Show black diamond ilia famous bison which has spent all of his 19 years of life in the new york zoo is is to be killed because ho he has outlived his usefulness the animal has been the model for many artists and sculptors and it is his image that appears on the new buffalo nickel his massive head will be preserved and mounted after the death a few months ago of ben ban chapman an aged hermit of a peculiar disposition a considerable sum of mone money y was found hidden in differ different eni places about lils his homo home at liberty tenn at a recent sale of chapmans Chap mans personal effects mrs elijah park paik er cr bought for 15 cents a sack containing about two bushels bu of cotton when it was wag opened a sma smaller bag was found in it containing over at the recent chicago 50 mile automobile 6 alte derby all competitive speedway automobile records of tho the world from 50 to miles were beaten by dario resta driving a french car resta won in prize money Hi his aver saver age time was miles per hour beating the recent record of ralph de palma at indianapolis by more than seven and a half miles nino nine other drivers beat tho the worlds records in tho the same ace race tho the european war and the ripening of big grain crops in this country has created a big demand akmand for labor oklahoma farmers want about harvest hands kansas farmers want 35 and oregon fruit growers want 1000 berry pickers men aro are wanted in ammunition factories steel plants and in zinc and lead mines tho the ow employment office of the ilia department of labor is s succeeding in bringing jobless men amen to jobs having found employment for about men in may detective defective electric insulation on started a fire in a warehouse of a company which supplies tanks charged with acetylene gas under pressure when the gas in tile the tanks became ignited the ilia light was so intense that the flames could not be viewed without us ing smoked glasses attempts to extinguish the fire with water were useless and the stored gas had to burn itself out according to a german scientist animals have been distributed over the I 1 roald id by the oscillation of its axis axis which h has changed the climate of vat var sous lous lands zerman german soldiers carty carry bags ol of specially ci ally prepared material for the e express purple of setting fire r ire to build ild inga among the prisoners taken by german forces during tile fight ins inar in galicia was tho the daughter of a russian officer who was dressed in the uniform of a one year volunteer she had been fighting in tha ilia ranks marle marie abbriano Ab briani and italian peasant girl is hailed as the joan of are arc of the fan fail war she led italian troops through mountain paths to the flanks of the enemy then obtained a gun and remained for eight hours in the thick of the fighting king victor emmanuel has decorated her for her heroism armed with a writ of replevin mrs alico alice yard of detroit midi mich called with a constable at the emco omco of dr 11 J C moss and obtained posses possession siou of her left arm which she alleges she ilia lost through dr negia negligence tile the arm is to bo be used as evidence ovid enco in her damage suit stilt against the doctor rev J F mesick who died at his home in york pa a few days ago at ill the a age of claimed to bo be tiie the oldest college ut graduate in tile the united states ho a was valedictorian dic torian of the class of 1834 of rutgers college his ministerial career extended over a period of 45 years during which lie ho held field pastorates past orates in rochester harris but bergand grand somerville N J statistics presented to tile the national federation of musical clubs in session at los angeles recently show that tho the people of the united states spend about a year for music it was the opinion of tho the delegates that part of this sum should be used in deve developing musical education in the public schools before a large company of people from north carolina tennessee virginia and kentucky a monument comme commemorate morat ing tho the entry of daniel boone and the first party parly of pioneers in to kentucky years ago was unveiled at cumberland gap dap ky a low few days ago when a farmer at towanda pa complained that his horses were nearly fagged bagged out from drawing his mowing machine prof L J russell of the towan da schools attacked the mower behind his automobile and sent it spinning around the field quickly cutting s down the remaining clover the entire plant ot of a pennsylvania asphalt block manufacturing concern is is mounted on CM cars so 50 that it can be taken wherever there is work for it to do A an n earthquake which shook imperial valley in Cali california forhia some time ago tumbled down walls at el centro killing a number of persons at Mexica mexicali cali liand and caleli co on tile the mexican border many persons were killed and much property was destroyed the shaking down and burning of buildings resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the valley while 0 E chase was working with an automobile in his garage at south egremont degremont Eg remont mass the other day a terrific bolt of lightning came along and whisked a monkey wrench out of his hand chases son was knocked over by the charge ch arge neither was hurt but though they have searched the premises thoroughly they have been unable to find the wrench A number of retail dealers in delaware maryland and virginia have complained to the new federal trade commission commissi ort that a phi philadelphia ladelphia department store has resorted to undersell underselling inix campaigns for the purpose of inducing customers of the smaller local stores to give their trade to the big city store the philadelphia store is charged with having offered at t cut rate prices underwear that at the same time was selling at standard prices to cus lomers koniers in the store cows on i a farm in the vicinity lity of columbia hill colo ate a quantity of giant powder lett left on a hillside by a miner the explosive diet proved disastrous blowing the animals into bits archibald roosevelt son of the colonel was fined 25 a few days ago for exceeding the automobile speed limit in new york young roosevelt lacked the money and was obliged to borrow it from policeman donovan a son of mike donovan