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TRIUMpHAL ARCH AND PERsTYLE, COURT Of HONOR.

twenty four inches in length. Boom
erang or kyle throwing used to be one
of the most interesting entertainments
provided English ana Amen an tour
lists. Owing to Its peculiar form, the
boomerang when thrown strikes the
object at which it is med, then cir.
cles and returns and falls at the feet
of the thrower, or behind him. This
is merely as it is ordinarily used, The
artist can use it with a skill that sur
passes that of the tyro as much as the
crack shot of rifle corps surpasses
the feats of militia marksman. Sew
eral exhibitions were given in honor
of Lady Broome and The governor,
which were described as something
almost beyond belief The boomeran |.
was thrown into the air with such
force that it disappeared for few
seconds, then reappeared, circling, de-
scending; posing and rising and again
descending until it dropped upon the
ground in front of the "boy" who had
thrown il.
The portraits Of natives which have
been sent with the collection by the
chronological societies Of Australia are
most interesting. They give one an
impression of the aborigines before
they were vitiated and enfeebled by
their admixture wi the white race,
as seems always to occur. They were
of immense height. six feet and half
being n common stature. md eight feet
being not unusual. They were mus
cular not fat-.erect and physically
powerful but treacherous and cruel.
Cannibalism on o ,casion was practiced,
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Phillips and Mr.. c. ii. Olmstead. The
machines tested, the Deering Pony
binder and the Deering Ideal mower,
were remarkable because embodying
the ball and roller bearings, such as
are used in bicycles and bicycle su,k-
les. Twelve tests were made on each
machine with a registered Osterheld &
Eickmeyer dynamometer, each repre-
senting the draft involved in cutting
a . foot swath. 100 feet in length, in
twenty TO twenty seconds of time
The six cutting tests with the binder
showed an average of only 2ys pounds
of draft. Six tests followed in which
the machine was run in gear over the
tops of the stubble just cut. This
test, which is known as rolling
draft, show ed an average draft
Ct 207 pounds. The Deering
Ideal mower, a new machine
also fitted with the bicycle bearings,
showed cutting draft in heavy grass
averaging only la6 pounds, and a
rolling draft of only 92 pounds. The
remarkably low draft-about half the
draft of ordinary machines-shown by
these figures for both machines was
carefully noted by the astonished
visitors as demonstrating the practi-
cability of the bicycle bearings. The
same Pony binder drawn by two light
mules cut an acre Of wheat in ~ .
minutes.
PAPER TwINE USED.
A notable feature of the binder test
was the use on the Pony binder of the
Deering paper Irvine, made from a
wood fiber This Irvine, patented by
William Deering x Co., bids fair to
prove Waterloo to the Irvine trust,
as it is said that il can be made and
sold at prices considerably below
those now paid for the hemp and
sal fibers
At the close of these tests the com
missioners, together with a party OF
spectator, were rendered good. sub
stantial prairie chicken dinner by Mr..
Larimore. Toasts followed. Gov.
Shortridge, Mavor Phillips and Rev.
J. ii. Kelley delivered eloquent ad.
Dire SEES of welcome. Appropriate re.
sponses were made by ID. NJ. Deperalta
of Costa Rica, Mr.. GrinevslSy. the assist
ant Russian commissioner, Don AL
berto Gomez Ruano of Uruguay, Mr..
Harry Vincent of Costa RIGA and Judge
Atwater. Mr.. Larimore also spoke.
He said that by using the best meth
DDS and mac hinery he had reduced the
cost of raising and marketing wheat
to between 81. 50 and $500 an acre.
MR. APPLEBY SURPRISES THE COMM IS
SIoNERs.
Mr.. John f. Appleby, the inventor
Of the Appleby Irvine binder, whose
presence was surprise TO the COM
missioners, told the history of his
early struggles and the final universal
adoption of his invention. He paid a
glowing tribute to Mr.. William Deer
ing, to whose enterprise he said the
world was indebted for the intr ,duc-
ton and general adoption Of the ma.
chine. said he: ''In 1879, when the
Deering company made seventy-five
of these binders, people smiled know.
ingly and predicted failure. The next
year when Mr.. Deering made 5000 OF
the machines. the manufacturers of
the old reaper and the wire binder
said he was crazy. III he was crazy
all the manufac turers of harvesting
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edgewise toward him. He even shoots
the ashes from his fathers cigar.
TWO IRISH MISERS.
How They Both Overreached Themselves
by Their Selfish Cunning.


