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much more, down to the bottom OF the
ocean. Fishes have been dredged from
below twelve thousand feet. Under
such diverse conditions Of life, we
would naturally expect that their re-
spective inhabitants would present con-
siderable difference in their structural
particulars, and also in their habits.
To a considerable extent such is the
case. But in this connection we meet
with some surprises of quite Q remark
able character, and which Seem to op-
pose the current evolution theory. For
example, instead Of the total darkness
invariably abolishing the organs Of
vision by disuse, we find that the deep
sea fishes commonly possess eyes,
while only a few are blind. In this
connection it may be remarked that
some surface-water inhabitants are
also blind. There are evidences, how
ever, which appear to be characteristic
qualities of deep-sea fishes, namely,
weak connective tissues and extremely
delicate fin muscles, indicating still
water conditions; also thin fbrous
bones, full of cavities, indicating high
pressure conditions. While these Pc
%culiarities are doubtless we'll adapted
for deep-sea life, an idea Of their I'M
fitness for superficial waters may be.
CLEANED from the following extract
from DR.. Alcock's recent book, which
records his observations as naturalist
to the ship Investigator Of the British
navy. He says: when a deep-sea
fish is brought to the surface, how
gradually and carefully soever. its
bones are often like so much touch
wood and its muscles like rotten pulp,
while its eyes are burst from their
sockets, and its vicera are often blown
out of the body cavity by the e1pan-
sion Of the air bladder" 1t frequently
happens that deep-sea fishes are found
floating helplessly on the surface of the
ocean, with large prey in their stom-
achs. Their appearance under these
circumstances is accounted for by the
efforts Of their struggling victims to
escape from their jaws, causing them
to ascend beyond the horizontal zone
which they usually inhabit. 'This e1-
plains" observes Gunther, "the fact
that all the specimens known of Sac
copharynx. and Observation-Disclosures
fishes with the same extensile stomach
as Chiasmodus-were found with large
fishes in their stomachs. The speci-
mems swallowed were found in each
case to be in a very early state of d.
gestion."
Yet, in a general way, the structural
forms of deep-sea fishes are Identical
with certain fishes familiar to surface
waters, so that they are regarded as
simply being adaptations Of existing
surface-water species, and pot a spe-
cial order by themselves.
In addition to the extraordinary
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are not limited to deep-sea fishes, but
among these fishes there are examples
which eclipse anything elsewhere
found. With the exception Of the So
called "lures" of deep-sea fishes, their
luminous organs appear to be modified
mucous glands, which produce the
"phosphorescent" light. These ars
said not to exist in the small-eyed
fishes, which, instead. possess sensitive
organs Of touch; and while they are
commonly absent in the blind fishes,
some possess them highly developed.
as in the Benthobates moresbyi. But
illuminating power may exist without
phosphorescent glands. For example,
in the Leptoderma afinis, which has
eyes resembling goggles, there are no
phosphorescent glands, but its skin
gives off a luminous bloom. In the
Ipnops, the two eyes are fattened out,
covering the whole top Of the head.
and are luminous In life. In the Or
thoprora, the luminous body covers the
end Of the nose, like the headlight of
all engine. The deep-sea "angler" or
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The Foot In Measurement.

Professor Edward B. Rosa, in a re-
cent address on scientific standards of
measurement, collected interesting
facts about the foot, the most widely
used Measure of length in both ancient
and modern times. 1t is derived from
the length of the human foot, but ap-
parently has varied more than that
portion of the skeleton can possibly
have done in historic times.
The ancient Welsh foot, for instance,
was nine inches long, whereas thePied-
mont was twenty inches. In modern
times it has varied from the Spanish
foot, of less than eleven inches, to the
Venice foot, Of more than thirteen
inches. Almost every country has used
q foot measure of a different length. 1t
was this confusion which led the
French to devise the metric SYSTEM
Youths COmpaniOn.
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An Acid Made of Wood Gas.

