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Show Or f ' JiOTES ON SCIENCE. PINE ARTS Louisiana Purchase Exposition IX) 2 wtLl ba th Brat to worlds history la which hills la " aal r Into tha composition of tha mala The natural picture.' exposition topography of the alts prompted this radical departure. Tha mala "pie-tor- e" of the exposition (tbs great spectacle to be made by the btg exhibit bulldlsgs, by water and by sculptures) ' Is to be located entirely within' For eat Park, the second largest public park la tha United States. Tha use of . half of this park, tha unfinished portion, was granted to tha exposition company by the city of St Louts as an exposition site. This part of the park Is hilly. It contains a large level tract of about 400 acres, which formerly supplied pace for golf links and a race track. From this level the ground rises on a slope of about 60 degrees to an average height of 60 feet The main exhibit buildings, the big towers, tha lagoons. bastns, canals and statuary groups occupy lbs lower level The art gallery and Its (tha arehltectural chef doeuvre of tha exposition, designed by Cass Gilbert), the United States government building, designed by J. Knox Taylor, are to ba built on the elevated tract . In tha treatment of the Intervening slope the commission of architects had scope for originality. The differ nee of elevation constituted the chief problem with which they had to contend. Hanging gardens and a series of magnificent cascades fill in this portion of the picture. The main picture of the exposition Is roughly is the shape of a gigantic fan, the ribs of which are the avenuee of the exposition. At the apex of this radiant composition stands the art building on an eminence. Three great cascades that issue from the sides of three hills In the form of a. crescent are to course down the hillsides and to empty into a grand basin. The water effects, radiating from these three great cascades, offer a mile of continuous water circuit. The main entrance to the exposition is to be on the side toward the city .where the exposition site abuts the finished portion of the Forest Park. X monumental entrance of magnificent proportions and design, the work of Chief Architect Taylor, will be located hern The two exhibit buildings immediately within this great portal T)i Sa St Loais la BUILDING, ST. LOUI CURRENT 1 NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INDENTION. X. lr f Catarrh a She pertlag Braehat far Vs While FeiUh lag Aarleat CtOaaa rir Clechr- Haw tha Tj Im, U Baadiag. title as being out of keeping with the than'was usual with him for tenor 6f his poor existence." and the the properties for Patient I Gi1 cost him the much more mod1 sum of i 6s,- - while among ti vets lory of properties belonging uk Admirals men we find such end as Tassos picture," "a. tree of apple," and three imperial ertf . f Gentlemens Magaxlne. pension because be was not In needy Lances; but the fact of the offer and the generous language la which it was conveyed startled and subdued him. He wrote frankly to Disraeli: "Allow me to say the latter, both in purpose and expression, is worthy to be called magnanimous and - noble; that it is without example in my own poor history, and I think it Is unexampled, too. In the history of governing persons toward men of letters at the present or at any time; and that I will carefully preserve it as one of the things precious to memory and heart," Subsequently he wrote to his friend, the Countess of Derby: "Ur. Disraelfs letter Is really what I called it magnanimous and noble on his pari It reveals to me, after all the hard things I have said of him, a new and unexpected stratum of genial dignity gnd manliness of character which I had by no means given him credit for. It is as my penitent heart gdmonlnsh'es me, a kind of heaping coals of fire on my head, and I do truly repent and promise to amend." One needs no better evidence of the real greatness of Carlyle than the promptness with which he recognised this magnanimity and the manliness with which he acknowledged it Youths Companion. dream somk carsKs fob cat anna. By the rather indefinite term catarrh" we mean to Include certain Common Inflammations of the aose, throat and ear. The portion of the regions affected is, in each case, the muV cous membrane lining them. Thla SPIDERS OF COLORADO. protective covering of the interior of Big Om That FiMrish la these structures is not only of the same UUmvmI in each, but it la also, by meana of Pro feasor E. T. Laughton has various connecting orifices, continuturned to his home In New York s ous. ipending the winter la exploring (I This close union or connection remountains near Buena Vista, Col, d sults In n common association of d investigating the habits of a sped affecting these various parts. It monster of spiders found in the mldk to n frequent experience for individCottonwood Pass, says the Wsshlt uals to suffer with n cartarrh of tha ton. Star. Little definite is knows none or throat in varying degree of sethese spiders, but around them verity for months or years, when sudbeen gathered a mass of Inotan fkgti denly or gradually, a similar disease and prospectors yarns that rival tk of the ears may be added, resulting of