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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Cats Long Ride on Mail Train Engine.

From the London Express
The driver of the 9:15 pm. mail train
from Paddington to Swindon had an unau-
thorized passenger on his engine. and be-
lieves that ne will be lucky for the rest Of
his life in consequence.
Just before the train was due out the
driver went beneath his engine with his Oil
can Suddenly the oil can dropped from his
hand. He scrambled out hurriedly and told
his comrades that he had seen pair OF
fiery eyes glaring at him from the dark
ness.
Investigation with the aid of a lamp re-
vealed a black cat. which had taken up a
position between the engine and tender.
The cat was invited to come forth, but de-
clined to move. A cleaner went beneath the
engine and made an attack upon the posi-
ton, but the cat had the advantage OF
higher ground. and replied with such good
effect that the cleaner retired in confusion.
An attack by porters with mops was cas-
lily beaten off The driver blew his whistle
and let off steam. but without enect. Even
the tempting lure of saucerful OF milk
was treated with scorn.
Time was up, and the 9:15 started with
the cat still in position. When he reached
Swindon the driver found it In the same
place. covered with oil and coal dust, but
still defiant.
When the train returned to Paddington
next morning the feline traveller alighted,
bedraggled but triumphant. With some
thing like swagger he walked past the as
founded porters and collectors and disap-
peared in Eastbourne terrace, to tell the
tale of his 154-mile journey to his friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Artificial Diamonds.
From the Chicago Journal

From the Chicago Journal
The reward of the inventor who can pro-
duce artificial diamonds is so tempting that
the Moisson experiments with the electric
furnace which were inaugurated some eight
or ten years ago, have been continued until
the present day. They are now being car
ried on In the laboratory of the Sorbonne,
In Paris.
The first diamonds made by the electric
furnace were Of microscopic size and few
in number.
AS the work continued various modifica-
lions were worked out, as the experiences
Of the investigators became greater. until
now success seems imminent. The crystals
are positively known to partake of all the
characteristics of the diamond in crystalline
structure, hardness and chemical compost
ton.
The largest crystal yet obtained is only
one-half a millimeter in length. and while
this Is only a spark. 1t indicates that the
process is capable of yielding diamonds Of
good quality. and that some day in the not
distant future the laboratory process of
Mother Nature, as exemplified in the Rand,
may be duplicated in mans laboratory and
in a commercial way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Laundry Hygiene.
From the New York Globe.

From the New YORK GioDe
1t is a natural query whether the laun-
dryman and his assistants are not exposed
to special danger of infection from the
constant handling of soiled clothes OF all
descriptions Ira s. Vile Is investigating
the subject. and. although he has obtained
rothing definite in the shape Of statistics.
inquiry in a number Of laundering estab-
lshments has put on record the opinions
OF laundrymen themselves as to this dan
ger They are in brief. that. although no
special precautions are taken. except that
particularly filthy materials are not ac-
cepted and no clothes taken from houses
known to contain infectious diseases. tne
employees are no more subject to infectious
ailments than any other class of tndoot
workers AS to the healthfulness OF the
laundry atmosphere. the moist air, the ire
uuent scrubbing of the rooms and the alb
sence of dust. all tend. they believe. to
the promotion Of health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Apple Trees for City Streets.

Oshkosh Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel.
DR.. w. A. Gordon, superintendent Of the
Northern Hospital, has planted about 5000
apple trees in the garden at that institution
which he will winter graft this year and set
out along the streets at Winnebago and
along the road between that place and this
city.
He says that he proposes to have the
farmers along the road cooperate with him
and to set out row of fruit trees on either
side of the road the entire distance Of five
miles. He also proposes to induce planting
Of fruit trees near school houses, and he
has had some set out about the school in
the town of Oshkosh. The purpose Is two
fold-to beautify the driveways and to teach
children to respect the trees. Any one
passing along the road would be permitted
to eat Of the apples without hindrance, but
the law would be such that no one would
have a right to carry them away any more
than one may pick hickory nuts from trees
along the roadside now. The trees, although
on the highway, belong to the man owning
the adjoining land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
MANUFACTURE OF ANTIQUES.
Flourishing Industry, Archaeologist
SAYS, in Wisconsin.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel

