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NO MORE NAVY FOR DAvY.

.-Davy'' Jones. orphan and aspirant
for naval honors. has determined 10
abandon Uncle Sam to his fate, and TO
hermit the commercial world 10 benefit
by his services
Davy came 70 the attention OF Miss
Helen Foss. assistant secretary Of the
Society for Organizing Charity. several
months ago. He explained to her that
his father had been blown 10 atoms
in an explosion. He had no friends OF
relatives to look after him. and he said
that he was very anxious TO become
sailor or a marine.
The ambition commended itself to
Miss Foss. and Davy was encouraged to
enlist at League Island.
He fell eight pounds short OF the re-
dulred weight. and the surgeon said he
was sure il was because the boy had
never been properly nourished. Miss
Foss determined that her charge should
not miss a career for the lack OF eight
pounds She got work for him in a de-
partment store and engaged board for
him with the understanding that he was
to be fed under forced draft, so TO speak.
The boy made wonderful progress.
sometimes gaining as high as a pound
in three days, and occasionally slipping
back half a pound when he worked ex-
ira hard At the end Of two months he
had ten pounds and SO TO his credit, and
once more ne sought League Island
To his great dismay he learned from
the surgeons that the heavy feeding TO
which he had been subjected had acted
on him very much as 1t does on tur-
key, coating his internal organs with
fat and giving them the semblancc of
fatty degeneration Of the heart.
You'll be all right eventually said
the doctor, but we can't take you
now"
Then the navy can go TO thunder,
said Davy testify. II didn't mind feedin'
fer ye. but III be darned II III starve
fer ye.''
with his SO Davy has gone to New
York 20 make his fortune.-Philadelph
North American
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side; but unless through this, lit is
proper TO state that there is no indica-
ton that any portion whatever of the
Smithson bequest was derived from the
Northumberland family.
His Motive in Doubt.
The motives which actuated Smithson
in mentioning the United States as his
residuary legatee, rather than any other
government or institution, must remain
in doubt, for he is not known TO have
had any correspondent in America, nor
are there in any Of his papers any ref
ereuce to it or it's distinguished men.
In selecting the nation itself as the de-
pository OF his trust. he yet certainly
testified his confidence in its institutions
and his faith In their perpetuity. while
It has not escaped attention that he
uses language in the determining clause
of his viii remarkably similar to that
already employed by Washington, who
in his farewell address, says: Promote
as an object Of primary Importance, in
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LITTLE POWER NEEDED
FLYING THROUGH SPACE
Storks Do Twenty -four Hundred Miles
in Day Without Rest

Flying. from the figures available, may
be considered the easiest Of all methods
Of progression. calling for less horse
power than any other. AS a proof OF
this take for example. the case OF the
storks, which. in their annual mizra-
tions, make a fight between Buda-
pest, in Hungary. and Lahore. in In
ala This. in an air line. is perhaps
80 or 240O miles and the distance Is
accomplished in about twenty-four hours
without a rest. A horse driven in a
sulky 100 miles In long summer day
is not far from the limit Of endurance.
Six hundred miles in a week is near
the limit OF a man at the .gO-as-yOH-
please gait
Among Wild animals 100 miles is about
as much as can be. found in the records
Cor twenty-four hours. but the bird
Weighing anywhere perhaps up to TWEEN
" pounds makes the 2,50o miles in
twenty-four hours with ease and GER
tainly twice in a year. II the weight is
put at ten pounds this EQUALS twenty
five ton miles. On the besI and most
level railroad and with carriages operat-
ing with the least friction. a ten-pound
animal would find II difficult TO haul
twenty-five tons one mile in twenty
four hours.
These birds fly at great heights. un-
doubtedly TO reduce the resistance Of
the air There are many other exam
pies that might be given of long dis
tances covered by heavy birds. showing
the small amount of power required in
flight. The immense speed of many of
our birds when in ordinary fiif,ht is an
other proof of the small amount Of
power required.
No animal. whatever it's weight
bird excepted, can make any such speed
as ninety 70 hundred miles per hour
Among the birds there is 2 long list OF
those whose speeds are from eighty
miles an boar upward, their weights be-
ing all under fifteen pounds. Parenthet-
ically, IL may be remarked that natural
lists viii give dimensions of birds TO an
eighth OF an inch. carefully spreading
their wings and arranging the feathers.
but il never occurs to them to give
weights. The eagle may weigh i've or
fifty pounds. so far as the records show.
Hunters rarely speak OF the weight OF
birds. though the weight of game is
often estimated and the weight of fish
given to the nearest ounce.
The facts tlst given when taken to-
gether. show pretty conclusively that
the power necessary for animal fight is
extremely small rather than very great
1t also seems TO be proved that to fly
successfully the speed must be high
Scientific American.
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writings clear and Terge.

