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Show HIs lunacy., .dope,. no!, manifest itself In his conversation, bui his appearance betrays it and the fact that he travels afoot over that long. . cell ont, hand. IN THE. ODD CORNER. QUEER AND. CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. A Young Man Who lias Twenty-Fou- r Fingers and low 'He Is Employed as a Servant of the Marqnls de Ballncourt. have-aske- MAN HAS 24 FINGERS AND TOES. of 95,000,000 gulden ($39,583,330), for which,, in the first two polders, about 140,000 acres of land will be reclaimed. The necessary funds are to be raised loan, and it is expected by a that it will take eighteen years to a large central area as a lake. Work complete the work. is. to be first commenced on what ;is known as the Wieringer polder, which Pulpit Tributessorrow over is to be enclosed by a dyke extending No phase of the nations from Medemblik to Wieringen, and McKinley em- next upon a similar area south of the the death of. President bodies a higher tribute to the man peninsula of North Holland, which vthAn the spontaneous sincerity, shown will be shut In by a dyke running from sermons preached In Blookershock down to the northern ifi the memorial of all denominashore of the Monnickendam Gat. For thousands of pulpits throughout the United States later drainage there will be reserved tionseven in Europe, says the Chicago two much larger areas, indicated on and From the humblest chapel the accompanying map by dotted lines. the largest cathedral has The central part of the present Zui- and from same note of personal loss, der Zee is to be left undrained, and, as come the the congrega- the Yssel river flows into it. It will The emotion shown byof the. United be converted into a fresh water lake, tions in every part the two which is to be named Yssel Lake, and States, notably while "Singing the dead president, then the historic Zuider Zee will be a favorite hymns of of such vindication was at once a hymns and an Involuntary testimonial to the genuineness of the affection In- spired by the man. The same sincerity-rang through the sermons preached ' at these services. The life and character of President McKinley were such as to appeal profdundly to the religious element in Sea and converted into a lake. The actual work of reclaiming will then begin. In doing this the plan contemplates only a partial draining that en-is, the conversion of a portion of the closed water Into land, while leaving The proposition to drain the Zuider Kee is not a new one to the people of the Netherlands. It was advocated as long ago as 1849 by the engineer. Van Diggelen, who - published a plan for cutting off the waters of the Zuider Zee from those of the North Sea and then pumping the enclosed space dry. At that time, however, the project was looked upon as a practical impossibility, and the matter slumbered until 1866, when Engineer Beycrinch submitted to the government another plan. In 1877 M. van Stieltjes was commissioned to make the necessary drawing for carrying this into execution, but owing to a change in the government it was allowed to lapse until 1886, when an association, the was established with the object of eventually accomplishing the draining of the Zuider Zee. The organization appears to have received both government support of the and the hearty .60-ye- ar . -- 1 His simple and sincere piety was among his finest qualities, and It won for him the loyal devotion of hundreds of thousands to whom this meant more than his public achievements. His pure and upright daily life, his beautiful domestic relations, his unselfish patriotism, his public utterances, and his dying words all were such as to win the' admiration of devout Christians. His life and death alike have lent impetus to the cause of religion. in fit. .Peters?, In churches In throughburg, in Rome out Europe, in Asia, and in the Philipof the services last pines-many Sunday were devoted to memorials of the third martyr president of the United States. Such a tribute from the religious bodies of the world Is an honor more to be desired than a monument. No less significant is the passionate voice of the churches against anarchy and on behalf of law and. order. Never has the pulpit of this country voiced the emotions and convictions of the whole nation mors IC completely or more worthily than has done regarding the assassinatioe of the president and the vital QhS" tions connected therewith. The whole episode is a reassuring answer to any who may have entertained fioubts as to whether the United States was at heart a religious nation. the nation. I Londonr-t&-Baffi- Men with one extra finger or toe may sometimes be seen, but very rarely does one hear or see a person with twenty-fou- r fingers . and toes. Consequently, a servant of the Marquis de Balincourt who is thus equipped is at present exciting much interest among European scientists. He is a young man, and on each hand he has six well developed fingers, while on each foot he has an equal number of well developed toes. It is not known whether he inherited this anomaly, but the assumption is that he did. His supernumerary members are of no special use to him, but he is never allowed to forget that he possesses them, as his comrades, for an obvious reason, have Dr. nicknamed him Twenty-fou- r. well-knoethnologist, Capitan, a There on this subject, says: writing are two forms of this singular phenomenon, the true and hybrid. In the true form, as seen in the case of the Marquis servant, the supernumerary fingers and toes are complete, addition-Tribuneai members, the fingers being usually placed beside the thumbs and the toes besides the great toes. In the hybrid form, on the other