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Show THE SEMMEEEY NATION. R a HTDH, FwMleke LOGAN. UTAH Lord Kitchener gets the glory tie cash in the same package. u( To Tamrat Creator- - of night; hold, brazenly moral. Cecil Rhodes will probably a forgive hlmse.' for not holding ok few weeks longs the last few days before it is to be killed. This makes the bird plump and glossy, and adds still a its portly frame. The curious part about this poison treat ment la that It does not seem to InBirr ping. And not a awakes to hay the moon. jure the birds in any way for market, With low thou thy watch nor to make them unwholesome. nor mm: choral Jam on my ami angt-r- me again. When di)gn ami other hunext brutes are JtPKljiinxiiile The Panama hat puts the old scoff gt woman's expensive headgear out of use. food during Im- io from out the ilnrk thy ko1x few ounces to sJ art keeping And giving longue to thy unlovely tune. What demon, deep within thy black heart hidden, Whnt bane promoter of foul deeds and atrire, Malignity and hate and war haa bidden Thee lead that dissolute and vlcloua life" Art thou provoked by influence Infernal To levy war on all thy wretched kind. Profane the air with revelry nocturnal. To gratify thy dark and bloody mind? effects. Norway is disposed to insist on s general adoption of the Idea that it is ot a mere hyphenated appendage to ' Prof. Adsmetz, who has devoted It has generally been supposed by naturalists tbat tbe seat of the ani- considerable (fine to the study of the The dull season has se Med down Upon Venezuela. Only thro revolutions are going on there now. Russell Sage declares that cat al and labor are closer now than ev. before. Capital is, at any rate. goo-ble- d Antiseptic paper coffins are to be made by a new concern out In Iowa. Once try one and you will use no other. That impending visitation of seventeen-year locusts would not be so bad if they would cut out the orchestral tweden. Montana saloonkeepers are serving call the Mary Maclane It is described as somehighball. what they thing fierce. When the Boers get back to farming they will do well if they make furrows with the same facility that they bade history. The fashionable man now wears a Panama hat that cost him $15; but he can't afford to have meat more than once a day. Mrs. Lease did not ask the court to restore her maiden name. Mr. Lease might score a point by having his own name changed. Toung King Alfonso wants to substitute horse racing for bull fights as the national sport of Spain. We think ping pong Is about their size. A Chicago man was first to look Into Mont Pelees crater. It must have reminded him of the historic spot adhere the tunnel caved In. j y hard-wroug- Headless Rev. "BIge Slusher of Kentucky A man with such a counterfeiting. name Is sure to fall sooner or later. The fact thnt the country Is crying loudly for small change would seem to Indicate that the man with the large roll is not having everything his own way. George J. Gould advocates athletics as a preventive of dissipation, but every one knows that the exercise of lifting the high ball has ruined many a man. A Chicago man went crazy because he lnherltea $4,000. It Is evident that 'he would never have been a Morgan ,eveu if he could nave had Plop's ' chance, r i The man who gets mad and stops ,hls paper is in about the same position as the man who stops his clock. Time and the paper both go on Just , the same. 1 Pictures of Raoul Sartout, the only survivor of St. Pierre, lead the public to feel happy in the thought that the poor man is not qualified to take the 'lecture platform. Up to the hour of going to press Hetty Green had not forwarded a reply to the British nobleman who advertises that he wants to marry a rich American woman. Since President Roosevelt has had bis $1,000 hunting dog sent to the .'White House, the family cat doubtless has had a chance to learn something about the strenuous life. Japan Is endeavoring to negotiate a Joan of $4,000,000 in America. It is .suspected that the crowned heads of the orient are preparing to make an Investment In Panama hats. King Edward has conferred the Or dor of the Garter upon two more of his distinguished subjects. The king might vary the decorations a little by the bestowal of an occasional pair of suspenders. It is well to remember, however, that the New York lawyer who dropped dead while playing ping pong might have gone the same way eves if it had been nothing more fierce a croquet ht XJfe Turtle mal's Instinct, as of reason In man, Is In the brain. An Incident related by Dr. Eugene Murray-Aaroformerly