His writings exhibit clearness of per-
ception, terseness OF language. and ac-
curacy OF expression. He was an inti-
mate friend Of Cavendish. and later OF
Arago; he was correspondent of Black,
of Banks. OF Thomson, and OF most Of
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FOUND BY STREET swEEPERs.

At Broadway and Canal Street the
other morning a city street sweeper
picked up a dime.
That's. the first today" he said to a
man who got off car. but am sure
to find more befone night. It's cold
day when l don't find 40 or 50 cents in
nickels and dimes. once l found half
dollar, but people usually know ii when
coin as big as that falls out of their
pocket In crowding and crushing on
the back platforms of trolley cars.
reaching for their fares. they often drop
a dime or a nickel and don't know It,
Some men reach for their car fare while
running for a car at Il crossing. and drop
a coin or two In that way. Broadway
is the best place for such finds, but the
Bowery, Sixth Avenue and Eighth Ave
nue. are all good. I've worked them all
since / first Bot n street sweeping job
under Colonel Waring. There is always
money in the streets If you know where
to pick II up Some men don't see It,
They never see anything. But l have
made a practice of watching, and 1t
pays can see a dime across the
street New York Press.
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srEPHENsoN's sToKER.

There has Just died at SpenymOor. IN
Durham. T. Marshall. said to have been
the stolSer. on its initial trip, OF ths
first engine built by George Stephen
son. fOr the Stockton and Darlington
Railway. The journey took place on
September 27 1875. and it is on record
that the fire was so we'll fed that the
chimney Of the locomotive became
nearly red hot. but though the engine
was most boisterously skittish, the
journey was safely accomplished. the
engineer being Stephenson himself The
train consisted OF six loaded wagons. q
passenger carriage. twenty-one trucks
fitted with seats. and six wagons filled
with Goals. The number OF passengers
was $50; on the return journey they in
creased to over 600 many OF them
hanging to the wagons in state OK de
light. suspense. and even fear-"-Londoa
Chronicle.
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SEVEN HOURS WALTZ
DONE BY THREE COUPLES
Orchestra Played I6I Different Tunes
in That Time.

one OF the most startling novelties in
the dancing line has set all Paris talk
ing. and there are three couples that
are now being treated as If they ne
ionged to the nobility These couples
danced for seven continuous hours in a
contest, and when they were through
both the dancers and the orchestra were
ready TO drop.
The proprietor OF the Sale Wagrain
offered prizes for the couples who could
dance the longest. The contest began
at Il p. m. and forty-foii. co=ples start
cd
They were all composed of young men
and women. with the exception of one
couple OF two women and the male part
ners included soldier ana two negroes.
The only hard and fast condition of the
contest was that couples should dance
without cessation and keep waltzing all
the TIM
At the end OF the first hour four cou-
pies had stopped dancing; at the end OF
the second twelve more had had sufii-
Client, and at the end OF the sixth hour
the competitors had dwindied down TO
five couples. It was now a. m and the
ten valiant dancers showed evident
signs Of fatigue. Their faces were pale
and their eyes were encircled by orni-
nous black lines.
But they could stand it as long as the
band they said. and TO keep up their
courage their friends in the audience
brought them from time TO time
oranges, brandy, coffee, and other slim
ulants, which they had 70 take while
dancing. one couple had very hard
luck. for after dancing with spirit for
six hours the gallant cavalier Ga pork
butcher) informed his willing partner
that he had 10 be at work at O'Clock,
and with a regretfal adieu he left the
hall
Those who remained on the floor kept
it up for ar hour longer. and when all
the other competitors had succumbed,
the survivors performed a last round of
the hall at o'clock. They had been
waltzing seven hours. and when they
had finished. 1000 spectators gave them
tremendous ovation. The audience did
nc> know which TO applaud the most.
the dancers or the orchestra, Tor during
the dancing the latter played an endless
chain OF 16i waltzes-
The first prize-a work of art-waS
won by NJ Vincent and Mile. Scherrer.
NJ Pinaud and Nile. Agatha were sec
ond, and one OF the negroes-M. Jean
Decalabre-and his partner Mile Tre-
maudin were third--Brooklyn Eagle.
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BRITON FOUND GUT
WHAT A GAZkB00 IS
Incidentally He Was Puzzled as to the
Identity of Gazook.

