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Show IS FREAK OF NATURE. HER CARDS ALL RIGHT. Postmaster Resd Them, but She Did Not Caro. "This graze for souvenir pert card Is tbe funniest fad that lias struck people for a Ions time, I think; don't you?" Inquired a ISmoklyn girl of friend from New Jersey, pausing in front of a largo stationery store on Broadway. Why, are you receiving them, too?" 1 ashed the young girl. have had about two dozen of them sent to me in tho last ten days, and some of them are pretty enough to mount." Ob, my," aigliml Miss Brooklyn, "tbe ones 1 get are nil battered up, and the plriuro ruined by the received mark. 1 don't see how you can mount them In that condition or, have you found a way to take off the tamps? "Im not bothered that way, reMine are never joined Miss Jersey. our postmaster defaced; always stamps them on the address only side. I suppose he reads them, too, but there is never very much on them, so I don't care. You see, our town Is so small that he has plenty of time to turn the cards over and stamp them on the wrong side. Of course you couldnt expect it in n large place like Brooklyn. New York Times. Of Course hr NAME NOT LIVED UP TO. Man In England a Peculiar .KOREAN Caae Of Arrested Development . There Is a young rnau In Englaad who at the age of 21 is developing at of that of the rate of only one-sixtthe average human being. At present he la learning hie alphabet and can count up to ten only. During tbe last nineteen years be has eaten but three meals a week, has slept twenty-fou- r hours and played twenty-fou- r hours, In without tho slightest variation. yeare he looks spile of his twenty-fou- r no older than a buy of four or five inches In and is only thirty-siheighL For the same period hie development physically and meats fly has been at only one-sixtthe ordinary rate, while absolutely regular and perfect In every other way. At hla birth this child weighed ten pounds and In no way differed fr im any other child. He grew nnd thrlt ed in the uaual way until he attaliAd the age of five. Then hie progress was suddenly and mysteriously arrested, nnd since then aix yeare have been the same to him as one year to the normal person. He has attracted tbe attention of many medical and scientific men, more than one of whom has expressed the conviction that this remarkable man will live to be no less than three centuries old. New York Herald. h BELL HAS HISTORY. CsJId Cruelly Sacrificed to Give M Tone. A queerly shaped gong, which occs-pipa position of honor la the chs-tof the city of eeoul, Korea, b ssd to be one of the largest In tbs and Is called the bell will the wall of a child In lta voice. Wbes fiiet cast the bell sounded with harsh and cracked note, and the super stltlous emperor, fearing an ill omea, consulted with his magicians. These gentlemen held n long confab, ao4 finally stated that the bell woull x A RIDE IN THE DEEP. Boston Man Has Devised New Form of Entertainment. Now there comes a Boston Jules Ycrne who grimly promises the amuse men Moving public a rare treat In the way of entertainment In truth, II would appear that the most fastidious could find no cause for cnmpla'nt aftei trying thla thing. In brief, the affair Is a sort of shoal the chutes, except that tbe car In which the victims have paid to ride is wholly submerged In the water. To add to the excitement there is no tup to the car boat, tbe theory being tha This is the story of city made by decree Dalny, the remarkable seaport of Russia In Manchuria, which in barely twenty four months rose from nothing to a substantial city of more thousand Inhabitants than forty-on- e and today probably exceeds fifty thousand. The decree came from the Imperial government at SL Petersburg, which, acting through the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, spared neither expense nor labor in the development of h Petropavlovak's Fata Brings Comps New Ornament for Women. sion to Senator Hale's Mind. To remove the Borrow which many Senator Hale claims that the fate women feel at being unable to wear of the Petropavlovsk proves that bat- more than one pendant on her neck at tleships are obsolete. a time, a new ornament has Just een "The word battleship, he said the Introduced In Paris in tho shape of n ether day, Is now n misnomer. This Jewel for the back of the hand. It big and costly and helpless sea monla set with precious stones of all ster, that at a touch of a 4 mins or kinds, and Is kept In place by means torpedo turns turtle and sinks what of tiny chains connected with a gold 'right has It to call itself a battleship bracelet on one aide and with two any longer? mall gold rings worn on the lint nnd "Hardly any mors right," the Senalittle flngera on the other. The Jewel tor went on, "than the child of a eer-- has proved Immensely popular In Paris, tain Ellsworth couple had to call Itself and some specimens sent to London 'Methuselah. The parents of this child hare found a very ready sale. !ltksd Biblical names, and their chil-dreas they appeared, were chrisFor Babys Safety. tened Nosh, Ruth, Shem, and so on. 