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An electric elevator has been in
stalled in the stairway which leads
to the cupola of st. Peters cathedral
in Rome. The elevator has a capacity
for carrying ten persons 1t bears
an appropriate Latin inscription.
Peter the Great, Russia's famous
car, when he was staying in England,
had particular liking for the COM
panionship of HALEY, after whom the
comet is named. After carousing with
him at Deptford one evening Peter
wheeled the astronomer in a barrow
through yew hedge and did such
damage that he had to pay handsome
compensation to John Evelyn, the
owner.
Ingenious Germans have experiment.
ed successfully with the fiber of the
kapok or silk cotton" tree of tropica'
Africa and Asia, and believe they have
useful substitute for cotton. If that
is the case, they will have furnished
additional proof that no substance,
however valuable, is absolutely indis.
pensable to man. Cotton long seemed
to be almost so, and there are few
things without which we should get
on SO badly, if there were nothing
else to which to turn.
1t is proposed to establish wireless
| telegraph station at the meteorological
observatory on Mount Mirador in the
Philippines, to give warning of ty,
phoons to vessels in the China sea,
and points along the China coast. A
similar station will probably be estab-
lished later at Santo Domingo de Bas.
co on the island of Batan, for commu.
nicating information of the presence
of typhoons In that vicinity to the
headquarters of the Philippine wea-
tber bureau at Manila.
DR.. G. F. Becker, discussing the pos.
sibility that petroleum may be derived
from carbids of iron or other metals.
points out that Bauer's map of mag.
netic declination in the United States
proves that petroleum is intimately
associated with magnetic disturbances
similar to those arising from the
neighborhood of minerals possessing
sensible magnetic attraction" and he
adds that henceforth no geological
theory of petroleum will be acceptable
which does not explain this associa.
tion. A writer in Nature remarks that
If these conclusions are confirmed, a
new and important sphere of useful
ness for magnetic surveys will be
opened.
Modern chemistry enables man to
make over some of the most useful
metals very much at his will, and
greatly to his profit. DR.. w. Rosen-
hahn, in England. recently made re-
port on the properties of new alloys
Of copper. aluminium and manganese.
which show remarkable peculiarities.
An alloy of 8S per cent copper, 9.99
per cent aluminium and 201 per cent
manganese showed enormous tensile
strength, a cold-drawn bar having a
yield Of 40.SS tons per square inch,
and an ultimate stress of 520S tons
per square inch. Another alloy is SO
hard that 1t can take a cutting edge
sharp enough to sharpen a leadpencil.
The British Admiralty is experiment.
ing with these alloys to determine
their resistance to corrosion In sea-
wafer
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UNCLE HIRAM ON CITY LIFE

Yes, it's lively in the city. where
they've got their lectric lights,
And the people soon have wrinkles
from their stayn' out O. nights;
They've got shows and things to keep
'em from a-gettin' lonesome
there, ,.r
And they look all fired stylish in the
costly clos they wear;
But guess they have their troubles
just the same as me and you,
And reckon that they're often ruther
worse'n ours, too.
We've got wood piled in the woodshed'
thatll last year or so,
And there's more out where that come
from, and more saplin's still to
grow;
We amt worried over coal strikes let
the cold winds blow away,
We can carry in the billets and not
have a cent to pay;
While they're shiverin' up yonder where
they're got SO much to see,
We can heat up fer the babies, that
the Lord sent you and me.
There is always somethin' doin' TO
make city people sad;
If it amt a sausage famine, why, you'll
hear the waters bad;
When the strikers stop the street cars,
then the mischief is to pay,
And the people have to foot it, gittin'
dubbed along the way;
And the fever epidemics and the small
pox every year
Keep the city people stewin', and Tn
glad to live out here.
Oh, it's quiet in the country and there's
few uncommon sights,
And Gods moon and stars up yonder
have to do fer 'lectric lights;
But with 'taters in the cellar and with
wood piled in the shed,
When ther's hay stacked in the hay
mows for the stock that must be
fed;
They can have their noisy city, with
the sights up there to see,
And the kind old quiet country will be
good enough for me.
Chicago Record Herald.
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wEAvERs OF NEW YORK.
Ancient AubussOR Looms Making
Tapestry in Manhattan Island.

