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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
AN AMUSING CREATURE.
The Hermit Crab Establishes His
Home Wherever He Can Find or
Make an Opening.

A most amusing and curious crea-
ture is the hermit crab. He belongs
to the biggest crab family that there
IS. There are thousands of different
kinds of him, and hermit crabs can be
found in all waters, from the cold
north to the equator.
The hermit crab is shaped like a
prawn or lobster. His head and upper
part of the body are covered with a
shell that is harder than that of most
other varieties of crab. But his unfor-
tunate tail end is soft. And, unhap-
PLY for the hermit crab, there is no
delicacy that the other sea creatures
love quite as much as they do that
soft tail.
crab has had to become a householder.
He searches for snail shell, and when
he finds it he investigates it moment
to make sure that there are no other
occupants, and then he backs in with
funny, threatening motions of his big
claws.
If the shell that he selects happens
to be occupied by the snail or other
rightful owner, the hermit crab drags
1T away to some safe hiding place and
then calmly thrusts his mighty shears
into it and eats the unlucky resident.
Having thus simply cleared the prem
ises, he gets in himself.
Occasionally hermit crab cannot
find suitable she'll in his haste. Then
he takes anything that is convenient.
AS result, hermit crabs have been
found living in all kinds of queer hab-
itations. One was discovered living
with pride and comfort in the bowl of
tobacco pipe. Many of them live in
sponges.
The hermit crab is afflicted with an
intirm temper and constant desire to
change. Consequently it happens
often that one hermit crab, meeting
another hermit whose house he likes
better than his own, will essay to take
it by force. Then there is battle at
once. No healthy hermit crab in full
possession of its mind and faculties
ever refuses a fight. Some times the
crabs will seize each other like bull
dogs and hang on for hours, each try
ing to pull the other out of his house.
The hermits come in all sizes. There
are many so small that they can live
in barnacle shell. Another species
loves to eat the tiny black sea snails
out of house and home, and move into
their miniature apartments. Others
are so big that the biggest whelks OF
the sea have shells only just big
enough.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
nelloonine for con.umutlou.

Ballooning is now receiving atten.
ton az a possible remedy for pull.
monary affections. The conditions
are not the same as those of mountain
eering, the change of altitude being
more rapid and muscular fatigue being
absent. In the trips of the French So
ciety of Physiology DR.. Henocque
proposes to regard the atmosphere as
divided into three zones. Up to about
three miles the surrounding air sup
plies all the oxygen needed, but as
cents beyond five miles are held to re-
quire closed car, as was first sug-
gested in 1871, or an aerial diving suit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
THE HAPPY BUNDLE BEE.

wagon but she carries two baskets, in
which she puts her goods. These are
on her hind legs, and are made of stiff
bristles. When she comes to a bios
som some of the yellow dust is
brushed off, and sticks to these hairs.
When she goes to the next flower it
takes as much of the pollen it needs.
and gives back some of its own to fill
up the basket again. The flowers pay
the bee for this service in flower
money-the sweet juice called nectar.
If you should follow the humble bee
home after the business of the day is
over, you would perhaps be surprised
to find that she lives in a hole in the
ground. She does not usually make
this herself, but searches for one that
has been abandoned by some field
mouse or other animal. This found,
she gathers a mass of pollen and put
it in the new home. Then she laws
many eggs upon it. When the tiny
white grubs-bee babies-hatch out,
they feed upon the pollen. Soon they
are big enough to spin cocoons, and at
last come forth as full-grown BEES
n. Y. Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
NEW GERMAN MACHINE GUN.

