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 A ARfIFICIAL SILK.
osvesoLiment of the Industry Now
 Going On by Leaps.

soing On by Leaps.
 The silk worm, with it's comparative. " small output. has now rival in artificial silk" and it was to exnlain the processes by which tnis is produced th 1t Joseph Cash, chairman of a fac tory at Wolston. near Coventry. read a paper at the Society of Arts, says the London Mail. Sir T. Wardle presided. Many attempts have been made. said Mr. Cash. to produce material resem- bling silk, but only recently have they resulted in commercially successful fabric. The earliest imitation was spun glass, which in it's dexibility and 3rlllianey is excellent for millinery or dress ties but it's limitations are soon reached, for it can only be spun eer- tain lengths, and it possesses little or 10 warmth. Polished" cotton, .mer. eerized" cotton and Pandura "silk." made of gelatin thread, have struggled for recognition in the market. but com osete victory seems to be reserved to what is known as eeIledien s'silk ]" pro- dueed by the Ghardonne method which .a elaborate. Enormous sums o9 money It appears had been lost ere the pres- ent success was attained two years ago. But now the development of the i1- dustfy is going on by leaps and bounds iE= Besancons in France and in Switzer- land. The material has ab even great er brilliansy than silk, but the warmth is not 50 great, It is more durable. however, than the natural silk as known to the ordinary customer.
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to the Eastern District hospital, and there
DR.. Silas Blaisdell removed from him
nearly basinful of wood, says the New
York World
Dr. Murphy, who attended the opera
ton, says: 1.-THE wood was not even
chewed into pulp. It was in the form OF
sticks ranging in length from a quarter
OF an inch to an inch and a half. Some
of them were sharp-pointed, and 1t is a
wonder the boy was not killed.
How he came to eat the. wood,eI don't
know" said his mother "He must have
been eating wood for months Willie is
one Of the brightest boys in school Oh.
yes; he's as well as ever He has prom
ised me he won't eat any more wood
pulp"
There have been many cases similar to
that of the Foley boy; some instances
are reported by physicians which would
be incredible If they came from unau-
thenticated sources.
One of the most famous cases on record
is reported from the Marine hospital, at
Nantes. On Sept. 5, 1774, a man died in
the hospital. At the autopsy it was found
that his stomach contained 19 inches of
barrel hoop, and these other articles: Sew
eral pieces of broom, from to Z inches
long; wooden spoon, the tube Of a tin
funnel, inches long; handle Of tin
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1t Is only necessary to find place to pass
the night in town. One of tho merchants.
who has large store, permits these peo-
pie to bring their blankets and quilts and
camp" on the floor; so that in the fall,
when wheat is moving freely, it often
happens that this store, at night re-
sembles a barracks more than place to
trade; and as the German Russians are
good smokers and their pipes are well
seasoned, the air is likely to become some
what heavy before morning.
For the last four or five years the wheat
crop In this part of South Dakota has
been much below a full yield, so that
the receipts and shipments have been
light compared with good years. There
are now twenty-seven grain warehouses
and elevators buying and shipping grain
at Eureka, and as each house has sew
eral buyers, there are lively times in the
streets when wheat comes in In any vol
ume. The buyers climb on the wagons,
inspect the wheat and make their bids,
while the owner stands haughtlly by,
hardly the downtrodden and oppressed
farmer we are often told about, who has
TO beg some one to take his wheat at any
old price With such competition mar
gins often get cut pretty thin, and the
farmer is the gamer.
On the 1899 crop, from Sept. l to Dec.
81, the shipments OF wheat from Eureka
amounted to just g99 cars; and of flax,
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from time to time. Some Of these pass.
ed very near the heart
William Cummins, a sailor on board II
M. s. Isis, had been at a circus and see1
a juggler pretending to swallow knives
On returning to his ship. he boasted that
he could do the trick. He actually swal.
lowed fourteen knives.
Many cases of knife swallowing are re-
ported. A peasant in France swallowed,
without Ill effects, an open knife, hav-
ing a blade six and half inches long
and a bone handle. Another man swal-
lowed butchers sharpening steel and
the leg Of an iron pot. DR. Tyson men,
tions a juggler who swallowed a knife
blade and a razor.
DR.. Read, of Boston, gives an account
of a boy, seven years old, who swallow
ed sixty-four stones, ranging in size from
a pea to cherry. When the boy walked
the stones could be heard to rattle. DR..
Isaac F. Galloupe reports a boy who
swallowed the lid of an iron box, and
another who swallowed a tin whistle one
half an inch IN diameter and one and q
quarter inches long
Women. when sewing, frequently swal-
low thirnbles, and one woman was known
to swallow a pair of scissors. They
Gulsborough workhouse one woman swal-
lowed eighty-six needles, some three and
