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SCIENCE SIFTINGS.

Eleven cubic feet OF water, when
frozen, make 10 cubic feet Of ice.
Formaldehyde acts as a poison when
taken internally, and if strong enough
to act as an antiseptic should be han
died with caution and not allowed to
get into the hands Of children.
A phonograph outfit was taken to
Osborne house on the isle Of Wight
and cylinder was put on to it which
conveyed a message of greeting from
Menelik. The queen responded, and
the cylinder containing her message
was sent to Abyssinia.
A series of experiments made by
Benno Erdmann and Raymond Dodge
show that in normal reading the let
ters are not spelled out separately and
one after the other, but that q short
word of not more than four letters can
be read off in less time than single
letter.
A well-preserved Roman camp has
been discovered in Herzegovina; Sec
ton 800 feet long by 270 feet wide has
been traced. A portion of the walls,
the gates and the doors are still stand
ing and many utensils and weapons
have been dug up. 1t is believed that
the camp was erected in the time OF
Nero.
Investigations have been made OF
sewage irrigation on the truck farms
south of Los Angeles, Cal. The health
officers have recommended the prohi-
bition OF the sale Of sewage for the ir.
rigation of land where certain kinds OF
fruits, vegetables and garden products
are grown, stating that the use OF sew
age for that purpose is injurious.
Light travels fully 6,000,o00,o 100000
miles in year, and even the most mod
ern guesses rs to the parallax OF Po.
laris make it IS light years. Pritch.
ards estimate in 1887 was 90 light
years, but he has since modified his
figures. Hence, if one will write 210
and add 12 ciphers thereto he will have
the number of miles which the most
conservative authorities believe inter
vene between the earth and. the pole
star.
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LOBSTERS RISE IN PRICE.
Those Who Are Fond of the Crus-
taceans VIII Have to Pay More
for Them This Year.

This year people who are fond OF
eating Holsters will have to pay dearly
for the privilege of indulging their ap'
petites in such sea food, for the rensor
that the crustaceans are scarcer now
than ever before" said a wholesale deal
er in fish in New York to the writer 6
day or two ago. Live Holsters are al
present selling at 20 cents per pound
and as only comparatively small catch
es are daily reported by the fishermen
of Stonington, Block Island, and other
well-known lobstering grounds as fai
east as Portland, Me-, the indication.
are that a further advance of from five
to ten cents pound may soon be looked
for.
"Ten years ago almost any quantity
Of fine Holsters could have besn pur'
chased in New York at the rate of five
cents pound. The average size OF live
Holsters that then came to market wa.
20 inches long, not counting claws. The
largest average now is not more thar
half that length. There used to bt
plenty of 14-pound Holsters and have
seen them weighing IS pounds. A lob
ster as large that would have to be 81
years old at least. This shellfish grow.
slowly, and at three years old is no,
much bigger than crawtish. A lobster
under five years old isn't fit for market
but thousands of such youngsters have
to pass muster on our fish stalls nova
days.
1.-THE present dearth of Holsters ir
New England waters is largely due tc
the enormous number of undersiZed
ones that have in the past been caugh,
and sold for canning purposes in Maine
Millions of small shelfsh that should
have been allowed to develop and breed
were thus annually exterminated, and
the result has been that the supply OF
eatable Holsters has dwindled from &c.,
100000 in 1889 to probably less thar
100000 in 1899.
THE regulations concerning the cap
ture Of Holsters in New England waters
are now as stringent as any game law
mo Holsters are being canned H.
Maine for the reason that the short lob
ster law has killed the business in tina,
state. The Gamers do not find it profit.
able to buy Holsters at the present high
rate, and they cannot purchase short
ones or shellfish weighing less than ten
pounds.
For the last four years energetic ef.
forts have been made by the United
States fish commission to restore lob.
sters to their former abundance BY
planting millions of lobster fry from
Fishers Island sound east along the
coast as far as Maine. Meantime the
chief supply Of live Holsters comes from
the British provinces. The shellflst
are shipped here in steamers especially
fitted with wells that have q capacity
for holding from $4,000 to 10000 live
Holsters. These steamers touch at Bos.
ton and New York, and from these two
cities the Holsters are shipped by whole.
sale dealers all over the United States"
Warrington Star.
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HIGH LIGHTS.
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Man is known by the company he
Loons ont of .sai-1it;-
Only inferior people make the mis-
take of assuming superior airs.
We never hear the same story twice
alike, even when we tell it ourselves.
When two women are said to re-
semble each other both are secretly
YeXed.
Even when man makes his own op.
portunities they are not made TO suit
him.
Grandparents back up q sslf-willed
grandchild because they feel partly to
blame.
One of the valuable privileges we
often overlook is the privilege OF not
saying anything.
After woman has lived to be 70 she
still believes that she never has had
her own way.
Work is our only safeguard against
people who would like to have us do
something for them.
One of the queer things In life is that
the frocks in old photographs were
once considered pretty.
A man forgives his sweetheart for
trumping his ace, but he always re.
minds her OF it after they are mar.
ried.
When a man brings his wife an un.
expected present it makes her fear he
has bought himself something extrav.
agant.-Chicago Record.
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ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.

