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Show BANTAM THE SEMI-WEERLY NATION. BE, ©. HYDE, Publisher, omreceoee ms Camry nate LOGAN, + t£ @ 8 ? UPAH. SWEDISH | the umpire ever It begins to look ag if the Reliance would fail to live up to its name. if the American navy gets the gout “will that be a casus belli against Europe The Prince of Wales’ is eager to see America. George has been tall ing to Heinrich. it is not a breakfast food that the Hungarian diet with the premier. ad. to say disagrees An Ann Arbor student has had twenty inches of frog skin grafted on his hand without croaking. MONUMENT | TO ERICSSON e 2 To John Ericsson and Abraham. “Lincoln was given the greatest meed of praise for the success of the Union cause in the civil war at a banquet at Chicago in celebration of Ericsson’s hundredth birthday anniversary. The Swedish inventor was lauded as the greatest engineer who ever lived and his name was applauded every time it was uttered. The dinner, which was given by the Scandinavian Technical society, ended in a SwedishAmerican love feast, the American and Swedish speakers toasting each other and one another’s country. Gen. William Sooy Smith declared that Ericsson’s success was largely due to his lack of training in a technical institution and his consequent thought acquired by too close ‘attiontion to the rules laid down by unpractical minds, he made his way by experience and the deepest possible personal study of the subject in all its practical aspects to the greatest fame. “You may laud to the skies the advantages to the youth of America of the purely and absolutely theoretical study in the technical sehools of the land, but the best technical education, coupled with scientific study, will not make an engineer. “You must combine with daily practice the theories and the science or only half an engineer will result. I have au admiration that amounts almost to worship for the genius. of Briesson, and he was an entirely prac-. i ers : tions, through the genius of of a Swedish mine foreman, this the Ay nee | son boy who used to lie at the top of a mining shaft and watch the machinery that he might learn the principles of mechanics. “The American navy was clumsy, weak and unwieldy before Hricsson came. The screw propeller, the revolving turret, the most perfect guns and. many other inventions are the. product of his genius. In the broader sense he was a humanitarian, for he made war more dangerous and therefore more likely to be avoided in the ages that follow him. “To Ericsson, who was iauehed at by the naval experts who sat in office chairs in Washington, and to Abraham ‘ro = EMORIAL ety : MEDAL | ISSUED Int Stock om A McKeesport _ (Pa.) policeman named his twentieth child. Theodore Roosevelt. Needless to say,.he lifted the cup. ee Those leckjaw statistics should be kept on file for reference about July 8 of next year if they are to be of real use. Bae, left home keeping a her to any The grown-up men in the Georgia Aegislature are evidently not to be numbered among the ones who have | mo use for fe ieee HISTORIC > | aldest industry , ——o An automobile collided with a load of hay in Philadelphia the other day and was badly wrecked. Save your may come in = SS They: SS ae — coast hie, hon wie lev ways succeeds in building @ new Shamrock that can just enoe: oe our last year’s boat. hay. If there are microbes in every plate _@f ice cream, we know one brave girl who need not be afraid. So long as Our salary holds out they will die from. overcrowding. China has decided not to open the Manchurian ports owing to the fact that Russia has them all guarded by geidiers. China’s decision is almost as wise as it is painful. One Yale student lived a year on $100, while another spent $11,000 in ithe same time. It is a pretty safe ‘bet that the former has a fuller mind ‘and the latter a bigger head. In Mt. Vernon, N. Y., the skull of a boy suffering from lockjaw was opened and antitoxine was injected into the brain. The operation was successful—but the boy died. It is possible to telegraph to China now for a dollar a word, but it won’t break us. We can telegraph all the Chinese words we know and. still have enough to buy a glass of iced tea with. ‘King Peter is threatened with a eabinet crisis. One or two people who ‘didn’t help to assassinate Alexander ‘are still in the cabinet, and a crisis seems to be the only thing that will move them. “Colonial powers should make it a ‘rule henceforth to have their islands in the south Pacific plainly tagged. ‘With so many of them scattered about it is no wonder that a mistake is made occasionally. Time brings its revenges. ithe boys ran away from the ‘join the circus. To-day we Of old farm to read of a circus in the West bereft of its tentmen, nearly all having ito the harvest field. been attracted \ a . . ¢ There are few men so happily conetituted that you can ask them for money without their being annoyed, and they are ecngally the fellows who have none, MILLS ‘ARE Wipe. Out Old Ogden, Utah. The. Ogden woolen mills, pales: of resithir- decayed stump,: and,” placing them under a bantam hen, ‘awaited results. In due .time the clucking mother hatched out thirteen striped adders. The brood was different from the downy darlings which she had previously reared, but the faithful bantam. accepted ber trust, and did the best she could under the circumstances. Several of the strange brood fell a: prey to the family cat and others receded from civilization and took to the woods, but six of them are still following the puzzled bantam about the premises in the daytime and at night sleeping in the straw nest in which they were hatched. lone wriggling brood have become sufficiently domes- ticated to respond to the clucking of their foster mother.