three-quarters inches long. One patient
tried to eat the Bible, chewing and swal-
lowing a portion each day.
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ed. but he managed to get them all down.
and suffered no Ill effect
DR.. A, Gilmore, an assistant surgeon III
the British-India army, furnishes an ac-
count of native who swallowed fifteen
rupees and lived for six years with the
metal thus concealed. On his death nine
of the coins were recovered, one Of which
is in the museum of the College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, London.
+. Ezekial Annis, aged forty-flve, swallow
ed a flve-shiliing piece-a silver coin larg-
er than Bland dollar-without i'll effect,
and a Buffalo man swallowed, for safe
keeping, $40 gold piece
A record-breaking case Is reported by
Or. Joseph D. Craig, lecturer and demon
strator of anatomy at the Albany Medi-
cal college.
Emma F., aged twenty-four, was ad-
mitted to the hospital for the insane on
Nov. "a, 1890. She died afterwards In
her stomach were found ithe following ar
ticles: Fifty-one pins 16 needless darn
ing needles, 80 nails varying in length
from one-half inch to three inches, 2
screws, 3 pieces of ironya2 rolls of hair, 2
pieces of wood, 2 pieces of cloth, each
five inches by one inch, and hairplns-
making 120 articles jail. The woman
lived from Nov. "a, 1890, to May 20, $780,,
and did not seem greatly Inconvenience
by the strange assortment
Dr. Judson Andrews reports a case
where a woman swallowed eight pack
ages of needles Mere than 300 needles
came out of her body at various points
II =.
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spoon, AZ inches long; entire tin spoon, :
inches long: the bowl of a tobacco pipe
and pocket knife-52 pieces forming the
equipment of this gastromic portmanteau.
Guys Hospital Reports, London, con-
tain several accounts of Swallowing
f1ends."- One relates to man In Berlin
who was condemned to death, To escape
hanging, he broke up seven pieces of
wood with Jagged ends. These he swa1-
lowed, but the wood did him no harm,
and he was executed.
Another man was playing on a flute
when a sudden blow forced the instru-
ment down his throat into his stomach
The flute remained there some weeks, and
was finally extracted without doing
serious harm.
In the French army, says Good
Study of Medicine" was a notorious
eater named Tarrare. At one meal he
could devour more than thirty pounds OF
meat. Tarrare was entrusted by his COM
manding officer with a message placed
in wooden box, and to avoid its being
discovered, swallowed it, box and ALL He
was captured and searched. The mes
sage was not found, and Tarrare escaped
and delivered 1t safely.
NJ valiant, the French antiquarian,
was once pursued by a corsair. The bos-
ON of the savant was covered by fifteen
medals of honor which he had received.
The disgrace Of having these medals fall
into the hands of an enemy was too great.
So he swallowed the entire lot. Some of
the medals were star-shaped and point
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~
OF miles farther than at other times; il
an eclipse occur at such times the SUMS
body is apparently enlarged, and the
moons body apparently diminished, 80
that the moon fails to cover the face of
the sun, and ring of sunlight (called
In Latin, annulus) surrounds the moons
body.
If, on the other hand. the moon were
actually larger, or if she were nearer
and therefore apparently larger, there
would be an occuitatioh' Of the sun. That
Is, the suns bright face, not only, would
be hidden from view, but also that vast
and brilliant corona which surrounds his
face, and which is never seen except dur
Ing an eclipse. The srtn, with all that
pertains to him, would appear utterly
extinguished, and this state of things
would continue for period of time pro-
portionate to the size, or apparent size.
of the moon. During such an occulta-
ton all the stars, which are as truly
in the heavens by day as by night,
would come out to view; and constella-
tions which are seen only at the opposite
season of the year would be on tuii eX-
hibition. Planets which, by reason or
their apparent proximity TO the SUM-
could not ordinarily be seen, would shine
forth with their. proper glory; and this
latter fact would bea consoling evidence
that the sun had not actually been an
initiated, since the radiance of the plan
cts is nothing but the reflected radiance
of the sun; If he Were destroyed, they
too, would cease to glow.
Now, 1t is a remarkable thing that the
distances OF, sun and moon are so proper
toned to their size that usually the moon
fits quite exactly over the face OF the
SUM- Hence, instead of a transit or an
occultation, we have an eclipse; 1t never
can last but a few minutes, ana In the
present instance a minute and half Is
the limit of totality, for the moon has
tens on and the sun shines out once
more However, for long. time. 1t can
be seen approaching and receding; thus
the duration of the entire eclipse win be
about two hours and half.
The following table will be of general
interest as showing the exact hour and
minute at various points throughout the
United States when the eclipse will begin,
wthen it will be, total and when it will
end:
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Eclipse OF Be Sum.

