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Show THE SUNDAY. MORNING EXAMINEE, MAY II, 1905. ?wm V OI IV A JAPANESE SHOE lut Resort. Hit Champion Sneeaer. SHOP. in I CRT R08SLYN, who has won success odd competition recently held I in this country u an n'nr under the town wax a women , nom du theatre of James Erakine. which half a Josen old in turned flrsi to bonking when the ne-. , Mlh cseslty for earning hs own living arose. TfZrEl offered was and a WPT,j He answered many idvertlsements only handkerchief, any desired) to be informed, in such cases as answers permitted to matte use of returned, that his handwriting was ih. sneesituc ft. to haTbesi Voided emyio,nt was out of the arnuff bln, of the committee. a RheraUyi He was offered a position in a largo dry At a aignal each ths goods store, but was turned away when snuffbox the into was learned that he had had no previous sneealng ttegan. A taege the facial! experience behind a counter, and In deny the unique Idea, roared at woaieu .u, .pair he went on the stage. Here he found contortion indulged Inly nd, though h ha qulrkly to .! mploymcnt they gave distinction, he has ml Ianed ,at t!l fail to Th first by wffio was tea jrom , least solved ah problem of living to his rather youngish snd the room wiOf streaming eye. makes apparent. - - !"'i, )dened noae some five other jweak start. There wsa no t but Buddha's Tooth. minutes after that. minute, the fifth staggered twenty-sevenout into the free air to cheek ,J 'stve atcjtoos. and the mtchf on V n The winner, however, urged full um laughing audience, persimed to half hour had pateed and thwi dropped one hand completely exhausted, the almost SutchTg the prise, the other empty anuftbo. Ajf , "jv-uio.-w I Td vt 1! ! ! th posed to be lust. "'hen the old Houses of Parliament burned down the lose of the historic standards was hewailwi, and amid much discussion a coromimflon was appointed to restore thee standards according to the method prescribed by law. which was by comparison with a pendulum vibrating seconds of time In the latitude of London. Francis Bally was intrusted with the task and for eleven years worked upon the yard standard. At his death another experimenter was appointed, and twenty-tw- o years after the loss a new set of th of tha sentimental. Hbr years these wrr designated aa tha standards on those ernudonal comparisons with tha standards In use, and not until a few years actually ago waa It discovered that the original standards were still In existence, never having been kept in tha Houses of Parliament at all but In government offices elsewhere. In the excitement th statement that the standards were kept In tha Houses of Parliament was accepted aa a fact and no investigation was made In other directions. Women PosUl Clarks. spite of omsHer territory, uumber of women than the L nlted having no fewer than telegraph sysths combined postal and are only tem. In America there women thus employed and Great Britain in the women finds a place for but 1M.0W post and telegraph ofllcee. ri n A?' In Era nee there are U.UO tria (.Mil Russia. Japan and Bnilsn In each give work to some IM. hut 'the other countries In the Post Gffice 'Union women are not largely h Were the number of women 'operator. In the United Bute, to be arttoj to the postal clerks, this first place, sines thU Is ths cmsiructln . nf Ohre of the hawkers and pushcart m.ik--- r engaged number of the PmUI I nlon lmpon,lt At hls, IcitiM'iw we wee jn our own country, Jn- - a Pair of curious native shoes. row the poelal and nnsininv M are hutur on bsniboo pulr the curbstone merchant under ana direction. wrveJ tie to wear, foot coverings ready a ililferent type. Over there may seen ouljnor xuoiis, counters and pile of. Experiments Justify the conclusion that The threv iresllwer stations the thnrouglifyre,; gnoda nnged along 1th the iniperturlKibb) shnivcier busily Irrreaslng tne intensity uf light AU Ing built on tho Uuiiudlan aide of Xlafiam times doea not alt-- r its velocity by aa much) Fails will havs un .tr.gregste output or plying liix trail or minding the store. 