Show fa lie N why Is it so bone none fin fini I 1 wo Is chere some f and nd ret and 0 the i t earl ear wor vor I 1 goes on 01 I 1 so et mes won conler ler fth h I 1 i best the answer comes u wl e ie fe a gone some eyes slee when me e ake and so the wear vear nigh ura go some hearts beat ahe some u hearts break I 1 often wonder why Us go some wills faint when some ills fight some love the tent an I 1 me the field I 1 often wonder who are light the ones who strive r those who yield some hands fold where oti er hands are lifted bravely in the strife and so through ages a d through lands move on the two extremes of life some feet halt where some feet tread in tireless march a thor 3 wa some gle on where som ha e fled some seek where others shu the fray some swords rust where others clash some fall back where some move on some flags furl vl e e others flash until the batt e has b n won some sleep on vh ie le others keep the vig a of the true and brave they will not rest t 11 u roses creep around their name abo e a grave the cough ng bean man or even the animal kingdom has no monopoly of coughing or even getting red in ahe face in an effort to throw off foreign substances bafo e there was a vertebrate on the earth while man was as in process of evolution through the vegetable world eta la IS hussein that Is what hat the botanists call him while we I 1 no v him as tl e boug coughing ing bean coughed got red in the face and blew the dust out of his lungs recently hot fists have been giving special attention to this bean and tell interesting things about it it is a native of warm and moist trop tropical ical countries and objects most emphatic ally to dust it has an effective means of getting rid of objectionable matter when dust settles on the br athing pores in the leaves of the plant and chokes them a gas accumulates in side and when it gains sufficient pres sure there connes an on with a sound exactly ill e coughing and the dust is blown from its lod gement and more strange the plant gets red in the face through the effort slave fork slave huntera hunters in africa used a forked branch of a tree tour four or five feet long to prevent the slaves they have captured from running away while on the march from the interior to the coast reptile from deep in the ground men drilling an oil well east of marion brought to the surface a pe reptile it was f found at a depth of beet the reptile belongs to the lizard family although differ ent from any species ever before seen here it has four legs web feet a short thick tail and spotted body re se sem bling in many ways a chameleon and Is 10 inches long the body Is elongated and without the scales that usually appear on lizards it has no eyelids and ts is eyes are unprotected it has no teeth and its tongue is forked in the daytime it Is totally blind the animal prefers water to land and this has caused the opinion that underneath the surface of the land where the well was drilling exists a subterranean waterway indianapolis news the wild men of boni the brothers two swiss explorers who are now traveling in the little known parts of celebes have met with a wild jungle tribe in the mountains of boni so shy that they will not venture out by day and will only carry on trade at night the ex e interviewed a party made up of one man two women and one child they live high up in the mountains grow maize are monog ramous cannot reckon and strange to say do not know what lying is these specimens lay ay under the disadvantage of being but half wild the explorers were as aured that the wilder ones defended themselves against intruders by throwing stones the explorers were hindered from further researches but intended to return to the neighbor hood some of the tribesmen would not let the explorers pass and had to be overawed by force armour clad whales the fossil fields of austria hungary have shown that when europe was the mere bed of an ocean whales of an enormous size among the fantas tic tie denizens of the waters these whales as the recently found imprints clearly show carr ed a kind of armour skin much as the present day arma dillo does scientists a ue that this mall mail was provided by nature in order that the whale might resist the on ts of prehistoric s mon measuring thirty yards in length vessel that skates A cu ious vessel has recently been invented in austria the designer claims that it can go over the water ta in the same manner as a skater and nd d tl ti at it can ea 1 a I 1 around the wo id in eigl elgi las W s he loes not riot explain how he succeeds in transforming seas aal a i i oceans into mil bors for this he vir t aly does since no i 1 of his ve vessel vesel sel penetrates the water vater nor what n etive power he uses for the purpose of attaining s ich a great speed he insists however that the vessel can do all he claims and though most of the european i iders seem td think his invention of little value a few scientists who have seen the model say that it works wonders in the water burmese a carriage it fa the burmese ox will trot nearly as fast as a pony and endure heat and labor much I 1 etter plants that produce madness the united states department ol 01 agriculture is at present investigating the curious behavior of certain plants growing on the western prairies which are know knon n as loco weeds lo 10 co in spanish s unifies crazy catus and other animals feeding upon loco weeds suffer a derangement of the brain that prevents coordinating move ments several weeds belonging to the bean family are included in this poisonous category it has been as sorted that a ingle dose of some of these weeds will ca ise insanity but mr V K chesnut of the department of agriculture expresses the belief anat several das dabs of feeding are required to produce a bad effect child adopted by dog recently a peasant woman at oster gaard in silesia I 1 ad occasion to leave her house to do some work outside when she returned her 8 weeks old baby which had been lying on the floor had d sapp eared all the rooms in the house were searched but to no purpose eventually one of the neigh bors hors discovered the child in the ken nel of a huge st bernard dog the an imal affectionately licking the infant with its tong bongie ie the st bernard whose litter of little puppies had been taken away had carried the child into its kennel and was treating it with all the affection of a human being A widow 68 years oldest woman inhabit tant died the other day she was aunt sarah bunker aunt to all the island she was 94 and had lived for ninety two years in the same house her father built it and moved into it when she was 2 years old mrs bunker was a widow sixty eight years her husband elisha ellsha bunker was harpooned on the whale ship allo and was A as lost at sea in 1834 within a year after his marriage hia his bride never remarried tragedy of the stage A horrible incident is reported from I 1 a theater in odessa russia during the course of a play named the brothers karmason in the last act the villain of the play a role taken by M balchowsky Bolc howsky hangs himself through remorse M balchowsky Bolc howsky realistically placed his neck in the noose and by some means or other lost his footing and was hanged in full s of the audience wasps nest in a clock A wasps nest in a kitchen and above all in a grandfather clock seems rather strange but such says a report from america was the place chosen for wasps in raylan U S A the insects which entered and left the nest by means of a keyhole were most peaceable never interfering with the inhabitants of the house greek swing this tion of fourth cen tury fresco toi fol i d at nola shows that swings were used in m greece ground frozen feet william boone a miner says the kansas C ty journal who has como come down biorn davson city klondike to spend the winter with relatives at la plata sas he has dug feet deep in the ground of his claim but has never been able to reach a point where the ground was as not froze hard |