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owned good homes-in Elmira, in Hart
ford, in Tarrytown. He has rented
princcly palaces in Florence Italy, and
he is now up to his neck in lawsuit with
the owner of one of them over whose
lease he has fallen out. He has lived
more briefly in Princeton, N. j. And
he has now leased for term of years an
old-fashioned broad beamed, lazy,
comfortable house in this city, only a
two minutes walk from his former home
on Tenth street.
When Butler wrote of "Flora McFlim-
sey of Madison Square," Mark Twain's
new home was in the very center of
New York fashion; and that was 40
Ayears ago 1t is the only section of New
York that has remained in continuous
favor for so long period; for it is still
fashionable, being particularly favored
by those of New York "smart set" or
Gets. who have brains and are interested
IN literature or art. Within 400 feetof
N-. Twain, at four a. m. of night in the
season when everyone is at home, will
DO Richard Watson Glider, Mr.. MOODY.
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OF the Saratoga hOStelries. The United
States and Grand Union led it in extent
of dreary ugliness, in miles of piazzas
where dowagers could rock in easy
chairs, in acres of slippery dining-room
floor. Yet all three have lost their once
proud prominence. Not one Of them
can longer claim to be the biggest hotel
in the world''-as if that was anything
to be proud of. The rest of the world
has gone ahead, while Saratoga has re-
NAMED, in outward aspect and as to its
hotel world, little changed.
A few years ago the town seemed
doomed to slow extinction The recent
fame attending its race course and par
ticularly the perfectly open manner in
which gambling is conducted have
brought back its old prosperity.
We grumble here in New York that
the town is wide open" And tits. But
there is here at least hypocrisy, the
tribute that vice pays to virtue. It
family pretends to be shut. You cannot
go along the street and enter gambling
house at will. You must be vouched for
| by some one, led, conducted. There is a,
little. mystery of door-opening, crack
first then wider; a password is at
times insisted upon.
Not so Saratoga. Assuming that you
are not resident-in which case Club
houses" are not for you-you simply
walk up, walk in, sit down and say:
Gimme stack O. reds" There is no
other formality.
Visited Saratoga the year 1t was good
The piazzas of the great hotels were
Saharas. Women who wear paint and
diamonds to breakfast, sports who wake
at noon, are necessary to make prosper
a town whuse population is 10000 and
which has hotel accommodation for
three times that number, besides null
tiplying cottages.
And yet there really are in the En-
! rire state laws that forbid gambling!
OWEN LANGDON.
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GLASS LIFTED BY THE AIR.

make knot on the end of the string
close to the card, and stop the hole
tightly with drop of sealing wax. Now,
If you press the card on the glass of
water carefully you can lift the whole
affair by the cord, and If you fasten the
other end of the cord to a hook the Curl
Gus pendulum will swing a long time IL
you cautiously set it going
1t is best to rub little grease on the
rim of the glass to make it fit the card
perfectly and adhere slightly, and it is
advisable to experiment with a cheap
glass in place where water may be
spilled without damage Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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PROBLEM OF VENTILATION.
To Supply Underground Workers with
Wholesome Air Is Task Of
Some Magnitude.

There are two main causes, as DR..
Holland reports in mis- recent investi-
cation of Cornish miners, which con-
tribute to poor ventilation and in
creased temperature in underground
working. One is the heat caused by
oxidation Of the exposed mineral, due
mainly to its pyrites. which for one per
cent. loss of oxygen in the air is calcu-
lated to be equivalent to a rise of 25
degrees Fahsenheit. The second cause
is the heat produced by compression
Of the air, due to the increase in baro-
metric pressure, which takes place with
increasing depth. This is a constant
factor, raising the temperature 5k de-
grees Fahrenheit per thousand feet.
DR.. Haldane reasons that with suffi-
cient volume of fresh air the heat of
the natural rock temperature will be
inappreclable. In virgin granite, at the
22O-foot level. in a hole Az feet deep,
q rock temperature of 76.5 degrees
Fahrenheit was obtained, with an air
temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit;
after good ventilation a year the re-
spective temperatures were SIT and So
degrees Fahrenheit. Thus he gives as
a first principle in dealing with the
ventilation of mines of any consider
able depth that with sufficient volume
of fresh air the mean temperature at
the bottom exceeds the mean tempera-
ture at the top by an amount only
which corresponds to the heating of
compression. The question of moisture
with relation to temperature is COM
plicated, because the moisture affects
the mi4es in several ways. At higher
temperatures moisture reduces con-
siderably the temperature of the mire,
as large amount of heat is expended
in evaporation, the amount of heat alb
sorbed in raising the tension OF aque-
GUS vapors in air by Oh inch being
shout equal to that required to rails,
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ANOTHER AMUSING PUZZLE
How to Make Fragile Pendulum
Which Will Prove Surprise
to All Who See It.

