| Show the spectral clock that clock haunted me As I 1 was going out from that lonely room I 1 saw that the cloa clock was going too but I 1 stopped iti it I 1 not ot so fast I 1 I 1 hissed thrusting back both its hands then I 1 set it under the mattress heavens Heaven sT I 1 could hear the clock ticking in the bed ticking the clock had often alarmed me but never like that I 1 seized it in my trembling hands and gazed at its white face lour hours are numbered I 1 muttered that was plein on the face of it I 1 wound it up t with a rope then I 1 rin wildly down the hall the clock ran down tool I 1 sprang aiom the cliff and watched to see the clock spring it did and struck twice heavily against the rocks and lay still with hands over its white fife loi loir r time has come I 1 stir eked and gone I 1 added sorrowfully shak ing it and nol hol I 1 ng it to my ear then I 1 woke up lipp acott a 8 an inspector of the city sealers scaler a staff in chicago reports that the scales of one ice lee peddler make a fifty pound cake of ice appear to weigh eighty pounds the mans scales had not been tested previously pre bously for tour four years the weather bureau reports that point feyes reyes cal Is the windiest place in the nation it Is but fair to wash ington to state that the observations were made during the recess of the congress comments the washington star according to a report of the edmin of rou doumanian rouman manian lan railroads au locomotives out of a total of are designed to be fired either with residue of petroleum or with brown coal sev enteen locomotives use residue of pe exclusively dearly nearly dersons in new now york city are said to be suf suffering ferin aloin trachoma or granulate tel 1 elleds the disease Is said to rita among the poor who are badly nour shed and pay little attention to clafli li many of the well todo to do aie infected also milan Is in ill summer the hottest city in italy the not being in ill fluen ced by the ocean or the moun tarns tams asin as in venice genoa naples palermo bologna 1 I lorece lo reuie ini in I 1 rome consequently there lie tew tev vidias near milan whose Ne wealthy althy fInAl families lei fiend 4 end their summers pre feral 13 1 along como and the other ital an la ces boston Is 1 suffering from the relic hunter and the small boy who likes to deface monuments for tie tle s ration of daring it gh agles es jim aa Porfi portions ons of the lloyd Gar barnson lison status and of that in memory of john boal BO 1 0 1 belll billi ind and of the emph nymph of the fountain in the public G garden arden ha hai e bac i wrenched or hammered off by van dils laborers dig digging i ng an itt esian well at bonesteel S D ha e unearthed a hu man skeleton fifty feet beneath the surface the skeleton was in an ex cellena state of and Is believed by lits to be that of a prehistoric man the bad lan lanis Is of south dako a in which conestee Bon Bou estee esteel Is situated have been prolific in fossati fos siti the moorish sultan s army Is a won darful affair it fights by making a noise rather than by killing the enemy the army consists of aa 20 men some are armed with discarded british mar henrys others wl with th home made imitations of the martini artini I henry which jam and refuse to fire while others have the old flintlock muzzle loader which Is of doubtful habits T it Is believed that the battleship mas alas dislodged the rock on which S she he struck one of the pinnacles of dry ledge off bar harbor seems to be missing and it is supposed that it was knocked down by the impact of the colliding vessel A danger to navi gatlon gation may thus have been removed but a 0 a battleship Is rather a costly implement to be used in ram ming down harbor obstructions the hawaiian government employs agents who travel all over the islands island looking for indications of lepri leprosy y 1 in remote places banishment Is so dread ed that frequently the family of a leper will keep him secreted tor for a year or two before discovery is made A per son who is supposed to have the dis ease is sent to the receiving station in honolulu where he Is examined by five medical experts if a leper be the verdict money position influx ence race or color cannot change the decree which sends the patient to mo profiting by the I 1 sa experience which has practically str sir aped the older settled states of then their original cent forests the interior department has set aside of land in alaska as a timber reser reserve te lum her is an article of such scarcity in alaska that there his been imbroll dent cutting cuttin of trees in the belts tor for mining and building pi pt reposes by establishing a system to enn ble fhe the lumbermen to use matured trees with out destroying immature growths tb tha forests may be so conserve conserved 1 as to yield a continuing supply the governor of the island of st helena shows in his annual report just issued in london that while the pres ence of the boer prisoners improved the financial status of the island it in creased the cost of living and the rate of wages the island too was deforested owing to the heavy call made for wood fuel tor for the prisoners and troops large numbers of the laboring class the report continues have emigrated to south africa should cons cone deablo emigration take place it v quite paralyze any pro gress in public works being made in the island rf i |
