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Show aoii yiririwi THE SEMI-WEEKL- Catch the Nimble Flea , NAIM. Y i X. T. UfUIC, rabliahMk Expedition to the North Seas Has Peculiar Object in View Wealthy Londoner's Fad lor Collection of Insects. UTAH LOQAN. The Crown Prince of Siam showed his wisdom by going to Philadelphia to rest. ' Even in France the coal operators and miners have found something to arbitrate. Up in the north seas there la a weight over the poliBhed surface of whaler on a special mission. It has piece of glass. ether purposes in being there, hut When these qualities are under its extraordinary commission is to stood one begina to admire, the abilicatch tho arctic flea. The name of ties once possessed by the 10,000 fleas If it which Mr.' Rothschild has in vials of the whaler is the gets the fleas and they get loose It Is chloroform. One characteristic highly developed piobabh- its sailors never will. The boat has liecn reported at Sydney, in the flea Is a love of home. It has been found that the flea prefers to Cape lfret on. When tho fleas have been caught live on the animal on which it was they will he added to a collection horn. Unless violently ejected it will which already numbers 10,000. It Is rot leave its home, and If ejected it in the possession of Charles Roths- has a preference for a similar animal child of Tririg Park, liondon, and he if It can be found. The preference has intrusted the captain of the for one kind of animal has produced to bring back the arctic thousands of varieties and has enabled f'ea. Mr. Rothschild to make his wonderful Forget-Me-No- It wait Charles I.amb who first said that mixing whisky and water spoiled ' two good things. Dr. Linn of Mt. Pleasant, la., says that kissing promotes the happiness of microbes. Rubber! Miss Swlllum. recently married ia Missouri, is to be congratulated upon her change of name. Senator Hanna defies his doctor in a way which must make that worthy tremble lest he lose a good patient. King Leopold seems to count that day lost whose low descending sun sees no new foolish thing that he has done. The man who wrote .Kyea" is dying in New York, us hope that lie has made hiB peace with 'heaven. Goo-Go- o lt The Indians are fast becoming civilised. Half the business of the courts relates to divorce proceedings. ter-iritori-al The papers are predicting a champagne famine. It will not hurt anybody seriously who hasn't a champagne thirst. Uncle Sam has recently distributed 1.495.543.374 fish. There will be an angler after each one when the ice goes out In the spring. The Chicago gentlemen who report that they have drawn snakes through the bathroom faucets should have their drinks examined. Little Herbert Killgas of New York has swallowed a whistle. There are boys who sound as if they contained an assortment of steam sirens. One Kentucky man followed an- other to iennsylvania for the purpose of shooting him. Can't the rest of the country Quarantine against Kentucky feuds? The thief who took a wagonload of unwrapped limhurger from a cheese factory near Utica, must have left behind him a trail that was easily traceable. A silk hat and a frock coat are worn by the crown prince of Slam, hut his father wears a crown that looks like a beehive with a bottle stopper on top of it. t. - Forget-- Me-Not Tin? fleas are to he obtained from tr.e blue fox. the polar bear, the Eskimo dog, and other arctic animals. Hunting tho arctic flea may not appear at first thought to he an occupation worthy of a sportsman, but when it is considered that hunting the arctic flea means hunting the animal on which it is to be found it seems a little more dignified. The captain of the Forget-Me-No- od of flea, getting the but it Is collection. Colonies of fleas are to be met in hot weather living on bare sand. If an unfortunate worm or caterpillar passes through their domain it Is immediately pounced upon and made to pay toll In lta blood. The sharp electoral beaks possessed by the fleas are used first to wound and then to draw blood from the victim. Even if the arctic fleas which the is to capture should break loose the crew can offer thanks for the fact that they are not the species to be found In the West Indies and South America. This flea la not content with merely sucking the blood of the victim, but the female buries herself between tho skin and the skin and the flesh, generally of the foot and under the nails of the toes. Once made comfortable, the flea begina to grow, and soon has reached