Show ODD PACTS ABOUT madagascar the sleep OB their beats alx cm few ID of ancient ase probably the sleepiest slee policemen ii the world aro choso of madagascar al antananarivo the capital there is lit tie evidence of alie force by day for iff members anre all peacefully wrapped ir at night too the guardian oi property is seldom to be seen and he is actually guarding is only to be told by the bialt hourly cry that ia sent up to police post no 1 alongside the royal palace watchman what of the night we are wide awake keeping a sharp lookout and alls well antananarivo has lamps and nc streets it is simply a great collection of houses tumbled together there is a big force of night police known as the watch tho men gather themselves together into groups and choosing snug corners wrapping themselves in straw mats they deop into long and profound el ambor ono member of each group remains awake to respond to the half hourly call from the palace As he calls back ho others liala awake mechanically back lie lo spouse it makes little however that the police continually sleep for robbery is rare curfew though popularly supposed to be purely an early english and nor man french custom has been established in madagascar for centuries in every town and village between 9 and 10 the watchmen go around shouting out i in the malagasy dialect lights and they see that all is in darkness in every houison after those hours no one is allowed to travel around without a special there ia no criminal code of any account and when a man is caught in the act of et ealing alie populace is apt to ignocio the police and him and etona him to ileath the Madaga scans have no swear words in their language and when their feelings are avor wrought against a man the only thing they can do is to execute summary vengo anco on him now york world how rest alie earth moves everybody knows that ho earth makes ono complete revolution on its axis in each 24 hours but few however havo any idea of the high rate of speed at which euch au immense ball must turn in order to accomplish the feat of making revolution in a day and a night A graphic idea of the terrific pace which tho old earth keeps up year after year may be had by comparing its speed to that of a cannon ball ared from a modern high pressure gun the highest velocity ever attained by such a missile has been at 1620 feet per second which is equal to a mile in 8 2 10 seconds the earth in making one revolution in the short space of 81 hours must turn with a velocity almost exactly equal to that of the cannon ball in short its rate of speed at lie equator is exactly 1607 feet hemond this is equal to a mile every 3 6 10 seconds 17 miles a minute st louis republic Be public why everybody smiled an amusing acene was witnessed by many pedestrians one day at the corner of thirty street and broadway A fence about 80 feet high covered with theatrical lithographs a lot on that corner where the foundations of a new building are being laid it was alio noon hour and six brawny sons of erin were seated on a slightly raised platform resting against the fence they were eating their luncheon and were joking and laughing to their hearts content those who stopped to look at the group could not withhold a for directly above this jolly group of irishmen in bold lurid letters were tho words tho gay parisians Pari here indeed was u pleasant satire the result of asci dent no wonder the work ingmon why people smiled at them so ranch new york herald the small boy father said alio little boy looking up from his pits turo book if I 1 ask you a question will yoa answer it certainly was the reply and not get angry nor say its time I 1 was in bed 1 I wont do any of those things well what I 1 want to know is where daoa a anak begin when it wags its tail star A bright girl in maine recently began a composition thus tho puritans found a lunatic asylum in the wilda of america sho had read in a book that the puritans found au asylum in this country and to make the statement more vivid she added tho word lunatic the apache navajo and uto war began in 1849 and ended in 1886 the total number of regular troops employed during this war was 1600 while the volunteers and militia numbered 1061 the grand total baing Perfo meg in the collecting of perfumes two processes are employed in one the grease boxes with glass bottoms are prepared tho bottom being covered with pure grease or suet and the flowers gathered frebe day during tho season are laid on traya in the box alie greaso being loft to absorb tho fragrance in the oil process the place of greaso is taken by cotton batting saturated with oil the process being substantially ly the same in bogli cases abo vehicle becomes impregnated with the essential oil and odor af pf |