From the Milwaukee Sentinei
.The manufacture of imitation antiques.
especially in the form of copper and Hint
Implements. is quite a prominent industry
In Wisconsin, In spite of the fact that IL Is
forced to flourish secretly and that the
Wisconsin Archaeological Society Is doing
all In its power to put an end to these
frauds" said II. j. Crosby. president OF the
state archaeologists yesterday.
1--WE have been able to locate number or
men throughout the state who have made
a business of manufacturing these imita-
tons. and we have recently secured the
promise of one of the men in the interior
part of the state that ne will go out Of
the business.
with the fraud. although he may not be the
originator of the plan. He hammers out
the copper implements at his forge and
then they are treated with chemicals or
buried in river bed to give them the APP
pearance of age Then they buried,
and after a little 1t becomes necessary 10
plough up the field where they are hidden,
and the manufacturer hires a man to do
the ploughing and incidentally to find the
recently manufactured antiquities. This Is
necessary, the members of the society
require the name of the finder before pur-
chasing the article.
''One man north of this city has done an
extensive business and the large number Of
the same kind of implements found by him
aroused our suspicious Then the majority
OF them get in too much of a hurry and
do not walt for the chemicals to work prop
erly, and this gives them away Mistakes
are also made by the men VINO make an
Equities out of flint. AS a rule they have
no scientific knowledge, and they pound
the flint into shapes never dreamed of by
the Indians.
THE great objection to these limitations
Is that they get into really fine collections
= Perhaps the collector buys them knowing
that they are fine limitations. but when he
dies, unless his cabinet Is labeled the imi-
tations are sold genuine and IL Is i'm
portant for scientific investigation that this
should be avoided. The new law will aid
the society In putting an end to these
frauds. who are to be found in all parts
or the state and many of whom have been
locdt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
WHY GIRLS LACK LOVERS.
Most of Them Have Only Themselves
to Blame.
rom the New York American.

From the New York American.
There are lots of girls who cannot get
lovers: but why? They are nice enough
girls. And all their friends like them; good
looking. too perhaps, yet lovers they can
not get For all that they desire lovers
every girl does-and marvel why they
should be left out in the cold The probabtl-
ity is that they have themselves to blame;
they may not go the right way about It,
1t takes deal of science to really attract
a man in these times On the other hand,
their tongues may be responsible; again,
their style of dressing may keep the young
men away. Regarding this latter-the
Gressing-you may wonder how that can
keep man from choosing certain girl
as a sweetheart. Well, l will try to ex-
plain.
Some girls. no matter what their position
be, spend practically every penny they get
or earn on dress; they appear In new rig
OUT far too frequently A new fashion In
furs sets in-they must have mum and
necklet of that fur, even though it be imita-
ton. Well, young men are after all dis
corning set. Girls usually don't give them
the credit they really deserve for oDserva-
ton.
Now suppose youth is earning certain
salary-perhaps enough to keep himself and
a wife in comparative comfort, yet not sur
ficient to permit of any extravaganza. What
is he apt to conclude If he observes the girl
he would like to make his wife everlast-
ingly appearing in new clothes? If he Is
sensible he will readily decide that she is
not for him; his salary could not stand
constant supplying of new dresses. and very
likely he comes to another cOnclusion-that
the girl did she marry him, would be dis
contented with her lot If he did not Keep
her In the style to which she had been &C.
customed
Perhaps not one girl in twenty has ever
dreamed that the too frequent new gowns
she Is so proud of are actually destroying
har rhnp n a
should know for a fact that 1t is so,
has been so and will be So
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HApoLEoN's ARAB CHARGER.
Stuffed Horse in the Military Museum
Believed to Be the Relic.
From the London Telegraph