Aside from the deposits Of metallic
copper in the Michigan region. practi-
cally all tine ores of copper, zinc, lead
and nickel consist of compounds OF
the metals with sulphur. In smelling,
the sulphur is burned out and gives
rise to enormous quantities Of sulphur
~dioxide-that gas that has taught man
to postpone for a moment the pleasure
Of his cigar when lighting it with a
sulphur match, and has caused many
a housewife to mourn for the untimely
fading and passing away of her most
cherished house plants. At Leadrille,
Joplin, Galena. Argentine. Ell Paso and
other sections of the country not only
treeless bat also CRASHES deserts have
been produced by the large smelling
establishments. Near Mt. Shasta
stretches of the finest timber land
stand blasted because Of this waste,
which, were it utilized. would doubt
less be sufficient to erect a new plant
for the company every two or three
years. By what is known as the new
contact process" this gas can be trans
formed into the best of sulphuric acid,
and where smelling establishments are
near enough to the manufactures
using this article, large revenues are
being derived from this waste product
every year. However, since sulphuric
acid is very cheap and freight rates
very high. the economical utilization
of the gas in the Shasta and other re-
gions similarly situated, far removed
from manufacturing centres. has not
yet been. accomplished.-Wiliiam Con-
ger Morgan. in Harper's Magazine.
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Fish. containing cuttle-ash broader than itseIfA

"sea-devil" has a rod-like barbel rising
from it's head and ending In luminous
fiIaments, which are supposed to act
as lures for other fishes. According to
Gunther, fishes have frequently been
taken from the stomach of the "angler"
quite as large as itself. 1t is commonly
from three to sir feet long.
The little Melanocetus, which Is IL
Illustrated here. is not quite four inches
long, but contains in it's stomach a
fish seven and a half inches long, rolled
up spirally into a ball. This fish is
also remarkable for having a vertical
mouth. According to Gunther. three
specimens Of the Saccopharyn1 "a deep
sea eel several feet long, were found
floating with fishes In their stomachs
which many times exceeded the length
Of their d%estroyers. The Plagyodus
fero1 is about six feet long and very
ferocious. From the stomach of n
were taken several octopods, crustace-
ans, a young Drama, twelve young boar
fishes, q horse mackerel, and one young
of its W species. One popularity is
that it has ribs symmetrically arranged
the whole length Of its abdomen. The
Odontostomus atratus Isl a rapacious
fish whose. teeth r so large as to
prevent its mouth from shutting. The
specimen in the illustration has swal-
lowed a %cuttleish, "whose breadth is
much in excess of its own body" A
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in Flight.

Recently army after army of black
birds flew over Aline, headed north.
The advance guard was about a half
mile long, and flying in lines of files
reaching from the Rock Island to the
Orient track.
The second flew in column formation,
and was fully t~hree-quarterS of a mile
long. At intervals Of from fifteen,
minutes to an hour all through the
forenoon patches and squares of birds
followed. A conservative estimate Of
the number that passed during the fore
noon would be 100000. The birds flew
very low, and their wings and chatter
ing could be heard at a great distance.
kansas City Journal.
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FOREIGN.

