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Show X L . 1A r CARISOU MselbS Bicyclist Turns Somersault ). UO.Q.O.U.O-Q- - O.C.O. K I.o ufHii jfM VQYo Thsrs la a young American over In Loudon who hair raising fata with a bicycle on the music hall stage make the hoi polloi gasp la amassment. He Is awsy ahead of anything In his line that the London have seen, and he Is doing one stunt tint la cleverer than anything he everdid on this side of the water that Is, to turn a somersault with his wheel in motion, carrying the machine with him and landing ylthout losing a stroke with the ped- - BRAT GREYHOUND. Taat Speed Maine Wenda. mo Me S A man lately returned from ths woods says that n caribou ban run faster than any other animal on lags. or jumping To begin wit, says, according to n Boston scaprocran Hs in the New York Sun: I res seemed a bit slow, but once pondent nn n friend who owns a greyhound, have der way the new teeth did notyf M anlong to learn. For instance, 1 xoot. and he always maintained that no imal could outrun the dog at least, ms nine months to learn to majL my machine hop aldeways np n do,n he thought so until lately, when hs stood by and saw tbs fleet dog run stairs and drop ten feet sheer on other side. I got my legs and ankletl off bis feet by s beffl of caribou that cut several times, too, and had to take didnt seem to be In much of n hurry, tber. One day this friend of mine special exercises In order to strengthen my bones to stand ths shocks. bragging about ths dog to an old Curiously enough, although I am wool, guide, when the latter eald that the originator of somersaults on safe- he cottd find an animal that would ties, It only took ms twelve weeks to leave th bound so far behind that he learn. At ths time everybody thought would thik b Was anchored. Thlg I was mad; for the chances of break- touched my friend In n sensitive spot, ing ones neck are quits surprising. If and n wager f 10 was made oa a race aver I touch the table with my head between the bound and the first carl bou wa cams across. Finally the that la bound to be the result! Though you might not think it, div- guide succeeded In getting the dog aft ing off my mount la motion into n ter some caribou, a herd of lour, found tank is one of the riskiest things I do. standing Ilka so many statues on the Indeed n friend of mine named Ferrell Ice In the middle of one of ths big ponds of ths Penobscot west branch got killed In attempting it" Bud Snyder can do so many wonder- - region. You know n caribou trots Instead of running like most wild ani mala. There had been n good tall ol! snow, n light rain which formed r thick crust and then about three inch es more of snow, Ths dog want sftae them like n wild locomotive, and ths caribou started. At first they didnt appear to be going very fast, but as the hound drew up to them they let out n link. The bound was ruanlai his prettiest, and before tbs caribou bad bad time to think bs was right up on them. Then they put on steam, and It was s sight to sea them go. Why, when they struck their gait they pulled sway from that dog as though he had been anchored, and by tne lime they bad reached the end of ths pond the hound wasnt half way across. When the dog came back bs was sad der and wiser, and bis master looked dased. To be sure, a greyhound Is fast, but when you come to stack greyhounds, or ,. nay otfier kind of hounds against caribou you are In too fast a game sure. i, Bud Snyder Is ths cyclists name, and he Is now performing at the London Pavilion. His tricks have caught the town. Small boys are smashing themselves up In the highways trying to imitate Snyder, and It would not be surprising If soma new Ernest Terah ,Bool ey In ths medical line were to jsecure a corner on splints, bandages, and lotions In anticipation of what Is almost certain to happen to the younger generation of British lions as a re-- ?or Six years CWs IKan r castcd yooa, yet Be sun cioes : !Ahoooo.u5v WSr5S!)S FEAT x WHICH HAS ASTONISHED LONDON. excitement Into ful things that hedoee not require to ult of the fever of do one trick at n time. For instance, which Snyder has thrown them. one of of hie feats perhape the most Is the not originator only Snyder the somersault trick, but'be is likewise marvelous oonsiats In starting from performs. who caa.cleaf s one eodpfihg stag,Jumptng his mafeet through chine on to an ordinary table, riding distance of twenty-tw- o the air witft his wheel. HU control down some steps at ths other end, doOf the bicycle la remarkable, for in ing a clean somersault over another the most complicated maneuvers he table, landing on the other side, still never loses his seat, grip or footing. riding