From the London Telegraph.
Many rumors have been floating about
Paris lately concerning the discovery OF
NapoIeons famous white Arab. which car
rieti him through many victorious cam
paigns For some time 1t was imagined
that these reports were baseless. but they
are. at any rate. founded upon the actual
existence OF a stuffed horse which Is now
I'm the military museum at the Invalfdes.
having been sent there from the Honore by
"a special order issued last March. 1t APP
pears that this relic had originally got into
the possession of "a Mr.. Greaves, an English
veterinary surgeon who did for the French
horse that NJ. de Saint-Bel. the French
veterinary surgeon. did for the great thor
oughbred sire. Eclipse Close students OF
Napuleon's history will, no doubt, be aware
o. a connection between the English sur
gcon and this famous Arab with which the
general public Is not yet acquainted. for
Mr.. Greaves left no great trace of his ex-
isteuce beyond the gift of the relic to the
National History Society OF Manchester in
Isl2.
Six years afterward this society died a
natural death. and while the greater portion
OF its collections came into the possession
of what is now Owens College, Manchester.
those who presided over the distribution OF
its treasures had the happy thought OF
sending NapoleonS horse to Paris, where II
arrived in 1863 and the label OF the Ma
ticnai History Society of Manchester Is stiii
on the packing which contained IT.
1T might be thought that in the court OF
Napoleon III and the Empress Eugene this
relic of his great ancestor, IL authentic
would have been carefully preserved 1t
may have been. But, perhaps. the outbreak
of the Franco-German war and the preim-
Ina ries which led up TO that disastrous cam
paign obscuTed at the moment the interest
If the gift. or possibly relic highly valued
by the emperor shared in the perils OF his
subsequent fall and saved from de-
struction in the cellars of his palace.
In any case. no one had heard of the
relic AT all until few days ago. and even
now the officials are so anxious to AVOID
making a mistake that the animal is care
fully screened from every profane eye, ana
neither the public nor the ordinary news
paper reporters are permitted to look at 1t.
The Louvre has. apparently, not yet forgot
ten the tiara of Saitaphernes. and the milf
tary museum of the Invalides awaits docu-
mentary evidence from the Louvre officials
before admitting that the horse is genuine.
1t looks a very small animal, fourteen
hands at most though there may. Of course.
have been considerable shrinkage in the six
years. for 1t has been very badly stuned
But 1t Is certainly cream-colored, ana as
certainly 1t shows in head and legs those
Joints of Arab descent which are familiar
TO every connoisseur. But the feet seem
rather small for the breed. The discovery
of the original correspondence of 1865 Is
awaited with the greatest interest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
woMAN's BLOOD TURNS BROWN.
Doctors Can't Tell What Catherine
Leary Died OF.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
An autopsy performed at the Presby-
terrain Hospital yesterday morning on the
body of woman who had died after an
hours Illness revealed that her body had
turned TO a deep brown color. Death was
due. 1t Is thought, to chornic Bright's dis
case and asthenia. but further examina-
ton will be made before 1t can be deter
bined what caused the unusual post-mortem
conditions. The case is likely to arouse
much interest among medical men 1t is
said to be the first of the kind on record.
Coroners Physician O'Hanlon performed
the autopsy.
DIR. OHanlon found that the blood. both
In the veins and arteries, was of dark
chocolate color. Nearly every organ IN
the body. including the heart. brain and
lungs. had become similarly discolored.
While the autopsy disclosed that the wo-
man had had Bright's disease 1t didn t
prove that she had died from 1t. The blood,
DIR. O'Hanlon concluded, had changed color
after death and there was no certainty that
death came from any unusual or unknown
disease.
DIR. O'Hanlon has performed several thou
sand autopsies as coroner's physician.
Never. he said, had he found such a condi-
ton of the blood, nor had he ever read OF
such case.
Every drop of blood in the woman 8
body had turned to a dark chocolate color,
said DIR. OHanlon last night. Every or
gan was stained the same color by the
blood. There was no perceptible thicken-
ing Of the blood; 1t was fluid and free from
clots."
THE mixture of blood with chlorate of
potassium would turn the blood brown. but
not the color l found 1t. Continued use of
some of the coal tar products, such as
acetanilid antipyrine Of phenacetene, or in
lection of tincture of iodine In large guam
titles might produce such color. but with
out past history of the woman's case it Is
impossible to tell II any Of these was the
cause of the unusual condition"
DIR. OHanlon. besides preserving plenty
Of specimens of the dead womans blood,
also removed the vital organs. in order that
the investigation might be thorough. A pre-
liminary microscopical examination showed
that the red blood corpuscles were I'M
changed.
Prof. Sully took specimens of the blood.
and will make thorough investigation. DR..
O'Hanlon also sent specimens of the blood
to the College of Physicians and Surgeons
and asked their assistance. 1t will proba-
bly, be a week. he said before the result of
the examination will be known.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Opera in America,

