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Show Italys Tomcat. To Creature of night; bold, brazenly Immoral, Responsible to neither gods nor men; out the dark thy Irreligious choral yrom " Jars on my nerves and angers me again. V.'hen dogs and other honest brutes are sleeping. And not a cur awakes to bay the moon. With low companions thou thy watch art keeping And giving tongue to thy unlovely tune. Notorious "Bandit Is "Proud of His "Record . MUSOLINO, HIS FAVORITE WEAPON, AND SCENES AT TRIAL themselves from their enemies, inch as birds. They have no other means of defense, and if they were conspicud ous they would very quickly be goo-ble- up. The walking sticks vary considerably In appearance, always counterfeiting the twigs of the kind of tree on whicu they happen to live. Even the knots and the bark are copied so What demon, deep within thy black heart accurately that it is almost impossible to distinguish the creatures, even If hidden, What base promoter of foul deeds and one is looking for them. strife, Ma Ignlty and hate and war has bidden Life in n Common Cheese. 'v Thee lead that dissolute and vicious life? Prof. Adametz, who has devoted Art thou provoked by Influence inferconsiderable time to the study of the nal To levy war on all thy wretched kind, fragrant subject, says that the popuProfane the air with revelry nocturnal, lation of an ordinary cheese when a To gratify thy dark and bloody mind? few weeks old is greater than the Thy fur, once thick, Is largely dissipated. number of persons upon the earth. He has made some interesting reThy ears are notched, thy lips are gashed and torn, searches dealing with the minute orSix inches of thy tail has been abated, Thou art a thing to look upon with ganisms found in cheese. From a miscorn, croscopic examination of a soft vaverses in riety of cheese he obtained the folTet why waste denouncing In 15 grains of callous lowing statistics: Thy manifold transgressions, cat? cheese, when perfectly fresh, from The word for you Ill lose no time pro90,000 to 140,000 microbes were found, nouncing, and when the cheese was 70 days old Take good care that you heed it, Thomthe population had increased to 800,-00- 0 as: Scat! in each 15 grains. An examinaFrom the Portland Morning Oregonian. tion of a denser cheese at 25 days old proved it to contain 1,200,000 in each Beadless Turtle. It has generally been supposed by gram (about 15 grains), and when naturalists that the seat of the ani- 45 days old 2,000,000 in the same parmals Instinct, as of reason In man, Is ticle. in the brain. An incident related by Dr. Eugene Murray-Aaroformerly Llceouc Nine Tears Old. ' Jacob Groff, a faithful lover of 62 secretary and curator of the American Entomological Society, which came years, was married at Mayton, W. under his observation while one of a Va., a few days ago to Miss Rebecca party of specimen hunters in the West Glelsbury, three years his senior, the Indies, would go to show the contrary, girl for whom he had waited for says the New York Tribune. He says forty years. Nine years ago he securthat a snapping turtle was discovered ed the marriage license, but the bride-eleon the beach of an island where the refused to wed him. He folded party was encamped, making for the the license, put it away and waited water. One of the party seized an ax until she should be ready. His perand cut oft the turtles head. Still the sistence and his faithfulness finally headless body continued moving with won and she agreed to become his scarcely diminished rapidity, leaving tride. The minister, the Rev. D. S. the head behind on the sand. The tur- Thomas, hesitated when he saw the tle was picked up and Carried some Gate upon the license, but when .he distance inland, then placed down, the was told the circumstances he marneck facing away from the sea. A if ried them under the license nine years in perfect condition, the turtle turned cid. Baltimore Sun. round and made for the water again, apparently anxious to escape even Homing Fiji. without its head. A friend of mine bought two young lJg3, about three months old, and Baby Face In Orange. were carried home six miles in a they One of the oddities the navel oratuce covered van. They managed to esis noted for is its remarkable freaks from their new quarters, took a cape In simulating at times portions of the back to the place of their human anatomy. birth, and swam across a swift river One of the most singular freaks tf wide, on their way this kind is a large orange with a fully fifty yards a London paper. In due home, says childs head protruding from fhe course they were returned to the man navel. The head is perfect, the face who had bought them and within a week they were hack again to their original homestead. We hear a great deal about the homing instincts of the pigeon and the dog, but no one, apparently, has a good word to say for the gentleman who used to pay the rent 4 X X S H- - . it- bee-iin- e Lamps That Talk. Electric lamps not only can be Biade to talk but also to sing. An ordinary arc light can be made to produce sounds in two ways. One Is by placing the arc In the circuit of a telephone Instead of the ordinary recelv-- r and the other is by placing it in the circuit instead of the ordinary trans- mitter. In either of these positions it