An old miser lived in C)nnaught
and seemed to be an utterly forlorn
creature. without ''chick or child" be-
longing to him. 1t was rather fortu-
nate for the ne n-cxistent chick that
such was its state, for il it had had an
existence it would surely have lacked
the means to support it. This old
miser was SO mean that he denied him
self bread, and only kept his misera BILE
life in its tenement by gifts of food
from charitable neighbors.
But he was known to have plenty OF
money hidden away in his wretched
shanty, and the neighbors at last got
tired of giving to one so unworthy.
For some DAYS no one went near the
old man, and the cabin stood desolate.
No one was seen to go in or out, and
at last the constable determined to
take the obstina' old crt AZURE to Jail
The door was broken open and the old
miser was found dead. In his wretch
edly starved condition. and frantic at
the thought of leaving his loved
money behind him, he had died trying
to swallow some of his own banknotes.
Pieces of them were clutched in his
hands and pieces of them in h S throat
ha choked what little breath re-
manned in his body
The other miser displayed an equal
amount OF cunning, yet was over
reached as comp etely This second
old miser was blind. and lived with a
haifwitted son. near the seashore.
Together they managed to do a little
work, which supported them. But
everybody knew the old man had a
"bag of money slowed away on which
| he could have lived if he wished.
What to do with this bag Of money
| tr ubled the old IN an greatly. lie wa
growing feeble, and felt he had I
| long to live. He resolved to take tn
bag out and drop it into the sea,
where no one but the fishes would
ever have chance to benefit by L..
But his son had sense enough tp sus-
pcct what the old man was trying to
do. and determined to outwit him.
The old man, W tn the money hid
den under his coat, as Scd the son to
row him out 10 sea. 80 they started,
but the son took care To keep OF w in
the shallow water by the shore.
"Are we far out now?" asked the
old man.
"Oh yes, father" answered the | oy.
"Sure there's water far about u.s."
] So the old blind miser, with n sly
smile, drop cd his bag of money over
board, and the son, reaching out his
hand, had nothing TO do but to lift !,
ont Of the shallow water, and carry /,
home under his own coat. And this
old miser died peacefully in his bed
content that his artful scheme had
been such success!
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A FAMOUS TOUR.
FOREIGN COMMITS IONERS VISIT
THE GREAT FARMS AT
LARiMORE.
they Soc Forty-Five Deerlng self-Bind-
ers, Manned by $50 Men, Moving In
the Same Direction ut the Same
Time.

Forty-five Deering Irvine binders,
forming n procession half mile in
length and steadily moving through
waving sea of wheat-such was the
sight that greeted the foreign commits
sioners TO the Worlds Fair during
theirrecent famous visit to the bonanza
far ms of North Dakota. This impos-
ing spectacle was witnessed on the
great Elk Valley farm at Larimore, n.
d., farm comprising $1,000 acres or
nearly nineteen square miles, 10000
acres OF which formed one unbroken,
f,nceless field of wheat To witness
this sight the distinguished spectators,
comprising fifty foreign diplomats,
Worlds Fair commissioners and
representatives of the foreign
press, together with an equal
number of Am ricans eminent in
Worlds Fair, railroad and commercial
circles, had undertaken the discom-
forts of thousand mile journey from
Chicago: and the EXPLANATIONS of de-
light and surprise, and the cries of
bravo" that rang out ON the air
showed that their expect tions were
vastly more than realized. From st. !
Paul through Minnesota and North !,
Dakota they travelled as guests of the !
UrcaI NOTtlern railroad, ana the I
farther north they travelled the
warmer and more cordial was their re-
ception. Here at Larimore they
found the climax of interest and the
height of hospitality. They were
met at their train aud escorted to ar
riages by what seemed to be the whole
population of the little city of Lari-
m, re, headed by o. II. Phillips, the
mayor, Gov. Shortridge and N. q.
Larimore, the proprietor of the great
farm which they were to see. Silently,
and almost breattlessly at first, they
viewed the mighty thalanx of ma
chimes; then quickly alighting from
their conveyances they followed the
machines on foot, eagerly peering
into their mechanism, as if bent on
finding the Sc ret of their perfect, au-
10 "a tic, almost roiseless action. For
IN hour or more they followed the ma
chimes, asking innumerab BILE questions
If Mr. Larimore and his sons, when
heir attention was called 10 scientific
ests of draft that were being made
lnder the supervision of Mayor o. Ii.
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pressed for his reason he said: I an,
afraid will kill you; have such a
desire to throw my spear at your
back. but the rancbman kept an eye
on him for the remainder of the jour
ney."
On another occasion Lady Broome
found a particularly amiable man
among the prisoners upon tho island
opposite Perth, where convicts in that
part Of the continent are sent he
was especially efficient when his serv-
ices were required by the sport men of
the party, among whom his good
nature made him favorite. When
she nlur into the natu.e OF his
offense, she found that he had
killed n woman who was quarreling
with his wife. "But did not mean to
do it," he said. 81 only meant to wound
her. ] aimed it at her leg, and the
spear glanced and struck her in the
throat" an explanation that was re.
ceived with some incredulity.
The boomerangs are thin pieces of
wood some of them worn and pol
ished from long use. They are used
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more than one story high, and an
painted various colors-blue, greeL
brown or red; where the marrow
streets have sidewalks only three fed
wide, and where nobody is ever in
hurry; and to remember, as one walls
over the town, that those streets wer
once trodden by Pizarro. who gathers
there the first money tina enabledhin
to start on the expedition that con
quered Peru; BY Cortez, the conquera
of Mexico; by Ponce DE- Leon, who Dir
covered Florida; oy balboa. the hrs'
European who saw the Pacific ocear
by Ojeda. who discovered Nenezuei
and by Columbus himself and BIS
brother and his son and the compsr
'ons of his voyages. October St Men
olaS
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A BUSHMAN.

