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Boiling Fat Starts a Fire.

rlre occurred IN AhureW boehls Oake shop
at Al. West Ffty-third street at 40 this
morning. 1t was caused by pan OF fat boil
Ing "lr aud dii s+0o damage. The nre
scared the tenants Of The house, Olt the
prompt arrival OF the police and nrcnee pre-
vented paLic.
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The last race Of the day may go to Climax,
who looks to be the best OF the lot.
Firefly ought to be close second, and Spar
ling ought TO beat the others.
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First Race-Forest King, virgie.
Second Race-Houston, MONDAY.
Third Race--Badge, AutOcrat.
Fourth Race-GlCster, Donohue.
Fifth Race-knapsack, Alcalde.
Sixth Race--Firefly, Sparling.
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Morning Papers Selections.

First Race-virgie, Alliquippa-
Second Race-NOonday, ZenObia-
Third Race-Badgr, AutOcrat.
Fourth Race-GiOSter, Dcnohue.
Fifth Race-Dago, Marmont.
Sixth Race-CllmaX, Onaway.
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ce.-Purse, $500; selling allowances

DOnohue's race few days ago showed him
to be in good shape, and with good boy up
he ought to win.
Gloster may be the runner up and Cassella
NAV be third
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This race may 60 to Sir George, who will do
better at this distance than In tive-furlong
dashes, such as he was defeated In saturday.
AutOcrat may be second and Lowlander
trd
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This race looks good thing for Tom Hayes,
and at the distance he ought to have no di1i-
Guilty In winning.
Rock may NIL the place position and Mon-
day may be third.
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II Taylor rides Alma 7. she ought to win
very handily He Is the only boy who seems
able to ride her.
Knapsack may be the runner up and
Smuggler may be third.
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First Race-Fleurette, Alliquippa.
Second Race-Zenobia, Lucfe.
Third Race-Badge, Autocrat.
Fourth Race-The Sheriff, Gloster.
Fifth Race-Alcalde, Bon Voyage.
Sixth Race-FireIiy, Climax.
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WHATS The REASON I?
Mayor Grant Still Holds Up Lee
Phillips's Resignation
His Successor Named but the Ap.
pointment Was Recalled.
Tales OF Juggling with Police
Surgeonship Appointments.

Politicians in this city arc struggling with
problem the solution OF which has thus far
ba1led the most astute amongth The
Key to the puzzle will be found when It is
learned Just why the resignation OF Chief
Examiner Lee Phillips, OF the Ciyil.seryice
Board, is hung up by Mayor Grant after hav.
ing been demanded and rendered.
Mr.. Phillips's resignation was reported to
have been demanded by Mayor Grant within
twenty-four hours after his return to the city
Hall from his European trip. II was handed
promptly to the Mayor, couched in these
terms
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3 Gc }"i ~ dico!i'. cGE,lu3ing his head uf
'yhalnlter Ncrcross was placed In all ice- box
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THE MOSQUITO.
THE SUMMER PEST MINUTELY
EXAMINED.
It is the Feminine Mosquito That
Does Most of the Biting-A
Fearfully and Wonderful
1y Made Proboscfs.