will words, which can be heard pronounce WlnglMI Bird.. at a considerable distance. distinctly The kiwi is the sole remnant ef the wonderful race of wingless birds It naturally follows, also, that the that once roamed all over New Zea- electric arc can be utilized as the reland, the gigantic skeletons of some ceiver and also as the transmitter of of which have been found in such a telephone. numbers that almost every museum In the world possesses one or more of Valuable Storm. them. The great storm of red dust that The kiwi is about the size of a swept up from Africa over Europe last partridge, has a rather long neck and year performed a service for which a curious hill about four inches in meu of science should be grateful, by length. Its wings are quite undevel- coloring the glaciers of the Alps on a oped, and its feathers have a sort of grand scale, and thus producing unfinished character, which may be stratum in the vast ice streams the supposed to represent Natures early red hue of which wil render it recogefforts in that direction, before the nizable for many years. The Importclose, rich plumage of the modern ance of this consists in the fact that bird was evolved. by noting the position of the Wanting the means of flight, the layer the movements of the kiwi has almost been exterminated, glaciers can be studied more accurateand with it also have gone, or nearly ly than would be possible without the gone, all the other leathered denizens aid of so extensive and distinct a of the woods. The invasion of their marking. haunts by the white man has been Ruaalan Kettle Bridge. their destruction. remarkable the most Perhaps in tne world are the kettle-bridgebridges Chickens. Forcing of which the Cossack soldiers Chicken farming as practiced nowabuilders. The materials are expert days implies the use of implements of which are constructed are the they and foods which would have seemed soldiers lances and cooking kettles. strange to a past generation. When or eight lances are passed unchicken has been to fed up a such a Seyen handles of a number of kettles the der point that it begins to refuse its food, and fastened by means of ropes to the fattener uses a "cramming pump form a raft. A sufllcient number of and forces oatmeal and milk down the rafts, each of which will bear throat of the unwilling bird. This can these a weight of half a ton, are fastened go on for only a few days, for after In the space of an hour once being crammed in this fashion a together, and formed on which an army is a bridge bird will never eat again of its own cross with confidence and safety. accord. To give a final touch of may to the perfection pump capon, a An Experiment. preparation of arsenic is added to the It is very wonderful what effects food during the last few days before it is to be killed. This makes the bird are produced by different kindu of to try light Here is an experiment plump and glossy, and adds still . Put few ounces to its portly frame. The with the help of a grown-upcurious part about this poison treat- in a soup plate a few tablespoonfuls of ment is that it does not seem to in- salt, then pour enough alcohol over jure the birds In any way for market, the salt to thoroughly saturate it Put the dish in the middle of a table in a nor to make them unwholesome. perfectly dark room and ask your to sit around it; light the mixguests Grandfather's Clock Mystery. see how peculiar each person and ture , At the death of aged Oottleib Hey-lerof near Liberty, his old clock, that will look. had not been running for more than Ten PbIm of Twin. eleven years, slowly struck five times. Fishermen who have just returned The old man had a premonition of death two months before. At that time from a fishing trip along Hickory Run he sold all his property and stopped a report that a family named Henderson, newspaper that he had taken for living deep in the woods, has been twenty-fou- r years. Two weeks ago he blessed with seven pairs of twins in fell 111, and Saturday he died. Wil- succession, and two other children liamsport (Pa.) Correspondence Phila- who came alone, all within fourteen delphia Record. years. All are alive, and are sound, healthy youngsters. Baltimore Sun. Living "Walking Sticks." Quite the largest of all the "walking Bmii Skeleton FlUod with Bonny. skeleton of a The sticks, as insects of a certain kind that Imitate twigs are called, is to large bear, whose skull was filled with be found In Brazil. It counterfeits a several pounds of honey, deposited little branch quite wonderfully, even there by bees that had turned it into to the joints. a hive, was discovered the other day Of course, the object of nature In by John and James Osterhort of Shermaking these creatures so like twigs man, Pa., as they were sawing s large Is to enable to conceal hollow beechwood log. them - i d 1 X d i --I Detected. Herlock Sholmes took up the subject of the burglary boldly. You say, he remarked, that the thief stole Miss Smartleighs gloves? Yes, said the lady of the house, one pair of gloves. Hm! mused the famous detec-tive. It Is as I suspected! He robbed her right and left. The eyes of all sons of Italy, at home and abroad, are directed toward the notorious bandft, Giuseppe Musolino, who for months baffled the troops sent out to capture him, but