Frederick Campbell in Leslie's Weekly.
Eleven years have passed since the last
total eclipse OF the sun in this country;
eighteen years more are to pass before
the next; consequently the total eclipse
OF the sun, visible in the United States
on the 2Sth of next May. being the only
event of its kind within period of more
than quarter of century. is to -be re-
garded as of great Importance.
There has ceased to be any mystery
connected with the phenomena OF
eclipses, whether solar or lunar. The
moon makes the complete circuit of the
heavens once in about twenty-nine and
sone-half days; the sun appears to do the
same, owing to the actual circuit made
by the earth, once in year. The moon
therefore makes more than twelve cir
cults while the sun is making one. Con-
sequently, the moon must overtake and
pass the sun as many as twelve times a
year Sun and moon both appear to be
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at one Of those points at the same time
then an eclipse is inevitable At such a
time, were these two bodies at the same
distance from the earth, there would be
collision; but, as they are at different
distances. the moon, being the nearer of
the two, simply shuts off the view of the
sun, and the latter is eclpised.
If the moon were actually smaller or If
she were more distant and therefore ap-
parently smaller, then there would be
simply a transit of the moon, like the
well known transits of Venus and Mer-
curry, both of which planets are i'm
mensely more distant than the moon
That is, the moon would then be seen
as dark body passing across the sun s
face, and shutting off more or less of its
light according to her apparent size
Now, as matter of fact, we do have
transits of the moon, though they are
commonly called "annular eclipses. ;"
There are times when the sun is several
million miles nearer than at other times,
and when the moon is several thousands
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moving IN the same direction, not only,
but in nearly the same path. If they
moved in exactly the same path the
moon would pass in between the sun and
earth at every circuit, and there would
be an eclipse of the sun at every new
moon. But the paths are not exactly the
same; so the moon usually goes by either
above or below the sun. There are points,
however, where these two paths inter-
sect; and if sun and moon both happen
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An African Piano.

