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The Clocks of France.

The clocks of France are to be set
back nine minutes, and. according to the
law Of the land just adopted. In the
future they are to count OH the hours
and the days, second for second, with the
clocks marking Greenwich time in Eng
land Paris lies to the east of the me-
ridian 8 minutes 900 seconds, and she
has always held independently to her
astronomical difference. By law passed
in 1891 the time Of Paris was made the
heure legale for all of France, although
a difference of 81 minutes. New York.
ers, intent upon foreign transactions, have
always been quick to calculate the. time
of London, for the difference Is an even
five hours. The difference in the time
at Paris is obviously more dinicult TO
remember and to apply to the problem
of determining the exact moment. here
after, when it is noon in New YORK one
may know that it Is in the evening IN
London and exactly that time by the
clocks of all France. :,
Nine minutes may seem a very smaii
matter, but the new law in France Is
really an event of International lmpor-
lance 1t shows clearly that the bank
ers merchants. travellers and Journalists
of France are transacting SO much I'M
portant business with England that they
cannot afford to keep even this slight
hindrance between themselves. IL Is q
steD toward the time when they Will
see that they cannot afford to have a
war between themselves. 1t is a kind of
bond of peace when no one III London
need stop and thoughtfully say: Let me
see. Just what time is it now in Paris:
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= + you should ever go to Pisa to see the
famous tower and the cathedral and
I the other wonders, you might spend
day or even longer in that charming Old
city and hear never hint Of these cam
els. It is not place where you would eX-
pect to see these beasts, who belong on
desert sands and under warmer skies than
those of the gray and often cold town on
the historic Arno.
Yet there is large herd of them and
YOU would find it worth your While 70
drive out and take look at them. Ihey
live In a large and beautiful park, about
three miles out from the city. and as the
park, which is called San Rossore, belongs
to the king, they may be his property, 100,
though perhaps the city of Pisa claims
the ownership. Their ancestors We're
brought to Pisa long ago. and there the
camels have stayed and increased in num-
ber Now, however, there are not so
many as there We're at one time, Tor the
long winters are hard for them. 1t rains
a good deal in Italy in the winter, and
camels detest rain, never wanting 10 go
out in it If it can be helped. In 1870 there
were about one hundred and fifty LETT, ana
there are fewer still now.
They were first introduced into Tuscany
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The Ruling Passion.

The body of girl, strangely pre-
served among the dust and hardened
lava, has been discovered in the exca-
vations at Pomeii. From the attitude
in which the remains were found, and
the fact that the jewely was still in the
clasp of the finger bones. tieshless for
eighteen centuries it is inferred that she
was but one of the many victims who
sought in vain to carry their most pre-
cious belongings beyond the deadly zone
of noxious gases. the black clouds Of
lapilli and the glowing torrents of lava
on the last day of Pompeii.
The ruling passion has been in evidence
in the case of other discoveries made
by the excavators. Thus, a Roman
sentry was found-virtually petrifed by
the preservative incrustation-in his SEN
try box, proving his devotion to duty
stronger than the first inclination to
flight. \ dogs skeleton was found
stretched above that of his young master.
An inscription on the collar of the animal
proved that on two previous occasions
he had saved the boys life-once in a
ShipWreck, once in a murderouS attack
Of brigands.
Most of the Inhabitants succeeded in
making their escape. Those who per-
ished presumably gave their lives IN
the effort to save their valuabies. The
most conspicuous instance is that of q
huddled group found amid their jewelry
and trnkets in a wayside inn on the roaf
to Stabiae. Hampered as they were by
their worldly wealth, the fiery deluse
fell upon them, consuming dives and
sparing his riches for the patient arch
eologiSt centuries afterWard.
Who shall blame the poor girl, whose
skeleton has just been unearthed. FOR
wanting to take with her the necklace
and bracelets and the twinkling adorn-
ments of her hair? She literally gave
many lives are sacrificed today.
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by the Grand Duke Ferdinand II in 16z2.
You may know that it used to be COM
mon in the old days for generals return,
ing from war to bring not only slaves ana
prisoners, but strange beasts from foreign
lands. In many pictures of the old Italian
masters you will see camelS, particularly
i'm those of the Alteration OF the Masi.
Very likely many of these animals We're
copied from the various beasts brought
back as trophies of war
This Grand Duke Ferdinand brought MS
camels to Pisa Then after number or
wears there was a certain genera! named
Arighetti, who went to war against the
Turks, who had quantity of camels with
them These he captured near Vienna.
and sent them also to Pisa. HOW ihey
were kept or what was done with them
is not known, but at the time they were
regarded as great curiosities.
* *
Then about century later came a
Duke of Lorraine called Francis H. He
had an idea that the camel would be a
useful animal to encourage in Italy and
set himself seriously to work to cultivate
them He procured twenty new ones
and established them. together with those
already in Pisa, in the royal park. Iney
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Street Names as Memorials.