'finally a boy baby arrived, and the. jname of Methuselah was bestowed on' .him. "But poor little Methuselah did not 'live up to hie name. On the contrary 'he died died In his Infancy and In, ,one of our Ellsworth cemeteries yon may see his tomb, with the epitaph: "Mnthnselsh Carney, aged nine months. "I think of the epitaph, concluded, Senator TTale, "whenever I think of modern battleships." this vast project The city of Dalny Is picturesquely situated In aa extensive valley which lopes gently down to the deep nnd well protected bay of Tallenwan, and is surrounded on three rides by n range of hills rising to a height of 800 feet It Is divided Into three parts the Administration city, the European and Commercial city, and the Chi- - never sound right until n live chid The Submarine Boat. was given to it The mass was thsn It will daab through the pond eo fast melted again nnd n Hve baby wis that the water will not have time to thrown into the molten metal. The get in on the occupants. The lnveu wall of agony uttered by the little tot tor promisee to take the first ride In as the bronse engulfed It seemed to the thing if hie wife will let him. be repented every time tbe bell was to-da- light-draug- n, l, men-itlon- ed y Olobs-Democr- at three-wheele- d , ar-hll- cr . One of the Main Streets, ness city. Almost, all is the result of work undertaken since Jan. 1, 1901. The Administration city borders on the harbor and bay and Is 108 acres In extent. All space Is reserved for the railway company and its officials. In this section are the residences and offices of the governor and other flcials of the railway. Among the principal buildings are 112 handsome brick and stone residences. administration building, port office, seagoing service office, railway office, Greek church and school buildings, hospital, tbe post, telegraph and telephone offices, Service club and concert ball, yacht club. Hotel Dalny, bank, police office and jail, electric plant, machine shops and stores and shops. The city le supplied with water and electric lights throughout and has an adequate police force and fire brigade. The European and Commercial city, which hads an area of 1,100 acres, borders on the harbor and extends to the hills on the south and cast Along many of the principal avenues and streets of the Commercial city shops, tores, hotels and dwelling houses have been built for the accommodation of the large native population and foreigners. The most central part of tbe Commercial city is Nicolas place, from Around which ten avenues branch. this circle (which is Beven hundred feet in diameter). It is Intended that public buildings, banks, hotels and office buildings shall he erected. The Chinese quarter is separated from the Admlniatration and European cities by a town park and nurseries. From 1899 to the beginning of 1902 tbe entire population of Dalny was composed of the employes and workmen of the railway company, and the functions of government were performed by a police justice. In 1902, owing to the growth of the city, the necessity for a higher executive officer was felt, and by an Imperial edict Mr. V. Sakliarof, formerly chief engineer, was appointed governor. within tbe limits of tho townwith the exception of the adship, ministration quarter and sites reserved for public grounds and buildings, are sold or leased at public auction, according to the rules approved by the Russian Minister of Finance. Both Russian subjects and foreigners have the privilege of buying or leasing lots. In the case of foreigners, the principles of reciprocation are observed according to existing treaties. Russo-Cblnes- e srVrs-,womt- n, red-taile- d B ht The Hospital, year, and with its railway and steam-- ; ship connections, the excellent facili-- .' ties for handling and reshipplng car-- ; goes, the low harbor dues and the1 present absence of customs duties. It Is bound to increase rapidly. A census taken of Dalny on Jan. 1 showed a population of 41,260, divided thus: Russians, 3,118; Japanese and Coreans. 