Show 1 I 1 THE BIG DIG LAGOON were ting arar form ti don on on tile north A ern cost of f california northern coast of california I 1 on n the thirty miles belo below W the month of I 1 0 klamath y Ia matli river is knoof one of the most 1 I tw the resting natural ral fon nations to be lotina sn interesting in this country known as the dig big soon here the coast which rung runs I 1 jtb and to this point takes a north I 1 turn inland bordered by very fh barp h rp bills running to a distance of h I 1 nt three miles ill alien en torning taming out about bay almost V ain makes a sharp fed shaped iain and for ages past a sand bar lias has tw washing was ahing itself up across this bay been raised out of the antil the bar has up water ter some come ten or twelve feet having a indah of about feet and a length of I 1 vl too reaching across the entire bay thia nig bar is in the shape of a roof mien pen there is a storm the breakers will one side of it break over and roil il op UP I 1 p down into tho the ix bay inside and it is full novel sight to stand there and watch J the he waters mountain high on one side perfectly calm on the other the and 1 i between the two at intervals hidden I 1 hue ba altogether I 1 this TW bar is a sort of short cut and can te be traverse traversed don on horseback in a sto storm rm the horseman will ono one minute be high gild nil dry on land the nest next minute a I 1 farce 19 wave will roll up and running under the horses feet to the depth of a foot or more the rider will be for an instant four miles or so at sea on horseback with no land nearer than the high I 1 1 bles of the mainland in sight 1 moss agates may bo be found in aann dance on the pebbly beach and when the I 1 inn shines they glitter with dazzling bright brightness n ess the wild duck that frequent this part of the coast literally fill this inland bay iad and the passing hunter should he take i 1 shot at them will raise such a cloud mil and such a quacking that he lie will think I 1 tu 4 the ducks duck of the earth have gathered there occasionally some wild beast like do a bear or a panther will be found crossing wg this bar and the indians have much sport when such a thing happens the animal rarely escaping capture or death I 1 hera liere the D digger indians abound living i I 1 on the shellfish which they catch 1 along the beach seldom going over tl the I 1 0 ridge of hills to capture a deer which I 1 ire are plentiful it would astonish a yale I 1 or harvard football man to come upon this scene some bright morning at low tide and see the squaws squads and children playing lacrosse on the beach they get go so excited with their sport that they keep it up until the tido drives them from froin the bea beach ch often staying there un an bl ill they have to chase the ball down into the detroit free press what is I 1 it if the question is now asked what is electricity we may reply advantageously geons fy in the words of jokai A thing of which we know a lit little ile more than nothing and a little less than something A little more than nothing not liing for wo we know that it is of the nature of light and heat extending itself like them in waves of motion A little less than something for I 1 of the essence of electricity itself whether static or dynamic wo we are still absolutely ia in the tile dark there has been no want of 0 other theories but the fundamental da tendency of the age ia is to reduce all phenomena and forces to the fewest possible primaries and it is not improbable that this will be facilitated by the wave theory of the so called ether the problem of gravitation too which was so long regarded as a force acting from a distance is now equally attrib buted d to the agency of a medium in his I 1 i efforts to demonstrate the oneness of all I 1 natural forces the physicist is not likely I 1 to be led astray eveni event although the cognition 4 of force presents one of those world problems the solution of which must forever escape us aye although I 1 I 1 the final result of the most exact investigation vesti gation it should forever be denied denie I 1 to him even to assert decisively it Is only a torce force and the ether la is its uie aue daum of ot transmission triin exchange e 11 and ilia admirer verdi was traveling in alij same rail way iray carriage with general tournon commander of tho the ravenna district they got into conversation which soon turned on the subject of music and tho tile general who did not know his companion expressed a most enthusiastic preference for that of italy 1 I can hardly go BO so far with you replied tho the other for me art has no it frontiers and arid I 1 give german music over avei italian I 1 indeed sir said the general testily for my part I 1 would give all jhb get ina 11 operas in ii the world fut fui one net act of rigoletta Rigo letto lettu 11 you really must excuse me from following g you any further on this ground replied the composer blushing a little 1 N I am tim verdi monde artisto Ele cirle light la in african dalness alne working g by electric light la in the desert ot of africa with power furnished by coal costing sixty dollars ft a ton was the novel abject discussed by george D longst longstreet reet an all english mining engineer during a long residence in south africa Afric aMr mr u 91 street