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Hermit Crab.

OFF, but the fact may equally well be
accounted for by the pugnacious hab-
ITS OF the creatures, who frequently in
bulge in sparring matches among
themselves, especially when a new res
'dence is an object OF desire to more
than one.
Some form of the whelk-sheN is
usually preferred by the hermit. The
young use shell suita BILE to their size
until it becomes too small for them,
when they set out in quest of some
thing better adapted to their growth
If empty shells are plenty along the
shore the work Of selection goes on
carefully, even warily but without diff
fculty.
The hermit invariably puts his long
claw into the supposed empty shell
first, to see that there is no concealed.
dormant inhabitant within. Having
made sure of this. he whisks his hinder
portion into it with marvellous rapidity
keeping hold of his own shell in case
he should not like the new Some
times he will try several shells in sue
cession, examining and testing them
as carefully as dandy will try on
numerous coats before he gets one lust
10 his mind.
Having finally selected his shell he
remains in happy possession. unless he
should unfortunately be attacked by a
brother hermit who thinks he would
prefer that particular dwelling to his
own. If of equal size. the hermits are
cautious about coming to blows; but
If the aggressor is sure that he is the
stronger of the two, the other may
find himself pulled out of his shell, the
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sooS3 Ins 4 .--4Ik

built several for the Turkish govern
ment, patents have been taken out on
some wonders" in England and Spain,
while here in our own country thinkers
and builders have been putting their
ideas to practical test.
In 1893 the United States govern
ment set aside sum OF money for the
construction OF an experimental craft.
Out of the plans of number of COM
petitors the government selected those
sent in by Baker and Holland respect
lively, and finally decided to use those
of the latter. Hollands winning de-
sign was eighty-five feet long and had
a total displacement of les tons This
boat has since been improved, the
latest test being a stay of fourteen
hours under water In New York har-
bOr,
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Wonders Of the Deep.

The smaller crustacea, like the nd
uler crab. the hermit crab and the dec
Grating crab, are all subjects Of inter-
eating study, and any one who has the
June ana taste for such observation
Will be amply repaid for his pains in
the matter.
lake the fiddler crab as an example.
ine female possesses two small claws
so1 equal size, but the male is furnished
win one very large and one very small
claW, and smart, wary, queer little
Fellow he is, too. From the shape of
the larger claw, which very much re-
sembles fiddle, 1t derives its name of
nddler crab" It burrows along the
banks OF salt marshes in such immense
jumpers that it undermines them.
These holes are from one-half inch to
one inch in diameter, and from 1S to
30 inches in depth
The hermit crab also called the SOL
der crab, is truly a stepchild of dame
nature-the homeless samin of the
being sent into the world" as
Richard of Gloucester says, scarce
half made up In other words. while
its anterior portion is provided with
the shelly vesture of other crustac eans.
its rear portion is left without any
protection.
Hence may have been developed
those pugnacious characteristics which
have given 1T name of Soldier" For
necessarily the animal becomes a SOL
dler OF fortune. the first business of it's
Tie being to find, seize, hold and de-
ferd some shell into which it may
thrust the soft part of its body. and
thus save it from the attacks of enc
mics and the voracious bites of hun
cry fish.
1t Is not easy to find perfect adult
specimens of the hermit crab, many Of
them having lost their antennae and
one or both eyes, The fishermen at
tribute this to the attacks of the black
nSh, which are believed to bite them
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Monte Carlo have adopted the fad Of
wearing live monkeys as boas. When
you get your monkey ask for the
"ouistiti." This is black and white.
with a tail twice as big as its body.
The tail is beautiful and is wound
around the neck to meet the body
part, which sits propped up on the left
shoulder. Ladies train their monkeys
to remain on their shoulders until in
doors, when at a word they spring to
the floor, unwrapping their tails as
they fall. Each monkey naturally
looks after its one tail, so one doesn't
have to be bothered by looking after
ones boa. Some ladies have silver
collars, with their names on, wound
round the monkeys neck.
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fridge, has rather long nc.k and
curious bill about four inches
length. its wings are quite uudevel
oped, and its feathers have a sort 0
unfinished character. which may b
supposed to represent natures earl:
efforts in that direction. before tn
close, rich plumage of the modern bir'
was evolved"
Wanting the means Of flight the Xiv
has been almost exterminated, an
with it also have gone. or nearly gone
all the other feat hered denizens of til
woods. The invasion of their haunt
by the white man has been their &C
StructiOn
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ffdutcf tfs
victor taking immediate possession
and usually making a fine repast upon
the vanquiShed.
OF all the crab tribe, the sea spider
or decorating crab is surely the most
fantastic fellow, and ought to be con-
sidered the dandy of the sea. Bits of
seaweed are his great reliance. but
small objects of almost any kind he
will appropriate, even to pieces OF
stone or wood.
These animals Will spend hours ev-
cry day at their toilet, appropriating
with their hand-like claws bits of sea-
weed, sertularia, sponge or tubularia.
One will perhaps place bit on the tip
of his nose, or suspend from 1t a long.
ribhon-like strip of red or green algae.
or aff1x similar fragments to his legs.
elbows or knees. as we may call them.
He does not appear to take these
pieces at random. but has the air of Sc
lecting them with care, and then leis-
urely cutting them off from the large
fronds with his own nippers, of which
he has two pairs, one upon eacn of his
two foremost arms. Having severed
the desired portion. he takes it up in
for hands as well as shears), and plac-
ing one end of it in his mouth. evil
IDENTIFY deposits upon it species of
mucous or marine cement, which Sc
cures the object in the position which
his crabship sees fit to arrange it, and
in which matter he is somewhat fas-
tidious. This mucous must have great
strength. for in his native element he
will walk about arrayed, without dan
ger of his ornaments being washed
away even by the rolling surf.
In the tank, when his toilet is com
pleteG. he will advance to the front or
most conspicuous spot he can find, and
as near to the spectator as he can con-
veniently get, with a self-satisfied air.
as much as to say: I'm in full dress
now; how do you like my style?"
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Alphabet Engraved on Pins Head.

