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Show EXAMINER. JAXUAIIY THE SUNDAY MOIiXIXD IMi ,3 I1K 1;Y NHV YiiKK 111'lMl.Il 1, 1903. rt'Ml'tM.j AS (FECffiH J4Li rt Hew York SiJeyaid. When Serpents Swim. that the In il.iaii ii o. anxke locamot Ion which are r IT In the python and other cnuki are the remains of former tins and look to ii:.J makes eaani before ln-jThcre are many foots which point to rOB PUNISHING SCOLDING WOKEN. ie not impos ble T it '-- V- - '. A -- S ' Vo.'fe ' it. AU anakra cun swim. T: n was a monster of prehistoric times i:,,t I frequented the water. when the world ' young railed the pleekwdurua, which a.- - I xo-.t .. iquired monstrous dimensions. Popular ff .V , 'olugiaia like to ilcture bottles in the s. ft. I warn tlie waters were red with the l t ot these monster and other, of I'lcr: :tribe. Their sole surviving descendants ui c line half mythical sea serpents. They hail tins, and the rudiments now found may lie remains of these. When the repilli came to the land to live and learned f some unknown reason to burrow in tlie sand they would undoubtedly have lo.l these. There are missing links, however.! in the line of the descent of snakes, uinl all the scientist tell of reptilian genealogy Is panly a matter of conjecture. Of the' many snakes In the water nowadays tne major part are rapid swimmers and deadly' to handle. Tlierc is still another explanation of the! rudimentary foot of modern imiea in thej snake world, and th.it is it la the remains: of a flying dragon. There were undoubtedly dragons In the times of old. and when ceased to fly and nuns to the earth it la not improbable that some uf them survived as snakes, sad that tlie remains of their feet and wings survive In the specie that tempted Adam and Eve In the Garden of kdrn. Tlie usual method uf locomotion in the snake tribe Is peculiar and is more like walking In a hag than anything else. A snake walks; lie does nut crawl. The snake walks on his ribs. The old Germans or Teutons used to have a warlike custom of proclaiming their kings. The sturdy warriors would lock their braxen suicide together, lifted high aboifc their heads, on which tlie future king was elevated. The snake's belly Is in some respects like the interlocked shields. Ilia feet arc Ills riba, which he is aapwUe of working forward ot backward, same lane bending them. Over server .onto time to determine Jiit . there la a aiueld. and as the foot move! .v the point of the foot Is lowered and Know will mtawl inirt iha afmmwui a igidd iktiH a inv iuhu . ii I ! f vik" I tf.S L'i ' ; t..-- u-- a I I vj fa Aj it'..; w ' ' r,y wJtw,.it more several of the old cities of Holland a or more ago the authorlt'.ev-em- icntury . toyed a curious device for punishing sculding women. It often happenedUutt foiiwlla'm rj,.nrakrid .4 Tnu s mls-Ue- er de-si- reuem-Wam'- e. tedo-pho- ne resulted from It. A curiosity in the matisr ot bell ringing is to be met with at FUJburn. near Cambridge. The church belli there not only ring the hours of the day, but at intervals also the date of the mania. Thus, at iwelvs o'clock noon on tbeUst there would be forty-ihro- e strokes. Aa Imperial Pawnshop, imperial pawnshop at Vienna, has been closed to make some repairs, one. mors la ready TUB to transact business. The managers of Ui. institution, besides adraurlng money on articles, undertake the isle by auction of any goods or merchandise submitted. uotlry th rny,mut 'previous to the day of lhr - - -- ,n tiinntu Th Russian Sailor, an 0? ; jr m Rui-sia- v'v , IS. ' ypr 't' ' f was one of the world s greatest conquerors every school child knows that but as he never conquered the English ao he never quite mastered the language of Wellington. It is easy to conceive why he did not take to the study with that order and energy which caused thrones to topple. lie spent APOLEON seseeses 0 0 OOOOO Oraa, in Sweden, hns in the course of a generation sold l,150.0u0 worth of trees, and by means of Judicious replanting has provided for a similar income every thirty or fo'iy years. In consequence of the development of this commercial wealth there arc no taxes. Railways and telephones are free, and so are the school houses, teaching and many other things f . 000 SSMiSte j At the sale of the famous herd of ahort-hnr- n rattle which belonged to the late Mr. W. A Marr, farmer, Llipermlll, Aberdeenshire, one bull, Baplon Favorite, realised 1,30 guineas, and two bull calves BN guineas and S3) guineas respectively, - -- UL .j .r j ur pounds. (T.' ' y. ; occupants tseesessse Simple Barometers. 