the comparatively enormous size of a pea. If not extracted she lays her eggs, which soon hatch out in a colony of fleas. The natives of these regions are adept at extracting the flea, which would otherwise produce a dangerous ulcer, which sometimes Is Incurable. There Is record of cases where amputations have been necessary on this account There Is an old recipe which should have been given to the crew of the when they started out after the arctic flea. It is said to reveal a sure preventive, as follows: Whlls wormwood hath seed, get a hand t Forget-Me-N- may find some new meth- that probable the specimen of the insect which is obtained from the polar bear will be willing to have the flea removed, it is likely that the captain will find it convenient to kill him first and remove the flea afterward. Already at the museum at Trlng Park Mr. Rothschild has fleas collected from nearly every quarter of the globe. They are of all sizes and all kinds. As every animal has its particular flea, the possible numbers to which this collection can mount are readily appreciated. When Mr. Rothschild, or Dr. Jordan, who is In charge of the museum, hears of a trader or an expedition being about to start for a journey to some distant land he commissions one of the party to bring him back fleas from all the animals found in the journey. It is explained by Dr. Jordan that every animal and every bird has a particular kind of flea, and that many are blessed with a variety. The cat flea ia different from the dog flea and the dog flea from the sparrow flea. And all are different from the human flea. For this reason it is asserted that the collection of fleas offers wider diversion than the collection of any other living animals. Aristophanes once wanted to make fun of Socrates. He told the Greeks that Socrates was a man who would try to measure the jump of a flea. And the Greeks thought the Joke was Forget-Me-N- ot refralne; Where chamber is sweeped and wormwood la ctrown No flea for his life dare abide to he known." The largest specimen In the collection of Mr. Rothschild Is that of a mole flea, which is of an Inch in length. He rejoices in the name of Another In hypstrichopsylla talpae. the collection is a flea which has rlaws like a lobster. This is found on a small South American bird. one-fift- h Fast Traveling with Motor. In a competition for motor cars up Mount Ventoux, near Carpentras, the steepest hill road in France, M. Cauchard, the winner, commiles in 27 minutes 17 pleted 13 seconds. The gradient In places was 1 In 12. M. Cauchard used a French motor car of power. If King Leopold thinks for a moment that he 1b to have a Prince Henry Bort of a time in this country he 1b mistaken. AH royalties don't look alike to us. Santos-Dumn- ot ful or twalne. To save against March, to make flea to While there is nothing so exciting as a church fight, It is generally agreed that It Is much better to pray tor our brother than to bat him with a verbal ax. wants some one to offer him $200,000 if he starts from Paris and lands in San Francisco, with no specification as to whether or not he lands on his neck. I was about to suggest, Mr. Crane, g 70-hor- Value of the American Steer. In tracing the course of this humble but useful bovine that has fulfilled his part in the American civilization of Britain, we have followed the path that Is traveled every year by tens of thousands of his kind, says Frank Leslie's. The total annual export value of United States meat or which muscular legs. beef forms the principal Item Is in Is was as if a man were to Jump round $100,000,000. If we add lrom a standing position and land 333 to this figures the distributive sales of 'the jards from his starting point. When various packing establishments in the that was learned the joke seemed to United States for the domestic market he on Aristophanes, hut they were all as well, we find that It reaches the dead by that, tim? so it did not mat- enormous total of 1.000,000 carloads, ter. In doing tho tremendous Jump valued at $2.0nu,000,000. Added to this the flea does not have to make prepa- is the value of the many rations nr get a running start. When- of the which amount house, packing ever danger threatens he simply to millions more. many shoots out his legs and puts 2o0 times his length between him and the danBaronet a Pauper. ger. Sir William Gordon MacGregor, Patient men have taken advantage fourth baronet of his line, is an inmate of the large of the workhouse at Leytonstone, a