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Show ENLARGE THE WHITE MOUSE' It Needs it and Plans Are Being Prepared. Plans for additions to the wbltd house will he submitted to congrc by tbo president within n short time, write n correspondent of the Boston Herald They nro being prepared by Col lllnnham the superintendent of public buildings nt the request of Sen ator Cullom and under tho authority of Mr McKlnley who will gle them n final rcTlslon It will be suggested that two wings he added and the appropriation ap-propriation required will not esceeij VtOW0 Ono of the wings, according: to the notion entertained, will be occupied oc-cupied chiefly by the state dining-room, dining-room, while the other will prorldo for the executive otllce, which at present Among many reason! for enlarging the whlto bouse pcrhapa the most cogent Is that the mansion today baa no adequate room for meetings of the cabinet When the government was first started, the cabinet had only four member", representing tho departments of state treasury, war nnd Justice. Tor that number the space allowed might bo sufficient, but tho president advisory ad-visory body has been Incrinscd to eight and In consequence It Is absurdly absurd-ly crowded Iho npartment occupied on Tuesdays ami Fridays, when meetings meet-ings aro held adjoins Mr McKlnley'i prlvato oMlce, and It Is of very moder-ato moder-ato size about half of It being taken up by the long mahogany tnblo that serves as n council board It ought to be fully six times as large with a capacious ca-pacious desk for etch secretary, In which to keep documents, etc, and there should ho space enough for geographical geo-graphical globes, big maps, and various va-rious other paraphernalia Tho condition of affairs described la certainly not crodltable, and Is likely to be made even worse by the creation of new cablnst members Already there Is sorloui talk of a colonial secretaryship, sec-retaryship, and much pressure Is bo-lug bo-lug brought In favor of a proposition to appoint a secretary of commerce In lddltlon to the two departments over vhlch tbeae officials would preside, a third la recommended namely, a department de-partment of labor, which, as a matter of course, would also be represented In the cabinet Thus that body would number eleven persona, with posslbry mora to como Uk. Illmialr. The Impecunious nephew, who had been doing his best to be agreeable, finished his funny anecdote and laughed uproariously, trat bis wealthy une'e smiled not ' The manner In which you told that atory was Ilka yourself." aal I tho latter nftcr a pause "Why so?" Inquired the lopeeunlouf one, preparing to go Into flta of laughter laugh-ter Ileeauso It was n pesky poor relation re-lation was the answer, nnd the nephews hilarity wis somewhat forced New ork World EVILS OF innEOULAn KATINO Itonil- and If-adarlir Woman Oflrn la ItUin for 1li-lr Own . The doctor was tired, nnd, It must be confessed somewhat out of patience as ho spoke ' lack of proper attention to their food." wild he, ' throws a great many women off their balance I have Just been prescribing for nnd aoundlr Tlin WHITE HOUSE AS IT WILL LOOK WHEN ENLAIUIED crowd so painfully the living quarters of the mansion Tho writer, though be haa seen the plans. Is withheld from printing any further details by a request of Col lllngham, who Is obliged to reserve Information In-formation until the president baa given bis decision It may bo said, however, that the now state dining-room will be on. nt Vha moat beautiful apartments ever Imagined, being designed after1 a mode si original aa It Is exquisite It congress does not Interfere Inopportunely, Inoppor-tunely, tha nation will owo to Col. ningham a lasting debt of gratitude for the Improvement of a claaalcal structure struc-ture That It Is oxtremely difficult to modify such a building without Injuring Injur-ing It architecturally Is obvious enough. When Mrs Uenjamln Harrison came to Waablngton, she remarked. Jokingly, Joking-ly, that she was leaving a house with twelve bedrooms for one with only five. In a meaaure, therefore, the change for her wa a "como down " The fact Is not to be denied that the white houso Is a very cramped place for the chief magistrate of thla great nation to live In, and many persons of. wisdom wis-dom are of tho opinion that tho country coun-try ought to provide htm with a dwelling dwell-ing of his own a short distance away, to that ho might use the present executive exec-utive manaton merely for official purposes pur-poses Some day, very likely, this Idea wilt bo carried out, but not by this congress, nor within twenty years from now lecturing a patient who has been lnx-cusably lnx-cusably guilty In thla matter. Lovs affairs af-fairs that go wrong aro also responsible responsi-ble for no little trouble, though these would have serious effects In but few cases comparatively If the women vere properly fed, hut arong the Uluilons In which girls and women tndulit Is that, aa they care very little about their food, an the lack of It cannot aavo much effect upon them. 