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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
A FUNERAL in BEETLEDoM.
Busy Insects Dug Grave and Buried
Dead Comrade with Neat
ness and Dispatch.

"Aunt Lu" sends to the Wellspring
the following account of the burial of
beetle which she witnessed. All
was that there should have been one
beetle with prayer-book and spectacles
to read the burial service:
Out in a garden path one day, came
across a dead beetle-black and
smooth. No sooner had l seen it,
than two of the same species came
out of the grass at the side of the
path, and began vigorously to push
away the earth from around the little
creature. They worked rapidly, and
apparently with plan. My curiosity
was aroused, and I stopped to watch
the proceeding. At once, as though
called by wireless telegraphy, dozen
or more beetles appeared from all d.
rections, and'they Immediately began
to dig in the earth, with great vigor
and alacrity, until they had complete
ly buried their comrade, and in few
minutes the ground was smoothed
over, and they had all disappeared,
hurrying and scurrying in all direc-
tions-gone in almost the twinkling
of an eye," and there was nothing to
tell of that event in the beetle-world.
Beetles are such poky bugs,
They walk around so slow.
1t always looks to me as If
They don't know where to CO."
But surely these beetles knew where
they were going. and their walk was
anything but slow. l never sa such
auickness in the insect world.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
LIVING PICTURE DIAGRAM.

at each of the divisions, cut out square
windows, as shown in A. Cut out
square at the center of the circle to fit
over the end of the spool, which is cut
off squarely.
Now, to make the living pictures. We
cut out circles six inches in diameter and
copy G and d as they appear in the draw
ing. Figure e shows circle with de-
sign of living pictures attached to the
large circle with the little windows.
ID is wheel with seven spokes. We
attach the circle to the large circle on
the spool with the help of little wax,
and stand before large mirror, turning
the front of the circle toward the glass.
Now we give the circle quick turn
with the hand, looking through the lit
tie windows sat the same time. The
wheel will appear to have all its eight
spokes instead of seven and will turn
in the opposite direction from the cir
Gle we hold in our hand. Figure G will
show the pendulum of clock in motion.
Figure E, ball flying through ring
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
FUN AT A BIRTHDAY PARTY.
How a Clever Girl Entertained Hes
Young Friends in a Way They
Will Never Forget.

Have you ever been to cobweb par.
ty? If you have-for they have been
given-you will remember what fun you
had and what a delightful novelty it
all was
Some time ago one of our girl read
ers wanted to give birthday party to
some of her friends, and she determined
that it should be quite different from
the usual sort of party that boys and
girls have.
Her brother and younger sister were
quite as anxious as she to have the party
a success, and they thought and thought,
with this result:
They got lot of pretty souvenirs, one
for each guest, and to each one they tied
the end of a spool of thread. Then they
hid the souvenir in a place which one
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ner uCAl SdllSu hin 10
the white house
to tell him of his promotion to the
cabinet
Marshall Jewell. of Connecticut, was
postmaster general He had been f1irt-
ing with the candidacy of Secretary
Bristow, whose aspirations for the
presidency were not favored by the
administration, and one day about the
time of the national convention Grant
called Jewell into the cabinet room
and asked for his resignation, at the
same time requesting him to suggest
a successor. Jewell yielded grace
fully, and suggested Tyner, who was
at that time first assistant postmas-
ter general. Grant sent for Tyner,
who promptly came to the white
house, for he was not accustomed to
being summoned by the president.
"Mr. Tyner," said Grant. locking at
him severely, 81 have decided to
make change in the Office of first as
sistant postmaster general" Tyner
gasped and turned pale. 81 should
like to have your resignation" con-
tinued the president, "as soon as you
can give it to me-" Tyner bowed
submissively "And, if agreeable to
you," continued Grant, 81 should like
to have you accept the Office of post
master general
Tyner almost fell to the floor in his
establishment. It had never occurred
to him that he would have a place in
the cabinet.
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Dog-Farning.