amount of intellifomdon suburb. He lost his money in gence possessed by bucket shops. The first baronet was the flea and have sergeant surgeon to George IV. The trained squads of fourth is suffering from locomotor them to go through ataxia. p e r f o r m a n c es which appear Chemical Industry of Hamburg. when amazing One of the great centers of chemical viewed through a iniltisiry Is Hamburg. The census of microscope. I'ttti) showed 148 establishments and Spectators have seen tho trained a total of 4,t:t;: a flea go through allkind, of man livers, lain in eleven personsof employed twenty-twyears drawing carriages and can on, drill i s'nhlislimer.ts and 1,253 employes, in company formation, at d even fin1 iiu hiding the factories of several advolleys from Lii!lpi'tia:i artillery with- joining (ours, the district has a total out stirring from ili-- :r posts. of 25; clieit'ii iil establishments, emIn addition to fie great jumping ploying refining nitrate, two for f.hilifv of tic Hi 'ii he has great x am! eight for making vtrongth. lie an drvi itik times his ii'pLurii- hydrogeh. on Socrates. Afterward, some time after the Greeks bad their laugh and were gathered to their fathers, some one did measure the jump of a flea and found that the small Insect could projert himself Just 200 times his own length, without the aid of wings, just hv the action of his d the health faddists say that in order to have the right kind of lungs, Now one must blow soap bubbles. It may be an dream, but It has the merit of cheapness. Irriih-srcn- t Sir Michael llicks-ltoac- says, with the air of propounding a novelty, that tho war ofth-- was "dominated by petticoats. Well? Nothing unusual about that, was there? Senor J!m mamino. the Filipino, has discovered the only wav to heat a horse ran? in this country. At Chicago lie drank thirty glasses of champagne and tin n picked a winner. A South Dakota Indie n sentenced to bo hanged asked permission to sing the death song of his triho at the hanging. IVi.ph- win soon he asking to furnish tiie music at their own funerals. The MLs.jnri Valley Homeopathic association passed a resolution condemning the kiss. It may not be so dangerous as tic association thinks; hut. :in. how. it U nsch si in lioiuco' ) atliic doses. A Hep'i-- til? date 1 t pnail.ii- of - ell ia ami mu an;. life. Sill. Mill-of them that injust to be oil the I . 1, iivcr ays ills ;,rc cup c.f to jii dnv hive Me in -- f(1,,r tier ti;ck to afu tide. o bo-a- ( 1 - When I first met Wilson he was play ing In a black face sketch called "That reminds me of a little inter- 'Wash Day,' with his partner, the But change of courtesies which took place firm being Cronin & Wilson. between Barry Sullivan, the great even then Frank Wilson was an enei English actor, and Manager Buckley retie and ambitious man. In his of the Baldwin theater, San Francisco, leisure time when most actors would on the opening of that house by Sul- have been idling, or worse, he was livan's company. I was member of studying French, German and the law. the company and was standing on the He and I had a good many talks, and stage the afternoon before the open- I advised him to try legitimate comedy ing, when the dialogue between the parts. So he gave up $75 a week two occurred. Buckley was a pom- in negro minstrelsy and took posipous and conceited mac, and Sullivan tion with the Chestnut Street theater, took a great dislike to him from the in Philadelphia, to play second comtart edy parts in the stock compauy at said This, Buckley, looking $25 a week. Then McCall came along and put him into light, opera, where round the beautiful house and speak-fuin a most patronizing manner, ho has been everif since." this is the third theater 1 have "Well, here's a letter from an Iowa opened. 'Then he stopped and looked at man who would like to know If I Sullivan to Bee what effect the an- - shouldn't love to he playing Shakespeares Two Dromios' again with Stuart Robson. 