the weapon consists of an interior
part which recoils and an exterior part
which does not, the two engag ing by
means of levers and other mechanism
at the instant of recoil in such man.
ner as to extract the empty cartridge
and replace it by full one, and eX-
plode the latter. The gun is protected
against overheating by water-iacke
"a special feature of the weapon
is that, although it is mounted on a
wheeled carriage, it may be dismount-
ed and taken apart for transportation
on the backs of horses. One horse
carries the gun proper, second the
breech mechanism, a third the axle,
fourth the wheels, and fifth the
rest of the carriage. Then, of course.
many more horses are needed to carry
ammunition, for hundred rounds is
a load for a horse.
'"The new gun, which is made by
Krupp under an arrangement with ii e
English inventors, Vickers and Man.
i'm, is a formidable weapon when used
against cavalry or infantry in masses:
but on the one hand it is doubtful if
it is much more effective than machi
guns of small caliber, while on the
other it is vastly inferior in range to
an ordinary tield-piece or even how
itzer Five minutes firing uses up ten
households of ammunition, and there
fore each gun, to be continuously eff
fective, would have to be supported
by regiment of pack-horses, or by
large ammunition train"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
A1|HFB BI ||,!$;zE \!
,IsES {{ljs 3ztI!f1!
SAVES MUCH LABOR.
Housekeeper of Many Burdens
and Useless Steps.

The removal of plates and dishes al
ready used, and the labor of replac-
ing them with another course, means
an awkward break in the meal in
households where there is no one to
wait upon table. 1t is an extra bur-
den upon housekeeper who is glad
enough to sit down after her labor
in the kitchen. The appliance shown
in cut, reproduced from the American
Kitchen Magazine, is a very convenient
labor saver, combining the conven-
fence of the serving table with the
utility of the dinner wagon Ga small
folding table on casters used largely
in restaurants as temporary recep-
tacle for supplies).
The waitress" in question is made
from firm box 20 inches long, II
inches wide and 10 inches deep. Four
pieces of smooth two by two lumber,
each IA inches long, are required to
form the legs. The top of the box,
supported by Stats, forms one shelf
The board that is to be the base of the
serving table must then be taken off
and the four corners sawed out to ad-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25

course to go back and teach English
in the high normal school of TOXIC
Mitsen Okada was born in Toxic
and was graduated from mission
school there. Then she was graduated
from the high normal school, and has
taught school four years in Japan
She is but p years old now. She
came here in August and attended
lectures in Boston few weeks be-
fore entering Wellesley. Miss Okada
before coming here could read Eng
fish, but did not speak it at all. Now
she speaks it remarkably well. Each
week she hands in an essay or theme
to her English teacher, and her first
was her impressions of American
girls. 1t was well written and mer-
tied the honorable mention it re-
ceived.
In appearance Miss Okada is mod
est and pretty, having we'll rounded
form, bright black eyes, soft black
hair, clear olive complexion, and
sparkling teeth. Like all Japanese
girls, she is a merry little body. and
takes cheerful view of everything.
She has a delightful little habit of
laughing childishly between her SEN
fences. She is versatile, and her face
changes expression rapidly; sorrow,
mirthfulness and seriousness are all
expressed in a twinkling.
The demand for teachers of Eng
lish in Japan is yearly increasing.
There are three japanese girls in
Boston preparing themselves to teach
in Japan, Miss Tami Imai, who is in
Tufts college. has been sent by the
government; Miss Shibata is at the
New England Conservatory of Music;
Miss Kiyo Maxine, who specalizes BIZ
ology and zoology, is at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology:
Miss Maxine works half of her time
and studies the other half Her
work is decorating book covers and
translating in the Museum of Fine
Arts, and she is taking the scientific
course at the Institute of Technology.
Each of these japanese girls is we'll
pleased with America and America n
customs.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25