sI stood on the bridge at midnight, ="
the anything but genial ''mosquito, :"
"musketo," "musquito," "musquetoe, !" "
"moschito, I" "moschetto, ""mosquetto, {"
"muschetto," ''mushetto," or 'mus-
quetto," sings on these cool, damp even
ings St. Louis has been enjoying during
the past week. For such very little pest
the''mosquito "has more names and in more
languages than any other living thing.
Scientists variously call her the cousin,
the culex pipiens, alex Americanus, the
moucheron, and the Cumming gnat. I"
The Century Dictionary describes the in
sect of many aliases as zone of many diff
ferent kinds Of gnats or midges, the fe-
male of which bites animals and draws
blood. Persons given to attribute to
the female sex all the gentleness and
amiability there is in the world will bear
this in mind.
Mr.. Mosquito is an easy-going, gor-
geously arrayed creature, with neither
the disposition Ior the ability to bite an
imals and draw blood. He is sort of
Turveydrop IN the insect world, VINO
seems to have no higher object during
his brief life than ''to show himself
about town." His life, to be sure, is
short one, but then it is full of incidence
and luxury. He is expected to pay GER
tain delicate attentions to his infnitesi.
NAL spouse, which she rewards when
tired of him by giving him a short,
sharp and fatal prod Of the remarkable
lance which she carries concealed in her
proboscis. He is not provided with such
weapon, and is as much at her mercy
as boxer at that of a skilled swordsman.
He is of gentle and perhaps amiable
character. He lives on strictly vege-
table diet, which may account for the
absence of the bloodthirsty and ferocious
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spirit of his spouse. She can, at pinch
lead the life of a vegetarian; but what
she wants is gore, piping hot gore, hu-
man, if she can get it, but never over
looking any change. The toughest hide
that ever covered horse or steer does
not intervene between the lady mosquito
and her vampirish thirst. It is even
doubted that Colonel Mosquito is given
to vocal efforts. If he ever does join
his consort in nerve-destroying duet he
sings very low and his performance is
entirely overlooked, when the restless
human appreciates the ease with which
my lady takes high G and holds it until
driven out of the room by the exaspe-
rated wielder of wet towel.
Less is known about the origin of the
mosquitoes name than of his habits, and
Americans have no monopoly of infor-
nation upon this latter phase of the sub
ject. All climates claim the mosquito as
pest in chief. On the uppor waters of
the Missouri mosquitoes, after rainy
season, are the greatest impediment to
navigation met with. They swarm by
millions. Cattle are driven in the river,
and they stand with their muzzles alone
held above the water, which are black
with the pests. Pilots on the boats are
forced to burn smudge fires. They are
of every conceivable degree of minute
ness, and no veil has fine enough texture
to exclude them. Arctic explorers all
write of suffering at the hands or rather
stings of mosquitoes.
In England mosquitoes are called
rnats, and on the Continent of Europe,
cousins, moucherons and other names.
The gnat belongs to the genus cutter. It
is found IN most of the temperate and
tropical portions of the globe where man
has penetrated. About thirty species are
known in the United States.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Systole Is the contraction of the heart.
The opposite term is diastole.
Liquid oxygen turns out to be blue.
Hitherto it has been described as colo1-
less.
In the city of Petersburg, Russia, it
begins to freeze at the end of October,
and general thaw rarely takes place be-
fore the beginning of April.
The French Society of Physiological
Psychology proposes to investigate the
phenomenon in which one imagines he
sees or hears an absent person.
A number of observations by two Ital-
ian microscopists justify the belief that
trees exert considerable influence in fl
tering out bacteria brought by the wind.
Sometimes spiders bite may be both
unpleasant and serious. An antidote
found efficacious is bruised plantain
leaves spread with cream and often re-
newed.
The last complaint of the great gun
ships is that their weapons often miss
fire, owing to the failure of the two-foot
long tube, containing the firing charge,
to carry the spark.
A layer OF compressed vegetable
parchment is being adopted by German
engineers as lining for bearings. The
parchment is impregnated with mineral
oil after frequent fabrication, and lasts
long time.
The new equatorial telescope recently
mounted in Paris has its tube bent at a
right angle and the image of the sky
formed by the object glass is reflected to
the eye of the observer. 1t is the largest
of its kind in the world, its optical pow
ers being very fine and the images OF the
planets remarkably distinct.
With the introduction of smokeless
powders for rapid.fre guns charges will
result in a decrease in the size of the
powder chamber and q Strengthening OF
the walls of the chase. Smokeless pow
der charges, even when smaller than
charges OF ordinary powders, give the
same chamber pressure, but higher press
ures all along the bore.
The base of celluloid is common pa
per; by action of sulphuric and nitric
acid it is changed to guncotton, then
dried, ground and mixed with from
twenty to forty per cent. of camphor,
! after which it is ground fine, colored
! with powder colors, cast in sheets,
pressed very hard aud at last baked be-
tween superheated rollers.
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low, stagnant fresh water usually being
selected. BY the additions made to the
number of eggs the raft is converted into
a sort of boat, and when the laying
process is all completed the boat con-
sists of from 800 to 400 eggs. This is
the first stage in the existence of the en-
bryo mosquito. After the last egg is
laid and the boat completed, the moth
err function, so far, at least, as regards
this particular brood, ends, and the eggs
are left to shift for themselves.
A few days after the egg boat is
LAUGHED the Larvae appear. These are of
an elongated, worm-like form, and come
out of the lower end of the eggs, leaving
the empty shells forming the boat lying
on the surface of the water. The shell
is soon destroyed by the action of winds
and water. When the Larvae appear the
eggs are hatched. Most country readers
of this article have seen these larye in
immense numbers On the surface OF stag
pant water during the warm months.
They are vulgarly called "wrigglers."
Suspended from the suface of the water,
with head downward, they are enabled
to breathe by means of sort of tube
communicating with the trachea. The
appearance of the larve may be said to
complete the second stage in the exist
ence of the mosquito. .u.. ,~.. 81
From ten to fifteen days after the ap-
pearance of the Larvae the pup@ state is
entered upon. They take on a thin skin
and roll around in the water, their mo-
tions being directed by fin-like contri-
vance at the end of the tail. The quick,
seemingly irregular movements of the
pupe give them the name of ''tumblers. !"
They, too, are familiar to persons resid-
ing in the rural districts in the spring and
summer. The change of the larv@ into
the pupe completes the third stage.
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In the human family the female is the
more ornamental as we'll as the more
amiable animal. In the insect world,
particularly among mosquitoes, the re-
verse is the case. There are mosquitoes
which continue their activities to the
daylight hours and lavish heir carresses
principally on the tender foliage of trees
and aromatic plants. These principally
iuhabit woods and marshes. The other
varieties make themselves heard and felt
during the night chiefly. The greater
portion of their active existence is passed
in or near human habitations. These
are the varieties with which man is most
intimately acquainted.
But in all the species of the mosquito
family the male apparently is the supe.
rior being. In grace and elegance OF
architectural construction, as we'll as iu
variety and gorgeousuess of raiment, the
male mosquito surpasses the female. The
male also enjoys privileges and preroga.
tives to which the female can never as
pire-certainly can never gain. The func-
ton which she performs in propagation
of the species compels her to consume
more food than he does, and all this food
she is obliged to get herself. In every
essential particular she has to make her
own and the famlly's living without
the slightest aid from him. Such food
as be requires for himself, which is nei-
ther large in quantity nor varied in quail
ity, he picks up. Beyond that he does
little except to display his charms and
enjoy life. 1t is the female of the mos
quito family with which the human spei
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said to have been produced: but on this,
latter point many etomologists throw
doubts. It is certain, as millions of VIC
tins will very feelingly testify, that the7
wounds are often painful and always de-,
cidedly unpleasant. The saliva injected
is believed to be slightly acrid. ThiaT
quality, aggravated with the action of
the barbed joint on one blade Of the
''sucker,'" as shown in the illustration,
causes irritation, which is sought to be
allayed by scratching, but which in real
ity makes the wound the more inflamed
and painful. ~
Unhappily, the mosquitoes ''sti ng" is~
not so irritating to the victim 3 flesh as
its "song" is to his nerves. Concerning
the manner in which this sound Is pro-A
duced the naturalist is almost as much In
the dark as the most ignorant and
thoughtless non.scientist. The ordinary
person, it is true, if questioned on the
subject, would unhesitatingly answer off
hand that it is made by the respiratory
organs, as the vocal music of man and
many of the lower animals is made.
The naturalist, however, would not
make this mistake. For whatever pro-
duces this sound, it appears tolerably
certain that it has mo necessary conneo-
ton with the breathing apparatus. Kir--
by, q well-known British entomoaoyist,
attributed it to the friction made by the:
base Of the wings against the chest in!
flying. Other raturalists, equally skilled
and observant, ascribe it to the rapid
motions of the winglets, the motions Of
the poisers, or the vibrations of tho
thorax caused by the contractions Of the,
muscles of the wings. The wings, in-
deed, move rapidly enough to produces
buzz of fairly robust and pronounced
character. One authority estimates
that they vibrate fifty times every sec-y
ond while flying. Let 100 or 200 Of
these songsters be flying at one time:
within dozen feet of a persons head,
and twice or thrice as many as that are
often flying within space smaller than
that in woods, beside brook, on inas
garden-and it would be wonderful It.
the air were not vocal with sound
Globe-D Democrat. ,.,tffE,
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Between five and ten days after the
pupe appear the last and most critical
stage in the entire metamorphosis OF the
egg into the perfect insect arrives.
About this period the pupa skin bursts
open, and the mosquito takes its first look
at daylight. The pupa she'll is in the
form of boat, the opening appearing on
the surface of the shell which is further
most from the water. The insects rises
slowly and deliberately until it at length
balances itself on its tail. A small gust
of wind now or slight eddy and the
shell boat would tip over, when the
mosquitoes active existence would end
before it began.
If the gust of wind or eddy fa'l TO ap-
pear-and it is certain that they often DO
fail to appear-the insect slowly extri-
Gates its front pair of legs and places
them on the surface of the water, still
clinging to its shell boat: Then it slowly
and deliberately spreads its wings. They
at first strike the water, but are raised
above it again, and the sun-tor these
affairs invariably take place on sunny
days-and air dry them. The hind legs
are then slowly drawn from the shell
until their ends rest on the edge of the
boat, the body is stretched out, and the
wings expanded. A moment afterward
the wings flap, the shell is tipped over,
the head is turned shoreward, and the
mosquito is ready for business.
Entomologists are by no means agreed
as to the number of pieces in the probos-
els, or. 'ssting," of the common mos
quito. This is the instrument which
punctures the flesh and serves as sort
OF introduction of the mosquito to the
human family. Some authorities declare
that it has four pieces, Others aver that
it has six, while still Others assert that
it has but five. The average layman
would be unwilling to place the number
below twenty. The proboscis is tubular
in form. The lances attached to 1t,
whatever their number may be. are
sharper than any instrument known to
the surgeon. 1t is not the size or depth
of the wound inflicted which makes the
mosquitoes ''sting" so painful. but rather
the secretion which is injected under the
skin By the proboscls. This always pro-
duces itching.
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Mute Pianos.