secretary and curator of the American Entomological Society, which came under his observation while one of a party of specimen hunters In the West Indies, would go to show the contrary, says the New York Tribune. He saya that a snapping turtle was discovered on the beach of an Island where the party was encamped, making for the water. One of the party seized an ax and cut off the turtles head. Still the headless body continued moving with scarcely diminished rapidity, leaving the head behind on the sand. The tur tie was picked up and carried some distance Inland, then placed down, the neck facing away from the sea. As If in perfect condition, the turtle turned round and made for the water again, apparently anxious to escape even without Its head. n, Baby Fare la Ortiga One of the oddities the navel orange Is noted for la its remarkable freaks In simulating at times portions of the human anatomy. One of the most singular freaks of this kind is a large orange with a child's head protruding from the navel. The head Is perfect, the face -- has been arrested on a charge of air pressure In the bottle drives the Moonlight Aurora. A correspondent of the London Graphic writes aa follows from Winchester, Eng.: Notwithstanding a bright gibbous moon in a cloudless sky, a well marked aurora occurred this (Wednesday) evening from 9 to near 10 oclock. The most and brightest of the beams were to the east They did not scintillate, but merely slowly "paled their Ineffectual fire" and brightened up again. One beam In particular extended through Caaslopea delta and gamma and moved eastward; it was almost met by a thin, bright line from the south through Canis Minor, hence close to the moonlight, yet it scintillated distinctly, but soon disappeared. The air was mild and the wind southeast, yet the stars glittered brilliantly aa they woulfi in ments for finding a name that can be imagined, as the simple turning of a crank in either direction rapidly exposes page after page of names on an endless sheet of paper. The speed which it is possible to attain in the movement of the sheet permits an entire revolution in a few momenta. Thus, no matter what the position of the directory, a turn of the crank will In a abort time present any other part, in much leas time than la required to turn tbe pages of a book. The chief feature of this idea, however, lies in the index arrangement, as, were it not for this Index, it would be necessary to slow down the revolution of the sheet to scan the names from time to time, in order to locate the desired words. This Index Is a narrow printed strip, whose characters pass in front of a small slot in the face of the cabinet, and the mechanism Is geared down to a point which makes the characters pass the slot slow enough to be easily caught by the eye, even when the sheet of names ia traveling at its When the highest rate of speed. proper character is reached the cor responding section of the sheet Is presented behind the glass face of the cabinet Provision is also made for the insertion of periodical sheets of corrections and changes of address, and the machine may be so arranged as to permit the free use of the pages or as a information water lpto the cooling pipes and when the flow is once started the weight INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES of the water below continues to draw the fluid from the bottle above at OF PRACTICAL VALUE. fast as the pipe beneath is emptied. Steam Joint Clamp That Will Prevent New Mechanical Directory. Leakage "Safety Fire Cracker The inventor who originated the New Mechanical Directory an In- mechanical directory, which is here genious Device Moonlight Aurora. lown, contemplates one of the most complete e Uviag "Walking Stick" Quite the largest of all the "walking sticks, as insects of a certain kind that Imitate twigs are called, la to be found in Brazil. It counterfeits a little branch quite wonderfully, even to the Joints. Of course, the object of nature In making these creatures so like twigs is to enable to conceal them themselves from their enemies, such Thy fur, ont-- thick, la largely dissipated. as birds. They hare no other meana Thy ears are notched, thy Ups are of defense, and if they were conspicugashed and torn, ous they would very quickly be BIx Inches of thy tail has been abated. Thou art a thing to look upon with up. scorn. The "walking sticks vary conald-erablYet why waste verses in In appearance, always counterdenouncing Thy manifold transgressions, callous feiting the twigs of the kind of tree on whlcn they happen to live. Even cat? The word