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Australian We,ldinra.

In Australia there are so few no.
tives left that anything but white
mans wedding is comparative rarity.
The curious difference, however, be-
tween weddings there and in the
mother country is that in England we
license the place for the solemnization
of the ceremony, and at the Antipodes
they license the man who performs
the rites. Marriage can be performed
at the registrars Office for SIS, but if
minister knowingly marries minor
without her peoples consent he is lia-
BILE to Imprisonment and a fine of
$1,000. If, however, the contracting
parties have taken the oath that they
are of full age, he is safe, though it
has happened more than once that
young lovers have gone to the regis
try Office and obviously perjured them
selves on the age question. A smart
but very young-looking girl in Aus
tralia who was once asked, Have you
the written consent of your parents?"
responded, "No, but I'm oyer twenty
one." care you sure?" doubtfully.
"As sure as I stand here" was the
answer, and indeed what she said was
accurate enough for she had written
the. number 81 on the sole of each OF
her shoes!-Cassell's Magazine.
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future that Tile army nar4Ao - -, I
efficient system of signaling will hold
trump card which may be of most
decisive influence Oh the conduct and
success of the war;"
Another German authority says:
Electric telegraphy, with and with
out wifes, is q main branch of the
service, and not only with the
pioneers, but with every troop, in
fantry, cavalry, artillery and railroad
ers. The German army, adhering to
its principle of meeting the enemy on
the latter's own territory, must needs
possess greater alacrity in and better
facilities for building electric tele-
graph lines than the French and Rus
slams, the Austrisns and Italians, who
might be eager enough to keep war
out of their own territory, but who
are behind Germany in the rapidity Of
mobilization.
Neither the German nor the other
European armies rely exclusively upon
the electrical telegraph, which may
fail for various reasons, the principal
one being that the ordinary COM
mercial lines, as well as the field lines
established in their stead or for the
purpose of supplementing them, may
be destroyed by the enemy or the ele-
ments, thus robbing the commanding
general of the means for COM
municating with his subordinate COM
nianders.
The Germans, like other nations,
RELY largely upon optical methods OF
signaling. The favorite device of fthis
kind in the German army is the sema-
/ phore, which is made more efficient
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Moose and Caribou Cemeteries.

The Forest and Stream contains the
following contribution from Quebec
correspondent concerning the habit
moose and caribou have of going to
the same place, season after season, to
shed their antlers:
"Tho idea of the animals seeking q
definite place for this purpose was
quite new to me, but lately the eff
cient SUP erintendent of Game and
Fisheries at Quebec, L. q. Joncas,
Esq, has told me that they do fire.
quent such places, and that this habit
was quite we'll known to him. He
knew of many and mentioned several
places where horns could almost GER
tainly be found at any time. And not
only do they go to shed their horns,
but they go there to die. These
places ore known as cemeteries, and
whole skeletons are occasionally
found. This, however, would be rare,
as the bones would usually be torn
apart and scattered by bears and other
carniyora.
"Mr. Joncas instanced the case of
gentleman going to certain region
for geological exploration, who asked
for permit to shoot moose out of
season in order to get a good pair OF
antlers. He was told that by diverg.
ing little from his route he might
reach place where he would find
plenty of them. He did so and Sc.
cured five excellent specimens"
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FACTS ABOUT ToRNADoEs'
when One Is Seen to the Northeast Sees
Safety; Otherwise Fear Not.

