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Show ETERNAL CITY (EVER FULL OF INTEREST AND CHART &e INDEPENDENT. D, G. JOU0, PobllIaV UTAH A stumbling block become stepping step-ping stone if you know how te use it. The New York teachers are evidently evident-ly tired of speaking softly without a big sticky Next thins: you know the Chinamen will be insisting on their righ to have appendicitis. The Washington Post incidentally remarks that silence is essential to successful fishing. That Nebraska cyclone was almost as fatal as the Paris-Madrid motor race, and not any swifter. The man who wore a silk hat In Texas might have escaped with his life I if he hadn't ordered lemonade. Four tutor students and a professor ! have been arrested at Yale for assault- ing one man. Brave fellows! It is rumored tb-rt Schwab 1b in again. Some of thes stories must "be very disappointing to his doctor. One unfortunate thing about the baseball business is that this season's pennants cannot be awarded right now. The stogie trust has suddenly Increased In-creased Its capital stock from $5,000 x $11,976,000. Cherootsalem, vot a joomp! Sing Sing, N. Y., may change its name as often as It pleases, but a sen tence by any other name will be just as long. A glass arm Is one of the worst things a baseball pitcher can have. especially if every glass contains a highball. There is a slight fall in the price of pig iron, but the grocer says he must ask as much as ever for lard and sausages. Mr. Carnegie has taken to endow ing "home culture" clubs. The pros pect for his dying poor grows dis tinctly brighter. Two-thirds of the American people would like to see Jeffries whipped, but three-fourths of them think the job is too big for Corbett. A Chicago vouns man loklnelv ask ed a girl to marry him and now by way of playful repartee she has come back at him with a breach-of-promise suit. Amid all this admiration for Emerson, Emer-son, it Is well to recall that his teach ing was that it Is better to be your self than to be the best man that ever lived. Automobile racing has become too deadly a sport for France, in which country the French duel will prob ably keep on being the most popular ' amusement. Young Willie K. Vanderbilt wept w,nen his automobile broke down the other day and he bad to drop out f a trace. Yet some people think being rich is just fun. If you have complement and am boceptor In your blood, you can make faces at bacilli, scrape acquaintance with fever germs and laugh at all forms of, disease. If the church goes In for pawn- broking, what is to become of the "uncle?" The relation of the church being maternal, can It also assume j the avuncular status? The fact that the sum of $21,000 was paid for a Poe manuscript is like ly to encourage many modern ballad- ists to waste valuable storage space in holding on to their copy. The Nebraska man who went to Chicago to answer an advertisement for a husband and had $300 taken away from him was pretty lucky after all. He escaped without getting a wife. The milliners and - the Audubon society have agreed as to the birds. That will settle the matter if the American woman will sternly refuse to encourage any breaches of the agreement. Cytotoxis serum will extend life to the 120-year limit. If a man refused treatment, would he, under the laws of New York state, be liable for prosecution on the charge of attempted attempt-ed suicide? Although every one who enters the court room where the Kentucky feud Is being investigated is obliged to check his weapons the wise man who has business there will wear a piece of boiler iron on his back. A German physician has revived the bee-sting cure for rheumatism, and describes de-scribes the case of a patient who alter being stung 6,952 times experienced a complete cure. And j et there are people peo-ple who prefer to believe in mental healing. Article 8 of the constitution of the American Press Humorists, just organ ised at Baltimore, reads: "The annual expenditure shall not exceed the an' nual receipts." If all the members live up to article 8 they will always feel like joking. Milliners of this country have agreed to refrain from putting birds on women wom-en hats during the next three years. Now if you see a woman with a dead bird on her hat you will know that she is dreadfully behind the styles as well as a bit of a barbarian. Mr. Howells will approve 'of this: "It opened Us mouth and said in a voice choked with tears, and in the ruerican language: 'I do not mind breaking down again, but it makes me so angry.' It, was Mr. Vauderbilt. and he had been in the ditch. Critics are jeering at Chicago for its lack of "art nd architectural beauty, but Ohlcago does not apprehend appre-hend that this will greatly , affect its bank clearings or live stock receipt. King Alfonso of Spain has just inherited in-herited $7,500,000. He makes no secret of It, owing to the fact that he can appoint his own tax assessors. What Is the use of trying to settle all these industrial problems before the sweet girl graduate reads bet commencement essay? - . 