SeveraI cases have occurred Of penal.
izing yachts from Southern ports OF
the United States, charged with dis
regarding the order of the government
of intervention prohibiting the en-.
trance into Cuban ports Of vessels not
carrying health certificates. e. We
Deming, of New York City, compiains
that his yacht Zeta, in which he
cruised for a year, was detained al
Sagua Ia Grande, Cuba, for twenty
days, there being no legal proceedings.
Mr.. Deming further says that customs
officers at New Orleans, La, stated
! that clearance health papers were un'
necessary for yachts coming to Cuba.
Minister Squiers is asking the Cuban
government to expedite the case. The
maximum penalty for violation Of the
intervention governments order IS
$4,000.
The French government, it was
stated, will send an official represen-
tation to the wedding of the Crown
Prince Of Germany.
Two seamer were picked up OIL
Scatterie Island and taken to North
Sydney, N. S., after spending twelve
day on ice foes.
Cuba has been warned by the United
States of the necessity of promptly
carrying out contracts for: sewerins
and paving, to protect the health OF
both republics.
The strike Of $4,000 agricultural 10
borers in Porto Rico was announced
by President Gompers, of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, to have
ended in a victory for the workers.
Due Decazes, a special cable des.
patch stated, for whose safety in the
motor boat race fears were enter
tanned, arrived with the crew of the
Quand-Meme at a Sandman port or
board the destroyer Arbalete.
President Loubet, in recognition OF
the reception given at Buenos Ayres
to NJ. Charcot, an Arctic explorer, has
sent as a present to the Argentine Re,
public, q large Sevres vase MOUNTED
on a splendid pedestal.
At the request of Emperor William,
says a special cable despatch, the Ham;
burg-American steamships will call
regularly at Tangier.
Fearing complications in Mcrrocc
and renewed fighting by the kabyls
tribes, the Spanish government at Ma
drid has ordered the garrisons of Gram
ada and Malaga to be ready to de-
.tach cavalry and artillery at q mo
ment's notice to go to Melilla.
VI Han Eung, the Korean Chargs
dAffaires at London, Eng, COMMITTEES
suicide by hanging at the legation.
Two Russian war ships from Vladk
vostock have appeared in the Tsugarr
| Straits.
Rioting at Zhitomir has been muci
exaggerated, total casualties beins
eighteen killed and sixty-fye wounded
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Captain Hayson of the constabuIary,
who was stationed at Seassi, near,
Manila, P. l., was shot and killed BY
his OWL Moro sentinel. The Philip;
pine Commission Is considering the
question Of reducing the c~onstabulary
to $500 men and recognizing them as
provincial police, instead Of maintain
ing them as a semi-military body, as
at present. The proposed change Is
due in part to the fact that the force
as at present constituted is a heavy
drain on the insular treasury.
The army transport Buford ran
ashore while entering the harbor Of
Malabang, Island Of Mindanao. The
troops on board were landed. The
transport will probably be relocated IN
damaged. ..,2..n ..,.
There was marked activity in the
volcano of Kilauea. The flow Of lava
began increasing and rising in the
crater. -
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WHAT 90 WE PLANT

What do we do when we plant tn" Ice:
wv plant the ship which will eros l.
we plant the mast to carry the $
I'VE plant the planks to with, -
gales
RThe keel, the keelson, and beam and knee;
1--WE plant the ship when we plant the tree.
What do we do when we plant the tree?
I'VE plant the house for you and me.
I'VE plant the ~rafters, the shingles, the
floors,
I'VE plant the studding, the laths, the
doors,
THE beam and siding, all parts that be:
I'VE plant the house when we plant the
What do we do when we plant the tree?
La thousand things that We daily see;
We plant the spire that out-towers the
crag,
I'VE plant the staff for our country's flag,
I'VE plant the shade, from the hot sun free;
We plant all these when We plant the tree.
From the poems of Henry Abbey, D.
Appleton & Company, New York.
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"NAN" PATTERSON TO ACT.

Girl Accused Of Numbering Caesar"
Young to Reappear IN Stage.
Philadelphia, Pa.-So quietly that not
half a dozen persons knew Of her ar
rival, Nan Patterson visited this city,
spent less than three hours here end
upon leaving took with her. a contract
to appear in vaudeville on the Hurtig
& Seamon Circuit at a salary under
stood to be $4,000 a week.
Miss Patterson arrived at the Broad
Street Station shortly after 2 o'clock,
took a closed cab to the Walton, where
her lawyer, Daniel O'Reilly, was wait
ing for her with a vaudeville agent.
The three at luncheon discussed the
terms Of the contract. 80
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remarkable popularity is that it's eyes,
which are lateral, can be- turned to
look upward. The specimen Of the
Chiasmodus niger here illustrated is
six and ive-eighths Of an inch long,
but contains a fish in its stomach
which is ten and a half inches long.
The stomach of the devourer Is
stretched as thin as gold-beater's skin.
1t has hooked teeth, and teeth which,
cross each other from opposite sides
of the mouth. -Scientifc American.
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Personal Gossip.

