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Show iimn Corner . r unions PLIMSOLLS MARK ON SHIPS the summer season anywhere. The one below that is for winter and the lowest of all is for the north Atlantic In winter, as that is considered the most dangerous of all the oceans traveled by cargo carrying ships. LITTLE TRICK OF INTEREST One May See Through His Hand by Using Piece of Paper Rolled Up In Form of Tube. Here is something that is very easy to try and that is bound to interest everyone you show it to. Take a piece of paper and roll it up into a GENTLE. JANE. One Man j Careful Supervision of Birds Showt They Are Rapidly Dying Out Various Reasons Given. Alsace-Lorrain- A ROLLER SKATER f Found by Small Boy In Amusement Riding Astraddle of Broomstick Is Improved On. When the very smalt boy who likes to play horse astraddle a broomstick becomes old enough to , use roller skates, he may carry out the idea in a more practical way with & roller pole of the kind shown in the illustube about of an inch tration. The device comprises a pole in diameter. Hold this in your right provided with a roller at one end, hand and place one end of it close up a seat near the center, a crosspiece to your right eye. Place on the table for the hands at the other end, and about three feet from fou any small object, such as a coin. Now open your left hand and place it with the palm lacing you, against the left aide of the paper tube, about midway . of its length. Keeping both eyes open, now you will appear to see through this hand in fact, .there will apparently be a hole right through it, through which you will see the coin. three-quarte- Evenly Matched. sat on a rail fence inclosing Pole for Roller 8katers. a cornfield. A city chap, passing, said: "Your corn looks kind of yellow, a second crosspiece between the first mentioned crosspiece and the seat Bub. This second crosspiece is to brace bis Yep, thats the kind we planted," knees against when he sits down on said Bub. It doesnt look as if you would get the seat after getting a good start observed more than half a crop, What Are Cork Legs? the city chap. One often meets with a description, we dont expect toLandlord Nope; retorted the especially in some of the older novels, gets the other half, of men with cork legs, and upon readyoungster. ing the graphic accounts of some of hesitated a moment The stranger some of these old sea dogs, for most and then ventured: were Bailors, one would natuYou are not very far from a fool- of them think they had artificial rally legs are Bub? you, ish fellow, moren ten feet, made of cork. not Nope, But artificial legs are never made said the boy and the city chap passed cork. They do not get their name of on. from the material of which, but from the place at which, they were made. Colors One Cannot 8ee. was not the city of Cork in IreThis know that there Is no Perhaps you but Cork street, off Piccadilly, in land, such thing as color in the objects you which was the headquarters look at. Some process' in the brain London, artificial limb trade in the old the for waves the of transforms light that as certain streets are known come from different things into what days, just for certain wholesale are called colors. When there is no as the locality our in big cities today. businesses no see colors and a red no light you rose is the same shade as a green 1 Not He! tree. An Irish builder was new to the At present people can distinguish seven colors in the rainbow, but scien- huge skyscrapers. He had carried matop floor, and could tists say therp are others beyond those terial up to the down. After a tliie we see which 'the human eye cannot not find his way see yet. They have proved that some the boss missed him and called up to insects, such as ants, can see rays of him. Pat, oh Pat! Why dont you come light beyond the violet, Just as it has been shown that there are animals down? I dont know the way, said Pat. that can hear sounds which are too Well, come down the way you fine for human ears to detect went up. Faith, an I wont said Pat, for I The Maid and Her Apples. came a met up head first. servant maid carThree boys the to market The first apples rying Not Afraid of Grandma. took half what she had, but returi d Grandma, queried small Effle, to her ten; the second took but returned two; and the third took do you like candy? No, dear, replied the old lady, "I away half those she had left but returned her one. She had then twelve never eat it. Then, continued Effle, 1 wish you apple? left how many had she at would hold mine until I get dolly first? dressed. Answer: Forty. . FAR to Have Kid Tranaferred, but He May Have Had i a Grouch. , What do you think of this scheme having the countries exchange children? asked the Sewickley man. I dont think anything about it, said the Wllkinsburg man. What is the idea? An English family, for instance, exchanges children for a couple of years wich a German family. References are first exchanged and all that sort of thing. I see. Thus both sets of children get a chance to learn another language and get acquainted with another country. Its quite a scheme." Its an elegant scheme, declared the Wllkinsburg man. My neighbors have a kid that I would like to see exchanged with some family In Si' 6 ; . : beria. ALSACE STORKS ON DECREASE Every year the number of storks to be seen in Alsace becomes