Naval officers prefer Chinese and
Japanese as servants.
The marine hospital service employs
about $50 physicians.
Scarcity of steel is delaying compile
tion of the new torpedo boats.
improvements are to be made in the
governments powder factory at Indian
Head.
In Casters Magazine Admiral Mel
Vile argues for triple screws in war
ships.
Congress neglected to make provision
for the Office of chaplain in the new vol
unteer regiments.
A second lieutenant of United States
marines must spend more than one
third of his first years salary for uni
forms.
The United States has 312 vessels of
all kinds, built and building. Of these
1S9 are in the regular navy and 123 con-
stitute the auxiliary force.
The British army is about to lose one
of its most popular figures by retire.
ment under the age clause-of the
chaplin general, DR.. Edghill. He sue
ceded in that Office the late Bishop Piers
Claughton in 1885,
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pOINTEDLY PERSONAL.

The marquis OF Breadalbane Is the
worst dressed man of title in Great
Britain.
Richard lie Gallienne dresses almost
invariably in dead black down TO the
minutest detail.
Mrs. d. NJ. Rice, of Aptos, Cal, is the
Oldest daughter OF American parents
born in that state. She is but SO years
old.
Another German prince is to be sup
ported by England. Prince Louis OF
Battenberg has received an appoint
ment in the admiralty.
The Renshaw brothers and the Allen
brothers are crack English tennis play
ers. Each pair of twins is SO much
alike that few can tell them apart.
James Frederick Hodgetts, who re-
Gently filed petition in bankruptcy in
London, was worth s14o,o ,o0o in 1896. and
now has nothing but $3.50 worth of
furniture. He squandered all his for
tune in working upon the construc-
ton of non-rolling ship, in the de-
velopment of which idea he has taken
out 23 patents. The patents have
passed into the hands Of syndicate,
and the bankrupt believes that they
will yet prove profitable.
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TAKES MORPHINE IN PUBLIC.
How the DepIOrabIe Habit of WASH
inatOn Helle Was Accident
ally Discovered. --,sAa

"While I was in Washington. last
MONTH" said Chicagoan the other
night, II saw something which fairly
gave me cold shivers. We were sitting
in the street car, and in the seat just be.
side me sat one of the handsomest
women in all Washington, tall, well.
developed, well-groomed creature OF
perhaps 80, with dark-rimmed eyes and
bronze-tinted hair. / knew her for the
widow of man who was something OF
other in the state department under
the Cleveland administration, l believe
| know she lives in dainty apartment
in the newer part of the northwest
quarter. There was man with her
on the car, a mere boy of fellow, and
he gazed at her with admiring eyes
There was hint of chilliness in the air
and the woman shrugged her hand.
some shoulders.
"'My!' said she, I'm afraid I'm tax.
ing cold
Cant I get you something before
we start?' asked the boy, anxiously.
"'Oh, no. she answered. I'll just
take some quinine. l always carry II
with me--a habit / learned out in In
diana
"She took folded paper from hel
purse and opened it. She emptied the
white powder it contained upon her
tongue.
"It's an odd way to take quinine,
isn't it?' she said with smile. IT'S the
way they do out in Indiana I don't
mind the taste at all
Then the car started, and the empty
paper fluttered into my lap. Just lit
tie of the white powder clung to it.
Quite without any purpose whatever,
rubbed my finger against the paper
and touched my tongue with an in
initesimal quantity of the powder. The
woman turned and looked at me just
then, and as our eyes met she blushed.
1t was an odd way, indeed, to take, not
quinine, but morphine. ."-Chicago
Chronicle
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Destruction of Niagara Falls.

