Show 6 0 things thing 0 quaint za and fell u r 10 US gathered here and there MUSEUM HAS PRIZE GORILLA monster of the woods slain by german traveler there has just been placed on eahl bitton in the museum at hamburg the biggest known specimen of gorilla it was shot in the came roon Terri territory torry in west africa after much difficulty it was ras removed to hamburg stuffed mounted and placed on exhibition it measures 6 feet 1034 10 inches from the crown of the head to the middle toe and across from mid die finger to middle finger 9 feet 3 inches it was largely a matter of chance that the commercial traveler herr of schwerin shot this gigantic gorilla when the natives came to the agency at cameroon Camei Came oon rith ith stories of the big monkey herr did not take much stock in their yarns but when the native troops started out to hunt for the gorilla the german trav eler took his barbire and went along after some hours travel they came to the patch of bush where the gorilla was supposed to be hiding the na tives surrounded the bush and sud denly the beast beasts s head appeared herr made a path through the bush with his bush knife and when within range took air and fired it was a lucky shot for the beast at once tell fell with the bullet through his head he fell with ith a crash and was almost instantly dead it was not an easy matter to remove the gorilla to the coast and thence to hamburg but there it Is now almost lifelike in ap pea ance so carefully was the mount erml AL 40 I 1 t teg ing and stuffing done alongside Is the gigantic skeleton since the gor ilia illa was placed on exhibition the crowds at the museum have teen been enor mom and the comments upon its marked resemblance to the human species have been general the gor ilia illa might have something to say on this subject it alive the B agest hang ng bell what is perhaps the largest hanging bell in the world Is to be seen in mandalay this is the mangun bell on the right bani of the a most opposite the city of mandalay this immense bell measures as lows low height to crown 12 feet 21 feet high to the top of the griffin like monsters diameter at the lip 16 teet feet 3 inches thickness of metal from 6 inches to 12 inches it weighs about 80 tons and Is suspended on maishe round beams of teak placed horizontally the one over the other their ends resting on two pillars of enormous size composed of masonry and large upright teal posts this bell was cast at the end of the eight benth century under the superintend ence of the reigning king making trees eat in the crimea scientists have 1 been een making queer experiments exi eri ments with fruit hiees instead of trying to increase their growth and yield by heaping fer for tili around their loots they have been cutting tiny holes into their trunks and inserting salts of iron in both solid and liquid form an ac so count of these curious experiments has been read before the imperial society recently and it was declared by the men who have been thus feeding the trees that the method has proved itself to be highly successful photographs photograph were shown ot nine hundred trees that had been thus treated and the pic pie tures appeared to prove the truth of the allegations for all the treed tree were beautiful with foliage and flourishing excellently boy buried alive immediately after the bural bunal ot of lier only son at naples signora cupolo cried out that the angels were whis to her that the child was still alive she attacked the grave diggers and began throwing out the earth while friends taking pity on her as misted finally the lid was unscrewed and it was found that the child had suffocated the little body was lying on the stomach the clothing torn into shreds and the finger nails red with blood the body was still warm but efforts to revive the poor boy were dutile protest against profanation british residents of greece are much wrought up over the action of the gov eminent in accepting the offer of a foreign capitalist to erect a gambling casino in the old british cemetery in corfu when the ionian islands were ceded by england to greece in 1864 it was specifically provided that the cemeteries would remain undisturbed RAT SHOWS ITS SAGACITY rare intelligence displayed by pet of famous writer that delightful writer on natural history the late mr frank buckland used to be particularly fond of watch ing the various ways in which his pets would thieve he lie told a good tale about a rat that he had which not in frequently terrified his visitors at breakfast mr BuckI buckland and had made a house tor for his pet rodent by the tide side of the mantelpiece and this was ap preached pro ached by a kind of ladder which the rat had to ascend when he had frank buckland a 8 rt RAL been foraging on the tle floor mr rat was very fond of certain sorts of fish and was sure to venture forth pros pec tingly