who once gave the colonel boxing legons at the white house Chi cagos municipal employment burert which has been looking for employment for jobless people of the city is receiving hundreds of requests for girls to assist north dakota farm women with their housework and serve as company for them offers of 20 a month and a good home have come in from some of the farmers in ancient times horses hoofs were wrapped in cloth or treated by various methods to harden them for service on long marches metal shoes appear not to have been used until nero had silver shoes clamped on the feet of his horses so far as is known nails were not used for holding hold nu the shoes in place before the time of william the conqueror in the hill century it is believed that only the loose formation of the earth in imperial valley calif prevented great devastation and serious damage to the irrigation systems there As it was one canal is sagged sa aged slightly atone at one point and a break occurred in the wall of another it is estimated that the total damage so far sustained will amount to minor tremors have been recorded since tile the farst severe shock and it is feared that others more severe will follow A francis scott ke key memorial is to be erected on the reservation at fort mchenry baltimore harbor near the spot where key wrote the star spangled banner A congressional appropriation of has been made for the purpose sculptors Sculpt orsin in the united states will be asked to submit designs in open competition and three prizes of and respectively will be awarded for the best three designs submitted f the newest application of compressed air is in cooking an electric air pressure cooker has been invented consisting of an airtight air tight chamber with an air pump driven by an electric motor which operates automatic automatically all the advantage of the invention lies in the fact that it preserves the flavor and prevents tile the loss of substance that usually results particularly in the caso case of meats when ordinary cooking methods are used some of the best gas coal in the world has been discovered in venezuela the interstate commerce commission holds that under the cummins amendment to the in ter state commerce act railroads have a right to charge an additional sum where the he true value of the baggage is declared and is above the amount of liability ordinarily dina rily accepted by the carriers it is explained that one declaration of value is sufficient for one persons baggage no matter how many pieces there may be and that each passenger er is entitled to check without payment of an extra fee the maximum free al lowance of baggage belonging to himself the rev E J hardy in his book the british soldier gives us a few more of the amusing nicknames invented by tommy atkins at the front all shells are souvenirs some are called willo will o th and humming birds some sighing some porridge pots wooly marias are shells that burst in double puffs of white woolly smoke baby and Mot mother ber are far reaching guns of ours the latter is is so called because it takes good care of our infantry another gun has the name of the hot cross bun because it is hot snorts as if always cross and takes the bun by its ability to hit what it is fired at nearly every time bullets are called haricot beans german soldiers are known as sausages and the uhlan lancers as the ewe lambs the kaiser himself is no more to our men than willie the weed in letters from tho ilia front there used to be puzzling references to now we know this is the name for french matches because you have to wait and see what happens when you strike one the outer line of trenches where the men are posted to draw the german fire is known as the drawing room the inner line where attacks are readily met the reception room and the ilia ground at the rear where the dead are buried the dormitory when a taube aeroplane approaches british lines the men call out here comes a stormy pet petrel rol 1 the emergency ration becomes the imaginary ration barbed wire entanglements entangle ments are 11 ll fly Y traps and spiders webs tit bits mt M t we southerners Souther arts are li held eld to be aristocratic in incur our tendencies said a southern colonel but 1 I assure you yop it is not the fact we are very democratic now a few nights ago we held a dance a democratic dance in this city and among those who attended was a friend of mine a southerner born and bred and a splendid man he saw a mighty fine looking girl eirl who was not dancing and politely asked her for the plea pleasure cleasur sur a she very graciously permitted him to dance with her my friend who is a gentleman of the old school suh pa paid id I 1 her several well deserved compliments i ments at which the you young ng lady blushed prettily and delightedly finally he said it seems to me that on some previous occasion I 1 have had bad the exceeding pleasure of looking on your beautiful face have I 1 been so honored oil indeed besl exclaimed the girl you have seen me ifie before I 1 have been cooking for your family for the last yearl of I 1 wade wada robinson a new jersey man brought action against his wife for divorce on the ground that she h had ad misrepresented her age before their marria marriage gd claiming to be only 32 when in reality she was 40 49 the court at jersey city has ruled that misrop misrepresentation resen of age social position or wealth on the part par t of either party parly to a marriage does not constitute ground ford for a divorce since a bogus 4 nobleman may win an heiress by deceit and his big misrop resen tation is held to be insufficient cause for div divorce ored although not a taxpayer a man at at pinconning Pin conning mich decided that he could vote at the school elections since his wife is under the age of 19 and since since the law lava provides that a non taxpayer may vote at such elections pio provided he is the parent or fhe legal guardian of a child of school olage age tile the state attorney general has ruled that a wife is not her husbands ward and that the man therefore is not entitled to vote at the school election lars tisdale the oldest resident of south dakota died the other day at the age of years and eight molit months hs he was born in norway and lived near ly an average lifetime there before going to the northwest |