'OUNTRY poopta have a great contempt fur those who cannot tell what the weather hi going, io bo till they have looked at their expensive barometers or seen the weaiher Indications in ths morning paper. They have ao many simple ways of finding out what they wlah te know shout the weather and are so accustomed to doing this that they make line observations almost mechanically. Ask Iras of them how to do this and hs will 'give you a long Hot of simple weather giu res Fur Instance, If yuu ara a smoker look at your cigar lip. If it burns with a 'clear, rod glow tho day will ba fine, but it it bos a charred end that refuses to burn brightly tako.your umbrella. If a slipper crenko It Is sure to be fine; if It Is silent It will be damp. In damp westher newspaper are easily torn, gloves contract and are difficult to put on, matches will no! light eaally. silk hits become dull, owning curds sre tight, boot laces snap and a score of Inanimate things tell to the initialed that there is rain Io come. ooe- - Burnlng the DenS. INCH eternal Ion has ousts Into if not ordinary, use there hava been many strongs waya of diaiawing of the ashes of a body. Usually tha deceased leaves direct Iona as to what shall bo done with bis remains, and it seams as If h often taxed his brain to the utmort to find soma novel plan for disposing of his ashes. But possibly the most eccen-trl- e of these Instructions comes from a man in Exeter. lit has left in his will a d.uisa directing that bta body shall be cremated, the ashes taken up In a balloon to a height of not lea than a thouoand feet and then scattered to the four wind of heaven. fro-que- part of his time while at St. Helena trying to master the tongue and these notes, written on playing cards, during the time of these studied are now an Interesting exhibit. Thqy were Indeed his losing curds whose hand had held for years only those that won, tlie kings, queens, not forgetting the knaves! ORE doga bava been trained se highly at hat they seem to be able to do anything save talk, though a German savant contends that they havequitean intelligible language Maeterlinck' book on the dog, like the gifted author' work m the bee, la interesting and Illuminative, but it does not make clear tha psychology which enables a dog to understood the greater part of a conversation ooooow-owoooo- 8 NOW ARTILLERY IN SCANDINAVIA. Instinct that unerringly tella It when It fiioea an enemy. The doga here shown do aume amaslng tricks and are every whit aa clever performers as aoms pretentious men and women. Their trainer talks to them aa he would to human beings, and In understanding they are even keener than some folk whom the trainer nor preM-nliou- mentions. ' ' The worker In a MaasaohuaetU factory gels twenty-seve- n per cent or what he while the laborer In Houlh Carotins gels only nineteen per cent, yet the Man-chuset- ls laborer produces in one year 171 more for hla employer than Lire laborer in South Carolina. pro-duc- An Ecclesiastical Umbrella. essesess umbrella big enough to cover a down person belongs to ths Church of fit. Ifoter Mancroft, Norwich, Eng. land. It la used on wet d.iy for wedding parties, so that tha bride and bridegroom, the bridesman! and goi-slmay not get tliolr smart di rosea spidlcd when walking from the church door to the carriages, it Is also used by the clergy at funerals when the aervira has tv be held by the gravewide In pouring rain. That It la useful l obvious, and It Is rstlfsr rein Ihs sir by means of a balloon and then markable that many other churches do dropped while the motor is going nt full not possess such an ariicla aa a port of speed. Band bags to represent the weight of a man will be attached to the ap- the ordinary cliure.n furniturt. paratus, It would be muoh more agreeable 44444444 Io have sandbag drop five thousand feet than a man who powessea an admirable Thomas BLdville, uf Bt. Andrews, and Ilia brother, George Muivtlle, of Cupar, who quantity of sand." have Jut celebrated their ninety-fouri- lt Telegraphing In Abyssinia Is done under birthday, are Die oldest twine in Great difficulties. The monkeys awing on tlie Britain. An American pair or twin nor wires and the elephants use the poles fur long ago attempted to dance a hornpipe on their UMh birthday. scratching porta N Aluminum, once balled a the coming metal, is not no much heard of now. No satisfactory process or welding it ever hue been discovered. ! Uie ANOTHER FLYING