—Nunda {(N. Y.) Dispatca in New, York Herald, PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS. . HARTLEY Flames New York has a-man who does: not know his.cwn name. Really, New Work should spend a little more money for educat Hane! purposes. handy. a Lincoln, who brought his mighty fist down and said Ericsson’s invention should be tried in spite of the bureau experts, is due, more than to any others, the salvation of the Union.” The monument shown above was }| presented to Chicago by the Swedish residents of that city. President Castro of Venezuela is still busy fighting the revolutionists down there. Some presidents never get a vacation. ‘toads under Account for Canals on the Planet Mars. The canals on Mars first awoke sci{ entists to the possibility of- art and not nature cutting these enormous: channels which telescopes of many years ago were unable to detect. The more these canals are studied, the: more irresistibly one is forced to the conclusion that they have been planned and executed by some race: of living beings with powers far ex. ceeding that of man, or with machinery of such stupendous strength and capacity that the mind staggers in contemplating what it has accome-. plished. Imagine a vast network of: crossed the then Aphrorapid propo- Probably the man who because he was tired of wife was not really keening great extent. SNAKES. Her Duty to Re-- Unable to The Greek cabinet has thrown up its job and the names tne gentlemen bear are really not printable. Col. Payne’s Aphrodite Atlantic in ten days, but dite always was a rather sition. adder’s-.eggs A “Scratch a Russian and you will] indi ae Vartan is saying Japan seems inclined to investigate. RAISES eee 4markable Breed, Bey cr weeks ago one of the dents of: ‘Smoky Hollow found - | teen 4 Question: Does enjoy the game? CITIZENS OF CHICAGO ERECT HEN areas Mother Does freedom from the authority of opinions of theorists. The inventor him-. self was quoted to substantiate this assertion, and as Gen. Smith knew. him personally his remarks were accepted as authoritative. ; “Bricsson was once commiserated upon the fact that he had not had the advantages of a school training,” said Gen. Smith. “He replied that he regarded himself fortunate in-not being hampered with’ such an education. Free from the authority of theorists, untrammeled by the restrictions of AIRSHIP Gen. Andre FOR FRENCH Accepts Offer ARMY. of Balloons Made by Santos-Dumont. The Paris Vélo says that SantosDumont, after a successful demonstration with his dirigible balloon at the review July 14, offered to place his balloon at the disposal of France in case of war. Subsequently he re ceived a telegram from Gen. Andre, the Secretary of War, accepting the offer.. The letter was as follows: “At the review ‘I noticed and .admired the facility with which your balloon steered. It was impossible not to observe the progress made in aerostatics, which seems to have attained a practical application, especdally from a military point of view. As I think the balloons may render t‘valuable service in time of war, I am glad to accept the offer of your aerial flotilla to the government of the re- public, and in its‘name I thank you for the offer, which proves your lively | sympathy for France.” Climbed Mount Rainier. It has long been supposed impossible for a human being to climb to the summit of Mount Rainier, in Washington, but Dr. R. W. Betts of New Orleans fand H. M. Sarvant of Tacoma suc- eeeded in accomplishing the feat last week. Before reaching the summit they were compelled to cut steps in> the ice surrounding the old crater in order to scale some of the declivities, tical genius. He had the ability to perceive what were the requirements of the age, the greater ability to discover and develop what would meet those requirements, and then, greatest of all, after planning he provided the means of applying his discoveries. “The confederate fleet at Hampton Roads were put to flight, the Union army saved from destruction, the Atlantic coast freed from the danger of confederate guns, the federal cause saved and all the world made to know that we could preserve our institu- PAINT THE Dishonest TOMATOES RED. Dealers Selling Poor Quality of Canned Goods. State Dairy and Food Commissioner Warren has announced that retail grocers here recently have received among the orders for canned tomatoes packages which, upon close examination, proved to be a miscellaneous assortment of vegetables, including a few green tomatoes, and red paint, the whole having the appearance of ripe tomatoes. Agents detailed to inves: tigate found that red paint was used to a great extent in coloring worthless and unripe tomatoes and that other coloring matter also was used to give a ripe appearance to worthless canned vegetables of various kinds.