In Manchuria dog-raising is prac-
ticed upon pretty much the same scale
as sheep farming in Australia, proper
tionate to population, of course. A
pretty bride-if such there be in the
land--does not take her dowry in spe-
Gle or in land. Dogs are the dowry
six If she be the daughter of poor
parents. more if they be wealthy. The
brutes serve as meat for human con-
their magnificent coats be-
ing converted into rugs. Forty to fifty
thousand of the friends of man are 50
treated every year.-Tit-Bit
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RATS HELD CONSULTATION.
After Number of the Rodents Had
Been Drowned They Resorted
to Winning Strategy.

There is story told of a certain ho-
tel in large city where the rats in
creased, despite dogs, cats and ferrets.
A few were bagged with rifle, but
soon they grew too wary for that.
Traps and poison were matters of
household experience, and even the
young and inexperienced in ratdom
knew enough to avoid them Then the
manager hit upon new expedient.
He swung a lid on barrel with
swivel, filled the barrel half-full of
water, and fastened lump of cheese
in the center of the lid. AS soon as
a rat alighted on either side of the
lid, over he wohld go into the bar
rel, and for awhile rats were drowned
by the dozen.
Then it was evident that they held
rat council, for the number of the
victims grew steadily smaller. Some
times of morning there would be two
or three rats in the barrel; oftener
there were none at all. The observant
manager felt that they were all the
time trying to figure out how to get
that cheese. Sometimes two rats would
get on the edge of the barrel oppo-
site one another at the same time.
and balance the lid as they crept in
toward the center This worked we'll
until one or the other forgot the need
of caution, when both fell in.
Finally one old rat mastered the
game. For several nights the cheese
disappeared, and there was no rat
there in the morning to show for it.
One night the manager caught the rat
in the act of dropping from some of
the pipes right in the center of the
lid. He balanced himself for mo-
ment, then quietly nibbled at the
cheese. When he had satisfied him
self, he carefully moved off along the
line of the swivel, and dropped to the
floor, safe.
''That was the point where gave
it up" said the manager, in telling the
story. There are some other people
figuring on it now, but the kind of
man who is able to beat those rats
will probably be able to command a
higher salary than can afford to
pay."-N. Y. Tribune.
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AS it is the statue has had its
trials. 1t was designed for the cen
trail court of the Boston Public Ii
brary and was rejected as unsuitable
for the purpose, after hot controversy
by the trustees.
The Boston Public library people had
another sensation in the stalwart figures
of two young men in one of the famous
frescoes which adorn the interior of that
much-discussed little building. Alto
gether, New York has had less than its
share of art quarrels of the Biondi sort
Though there was an outburst some
years ago of outraged delicacy concern
ing a Diana poised on one foot at the top
of the Madison Square Garden tower,
where no one without telescope could
possibly see whether she was clad for
summer or winter.
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emily ne is good
for 60 years more
before he drops off the scene of &C.
ton. He was private secretary to
Gen. Grant when Grant was president
of the United States. and there is no
other man now living who has more
interesting "reminiscences of the great
soldier
Gen. Grant" says Col. sniffen,
was the greatest man l ever knew.
He was simple minded as child, and
as trustful as child of those whom
he regarded as his friends. He CON
fided in them as he would confide in
his wife. For one of them to have
betrayed his confidence would have
been dastardly, and only one of all
the men he trusted in public life ever
did betTay his confidence, so far as |
know. I shall never forget the grief
of Grant when this betrayal dawned
upon him. 1t was something SO en-
tirely foreign to his manner of
thought that he was simply dazed and
stunned. That was at the time of
the whisky ring revelations. With
all his capacity for achievement, Grant
had no pride of performance. He
would adopt suggestions without COM
ment, and if after he had written a
message somebody had changed the
literary style of it throughout, he
would accept the lamentations as a
matter of course.
yet Grant was president every min
ute of the time. He reached his own
conclusions and stuck to them. When
