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run TO an extreme. Some animals were
never intended TO lie turned into furniture;
and the giraffe is certainly one of these.
Still. one Gf the most expensive, ugliest and
most uncomfortable chairs ever constructed
iSmade out of a giraffe. 1t belongs to Mr..
j. Gardiner Mair, by whom the animal was
shot. Evidently Mr.. Muir did not mean To
cleft, even if he had no bear.
From the argus pheasant some beautiful
fjre-sCreeus have been designed. The first
wasma de for the Countess Mayo from bird
SHOT by the late Earl of Singapore. two
weeks before he was assasnated. few
very exquisite Iire-screens nave been made
from peacocks, and they are by far the
most gorgeous, but owing to the supersti-
stitton thet peacock feathers bring badluck,
!tishardly likely that they willeyer become
popular.
RirG lamps, too, are becoming fastiona BILE.
A very handsome and extremely expensive
one is made out OF the black swan. The
bird is stuffed and placed in the position
n which il swiins. The neck is curved bacl.
until the head reaches the center of the
back. and in the bill is held the stem Of
the lamp. This is mounted on a heavy
mirror. The ostrich and the emu are
They are stuffed and mounted on n stand
with rollers, and the bird carries the lamn
on the middle of it's back.
There is in the possession Of Sir Robert
Harvey d horn hat-stand designed by Sir
Edwin LandseeT. 1t is constructed from the
horns of stays shotin Inverlnark Forest by
Sir Robert and his sfatler. A large numberof
hat-stands have been made from Land
seer's design, the original of which he
made fv his own home; but Sir Robert
lIaryay's has the dintinction OF being the
largest aud having the finest set of horns
in England
Among the most valuable big game
trophies now in existence is one composed
Of the head and shoulders Of 4 pair OF Amer
lean Bison, which were shot by Landseer
and arranged to form an ornament for his
study wall These and an otter chair Were
the favorite trophies Of the great painter
But the East Indian 'Iuan-eater" is the
treasure Of treasures. The sportsman W no
brings that home in his game bag has made
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his rel utation beyond all peradventure,
and viii always have an adrniring audi
ence for his sporting yarns. There seems
to lie no limit TO the number OF useful
and ornamental ways in which this beast
may he disposed Of. A tiger-skin rug VIII
always bring good price; and If the skin
happens to be NANCY or discolored, the
head can be mounted az foot-stooI and
the claws can be polished and made into
articles of jewelry. One of the most strlI
ing OF all articles of animal furniture has
just teen prepared by London firm for
an Indian prince-a huge easy-chair made
from the skin of d an-eater. The seat,
back ami arms are COY cred with the skin,
and the head and fort-paws appear over
the back So realistic Is the crawling at.
titude OF the beast, as it appears TO be
coming over the back of the chair, that at
first glance IL is startling.
Il elephants foot seems at first sight
to be about the least useful and most
hopeleSSly monumental thing on earth
but a clever taXidermist has his upon Il
plan for making it into an artistic piece OF
furniture The larger feet are carefully
stuffed and piounted as liqueur stands
the covers being made of undressed ALI
gator skin They are lined with either
crushed satin or plush, The smaller feet
are made into fOotstools and door-stops
ana Some into cigar and tobacco boxes
1nnnmerable funny things have been done
with the smaller varieties of monkeys
They manage to took absurd in almost any
position In which they are placed. Moth
ing could look more grotesque than a tiny
ape placed at either cad OF a mantle hold
ing pair Of lighted candles for couple o E
thesefunnylittlea animals chasing each other
up the stem of a lamp; but since they have
become thesaves of fashioa, these are their
ordinary duties.
Even the cumbersome elephant hmnbIy
The times., 1897-11-21
THE PHENOMENAL BOOK.
BY j. E.RANKIN, D. D., Ii. D.
TI-Things In the Bible to Be Ac-
counted For.