MACHINE DESIGN. nave me most masks, which are need ceremonies, and the custom even extend to the far Island of the fiouth Bras. From these tropical waters to the white wastes of the frosen North is a fur cry, yet there 1 a Hindis rlty between the masks of the Malay tribes and those of the Eskimos which seem to link these faraway peoples. Herewith is given the picture of an Eskimo mask, front and rear. It is lalrly Indicative of the artistic feeling In them odd people and while jirknltlve has in it something of a higher promise. TIiIUETANH s diamond Ink for writing on I a compound of fluoric acid and barium. The latter ha no effect. It being simply a white powder to give body to the acid. The Ink eitti tie used with a rubber hand stamp, and It should be allowed to remain fifteen minute, when the barium will brush off. leaving the design glssi On of the largest gold nuggets ever found In Colorado wai recently picked up at Snowstorm placer. In Park county, between Alma and Falrplay. It ISO ounces and has a market value ofweighs ISJkiO, airship is gradually approaching become aa utility. In several countries man ara bending sclmtlflc energy and great on tlie filar. personal risk to the completion of a perfectly navigable ship of the clouds One of The sight of birds I extraordinary, and the latest is the work of Bpenoer A Bon, the e'mple fact that the eye of a hawk or land the test to which It la to be subjected I'lKron I larger than lie whole brain! Is so severe that though many men have give snnie idea of what its powers of haaarded their lives In experiments no one night must be. and of how easily It con will be allowed literally to put himself in fly hundreds of nilhs if it ha marks tv the balance In this caw. This new contrivance will be raised five thousand feet guide ll. T'HE point where it will seeeeeee oooaaoo Whitechapel, London, the district where armies of Scandinavia hava so many crimes were commuted several in winter and years ago. Including tha notorious Jack rHE men manoeuvring seem to enjoy the work the Ripper has been transfaa J hough they were indulging in Ure ormed by the murder, police into a fairly respect -- xports that fill tne. Northland whiter days district. with enjoyment for the average eitisen. The soldier Is an exceptionally hardy follow, Inured to all conditions of weather and poorrcsidng a constitution and stomach ot Iron. Men on skid may traverse the snow covered country in winter, but the traneporutlon of guns is not dons with such facility, though the problem has been solved so that the task Is quite easy. This picture shows how it is done. Tire body of the gun carriage la shown at the left and is supplied with axes. The gun wheel are detached and strung together on s pole at tha rear of tha sledga Altogether It Is a compact outfit, and the men are expert at pocking tha prats and assembling them again. LONDONS NEW AUTOMOBILE ENGINE. Life Savers SS444SS Monument. A Mountain of Iran. MOUNTAIN which Is said to be the three-quarte- rs Japanese officers, and many of men, sprak Russian fluently. hoe been a professorship of the Hue) an language at the School of War in Toklo ever since 1HC. There Is another at the University of Tukio.wnere of late year, has been a Musou-vl- e by birth named Kcrdcr, who Is now a naturalised Japanese. Besides Diene. courses sre held at several scholastic Institutions In Toklo. Tne Russian ha.i always hid a reputation for great fluener In speaking foreign tongue , but he w.tl soon have to look to his laurels, for the Jspaneee Is rapidly outstripping him. NOBT Run-ela- 44444444 44444444 n A IHtle musical genius. Max Dare wkl. conducted the Kilties' Bund at an Albert' lfall conceit. ' One of the piece rendered was three ROOK WHERE SHAKESPEARE WAS BORN. most remarkable in the world Ik situated In the State of Durango, Mexico. ba a claim Io this repuIt tation, for It Is two thousand feet high, of a mils in thickabout ness at the base and is almost solid Iron. Naturally, it has been the dream of iron manufacturers ever slnne it dieoovory to leaae ths mountain and so work It. But thla the government has refused to l"t them do till quite recently, when x contract was signed between It and some New York oapltallata for the operation and development of tha mountain on a partner-ehl- p bar la The ore obtained from till mountain 1 said to yield about alghty-sere- n per. cent pure Iron. . Japanese Proficiency in Russian. I not ro slow as some im travelled American imagine. If cue should