traveled as far into the interior as livingstone edid did visited anum rt number berof ot PI aces have never been hepa by a dozen white men and in many regions found that be e WM was the e first man mau the natives bad wn tite control of tho the diamond mines by tua the rys mr ir longster i acet la is earu rh ile to the be overcapitalization ove rea of nir onn iiii companies com some of them wr r aa as high aa as VZ th ann i w now limiting liml tina the production of gel gems it ii in demand denand diamonds will never KO go tm iian n ill lit arm ice and the days of romance ill ut ai A trica diamond mining are past forever in early daya days the mines were divided wel ill luto t little allotments of thirty feet squar and each of these wa was sold to ft a cor arat wt 1111 for mcco a neat BUIU auta tor for a atle le land scarcely ly largo lar 9 e enough to put a ability allty on 1 1 l have hii n working for one company od in one mine line as many aa an naked ilus whose work oddly enough was n by electric light within a year after iw it was invented in those days our edlef nl was to prevent the thefts of 01 the workmen we hail bad an overseer for ja very five 6 yet they managed to 1 steal l large numbers of diamonds these ulua ay born thieves all the tales of ader aggard haggard whom I 1 knew in south adrift rica I 1 have heard often from the lips ups of the is zulua o chicago cago tribune X stealthy Stol thy alif eastern traveler who has bad had many ma ad ni varied encounters with wild ard ais 14 1 the heart of acca and 1 jeaa balked albed 0 r 0 y through many jangles bays that he be con oon cura la the opinion commonly rn only held by the natives of the countries he a has visited that the leopard is more dangerous berous than either the lion or the tiger its noiseless approach may it be imagined sa s1 he be says from an incident which occurred to him in abyssinia I 1 was watching it pool by moonlight in a deep bend of the river atoyan during the dry season hours passed hut but nothing larger than an antelope appeared we viewers were sitting beneath a large tree completely denuded of leaves and the moon was shining brightly throwing into sharp outline every bough suddenly my wife pulled my sleeve and directed my attention to a largo animal crouched upon the branches exactly above us I 1 might hae have taken a splendid shot but I 1 at first imagined it to be a do dog faced baboon that had been asleep in alie gibe tree I 1 stood erect to obtain it clearer v lew view and at once the creature sprang to the gro ground an d w within a few feet of ua us and bound bounded etl into the jungle it was as a leopard v which aich had probably reached the tree by means of some neigh boring branch and so noiselessly that w we e had not discovered its presence the ani ant mal nial bad had e w winded ded us and was determined doter ter mined ll to reconnoiter our position youths companion A journey to the san stop and think a moment what the sen fence tence A journey to the sun implies A cannon ball could hardly complete the trip in fifteen years going at the rate such missiles are known to travel take the fastest express train as another illustration of that unthinkable distance had one of these trains left the eurth earth at the sime game moment the mayflower sailed for america and had it traveled at tho the rate of a mile a minute day and night since that time it would still be several miles from its celestial destination the fare at the custom ary rate would bo be 2 S io again it has been found that sensation Is not absolutely instantaneous but that a very minute time tinie elapses elapse 4 as it travels along the nerves therefore if ifa a person put lib ills finger to a heated iron or in the blaze of a candle there ia Is a certain almost inconceivably small space of time say tho the one thou sanath part of a second before the brain knows of the burn now i suppose a man with ft ith an arm long enough to reach the sun from the known rate of sensatory transmission that man would have bare to live more than years after touching the great luminary before he would know that hia fingers had been scorched st louis republic failed to mork 1 I can tell you something amusing about a case of ambition oer vaulting itself said mme ame S who has tins just returned from a tour abroad we were traveling in germany and wanted the compartment to ourselves ourse hes at a station where we stopped there was a party with a crying baby ready to come aboard and I 1 told our youngest little girl who is a great mimic that it if ube would roll herself up in a rug and cry they would probably pass on and leave us alone and did it work you shall sec see sadie rolled herself up head and all and when they looked in she screamed at the top of her voice exactly like a peevish deev asli infant the mother and father fattier thruda their heads in while their I 1 in n fant roared also it was a scene fit f for or bedlam and to complete it the father who was an englishman said 11 lre ere you hare mary theres another lowler in there and they wont mind av ing us and in ill they got the whole family of them and our cat was out of the bag 11 detroit free press tho the lull of the toothpick if there is one thing more than another which needs correction in the ranks of what pass tor for cultivated