To eng1av the whole twcnty-six let
tiers of the alphabet on the head Of
an ordinary pin is a very large-or
rather smaii-Order. Yet the feat has
been accomplished. 1t is the work OF
a young English engIayer. who, being
shown a threc-pennT- bit on which the
Lords Prayer had been engraved.
wondered if it were not possible to
outrival the feat BY the aid of a
strong microscope and minute engrav-
ing tools he cut clearly and lightly the
alphabet on the head of an ordinary
pin The letters are 50 minute that
they appear mere formless speclls to
tho al;pd eve
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An odder looking team than the one
here shown is scarcely ever seen by
travellers the world over. The sight IS
not an unusual one in India. where the
people are never in so great hurry
as they are in our large cities. They
driver Of such a team never has any
fear that his pair will run away be
cause of fright at some strange object.
But when on a journey he shouts in a
loud and harsh voice in order to in
crease the speed OF his a--imaIs, but
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To Fight Under Woter.

finds that at the age of 30 he has cow
cred 54,750 miles and at the age Of SO{
109, 500. From this should, strictly
speaking, be subtracted the few months
or year when he was baby unable
to walk, but the result would not be
affected materially.
Now, the circumference of the earth
at the equator is only 24,899 miles. SO
therefore a man who at the age OF 60
has averaged five miles day since he
Was able to walk has walked enough
miles to have encircled the earth four
times and have good many miles left
over toward the fifth lap.-New York
FieSS
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line to a sharp screw which protruded
from the top OF the vessel just abaft
the upper propeller.
The program of attack was for the
turtle to be brought below one of
our men-of-war, the screw screwed
into her timbers from within the YES
sci, and the powder charge released.
This would then rise into contact with
the doomed ship, the turtle" would
retire to a safe distance and then dis
charge the torpedo by means of long
line connected with the trigger of a
gunlock placed within it. Sufficient
air was contained to last for thirty
minutes, and a very short visit to the
surface would replenish the stock by
and an air pump.
One of these curious craft very
nearly succeeded in destroying the
Eagle, a British ship of siNty-four
guns, just inside Sandy Hook. Robert
Fulton afterward built several sub
marine craft, but could get no one to
take them up. They were exhibited in
England and In France, but neither
power would have anything to do with
them. Subsequently others were built
on Fulton's plan. French and German
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ON liFE'S JOURNEY.
Average Man walks Many Thousand
Miles Before His End.

