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Show ENCOUNTERED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF WORLD ' t mmmmmmma 3 v I BEAR CAUGHT IN DEAD FALL Curious German Decree. Spite Tower. Invention o! Billiards. Historical Chair. Vultures Eggs. One of the chairs need by Bonnie Prince Charlie while In hiding In Scotland Is still preserved In Glasgow. The curon piece of furniture belonged to a highland peasant who near the cave where tha Prince was la V A vulture' egg te escaedlagly rare, from of the Wrde aad tho peculiarly Inaccessible position af their Bette. Aa Intrepid English hunter recently succeeded not only te fisdlng such a neat, bat la pho tha scarcity trap I flrat polled to that oa thareleas af a Ilfht iDpport It (alia aeroaa tha tack of tha seek of tha bear. ' a Every one te familiar witb rarloua aplto fence or tosses, bnt It la safe to aay that quit the moit eoatly and elaborate enterprise of this kind la the world te the fsmoui Walnboua Tower, in Yorkshire. England. I ta builder, John Edward Walnhonae, waa the owner of dj work! In that valley. Beat to hla estate lay that of an English lord. Tbe two quarreled and Walithoue built tho tower ao that ha oonld always overtook bla neighbor's grounds, although they lay much higher than bla own.., Tlx tower Is nearly three hundred feet high and coat P50.000 ta build. . t h laglanl reihuslaats elalm that tattaolni tai at hit attained tha dignity of a Ana art. ul u proof that they art not talking wildly they point ta tha tblr rtory. Tha Iba baoad ebaat pletura which accompanies artlat In thla Inataaca had af a Britlah oSlrer ta work Da, andandla duo time ha producedla aa symbolical painting many brill laat color. Katarally hla cllrat did not tiaaaa abroad kla Ana workmanship, wad It Th picture la qnestJoa depict m maxim af Whatever yea have to da, do It yoarselt" Lat as not rely spaa othes bnt have ronddenre lu our awi sffoets. Tho Idea of tho maa lighting hla owa cigar la only a poor and Imperfect representation af thla thought. Many men there are who depend npoa others ta da their work and. In mast ease da thetr (Unking, but ate tt come to a teat where aw such maa found I They are found on th losing fids, Oa tb athsr hand, took at tbaauooaaaful man in tha commercial warid aad ask them bow (boy a talnsd that and. They will auks aaswsr (hat Great Echoes. New Kind ol Catarrb. well-kno- Tha amount Inverted in tha Blbcrlaa Ballwaj la 1101,8011,000. Curiousitles ol Cut Glass. Tattoo TrlmnptL The procoaa of glaaa cutting requires great hill aad earn. A dealga la flrat lightly copied oa tha glut and the cuttere take It In hand. A flue atream of aacd aad water (alia contluuoualy oa a rapidly revolving cteel wheel. To thla the glaaa la applied aad the cutting la realty accomplished-bthe frietloa which the iand feta up. Than another workman with another ateal wbral and plain water brlaga the cutting up to a chirper edge. A 'third workman with a ioft wooden tool tikea off tho cloudluei canaad by tho friction of tho aleel, a fourth poliahea the glaia. a flfth with a preparation of oxide of da givea to It that Iridescent luatro which makte na value cut glaaa eo highly. Odd hiding. Relying on the loyally of the Scotch farmer, the Prince spent considerable time In the little cottage. A special chair wss set apart for him, and thla baa ainra been banded down from generation to' generation through the family who originally enter- tographing It, with Its cosiest. Tha aret. as le the bshlt with valtares, hat. been built at tha top of the highest treeanla tha vtelniiy. auadred aad at ta altliad of more The work of fifty feet shore the ground. a os mere along so far aad carrying climbing waa accomplished without mishap. cnrlona effect te noted la the Andes. I aa inn halt way up the direct route mi e ascenders aud ditcenders frequeat.y the former half ierlhed with lacrea-oli- l, the Utter overwhelmed by lacreae- - . tained the distinguished fugitive. CARD POST Jack oTactern. A LIGHT. Bllllarda ta comparatively a modern game. According to aoma letters discovered in the British Museum, tha gaum waa Invented by a Loudua pawnbroker unused William Kew. Hue day, to amuea himself, ha took tha three round balls which wore the emblems of hla trad, and placing them oa hla coaster began ta hit them abaat with tha yard measura. Ha bees tas quit Interested la hla aaw game and soon gained great skill la making one ball glanea off tha other. Ha Invited his friend to join him In tha game, which they named "Bill's yard," and which was noun shortened Into billiards But the lnitrnment used to knock tho ball about waa