9K.0M horse power. Ultimately one of theThe paotograph shows s Japanese shoe- - as two feet a aecjnd. add to ita outcompanies, the Ontario, will to ABlionm ao t0 .bring tha total Durini the Ust year the Canadian gov-bat the gmnd ! eminent has paid out In steamship sub-- 1 power. It laworld s Matter ot Eyesight. present sidle it Unit vrr 5mu,uIU. These aubsldie toliU of the DDl.Y enough the best eyesight is have been pild partly for mall purposes power la 1.4SS.W0 horse power, of which the tlclt-lm- d In the will and represent mors tliun stations Canadian the to at found establish equator partly, apparently , twenty-seve- n per cent mercial connections. ily of the north pole. Good eyesight is dependent upon the; country, and barren wastes broken hy few1 objects develop a keenness ofAneyesight', LONGEST BRIDGE IN THE WOBLD. Esqul-umuilng to the city heed man. muu will detect a white fax stealing along, the snow covered waste at an Inrredilile distance and will discern otijecta where the, tnveller sees only a field of blinding white.' TIi Arab of the desert Is gifted with slmll.tr keenness of vision, and ran pick, of from one to out objects ut distnmv-Ova miles. Of the civilised races ths Xor-- ; weglan Is beat provided with the surrounding. fur good eyesight, and Ilia city bred man, untrained 10 tha use of his eyes) for distances of more than a few blocks, has tire shortest range of vision of all. A country boy will aee an animal at a! distance of a inllo where his city cousin; will deled only the heavy niassea of light and shade, and he can recognise a pxrtlcu. Ur horse at a dlslanre of half u mile. The plainsman of ilie West has the besti eyesight of all Ilia Americans, the wide sweep of country ilevebgung hie vision' through the absence of ubst.irlea tending; to shorten the range. GFRMANY.ln Built a Church Along. B'l. : t" : ut 0 j . s near Coventry, possesses place of worship unique among Eng, llah churches. In ISO John Green, a atone mason nf a strongly religious turn of mind, laid tha first stona of the edifies and seven years later ha completed th building. In ail that tlm he derived assistance from none, doing all of tha work with his own hands until tha church was ready for Its interior fittings. Wooden and even brick buildings erected hy one or two men art not uncommon, but tMa Is th only atone structure in England and probably In ths world of which every stone was laid by one man. f the averyday sights oharac- Th building accommodates quits a lsrg 1 of Ceylon ta th cremation of congregation and th church derives a I ll ln squares. Funeral considerable revenue from ths co.itrihu-- l lions of sightseers who art drawn to ere5fel n.p,ctf toT thta bodies Place through curiosity. whom this last f tfaa Buddhlat prlertgi honor Is paid, are laid oa tha top of piles haa prevloualy bees By a vote of 141 to 17 tha Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill steeped In oil to facilitate the burning. providing 13), 00 for the purpose of erecting a statu of tha lata Senator Matthew Tha Hawaiian legislature has passed Stanley Quay In front of th new Penn- over the Governors veto a law allowingsylvania Bints CsplioL Nina republican baseball and similar amusements on 8unRepresentatives voted against ths bill and! day and permitting cigar and many other one democrat for 1L stores to remain open on that day. a ia I CURIOUS FUNERAL EITE& Lost Standards. readers know the curious history rEW standard weights and measures British Empire or have heard that for a long time these were sup- trllo , EARLY half a billion people worship a tooth which Is supposed to have belonged to the set owned and operated by Buddha. Years ago In fact, somecenturies ago the thing llko twenty-fiv- e molar shown In the Illustration waa alleged to have been' rescued from tho ashes of the funeral pyre of ths god. Its career since that time has been varied. From India tho todlh waa taken to Cey len, then It was seised by ths Ualsbara snd later by the Portuguese, and kept In Goa. lfcre the revered tooth was burned. As ft was a murriigc dower with th prlnrrs of th royal house the original relic had to be replaced, so that the molar which rests among gorgeous surroundings and to which a special tempi has been dedicated Is said to be that of a wild boar FOUR-DAY-OL- CAHEL.' D I I Curioug Gold Nugget, ' longest brlrtga ln tlie world (S.nun,nn. Ths piles were brought from the across Great Balt take. It rnogon and Texas forest a Ky placing all constructed at an enormous coat tll together they smulil measure to save tint and money. Before th.