Munchausen. Many years H in impairment of the hearing, tinnitus, tbese spiders lived in a cave !) or in the cars, and less com- ringing reached by tourists. It was in a veflOj monly pain in the same region, two mile, northeast from Hxmrd, It may be said that the majority of a City, then thrirmg mining ctoatf cues of impairment of hearing derel-eigmiles west of Buena Visla. Jif oping after youth are due to the a man named Bhulta cut his way! gravated extension of a into the spiders den. He did ot re-- j throat or nose trouble; which - has turn and a week later a searching; gradually involved the ear by reason party found his body partly buried In: of the unfavorable effect upon the lat-th- e spiders cave under n mass of toll--tof the diseased condition in the en rock. As U would have required adjacent structures, or THEY ALWAYS DO IT WRONQ. by direct Umbering at an expense tension of the disease of the ear along Met Dm Warns la a TbsaassS Kaews of several hundred dollars to recover the Eustachian tube the tube-lik- e or-How I Lost a Straet Css. tbe body, and as the, man had no iflee connecting the ear with the throat "Dern these women!" known relatives. It was left undisnd nose. Thus ejaculated a Metropolitan turbed. Sbultsa skeleton to sUll in the Aa to preventing the occurrence of street car conductor in the presence cave, but the spiders have, found an- thla result, it to of a Washington Star reporter, as he other home further backrtn thewotin-tain- a. llsin that this must, for the most part, gave the bell rope a vicious double pull Borne of the talcs about these wnaist In prevenUng aggravations of to signal the motor man to go ahead, spiders are given in an old letter! already existing catarrh in the nose A reporter who knew htm expressed which has Just been found in Buena throat A short distance out surprise at his ungallant remark. T Vista. It says: Ac.ual obstruction in either of these didnt mean anything disrespectful," of Buena Vista there is a cava swarmtans to only amenable to the sur-fit- s! said the fare taker, wearily, but some- ing with spiders of immense alxe, some skill of the physician. On the times I have to let loose. The women of them having legs four inches in other hand, much can be done by the set me eraty the way they get off earn length and bodies aa large as that of ItHvidual himself when the catarrhal Now, that one nearly got a fall by a canary bird. The cave was discovoocdttlon has not arrived at the stage getting off backward, the way she did. ered In 1868 and waa often visited by f obstruction, and likewise to preIf there had been the littleet bit of pioneers on their way to California, set recurrence of the attacks when motion to this car when she stepped who obtained their webs for use in the normal method of nasal breathing off with her face to the rear end shed place of thread.. A number were cap been re-- tab Waned. have gone kerthump down on the con- tured and tamed, and manifested great crete. Not one In a thousand wom- affection for all members of the famIL ENGINES IN PALESTINE. en," he continued, "ever alights from ily. They were tar superior to a cat Ti what extent the utilitarian spirit a street car right Instead of taking la exterminating rats and mice, folrawing In what one Jja disposed to hold of the handle bar on the upright lowing their prey into the holes In the toward the front of the car, she grabs waits and ceilings. One spider, kept cockier a the dream lands of the the one back. If you dont believe it M a pet by a Buena Vtota lady, used Fir East is shown by the recently wit statement that oil engines are rvw used In numbera In Palestine for ppping water from wells. The first attempt at Introducing the engines taeiw for that purpose ia said to have bpei mtde about three years ago by firm, the engines being Vnall ones of three or four horse Wer. At first u one would try them. finally toe agent of toe firm in volunteered ia one case to set tp an engine free of expense by way of experiment, and this little installation sorked to well taat it quickly led te foe placing of several orders for more, f nee then about sixty oil engines Lave been set up lu different places, all the plantation work, stout of the engines havPLAN OF THE ART BUILDING FOR THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. ing come from Germany and toe oth-- r from British makers, the British will be erowned by towers 400 feet watch this push and aee if Im not to atay all night at the head of her engines, Is it said, growing in favor on of the telling you a true one." The reporter bed acting as a sentinel." high which win form a part account of their greater simplicity of picture of the monumental entrance. said he'd watch, and he did, not only construction. .This Is an important street 81 in on but several residence that other h rod car, The grandest The Wamaa Would Bpwahta. point when It is considered that to Louis. Undell boulevard, will lead on during to court of to day, , He toe atories told of th recent f gioea are put In charge of native laAmong men women watched and monumental alike. Out to the portal directly flurry In Wall street ia this: in army borers during most of the time they women who alighted officer The mala exposition picture cover of