bis bicycle, and up a spring g board, from which hs dives off his maTe U a fair, thickset, young man of 25. Like most Amer- chine while it Is In motion, plunging ican, who heme made a hit over there, Into a tank of water ahead. he llkee London Immensely, Asked how ho cams to engage In trick ridTveSe to life The New York stats factory Inspecting professionally, he said: "Well, you gee, I waa always very or says In his report to the legislature It, In tact, that there has been vast Improvement fond of my o anything In the world; and 1 toon in tenement end dwelling house worky shops, but that much remains to be learned to do such tricks with It that I took to profession- -' done. He pointedly refers to tbs fact pi trick .Riding for the sheer love of that men who bold their heads high fhe thing. That was in 1896, and nev- In, ths busineu world and presumably er since have I had oocaal'm to regret some also In tbs religious world Indi-- the rectly traffic in tbs very life blood of step." Don't you have to practice much?" their fellow men." Well, 1 never do leu than halt an hour A morning. For one thing, you Wew Yerjk.te Have a Has Utmryw pee, I am constantly Improving myself Sixteen out of the 129 largest cities end new tricks are not learned In a have a greater sum Invested In public day, especially mins, for I am called libraries that la, owned by the city cyclist, yog know." the break-nec- k than New York. During the next two Do you bsvs to observa any special years, however, there will be erected rulee In your mode of lifer In New York city the finest library Naturally t have to keep In perfect building, excepting the eongreuiona! form alt ays and cannot smoke or library at Washington, In the United drink. It 1 did I shouldnt be up to States. Leafs Alphabet, -t- )ji ty jrv u m was afflicted plainest and lightest of food five or lx hours before working, and always going to bed early and rising in good never feel the least little bit time, As a matter of fact, 1 renervous. aa the secret of my success." that gard What about Jour mounts?" Theyre pertly ofmy own designs, being built especially strong; but even 0 1 have bad machines smash under ms by the dosen; but so long ns I don't break. It's all right You see, my tricks re mostly very sensational ones, and what adds to my difficulties U ths tact that I often have to perform on very fmaij stage from a cyclists point of view. At Birmingham I often heard members of the audience betting ton to drop one that I wouldn't do my . Of course, I was mighty sorry to dte-couldn't I but know, you them, appoint help doing It aJLjthe sums; could IT" T ten-fo- ot Hnv you ever had any accidents Yu; for Instance, at Netting Hill my stairs smuhed under me, hut I always manage to come out on top somehow. The worst I ever had, how-ovfor swollen shins count for nothwhen I was beginning to get wh ing somersault trick, for J fell on the Into my bead and got my neck twitted. It was like this for thru days." H let hla head fall on one side till It touched hla right shoulder. " How long does It take you to learn er tricks? It nil depends. I was the first to el introduce riding with a safety. while nobody before my time dreamed of climbing tables with s cycle one-wbe- u.u ATAJkUWANV IXtaECL -- During tbs twelve months Immediately preceding tbe operation Colonel Murphy was reduced In flesh from 226 to 106 pounds. Hs had new- -ly starved to death, and been tranaformed from s man of great strength snd seemingly perfect health Into Tbe operation, walking skeleton. hswsvsF, saved Colonel Murphy! llfo snd to all appearances he is today In good physical condition, although be doee not weigh more than 135 pounds, snd bis ruddy cheeks of doxea years ago bsvs now s pallor which at times la almost ghost-lik"For quits eleven years Colonel Mur-ph- y. who used to live a ths fat ol thn . and was ons of Tsmmany'e most noted epicures, has been content to take his dally meals through a tube mordirectly Into bis stomach; not n sel of food has passed bis lips. Three times a day bis faithful old Irish nurse and housekeeper has pumped Into bis stomach tbs nourishing pulp which was prescribed Jlor him eleven years ago by Dr, Weir. Tbs colonels diet is a simple one, consisting chiefly of beef, eggs, bread and milk, everything solid of which bs is allowed al-to is partake being crushed until it mixed most M fins M flour, sad then snd strained until It has the consistency of a heavy eonsomme. While thus taking the only nour shines t which goes to build up the tissues of his body. Colonel Murphy !,',s Sat oa his tsr . e. . SHF There are few boys or girls who an unpleasant thing it is to Us awsks all night Young people manage