that have preceded him from Borneo
to the new world. He is two years old,
his height is three feet and his weight
40 pounds. There is life insurance
on him of $4,000.
When q pipe is handed to him and
he is told to smoke he puts the pipe
stem where it belongs, and puffs away
with a meditative, Irish look. At the
command Brush your hair" he takes
mirror in one hand and brush in
the other and arranges his long locks.
He takes his meals like human be-
ing, sitting al a table, drinking his
milk from a cup and eating his sliced
bananas with a spoon.
To a great many orders the grave
wise appearing creature gives quick
obedience, such as:
Peter, turn somersault."
"Peter, lie down.
peter, stand up
"Fold your hands, Peter"
''Peter, make a bow"
The story of his life is brief. He
was born in Borneo, and until nine
months ago he lived there, ranging
the wooded marshlands near the
coast. He and his mother had nest
in a treetop. They lived on bananas,
molested no one, and were happy. The
mother, as big as a well-grown girl,
rocked her son to sleep at night in
her arms. A Bornese shot her one
day, and her child the man carried of,
in a sack. The young orang-outang
was gentle from the start of his cap
tivity-gentle and tractable, but lit
tie languid, little sad, as is the way
with Gagged simians. He journeyed to
Berlin, and there the wife of Jacob
Hope, of Philadelphia, bought him.
Peter was shipped to America on the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. His pas
| sage cost SIS. An attendant, or valet,
| shared a cabin with him, and all
through the voyage Peter was seasick
and kept in his berth, groaning when
the ship lurched
On his arrival in Philadelphia Jacob
Hope put him in a large cage and APP
pointed man to do nothing but look
after him. A physician called on him
twice week, sounded his lungs and
took note of his digestion. AS soon
as he got used to his new home,
suite of three rooms above the shop
was set apart for him. They were
sunny rooms, airy and dry; their tenn
perature never varied ten degrees. In
such healthful surroundings, with so
much space to run about in, Peter
flourished. His milk was all boiled,
and his fare of apples, bananas and
cake was disinfected by the physician
regularly.
Albert Elser, one of Jacob Hopes
head men, was the orang-outang's
travelling companion to San Francisco.
Albert fed Peter out of huge basket,
on disinfected fruits and sterilized
milk. Most of the time he held the
animal in his arms, for Peter was too
valuable to be boxed and expressed
in the ordinary way.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
Israel Wa. Fed on Pills.

In western Sunday school, the
lesson was the story of the wander
ing lsraelites who we're miraculous
~ fed upon mama. The young lady
who taught the class didn't know
Just what mama looked like, but she
used little bottle of homeopathic
pills by way of illustration. She made
the story interesting, and every little
face was turned upward expectantly
as she proceeded. She told of the
cloud by day and the pillar of fire
at night, the coming of the quails,
and the fall of mama, then rapidly
reviewed the whole, asking questions
to test the attention of her audience.
"And what did the Lord feed the
children OF Israel upon?" she asked.
"Pills!" they all shouted, without a
dissenting voice. Then for moment.
there was silence, while the teacher
bent low, to look into her reticule
after something which was not to be
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
THE HAPPY BUMBLEBEE.
She Is One of the Jolliest of Insects
and of Inestimable Valuable to
the Fruit Grower.

Who does not know the big humble
bee, with her drowsy buzz-buzz, that
sounds so terrifying if you happen to
disturb her when busy robbing the
clover of its nectar? Watch how sys-
tematically she dips down into one
flower after another. Robbing, did l
say? That is hardly true, for she is
taking only what is hers by right.
Each little clover blossom has at it's
long tube a queer little green body
that will some day be a seed. But be-
fore this seed can grow it must have
some yellow dust, or pollen, from an
other. The bee acts as kind of ex-
pressman. She does not drive a
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25

NIT the legs. After the holes are
sawed out, the board must be replaced,
the legs set up in the box two or
three inches, or high enough to al
low the shelf to rest upon them,
and the whole fastened together firm
~. 1t is good plan to nail board
about two inches wide across the
front to hold in the numerous dishes
which will be placed there later. A
railing or boarding is put on three
sides of the top, and four casters
complete the structure. The orig
inal designer dyed her waitress
with green cotton dye, and then
rubbed it with floor wax to prevent
spotting, but enamel paint would be
convenient to apply, and excellent
in appearance. AT meal times the
waitress stands by the hostess,
with desserts or any other additional
dish on it's shelves; plates and dishes
removed during the meal are placed
in it, and the extra course put on
the table. After the meal all the
dishes are placed on the serving ia
BILE, which is then rolled into the
Kitchen, saving many unnecessary
steps.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
AUTOMATIC FOG HORN.
ing Its Own Direction, Tried
with Some Success