sixty-seve- n stationed in toe Phlllpjiaea has are worked. of them got up when their corof a square mile. The sixty-fiv- e over two-thir-d been sending home his salary to his avenue In which lies the Grand Basin ner was reached and carefully selected wife to sava She shoe supporting bracket; sought to add to to 100 feet wide. The other avenuee the wrong handle bar to aaaiat them It by taking a flyer In. Wall street It is next to Impossible to hold a en114 men none In Out main of took From the 200 wide. alighting. feet are She had invested every dollar of her t os In the hand and polish It proper-i- r to proper elutch contrivtrance to the apex of the radiant plo other than and it is about as impossible for ance. Beven of them, however, invited huabands savings and in th recent tore toe distance to over three-fourt- h all waa swept away.. she ap-panic pdople to shine their shoes on foolklilers the ere on to attention. They Jumped oi a mile. The buildings feet Bo Henry L. Gardner of off while to car waa speeding rapidly. pealed tq Henry Clews, with rtfhosV earn heroic scale. K&achusetta, has designed the shoe-- i can prove the firm she had dealt: "If j show you Any Washingtonian The art building to to be a to get your money back will tha way porting bracket which we show In of Conductor 9999s truth assertion reaby permanent structure, and for that you promise me that picture, with the idea of affording son cannot be as ornate as tha show keeping eyea -peeled when street car speculate again?" askedyou will not holder which will allow toe the rigid broker riding. rest building of staff which form the Indeed I will, tearfully assented toe of force to be applied amount jper of to main picture. To eliminate a woman. Well, heres, your money; the leather while the shoe is sup-rte- d In THEATRICAL enter PROPERTIES.. which might . discordant not now keep off the market" Clewi in a convenient petition. The gald to Juxtaposition of a subdued bulid- - Itas CoatHvaaoM Thra CaatwrU afterward that he had not Invested to Af jag with more ornate exhibit builmony- - - broker who listened to the Llha Thaaa mt TteU.' ding. the summit of the hill whence tory laughed. "Well, theres one on to the induction In' BarJonaon's the. cascade torrent gush will be tholomew Fair" w find tha Clews That woman brougbt tha "Stage or crowned by a magnificent colonade, Keeper" aaya, "Would not a fin pump money right over to my offle and peristyle which will close the main upon the stage have don well for n naked me to buy Delaware and Hudpicture and eXclud from the grand property now?" while In the old play son for it I did so and shs mad view the more subdued main art of "The Taming of a Shrew" on of 15,400." Utica Press, The colonnade will be termin- the players who Is to act before Slle of ated at either end by the pavlUoua rays, Onwunkli of New Boath the building. I'U speak for the properties, Mjr Lord, we It is extremely probable that th. mult Hon. Si Joseph West Ridgeway J Have a shoulder of mutton for a prop-rt- Right CARLYLE AND DISRAELI. P. C., K. C. B. at present gorerior of! Now, both these quotations show Ceylon, will be appointed first govern i Ma4a Aihaa4 by tfc lattfk that "properties" three centuries ago Or of New South Wales; under the im er's aMlall;. DEVICE TO HOLD SHOES, consisted of much toe ram thing as perial federation of the Australian" Magnanimity superior to hta own they do today. The mention of prop- commonwealth. Sir West older consists of a bracket for could shame even the dogmatic Car-lyl- a. erties in toe stag directions of old extensive knowledge of to the wall at the right The man whose- - arrogance of plays are frequent; a few instance colonist administration, haa bees which extends an arm from eight, at triangular-shape- d head to opinion never, permitted him to- take must suffice. In Greene's James IV." Ceylon since 1895, and his term of n in ndlng 0 hoe- - To id to anything back once bad to contest we are directed to have "a tomb con- flee there la about to expire. Heeom-- uter th t0 of that a Jew had disarmed his bigotry veniently placed upon the stage,1 tnenced a somewhat brilliant . fong the shoe firmly on toe arm a and changed his insulting prejudice while In toe aame author Alphon-su- s eventful career in the India armr in ver is pivoted In positica to force the Disraeli, Into gratitude and respect of Araggon" w read. Exit Venus, 1861, served In toe Afghan war ig?. feel of th shoe backward, and a whom he had often reviled la Speech or if you conveniently can, let a chair 80. has been under secretary to in notches on the upper th. I longue resting and In spirit, bad every reason to com down from the top of toe stage government of India in the torsi n holds the lever solidly arm th of fide know how bitterly Carlyle despised and draw her up." This is interesting partment, was commissioner ft th Inside of th heel. Th i gainst him and hla race; and after he had be- both for to fine consideration for the delimitation of the Afghan froati.. ia the bracket Is slightly taper-und- er come the moat powerful man In Eng- convenience of other which It implies secretary for Ireland, g, fog at the sides to correspond with th land he took hto revenge. It was the and also because it shows that