Show 6 gw red rose or white rose red rose or white rose roas but any rose Is best st if helen hath but wom it A moment on her breast northland or southland all roses in n eclipse it if helen hath but leaned to one the crimson of her if line and the world a s a deathless leath less garden for all the wintry gloom for hole s lips hae kissed the flowers to mytte mysteries ries of 0 bloom frank L stanton in atlanta Cons itu titu tion A un quo que ma I 1 boat the scottish island of st kilda the most westeri wester 3 of the Ife hebrides brides lies far out in the atlantic and is visited only to two oi 01 three times a year by mall mail boats in the intervals between these visits the st klisans adopt a curious mode of sending their letters to the outside world orld in the first place a piece of plank Is got about one fot rot and a hall half in leng length fth seven inches wid and four inches thick this is pointed at one end like a wedge edge w and a hole Is bored sideways through it while the other end is cut like the stein of a trawler thus forming the lough model of a boat in the center of the boat a hole six inches by fou fm inches Is cut all the letters along with the coppers for postage are then collected and put into a flack which in turn is placed in the cavity of the boat and covered over with a hatch the latter being tightly nailed to the wood so that no water may get in on the bow Is painted wilted in large letters the word open I 1 anally a buoy Is attached to the boat by a cord passed through the ici bow when everything Is ready the little craft Is coan bitted to the sea which in n due course casts it some on the west coast of scotland whoever it up is expected to buy the esaly tamps bamps with tho th money contained in the boat and to tn p post ost the letters that they may reach their destinations found n fish fishs s stomach in it the he stomach of a small p pike ike weighing one third of a pound and for which sl e paid 10 cent cento airs mrs frank mayer south morgan street chi cago found a gold star and crescent X pin the for 1 containing one 1 and the latter six small peal Is the pin is two binche long and was found by the a wy while e she was cleaning the fish for dinner the fish was purchased from a aad and mrs dla mayer er is at tempting to locate him so that she may trace the fish and it if possible find how it came to have the in its stomach A visitor from space A shooting rg star is oy dy no means an uncommon apparition but it baiely happens that one of these bodies finds its way to the earth they are most lv iv dissipated as fine dust when their c contact with our atmosphere heats them and renders them lumino is A short time ago one of these meteoric stones fell at crumlin county antrim ii eland lieland within a few miles of the city of belfast it was seen to fall about ten 0 clock in the morning by a la borer who w was as gathering apples with in twenty ya yards ads of the spot the stone bad had buried itself eighteen inches in the boll and when dug up was found to measure seven and a halt inches in length and to weigh nearly nine and a half halt pounds the stone which was quite hot when found Is the largest meteorite that has been seen to fall fill in the british isles for eighty nine years on hearing of the occurrence the chief of the mineralogical de par pertinent tm ent of the british museum visited crumlin examined the be atone stone and purchased it tor for the national col lection nebraska a breathing wells Ne nebraska braskas s breathing wells arede are described in a recent publication of the united states geological survey they are driven wells which after descend ing through from 60 50 to feet of subsoil penetrate a layer of dense limestone im estone about four inches thick which rests upon the water bearing gravel whenever an area of low ba ometer rometer passes across the country the breathing ire athing wells sigh and roar with a i lotse audible sometimes at a dis ills tance of several rods they blow out ward for several days and then the current is reversed and the air Is drawn in the changes always follow ing fluctuations of the barometer one explanation offered is that the jarous gravel inder underneath I 1 neath the limestone lay er contains air whose pressure ates in sympathy with that of 0 the air above ground but it is felt that a acm pa P te e ey 7 remains to be ma laoc petrified Petri fed stump of redwood one of colorado colorados s greatest greate qt cirios ties Is the petrified stump of a gi gigantic redwood tree this stump which is in an almost almot perfect state of tion is located at not far ficia the great gold producing region if cripple creel colorado although ever sine the first on of col ado number es crople have taken i 41 specimens from this stump ag gregat ing many tons it Is still estimated to ti weigh 44 tons to orvea give a better e er idea ea of its size it may be well to state that it Is 20 feet in diameter and 10 feet high there have been many attempts to dig it up and place it on exhibition owing to its great weight however this had to be aban boned and it still I 1 cs s half burled buried in the ground at as there are no railway cars capable of carrying anything near its weight what perhaps makes it more of a cu rosity is the fact that this rocky mountain region Is a coun try of small trees and that there are no g ant redwoods within a thousand miles 0 of this stump which goes to show that nature has changed the en tire vegetable growth of this section as nothing requiring the semi heat of a redwood tree would grow al at this altitude now neapolitan t at christmas the campo gnarl ri or pi pers come down to naples from the abruzzi and play hymns and carols before the images of the madonn madonna strange altar in connect cut curious was the find made in sharon conn by a coup couple ae of youths while hunting recently they disco ered an old tree into the hollow of which an altar had bad been built by cementing the flat stones at from ten to twelve feet from the ground and piling others at the base up to a height of some three feet ft A tablet was fastened in the back of the hollow about six feet from the foot which bora bore in greek the inscription which SL 51 paul on the altar in athens to the unknown god this use of a biblical cito notation tation was evidently evident ll made in a the altaf TK sup I 1 closed ased to have been erected by an irreligious sect or society which flour I 1 hed in sharon in the early years of tho tile last century and to have been the r seat of their atheistic orgies and revels the altar has since been de faced by some curiosity hunters carry 1 ing off tae tablet but luckily a photo graph of it had been taken before this vandalism was committed heathen prayer for rain the a sed finnish tribe interesting as the former neigh bors of the hungarians before their march souta fiam the volga still cling to their old heathen faith the priest ir IT one of their settlements curious ly enough suffering su fering from drought re bently performed the rain rite the whole population with offerings of but ter milk alt calt and meal were gathered a a spot where there was water for ridge tor for the gods was duly bo boiled i le d A priest then caught a swallow allow smeared s m e are d it with butter and bade it hy to god and tell him to send rain if he lie do no believe you show him you have been anointed I 1 the bird set free as a matter of fact flew to its nest but the priests nothing daunted con tinned the service the ceremony concluded by the acolytes pushing each other into the water and bountifully si sir rin inkling kling the crowds of pious lamen laymen who were fully convinced the drought wat id cease swimming feat at the aquatic exhibition in london C L newman swam two miles with both legs out of the water as show shown above A curious natural bridge recently a man prospecting in th mining regions ot of arizona found a remarkable natural bridge it spans a deep canon forta fort five feet in width the bridge Is made by a great petri fled tree that lies across the gorge scientific men say that many arf age since sirlee this tipe tive was prostrated by some terrific storn and fell across the canon by the effects of the water and of time it I 1 as passed through many staged of and la IS now a wonderful tree of solid agate state and there it lies making an agati brid bridge e over alel yen may pass from side to sid |