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Show 8 Some Novelties of the Day. j ringer, a small vest-pocket revolver, from which Booth fired the fatal shot "Several times it has been doubted that the drriner which I have is the one with which Lincoln was murdered," mur-dered," said -Mr. Plowman, "but there is absolutely no doubt that it is the same weapon. Three or four years after the shooting, while George K. Goodwin and myself were running the Walnut Street theater in Philadelphia, the stage carpenter, who was working work-ing at P'ord's theater the night of the assassination, put in an appearance at the Walnut Street theater. He informed in-formed Mr. Goodwin (they had been friends for many years) in a confidential confiden-tial manner that he had in his possession posses-sion something that had caused him great anxiety. The carpenter, whose name I do not recall, toid Mr. Goodwin Good-win In my presence that he had the derringer that Booth had used to murder mur-der Lincoln. '' "The reason he had not said anything any-thing about it prior to that time, he said, was because he was afraid of being be-ing arrested. The carpenter said he ing of beavers. We should never indulge in-dulge in profane swearing if we can ' avoid it. We should ever remember j the lessons we learned at the knee it our dear parents when we were little, I but a beaver dam ir, far different. When my grandfather was a boy he i went to school where there was nothing noth-ing but prairie, and the boys whispered whis-pered because the teacher could not find any switches and had a boil on his hand. One day the teacher took a dried beaver's tail out of his desk and spanked spank-ed the whole school with it, and it didn't leave a mark on the beaver's tail, but there never was any more whispering. My grandfather is blind in one eye, but his memory is good. The beaver is becoming very scarce, and you have to go to the Field Museum Mu-seum to see one now. Johnny. ! Monument to a Robber. ! , , . - The Duchess of Beaufort performed the other day the chief part in opening open-ing a bazaar for the restoration fund of the parish church of Avening, England. Eng-land. The church contains some fairly well preserved specimens of early British architecture, but its chief claim to distinction dis-tinction lies in the fact that it is probably prob-ably the only church where a highwayman high-wayman has been honored with a monument. Lord John' Chados gained his barony bar-ony and the grant of Sudley Castle by his strenuous support of Queen Mary's claims to the throne. Afterwards, when that ill-advised queen was hauling her subjects to jail and to death as here- The Kentucky state guard numbers among its members the youngest individual in-dividual that ever donned shoulder-straps shoulder-straps in the United States army or who has been under fir in battle This ,, ,,, , g ' person Is Capt. Manley Lawton, son of the late Gen. H. W. Lawton, who, although al-though only 13 years old, is the bugler for the first battalion artillery, Kentucky Ken-tucky state guard. At the age of 11 years this boy was on the firing line and under fire. He went to the Philippines with his father and served in various commands until his father's death in December, 1899. Soon after arriving he was assigned to the position of volunteer aide on his father's staff with the rank of captain. He served faithfully and well, going through the entire campaign, taking part in all the expeditions, and enduring endur-ing the same hardships as the others of the command. Before starting on that long northern north-ern expedition with his father to Luzon, Lu-zon, the result of which meant so much, he served for some time as an aide to Gen. Fred Grant while the latter lat-ter was stationed at Bacor. Of all the relics brought back from the Philippines, Philip-pines, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, DERRINGER WITH WHICH LINCOLN LIN-COLN WAS SHOT. picked it up on the stage of Ford's theater after Booth had fled to Virginia. Vir-ginia. He pocketed the .weapon and kept it a secret. He drew up a statement state-ment of the occurrence and signed it in our presence. Then he gave the derringer to Mr. Goodwin. When Mr. Goodwin died his widow made me a present of the weapon, together with the stage carpenter's signed statement." state-ment." Mr. Plowman prizes the weapon very highly, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, and no amount of money could pur-hase pur-hase it. Device for Train g CP Railway WheeU A simple device, it is reported, has been put in operation on some of the railroads by which the wheels can be trued up without interfering with their use. It "consists of a brake-shoe that contains pockets, filled with grinding material, so that when a wheel becomes be-comes HaUeiisd, it is ouly naeo&aaay to remove the old shoe and put it in Its place, doing the braking as usual, the wheel becoming turned down in the course of a little while. Aids in Carrying Lantern. "While the invention shown in the ut has been designed principally for the use of railway conductors in examining ex-amining tickets at night, yet it may be utilized to advantage by persons who must have their hands free for carrying packages or for doing other work. The arrangement consists of a