Average Man Walks Many THOUSAND
Miles Before His End.
How many miles man walks in his
lifetime depends, naturally, upon how
much he walks a day on the average;
but the man who walks the least COW
ers a vast number of miles before he
dies. Some men walk two miles a day,
some four or five, and some as many
as ten. II a man walks two miles a
day and lives to be thirty years old he
will cover 21.9o0 miles. At the same
age a man who walks three miles a
day will have walked $50 miles. AL
most every man walks between two
and three miles a day Just in goins
about the house, the Office, the shop
and in going to and from the cars
etc.
4 mAa who walks ave miles a da.
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SIN net Back Bone Creatures.

The smallest veIteb-ates hitherto
known have been seye, al species o.
little fishes in the southern states, the
shortest being somewhat less than an
inch in length. A NV species of goby
to be known as MistichthGts luZo n
sis--is reported from Lake Bulk. in
Southern LuZon and is even smaller.
its average length being only about
half an inch. A surprising fact is that
this tiny species is food fish of some
importance. Great numbers are caught
in the lake. and with peppers or other
spiced herbs they ave priced by the
natives
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what Influenced Minister WI.

The Board Of Trade of Springfield.
Mass, was anxious to secure Chinese
Minister WI Ting-fang as a speaker at
its annual dinner in March. and Con-
gresham r. H. Gillett, who was urg-
ing him to accept the invitation. was
startled by the abrupt question:
Where is Springfield. anyway ?"sWhen
told that It was the seat OF the largest
small arms plant in the world and the
home of dictionary making in the Unit
ed States the Chinese diplomat said he
would go.
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Liked to Road Obituaries.

Congressman Lacey of Iowa recently
received from a constituent request
for some volumes containing memorial
addresses on dead congressman.
There is nothing l read" said the
writer, that l like so well as these
obituaries" Representative Cushman
of Washington shows a letter begin
ming: Please send me six raindeers
and don't cut off the horns. either. II
you are coming home soon you better
bring them with you"
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A Copper Famine.

Penny -the-slot gas meters al
Leeds, England, caused a curious di.
lemma last Christmas, tradesmen ir
the city being handicapped by the
dearth of copper in circulation. Leeds
has 1862 penuy-in-the-slot gas me.
ters. from which between s17,000 anc
G1S00 year is collected, and al
times nearly 200 in coppers is lock
ed up in them.
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The kiwi is the sole remnant OF the
wonderful race of wingless birds that
once roamed all over Now England
the gigantic skeletons of so,ne OF whicu
have been found in such numbers that
almost every museum in the world pos
sesses one or more of them,
The kiwi is about the size Of par
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Illinois Counties with No Railroads.

Pope county soon is to be taken from
tie list Of Illinois counties having nc
railroad within their borders, and Har
din and Calhoun will be left to enjoy
that distinction alone. A contract has
been let for an extension which the
Illinois Central will build through
Pope county to the Ohio river, and tn.
work Of construction is about to begin
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inventors and other Americans tried
to induce governments to adopt their
craft without success. In 1859 a Mr..
Delaney Of Chicago, took to England
a diving boat invented by Mr.. Phil
lips of Michigan in 1851. 1t was sixty
feet long and seven feet six inches in
diameter.
During the civil war the confederates
constructed a craft fifty feet long,
propelled by hand-turned cranks on
the screw shaft. This boat was call
ed the David. She was armed with a
torpedo affixed to a 15-foot spar. In
February, 1864, she attacked and
wrecked the Housatonic, but was her
self overwhelmed by her own torpedo,
trap.
Admiral Bourgeois Of the French
navy invented a submarine called LIE
PIongeur in 1863, but 1t never got be-
yond the experimental stage. Another
called the "Fenian ram" was launched
on the Hudson river in 1881, but was a
failure. From the early sos, however
long strides have been made toward
perfecting submarine craft. The
French have completed some wonder
full ow-the-surface craft. while
Nordenfeldt of machine-gun fame has
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Most Valuable Pearl.

