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Show A l:rn,.rl.l,l. .New ruta.4 I""1- The tapture of a (ourih i)lai"n of Ihe lakaho" or fllghleaa nvl"' Netv Zealand, la reg.mld at 11M " the mot Important ttnb of reaal ear In ornothology Tho captur) ' feeted nearly two ya-r ta "' ,,t" tailed arcount nf tho bird eVy '"1 r-aihed Kngland The taktlSot,r" nla horhatetterl) la about jl I alte tn a gooae but Ha wing arvrtfT 'nail nnd unlike all of It ratntlveakt other I in It It rannot Ily It breat' of rlrh blue color, and Ita povtaft' beak la drerrllwd a ' Mrge Jllitera! triangle of bard pink horn,"JP"'ent-ly horn,"JP"'ent-ly an excellent weapon. Tt nrtt eneelmen of the blni 'wat i " ,n Ilia the aecond In IMI ahVl' third In IRTft, The new tpclmenl"1'1 lr) be tbe flneat ot all, nnd $!.' Iln orttred for It , I.U.a lllleil In WaM Hvery kind ot Klate nt nlgfrlenlly high teniiiera(,ur, aaya 5( Carl Harm, mutt eventually thitniplte rolublllty In water. Undkjreature gha dleoolve In water bMl to 410 degree Fahrenheit, He.-1-wgir more than about 6(0 feet beneath IMturfaro will remain liquid nt tint t priture and It It nenetritea the ei tt crntt I where the temtwratiire It e a)' hUh It will, apart from the pre at llque- I fy the tlllcatea. or gtay r tt I'rof Ilirut conclude that at lOptli of nlwut lire mllet alllcate kconlnrt ; with water are virtually llufa,lnd that the Itvel of aqueoui futftiila Ihe earth I five lima nearer (bfturftce than It thai ot Igneout fualiftj The Mjiilery ! IU.IIbi. The aubaunc called ra.li emllt radiation retemlillng the Xliurt without with-out Ihe application of wnrk t energy from external aourcra ami wtbout appreciable ap-preciable lot of weight. Til teemt lo be Incnntlttent with tho In of the cnntervallnn of energy but ibe mya- tery It explained by th catoiihgont ot Montleur lleiqunrel. which ant tint a lot of weight to liiflntleelall that In a thousand million J cart It would amount to no more than a ratlgram would tuOlce to account for te ob-eerved ob-eerved elTerta According to Alt explanation ex-planation the emanation from Milium 1 mnll of material panicle. Hut how Infinitely minute mutt tnw par- NEW UATH TUU ATTACHMENT. The lioer bath It 11 luxury which It not found In many hornet partly on account of the i-xpeuto ot the extra tpaco uereaaary fur tho a&iritm, but It goe without aaylng that tbilclce here thoan will toon llnd lit way Into rommnn ue The Inventor It William II Hrldgeman, of Sew York The np iwiratut la provided with meant for at tarhlng It to the edge of n toll anil connection! con-nection! can be made lo Hit faucet! by meant of u rubber tube, to force hot or cold water Into the pipe The litter are perforated along Ihe tide, nnd crew damp nro provided by which they can be adlutted to aay ul;abte angle, throwing Ihe eprey nllbtT directly di-rectly on the body of the biuyr, or ranting It to attend a thort djMance Into tbe air and fall gently Itllbo direct di-rect ttream la too harth fur the ekln With thla device the builur jfcn rinse tho tkln without the neirsaitnpt refilling refill-ing the tub with fnah witex and n ahoner nt the propir tem icrjure will prove Itaelf an agrnablo tiiture to the bath Irrullirll) l II, . 3FrKaaier. The merkuutcr I. 1 . Uol of lltll-duck lltll-duck of great neuuty u jiiuniatc common com-mon In the Ulron I . ka. Senator (leorge Cliahoon, who urn tludlej tho blrdt In I hit region fur many yean, note a luililt of the nm tauter which h thlnkt I unique an 1 u, s surprised that ornltholagUnl ner hav uot recorded It the mil m entirely migratory mi-gratory and tin (1 mil . ra not. 'Tor more than to 1, u ,ua jir. Cha-boon, Cha-boon, ' 1 hare w n t. mai mertantera nn tbe A u table nvr all winter, and I lune frequentw t.en tueni on the Adirondack river I ut have nover een a male merKauter la the winter, nnd In the late fall the malm and female fe-male gather In cp irate fhrtka, and when the male muganiera PPr In tlie aprlng they are alwajt ft flock by thcmtelvee" alnle.l IttUrtMd. Uetwea the towm ot Eiberftld and Barmen In WMi,rn Oermanr. W- i.. k ible e. .viied iallruil I neannt uinpleilun while part of It hria been In operation for several month. The (art are ititpended beneath tbe 111 per-ttrurtiire