to ua ma of th arm. allowing th latter to X Fairy Citia b lifted out when cot in use. To teagaanc Inflicted by a great man of mechanical appliance for introwho could forget hit personal antipe-thla- s ducing a deus ex machine were not an In South America the Brmaian place the shoe. In position th brace is Diary w find peasant women often take thsb. . upon a great man who could not known. In Henalow laid parallel to the arm and toe shoe ' n pull on tents down to tot water and aL Recognising the commanding Intellect an entry for a disbursement tor Hipped over the head, when of the surly philosopher and the luster somewhat similar contrivance "a Fair leaves of th Victoria Rerlna tFm the brace drive th head into the to " conferred Upon his country, the of pullle to hang Absalom." On this Illy as cradle. The leaves art and bolds the bo stationary for the point, as on so many others, Henslow a yard la diameter, circular. prim minister offered him toe knight. ork of blacking, hood of to Grand Cross of the Order provides us with n great deal of valua- an Inch high border which stas of the Bath, and the good fellowship" ble Information. In his Diary for Sep- Uk the rim of a tea tray. AKClIlrt CHINESE TIRE CtOCKR i From k very early date fire was used pension once accepted and enjoyed by tember and October, WSI, w find that Dr. Eamuel Johnson and also by tha he expanded 19 2 on properties for th time. ! the ir of old by the Chinese for measuring wood to pow- -, a poet Southey Carlyle declined to "Fler of Winchester." a larger amount aga Franklin. reduced special They aer by rapping and pounding It and rn r se ht 0, long-standi- er ed 1 - es It two-thir- ds '6 J- fire-pro- of " gal-leri- y. rrar 1 't . ' It ' easy-cha- ( thus obtained a sort of pulp of .which they afterwards made cords and reds of various forma. For toe nse of rich persona, they employed woods of rarer species. These rods reached, when made of the more ordinary kinds wood, two and three yards, and were about aa thick aa a goose qullL They were burned in front of th temple. and were used for carrying fire from one place to another. Such rods were often stuck into metallic vessels filled with ashes, the vertical posit on permitting an estimation of their combustion with tbe eye. Since these rods give no light in burning, they were only used for giving tb hour is the house, which they at the same time perfumed. When th rods or cords had a certain length, they were twisted so aa to form a spiral or conical figure, which widened out at every revolution and reached Of PROF. SMEDLEY AND SPELLING. Professor Smedley and his assistant in the department of child study off toe Chicago public schools are trying to find out why so many children do net, learn to spell. That they do not is admitted by the fact of the investigation. And this admission la doubly interesting because it comes from Professor Professor Smedleys investiSmedley. gations so far seem to be confined te physical Conditions. He suggests that improperly fed children hav weaker memories aa well as bodies. Defective eyes are also suggested as another reason for bad spelling. The theory is (hat the child, not seeing the word correctly in the first place, is unable te reproduce it correctly. In this Utter the, ory there seems to be a point which toe Uy mind concerned with reswtts, and observing that tbe spelling results of Chicago school training are decidedly poor, may reflect upon with profit Tbe old system, by which children were taught to spell by steady practice in vocal combining of letters into words, is regarded as very crude and bad by the apostles of the "new methods." For It has been largely superseded by what is called "the visual method, which seems to be that a child shall first be fought what a word CHINESE FIRE CLOCK, looks like as a whole and then shall two or three palms In diameter. Their learn to spell it by taking it to pieces combustion then lasted several days, and trying to put the pieces together and sometimes even a month or more. again. They were suspended by the center and were Ignited at the lower extremOLD SULTA9L ity. The fire then ascended slowly and Abdul Hamit II.. Sultan ot Turkey, insensibly In following all tbe spirals. who has Just conceded tbe demands Five mrks made upon these spirals of toe French government thus sav- served to indicate the five parts of tbe THE-FOX- Y night This method of measuring time was, ao exact that no error of any moment was detected. It Is curious, says La Nature,"to compare this Chinese device witm that employed in Europe in the middle ages. Tbe duration of lighted candles or tapers also served them to mark the time of night These candles were graduated Just as toe Chinese graduated theif rods or cords. The Chinese rods and cords spoken of above, while given the time, also served as alarms When a Chinese wished to rise at night at a given hour, he suspended a small weight of metal very exactly at the place In the rod or cord which tbe fire was to reach at the hour specified. The momenj having arrived, the weight fell into n copper basin, and the noise of Its fall was loud enough to awaken the sleeper. This method was as simple aa it waa economical, for a rod or a cord, th combustion of which lasted a