less, the London Daily Globe states. Of the four nests perched on the big chimneys of the old roofs of Strassburg only ope has been occupied this year, In many of the villages the greal migrators have ceased for a long time to relieve the landscape, and it seems only- - a question of tlfhe when the stork in Alsace will be a memory. Various are the causes assigned for this desertion the drainage of the marshes, the multiplication of telephone and telegraph wires and the smoke from factory chimneys. In Germany for the .better study ol storks there has been created a sort of service in connection with the education department which tends to set up an etat civil for each bird, or, in other words, to register them after the manner which obtains for citizens ip Prance. Each bird is captured where possible and a metallic disk affixed to its leg, and German officials, wherever the; birds are believed to migrate, have instruction to. send to the department any information they can gather concerning storks which are German subjects. (Possibly this labeling may have something to do with the scarcity.) By this system of registration the authorities have learned something of the migratory habits of the bird; for instance, one was found dead at the Cape of Good Hope whose place of origin was eastern Prussia. A point of interest relative to the scarcity of the stork has been brought under the notice of the German authorities by a doctor at Port Elizabeth, who suggests that they have been poisoned through eating grasshoppers or locusts which have been killed by arsenic. A correspondent, e Jourhowever, of an nal hints that the cause is to be found nearer at home. . t HE SHOULD GO Of Said Gentle Jane, I heard today Our fence runs 'round the house. But though I've watched It I must say It's quiet as a mous" j - one-thir- WILLING PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE M POLE FOR A boy PANAMA'S wimumuvi nnnnnnnn rti Peculiar Characters an Side of Brltiah Vesaeli Determine Weight of , Her Cargo. Perhaps you have often heard of mans making his mark in the world, but what do you think of a man that left his mark on every British ship that sails the seas? If you are observant you may have noticed in passing some of the freight steamers a peculiar mark on the side, close to the water, something like the letters 0. E. This mark is usually about the middle of the boat, and, Is white or yellow on a dark background. In the old days many merchant ships were lost through overloading anjl a British member of parliament, Samuel Plimsoll, who sympathized with the poor sailors that had to risk their lives on these ships while the greedy owners stayed safely at home, worked and worked until he got a law passed that obliged every cargo carrying vessel to carry a mark on Its side, showing the depth to which she might safely be loaded. The fiye marks on the figure to the right, which lqpks like a letter E, Indicate the loading depthsfor different places and seasons. The top line, turned to the left, Is for fresh water. The top line to the right is for the Indian ocean. The next below Is for . - ALMOST INCREDIBLE. BELISAttiO PORRAS, former minister of Panama to this country, has just, been elected president 'of PanDR. ama He and Mine. Porras were married by proxy immediately before he returned to Panama from Wash- ' ington. ! BIG SALMON CATCH that he struggles all the time. Forty-Nin- e of These Fish Caught For atime moment he gives in and theii is off again with a new lease of strength. in Seven Days. Throughout his battle is punctuated with a series of picturesque Jumps, often aB many as a half dozen, before two Brookline Men Landed the Beau- he finally ' quits. While all this is goties in Famous New England on ing everything Is forgotten In the Stream Terrific Battle excitement of the sport. There are no cares, no worries, no schemes of busiFollows Strike. ness for the, man with the rod... There Brookline, Me. Seven days fishing Is Just one thing .ln the world, and dlth a catch of forty-ninsalmon, all that Is the fish on the end of the line. weighing between three and five pounds, was the luck of George C. SEND PHOTOS BY WIRELESS Stevens of Wlnthrop road and Charles R. McWilliams of Manchester road, Experts Say New 8ystem It Being Brookline, during a recent trip to New Perfected That Will Speed Up England's celebrated salmon fishing the Traneocean Service. ground, Grand Lake stream, Maine, says the Boston Herald. London. Wireless messages will be t Success like that might cause the sent across the Atlantic and to other occasional disciple of Izaak Walton to parts of the world by a nett system, yearn for many a day, but Mr. Stevens according , to within four and Mr. McWilliams, both veterans months. Not only will transmission of the rod and line, are not unduly be much faster than by the present elated by it That was the sort of systems, but it will be with such presport they went after and expected; cision that it will be possible to send the sort of sport they had had many pictures by this means. The new system has been taken up times in the past They are willing to admit, however, that the capture of a by one of the big European telegraph dozen beauties in one day was an companies and will be given a thorough test by a syndicate organized achievement to he rather proud of. For season after season the pair