Show ago truth not poetry the world Is doing better than it did some time ago learned some useful things our grand grands alres tres seem to know and by the information which experience has gained A number of mysterious things are readily explained why did the floweret flo tio blush unseen amid the desert air why have hae some sages lived unknown in attics chill and bare why Is reward re ard withheld from men both talented and wise the answer Is as plain pl tin as day they advertise to merely take the light from neath a 0 bushel will III not do youve youle got to keep it blaming where the passing throng may view no matter what your walk in life this fact you cant disguise ba be dropped from the procession if you jou do not advertise ader tise exchange I 1 rain held up by dog A big black dog held holdup up a train on the river trestle near rochester N Y and caused no little embarrassment to those ho were watching the actions of the canine the dog could easily have been run down and killed hillid by the engine but the engineer did not propose to take any chances so he allowed tho the dog to hold up the train passengers on their way up from the beach no doubt wondered what the train stopped on an the trestle for and why after it started it went across the trestle at an unusually slow rate of speed the bir aa black dog was the cause of it all the dog started across the trestle from the east cast side he was on a slow trot evidently being careful tor for tear fear of tumbling and falling between the ties to the river biow bolow when the anim an irn 1 l reached a point about midday across the train from the beach which arrives at the state street station about 8 pulled on oil to the trestle from the east side and as it rapidly approached the dog he stopped and turning so that he faced the engine he looked in wonder at the big iron horse the train slowed down and then camo came to a full stop within about 20 feet of the dog it was apparent that the engineer saw the dog and that he prore preferred to tco allow the canine to hold up tho the train rather than take a chance on bumping the animal off the trestle and possibly endanger the lives of the passengers for the trestle ia is no place on which to take chances after sitting on the ties about three minutes and calmly looking at the engine engina he resumed his ills trot across arross the trestle it was a very slow trot when tho tha dog log started the engineer started the train at a slow rate so that if the dog took a notion to stop again the haan could be stopped before bumping into the animal when about 30 feet from the west elid of the trestle the dog took a spurt cleared the trestle in a twinkling and disappeared N Y journal mushrooms weighing a ton little mushrooms ire common and uninteresting but a snow mushroom rn nine feet in diameter weighing a ton and perched upon the summit ta of the selkirk mountain Is a veritable wonder and extraordinary freak ol 01 the elements these romark remarkable abic snow mushrooms have just been reported by dr V cornish before the royal geographical society of london they aro are formed upon the tree stumps near the glacier house in the selkirk mountain B C in felling trees a stump of several feet in height Is always left and this is tho stalk or pedestal of tho the mushroom tho the Sol kirks extract an im mense snowfall from the moist airs of tho Pac pacific lilL tile the fal oti last IS 18 feet and the di ath of the tho the ground was i feet i the mushrooms ire borruel o 0 sn snow ow when tho the vand ind Is aig o 0 5 is always the case in lathis 8 reg snow surface remains rough roughs f ing many points fur astaci k the upper of thet is exposed to the air rera renej another falls upon 1 surfaces in contact aie ate J thin layer of ice lee which is t of the structure of each st diio OW As tho the depths ot of the sno si IZZ increases the pres bure ot 0 st gj bent layers slowly o 0 the lower layers T these hese bete beeco compact and more ten aclo process proceeds A stump two feet in dianic mushroom nine feet across part projecting 3 feet alleri all pedestal A broken treo tree fat a e diameter had a mushroom oia 1 t across the weight of so rooms in most cases is walking leaves of ofa J the walking leaves of 0 perhaps the most wonderful imitators counterfeiting gr 9 drw so remarkably that the ell calved eve aea a when one i them one of tho the strange about them is that their col cole ter has been proved by anal practically the same sub stat chlorophyll which gives the to real leaves in java tho the natives WO these insects are actually to leaves having originated a i tho the trees there is a soca soc so ca butterfly which looks loohs like butterfly when hying flying but alights upon a branch it wings in such a fashion that exactly like a leaf even cien ah sh ribs thereof many wild sheep in europe there is only oil 01 of wild sheep it is anon and it inhabits d t bains of corsica and sual sardi stalking is a favo favorita ritt pastime in corsica hovi sheep is almost extinct II 11 and winter this animals cog ruddy brown hue excepting excepha int desparts der parts which are lighter back and flanks which ar irl with a white saddle but the brown becomes darker about twenty seven luche shoulder is the avoids hel e grown examples in leonard a emall herd of Is an artificial mountain has b there to enable them to ell climbing proclivities the aztec Ca calenda lendir the most wonderful aborio urgent in the new now world Is known to archaeologists 2 as calendar it Is properly s zodiac eleven feet eight lad let ameter carved from the I 1 and its weight estimated boldt is pounds at A columbus discovered ame ameri been in position for thirty 1521 it and many large t thrown into a marsh by u of cortez curtez to hide them froal of the Il hi athen Lathen it came tj tace lace thirty years afterward reburied and forgotten en for the mexican national mus now given it a prominent PI 13 massachusetts S L dresser of on hearing a disturbance chickens went out and tow mal over two feet long att attl ho he tried to frighten it animal made for him H for a club and he killed t after a tough fight A nw being called in said it ws steam and electric the length of steam ral w in tho unit united d states Is 2 A and of elec electric t ric railway t miles |