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Show QUALITIES OF FUSED SILICA Latest Material to Be Used for Any Original Standard of Length— Light in Weight. D.NESBIT ville, Ill.; C. R. Casterbury of Cali- FWO-IN-ONE fornia (the one bachelor) and Dr. F. D, Prapz of Colorado. The first trip that the letter made CREWE aD was to Nova then resided. Scotia, He where is now Mr. Hangs . the Swift at the head of the publicity department of the Ilinois public schools. The package has never contained less than seventeen letters.t hach recipient receives the pack from the same person in turn, and thus the chain is pre served intact. BUSHMEN’S Among there the SECRET Bushmen is a secret society, on require- ments for entrance and the severity of initiation to which are probably more severe than to any other society in the world. Among other requisites to membership are self-inflicted wounds, evidence of which must be preserved in the form of scars that permanently mark the breast of the initiate. These scars are made by wounds reaching all the way across the chest and which have been made deep ridges by keeping them open until ‘they have healed without closing up. Great series of these wounds mark the breast of many a Bushman warrior and his honor among his people depends largely upon the number and severity of the wounds as recorded by the sears which they have left. Muller In hat She on in and also a Reno gown wore summer’s: far was:duly waited to Fair Muller And Mrs. she was “No more I She said, “I’m smile. holding report. made very court, her plea— fair to see. rake the hay, thinking proved she The judge, Recalled to He said: I was of “why, a luckless grass.** wife. now pald behind his her the olden years. ‘Do you sighed those been?’ ”” remember words: ‘It my when have “I’m not that grandma Here is a picture of “Oberst,” a dog who has been tc the Scuth Pole, sith his best friend, Oscar Wisting. Both were members of the Amundsen expedition. When the five men of that expedition set out on the final march for the pole, they were accompanied hy fifty-two dogs and had sledges and provisions for four months. Eleven of the dogs survived the whole journey and returned “Oberst” (“Colonel”) was the oldest safely to Framheim, the base camp. | and biggest of the pack. ears, might judge!” she cried, old. That is a tale /ANCIENT CHURCH IN DESERT REMARKABLE told. judge T’ll have *O; memantine 502 oe said: to “In grant case, a of a. you deal Of all san(wards shbrt ning. living. course divorce.’’ you, judge,’’ smiled Maud. I aL Se. that you of tongue ishe iT SEEMS rounds New Mexico, which has recently become one of the sister states in the Union, can boast structures that surpass in age any other in the United States with the exception of a few in i af the gentleman without os at it?” asked removing the his gaze from the artist with the whiskers and red shoes. “What do these actors do for green thing to make when the people some- laugh election is over and they have no candidate to talk about?” “In that case they swear as often ag possible.” “ Verily, papa was aequainted -with the methods of the ten-twent-thirt! As a Favor. Papa. says the daughter of thé minister, “in your Haster sermon won’t you please make some scathing remarks about the extravagance of. women in dresses and bonnets?” “Why, I had such a sermon in mind, my dear child. But what an odd request! Why do you wish me to do so?” “Because I’ve got a peach of a bon net and a dream of a dress, and if you preach against such things every _ woman me in the congregation will notice particularly.” “T to file your application for divorce this week,’ says the bosom friend. - “JT had intended to,” replies the dis- tressed wife, “but St. Augustine, John is going to a stag dinner next week, and I concluded to wait and give him a farewell piece of my mind when he comes home from it.” The Leading Feature. “But,” she protested. “your fashions are not at all Parisian, although you advertise the latest hints from Paris.” “Ah,” replied the ladies’ tailor,“that refers to the prices.” His Reason. Bobbs—Why is Nobbs such an en emy of golf? Dobbs—He first met the present Mrs. Nobbs at a golf tournament. Fla. Santa Fe, N. M., was the second settlement in the United States. Zealous Spanish priests first pushed their way into this part of the world which was then unknown to Europeans. ‘Their object was to gonvert