William f.. Eddy, the kite expert ol
Bayonne, Il. j., who visited many tor.
nado tracks in the Central West and
the Eastern States as tornado re.
porter for the United States sigma
Service between 1884 and 1892, said.
in referring to the recent tornadothat
tornadoes are caused by the rush OF
warm air from the southwark coming
in contact with cold air from the north.
ward, the collision resulting in a vic.
lent shaking up Of air currents. =.
The results when studied reveal the
fact that the safest place in house
struck by O tornado, if any place can
be called safe, is the southwest corner
of the cellar, because the wreckage is
always thrown to the north and east,
and beyond and away from the south
western.
The greatest previous loss Of life in
recent years, he says, occurred in the
tornado at Louisville on March 27,
1890, when seventy-6ve lives were
taken and property worth many mil.
lions of dollars was destroyed. ba.
Tornado statistics show that the CEN
tire of greatest tornado frequency is in
Missouri and Kansas, near the Kansas
line. and that mountainous regions are
almost entirely free from them.
The appearance of an approaching
tornado differs from that of thunder
storm in that the tornado is blaoker
and seems to. reach the earth with a,
dark, narrow centre filled with flying
wreckage, the clouds spreading out
aloft and giving the effect Of the we'll
known funnel-shaped cloud. The
thunder storm shows the winter line
of rain under the nearing black masses
of cloud preceding it. =; .5v..-r.,
Lieutenant John P. Finley organ.
lied the corps Of tornado reporters.
and they made a careful classification
of more than 1000 tornadoes. Lieu
tenant Finley discovered by specially
classifying 600 of the Kansas and Mis-.
souri, tornadoes that all except thirty,
five moved along tracks extending
from southwest to northeast, hence on
observer who sees a tornado or funnel
shaped cloud to the. northward can
feel safe,
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HUMOROUS.

'Father, could you please tell me-
what you consider. fine; e;wood?"ia Why,
sawdust, my son." j.. ;,
Sweet Sixteen-And do you have to
expel students often? Collegs Prex--
Oh, mol Once is usually sufficient 4
Haven't you any faith in men DGro.
othy?" "Yes. I have faith, in them. {.
but never believe a word they say"
Wayworn Watson Mister, + am 4
slowly starving. Hargreases LOT
course. No one would expect. you, to-
do anything in hurry.
Henry, we'd get along better if
you had more. will-power." mo,
Martha; we'd get along better if you
didn't have quite so much. E.|
Staylate-Just one more kiss, dar.
ling; just one, and then I'll go!
Voice from the Stair-Fhen for heaY-
ems saye,, Nan, give him one !i;i.!. ~
II everthere comes time, we note,;
When the Winds got up and squeaL
It's when the man With the long-tailcd coat
Goes out to ride his wheel. .-rsr.,.s-
Pendipp-I don't suppose you have
any confidence in faith cure, doctor?
DR.. Donna-Well, to an extent, all
doctors take patients on faith, you
know. IS 49,, .,r
He-Be mine, darling: You are !:
the lamp that alone can light my ex-
istence. She-Yes, dear; but papa
doesn't think you are good match /
for me. ~,
'Pa, what's rebuff" .'Your watch
ma the next time I come home late for
dinner and ry to say something that
will tickle ',er; then you'll see what
rebuff is."
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II coate Som, etbinr

"People don't think, when they are
riding in our comfortable cars" says
an official, 'that it costs the company
good money every time the train is
stopped and started; this cost is a part
of the regular expense OF operation,
though nobody seems to be able ito
tell exactly what it amounts to.
"An amusing variety of guesses have
been made of the exact cost of: stop
ping trains. A sensation was created.
a few years ago by the statement by IN !.
expert that stop withoutletting off q
passenger or taking on one-involved
an expense of from. $1.2S to s1.70.
This proved to be q ridiculously ex-.
travagaut estimate. One manager be-
lieres that it costs. 1S ceuts to stop q Z,
train. Another makes the expense AZ,
cents for passenger trains and 70 or
80 cents for freight trains. % -
"Aside from the actual cost from (.
wear and tear and extra fuel consump,. :.
tion, one should take account of the
danger of breakage to couplers, draw.
bars and their yfastenings whiclp fe.7'
suits from stopping long and heavy
freights. But when road is crowded .
the saving of time is important in
freight as we'll rs passenger traffic.
son division of Western road
1913 miles long, some tests, were made
last year with freight trains weighing
1880 tons, exclusive of engine, tender
and caboose. The average time con-
sumed when fourteen stops were made
was eight hours and thirty-fve min
utes. Without stops the time was
seven hours and twelve minutes. To
haul one car mile, on an average, 80
pounds of coal were burned in the
former case, and only three in the
after. Bangor (Maine) Commercial.
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Discovery of a Mammoth,