You know, of course, that if you fill q
tumbler or goblet to the brim, or little
above the brim-for you can pile up
the water little bit by pouring very
carefully-and then press large card
down tightly on the top Of the filled glass
with one hand, grasp the glass with the
other, and turn it upside down, you can
take away the hand that holds the card
without splitting drop Of water. The
card will stick to the edge of the glass
as if it were glued there, and 1t will hold
up the glassful of water.
You know, too, that 1t is the pressure
of the air that supports the card and the
water. The air presses upward on the
lower face of the card with force of Is
pounds for every square inch of surface,
and as the top of the glass measures five
or six square inches, there will be pres
sure of rs or 80 pounds to hold up the
card and water, which weigh only about
half pound.
1t is only the size of the mouth of the
glass, not the size of the whole card,
that counts, because on the outside part
of the card the air presses up and down
with equal force, and so has no effect
Now, as the force of the air is many
times stronger than is needed to lift the
water, suppose We make it lift some
thing else in addition, say the heavy
glass.
To do this, press the card on the full
glass as before, but instead of inverting
the glass life up the card by two opposite
corners. II you are very careful and the
card is very stiff you may succeed in lift
ing glass, water, and all in this way, but
the card is apt to bend and let in a little
air somewhere, which, of course, spoils
the trick. Here is better plan.
Make little hole in the middle OF
the card, pass cord through the hole
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volumes of "reminiscences which should
be the most interesting of the year. Ade
and "Dooley" Dunno come from Chica-
go to buy houses in the heart of the
metropolis. Hamlin Garland raises
squashes on his western farm, while
the weather's fine, but the snow beats
on him in Fifth avenue. Churchill comes
from his lordly New Hampshire estate,
Bachelor from his rough rock den by
the Connecticut coast, where the waves
dash beneath him as he writes. Only
Mrs. Deland and Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps of the New England contingent
are seldom seen here; since her marriage
Mrs. Mary Wilkins Freeman is an an
nexed New Yorker. Marion Crawford,
born in Rome, comes to New York fire.
quently to remind us that the Wards
and Crawfords were old New Workers.
And Henry Harland, prosperous author
Of ''The Cardinals Snuffbox'' and other
beautiful work, casts curious eye as
he passes it upon the surrogate's office,
where once he worked as clerk, won
dering after the publication of GAS 1t
Was Written" and the evoke of the
Torah," if he could ever hope to cast
loose and live by letters.
The "pot-boiler" is no longer neces-
sary. Mr.. j. Duffield Smith, the au-
thor of 8sHeart of the Rose" no longer
fingers as John d. Smith upon the roll
of the searchers in the county clerks
office; and Mary Jones has given up her
job in the public school,
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Ilalg|lya,Iung 3
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SONG OF SOCKS AND SHOES.


