Show u MARVELS gf f THE EARTH CURIOUS ODD cand fa interesting OBJECTS cand PLACES q anin rock shelters of robin hood IN I 1 f 44 A aw 14 4 k it i k it N t 4 M er P ea R IF IF A 05 at mansfield fri england gland on an estate which has recently come into tho the ardds anda of f th build r mood stood pomp some strange old rock dAel dwellings linga thit are nou no gitil with ith d 1 it ruction and which the corpor ot of 1 ta trying to sai ae e the origin of these thes 0 queer goubes u Is unknown but the tradition la Is hat that when hen sherwood forest was as in its itis prime they were ere used as shelters by utica aas among otters so the story goes of at hobin robin hood flood and bla his lerry men I 1 atherh they bae hae been inhabited by a colony ot at makers emerlean vi Eltore to tu that district make a point of not missing saing the pock ock houses A BOX OF MYSTERY A amther creepy thing barp liar pencil ened at atal tox one day ret recently antly A largo large square quare box mh which ich waa as unloaded by mistake a beir aio alo and bad had been cen storta all thit time in the freight louse of tho the vaa as opened by the he station agent to ascertain its con tents and see it they could she ine any clue as to the owner the brent agent got a queer shock when ho he opened the box end and KB its ghastly contents were mere revealed to him it contained the naked and bodies of a woman moman and child rho mysterious loun box was nine unloaded from an express cur car at italy because the address upon it had been abed an effort m was as made at the time to discover the who had chipped it tut the searah h as uneuy SAGACIOUS DOG A remarkable story of a dog a horn hom ing ng instinct and sagacity comes conies from tarbert scotland several months ago a dog was obtained from a tarbert lady and baken by its new owner by steamer and train to clydebank Cly debank the animal has just turned up at tta its tor for mer aler home houie tit tarbert in a mah ex hausted bausted condition but showing signs ot of its loy JOY at meeting old friends at Is waa not observed in any ot of the steamers ste amera and unit arrived very ery late at night the inference Is that it journeyed all the way from the city overland miles the mystery Is how bow it found its A any ny back alone by a circuitous and trackless route round the heads ot at the long clyde lochs loche swallowing TEETH FATAL A remarkable story was told at in tn t held at frifield Fri fridland gland on ott mrs hate methuen in 1908 she phe was knocked off nor hor taccle and had four falso teeth and a pl plate ite knocked out of 0 her mouth two of at the teeth and part of 0 the plate were found but the others were not discovered while fastening her bootlace some weeks ago blood suddenly flowed roved into her mouth and she subsequently entered n hospital where sho she died A postmortem me stern examination revealed the two missing teeth and a piece of the plate fastened in the gullet of the throat aroun arouni I 1 which an abscess had devel aped death was due to blood poison ing set up by he the abscess LEASE RUNS TO FINAL DAY remarkable terms of a lease grant ed by a welsh landowner to the trus ties tes of i t congregational Congregation at chapel and graveyard at lie dealah ilah near cardigan have just been disclosed dit doted in 1860 the lease was mas made out for ninety nine years but recently the landlord was asked to extend it a that they might not be disturbed in aeta lart resting place at least beffi ki the resurrection morn ho lie asked it the afternoon of the resurrection day would not be better and acting upon that tion the lease lense was as made to run to the afternoon of tho the last d daiy diy ty BIGGEST OF APPLE TREES on tho th farm of brothers nerr W va la is growing prof ting what ie Is claimed to be the largest up lit plo tree in that state the tro tre Is I 1 I 1 lest in airet tri terence four above he ground it hae has four limbs alch ire from four to elx six feet in circum terence er ence and hae has ono branch four and arid ine ino half feet in circumference 20 0 o feet from rom the ground the tree hae has spread 97 7 feet and ii to 40 feet high the esti ago of the trea tree Is ears ear it W s in flip file healthy condition NEW WAY TO COMMIT SUICIDE after no fewer than six ful attempts to kill himself a bailor named leon welsa weiss has finally corn com bitted suicide in an original fashion A month ago ho he throw threw himself into a can cami canil il at rheams but N was as rescued few days later he hanged himself by hie his braces on a tree in a public square but his tile braces broke he lie did not despair however and drafting n revolver ellot himself twice he ile was A as taken to thi hospital where be he wis cured of his wounds A few dis aft erward erard at loan railway station he shot himself just as a train waa as coro coin ing in n hoping to fall bene uh ith ohp wheels heels but gain his life as saied and he was taken to the hospital ik lit managed to