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Show Mummy Flowers. Tho remains of no fewer than flfty-nlno species of Uowenng plants from mummy wrappings In Egypt havo been identified. Tho flowere havo been wonderfully preserved, even the delicate violet color of tho larkspur, tho scarlet of the poppy and tho chlorophyll In tho leaves ro malulng. Cats Were Electrocuted. The town of Winchester, Mass.. Is now almost entirely bereft of cats. Tho superintendent of tho state fowl hatchery, finding that the animals wrought havoc among his poultry, fixed up wires and at night ran a powerful electric current through them. During tho past two years over 20 cats havo been electrocuted. Focllsh Fears. It seems to in that somo of the col-logo col-logo presidents nro permitting their npprohenslveness to get tho better of them when thoy oxprcss the fact that tho collogos will ho studeniless In a fow years unless tho graduaces raise families and send their boys to alma mater. It Is easy to demonstrate that any healthy boy can bo taught a class yell In fifteen minutes, If proper patience pa-tience nnd Ingenuity nro exercised. New Evangelists at Work. They havo a Moody and Sankey tenm In London just now Dr. Torroy and Mr. Aloxandor, both from Australia. Aus-tralia. They aro holding largo meetings meet-ings In Exeter hnll. Mr. Aloxandor, tho vocnllst, Is a fino singer, but Is also wonderfully gifted In tho way of getting his audience to Join in. "Everybody likes to sing," ho says, "but a greot many don't know how." Improved Conditions. More than 40 per cent of tho people peo-ple of Great Ilrltnln could not wrlto their names when Queen Victoria ascended as-cended tho throne. Now only sevon per cent aro In that condition. New York Ahead of, London. It costs New Vork five times as much as It does London to maintain parks und recreation grounds. . v Wild Deer Become Tame. Tho highland deer have become very tamo during the recent severe weather In Scotland nnd have left tho mountains In herds numbering hundreds. hun-dreds. Passengers by the railway nt Carrour, In particular, havo been surprised sur-prised by tho unusunl sight of hundreds hun-dreds of deer crowded close to tho railway fences, begging food with piteous eyes. In tho high-lying forests for-ests hand-feeding has been resorted to, but In somo districts, particularly Lochcarron, tho deer nro being shot In consldernblo numbers where their depredations to tho crops havo not been made good by the proprietors of tho deer forests. Honored by Alabama. Tho Alabama houso of representatives representa-tives has named a nowly formed county coun-ty In that state Houston In honor of tho late Gov. George S. Houston, who, tho Montgomery Advortlsor says, "at tho head of the "Democratic hosts of Alabama redeemed tho state from tho evil and Iniquities of negro domination nnd was for years In war and peace distinguished for his services to his stato." His name was preferred to that of Gen. Ilobort E. nodes, a distinguished dis-tinguished soldier of Alabama, who was killed In battle, and to that of Raphael Sommes, commander of tho Alabama, which was sunk by tho itearsargc. Name Is Misleading. Tho western branch of tho Kennebec Kenne-bec has boen given the name Dead river, because In 1776 It was full of urowned soldiers So ono may rend, but there Is not a syllable of truth In It and tho noxt picture conjured up by tho name, a doleful styx, turbid and miasmatic. Is equally false, says tho Century. The plain fact Is that tho river Howb for a long dlstanco through meadow3, and unless the water wat-er Is high, It scarcely seems to move at all. That Is why It has boon called dead. Nothing gloomy bolongs to tho name. A delectablo and captivating stream Is Dead river. The Result of Machinery. It has been estimated by an export in tho employ of tho government that 'agricultural machinery reduces the number of men employed to do a given amount of work to ono-third, while manufacturing machinery reduces tho number to ono-Ilftloth. Charcoal Eph's Dally Thought. "Dey am er hull lot ob senso in wlnnln' do dumb bruto by kindness," said Charcoal Eph, thinking at a hazard, "but yo' ain't gwlne f raoko a mowl plow bettah by feedln' him lco cream, Mlstah Jackson. Baltimore Balti-more News. It's Up to Husband. A grateful Kansas wlfu has published pub-lished a card In tho local paper thanking thank-ing "an unknown gentleman" who steerod her husband homo tho ether night when said husband's steering gear had become disarranged by alcoholic alco-holic ludulgonco. Tho husband's card has not appeared. Minneapolis Times. Foxy JlmC Mr. and Mrs. Jim I.angan of Atchl-son Atchl-son play crlbbago every night to seo who will got up and build tho flro In the morning. During the fow months thoy havo been marrlod Mr. Lancan has never lost n gamo. His wlfo knows ho cheats, but sho can't catch him. Atchison Globo. A Oentlo Invitation. A rngged llttl-. child was hoard to call from tho window of a mean-lok. lug houso to hor neighbor: "Pleaao an? i S,fltn0ther'a, bMt npllmcnta and f It s fino woiuher, will you goa- begging with hor j-morrow? |