ever crisis came, it was he, and not
the members of his cabinet, who de-
termined the policy of the administra-
ton"
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scum that it should be exhibited one
year. The museum people exhibited
it in the cellar. Now Blondi is
angry. He says that cellar exhibition
doesn't count.
There is here no question of nudity;
none of the several figures Of the group
has forgotten his clothes. The great
mass of bronze, 80 feet long, was ex-
hibited in Paris, in Buffalo. Mrs. Nation
would find in it nothing to object to. She
would probably agree with the sculptor's
moral purpose.
For Biondi has tried to portray the
degeneracy of alcohol, from which
France and Italy are suffering far more
than the United States. A soldier, a low
woman, a girl and three pagan priests
are the drunken figures. They stumble
and leer at smaller group in the middle
"a stalwart young man, his wife and a
little boy.
These splendid figures of vigor and
scorn represent the sane and healthy i'm
pulses and reserves against alcoholism
of humanity at its best. 1t is temper
ance sermon, powerful indeed, but New
York art experts have decided that it is
no part of a scuIrtor's trade to teach
morals by portraying the disagreeable,
and the statue is likely to remain I'M
shown. A mastery work, but vulgar is
the New York verdict. London's would
be the same. Paris or Rome would &C
cept it without question.
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June-the latter the most important, if
a fair degree of success attends it.
The social prestige of Newport as the
only August resort of the exclusive has
been shaken by the growing practice of
owning country homes of large extent,
and of giving numerous "week's-end
house parties" at them. Many old hab-
itues Of Newport find the place almost
uncomfortable now because of the compile
cation of divorced couples. 1t isn't pleas
ant, to say the least, for people in high
society to meet sundered fragments OF
once presumably happy couples now
gathered into new relationships.
Bishop Burgess, of the fashionable
Long Island diocese, which half the year
includes SO many social elite, heads a
movement for the cutting off OF the privi-
lege OF remarriage by the Episcopalian
church to divorced persons. 1t is
curious coincidence that very close re-
lative of Bishop Burgess's predecessor
was herself divorced and remarked
within the church. 1t is not an easy
problem
Newport has one tower of strength. 1t
lS Lue SUMMER nome OIL the BrlJlSh leSa-
ton, as Therapia is the summer home of
the foreign embassies at Constantinople.
The young men of the British embassy
are of excellent family-the foreign Of
flee knows our American foibles-and
they can dance.
The presence of the naval element in
Newport much of the time counts for
less socially than one might suppose,
Bince the considerable increase in the
number of the officers. A naval officer is
in society if he happens to be-; once he
would have been in society because he
was a naval officer. The North Atlantic
squadron divides its favors between
Newport and Bar Harbor. Last year it
even visited Oyster Bay.
The strangest thing is the social resus-
citation of Saratoga, mainly accom-
plished by the late William c. Whitney
md the racing element. For 20 years it
had been without hope of recognition,
though prosperous in way. ThenalIat
'nce the apparently impossible was ac-
-'ssa..~s.s,,..-..as~.~es :, ad IFS "ssa-
~ MI
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near happening when Reed was speaker
and Adlai Stevenson was vice president
dent, for Frye, of Maine, was president
pro TEN. of the senate then, as now; but
there was no time in that period when
there was vacancy in the Office of vice
president, so as to give Frye the full
dignities of the place, so far as the SEN
ate was concerned.
Cannon is the first speaker of the
house who ever hailed from Illinois, and
Illinois has had only one vice president
Stevenson. If Senator Fairbanks
were to become vice president, he would
be the second from Indiana to hold that
Office. Schuyler Colfax was the first,
and Colfax was also the first Indiana
speaker, Michael c. Kerr being the only
other.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

of the United States
has found a burial
place in Washing
ton. The nearest
approach to it, of
course, is the tomb
of George Wash
ton, 16 miles down
t h e Potomac, at
M o u n t Vernon,
while Jefferson, at
G b a r lettesville;
Madison, at Mont
pelier; Monroe, at
Richmond. and Ty-
Ter, at Richmond,
o r:&L: -
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