for you I'll lose no time pro- the knots and the bark are copied so nouncing. Take good care that you heed It, Thom- accurately that it is almost Impossible to distinguish tbe creatures, even If as: Scat! Prom the Portland Morning Oregonian. one is looking for them. The Shah of Per. a has passed on up from Italy to Ge. nany. Italy Is ow busy fumigating. WORK OP SCIENTISTS la Commas ChMM, WW fragrant subject, says that the population of an ordinary cheese when a few weeks old Is greater than the number of persons upon the earth. He has made some interesting researches dealing with the minute organisms found in cheese. From a microscopic examination of a soft variety of cheese he obtained the following statistics: In 15 grains of cheese, when perfectly fresh, from to 140,000 microbes were found, and when the cheese was 70 days old the population had Increased to 0 in each 15 grains. An examination of a denser cheese at 25 days old proved it to contain 1,200,000 in each gram (about 15 grains), and when 45 days old 2,000,000 in the same particle. A frost. and convenient arrange- actn-atln- g A Steam Joint Clamp. Leakage of steam around Joints In pipes ia often a serious waste. 1 ho device shown herewith is Intended to serve a double purpose; first, to rtop this waste, and, second, to enable (he operator to apply it while the plant is running without stopping for repairs. The device is in three parts, having a general outward resemblance to each other. Each is a split damp, which can be put around the pipe and then bolted on in place. The first is a plain clamp, which butts up against the ahoulder of the pipe elbow, m penny-ln-the-sl- 90,000 800,-00- Uceoe Mine Tears Old. Jacob Groff, a faithful lover of 62 years, was married at Mayton, W. Va., a few days ago to MIsa Rebecca Glelsbury, three years his senior, the girl" for whom he had waited for forty years. 'Nine years ago he secured the marriage license, but the bride-elec- t refused to wed him. He folded the license-AMit away and waited until qpekttouldbe rpady. Hla persistence and hla faithfulness finally won and she agreed to become hla bride. The minister, the Rev. D. S. Thomas, hesitated when he saw the date upon the license, but when he was told the circumstances he mar rled them under the license nine years old. Baltimore Sun. .. it Lamp That Talk. Electric lamps not only can be made 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 receiver, and the other is by placing it in the exact the of a crybeing reproduction circuit instead of the ordinary transing child. mitter. Is The orange preserved In spirits In either of these positions It will at Loa Angeles Chamber of Commerce. pronounce words, which can be heard distinctly at a considerable distance. Wingless lllrda. It naturally follows, also, that the The kiwi is tbe sole remnant of electric arc can be utilized as the rethe wonderful race of wingless birds ceiver and also as the transmitter of that once roamed all over New Zea- a telephone. land, the gigantic skeletons of some of which have been found In such Knai'ia Kettle Brldg numbers that almost every museum in remarkable the most Perhaps world one the of more of possesses are the kettle world in the bridges them. Cossack soldiers which the of bridges, The kiwi is about the size of a materials The builders. are expert a partridge, haa rather long neck and a curious bill about four inches In of which they are constructed are the soldiers lances and cooking kettles. length. Its wings are quite undevel- Seven or eight lances are passed unand ita have feathers sort a of oped, of a number of kettles handles der the unfinished character, which may be means of ropes to fastened and by supposed to represent Natures early number of sufficient A a raft. form efforts In that direction, before the which will bear of each these rafts, close, rich plumage of the modern are fastened a of half a ton, weight was evolved. bird an hour In of the and space Wanting the means of flight, the atogether, is formed on which an army bridge kiwi haa almost been exterminated, and with It also have gone, or nearly may cross with confidence and safety. gone, all the other leathered denizens even Telr of Twlaa. of the woods. The invasion of their Fishermen who have just returned haunts by the white man haa been from a fishing trip along Hickory Run their destruction. report that a family named Henderson, living deep in the woods, has been Forcing" Chicken, Chicken farming as practiced nowa- blessed with seven pairs of twins In two other children days Implies the use of Implements succession, and