No one knows exactly how large is
the percentage of ghosts haunting the
graveyards of the ocean that can
trace their origin to that body of
aqueous vapor that mysteriously
gathers in the atmosphere and looks
like monster cloud descending from
the sky. These queer freaks of the
atmosphere are called fogs and the
fog that gathers along the coast and
makes OF every obstruction, both
movable and stationary, hidden
death trap for ships, has been terror
to the mariner as long as navigation
has been known. Certain it is that
too many of the wrecked hulks that
line the bottom of the sea are mute
evidences of the fog's work.
The governments of different coun-
tries with their chains of lighthouses
along the coasts guide the ship cap
tain in clear weather. They attempt
to steer his course during fogs when
the beacon from the lighthouse is OBJ
scured, but up to this time no thor
oughly trustworthy danger signal has
been found. The present custom is
to provide every lighthouse with a
bell or foghorn. During fog the
bells are kept changing and the horns
give forth constant blasts that are
audible for miles.
The mariner can, of course. hear the
sound of the horn or the bell in time
to avoid the obstruction, but his
trained ear alone is expected to tell
him the direction from which the
warning comes. Sometimes the ear
is treacherous and the captain steers
his ship right on to the reef, or what
ever may be the character of the
death trap. There is small chance
of being rescued if the fog continues
long. No one can see the ship and,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
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THE PEAT INDUSTRY.
1t Has Been Given Quite an Impetus
in Canada by the Anthracite
Coal Strike.

A great deal of attention is being
given in Canada to the preparation
of peat for fuel The old way was to
cut the stuff out of the bog which
produced it, and expose it to the sun
to dry. Machines have now been de-
vlsed which squeeze and heat to dry
ness the material, and thus hasten
the stage of fitness for service. A
consular report says that at one plant
near Lindsay, Ontario, SGT, 900 has been
spent this year. yet without securing
an entirely satisfactory product. The
Ellice company, at Stratford, in the
same province, has also made great
Roadway, but further Improvements
of its apparatus are deemed desirable.
Consul Seyfart points out a fine oppor-
tunity for inventors in the following
languages:
''The whole question of making the
ineXhaustible beds of bog CONNER
tally valuable lies in the drying proc
ess. The genius who will invent ma
chine to satisfactorily extract the
moisture from crude peat will not only
make fortune, but will be public
benefactor.
Thus far the nearest solution to the
problem lies probably in the machine
invented by Mr.. Dobson, now in use
at his peat works at Beaverton, near
Lake Simcoe, in northern Ontario.
This machine consists of press, drier
and spreader, and is most ingenious
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spreads the material at the same time.
This reduces the moisture so per cent,
and the balance is taken out by the
drying process. The machinery in
operation at this plant has capacity
of 20 tons day. The boys are three
miles from railroad, and yet the
demand for the fuel is such that it
brings 1925 ton at the plant and is
retailed at Toronto at $4.25. The
plant near Stratford now has a daily
capacity of 25 tons and ready sale
for all the fuel it can produce. 1t is
run night and day, with view to sup
plying the demand caused by the scare
ity of hard coal.
Canada annually consumes nearly
three million tons of anthracite coal,
all of which comes from Pennsylvania.
Most of this is delivered during the
summer months. The prolonged
strike has changed the situation to
such an extent that this summer no
coal was delivered, and a serious fuel
famine confronts the people of this
latitude. This condition of affairs has
given tremendous impetus to the
manufacturing of peat for fuel all
over the province, and will probably
lead to the perfection of inventions,
so that this crude bog will in the
course of time be the leading fuel and
to large extent take the place of
hard COAL
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
PORTABLE MACHINE GUN
New German Engine of War Ii Nor,
Powerful Than Anything Else
Now in Use.

The German army, which has al
ready adopted machine-gun of small,
or rifle, caliber, is now experimenting
with another which is real cannon,
and which is described as follows by
La Vie Illustree:
ut throws balls an inch and a half
in diameter at the rate of 200 a min
ute, and with such force as to pierce
forged iron plates three and half
inches thick. The action is automatic,
the recoil of one discharge furnishing
the energy necessary to work the
mechanism of the next. Without go
ing into details, it may be said that
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
LITTLE PETER HOPE.
He Is the Only OrnnE-Outang Baby
in America and Worth His
Weight in Gold,

Peter Hope, said to be the only
orang-outang in America, has just
travelled on half fare from Philadel-
phia to San Francisco. He wore a
sweater, skirt and heavy veil. He
looked like little girl, and most of
the people on the train thought that
he was little girl. The sum of So, 500
had just been paid for him by Thomas
Ihurston, the superintendent of the
San Francisco Geological garden. If
he lives to maturity he will be worth
$4,000 or $4,000.
Peter Hope is as intelligent as any
one of the four or five orang outangs
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25
BRIGHT JAPANESE GIRL.
lesley, Will Teach English in
Her Own Land.