The announcement that ledge of
:ock has fallen, making Niagara falls
,nce more 'U"shaped cataract, marks
another step in the process which,
sooner or later, will result, it is pre-
iicted, in the total destruction of the
falls. The terrific force of the water,
falling over a precipice $50 feet high,
gradually wears away the soft lime
stone underlying the harder strata over
which it runs, so that year by year
he top of the falls recedes. In the
ast so years some parts Of the falls
have receded $50 feet. In 1850 the
famous Table Rock, which had been
feature of the falls for years, was
obliterated. At the present rate of
progress il will be hundreds Of years
before the great falls will be degraded
to the level of an ordinary riffle.--Chi-
cago Tribune,
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Wants a Diagram.

"That Fuddlethwait girl makes the
flattest remarks of anybody l ever
saw. And people laugh at them too.
I can't understand 1t. 1t must be be-
cause she has money"
whats she been saying nowT
II was telling her the other evening
that my parents had IS children"
YES"
"Well, she looked at me awhile and
said, 'Oh, are you the thirteenth Then
everybody snickered. Now, will you
kindly tell me what there was funny
about hatT-Chicago Times Herald.
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Garrick and Murphy,

Garrick and Murphy.
Conferring the freedom Of the play
house. on playwrights and men Of let
ters was common in Garrick's day, and
without doubt the good natured man.
ager was often pestered for the same
favor by persons who had no such
claim. 1t was evidently Garrick's GUS
tom to give tickets Of admission, per-
manent orders, to those whom he de-
sired to honor. 1t Is recorded that the
Irish writer, Murphy, annoyed at what
he thought i'll treatment or neglect, re-
turned the ticket with the words, "As
I do not foresee any further occasion
for this obliging passport, l am not
willing to trespass too long upon your
civility."
Garrick's answer was such rs to re-
feet the greatest possible credit upon
himself: 'If you choose to 'relinquish
your right to the freedom Of Drury
Lane playhouse, you certainly will do
as you please. But without the ticket,
l imagine, Mr.. Murphy will find the
doors open to him, as usual, and be 1t
further known to you, sir, that as
thought you were above an undue In
huence I never meant the ticket as
the least tie upon the liberty Of your
pen or conversation"
1t may be safely inferred that Gar
rick presented the same permanent
passport to his gruff but faithful
friend, DR.. Johnson. 1t is hardly too
much to say that the great players
generosity was as notable as his act
ing, and his acting was probably such
as the world has never surpassed.
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History's Notorious Fault.

II must insist" declared Diana, who
was the acknowledged leader Of the
Olympian Woman's Suffrage party.
that the purity Of the ballot would be
conserved by allowing US to vote"
Nonsense" protested Mercury, lead
er of the opposition. "You wouldn't be
able to control the Muse of History.
She's a natural born repeater" ."-Phila-
delphia Press.
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A Drastic Measure,

A Spanish magistrate, shocked by
Che extent Of the food adnlteration,
issued a proclamation, afame with
righteous wrath, that "all wines, gro
ceries and provisions which upon ANAL
ysis are proved to be injurious to
health will be confiscated forthwith
and distributed to the different chart
table institutions. Woman's Journal
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The Track Foreman.

The track foreman actually accounts
for a greater proportion Of the rail-
roads expenditures than any other en-
ployee, because the greatest cost Of
railroading Is in the roadbed, and it's
equipment and the expense Of main
taining 1t. The track foreman Is In
fact an important employee, but about
the only time a passenger ever sees
his sunburned face is while be Is being
whisked by between stations at 90
miles an hour.-New York Sun,
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08

With the exception Of Norway, there
is no country In Europe whose area Is
30 taken up by forests MS Germany,
more than a quarter Of It's surface be-
ing devoted to them.
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08

The tongue Is little thing. but 1t
Oils the universe with trouble.
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-13
KENTUCKY FlEND CAPTURED
Man Who tortured His Stepdaushter Safe in
Jail-No Indications OF Violence.

Maysville. KY, Dec. 10.-William
Gibson. the man who is charged with
tiendishly torturing to death with a
red.hot iron his helpless 2.year-old
stepdaughter, at Cattlettsburg, KY,
two weeks ago, is safely in Jail here.
In an interview tonight he denied
everything as to his guilt. At differ
emit times during the interview he
would laugh idiotically. When asked
WHY he fed, If innocent, he replied:
"Well, you see, this thing was hol-
Tered about and made SO much over
that the people got excited. and you
know how the people are when they
&c excited"
He said he had slept in ravines and
in brush for the last two weeks. His
intellect seems somewhat blurred and
at times his stupidity was very per-
ceptible. Everything is quiet here to-
night and there are no indications of
mob violence.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-13
NOT A PEACE TREATY.
The Pskin Agreement Only Statement Of the
Powers Terms.