culah abed people it is the prominence of the toothpick no sight ia is more common about the dinner hour than to bee knots of men gathered in front of hotels and boarding houses standing on street comers corners riding in public conveyances or elsewhere with a toothpick estenta piously protruding from the mouth or with the said wooden splinter in diligent use as an excavator ator it w e go farther bick tow toward ard the dining table w e behall find that the disgusting habit grows even more pronounced noun ced and that the table itself ia Is often a witness of the indelicate proceeding if it is 1 a matter of congratulation therefore that a better habit is asserting itself good housekeeping nomadic oi nillo ant ants besides the tillers of the soil there aro a ro other species of anta ants like the peru peruvian lin ca za dores which luul lead a nomadic life having no permanent bomea t but wandering from front place to place e entering the houses of the natives by millions killing rate mice snakes and all sorts of vermin devouring de curing offal and performing in general the useful functions of itinerant scavengers atlan tic monthly all do you know young man said aba th proud father that when you marry m daughter daug liter you secure a it valuable jewel VI how illow much is the jewel worth VI asked the practical young man new york epoch A very ery flit horse A group of old cavalrymen were gathered in the smoking room at their post headquarters one stormy day engaged in narrating marvelous tales of the speed and endurance of the horses they had owned or handled during the famous gle when gile whose fame as a good 8 story tory teller is not strengthened by a reputation tor for veracity spoke up saying you remember that big chestnut I 1 rode when attached to Sheri dans headquarters A smile passed around the circle and the major with a wink replied no what was he gile what hat was he be why ho be was the fastest horse in Sheri sheridan dans a cavalry he ile had but one fault he be surefooted sure footed and that was what cost me these scars I 1 carry to remind afie me of the hottest race I 1 ever took part la in I 1 his ills hearers remembered the many ways in which gile bad told those scars were received and knew a good story was coming if got him of a southern planter gile continued and the stories of hla his speed soon got to headquarters whether this helped to bring it about I 1 cant say but but a short time before they had me engaged in carrying important dispatches through the eri lines one morning as I 1 wag was riding let leisurely surelY down the browns ville turnpike I 1 heard hoof beats bents behind and turning SAW ft a squad of Jo johnnies bunies coming down on me on tho the gallop I 1 touched the spurs to my horse and off like the wind vi ind and soon I 1 heard the p pop 0 p pop pop of their carbines behind me they fired till their ammunition was exhausted and never touched me and I 1 should have got oft off all right but just then my horse stumbled and fell before I 1 could rise and mount again I 1 was struck by a storm of bullers bull bul letiO els why how was that the major broke in you said their ammunition was exhausted yes it was gile replied with a sly look but when I 1 fell the bullets had a chanco to overtake me 11 boston herald 0 lie avus the cook there Is a small lunchroom not far from the post postoffice office where the midday trade la Is exceptionally brisk and the counters around the bides aides of the establishment are tor for an hour or more crowded with custom ere era seated upon stools while they make valiant efforts to break the lunch eating speed records the room Is not more than twenty feet square and at all I 1 hot dishes come up from the basement where the one cook I 1 I 1 I 1 k I 1 i A c i v I 1 I 1 ft fal employed is loc located there are three at tend ants to wait walt on the customers and they bawl out their orders loud enough to bo be heard several blocks away A customer cu s tomer will remark three fried tried and a 91 glass of milk and the th waiter will reply three fried one milk the cook is supposed to bear and make nota note of the oyster end of the order and another waiter watter six feet a away way who Is in fri attendance on the milk can replies one milk right 11 yesterday all three of the waiters received several orders in quick succession and poured into the basement a broadside of vocal bombshells bomb shells noodle soup buckli heats pot pie tor for two irish stew at this point a very red faced man stuck his bead head up through the trapdoor and said say youse people im no shorthand sharp im a cook bee see youse kin let them orders coine come slower or you kin send me down a private secretary you hear me and be he disappeared below with a grunt of indignation philadelphia record office doys IZe rive five or six years ago the thera was an office boy named willie smith and willie was a it roost most sensitive youth anything that was said to him by way of reproof rankled in his bosom and he spent most of his time in devising schemes scheme by which he could get even one day he lie strayed down into the counting room and the business manager called him down rather severely tor for some sonie thing that he had done of his were to run the elevator that went up to the immense job rooms of the |