the Indians. The first structures they built were churches and many of these stand today as monuments of the early priests who set them up among the Indians and there preached the gospel. One of the most {nteresting of these early churches is located on the edge of Burrow Flat in the Sacramento National forest in New Mexico. gion, but and there This sparsely is to be is a solitary inhabited. seen the each year, carrying hours later back, but the exchange brother was made protested in good re- with of the boys ried. The Shaw of Hongkong, Polo, ll.; Clement of and all the girls are mar- graduates are Rev. W. F. Chicago, C.: Bo-Corey «of China; David Feyster of David Wetzel and J. A. Kentucky, H. T. Swift and Mrs. F. W. Burnham of Springfield. Ul.; Prof. Paul Caufman and wife of Lincoln, Jil; Mrs. Mable McAdow, ‘Dr. R. D. Pope and Dr. L. BE. Newcomer of Iowa, Mrs. Malde Staley of Texas, Prof. L. H. Darling of Plainfield, Ill.; Judge H. F. Teel of Rush- femorial to An INCANDESCENT active demand for Handy Handle. the paint brush, thus keeping — the brush from tumbling about in the bucket or sinking over its head when the bucket is full. The bracing effect produced by using the bottom hook is particularly handy, as it inclines the handle so that it does not get in the way of the workman as he dips his brush into the pail. A the Most of that; Important. Lightness on Without Ac- porous stone which lay WHERE EAST AND WEST MEET spects, and.all kinds have been used. Fer. oxe.thing, the light wheels used on some kinds of pleasure vehicles would have to be fitted with very thick tires if hickory was not employed. ‘| used irew upon it with a greasy ink, then noistened the stone with water, and hen dabbed greasy ink all over it. The water kept the ink from adhering to \ny part of the stone except where tad nto first drawn. a press with he Putting the sione a sheet of paper, he fitained a reproduction of his drawing. Mus was lithography invented. Inkhig rollers quickly replaced his clumsy laboer, and of late aluminum is sted in place of stone, 14 eight days, and ‘days—cause of about one 50,000th of an, by Metallurgical Investigating is Chemist Gold Mine Columbia. the name given a Canadium phides or tincture of iodine, which, blacken both silver and palladium. is much more silver or pe SeRee FOR LIFTING AN AUTO Easy to Operate. This geared ratchet automobile jack embodies several interesting features, among which are the lifting arms or antlers. The working mechanism is simple and easy to operate. A pinion meshes with the large gear wheel, the every year in the carriage with This picture shows motion being imparted from the pear-wheel shaft to a pinion engaging: a rack on the tube which slides up and down in the frame. The tube is and boundary stone on the Trans-Siberian railwaywhich was in the Ural mountains On one side of erected not long ago. the stone is painted, in Russian char: acters, “Europe,” side “Asia.” The and on the picture was the demands of the trade, for hickory springeth not up in the night. Nevertheless, it does grow rapidly enough to hold out some hope that with careful supervision of the forests the hickory tree may be made to yield a sufficient crop. the other taken FINDING LENGTH in somewhat novel circumstances, the operator being on the footplate of the engine of the east-bound Trans. Siberian express, two ec his friends holding on to him in order to maintain him in position as the train was rushing along at full speed. OF CIRCLE Auto Lifting Jack, threated on the inside, and into it serews the arms, which are called antlers because of their peculiar. shape, says the Popular Mechanics. The antler form-was adopted as one which would fit the rear axle of any make of automobile. The short horns are for lifting front axles, but the | others may also be used for this purpose. The mechanic’s handy method of The jack is mounted on four rubberfinding the length of a circle is as foltired casters, with both ball and. roller lows: He first divides the diameter bearings. Majority of Mechanics Much Prefer to Deal With Fractions With Divider Points. into Queen Eleanor 21 parts, and takes one of these parts and adds it to the Then he sets the dividers measure (1 1-21 diameters) diameter. to this and tak- INDUSTRIAL vA ECHANI CAL »>NOTES32S Sixty per cent. of the Brazil nut is oil. Glycerine is aA i predict of the soap factory. Both the Chinese and Japanese manufacture alcoholic beverages from rice. The British empire supplies about rt, Divisions three-fifths of the world’s demands ee 6 Length ng three of steps a with Circle, the dividers ob- tains about the exact circumference. The majority of mechanics prefer to deal with fractions with the divider points rather than with figures, which must always tion. The this Harby, not far from Lincoln, Edward brought her body back to London used in this is close calcula- obtained enough for of work.