thing bring this fact sharply home it Is this picture of an cloc'.rh. motor lire engine, which I really a convincing affair. Usually the English are low to take up Innovation. John Bull' altitude, like that of the man from Missouri, is, "You've gut to show me." Yet ften when shown he ie still unconvinced. Bat when tie concludes to do a thing Ms . for centuries until they have become oompletely mummified. The coffins of an snairnt pattern, many ot which are richly curved, extend In lung rows with their lids raised, exposing to the view their andont Eskimo Masks. - ve dur exeemavt value, and even sunlight has be , oUfut wrhUg Villua. xhll yitlV1 al to nut though MUte high wall, had aqueexed the cheer- - ) r:?! lt-- i'irfTTT sole. The new metropolitan Institution when completed will contain no fewer than twelve auction hails. Tlie authorities claim ao more than live per cent of the selling price, and this covers all lbs expenses of Ike sale. I i TRAVELLER who has eprnt many Lymrs in larloua parts ot Russia has Igivtqi - youie very interesting facta iibouv tlie Russian sailor, lie says that lie was gussied to llnd a reason why Hie Jack Tar should show no trace whatever In Us walk of the nautical roll which characterises the aeamaa Ibc world over. After giving considerable time to observation he found the an-f- 'r (o his riddle. The Russian aailor rarely goes to sea where the constant balancing of hla body ia a necessity. The Mack Sea squadron ran only put out io sea in the calmest mouths of the summer. The naval manoeuvres ars conducted ashore, on the Kcnal peninsula, and take the form of battalion drills Thera Is hardly one Russian tar out of twenty who could spend twenty-fohours afloat at eta without becoming aeaalck. And this is the reason that, though there ie no finer sailor physically Jn the nevles of the world than the Russian, as a handy man ho U almoKl worthless for active service, A Costly Heal, are popularly supposed to feed GOATS articles which no other could digest or masticate, but there Is or there was a goat In Belgium w nlih showed a nice discrimination in the choice of 1U food and paid the price wl h Its lire. An old peasant woman laid on the grass an old Jacket which contained bank notes of small dcncnilration aggregating a suin of SUM. While she was at work her pet nanny gnat got at the notes and ate tnem up. The animal whs killed and the chewed paper recovered from Its stomach. 1 hl paper was taken to the National Bank or Belgium and, after chemical analysis, the bank paid the woman the equivalent of the chewed paper In new notes Urabbiug IN THE LEAD CELLAR AT DARMSTADT. ! of the moat remarkable tombs In Tha city of Moedllng, naar Vienna, has world la doubtless the ancient Lead Cellar of Darmstadt. Beneath celebrated its 1,000th anniversary, it spring, but they fW uf. out of it, and if it serves no other Jimt the to claims have ancient the oldest electrical tramarchas of tills old cellar, someUntek Jump. purpose M offer, an excellent study in lie exposed row in Central Europe. . of grewaom looking 'perspective. You may readily ms that no way The dead have bean kept here A new marine reptile has been discovered very exuberant childish frolic, may be held o In the Hosselku. limestone in the upper in such aa this, yet this meagre At a recent conferencs of the trade in It Is estimated that the Parimana aJune irlaaaio of giiasta county, California, by elk-- of air and light Is quite dearly paid Leicester the president of thi Institute of spend 34, OuO confetti every sterling upon Mix A. M. Alexander, an enthusiast on the fur. Carriage Bulldore said that pniellcally tha year. The total weight of confeUl sold in Whole of the wheel making Industry ot Paris In a year has been estimated at them In a curious open cabinet kept for subject of fossils. more than a thousand tons. England had been captured by America. the purpose. Thle cabinet or ceil was so . Uncomfortable Sheeps Tailo. amai that the women were obliged to stand Naval experts piu uuwn llie active life eomlnon In Ayr la a an4 they were allowed to remain In of a modern balilc ship at about fifteen ABPEC1E8 of sheep FEATI 0T PERFORMING DOGS. by the weight of Its A hundred years ago war ships until their tempers had cooled years. Pu the fix a shepherds piece of off- of these old cabinets, which Is tasted almost six times aa long, and were; VA mrv4r vimlpIv lhe whul time? It Is thin board to the under purt, where ,ta almwu in the accompany- - on not covered with thick wool, to preof their commission. ln photograph. vent It from being torn by the bushes, Ac. Suiue bavs small wheels affixed to facilitate tha dragging ot these hoards after NAPOLEONS HANDWRITING ON PLAYING CARDS. them. The tail of s common sheep of this sort usually weighs fifteen pounds or np- ward, while that of a Luge species after will weigh ftlty being well fattened ' sweydwAf ,h."l ot open space, but in an hraUtro 'Mlon overcrowded city every foot of land has with hie front fit rlh. an ugly sriakeran his other half. pull, up that snakes can I'- -'' thn-n- t MWAK iiinnol'moiia women off to the town hall and Imprison hl? up? awmiy. I I. I r-.