frame of metal rods, which are hinged together to-gether to allow the lantern to be tilted In any desired direction so as to impede im-pede the work to the smallest degree. This frame is attached to the arm bj two straps, which pass around a curved plate at the rear of the frame. The straps are of spring metal, having hav-ing several eyelets for varying the adjustment. ad-justment. With this arrangement In use by the brakeman he will have both tics, Lord Chandos, though opposed to the executions, had to act as the queen's instrument. His son, Henry Brydges, connived at the escape of a family marked for punishment, and being be-ing recognized, he and his servants were forced to lead the lives of outlaws. out-laws. At his death his admirers put up the monument to him in Avening church. Where Air Is Fur. During the recent scientific expedition expedi-tion to Spitzbergen, under the direction direc-tion of Professor Nathorst, the bacteriologist bacteri-ologist of the expedition, made careful exumiuations of the polar atmosphere to determine the amount of impurities It contained. In more than ninety different places on Bear Island, Spitsbergen, and King Charles Land, air was filtered and not a single germ was found in it, although J over 20,000 liters of air were subject to the test. Similar investigations were made in regard to the purity of the water, snow, and ice. Even salt water from a depth of 8,000 feet was subjected to the bacteriological test. A few bacteria bac-teria wre found, but they were extremely ex-tremely rare. An examination of the intestines of different polar animals proved that the animals are almost free from bacteria. Only the polar gulls made an exception. excep-tion. In the intestines of polar bears and seals some bacteria were discovered discov-ered which resembled the bacteria usually usu-ally found in human intestines. IIP : CAPT. MANLEY LAWTON. the most treasured by him are the official of-ficial papers showing his assignment and promotions while serving in the volunteer army of the United States. Prophecy f Automobile. Nahum, the Elkoshite, one of the j A Wooden-Legged Cow. j In an animal's hospital in the East End of London there are to be seen many curious four-footed inmates who are in different stages of convalescence and our Illustration is taken from a photo of a valuable ow which recently had one of Its four legs amputated. The quadruped Is shown with an in- tersest and most compact of the Old Testament -prophets, may have foreseen fore-seen the era of the automobile. In his memorable utterance, entitled "The Burden of Ninevah," he uses these words: "The chariots rage in the streets; they jostle one against another in the broad ways; the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings." Self-motors in New York's chief thoroughfare meet that descrip-uon descrip-uon exactly. Odd Facts Affecting Calendars. Those persons who have the double advantage of ancient family and careful care-ful forefathers, by turning up the calendarsunfortunately, cal-endarsunfortunately, they are not printed ones for the twelfth century, by Solomon Jarchus, will find the days and dates coincident with the present century. Such persons can save the expense of buying for 100 years. Again those with a frugal mind who have preserved the almanacs of the nineteenth nine-teenth century will avoid an outlay for calendars of the century commencing January 1, '2201, as the dates for the hundred years following will be coincident coinci-dent with those of the last century. But life is scarcely long enough for such economies., i hands free to assist passengers in getting get-ting on and off the trains and yet the spring clamps allow the light to be instantly detached for waging a signal. Versatile Dr. Gittings. In addition to inventing a new process proc-ess for manufacturing iron, Dr. Enoch GIttings proposes to displace steam as a motive force, abolish coal and harness har-ness the tides. He has also discovered discov-ered a cure for cancer, and is writing a book on psychic phenomena. It will not be Dr. Gittings' fault if there Is nothing doing for the next few years. St. Louis Globe-Democrat geniously made leg of wood, which has x been affixed in place of the missing member. It was thought at first that the cow would have to be killd, as the injury to its leg was a serious one, but the owner begged that every effort, might be made to save its life. Johnny on the Beaver. The beaver is an animal WkJ sharp teeth and a tail, like a large omelet. It inhabits wa'-ry places, and is very fond of its young, of which it usually has several. The beaver is very industrious, indus-trious, and acquires great skill in the use of its tail, with .which it plasters its dwellings. The way a beaver operates op-erates is as follows: It selects a large tree growing on the banks of J or some similar stream, and then it gnaws the tree till it falls across the tream, thus forming a dam. It is not wrong to say dam warn vo-. -- 1 Pistol Used by Booth The assassination of President Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley recalled to George Plowman, a theatrical architect of Philadelphia, the murder of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, on April 14. 1865. Mr Plowman Is the possessor of the fler- |