The little pink pigs have been roofing
around,
Roofing around all night.
Though I warned them they must slum-
Der sound
Till the blink of themorning light;
/ warned them well, as the owner gowned
And Struggled them warm and tight.
But though told them they mustn't peep
out,
The little pink pigs have been roofing
about;
1 warned them one, and warned them ten,
So now they must go in the sock-and-shoe
pen,
The pen Of the sock and shoe.
First the sock and then the shoe; it's nearly
eight o'clock!
Lock the little pigs in the sock,
Shoe the little pigs in the shoe,
Den the little pigs in the pen,
The pen of the shoe and sock.
The little pink pigs, with wiggle and
dive,
All under the gown they run,
While the owner watches me coax and
drive,
And giggles gale at the fun,
And squeals as swoop on drove Of five
And capture the five in one.
Oh, the little pink pigs have been roofing
about,
Though 1 warned them well they mustn't
peep out,
So 1 capture five, and I capture ten
And drive them into the sock-and- shoe
pen,
The pen of the sock and shoe.
First the sock and then the shoe, and then
the shoe and sock;
Lock the little pigs in the sock.x
Shoe the little pigs in the shoe,
Den the little pigs in the pen,
It's almost eight o'clock!
Edmund Vance Cooke. in Youths Com
panion
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land. Even the so-called American
Line" is owned in London, although two
Of its ships were admitted to American
registry on the score of their owner
ship, and on condition that two more
should be built in Philadelphia. 1t was
done, and they're the American liners
still; but Britain owns even the Phila-
delphia boats.
Meanwhile the German lines, with the
swiftest ships and very capable man
agement, get the cream of the business.
Kaiser Wilhelm is personally stock
+, holder in each Of the great German COM
panies. 1t is due to his personal watch
fulness over trifles that German cham
payne is served on the wine list of the
German steamers. That brilliant young
monarch omits nothing, sees everything.
Nothing to him is trifle. Ten years
ago nobody knew that there was any
German champagne. ~
The cutting of the steerage rate. has
turned out differently from the dolefui
anticipations of the pessimists. Instead
of piling up undesirable immigrants
upon our shores it has encouraged poor
Americans of foreign birth to buy cheap
return tickets and take flying visit
home to see the old folks. An unusual
,Foportion of the steerage passengers
Ginning ashore from the liners now are
American residents.
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holdings on each floor to match the
other woodwork
The entire house is lighted by means
of combination gas and electric light
fixtures. There are electric bells from
the outside doors to the kitchen halls
and call bell from the dining-room to
the kitchen; also an electric door opener
from the second-story hall and the din
ing-room. The hardware is of fancy
dark bronze.
This makes very attractive and COM
plete home, suitable for almost any To-
cation, and can be built for $4,000 in
most places under general conditions.
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strings and settled down to mouse
catching, they one and all decided that
1t would never do to call such staid old
cat such a kittenish name. So Myrtle
named her Lady Gray.
AS she grew in size and strength it.
seemed to fit her perfectly. She had
beautiful fur of soft silver maltese with
tiny bow of white under her chin and
touch of it on one slender paw. She
was very proud of these marks and took
great care to keep them spotlessly
white.
Lady Gray considered the shed her
special property. There was hole cut
through the wall so that she might come
and go when she pleased and her basket
and saucer were always kept in this
room. When she strolled in after
Tommy went out, she spied the rabbits
the very first thing.
"Ho, no." she thought. $50 Tommy has
been hunting, has he? l wondered
where he was going when saw him go
through the corn field. He frightened
away the gopher l was watching and
never so much as said he was sorry.
How would he like to have somebody
scare away his game when he had it all
most caught?"
Lady Gray was an honest cat. She
was proud of the fact and so were all
the family. They often left her alone
in the kitchen within easy reach of the
most delicious smelling dishes and she
never once had touched them. But now
she was hungry and disappointed over
the loss of her gopher. She looked visit
fully at the rabbits. S
"They are very fat she thought.
~ wonder if Myrtle will save some for
me. Rabbit stews are very good, SO are
rabbits raw"
She moved step nearer and licked her
chops. ut is a long jump. l never
could make it. There is nothing to cling
to but the rabbits themselves If fell
should hurt my head"
Sniff, sniff, she came little nearer
and a little nearer, until she stood be-
meath them. Then she gathered her 1.-the
body together, just as if she were going
to pounce on mouse, and jumped She
caught the bodies of the rabbits with her
sharp claws and there she hung swing
ing back and forth, for all the world
like canary in cage. Before she had
time to take so much as a bite, the door
opened, and there stood Myrtle.
why, Lady Gray!" she said Il
thought you were an honest pussy!"
Poor Lady Gray was SO ashamed she
did not know what to do She wished she
could crawl away under the barn and
hide. Without ever looking to ,see
where she was going to land, she jumped
land went head first into pail of water.
She was sorry sight when she
scrambled out. Tiny rivuiets of water
dripped from her pretty fur coat and
she shivered with the cold. How she did
wish she had left those rabbits alone.
When Myrtle saw how cold she was.
she stopped laughing and took her into
| the kitchen. Then she rubbed her until
her fur was quite dry. But not until
many weeks afterward could she be In
duced to go into the shed and she never
has touched rabbit since If Tommy
hangs them within reach she pretends
not to see them.-Pearl Howard Camp
bell, in Chicago Record Herald.
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on account of the nice large rooms pro-
vided and Its convenience in every other
respect.
Under the main part of the building
is cellar, containing storeroom, coal
bins and steam boiler, which heats the
entire house. There is also rear stair
way from the yard to the cellar along
side Of the rear stoop.
The frame is built of hemlock tim
Der and lumber, with a balloon frame.
The walls are sheathed with North
Carolina boards and covered with two
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ply sheathing paper, beveled siding and
shingles, as shown in elevation. The
main roof is covered with black slate.
The piazza and pantry roofs are covered
with heavy-coated tin plates.
The exterior; woodwork is covered
with one good coat of linseed oil and
one good coat of lead and oil printing
and is then finished with a heavy coat
of white lead and zinc paint The shin
giles are stained to correspond with the
other colors.
The floors are laid with narrow North
Carolina tongued and grooved pine
flooring boards properly blind nailed
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Art i'm Architectural
Designed and Written Especially
for this Paper