hand, the additional fingers and toes are merely a result of a division which has taken place in the regular members. The thumb is the part usually affected, and it may be divided at the first joint, though the division generally starts at the base, All the other fingers may be divided in a similar manner; indeed, as many as fifteen fingers have been found on one hand. Atavism is evidently the cause, but one would have to travel .very far back in order to discover the origin of such fingers and toes. wn -- co-operat- ion . SUICIDE OF A PERSECUTED SQUIRREL thing of the past. In connection with the undertaking it is proposed to build the summit of the main dyke wide enough to admit of a line of rails being laid upon it, thereby bringing North Holland into direct communication with Friesland and shortening the land journey from Amsterdam to Leewwafden about 50 kilometers. The financial part of the enterprise is, however, rather more serious than the engineering part. It is estimated that the cost of constructing the dyke will amount to 40,800,000 gulden, to which must be added 17,000,000 gulden for waterworks, fortresses and compensation of fishermen, and 35,550,000 gulden for the cost of laying out the polders, making a grand total outlay n Yvette Guilbert has just given a fete at Vaux that was the mosthasnotable seen thing this quiet old town there by since that other fete given Nicholas Fouguet, minister of finance to Louis XIV., and immortalized by Dumas In The Vicomte de Brage-lonnThe festive Yvettes admirers in Paris were not aware that she was congiven to works of charity, were insiderably astonished when they got vitations to come down to her country place at Vaux in aid of a sort of old folks home she had established there. They went en masse to see what the singer of naughty songs was up to in this new role, e&ys a London telegram to the New York Press. They found Yvette at her gayest In the midst of a great throng of villagers dressed in their Sunday best. There were booths and races and all that sort of thing, but the Guilbert herself was the chief show. She insisted on making an address of wel-coshe started the donkey races; she presided over a lottery for a calf; she awarded prizes; she played the hand organ; she got into all sorts of mischief and crowned the day by running her tongue out as far as it could be made to go just as the ohetographer was getting a snapshot . j . Judging from his present excellent health. Lord Gwydyr is one of the few able to English noblemen who will be coronagive his experiences of four Lord Gwydyr is in his ninety- third year, and one of his recollections as a boy of 10 is in connection with the coronation of George IV. 'Vette Gtiilbert s Fete at Vaxijc J e. m meek-looki- ng Violent death came to one of the little wards of the state in High street on Sunday afternoon, and opinion is divided whether it was not intentional, says the Ohio State Journal. The deceased was one of the fox squirrels that Deputy Game Warden Graham confiscated at the Mount Vernon avenue street fair and turned loose in the State House yard. Jfhe new arrivals were not looked upon with favor - tbe were 'by 'the' grhy"rsqulrrel&, an'dseveral pitched battles between them on Sunday morning. On Sunday afternoon one of the fox squirrels became separated from his fellows, and wandered over on the west front of the lawn. There was a scurry of cray tails, and in a few seconds an aggressive attack on the red Intruder. He defended himself for a few minutes, but the odds were to great, and he rushed for the fence, dodged through the bars and fled across High street. In front of the State House he stopped on the street car track. The gray fellows were after him and he seemed to give up all at once. A car was coming and the little fellow lay down on the rails and nfe Was crushed out gecon(i jn beneath the wheels. Whether he was too badly frightened to get out of the way of the car, or whether he took this method of ending his troubles, of course, can not be known. The gray SqUirreis scattered back to the State jjouse yard and the body of the little jQX SqUirrei was left on the street car rac where it remained all the after-tion- s. . . leading citizens of the five provinces that encircle the Zuider Zee, and it has been mainly due to its endeavors and exertions that the present bill for doing the work has been introduced Into the chambers, in accordance with which the society is to conduct the operations under the supervision of the state. The present plan for carrying out the great work is to first build a dyke from the northeastern point of the province of North Holland, through the Amstel Deeps to the island of Wieringen, and thence in a northeasterly direction to a point near the village of Piaam in the province of Friesland. After this is completed the Zuider Zee will be cut off from the North YVETTE SHOWS HER CONTEMPT FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER. photograph shown herewith is probably unique. The Paris folk, who flocked to Vaux by train, automobile, carriage and boat, suspected that Yvette might have had a little advertising in view, but they found her so busy with her . ft beloved country folk that she scarcely had time to look at the city gueitfa They found alsb that she had a reputation in the neighborhood, not for wicked songs, ibut for good works. They learned, furthermore, that she is writing a play.! ab-so- rb rs detached, the two pointed tops forming, as it were, a pair of lips, or a mouth, which the plant can open at will. Inside this mouth is a kind of a passage or throat which extends tQr ward the body of the plants. This passage has a number of hairy bit abotit it, which are very iuzzy, and