Ancient AubussOR Looms Making
Tapestry in Manhattan Island.
The looms we visited are new in the
city of Gotham They are tapestry
looms of pattern unchanged after
centuries of use. And the art of the
weaver OF these fabrics, we are told,
Is far too ancient for record.
The art we beheld is almost abso-
lutely unaltered. The looms are in
stalled in a studio place that was once
a palatial stable, says Philip Verrill
Mighels in Harper's They are copies
of what are known to the craft as
the Aubusson looms of France, The
men engaged in making tapestries
upon this old device are foreign crafts
men, trained to their guild and WON
drously skilled in the art,
1t provided singular sensation to
leave the busy, noisy thoroughfare OF
modernity and ascend to that conclave
of looms so allied to the past. There
were two great apartments devoted to
this enginery of beauty. Enginery
seems the only adequate word. The
looms we saw are combinations of
huge wooden frameworks. beam-like
levers. twining ropes and tightening
devices. the whole resembling those
monstrous stone.heaving catapults
inseparable from ancient war.
Unlike the tapestry looms at the
Gobelin workshops In Paris, these are
made to stretch the warp horizontally.
about waist high to man, At the
rear of each loom. on slanted bench,
sit the weavers who work the design
Beneath the warp, and readily visible
through its many tight-stretched
strands, the pattern lies close under
hand, II is drawn on monster sheet
of paper and colored with palnstaking
skill. Above II bend the weavers OF
the cloth, each softly supported with
pillows, One pillow to sit on and one
on which TO lean. each workman ad.
iusts to his needs, His colors (the
Wooisl are wound on spools. and re-
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WOMEN IN QUEER PROFESSIONS
New Fields Opened for the Enter-
prise of the Fair Sex.

New Fields Opened for the Enter-
prise of the Fair Sex.
The mere fact that women 10
things signifies that they have lost
their old occupation, fact which can
not be concealed by the problems OF
bridge or the. problems of Bridget,
the Delineator says.
The inventive faculty, commonly and
properly supposed to be masculine, Is
most naturally directed to domestic
advantage when possessed by a wo-
man. A new mechanical device for
woman's work basket, invented by
woman, is less surprising to-day than
was the fact that Mrs. Nancy M. john
son Of Washington was the first person
to take out patent for an ice cream
freezer, in 1843, selling the rights for
$41,50O; yet both of these inventions
pertain to woman's traditional occupa-
tions. The broom has been an accept
ed symbol of woman's sovereignty in
all ages, but Mrs. Bissell has found a
successful business career, not by
sweeping cobwebs from the sky, but
with the purely mundane carpet
sweeper.
The Business Mems League Of New
Orleans has given to Miss Kate M.
Gordon gold medal in recognition of
her services to the city as president Of
the womens Drainage land Sewer
League. 1t was largely through the
efforts of Miss Gordon that the women
of New Orleans got tax suffrage, and,
as president of the Drainage and Sew
erage League, she is said to have cast
more votes than any other citizen of
the United States. The women, if they
SO prefer, may vote by proxy. Miss
Gordon, it is declared, cast more than
100 of these proxy votes.
The latest developments mark the
new day by completely ignoring the
economic traditions of woman. Women
are serving as guides in Maine; there
is womah wireless operator, Mrs. R.
H. Tucker, on a steamship on Puget
Sound; Captain Mary B. Green is
pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi riv-
ers; the granddaughter of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and the daughter of Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch is a civil and
hydraulic engineer, a member Of the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
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A PRACTICAL APPLICATION.