who was at last taken and has for two weeks been on 1 trial. Musolino was captured on Oct. 16, in the streets of Urbino. His career as an outlaw is said to have begun two year ago with his escape from prison, to which he had been condemned as he held, undeservedly for the murder of a man who had stabbed him. He vowed, it is said, to kill the judge and prosecutor, , and the fifteen witnesses who had procured his conviction, and he is charged with the death of 11 of them. For months he held a large tract of Calabrian territory in his grasp. His mountain stronghold was blockaded, but by the aid of the peasants, with whom he was very popular, especially with the women, he made his way Disthrough the cordon of guards. guised as a priest on his way to see the bishop, he chatted affably with the soldiers, and offered to execute commissions for their officers. Now, after four months of impertur-abi- e stoicism, the bandit has told the story of some of his exploits. "I became a bandit, he said, "because I was cruelly wronged. The injustice done to me has taught me to feel a hatred toward all mankind a just one. But I am not a brigand bent on plunder, gentlemen. No, I am an honorable bandit who kills his man because he hates him; because he has been injured by him; because he is the enemy of his clan. When I escaped from prison I went into the mountains and joined a band of brave fellows. On the death of their captain I was unanimously chosen to command. Chosen for my merit I governed them by opinion. They knew that I was brave and prudent I had many times an opportunity of showing that I had all the qualities that constitute a good general. Had I commanded an army, like Language. 'Its wonderful, said the meditative man, how one small word, insignificant in itself, may induce an endless train of thought, speaking volumes in fact e - !- e - l - -!- e4 - - io -Fe4 e4 - - 4- e -Fe! ee i e4 - - should have been lnvlnNapoleon, cible. Once we were besieged in the upper ranges of the Abruzzi by a company We of those maledetti Carabinieri. were enclosed on three sides by the troops, and on the other was a precipice of many hundred feet, which plunged, without a shelf or ledge of rock, into the plain. I had eight companions, but access to the crag on which we bivouacked was so narrow that only one could mount the pass at a time. This our enemies knew for several of them were wounded in making a reconnois-sance- . - But our provisions failed us. We were on the point of giving ourselves up, fearing starvation, when I discovered an eagles aerie. To the wonder of our foes, we contrived, by plundering it of hares and kids, to support nature for many days. At last the eaglets flew, and then our distress returned. With It came the thought of surrender. I recollected, however, that opposite to where a single sentinel had been posted there was a cl)asm, a deep ravine, the top of which was covered with wood. One dark night, leading my little band, I crawled on hands and knees, without being perceived, and poniarded the vedette. He fell without a groan. - 4 - 4,o4,e - l' - Yes, replied the caustic man. Take the word but for instance, when a woman says: Of course its none of my business, but.' - ,5 - ?4 e - "We then, after overcoming incredible dangers, reached the brink of the abyss. My troop eyed the fissure with terror. It was narrow, but at the bottom roared a mountain torrent which at its immeasurable depth looked like a silver thread. I came provided with a rope, to which when he dared not go into the plain, we were in the habit of attaching a. basket, which we lowered to the peasants for provisions. To this rope 1 adjusted a heavy dagger and hurled it across the chasm. By good fortune it was entangled at the first throw among the brushwood and between two of the stuck fast branches. Having drawn it tight I fastened it to a tree on our side of the ravine. My companions watched me with anxiety, wondering what next I was about to do. I spoke not a word, but suspended myself over the abyss. Hand over hand, I reached the opposite bank in safety. All followed me, with like success, save one, Pietro Pentuccl, whose strength or courage failed him. He unhappily sank into the boiling gulf, but he was dead long before he reached it. so that his sufferings were less than had he been taken by the Carabinieri. This is but one of the many exploits Musolino recounts with pride. Perfectly Correct. A gentleman was one day visiting friends house, and while strolling in the garden came across his little boy, and, speaking to him, said: Well, my little man, how old are you? The child answered Five. And what are you going to be? Six. Apprehensions. said the the melancholy manner, that this prosperity will not last" 'Well, answered the genial person, my friend, the professor, says that one of these days the entire solar system is going to smash. But we might as well enjoy ourselves while we can. I am very much afraid," man with NO Help at All. You will marry a tall, dark gentleman, said the fortune teller, examin- ing the lines in the fair hand. That doesnt help me despairingly replied the lovely blonde who had All three of called to consult her. them are tall and dark. Choice of Two Evils. Distracted Wife Im going to the dentist's to have this tooth out Just mind