A few weeks ago Swede and his
partner, while marking their claim on
Domingo Creek, discovered, accord
ing to q Dawson newspaper, a body of a
mammoth forty feet below the surface.
The story was that the body was in q
perfect state Of preservation. Unfor-
tunately, there werc no scientists in
Dawson to examine the body, but,
according to press statements: it meas
ured forty-four and one-half feet long.
Its right tusk was broken, but its
left tusk was perfect, so that lit
was probable that the right tusk.
may have been snapped off in the
fall that caused its death. The
tusk which remains measures fourTy
teen feet three inches in length
and forty-eight inches in circumfer-
ence. The flesh was covered with
woolly hair. hair fifteen inches long
of grayish, black color. The neck
was short and the limbs long land stout.
the feet short and broad, and had Ave
toes. The flesh; was cut and tasted
sweet. Mammoth flesh has been
tasted .on .other occasions. It,is very
unfortunate that an expert geologist
was not upon the ground at the time
Of the find, as it is Of considerable
Scientific American.
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to quit her husband. When Briny
heard that his wife had deserted him,
which he did in the course of few
days.; he qtl- -rtly saddled. his horse and
went mp to where she was stopping:
His little son was playing out in the
yard with some. other children, and
calling the child TO him he lifted him
up on to the saddle and returned to
his home.
While the boys mother didn't care
for her husband she did for her son
sand fretted continually about him:
Zone day she told Tricket that if he
did not!go and bring the child back I'd
Irher she would leave him. Tricket de-:
INJURED; lie had no Use for the boy and
ISdidn't want him around; so he kept
putting the woman off with all kinds
sof excuses. Finally Trickets herder;
"a wild young fellow WHO had come
west with his head filled with dime
;novel yarns, told the woman he would
/ get the boy for her: and saddling his
horse rode away down the river: Ar
irving in front of Briny's cabin he
I shouted to him to come out;and when
3Briny came to the door he levelled his
rifle at him and aid:
"Nows then, you: old potato eater;
I've, come after that kid; his mother
wants him. ;, Give him out here quick
. or Ill fill You fill of holes. =.
.Briny looked him quietly in the eye
! and replied: tt'The boy is mine. L
will not But lie, never finished
, his sentence; the herder shot him
squarely in, the forehead, and down he
went in a heap, The murderer got:off
his horse and stepping over Briny's
body into the cabin graspel the:ter=
srifed child, threw him up into the
saddle and returned home.
. By the time news of the murder
reached the settlers the. murderer had
become alarmed and had disappeared
! without leaving trace Of his course.
The little band Of deferminei men
who hunted for him were finally OBJ
liged to give up the search and return
to their homes. A mont later they
heard some news which caused them
to re. oice that they had not found and
han yed himis The mail EcarrieE sfrola
Fort Macleod, away aerosssthe border
in Canada, brought word that on his
way north on the previous trip he
found the-fellow wandering about Oh
the prairie badly frozen. He carried
him in his wagon to the fort, and there
the surgeon was obhgcl to cut off both
hands and both feet. Thus his punish
ment was vastly greater than if he
had been hanged or Shot. No warrant
was ever asked for his extra3ition; the
friends Of Briny wished him tolire
and suffer.
The following spring Briny's son
died, and late in the summer the
woman followe him. The writer was
at the ranch of n Friend she was
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tour nio.- - "l E;,..t
for the service.
The French army employs as opti.
cal telegraph flags and lanterns. The
flags are worked according to the naval
code and Morse alphabet. French
signalers are saidto be able to execute
100 movements per minute. To sig
nal the dot of the Morse alphabet the
French hold up one flag. Two flags
represent the dash of the Morse al
phabet. After each letter there is O
short pause, after each word longer
pause, the latter being accentuated by
the aag being held over the}.head of
thesignal man. IF the telegram is
fni.hed the signal man repeats the
lastword three times. If the receiver
doen't understand the operator he
raiss flag with his right hand to his
heal. OF course, flag signals can only
be ged in daytime.
Ainight the lantern is employed
whe, search and fash lights are not
avei.ble.
SINAI lanterns are handled after
the ashton of the flags, dots being
mared by opening and shutting the
slidrespectiyely. A dash is marked
by xposing the fame four times
long, than in case of dot. Thus
disp.ches of twenty words can be for
wardd in minute.
M Austrians follow the Trench
mehd of signaling in all but the size
andfrm of flags. To the standard
colcsof black, white, red, blue and
yellw they add green. Green plays
also part in the italian flag signals.
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EUROPEAN ARMIES STRUGGGLEF0R
SUPREMACY MILITARY SIGNALING.
Devices That The Next Bring. Into Use