- - nH-- pjra K;x hundred thousand feeL There Elfw Is 'em. af more titan eleven miles or permanent forty-thre- e miles of road and ruin directly 'featllng. nearly Urn entire length beingunder water which la from thirty to thlrtyfrom Ogden 10 Lucln. Th cost of this remarkable brides was four feet deep. ry Tl -- - Giant Automobile. I w-- " nupt Tlssed 'W . n X x - - pi.hlicr . Salvation Army Chickens. only ths largest, but Che moat NOT poultry yard In England la conducted by ths Halvatton the corset. Borne time ago It was decreed that Army, which is ths pride of General rone might attend the public schools who Booth, tha founder of tha army. wore corsets. As might have been exIt houses mors than two thousand pected, there were loud protests, but the chickens, and last year IU40 eggx were Minister of Education stood firm. and. produced for use in ths Halvatlon Army with the State to Indorse his action, ear- enterprises and for general sale. In add! tion 1.1KS bird were sold and Z.3M chicks ned his point. Education Is compulsory, and sines none ra reared. might attend the public schools who wore On would scarcely Imagine th Salvacorsets. It resulted In tha practical aban- tion Army as chicken fanriera, yet of a donment of this article of dress among the 'otal of 104 birds exhMted at shows, ninety-three won x record of which girls. Car-- fill watch waa kept upon the young any one might prises, be proud. women, and as the result of a table of Although tha farm la Intended ,utFt'r recently submitted. It has been mors as a meanspoultry of giving employment declared that the ht.indsrd of health to th'oss presenting themselves at the res, has been very ma- cue missions. among the schoolgirls It has proven s decidedly terially impmve.L the soles for last Nw It has been ordered that all direc- year amounting scheme, tors of private educational establishment thousand dollar. to a little more than four must e to It that their pupils also eschew Tha farm exceeds Jn slse any othsr In the corset, and i fresh discussion has been and that f THE II Russian Peasants. Corsets Are Condemned Hera. Roumanian Departmrnt nf THE Is extending Its field of warfare Novel Oyster Parties. Electric Haircutting. Idem I lie it OST of us are unfamiliar with baby of its kind than It does Ilka an overgrown camels. The picture herewith is that calf which Is all lego, of probably the youngest ship of Tha llttl animal waa born In tha Zootog-th- e desert1' to have stood for a cam- - foal Garden, where It Is being well cared artist. The buhy camel Is Just four; for. When grown It will bo worth about days old. It looks perhaps less like one ,1400. Spanish wslerlngj newest application of eleeirlolly In 1 flGO. on of th barber shop Is th electric lislr! places, offers a novel amusement to, fur burning off the surplus V lls guest a oyster parties are the rags' nnd are of dally occurrence. Large' growth. formed which proceed to the It Is an outgrowth ,r the fad for slnp-- ! flat bottomed boats, end the hd ln Ing the hslr after cutting, that the rnd nvstrrs ary fished up and opened as soon m iy not split snd kill the life of the lialr. as are they brought Into the boat. and the Instrument Is simple tn the extrrme. A comb with a tine plellnuin wire Kew refreshments apart from tha bl- -ofr.wd. as one of the InterestI connected to the lighting ayatrm. Th- -I wire Is lira ret tn Incandescence, and. x,"1 features of the party Is the awarding oft"the ona who vonaumea tho greatI he omh la run through the hair at to .ha guest on the ,he jEAIl shaped pearls and HAT automobile car rervice has been Ni'IVTk dnilhtf "1 ir oiiT w'rttilflWht Wnrth lrmlntln In n proper received hi London ie proved by 4h U tak-- s leu than s third or the ,m'i hnV o llTinv'l find ti of mid in fills irm. Tin-tlie fsi-- t that a new line haa hern put barber min, is the orioln.il M.,c required by only one on on run fmin Aldwych to Bronde. to of " murh smullerj k,n, ,,,'',,h i Hue ir. ion, whh-was discovered at the does 11 W'irk toiler mid iho clremcrl'i vfn California relative, and abury- - Like the nh, buses, the new motor madei I 're Hirer rush, in Quecm-- I ml. Australis. ununvance m ih reu red l Knrr f ter hundred Is not at all ufi- - mi aw arranged with seats Inside and oil whl- - h la almost The curious lump of the shears h?ro,:rtcr:;;e - "rpnce for the ride. - the parly sometime, last, the '"PvmVagl- - b? mince anil