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BEASTS LOVE TOBACCO.
Bears Delight in Smoke, and Lions Take
Very Kindly to Snuff

Bears Delight in Smoke, and Lions Take
Very Kindly to Snuff
Chicago News.l
Prof. Paul Meyerheim, the celebrated
animal painter, contributes TO a ''sympo-
sium" in German publication devoted to
the tobacco trade-the following interesting
observotions on lovers of the weed:
"What have observed about smoking is
not very interesting so tar as my own use of
the weed is concerned. smoke light cigars
and have little or no appreciation of high
grade cigars. But it may interest you to
learn what my models In the geological gar
dens think about smoking.
"There are, to begin with, the common
brown bears. They are veritable tobacco
enthusiasts. Just blow tobacco smoke
toward their cage and you will see how they
rush toward you and with every sigh of de-
light rub the back and the head against tn e
portion OF the grating through which the
smoke passes. 1t is a very amusing spec
tacle.
cat one time treated sleeping lion to a
large pinch of snuff. which 1 introduced
into his nostril with the aid of wooden
modelling knife. His majesty arose, sneezed
with great vehemenee and then lay down
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park, 10 or 15 acres in extent This park is
on an eminence in the middle of Harrisburg.
The Capitol is 1S0 feet long and so feet wide,
with circular Ionic dome. To the east of
the structure is building of similar design.
containing the Department of Internal Af-
fairs. On the west is another building ex-
sctly like it, used as the Executive De-
partment, in which the Governor, Secretary
of the Commonwealth and State Treasurer
have their Offices.
THE VIEW FROM THE DOME.
A commanding view is had from either
the dome of the Capitol or the front portico
between the massive pillars To the north
ward s.seen the picturesque gap, in which
the Susquehanna river cuts its way through
the Blue Mountains. Across the river lie
the fertile farms of Cumberland county. The
Susquehanna is mile wide at Harrisburg,
and romantic looking island separates its
waters here.
From the steps of the Capitol, a wide
boardwalk leads down among the trees to
Market street. 1t is the way to the Lochlel
Hotel, and along this boardwalk more
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HoUsEKEEPERs POOL ISSUES.
The Cooperative Experiments at Utica, N
Y, and at Evanston, Ill.

