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Show The Latest In Wall Taper. he very Jastest fashion in wall decoration dec-oration is a bizarre, staring shade of paper known as hunter's red. It come9 In plain all over red and again varie-gated varie-gated with figures and pictures. The grotesque gro-tesque and fantastic designs suggest tbe - headless dragous, centaurs aud puzzling puz-zling eccentricities of the old fashioned paperings of our grandmother's day. The paper iused to decorate bachelors bache-lors dena ai,d the bed chambers of country houses. It is essentially English Eng-lish in character and design, many of the designs depicting red coated hunters in English fields. So vividly green is the grass, so impossibly blue the water, so distorted the imago of the wounded Btag, repeated over and over again on yards and yards of papering, that the beholder wonders alike at the artist's powers of invention and the taste which makes such creations possible. Fashion decrees that with this wall decoration must go old time English prints of hunting scenes. With such wall decoration for bed rooms and bachelor apartments the old fashioned chintz bed curtains and valance val-ance of three generations ago have reappeared. re-appeared. Every imaginable variety of big flowered pattern and prim design is shown in these cottons, and many of them are as delicate in tint and texture as the pretties silk draperies. New ork Sun. The Norwegian bark Lorenzo, wmon recently arrived at Pensacola, Fla., had a sample of th strength of a swordfish. Through the metal sheathing of her hull, then through six inches of planking and penetrating the inner ceiling about three inches the fish had driven its snout, or "sword," tho result being a leak which kept the crew at the pumps for six hours a day. The sword was about 2 inches in circumference at the point and 5 inches at the end where it had broken off, th? piece being about 20 |