In all European armies now great
attention is being paid to the signal
corps. and each nation every now and
then vaunts itself over the Others with
the announcement Of the discovery Of
some new method Of signaling, says
the New York Press:
The really reliable systems of MILF
tary signaling are few, and none Of
them is exactly new. In our own
army tho heliograph and the i.swig-
wag'" system of flag signals ars most
relied upon. The captive balloon at
Santiago was only qualified suecess,
but it has not diminished the ,ardor
with which European powers are
seeking to solve the balloon problem.
The bravery and the efficient work OF
the signal service men in the war with
Spain received high praise from all
the foreign attaches and from our own
Government, but Europe seems loath
to take up our system of signaling.
With every nation on the Continent of
Europe military signalingis military
hobby, and each rides itsown especial
hobby hard, and spends great amounts
/ of money on it. a
All over EuSope experiments are
going on constantly in military signal;
ing. Every bright young officer and.
eyerr crank regards the signal corps
as tie body which shall make his fame
and fortune by ulilizinghis invention.
And it would seem as if every King
and Emperor and every field marshal
lay awake highs to think up some
new invention for that branch of the,
: service.
,:No matter what branch. of the SER
vice has to go short on funds in a Eu-
ropeau army, the signal corps gets,
what money it.waits. That the sig
nal sci vice of an army is of the first
Importance is not to be denied, and
ous own corps will compare in ef-
fciency with any in the world. But
!, in Europe the CORDS is fad;
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-. w W seIl them In

va 49, ----.-A~n ~ Sell Iuem III
the little shop or store attached. 49,.
Rice is there commodity of even
greater necessity than wheat is to the
peoples of the West. The range Of
Japanese food products is not so great
rs that of such products in the United
States or in Europe. Common laborers
do not consume meat, milk, or dairy
products of any kind, except under
extremely exceptional circumstances,
and then generally when prescribed
for the sick by physician of the
modern school. Pastry is practically
unknown to the average Japanese.
The ordinary food of q Iaborer con-
sists of rice, bit of fish or other
sea product, and some pickle
Youths Companion.
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~
similar to our railway signal poles and
is worked by arms. There is also a
telescope in the top which commands
the nastiat the next station. The
mastsean be inserted at any place. As
to the cone, each one represents o
number, l, 2, 8 or 4. If l and 4 are
down, that means 5, and similar ad.
ditions are made with the other
figures.
Signals can also be given without
the cone by moving the arms
horizontally against the body, or by
placing them in any other position
agreed upon. ..r..:
AfEnight lantern slides Of various
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colors are placed in the ends of the

colors are placed in the ends of the
cones.
Personally the Kaiser has more
faith in the captive balloon than in
angother optical means for telegraph
ing. The German captive balloon is
furnished with means for photograph
ing and the parties in the car COM
municate with those on the ground by
means Of the telegraph OF tele-
phone. For telegraphing IN instru-
ment similar to the Morse apparatus,
arranged in compact form, is used.
The system is practically that used in
this country.
s. Eor The signal corps of the German
arny the brightest men OF each bat
talon and regiment are selected. They
are thoroughly drilled in all the man
eusres connected with the transpor-
tation, the erection and operating of
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Hours of Labor in Japaus

From the official records of the De-.
partment of State it is learned that 10.
borers in Japan begin their work very
often at daylight and do not leave ii
until sundown, but they take two
hours for luncheon and half hour OF
so in the morning and in the afternoon
for smoke. They do not work SO
laboriously or so continuously as an
American workingman. They take
tleir work leisurely and patiently, and
sre not indisposed to waste time if it
Is possible to do so.
Among the farming classes the
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a single day. That ives in Egypt,
where the sun is very strong.