under the- auspices of the telegraph have visited the two broad stretches company, so far as the transmission of of placid water set deep in the pine wire'ess messages is concerned. Stations are to be erected at Lyons woods, Grand lake and Big lake, and the little darting river which links the in France and1 at Washington, D. C, two and which is known to every de- and the lnventof claims that be will voted angler as Grand Lake stream. be able to send at tbe rate of 200 Each season has equaled Its predeces- words a minute. Tbe improvements consist in being sors and each seasons record has spread the fame of the region abroad. able to control a continuous wave aa Today Grand Lake stream is known compared with intermittent waves by tn every corner of the country where the present system. After the line is there Is an enthusiastic lover of the lame fish. Each year brings together working the company intends to exat the camps along the shores of the tend the system to tbe coast to Africa colonies. The lakes the .pick of the salmon fisher- and to the British men of the continent There are many British government has Investigated tales of notable catches. One man, it, but la apparently satisfied to let some other nation test it before adoptfishing with a fly late In May, took 29 In one day and another is reported to ing It in the British Isles. have landed 120 in 16 days. Lying 169 miles north of Bangor, Grand Lake stream Is reached only after the Washington country railroad 1 Is followed to Princeton. Then there Is a jaunt of 16 miles by motor boat Man Surrenders to Police, Declaring and cart to the camps deep In the forThat Hia Conactonce Hat Been est The journey Is a long one, perTroubling Him. of haps, but no true fisherman thinks that once he has glimpsed the broad New York. Evan Evanson of 1425 expanse of water sweeping before him Bath avenue, Bath Beach, an elderly 50 for square miles. He has only to man of impressive appearance, called watch a while for one of the canoes at police headquarters In Manhattan which dot the surface here and there, asked to see the person In charge, until he sees a shimmer of silver as a and If there were any one on duty so late fish jumps clear to strike and the at night and It was not too much fever Is upon him. After that he is trouble. busy, except at the Intervals when he Lieut. James Dunn, who lately has snatches time to eat and sleep. a little sensitive to criticism grown bamboo a or Either a light of light which persons who difficulties the steel rod is employed, with silk line, desire to surrender for crime or give hook.- On this double leads and a are said s minnow is securely placed in such a testimony against criminals out word to have sent experienced, a manner that the little fls turns and come right twists to give a close imitation of that Mr. Evanson was to In. natural swimming. The salmon is Fifteen years ago, said Mr. Evansomething of an epicure In his tastes; he is particular about his diet and son, I was responsible for the death will not rise to dead bait or offal; he of a woman, Margaret Lens, In to be lured only by a bait that is In Brooklyn. My conscience troubles me In my old age and I wish to surrenmotion. As the guide paddles leisurely along der. The telephone helped to find two some 60 or 75 yards of line trail behind and then the angler waits for detectives In Brooklyn who were willthings to happqn. Pretty soon there ing to come over and take charge of Is a flash of gleaming white and a tug him, and Mr. Evanson was locked up at one lines. It is the strike. The In the Adams street station over salmon has darted at the tempting night minnow, has leaped In a grace fuA When he was arraigned before curve a gocd three feet out of the wa- Magistrate Dodd, Assistant District ter and Is off. Attorney Lee, who had been looking Now comes the hum of the reel, a up the death of Margaret Lens, told song dear to the heart of every de- the magistrate that the health devotee of the gentle art, and the play partment books showed that Margaret begins. While the pleasant whirr con- Lens died July 30, 1896, of Brights tinues the ounaniche tries every trick disease and that Coroner Delapha had to hold him safe. The salmon will so certified. 1 1 know that, said Evanson. fight for liberty with a pertinacity 1 But a murderer. am not than of that other exactly denizen greater any I am how the to want tell of lake or stream. grand Jury It takes a good half hour Of playing responsible. Dodd committed Mr. before he can be reeled In and during Magistrate e - i Franco-Amerlca- n FLY BRINGS END OF MARKET Famous Institution In New Orleans Will Be Sacrificed to the Cause of Sanitation. New Orleans. The French market, which was established in the latter part of the eighteenth century, is soon to pass into history. The bazaar where four generations of New Orleans housewives bought their meat and vegetables, where artists and story writers haunted dark nooks for echoes of ancient New Orleans, is to be sacrificed on the altar of modern isanitatlon. War on the house fly Is mainly responsible for conditions that led up to the edict compelling almost complete reconstruction of the mar- Accorded Full Title.