A BUSHMAN.
arranged in fan. shaped pattern IpoI
Me walls, and beneath them are
grouped specimens of that unique
weapon, the boomerang. With these
implements Of war there are num-
Der OF striking portraits, giving one a
very comprehensive idea OF the aborigi-
mes, Some Of the spears are ten feet
in length. They are made of the hard
woods of that country, of which there
are many varieties. The natives ideal
Of deadliness-and not without rca son
was the teeth of a shark. The spears,
in conformity to this idea, have fiat
tened heads, along which have been
srrd nged two rows If pointed spikes,
rs nearly resembling sharks teeth as
possible.
The spikes are glued TO the wood
with tenacious gum obtained from a
tree called "black boy" The tree
has q short. rough ,s-,u5, with a clus-
ter OF fern-like leaves 1t the top, from
the center of which springs a peculiar
blossom spike. The gum of the black
boy is used by the aborigines for
many purposes, or was formerly, be-
fore the forests were so wantonly de.
stroyed in clearing the land To- sheep
stations. The skill OF the people in
thi owing these spears, skill which
the women acquired as well as the
men, was almost phenomenal And
,hey use them ind discriminatory, upon
an impulse, without moments warn
ing. Lady Broome, hose husband
was governor of West Australia some
years ago, relates two Characteristic
in idents.
~ ranchman who had been extreme
~ kind to the natives was walking
along trail with several armed ma
tiyes following him. One OF them was
. powerful fellow, an expert in throw
ing his srear, and he came immediate
w behind he Englishman Suddenly
he asked permission to wa X in front,
and when IL was given ard he was
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leogth a. d weighed twenty pounds

leogth ard weighed twenty pounds
The white people, OF course, do not
eat them, but the natives declare that
the flesh resembles that of chicken.
As these portraits sufficiently prove.
the aborigines have bushy, black
hair, dark skin and eyes. and the
thick noses and lips of the negroid
races, peculiarities that are common
to most of the natives of New Zealand,
and of all the South Sea islands rs
well.
The presiding genius of the exhibit
is the hangar o-that chief of mar.
supials of continent where even the
mice are constructed upon the most
a. cient surviving plan OF animal life
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-10-14
The Lady Hug.

Sor time since the state boarl of
horticulture of California imported
some Australian lady bugs with the
design of pitting them against the
blask scale b &, viii h has been Great
ing great havoc in the orchards in the
southern part of the state for years
The board announced last week that
the lady bug has proved perfect sue
cess in its work of exterminating the
black scale bug and colonies will be
sent out to orchardists, who will turn
them loose on the common enemy.
The board is also cultivating a colony
OF the red scale parasite for the same
purpose and expects good results.
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Queen of Tyre.

