Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-12
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The revolutionary work of the Ferris
wheel is finished in Chicago and 1t is being
taken apart for shipment to the st. Louis
Elwell Hoyt Of Eau Claire, Mich, has
the most. complete collection of pioneer
in a log cabin built at his home for that
purpose.
DR.. ]. Colling Warren of Boston has in
MS museum mor : n, the he most perfect example in
extinct mastodon. 1t only lacks a couple
OF toes or so of being absolutely complete.
had Just listened to a beantifuI talk on the
Importance of Aiming High went out,
threw a stone at a sparrow in the street
and smashed a huge French plate glass
show window.
Five generations of one family are living
In the town of Pillow, Dauphin county, Pa.
daughter. Mrs. Jacob Leuker. aged 60; Mrs.
Leuker's daughter, Mrs, Frank Snyder,
Deibler, and her son, Russell, aged 8
months.
Mrs. Jane Wesley Of Charleston, w. Va,
a Is i sGlGS ti hDF G sSe Bore s NTH Shn asT bu nhst dGE
linguistic abuse of her mother. but decided
on revolt when he brought home a brindle
Not only that, he beat the animal when il
refused to obey him.
The number of twins and triplets born
In Berlin has steadily risen since 1925. Out
of nearly 1000, 900 children born within that
period twins were born 22,A times. .triplets
20 ana Q~udOTuplclS . umeb. DuTlnB the
same period in London twins were born
1900 times, triplets rs times and quadrup-
lets twice. The Paris figures are: Twins,
1900; trtplets, rs; no bankruptcies.
Justice Grantham is called the par ex-
cellence murder judge of England. In one
day at Leeds recently he tried three muir
after. The justice is an inveterate smoker,
and in the course of the day leaves the
whirs from a stumpy little pipe which he
has used for years.
When the gun club OF Carlisle, Pa,
turned out one day recently for u match at
clay pigeons some of the younger members
looked on with good-natured amusement as
William Caufman, Is years old, lined up to
take part. The old gentleman calmly pro-
ceeded to shoot all around the Others, kill
tns a 1Se RtynlNs fSs @ 1t + possible twenty
The coal famine has caused the brewing
companies OF Milwaukee NU Jake extra pre-
cautions against the loss OF beer kegs;
keep a watchful eye for empty kegs and
every case Of unlawful appropriation of
good fuel. They are built of oak and are
coated inside with pitch. Many kegs al
ready have been broken up for fuel.
John Muir, the famous naturalist and ex-
plorer of the Pacific slope, has discovered
a tree In the General, Grant National park
in measurements any OF its gigantic rivals
of the sequoia group. II Is 19 feet In cir
conference; It is Just within the line OF
| the United States forest reserve, and reigns
over a grove OF other magnificent m
OF its kind. almost unknown 10 fame so
far. 1t Is a hner specimen In every way
than the great trees which have so far
carried on the hOnors OF hugeness.
The plan 10 erect eight granite monoliths
in the chancel of the cathedral Of st. John
the Divine in Manhattan has been given
up at last. The contractor has for years
been trying to turn out these columns en-
lists by which they could be turned without
breaking by their own weight. So the
contract has been modined TO allow the
columns 20 be made In two sections, thirty
six and eighteen feet long, respectively;
the bases, plinths and capitals 20 be added.
Three OF these will soon be erected, each
one will cost $4,000, will be the gift OF
some Individual and named after eminent
and Bishop John Henry Hobart are two
names mentioned as worthy Of the honor.
A civil war record OF the height Of In
diana soldiers shows that out OF 1888
5 feet II inches. s,679 s feet tall. 2.6l4 s feet
inch, 1857 s feet 2 inches, F6 6 feet 8 inches
and $50 over 6 feet 3 inches. Commenting
on these statistics. DR.. Gould, actuary OF
the limited States Sanitary commission,
writes: at is evident from our statistics
that the Indiana men are the tallest OF the
natives OF the United States, and these
latter the tallest OF all civilized countries. .
Sailors have a very simple ana "hat Is
mining the edible or nOnedible qualities
az any new varieties OF FISH they may hap
pen to run across. In the water In which
the hsh is boiled Is placed a bright. silver
coin. II the coin retains its natural color
during the boiling process. the nsh Is good
10 eat But n Il turns dark, the food Is
rejected. Why should not this be an equally
efhcacious method of determining the pois-
onous OF nonpOlsOnous quality OF vegetables
I-mushrooms, for instance? Any acid poison
will taInish silver, and most poisons are
Of an acid nature