From "a White Woman in Central AZ
rica," Helen Caddick.
These pianos are made of an oblong
piece Of wood, and the one have is about
eight inches long and six inches wide.
A narrow bar of iron is fastened across
the top of the wood to hold in place the
strips of iron, which are Of different
length and form the keys. Across the
lower end of the wood is a piece OF thin
iron or tin, to which are fastened pieces
Of shell, which make jingling and buz-
zing sound when the keys are being play
ed. The "sansi" is held in both hands.
the fingers being underneath, and the
thumbs being used to press the tips of
the iron notes, which vary in number
from sixteen to thirty, or, as have been
told, even more.
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QUEER THINGS MEN CAN SWALLOW AN

Eight-year-old William Foley tried to
be human ostrich. He thought he could
eat with impunity thousands of little
pieces of wood, but when he had taken
into his anatomy about two pounds of
toothpicks, matches, pieces Of pencil and
other delicacies, nature called a halt.
William one day complained of pains
Of a peculiar character. Then he said to
his mother: 1--WE got wood inside me!'
Mrs. Foley, who lives at 533 Wythe ave-
nue., Brooklyn, took her woedenized son
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Barnes 6 Larkin,
1O4 East 4th St.

QON0 A flrst-class 8-room house, To-
OOIO Gated on Congress street, West
ST. Paul; lot 40-foot front; the place could
not be produced for twice the money.
%4OEO Located south of selby ave-
street; this is a first-class 9-room- house
with good barn; in thoroughly first
class condition; well worth your time to
see; suro to sell; all modern and up-to-
date.
9OUUO front, front located c at iVUns on St soain Am
thsny hill; hot water heat. nickel plumb
ing, laundry, cemented cellar; in splendid
condition; newly papered and painted.
$1,000 A fine 7-room house on Tus-
OAGOO carora avenue and West
Seventh street: full size lot, good barn,
sewer and water: lays fine.
31 1000 Croeus Hill proper; Good
PAOOOO rich avenue; lot 61x150, to
alley; south-facing corner; house 12
rooms, finished n sawed oak. oak
room; fine bath and closet in basement;
beautiful mantels; all hand-painted
walls: laundry; fine servants rooms on
third floor; billiard room; library, large,
beautiful shelving; smoking room; loung-
Ing rooms, elaborately and artistically
finished; brand new.
0OHE0 Want to sell 60x150 feet,
OG GOO south-facing corner on Good
rich avenue, at Avon street
6HnE Lot on Ashland avenue, at
V1S - Victoria street; sewer, water
and gas
0O1E South-facing lot on Dayton
O6so avenue, near Fairview avenue,
Merriam Park.
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A7 cars. Taking an average of 500 bush
els of wheat to the carload, there was
shipped in that time about 100000 BUSH
els. In an ordinary year the shipments
would have amounted to 100000 bushels.
In the trade Eureka has the name Of
being the greatest spring wheat primary
receiving point. Here every bushel Of
wheat comes in wagons direct from farm
ers; and the farmers are mostly men
who, Il few years ago, were paying taxes
TO the Russian government and stand
ing still In the. world. Now they are
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THE. SULTAN OF suLu.

"Go right ahead without me-" said the
Sultan with a tear. 1<k
: Fix up what government you VIII II II
never interfere. = atiizl
I haven't any time to mingle in such
small affairs, v,a
Domestic complications leave me over
whelmed with cares
For the haFern' s i'm a furry. sTt - s. q,
And they're talking womans rights;
I'm in such a5state, of worry. -f.4.ss5
That 1Ecan not sleep e,anights.ss :. 3
$50 leave me unmolested as theme Of
harmless mirth;
You'll hear no Mormon pfecepts from
my corner of the earth. ~
If you want to help your country you
must do it all alone. .z...s s.
ean't:b be qpatriotic.s,I l have troubles of
my SpWn. ss:t-i. sf,r- ar
There are many men who borrow M
Trouble in this world of strife.
But for undiluted sorrow
Nothing beats Sultans life" r
a7e4 Washington Star.
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KssskssssEEgggsssskE

But, while the eclipse can be seen over
the whole country, it IS only within a
path of about f1fty-fve miles width that
it appears as total eclipse; this runs
from New Orleans in northeasterly di-
rection across the Southeastern states,
and passes out TO sea at Norfolk
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American citizens, and the second gem
Grafton has already advanced further
than their ancestors did in their 100 years
o. allegiance to the czars of Russia.
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BAYARO, DEUEL. & co.
6o2 Pioneer Press Bldg.