8PRINQVILLE. When Doss Said was shown into the white and gold parlor of the former missionary to Ceylon he invariably seated himself in a foreign bamboo chair, which became his dark type of Oriental manhood so perfectly that surrounded him with his native atmos phere. The chair was on of the missionary's mis-sionary's fads, the Oriental was a fad of his daughter Camilla, and she had grown very tired of him. This was why he was making a, parting call and taking himself off out of her sphere. Doss Said was going away in the moment of feasting and adulation, and Camilla was inhaling for the last time the incense of his presence. When he had made his adieux to his "lady of light" and she had returned to the white and gold parlor the odor of san dalwood and foreign spices remained, and on the table lay a peculiar white box two or three inches spare, which certainly had not been there before the Hindu made his parting call. The girl took it in her hand and hesitated a moment before opening it. There was something forbidding about it that she did not like, but she resolutely reso-lutely removed the cover, expecting some curio such as he was accustomed to lavish on his friends. To Camilla's surprise the box was empty. "He probably repented of his gener osity and put the contents in his pocket when you were not looking," said Kenneth Graham, her lover, when discussing the incident. "There is a strange odor to the She Picked box." Camilla poised it on the palm of her hand and drew a deep inhala tion. If we had quarreled I should think my Hindu was working some of his strange spells upon me." 'Let me catch him at it!" retorted her lover, and then the box was laid aside and forgotten in the pleasant and more important theme of preparations prepara-tions for the coming wedding. When the young man left the girl she was planning a future radiant with lve and happiness. The next day he was summoned by her father to a mysteri ous Interview. Camilla was not present. pres-ent. Mr. Rathbun, her father, looked greatly troubled. 'My daughter is ill," he said as a first greeting. "She is suffering from fever and delirium. You saw her last night, and she was in her usual health. Did anything happen to distress her? She raves about an empty box. What does it mean?" Good heavens!" cried Graham inco herently, "have you had a doctor? She found the box on the table. Who knows, Ihere may have been contagion In It?" He related the episode to her father, who scarcely seemed to comprehend it. He ran his fingers through his hair in a distracted way. "Come into the parlor." He led the MORE THAN THE FIVE SENSES. Remarkable Powers Possessed by the Lower Animals. Many of our scientists, until quite recently have been reluctant to admit that a number of the lower animals possibly possess other senses than ours. So much new and undeniably affirmatory evidence is, however, now being offered on this point, that thre can be no longer any substantial reason rea-son for doubting that the five senses man Imperfectly exercises are by o means all that are possible to sentient creatures. One such sense not possessed by human beings, but to a greater or less degree almost universally present in mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and Insects, In-sects, is what perhaps may be called the sense of localization. It -enables Its possessor, apparently by its , sole use, to find a desired spot. It is evidently evi-dently closely connected with an instinctive in-stinctive and perfect memory of distance dis-tance and direction. That the homing pigeon exercises it to some extent, though undoubtedly aided by the landmarks it recognizes, s indisput- way to the white and gold room, and pointed to the large white paneled folding doors which secluded this apartmeat from the rest of the house, to which indeed it bore little relation. "Look," he said, "what do you see there?" "The marks of five uncommonly dir ty fingers, I should say," he answered And there was indeed the appearance of five distinct long dark lines that appeared on the white surface of the satin-smooth enamel, as if the fingers had been abnormally long and horribly unclean. "They have been washed off by the housemaid and have reappeared al ways when nobody was in the room. You know, Graham, I am not a be liever in the supernatural, but how did the finger marks come there without hands? Tell me that" "Some one put them there, that Is certain," said the young man boldly. "Nothing happens by chance in this world not in my reckoning." He ad vanced closely to Investigate the marks, and was seized with a giddi ness and repulsion that made him In stantly seek the air. "Let me see Camilla," he demanded. "Hare those marks removed, and, Mr. Rathbun, set a watch in that room some one who will be prudent and silent." While Mr. Rathbun was attending to these details Kenneth had his inter view with Camilla. He found her in the care of the old nurse who had tended her through her motherless childhood, and she was indeed ill with a strange malady such as he' had never seen. The empty box had been destroyed; the housemaid had burned it, so that