The Pope has no objection to having
bis photograph taken.
DR.. Richard Strauss is considered
the richest composer in Europe.
The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is
so tall that no hotel bed will fit him.
Governor Warfeld, of Maryland.
claims to be San alumnus OF Yale, once
removed"
On Adelina Patti has been conferred
the rank of knighthood in the French
Legion of Honor.
Count Tolstoi, OF Russia. has given
up reading the newspapers, but his
friends tell him the news
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DOMESTIC.

a gift Of $4,000 from a Harvard
graduate to Yale University was an
nounced at the May meeting Of the
Yale Corporation at New Haven, Conn.
Storms passing over Red River coun-
ties, in Texas, destroyed wires; roads
and crops. 'n. "'' ''' '' 20. 'f'.
Charged with not making a proper
accounting Of postal funds, Alexander
G. Brown, for five years assistant post
master at Pensacola, Fla, was tried
and acquitted by direction of the
Judge. !;
In an address before the Phi Delta
Phi Club in New York City, Justice
Vernon NJ. Davis expressed his belief
that Miss Man" Patterson held the
pistol when Caesar" Young was shot,
and said it was evident that she lied
on the witness stand in her. second
trial.
The body of Reuben Lester Cornell.
4 naval militiaman who disappeared
On April 8, was found In the East
River, New York City. o,. r. .i,/a
A statue OF Abram s. Hewitt was IN
yelled at the Chamber of Commerce,
in New York City. ''"'' '''
Emil q. Neumer and Samuel Lobley
were arrested in New York City
charged with completely in the Equita-
Die Life Assurance Society swindle.
It was announced at Cambridge.
Mass, that Andrew Carnegie had Of
fered $4,000 for a library to Radcliffe
College. .S
81. Rogers Winthrop, assistant secre-
tary Of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was examined by State Super
lntendent Hendricks in New York City.
Mayor Dunno. of Chicago, Ill, de-
clined to grant the request Of the labor;
leaders in Chicago that the police be-
taken off the wagons. BE told them
in effect that the teamsters' strike had
collapsed. -
Captain Amundsen, a Norwegian ex-
plorer, who attempted to find the north
west passage, sailing from the ATTAIN
tic, may soon appear on the Pacific
coast, as the Consul at San Francisco,
Cal, has ben asked to send supplies
north to meet him. gu
Louis j. Rens, one of the best known
business men Of Oconto, Wis, short
in his account for a sum that may
reach 100000, left the city on his bi.
cycle, went to an abandoned barn three
miles south of the city, and shot him
selw, dying instantly.
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The Prize Jollier.

They had just been introduced.
Greatly" she said, timidly, your face
seems so familiar to mt I think we
must have met before"
Impossible" be sighed. IF we had
ever met before I should either be en-
gagged to you, married to you, or dead:
Of a broken heart ere this"-;Chtcago;
Journal.
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FRENCH TO LEND TO RUSSIA.
Offer to Raise $2OO,OOO,O 900 - Russi!

Offer to Raise $2OO,000, 900 - Russia
Gets $500, 600, 900 at Home.
"
Frankfort.-The lettings st. Peters.
burg correspondent says that the syndi>
cate Of Ftench bankers with which
Russia last February began negotia.
lions for a new loan has nov declared
it's willingness to raise 100000, 900,
provided one-quarter Of the proceeds is
spent for the building Of war vessels
at French yards.
st. Petersburg.--An imperial decree
is published authorizing the issue of
500. DOC, 900 of short-term bonds, S75,.
100000 of which has already beer
placed.
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Another Russian Fleet.

Another battleship division is man;
euvring off Cronstadt, preparatory tc
starting to reinforce R~ojestvensky.
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British Steamer Detained.

? The British steamer Carlisle was de-
tanned at Saigon on suspicion of carryc
ing contraband of war.
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Marconi is quoted as saying that
when one station, now in process OF
construction in Pisa, Italy, is complet-
ed, it will be possible to send wireless
messages around the world by way OF
Australia.
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Killed Sweetheart and Himself.

Killed. sweetheart anu dlnstII.
Unrequited love led A. Brightman
to kill Mrs. Charles Fl. Quincy and
himself at Los Angeles, Cal.
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CURIOUS FISHES OF THE
DEEP SEA.
BY DR. SANDERsON CHR1STISON.