Some patient grubber, after obscure
statistics, furnishes the following re-
markable figures. He says that there are
]. 200, 900 pianos in the United States,
every one of which was made III TINS
country excepting 1000, that were I'M
ported; that there are 25o,ooo pianos
sold to households in which there is no
one to play them, and that they, there,
fore, remain dumb and unopened
throughout the year. He Furthermore
states that there are 100, 900 parlors in
the United States where the furniture ls
never uncovered because no company u
entertained. The parlor is simply kept
as an adjunct of well-furnished house.
and not for occupancy or use.--Ne1 W.
han8 Times Democrat.
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HAPPINESS is the result OF content
nsent. He who has the most desires
which be is unable to crafty is most
wretohed- Yet desire leads to achieve
nent. and unrest; though it be the syn
onym of unhappiness, it is naturally the
incentive OF every good effort. Every
noble work has grown out of a morbid
di,content. He who has no desire
seeks no fulflment, has no aspirations,
is content simply to exist in a mobile
state. It seems that unrest is virtue
which should not be disparaged. It is
dissatisfaction with realities that sets
US to forming ideals, and working to
attain them. The most unhappy lives
have been those which have been Lived
to the greatest purposes.
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cies comes in most intimate contact. The
female does by far the greater portion of
the biting done by the family, and the
warblings of the mosquito are those of
the female mosquito alone.
The mosquito first appearsin in the form
of an egg. The eggs are deposited in
the water by the mother mosquito.
Before doing this she crosses her hind
legs in the shape of letter z. As the
eggs are dropped they are caught by the
crossed legs, the glutinous substance at
taching to the eggs and holding them
together. The number of eggs laid by
one female before rising is very great.
These eggs are arranged in the form of
raft and left to ride on the water, shall
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SPRING..
By FLORENCE JOSEPHINE BoYcA

