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Show f c Used Extensively in France, Where Coal Is Scarce. Electricity is used In the house or the French farmer, not only for heating, but for cooking of food. Now that coal is becoming scarce and high, and forests are inadequate to furnish fuel, electricity is furnishing the cheapest source of energy. The current from a generator is led to a central distributing station, where it is divided into as many circuits as there are separate motors and so power Is distributed. In the farmers barns this power runs root cutters, tnilk separators, tanning mills, etc. It can also be used for cleaning harnesses, for sharpening tools, tor ventilators, pumps, mills, etc. Yards, stables and barns are lighted as well as houses. The water from ponds or brooks or rivers is raised high enough for its distribution through farm buildings and over the fields of irrigation. Elevators, hay cutters, hay presses and cider presses are also worked by electricity. Electricity. IS POPULAR. LADY DUNDONALD Wife of Canadas Military Commander Noted for Her Beauty. All Canada is ready to fall in love with Lady Dundonald, wife of the recently appointed commander of the Canadian troops. Her simple manners, her splendid education, her love for books and the brilliancy of her receptions have long been known In the dominion. She Is of Welsh parentage and is no less popular than her y After Reading Omar Khayyam. the entire ills! riot, and the s nail Him f.ir Kaxl iIIiIhuik Ilia g Wife of Governor of British Province Wht-ipieces of l:ii:tl had become ep:iir! d day. some uninhabited islands. from of Harry Leon Wilson. Has Peculiar Pet. lVhclr li'l- WJMII It with Ilook reviewers, east and west, have Not many women have owned more Xurili lililra In the adAfter Eight Thousand Year given much praise to a recent novel, strenuous pets than the baby rhin- Wh"r tin- - I'ctil In-- . A number of ancient graves "The Spenders," by Harry Leon Wil- oceros which amuses Mrs. Cook, wife An.1amant contln js.iiiih In ili. gray wulil. son. The following is an extract of the governor of North Borneo, a At the rnnifi'K taining human remains have Just t uf .yrlli. in the bet'u (Unentered at (Sirga, in Upper The governors from the book : British possession. parti. It's just a question of blackmail, house is near a jungle which is filled - In tin" nk- and ihr Egypt. The graves containing the reori iBnt it? What did you offer?" with wild animals. Out of this tan- The mil. may aeur.-- dll Ida soul wear mains are said to consist of a continuous series extending over an in"Well, B'ae has a slew of letters And. gle of undergrowth a baby rhinoceros hut ii.'Mliin the more, ev.-In liut to frolic a one (lie world the under Mii:y morning law. terval of at biist N.tmO years, which strayed fashion on the lawn And ever i hr ji.ln( limit upward with represent tin1 innM archaic of prehiscumbersome a no. toric periods. The bodies are so which surrounds the house. Native well preserved, owing, doubtless, to servants captured him without much No traveler liilher (urns iniiln, N.r (In Ini'Kiiimr o:m sunder the ed: the dryness of thu atmosphere where difficulty and when they had tamed ot u sound lollies nut of the eiiein'o of they were interred ami to the perfechim presented him to Mrs. Cook. At liiftlil of tion the not can that Intcrmeut, first it was a problem on what and only On the srii nut the Suiliul uf s.itl Cows Hut deep iu (he heart of the snvnKe mill the hair, nails and ligaments bo made how to feed the youngster. e.'iiut out. hut t'.ic muscles and nerves. milk and an improvised milking botThe name sweet hope is stirred: In almost every ease the brain Is said tle were the solution. Sixteen quarts III the ll.MouiMK ear of the spirit sense lu preserved, and the climax has to was A the amount the of milk a day still, small Voice is In ard. been u lielng went under the sod rescued in two examples where Pur never an.1 demanded hungry baby usually on steins the face of Ills tho eyes with lens in on it he has thriven and grown fat. Hut thsl. good couditl.a are present, and in others iu which If it were not for his single horn one the muscles and nerves are still Inwe die is the coward's exmight take him for a peculiar species cuse tact. There are also now unearthed a of hog. He is. about the same size For the wanton ahuse of of later prehistoric graves or a coat with covered and Bhaggy The eup that is Kivt-- to wassail and wine series ranging throughout the first fifteen Will never he liner than clay. black hair. Mrs. Cook completed the who fashioned tha vessels at dynasties, others of the eighteenth, taming process begun by her servants The potter will and yet others of the Ptolemaic and now follows rhinoceros and the Can gather the pieces at last. gettin them is a matter of sentiment her aboutbaby and recent Coptic periods. This early a like dog. Transforming the evil, transfixing tha vaBt and keepin' the thing quiet. Then cemetery" has been excavated good. she claims to have a will made last Dr. From the Reisner for the University of n wreck by of profligate BUILDS TOMB. past. HE HI8 LIVING, December and duly witnessed, givln For ever the mortal la Itker the mold. California. The discovery is of great And ever the crucible betters tha gold. her the One Girl outright, and a milimportance in that it will add to our Clarence Oualey in the Independent. lion cash. So you can see she ain't Rear Admiral Melville Erecta Strucknowledge of life on our planet at a in ture Arlington Cemetery. anything ordinary. 