it if the savor were strong one day mr air buckland turned his back in order to give his pet a chance of seizing the coveted morsel which he was not long in doing hastening up the ladder with his piscatorial prize he had it fixed by the middle of the back and found that this prevented him drawing the fish through the nar row portal of his den this however did not disconcert the rat at all he laid down his capture on the little platform before his door went in him self turned around poked out his head caught the fish by the nose and pulled him in with easy triumph and shortly dined sumptuously what Is more mr rat never again tried to house his provender sideways gigantic wedding feast A monster banquet has just been given by a wealthy landowner at Quim perle in normandy to cele celebrate the simultaneous wedding of his tour four children two sons and two daughters no 0 o fewer than thin 1600 1 guests sat down to the feast which took place in the open air the bill of fare included ave cattle and sixteen lambs so lavish was the scale ot of ordering that though the 1 1600 guests are reported tc have hae ha e had magnificent appetites there was more than enough for all nor was their thirst neglected tor for the guests emptied ten large barrels of wine and fifteen of cider besides dis posh g of much else of a liquid character broken bones va RAO ua a bics timea FEM mia A IMES r 1111 SULA 7 5 3 T mif a R T MM I 1 harry ehrstine of 0 mulberry grove III although only 12 years old has sut suf I 1 21 fractures of the arms and legs as shown above THE CZARS GREAT ARMY it Is one of the great civilizing force forces of the muscovite empire the czar Is in favor ot of universal peace but he has the largest army ot of the world he has more officers than we have officers and men in our regu lar anny army and even iq fil these piping times of 0 peace his troops exceed 1000 1 writes frank G carpenter should war be declared he could increase them to 5 and could put into the field ot of the best horses in the world for the past thirty years military service has been obligatory upon all russians every boy on becoming ot of age Is liable to service and there are new recruits every year ot of these arg are taken into the active army and fleet and ot of the rest the majority go into the militia they serve off and on until they are 43 bears ears old and are always ready to be called out tn in case of war it takes a vast number of troops to keep this great empire in order dur ing the chinese war men were sent into siberia and a great wall ol 01 fortifications has to be kept up along the western frontier to guard against invasion from europe tho the frontier guard now amounts to 35 men and in addition vast numbers have to be scattered throughout the various state states and the russian territories in asia the cossacks are dark faced rough looking fellows from about the blac d my M y A cossack officer aei there them are about 1000 ot then thein all 11 end and they furnish men for tho th army they are sent out by the verlous cossack states each ol 01 which equips clothes and arms iam 11 own soldiers they belong mostly to the cavalry and are among the finest X horsemen of the world indeed it Is I 1 said that the average cossack can ride 4 bareback standing up like the athlete of the circus the russian army Is one of the great civilizing forces of this country the peasants are very ignorant and here there are but few schools those drafted into the army are taught to ead read and write and they are sent bibek home with new ideas got through their ervice service in different parts of tha the rua rd lan world indeed the change ie to eo so marked that a man who has had bad mill tary service cervice can command 25 per cent higher wages in almost any pursuit than those who have not served globe I 1 has outlived a century the oldest recorded minister of the sole so le y of friends in the world mrs hoebe phoebe ann gifford recently celebrated the anniversary of her birth at her home in providence A large arge number of congratulatory mea ages sages were re elved by mrs gifford who vho retains her powers to a remark ible able degree professional bible reader readers readings from the bible are nov noi being aing given in berlin by reci idlers FIRST OPEN AIR THEATRE IN ENGLAND T r 0 a an open air theater the first of its it kind in england and of which we present a special sketch above was open ed at port sunlight recently the greeks and romans held many of their gatherings in the open air and many of their sports were witnessed under the canopy of heaven our c amate does not always permit us ua to imitate them but even in england who haj not felt on a warm summer a day dar how much preferable a suitable eila in the fresh air would be to a stuffy unventilated and abominably aveo ive crow crowned ed lecture hall or church aliv llop mercury A |