Show famous portia of paris 44 V till 1 I to 4 N 41 1 V 4 r J A X 7 4 4 1 4 alx I 1 I 1 mile Miro the famous woman lawyer of paris who has ha gained special eminence by pleading in criminal court courts Is I 1 hown shown in ou our r Il lustra tion addressing add one of the regular weekly meetings of the parl paris bar she al 31 to has lectured in london and has been entertained by the judge judges there mile ro believe believes women are of pedal especial use at the bar in cases at af feeling children and would like to sea see mixed juries but doe does not think the time ripe for the appointment of women judges WINE FOR FOWLS NJ joubert protessor protea eor at the agrical tural college at claims that be he baa has discovered a new and simple method of 0 making bens hens lay lie teeda feeds them alth with wine in ad to their ordinary food the professor has not allowed his discovery to be made known lightly lie has ban been experimenting with fowls ot of all kinds for several years and binds the fame same result in every case lu in each case be he experimented tor for the four winter months with two sets of 12 fowl fowls of or the same breed adding bread soaked in wine to the food of one of the two beta sets of 12 in every ca cae care re after six separate parate ee trials the wine cd lcd hens lions laid more eggs in the proportion of 20 eggs a month or there about stout SMALLEST COW IN WORLD I 1 j A restaurant keeper in parts Is to the in proud au d owner of the smallest cow in the world orld so far as Is recorded the little animal ie is just over two feet in height an and d Is to live years old she gives good milk though naturally not in great quantity and besides attracts many customers to her owners cafe HEAD DRESS OF tie the head dress of the tehuana in dian than women whose home Is upon the isthmus of in mexico Is to of remarkable design aa w not lacking in attractiveness it la Is called i A hul but pit and la Is an elaborate lace affair e ic nibling la in some respects an ellza eliza bethan ruff it Is w rn on special oc caslis and in different shapes sometimes ic it Is to not flared out from the bead but Is worn hanging down the back the tehuana women perform the business buel negi functions of the tribe many of them being small merchants in town ton upon the isthmus the men inen 6 live n idleness in this respect hey they are ike burmese lur mese women and there Is a striking resemblance between the bueme Durm efre and the Tehua nas nes the dally daily costumes of the tehuana women very much resemble that of tho the burmese u women they are truly oriental in their fondness for brilliant colors CURIOUS AUSTRIAN CUSTOM hogging flogging the dummy Is a curious custom kept ul up by the villagers of austria A rummy Is dressed up in to grotesque fashion and Is called the Luzel Lizel wife hife it Is taken from bouse house to house by the troupe of dressed musicians and before each bouse house it Is to flogged then the band lay lays tl ill the householders emerge with cakes and wine for the crowd HOUSE OF DIAMONDS about 20 years 7 ego the diamond merchants of Amater amsterdam dam held their market aa as beet beat they could the merchants meet in a cafe or sometime sometimes in the street where drawing their gems from their pocket pockets they would compare them chaffer and conclude their contracts acte those day days mar may be termed the patriarchal age in la time the merchants saw that their thelt precious goods were worthy of a moru more procedure they rented premises which they named I 1 be deurs urs toor den diamantin Dia manten Du business alness pros amsterdam absorbed about two thirds of the world it commerce li il the precious stones and the syndicate syndic te determined to build their own ball hall or ex chang and this the minister of the interior has recently opened on th thy 1 NEW MUSICAL instrument A new stringed musical instrument Is reported to bare been devised by a japanese violin maker in the city of or nagoya the invention th au name named d tho the and seems likely to super sede the samisen it has the shape of a guitar pave gave in the n ck which la Is the only part resembling a samisen there are four strings to it and by manipulation of the keys the inspru ment meat can be made to do the work ork of several the inventor has played his in an orchestra of or japanese instruments and showed shoed that it Is to a buchear in every way HOW THE ELEPHANT TALKS I 1 elephants Meph lep hants ants ar are e said to make use ot or a great variety ot of bounds sounds in comment eating cating with each other and in ex pressing pre saing their wan an a and feelings some are uttered by the trunk some by the throat the conjuncture conjunctures in which either means of expression Is emp employed loed cannot be strictly classified as fear pleasure want and other emotions are sometimes indicated by the trunk sometimes by the throat an elephant rushing rustling upon an assail ant trumpets trum pett shrilly with fury fear la Is expressed in a shrill brassy trumpet or by a from the lungs pleasure by a con linued low breaking squeaking through tho the trunk or an almost inaudible purring sound from the tho N vant ant aa as a calf calling Us its mother la is chiefly ex pressed by the throat A peculiar sound Is to made use of by elephants to express dislike or appie apprehension hension and at the same time to intimidate as when the cause of some alarm has bag not dot been clearly ascertained and the ani male wish to deter an intruder it Is produced by rapping the on end d of or the trunk smartly on the ground a current of air hitherto retained being sharply emitted through the trunk as from a valve at the moment ot of im pact the sound made res ables that OL of a R large sheet of tin r rapidly doubled double d it has been erroneously ascribed by some writers to the animal animals beating their sides with their trunks trunk FIRST STOCKING FRAME the first stocking frames are said to havo have been made by william lee curate of or culverton culberton Cul verton in 1688 1586 and were at t first worked by him alth ith the aa an sleta Is talice uce of his hi sweetheart or wite wife like most other inventors be failed to receive a Pul suitable table reward tor for his labor and Is said to have hae died at paris parts in 1610 starving and broken hearted the stocking weavers company ex shed la in tor for the next 90 years bad had almost a monopoly ot of the business but great britain today makes nearly one halt of the stock ings made in the world germany Is 19 a close second being famous for the cheapness and excellence ot of her hose SLICE OF LARGEST TREE 4 Y orv 1 f 1 ft 4 t N hat ie Is believed to be the largest tree in the orld world grow in southern Califor california lila end and stood over feet high SO 90 feet at the bage the lection hero here illustrated 50 tone tons and in I 1 FI feet la in circumference the concentric ringi rings indicate that the tree began growing in tho the year BRIGHT MONEY IN STREAKS A man who give gives to his wife all the bright dimes and quarter quarters and halves be gets ay says that bright money moner seems to run in streaks sometime he get gets a lot ot of bright colne coins for day days and week in succession and then be he may go A month mouth and get not one tunnel winel 1 under chinese inese wat wal aal Rs A Z V 1 k I 1 ir E i C i A 1 4 1 1 S Z 4 all things ro relating lating to china ire are Inter interesting eitIng these th days and not the least a interesting Inter eating la Is tha the railroad from peking to kalgan calgan which vaa was financed or n gingered gin end and built b tha the chine chinese the line alln li Is mile miles long and ni there are r four concrete tunnel tunnels one of these tunnels pas tat under the ore great wall the entrance to it tormina forming the subject of our |