Abraham Lin :
coin, it is recalled
that nearly 40
years ago a sim
/ i ar movement
w a S authorized
by con gre S s,
backed by some
of the best known
men in the United
S t a t e S, t h a t
money was raised
by popular sub
scription, the de-
sign for a monu-
ment approved,
n otto ~oJoo&oIl
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

dent, the curious
result would fol-
low that the pre-
siding officers OF
both houses of con-
gress would come
from the same
state - Illinois -
provided, of course,
that a republican
house should again
m a k e G a n n o n
speaker.
Such a conjunc-
ton has never hap
pened before in the
history of the gov
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

pretty we'll developed when man can
leave New York, return on the
same boat in less than three weeks
and spend eight days in Paris and
London meanwhile.
Passengers in increasing numbers
avail themselves of these hurried trips.
The old-fashioned grand tour is still
common enough with plain people who
really go. to Europe with some idea of
self-lmprovement, but business men
strike straight for London or whatever
point their needs Indicate Society
women in early spring seek the Riviera,
where there is complete absence of the
usual art galleries and the like A little
later London for the season." Paris for
shopping-less of the latter than for
merly-and they are ready to return in
time for Newport or for country house
life
The height of the London season is
June. At that blessed time of year even
London sometimes passes whole days
without rain. The long twilight lends
itself to garden fetes. The terraces of
the Parliament house are in their glory.
Long before August IL the season begins
to break up.
Steamship travel feels the cross cur
rent The heaviest passenger lists are
takenfoVar in June, the most crowded
shiploads of returning tourists are looked
for between August 18 and September 20.
There is a supplementary season OF fash
ionables who go over in April and return
in early July. These do not fill up the
ship. They are the kind who do fill the
most expensive rooms. At such times
the $1,250 bridal suites" of the Deutsch-
land are eagerly sought. Parlor, bed
room--real beds, not berths-bath and
toilet. cost man and his wife 500 day
each for the brief, swift passage No
hotel rates in the world are to be men
tione in the same breath. People who
pay $500 to $1,000 for couple of rooms
1sde luxe" for one passage are by no
means uncommon. All the newer and
bigger ships make elaborate prepare
tions for this profitable class of passen-
gers.
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eralSnlp or the
army, after the
retirement of the
pr e S e n t incum-
bent, Gen. Dodge,
is one of the most
interesting fig
ures in the mill
tary service OF
United States.
Sniffen is about
go years old now,
but he has the
appearance a n d
v i gor Of a man
of 40. and appar-
.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

N. Tyner, w h o
was Grants last
postmaster 6 en-
eral. With three
exceptions, Tyner
is the only sur
vivor of those who
served in the. cab
i n e t d u r i n G
Grant S two adj
ministrations.
OF Tyner it is
said that no man
was more sur
prised than he
when the presi-
dent ca11ad hin, RI
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
The Commencement Season.

EW YORK is just at
present the center
of a vast business Of
holding commence
ment services. The
public schools make
more and more
every year of the
closing exercises,
upon the sound
principle that a
good many of the
pupils will never
have another com.
m e u C ement, and
ronu nc -1l1
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
Japanese Postmen on Wheels.

Japanese postmen whose routes carry
them into the country use bicycles.
Their wheels are made by local manufac-
turers, who have appropriated improve
ments from both British and American
patents.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

iUS the summer re-
sort season, which
is August here,
finds ready for it's
diversions hosts of
smart" people who
have already en-
joyed a Lenox sea-
son in September,
an Aiken season in
midwinter, a Ri
viera season in
March, a Paris sea-
son in May and a
London season in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
The Biondi Statue Dispute.