to get plenty of exercise during the day and go off Into ths dustmans kingdom readily enough when ths pillow is reached except, perhaps, oa Christmas svs or ths night of July t. Grownups are not always so fortunate. Many of them are lax in ths utter of exercise, while others have affairs which fairly run away with their peace and health. Ths grim monster insomnia often seises them, sets their brains running at high tension and keeps them awake till mom-in- f. It Is a terrible stats for a grown know what ws fact As It is, however, by eating the m trUou of tbess nons Is more wonderful than that of gaatrotomy. You may almost count upon ths fingers of ons hand ths numbar of operations such as that was performed on Colonel wblcb Murphy that bsvs been suoeesafuL Few of Colonel Murphy's friends had faith to believe that bs could bs per5Telr, manently cured, and even Dr. tbs eminent surgeon who performed ths operation. Is said to have privately expressed grave doubts upon this 9 s' polatt themselves. Wheel-prefe- rred at nil loee nil my nerve. In h with a stricture of ths he-only gay work ,, parative Juvenile, has already found her doll is filled with sawdust However, marriage la s lottery anyhow, and It is a question if rich young men are not safer with women older than athletic-lookin- ' 7oroToji oesophagus, which finally became so serious that to prevent death from hs submitted to ths rare tab dangerous operation known to the surgical profession ns gaatrotomy. la ytksr words, a hols was cut through th abdominal wall into ths stomach o that fpod might be conveyed to tbe ystieats stomach by means of n silver tube Inserted in the opening, tbe natural food passage In the throat belling entirely closed. Modern surgery has achieved its most signal triumphs in connection with abdominal operations, and of all ACK&Ca t f VoVoTt Colossi Michael C. Murphy, who is seriously talked of tor the executive head of ths police department under the mv set, which provides for a single-head d commission, the commissioner to be appointed by ths mayor, and to bs subject to removal by either the governor or the mayor. Is one of the Boat remarkable men In this town. He tells his friends that ha la the only Tammany district leader who 1 ot h high llvsr, and ths only one who haver attends n Tammany beef-Itsa- k dinner, ths favorite gastronomic (seat of ths Fourteenth street braves. Elsvta years ago, Colonel Murphy, while a member of the state senate, Bop MKbn a CaaalM PrlMMO Thera are now sixteen prisoners In solitary confinement in ths Massachusetts state prison at Charlestown, ths most dangerous of ths lot being Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer." He Is constantly laying plans to escape, and keepe the guards ever on the alert to thwart them. He once pulled down the ventilator over hie cell door and made n saw of a portion of the material. Then the place waa walled up and fresh air introduced into hit cell other ways. He has now been Imprisoned on a life sentence twenty-seve- n i , years. AN AMAZING Basnl the Art of man and maid, tbs Blush, so fair, displayed, tbs Challenge In tbe eyes, D tbs Dart that quick replies, E but why tbs' rest recall? The rest Is E-that Is all. A B C up to get Into, and learned doctors bavs ransacked tbe earth, tbe seas and large book called phsrmcopoela to find charms that will banish ths monster. f They have finally hit upon d vary simple device ons that la found In every horns ruled by a baby. Tbs patient is provided with a bed that la fixed upon an axle at Its center snd by mesas of a simple mechanism ths head is gently raised and lowered 0 touch it not, dear lad, I pray! rocked. It Is vary simple had bid Th pretty nest la ours! fsshloned the wonder is that no one It oost my little mate and me So many toilsome hours! thought of It before snd doctors who bsvs tasted It in hospitals say that Ws are such tiny people, too; few nervous grownups fall to drop to Nor hands to work hive we; sleep st ones under Its soothing mo- One little beak our only tool. tion. , As you may plainly sea. wounds were dressed. Than hs went hack to work with his am la a sling, and great patches of court plaster over mt fbiOUag Kxperteees his faos, m though nothing unusual had happened. The Injured keeper lawarnings of bored under the Despite the Dimia XWnttery impression that the Kan bis fellow-keepe- rs who deprecated bis wolves which attacked him were fond Lost rivers drain a large territory Inordinate wild ambition to tarns every of him. of country. The Ganges is nearly 1.60C soologlcal miles in length snd drains aa area ol aalmal la tbe Philadelphia Lover came to John gtrdsns. Keeper 760,000 square miles. Ceesanptlow ef