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Show IN TIIK ODO CONNER. OUTER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND tVLMS. Newly lll.r.,., re.l laical I ..If ramp, MU rl IH H.mr, I l,.,r anil Milea lined wllh names Mull, at A l.la.s llrras. Tha Mollies-llnrsa. This angular mid illihy steed Is fmned for neither giaee nor speed; And yet Ila worth Is leeolllie,l When finer a week 'tis exercised. Cor maidens then upon It pla.e The trappings of the human race. Th. t lre-lloga. I'pon the hearth thee faithful Dogs llnnnl re'tlfioaly the blallm logs. I hey hoant a lengthy pedigree .If ancient English ancestry. Their breed Is growing very rare; I am In luck lo own n pair. The Slenaey-Vf renrti. rhou art. to womankind al least, A wily and unfriendly beast. Elusive, slippery und wild. Although with man thou rt tnme and mild. Since thou to him art such a friend, Perhaps from monkeys men descend. The Hrwlng-llf,. This la, In truth, a busy Dec! It hums about the family tree. To string It oftentimes contrives. And on a dish of gossip thrives. Whene'er Ita baleful buss I hear, If possible I disappear." Jeannlo Hetta llartswlrk. A woNiiKiiri i. CAvr. There Is a cave near Cole Camp, lately brought to notice by the sinking of a shaft In a hunt for sine ore, which I regard aa uno of the most beautiful works of nature In all cavo formations. forma-tions. The cave la twenty feet high from roof to floor, clrrulnr In shiipc. with a diameter of twenty-eight feet. The roof, floor and sides are lined with a fine grade of bnrylii (tiff they cull it In the country) white na snow, and nn Mils white background Iron pyrites have seemingly been sprinkled In small particles, as though put on with a pepper box. Continual contact with the water In tho cave given the pyrltii Ihe appearance of burnished gold. From Ihe roof hangs great long calclte stalaetlii. with highly polished surfaces and colored to perfection. Krom the Moor have grown stalagmites of the same character, color ami appearance, ap-pearance, but with this wonderful difference dif-ference each ono of the stalagmites Is tipped with a beautiful cube of lead, aa clean and bright ns If Just made. This cube of lend, placed as It Is, ao bright and fresh to mind, la thu strongest proof of the present growth of had that I havo ever seen, snd 1 luviglne It would be highly lntaimt-Ing lntaimt-Ing to acleutlilc men. On tho sides of thla rave there ure panels of lend that are eighteen Inches suiiarr. Inserted, aa It were. In tho baryto. How thick or how fur back the led extenda has not yet been dctnrm'i" I. The cnlilto formations for-mations on the aides resemble In appearance ap-pearance the stalactite, wllh Ibis difference, dif-ference, thul they are pressed against tho Blilm. very much after the innn- ner one has of crossing the nrnia on the breast. The roof of the rave Is thlity-slx feet from tho surface, and one of the most gorgeom sights I bnvu cut seen under a bright light. The ownets of the properly are lo pump Ihe water out next week, and with some geologists that I have Invited, In-vited, will examine It during Ihe fair week at Sedallti. Kor an attraction I know of nothing more beautiful, and could It bo arranged to take thu lining lin-ing of tills cave out and reproduce It at the world's fulr at Ht. Ixiula, I am aure It would be very attractive to all, Including tho sclentlllc and the lover of art In liLture.- World's Kulr Ilulletln. Alllll'T OSTHK H rABMIMU. For the past fifteen yeara ostrich farming In Cape Colony haa been a highly successful Industry. Ia the past ten yeara ending In ISM, before the beginning of the wsr, the number of the birds Increased from 115,000 to 2111.000. Twenty-five years ago tho statistics of Cape Colony aald that thero were only ten tame oatrichea In the colony. The blrda each yield about a pound and a half of feathers every year, the average value being $12 a pound. The finest feuthers, of course, the the wing feuthers of the mule bird, which are long and white and bring from I'.O to 170 a pound. It takes eighty of them to make a pound. The wing feathers of the female ostrich are much luwer In value because they are islwuya gray. The supply was much smaller when It came wholly from wild blrda and the best quality of feathers fifuiicnlly brought aa much aa 111,', a pound. As each male bird yields only about twelve or fifteen of these feathers and as there Is alwaya a steady demand for them the price Is nut likely to full much until the ostrich running industry becomes larger than It Is now. A IIIIKSS M AUK V HI. Ass). One of the most curious objects at the i'arls exposition was a dress of glass. The fabric ci.isely resemblea rich silk, Is guile comfortable to wear, strong and durable. It consists of threads of glass, which, when spun out to great Idleness, lose their brlttle-ness. brlttle-ness. The dresa, which la said to be the only one of Ita kind, waa bought by a young concert singer, who now wears It at her public appuurancna. The glass from which the threads were originally made waa perfectly clear, but the fabric when made up baa a curious green tint In daylight. At night It has a atrange Irrldeacence, Ita i.f. ?. ; colors rhnnge with every movement of the wearer nnd of the beholder's ey. The mnkets of the dress received !!.noi for It. and complained that the price paid was barely remunerative. The gown loutalns millions of ex- ' i triniely fine ami ilellente strnnda of .1 pure Hpun glass, made and woven Into v , , glass cloth by hand in