Wellesley girls are in fair way to
be outstripped in English by bright
little Japanese girl who entered there
in September.
Already Miltsen Okada, says the
Boston Post, has received honorable
mention from the English teachers
there. Miss Okada has been sent
here by the head of the department
of education in Toxic, Japan, to spe-
cialize English and literature at
Wellesley. She is to stay three years,
and when she has completed her
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25

The great artist, Benjamin West.
tells that his mother once kissed him
eagerly when he showed her like
ness he had sketched of his baby sis
ter, and he adds: THAT kiss made
ne a paiater."
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-25

! Large Numbers of the Red Man.
! Canada has 100000 Indians, tn
United States 100000.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-03
A HANDY MILK COOLER.
Very Simple i'm Construction and Al
most Essential to Successful
Dairy Operations.

It is essential that milkmen cool
their milk before it leaves the farm,
and If it be air-cooled it will keep
longer and win a better name. A cooler
of home manufacture, Fig. 3, is wood
en- frame, 6 or feet in height. The
separate sides, Fig. 2, may be made of
four strips, with as many crosspieces
as necessary for stability, as shown in
Fig. 1. A slight uneveneness of struc-
ture will not affect it's usefulness If it
but stand firm. The funnel, Fig. L.
over which cheesecloth strainer of
many thicknesses is hung, rests in the
aperture at the top, as shown at
b d, in Fig. 8. Cleats Of wood are
nailed on three inner sides, h ii, OF
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-03
Russian Ex.ctions I'm Siberia.

It would appear that Russia is de-
termined to run every profitable
business by the state. The govern
ment has monopoly of transporta-
ton, had preempted the spirit in
dustry, and may at any time seize
the tobacco trade.l The state regu-
lates wages, grants or refuses rights
to work for precious and base min
erals and to obtain fuel; in fact,
leaves to the individual little but the
cultivation Of the soil and the rails
ing of stock. The cry is, Siberia is
rich, and Siberia is for us Russians
alone.' and the state answers. not in
words, but in deeds. "Siberia IS for
the Russians. and shall be rich by
administrative order" The pioneer
finds gold or stikes OIL. then the pi-
oneer is ousted and his field Of oper-
ations reserved exclusively for ex-
ploitation by the state. when and as
the state may deem 1t expedient to
act. No one questions the right;
many criticise the policy.-outlook.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-03
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HANDY BUTTER CARRIER.
~ Conparatively New Device That
Should He Adopted by Ala Pre-
Gressive Dairymen.

Rapid is the progress of the present
age, and to keep pace with it one must
be constantly on the alert to test thor
oughly the availability Of every new
thing that comes up. Indeed, it is in
this manner largely that success can
be attained, for he who loiters by the
way in the least is liable to be left far
behind in the race, and that speedily.
Hence the reason. why advance the
idea of certain dairymen using the but
ter carrier presented herewith in the
cut.
For those dairymen who make their
butter into pound prints in the form
of bricks, wrapped in parchment pa
per, or into broader, fatter, rectan-
gular forms, with quarter-pound di-
visions marked of on them-as many
to-day are doing-this carrier is of
such convenience that it is almost
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-03
TAKING A MAN UNAwAREs.

Bland, Mo-, June 30.-F. B. Crider
describes very graphically how he
was overtaken by an enemy and his
narrow escape, he says: -
"For years I have been troubled
with Kidney Disease which came on
me so gradually that did not know
what it was until the pains in my
back warned me that it was Kidney
Trouble.
II began treatment at once and
,sed one medicine after another but
without help till at last was just
about to give up in despair.
"Just then I heard of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and bought few boxes and
began to take them. They helped me
from the first and now I am COM
pletely cured. 'Dodd's Kidney Pills
is the only medicine that ever did me
any good. They are worth their
weight in gold.'