Show I 1 the he worlds Iv wonders onders T W I 1 jf STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN VARIOUS A PORTIONS OF THE EARTH L pipes for f or kings pings 11 breakfast it k A EA 41 tf t f e at 0 MA nearly every morning while king george Is taking his hi breakfast at abo about t ight eight hl ill majesty piper mr play plays the bagpipe bagpipes under t the he andow of cof the royal apartments at buckingham palace marching epand lawn down the while both the king and queen are fond of the pipe pipes and mr forsyth Is permanently attached to tho royal household houie hold taff staff the pipes he lid lass belong to the king and are mounted in silver CRADLE ALWAYS IS HANDY I 1 1 I 1 9 ly I 1 i ft A in the caucasus Cuu casu the mothers others ot of in fante fonts always carry cradles strapped to their back backs in addition to carrying the babies and whenever the little one ones become sleepy the cradles are placed ot oi the ground aud the are rocked to sleep there and then HE CAN TWIST BIG SPIKES michael mansor a confectioner 0 of I 1 wooster Woo iter 0 although ell along in lean ears hae has just discovered that he be has ha wonderful strength in bis his hanels man sor or watched it street fakir doing feats with ballf lie ile tried some of them and was astounded on finding how casily ho he could twist and bead nails then he tried tho the largest steel spikes and these he was able to bend and aist with aPPa apparent ease mineor roade made a chain of the spikes to show what he could do with his hands A strange part of or itan mantore toes lit 1 that although altho uRh he has seen tricks of the ort sort performed he never before thought of trying to imitate jy 0 01 the performances performance WORLDS BIGGEST BABY in james adolph cody two to years ind nd three months old mount airy ga boasts the biggest baby in the world lames fames now weighs pounds and Is ironwing irow TrOw wing every day the coming clant lant already stands 40 10 inches mess mesa ire ires 33 36 inches to A I 1 the he waist and alles a IS inch collar james sleeps well Is perfectly healthy and slid very trong ili ills an betito Is more like a town rowa persons per than a for breakfast reak fast he all will et eat thre three cr or four ardle bli cutts culta wu bacon gravy travy but ter and syrup two glasses of butter milk and it allowed will drink to cups of coffee for denber dinber ho be will eat a big platt plat b of greens or vegetables with boiled bacon corn bread a whole pic if it ho he can get it and two glasses of buttermilk he ile cuta again betse n dinner and supper and hit lis supper Is in keeping with alth breakfast and dinner DUMB MAN SPEAKS an unusual case was nas that of harry kiltie a 0 dumb patient lu in a new now ha ila van cn hospital who ho greeted the tile visiting phol clan the other morning with ll hello ello doci doel it was IRAs the first word ho he had spoken for nine months an and the first eane sane utterance in many years an operation waa was on the patient a section of at hia his skull which had come in contact with ith the brain being rem removed with the result just recorded there la Is eldery indica tion that the remarkable operation will be perfectly successful TWICE BUT ALIVE supposed to have been around to death beneath a freight train at new bury port and to have been twice burled buried once in the potters field and again in to swampscott Swamp scott after bla his body had been so 90 positively identified that an insurance policy polley on his life uto was as paid raymond smith Is back at bis his former home in lyun lynn masa lass BEATING DRUM HIS HOBBY simon 1 I flern helmor helmer a millionaire brewer of now lork ork died recently just ae as he was aa exultantly and delight edly in the exercise of his lifelong felons ll hobby beating a biss drum it was an odd revelation tut that a man 0 of great wealth and large affairs had bad found his keenest enjoyment in acting as a mu alcalan in a band fernheimer Hern Pern helmer heimer bat hap spent thousands of dollars in the sup up port of or a musical association for the mere inere privilege of wielding the bis big baton with ith its huge leather ball against the side aide of a booming drum lie had joined a masonic order in order tc te get an opportunity to play the base bass drum as a substitute in the band at tending rehearsals devotedly in hop hopp that tome night the regular bai baw drummer would be absent and b ht would get a chance and when h he dl di I 1 gel get it the other night he atta attacked eked the instrument with euch such vim and wai sall so highly excited withal at the appo tun fly that bad had come to him that be he brought on a stroke of apoplexy that killed him BOYS remarkable ESCAPE A old boy walter qua gus bavage had a thrilling at pa one eliy lately A chum dard him hlin to jump over the tb of an air haft shaft at one of the mines and on m making aking the at alt he miscalculated the distance and P nd ant tnt whirling Nh irling down the chute fret into an excavation lie escaped wl it d nothing more than a few bruises when the boy disappeared into the opining hl companion op spread rea d an agatin and ond rescuers ere lowered into thu the with ropes but could get no ree rone to 0 o their calls an hour later when hen those on the surface had given up the boy for dead a loader boss appeared on the surface with the lad in his arum arms he ile found him on a R gang wn a platform crying from fright but pra lacally unhurt NOW THE ELECTRIC CARPET the latest electric invention Is the electric carpet for beating rooms it was as originated in paris the under side of the new carpet consists of a network of steel wires through which the current ii Is equally distributed in all directions it Is eald said that the rest of the new form of heating will III bo be less ban than that of any known system indeed it Is estimated that a room fitted with one of these carpets can be heated at a total cost of a penny an hour SCOTLAND HAS A KLONDIKE v scotland now has a little klondike bee all 11 its own but there has been en no rush of gold seekers because it Is 1 all 11 on 1 the property of the duke of sutherland considerable gold has been found in the Su legill burn a typical scottish stream hoting amidst wild and barren country and the duke has established a mining camp with a score of laborers under th ahn charge of an experienced claer from the real klondike placer methods are beng being employed 0 i topiary 0 art 44 tk ir va 1 J t A a 14 V 44 the topiary art that 0 c clipping and trimming trin ming trees tr and shrubs arub tnt regular or at fantastic shapes ha pha hae brn leon practiced in england for cant nt urle urles and an nov h hr perhaps pe chap can be soon tn bettor empl examples of it than at levna leven hall in I 1 in california and son tom I 1 parti parts of the auth south there are ar fin am of topiary work and the th hunnell Hunn wll estate at Wll cly a y mass mi is 1 famous fr fer IL |