com no pine metal, wclghii i!iitly-i-Is valued at nearly tl.'o. i; flclals of lta sale that It may be traoditf thus the Introduction of e foreign nssiik a tag similarly numbered la rendeitlt possible. Bnre the Introduction of this system fie spread of disrasa among cattla has beta, checked, and It la hoped that abort! tuberculosis will b entirely wiped out Although tha system involve soms trouble and expense, the breeders of cattle cheerfully aid tha officers In ths enferra-maiof the law, and only cows with th fashionable ear ornaments an to ho lees. are advantages accruing even from bald lirads. It Is pointed out by a writer lit a medical Journal that bald headed men never suffer from consumption, and that a tendency ts baldness Is an assuranca that tho dreaded scourge will pass over him whose thatch grows thin. At first glance It would appear absurd to argue that a man's hair la Indicative of his Immunity from disease, blit the writer who advances tills novel theory declares that In tha five years during which ha eeriouriy added a record of tils patients Imir or lack of It his case cards have failed to show a single Instance of "bald" being entered upon tlie card of a consumptive. He bad under treatment more than seven hundred rases, and he makes th further statement that In a census of more than five thousand tuhereulosla roses he failed to discover a slnxlo sufferer who wae hold. lfa makes no effort to explain hla theory upon medirxl grounds, but simply offers the remits of his observation for the benefit of the profession, and haa Invited his brother physicians to write him uf any rase of m bald headed consumptive coining era under their observation. - a- liiiK-.i- , breeder Is obliged to keep naif iofThe the animal and promptly notify tkrf. Bsld Heads Escape. , 1 y . THE Jli? Earringed Cowa. HILE health authorities tag tsf 11 cattle our after they have been iUuf tend, Belgian, cowa or thus decorated hy tha government when they reach tha age of three month. The tag ie a preventive measure mj g designed to check the spread of lnfcetics from tuhereulosla through the Intmtss. tlon, from Other countries, of dlseowd cat. Its ear. or ape. ) Lifeboats were launched on service m fewer than SM times on the America coast last year and xeved fill lives, TM fleet of lifeboats numbers 28L tie.. As soon aa calf becomes three smug old It Is inspected by a government official, who enters its mark and sex In a mail hook and provides it with a numheriq tag which la fastened to a ring passed thrwtt , The Berlin police authorities Intend In be severs measures tu suppress tha prac-- J tlce of playing poker In public places. Around tha pgrr gather tha friend ig relatives of the departed ones Dung ths ceremony they prostrate themaehg and offer up prayers. killed In is ona European rmi"tr7.1 may find PW and ln every actly aa they were general loin this la Russia. In 1U more unfreqnestm district! the peasant type has advance VKI scarcely at all. They are almost were before th Tartar invasion. Tha women wear tho quaint in"" costume, which Is gradually diMppearm fJS elsewhere In Russia. oonntrles. and the tall, heardM m"" a ell no marks of modern civilisation habits or garb. THERE the traveller P1'r - 1,. d by means nf little metal irons In IMi tha number of picture Iiimb.1 fmiinl on the hodle. So common w the custom that hosts Island was 0.(W th nf threw Icons are trirsl shop where only (he shaving will be re built On the back uf The open spaces of London measure (ire country being CMJJ1especially for this purpose and) Swindling French Hallways. York city, W1im stamped the w.itrr'i mnir. regiment and done In the old fashion! way. nr them arn rather flahnrtrly fur-twenty-on- e and one-ha-lf square miles. geftled down In New ! commlerion. Every n.itlon labels its the remainder, of coat mTZ "to each nlRhfd, thniiKh the very nnltire of the F toi re'rautioned piy'purVlcuiar atten- The aggregate year of the great majority In one way or another, with a view I ' of 'her rro- - .T to tni aevrer. maintenance of the parks u less than a other cities as Uborers, Ac., leas, prevents decoration. are rnldlrral tree The of I h.t'ihali cure Benrgamhia to Just such h'lpprntiiga. English the sum being r.lion ar not needed. quarter of a million sterling. to he (he ,iM.t living tree on earth, on active rrrvh-receive small tuiiicl until