the baby till I come back. You mind Husband (with alacrity) the baby, Jeanne; Ill go and get tooth pulled out! Just Ons Moment d The most remarkable volume ever issued in this country has just been published by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. It is an exact facsimile, in the colors of the original, of one of the finest and best preserved ancient Mexican manuscripts in existence the long lost codex owned by Lord Zouche of Harynworth. This facsimile reproduction has been named the Codex Nuttall, in honor of Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, an honorary assistant of the museum, who discovered the existence of the original after it had been lost to view for centuries, traced it to its present English owner, spent months in a careful study of its contents, directed the work of reproducing it and has written a careful introduction which explains its peculiarities and text bo far as they are explainable in the light of modern archaeological science. The Codex Nuttall, like the other examples of the same kind of picturewriting, is painted on strips of pretopared deerskin which are glued gether in such a way as to form a king folded band, .and so lasting are the colors employed which were made by a secret process that the native artists refused to disclose to their Spanish conquerors that even now, after Dnnlol Bradford, Bmj Lifn Daniel P. Bradford, seventh in line from John Bradford, first governor of Massachusetts, has just celebrated his ninety-firs- t birthday at his home In the village of Tynaall, S. D. Born in 1811 at Plympton, Mass., he was a millwright and engineer and ran one of the first locomotives on the Boston and Albany railroad from Worcester to Boston. Later he went west and erected the first mill and the first schoolhouse in the territory now embraced in the state of South Dakota. He served two terms in the Dakota lived legislature, but of late years has in retirement He has four children and living, eighteen grandchildren thirty-fou- r Fiatol lad Lamp Combined. Shooting in the dark and hitting the will object it is desired to bring down be easy when a combination revolver and dark lantern just patented by a man in Seattle comes into general use. i The Seattle inventors pistol is one of the most curious devices which Teacher Are you chewing gum? Yes, maam. Teacher Give it to me! Boy No, I wont Ill give you half. Boy She Didnt Want Any. But whats all talk about womans rights? The Professor Its an effort to place woman and man on an equality. Mrs. Everby But whats woman done that she should be brought down after that fashion? No, sir; I dont want anything to do with your womans rights. Mrs. Everby Had Him About Right Half the time he says be doesnt know whether I love him or he hopes that not, about I do, and the rest he thinks I may and in addition he is' nearly always utterly miserable. Maud Well, Im glad youre making such a success of the affair. Clara one-quart- 'il dust-staine- Wanted Too Much. He Knew the Jones Boys. Old Jones is dead, I see. 1 wonder It how his estate will be divided? seems a pity that it cant be kept to-gether. "A good deal of it will be scattered widely in small amounts, I fancy, but there will be a pretty good block for each of the residuary legatees. Who are they? Oh, the Chorus Girls Union and the Whisky Trust 0 0 hard-wroug- ht being the exact reproduction of a Hying child. The orange is preserved in spirits at Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Sure to Say It They stood on the shore of the little island that had bten by the volcano. merry jests turned out by destroyed Blazing torrents still ran down tho THE OFFICIAL FUNMAKERS. sides ef the mountain, while the very air seemed full of fire. A man, who all along had seemed Was Willing to Divido tha Chewing Gum Knew How the Estate Would to be making every effort to control Blamed the Elephants himself, at last turned to a companion Be Divided and remarked: the for Quality of Ivory. la it hot enough for you? The task of hurling him into tha Elephant Humbugs. belching crater was, indeed, a glad Customer I believe you are the surcease from the woe of the man of whom I bought this cane. proprietor Yes, 1 sold you that cane. The tease Was Signed. Customer And you said the handle But the parlor is so awfully small was of genuine ivory, and I find that said the prospective tenant Yes, and the parlors in the adjoinit is artificial. houses are just aa small," replied 1 I ing cant sir. help it, Proprietor beauty of it" import my ivory direct from Ceylon, the agent "Thats the Thats not much comfort for me." and the only explanation I can give is Ob, yes! Your see, neither of youi that tne elephants have taken to wearhas room for a piano. neighbors ing false tusks. THE HUMOR OF LIFE. Sympathy. Mrs. Call How do you like your new servant girl? Mrs. Hiram Offen Well, shes very sympathetic. Mrs. Call Is she? Mrs. Hiram Offen Yes, every time I complain of a headache she declares she has one, too. Tho Finish. Teas Has your family made any plans for the summer yet? Jess Well, ma says well take a cottage at Newport for July and Au' gust Tess How about September? Jess Pa says well have to take what we can get then at the almshouse. ' Certain Advantages. Robbie Aint yer vaccinatiFa heal ed up yet? James