Show FROM THE KOUR FOUR WINDS A kansas city barber says that rats eat off the edges of his bis razors abou an egyptian sheik who has lately carried the tiona of the oriental countries to te the new BOW presided deb of france is authority for the statement that sadi carnot iu in arabic signifies happiness of the century sixty lakes can be counted it it i said from the summit of mount whiteface in tile the adirondacks white face Is over five thousand feet high and so are mounts seward mcintyre and several others but the highest is mount marcy which rises feet samuel wright of albany ga had bad a pet kitten and a pet owl which appeared to love epich each other very much one morning however he could not and the kitten II 11 he e found the owl dead ot of indigestion and then he knew what had bad become of the kitten glass blowing is an art nearly four thousand years old and perhaps much older yet there uever ue vertas has been any means discovered of dispensing with I 1 the human lungs lunas as the instruments ot of blowing an english company is experimenting peri with a mold and mechanical bellows which does satisfactory work at bottle blowing but this pretends to attempt only coarse work H L cook ot of west branch iowa who recently returned from california says he visited a noted coal mine in one of the boomed districts ozithe of he golden state when he asked ube tabe allowed to go down and inspect the mine he was told by the superintendent that it was too dangerous so he be contented himself in seeing them feed the engine with greasewood grease wood roots to get up steam to run a coal shaft abaft in a sand bank there were heaps of coal lying around but they were samples imported for the benefit of tenderfeet tender feet last summer a hartford conn man ordered a few tons of coal sent to his bis country house which is in a little out 1 of the way town the local dealer delivered just t twice ice the amount ordered and insisted that he was right and must have pay for it all rather bather than have a row the gentleman paid now it is reported that there is a almost most a coal famine in the little town and that the gentleman is 18 kindly permitting the dealer to take away the leftover left over coal it at an advance of 5 a ton on the price pau last su summer mrs dowell wife of th the e presiding elder of the ame american f ican Me methodist thodis t episcopal church stepped into her yard and saw her pet maltese cat playing with a huge snake the cat is a very large one every time the serpent would strike at it the cat would give lve it a vigorous slap on the side of of its head this byplay by play continued for f fully ally an hour mrs dowdell standing upon the steps catchi watching n g the combat and fearing every MO moment went to witness the death of her pet at last the cat pounced upon the snake and killed il climbing the alps in winter is a pastime in which few mountaineers indulge though much more extended ve views may be obtained in tine fine winter weather than during the more or less hazy summer days mrs jackson an ambitious ambit igus english climber has this winter however ascended the lauter and the little two summits that have never before been reached in winter the ascent and descent of the occupied a day and a half and aad was made under the guidance of emit emil boss the famous guide who led the way three years ago up mount kabau in the himalayas ma layas the highest ascent yet made by mountaineers councilman luciush holt of hartford conn was out driving when the runner of his sleigh caught in horse car track and the sleigh was 0 overturned mr holt was thrown out and the horse started on a run down a hill ht at the bottom of which is a railroad crossing the gates were down but the gateman raised them and the beast galloped on the track where the engine of a freight train struck it the horse was lifted by the cowcatcher and thrown over the gate landing flat int im the street beyond we the sleigh was caught by the engine and smashed into a thousand pieces the borse suffered no injury though one shoe was torn off chile another was twisted completely 4 1 out of shape for making ordinary wooden spools birch wood is preferred the birch is i first sawed into sticks four or er live five teet long and seven eighths of an inch to three inches square according to the size of the spool to be produced these sticks are thoroughly seasoned they are sawed saed into short blocks and the blocks are dried in a hot air kiln at the time they are sawed a hole bole is bored through them one whirl of the little block against sharp by a pattern makes the a spools at the rate ol 01 one a second I 1 A small boy feeds the spool machine simply placing the blocks in a spout and out the knotty or detective defective stock TM the ma machine chirAs is 18 automatic but caama do the sorting the spools are revolved rapidly in drums and polish themselves for some purposes they axe an died yellow red or black they are made in hundreds of shapes and sizes when one sees on spools of thread I 1 one hundred yards or I 1 two hundred yards these words do not signify afy that the thread has been measured bat ae that the spool has been gauged gang and aa Is supposed to contain so much thread |