0O2 Pioneer Press Bldg.
$500 S9Hl Snail house, house and lot and barn.
$500 Small house and nice lot e24
POOO Beech street.
$500 County @ouny fSfss Tess Of 81 Roaem0un .a On Dakota
1900 Eight-roo house GA East
SDOOO Fourth street.
OCOO street. 10 nice condition, also also barn barn
on place.one third cash.
$3.50 5.room cottage on Lucy street
WV near South Robert
3H00 VIII buy a seven-room house.
" w with cellar, woodshed and
well; all In good repair; corner lot,
Westminster street and Cayuga.
1890 Eight-room house and barn,
pAOOO all in good order; buildings
insured for $1,000. On Margaret street.
near school; well rented.
$4,000 Elegant eight-room house on
PCOCO Martin, east of Kent; hard
WOOD nnlsh, water, sewer, bath, furnace,
cemented cellar; no incumbrance; taken
under foreclosure Of $1,000 mortgage.
One-third cash will handle it.
&7 600 For good seven-room house and
SL. H~GO ~ barH. Merriam Park. The LOT Is q
1900 Buys eiEht-room house on Fair
Now rented at $l2 per month. A bargain.
R2H00 A ten-room house on winifred
including hot water heating system
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Jas. D. Prendergast
ao4 GLOBE BUILDING.

122 Belvidere St.. 8 rooms. city water, bath.
$1,000 $500 down, balance 6 per cent
Two houses on one lot in University avenue
district will sell for $22oO The present rent is
S22 per month good chance for some one
looking for good investment.
also have 34 lots in Sauer's addition to st.
Paul that / can sell very cheap and
make terms 10 suit the purchaser. Will sell one
or all of them
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MANNING's RENTING AGENCY,

Nat. German-American Bank Bldg.
los SUMMIT-10-room modern house, $35
So Summit-10-room modern house, $40
Al Summit-9-room modern house, $35.
1863 East University-l0-room modern
house, $25.
III East University-10-room modern
house. $23.
603 Holly-S-room modern house, fur
nished; possession June /; $35.
STORES.
315 West Seventh, Corner Ramsey-Fine
location for retail business; low rent.
3i6 Minnesota-Best location in city for
small business; low rent.
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BARNES & LARKlN.
JOHN 4. HEALEY,


az G0Fmansa EtT0.
QEOE Lot on Marshall avenue, Mer-
OO6O Ram Park, 50x160, to alley
sewer. water and gas in street.
0OGO0 $500 easlhl--eight rooms, all
OSOOO modern; 281 St. Anthony.
QRO00 Beautiful house on Dayton
OCSOO avenue and Fisk street; one
third cash, balance to suit.
QOHEO Eight-room modern house.
WH@ sOO 74S Iglehart street.
QOOS0 Eight-room modern house
,QE00S>NJ nice, lot, on Martin street,
near western avenue This Is what I call
a snap. :
1900 For nice corner lot on Ash
PoOO land, east of Grotto street.
&R00 South-facing lot on University
er, water and gas. in street
QO7E Nice lot on Arbor street. near
PGfo West Seventh street.
$1,000 Nice f1ve-room cottage on
borne. = - : -
OEH Eight-room house on Chero-
P4OOO'kee avenue; nice barn. ar This
property is cheap. 'les - so
5000 Eight-room house on Bdgerton
X14OOEight-room house, large lot,
street. near Western avenue.
= Some elegant houses on Osceola avenue
Goodrich avenue Dayton avenue, Ash
land avenue and Iglehart street: these
properties were taken on mortgages and
are Tor sale at less than the cost of i'm
provements, the lot thrown In.
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RENTAL LISTS.
THE ST. PAUL TRUST COMPANY.