1 should think not. Why, all the time that I was on the stage I was liound foot, hand and tongue. If Robson had a cold in his head I had to have a cold In mlnp. If llobBon had a felon on his little finger of his right hand It was necessary for me to rig up one. If he got the rheumatism and had to wrap up his knee la a red flannel bandage I had to do the same. It was dreadful. I had to think of Robson's rheumatism, of Shakespeare, and of a hundred other things all the time. Sometimes Id get all made up aud ready to go. Then I'd drop into Robs room for a minute rnd observe that he had put a little more red paint than usual on his cheeks and nose. Tnen I had to hurry hack and do the same thing. It was He Renews Hia Thanks. u dreadful experience. rouncement would have ou him. But Suliivau looked him straight in the "Yes, llarum seems to he doing fineeyes. ly again this year. Some of the critics Indeed, sir, said Sullivan, and say it is likely to he a second Rip Van how many have you closed? Winkle. I shouldn't object to that. Mr. Crane will you But I have produced mure new plays Tell you about Jimmy Powers? than any actor now on the. stage. GetWhy, I called on Jimmy one after- ting a good play is harder every year. noon and asked him lo go over town Some time ago a well known drawith me to a rehearsal or something. matist read me a scenario that told I'm sorry, beautiful story, it wsb Can't, said Jimmy. what I hut I've got to take a singing lesson wanted. I accepted it andjust ordered the this afternoon. p'ay, paying him $2,500 as advance What with, Jimmy?' I asked, and money. A month later he brought he didn't speak to me for six months. Mr. Now, Crane, about Well, In the old days of the Hooley stock company, of which I was a member, there was a young actor came along whose stage name was William H. Wilding. He had a good commercial training before he started In with ub to become an actor, and sometimes he used to ask mo for advice. He played the court clerk in the trial scene in the Merchant of Venice, and that sorte of small parts. I told kiis often I thought him foolish to give up business, in which he had a lair start, for such an uncertain thing as the career of an actor. To be frank with you, I said to him one night, 'I don't think you are fitted to become a great actor. You seem to lack the dramatic instinct, and without it you won't go far. My candid advice to you is to go back into business and stick to it.' The next day Wilding went out and This is the Third Theater I Havi hustled tor a job in a store. He got a Opened. clerkship which paid him $15 a week. He had been getting $25 In the stock me around the first act to read. It company, hut he gave that up at was based on an entirely different once and went Into vulgar trade. scenario, and I told him so. When he left the stage he gave ifo Why, this isnt on the lines of the also his stage name of William H. seenario you showed me, I said. Wilding and took his own name of 'No, I know it, he said, 'but its a John K. Mockett. great deal better. The other day I stopped over In I didn't like it at all. A week later Toledo, O., for a few hours, and went he railed again. This time he wanted up to call on Mockett. He is now the to borrow $50. I let him have it, of owner or the largest and most suc- course, and ho left a receipt tor cessful clothing and furnishing store This la the way the receipt read, as In Toledo, and one of the largest In I disrovered after he had left: the state. The name of Mockett is Received of W. H. Crane $50, to he repaid out of the lirst royalties received on tho play I am writing for him. That's the last I have ever heard lrom him. I suppose he simply needed the $2,500 in his business. Mr. Cranes dresser handed him a realistic rubber mole, which he proceeded to paste on to the grizzled and wrinkled check of David llarum. 'The last hoy I had Is In states prison now. Stole $1,800 and ran away. But that didn't hurt so much as what I found out afterward. It seems that the hoy had been spending my money and iny clothes and raising merry Cain in hair the towns we visited. 'Aren't you afraid that Crane'll find you out?" some one asked him. No, he said. 'You can't fool Mrs. Id Drop Into Robs Dressing Room Crane. But Crane why Cranes easy. For a Minute. And that really did hurt. H. M. veil known in trade circles. And II., in Chicago Tribune. whenever I see the man I put out of the theatrical business ho renews his Royalty's Many Names. thanks for my part in the change, Should the king of I'nrtugal visit a which he has never regretted Blnce hotel In the ordinary way, accompahe made It. nied by his two 'sons and younger Mr. Crane, David brother, his secretary would have 'That was the man I helped to get quite a Job registering the party. His cut of the show hiisinrsK. Frank his elder majesty lias thirtmi nimn-sFrancis Wilson j mii whom I ad- son has seventeen, the l:iiter' brother vised to stick to it fil'd to 'h ave Mnr-has thirteen, aud tie ing's brother face for soineth;i.- - mure twenty tun. that g it . i s |