menace was gone. Meanwhile Camilla was growing worse, doctors and specialists failed to help her, and Graham suggested to her father her removal from the house. In the hurry of moving and packing the ghostly fingers failed to appear. Everything was ready and Camilla wag given a sleeping draught to prepare her for the ordeal. She was laid upon a divan in the wrhite and gold room, which she had not entered since the first fatal day of her strange illness. Then her father and her. lover sat near to watch her. The utmost quiet lt Up. was observed and she fell into a tranquil tran-quil sleep. This was the time when she was to be taken out to the carriage car-riage in waiting, but the two watchers, watch-ers, tired from sleepless nights and anxious days, yielded to the strange somnolence of the room, and they, too, lept. Only a second it seemed, but when Graham opened his eyes he saw that which galvanized him into motion sudden sud-den and swift as lightning. Camilla was in his arms and oorne down the staircase past the assembled household before her father saw the awful shape that squatted on her pillow, that had been within touch of her white cheek when her lover snatched her, that fearful death in which madness lurks the deadly tarantula. It happens to be a scientific fact that in the immediate presence of the fatal wolf-spider, as the terror is called, sympathetic symptoms develop without the person being bitten, and recovery follows the removal of the cause. Mrs. Kenneth Graham is a robust young woman, an acknowledged power in Washington society, and the idol of two men seen with her everywhere, every-where, her father and her husband. They remember some things which sfle has fortunately forgotten. Mrs. M. L. Rayne in Chicago Record-Herald. able; that the honey bee has it in its fulness and perfection' cannot, after the careful experiments of Albrecht Bethe in Germany, be doubted. Examples of insects that possess an X-ray sense, not only among European but our own hymenoptera, can be multiplied indefinitely. Only one or two of the senses peculiar to the lower animals are here noticed. Lubbock Lub-bock suggests that "there may be fifty of them." Scientific American. r As Instructed. "Why do you watch the thermometer thermome-ter on tbe wall so closely?" queried the invalid. , "Because," replied the untrained nurse, "the doctor said if the temperature tempera-ture got any higher to give you another an-other dose of quinine." , Unbiased Criticisrr. "What do you think I ought to get for this painting?" asked the very young artist. , ' "Well," replied the matter-of-fact friend, "I think any judge would be justified in giving you at least six months," . Landscape, Buildings and People Never Pall Monte Festuccio One of the Most Remarkable Curiosities of the Old Time " Mistress of the World," (Special Correspondence.) In Rome it was formerly be custtj that the strangers and visito'rzwM j the lenten ceremonies were over tL.J Easter Sunday had come, set out upon their journeyings to other scenes. Novi that is changing, and these peotole'i' remain, and are to be met wittily a Campagna, wandering in the littye cities, or stud vine the ouaint cusV and the showy costumes of the W- in uiuer uturti uisiam sues. - pjj. T f la Dn&rAAtv rtnecttVtla toana - A any one of the gates of the cite, vour ' are themselves most picturesque sve interest, ana quaint cnarm meet v-s eye. It is not only the landscape, rj cinating as it is in lines and vaj colors, when seen through the arcbWf the gate framing it as in a picture, tiff attracts: the people seem to prepay, the scene with all the picturesque belongings be-longings and surroundings characteristic characteris-tic of the country. At Porta Magglore? for Instance afl gate made Under" three " alfaeductsH ancient date the huge walls of Romans workmanship that have witnessed so many incidents in the long life of Rome, now form a background to the artistic and natural grouping of tha gray-colored wide-horned oxen of thej Roman Campagna, as they rest from their work. . --f There is scarcelyafhllfkt-ie met with, except such alslight elevation as- that of Monte, Festuccio, near the gate of St. Paul's, which is purely artificial, and is one of the most remarkable-curiosities remarkable-curiosities of this ancient city. This hill, as an American poet said of it, is formed "of vases, urns and jars, the shattered relics of a far-off time." For the historian it is one ot the numerous problems which the study of Roman antiquities presents. As Ampere notes, people cannot stop to, discuss seriously the tradition which reports it as constituted by the frag ments of the vases containing the tribute which the nations subdued pry sented to their conqueror, Roriae. A more probable and better foundeNi ori gin for it has been discovered in jate years by the excavation of the etainf stores and other receptacles in the im- mediate neighborhood. The broken! vases were piled up here into a hill. Enrico Dressel has. studied the signa tures of the persons who exported the grain and oil and wine, which signa tures were