Dido, Queen of Tyre, about seven
centuries before Christ, after her hus-
band had been put to death bv her
brother, fled rom that city and estab-
lished colony on the north coast Of
Africa. Having bargained with the
natives for as much land as could be
surrounded by bulls hide, she cut
the hide into narrow strips, tied them
togethe and claimed the land that
could be surrounded by the line thus
made. She was allowed to have her
way. And now when one plays II
sharp trick he is said to ''cut a dido"
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their shoulders. In CLARENCE Z. LONG.
five shots at the main target at zoo
wards he hit four times. Master Clar-
ence, who Sc father is Conductor John f.
Long Of the Monon road, living at
Lafayette, Ind, began to develop his
talent with q rifle about a year ago,
learning it from his father, who is a
crack shot. At short-range gallery
shooting he has no equal for his age.
He INDUCES in fancy shooting of all
kinds, such as nipping small disks
from his fathers ting ers, lighting par
Tor matches and cutting cards held
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CoIiseum Of Rome.

According to expert calculations Inc
Coliseum Of Rome seated $1,000 specns
ors. while $4,000 more c3ud nave
found standing room. The exte' na !!
circumference of the Coliseum as Y
stands o.day is l,72S feet Us iOD!
diameter is bl5 feet, its short diamem
$40 feet. The arena is 279 by 2so Zee.
and the height OF the building l1oieeI,
There is still stand ng four stores y
the original structure. II was ID ~
proba bilitv, the largest building y
auditorium ARRANGEMENT ever KNOW
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SANTo DOMINICA
The Oldest City on the Am.,,.
tinent Founded nv

The Oldest City on the Am.,,.
tinent Founded by Euro,.. 0's
santo Domingo is the Ola.
built by Europeans now stanS St city
the western Hemisphere lung II
founded by the brother OF CIV wa
and is said by some TO h v.amouS
named after their father NJ oeea
and by others to have recs; menlco
name because it was on SUNDAY sunday q, ~
the ship sent from the north LAY a INA!
there-Santo Domingo meaninS .r ~
sunday" Curiously enouaS nCly
founding was the result of a ~
On the northern shore of HisnIs Quarrel
as the is and of Santo Domipaa'oa
then called, was Isabella ths 0wn
Spanish colony in the new S vd n,s
There, one day. a young Span.s,
named Miguel Diaz, one of The f oIlsNd
ers of Columbus, stabbed comnaa,'
in fight; and, afraid Of the apss s'oa
Columbus, he fed into the morn,. "
and went toward the. south sMl
wandering TO-. some DAYS, he cam.
Il river, and following it to whsr. y
emptied into the sea, found tribe :,
Indians called the Ozamas. Thew Nv
heard of the wonderful white man NV n.y.
had landed on their ISL nd nd thsv :.
ceived him with awe, but with Ina
ness and h spitaliiy, and took him ~
fore their gu en-. Zameaca. who ~.
famous for her beauty and gentlen...
lie had not liv.d long with th.s
when Zameaca lost her heart 70 n
fair faced Spaniard, and they Wa.
married. For a time oil went wall
but Diaz soon tired Of the simple las
and his wife. to please him. told him
of gold to be found in the river Javn,
and guided him to it. Diaz tb.,
went back in haste to Isabella, know.
ing that the news of the discover
would secure his pardon-as 1t dii
lie guided his avaricious companiou,
to the golden STRAIN, and afterwari
to the mouth Of the Ozama river
There Columbus chose the place ior
the town. 1t was begun in 1896, and
it was called Santo Domingo.
The Spaniards lll-treated and mad,
slaves of the simple Indians, and q.
meaca seeing the evils she had brougb,
upon her people, fed to the mount in,
and was never heard of afterward. III,
new city grew and pros until til,
year ljO?, waen it was entirely de.
stroyed by frightful hurricane, and
wa, rebuilt on the other bank OF til,
river. There it stands TO day, no,
much Changed from the Salto Do
mingo Of four centuries ago
1t is very curious TO go rom one o.
our cities, with its new, bright, tall
buildings and its broad streets aliv,
with the hum and hustle of business
to this sleepy old Spanish town
where ION account of the earth
quakes, the houses are rarely
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-10-14
sp,ed of water Wheels Varies