There are some pleasant things TO con
template in New York. and on certain
DAYS one of these pleasant things is
Yale Dolan.
Yale Doian is a rich young Phiiadel-
phian. the son Of a multi-miilionaire
trolley magnate. He separates his tirle
into three grand divisions, one OF which
he spends in Philadelphia, one abroad,
and one here. When he was abroad
the last time he Tound himself in tie
same railway compartment. travelling
from London to Liverpool TO take ship
for home. with a naughty. waxed-muf-
tached BritOn. possibly a duke. on his
way TO America after an heiress. Dolsn
sized up his man. looked out OF the win
dow. and then addressed the Briton-
"Funny thing out there. ne said. ge-
nially. ..An the gazabOos seem To have
wings. and there are great many more
gazooks than ever saw before
The Briton merely pulled his waxed
mustache and looked straight through
DoIan. without cracking a smile That
was what DOlan expected. and he re-
Iapsed into silence. Half an hour later
he looked out OF the window
''lt's different here" he said. loakinS
straight through the BritOn- Here the
gazooks are not so numerous. and very
few of the gazabOos have wings"
This time the Briton couldn't quite
maintain his wooden demeanor.- but. as
before. he remained silent Dolan sub
sided again Just before the train drew
into Liverpool he again essayed to move
his fellow passenger.
ITS all right here said Dolan, with
a sigh Of apparent relief. There are
no gazaboos or gazooks here at all
This time the Briton appeared dis
tinctly alarmed. When the train came
70 a halt he fastened away from the
American as IL he might be a danger
Gus Iunatic- They met again on the ship.
however. where they we're properly
introduced At first the Briton fought
shy. but later he became quite com
panfonabIe. On the second day out he
said he wanted to speak to Dolan pri-
vateIy about something
Fire ahead" cried Doian-
What / want 70 find out. don't cher
know" said the Briton, is this; What
is gazook?"
"A gazook p answered Dolan- Why.
a gaZook is a female gazsboO
'Ah, yes, quite so. " returned the Brit
on. pulling at his waxed mustache. but
what in the name of heaven is gaza-
boo?"
"A gazaboo. replied Dolan. is male
gazook- kansas City Star.
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QUANTITY
OF VIANDS ONE EATS
Figures Giving Startling Picture of What Is Re-
quired to Keep Life in Human Body