all within fourteen came who alone, which would have seemed and foods and are sound, are All alive, years. to a When past generation. strange Sun. Baltimore youngsters. a chicken has been fed up to such a healthy to it refuse that ita food, begins point the fattener uses a cramming pump Beal's Skeletoa Filled with Hooey, skeleton of a and forces oatmeal and milk flown tbe The throat of the unwilling bird. This can large bear, whose skull was filled with go on for only a few days, for after several pounds of honey, deposited once being crammed in this fashion a there by bees that had turned it into bird will never eat again of Its own a hive, was discovered the other day accord. To give a final touch of by John and James Osterhort of Sherperfection to the pump capon, a man, Pa., aa they were sawing a large preparation of arsenic Is added to the hollow beechwood log. well-preserv- A Steam Joint Clamp shown in the cut It is bored a little larger than the pipe, and contains a soft, stable metal ring insido, next the pipe. The next ring haa an offset, just the depth of this soft metal ring and butting against it; also a female thread which engages with another thread on the outside of the All are damped In third clamp. place. The third clamp Is pressed up against the other two and held prm Then a spanner, by aet screws. shown In the lower part of the cuV. la used to screw up the middle clJ:?p against the first one, setting the soft lead down hard into the leak nnd closing It The pipe Is then,, to all Revolving Sheet Replace Book, bureau. This mechanism might with advantage be applied to dictionaries and other works of reference. n In- tents and purposes, as good as now. Cool and Pure Water Supply. This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for furnishing pure water for drinking purposes, and more especially to devices by which bottled, distilled or filtered waters may be cooled before being drawn for use. In cities where the water furnished to consumers is not as palatable as it might be it is customary to purchase large bottles of special brands of A Safety Firecracker. The average email boy general!) ,wants to investigate the ffKjse of the of gvflfffiAcker altorV gether too soon, with the result that he has a blackened face and perhaps a blinded eye to show for his curiosity. Antonio Deigrande of Petersburg, Va., has designed the firecracker shown in the drawing with the intention of eliminating the danger of accident from this cause. To accomplish this result the cracker Is made with a preliminary alarm arrangement which, while not sufficient to injure the face or hands, explodes with enough force to frighten the child and cause it to jump back in time to escape the effect of the main explosiou. As will be Been by a glance at tbe picture the fuse la similar to that hitherto employed for discharging the cracker, but instead of passing directly through the packing wad into the main charge of the explosive it enters a primary division of the tube, containing a small charge of powder or After passilluminating compound. ing through this compartment the fuse extends to the main explosive charge. In one form of the safety cracker the preliminary signal takes the form of red, blue or green fire, thla being especially designed for night use. wa- ter for drinking purposes and the Il- lustration shows the cooling apparatus arranged In connection with one of these bottles as a source of supply. A special cork la provided for the Got-tiwith the tubes projecting from the top. One leads to the bottom of the bottle and the other connects with the air spare above the water. The gives wabxi.no stroRE tii cxruisio. longer pipe is connected directly with a hose leading Into the cooling cham- when the color of the preliminary disber. play adds not a little to the amuseTo start the flow from the bottle in- ment of the child. to the cooler a pump Is attached to the second tube to increase the presSure of Him. sure inside the bottle. It will be noTeas If you really love him why ticed that the water flowing into the did you refuse him? Jess Goodness! You don't suppose cooling chamber has no direct contact with the ice, but passes through colled I'd be so unmaidenly ss to accept him pipes arranged beneath the Ice and the first time. surrounded by the water which melts Teas But he declares hell never from the Ice. This subjects the wa- propose to another girl as long ss he ter In the pipes to the action of the lives. cooling agent without mixing the two. Jess Of coarse. I'm not "another Ai soon as the valve la opened the girl." e, |