—Scientific in most American. Use Waste Products. Wilmington, Del., a use is In and at every place where the precession halted for the night he caused a memorial ‘cross to be built. The Geddington cross is divided into three stories. Of these the first is solid and between the shafts, on a curved face; it is carved with beautiful diaper work of roses, and with six shields displaying the arms of England and the queen’s arms of Castile, Leon and Ponthieu, which she had inherited in right of her mother. Above this is the arcaded story containing the sculptured figures of the queen, planned to face the supporting shafts of the canopies above. The canopies are surmounted by crocketed gables, and behind them is a tier of pinnacles similarly decorated. The third story is composed of a cluster of plain pinnacles topped with small gables Sepchetey and acon ten, way kinds Of the fifteen crosses erected by Edward i. of England to the memory of his queen, Eleanor, but three now remain, ang the handsomest and kest preserved of these is that at Geddington, here pictured. When Eleanor died at be measurement being found for the waste products of paper mills which have been accumulating for years and have been thought valueless. One factory has over 100,000 tons of residuum boilers on ering labout the neighboring eight acres. dumped from its flats, This is covnow to be treated by a process for extract: ng the carbon for the _ ‘eat will be converted market and the into fertilizer. for gold. New Zealanders consume more than seven pounds of tobacco per capita per year. Russia supplies Great Britain with the greater proportion of her ee and eggs. Over 100,000 pedestrians and 20,000 vehicles pass over London bridge in one day. A fleet of 250 refrigerator. ukips iz engaged in carrying fresh met British islands. The cod fish shipped foundland each year are million dollars. A little glycerine, to the ayt of Newvarued at five wel distributed, often will renew life typewriter ribbon. Shipping casualties in % gf all ties last year totaled 208 vessels, with a tonnage British — is a beautiful white metak but little softer than gold or silver and melting at a somewhat lower temer perature. It is not tarnished by damp’ atmosphere nor blackened or affected by sulphureted hydrogen, alkaline sul wagon industry. It is feared that its rate of production may not keep pace The He and Ash and elm have been tried in place of hickory, but these woods split too easily to be successful substitutege -Many millions of feet of hickory are playwright, at hand. under Geared Ratchet Implement Embodies Several interesting Features— The most important kind of wood which the carriage maker uses is hickory. The lightness, without loss of -strength, for which American made vehicles are famous, is largely due to the use of hickory. It has great strength and elasticity. There is no other wood that equals it in these re- faith. One new design bulbs, about the a Bavarian’ The platinum, Los- of Its Strength. “incandescent a means of duplicating cheaply, experimented with a for cooling JACK Is ing Any INVENTION OF LITHOGRAPHY Senefelder, temperature Hickory count hat is considerably heavier than the ordinary “lid” because of the wiring and the battery. The lights are turned on by means of a push button that takes the form of an imitation hat pin at one. side. New designs will lmitate rosebuds and all sorts of flowers in which a bulb formation can figure. seeking sketches sides. with STRONG WOOD FOR CARRIAGES HATS fashion. parallel coated When burnished, it brilliant than either ladium. size and shape of a small tangerine, which are connected up with green wires looped with orange and other decorative are new metal discovered by A. G. French, metallurgical chemist of Nelson, B. C., when investigating a large gold min in that province. While examining a deposit of platinum metals, he