q HAT one animal can de-
vour another twice its OWL
q ~ q size, at a single swallow,
~ s IS a st tsp sninf fno5 @i tg
be as incredible as any fish story ever
invented. Nevertheless, it is true of
certain fishes. So far as known, such
fishes are inhabitants of the deep seas,
where utter darkness ~perpetually pre-
walls, with an unvarying temperature
almost as cold as ice, and a pressure
ranging. according to depth, from a
quarter to three vr four tons upon
every square inch of their body sur
face.
The deep sea is commonly regarded
as commencing where the rays of sun.
light cease to penetrate, which is es-
timated to be less than twelve hundred
feet below the surface. and may extend
to twenty times that distance, or even
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Marconi is quoted as saying that
when one station. now in process OF
construction in Pisa, Italy, is complet-
ed, it will be possible to send wireless
messages around the world by way OF
Australia.
! The use of local anaesthesia from the
injection of sterile water was begun
by DR.. S. g. Grant. an American ply
stefan, in 1901, and it has proven so
satisfactory In several hundred opera
tions, especially about the lower in
testines, that other anaesthetics have
been practically discarded except in the
most serious cases.
The new type Of tetantograph Of Isaac
and Membret, French engineers. in
cludes a desk transmitter, on which the
writing is done with an ordinary pen
Gil, and an apparatus at the other end
reproducing the writing on a roll Of
paper. Designs, music and signatures,
as we'll as messages, are prepared in
Paris and are accurately reproduced in
Rouen, the results being much superior
to those attained from time to time
during many years of experiment.
The ghostly ring that appears to sur
round the earth, becoming visible at
certain seasons as a cone Of light in the
west after sunset, or in the east before
sunrise, is thought by A. Hansky, a
French astronomer, to be al electrical
phenomenon connected with the corona
seen about the sun during eclipseS
Observed from Mont Blanc on the 21st
and 22d of last September, this zodiacal
light had the form of a spherical TRAN
gle, with its apex near the ecliptic, and
resemblances suggest that it is a pro-
longation Of a coronal streamer.
The fear of death, we are assured.
is waning. Those who have witnessed
the death agony" in many and varied
forms tell us that it is not so terrible,
after all, and even that dying is not
at all painful. c. W. Saleeby, an Eng
lish writer, points out that in all but
very EXCEPTIONAL cases, such as acct
dent, the immediate cause Of death is
the poisoning of the nervous centres
by carboiic acid. The gas accumulates
in the blood through failure Of arrange
ments for its removal, and it has its
usual anaesthetic effect. Normal death
is a painful occurrence, usually pre-
ceded by gradual loss of conscious
ness.
In long experimenting with grass So
lutions an English biologist has noticed
that putrefa ction does not occur in
strong red or blue light, is only stimu-
lated in clear yellow, but really takes
place in dirty yellow light or in dark
ness. He has also seen that workers
behind dirty yellow screens are sub
ject to skin %eruptions. This has sug-
gested to him the novel idea of color
treatment of disease, a dirty yellow OF
the skin being assumed to indicate a
degeneration of the yellow fluids Of the
body-the bile, etc.-and to require q
yellow restorative, like dandelion,
lemon or sulphur, while lack Of health
full redness shows the need Of a red
tonic and massage with a red stone.
Blue is needed for "black blood" con-
gestion, chills, and to destroy mould
fungus.
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righteousness Of certain deep-sea
fishes, there are many which are re-
markable for their possession of IL
Illuminating organs. These attributes
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Lifeboats were launched on service no
fewer than 294 occasions on the Amer
lean coast last year and saved $40
lives.
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HIS GUARDIAN
ANGEL.

S a ncighboring clock slowly
changed out the hour of 5
on q raw, gusty December
evening, Mr.. Richard Bar
ker climbed the stairs
" -, " -
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THE SHORT WAY DOWN.
JUST A BIT OF CUT GLASS.
HOnorable Mention.)

My slipping commenced in the morning when Twas
getting bed and ended getting into bed at night
The first slip happened thus: had oversight and my bro
Their came to awake He gave push and out of
bed I slipped I managed to slip into my clothes and
started to descend the stairs But not destined to
walk down those stairs. No, must slip which did not
matter much as reached bottom good deal quicker
For while did not slip, in fact managed to eat break
fast without slipping, tho how did it do not under
There was ice on the doorstep and down went fiat
my face. AS slipped again, this time landing
headirst in snowdrift An Irish friend of mine hap
pened be passing just emerged from the snowdrt
and he greeted WITH Begorra an you re slipper,
me boy.' How lived thru that day is marvel to me
peeng which had carelessy dropped the myself
and thus ended slippery day, Earl Schultz,
Eighth Grade. Dassel, MINI.