367; other foreigners, SO; Chinese, 37,760. Five Thousand Distinct Languages. Mr. J. Collier, writing on the subject, says that over 5,000 distinct languages are spoken by mankind. Tbe number of separate dialects Is enormous. There are more than sixty vocabularies In Brazil, and in Mexico the Kahua language has broken up into 700 dialects. There are hundreds la Borneo. In Australia there is no clan allying tbe complexities, and generally the number of dialects is in inverse proportion to the intellectual culture of the population. Assume that only fifty dialects on an average belong to every language, and we have the colossal total of 250,000 linguistic varieties. Motors in Scotland. There are now about 2,000 motor vehicles in use in Scotland. At the beginning of 1902 there were only 250'. A man who made a tour of the country on a motor car in 1900 had tones or vegetables thrown at him by men or boys nearly every day; bat since the speed was regulated by law to twenty miles an hour In tbe country and twelve in the cities, the opposition has gradually died out bigh-heele- re-ma- . ht y tolled, nnd the Koreans sttll CURES WROUGHT BY MUSIC. claim that the wait of a child can be heard In the voice of the metaL Notable Cases Where Sweet 8eunde Were Beneficial. LEPERS ABOUND IN CRETE. From the days of Saul and David music haa no doubt been the mesne of All Conditions Favorable te Spreads! alleviating. If not actually curing, Hideoua Disease. many serious cases of mental disease. In the small Island of Crete leprosy Modern experience has proved this Is shockingly prevalent The Cretans conclusively, and many Instances may have themselves to thank for this stats be quoted from ancient history. of affairs. The houses may be pretty Pythagoras commended music In the and whitewashed on the outside, hul treatment of the insane, and Thales, within the filth le fearful. And th when a pestilence ravaged Sparta, food they eat is Just what encourages found In music his most powerful leprosy. The Greek religion forbids means of combating it. Henocraje meat about two hundred days out ol soothed maniacs by it, and Theophrasthe year, so as good Christians they tus held that even the bites of veno must live on salt fish, which Is not mous reptiles were rendered less fatal improved by its long Journey from jy subjecting victims to the influence Origin of a Marriage Custom. northern acaa to southern heat Ths jf melody. "Csatlng a shoe after a newly mae--i olive oil Is so plentiful they export When Philip of Spain was In a mor-oltried couple Is one of the oldest cus-(totwenty thousand tons each year that and desponding condition. Far!-drilthat still clings to the fabric of they use it to excess, even adding U the vocalist, was sent for by ths ithis life," Mr. John Clinton to the milk of a rice pudding. Bat queen, with a party of musicians, to told me recently. "Centuries ago, nay,' the crowning evil la pork, the favorite sing and plav in the adjoining room. thousands of years ago. It was one of. tore of the Cretans on days when tka The effect was a speedy and rapid the means employed by the people of church allows them to eat meat The sure. antiquity to Indicate ownership. leper Is not cut off here as he Is In Both Buckman and Hafeland relate "When a piece of land was purthe Fiji islands oi at the Cape. Out- Instances In which music has cured chased or given to one, or a man side each village may he seen a little cases of St Vitus' dance, and Becker white house called the leprochorion. and Schneider .demonstrated practiownership of a house, a cow, lor took unto himself a wife. It was the. Here the lepers live. Their estates. Its influence in different cases of This lngealous arrangement is If they have any, are administered for cally jestablished custom to cast a shoe over hysteria. cotIn found many English country the land, the building, tbe animal or them by friends, and any one passing Sir Henry Halford has chronicled Itho woman, thus asserting to the tages, says the London Mail. The the door may speak to them. If the case of a mad by who world that he bad acquired all rights ring la movable and the little one le the sufferers be poor the state pro- waa restored to sanity i.y tbe use of of to free romp without danger quite The custom Is of ownership. vides each day a loaf of bread and tbe the violin six weeks after its introducIn several places In tbs Bible, getting near the open fire. adds the luxuries. tion. Montreal Herald. charity of passers-bibut tbe only instance I can specifically Meala. Soldiers Warm recall to mind just now la In Psalms Add Gamey Flavor. A First-Ai- d Motor. Tinned meats for the Russian troops jx., 8, where the phrase, Over Edom enare which a process prepared by will I cast out my shoe, Is employed to ables the contents of each tin to be mean that by this method will ownership be asserted. Few who do It served hot without a fire. This boon Is secured by having tbe ordinary tins .'probably know why they