Show at verona A voice in the scented night A step where the rose trees blow 0 love and 0 lo 10 e s de delights lightf cold star at the blue vault vaults s height what I ll 11 v it that shakes you so A voice in the scented night she comes n her beauty bright she comes in her young love loves s glow is 0 love and 0 love s delight ahe zhe bends from her casement white and she hears it hushed and low A voice in the scented night and he climbs by that stairway slight her iter passionate romeo 0 love and 0 love loves s delight and it stirs us still in spite of its ever so long ago that voice in the scented night 0 love and 0 love loves s delight austin dobson in century ancient slate palettes wonderfully carved slate palettes have just been found by prof petrie at they were em aloyed by the queens and princesses of the first rulers of egypt as receptacles tor for holding the paint used in the preparation of their elaborate toilets the hollow ringed space in the center was utilized for holding the paint they were found in the great tomba tombs of the kings who reigned 5 to 6 years before christ the palettes are considered to be the most important early monuments so tar far recovered and are of especial interest zoologically as showing several ani ant mals now extinct in egypt the sculptures on the slates are supposed to commemorate battles and victories about the time of king menes the first ruler of united egypt paint palette 7 years old one of the most noteworthy of these palettes shows a race of beard td warriors evidently engaged in hunting the majority are armed r with bows and arrows having flint heads and feathered on both sides of the shaft two had lassoes A peculiar feature observed on the the original was that the eyes of all the animals had been bored out evi dently with a drill and inlaid with some substance like glass that the race which made these had high artis tic ile taste Is shown by the objects themselves which are tar far superior in execution to any later egyptian work baltimore american indiscriminate giving at not very rare intervals some person will write to the posts of the grand army soliciting aid in some v ay and the sympathy which the old soldiers have for each other often prompts them to assist this Is frown ed upon by the department and corn com mander iander ff weber of an ohio post has the following to say in a recent order there Is a growing tendency both in and out of the order to solicit aid from the posts of bf the tho grand army and therefore great care card should be exercised to the end that they may way tot lot contribute to unworthy causes it Is best not to contri contribute brite at all unless the solicitations are approved by the department depatt ment commander A telephone newspaper ono erf of edward bellamy a s boldest concept conceptions foS was his idea of a speak ing singen lecturing and concert giving new newspaper he dreamt of the time when people would no longer go to the printer newspapers for their days day s news but 40 N the telephone re it will corie as a surprise to most to learn that the fancy has been actually realized in P budapest Bida pest hun gary where a telephone dally daily has been in active operation for some time every day from e in the morn ing to eleven at night the Hir FlIr mondo is bisy sending the news of the world hot from the wires into its subscribers homes in the edi rooms six stenfors sten tors or speak ers with strong clear voices speak the copy into the transmitters tian at definite hours concerts or the performances of the royal opera or of the municipal operetta theater are to be heard through the ear tubes eminent preachers speakers or actors tell their to enormous audiences scattered over the city A list of str strippers infers pers archi the cor astronomical time and a list of amusements are among the many features of this marvelous institution the exact time for each of the news items Is strictly regulated and is announced to the sub subscribers every thu thug each need only listen to the news that particularly interests him and can always be sure ot of hearing it at the predicted minute in case however ol 01 particularly ticul arly important coming to hand it Is immediately announced and special alarm signals are rung A prehistoric sun picture in the district of chacula chachula in guatemala was recently fa found a round flat stone on which was carved a picture tire of the sun and as near it are ruins of an ancient temple antiquarians are of the opinion that it Is a relic of an dent sun worship in addition to this curious stone other evidences ot of a very ancient worship were found and all bore testimony to the fact that when this old temple flourished the sun was adored as a god the picture on the stone though somewhat hat crude nevertheless shows careful workman ship and the relic Is certainly of ex interest both from a religious and from an artistic point ot of view bird battles an unwritten law of bir seems to be that it Is never worth while to resist an opponent who seems to be la in deadly earnest unless you have reason to be in deadly earnest yourself one result of this Is that you often eee see large birds flying in apparent terror before angry small one ones within a few minutes the other morning writes E K R in country lite life 1 I saw separate missel thrushes hotly pursued by chaffinch chaffin cb yellow hammer and sparrow respect and a rookie pursued with equal vigor by a missel missell thrush while a few weeks before be forea Zi tiny willow wren used to chase the sparrows and chaffi chaffinches which chas the missel thrush that chases the rook more than this the rook will gayly hunt the sparrow hawk which would eat the willow wren at a mouthful almost so that we have a circle which could be ind finitely expanded with intermediate f p lons ions showing how little logic there is in the warfare of wild birds can t be too ivany many flags the suggestion mace mae by mr cannon in a speech on 01 t ie appropriation appropriations bill in the house last spring that some day we will never be out of d sight of old glory is being beriou ly discussed it Is altogether that some movement will be made td accomplish this very desirable aa a vance in patriotic teaching during the th next session of congress this will certainly happen it if the people the idea uncle sam sams s property and the place where bis his business Is transacted ought to bear his sign sip manual there can never be too many flags flying electric shock restores hearing almost totally deaf for seven yeara yeam and after large expenditure with fruitless results upon the part of his pap par ente charles mccormick aged eleven years suddenly sud deny regained his hearin hearing in pittsburg in a peculiar pec ulfAr mannen while at play he stepped on a fallen telephone wire he ile was thrown violently to the ground and badly shocked when taken home by his compan ions his parents were amazed to find that the boy bad completely regained his hearing philadelphia publia ledger qa queer carrot the accompanying drawing represents sen s a very singularly formed carrot dug up the other day in a london suburban back garden at the malformed rootlets have a sort of tan fan bastic resemblance to a miniature human hisman trunk grotesquely armed and legged the carrot measured across at the widest part two inches and a halt and its length exclusive of the zt filamentary terminals was a over four inches its hue was similar rallar st to that ot of the skin of red indian papoose A gigantic tree john muir a famous naturalist and explorer of the parine slope has die dis covered a tree in the general grant national park california that surpasses in ta ay of its it gigantic gIgant Jc rivals of ot the equlla group it Is feek fee in fn a and is a finer in very way than the great trees which h so far barriga off the ali honora a of hugeness A A |