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Show A Lal TTfco Has Surcd Tlvo Uvcs, Harry Moons fs a brave lad. Although but 37 years old he h:w already saved the Ihes of five people, and a movement move-ment Is now an f x to seeur for him the award of a ihpI.vI which hu has S1 !!"!' U fairly earned. i-.W-v ; When but 10 years ) V 1 of age be n seued r rv, l his liille sister l? -'A from drowning j t.v tJJ Tliat was his first I f feat. Others fob x lowed in duo course. His last A ' exploit was at &j;jfitft Cos Cob, Conn. H ''iii'ifW' was in sAvimming pU'Z7iil' Trbcn he learned - that a girl who hakkt mooue. had gone beyond her depth had sunk for the tliinl time. li went to her aid and brought her to land, although she greatly impeded his efforts by clutching him around the throat. Ho sprained ona arm and broke or.o of his fingers in the desperate desper-ate struggle for life. Young Moore la a resident of Brooklvn, N. Y., and works as a clerk in a New lork shipping office. In France the military authorities have substituted carrier swallows for pigeons. A test was recently made at. Rauboix, and fifteen of the birds were j.-iveu absolute freedom of wing for the first time. They Cew in different directions, and in about twenty minutes one came back and perched on the trainer's outstretched finger, ta half an hour ail had returned. During his recent visit to Russia It la said thut Emperor William, of Germany, Tf -a surpri.ied at nothing so much as at tha swimming exploits of the Russian soldiers. sol-diers. "Boots off!" exclaimed a colonel when bis mwi reached a river bank. Then-making Then-making the nigu of the cross, he plunged in and the whole force followed him, swimming swim-ming to the wtb.r idc IJnj;nh Strop Itsltway lAxrotaotl t. St-saru locomotives ore quite extensively ! tyed In England for city and suburban tramways, tram-ways, or utreot railways. To Green patent engine, whicH is in hw on &?teri lines, has a boiler of tbo loc-saiotlvo typo, nnd is carried on four wheels. The valve gear ie of tho ordinary or-dinary typa. Tbo englnn is boxod in, and a easing, extending to within a few iitchc of tho ground, covers the wWs ruJ mnninj gear. It ls fitted with steam tvA hand hrakca, and an automatic brake which comes Into ! operatiou whwi the rped excev!s tb limit allowed by the board of tnwle roulations. On tho roof is a surface coin'cnr.tr tiomjxyfwl of largo brass boxs fittel with about SCO ' copper tubr; the coiideni'cd f'.cam Cows to J the food tank, aud is, while stL'l hot, 'pumped I back into the boiler. En.hi-;u-W ixk. |