Show 0 4 JN f 4 94 we too we could not tee the gun sunlight light yesterday we were too full of bitter ess and pain and I 1 shall ne er see I 1 our face again for love has crept away we could not hear the wren s glad voices sing our hearts were cold and deaf we ne coull not see the airy fairy bower made for or you and me for grief dimmed everything we did not know the beauty ot of that place nor the soft gems upon the flowers nor knew the charm ot of that last hour tor for me and you for tears were on your face 0 love dear lo 10 e spring a days grow old and gray and shadows fleck the woods and we must go lonely and desolate through bales 1 of snow since love has crept awall eggs within eggs A reader sends to the manchester dispatch this interesting photograph of an egg curio served up to him at r u I 1 breakfast the other morning on cracking the shell of what was apparently ly an ordinary egg he dincov red ered that an enterprising fowl had presented him with a double supply the double yoked egg Is by no means uncommon but in the above picture it will be seen that the fowl has gone tone better enclosing one complete egg eg within another after the manner of the chinese box puzzle tree an inquisitor one of the most deadly trees in the world Is to be found in madagascar where it Is known as the tangen tree its scientific name Is vene the latter word signifying poisonous by the natives it Is regarded with a eort sort of horror and for excellent rea sons eons for centuries it was the cua cus torn tom to use the fruit of the tangen for the purpose of ascertaining whether criminals charged with grave offenses were guilty or not in each case the prisoner was brought into court and the judge thereupon solemnly handed him a fruit from a tangen tree and told him that it if he ate it and it did him no harm barin he would be considered inno cent but that if it killed him he would be considered guilty As there ie in a great deal of poison in the fruit it can readily be seen that very few it if indeed any vere able to pass through this ordeal unscathed it Is to said that some criminals who had great political influence or con eld sid erable wealth managed to escape through the connivance of the judges but on the other hand the criminal records tell of many cases in which prisoners died a horrible death very soon after they had eaten the noxious fruit more civilized methods of juristic jurls Juris dic tion now prevail in madagascar but though this barbarous custom Is ob solete the tangen tree Is regarded with almost as much aversion as it ever was A proof of this may be found in the fact that a french clist recently tried to obtain some branches and fruit of the trees but bough he asked several natives to aid lim in the search he was unable to obtain the slightest test assistance from liy VY of them spiders set the style two centuries ago missionaries hught laught the natives of paraguay to kake lace by hand the art has been landed down from generation to gen ration bration and in some of the towns lace taking is the chief occupation A al bost all the women and children and hany of the men are engaged in it A singular tact fact about the paraguayan laces faces Is that the designs are borrowed from rom the curious webs spun by the semitropical lemi tropical spiders which abound in ecat hat country for this reason the lace h i called by the natives an indian word that I 1 means spider web eleven toes on a foot there is a woman in russia with sleven toes on one toot foot she Is one P A double foot X rayed of the daughters of a poor family liv ing in the territory of ljuslin the four outer toes are normally devel aped but in 10 place of the ordinary big toe Is a shortened and smaller one it Is at this point that the deformity begins there are six superfluous toes of these two are well developed but instead of being free they are united by a piece of skin and of the remaining four toes there are parallel with each other and the fourth la Is turned off at an angle with the ex caption of this last one all the toes are moveable and the X rays show that all except the fifth and eleventh have each three distinct bones uses a golden washboard A golden washboard with a golden bar of soap is in possession of mrs L J horn who has arrived at seat tie from skagway en route to south ern california mrs horn Is wealthy now buttliere butt but there litre was a time and not so very long ago when gold was a stranger to her purse now that it is all over she laughs at her hardships and washes her little laces and finery on a golden board in 1896 she went to skagway and by washing clothes earned enough money to grubstake stake her husband who went to the klondike in the rush of that year she followed him later to a claim on the bonanza which made him rich after it had been developed she had a washboard made of their gold as a symbol of her struggles to help her husband new york bourna fourth wife he bought runs away james barbera of pittsburg has been committed to jail on complaint of gas par about sept 5 barbera agreed to get a wife for shortly after ward he introduced a pretty italian girl by the name of santa Don sitti to and the two were wedded amid great festivities the bridegroom swore at the hear ing that he had paid barbera the agreed upon next day however sea lia alleges barbera persuaded the bride to run away since that time he has not seen his wife has been unfortunate tor for all of his three former wives left him much in the same manner as the last all his wives it la is said were pur chased in the same way one preparation for death the subject of the accompanying picture Is surely unique it represents an old lancashire man sitting in his bedroom beside his own coffin the old gentleman Is approaching years of age and has had his cof fin in readiness tor for about fifteen years moreover he made it in its entirety with his own hands and Is proud to show it you as being a piece ot of his own handiwork of which he need not be ashamed he assured I 1 the writer I 1 that it was both air tight and watertight he had tested it for both A remarkable shot A peculiar incident happened at the victoria rifle ranges A man was taking aim at yards and just as he fired several magpies flew in front of him bout yards distant the bullet struck one of the magpies and brought it to the ground and a bullseye was registered by the marker for the shot A bullseye and mag pie were thus scored for one shot moorish imagery the specimen below in the moorish epistolary style which comes from mr budgett meakins meakin a recent book the moors and is merely an invite tion to dinner is calculated to make the imaginative resources of our en who write on a visiting card come and dine look small indeed to my gracious master my respected lord this evening please god when the king of the army of stars the sun of the worlds will turn toward tow ard the realm of shades and place his toot foot in the stirrup of speed thou art besought to lighten us with the dazzling rays ol 01 thy face ri only by the sun arrival like a spring breeze will ds dl the dark night of solitude and sol atlon monster wine vat asti cal boasts of the largest wine vat in existence this monster vat lecent ly built on the property of the italian swiss agricultural colony a successful operative cooperative concern Is cat cut in solid rock being 84 feet in length 34 feet wide and 25 feet deep if its capacity Is something over halt half a mik mil lion gallons of wine being about thre ahr times more capacious than any similar vat known in the world A man may gush over a woman or ice tee versa ersa but the gushing iv i seldom mutual A girl doesn doean t mind her rival riwa being exasperatingly clever it if she ie Is aleo also consolingly ugly |