Show entertaining currencies THE volcanoes of washington are BO active that around and lake cheban east of the cascades is a region of changing level and almost continuous earthquakes A with the postage stamp mania acknowledges that he has visited countries for no other purpose than to get rare postage stamps to add to his immense collection valued at thousands of dollars A NEW sketching apparatus for cyclists has recently appeared in england the paper is placed on a small board in front of the cyclist and the work cabbe roughly contoured in about half the time ordinarily required THE pirna indians who live in thatched huts on the banks of the eiver gila in the south arizona mountains antedate the white man in america by many years they were a flourishing race years ago when the spaniards came among them thieves are robbing importers of havana cigars by plundering the boxes in transit and substituting chips and shavings for the cigars care is taken to replace the original contents with trash of exactly the weight of the cigars so that a test by scales would show no discrepancy is one of the oldest as well as largest and best known towns in arizona ial fact it is so old that there is no record showing when it was first settled ahen the first spanish explorers visited this country about 1530 they found an old mexican village there and it was then said to have been inhabited for centuries tae largest apple tree in new england and probably in the world is in the northwestern part of cheshire conn standing in mr delos hotchkiss dooryard its age can be traced by a family tradition to one hundred and forty years at least and it may be twenty or twenty five years older its circumference cum ference is thirteen feet eight inches A of a fire at savannah was rendered novel by the addition of this little incident A cat and several small kittens were huddled up for the night in a restaurant the building adjoining where the fire was and as soon as the fire alarm ran the old cat with motherly instinct tor tho protection other ot her kittens carried them outside of the building |