formidable scale. even limiting tha man
70 an average OF fewer than two eggs
a week. III all. he viii want 1000 Eggs.
weighing at least 7O0 pounds. and rep
resenting a years Industry OF about
eighty hens.
Assuming that ne needs only sever
tehths OF glass OF milk n day very
modest quantity for all purposes-it will
be necessary to monopoiize the services
OF a COW for two years and a quarter.
and the resultant milk will measure 1.1c0
gallons. and will weigh more than five
tons. 70 contain the milk one would
be obI ged 10 provide a can five feet
in diameter at the base. three feet at
the TOP. and more than fourteen feet
high. or something like two and half
times as high as the man.
Nothing less than eighteen pounds Of
butter can be considered for Il years
supply: and this means that in his n;e-
tim. a ns4n viii dispose Of the con-
tents OF r.ore than a dozen barrels.
each containing 100 POUNDS OF butter:
while. limiting him TO one pound OF
cheese 4 month. an aggregate Of SO
pounds is reached
Gallons Of Coffee
or tea a. "a coffee he will require no
more than pint day. and yet he VIII
drink during his life no fewer than
$40 gallons. A coffee pot large enough
TO contain the two beverages woped
stand eighteen feet high. with a base
seven feet, and top five feet ocTHss-
The pot. with its contents. would out
weigh three companies OF soldiers. and
Fifty people could be slowed away -
sfSa II ~ they dfd NOT object TO a lite
temporary discomfort
Suppose that this man is content with
a pint of beer every day-two glasses-
and that he does not touch IL until ne
has reached his twentieth birthday.
Then, In spite Of his moderation. he viii
require for the balance OF his days more
than 255 nine-gallOn casks. which woiiid
prove sufficient burden for eight pow
erful horses.
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stitutions for the general diffusion or
knowledge"
Smithson died June p, 1893 at Genoa,
Italy. He was buried IN the little English
cemetery on the heights of San Benig>
no, in a tomb which originally bore no
reference to him as the founder of this
institution. but the institution has re-
Gently placed a tablet there remedying
this omission. has surrounded the tomb
with evidence of continued care, and
has placed in still further remembrance
similar tablet in the English church OF
the city
Smithson's wishes have been carried
out by those Immediately administering
them with a constant scrupulous thought
OF the latent OF the founder. while in do
ing this the best results have flowed
from a rigid construction of his own
words. so briefly expressed, and from
a division of the activities OF the insti-
tuition into two great distinct but par
allel paths. the Increase" and 'dif-
fusion" of knowledge.
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The most modest eater in the world
even the man who complains that he
never has an appetite'-would be ap-
.palled If he could see passing. in Inn
posing procession before HIM the SOL
ids and liquids he VIII consume in his
lifetime
Assume that he enjoys his meals. and
viii live seventy years.
Such man will make light Of dlspos-
ing Of 100 four-pouRd IOaves every
twelve months, so that he must have
1000 substantial loaves. a weight OF
bread sufficient TO raise couple OF hun
dred men and women of their feet.
If he is not sufficiently impressed by
this spectacle. engage seventy-seven
hercuIean carmen and make them file
past him IN progression, each carrying
a sack OF flour $50 pounds in weight.
every one Of which will be required to
supply him with bread for his. life.
Eats Forty BuIlOcks.
or meat he will eat, on an average.
pound a day: and. If limited TO beef
VIII require nearly forty bullocks: or.
If he prefers mutton. ne will sacrifice
about forty sheep on the altar Of his
not inmoderate appetite every ten
years.
OF potatoes. 200 pounds should last
him a year. This means that his ag-
gregate consumption OF tubers Will
weigh seven tons, representing ninety
three sacks. each Weighing los pounds.
or approximating the entire product OF
several acres OF land 1t would require
half a dozen strong horses to- draw his
potato supply. and each years consumD-
ton will weigh considerably more than
the subject himself.
OF fish he must be allowed fifty pounds
a year, so that his aggregate fish, II
not so large as a whale. Win yet turn
the scale at one ton fifteen hundred
weight, and will tax the strength of
thirty strong men to carry it to his
larder.
The purchase Of eggs win be on a
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DIVISION OF LABOR.

John Mitchell the president OF the
United Mine Workers. was talking one
day about poor men and their troubles.
Il remember" he said. hearing Two
breaker boys once discuss socialism, re-
form, and kindred topics.
THE smaller boy said:
. What is the thing that they call
division OF labor" do you knowT
OH yes, 1 know, all right SID
the other boy.
a Well what is it?' asked the first
Division OF labor said the big boy.
is like this You are worxin hard with
the sledge hammer. ! come and say
wen have division of labor. You say
you agree TO that. Then afterward you
keep bangin away with the sledga
hammer the same as before, only / 30
ugh" for you nov at each stroke -
New York Tribune.
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MORE "oLIvEss AT MONTE CARLO