What is supposed to be the 1arges,
and most valuable pearl in the worle
has been found near Broome Yves,
Australia. Its value is estimated a
between S45, 900 and 5000
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Greece Orders America, of,

Because of the poor quality Of Rus
sian petroleum supplied it, the Grecia,
government has ordered in New Yor)
72O, 900 gallons
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Largest OF American Ships.

The largest ships ever launched from
an American shipyards are the Kores
and Siberia, built at Newport News TO,
the transpacific trade.
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ever seek new developments in the line
OF freak tree growths. The above il
lustration. however. shows what Damo
Nature can do unassisted The iron
fence was put up when the tree was
small, and in course OF time the grow
ing trunk pushed its way completely
through the pickets and grew up ap-
parently not in the least injured.
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What Is put into the first Of life Is
put into the whole of life, Start
right.
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Adversely may prepare man for the
life beyond, but it curtails his credit
while here on earth.-Chicago News.
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Tree Grown Through Fence.

Trees grow in divers unique and ex.
traordinaTy forms. and there is Ger
tain school of arDor.cultulists which
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1t is not lawful for Il MCSl n to pray
on any place not perfectly clean. IN
less each one has his own special rug
he is not certain that the spot has not
been polluted. II does not matter 10
these follower. of Mohamm cd how IN
clean a rug that is on IL. floor may
be. because over it they place the
prayer rug when their davoi.oas be lin
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Point of view sometimes olunts tns
intellect.
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MarConi's

Marconi's sweetheart evidently
thought his system too Intangible for
PURPOSES Of clauiuCny.
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Newest Fashionabie Folly.
Leaders of the fashionable set at
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20
ALTON POPULAR
Many thermometers Spending Heated
Season in its Neighborhood.
Especial Dispatch to The T,mes.>

''oiiy 'h'Nthi'o''tCi> Of'e''ah'S 'ieA'SN
Season in its Neighborhood.
Especial Dispatch to The Tines.)
ALTON. VA, July 1s.-The long-con-
tinued heated term in the cities. and
towns has given a decided impetus to
business at the hotels and boarding
places in and about Alton.
Both hotels have a large number OF
guests, who are enjoying fully the de-
ightfnlly cool breezes and lovely scenery.
Among the recent arrivals are Mrs. c.
Of Richmond, Va; Mrs. and Miss Valz
of Stanton, Va; w. Bailey Saunders
and family and E. D. Fox. OF Richmond
]. r. Buckle and wife and F. NJ Berry
and wife. of Pittsburg: J. w Anderson
OF Charlottesville; Senator W. a. PEI
ny and family. washington, D. c.; Mr.
and Miss Brown, of Alabama: Miss Hunt
Of Richmond, and Miss Sue McHenry. OF
Frankfort. KY
Milford, where she will spend the re-
Inander Of the summer.
Mrs. c. w. Hawthorne is very much
better, being now able to take part in
the various anusements at the hotel
The Confederate reunion at Ratesville
went down from the Alton House.
Mrs. VIII Lipscomb and family have
returned from the Hot Springs. Mrs
Lipseombe is much improved in health;
Mrs. Sam. Dell. Of Baltimore, is visit
ing Mr.. J. Ezekiel Hall.
Mrs. w. H. Lunsden. Miss Lumsden
and Mr.. J. E. Lumsden. OF Richmond,
and Mr.. D. n. Lumsden, of New York,
are the guests of Mrs. J. Ezekiel Hall.
Mss G-ves, OF Richmond: is at the
of Baltimores fair bellies is the guest Of
her sister, Mrs. Guy Corbett. at Alton. s
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20
Shaded Lawns and ExquisIt6'
Flowers Made Beautiful Scene
HAVEN OF REST FOR WEARY
A Summary Of One Days Pleasures
Gives a Good idea of the Delightful 8
Life Enjoyed by the Visitors q !,
the Cool Resort.
{spec,al Dispatch to Tbs Times.)

