Show funeral of indian prince 4 v 1 41 R I 1 k 4 ap the funeral of f an indian prince pran of high rank Is I 1 an art imposing lna ceremony last at fall the niah arajah of coeh cooch behar died in england and hi his body wa was cremated crem mated sted thra there but not long ago his hi ashes which had been conveyed to t india by hia his son on ard t rd successor wr were carried on an lp hant in procession clon through cooch behar and then to the palace where they were interred LARGEST OF SPIDER WEBS the largest spider web la in tho the world waa was spun not by a it spider but by human hand hands it stands on the lawn of it chicago man mine country home and Is of euch such tremendous blie size an to startle t the h passerby pase erby when be he first sees it the c creator ot at this interesting oddity conceived the idea of attempting to see how nearly nearl an actual spiders web be reproduced arith rape selecting two immense trees on the lawn tawn if hie him homo home he spun between them this web feet which la Is so 0 o thai that a man may easily climb lo 10 tado center or top of it the wab web faces the main thoroughfare palling passing the house and Is one of at the most fascinating country round decorations over ever seen the spinner could cekot attain the minuteness of the actual spiders spider a web but came so near to it lint the illusion Is almost perfect rho uniqueness of the undertaking archea and fascinates every eye that men it it HIGH DIVE IN MANACLES not satisfied with the feats by which he has won the title of hand iland ut king ears says popular mechanics his its man recently dropped from a leight of 93 feet into the harbor at sydney sydn ey australia with his hands bands manacled nana cled behind his lack back and bis his lyes blindfolded A year or so aso ago his star foat feat wat was making his escape irom a bag in which be was placed loth both hands and feet manacled mana cled and brown into the water lie aleo also took io saro la in 1910 and that year von won the australian league prise prize of in s spectacular flight COLORS AND THE BRAIN juie jute as there aro are hues that soothe the mind through the ayea green for ter so there are colors which ray pay after ayme a time so irritate the nerves is even to unbalance the intellect purple Is one of these according to a list ia in colors a menth in a room containing no color coler but purple would unhinge the mind of a person i with the strongest tro nget nerves in its ef sects on the norves purple it Is to said 1 Is s the most dangerous color there Is RA effta are slow and insidious Insl dlou sauting ausing melancholia and suicidal ma rda the color that inflames the mind li red A A few w weeks in surrounding in cartel scarlet would arouse a sort of frenzy culminating in homicidal ma ulu adlue la Is said to be bf a lif kind d 01 of I 1 dru drug g IQ in its effect on the brain it idles the imagination and gives a citing for or music and ana ean atlon tion but it has a reaction that wreck wrecks the ferrous system yellow la to excess sern eUmes ita es hM terla ONE EGG WORTH 1500 an ess egg ot of the treat great auk or a bird now extinct waa was old sold at auction in londin for a sum esquival ent to 1500 not all great auka auks eggs are alike in length they vary from four and one eighth inches to five inches the greater number found hare have a white ground but others are of various shades or buff la in come some cases the markings are spots shown in blotches or lines it Is raid ridd that no living auk has been seen since 1844 the birds were ex terminated ateS by the traffic in their eggs ani aul skins although their numbers were greatly reduced by their wholesale slaughter for food many misconceptions hare have survived as to the great auk which tor for yeara years has ben boon regarded as a sort of fabled bird like the roc or the dodo in size the creature did not differ much from the tame goose and its title of great was div en tt tc it distinguish it from the small er or or razor billed auk the most remarkable m characteristic of at the great auk alk was its inability to fly its aings were scarcely more than fins which aided the bird in swimming GETS miss 1 llona ilona vardas of budapest alun eary gary has become a multimillionaire multi millionaire by an accident that caused the death of an admirer before he bra time to change a cuff on which be had scribbled his will as a joke ilona was a IL la in a fancy store an elderly man named krondl of shabby appear ance was her constant customer and often sympathized with her because her bar work was bard one day be he was more sympathetic than ual and said I 1 for reward you shall have all my mr money when I 1 die I 1 am an old bac bachelor elor and have managed to save a bitas the other girls behind the counter laughed at the idea of his having any money to leave he turned down his cheap paper cuff and wrote 11 1 I appoint llona ilona vardis my sole heir alter my death she Is to inherit all ay my estate real id ad personal then he signed and dated this tin im prompts will laughed heartily at bis his own little joke shook bands hands with dona and left the store chile atle kroesing cro esing the street jut outside tha tore store he be narrowly escaped being run down by a car had a fit 01 from right fright and died in to a chemist a shop a quarter u i aa all hour after be bad scribbled on his cuff cult it turned out wit krondl bad left more than CO gulden ilona got a lawyer to file her claim to the fortune in the probate court krondl relatives fought hard to have this last of bis his wills bet set aside but the judge decided in favor of llo na she got t the he hole estate but gave one third of at it to kronal a broth er or WORLDS SMALLEST REPUBLIC the smallest republic in the world smallest w without laboi i contradiction Is that of trav alara otara i x little island situated about a dozen kilometers seven and one halt half miles from sardinia it Is a little more than a mile in length and has a population of 65 55 the sovereignty ot of the island was accorded in 1836 by king charles albert to the Bartole out family up to 1882 paul I 1 reigned peaceably over bis his little island king dom but at his death the Is islanders landem proclaimed a republic by the con ution t of the republic the president Is elected for tec ter years WOMANS ARM IN TREE adam fowler storekeeper of clit ton Il heights eights pa shook hook out a 11 fins christmas tree to sell to a woman customer As be did eo so the arm of a woman amputated the elbow dropped out of the branc branches be the tree came to fowler from maine blaine and the probability Is either that this arm Is the product of a legitimate ampula tion but carelessly unburied in the maine woods or a part of some trag edy victim the arm was well preserved and apparently was amputated recently DOMESTIC ELECTRIC TRAIN 4 A wonderful toy has been presented by M hacknauer Hac Ilag mauer an electrical engineer of paris parts to his little daughter jeanine it consists of a miniature t erectile elec tilo tile train which carries bishea ow along the passage from the kitchen to the lining dining room dy by touching it but ton on art a circular ivory indicator messages aro arc electrically transmitted to the kitchen for or buch acu articles as bread knives and forks water napkins and f other portable requisites the train which cost about can easily carry a load of 24 pounds from the kitchen to the dining room table ONE OYSTER 38 PEARLS while eating oyster soup J P F neat of colfax wash discovered covered dij 38 pearls in one oyster five ot of which ot at a comparatively largo large size alto it the I 1 pearls had not been spoiled by cook cock ing they would have been worth about aerial r ferry erry in england E f C 4 4 3 WA A F al 11 1 Z 4 th the new now transporter trani porter bridge or aerial ferry across the river tate at mid no agh england wae was opened not lono lone flo ago being the third of its it kind in that country it has ha a length of feet and an extreme height of feet the traveling car 44 by 39 feet in elze alit accommodates passengers and six alx lx arl 1 it ie Is suspended eue from a cable to operated by erlric electric pow power the trip across the river takee takes only two minute minutes u |