ITI-Things In the Bible to Be Ac-
counted For.
For SOME purposes it would be enough
10 say OF the Bible: Here it is, account
for it But let us be little more snacific.
What features OF the Bible as a book,
what characteristics, need accounting for?
In his treaties on the Had and the Odyssey.
Gladstone says: The poems of Homer donot
constitute merely grtatiteni of thesplendid
literature OF Greece, but they have !.
separate position to which none can ap-
preach. They and the manners they de.
scribe constitute a world of their own,
and are severed by al sea of time. whose
breadth has hot certainly been measured
from The firmly-set CONTINENT of recorded
tradition and continuous. fact. In this sen
they lie as great island.s
How much more unique and distinct froia
all other Hebrew literature, from all other
literature OF the world, is the literature OF
the Bible; while instead af4being an sIa nd
il is a continent; and instead Of being the
record Of a single period of coutempora
neous life, il begins wittSthe first things
and eiiS with the last things which concaln
man and the world he inhabits; the most
daring enterprise OF autlsORhip ever under =
taken. Es
ihe simplest statetnene Of what s 10 be
accounted f1r in the literafure of the Bible
C npered with what has ever been accom-.
phslied by any single ilIind ever raised ,.p,
or any constellation of master minds ever
grouped together in the worlds hiatory
is enough TO distinguish the Bible as the
most rcfnarkdbleo OF bnoks Bring together
Homer Virgil, Alilton, Shakespeare and
Schiller as poets; Herodotus, Livy, Keno
The times., 1897-11-21
Why "fn .Ieu2"
lFrom ID New York Times.

tFrom the New York Times)
There is dispute among those in search
OF copy concerning ne antiquity OF the verb
''to iell'' Is it or is it not an Americanism?
WHY" asks a woman, should / say
snat my iely does or does not jell any more
than / shcnld say that my custard does or
does not Cus?'' This verb Ito jeH'' is
fodnd in widely distant States, and We find
no trace Of it in English dialect die
tiOnaries As matter of fact, the only
definition Of jelly given in Ba1ey's die
tionary lT3s) is BROTH which having
stood till it is cold, grows into thick
ronsiSuence.
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By MANS patient study. this, if man made
the book, is one OF the most unaccpuntable
things in it. This, if God made the book,
shows how much wiser he is than man.
believe that il God We're giving a Reve-
iation today it would be silent as to the
great mysteries Of creation. 1t would
be just such a book as we have
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size Didn't Understand.
CFrom Brooklyn Life.


Shc- I received this paper from yru this
u.oi ninG. What does it mean?
BauS officer 1t means, madam, that zen
haze oyeT,lrawn your account You owe
rs S54-32.
Size You mean, horrd thing, it's :.ot
true Why l never borrowed a cent tom
Fou ia my life.
The times., 1897-11-21
The Newspaper and Its Friend.


Mildred reads the Maria ges''-
Her interest in them never fails
Father reads the Politics"
And mother reads the Bargain SaIes.E
Arthur reads the Sporting News
His special hobby is baseball
Save the man who reads the proofs,
No one living reads it all
Bridget reads the small al. page
Looking for a better place.
a gues reads the murders, and the
Tales of tfnu ia deep disgrace.
Ethel reads the list OF guests
AT the big Van Astor ball
Save the man who reads the proofs
No one living reads it all.
Forty pages every week,
Eight long columns To the pageu
To read everything would add
a full twelvemonth To your age
So each reads his special part,
Then he let's the paper fall
Pity for him who reads the proGfs.
For he has to read it al.
-Somerville Journal,
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CURRENT VERSE.
.syyhite Horses" !"


Where run your cults at pasture7
Where hide your mares u breed?
Mid beTgs against the ICe-cap
or wove SargOssa weed;
by IghtleSs reef and channel,
Or crafty Coastwise bars,
Bat most the deep-sea meadows
All purple To the stars
Who holds the rein upon you?
The latest gale let free.
What meat is in your managers?
The gluU of all the sea.
'TwiXt tide and tides returning
Great store of ly-Gead-
The bones OF those that faced Us,
And the hearts of those that fled.
-
AfaT, off-shOre and single,
some stallion, rearing swift,
NeighS hungry for new fodder,
Aud calls Us to the drift.
Then down the ClOveu ridges
Ten million hOOves unshOd-
Break Tor the Wild white horses
To seek their meat from GOdl
Girth-deep in kissing water
Our furious vanguard strains
Through mist OF mighty trampling
Roll up the fore blown names
A hundred leagues To leewaId,
Ere yet the deep hath stirred,
The groaning rollers carry
The coming OF the herdI
Whose hand may grip your nostris-
Your fOTelOCk who may hold?
Fen they that use the breads with Us,
The riders bred and bold,
That spy upon our matings,
That Fnpq rs x here
They Know the wild white horses
From father unto SON
We breathe about their cradles,
We race their babes ashore,
We snuff against their thresholds,
We nuzzle at their door
BY day with stamping COUrsers,
By night in whinnying dToveS,
Creep I'D the Wild white horses,
To call them from their loves.
And come they for your calling?
No wit OF man may save
They hear the wild white horses
Above their fathers grave;
And, kin of those we crippled
And SONS of those we slew,
Spur down the wild white riders
To lash the herds anew.
What service have ye paid them,
o, jealous steeds and strong?
Save We that throw their weaklingA
Is none dare work them wrong.
While thick around the homestead
Our gray backed squadrOns graZe1
A guard behind their plumber,
And a veil before their ways.
With march and counteTmarchingS--
With press OF wheeling hosts
Stray mob or bands embattled-
We ring the chosen coasts;
And. careless of our clamor
That bids the stranger fly,
AT peace within our pickets
The wild white riders lie.
Trust We the CuTdled hOllows-
Trust ye the gathering wind
Trust ye the moaning gTOundsweu-
Our herds are close behindi
To mill your foeman's armies
To bray his camps abroad
Trust We the wild white horses,
The Horses OF the Lord
-Rudyard Kipling
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Unaecountahle.