Washington, Dec. 8.-All the am.
bassadors and nearly a majority of the
ministers resident in Washington
called upon Secretary Hay today. this
being diplomatic day. In the case Of
the representatives Of those powers in.
terested iu the Chinese question, it is
understood there was some exchanges
on that subject respecting the latest
developments in Pekin.
There has been no word from MI.
Conger since the dispatch to him of his
instructions to sign the agreement. 1t
10 assumed here that several days must
elapse before the formal signatures Of
all the powers can be obtained to the
agreement. Then it will be laid be.
fore Prince Ching and LII Hung Chang.
who probably will be supplemented by
the viceroys OF Nankin and Han Kow.
the latter, acting by telegraph, consti.
tuting the board Of commissioners to
represent the Chinese government.
This agreement in not peace treaty
in any sense of the term. 1t is moth.
ing but statement OF the terms on
which the powers will negotiate with
China for a final settlement. 1t will
be laid before the Chinese officials
rather as a matter OF form, for there 10
not the least doubt entertained that
they will be Obliged to accept its pro-
visions. Still they may require week
or two for its consideration, and then
the way will be cleared for the initia.
tion of fresh negotiations at Pekin be.
tween the ministers and the Chinese
commissioners for a final settlement.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-13
STILL INDEClSIVE.
General Kitchener's Report Of Operations
Against Guerrillas.

New York, Dec. "A dispatch to
the Tribune from London say:
Lord Kitchener report OF knox's,
Settles and Paget's skirmishes show
that the operations against the guerril-
las under the system are still indie.
cisive. While Dewet has been headed
off in one direction he has doubled in
another.
The text of Lord Roberts farewell
order to the army is eloquent enough
to stir to enthusiasm today's leader
writer's. 1t is the strongest possible
summary of the sufferings and heroism
of the British army in campaign un.
exampled for severity, more than a..
Uvo ~" ----- -..a mon having died from
wounds, fever and exposure.
General Clery, who commanded a
division under General Butler in the
Ladysmith campaign, has returned to
London, and is enjoying the hospital.
ity OF his Aldershot friends. While he
did not redeem his reputation as chief
strategist OF the staff college, he es.
capped the fate of Generals Gatacre,
Methuen and Warren in the early
period of the war.
DR.. Jameson still remains in retire.
ment at London.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-13
ARN1 Dill PASSED.
The House Disposed Of II by a
Party Vote.
MANY AMENDMENTS WERE ADOPTED
The liveliest Fight Was Made on q Substitute
Offered by Littlefield. Of Maine. for
the Canteen Provision.

Washington, Dec. 8.-The house
today, at the end Of a long session,
passed the army reorganization bill by
q vote Of 1853 to 1873. Three Democrats,
Hall PA. and Underhill and Slayton
IN. W, voted with the Republicans
for the bill. and Mccall (Rep. Mass.)
with the Democrats against it. Other.
wise 1t was a strict party vote.
The proposition to which some Of the
Democrats attem pied to commit their
side in caucus, All extension OF the
present temporary army until July l.,
1908, which was voted upon indirectly
on motion to recommit, commanded
the votes of only about half the oppo.
sition and two Republicans. Mccall
and Mann (lll.), Many OF the Demo.
Gratis, however. voted against the
motion because they were opposed not
only to the reorganization bill, but also
continuing the temporary army at its
present strength.
Quite number OF amendments were
placed upon the bill before it was
passed. The liveliest fight was made
upon substitute offered by Littlefeld
(Rep.), for the canteen section. The
substitute absolutely prohibited the
sale Of intoxicants at military points.
Large delegations from the w. q. 7.
u. which is in session in this city,
watched the fight from the gallery.
When tine vote was taken, the prohibi-
ton amendment was carried by an
overwhelming majority-l59 to 81.
Bartholdt attempted to secure record
vote in the house, but the peculiar par.
liamentary statutes shut him out.
Among the amendments adopted
were those providing for so voluteer
surgeons and $50 assistant surgeons for
service in the Philippines; for 30
dental surgeons and for veterinary
corps with actual rank. The officers
of the pay corps were increased II, and
of the signal corps %. The age limit
was removed from volunteer officers
eligible to appointment rs first and se'
cond lieutenants, and the provision for
retiring officers who ser, ed in the civil
war on the next higher grade was
stricken out.