot and cold baths, ad- per cent the air ia much too polluted to be days were usually about six Inch k end !ht rxcrciHO, the Increase j HEBE photographs show one of tha affords, GERMAN who lias been a student of mirable reading rooms stocked with maga-slne- s breathed with eifety to one's health. It In believed that the Uuthnchlld length. In tne number f red corimsclr ) menu curious bancards used at the at tlia Tniveralty of aieasen and newspapers,' gymnasium and a whole la ..rili aln.ut fl 5nu.nun,i(i. after n liumiuc. The actual x quet of the Buclety of German En- cubicle bedroom of . Immaculate cleanliaenivKters ciq-rwithout being To vote for a member of ParHamesl urea shnwiiiK liic r'i ningca of s.iln after (l Trench nedimi ' The represented h gineers In Munlrh lost summer. It la ness. able to paea the examination efficiency of an old tamp may be ImH's1 nsi.itai ntul tlie iiualish branch died years must be twenty-fiv- e different fi.rni of exercise six-- : Aine him- Japanese doll of gingerbread, tlie Gernuin It is no wonder that In Lord Rowton's proved twenty-fiv- e a really to there lust cent per e llfty-onforty by and pay about 67.50 annually In direct aad dn-r- l years, yard ilaeh. 2I.N; lL'n yard hurdle. 215; llF ciislilcr.ibly mure. the lower Th of tha surrounding cause flame one flnda h:s reuf 'hotels a part to strange medley of Inability I remember tlonal taxation. This rule shuts out non slf mile run. 17, S; mile 12.8; two mil' duced gentlemen. Including ministers of re- with a copper ring, to prevent loss of heat whar be had learned was sn Injury of the ly 09 per cent of the population of Ja?u-run. 8.8; broad Junqi. six Juimi 15.0; three Bf. Paul and 51inneuo!i are the largest membrane of the brain, which lie had ligion. doctors, lawyers, Journalists, artists through convection. liiiiute game of water p1n, ld.t. and other flotsam and Jetsam on tha nea marked. In the world. The iol.il re-- 1 ceived In s duel. Ids name w.ui (Tirisllsn In 1870 nearly all (89.5 per eent) of 'r,-lfor Hie last of chance and change. from the frog Busch. Ills death also caused comment Bo many Germans have C olnmbla ha reduced her standing army oa lull era of tlie Hi.iteyear turned inventors Russian railways belonged to privateowaes exceeded live hnn- - because he had left his possession, valued o that seventy-twtechnical clerks ara needJroin eleven thoittaud to live thousand dix-- thouoaml deirn. reqiilrlns t'w sl.iugh- at IS.iW, to the town ofj and In 1001 these companies Giessen, hut se he Candles ara extensively used in Mexico ed In the Patent Office of the emplr. Last panlea koii only per cent of them. In Ger trr of no Ufm ih.m flvt miliiuii fnv. had neglected to elan tha document th owing to tlie great cost of kerosene. year there were about twenty-nin- e thou- private railway ownership decreased money will go to distant relatives. sand application! for patents. the same period from 11 to I per cent DICYat THAT CARRIES A WHOLE FAMILY. Btrange to say, iB Asia and Africa Monkey Puzzle Tree. where grass will not grow tha moat beauSUICIDE POINT, NIAGARA FAILS. tiful flowtrs and shrubs flourish to perfae-tlo- &taJ fllilBHtl la n, 7v: m lu ' ' ' fse nvw-flimc- d. acetiRi fnm-gr:r- - -t fr - , re-jfr- ! i 8J h ft I? S"!!!1 SB r 1 Two Trees; One Trunk. decorated with col-- l pfeffernuafkuvhen, red candy. an1 waa drelgnsd for th oc- -j raalon by nntad artist of Munich. At the plsoa of every guest there were! r tabl hundred In all there waa placed! one of these dolle and there wn a great vsrlotv among them n design and rolnr-inwo a notable one, aa The j there were mnnv of the tnnt ERE ia one of the moat remarkable noted acl- - I enliffc men of trera la the world. It grows in Calipresent, unit Crown Prince or Bavaria, eat at the' I I fornia, and in plaee of leavmi has Vi:K . a phot oKroph of a eurlou right nr Ludwig, the rhninn.vn. Oechihaeuer spiky srilei. Th trunk and all of ini', a i ("..niiu nf two parfw--i' Every detail tn there dulle was most the brunches are entirely covered with II n nek on ths rtgbt. and a beautifully ri nd-ed. and vhrv were really these scales, which are so :.e left. These, a ehoan Work of art. They sharp that even a foot a monkey would And It out of the ll Ihe .ire groalnc nn th same high, and the ped- stela s'mw about question the cake to climb n vttch tree. Trill k. T up lingular Hence it name. of nature is In rxcet for r'ty ecrap of nut ' Monkey runts Tree." which la admtraUy Ue v Fiirwt, EtiglaiHL ind candied orange peel. deaeripuve. i828SSaSS3 g. 1 IE biryrW built fhr two la of oouim. vhvri ft f4Rjo;ift j:i irrft Mid MW. Iltfr i n an IrMimnn an ho siivr rapubift of juroininodiitin um II.Ih fjtninn. faniilv. It U poa.M, 10 LVrniMnytrift llliMtTftltia r butinn nf 't Fr:y in tbl will fArr.njr - Slene. cun., .the Mf -- Z.?, E a anil Th l:il !w,'s-- .,. IJ nt 1.i,r.in. jn. (v, (,i Ku-.,- 1 1,1 hl-'- .-.. tj-- . .1 f. k tiv H pe j,; , C;7 ' " , i w-- - iERT ones In a while readers of the From newspapers eee an account of a Cdaily suicide at Niagara, hi which the state- several this pretty little summer hare gone down to the ment la made that th perron seeking edge and leaped Into th terrific death entered th river about five hun- that haa swept them over the brink dred feet hack from Prospect Point." Thle American ftIL Here th water roll spot Is shown In the Illustration, and it is ' toss In the moat fascinating fury. one of the prettiest on the New York Btatala few years no less than twelve at but I Is knows aelhave gone to death at or very ar Suicide Point. ibeauttful spot. k v |