The Cooperative Experiments at Utica, N.
Y, and at Evanston, Ill
New York Herald
Some weeks since the heads of five Utica
families entered into an agreement after
mature deliberation under which provision
was made for leasing and furnishing house,
employing cook and servants and making
all arrangements for trial of cooperative
housekeeping, in so far as the dining room
and kitchen we're concerned. 49,
Tie gentlemen interested are all business
men in moderate circumstances. Choosing
president, secretary and treasurer and a
'.board of governors" the gentlemen set
themselves at work. The first thing to be
done was to draft compact by which all
were bound to give the plan trial of three
months All are SO well satisfied that there
will be no changes at the end of that time,
two weeks hence.
In the original number % persons were
included, which number has been augmented
to nearly so. as many as can be accommo-
dated in the present quarters In tine begin
ming 1t wa necessary to purchase an entire
new outis of kitchen and dining room fur
niture, as well as conveniences for the cook
and fv, walters, who, in addition to their
uuIieo, lOOk dlLeT tue mousse, WHICH
they occupy, rented. by the club.
A competent cook OF many years. expert
ence was employed, into whose charge the
full management OF affairs was given, with
the exception OF the purchase of food, which
duty devolves upon one of tie club, designated
by the President at the beginning of each
month.
Books are kept, in which is entered every
cent Of expenditure, and they are balanced
at the end of the month, when an assessment
is levied upon each mem Der and all accounts
are squared. During the first few weeks of
the liIe of the club the assessments were
necessarily somewhat heavier than they are
at present.
As regards the table, the very best of
everything is provided, with all the delica-
cies in season, while no extravagance is
,countenanced by any member.
At present the amount levied upon each
person is trihe less than So week, and
those in charge confidently expect to reduce
this TO ~ 30. Besides this, wives and
daughters are released from the care of
kitchens and dining rooms, and the worry
incident to the supervision of cooks
and other servants, too often incompetent, is
a thing ofthe past,
The only inconvenience, which is slight
by comparison, is the necessity of leaving
home to take meals in the cooperative club
house,
1t would be useless to say that the MEM
bers OF the Utica Cooperative Housekeep-
ing Club are satisfied with its workings.
There is but one other club in the coun-
try similar to the Utica association. This
is at Evanston, suburb of Chicago, and
has been in operation less than three weeks.
1t is known as the Evanston Cooperative
Housekeeping Association. and is SO incor-
porated. The club comprises about 30
families, nearly 200 individuals in all.
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Governors from old Simon Snyder down to
Robert E. Pattison, have trod this board
walk. During the biennial sessions of the
Legislature it fairly teens with life, and is
always througed. In Capitol Park is a
handsome monument, erected to the memory
OF the soldiers of Pennsylvania who fell IN
the War of the Rebellion. 1t is surrounded
by fence
MADE OF OLD ARMY RIFLES,
the oayonets of which form pretty line of
pickets. Standing by the pillars on the
front portico of the Capitol, you look
straight down State street to the river. In
the center OF this street, at the corner of
Second street. there is a massive obelisk,
erected to the honor of Dauphin county
soldiers in the late war. The Capitol Park
also contains conservatories, fountains. etc.
The one other charming attraction. in
Harrisburg is the boulevard or promenade
along the river 'front.' 1t is called Front
street. The thoroughfare is lined with the
handsome residences of the substantial
people of the town. Among them are the
stone mansion of the late General Simon
Cameron, the paistial homes oi Wayne
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STATUE OF WILLIAM PENN.
His Hat to Be the First Object In America to
Greet the Morning san.

