Show ot TT our center of population NE E A V 7 A A V M the exact center of population of the united states has ha been located in the premises of a furniture factory at bloomington lad ind in the accompanying photograph the interesting spot Is where the instrument Is placed on the left t ire re prof W 0 cogshall and prof C A X drew of the astronomical department part ment of indiana university who mide the calculations that located tle center of population TALLEST TOMB IN ENGLAND j I 1 j near the seaport of southampton england there la is a remarkable edi edl flee floe known as petersen Fo Po tereen a tower which marka marks the burying place of 01 a certain john petersen Pe tereen a wealthy tea planter the man appears to have beau beu rather an eccentric individual and in order to prove to the world bla his belief in concrete as a building material he act set about the construction of this great tower the building took many years to complete but Is entirely ot of con crete and by the time the final lay ers er bad been placed had reached an al at of more than feet feel it Is about 40 years since the tower was erected and its present condition Is certainly a justification of the faith ot of the builder Pe tereen left tell eions that his remain remains should be placed under the tower and this was accordingly done another desire tatt the chamber at the summit choul con tala taic a tight light as defeated by the firm eland stand which trinity house the light house authority took ou the matter such an illumination would have been visible for mile miles out at sea and would have proved misleading to sailors SAVED BY HER FALSE HAIR fale false hair saved the life of miss alias flora flom brand of abol when a MIt pacific engine struck the motor car in which she was rid ing her ifer itlear oid old sister augusta drand brand of greenfield mo alo was fatally injured the brano sisters were rid ing in tte tk re arsent at of acar belong ipg to their eincle 1 n 0 drand brand did not see the engine which was running twenty five live miles an hour until it WAS so near that ho he was un able to stop his car before it reached the track ft came to a full stop on the track and waa was struck miss flora brand a false hair became entangled in the engine a driver and was pulled from her head bead if it the driver bad caught my own hair I 1 know mr my head would have tave been pulled under the wheels ebo 09 said MUST BE GOOD SWIMMERS all germau soldiers must leara learn to swim some of them aro are so to expert that be with their clothing OB and carrying guns suns and ammunition they can swim rivers several hundred yards in width UNKNOWN LOVER k THIEF an ari adventure giving a good exam pie of the romantic of the french has just befallen a oung joung and good looking american girl staying at one of the most fashionable hoc hole s in the rue de do paria paris A bile ago the girl who bad had misted missed a favorite brooch containing a minla ture of herself and had given up all hope of finding it waa was much astonished to find fixed to her dressing table the following note you are the most ideally beautiful thine thing I 1 have seen in paris permit me therefore to carry off in addition to eo so many exquisite souvenirs which you have left in my memory the one which has charmed me most I 1 as a t price of your brooch broach the girl a reply was prompt and aa as original as he the stra strangers rigers letter phe caused a brief note to the ol lowing effect to be sent to the other visitors at the hotel mile X refutes refuses the 1200 as the prie of her brooch broach but will be plea pleat 0 o have bave herself photographed for iho the pernon who sends it back to her A phoi phol I apher bearing the missing trinket n presented himself and having led over the brooch took a number umber photographs of the american gir abose identity ay by her special milt mistiest iest Is minx 1 kept secret both by the hotel maur gement and the police A BLIND stenographer maurice J myers a blind reported arted all the discussions at tho the conference on the treatment of the blind held recently at exeter eng land mr myers notes which were recorded on a narrow strip of paper extended to a length of two and a quarter miles and contained f 00 dote dots tula tots clever shorthand writer who can take notes at a speed of 18 words a minute val nute helped to formulate the system of emboss eu shorthand lie as trained at the birmingham royal institution for the blind ROPE SKIPPER AT EIGHTY ONE A A old I 1 idy Is to mis atis aue gus vortices an eighty on one ey e y year earold ear old inmate of the ith ithica aca old ladles come home while celebrating her birthday recently the he called out her friends on the lawn in rent of the home and picking up a little girls jumping rope skipped twenty one times without the faintest siga sign of fatigue or effort TATTOOING IN MANY LANDS tattooing Is un versa in n the e south au ben sea island and common among tho the borth and south american indiana indians the diaks the burmese the chinese and the japanese iti its introduction to europe was as undoubtedly due to sailors and among civilized western peoples it Is practically counted to tho the class and to sailors amar arabas tho th polynesians tattooing probably reached the greatest perfection la in the marquesa marqueda Mar quesa group for or example men were tattooed all over even the tips of the fingers and toes and the cron of the head being covered with fantastic designs As from three to six months mere occupied by each separate parate ee operation commencing at birth a man must have attal attained ned to the age cl thirty at least before the entire scheme of bodily decoration was completed among the and arabs of algeria children are tat mooed by their mothers an as a means ot of identification probably the rudest form of A tattoo ing Is that in vogue among the ab aborigines 0 of australia and certain tribes of negroes the rho method adopted by these race races consists COD lets ts in cutting cut tins gashes on thos skin arranged in patterns and then filling the wounds with clay these forming raised scars this mode as opposed to the more corn com mon device of pricking with R nadle le la in practically confined to the black races among certain african tribes notably the kaffits tattooing Is to an du honor bestowed upon ft a warrior who has distinguished himself in fix war A long incision Is made in the thigh which is then rubbed with cinders un ul tit sufficiently discolored the ft ard the eskimo R regard one who lives his days without being tattooed as endangering his happiness la ta the hereafter GREAT OF ST MARKS 8 A in 44 4 0 N at t one of the eights sights of venice Is the great clock of st mark marks s which was mada made in 1494 1491 by aloyan and eon son pietro lombardo was the of the beautiful clock the bolls of the clock are two one within the other and the hours aie ate struck by two giant bronze moon SHARK HAD HER PARASOL mils wis laura dorsey of saugatuck atuck conn dropped her parasol from a steamer boat in new york harbor early this summer and a shark gob bled it up recently james keyes assistant lighthouse keeper at lewes del caught a shark and when be he opened it ho he found a parasol read ing of the find in the newspaper newspapers miss dorsey wrote to the lighthouse keeper thinking it might be here she deserved described the parasol and enough of it re remained ma ined for the lighthouse beerer to identify it it young turks i arks as vandals A A acx I 1 w 4 L the young turks who are row ordering the destinies of their country are re committing many acts act of vandalism Tand allem in their delro desire to be up to date and are te destroying historic blat orle monument monuments among these are the castio castle of aleppo and nd the aut stone faced un which tt it lande the latter Is I 1 the sit alte of if a at city of 1 gr great antiquity the th I 1 11 caleb leb of the and tb the balabon bal of xenophon and tho the borne some 0 of f the t tell e I 1 I 1 w wae as a k enned years eayre ago for or the abe salo of ot tb the tone stone and now it 1 IS planned to rase raze both th tbt c itle and the ten tell Is |