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Show 14 MONUMENT TO QEN. POOR. TRUTH FREAKS OF THE WEATHER. SAVED BY PET PARROT Stands Near Where He Was Burled Wanh Wind Make. Entire Chang. In Hackensack, N. J. A statue to the memory of Brigadier General Enoch Poor, who was regard ed as one of the bravest and best soldiers of the Revolution, was unveiled In Hackensack, N. J., Oct 7. It has been erected on the triangular green" between the old First Reformed church buying ground and the Bergen county courthouse. It Is within one hundred and fifty feet of Gen. Poor's grave In a corner of the historic bury In Climatic Conditions. It Is not generally known that, at certain seasons of the year it is warmer in Greenland than in southern Europe. And this occurs during the long sunless winter of the Polar regions. The cause which leads to it is not unknown in other countries. Thus in Switzerland a warm, dry wind, called the foehm wind, at times blows down from the mountains in autumn and winter, and suddenly melts and carries off the snow, drying up the atmosphere. ' In the northwestern United States k there Is a similar wind called the wind. So in Greenland at irregular intervals a warm wind blows down from the interior, bringing an extensive thaw in January and February. As a result we have the extraordinary fact that during eight consecutive days in November and December, 1875, it was warmer in In latitude 69 degrees 20 minutes, than in northern Italy. another town of Greenland, was, during part of the time, warmer than the south of France. Montreal Herald. Bird Attacked and Drove Away Tramp Who Menaced Children. Grace Corwin, 12 years old, with her little brother Winie, of Los Angeles, Cal., wandered up into lonely Sepulveda canyon the other afternoon. An old pet parrot, unnoticed, hopped and fluttered after them. The children fell asleep under tbe trees. Grace was awakened by a tramp who had crept up on the sleeping children, chi-noo- Or. Sayre Ha. Held REVQLV Champion, h. Many Years. The revolver championship mc1i Dr. Sayre has held so long is shot at ranges of twenty-five- , and seven fifty e yards. Twenty-fiv- e shots are fired at each range, fifteen seconds be- ty-fiv- Grace, telling. of the occurrence, said: I guess I was too. scared to cry and snow-covere- d couldn't make myself say anything. Willie was scared, too, and he cried. Then Polly screamed. The man jumped up and looked around. Then Polly lighted right down on his face and clawed him. She got one claw in his' whiskers, and she picked him I Ja-coksha- k, so that the blood ran down his face. . . Mosquitoes Kill Chickens. Big gallinlpper mosquitoes that seem to have can openers instead of stingers are attacking chickens in the East End and they are said already to have killed twenty-tw- o fowls owned Mrs. Owens of Fulton by Bridget street. All of the chickens were at- Conferring Knighthood. 8HOT WITH ing allowed for each string of fives The contest is open to all comers whether military or civilian marks men, the only restriction being that when suddenly piercing cries of the arm shall be a military weapon were "Murder! Help! Help! In the contests at Fort Riley, Kan heard. There was a flutter of wings, Dr. Sayre was second a rush, and before the startled tramp contestants in the revolveramong fifty match. His could recover from his surprise Polly had fastened her crooked claws Into the collar of his coat, and was striking at his face with her beak. Little snow-covere- d Up-ernavi- CRACK core was 130 to 136 for Sergeant Michael Cary, U. S. A. Most of the competitors were army men. The range was new to Dr. Sayre, and his score is considered excellent Returning from Fort Riley he wen to Sea Girt, with which range he is familiar, and promptly won the squadded revolver match, with a score of 130 at fifty tacked while roosting. The mosquitoes seemed to descend toward the earth from high in the air in the evening or after darkness and attack animals of all kinds. It is thought that they breed in low, marshy places, but fly high most of the time. Louisville yards. Fourteen national guard organizations took part in this contest. Herald. The Poor Monument Showing 'the unusual position which the statue will occupy on Its pedestal. lng ground of the church. The monument was designed and erected by John L. and William Passmore Meeker, of Newark, N. J. It Is a marked departure from the conventional. There Is a bronze figure of about seven feet six inches in height, on a granite pedestal about fifteen feet in height. On the front of the pedestal there Is a bronze tablet bearing an appropriate inscription. California Crane. The crane is a queer bird, built on the lines of the young women wltb River of Natural Ink. Although an aristocratic institution There is such a river in Algeria. It Is caused by the junction of two chivalry was a. school of democracy. streams one of which drains a .re- Frederick Barbarossa made brave sol diers knights upon the field of battle, gion strongly Impregnated with iron, A thirteenth century manuscript iq while the other flows from a peat bog, the National at Paris contains Library and holds a large quantity of callic a of the picture ceremony. acid In solution. Thus the union of the two streams causes the iron and Getting Rid of Rate. the callic acid to combine, this action A farmer tells the Sedalla Capita producing natural ink. that he rid his form of rats in the folOn a very Amazing Pigeon Story. lowing manner: When you do a thing do it well. number of pieces of old shingles, large I put When you do a friend do him well about f a teaspoonful of moalso, and when you tell a story let it lasses, and on that, with ray " be the best of Its kind. F. H. S. MorI scraped a small amount of rison tells the most amazing pigeon concentrated lye, and then placed the yam ever heard. During the shingles around under tbe stable war the French caught a floors and under the cribs. The next homing pigeon which was being sent morning I found forty dead rats, and to transmit information Into the be- the rest vamoosed the farm and left sieged city of Paris. The bird was for parts unknown. I have cleared made a prisoner of war and kept in many farms of the pests in the same confinement for ten years. When way and have never known it to fail. Kansas City Journal. given its liberty it at once returned to its old home. That bird must have been tortured dally in prison to nake it hate the place and long alThe pear tree will continue bearing ways for its cote in Germany. New fruit for several centuries. Tree's Tork Press. bearing fruit in abundance when at least 300 years old are not uncomTelephone Girl? mon. They are much longer-livethan Another Atchison girl who thought the which more apple, lasts rarely she had a voice" will take a job than 100 or 150 years. The pear downtown instead of startling the op- tree also grows much larger than the eratic world with her singing. Atchepple, and when 200 years old has ofison Globe. ten the dimensions of a forest trea .. . one-hal- pocket-knife,- Franco-Prussia- n d w &4Y A MD HAIRCUT?, IfffY TTN WfIM UP, A BRANT) QT BARBp, AMD PROMPTLY BAT UP m- Common Form of Color Blindness. The most common form of color blindness is an inability to distinguish red. Last year thirty-fou- r officers and would-b- e officers of the British mercantile marine service failed on their color tests, twenty-thre-e bered blind and the remainder uning able to distinguish green. The 4,600 candidates for certificates were also submitted to the form vision tests and twenty-tw- o of them foiled to distinguish the form of the object such length of leg it wouldnt be one which is so imposing. It looks wise, but its wisdom is superficial, to say. the least No one ever heard of a crane reaching the eminence of the. owl, nor even that of the parrot This Arane is a California bird and is an excellent example of its kind. Look at it and imagine how you would appear had you such lower extremities. Real Value of Gift. A gift is a pleasant thing, rightly most pleasant and dear and sacred, whether its value be much or little, if only it is offered with the heart, and chosen from the heart given; Mrs.Craik. |