cast a shoe but In this filled with food "Jacketed" In patent after the newly-marrieancient custom Is Its origin found. So tins. The patent tin contains water, 'does n relic of barbarism Unger In together with a chemical mixture, by 'our midst, and for her own sake the means of which the water can be bride ought to see to it that It Is no raised to boiling point In ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. All that Is longer practiced." SL Louis necessary to do when It Is desired to heat the food Is to puncture the top of the patent tin, the chemical mixture Perseverance. being thereby forced Into the water, press on! Tla not in deeds, but in their which car, clad In It Is a soon begins to boil. constant doing. bullet-proo- f steel. Closed It can travel The enul of mnn grows rich in truth, la love, and trust. hour. NYhen Dog Had Charmed Life. Be who through all hie work some word The gamey flavor of the meat Is at the rate of six milesasanshown In the of praise is wooing, are Its A peculiar Incident was witnessed opened, wings gained by the bacteria feeding upon It Shall find his fruits at last will torn to on the Admiralty pier, Dover, Eng- These develop within an hour after picture. It is miniature steel fort bitter dust. , land, the other day. A dog belonging food Is exposed on pantry thrives, !fWr tls the voice within gives man his to a local tradesman ran barking at and sweetest pleasure. before the flavor Is appreci- Ancient British Stronghold for Sale. Friends praise too well, and foes are the engine of the boat express. He able long Dunstanburg ensile is about to be to the senses the bacteria that offered never Just or kind. for sale by auction. It waa and twice the was engine, by caught must ha sola One's conscience this produce them are abundant a British stronghold, then a Roand mensure; first whole train second time the the i . And. though rnm-t-imay flatter, tls the man fortress, and at a much later pepassed over him as he Isy between truth must hind. The Balloon Plant was garri ned for Queen Marriod surBut to owner's rails. the the One of tbe curious devices of nature press on! Herein alone euccess Is sure and smiling. however, he proved to be only for scattreing seeds Is seen In the bal- garet, after ihc battle of Hexham, prise, In this alone each lowly man shall stunned, and In a short time recovwas and taken after loon plant of California. The fruit la when It reach life's goal. three aa assault days. The lasting And on the way. while deathless hops is ered his usual frlsklness. yellow, and Is a little larger than an pain lieuillng. of Sir Guy. the Seeker, told legend Shall Joy ring music in each dark and an egg. It lias the appearance of ' In a ballad by M. G. Lewis, la conlonely Foul! Mosquito Lora. empty bag, but It contains a watery nected with the cistlo. --Charles V. Stevenson, in Boiton Budg-e- L Dunstan diasubstance which evaporates or dries monds are found in the crystals up when the fruit matures, a sort of neighborhood. A deep clinsm In the Tact Behind the Counter. gas taking its place. Thli gas la rock at the east of the castle la known "Talk abcut bring a good and than air. the fruit flips as tho Rumbie Chum. In lighter rough said a clerk In one of the hack and forth in the wind until It weather the sea rushes In, and great X. came stores. Id "Mrs. this 'big Anally breaks loose from Its slender clouds of spray arc thrown up. Lonmorning to buy a rain cloak, and what stem, rises into the air to a height of don Chronic e. do you think I sold her? to a hurdred feet, and seventy-fiv- i Cant guess." sails away to fall in some distant spot, Womes in Foot Races. "A pink chiffon party dress and A and thus extend tbe growth of Its woe-.e- i 'a fmi races at Recently lace parasol. kind. Berlin. near raued a great I Treptow, so Well, didnt do badly myself, Two of t'.io competideal of Intcro-d- . aid another. We had a lot of maids Is World's Biggest Clam. ilonnc.l Jorsevs nnd knicktors boldly nnd Swiss I of made anil lace, caps, whoso clams are Rhode Island, but the ren tiindcr ran In erbockers, old about ten for pincushion covers. one of its still proudest monuments, Several cppearcil on the track "That's as bad as my I rother In the as an orator recently expressed It, skirts. d Ingots. A considerable In mnn A store. in with a camp drug The malaria bearing mosquito at- haa produced the record quahaug this number from exhaustion dropped headache and wanted to lmy a menwas from taken Greenwich within taches itself to a wall with thla stand week. It of the starting point fifty yards thol pencil to rub on bis forehead. off air. bay. It weights one ounce over two One sprained her ankle, another fell ;Thoy were