impressed on the vases near the handles, and has recon structed the story of this "Monte." This hill is 160 feet in height, and is close upon a mile in circumference. If you ascend to the wooden cross which stands as a sacred sign upon its sum mit, your steps will be amid broken pottery. The whole hill, and the plain for a considerable distance around it, and the soil far beneath the present Trajan's level, are all formed of broken vases. The building against Vie side of the hills is the residence of wine makers. and Into the sides of this strangely formed elevation wine cellars open, where the wines of Roman princes and nobles were kept cool and fresh. Here one may dream of the past and con sider curiously who held the vases and who drank the wine that these broken shards once held. The plow that you see in use to-day in the Roman Campagna seems to have undergone no change since the eyes of the great poet rested upon its exemplar nineteen centuries ago. It fits the description he has given of it; and there is no reason to doubt that its immutability will continue when many of the newer discoveries now in vogue will have passed into oblivion. There is scarcely any other amuse ment or occupation that attracts bo many observers as a horse race; and Ruins of Temple of Saturn. the. visitor to Rome who takes advan tage of the occasion to witness these races is likely to forget the scene it presents. That a King and a Queen are among the spectators adds Im mensely to Its attraction; Formerly sovereigns were spectators of the shows prepared for them; now the people are the spectators, and roy-altr roy-altr becomes a part of the spectacle which the people go to see. A few days ago it was well known that King victor Emanuel HI. and Queen Helena would be present at , the races, as on that day the Royal Derby was run, and 11 1 I I . ..... it y r ,1 - '-iff" hence crowds pressed out along the new Appian Way to the racecourse near the Capannelle on the left of the road. The route," apart from all other con siderations, is one of the most inter- ing of the many Interesting roads ound Rome. Passing out by tJw ateran Gate, with the wall beside it showing still the white patches where repairs were made of the damage done by the shells of the Italian army in besieging the city in 1870, you leave to the right the Porta Asinaria be tween the two round towers. Here the gate is walled up; its Ruins of the Forum. emories are not flattering to the na- ional pride. Here Belisarius entered ome; and some years after, Totila, by the treachery of the Isaurian uard. It was through the Porta Asi- aria that in 1084 Henry IV entered ome against Pope Hildebrand. Be- jveen it and the other gate, above the Falls may be seen the statues that crown the facade of the cathedral of pome, St. John Lateran, which for .miles out on this road is the sign and symbol of the city to him who turns his eyes Romeward. The beauty and interest of the road increase the farther you go beyond the walls. Here on the right the great ridge of the ancient Appian Way cuts sharp and dark against the horizon, and the shapeless ruins of its once grandiose monuments mark the route it follows. Against the sky, the round, 19-cen- Column. tury-old "round tower of other days" the tomb of Cecilia Metella looms up in all its golden glory.. Here in the middle distance is the sacred grove of ilex trees, the successor of a pagan sacred grove, changed in little or nothing save its surroundings since the smoke of sacrifice mingled with the air around it. Near to it is the old Church of St. Urbano. which some declare de-clare to have been originally a temple dedicated to Bacchus, that has only been saved from destruction by being converted to Christian uses. The church itself, apart from , its origin, has a wonderful interest on account of the very early frescoes with which it is adorned. On the left a tall tower rises in the line of the aqueduct of Pope Sixtus V, and indicates a site which is historical. histori-cal. And then the road dips, and on the right two tall umbrella pines raise their gloomy heads into the sky; and on the other side of the road the ruins of the Claudian aqueduct great huge arches, on which the water of the hills around was brought in triumph tri-umph to Rome rise against the sky," the noblest and the most pathetic of the ruins that abound in the Campagna. Cam-pagna. And as the traveler advances the peacefulness and sadness of the scene is borne in upon him. The place is filled with recollections; every step is accompanied by a name illustrious in history or luminous in legend. Poor People Wanted. - There is a notable dearth of old ani poor people in Chalonnes-sur-LoIra. With the money left by the rich landed land-ed proprietors an asylum for indigent old people has been built. The prefect pre-fect and all the local authorities had arranged to be present at the opening, and a high functionary from Paris was to grace the inaugural proceedings. proceed-ings. Only one thing , was wanting the inmates. Although every effort has been made to find old people who will accept