The springtime is coming,
The wild bee is humming,
The brown earth is spotted with green;
The robins are singing,
The warm breezes linginS
Sweet odors the mountains between.
The willows are dipping
And ncdding and dripping,
Along where the water cress grows;
Bright sunbeanns are glancinG,
Sweet wild flowers entrancing,
On banks where the emountain-stream hows
The crocus is creeping,
And cautiously peepinG,
To learn If the weather is cold;
The aaffodil, signing,
IB every way trying
To peep its head up thro' the mold
The fern and sweet clover
Think best to wait over
TIL lilies and roses appear;
When skies will be clearer,
And summer songs nearer.
They promise again to be here.
WAITsF1ELD, VI.
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NOSA<N' I.
on the Princes Left is the Present Emperor
Of China.l t.E'f
little child. The Emperor is never seen
by barbarian eyes, although it is said
that he has very observant and inteli-,
gent interest concerning the ways OF
foreigners. He lives in the Kin Ching
or Prohibited City which is situated
right in the centre of the Tartar City Of
Pekin. This inner city is sacred gronnds
and it is death for any foreigner to set
foot on it. .-.s y,
Very little is known of the Emperor'sf
personality. He is enveloped In mystery
and hedged about with divinity. he
eats alone, and only of eight sacred
dishes. Divine honors are paid him by
his family and courtiers. When they
enter his presence they fall proshate,
strike their heads repeated upon the
floor and crawl TO the foot of the throne
on their stomachs. This ceremony Is
called o-Taou.-Post- Dispatch. !, -
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Ain it's sheath. B-Haf torn off to show
sheath, C-Sucker developed to show parts,
D-Barbed point OF one blade OF sucker.
There is no unanimity among scientists
regarding the question of poison in the
mosquitoes "sting." No poison gland
has vet been found in the head of any of
shese insects which have been examined.
The wounds have been known to swell
and become infaaed in many cases. In
some delicate skins, indeed, ulcers are
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What is thought to be the tallest CEN
tury plant in America fourishes at Or
lapdo. Fla. It has reached the height
of twenty-eight and quarter feet, and
has begun to put out the side stems On
which the flower will appear.
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Philadelphia has ordered a new town
clock, with dial twenty-five feet in d.
ameter and a bell weighing 25,0Oo
pounds, which is to ring chimes at the
hours and quarters, so that 1t can ps
heard all over the city.
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"HAY FEvER," said the Moderator, a'
the Influenza Convention, may b
Gkened to q tie vote Hear, hearT
cried the audience. sThe eyes and
nose both appear t ha ye it,
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The "SOlitary Man.

