Show the reindeer experiment nothing succeeds like success and the efforts of our government to introduce reindeer in alaska and domes them there seem to have been ea unqualified success it Is estimated that the number of these animals now in the territory Is not less than 15 this assures not only a most useful means of transportation but a kalua able food supply the plan was that of rev dr sheldon jackson united states educational agent tor the herrl tory who conceived that the reindeer would be valuable aids to the natives who often suffered from want ot food and lack of adequate means of getting about the reindeer Is a hardy beast capable of great exertion and of rapid locomotion while drawing or carrying considerable welt while it will find sustenance Busten ance where many other crea tures would stane living on tho lichens of the rocks when it can get nothing else and even digging tn the snow and ice to get at such fare t la said that everything about the rein deer alive or dead can be turned to useful account and the big herds which some of the eskimo now own make them actual plutocrats among their fellows the exceptional case there Is a great deal ot fruitless search for treasure supposed to have been hidden away but which seldom Is found probably there are thou bands of people willing to take tips and to look for the loot which captain kadd and other predaceous individuals of the old piratical days are supposed to have stored away with microscopic chances of success those old freebooters generally managed to get away with all the booty they appropriated and rarely left anything tor their heirs and assigns to say nothing of acquisitive outsiders but sometimes says the troy N Y times valuable property turns up when it is least ei pecked A sample instance Is the dla covery of 13 casks of gold valued at in an old quarry in russia the belief is expressed that the treasure was concealed centuries ago during some tartar invasion of that region at any rate the incident recorded in the telegraphic news of this material period reads like the foundation tor a monte cristo ro mance north norfolk england is the habl tat of a curious species of owl that carries a lantern about at night ac cording to correspondents of the lon don times who have been observing the bird mr T digby pigott tor la stance writes that a pair of birds car crying a yellowish light so bright that when first seen it was mistaken for a bicycle lamp by two different men at different places have been flying about the fields A bailiff who had been watching one of the birds as mr pigott that after moving about a wheat stack for some time on a dark night the bird flew across the field and alighted on a tree and the light it gave out was so strong that the bailiff could distinctly see the outlines of the branches about the bird strange as the story Is it seems to be believed by persons who are not easily deceived in these days no marvel of science or of natural history can safely be declared to be incredible an englishman who contemplated a visit to the united states and a trip from new york to san francisco Is quoted in a recent magazine article as asking how many times the coinage changed during the journey some justification for his ignorance exists in the number of different coin ages in the british empire the royal mint at london has lately struck nearly 32 coins of aluminum for clr cul atlon in uganda and the nigerian protectorates protect orates each coin is of the value either of one cent or two allu and Is perforated like chinese coins eo that tho natives can string it tho lightness of aluminum and the tact that it Is the best non germ bearing metal are said to be the reasons tor its selection lightly come and lightly go will be especially true of this new money germany is considering a propose alon to go into the petroleum busl nesa driving out the standard oil concern and monopolizing the field itself there are dazzling visions of big profits but before they are realized baya the troy N Y times there may be a fight to a finish between two mighty powers standard oil Is something of an empire itself the suspicion is gaining ground that the russian authorities want any ot the soldiers who were penned up in port arthur ever to have a chance to return home and tell hon f the ones who bad the contracts for furnishing supplies had grafted A foreign paper sas the french are a people who habitually thirst for blood fortunately however they have learned to quench their thirst with something less expensive and easier to obtain |