1 told Coplen ro historiperiod long before the earli Corncob Driven Into an Oak Tree. Rear Admiral George Wallace Meloffer her a million cash for everything cal records. Remarkable and caused much comment haa who unique testimony rather'n have any fuss. I vas goin ville, to the force of the wind in great torto fix It up myself and keep quiet by putting up a tomb, with an epitaph, The 8tone Woman for his future use in Arlington ceme-ter- , nadoes is conveyed in the accompaWlngen. about it. In New South Wales, near Wlngen, with the date of death left blank, nying cut, showing a corncob driven "But, damn it all, thats robbery!" is a long way from filling his sarcoph a considerable distance into an oak a singular natural curiosity Is observYes but its her deal. You retree during the recent fatal storm at able. This Is an object popularly member when Billy Brue was playin known as the Stone Woman of Win-geGoliad, Texas. p even-uwith a stranger In the In this connection it may not be out The spur of a mountain range, saloon over to Eden, and Chld-dl- e of place to remind the readers of the known as Salisbury Crag, terminates Fogle the bartender called him Philadelphia Times that, after the in a bold, bluff headland, about 700 up front and whispered that hed Jest feet above the level of the valley Been the feller turn a jack from the which it commands, the profile asbottom. 'Well,' says Hilly, looking suming the form of a gray stone kind of reprovin' at Chiddie, it was woman of enormous dimensions sitbis deal, wasn't it? Now, it's sure ting with her back against the cliff, tbls blond party'B deal, and we better her head separated from the top and reckon ahead a mite before we start her feet hidden among the trees with her. Youre due which grow up to the bottom of the any to find out If you hadnt better let cliff. On her knee there is resting an her turn her Jack and trust to get-ti- n open book, which she la not reading, even on your deal. You got u but Instead is gazing forever with a claim staked out in New York, and steadfast, unchanging look down the a scandal like this might handicap beautiful valley of the Hunter. From where the feet of the stone woman you in workin it. And 'taint as if hushln her up was something wo rest among the towering trees that couldnt well afford. And think of grow around the base of Sallsburg how it would torment your ma to Crag to the summit of her head must Corncob Driven Into an Oak Tree, know of them doinB, and now 'twould be about 500 feet, so that if she were great tornado in St. Louis some years to stand up shame Pish in company. Of course, straight some day she a straw was found imbedded In a would be about 800 feet high. If robry is robry, but mebbe it's our agus, If energy and usefulness are any ago, tree trunk in much the same as the be view chosen of play to be sporty like Billy Brue indication. The admiral was born in here shown. The above sketchway proper point is rewas. New York in 1841, and studied at the produced from the Houston, Texas, the pose of the figure is perfect in its Polytechnic institute in Brooklyn. He Dally Post of May 22. Philadelphia magnificent simplicity. FOUGHT WITH A BURGLAR. subsequently entered the navy as an Times. 8 1 range Marine Search. by his engineer and wop aogie 8outh American Beauty 8hews Brav- part Julius Cohen was drowned Little ' In the Jeannette elmltlon of Marvelous; Memories ery in a London Hotel. twelve 1879. ago jrt Coney Island creek Admiral Melville is the indays men of the greatest have had Many Marguerite Gana, the famous South ventor of several devices in ship buildand the body has been recovered in memories. Caesar knew phenomenal American beauty, who formerly lived the names of thousands of soldiers in a most unusual manner. After the ing. his legions. A modern man of sci- father had the creek dragged day London Famous ence often has a prodigious memory after day, unsuccessfully, a sailor Clergyman. One of the best beloved clergymen for special terminology. Prof. Asa said: Get a loaf of bread and cut the in London was Father Dolling, who Gray asserted that he could at once died recently. His work was almost recall the names of something like center out. Then fill the hole with entirely among the very poor, to 25.000 plants; Prof. Theodore GUI can quicksilver ami put the bread in the whom his constant advice was: "Feed do the same for fishes. The memory water near where the boy was well, smoke well, drink little and you for mere words is much more exten- drowned, it will float until directly will work well and live contentedly. sive than is generally admitted. The over the spot where the body lies His stipend was about $1,000 a year, average child of two year old has a and then sink. The loaf was prepared and placed but the annual cost of his missions vocabulary of some 500 words, and was something like twenty times as its father may have the command of on the water. It floated for half an much and he maintained a staff of a 20.000 more. The 10,000 verses of the hour, then settled In the water and He raised all the Rig Veda have for 3.000 years been suddenly shot under. The child's body score of money by his own exertions begging, accurately preserved In the memories was found directly beneath the Bpot he used to call it bluntly and every of the Brahmins. Not one Brahmin where the loaf sank. New York Sun. penny he got he spent in his own par- alone, hut thousands, can recite ish. it word for word. Thousands of MoSaved by Her Pompadour Rat hammedans likewise know the Koran David Allen, a boy GIRL YOUNG ASTOR WOULD WED. by heart, as all learned