Show SHADOW lye have all beard of the man who succeeded in himself tip by his boot Is found in the person of mr E D cowert A composItor on the portland oregonians oregonian Ore gonian who has accomplished the phenomenal feat of photographing his own shadow and that of his camera As his paper describes the occurrence he stood on viam alk 2001 feet high and had the camera pointed at crater take in the distance between the camera and its object and about sixty feet away was another cliff which Is shown in the photograph Tho upper portion of it is of a light dark photographic color abile the lower part Is let black and looks as if it had been painted with a brusk it is just above the jet black streak that the shadow appears the form of a man in the act of demoi ing the cap of the camera to expose the plata is clearly shown it was 5 in the even mr dewert turo setting behind the romantic hill and cliffs me was standing with his back to the orb of day and the natural and only pre Bump tion is that his shadow and that of the camera were cast on the rock just as lie removed the cap A in fe resting experiment cul today to day says a recent special from plymouth mass to the cincinnati enquirer in the raising of 86 wheat grown from boods as old as the exodus the experimenter Is david drew who last year received from a friend in alexandria egypt some grains of wheat taken from a mummy exhumed near the ruins of memphis Is believed to the period of the ninth dynasty which make it growl about B 07 or nearly ave thousand years old he the seed early in the wing and carefully nursed it it agnir rapidly aid at the time of cut t f X measured from six abid aa aitto seven feet tigh the leaves alternate common wheat but the of the plant is the most ilni r part of it fo of grow ing in an ear like modem corn there Is a heavy cluster of small twigs in place of the spindle which hangs downward from its weight and each twig Is thickly studded with kernels each of which Is in a he husk from what Is thrashed a larger crop will be grown next year as the result pr v e 9 this grain to exceed in quality ying that the modem ground can grow ox morning just after court bad ned says the provo amerian J X ge judd stated that lie had learned since sentencing a bertal lu defendant for unlawful n that the defendant had allowed h is plural wife to go to the penitentiary rather than bestif 1 before the giand lier ary to facts 1 at would criminate alleged husband the plural wife w ent to the penitentiary and servada for contempt ile was sorry that lie had given the de fenda zit so light a sentence and re quested of the district attorney that lie should him if there was anything unusual in such cases hereafter the juige said that had lie known the particulars of the case he would have sentenced the defendent defend nt to the fall penalty prescribed ali of velch goes to show that judge judd Is not as desirous as some federal officials in rutih bate been to women sant to jai 11 however inch a caution as his words convey ought necessary ao 10 man ought to permit a woman to suiter for hw protection THE of a good matured politico joke as follows A crowd at the corner of washington and illinois streets yesterday fore noon were disc lussing politics when an old soldier with much emphasis said I 1 yes sir at least DO per cent of the soldiers are republicans frank miller deputy united states marshal inquired do you mean that prop onion in all the regiments i es air retorted retort cd the veteran 11 well alie regiment I 1 was in said miller a republican in it every man was a democrat I 1 what regiment were you in ask ed the foldier pol dier the twenty confederate states of america 0 o Miller replied commy montana has a n which is called ale new idea the editor seems to be a journal jabid genius and his columns bubble with facts and attractively pre here is orle of his outbursts id to iffet couf slander that owlet would not grow in the vater N ma 11 1 bill irk has paw be tuma at tho aad 4 I 1 dehore le hore w at I 1 6 us e 0 INA uk on P awk i s I 1 |