(Spec13l D1spalsn TO InS 11meS.J -
NATURAL BRIDGE. VA. July 11-sa
Truly can it be said that this place nd
the haven OF rest. and combines all rhaS,s
makes life charming and delightful Toa
begin with. such beautiful place. well 4
kept, shaded lawns. beds OF exGutsit1s
flowers, such air il IS impossible to der .
scribe. The Bridge, the walk up the
glen. the many gorgeous views and bits
scribe, but just glimpse into the nto
that Is ours. who are fortunate enouSh
to be guests at Natural Bridge. wiz
make cur friends in the heated ctt1I
qtiite eEvicus of us Delightful fare. e1eS
qEisite.v cleanliness and excellent servtces
comfortably furnished rooms and larsa9
airy porches. surrounding every buildin83
rnakesdhis an ideal summer home. With
hunting, fishing, beautiful drives anoA
walks. bowling. pinS-pong, Cas- and tne3
ballroom, those that wish a gay tirndS
have no trouble in finding Il Just .ondt4
days summary OF events will give auGj
idea of the happy life. charmin&d
bowling party. given by the MessrAa
Laird. OF Richmond, was greatly end
joyed by their guests Friday moeninx3,7
\ driving party TO Lexington soccupleOj
the afternoon: at night a beautiful bal1sa
which was largely attended By Soun&3
people from Lexington and BuehanaI2s3
chaperoned a charming party. who afaa
visiting at her beautiful country homa !
"Glengyie.'' including Hiss Helen StevenA 4
Miss Mary Motion. Miss HotchkisaS 4
Messrs Stevens and MIR. 10 SteignsA q
After the ball this party, with other inGa
vlted guests. We're entertained BY Mi1a
Betty Clarke at delightful watermeioud
feast. and it was the wee sma hours'S
that saw this merry crowd dispense ana q
say goodnight The music here de@
serves special mention ard praise. for IL
is unusually fine. and the concert duEs9
Ing dinner hour is a deligat to allsS
Professor Finckei is most beautifu3sN
vioIiniss and with his associates rende43
superb selections.
Among tho resident guests are Mrs. 11nj
Aston Caheli and family. OF Richmondsssa
Mrs. A. J. Patterson and family on
Richmond: Mrs. DR.. Charles v. earrings
ton and family. OF Richmond. w. II
Terrill, New York: f. II. Harvey. Lynch~l]
burg; DR.. Booker. Mrs. Armistead ands
three sons. Norfolk. MIS- Liauaanant
a. T. Stanl and son. Mr.. and Mrs. Tecks 8
New York. Miss Reilly. Covinston, O.4s
Miss Anderson. Coviagton. o.. Airs. h.
~ Finlay. CoviRSton. o.; Mrs Flnckles
Miss Gertrude Finckle. Miss Sophie
Finckle. Mr.. and Mrs. w. a. Lake, Bald
tirnore; Mrs. billiard. Washington: Miss
Bette Clarke. Mr.. T. A. Laird. Richmonds
Mr.. T. NJ Laird. Richmond. MIR. w. IA
Gilmore and others.
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week on the piazsas were Mrs. Archer,
Misses Archer, Mrs. Fred Scott, Miss Bes-
sic Carrington, Miss Alice Maude Palmer,
Mrs. Copeland, Miss Katherine Copeland.
aIrs Thomas Potts. Mr. William Albert
Smith, Mr. O. Wall Mr. ]. P. schermer-
horn. Jr., and Mr.. J. T. Mastin, OF Rich
mond; Mr.. A. W. Dudley. Of Danville;
Mr. William A y hite and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Graham, of Norfolk; Mr.. ]. Herbert
Mills. OF Alexandria; Mr. 3. D. Green,
of the University of Virginia; MIR. Q. NJ.
Hevacope and Mr.. II. NJ. Wright OF
stanton: Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Gill and
Miss SIoGill. Of Petersburg. and Air. John
CGrrie. of Richmond
A. MI