His Hat to Be the First Object In America to
Greet the Morning San.
Washington Star.l
The bronze statue of William Penn,
which is to crown the absurdly tall tower of
Philadelphia's pretentious City Building, is
now being cast in sections. and will soon be
ready to be put in place. It is to stand on a
base only five feet square, so that one foot Of
the figure will project little beyond the
edge Of its support-an arrangement that can
hardly be considered pleasing.
In both height and weight the Penn statue
very greatly exceeds the bronze figure of
Liberty which surmounts the dome of the
national capitol, and, in the ..grsndiloquent
language ola Philadelphia paper. ''it is in
tended that the broad trimmed quaker hat
which shieldsthe head of the founder of the
city shall be the first artificial object in this
country to catch the rays of the morning
SUM-" In other words, it is TO be little
higher than the apex OF the Washington
monument in this city. Nevertheless it will
be far less imposing.
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walk. France Is a charming country. 1t has
table d'hote," and it is polite. But the
peasantsl In them we are disappointed.
They are not picturesque. The market
women wear white caps, and 'the Blanchis-
seuse'' washes her linen on the stones of the
running brooks, but she, like all the others,
dresses in shabby imitation of her betters.
One looks for short skirts and white chemi-
settes, tight bodices and jaunty aprons, but
one finds them not. 1t is only the peasant
girl from the far inland country (or back
woods, as we would express it), who clings
with any degree of fidelity to the dress Of
her province. Within fifty to one hundred
miles of any city one sees no real peasant
costumes at all.
At Villefranche we stop over and walt
for our train to catch up with us. 1t does
so in the course of time, or oneresembling it
does, which is the same thing. And of we
start again. This time, however, we are
second class. We reach Marseilles at noon
several days later. The scene which greets
us is tropical. The white town shines
golden in the fierce glare of the midday
sun. Sea, sky, hills and all aglow with the
yellow glare. Up the steep hill leading
from the station surges bizarre, not to say
Oriental throng-gay soldiers, iostling
against handsome girls; girls half French.
cheeks; long lines of milk-white horses,
pulling up drays of fruits; crowds of peas
ants OF every nationality under the sun, all
chattering and singing and swearing In loud
voices and foreign tongues.
ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA.
There is a ship for Genoa at noon. We
take passage, and ere long are sailing in the
blue waters of the Tyrrhene Sea. The sight
ia cfIhl irnot hha1
the shores, leaving huge mountains of
calcareous rocks as white as marble, tower
ing up against the pearly sky and rejecting
like crystal palaces in the sapphire depths
below. At some distance these rocks re-
semble giant cities and fortresses and quaint
little villages, which might be the phantom
dwelling places of dead and gone sea kings.
As the ship speeds swiftly over the smooth
surface, they fade and pale and gradually
lose themselves in the silver mist which
rises from the ocean and falls from the
clouds. and shines like veil studded with
diamonds.
Anon purple hills crowned with the an
cient castles of fierce warriors of by-gone
days loom in sight-castles grim and dark
and torbidding, with broken towers and
moldering wallis And then come long
stretches of chalky cliffs. whose white sum-
mlts shine pink and roseate in the setting
sum-. And then come the shadows. Those
weird, mystic shadows which deepen the
blue waters and darken the hills, and cut
across the lurid streak of crimson, which tor
a moment illumines the horizon, and then
fades away in the glooml There is no moon
on this voyage, no whitecaps, no sea sick
ness. We reach Genoa in the morning,
and here the adventure of my life befalls me.
stumble headlong into the King of
Italy.
I'll tell you all about it in my next.
LILLIAN SPENCER.
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future generations. There may be some
thing sacred about the roof which once
covered the head of Thaddeus Stevens, or
about the floor across which the Great Com
moner took his first strides toward fame,
but it is from no such sentiments that the
State permits the preservation of the old
building.
Pittsburg has her new three-million-dol-
lar court house. Philadelphia is still build
ing at her ifteen-million-dollar municipal
palace. Reading is putting the finishing
touches to beautiful postofice structure
that almost equals our own on Smithfeld
street. But the great State OF Pennsylvania
has nothing to offer her Legislators next
week but that same old red brick capitol,
which may have cost, possibly, 500, 600 to
build.
OLDER THAN THE LEGISLATORS.
This Cap itOl building was erected when
James Mon roe was President OF the United
States. 1t was commenced in 1919, and was
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DOWN THE FAMOUS BOARDWALK.

first occupied on January %, 1922. Pitts
burg was in her swaddling clothes then, and
Philadelphia Quaker purity was yet un-
sullied by progress. The Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Congresses were sitting and
Henry Clay was Speaker of the National
House of Representatives. With but one
exception, not 4 member of the present AL
legheuy county delegation to Harrisburg
had yet been born. Hon. james L. Grs-
ham, of Allegheny City, is the exception,
and he was only born in the same year work
on the Capitol was commenced-1S19.
Two Governors of Pennsylvania got a
chance to watch the work on this architect
urIl veGture. They were William Find
lay, lawyer from Franklin county, and
Joseph Heister, a merchant from Bucks
county. The first was elected Governor by
the Democrats, and the other succeeded him
by the votes of the Federal party. As an
evidence of how the population and COM
meree of the State have outgrown the Capt.
tol building in proportions, the popular
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