Here is a picture of the "son Of
Heaven" the "solitary Man." known d,
the outside barbarians as the Emperor of
China, as he appeared years ago when o.
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CHAPTER XXXlX.

It was q long distance from Burton
street, West End, to Gresham street,
Holborn, but Jasper was in the thought
ful, melancholy mood that is oftentimet
incentive to q long and lonely ramble.
On and on through the silent deserted
Wilderness of streets, he kept the eve1
tenor Of his way, with nothing but the
hollow echoing of his own footsteps te
break the stiffness Of the dark hours pre-.
oeding the sunmer dawn, and wholly un.
conscious of being doggea and shadowee
with evil intent.
Yet, none the less was he being tracked
After his summary election from the
Crystal Palace gardens, Wormer had per
sistently lain in wait for his m srked man.
and from hat moment had lost no oppor
sunity OF perslstently dogging his foot.
steps; and he was noiselessly following
him now, in company with such rufiani
Ss he had suborned to his purposes.
He it was who had seen, with revenge
full satisfaction, the drunkard Rolling.
stone fall deadi n the street, and who hac
subsequently given the policemen the
information upon which they had acted
He it was, with his attendant minions:
Who was now following Jasper silently.
surely, with personal hatred, as well az
the desire for gain. to stimulate the fell
pursuit, and greedily studying every devi
stion Of the intended victims course,
every swerve ip the direction or th
poorer and more contracted localities.
which would be AFT to afford him the
requisite security and advantage foi
which he longed. -.
Jasper was but little familiar with
Jonoon thoueh he had Q pretty good
general idea Of the direction he should
pursue. At last, after he had left the
ultra fashionAble quarter considerable
distance behind, he turned into q com
parat yelv narrow and dingy street. both
sides Of which seemed to be occupied
by shops of respectable but unpretsn-
tious sv.e x. . -,
street. lamp. ana was proceeding leisure.
", with h,s head 81 Chilly lowered, be
was surprised by receiving light touch
ON the forehead. as if caused By hano
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4 family in Newport has Chinese ser..
wants dressed In native costume.
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Mosouito-"This is what I call hard
luck. i have bored through this in seven-'
teen places, and there isn't man inslda
after all."-Puck.