day and night, cost but three farthings. it is said, HOW THE EYE BEES IN BEADING. By close study of familiar things, surprising facts about them often com to light Professor Dodge, of Wesleyan University, by n number of careful experiments, has made a strange discovery. He ueclares that to see, th eye must he motionless. Now that he has told us. It Is easy to understand that this must be true. You cannot trke pictures with a moving camera, and the eye is only a perpetual camera with plates. The eye must stop motion while it takes a picture. In reading, therefore, toe eye does not move along the lines 'regularly. It takes an impression,. moves to a new position, takes another still view, then move again. Thus toe words are taken by groups. Perhaps, following Professor Dodges lead, some other clever experimenter will now tell us Just how wide the lines of print should be for the easiest reading. Every one knows that very long or very short lines are tiring, so there must be a right length. When the proper medium ia found, the chances are that we shall learn that the old masters" of the printing art had chosen the best wldtn for their pages. ABDUL HAMID, lng toe seizure of Smyrna by th French fleet In the Smyrna Gulf, Is bow is tbe sixtieth year ot bis life, and probably a sicker man than ever before. Tbe sultan's sickness is not merely metaphorical; it is literal For years he has been in bad health, and while he has had to face constant political menace from blustering powers abroad, he has been threatened with assassination and revolution at home, together with all the other evils flowing from tbe despotic form ot government It Is now twenty-fiv- e year since he ascended the throne o( his ancestors, and although he is the most execrated monarch on the face if tot globe he has many warm sympathisers and friends among the foreign diplomats who have visited his court and have learned the exasperating trials of which the sultan is toe victim. It is only within toe past few years that he took to wearing a full 'beard. Formerly he wore a mustache only. 6 Raul And Great Britain. Great Britain, in spite of its ill luck In South Africa, can still turn to account every moment for looking after its Northwest Indian frontier. Therefore Russia should regard Afghanistan more attentively and set to work more seriously with that country, for Great' Britain will know yrhen to seise the right moment for provoking n quarrel MAKING WATER BUILD DAMS. between the ameer and Russia, and Many readers who do. not follow the such a quarrel vfould call for toe withliterature of engineering will he in- drawal of tttsslan troops from points terested in the statement that on of mt which their presence at this moment th methods employed by American Is Indispensable. St Petersburg 8vet engineers in forming reservoir ' dams is to call in the services of a powerTbe Cbaaece far Hill. ful Jet of water, as In hydraulic minThose political prophets who the ing. By directing auch a Jet against next day after an election can predict tos upper slope of a valley, toe sand, all the changes which will occur besoil and gravel scoured from the hill- fore the next election are now appointsides can be carried by tbe force ot Bennett Hill to th ing the stream to the site of the dam in leadership ot .the lower part of the valley- By suitthe New able management the water not only York Demconveys the materials, but consolidat ocracy, sue--c them In position, dropping toe larger e e d 1n g stones at the sides and carrying th Boss Cro-ke- rs finer material to toe center of toe dam. disasFCTTINO OUT FIRE IN SHIPS. A new method of extinguishing Urea on board ship has recently been tested at Bremen. It consists in fitting pipes In every compartment of th vessel, communicating with the deck, and acting as safety-valvthrough which amok may ascend In case ot fire, tons giving warning of danger, and making It possible to watch to progress of fire in the hold without removing the hatches. .Thechlef feature of to system is the us of carbonic add gas, to he pumped through toe pipes into tos hold until the fire Is extinguished. Provision la mad for Introducing the gas under pressure among the oargo, so that It will penetrate tightly stowed eotton bales. , ee London has adopted to American eyea, but proexpression "goo-go- o nounces it "goo-g-l eyes. Love Is blind. That la why so many women marry men to reform them. Chicago New trous maladministration. The leader ot the New York Demoo-rac- y inevita- bly becomes the National Democratic leader. Un- doubtedly Governor Hill is one of the most astute politicians and statesmen in toe country. Yet it U too early to select th statesman who shall be invited to assume the leadership ot the Democratic party. It may be Hill and above the Democratic horlxon there now appears no vision ot leadership which he might not realise and fill. But as th future unfolds there win be many objects to attract tos popular attention. Nex year, after congress adjourns, elections will be held in forty states. Governors, with other state officers, and members of congress will be chosen. Out of the events of 1902, not out of toe events of 1901, the Democratic leadership of th future will he evolved., - A - . s' iarsam - 1 |