Heinrich conried. In Leslie's Monthly Magazine.
The first question asked by the average
American operagoer on the approach Of a
new season is. What singers have been
engaged this Year, After that he may
express curiosity to the works which
the singers are likely to interpret. 1t
would be absurd for the director of an in
stitution like the Metropolitan Opera
House to affect ignorance of the popular
attitude toward lyric drama. In the in
terest OF art he may regret It, In many
ways. no doubt. grand opera, as we know
II here. is infinitely finer. more brilliant
and more satisfying to our own public
than anything 90 be found In Europe might
be. But. except as TO the singing il is not
Ideal in the same sense as grand opera
In Vienna, under the direction of Mailer,
may be called ideal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Inhabitants to Each
Acre of Park,

The superiority of many of these cities to
Chicago in acreage lies in the fact that
they have adopted the outer park idea and
have laid out vast tracts of forest and
meadow adjacent to the municipal boun-
daries for the use of the public. OF these
cities with outlying parks, Boston leads,
$685. of her total acreage being in the ma
ture of outer belt parks. Other cities with
large territories established for park pur-
poses in the environs are Los Angeles,
Newark San Francisco. Washington and
New York.
In instituting her Outer Belt Park COM
mission Chicago has. thus had the achieve
ments of other cities in mind and Pres
fdent Foreman, in addressing the commits
sion recently, particularly referred to "the
superb outer park system Boston has ere
ated." The commission is believed fully
competent to cope with the great task which
confronts 1T, composed as it is, of the may
or of Chicago and four aldermen, the pres
ident of the Cook county board and four
members. three of each Of the three city
park commissions and ten citizens repre-
senting the city and county.
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Feeding wild Animals in Winter.
,pam country L,tel in America.

From Country LIE In Amer1ca.
OF the animals that we can coax about
our houses the gray squirrels become most
friendly. Put nuts In convenient places
and they will make frequent trips for sup
plies, but only on comparatively mild days
will they remain long outside their COM
Portable winter quarters. where they
usually have plenty OF food stored
Red squirrels can be coaxed by means Of
food. but they are very questionable fell
lows; in fact. the general opinion is decid-
for eggs and young birds. Chipmunks hi
bernate in their underground homes SO we
cannot count on them for winter visitors
The cotton tail will ecendescend to accept
dafnties In the form OF green vegetables
Though one seldom has such luxuries in
the winter. but. as he comes almost en-
tirely at night. he is not a very interesting
guest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
Why Gen. Butler Insulted the Judge.

FTOm the BOStOn RECORD.
Bishop McVicfar of Rhode Island told the
Episcopalian Club at its dinner last night
one of the best Of the Butler stories.
Butler was on his way to Boston to try
case before Judge Shaw. A young friend
met him on the train, and asked If he might
look at the notes on the case. Butler &C
quiesced The young man, to his astonish-
ment, saw written in pencil at the top of
page L: Insult the judge
"You see," said Butler, IT first get Judge
Shaws i'll will by insulting him in some
way. Later in the case he will have deci-
sions to make for or against me. AS he is
an exceedingly just man, and as 1 have in
suited him, he will lean to my side, for
fear of letting his personal feeling against
me sway his decision the opposite way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27
BEAST AND WIRE.
New Diversions of the Animal King
dom in East Africa,

