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Show I'Rut'M. MAKING OF FINE LACE3. Street Sweeper. One Case Where American Genius Is Still at Fault. Fine laces, said. W. W. Chace, constitute one of the most readily salable classes of merchandise which is Imported to this country, and It Is a source of wonder that American genius has not devised some way in which to meet this demand with a domestic article which will serve the same purpose and can be sold at something like the same price. But It has not, he continued. We have had many machines Invented, but the nearest we can come Is to manufacture a type of lace which is naturally cheap and does not in any sense approach its hand-mad- e foreign rival. Of course, American women could be taught in time to knit such fine fabrics as their sisters do in Ireland, England, France, Germany and Spain; but we in this country are too busy making money to waste time in that way. I have traveled all over Europe, and the most interesting method of making lace over there that I came across was at Plauen, Germany. It is woven on a kind of bolting cloth made of fine silk, and after the pattern is completed a certain acid, parts of which are kept secret, is applied and the. bolting cloth eaten away, leaving only the lace. They also have a way of altering the strength of the acid in order to give the lace a rich, old color." Louisville Herald. There is no other city pavement which seems to meet with the favor of asphalt, with its smooth surface and lasting qualities, and in view ol the growing use of horseless carriages it is probable that as the city pavement of the future it will stand alone. At present some streets must be covered with Belgian block or vitrified brick to afford a foothold for horses drawing heavily loaded drays, but when animal traction is a thing of the past these streets can be resurfaced with asphalt. With the advent of the smooth pavement seems to have come also an increased desire to keep the streets clean, and it is customary to station men at intervals along these pavements to keep free from dirt sections of pavement varying from one to three squares. Originally the only implements with which the man worked were the shovel and heavy broom, requiring two distinct operations to do his work, in addition to wheeling a heavy cart about with him. Now, however, the street cleaner can simply push a machine back and forth over the section of pavement assigned to him, forgetting that he ever had to handle the broom and shovel. This latest machine is entirely automatic FROG LIKED THE SENSATION. BEES Willing to Linger All Day and Have Its Back Scratched. Col. William Esopus Handy, cowboy and train dispatcher, financier ana volunteer fireman, went to McLean Lake last Sunday to see George Herring, the angler, take a few bass. Herring had several lines set out on the bank, and hard by squatted a big Bet you a dollar I can bullfrog. scratch that frogs back, he said. Go you, agreed the colonel. Creep-iup very cautiously, the fisherman caught the frog by one of its long hind legs just as it was in the act of leaping into the water. After considerable kicking and vibration the amphibian composed himself,. while Herring gently tickled its back with a straw. In huge enjoyment the frog gave soft grunts, closing its eye sleepily. It reminded Handy of a cat purring. Having won the bet, Herring cast the frog into the lake and went to look at one of his lines. As he stooped to pick up the rod there sat Mr. Frog, waiting for another back scratching. His desire was manifested as plainly as if he had said, Here, old man, tickle me again. Which the angler did, and again cast him into the water. Thereafter the frog followed him from line to line, begging for a scratching and refusing to be frightened away. New York Press. g . . BREAK UP A FUNERAL Swarm Out of the Pulpit and Put the Mourners to Flight. While a funeral service was in pro& ress in the Vernon church, near Plummers Landing, a swarm of bumble bees which had nested under the pulpit was disturbed, and, emerging from its quarters, caused a panic among the mourners, says a dispatch from Flemingsburg. Ky. The officiating minister and friends hastily retreated from the sanctuary and were closely followed by the pallbearers with the casket, warding off the bees as best they could in their flight Al number of the mourners and two are reported to have been badly stung. However, they remained until the funeral service had been concluded in the church yard. The exact location of the nest cannot be determined until the pulpit is tern away. The congregation dislikes to tinker with it at this time, the eve of a protracted religious meeting. Unless the bees remain under cover the meeting will probably be held in pall-beare- rs a grove. Mammoth Watermelon. - First School House. The first school house in Chicago was really Col. Richard J. Hamiltons The Child's Mistake. She walked before. I couldn't see her face. But, as she walked along, with her went grace. . Beneath her bonnet glistened auburn hair. I followed as youd follow If you were A Spring day Idler as aimless as a wind From wind king's prison newly uncon-- fined. Automatic in Its Action. r in its operation, scooping up the dirt from the pavement, elevating it to the I did not wish to speak to her at all and depositing it in Still It was good to watch the sun rays