(Frcm the Chicago News.l
Ella-Would the ceremony be legal if
q Clergyman Were To marry himself?
Jack-Prpbably. Butwhy shonlda clergy
man want to marry himself when there
are ;" many MARI iageahle women in The
Murld7
The times., 1897-11-21
WHAT He Knew.

from the Yonkers StateSman.)
What yeast does your wife use to make
her bread riSe?" asked one young married
man OF another
why. don't think she uses sn5 kind oT
yeast" was the reply: Il think She uses
an alarm clock"
The times., 1897-11-21
Too Much Realism.

From the Chicago Record)
Yoar guest didn't stay long
No; she begged me 10 treat her like one
Of the family. but when I did 50 she got
mad and left
The times., 1897-11-21
SfrikInr N RnIance-

(F-oTa tie Atchison GIobe)
The day after a woman has spent a
great d.'al of mouey on fooIfshness. s.,e
boils the Potatoes with their Jackets on.
tn order not to waste the skins.
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NAPKINS AND THEIR BEAUTY
New and PIE; sing Designs of
Table Ad0rnmeRt.
FASHION FANCIES IN RINGS

JeweIed Letters Are Much the Fa-
vor, and tie II or l. or whatever
Else the IniIial May Be WIN Be
PreIiier if tits Outlined in Royal
Blue or Gold Color.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
An Easy Going Genius.

The one out and out genius the writer
knows lives down In Ohio. Anything he
wants and cannot buy he invents. Any
thing in the market that he needs, II 1t be
a manufactured article and costs more
than he cares to pay, he makes. He Is en-
ployed by one Of the large establishments
In his section Of his country. He just
wanders about ut his own sweet will,
making an improvement here and there on
the engines that he invented and keeping
them just little in advance of all com
petitors.
When his investigating turn Of mind
suggested the desirability Of his having a
telescope, he went to Pittsburg to get it,
The price was too high, and he notified the
house that he would go home and make
one. He was answered by an incredulous
laugh, but he did perfect every detail ex-
cept the lenses in way to put previous
efforts to the blush. Tho result of his Sec
ond trip WAS to learn that the lenses com
prised the chief item of cost in telescope.
He could get no reduction and again served
notice that he would go home and make
what he wanted. The idea was secuted,
but this genius carried it out and inciden-
tally invented the finest method of grinding
lenses that has ever been known.
TO please one Of his children he pro-
duced the first automatic piano and the
first machine to grind out music from a
punctured sheet of paper or metal.
One thing about this genius is that he
never patents his inventions. 1t Is enough
| pleasure for him TO work out puzzling me-
| chanical problems, and he never thinks of
money except when he has occasion to
| spend it.-Detroit Free Press
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
A DOCTORS MESSENGERS.