discovered, sometimes isolated and some-' times in combination, another metal which was quite different from other members of the group. It has since been found in many other igneous dikes in the vicinity of Nelson. hats,” the first of which was displayed in and sides in British in Chicago -during a convention of dressmakers, has caused one concern to get out a number of designs, all operated from small dry batteries in the crown of the hat. contains tiny orange. plane the lines of the standard are ruled through this film with a diamond. The “Canadium” religious and have been saying masses at such little churches as that at Burrow Flats for the Bast four hundred years, NOVEL and The first meter ofthe kind, as describy While it each graduate takes out the letter that he wrote the year preceding and substitutes another, and then starts the seventeen on the rounds again. The key letter has so far traveled 300,000 miles, and will go on as long as two of the graduates survive. When but one is left the key letter will remain in his possession. The class of seventeen has scattered all over the globe. All but one expansion; ed to the London Royal society, is a tube of silica with horizontal slabs o the same material fused into the ends. The slabs are accurately ground, with Discovered patriarch swapped the horse for another horse. His brother took the woman ‘o Brooklyn, and his efforts to swap her for anything of equal value attracted the attention of the police. They made the patriarch take his wife the small “CANADIUM” IS A NEW METAL With ach the circuit Here adobe house of a Mexican and the little less primitive rock cuts of the Pueblo Infdians. These Indians are devoutly blossoms One Last Delight. thought .you were going Twelve has inch. letter, Seventeen other letters. recurring completion of again. SO. “Papa,” began the little theater. “Well, my son, what is a dollars. and its disadvantages—such as easy break~ age, lack of elasticity, and _ slight solubility in water—are not important, shrinkage patriarch had indulged his propensity of swapping until he had nothing left but his clothing and his wife. In ex: change for a horse he gave his wife to his brother. The horse was worth five cheap, this The key letter, written and signed by all the graduates, is sent the or pen, wed LETTER All of the graduates are still and annually they write each other “Ta, in lovely Jaw.” week CHAIN A chain letter series evolved by the Seventeen graduates of the Central Illinois eollege at Bureka on commencement day in 1894 is still run- “TJ raked no hay—for mercy sake!— All that I did was wed a rake.’’ The a hook HORSE ots would rather barter than eat. alas!”’ more She told the court about her life And It has and invar—fall short -of perfection. Fused silica claims a rare combination’ of good qualities. It is light in weight, slowly. Members of the Jackot colony, poor whites descended from a Frenchman who settled at Lakeville, Mass., before the Revolution, are indignant over the action of the state police in preventing the exchange of the wife of one of the leading Jackots for a horse. The Jack: style— hopeful The judge Reporters FOR too. way. of Paris a SWAPS HIS WIFE day other buckets, long period under all conditions of the air, and the metals tried—copper alloys, platinum, fridio platinum, nickel annealing of the meter—by slowly heating to 450 degrees, maintaining at = ewe Maud Appeared Holds for at the top by means of which the bucket can be hung up within reach of the workman and a second downwardly projecting hook can be caught in the rim of the pail, if necessary, to shove the pail forward. In the center of the handle is a clip to hold Australia the HANDLE A little wire handle devised by an Qhio man will make life easier for painters. This handle, designed principally for paint buckets, can be used SOCIETY of HANDY Paint Bucket Up and Brush Straight—Useful Other Purposes. | WILBUR Fused silica is the latest material to be used for an original standard of length. Such a standard must continue accurate and invariable for a of beer much used nationali- 114,231. consumption decreased: from 36,841,000 barrels in 1899 to 33,. 619,000 barrels last year. In one month the yield of gold in Southern Rhodesia exceedgd 50,000 ounces, valued at $1,000,000. Fish is sometimes colored -with an inorganic dye, to give it the appeals ance of having been smoked. — |