the hospitality of the asylum, asy-lum, the Institution is still without those for whom It was built, so the opening ceremony will have to be postponed. post-poned. Lumber in Washington State. . The state of Washington has the most gigantic lumber resources in the, world. One acre of Washington timber tim-ber will furnish in its lumber as many carloads of freight aa 120 years of wheat product from a Dakota farm. A straight line is shortest in morals as wert as In geometry. Rah el. J. $7 f i Two first-class battleships for the United States navy, the New.Jereey and the Rhode Island, are being built side by side from the same designs and at the same time at the new Fore River ship yard, down in the southeastern south-eastern corner of Boston Harbor. The like Is not being done in any other American ship yard, so that the. visitor vis-itor who takes pleasure in watching his .white navy In actual process of construction may find here a suggestion sugges-tion of the formidable power of this tew class of fighting ships that he can hardly look for elsewhere. The battleship is built to take many Lard blows, as well as to give them, though knowing all the time that these hard blows, coming from modern, mod-ern, twelve-inch rifles, will probably shatter the heaviest armor she can float under. For there are certain vital organs within her above all, her engines and boilers that must be made absolutely safe against shots, and the' only way to make them so, since impenetrable armor has not yet been invented, is to add one safeguard safe-guard to another until chance of injury in practically eliminated. So if you will clamber down the slope of the "protective deck" and look over the side you will see below you a jog or shelf running along the vessel's side, above which she is narrower than she is below. Upon this Is to go the eleven-inch nickel steel armor plating, extending a few feet above and below the water line, and going nearly all around the vessel from end to end, like a stout belt around a man's body. This is to take care of all small shots from the enemy's guns. For the larger, larg-er, more penetrating shots, the V-shaped space between the upright side of the vessel and the slant of the protective protec-tive deck, will be filled solid with coal, as a part of the ship's bunker capacity, to a horizontal thickness of nearly ten feet. This is a much more efficient shield than the steel armor itself, on the same principle that a rifle bullet can be shot through a chilled steel plowshare, but not through a feather pillow. As for any destruction which may take place above the armor belt and the protective deck, there are here but two points which at the last resort, are really indispensable the two tur rets, that is, which carry the twelve-inch twelve-inch rifles. And these, from .their combination of rounded shape and extra heavy armor, are supposed to be- In vuWJ2blr-After all, then, we, have in the modern battleship little more, as far as principle goes, than an old-fashioned monitor for impenetrable impene-trable "whaleback," if you like with a few stories of superstructure added above it, and if our vessel really lived up to the naval constructor's ideal we might find her at the end of a hard engagement totally dismantled above the protectivedeck, with all her smaller small-er guns disabled and her gallant crews killed, with her deckhouse knocked into junk, and her funnel, masts, boat derricks and all the rest of it over board, but with four twelve-inch rifles still swinging toward the enemy and below decks a perfect set of boilers and engines and a still workable emergency steering gear. In order to appreciate the reasons for the tremendous strengthening in special plates one has to think of the battleship not as on the stocks but in action. In the first place the hull of such a craft, according to the recent calculations of a Japanese navai officer, offi-cer, comprise only about 38 per cent of her total weight. The remaining 62 per cent is simply loaded on in the shape of guns, armor, machinery and general outfit. Yet this weight is not, like the cargo In a freighter, evenly distributed nor can it be got rid of while the vessel is in dry dock. Then again as soon as the ' officer in com mand orders her "full speed ahead" the engines in the narrow space al lowed them, must begin to put forth the energy of about 20,000 horses on the run, pounding on the shaft bear ings, and from them on to the very keel itself,, with a pressure of about sixty tons or say six times the weight of an ordinary trolley car. The pressure on the thrust bearings, as well as on the foundations, which receive the push of the propellers in their struggle to drive the ship ahead, is collectively over 100 tons. Seven heavy-weight freight engines- coupled one ahead of the other could hardly exert the same force. . So, too, whenever when-ever the commander wants the helm put hard over the stern post and adja cent framings must stand the strain of pulling 230 square feet of rudder surface sur-face much more than the area of a big barn door sideways through