— Philadelphia Ledger. GONE. Industry the The of second of the kind, have been ‘canals sixty Planet miles Mars. wide and _ thou- sands of miles in length, crossing all the great continents, without turning aside for any obstacle of mountain or sea, and the magnitude of these. burred.. works may he realized. . “Tne mills yere ‘bil: at: a time when Grant that civilization is a million the nails cost. $100 per keg and other years or so further advanced on Mars material in proportion. The machinery than it is~ here, and think what for establishing them -was brought thought and invention must have ac. from the Missouri river, nearly forty complished there! Of course, the years ago byox teams. Lorin Farr, mame that we give the planet must be for twenty years Ogden’s mayor, was ‘peculiarly inappropriate, for war canthe originator of the enterprise. For a not have lifted its dreadful banner number of years the enterprise there for thousands upon thousands. thrived, and in 1884 Enoch Farr, who ‘of years. for several years was ‘manager of the mills, went to Boston and purchased Queer Foods. an entirely new set of machinery. The Human nature may be the same mills were closed for several yearg the world over, but tastes in matters soon after this, but about ten years of cuisine vary a good deal. ago were acquired by Mr. Platt, wha | For instance, in Arabia horse flesh again started them on a successful is a favorite article of food. era. Recently they were made the The flesh of the elephant is partak-.. basis of a stock company. The conen of with zest in certain. parts of cern has paid: heavy dividends and India. : had: on foot a plan to convert some of Visit Hindostan and you will fina its surplus water power into electric the miserable pariahs contending power to be marketed—Salt Lake with dogs and vultures for carrion. Herald. Chinese taste, as we all know, runs ee ee eg to cats, dogs, bear’s paws and birds’ RUBIES CAN NOW BE MADE. nests. In the West Indies there is a cerChemists Able to Fuse Small Stones tain. large caterpillar found on the Into One Large Gem. palm tree which is reckoned a luxury -. In connection with recent decisions ‘of diet, while in Java the nests of by the general board of appraisers reswallows are considered edible. garding duty on imitations of precious Inhabitants of portions of Sweden, stones a well-known jewelry. expert of Finland and other countries eat clay New York, through whose hands milwith gusto; indeed, it is partaken of lions of dollars worth of precious in all the countries of the Torrid stones have passed, declares that ruZone. bies, beautiful in color and rivaling the natural gems, today. are easily Fashion Note. produced from the chemist’s crucible. The secret of their production which, he says, was known in France years ago, but was kept secret, lies in the manner of fusing a number of small cheap stones into a single large one. It is said the manufacture is now being carried on extensively in several Huropean countries and only the most experienced examiner can detect the difference between the real stones and those from the crucible. Diaz Good for Many Years. Outside of Mexico there is a general Proud of Her “Reservoir.” impression that because President A woman of the “newrich” type set Diaz is now 73 years old he must be up a pretentious establishment in New failing and that at best he can last, York with the view of gaining an enbut a little time longer. “On the contrance into society. Among her trary,” says a man who has just rechoice possessions was a Russian tea turned from a business trip to the sisurn wrought in embossed brass. The ter republic, “half a minute’s talk with term for this device is “samovar” and the general will dispel any such nothe woman treated her urn like a new tion. He is of Oaxaca Indian bYood, toy. She gave a reception in order to| a tribe noted for longevity and physical exploit her tea device and her guests prowess. He sits his saddle with oldwere in continua’ subdued fits of time ease and -from all appearances: laughter because their hostess said: can stand as much fatigue as when he “I do so love tex out of a reservoir. rode into. Pueblo conqueror of the This reservoir came from Russia. Of French thirty-five years ago. His son, course, it is really a tea urn, but I Porfirio Diaz, Jr., is now a man of afprefer the national term, don’t you?” fairs in the Mexican financial world.” 7 Miss Jones wore a tan-colored and a picture hat. gown Orchards in Germany. Germany has on an average 806 orchard trees to the square mile. |