dom in East Africa.
From the New York SUM-
The animal kingdom in British East
Africa looks upon the 200 miles of tele-
graph wire strung through that region as
an innovation to be utilized The wires
arouse curiosity and stimulate experimental
ION. na,nner OF genera and no end of
species are trying to find the adaptation
of the telegraph to their special purposes:
and so the routine of the telegraph bust
ness is more or less crowded with incidents
of an unusual character, some of which are
mentioned in the latest official report. This
speaks of monkeys as incorrigible Many
OF them have been shot and thousands
frightened, but they cannot get over the
Idea that the wires are merely a new facil-
ity for their athletic performances in mid
air. They have ceased to pay much atten-
ton to the locomotive, and even the shrieks
of the whistle are not permitted to inter-
fere much with the fun Of swinging on the
wire. Three wires are strung on the same
line of poles for 5S4 miles between the In
dian ocean and Victoria Nyanza giving an
opportunity for more complicated perform
ances. The Kikuyu forest is mentioned as
a place where monkeys, in their evolutions,
sometimes succeed In twisting the wires to-
gether.
The gentle giraffe Is also a source of an
nOyance. He sometimes applies enough
muscular energy to the bracket on which
the wire is fastened to twist 1t around,
stretching the wire and causing it to foul
with other wires The hippopotamus is also
a nuisance, because he rubs up against the
poles and sometimes knoc 5 them over.
These creatures, however, do not steal
the wire. Thieyery was the greatest evil
with which the telegraph builders had to
contend, and the evil has only recently
been suppressed When the copper wire
was stretched northeast from Victoria
Nyanza through the Nsoga country the
natives cut out considerable lengths of 1t:
and at one time about forty miles of wire
were carried away and n ar recovered.
Passing caravans found also that they
could help themselves along the way by
cutting the wire and using it in the barter
trade. The temptation was great and not
always resisted, for wire would buy any
thing the natives had to SELL A great deal
of energy wasIexpended in stamping out
wire stealing and It now seems to be a
thing of the past.
Fifty-nine offices are receiving and send
ing telegramsrin British East Africa and
Uganda. Wires connect the seacoast with
Albert Nyanza, where. Emin Pasha was so
long cut off from the world by the NAH
dists Telephone messages are constantly
being sent between Mombasa, on the coast
and Nairobi, s2S miles inland. and the tele-
graph business last year amounted to a. 759
messages. a,, .i.-
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MORE PAaKs ron CHICAGO.
That City Aroused to Huge Under
taking.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Franserlpt.
Extension ofs Chicago's present meager
park system is being In part undertaken
and in part mapped out on one of the
most elaborate scales-ever planned for any
municipality. Standing only seventh in the
list of American citses as to total park
acreage and but nineteenth On an estimate
of the number Of inhabitants in each acre
of park, Chicago at last has become
aroused to the tremendous need for In
crease in her public Territory. The plans
which have resulted. However, do not halt
at mere space increase. In addition to es-
tablishfng fourteen new small parks in the
city, and laying out of complete system
of outer forest parks in the environs. 1t is
Intended to improve present parks, to ex-
tend the boulevard system and to erect In
each of the fourteen small parks CLUB
houses for the Masses" which are to be an
entirely unique experiment in United States
public park history
The fourteen parks. which will vary In
size from five to 3o5 acres and which are
being laid out by the South Park commits
sioners, will form a beautiful link OF
breathing places from 18th street as far
south as 113th street. The outer belt of
forest preserves and parkways. which 1t Is
planned to have surround Chicago like
deep ring of green. is to be established by
the recently formed Outer Belt Park COM
mission. The absolute necessity for both
city parks and outer belt may be judged
from figures submitted by Henry F. Fore
man, president both OF the South Park
commissioners and the Outer Belt commits
sion, in late address Mr.. Foreman shows
that in 1880 Philadelphia was first of Amer
lean cities in park area. having 2.S19 acres.
while Chicago was second. New York was
third with 1,O0I acres, while Boston had
but 233 acres. The change In twenty-three
years appears from the following table for
1908:
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M. Rostand as a Witness.
rom the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
During recent visit In the country M.
Rostand accompanied his host to register
new born infant. The official. a conscien-
tious little man, booked the infant and then
turned to NJ. Rostand as the first witness.
'Your name, sir?"
Edmond Rostand."
'Your yocatfon?
MAN OF letters and member of the French
Academy"
VERY WELL" replied the official. '.you
have to sign your name Can you write?
II not. you may make q cross"