- - ' One of the New York representatives in congress tells of a social function in an assembly district political club on tbe East Side, whereat the chairman of the entertainment committee acted as master of ceremonies. The chairman was very busy Intromemben ot ducing the newly-arrivethe club to the guests, who included a ket number of municipal officers. Tbe representative mentioned wag preMOVING HABIT DIVORCE PLEA sented In a way to halve htk official honors with his wife, as The HonorMinneapolis Man Says His Wlfo able and Mrs. Congressman Blank. Has Changed Abodo Twenty-nin- e Next came a couple who were hot Times. known to the master ot ceremonies, but. jaftr jecqivtfg the correct naine " Minneapolis? Minn. a man la tn s whisper, be announced;, Mr. and Mrs. Inspector of Hycompelled by his wife to move twenty-nine times in tbe seventeen years drants. Faucets and Sbopworks Ca. of his married life, is it ground for sey. Lipplncotts. a divorce? W. P. Crawley of this city believes How He Left it is, and has asked that the court were discussing the The servants grant him freedom. ' In his petition matter below stairs. he declares that the moving habit Master and mistress sd formed by his wife has become un- of a row last nlgbt, 1 ear, something said the bearable; that she beat him up bntler ponderously. all with a broom, and that be gave You should have heard em, anbis earnings to his wife, who spenL swered the parlor maid in a shocked them, forcing blm to borrow from hia tone. Scandalous is what I calls It! needs. hia brother to provide for They tell me e ran out, cranked is motor car and left In it No, said the maid, positively, he Oli Lady Swlma Five Mllee. didnt leave in his machine; I dissixty-fiv- e New York. years old, mother of ten children, Mrs. tinctly heard the mistress say he left London Answers. Elizabeth Berio, of Edgewater. N. J, In a huff. ewam along and across the Hudson from Edgewater to the Washington Accounted For. club, at the foot of 152d street. When How is it so many people seem able daughshe and her eighteen-year-olto get the money to buy automobiles ter Kitty, who accompanied her. had with? completed their "If you only notice, they are the easswim In 45 minutes, she was forcibly iest things in the world with which to restrained from trying to make the re- raise the dust. turn trip as she had come. . I ! d ' , Gray-haire- d Aided in Death of Woman 0 Wakely Whirly must be making an awful lot of money, i Wisely I should say he Is. I actually believe be is making mote than hia wife can spend. , : Evanson to the Kings county hospital for observation for five days. BOYS BURN MAN TO DEATH Pour Gasoline and Whiskey on ing and Apply Match aa a Joke. She lie Unmanageable. Can you manage a typewriter? No. I married one. Its usually the fool who rocks the boat that lives to tell tbe tale. WELL PEOPLE TOO Wise Doctor Gives Postum to valescents. Con- Cloth- A wise doctor tries to give nature Its best chance by saving the little strength of the already exhausted paand building up wasted energy Mitchell Cabaniss, eight- tient, Memphis. with but powerful nourisheen years old, and Clarence Sbaw, ment. simple aged ten years, were charged with a Five years ago, writes a doctor d murder, to which they smilingly I commenced to use Postum in my when arrested. They explain- own family instead of coffee." (Its ed that they had thought to give Rob- a fact that tea is just as ert M. Ellis only a scare and occasion as coffee because it contains for a quick plunge into tbe pool in For- injurious same drug found in cofthe caffeine, rest Park when they poured a mixture so well pleased with the was "I fee.) of whisky and gasoline over his clothresults that I had two grocers place on a bench be while ing slept park one night recently, and then applied a it in stock, guaranteeing its sale. I then commenced to recommend it match. The whisky, Cabaniss, Just out of an asylum to which be had been to my patients in place of coffee, as a committed for insanity, took from the nutritious beverage. Tbe consequence victims pocket, and the other boy is, every store in town is now selling it, as it has become a household nefound the gasoline where a park emcessity in many homes. bushes. concealed under it bad ploye Im sure I prescribe Postum as oftTue mixture amed all right, but instead of seeing Ellis run for the la- en aB any one remedy in the Materia making Medica in almost every case of indigoon. they saw policemen frantic efforts to tear Ellis flaming gestion and nervousness I treat, and clothing from him. He was dead, how- with tbe best results. "When I once Introduce it into a ever, before the blaze went out. family, it is quite sure to remain. I shall continue to use it and prescribe Legs Broken, Boy Goes a Mila. It in families where I practice. Mount Holly, N. J. With both legs "In convalescence from pneumonia, broken by a fall from a tree, Henry fever and other cases I give typhoid Bergen, nine years old, dragged him- It aB a lilfuid, easily absorbed diet. to a mile his more self home, (ban You may use my letter as a reference and then fainted on the door step, any way you see fit Name given by where his mother found him. Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich. were worn The boys clothing Read The Road to Wellville. In through and his abdomen lacerated pkga. Theres a reason. from dragging himself over the Ever read tb above letter? A bow one appears from time to time. The? ground. are aenalne, true, and fall of kimaa interest. con-fese- well-know- n ' |