a yard measure, aud so to get out of tha difficulty they called It after the name of tbe pawnbroker a Kew, which la coarse of time became end In Germany a severe blow baa just been dealt to hypnotists, magnetic healer and A law baa been other occultUtv. passed prohibiting such persons from ho.dlng public seances aud heavy Suva are prescribed a pcualtiee In ease of dlsobdleuc. TU reason why auch a measure baa been passed I curious. Seances given by magnetic brai-er- s and others." say the law, "are likely to arouse public prejudice against the persons wbo are used aa medluma on such orrailona, and therefore It I ordained that no meeting of (tail kind eball be held lu future." Moreover, the magistrates throughout Germany hare received etrlii instructions to prosecute with tbe ntmost vigor any persona wbo publicly practice bvpnotlam. magnetic beat-in- k or any other of the occult arts. ' aetul photograph of bear lire to iaacaatfally entrapped hi a dead (all snare, m dtad (all I aa unusuallybehcarr one, Ula the mechanism, af will imb, had ban arranged ta work to perfection. Tha tm which formed tha sppar part o( tha GIVING HIMSELF A a CIRCLES i .Jf ; THE WORLD. . Very navel and amusing U the toy which la ehuwu la tha accompanying pletura. A a toy It ta aud U ta oom- - f they bars aeeompiisbed oueccaa through that awn untiring efforts aad undaunted aesL j Tha auipesiloa hridgs a crocs th Sleual Halts, la Wales, nrodaoo oae af th mast remarkable echoes in th world. Th aeuad at a blow with a Maati aa oae at th mala piers la returned la aueaemlea from each of tli erooabeama whleh oupport tb rood, way, aad from th opposite ptar at tha distance of 78 test, la addition to whleh tha sound te many ttaaas repealed between th water and roadway at tha raw at twenty-eigtimes la Are aeeoufla. Aa equally remarkable echo I that f th Caaila af telmaaetu. a aableman's arat, abaat two mil from Milan. Tba report of a pistol Is repeated by this echo slaty times. A singular echo ta also beard la a greets star Caatl Comber, to Ireland, la tha gardaa af th Tatter!, la Parte, la aa arttflrtal echo, which reposts a whale vorao without th teat at a stalls y liable. Another wonderful echo I heard exited th Bhlptey Chareh, la teuarex, which schoaa eosre twenty syllables la tha meat perfeot manner. Th ore!! know ache at Woodstock repeats Itaelf a fewer ihsa Arty time, la ana part at tba Pantheon great I tba echo that the striking together of th plm of th that hands la aaM te make a report equal at a t waive ponad cannon. ' Pbyolelaaa la London bav dteeavared a now disease, which they call tha dan ear's catarrh." Aceardlag te them It only attacks prefoaalaaal daaeare, aad aeparlatly thsa wh are members of a ballet. Aft taw step tba da sear, they say, xseutlDg (sate a sharp pals la tba aose, and this la tha drat symptom tt tba malady. Aooa afterward tb aostrila bacoma laAamed aad th disease aisumre a form vary similar1 ta that of InAuenaa. Tb physicians ara j trying bard t discover a teatedy for tb j dlorsao aad are confident (hat la tlma they will auereed, Meanwhile several pareoaia i la London are suffering ao much (rant dancer's catarrh" that they have baea t eased thole aagofouiaute. obliged Unexplored Redons. ; of The entire sue- -' Aceatnry ago three-fift- h fare of tb glob was uaexploied. Wblla thla area hai baea greatly reduced la a hundred yrere, tkeextsutaf tbe regtonaattU will doubtless b a snrprise ta moat people. Ua the map of tba Wustera Haml-apber- e presented herewith tbe unexplored Assassination Stamps. This la parhapa tha most remarsabte postaga stamp la tha world. It waa teauad by tba Filipino insurgent government juat before the outbreak of hootHUie between A galas Ido's forces and tha Americana, aud It bears th seal of that political argsniaa-ttowith a (all rayed sua, aad tba tbrea Mulaed a arerat aatll bla death, which took Met recently la loath Africa. a, Mentf Novel Mission. I. Ihraa atadeata of (ha TJnlve rally af Parla an about to taka a journey round the world, tea (nada far-tha- t purpoaa having been p re- inted ta tha .aalrarolty by M. A. Kahn, takta'c thla Jooraay not merely for ttdr awn plcaren, but for tha purpoae of tadyln foreign luatltattonb tad of writing aa account af the .eountrlaa which they d to visit. Thla account af their travels 1U be delivered to the authorities of tha aa tbatr rttarn to Francdi ach otudaat ta allowed IS. 000 fur ex-- !, aad the aalvoralty lateada to eead three atadeata an thla novel mlaaloa year. Only thoaa atadanta will be wj Uglbla wbo can apeak at leaat aae foreign Mtan la addltloa to Preach. In order wort of taveattgatioa