UGH to its amaze
m e n t, easy-going
New York finds it.
self immersed in .
dispute about the
pure in art, just as
if it were Boston or
Cincinnati.
The Italian sculp-
tor, Biondi, made a
work of unques-
toned beauty, so
far as workmanship
goes, and made a
contract with the
METROPOLITAN mu-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

do not quite know how the new public
temper towards gambling will affect
Saratoga; local sentiment, at least, will
not favor strait-laced puritanism. Sar-
atog has tried that
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
The Case of the Bacchante.

GT in the same mu-
scum stands on ex-
hibition an entirely
nude figure of a
woman dancing I'M
der the influence of
wine, MacMonnies's
f a m o us "B a c.
C b a n t e." H e r q
there is no sugges-
ton, as in Biondi's
group, of degener-
acy due to alcohol
ism and inherited
from father to son.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

Country Without Newspapers.
The empire of Morocco is the most
important state that is absolutely
without newspaper.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
THE SUMMER SEASON
PLACES THAT ARE POPULAR
WITH NEW WORKERS.
MODERN TRIPS TO EUROPE
Majority of Them Are Made in a
Hurry Nowadays-Where So
ciety Goes in August
Other Gossip.

EW YORK.-G o "
Odell is in London.
He started fro m
New York May "a
for G h e r b o u re-,
spent four days in
Paris, went to Lon
don, and at the end
of four days there
will sail for New
Y 0 r k. H e will
reach this city after
an absence of only
20 days.
The A t | a n t ic
steamer service is
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
TALK OF WASHINGTON
TIMELY AND INTERESTING Cos.
SIP OF THE CAPITOL.
REMINDERS OF GEN. GRANT
His Former Private Secretary Soon to
Be Paymaster-Ge General of the
Army-Tyner Was Mem
Der Of His Cabinet.

Washington.-Col. c. G. Sniffen,
who is in line for the paymaster gen
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A Monument to Lincoln.

Now that it is proposed to build in
suitable monument to
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
Tyner,s Promotion

A pathetic reminder of the Grant
administration was the trial of James
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29

Illinois and the Gavels.
If it should happen that Representa-
tive Hit should be elected vice presi-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
Tomhs of the Presidents.

1t is an interesting, though not sur
prising fact, that not single president
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and captured cannon turned over 10
the monument association by the war !
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The Summer Resorts.

HUS the summer re-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-11
NOVELTIES IN GREEN.

The green rose is very old and
Father ugly novelty" that crops up
afresh from time to time as a catch
penny attraction, and there are one or
two other plants with green flowers
that are usually more curious than at.
tractive, says the Ladies' Field. A
somewhat rare green-flowered Lenten
rose, heileborus 'viridis multifidus. is
really rather good. burt the ordinary
form, h. V. dumetorum, is unattrac.
tive. The prettiest green-fiowered
rock plant is perhaps hacquetia cpl
pactis, little Alpine that flowers
close to the ground, the bright. goren.
petaled blossoms, with pretty gold
centers, being about the size of prim.
rose blooms, and produced with us
early in spring before the strawberry.
like leaves. Bupleurum ranunculoides
is another Alpine that the curious in
green-fowSred rookery subjects might
try; but as Il is high Alpine, its cul.
ture will de for careful gardeners
only. The latest invention in the way
VI Is an al
dition to that familiar family, our own
yellow primrose. 1t is called Novel.
ty" and is described as a large and
truly green-flowered form of the beau.
tiful old wild primrose, a free bloomer
and strong grower.
1t is long since anything new in
precious stones made bid for popu,
larity, but since it became known that
King Edward looked with favor on
the peridut the beautiful sage-green
gem is beginning to have vogue, re
ports the Pail Mall Gazette. The per
IDIOT, the Arabic name for precious
stone" has for many years been found
in Ural Mountain quartz, and in the
rocks of South America, but 1t has
been reserved for the Khedive of
Egypt to find the stone in marketable
quantity The stone is not prohibit
i've in price, and goes beautifully with
almost anything except sapphires. In
settings of diamonds or pearls it is
effective, and it is likely to be priced
for its decorative value in the larger
kinds of ornaments.