Show w pouch cove 1 4 tz VA 7 pouch cove to a typical tithing fishing village near the city of st john johns new now practically all of the inhabitants of the island are to be bi lound in juit just uch such villages of which there are around the coast coart whar when the codih are brought in they are dried on an uch such rack racks as a thole those hown shown in thi the photograph thi this work of I 1 making the fish as a it Is I 1 termed by the fisher folk li Is performed largely by women who carry the fh fish from the boata boats spread preace them over the rack racks and kep turning them until they are thoroughly cured the heda sheds are but for the fish when they are ready for market WARRIOR CHIEF OF CONGO 4 i ak 04 down in the congo over which territory in africa the french and ger get man mans are disputing the inhabitants have not taken kindly to the way ways ft of civilization our illustration it lg a portrait ct of a warrior chieftain who bus has keen iteen unusually successful in following the native custom of letting the fin to er calla nails grow these native natives are re armed with modern and are re le fighters SOMETHING OF A SLEEPER the people who tell stories of sleep ing through all the excitement when some calamity s la in the house next door will have to take their hats bats off to thomas sweeney of jersey city lie its continued to sleep soundly when bis big ova on house louse cl collapsed lapsed under mm tim sweeneys house was a two story structure resting on an piles some time ume after be bis his wife and land seven yar cearold old son bad had retired for the night the piles vv wearied earled of sustaining their burdens any longer and let it slip off to the ground seven feet below policemen beard heard the crash several blocks away and rushed to the building to give first aid to the injured they found mrs sweeney and the boy on the th io goo ond floor trying to wake the anter of the household sweeney yawp 1 1 shook the cultis of the plaster ceiling from bis his blankets and turned over to sleep again go on to bed he be remarked the place can t fall an further can it electricity STARS experiments conducted in ireland it are to be trusted reveal a distinct electro force exercised exer clied by the stars using a reflecting to ter two feet aperture ta U concen irate 0 tv stir raye mys and r inactive to note their tnT luence the experimenter bad tied reason to be b her berl that they werf i able not only to detect tact but to treasure peasi ir uie the electromotive force oi of both stars cod nd planet planets fo teo venus for example ex ampi amplo they as bribed a force of about seventeen one on hundredth hundredths of a volt and to jupiter a force of at least thred ono one of a toll volt in the case of jupiter only ft it part of the planets legit tell fell upon the electrometer so 0 o that the expert fentem inferred that his entire electric influence mut must he much grea greater tier than viat that stated sirim sirius 1 bich ap leare ears to us aa as the brightest britti teet of the axed etar stars showed a force two one hundredths bund redtha of a at TOIL volt BEST BABY ALPINE CLIMBER the youngest alpinist in be the horld li Is probably little flatla 1 Gul guldino dint daughter of 0 dr joseph Guld iril of turin italy she I 1 Is aly only four and a bait balf years old and her mother Is in an english woman on september 4 accompanied by her parents she performed what la Is believed to be an absolutely unprecedented feat for one of her years successfully climbing 8 aeral veral of the peaks of the mont blanc range first on the previous eay ay she reached the mont arety but ahe 40 feet making the ascent from churma beur then in fix six hour hours be she climbed the giants giant a N ck feet there she rested a efale while and next crossing the glacier of the giant a neck nock reached the summit of the pet it flambeau feet th the descent to courmayeur Cour mayeur wa was made in two dayi days so far as Is known no child of anything ans an thing approaching her has ever een attempt I 1 ed much less successfully success filly accod polished shed any one of these climb climbs HEN THAT CHEWS ITS FOOD isaac of bayonne Day onne N J has a curiosity in a young plymouth rock hen which has a face resembling that at 0 a human being the hen was pur chased by him tar 39 r c enta it haa has several teeth and chev chairs IU its food which Is principally chopped meat the bea ben has nails on its feet tike like those of a human being and it refuses to mingle with other chickens the ben hen was batched hatched lait spring but its owner does oot not know where as the man mall from whom be he pur chased it bought it along wita with ser sev eral other ordinary fowls RECORD FEAT IN BUILDING what la Is declared to be a record feat was that recently accomplished in to waco tex it consisted contle ted in the arec lion and equipment of a church capa ble his ot of holian hoi ho liln a la in ihl houra bourn the cafice in qui question stion the th herring avenue Aleth odist was commenced at eight clock one morning upon a vacant eita site and fin dished at five in the afternoon deducting the hour tor or luncheon thle mean means that a whole X wa was put up in eight hours even the foundation foundations laid in cement had not acu bously prepared grass all growing growling upon the site ite when the men began their momentous task by ten 0 clock however the foundations were me cured and the working force increased by another thirty men making ac ain array army of forty all told t very mac main knew what wag wax expected of him and there was no clash or hindrance As A the carpenters finished so the pal painter came upon the ceno scene and the moment they had completed coup their task the were followed by the electric electrician law and the paperhangers paperhanger lf noon the nair entire frame was up the front stepa and vestibule bearil part of the boor floor laid and th tb rafters were icing put in place al 12 the men ceased work toi tot lunch and at one 0 clock started it earnest again tho the rafters and th root roof boards were oua soon in place whet the roofers began to lay the rut berold roofing rooting twenty eight men were en in this task and at 4 30 it wai wal finished dy by this time too the floal and ceiling as well as the electric ing were about finished while th painters were wr on the second coat the paperhangers had also ft tin 11 abd banging hanging the irown finish burial di dujo jo and buttermilk finish piper OB on canvas on the inside wall walls by ov I 1 tha building wn complete with the exception of 0 equipping it seats this heirs the work ol 01 only a few minutes promptly at a 6 JO p im all the work were called to the front and a service held and in the evening the s defice waa was defeated by itea it L I 1 munger the birch mea surel some 32 feet in width and 65 feet ic ir length including the vestibule witt a beating seating capacity of the ioor ing la Is railed raised the level ol 01 tb ground TOO TICKLISH FOB FOR ARMY seized with a desire to be a soldier christian johnsoa John sor an ohio farmer ol 01 22 years went to columbus Colura bu to be en listed he ile looked good to the officers and all sent ant vell ell till it cime time tc t measure him every time the omber 1 hand band touched the oune oung man be at al root most ent into hysterics laughing squirm ling and giggling Rig gling ad what the matter the domcel asked I 1 m 0 so o ticklish was tt ile e answer and it proved so 0 o true that it as ac im possible to complete the ati measure sure mente and he be vs aj sent back to th ancestral farm I 1 washing ng away their sins 14 4 14 I 1 I 1 41 ia A 44 ty 4 4 1 t r 0 w I 1 benares Is the holy city of th the hindu hindus anc in their trad itlene it Is believed to hay have ben been coeval with creation cr atlon its it thre three miles all of frontage on an the gangao i Is i occupied chiefly by great flight flights of steps or where crowd crowde of a ill classes rie spend the day in bune but ness amusement amui ement or devotion in th the tapered erad ivr river hilf itself thre there are alway always of pilgrims to be seem n bathing to was with way away their sins ini v |