per-ttrurtiire fnim a alngle rail on which nn, motor truck Htticht-d to the car ooft the motive powr bmng electricity elec-tricity Carh oar can accommodate 60 pauH-ngrr and Ibe maxlnlum tpceil, with a (rain of either two or four rart la : mile n hour lb road, which la more Hun eight ml lee In lengt'l. rroeaea U'upper river without Interruption In-terruption TOOL TOR CUTTINO MOI1TI8C9. The eiitilng of inurtlaea In limber for frame bulu'lng hat hlthrto been 11 laliorl in tatk. even with the aid ot Ihe boring machine In common ute for thla ptirpoae and without the mat hlna It la almott Impnaalhl to cut the aerie aer-ie of hulei In the ttralgbt Hue necea-try necea-try to form the tnnrtlm Itnac 8chur-man 8chur-man of Danven. Mat, but dtalgned the tiHil atfowii In the cut to repltro the machine now In ute. and the rapidity rapi-dity with which It will perform the work will recommend It to tho prae- Heal carpenter ntldo from tho hot that Ita roet It no more than the old machine ma-chine At one aide of the frame which aupporta the bit It a gubllns plate, attached at-tached In tuch n manner that the turn of aeveral thumb t.rewt will movo It toward or away trom the hit, tliut nil-iuttlng nil-iuttlng tho twit fur cutting the mor-tit mor-tit nt the proper illatnncc from tho dgo of the timber, nnd at the bltt nr removable from the fr.imo the mortlta can be made of Ihe detlred length by taking off one or moro of the end bits. Kilrilllllr, ,li,tr,(. The Kmplre Stale Hu;ar company which It building a large tugar plant ul LyonNY,.b ordered ten autoi Trucka ofllvo ton capacity, which nre to be iitcd to riirt augar beett from tht lirmi to the refinery Tho compinj hit S.M0 ncre ot land contracted foi Three electric omnlubse hive nltc been onlernl to run between I.yom end Bodim l'olnt, on laike Ontario, 1 ummer reeort, to rompcte with tht leam railroad On the Jumna canal, at Delhi, monk-eye monk-eye awarm upon tho bank and. bolnt overcrowded and contequcntly un healthy, they tiitfer mntlilerable from nrloiiH dlteaeet When one innukei It obvlnuily III a few of the target mmikejn watch for n favorable opportunity oppor-tunity and then puth It into tha canal If the poor creature bo not drowned al once, It I thrown Into tho water ugilr after It regalnt the tree, or elte- It It forced to keep aloof rem the rctt ot the, company I.OM ot bumin llfp by llghtnlnR In tho Unlteil Stntei during tho cir 1893 waa greater than nny preecdlng year for which alallitlr have been collected, collect-ed, aayt Ihe Hclcntlflc American The number of pertnnt killed nulrUlit or who Buffered Injurle which rciultcd In their death wat BC: the number ot thoeo who recelvoil Injurlot varylns In tcverlty trom tlljlit physical thockt tn painful burnt and temporary par-alytl par-alytl wat 810 lh i;reatt number ot tatalltlet, about 45 per cent, were In tho opm Tho next greateet number occurred In houtea. about 31 per cent. 11 per cint occurred under tree nnd 'J per rent In btrnt Fully n doxen per-tont per-tont were killed In tho act of stripping clothe from a wire clothot line 01 romlnif near to one I MrKi-! r Animal. Mr Heddard In hit new book on whale, remlndt reader that iilthougb the Imagination It apt to plrtirro tht giant reptile of the Jurawlc nnd Cretnceou period nt having exceeded In alte nil molern tnlmtlt yit In fart there It 110 utldonr that the earth hai ever contained, either un land or lu the sea, creatures exceeding the whale In billy 'I ho mammoth wat larger than the elephant, but the Ichthyosaurus could not match the while for tlie, although al-though with Itt terrible Jiwt It would dnubtlf have been the whales master. mas-ter. liere blilltn re lariat. At n recent meeting ot nrborrultur-Ittt nrborrultur-Ittt In 1'rnnce, the quettlon was debated de-bated whether tplder should bo suffered suf-fered to tpln their webs on fruit walls The general opinion seemed to be that tho web wire more useful than objectionable ob-jectionable It waa remarked that thty prevent the Imurtlona of ear-wlga ear-wlga and similar Insects, and also Interfere In-terfere with the operation! ot noxlout flic whoVi larvae ravago leaves and fruits In Derlln nn association ot cmtnenl physicians has been formed for tht special study of cancer |