1t may interest freQuenters of Monte
Carlo TO know that the administratio
of the Casino has just made a little
alteration in the roulette board which
is likely to upset many calculations
The olives" as the little brass dia-
monds on the board are called. have
been increased in number from ten to
fourteen. The object is to make the
movement of the ball more erratic, so
as to counteract the tendency of par
ticular crOupiers TO throw neighboring
numbers. If the desired result is gained
there Will be an end of the favorite
system OF stalking on ''voisins. London
Truth.
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by James smithson. Esquire" read
November IS. 1902
A New Science.
In this paper the author remarks that
Chemistry is yet so new science;
what we know OF II bears so small a
proportion Of what we are ignorant Of /:
our knowledge in every department OF
IL IS SO incomplete, consisting entirely Of
isolated points. thinly scattered. like
lurid specks on a vast field OF darkness.
that no researches can be undertaken
without producing some facts leading
to consequences which extend beyond
the boundaries OF their immediate OBJ
ject"
The "Abbe Hauy" had advanced the
opinion that oalamines were all mere
oxides or "calces" Of zinc. Smithson' s
analysis completely overthrow this
opinion. and established these minerals
in the rank or true carbonatcs. while
his remarks on the action of the ores
OF zinc before the blowplpe evince much
discernment; and the paper, on the
whole. IS altogether a creditable one.
At this period he seems TO have ceased
his contributions TO the Royal Society,
md later we find his name more fire.
a journal of high character, where there
is a communication from him dated
Paris, May p. 1879 OIL "Plombe gomme, -
and about the same time a paper on a
native suphuret Of lead and arsenic,
with numerous other papers. among
which is one in 1872, "On the Detection
Of Very Minute Quantities Of Arsenic
and Mercury where he contributed a
method which was generally used BY
chemists until quite modern tests super
seded IL.
The papers IN all number twenty
seven. OF which eight here cited were
published I'm the philosophical Trans
actions OF the Royal Society" between
the years 1871 and 1901, one in the Phil
osophical Magazine" in 1907, and eight
cen I'm '"Thomson's Annals Of Philoso-
ply" between 1919 and 1925, and these
all give the idea Of an assiduous and
faithful experimenter. an impression en-.
larged by the last one OF the series
bearing date OF June. 1924, which con-
tains some observations on the forma.
| tlon Of the Kirkdale Cave, forcibly com.
batting with what was then originality
/ the theories OF the time. which re
/ ferred the bones there found 10 The
Deluee''
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in 17S4 through Oban. Stana. and the
Western islands, in company with De
st. Fond. the celebrated French philos-
opher." and the Italian Count Andrioni,
N which he carried on observations on
the methods Of mining and manufact-
uring processes, made with all the
minuteness which the conditions Of the
journey permitted. The journey indi-
Gates that the tour at that time was
undertaken, II not at any considerable
risk, yet not without a considerable
amount Of privation and self-denial, such
as would not be met by the modern
traveller. and shows that he was far
more occupied with science than with
the ordinary pleasures Of so youthful q
tourist We learn also that the young
student was noted for diligence, appli-
cation. and good scholarship. attracting
attention by his proficiency in chem
istry. then Il novel study. while his
vacations were ordinarily passed in such
excursions as that jEst referred to. and
devoted TO the collection OF minerals
and ores. which it was his favOrite occu-
patton to analyze. At oxford, then, at
a time when the study Of physical
science was almost unknown In the uni
versity. he appears 10 have already con
ceived that devotion to scientific re-
search which characterized all his fu-
ture life.
Graduated in 1886.
He was graduated at Pembroke Col
lege. with the degree Of master OF arts,
on May g. 1856. as James Lewis Macie,
and admitted as fellow OF the Royal
! Society on April 20, 1851
Smithson's lodgings were for some
4 time in Bentinck Street. where Gibbon
wrote much Of his Decline and Fall OF
the Roman Empire" Here he appar-
emily prepared his first scientific paper.
which was signed James Lewis Macie.
and wa' read on July z, 1871, before the
Royal Society. IL is entitled An Ac-
| count of Some Chemical Experiments
on Tabasheer." We learn Of him in
cidentally in 1892 as journeying from
Geneva 20 Italy through the Tyrol, and
find him in the same year IN Paris
writing from the Hotel du Pare Royal.
Rue de Colombier. letter in which he
expresses sentiments which represented
what would have been then called ad-
| vanced Jacobinism.
The date OF his application TO the
crown for permission to take his
fathers name has not been ascertained.
but IN the viii of his half-sister. Dor
othy Percy, he is referred 10 as ''Macie"
in 1874 (eight years, after his rather 8
death. The name Of Smithson is frs
certainly known 10 have been used by
him IN connection with his second com
munication TO the Royal Society. "A
Chemical Analysis of Some CaIamines
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Was Best Chemist.

Nothing material is remembered OF his
life at the college except tradition
that ne was the best chemist and min
eralogist OF his year. though in bis jour
nal. when but a youth OF nineteen. he
gives a description OF geological tour