Mr. Holden was in one of those
cheerful, mildly philosophical moods,
when he likes to think aloud and Inn
part a portion of his wisdom to his
wife. did you ever stop to think,
my DEAR" ne said, that the greatest
effect civilization has had upon life
is in comforting leisure?" He went
on to devote his thesis:
I'VE talk about how hard we have
to work to make living as we put
1t, that is, to get enough to eat and
wear and place to sleep. But just
take the case of the lower animals
They don't have to bother about
clothes or to think much about Shelf
er; but, on the other hand, all their
waking hours are given to procuring
their food. Watch the cows in the
pasture. They're eating all the time,
except when they lie down for little
while In the heat of the day and the
fact that they have to travel for their
food gives them the exercise that
keeps them in good health.
"It is the same way with the birds
and with all wild animals. The very
effort necessary to get their food is
what keeps them we'll.
$50 it was with primeval man. 1t
took about all of his time to hunt and
fish. 1t was the work of his hands,
his whole body, as well as his brain.
that supplied his table; therefore he
kept in good physical condition and
relished his food. Did you ever hear
an Indian complain that he had mo
appetite? No, ma'am!
II believe the time will come when
man-civilized man-will learn the
lesson and return to the old order of
things; when all of US, no matter
what our occupation, will do some
work with out hands, in, order to pro-
cure our food. And we shall be the
better for it, too.
THAT is really the secret of the
charm that hunting and fishing and
camp life have for men. They restore
the old fundamental conditions of eat
ing ones bread in the sweat of ones
brow l tell you, when you have
tramped five miles for mess of trout.
there's some taste to them. Getting
back to getting the feeling of
the primeval MANS what restores"
But I thought savages cultivated
the soil, too-raised little patches of
corn and other things sometimes, did
mt they?" suggested Mrs. Holden,
mildly.
Certainly they did, my dear, cer-
tainly! But don't you see how my
theory holds good there. too? They
could get the product of the soil for
food only by working with their
hands, and"
THAT Is just what I was thinking"
interrupted Mrs. Holden. II was won
dering If you couldn't get something
of the feeling of the primeval man by
hoeing the garden tonight. You've
really no idea how high the weeds,
are"
AS Holden stopped few moments
to rest his back that evening, he re-
somewhat irrelevantly, to
Simpson, across the fence: "It's
funny how untitled women are for
pure, speculative philosophy. 1t never
seems to interest them unless they
can tack it onto some confounded
practical thing or other" Youths
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Neea or exercise.

Keep the chicks busy and hustlins
for all they get to eat: never feed
them ON bare surface where they
can eat without scratching. This IS
the easiest and surest way to insure
strong, rugged chicks that will not be
falling Ill with 'leg weakness" and
similar ailments. Scatter all feed in
litter, making the chicks hunt and
dig for It. This litter should be about
2 inches deep for chicks less than a
month old. and composed of cut straw
OF hay, or chaff from the hay NOW
or floor. Sawdust is not very good for
this purpose, because the chicks usu-
ally will eat more or less Of 1t, and
sometimes with bad results.-Agricul'
tural Epitomist.
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For Seed Potatoes.

Experiment shows that the most eco
nomic potato seed is made by cutting
a medium-sized tuber into quarters.
1t also shows that larger pieces Of
seed potatoes will produce very much
heavier yield. as the young plant has
more nourishment to begin with; un-
der field conditions, however, the me-
dium-sized tuber cut In quarters is
the best and most economical. II this
can not be done, spread the seed out
In a thin layer In cool, dark place,
and they may be used at any time
within ten days after cutting without
appreciable loss. Never sack or bar
rel the cut seed. nor expose 1t to the
hot sun.
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Where Letters Are Carried 400
Miles in Order to Get Across
a Io-Foot Hall.
P0ST0FFTCE ON THE BORDER.
Beebe Plain, VT, and Beebe Plain,
Que, Joint Owners of Pc
culiar Institution.