may bo tenlltated the young tonrlaU will tabe with team lettcw of Introdnctloa to the Preach rpreevatattvea la foreign eountrlea, and to their memor- ,,r eapeeted ablt jonrary wlthla completemoathx. eighteen they eetlaaa are Indicated by black shading. Oa th Eastern Hemisphere, again, there to ua ! almost equity large area unexplored. Many, at the region are Ukaiy te bold thter an Town ol DoHmakers. Bor-bia- taa MASAI la Africa there art many native wart Ion, aa tha accompanying picture .show, Pareaque aa thoaa sl the Masai - which baa for made ta home in Brltlah many generation East Africa. To thlo Peculiar Interact attache now. U jiir tbe raaaoa that It member juat ara aeat-t- d over that porttoa of the couatry which baa beau premised to the Zlonlat colony aud bleb I known aa "The Promlacd Laud." Though comparatlrely few la number. " H11- poaad of a fact aad --of a body, .which la chiped Ilka a lantern. la thla body there arc apealnga whleh tha feature of a face, and over the face Itaelf there In a traualnceflt coverwhleh conforma to tho outline of tho ing, fact and on which Are printed facial m-tnrr- a differing In outline and expreaalon from tha fraturoi of tho face. Moreover, within tho lantern body ta n movable elide, which b ao arranged that when moved upward and downward It brlnga Into play tha rarloua feature! of the fae. Tha plctnreaqu lawn af Montreal!, lu , Fraare, la almost eatlrely :.vta ug to tha aitaafaetura f della. Meariy every WA: k teat te engaged la (ho work, ao that th tows h th appaaraae af au Immouaa tag shop. Flrat, lha blaealt," from whleh tha hud Maw York. are af th della mads, la eompauadtA af warrant for mailing. lima aad earth, whleh ta mined aad pored Tha father af M. hss aa till It attains ua desired consistency. estate aa which 9,000 laborers caltlvai It la coffee plants. than itreped aad atralaod, washed and tend rear aad over again, dll tt Anally a letter to a Catballe review, published amergea tram that prjaata whlta aad la Italy, a French oculist palate out that pare, th aamber alue ha an aevanl aocaatoaa Thla mixture la than pound Into aaauMa, Look very mneh like tha akutl of an animal played a fortunate part la tha Ilf of Pope which tha variety te almost todies ad ' that existed 'way baek la tha Bare when Plu X., aad bene he maintains that It at vkaa dry th embty heads are banded ever aportamea live A in caves and went hasting mast be regarded as bis lucky aamber. wh Insert th eyes aad attach with pot refill cobblestone sad mad lore Tb Pops, be points out, was a priest far to warn tarm They ara thru baked for two nays by grabbing tb lady of tbelr efeaiot by tha Une yaore, a btahap for ala yvsrs, a pa- th bark hair and banging her over the head triarch ula yean, and was erewnvd la largo arena capable af hold lug nearly with a club. But It te aothlngaf tbe aort Pontiff aa August A Moreovar, la bla fam- thirty i bo oread heads. Th bred are saw Thla te th shall af a lubHh with tuakllk ily same fiarte aid tb word Pop there peltalMd with sandpaper aad tinted, after color an ula letters, aad there te th same num- which tho artlat taka tham la baud aad teeth, whleh was recently trapped by a gam them, palatlag eyebrows, eyelashes ana lips. keeper. Tho tasks curved outward aad gave ber lu hte official title Pto doclaw (Plus X.). Tha Asad a are colon Aaally by another Incidentally, It te worfby of note thod tba af baking hi fore tb beads are ready t aeieat Kabalten regarded tbe aamber ula ao pocallarly tb aymbol af tblago follgtaus to affined te th bodies to ba a d alight and setae to ehlldraa all over tb world. aad tatallactaaL Ka af tha famaaa, a rather lafamoua, ateety af tho Kattpauau. This was an am caul nation aodaty, organised apparently for a other purpoaa, which at on (law bound a death warrant against Gan oral lev-orOtto, signed bp igulaald klmaetf. of tbrea stamps ware aflsad ta tha , al ,r'Is order te settle a wnger that a letter oonld lot make the ctrenlt of the glob In legs than one hundred days a postal retd was recently mailed In Loudon. It reached Its orlglBsl start.ng point, as the post marks tell In exactly seventy- day. A single penny damp sufficed ta carry It mare this twenty thousand miles. On irsvlsg London it travelled by way of Alesandrla. Mngapore, Yokohama, Victoria. British Colombia aad Bokhara Melons. .Sleeps in Cradle at 70. WARRIOR. theia Maaal warrior ara fearleaa and and tbote who hart atudled them y that they are becoming more and clotely more opposed to tbe Brltleb on account of the high handed manner In which they are parceling out the cokutry which they rightly or wrongly regard a their