TIE ST. PAUL TRUST CUMPANY.
HOLLY AV., NO. 5S5-Eleven-room
brown stone dwelling, hardwood
finish; thoroughly modern .sss5. 90
Charles ST., No. 1Six-room dwell
ing, bath. closet, etc: II 90
Laurel Av.. Between ST. Adams and
Grotto, Gilman Terrace-Six room
steam-heated fats: all conven-
fences; newly papered. etc $1,000 to 49, 90
East Eleventh ST., No SO, Concord
Flats = SeYen-room steam heated
fats. within walking distance; In
excellent repair .e................. IS 90
store ...................... Is. co
We have several small cottages, second
floors OF houses and some excellently
located stores and offices in all parts
of the city. Also one large manufactur-
ing building, with power and heating
plant.
THE ST. PAUL TRUST COMPANY,
Endicott Building.
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REAL ESTATE.
REAL ESTATE,

A RARE CHANCE to get home cheap
at your own termsi. monthly payments
If desired; seven-room house, city wa
ter and cistern; elegant lot; nice neigh
r bors. Cali Sunday afternoon or Mon
day n1orning!' 469 Whitalle ST. y
HOUSES-For sale ST Anthony, east OF
Dale, corner lot and good house for 81,
800; Aurora av., near Western, two good
houses; Charles ST., near Virginia, good
seven-room house and bath, 81 $50; 334
East Congress, $1,100; fifty-foot lot and
= good house, East Seventh St, $1,000; al
easy terms. J. M. Lynch. 620 Manhat-
F tan building.
$3.50 ONLY for cottage Of four rooms
barn and large corner lot, on Arm
strong av. Inquire 81 Smith av., near
Ramsey st.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-28
AN UNEXPECTED RESULT.
1t Was the Mother and Not the Daugh-
ter Who Accepted His Conn
pliments.

"Say," said the man with worried look
do you remember giving me lot of ad
vice on how to conduct my own love affairs
about two months ago."
Yes" replied the man with the wise ex.
pressicn, relates the Baltimore American.
Tod me if l wanted to win the girl
should make love to her mother?"
'sUh-huh."
"Said if l could get the old lady ON my
side all had to do was to toddle around
with ring and say: 'When? to the girl. %
The wise man nodded.
"Said for me to compliment the mother
on her youthful appearance" continued the
worried man, "and give her jolly about
how sad was that the young ladies of the
present were not to be compared with
those of the past?"
Eyes. Yes. You won the girl, suppose? ?"
eyes, did-not. The old lady has sued
her husband for divorce and me for breach
of promise"
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HERE AND THERE.

Assure the colt that the thing it is
frightened ut will not hurt it. This
will add to its value when it is ma
tured.
More country girls than city girls
marry, not because they're better bred,
but because they can make better
bread.
Tennessee is just now the center
of great industrial activity. There are
IS cotton mills in course of erection
in the state, combining an aggregate
capital of s3,2OO.OOO.
Plant garden truck seed in success
sion, so as to make the season a longer
one. Radishes, green peas and corn,
and other goddics may be enjoyed all
summer in this way.
May too dry to make good grass,
and the late general rain was most
welcome. Stockmen are prone
to consider corn as King, but grass
is certainly one Of the greatest pow
ers behind the throne..
Prices for American cattle on the
other side of the Atlantic are pretty
strong in comparison with other
years. The exclusion of South Ameri-
can cattle no doubt has something to
do with it, but the general demand
over there is very good.
You can, rid your soil of johnson
grass by close pasturing for two or
three successive years. Small spots
may be dug out or plowed out by two
horse plows, and careful ralxing out
roots and pulling out slips as they APP
pear.