A German scientific weekly p'opO's..
the riddle: "Do water wheeis w.
faster at night than in the daytm' !,
and why" Correspondents grew Y
round this subject multiplied reason .s,J
upset them, dis orted them, res' N.;e,
them and finally brought the quesSs \.
into so much prominence ina.
came ingrafted into the columns r %
French rival across the border. @
the process began again. Az ias' s so
one asks; why not look al D "'
" heel and see if il is true"
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Rotary Pine Driver.

a contractor sinking ten IN
driven well at Dover. Del, 10, ,.r
upon tie plan Of substituting nis
motion for the direct blow Oh 'se ,,sr 4
driver in sinking his pipes h ioa
pipe had been driven more tDao osNe,
feet by the pile driver tne ~
method was applied and the PIP uutes
sunk three feet in twenty The
The contractor is going to pa.en, n
invention il nobody has anticipa"'
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the belize .::::::=>..::=.r. - among other
savage races, that in eating the flesh
of n valiant enemy his courage and en-
durance were transmitted 10 the eater.
Men were killed and eaten during a
certain religious rite which was kept
profoundly secret, and upon the eve of
battle where the forces were equally
matched and the result a matter of
doubt
The favoritc food OF the natives, with
the Il nit OF the bunya- bunya tree and
other fruits. was the iguana. Troll
lopc describes it as "a lizard with n
huge body and very fat tail" He
saw one shot which was five feet in
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-10-14
walnut Timber.

There is steady demand 10. scourius
timber and purchasers are .sarch d
the Atlantic coast region ~ M coaipk
large trees. While metaito under
usually called caskets by .ne coairs
takers, have displaced walnut sunsnlied q
the wood is Increasingly sPirarce Il
other uses. The trees are ,0sny N
most parts Of the east anu and ssS'
jcalously guarded against "a
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away one OF the
Colu m b ian Q o u
venir medals on
the fourte c n I b
shot, and in seven
ty-fve shots did
not make a sing Q
mss or zero score.
The crowd was
enthusias ic in ad-
miration for his
pluck and skill,
and carried him
of the field on
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81. Chr,..opbcr.s Richest Man

The richest man in the isianIp II
Christie her, an island OF the p who
West Indies, is Joaquin araMr,nouess
went there a barefooted u rsiue
boy of 10 years and began w Is s.
for q shilling day. Now oa NJ vorti
years old and owns Sl,OoV'Oyr, e said
of real estate in the island. ,nrite
that he can neither -ead nor VIZ"
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HANDY WITH THE GUN.

Gently Distinguished Himself
A feature of the recent Columbian
prize shooting tourney at West Pull
man, H., was the performance OF
Master Clarence +. Long, the young
est sharpshooter in the world. He is
10 years old and weighs sixty-five
pounds He subsequently carried
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stephen Langton, archbishop of
first divided the bible into
chapters and verses, this about the
close of the twelfth century.
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IT is reported that over 900, 900 olive
trees have already been planted I'm the
vicinity o. Pomona, Cal. Olive growing
is increasing with great rapidity.
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and ir IN; cloth made from the fiber of
Plants-and a little later in the list OF
progress from wool and silk. There
are the clumsy weapons preceding the
nvention of gunpowder by many
aEeS not SO swift and sure, bat still
capable of inflicting wounds and death
IN the hands of a savage enemy.
The S meness OF invention and deco
ntion impress me strongly: the rude
hgures, the more satisfactory attempts
nj Observation-Disclosures are strikinglv
alike, whether it be the Egyptian, the
product of the Nile basin-w which
Draper terms the real cradle OF civili-
ntion-or his brother the Estec on the
eppo tie side OF the globe. OF course.
this similarity is apparent only TO the
unframed eye; the student sees
thousand differences, all of weight
and import, establishing his theories
BY indisputable proofs.
There are the arrows and spears and
war clubs of countless tribes-of Amer
ican Indians, of Asiatic and African,
South Sea Islanders and the people of
the arctic zone. They mean not only
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ANTIpODEAN RELICS.
AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS IN AN
PSYCHOLOGICAL BUILDING.
An Interesting Part OF the Great Worlds
Opposition which Is Now Getting Ia
Portion OF Misunderstanding the
Boomerang.
World s Fair Lstterl

ii + ID + L A r T.
ment of anthro-
pology and eth
mol gy is bewilder-
ing in its vastness
AMI the infinite
variety of its tx
hibits. Here one
may stud Y tn G
crude beginning Of
human ind ustry-
the plements
roughly wrought
in stone and flint