at the end .of each bit there is a sticky substance. When the plant opens its mouth it is evident that the trap( then set, for upon any insect enterll it the lips close upon it at once, forcing it to the gummy substance of the throat. This substance has properties similar to those contained in the gastric juices of the human stomach, which help to decompose and digest the food. When so digested the food resolves itself into a liquid which is carried all over the plant to nourish and revive it. The most marvelous thing about this newly dk. covered species is that it can digest such food as small morsels of beef, fish and egg gelatine, some of which, dropped into the open leaf, were retained and apparently digested. At the same time anything of a starchy or fatty substance the leaf or plant is not able to retain. It does not therefore, close Its lips upon it, and if allowed to remain in the mouth the plant will decay. seen him many times at different points on the road and have heard that he is a locoed individual who thinks that he is employed as a sort of inspector of way or track walker by the Southern Pacific Company, and that he has to walk continually over the road from Deming to Yuma and back, and he sometimes gets as far down as El Paso, but I had never had an opportunity to speak to him until a few days ago. I then asked him several questions regarding his past life and his imaginary job. He is a tall, slim man, and wears his hair, which is streaked with gray, long and his face is never clean. But he Is a harmless old fellow and everybody humors him; in fact the people along the route which he has been traveling continually since 1882 feed him and give him cast-oclothing. He told me that his name was James C. Drumgold and that he was 50 years old. He said he came down from California to accept his present Job from the Southern Pacific, and that he had a brother living in that state. He said he also had two si stein living in New York. He seems to bf well educated and writes an ex- ff EXTRAORDINARY OF PLANT. We all know that certain plants and live on insects, but it has only recently been discovered that there are some curious species of plants that actually devour animal food when given to them in small morsels. The leaves of these queer plants appear in doublets,1 like oyster valves. This double leaf is closed up from its base of its to within about three-quarteIn front the entire length. part it Is VOLUNTEER TRACK WALKING. Did you ever hear of the S. P.s track walker between Deming and Yuma? asked an S. P. conductor. He is a queer character, continued the conductor, when he had received a negative reply, and passengers often ask who he is, because of the frequency of his being seen on the road and his strange appearance. I have d DISCOVERY nQ(n ' at her. The resulting dry stretch Cf railroad track through the summer and winter and has been doing so for nineteen years proves that he is mentally, unbalanced! Trainmen him to ride, but he says not could he attend to his duties if he rode. I believe that if he should find something vrong with the track he would flag any train that might be approaching the dangerous spot, and thus prevent a wreck, but if such a case has ever happened I have never heard of it. The railroad men all know him, and he is known by several different nicknames but very few people know his right name. Link and Pin. JECTI VE WOMEN. Have you' ever "notifeed' how lii is the vocabulary of the average woman? remarked the newspaper woman to the school teacher. Just listen to the conversation of any group of women,' and you will be surprised to find how many of them can be classed unwomder the head of know en. To one girl I everything is cute; to others sweet, awful, .dreadful or lovely expresses about everything they care to say. I heard a woman yesterday pronounce the tomato soup, at dinner, just grand; almost in the same breath she said the sailing was grand, and during the course of the succeeding conversation she informed us that one daughter, at Cape May, was having a grand time; a dear friend had been very ill, but was recovering, thanks to the grand doctor she had, and when we went out on the piazza, and began talking about music, and some one asked, Who is your favorite composer? she replied enthusiastically, Sousa! I think he is perfectly grand! No words in the English language are abused like these. They mean much when used meaningless properly, but become when turned away from their correct significance, When I began to write I made a list of these overworked adjectives, which I had pinned up on my desk. What are they? Great, awful, cute, lovely, dreadful, fine, sweet, perfect, nice, glorious, charming, horrid, terrible. These are not alii by any means, but they make a representative You have given me a fine I list. mean a useful idea, said the teacher. When I go black to school I shall make a list of overworked adjectives and hve every girl copy It in her blankbood. Chicago News. ON K-A- D . one-adjecti- ve Silk Spinning Spiders. In Rhodesia there have been discovered spiders which are silk spinners and, like Dr. Johnsons Scotchman, when caught young may be made something of. These little creatures are now to be made spin silk in matchboxes and the silk will be carried to manufacturing centers, where it will be fashioned into ladies dresses and gentlemens ties and umbrellas. The Siberian Railway. How far the Siberian railway is from completion appears from the fact that one still needs thirty days to k, cover the distance from Paris to whereas twenty only would be required if the railway were finished. Lake and river steamers ($n winter sleighs) are still needed to fill Vlad-ivostoc- out the gaps |