Show venice owes the ali accumulation of great eila froma from a new industry to one afrie icae nil nAt livest ivest named joquin it was wall in the he year 1659 1650 that lie in ob that the P scales alps of a fib 6 41 railed ther the property of giving a milky tone lne to water after experimenting with all it liu lie lisco erid alred thea when bends bi ed were dipped in to ait oit it ard aben dr dried aed the they assumed the tippe up pen ranee arance ul ot bealls this ro Po vering howen hower er a easily worn away away and tuc t uc ue CeS sivie led to the mao li nt facture atif f hollow glass beads sill all blown separately then polished in ill revolving ving cylinders and finally ini in inside i e with tile lie pirly liquid the latter being protected t ted wit with it wax this his branch of industry iq carried on iu in venice to this day dav dr annor A TALENT IN THE BOX the alexandria correspondent of L tile the st jawes jances gazette thinks that ancient anc egypt is looking up ui in every every way some olits or its contrivances ca appear to have been quite up to date actually y ibey had already more than two khoii and year rca s P apo 0 o what we call nickel in the slot clot for the extraction of something 0 useful pleasant or otherwise eer serviceable vi ceable heron the philo philosopher zopher of alexandria who flourished in the third century B C hinis himself rif an ail inventor iese describes r i i bes sin an automatic machine used in tile the egyptian temples for a long time past by throwing b a pece of money in the slot the worshipers r received ece lived some consecrated object through L a valve the box tile two a armed nied lever ever with its closing vave valve and the other details of the machine are all correctly described A RACE OF GIANT CANNIBALS unlikely as it way may seem to some who read these lines it is a filet fact nevertheless that there is art an island in the gulf of california not more than CO 60 miles from the mexican mainland which is inhabited by the remnants of a race of giant cannibals this startling discovery mis made by a west coast naturalist early in 1891 and has since been confair confirmed med by hoth both united states and mexican explorers mr mcnamara the scientist referred to has a photograph C of one of the men inert round found by him on the island that individual although not one of the largest being over 7 feet in height the island upon which they were found is known as the island ar or isle of leri and the original ori ina I 1 d discoverer i says says that there i is eve every r r ev evidence of cannibalism aai among ng them i THE OLDEST TREES IN THE WORLD tho the bo tree of was planted should be davids years before christ its age is a mattei of record its conserva conservancy n acl has been an object 1 f solicit solicitude tide to several dynasties and the story of its vicissitudes viniss has been preserved in a series of continuous chronicles among the most authentic that have ileen been handed down by mankind the yew trees of fountains Fountain 4 abbey are believed to have flourished there 1200 years ago tile the olives I 1 in i ahe he gar garden den of gethsemane were full grown when the saracens Sara Sa cens were expelled from jerusalem and the cypress of sorna in lombardy lombard y is said to have been a tree in thep the time of julius ciesar caesar yet the bo tree is older than the oldest of these by a century and would almost seem to verify the prophecy hocy pronounced when it was planted that it would hourish flourish and be green forever A VEY VELY PECULIAR ORNAMENT OR A young voting lady of philadelphia whose brother a mining en engineer gincer is now in T tucson acson ariz recently i received from him a handsome present a ne necklace ellace of artificial flowed blowers ll R so rate raie in in lorm form and color that their likeness does nut probably exist at least outside that territory acco accompanying the gift was a description of its coul component parts which were vere put together by a civilized navajo indian allou though h the cher chemical preparation of the materials which ire are chiefly i rattle nake inake i fangs the legs of oce centipedes ind and tile the scales of the gila monster was t the he work odthe of alie engineer subjected to a tion of sulphuric acid the fangs became an ivory white and were used as stamen the legs 0 turned to a translucent yellow and were circled into petal liili alile the greenish scales formed sell als and buds into the hot hollow lor fangs arid and loga were injected scarlet and blue mineral rui oxides the tints sh showing owin through n b the flowers are arc connected by little links of virgin gold after some natural hesitation the lady has decided to wear it |