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holes. has been discovered in Inter-
state Park, Minnesota. They cover an
area of two or three acres, and vary in
diameter from less than a foot to TWEEN
ty-five feet. In depth they range from
one foot to eightyfour. They are in
very hard rock, and in many cases are
like wells in shape. The origin has
been ascribed to torrents falling
through glacial moulins at the time
when the northern part of this country
was under ice.
photographic officers have often
tested the direction of ocean currents
by throwing overheard sealed bottles,
but a fourteen-year Chicago boy,
in an idle moment, made an experiment
of that kind with a result that has
astonished him. He wrote a letter to
himself on Jan. 4 of this year, at Ma
dras, British India, and committed it.,
tightly sealed in a bottle, to the ocean
there. The bottle was found by some
fishermen off Mombasa, East Africa, in
June, and the Englishmen there mailed
the letter to Chicago, where it arrived
in good condition, having travelled a
distance of about 10000 miles.
Two enterprising Americans named
Darnbrough and Adams, who are con-
WINGED they have hit upon an almost
infallable system" are on their way
to break the bank at Monte Carlo.
They are said to have won great sums
in different parts of America. Here
in their manner of operation. Darnbr-
ough plays the chips, betting as heav-
lily as the gamekeeper will allow. Ad-
ans sits beside the wheel and watches
its movement and that of the circling
ivory ball. AS the two slow down and
hal iy Oh 4 20 sr,k@ a
| socket, Adams unerring eye picks it's
dropping place and by a signal, per-
ceptible only to Darnbrough, he notifies
the player, and before the ball drops
| into place, Darnbrough, quick as a
flash, covers the numbers in the bunch
indicated by Adams. There is rarely a
mistake, both men being perfect from
constant practice, and the winnings
reach an amount which is only limited
by the size of the keepers bank ac-
count. About one in ten times the
players miss their calculation, but their
losses are, of course, comparatively
slight.
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, is
| said to be the longest street in the
| world. extending as it does, for seven
| teen and one-half miles. The shortest
| street is the Rue BE, Paris, which is
| thirty feet long. Havana has the mar
| rowest street in the world in the Via
| Sol, which is only three and half feet
| wide. Main street, Denver, is believed
| to be the highest street and Main
| street, Georgetown, Demerara, the
| lowest street. The most crowded street
| is probably the Rua do Ouvidor, in Rio
/ de Janeiro. This narrow thorOughfare
| is as crowded at all times as Nassau
| street is the busiest portion of the day,
and no animal or wheeled vehicle is
| allowed to enter it. 1t is lined with
houses painted white. blue, pink, yellow
and other coIors, and opening off the
| street are the shops of the dealers in
| diamonds and other precious stones,
| the workers in silver and gold and the
beautiful shops of the feather workers,
| who manufacture the most exquisite
| feather flowers and fans. For crooked
streets it would be hard to find one to
| beat Pearl street, which practically is
| Broadway, wanders aimlessly about
| the lower portion of the city, to end
| again in Broadway.
| In our growing apprehensions of
| the linked life of the universe the fight
of the butterfly has gained a signifi-
| canoe and interest far beyond the cas-
| ual appreciation of it's radiance and
| grace, says L. w. BrowneH in Every
| body's Magazine. 1t is no longer as the
| frivolous saunterer, who through the
| sunny days f1utters his life away among
| perfumed petals, that he figures The
| beauty has it's function, and subServes
| a vital purpose in the economy of ma
| ture. Like the bee, the butterfly is a
workman in Gods garden, and his mis-
sion to carry pollen from blossom to
blossom, thus fertilizing and cross-fer-
| tilizing the seeds. Without these wing
| ed messengers of the air more than half
| the flowers in the world would be ex-
| terminated. Not only do they add to
| the color and loneliness of summer
! pageantry, but assist in it's creation.
| Does ii not ripen the interest of the
| spectacle to realize the swarm of
| opalescent insects one sees in the mead
! ows, eddying in the golden sunlight,
rising and falling in lazy abandon,
swaying drowsily on the clover bios
SONS or balancing on the petals of the
new opened violets, in an existence ap-
parently fetterless and fancy free, are
really seriously at work performing the
| function of their being.
| Miss Amelia A. Bar tells the read
ers of the Ladys Review of Reviews
| that men are much more contemplate
| and useless in their celibacy than are
women. An old maid, she says, can
| generally make herself of service to
| some one. At any rate, she never de-
| sends to such depths of ennui and sell
| fishness as do the old bachelors, who
| Ioll about on club sofas or who dwadle
| discontentedly at afternoon teas. An
| old maid may be troublesome in church
business or particular in household af-
| fairs, but II takes an old bachelor to
| quarrel with walters and grumble ev-
! eryone insane about his dinner menue.
| The unmarried woma mis- becoming ev-
! cry year more self reliant and more re-
spectacle and respected, and the un-
married man more effeminate and con-
! temptible. We look for day, not far
| off, when a man will have to become a
member of some religious order If he
| wishes reputable excuse for his celib-
| acy; and even in secular life 1t would
| not be bad idea to clothe bachelors
| over 40 years of age in certain uniform.
| They might also, after that age. be
| advised to have their own clubs and
| recreations for their assumption of
/ equality with those of their sex who
have done their duty as men and citi-
zens is a piece of presumption that
married men ought to resent.
M. Jules Huret has been collecting
| some interesting information in con-
nection with costly dinners. Ancient
! Romans were. after all, not more ex-
| travagant than some modern Parisians,
Englishmen and Americans. NJ. Huret
! records that on the evening of the