owa property. However thla may be. It I certain that tbeae ctalwart fighting men are well worthy of atudy, a feet of which ethnologlata have recently become aware. ' Ta the olwervant traveler In the Orient few irights afford more Intrreat than the lissare Thera te a mu af TO In Paris sles named Vat-tar- of the melon sellers la Bokhara, capital of Bokhara, or Bukhara spell It to salt your-pclfUun-sla- n khanate af Central Asia under Influence. ' Very careful. Indeed, of hls wares te th melon merchant of the East. The frnlt. will be fea In the picture, 1s rarefnlly suspended In cords, and the beauty of each Pius lucky Number. Rabbit with Tusks. e lu tbs eradl who still In when baby, and he has night of hla long Ilf In any youngest cf family of hoys, Walter retained hla pile In th eradl aa be grew older. lie soon became too tall to lie la It at foil length, bnt he overmmo this difficulty by drawing hls hares upward Each night to thla day b teat hla feet squarely on tha bottom of tha cradle, away his knee to and fro and rock himself ta tlrep as b did whan a small boy. Tbe habit waa formed In babyhood and never broken. Buprrnran. he wss reeked never slept on other bed. The Baatoa-Duma- h tr pro-an- HALF DOG, HALF GOAT. Primitive Firem&ker. F Everybody is beard of making Are by robbing two stick together, hut few have tap aotloa a to bow It te accomplished There are various method practiced by aavagra la different parts of the world, apd on of them I show la tbe aeeompaaylng picture. Th maa, a California Indian, te twirling a flick rapdly between the palm of hla haul. By and by lb frietloa ol th tad of th stick will Ignite th par? tide ground off from another plan af the animal a moat singular appearance, tench wood, which Ilea fist on the ground. Borne are extremely rare. tinder will convert the glow Into a lama, cate and aooa there will he a Are. I poetically dilated upon by the merchant whenever th cyo of n potential customer rests upon IL melon Coal : largest Typewriter. countries wbre there h a coal wood of tho eucalyptus forms aa excellent spballtata, according to M. Hatching, an Africa traveler. Tk fnealyptoa ha points out, growa la great abandaac aad recent expert meats In tropical region have Abowa that a practically laaahauatiM Ta warm As English typt writer omnpcnv cere made s spec'sl machine for LI llnng I hang. It was necessary to rocstrnct a machine much mote elaborate than the ordinary owing to the arrange characters of the Chines ton yue, and this typewriter wss fitted with eighteen hundred characters, each of which had to he enslaved by band. thla wonderful Instrument created ' Naturally, great Impreosloo on being Introduced at rrkla. and It evidently suggested to the speculative mind of the Chinese the Idea rf forming s company for the sal of Chinee typewriter. One bud Indlv'diial went to London with the project. He asserted that e tt woBlfbe finssilile'to writ a Ain J of shorthand with aafewaeXtOrbaractara used on tbe tahout three times the nrml-ebut lh- lucriimeat would ordinary lie about three limes fie nsnal else, sad the In spite nf the price was to he conviction that there would b s In the Celestial Fniplrc. ready tale r'tlic typewri! T firms nor lb British cnp!ie-irt- s erred to her anything to risky a vcr'nrr.' Li Hung Chaig's Is still proliably 'hr c.iy machine which write Chines characters. (M-sies- r i. I or Eucalyptus. e the supply af real eaa b obtained from tt. Plenty of suashla and rala are all that it aeds la order ta lanre a content growth, favorebi condltlana prevail pvtr aad tb a considers b! portloa af th earth' ear face. Coascqneatly U. Hutcbias maintains that If a ilttlr attention were given to lbs rnltlvitb.i of the rucalyptu ail tb coal tines In tbs world couid very soon b closed. Borne scientists do not agree with him. They admit that the eucalyptus grows abundantly la tropleal countries, hot they ir It wsnld tr.rlve In temperate r coal !s ao much used, and in g'ons, of failure they eialm Hat It would be , expensive lu rxtvarr coal from mines than to Import the eucalyptus coal hom distant countries. ce Oa af (ha moat beautiful hybrid crooues of tha animal kingdom over sera la owned by Hook Mill, of Hartford City, lad Tha animal la a crare of dog aad goat. Th mother te an Irish setter. Th animal resembles a dag la many way, bat It baa a cut of as Aa silky toaure as any Angora la tb United Stated Tho animal te a great cariosity, and pea-pi- e com many miles to ae It Prominent stockmen claim It to be th ret hybrid cross of thla nature oa record and thry are watrhlng the general results af tha cross with much laterret. |