The queerest postoffice in North
America is probably located here,
where simple wooden building shell
ters the Offices of two countries, a
Beebe Plain (Vt) correspondent says.
The structure is cut diagonally by the
Canada line, being almost equally di-
vided by the imaginary boundary. The
northern half contains the postoffice
of Beebo Plain, Que. and the south
ern half the Office OF Beebe Plain, VT.
They are separated only by ten-foot
corridor, using this passageway and
the same door in common. George H.
House, postmaster. looks after the mail
of the two offices. AS result of red
tape in the postal regulations regard
ing the transfer of mails, letter
mailed at the Vermont office for the
Canadian Office across the hall travels
290 miles before delivery.
Previous to 1899 the United States
postoffice was located in a dwelling
house and the Canadian Office in a
store. In neither case was the
service wholly satisfactory, but it
seemed to be the best arrange
ment that could be made. How
ever, in 1899 the idea was con-
ceived of utilizing the old stone store,
located right on the line, for both Of
fees, and finally the present arrange
ment was perfected so that most sat
isfactory service has been provided.
Patrons Of the double postoffice can
do their postoffice business by making
one call. Two doors, one on each side
of the line, open into the lobby. The
distance between the postoffice boxes
of the two countries is ten feet, the in
ternational boundary line running
through the space between the two sets
of boxes. II letter is by mistake
dropped into the wrong letter box, 1t
is passed to the right Office and sent
on Its way. ..
A letter posted at Beebe Plain, VT,
for Beebe Plain, Canada, will go south
on the Boston & Maine railroad from
Beebe Junction, VT, to White River
junction, III miles on the same route,
and then continues on its way to
Sherbrooke, P, O., "a miles farther.
There 1t Is again transferred and re-
turns to Beebe Plain. p. @.
That is, after having ride of "a
hours and going 29O miles, it arrives
at It's destination, ten feet from where
1t started.
Or perhaps, it goes on another train
south on the Boston & Maine to Wells
River, VT, so miles. There 1t is trans
ferred and goes back via Beebe juno
tion to Sherbrooke, P. c., ia miles, to
be transferred again and returns to the
building it started from 80 hours be-
fore. 1t has travelled 22S miles.
The village has population of
about 100 on the Vermont side and
about 600 on the Canadian side. All of
the places of business are on the
Canada side. so most Of the patrons of
the Office are Canadians, but they are
very willing to avail themselves of the
unique arrangement and use either Of
fee that will give the best results.
The Zine" itself is quite narrow
herein fact, it is so narrow that 1t
cannot be seen except where the iron
posts appear. Some persons have
stood in one country and written their
postcards or letters in the other.
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"I dined with a man last evening"
who has absolutely no brains" said
She" absolutely. He was impossible"
why do you dine with such
MANI" asked he.
"a man with no brains is often
quicker at ordering lobster la New
burg" she explained, than a man
with."-New York Press.
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A Cooperative Market.

The price of living has become such
a bugbear that something will have
to be done beside boycotting the butch
ers to make things cheaper. Some Of
the farmers and gardeners in and
about Denver are organizing for the
purpose Of supplying consumers with
products at one-half the rate Of the re-
tailers. They propose to sell inde-
pendently and have cooperative
market store, where all the farmers
belonging to the association will sell
their goods. This has not been done
In Denver before because the whole
salers and Jobbers have control of the
transportation facilities-Field and
Farm.
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A Ground Leveller.

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A cheap and effective contrivance
for levelling uneven land is shown in
the accompanying illustration. The
leveller may be made Of any convent
ent length up to IL feet; the steel
smoothing plate is very light, but will
last long time. It is brought from
the middle 3x2 in. beam to the under
meath Of the back 6x3 in. beam, and
holes are cut In 1t for the ties and the
bolts. It is a fiat steel sheet with ends
turned l In. and secured with / in.
screws. The cutter is shod with 21ax
N in. steel plate, with bevelled edge,
secured with in. screws. The stand
for the driver is of pine, 2 IT. 8 in. by
8 in. by ~ in. In use the driver
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The Tighten WOman's Work.
Women are coming into their own
every day on the farm. Time was
when labor-saving devices were
thought of only in connection with
farm work. But that Is changing.
Woman's work at the best is hard, but
is rendered much easier by the en-
ployment Of handy devices which cost
but little.
The telephone and the rural mail de-
livery have wrought great improve
ment in the lives Of the farmers wife
and daughters of the farm and have
done more to cultivate the spirit of
true neighborliness than anything
alsa
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A New Pear Disease.

a new disease among pears has been
noted in Belgium. The diseased fruit
shows round brown spots, which In
crease in size until the greater part of
the fruit is affected. after which IL
falls. In one instance the loss due to
this fungus was great. fully one-haIf
Of the fruit being destroyed. Where
the pears have been bagged they did
not suffer from the fungus. Spraying
with Bordeaux mixture. 1t Is believed.
win prevent the disease.
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Why He Lost.