the water at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Every- time one of the twelve-Inch twelve-Inch rifles is fired the result is much MASHERS IN PARIS AND AMERICA Different Treatment They Receive From Objects of Attention. - The bifurcate object known here aa the "masher" is not " a stranger in other countries. All the capitals in EuroDe have him In differing degrees of odiousness. Especially in Paris is the genus to; be found, but there the women have a way of dealing with aim that is peculiarly their own. The average French woman upon findine that she is followed by some idler will be troubled about it and take herself to task for having looked about too much or worn too noticeable garments. She considers that the blame rests upon her, whereas the American woman or girl adopts the opposite view. ' The American women who fines her self observed or followed is no whit disturbed and sometimes even ventures ven-tures to give the offender a lesson. She will slacken her pace, begin to survey things in the windows and otherwise behave so as to beguile the person into thinking 6he is in for a lark. Then, when believing himself the same, so far . as stresses and strains on the mountings are concerned, concern-ed, as if a healthy passenger locomotive locomo-tive running at ten miles an hour were to find the gun sitting inopportunely on the track and engage it in end-on collision, while as to the strains resulting re-sulting from actually ramming an enemy in battle nobody has ever more than vaguely guessed at what they may amount to. All points of battleship building are interesting, of course, because of the tremendous importance of the result. There is little satisfaction, either in building a battleship unless she is to be a better ship and a more powerful power-ful fighter than all those that have gone before her. Consequently battleship battle-ship designers must' be engineering pioneers . hunting for new facts and new ideas and employing new methods and materials to accomplish results beyond what have already been achieved. Consequently, also, battleship battle-ship builders must .be mechanical pioneers to carry out the designer's ideas. Imagining our two fighters as they will appear when complete, we see two wall-sided warships 445 feet long, proceeding with a pile of foam at their bows at the rate of nineteen knots an hour at an expenditure of twenty tons of coal and the conversion of 160 tons of water into stem. Below the gracefully grace-fully sheered main deck is visible a row of small guns forming the "secondary "sec-ondary battery." At Manila and also at Santiago it was observed that although big guns were of the greatest ultimate advantage, advan-tage, most of the fight, when the distance dis-tance allowed, went on, and with the greatest execution, among the smaller rapid-firing rifles which may well account ac-count for the strength and importance of secondary batteries of these twin ships. Above the main decks rise the main turrets fore and aft, topped by smaller ones. A pile of upperworks intervene between them, surmounted by two stout military masts with fighting fight-ing tops and signal yards, and three funnels pouring out volumes of smoke all contribute to a very solid, castlelike castle-like effect. Finally the all-important question of what these two battleships can do and how they compare with similar craft in other navies can be effectually answered by quoting a recent paragraph para-graph from one of the best-known scientific weeklies. A vessel's guns, for purposes of comparison, are spoken spo-ken of in terms of a standard gun', just as electric lights are measured in candle-powers." Speaking of the new ' French battleship Republique, this scientific weekly says: "The artillery predominance of the Republique Repub-lique is hers very marked, save against the New Jersey." If, however, we reduce all guns to the common denomination of the twelve-pounder, we get the fire values for one broadside as follows: New Jersey, 99; King Edward, 78; Republique, Repub-lique, 71; Vittorio Emanuele, 61; Suf-fren, Suf-fren, 60. All of which means In nontechnical non-technical terms, that in a given time and under equal conditions, the Rhode Island and New Jersey could throw more metal and make the other fellow sorrier for it than the premier ships of any of our friends the enemy. And the article goes on to say that "by Hividing the displacement Into these figures we can place the values of the ships in gun fires per thousand and tons of displacement as follows: New Jersey, 6.3; Vittorio Emanuele, 4.8; King Edward, 4.7; Republique, 4.7; Suffren, 4.7." In other words, we have not only the greatest artillery strength on these new vessels for what is said of the New Jersey applies just the same to the Rhode Island but have obtained it with the least proportionate pro-portionate amount of vessel. This provided no other important feature has been sacrificed, is the very ideal to be sought greatest fighting power with least dead weight. "So far as paper comparisons are confirmed," continues this critic, "compare them by whatever system we may select, and they will always come out at the head of the list." And so, in the light of previous events, it seems but reasonable to assume that they will do so in time of war. Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Enquirer. - Mexico's Floating Gardens. The floating gardens In the lakes near the city of Mexico were recently visited by an English naturalist, who reports them a paradise and accounts for their existence. Floating tangles of peat moss, rushes and grass are caught by stakes driven into the soft lake bottom, and upon this mass rich mud from the bottom is thrown. The surface i3 then transferred into a market mar-ket garden. encouraged, the masher speaks to the fair loiterer she fixes him with such a look of scorn and disdainful, propriety pro-priety that he slinks off more or less disconcerted and the girl goes home congratulating herself that she administered ad-ministered punishment that cut deep. The American girl, however dscreet she may be at home, takes chances In Paris merely forthe, fun of the thing that the native woman J who know their countrymen would never dream of venturing. She apparently delights in exciting admiration and at-natural at-natural self-possession will bring her through any uncomfortable incidents tention in the shops and in public conveyances, quite assured that her that may arise. ' Much Cancer in Australia. 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A traveler in Japan thus describes the hairy Ainos of that country: "The men are about the middle height, broad chested, broad shouldered, thickset, thick-set, very strongly built, the arms and feet large. The bodies and especially the limbs of many are covered with short, bristly hair. I have seen two boys whose backs are covered with fur as fine and soft as that of a cat We were ferried over a river by an AIno completely covered wlthalr, which, on his shoulders was wavy like that of a retriever and rendered clothing quite needless, either for covering or for warmth. A wavy black beard rippled nearly to his waist over his furry chest, and with his black locks hanging hang-ing in masses over his shoulders be would have looked a thorough savage had it not been for the exceeding sweetness of his smile and eyes." VITALITY OF BURNS' FAME. It Is One of the Great Facts of Our Literature. "The Inquest" on Robert Burns was concluded long ago, but from time to time the findings are reviewed by critical crit-ical writers, as in a recent sympouam, says Collier's. A curious result thus chances. From every such inquisition the poet emerges the more radiant aad triumphal the critics are lost in the splendor they have evoked. It is on thing to make literature; it is another and quite different thing to write abovt literature and the makers thereof. This is a truism, and yet the distinction is often confused, especially by the writers writ-ers of criticism. Burns has survived several generations of critics, many of whom made a vain bid lor remembrance remem-brance by their praise or dispraise of him. The vitality of his fame Is one of the great facts of our literature. Most Costly Handkerchief. The dowager queen of Italy is to possession of the most costly handkerchief hand-kerchief in the world. It Is of the earliest Venetian lace. Though made in the fifteenth century, this unique handkerchief is in a perfect state of preservation. Its value is estimated at (10,000, but Queen Margharlta would not part with it at any price. Queen Margharita always was fond of collecting old lace, and she still has this passion. After her majesty's death the matchless handkerchief descends to her daughter-in-law, Queen Helena. . THE REAL CRANK is Plainly Marked. ' A crank is one who stays in beaten paths when common sense tells him to leave. The real crank is one who persists In using coffee because accustomed to and yet knows it hurts him. It is this one who always pays the penalty, while the sensible person who gives up coffee and takes on Postum Food Coffee in its place enjoys all the benefits bene-fits of returning health. A well-known manufacturer's agent of New York City visited the grocery department of one of the big New York stores not long ago and there he tasted a sample cup of Postum made the right way. He said afterwards: "Just through the energy of that young woman who was serving Postum there I became a convert to the food drink and gave up the drug drink coffee and got welL "1 had used coffee to excess and was gradually becoming a complete wreck, getting weaker and more nervous every day, I paid the penalty for using us-ing coffee and when I tasted the delicious deli-cious Postum I was glad indeed to make the change. "So I gave up the coffee altogether and have used Postum instead ever since. My family at first called me a crank, but seeing how Postum benefited bene-fited me the first month they all got in line and as a result of Postum's remarkable re-markable benefits to me we all drink It now entirely in place of coffee and we are well." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, |