tear off hi 1 bandages anu anti swallowed loed them then he lie obtained rome water and drank it and unit this with alfh the cotton wool he had swallow cd ed suffocated him thus bis his seventh attempt was visa successful HOUSE BUILT FROM ONE FIR A fourteen room two and a halt story bouse house built entirely of the turn ber her from a single fir tree waa was recent ly finished at elma on the west coast the fhe tree was wai a giant douglas fir and was w as felled w est eat of the tow tom n it va w as marvelously straight and m when hen scaled healed was as found to contain feet of serviceable lumber inside the bark the stump measured seven feet and nine inches in diameter and tho the total height of the tree was mas over feet at the standard price of 25 a thou sand the lumber in this tree was worth orth mure than 1000 elma 13 1 in the midst of the great fir timber belt on the west elope slope of the cascade mountains FINDS FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH day rattery of Il portland ortland belleci bel leei that he has found the fountain of youth on the two to acre tract he recently bought on zigzag river on tho the mount hood flood road dr came out and on examining his kind land with a view viem to having it cleared tor for a sum mer home discovered a living spring which possesses mineral tito of high order he placid a large sign over the spring fountain of at youth IMMENSE CHUTE FOR tift one of the longest and h I 1 goo gelt her ber chutes in tho the north northwest mes t aa on the klamath river in ho the ext northeastern corner of or b bi wv oil ty alifornia it Is used aimont for shooting I 1 saw I 1 g gi 4 1 the tile top of a mountain don dawn cloy klamath river in total gig great chute la Is about 3 f r t w 4 placed places it assumes an a arilla ot of lit i 45 6 degree degrees the chute re res abi in bi hue huge trough more than fix mix feet iab between the two to elda side at the top bottom anil and ildea tides are 11 about bo t ig Is it aaa thick all nii very secure securely 1 y 1 jointed 0 1 nten fitted together and at blurt t vala vals strongly etron gly anchored to the I 1 mount ain side 1 most of ohp shooting Is don doam ring the winter later months hen ta chute Is chatel with snow and i or kept vet inet by rains NN h n i f log Is started down the at cl way ay it kilns a tremendous rate rati before reaching the r stream at the mournain mout nAin aln e 8 baie base than feet below su fearful tho the swi swiftness liness that the friction oh scorches chea both tho the chute and the in on the tile logs only a few ondia required for the big 1 log I 1 to a kritik raakel lourne journe from top to bottom 70 VICTIMS DRINKING POT a t th wt A lani I 1 0 1 of to W ot 1 th 4 a pe bl r ru it W ba ar arom tho the pot ho hore re 1 pictured for sacrifice were ere made to driba magic draught in order to I 1 kill ati tt fou aeouls a before t their e r bad bodesa es perished at that the souls could not bo be set free tree take vengeance upon the living pot came aiom the place of blaug lr at Namu gongo uganda bt th HE OBEYED THE SCRIP SCRIPTURE be obeying in a very literal denlea scriptural injunction if thy hand offend thee W A giffee O 0 0 ing a sentence in tho the atlanta gia gie stockade cut oft off his left band hand not nollee nolle ka 6 ago I 1 don t know why I 1 cut off 8 80 hani except that ever fince I 1 mildly killer man atan every everybody bod seemed to think of me he said I 1 and since my big III had offended it seemed things bijil change it if I 1 cut it off I 1 gaffney t ill tried on tho the ain mu dir charge and ii ne acquitted quitted afterwards he lie came tolt toi lanta and got into trouble aa as A ir suit of which be he wae was a ant nt to the bot ade I 1 QUEER photograph ifera lehmann a swiss farmer a was struck by lightning during a f zero thunderstorm not long ago reco recovered cred now but hia his left side g been beautifully tat tattooed toted by the I 1 ning the ekin being et entirely coe cos with printa prints of oak chestnut and ani leaves loaves the doctors say the 1 strait tr photographs will NOR never wash out fi r ehst turbic Tur bim loc emotive it el 6 L IN li 11 4 W 1 01 11 4 a in 41 yr ita V 7 WWI t there has juet just been completed at the works of a locomotive company the i i first stein I 1 turbine electric locomotive abi I 1 accentuates the motors ie is generated the electricity ti deriving deri virg its atonal aich Is by a dynamo driven by a turbine ellal 1 l bine 3 revolutions superheated from a boiler in the rear the va the earmice at 0 till this per la Is minute the developing 1000 nominal horse po securing of increased econ economy cray in fuel and otherwise efficiency und and substituting the continuous by br the adding of 0 a condenser con denaer tf diction ol 01 the rotary motion of 0 the turbine slid dynamo for till hitched on recently pindo mode present wasteful ensine en ine the lo with a cog 11 V sherrie and back a very maiden run from glasgow to 6 |