Bill Elephant won the race?
Jack Ape-Zebra.
Bill Elephant thought Crocodile
was going to be first.
Jack Ape-He was in reality, but he
didn't break the tape first. You see,
he was running with his mouth open.
Detroit Free Press.
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A oNE-MAN SAW.

one man will be able to saw with It
without difficulty. The strips of wood
tend to control the wabble Of the free
end. A piece of stove wire twisted
around the saw and strip at will
aid in keeping 1t in place. A wire
twisted about the laths at will help
to maintain the strength.
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Mrs, de Work. have trained my
eldest daughter into thorough house
keeper. There is nothing she does not
know.
Miss de Flight-What nice. handy
maiden aunt she will make for your
other daughters children.-New York
Weekly.
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The Queen Bee.

The queen bee lives from two to
five years, according to the manner in
which she is raised. When raised by
the naturel way, as by the swarming
of the bees, and the mother queen Is
two or more years old, she often lives
four or five years. The life of the
workers varies from forty-five days in
the honey-making season to five or
sometimes six months during winter,
taking the time of October to April.
Drones very seldom live more than
four or five weeks in hot weather.
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Ensilage.

Corn ensilage possesses numerous
advantages for early forage, as 1t is
at hand many times when it would be
difficult to get spring crops available
for early feeding. An acre Of corn
will produce more succulent food in
the form of ensilage than an acre
of any other kind Of forage. The feed
Ing value of ensilage is so we'll known
that 1t is useless to discuss its merits,
Corn from China.
The Department of Agriculture is
experimenting with corn shipped from
China. Plants raised last year aver
aged less than 16 inches In height,
with an average Of IL green leaves at
the time of tasseling. The ears aver.
aged 5lS inches in length and Az In
greatest circumference, with 1e to 10
rows OF small grains.
Alfalfa Meal.
Many alfalfa mills are springing up
In Kansas and other western states.
One Kansas plant has a capacity OF
eight car loads per day, and pays $50,
600 annually for its raw material. Al
talfa meal is now used extensively In
the cattle field
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Gaze, for Instance, ON This One.
The Ostrich-Don't you find 1t hard
work to pick up living when the
weather is like this?
The Kangaroo-Yes; keeps me ON
the jump.-Chicago Tribune.
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A Literary Catastrophe.

"Hear about Perkins? Pretty tough"
"No. What?"
"The poor fellow dropped into the
vernacular, bumped against hard
word and split his infnitive." Life.
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At the Playwrights' Club.

Member Ito friend whom he has not
seen in some time)-And when was
the last appearance of your piece?
"on the first night. Fliegende
Blatter.
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A Labor Saver.

The little picture tells 1t all. This
little device may be worked through
any cellar door or window. 1t will
save many steps when your time Is
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Down to a System.

I'm very orderly at my office.
have one waste basket for bills and
one for dunning letters.-Fliegende
Blatter.
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standing on the plate, by moving for
ward causes the front beam with its
cutting edge to enter the ground. and
carry forward any soil cut off. By
moving backward he raises the cut
ting edge, allowing the accumulated
earth to pass under in as great or as
little quantity as he pleases; while
the sloping steel sheet smoothes 1t out,
crushes the Jumps and spreads 1t into
any depressions.
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Cross-out Saw Support.

CrOss-Uut SHW Support.
Two pieces Of lath or other light
strip Of wood bored together as shown
at 8 In the accompanying illustration,
will stiffen a cross-cut saw so that
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Even a truthful man Is occasionally
guilty Of exaggeration
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II you can fool half the people half
the time that's enough, Don't be a
hog, even II pork is high.
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Every old and broken down politi-
clan Is q Boss Buster.
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Don't use what you see IL You are
unable to zee the Us
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The Tighten woman,s Work.

nest valuable. Try it once and be
convinced.