- - Unusual BetemUanceg. a. 'cf foinni.ei knowledge mien a hueua: wlfl. hate1 I.. sillier far Ivug .,ilh they not' only acquire tlie tsutir irivks ot voice' and manner, but tla show a strong facial .resemblance, mi that th.-- might raaily be taken fur brother and Wtr. Almuai every ene has at least one siich inalance among his acquaintance. uu t ,, j well known tut lhal a simhaps a ilar rvseinhlsnce oflon msij:s from a and servant being associated tir a kaig period ot years. Added to the fset ot rams lant nearness there is usually on the part f the oorranl a to imitate the voire and manner of 11m tulMrem aha so much admire. And this often extends to tiis f.udal Tliers are In a small town or New England two mostprovincial unusual instances of this resenilihiw-e- . Two maiden ladies live there each of wnotn lias been at-- l ended tor the greater pari of fifty years by a woman who Is more a companion Gian a servant, la both raxes the women have become ao astonishingly like their mistresses that they are often mistaken for them. And their voters orrr the act so exactly alike that the frleude of both tulles have given up this means of oosiununication with dnsi Uvausv of the embarrassing mistakes which constantly q smoking ha raachad immense the proportion in th Frenoh port on bw-Mediterranean Bea. Laws have Toulon and In Marseilles forbidding p used ithe rolling of pills in public placet in j those cities Opium UK French seafaring folk are liurily lot, aa are ail mm win go There are 02.430 miles of ocean cable In to the sea in ship, and the , operation lorilay, and only 38.7X7 mile are rinrdy courage of ihiwn who live by 'owned by guvernmeut. The Rritiu:i connect London T din with ell wnlih and the world, have a total mileage of aa thi room looks, it la tho haa mid tt, hut with hla coming a newbeside cti'omughne is admirable and he will ta deeply "appreciative of gtoriiiiia sun was born to the world, aa fur as any other chap to get 'he best Hmnet celebrated In the world which other bents hava paled, w&ated and all iffort of human benefit or nafoguard. j student, the sociologist, the pool, died. and most stable results. The motor en ment In London. Tlfousanda of ppiema from al.'jsrta liaa given them brave men a laiting token1 The Churrn of Pt. Ethelburga, Bishops- the painter, the phlluaopher and glne In London will be followed by others 44044044 tonguiu ana he world, speakl.ig .of honor that those at home and from: gats alreel, London, la quit a noveKy in every man who look upon human nature et the greatest Police Bergnant Narrumore, of have in various great cities, tv. may iee, and, seeing, appreciate the' the way of eeclesttsllcal architecture. In and realises Its depth and heights and tlie j worshippin different god, 'S'ctaroa. b Worro tcr.ahlre, who ahrlne In adoration, made nwiein wild to be the of the heroes. Thia picture kuow the forefront of tlie church I an omlcian' taw that girt It round turn wirh rever-jta!,'!7f .iT Vi' ta doomed to exclusion et policeman in England. 1s the great BllliWIf retiring after'the statue to the llfosaveru st Calais and 'shop and also s cut'ery e'.Mlhnient. enre to this pot. In this room was born appreciation by44444444 from the great centres of population, t - twenty years' mrvics. Although only f the sculptor who shaped It brougtu' t'o his both belonging to one firm. This ta He use in nowise Shakespeare. Oil inuliea high, Narramure welglis over work an effective eymjiathy and admin- -' ably tha only church hi England which different from other Infant, ''mewling and An eel haa two aeparat heart. ing gradually ousted, on hie way to It- other U time a minut. tha himself mate extinction. into Uata j puking in Jlta nurses arme, as he iMgtcna. built fronts two sixty, hax juon. shop j t ?fSYVrt to-da-y. I :f ul,bl! ; wirt hl 1 i . prob-Wlllta- m itltl-ife- et r |