'Inrr-rltier despise men for being careful to have regular meals, whether business pressct or not, and are Inclined to vaunt their own superiority la such respects, nut If this disregard of the natural Instinct of hunger lead us In the same path aa 'drink and hurry and worry' lead men, and If wi are to be humiliated by hyper-semltlveness In love affair, how pre-eminently does male common sense stand outjn the matter Wo so often exalt our weakness weak-ness Into something to be proud oft And It we go without our lunch some day an avenging headache iwoops down and make u Irritable Surely that la nothing to be proud of Or, If the men of tho family are dining out, the women hnvo tea anil toait and scrambled eggs, and next morning wonder why they feel so limp and a If everything to be dono were dreadfully dread-fully troublesome and Impossible " I lle-aliira an I rarmlnc farming was the flnt employment The strangest fish In the world Is found In tho abode of strango creatures, crea-tures, Australia, and In the wilds of Africa It appears to bo almost the connecting link between fish and air breathing animals The Australian variety of lung fish deratodus haa not only gills, but also a bladder by THE I'nOTOrTERUS which It breathes air and utters aounds that have frightened men who knew nothing "' Ma habits This stranie on this globe and It Is still the basis of all other occupations This Is a truth sumetlmra forgotten by people who think they have risen In the world since their grandfathers raised corn ind potato. In a remato little southern "eltkmctit a 'literary' was he I nnt long nno as a sort of mental stimulus to the community Tho meeting meet-ing haj scarcely lieen called to order when old Silas Whlttaker obtained the floor nnd forthwith begun n bomely tllnertallon on fodder pulling and cotton cot-ton pli king which bado fair to last well Into the next hour The school-ma school-ma im who had a word or two to say herself about Ixngfellow nnd the American poet grew restive At length sho rose to n point of order. ' I d like It explained ' said she "what corn raising and folder-pulling have to do with a literary meeting " ' Wei," said Silas, It's got Jest this ter do with It Ef It wnrn t fcr corn V cotton cot-ton V bacon 'n' grtans thore wouldn t be a llt'rary man In the hull country, blame If thero would " A Ushtnlag (atratalor, Dr Llndley of the chair of psychology psychol-ogy In the Indhna University, haa brought to the Institution Arthur Orlf-Oth, Orlf-Oth, aged 19, for the purpose of Investigating Inves-tigating the limit ot the youth's remarkable re-markable power a a ' lightning caJcn-lator." caJcn-lator." He know tha multiplication tablo up to 130, haa a knowledge ot the squire up to 130, and the cubea to 100. He knows the fourth powers up to 20. His particular skill Is In finding short methods of operation. He baa devised 47 methods ot multiplication, alx of division, di-vision, six of addition and three ot subtraction. sub-traction. He oan multiply two five-place five-place number In six second. Although Al-though not having studied algebra bis mind haa approximated the binominal theorem. Orlffith wa born In Mllford, Kosciusko county Dr. Llndley say he la not a almple calculator, but that be belongs to a higher claas, mil Mat. Mr Pursyval "You can't buy a cigar ci-gar like that every day," Young Koena (with penslvo appreciation) "True I auppose tho dealers aro afraid ot being arrested for selling thoml" New York World The darkest hour I tho Joy of the Itinerant match peddler THE STRANGEST PISH. THE DEriATODUS. fish sometime emerge from the water and crawls over marshy place, by the aid of It fins, making a noise llko a bark, which sounds more than eerie In the bIIciicb of the ulgbt- The air bladder U an adaptation by nature of thla strango fish to tV je-cullar je-cullar conditions under which t I compelled to exist The streams In which It Is found dry up In the dry season, and the lung fish has to breathe air, sometimes for months at a time. It buries Itself In the mud, and only when the warm rains cvmo does It awake to nctlve life again Another kind of fish protopterus Is found In Africa, hut lc doe not grow so large as tho other It seals Itself In a clay sack or cone, and Ilea dormant dor-mant until the rain soften the claj and let It out Into tha water again |