and covered with two-ply paper and
lath left down until all the work has
been completed. 1t is then removed,
and the floors are filled with paste fll-
ers, we'll rubbed and given two good
coats of floorsyarnish.
The walls are covered with plaster
boards and one good coat Of patent
plaster, brown coat and white sand, and
finished up with trowel for tinting.
The trim on the first floor and stair
case is of quartered oak and on the Sec
ond floor of wildwood. The doors are
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Plea for the Old Sheep.

Small Harry was saying his prayers
at his mothers knee, and she was
helping him out with few SUCCESS
tions. "Bless and take care of the lit
tie lambs of the flock" she said. Now
Harry knew that he was included
among the lambs, and he reasoned
that his parents should not be forgot
ten. "Blexs and take care of the lit
tie lambs of the flock" he repeated.
then added: and, Lord, guess you
had better keep an eye on the old
sheep, too"
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Kettles Made of Thin Paper.

Kettles made of thin paper are used
by Japanese soldiers. When needed
for boiling, it is filled with water, and
then water is poured over it. 1t is hung
over the fire, and in ten minutes the
water is boiling. The kettle can DE
used eight or ten times, and the cost
OF it is about two cents.
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five paneled of special patterns, as also
is the trim, which has cabinet heads to
all doors and windows. The woodwork
is finished in natural wood, with paste
filters on hardwood and liquid filters on
soft wood, and two good coats of var
nish properly rubbed down between the
coats.
The interior walls and ceilings are
tinted in various shades with cold water
colors, and all the rooms have fancy pa
per borders to match the colors of side
walls and ceilings. There are picture
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-12-07
Russian Cows Wear Glasses.

over 10000 cattle in Russia wear
spectacles. They are of smoke-colored
glass, and are used to prevent snow
blindness. Through the snow of the
plains tufts of grass force their way,
and on these the cattle feed. Tho
glare OF the sun on the snow causes
blindness, and to protect the animal
the spectacles have been fitted oveA
their eyes.
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New York and It's Writers.