Chinese know of Hraddnck, Pa., threw a stone at a their classic books. The chiefs of sparrow in the middle of the street. Son of Expatriated American Has SePolynesia can, and do, repeat hun- The stone struck Joseph Bukoval, a lected His Bride. dreds of thousands of words in their young Hungarian, riding past on a Lady Edith Villiers, for whose hand genealogies taking days, and even bicycle. in Washington, D. C.. bad a thrilling Joseph Jumped off his wheel, in marriage young Waldorf Astor has weeks, for the recitation. Hundreds started alter Allen and fired one shot experience with a burglar at the just proposed, Is the daughter of the Thackeray hotel, at london, England. Earl of Clarendon and is one of the of pianists can play all day, and many from a revolver at the lad as he disdays, by memory', and Von Billow can appeared around the corner. The bulThe man was captured, but the most popular young women in British conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony let went through a window and struck woman well nigh lost her life. The Her father, Edward Hyde without a score. Chess players have Mrs. Blasius Cycozeskl in the head man entered her room and was at society. a visualising memory, musicians have and knocked her down. When she her Jewel safe when she awoke and an auditive and a motor memory, recovered consciousness she discovdiscovered him. while arithmetical prodigies may ered the ball doubled up against a hesitation an she Without Instants one of the three. have nest of hairpins and a heavy "rat, any Beized bed and from her him, sprang which supported an ornamental pomat the same time shouting for help. Bombarded by Monkeys. padour. The rat" saved her life. The thief struggled and succeeded The Norwegian steamer Donald, in drawing a pistol. He attempted to from Baines, with fruit, has arrived Oldest Piece of Writing. fire it at the woman, but she succeedat Philadelphia. Captain Warneke The University of Pennsylvania reed in turning it aside. told this remarkable tale: Two shots were fired, both of which cently came into possession oi what "We were about thirty miles from is regarded as the oldest piece of writatin the wall. The noise lodged Watllns Islands, In the Caribbean sea, ing in the world. It is not a manutracted the servants, who rushed in when we came upon a floating island. script, but a fragment of a vase, and subdued the mau, who was later I, with the mate and several of the which was broken In the raid on tho into custody. given crew, rowed toward it. Thousands of ancient city of Nippur. The inscriplittle monkeys scampered all about tion is in picture writing and indiCouldn't 8tand for Yukon. the shore, and when we were in range cates that the piece dates back to was Landis Congressman praising they began a bombardment by hurling forty-fiv- e hundred years befors the Gen. Funston for the latter's services cocoanuts at us. We captured two Christian era. in the Orient and spoke of his galmonkeys. lantry in swimming a Philippine "The following day we discovered Where Cows Wear Earring. raver. "Besides, he added, the genanother and landed. island, cows In Belgium wear earrings. The floating eral once swam the Yukon river in Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, la the fifth we were greeted with a The law decrees that every cow when This time Alaska. said so would Nonsense," that it Represenof his title, appear tative Bulzer, the Yukon is too cold that William Waldorf Asters son aims covey of parrots of most brilliant plu- It has attained the age of three months must have in its ear a ring to for such a trip. Why, the natives have at a high social mark. Lady Edith's mage. Capt. Warneke declared that the which is attached a numbered metal a saying aliout that river. Overboard, mother is the daughter of the thl4 eruption at Martinique had shaken up tagdead, and that about settles iL Earl of Northampton. Critics Highly Commeud the Work e new-filin- uKi-rnms- - imn-i-mo- r -- 11 y. n. Two-Hum- p rough-hous- warrior husband. She has considerable fortune and spends much of it each year In assisting charitable orShe, too, has lighting ganizations. blood in her veins, for she went to war with the parish council at Gwyrch castle in England not long ago because that body presumed to Interfere with the pruning of her trees. The war was a bitter one, but her ladyship was victorious, compelling the council to keep its fingers off her business. Violins Made from Clay. An old Scotch proverb says: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. It scorns to the ordinary person that It would be quite as impossible to make a good violin out of clay, hut it has been done. A well-know- n man- ufacturer of the Mcssein ocarinas and porcelain organus has invented a process for the manufacture of violins and mandolins from clay. Some violins have already been completed, and the inventor has applied for letters patent for Hie same in different countries. Under this process the violins are cast and every violin is guaranteed a success and to be excellent for producing music. The latter quality constitutes precisely the chief value of this invention. The porcelain body, it Is claimed, is better able to produce sound than a wooden one, since It in the production of sound, making the notes soft and full. THE THANKS OF CONGRESS. They Are Extended to Rear Admiral KempfT. The house committee on foreign affairs unanimously reported a resolu tion giving the thanks of Congress to Rear Admiral Kempff for his conduct during the siege of Taku. China. e f'V to-da- y twelve-year-ol- - d |