groups in the midst of or in close proximity
to more powerful or more intelligent negro
tribes, who regard them az little better than
slaves. They are allowed to live on condi-
tion that they hunt deer in the bush and
fish In the rivers for their masters, or kill
the elephant whose ivory they are forbidden
to sell.
HUNT WITH PRIMITIVE WEAPONS.
They are said by ali travellers to be expert
hunters, though they have no firearms; their
only weapons are bows and arrows and
spears. Wild animals are also caught by
them in nets, eorrals and pitfalls. They
are exceedingly clever in the arts and de-
vices that appertain more especially to
primitive and uncultivated races and show
great fortitude in wrestling with the nat
ural difficulties offered in a wild country
like their own, both man and beast
As to the average stature attained by these
people there is much discrepancy in the
notes furnished by tlose who have seen them.
The facts afforded on the subject by travellers
are far from concordant. Perhaps the best
estimate hitherto given is that of old Herod-
otus, who says of them that they are below
"the medium height" 1t is no easy task to
obtain exact data. They are exceedingly
shy and timid and in order to make obser-
vations had to catch them as best could,
hunting them down like a wild animal.
Once caught, however, they soon become
tractable, especially when they see they are
in the hands of a white man and not in
those of slave dealer; few presents in the
shape of beads, cloth, or-what is still more
precious on the western coast-salt, will
make them sufficiently friendly to allow OF
yard measure being applied to their per-
sons. They are mighty glad, however, when
the operation is over, and run away most
nimbly.
THE SMALLEST MAN SEEN.
The smallest man of ripe years I ever
came across among the Abongos stood feet
3 inches from the ground. Stanley saw one
not quite 4 feet high; another feet
inches, and grown up girl of about II
years of age who was ha,f an inch short of
8 feet. The latter may have been an exeep.
tion, although the women are proportionally
smaller than the men.
From personal observation and from what
have read on the subject am led to infer
that the height of these pigmies averages
between feet inches and feet inches
for full grown man, and between feet
inches and feet 1 inch for the women. This
certainly constitutes race of smaller stat
ure than that to be found in most other
countries, but the term dwarf" which is
applied to them appears incorrect. Ethnol-
ogy furnishes examples of many a tribe and
nation whose stature does not much exceed
that which is here attributed to tine so-called
pygmies. This will be made clear by COM
pairing the figures I have Just given with
the following list furnished by anthropo-
logical research:
FIGURES ON THE RACES.
Patagonians, feet 10 inches: Swabians
(South Germans, Kaffirs and Polynesians, s.
10X; Don Cossaeks, SO. Englishmen. Sc;
German-Austrians, 90; Negroes, 5-5 North.
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Governor polled total vote of an odd me
lion. The wealth of the State was tn n
only large enough to bring into the State
Treasury few hundred Thousand Of dollars
taxes. The valuation of personal property,
alone, in the various counties of the Com
monwealth, as designated by the Revenue
Commission of 1886 for State taxation, in
cluding mortgages, bonds, ETC., was $780,
749, 556, and it has increased largely since
then. So that the State is both big enough
and rich enough to afford handsome new
Capitol building.
Although the building is old.fashioned it
has most beautiful location and surround
ings. 1t stands in the center of q pretty
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

McVelgh, and of Mr.. Mccormick, the
millionaire. Between the houses and river
are several rows Of stately trees, old as
Pennsylvania itself.
Harris Park is one of the prettiest
portions of this boulevard, The first
permanent white settlement on the site Of
Harrisburg was by an Englishman named
John Harris. who in December, 1888, OBJ
tanned from
THE PRoPRIEToRs OF PENNSYLVANIA
a grant of 800 acres OF land near his resi-
dence, aud who then purchased from other
grantees 800 acres adjoining.
He traded with the Indians, and his name
figures more or less in connection with
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again to continue his nap, apparently rather
goats, deer, llamas and similar animals are
passionately fond of snuff and cigars. 1
once gained the friendship of a very ugly
guanaco by feeding him frequently with
snuff. Some soldiers who later on teased
the animal and were rewarded, as usual, by
his spewing all over them, remarked in nv
hearing: "Why, the deucel How the beast
smells of snufI''
Large parians are also extremely fond of
tobacco smoke. You see, I do not smoke for
my pleasure alone.'
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A Pretty Theater Dress.

An entire theater dress of dark steel silk,
brocaded with spots In lighter shade. hasa
white cloth cuirass embroidered with gold in
diagonal lines. which meets in V in front
and white sleeves, also embroidered with
deep double puffs of the silk, covering the
upper arm. The tiniest of white and gold
bonnets and white gloves with black. stitch
ing complete the costume
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
ALMOND EYES AND PORK.