Naw. Robbie Gee! Dont it make yer feel bad? The doctor told James Naw. mom I mustnt take a bath till it was all healed up. Time for a New Job. Mickey Wot made yer quit yer job, Jimmie? Jimmie Cos de boss had a record of all me relations wot died last sum-- I mer, an he wouldnt let me use any of em over again. If I dont git a new job I cant see no hall games. Judge. A Cheerful Giver. And arent you going to give your penny for the poor heathen? asked the Sunday school teacher, reprovingly- FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION OF ANCIENT MEXICAN MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM, more than 400 years, they are still bright and fresh. There is a belief among archaeolo- AT HARVARfi epics or ballads in impromptu song or verse as they traveled about the country, much as Homer is supposed to have first told his story of Ulysses. gists that the codices were not complete records, but rather in the nature The average American citizen of notes which were used to preserve legends, and perhaps history, for willing to die for his country in hards and poets, who recited their fice. have reached the patent office at Below and in Washington recently. line with the barrel, and slightly less in diameter is a small incandescent lamp in a reflector tube, connected with a battery, in the handle of the revolver. A slight pressure of the trigger con nects the electric wires between lamp and battery. The moment the pistol Is fired the connection is severed, leaving its user again protected by darkness. The idea is that a householder, say, suspecting that there is a burglar in the house, can use his revolver as a dark lantern and insure taking good aim before he fires. Incidentally, however, the combination might be equally useful to the burglar. of- to the end of April has been only $19,' as against $25,715,000 in the same period last year. The decline for the first week in April was more than $150,000. Only 11 per cent of the contracts were for the construction of factories and manufacturing 079,000, buildings. Bar Childish Faith. little gin on East Third street who is noted for her slangy conversation and has besides the sublime faith of childhood in the providence of God startled the household the other evening by her irreverent speech, which, of course, she didnt mean in the way she put it After she retired her mother heard her calling, God, God, several times and hastened to her crib to learn A what was wanted. The child asked petulantly as soon as her mother rived: 'Mamma, cant God hear? Yes, dear, replied her mother. Why? boring states are declining. The total Well, Ive been calling for Him value of contracts awarded on new for half an hour and He hasnt made building and engineering enterprises a sound! Duluth Building Declining In Knw Knglnud. A statistician who has been figuring on industries in New England fipds that building and engineering enterprises in Massachusetts and thq neighy News-Tribun- e. Oh, I spose," replied little Bobbie, Visitor to Jail Why are you here? if you Prisoner (a pickpocket) I am here as he held it out reluctantly, I do. wursen need it think they abstracas a result of a moment of tion. Not a Language tor Boasters. has discovered that JuSomebody Between Friends. talk much about his didnt Caesar lius Biggs My wife asked me for money campaigns. last night. again But then, perhaps, Jule was a little Thats nothing to ashamed Diggs Pshaw! of the imperfections of his the bump I got this morning. Latin. that? Hows Biggs Diggs I asked my wife for money What He Was Looking For. and she hadnt any to give me. Agent Here, sir, is a book that should be in every family. It contains A Gentle Hint a receipt for everything, sir everyLenders Do you ever think of that thing. ten-spyou borrowed of me? Cholly Give me three copies. If Borroughs Dont worry, f still have has a receipt for my tailors bill Ill it it In mind. five. take Lenders Dont you think it about time you relieved you? mind?, Not His Fault Could Sympathize. Hojack Heres an account of how man wrote a love letter and got into trouble by it Tomdlk I can sympathize with that, fellow. Thats how I happened to get married. a How did your weather prediction turn out? "The prediction was all right. answered the prophet a little sternly, but somehow or other the weather went wrong again. Hadn't Kept Count Mother How often have I told you Merchant If we employ you it must not to allow that young man to kiss be understood that we are to charge you? Daughter I dont know, ma, but you for all the mistakes you make. If all Thats right. youll certainly not so often as he has kissed Applicant reward me for all the mistakes I dont me. make. Had Plenty of Experience. Mistress Have you had any experiThe Probabilities. I hear youre going to file s claim ence? Indeed 1 Applicant Experience! against the city. I thirteen had have It filed I and after Ive suphave! Why, Yes; pose the jury will chop it and saw it places in the last two months. and shave it down to nothing. A Prudent Maiden. One Reason. What in the world do yc' Briggs Wonder why they call those with so many stockings ar J designs on stockings "clocks? gTgeous ones, too? Griggs Because watches are set by "Oh, I believe In laylag w them, perhaps. thing for a rainy day. A Fair Proposition. |