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Show FELT TENT8 NO NOVELTY. Have Long Been Used at 8helter for Campaigning Soldiers. A Copenhagen dispatch tells of a Dane who has Invented a new military tent fashioned of felt. Possibly thcro may be some new method of treating the material, but felt tents are not a new device. They played their part In eastern history at a date sufficiently sufficient-ly late to be In most people's recollection. recollec-tion. The Turcoman tribes of Trans-caspla, Trans-caspla, not to seek further, have used tents of felt for ages. Tho use of them had a curious effect upon a Russian expedition thlrty.flvo years ago. Gen. Lomakln assailed the stronghold of the TeKkes and fired In terrific volleys of grape and shell among the tents of felt. But no serious damage seems to have been done, and when tho troops attempted the storming of tho felt encampment en-campment they wero repulsed and fled In wild panic. Korean Mourning. When Koreans don mourning tho first stage demandB a hat as largo as a diminutive open clothes basket. It Is four feet In clrcumferenco and completely com-pletely conceals tho face, which Is hidden hid-den further by a piece of courso lawn stretched upon two sticks, and held Just below tho eyes. In this stage nothing whatever of the faco may be seen. Tho second stago Is denoted by the removal of tho screen. Tho third period Is manifested through the replacement re-placement of tho Invorted basket by tho customary headgear, mado In straw color. Tho ordinary head covering cov-ering takes tho shape of the high-crowned high-crowned hat worn by WcUh women, with a broad brim, mado In black gauzo upon a bamboo frame. New Use for Cement. Cement Is being used Instead of wood for plies. They uro mado In triangular shapo and nro driven In the same manner as those of wood. Highest Postofflee. Tho postofflce of Ancomarca, In the Andes of Peru, Is 16,000 feet above the tea and It probably the highest inhabited spot on earth. |