Pig Only Bones Are Left.
New York World
with pork. It is safe to say that. after rice,
tits the chief staple of Chinese diet. You
will see whole carcasses laid out upon a
table, being painted with various dressings,
cut into assorted shapes and sizes.
Different nortions are chosen and laid
aside for different dishes, and altogether,
when Chinaman has done with pig,
there Is nothing Of the desd but bones" As
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

famous men have walked than along any
sidewalk in Pennsylvania. Politicians,
from Simon Cameron and Bob Mackay
down to Matthew Stanley Quay, and states
men from James Buchanan and Thaddeus
Stevens down to William A. Wallace, and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
HE KEYSTONE CAPITOL.
Progress II Has Witnessed in Its
Life of Seven Decades.
A BOARD WALK WITH A HISTORY.
The Founder Of Harrisburg and Its Most
Prominent Family.
POINTS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE PARK
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.i

HEIegislature OF
Pennsylvania will
assemble on Tues
day in the same
building where
Legislatures have
been meeting for
20 years. The
antiquated capitol
has housed some
very famous men
long since dead,
yet there is a pos
sibility of it con-
tinuing to stand
as the nursery for
statesmen of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
DWARFS OF AFRICA.
Observations of DR.. 0skar Lenz, of
/, the University of Prague.
AN OLD AND DEGENERATE RACE.
Probably the Same as the Pigmies Of
Strabo and Herodotus.
PECUL1ARIqIEs AND MODES OF LIFE
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. !

N the legends
of ancient peo-
pies, W b e re
myths which
r e / a t e to
beings of un-
natu raj size
and form SO
often occ ur,
we find that
sto es con-
cerningdwarfs
seem to have
b e Q n e s.
peel ally in
ia vor. The
classic litera-
ture ofGre ece
makes men,
ton of the
pi e m i e 8, a
race so small
that they are
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PRIMITIVE MANNER OF LIFE.

As being race Of hunters, these dwarfs
are not addicted. to agricultural pursuits.
Their settlements or villages are of the most
primitive description; they consist In ag-
glomerations Of small round huts, which
are readily taken to pieces and erected else
where. accordingly as the site chosen offers
more favorable opportunities for the chase.
As have said, they use small arrows or
darts tipped with q poison of vegetable
origin, the effect OF which is quick and
fatal. A man belonging to Stanley's expe-
dition, who was wounded by one of these
arrews, died in a few minutes.
So sum up, therefore, itappears indubita-
BILE that race of men OF smaller stature than
that of the great tribes to be found in Africa
inhabit the tropical regions of that vast con-
tinent; that these diminutive people belong
to degenerate f,imilv, exhibiting the most
primitive state OF culture, and tnat, while
indigenous TO the soil, they are to he found
scattered far and wide in small groups of a
lew hundreds each, like the gypsies Of
Europe, without fixed settlements and wan
dering about the thick, impenetrable forests
extending between the Congo river and the
Nile. The more recent observations Of
travellers fully confirm the fact that the an
clients were acquainted with this peculiar
race, and there Is reason to believe that the
pigmies of Strabo and Herodotus were the
same as the Batua and the Wambutu
DIR. OsKAR LINZ,
Professor Of Geography at the University Of
Prague, Bohemia
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cURIosITIEs FOR A KING.

At the residence of MInsa. the Monbattu
king, he found some individual samples Of
the Aka or TikkiTikki tribe, men of small
stature, who lived as hunters in the bush,
and some Of whom King Munsa kept as
curiosity at his court. Some time after the
Austrian traveller Marno and Ca plain Long,
the English explorer, who accompanied
him, discovered the same Aka people.
Traces of this dwarfsh race were also found
at Batalto, on the western coast of Africa,
Koelle, the missionary who lived at Sierra