HE fact is that New
York, needless as
it is of art OF any
sort, is coming to
be more and more
t h e inevitable
home Of writing
folk. Moncure D.
Conway, W hose
name half a cen
fury ago was heard
in the hottest Of
t h e anti-slavery
debate, is coming
here to issue two,
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copyright, 1902, by Dennis & Gastmeyer.
$50 Broadway. New York;
WYE HEREWITH present to our
wv readers a special modern. up-to-
date, low-priced colonial home
fifth every Improvement and con-
venience. This house should not
have less than 5O-foot lot Of
ground to give it a good ap-
pearance, and it should sit back from
the building line not less than 80 feet.
This plan, we are informed by the de-
signers, has been used in many locations
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-12-07
An English "American Line"

? course it is all
very we'll to talk of
the Cunard COM
pany as fighting
Morgan's steam
ship trust, with the
Germans as it's
allies. But in a
year things have
greatly changed.
One result of Nor
gan's loosened grip
on the mastery
of the seas is
that his trust is
D-
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Nests Lighted by ELECTRICITY

The baya, or weaver-bird, of India,
has the curious habit of fastening fire.
flies to it's nest with moist clay. On g
dark night such u nest shines with the
briliiancy OF small electric lamp.
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Mark Twain a New Yorker.

though he didn't
come in the steer
age.
Mark is to be a
New Yorker. 1
wonder how many
of his admirers can
reckon up the num-
Der of residences
he has inhabited,
even S i n c e h i s
wandering W e S t.
ern days ended.
He has lived
oo%,,o1lu 1;voJ ord
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Congress Hall Goes.

.ORY Of Congress
Hall! Who has not
heard of it and its
ill-smelling spring
in Saratoga? The
great hotel cost
nearly a million
dollars to build;
it was sold the
other day for $780,
900.
OF lat e years
Congress Hall has
been third in size
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ship weighing with her cargo some 3d.
600 tons is no small matter to have been
produced from an American shipyard.
The Minnesota is as big as eight of the
Arizona which, for brief period not so
very long ago, was the champion of the
seas. She is thrice and more the size
of the. Etruria, champion ocean grey
hound only Is years ago.
The growth in size of steamships of
late is startling. Five years ago no ship
had been built to equal the Great East
ern. There are now afloat seven that
surpass her. The $4,000 tons of the new
Baltic, if you could imagine her taken
apart for carriage, would fill $50 freight
cars of the largest size-eightlo long trains
of nearly 40 cars each. Her deck is 730
feet in length, and so arranged that near
ly the whole is available for uninter-
rupted promenade.
Must it not be this insistent building
of big ships that has brought on the
cut-rate war in Atlantic passage? Is
not the thing being overdone? In par
ticular, are not the British lines getting
together for a patriotic resistance to
the supremacy of Germany in Atlantic
transportation?
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GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
"wHAT rs DOING" IN THE BIG
EASTERN METROPOLIS.
THE SIZE OF STEAMSHIPS
Wonderful Growth Shown by the Mon
ster Minnesota - Successful
Writers of New York-Mark
Twain in the City.

EW YORK.-An new
jockey oran actress
who has made a
hit by cake-walk-
ing twice, speech
less, across a stage
these New York
C an understand.
But I am not aware
that many people
went to see Jim
Hills new ship,
t b . Minnesota,
when S h e W a S
snubbed to a dock
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Homestead entry No. 2SS4, depart ment of the interior.
 Land office a Tucson, Ariz., Dec. ', 'O4.
 Notice is hereby given that the fol- lowing named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be-made before the clerk of the district court in his office at Phoe- nix, Arizona on Wednesday, January g, 1Se5, viz, George Henry Newton of Buckeye, MaricOpa county. Arizona, for the N. E. 1-4. sec. IS, T. 1 S., R., w, c. & $. R. E. & M.
 He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land viz: John G: Roberts of Buckeye, Arizona; Henry w. Davis of Buckeye. Arizona; Nels Benson of Buckeye, Arizona Peder Henry Benson of Buckeye, Arizona.
 Milton R. Moore, register.
 First publication Dee. g, 1904.