required height a bag at the rear. The operator has fall Upon that hair and there remain, content extra sacks with him and as one is In sense of kinship, at their merriment. filled he replaces it with another, deA man and child came np the other way. the full one' at the curb foi The man looked sad on such a sunny positing collection by a wagon. day! He was In mourning, and the little child Daniel B. and Willem R. Cliffe oi (Oh, how can youth and crape he reconMarion, 0., are the inventors. ciled!) A girl of four, perhaps; the pretty mite Wore cheerless black Instead of Laying the Dust Ghost. The Wesrumite process of fighting They faced me, me and her who walked before, to automobiles Some twenty steps away from her, no the dust plague due was experimented upon with such more. When suddenly the two perceived her, marked success at Bordeaux last and I saw the child let .go It's fathers hand year, and in the early spring of this Hun forward, chubby arms extended, year, that it has been adopted in seeyes lected districts of Paris, as well as As glad as angels viewing Paradise! oyer the entire course covered in the Then, running so, the child glanced once French Gordon Bennett elimination again Then trials. Although the application of At her who walked before me. came pain Where joy had been, and, with a little the process is still in the experimentmoan. al stage, the' results are distinctly The child turned to Its father, left alone. Meanwhile the woman, unconcerned, promising. Roads subjected to much traffic may be watered once in Had passed the two, whom she had heavy eight or ten days with a solution of hardly seen. mineral oil product rendered The child said to Its father, doubly sad: and soluble in water by amI thought twas mamma back from heaven, dad. monia additions. The roads so treatChicago American. ed dry within two or three hours, even after a heavy rain, and present Casting a Gloom. first-rata was Yes, for local talent, it a fine, close surface free from both entertainment, said the suburb- dust and mud. The Gordon Bennett an resident, and we made several trial roadway was thus watered twice hundred dollars for the hospital fund, in four days, twenty tons of the mixbut there was one little hitch! The ture being dissolved in 900 tons of town undertaker was down for a tenor water for the course of eighty-eigh- t solo, and he Insisted on singing Tm kilometers. If further experiments Sun. York Waiting for Thee. "New should be made and be attended with fuequally satisfactory results theto be Ancient Ann. ture of the process would seem A man who cant understand a womis relaans love of bargains will feel awfully assured, firstly, because it because and, secondly, proud when he allows a book agent to tively cheap, no interruption to trafsell him one years subscription to a it need cause at night fic, Bince it can be applied -7magazine, with the works of a standb -. ard poet thrown in, for $4.79, marked Co. on. collections. down from $5. Baltimore American. Try the Shepard pink-and-whl- This huge specimen was grown in California and weighed 350 pounds. te. old log barn, which stood on Wolf Point, between the lake and the The building forks of the river. was 12 feet square, and both desks and - seats were empty boxes contributed by the stores of the town. . se-161- 16 sapo-nacea- e -- ' us Device Revealed in Dream. William A. Engle, a locomotive engineer, living at Pottsville, Penn., has reecived patents on a cutout valve for locomotive steam ohests, the principle of which came to him during a dream. So realistic was the device as pictured to him that he could not get it out of his mind, and the result was his perfecting models and drawings and applying for patents. Hydrangeas Wonderful Blooms. A wonderful display of flowers is seen at the home of Mrs. Henry M Washburn at Franklin, N. H., where a hydrangea has .211 blossoms upon it and another one growing near it has 152. The bigger plant requires four pails of water three times a day to sustain it Girls in Successful Whale Hunt. A great whale hunt in Nestling Bay, Shetland islands, came to an end the other morning, after having lasted twenty-fou- r hours. The whales, which numbered about sixty and were from ten to twenty-fiv- e feet in length, en- tered the bay. Next day a number of boats went out, their crews armed with guns and other weapons. There was a scarcity of hands, owing to most of the men being away at the fishing, but girls volunteered in large numbers, and from their boats kept the whales from escaping by throwing stones. Forty whales were in .turn driven near shore and either shot or harpooned. -- ists. I ; ; j : , . ; , r j Publisher Evidently Hoodooed. Mr. SL John Adcock, the author, is experiencing strange luck. A short time age the public were to have been in possession of his latest novel. The book was printed in Scotland, and the first edition was being sent to London by steamer, but the author re-ceived word that the ship has foundered, and his new book now lies on the ocean bed. Mr. Adcocks book of poems was also delayed in publicaRailroads in Argentina. tion, by the first edition being burnt, Railroads in Argentina are making in a fire at the printers. He sayjs he favorable progress, it is reported, un- is somewhat curious to see what dark der the direction of English capital- fate Is In store for his next work. - , . . 1 -- |