Van, grief raoeatiy in a cage occupied by Sir Robert Hart calls tea the world's aiAVi(ViiVgVVVykVWVUVWUVX,UVWVVAriAAVW alt large gray wolves, snd bs Is likely to lose bis left arm as a result of his beet drink. However that may bs, Indiscretion. When It became neces- more of it ie drank than of any other sary to clean tbs gray wolves cage beverage. It hag been estimated that th other day, Lover volunteered to do ths consumers of tea number 600,000,-00- 0. The first consignment eent to Eu1L Would be drive the animals back Into ths little room behind tbe cage rope by the Dutch East India Comand then lock tbe door? Ota, no why pany In 1610 eold for 60 shillings a should het He bad watched those pound. Pepys says In hie diary durwolves for long time, snd waa as- ing the year 1667: Home found my sured that, so far aa bs was concerned, wife drinking tea, a drink which Mr, they bad all the amiability of SCBef-ner- d Felling, ths pottlcary, tells her is good for har cold." A few years later s tax dogs. Then, watching bln opportunity, and assuring himself that no of la fld (about 27 cents) on every galone Was near to restrain him, he opened lon of tea sold at ths coffee houses ths door and want in. Just as soon was laid in England. For lass than Ws gass afar, and w onder why as ths animals saw Lover turn to that sum a drinkable pound can how The world Is ruled by might, does the door they pounced upon him. be bought In the United States, Ws fall to sea tbs distant shore, He turned to defend himself snd they Where nothing lives save right leaped for bis nsek. Three attacked Messrs Brian ef BA Tees him from the front and three from tbe Air bubbles to tbs surface rise. Three esses of marriage between tbs rear. With nothing but a heavy mop While worth is hid below. to defend hlmeelf,.be fought and beat elite ef New York where the bridee And trusting, ws forbear to ask. the animals down with fury bora of were several years the senior of thslr Why cometh weal or1 woe. desperation. Several times he foiled youthful mates may sot betoken more them to the floor with well directed than accident, but It looks as If s prece"We bee man blindly passing by ' blows, but each time the brutes re- dent bad been Inaugurated which la Tbs noble, and the good. -turned to tbe Day. Lover was wor- time might be msde a fashion. Women The glitter of a passing flash Hs age so much faster than men that these ried now and almost breathless. Is better understood. waa bleeding from tbe face, arms and five years or less should be hdvthe hands. The fangs of ths animals cut other side of the family. If thh monTie thought tbe High snd Holy, flesh like a knife. On hla arms snd eyed aristocracy of thiscountry adopts his ' To dreariness portend, Whan ws even on his cheeks were sprays of foem a social custom It goes. God gives HIS guardian angels charge, when hs some 21" read will were were day from ths animals' Jaws. They They all things comprehend. j V was 21 was ths Inesnd 27, she Tbe snd throat snd leaping for his face noise attracted a dosen keepers who quality, in spits of beauty doctors. In ran to Lover's rescue. With long forks a d seeds will bs too apparent for ths they drove the wolves back in a corner lady's happiness, t Lady Randolph at the cage snd helped Lover to get Churchill and her young husband are entslds. Lover complacently walked not yet discontented with tbelr match, Into ths German hospital, where his but Mrs, Langtry, who wedded a eom- SHUT UF WITH WOLVES- - Z; laiwi ed " Boston Herald. Ncs&iolf P ( U Think of tbe many sticks and straws; With patient pains ws brought! Think of ths many basks of mud. With which ths nest was wrought I Within, meanwhile, twaa molded wall And lined, all soft snd warm,.' With silken fibres, deftly laid. To guard our babes from barm. And when tbs dainty eggs ware placed Within the treasured nest, What boundless pride and love and Joy Thrilled each exultant breast! Than touch it not! Pity dear lad Aaother bird's distress! Wa robins are Gods creatures, too; Our friends Hell surely bless. r Jans L. Chapin. Trsnimg Skirts Bela Bergery. Strangs as It may seem, the trailing klrta that women are now wearing have almost ruined our business, confided an intelligent street beggar. The greater part of our revenue ordinarily cornea from women, but since theyve taken to these long skirts for street wear, they are forced to hold them up, and that keeps ons hand constantly occupied. It takes two bands to open a pure and I have often seen women stop as though about to give something, but this would necessitate letting go of the aklrt, and they have pasted on again. - Yea, we bavs to study tbsso Philadelphia Record. things.i i & i |
