Show things Pua pualo lw at ind eur IGUS fro here and here MRS P evv A RELIC OF ROMAN GREATNESS aqueduct wh ch st 11 II endure endures after the fight of many centar Cen tires es Satt scattered ered about in various par 3 ot of europe wherever romans once held sway are the remains of aqueducts once huge and massive and even yet picturesque in their shattered great ness their waterless channels chancels mutely sugg esthe estlie of a more glorious past among these the most celebrated is the great aqueduct of font pont du gard near nismes Inthe in the south of 01 france which was designed to convey to that town the waters maters of the fountain of aure it crosses the beautiful valley from point to point of the high hills on either side spanning the river garden gardon r tw U ULM 14 1 roman aqueduct of pont du gard in its course As may be seen by the illustration it consists of three tiers of arches the lower of which are of 80 toot foot span the smaller arches support the trunk of the aqueduct which was tour four feet wide by five feet in depth and at an elevation eleia tion of feet above the river s bed this was lined with a coating of cement and red clay but otherwise the massive stone worl was built without mortar of any kind except for the dilapidation of the extremities this splendid structure Is yet in a very good state of preserve pre serva tion A contemplation of its time enduring solidity leads one to a ques ion of all absorbing interest had rome but founded her empire with a like regard for solidity and endurance what would bo b the conditi condition oll af 0 the civilized world today ashes of the dead wi 1 n how the urns containing the ashes of those cremated are kept in the crematory at philadelphia tablets bearing an all inscription are usually placed over each opening cats remarkable feat A grocer in w syracuse gave a brewer an old cat and four kittens a day old the brewer locked them up in his brewery for the night when the grocer came downstairs the next morn ing he found the cat eat and her four kit tens asleep on the doorstep the brewery was four miles away amay and the kittens too young to wall mall more than a few steps so the old cat had carried each one in her mouth four miles healthy kentucky family A healthy family is that of lewis and virginia green of bell county kentucky he Is 93 and she fa Is one year younger they nere mere marilea sev bev enty three years ago and still occupy the house they went to as bride and groom they have ten children the youngest of whom is 43 years of age there has never been a death in the family and very little sickness would not play brewers A la crosse wis baseball club composed entirely of pastors has rp re fused to accept a challenge from the brewers baseball club feeling that the object of the challenge was to embar rass the members BIRDS TO FIGHT CODLIN MOTH Depan department ment of ci cl iture W 11 II experiment peri ment in cal forn a orchards now it is the birds that are to help in the destruction of the codlin moth that little insect that is doing so much harm to the apple orchards of california at watsonville Wat sonville the ornithological department of the united states de apartment part ment of agriculture is working in conjunction con unction with the university of california to exterminate the moth and just now they are ate installing a lot of bird cages as part of the work these cages of which there are to be twelve will be large enough to envelop a fruit tree into them it is purposed to put thirty variety of cal birds including canaries blue jays and linnets and then to watch them closely to di cover upon which they feast most at certain times the birds will be killed and their stomachs scrutinized by the ornithologists in this way it can be determined accurately what the proportion of fruit the birds eat is to the insects they consume and then from this it will be determined what birds are most destructive to the codlin moth and the other destroyers st of plant life it if the experimenters are lucky enough to find a bird that mal ea es the codlin moth its prey that species will be propagated in large numbers and distributed over the state it is thought they can be kept in the or chadds by attractive baits new york herald lady ch amney sleeps sweeps for startling innovations especially in the m oman s sphere of activity russia runs america very hard the GREAT masterpiece IS VANISHING V the great mural painting 9 the last supper by leonardo da vinci vii in the refectory of the convent delle grazie in milan Is fading away only a few shadowy outlines remain and I 1 in i a short while the masterpiece of the fifteenth century will exist only in the copie cople latest move in this direction Is chron iclef in the st petersburg press pres S the daring innovator Is the widow of a chimney sweep who died recently recently Y leaving half a dozen olive branches all of them girls necessity which Is the mother of invention has now in this thoughtful woman to take to her husband husbands s calling and in order to do the thing thoroughly thoro highly while she Is about it she means to form a whole guild of f f female ae sweeps if the police polled ze aed grant the needed permission by dy way of assistants or as lamb termed them unfledged practitioners she profess ees to train up girls between betwee it the ages of 8 and 12 while the full blown members of the guild would in elude girls and women from 14 to 35 the first appearance of these novel sweeps Is fled fixed for august I 1 london dally daily telegraph has educated rooster harry F edsall of Hammon fon N J has what he thinks is the only ed rooster in new jersey george is his name and he Is ot of the barred plymouth rock strain the rooster will come at the call ot of his nam from any one of the family as far as he can hear them call he also sits upon their laps and crows as many times as ed george is of a very jealous nature and does not like any member of the family to pay attention to the other fowls it if mr edsall picks up another chick george is ready to start a pitch battle redmond refused a crown william redmond M P loves to tell how be he once refused a crown it was youth when traveling trai eling tor for sport in africa he fell into the bands of king ja ja who took such a fancy to him that he offered to make willie redmond his prime minister and heir apparent 1 egypto egyptian an 2 and 3 east indian 4 mexican 5 ancient greek 6 chi nese T fifteenth century 8 sixteenth I 1 i I 1 NOVEL TRAP FOR FLIES ver successful in gettine rid of the household pests la in the accompanying picture Is sho a curious device for e catching ig avelli flies which has just been f invented n p and which Is said to work admirably by those who have tested it its principal part Is a vessel which is intended to hold paste and the sides of which are u provided with longitudinal slots over the open part of the vessel is a cover and through the slots a cord runs the open ends end of the slots can also be covered and attached to the vessel li ig a flexible wire which Is bent in such a man ner that it holds the cover firmly in place the cord when not in use can be wrapped around the hutsi outside de of the vesel vessel and thus in winter when it Is not needed the trap oc caples very little room files flies when they get near the paste lr ir this vessel are in a sore fredica ment indeed so many are the ob stables in their way it Is difficult to see how any of them c n escape abw york herald 6 remarkable lake ake there is a lake on hildin island dear rear the coast of russian lapland aich Is composed of both salt and fesh water the island is a balc rock separated from the granite continent by an arm of the sea and upon it Is a lake which seems to be e entirely shut off from the sea by a strip of land but there must become be some subterranean communication tor for the tides of the sea are noticed in the lake though in much diminished ef feet the lake contains three different kinds of water on the surface it Is fresh water coming from a few brooks and from the rainfall lower down it Is salt water and at the bot torn tom seawater mixed with sulphur ous hydrogen gas the lake contains fresh water fish on and near the sur face and salt water fish beneath hoop ng the hoop A novelty in paris Is the hooping looping the hoop by a woman in a motor car the principal difference between this entertainment and other ceneri fugal force exhibitions which have I 1 preceded it lies in the fact that the car completes a perfect circle instead of running round a twisted loop the I 1 rp 9 4 J jw r 0 0 car runs down a track fifty eight feet in length and having traveled round the hoop Is switched on to the run out track and is brought up by n net within forty feet of the exit lightning is Burg burglar larb u undoing A burglar undertook a job at an drews center penn during a thun derstore der storm and was deleted det eted by the aid of a flash of lightning 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