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Show ! - T7'- . 'Tx .' .i Qllz r.nJ End:. Ill illWn i i . A-Ee'.o'-an swimmer made a wager re-c re-c :-.'-7 t-t ta ccu'.l stay la the water ten "tours, iwlr.rr.lri the whole tlnje. He won the bet. performing the feat at the Antwerp fcatta. Meiora Ilenson Cock, daughter of the Rev. 8. P. Ilenson. pastor of Tremont temple. Boston. t been elected professor pro-fessor ol singing In the Royal College of Music, London. . V Thirty-three tunnels were blasted with dynamite in the construction of the clrcum-Ealkal branch pf the trans-Siberian trans-Siberian railway. I'he entire length of the line Is only 152 mtlea. Ita construction construc-tion wag begun in 1S39. Former President Andrew John of the 61 Natlonr of Kew Tork is in Washington Wash-ington in hi! effort to prevent certain half-breed from getting part of tha $2,000,000 recently awarded the Indians for land told by tha Government. ' No fat cadet at West Point hai any chance of getting into the cavalry service. ser-vice. Gen. Burton, the inspector, says that excessive weight is "ruinous to a horse, cumbersome to a rider and weakens weak-ens the endurance of the individual. -More than 500 studenta worked their way through Columbia university last year, earning in various waya Ii4,0Z1.17. according to a report of the secretary, of the committee on employment for students. The ways in which studenta earn money are as various as their abilities. The eighty-five different occupations oc-cupations reported varied all the way from bellboy, driver, laborer, conductor, clerk and stenographer -to electrician, draughtsman, teacher, lay reader and sub-editor. ' A new railway tracklayer. . with a crew of forty men. will laytwo miles of track a day. The tracklayer has a huge crane, sixty feet long, which pro-Jecta pro-Jecta forward over the road and hauia behind it a train of sixteen flat cars loaded with tie and rails. A continuous continu-ous double line of cars moves constantly constant-ly over rollers and. carries the ties with it: Both rsils and ties are seised at the proper time by the machinery and placed on the road In front of the train, where they shortly form part of the track over whichdt passes. This device Is said to be the most expeditious as well aa economical tracklayer in the world. In the near future marksmen in some parts of the United States will probably prob-ably find themselve opposed on the shooting range to one of the cleverest rifle shots in England-Miss Florence Lewee. the young woman, whose exploits ex-ploits at the annual British shooting competition this year have ttracted wide attention all over the world. Miss Lewes, who ta a grand-niece of George Henry Lewes, explained just after she had made thirty-three out of a PO8'"? thirty-five bull's eyes at 200 yards, that she took up shooting not long ago. because be-cause she intends to emigrate to Canada Cana-da shortly. So her appearance, on American ranges la likely. In the Botanical Gazette of recent date Dr. D. T. MacDougal gives an account ac-count of the expedition which he arranged ar-ranged to explore the delta of the Kio Colorado and that practically unknown iJortlon of the Mexican desert which lies on both sides round the head of the Gulf of California. Among the xerophytes. which were found in the regions re-gions in extreme aridity, were many perennials containing latex and a large number of forms which secrete volatile oils or exude resinous gums; but plants with massive storage organs were absent, ab-sent, a fact which Dr. MacDougal attributes at-tributes to the excessively small and even distribution of the rainfall throughout the year. ' Emperor William wrote a poem once, which he submitted to a great literary man who dined at the castle for that purpose particularly. The critic read it. and found his dual duties in conflict. He had to advise an amateur poet with an exceptional power for resenting a hostile comment. He yielded only a very little to the exigencies of the situation. sit-uation. 'This verse, your Majesty, he began, "seems to require alteration in certain respects." .The amateur took the manuscript and conned it thoughtfully. thought-fully. Then his brow cleared. W hy, he cried, aa one seeing a sudden light. "I have actually not signed the ppem. Give me a pen!" And the only fault he saw In the work was forthwith remedied. reme-died. A Geneva professor who has been experimenting ex-perimenting on the powert of symbolism symbol-ism possessed by his pupils secured some marvelous results. It is long since color suggested sound, but the yowela have each their equivalent color for the sensitive Swiss subject. The letter A gives the impression of red, I of white. O of black.- The professor's experiments resulted in the Identification of Sunday with white. Monday with yellow, and so on through the scale of the blackness black-ness of Saturday. The blind lady in Rudyard Kipling'a story puzzle "They Identifies purple and streaks with a mysterious thought in the mind of her visitor. One of the Geneva pupils drew a year as a circle. Sir James A. Power. Mayor of Water-ford. Water-ford. Ireland, is a guest of Andrew Carnegie, Car-negie, and Is traveling about the country coun-try with the British ironmaster. Sir James waa the hero of a fire In Water-ford Water-ford about two years ago. An entire square of buildings was completely consumed. con-sumed. Two men were overcome In one of the upper stories of one of the burned buildings. Sir James rushed to the rescue, res-cue, but in view of the rapid spread of the flames, was forced to abandon the stairways and carry his men to the windows. By tying bed clothing to 'gether he succeeded in lowering his men safely to the" street, but to save Mm self he waa compelled to jump. It waa a thirty-foot leap, and he was carried car-ried unconscious to the hospital, where he remained six weeks. Shortly afterward after-ward he waa elected Mayor of his city, and one of his first official acts was to organlie an efficient fire brigade. |