out of menthol pencils and The harmless variety of moequlto pounds. and a third faintand broke her ar-.Oeorge sold him a stick of lndelllble The shells are five and a half Inches ed from excitement before tbe dings close to the wall. algnal Ink. Indianapolis News. long and four and three-quarte- r was given to go. Most of the comand when Inches closed naturwide, Eater. Champion Egg I petitors appeared to be absolutely unMail Service in Game of Bridge. By consuming thirty eggs, six of ally the circumferenre la thirteen and trained. ' An Innovation in the game of bridge them boiled hard. E. O. Olyer of Ca- a half Inches. This la not a flab ti to play It by malL Partners In dif- naan, N. H, established a reputation story for the quahaug haa been preHen Hitches Out Hawk. ferent cities having been arranged, the for eating that will undoubtedly served for exhibition purposes. near East Hampton, Conn., A hen four eelect nn umpire, who deals four unshared for some time to come. hatched out a hawk recently Wall Street bands and mulls one to each. Tbe Olyer'e "stunt was performed In acSpeculator. Aged had an been which from egg placed in the usual Edward B. Wesley, the oldest specugame then proceeds way, ceptance of a wager made him by a each player communicating his play to party of friends, and at Its dose ha lator In Wall street. Is 93 years old, In her nesL The hen shows motherly hawk, hut she may the ethers through the umpire. It la announced hla wllllngnesa to fulfill an- but five days a week nearly all the affection for the she discovers when t turn against mot necessary that the players should other similar contract, but his offer year around he is read in his office ta nature. bo aware of each other's identity ua-- was declined. the tape. watching tho contest has been ended. York-durema- boiler shop, etc. These shops, which are electrically driven and lighted, are fully equipped for the handling of repair Jobs. Aa electric light and power station, considered the finest electric plant east of Singapore, was finished a year ago. A cast Iron foundry, which has a', production of ISO torn a month, prln-- i cipally water pipes for the city mainn and for shipment to the Interior ofi the province. City workshops for making sad re-- ; pairing tools, tram can and other lm-- i plementa used in the construction ofi the city. Furniture shops and ateam drying mills; concrete block factory, where! the stone and cement blocks, used for. the foundations of the piers and sea walls, are made; brickyards, tile fao-- j tory and lime kilns, which produce; the greater part of materials used In j tho city, and a small gas works for supplying the gas buoys In the harbor. Work on a larger dry dock ta progressing rapidly; the cofferdam is built and the excavation well under way. This dry dock Is to be 630 feet feet wide and long, eighty-eigtwenty-eigh- t feet in depth, and will cost about 1,800,000 rubles (8927,000.) The eastern side of a large pier for ocean steamers is completed and! in use nearly to lta end; on the weet side the walla are nearing comple-- i tlon, and one of the iron wharves for; vessels Is built Three, railway tracks, connecting with the main line, and two storage warehouses, with a floor area of 19,600 square feet each, are completed. Thla pier Is 1,925 feet long and 350 feet wide, and has a depth of water of feet and. eighteen to twenty-eigh- t when completed will contain seven railway tracks and nine large warehouses. In November, 1902, the head office of the seagoing service of the railway company waa transferred from Port Arthur to Dalny. The fleet consists of nineteen steamers, having a net tonnage of 20,205 tone. There are. In addition to express steamers to Shanghai and Nagasaki, four steamers a week, between Dalny, Port Arthur and Chefoe, a fortnightly service between Dalny, Port Arthur, Chemulpo and Shanghai, a direct line between Dalny and Hankau during the tea season and occasional steamers bringing coal from Japan.. The commerce- of Dalny may be aid to have begun In the present Harhor Matter's House. Among the principal public works or Industries now established In Dalny are: The emaller dry dock, which was completed la the summer of 1901 and haa been In constant use. In connection with the dry dock are the harbor repair shops, with a foundry, smithy, machine and fitting shop. Bitter on United States. Only one book on geography was used In the Spanish schools si Manila. This was a small volume, printed In. Barcelona, and only two pages ire devoted to the United States. This brief description closes with the assurance that the most conspicuous products' of the United States are millionaires, advertisements and eccentricities. |