The city physicians clientele, as n rule,
Is compactly located, but the country
physician practices over largo extent OF
territory. Ho Is quite likely 10 have two
patients critically i'll, hnlf "a dozen miles
apart and each living like distance from
the doctors own home. Easily IL will be
seen that paying daily calls and keeping
posted with sick persons scattered about
like that become almost an impossibility.
These conditions confronted DIR. Charles
J.. Lang of Meriden, N Y, for many "a
long year, and he cudgeled his brain to
some purpose In finding u way to help him
self The homing pigeon solved the prob
lem. He has regular pigeon service be-
tween his patients and himself
The doctor has found time to keep UP on
medical tor ics, take good care of his
patients and cultivate pigeons, all three
very successfully.
There Is nothing difficult about It after
all. In the first place, the doctor sends to
each patient about whose condition he
wishes to be posted ono or more of the
carrier pigeons. Some member of the
family has blanks which must be filed In
with detailed records Of time, pulse, TEN.
perature and respiration. A blank filled,
1t Is inclosed In an aluminium capsule
made TO clasp on the pigeons leg. This
DONE the bird Is released and at once
speeds away to the home Of tho waiting
physician, at the rate 0f q mile minute.
In this way DIR. Lang Is enabled to keep
thoroughly In touch with his patients at
distance, with about one-fifth the amount
of travel he would have to endure under
other circumstances. Not only that, but
he Is really much better posted, because 1t
would often happen that he would be un-
able to pay visits to all, and 70 perhaps
would miss seeing sick person at just the
time when he was most needed. Now he
can go away from home to visit patients and
feel sure that when he returns reports will
be awaiting him from others. Should these
reports tell him that call from him is an
absolute necessity, then he goes and that
is ell there Is of 1t.
1t is tho best" says DR.. Lang, "when
establishing a loft of these feathercd mes
sengers, to begin with few pairs Of breed.
ers, which should be kept confined to the
loft, with an outside covered aviary if pos
sible, TO give them access to the ground
The pigeons, If allowed their liberty, arc
apt to fly away, no matter how long they
have been In prison. Do not try to train
the birds until they are 4 months old Then
take them mile or two from home in diff
ferent directions. Increase the distance
proportionately from 100 10 goo miles for
the birds in the first seasons work. New
York Herald.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
Harvard Class Funds.

II is q custom at Harvard that each class
shall at graduation subscribe or raise
among its members "a fund sufficient to
pay for the annual reunions of the class,
for the dinners held every few years, for
the class reports, published every five OF
ten years, and for other similar purposes.
AS the class becomes extinct these funds
are turned over to the use Of the college, and
1t also frequently happens that the fund
becomes so large that part of it is given 70
tho college while there are still many mem
bers Of the class living. The capital of the
funds now paid in to Harvard college
stands about rs follows: 1909, 81, 300;
1914, $1,000; 1915, S6,o39; 1917, s4,2O7;
1SaS, S3,4i5; 1884, 1900; 1885, e44,5l2;
1871, $i,l73; 1882, 1880; 1853, S3,725;
1896, $4,000; 1862, s3,444.-New York
Tribune
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08

Walters, it seems do not always receive
money for tips, as ono would naturally OK.
pect, two or three eccentric individuals
preferring to dispense their generosity In a
different manner.
A west end waiter once pointed out a
borsey looking man who had never yet
given an employee Of the restaurant n
farthing in money. He preferred 10 give
the walters tips for coming horse races
He was well known bookmaker, or
something of that sort, and his tips were
Invariably 30 successful that the majority
OF the walters preferred them before
money. Ono man who had supported the
customers racing tips on every occasion
found himself some $50 To the good at the
end Of the cason.-Pearson's Weekly.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08

Tnsted marshmallows are delicious and
make pretty and odd sweet for lunch
eon, or the children will welcome them rs
skDDer dessert. When held over the Goals
en- the toasting fork, they puff up to twice
their former size and turn lovely brown
color. Served MS soon as may be, they will
be found TO keep their heat for 10 long
that there is more danger Of burning one =
mouth than that the dainty morsel will
10 pumping them i'm the chatting dish, as
is sometimes done, and incidentally much
better for that utensil. To use the blazer
OF the chatting dish for dry cooking-that
is. where no lubricant Is used-is to destroy
quickly its finish.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
INDIANS AND C3OWS.

