The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-02
MONDAY

which Is of inland gold and other brigh
 metals artistically inlaid. Mr. Tiffany
 the jeweler, has expressed admiration
 for this gem of the collection. Equally curious is the memento of St. Peters
 burg, a. steel cane inlaid with silver, the
 work of a Caucasian artist in metals This would make a serviceable weapon
 in case of emergency. on account of its
 weight.
 A recent trip of the owners to Nor
 way, the Land of the Midnight Sun is commemorated by cane the handle of which is walrus tusk inlaid with
 the flag of Norway. illustrations of
 the grotesque are canes from Orleans,
 France and Llandudno, Wales, both of
 which have for handles carved wooden
 heads with long, hooked noses. The | former was brought when MT. Lock
 wood was at Orleans at the 4S0th birth
 day celebration of Joan of Arc. The 1 Welsh cane is a caricature of a Welsh
 politician who had very long nose and
 was much talked about at the time of
 Mr. Lockwood's visit. There is also a l Turks head mounted on cane from
 Constantinople, and when a spring is l touched, it protr it's tongue and rolls its eyes.
 A trip to Palestine is recalled by a
 stick with beautifully carved camels heaed in Mount of Olives wood for han | dle. A steel cane covered neatly with
 morocco leather was bought in Buda- | pest One made of the wood of the zuc-
 ca palm was the result of trip across the Mojave desert. It measures over
 six inches round and weighs only a few
 ounces, and is remarkably strong, con-
 sidering it's lightness. A cane of tin
 was bought in Canton. O.. as memor- ial of the development of home indus tries under the Mckinley tariff law, and has stamped upon it.. Patriotism,
 prosperity and protection" A cane
 bought at Keswick, Eng, where lead
 pencil works are located, is seen on eX-
 animation to be a huge lead pencil The
 handle is easily removed and is ready
 for taking notes.
 There is cane made of the wood of
 the sequoia ggantea, or giant redwoods of California. An African trophy is a cane of hippopotamus hide. A black bogwoood cane was bought at the likes of Killarney. A silver serpent is coiled around a stick bought at Helsingfors, Finland A gilded steel globe forms the handle of a cane from CracoW, Poland, the home of Kosciusko. A mottled cane with crook handle is souvenir from Darjeeling India, bought while ascend- ing the Himalsya mountains to see the sun rise over Mt Everest, 29,000 feet high A palmetto stick Is from Hon A ,;J, tcfn hoa on an ivory wod stick was bought in Malaga, Spain. An iron wod stick, sur mounted by cuerno horn, reminds it's owner of jaunt over the Andes in Venezuela An ordinary looking cane, with natural curved head, is from Merida, capital of Yucatan.
 Mir Lockwood was fortunate to pro- cure the "Columbus cane" imported for the Chicago exposition. It has silver likeness of Cristobal Colon in relieve, surrounded by eight silvers stars, for the officers of the caravels. Another cane is covered with a fine basket braid of rattan. This is from near the equator, at Singapore. Another stick, of the same character, made by the Carib Indians of St. Lu- cia reminds him of forty-seven days cruise among the West Indian islands A very innocent-looking cane from Southampton, Eng, has glass vial fourteen inches long hid inside, with,a tiny goblet to measure a dose of stim- ultnt for the weary traveller. Another cane reminds MT. Lockwood of a five days visit to the Tai Mahal, India. A silver top to a Singalese cane has a attachment. A silver mounted | bamboo stick Is from the Philippines. | cane reminds the traveller of a | two days visit at the winter palace, St. | Petersburg, when he saw the collection | of canes of Peter the Great. This" said the guide, was his favorite walk Ing cane'-a solid steel rod about five | and one half feet long, one inch and a | quarter in diameter. Peter was giant. |
 The little ivory gods of Japan are by the head of a cane made to order in Tokio, It is of ivory, and | represents over dozen smiling Japa- nese faces The stick, too, Is remarka- ble. being of square bamboo, form produced artifcialy while the stem was growing, Roman coins of un- doubted antiquity adorn a cane bought n Rome. One of the oldest looking S a staff of corlSwood bought at Ajaccio 1n the island of Corsica. the birthplace If Napoleon. The skill of the idol makers of India is illustrated on a san haywood stick bought in Bombay. It las a silver handle, and the wood is ,arved elaborately with vines, flowers, igers. alligators and other beasts in re- ief There is a reed from the bed of hen Nile which has been finished as a .ane, and a thistlewood cane, of course, vas bought in Edinburg, Scotland. Other interesting sticks are a cork crew shaped cane from the Barbadoes,
 tigerwood cane-a sort of rosewood rom Trinidad. From the Pappigo In- Hans of Arizona comes cane on which las been shrunk a rattlesnake's hide, nd another Indian cane from the same ection is of cactus, from which the ofter parts have been removed, leav- ng the stick a bit of lacework in ap- earance miniature totem pole. such as the alaskan Indians erect in front of their