Show 44 4 4 4 current topics we caolo ix james parker ot sixth ave nue new york city Is the negro who stood directly ahead of czolgos when he shot president mckenley and who hurled him to the ground with a terrific blow after the second ahot was fired parker was born in at lanta forty five years co in slavery he left new york last spring to wait in an exposition cafe he la a giant in size standing over six feet and as erect as an indian the tore his vest buttons entirely off in the JAMES E PARKER struggle parker was at one time q waiter in the kimball bouse atlanta wilt canada fall to from the london speaker the ca aadlan census return that the rate of increase in the dominion la detill diminishing from 1871 to 1881 the population increased by the next ten years it increased by the last en years it has increased by the population has not yet reached five and a halt millions canada cannot attract immigrants at a faster rate in spite of her agricultural advantages and a promise ol 01 land what chance Is there of agrical tural emigration to south africa and while the population of our colonies remains so small what ridiculous can it 1 to talk about imperialism a necessity tor our expanding it that argument Is pressed too stoutly canada will tall to the united states and australia to china oer just daco dered way down in south america from guiana to argentina there has been discovered the recognized ai the largest species of the otter it grows to a length of five feet the oddest thing about it la that its skin seems to be much too large for its body in liveliness it surpasses even the playful seal an has been tamed and has a hound tor its playfellow at a certain hour the captive goes to the door of ite cage and there whines and yells until NEW SPECIES OF THE OTTER turned loose in the garden where it ruches around barking joyously it deftly catches the fish thrown to it and skillfully prevents the dog from appropriating any of the dainty food zoologists call the strange ani mal Thero nura but of course no offense Is meant to the animal attachment for in bottler both from a cash and space point of view it is not always convenient or de to supply a pen rack and pen wiper to accod pany pen and ink on a desk but the usefulness of these auxiliaries has induced an east ern inventor to introduce a corn bin atlon arrangement which serves the purpose at small cost A metallic base Is provided with a spring collar of convenient shape to fit over the neck of the ordinary ink bottle clasp ing it firmly to afford a support tor the rack and wiper these arranged as shown in the illustration the wiper beang formed of a series of inter changeable wool strips held in place by clamps at either end the pen rack Is provided with one or more recesses to receive the pen it will be seen that the cork is securely held in a hinged plate so that it Is always ready for corking up the bottle when the writing Is finished an additional use of this hinged plate is to grasp the point of a pen when it is desired to withdraw it from the holder found in skull in sweden has been found a very curious relic of the stone age it is the skull of a horse and it was dincov ered by J A gren an archa eol ogest in the mud of the near angelstad ingelstad Ing elstad gunner andersson in describing the relic which Is now in the museum at ystad says at first it was thought to be the skull of a deer but sors leche and lundgren after a careful examination proved that was that of a two year old horse compared with the skull of a modern horse it is unusually large but what makes it chiefly notable Is the fact that a flint dagger was in it when it was found the dagger was broken off and its original length as may be interred from several mens of a similar weapon in the mu seum at stockholm could not have exceeded twenty centimeters hence it could have formed part of q lance |