Dresden. Her- - many. The rloth wns brought to i . I'arls by n prominent French dress- 1 maker nnd made Into the dress, which reiiulted five months nnd two days to I . ' , f complete. The dress was cut In the ' - latest Parisian fashion. It took over J ; c fourteen yards of extra wide glasa I . clolh. .Vi yards of spun glass braid J and 2r. yards of glna fringe, making I . In nil 74 yards, to make up this gar- ! , ' ment. Many would suppose that this ! great quantity of cloth, liiuld and fringe would make It rather heavy, , but It docs not weigh any more. If as i much, ns an onllunry evening gown. ! Its minute strands are so artistically woven nnd Interwoven that It Is per- j . feetly flexible, as a silk dress would be, nnd enn lie worn like any other garment wllh perfect comfort and ( freedom. I MnMiKHM ur tiik Ai.ra. I Myriads of llrltlsti and American I S i tourists are at this moment delighting I ) themselves with the grandeurs of Al- 1 pine travel. Nothing In tha world' I " j history la more Impressive than the story of the Alps. Ten or twleve mil- ' V, ' Hon yenrs ago, inisslbly far more, a, i I long unseen line of weakness, a crack V or fissure In the earth's crust a' . stretched awny from France eaatward ) hundreds of miles. On this line fol- J lowed huge volcanic outbursts. Next 1 ensued a vast alow subsidence, which V-' I went on through geologic epochs, un- 'if III where Mont llluuc now rears Ita ill sun, mlt i:.7M) feet was a aea fringing 1 V an old continent. Ijirge rivers emptied I I Into It. Deposlta of mud, sand, gravel ' I I wero laid ono on another aa the sink- ill lug went on, until the layers became -'11 Mi.ono fift. nearly ten mill, thick. I I Then nt Inst commenced a great up- t ? lifting; the struggling subterranean ill forces raised a huge load. For agea j II this went on until the rocks, crumbled, ? ' it criiiTied, contorted, rose above the i 1 I .waters, and continued to rise, forming s ll lines uf m-iiiutalu t-hnlus ami making J II Rwlir.crlainl n tableland. Every hour slnco then rain and snow, river, gla- i . tier and avalnnchii bnva been aeulp- s Hiring Into peaks and carving Into ; lakes and vulleys Hint uit platform with Its recent sedimentary covering i i nnd primeval graullii core. The re- ' suit Is a land of uneipuil grandeur. j Find you thli In tlio guide book? Not 1 a word of It. Yet I'rofessor Judd In hla rhnrmlng "Volcanoes" tKegan Taut) told the title yeara ago In half I a doien pages. Would not the travel- ! er look on the Matlerhorn, the Jung- j fniu, the Rtupendous Hplugen, the maa- j slve OotharW, the, ,Mer der (llnce. tjit , j ' . deep lskn oV llcueva. with nul'-keiv-d' " " J j Interest hud he this story before him? And it ran bo told so easily; but 'tis J not there Londun Telegraph. THK vtolll.lis a UK II'. , V Among domesllo animals the sheep j j la the most useful to man. In the llrltlsh Isles alone there are 29.UOO.OOO 1 sheep. The world's total atock la 1 Mo.uoo.oou. or fully lno.O00.0o0 more , than all other domestic unluiula com- j blued. It might be possible to ills- ' ' pense with the 2.KU0.000 tons of mut- ', ' tou the world devours 111 the course of ' , I a year, though 11 rniiipilses oun-llftb J of the total meat supply; but what i t wo could not do without la the wool. I (rent Ilrltuln alone, exporta 3ll.oiiu.0o0 lb. weight of wool In a year, turning j I this vast amount of fleeco Into mnto- j V rial valued nt 220.UOO,OiK). The world j f ut large works up very nearly 12,000,- j I Olio tons of sheep's wool In the same ,t I period. This Is a hugely greater amount than that of any other mate- J ) rial used for cloth-making. Cotton i. S only runs 13.000 tons, and the other forty fibres In common use do not si- f together aggregate half of tbla amount. ' " ' rti IIIUIIKST El'Hnl'KAff RAILWAY. The highest railway In Europe la , ' now being built to the summit of the ',' Jungfrau, 11.870 feet above aea level. ' The track will run through a tunnel winding round the solid body of the ) Elger mountain aa far as Elger eta- f Hon, about 10.5H7 feet above aea-lcvol, i which la to be luld open by gallerlea. t It will continue In a straight line for , ' some distance, falling then In the dl- f reel Ion of the Jiingfraujoch, keeping ' tsll feet below the surface uf the ridge, and finally curving round the upper- f most solid block of the mountain, l, reaching Its end point on a plateau 12,300 feet above sea-level. It Is ex- ; peeled that the first station, at Elger- t wand, IMO0 feet above sea-level, will j bo nt Elsmeer, at an altitude of 10.370 . " feet; this will be the highest railway V station in Europe. Tho length of the Hue will be a little over seven miles. A I'ol.onu.is Tr... One of the most extinordlniiry tree ; In thu world la found In Madagascar. , It Is known us the tnngen tree, and because It abounds In poison the name tanghlnlu venenlferu mis been given . to II by botanists. In the c, -Inal rvo- ords of Mudagiiscur il bar ,ayed a ' notable part until unite ruccntly. i Whenever an accused person wag ) brought Into court, fruit from the Use, i shout the sluu of an apple, wns bunded to hi in by nn attendant. Thereupon the Judge, who was surrounded by several witnesses, bade hlin eat the -fruit, and assured him that If It pro- , duced no 111 effecta he would be deemed Innocent of the charge which bad been made against him. On the ' other band, If the poison In the (rult , killed him. he would be considered : guilty. Many unfortunate persons, II Is said, lost their lives In this way. ' , r" |