single Qay. Inat WeS III Egypt
where the sun is very strong.
The English mode of signaling by
flags differs from the French in minor
details, which are kept secret. But
this secrecy doesn't amount to much,
considering that the Britishers, like
other nations, use the Morse alphabet.
The Russians have adopted the
French lantern system for distances
from one to two miles. These lanterns
are constructed on the lines of bicycle
lamps, having bulls-eye lens, and
being fed by oil. On long distances
the Russians use lime light appara-
fuses constructed as follows: There
are two tanks filed with oxygen and
hydrogen respectively. The hydrogen
is lit and, the oxygen gas mingling
with it, produces colorless fame. A
lime block placed in the flame is rem.
dered incandescent and its light, re-
fected from mirror, is sent forward.
The mirror is a powerful parabolic,
resembling in shape the end of an
egg. The concaye portion is the re.
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The English Language in Cuba.

Here is an advertisement that ap-
peared tho other day in u Havana
paper: "This is without doubt one of
the factories OF first class and of the
most universal credit, and we affirm
TINT no other has this credit with
more merits, by the goodnes intelli.
ghcy and care employed in the
preparation and>perfectionment of his
productions. New York Tribune,
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Aector. This apparatus is SO con-
trived that the beam light can be sent
in all directions. The telegraphing is
effected in the same way as the tele-
graphing with lanterns by the French.
All the apparatuses described are,
if possible, set UP on natural or arti-
fetal elevations. The signal officers
must also be careful to find suitable
background for their operations. so
that the signals from the other side
can be readily interpreted. There is,
however, one great drawback to all
these systems. As all armies use as a
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MARTHA

Martha was model woman. o,; =; =
Wife Of Moses Jacob Brown
'Filest cook in all the country, .ao fa9ii
B6at hopsekeeper In town;
But she died and went 10 heaven, % 81
There to wear q martyrs Crown. !.
Moses D. had kline. and cattle, =, ~ J.,
Sheep and horses fairto see,' > y
But q yomin's help was needed. 80 yet
Hiring much too dear would be;
So he came q twelSemonth Inter, - u.
Courted, Won and married; me-. orr,
Now at breakfast time he tells me, 80,
How she used the cakes to bake
Dinner comes and still he praises IL; u,
Soups md stews she used to mako
While for tea hear lsudstiens sTE Gai
: OF her ounce preserve and cake.
Now woman's only human, .rn
And pretty girl when wed,
For her golden curls and dimplesr rr. =
For her laughing lips so red,
Sometimes tires OF endless Lectures, Q
Each extolling one that's dead.
So fancy some fine morning
Ere my temper's quite subdued, 81
I shalltell MIN, what, 6 pity :. ..,s.s'., =;
he of course may think 1t rude
That he isn't up In heaven ~ .:,Ji,i,
Eating .Martha's "angel food"
-Lalia Mitchell, In What to Eat. {
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BERedi's system, Of cones. The: sema-
phore proper is quite IN ancient de-
vice. It was first introduced by the
French in 1894 for conveying IN
te,ligence from Paris to the armies on
the frontier. AS the illustration shows,
the German army semaphore is
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papa AGONY uariug nim-rakeT yon iatoq
business, but he couldn't do it, be-
cause you have too many vague ideas. =
Mr.. Darlington -Hur1ah I! srThat'sa
clever of the old boy: My first yife,sr,
father used to say had no ideas at !,
all .NGIt9:L Ji9I
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Great Britain produces half the slate
quarried in the world, Franco and the
United States little less than one.
quarter each. Production in the
United States has recently increased,
owing to the demand for export.
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When He Rem ,nbers.

eve hardly ever see any congress
CATERS now," said the elderly boarder.
That's fact" said the Cheer.
full Idiot, though I can remember
when they might have been seen on
every hand. indianapolis Journal,
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Thglish largely employ the
heiog By means of the hello
grapL led signal men can commu-
nicate each other at a distance of
fifty m whether they have tele-
scope t. General Roberts once
sent kilograms by heliograph in
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basis for their systems the Morse
alphabet, friend and enemy alike are
capable of reading the messages sent
out
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A few moments later she died.
News York Sun.