5ome Queer legends That Arc Heard
Among the Red Men.
BY Indian legend the crow was selected
| by the great spirit as q messenger TO the
red men; he placed kernel of corn In its
right ear and bean In the left, and cent
10 forth with the gift of life TO his people,
wisely mufiiing the ears of the crow, so that
1t might neither hear nor heed anything
that might interrupt it's flight Because
of that mission tho crows right to n share
OF the Indians corn wherever planted Is
never denied, and the "life bearing bird"
has been reverenced by the Indians forever.
Like tho Indian, tho crow has been
tracked, prosecuted and hunted by the
''palo face" wherever he has loitered for a
shelter. He Is accused as thief that Is
best when he Is dead. His usefulness in
picking the grubs out Of the growing corn
is not considered. If he snatches one grain
Of corn with four OF five grubs that are in
comparably more destructive than he, he is
condemned and shot as plunderer.
BY the Indian logic, "all the corn be.
longed to the Indian as original proprie-
tor, but the crow is an Indian, and there
fore the corn belongs TO the crow" The
primitive Indian takes good care of the
crow ard divides the corn with him at the
planting season. Tho farmer who shoots
the crow off his premises for the sin of steal
ing few grains Of corn forgets to thank
him for the killing of the willy hen hawk,
the sneak thief who frequents the barnyard,
intent on meal of young chickens.
The crow carries off an egg now and
then, but his small game Is confined to
field mice, insects, grubs, small snakes,
WORMS, lizards and frogs, and in his win
ter hunger no descends to carrion. While
be occasionally worries small birds, his de-
light is the owl, opossum and raccoon.
An Indian tells this story of white
man and crow:
The white man, who had Eilled a deer
for its skin, left its body in an open place
in the forest. A crow, flying over the
woods, swooped down to the deer, walked
all around it, talked to himself about it"
and then flew rapidly away. An Indian
took the deer to his cabin nearby and while
he was dressing it no heard IL commotion In
the air. A crow, which seemed to be lead
ing numerous flock, was screaming with
terror. The uproar continued for some
time and ended by the entire flock's sur
rounding the unfortunate and pecking
him to death, his body falling to the
ground in fragments. The Indian argues
that the first crow found the carcass and
generously flew to tell the flock, and as the
Indian had in the meantime removed the
deer, the disappointed flock, failing to find
it, had "just killed the leader crow for
telling liep'-Our Animal Friends.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
n True Parasite.

There are not many true parasites In the
vegetable kingdom. The mistlctoe Is un
guestionably one Of the most perfect sam
Piles of this class OF vegetable growth. It
Is absolutely dependent upon its host for
subsistence, and In time draws the very
hfeblood from the plant to which II at
tnches itself Experiments have been made
In raising the mistlctoo In greenhouses.
but the results are scarcely satisfactory.
The mistletoe Is an exceedingly slow grow
Ing plant, two leaves and bit OF stalk be-
Ing oil that Is usually produced during the
season. Therefore some of tho gnarled and
knotty branches which we see In our mar
kcts represent long years Of patient en-
deayor.-New York Ledger.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
Spontaneous Combustion OF Charcoal.


1t has been stated from time to time that
charcoal used in building refrigerating
chambers, on shore as well as on board YES.
sells, has ignited spontaneously. Although
1t is known that charcoal Is liable, undei
certain conditions. to take fire spontane.
ously, there has been no direct evidence
that 1t hasever done 70 In the cases alleged,
and, with the object Of settling the ques.
tion, an inquiry into the matter was some
time since undertaken. The facts brought
out by this investigation are that though
freshly made wood charcoal--that Is, char.
coal which has not absorbed Its moisture
and oxygen Is liable TO SO called spontane.
GUS combustion, IL Is never liable to reig.
mite after having been exposed to the air for
n day or two. 1t appears conclusive, from
tests and experiments made, that In any
case II after few days no fire shows IL.
self the charcoal may be regarded as en-.
tirely free from liability TO spontaneous
combustion. The scare caused by tho sup.
posed danger from the ignition of charcoal
used in rofrigerating chambers may conse.
qucntly be regarded as groundlcss, and ms
no direct evidence exists Of Its ever having
ignited under such circumstances it L.
romewhat Of mystery how any alarm
should have arisen. New York Ledger.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
Church Yeud Ended.

ST. Patrick's church, Galway, Ireland, a
magnificent structure, has not been opened
for 90 years, because n plot Of ground In
frofst of the building was owned by a man
who had n bitter dislike to the form OF
worship carried on within, and he built n
high wall directly In front Of the church,
preveptipg acccss The man, however, rc-
Gently died, and, tho bishop having bought
che ground, the church will soon lie opened,
for the first time since 1852.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
THE SHIP OF LOVE.
| explain the silvcred path of a ship at

I explain the silvcred path Of a ship at
nignt.
Tho sweep OF each sad, lost wave.
The dwinding boom OF the steel thing 5
striving.
The little cry of n man to u man.
shadow falling across the grayer night
And the sinking Of the small star
rhon tho waste. tho far waste. OF waters
And the SO lashirg OF black waves
For long and in loneliness.
Remember thou. o ship OF love!
Thou aV 80 "A fair W :. cf waters
nd the soft lashinG OF black waves
or long and I'm lor lncgs
-Stcph Crane In Bool,man.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08

No one should become too proud. A
look through nn old album seldom fails 10
disclose that every one has had an ancestor
who wore side whiskers. Globe.