tiie traveller gives up his1 - Borne acientikU have put the age or one uf the nr foci shout which suph,,w,nthe lung card, lnt?ntlng Among Mouth Ornni in Plenty these trees st tlx thoutind years, Ttv.xf atmt EQUESTRIAN FEAT. Recently Milne of the railway running' new Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel and ter- posed to be sewed lnslda tha Jacket. (ill the I. nitei Btatrsls by fur; Into Par: have been alarmed st the'mlnsl In New York uro these: Total cost. aII9.000.0UO to of ALTIi fori tbs mouth organs numerous returns nude by ticket holders. lan.Afl.0n). In addition largest purchaser PRIMITIVE FERRY BOAT. lively few are made In this Invcs1 igatinn showed that there was no tlie station site, nn which were about J00 train "Mrkcd off in the of Moat daily the dwellings; capacity. MO; pasrailing of the mouth organs sold patronage country. and an i lahorate system of check- - senger accommodation dally, 3X1. 000; men here are of German make and are Im- was resorted to In order at work, about Ifl.nno; time required for ported from the Black Forest, where one ,!,K "P h tick-'i, two minutes, discover win rein lay ths explanation trip under the Hlone turns out .(Ui.in) harmonicas or returned tickets, list tlif loavy oooooose yearly through its Afireii branches, n matters worse made I.Oin which Invesilg.uion only hands nre employed futile - sol-ilie- is "'".i over-.riwt- e I art.r s llud-um- fr Twelve Toni of Drinks. OMFUT1XG upon the basis of a pint beer a day and a bottle of whiskey week, a man who haa used liquors re-- ; for the last fifty years has figured out erly.that In that time he has consumed more ' that ii''lci-tlowhs almost Im- - than twelve tons f fluids, 'care iiecil In their mamifacure. franc worth. A bottle nf whlekey a week li not an Them- - J.ii ure the "'blc. Several thou-an- d 'iMni-cr- f lf tll,,w orgcric had hinn turned Into the unusual Indulgence, since It is less than j harmonica, which coma In from ci of same road !ic by four to a iluscn and which sell for several' v',r'l,us Ring of swln-- tlirce drink a day, and yet. in fifty years. dollars. jdleris who covered tlielr operations ao the score will have reached a total of S.MO B,t unil1 JhCv ni,,nb,r rt bottles, while in lhe same time the beer! They are tuned In various and ln''lM,,r,y was consumed represents some Jos nine gallon one form have six harmonica key 0f different ,urm'a hai' ffr,ln into the hundreds ' key fitted about a central. tern. 8 ... of "V r ' the more elaborate ,he 'n,1 ,um thel This seems a pretty big -- load for ons one are handsomelv1 ln "pl1 i decorated in silver and gold, and the wood reward in the aggregate waa sufficient to man to carry, but It must be remembered :f,lllon 01 whu mu,t hAV" tnot when distributed over 1S.SH days the' Instead of the cheap pine generaliv Uked'.ltr,ct thf ! been a large gang, though they operated average is small enough and that mah ig.my. authorities are un- - that time probably fifteen hundredduring' tons Troswngen is tlie headquarters f ,pfrt,v m,u,B,a- - Food ,nd industry i(Rj trade supports i to were frih!.-access to the one gam he entire tvpula:l.m. drink man for they for fifty years. If ami names upon th tickets ili'llvered at one time, would make x lengthy It ess force. 'cession of carts. pr A Japanese i recently applied for leave .0 aitind the meetings of the 8an Fran- - Th traction situation hi Clilcugo ts con- - Th depression In shipbuilding In thlsi . tounril. Ilo said trolled by two th Union Trac- Is reflected In the report of tha! he'wsni1 ? ". listen to its deliberations tinu nnd t.e companies, . ruv. Rr the recent country CnmniiitUn.. I I i I j,, -- come across strange For a prow it has the head and neck of vehicle, and craft in their Journey horse, over the world. Especially Is this true ! lhe P01"'"- - Th" Picture' The extent of Chili's wwd been put at 4a).0M aquar, ct, Wffieal f.wy Hun fsTnJV11' The boat is time th? agqreg.ite extent of all large and flat, resting low In the water, seventy ths coal fields of Great Britaim $Tc2 wr m,. .LsS riM.-ui- i B-- here, rrgistc: on th.e for any a sporting farmer- of ue man outslda the canvai walla of x circus. That Is the neat figure, how- - Two hundred rarrler pigeon jever, which Mr. IV. H. Rldd, pictured every German fortress. HU EE hundred and sixty-foIs more than a fair weight Jf',t,re. pound -- |