In Paris, where one may visit tho
street of the Fourth of September, IT
will be possible presently 90 traverse also
the Street of Edward VII. BY designation
in the latter instance France will honor a
late great and good English friend; In the
other case the beginning after Sedan Is
corimemorated OF the present republic.
Considering the array OF New YORK
streets and avenues running to arithmet-
ical terms, we are reminded how FAR We
have neglected memorial opportunities in
the naming Of our thoroughfares. Ger
tainly we have honored Washington in
New York-several times, indeed. in the
several sboroughs. We have Lafayette
in street and avenue and did have him
in a boulevard till Riverside drive was
extended. A few other names we have
remembered OF men great in state or
nation. There are preparations. too, or
the names of old local families. But
where is our Avenue of the Declaration
OF Independence? Where our Boulevard
Of the Fourth of July? Where our Street
Of the Surrender of Yorktown and our
Place of the Emancipation Proclamatonr
In the absence OF such historical designa-
tions for important thoroughfares is a
real metropolitan deficiency. Newer New
York offers abundant chance to remove
the fault. But instead of suggestions TO
this end we have a change of name for
fine old Loig Acre Square, and pro-
posal is actually made to wipe out the
famous old Bowery? We are not SEN
timental people.
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In It's GROWTH, Los ANGELES CALIFORNIA.
Has TAKEN On m STRANGEST FoRM o.. HEr1 ALL

grows larger. But New York defies these
laws.
If the percentage of increase that at
present prevails keeps up until 1880 there
will be 2OO0O.O0O people in New York
If it still continues there will be .D.OU,-
600 there in 1850. In the year 2tO there
will be a population of hundred mil
lion, or more people than there are in
the United States today. 1t seems I'M
possible that this should happen, yet 1t
was thought impossible that the present
rate of increase could prevail.
* X
Practically all the immigrants come in
through New York. There are million
of these coming each year. A very large
per cent of them never get beyond Man
haitian. There are more Jews on the
East Side in New York than there are
or ever were in Jerusalem. and more of
them than there are of men. women and
children in Boston. When the panic of
two years ago sent immigrants scurrying
back to Europe it proved a drain on
many communities. but it only augment
ed the numbers in New York. Many
foreigners got as far as the metropolis.
got jobs, and one thing and another hap
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PUTTING TOGETHER
SKELETONS OF ANIMALS

D UTTING together five skeletons of
animals is not an easy job. And
when each animal has approximately two
hundred and fifty-odd bones, and there
are nearly 1900 different bones in the col
lection, the JOB becomes all the more diff
cult and tedious. And yet this is what is
being done at the Smithsonian lRstitu-'
ton at the present time. The animal IS
a short-limbed rhinoceros, believed to
have lived about 25o,o1U years ago. Out
of the collection of bones which the IN
StltutlOn possesses one skeleton is 10 De
put together for exhibition purposes,
while three or four more viii be made
up to exchange with other museums AND
in addition large number of feet OF
which the collection can boast VIII also
be made up for exchange purposes.
These bones are all sizes, from those
no bigger than a postage stamp to some
which weigh several pounds. In putting
them together only the best will be used,
while the whole collection of bones of
particular kind has to be gone over TO.
be sure that the one chosen fits the most
perfectly. At the present time the feet
and other portions already fitted are be-
ing kept together by the aid or nothing
more pretentious than rubber bands
When the entire! first specimen Is COM
plete however, it will be taken to the
laboratory and carefully mounted.
These bones were found in 1Ss4-3 near
Long Island. Phillips county, Kan, by
the late D. Is. Hatcher, olie VI Tie. ueSt
known fossil collectors in the west. They
were the first of several collections OF
bones found there, the American Museum
of Natural History in New York having
a skeleton on exhibition taken from the
same quarry. The place from which the
bones were obtained is called quarry,
but is in reality bed of sand. The bones
were found in great numbers for about
two feet. but were entirely dismembered.
In many cases they lay on top OF each
other, and in state OF dlsofdef sener-
ally.
1t is for this reason that the task of
assembling specimen is so difficult.
The bones Of no one animal We're all to-
gether. and SO every effort is being made
to find them in the heap which belongs
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These cities must needs look to their
laurels however, OR San Francisco Will
soon have repassed them. 1t Is estlhateu
that at the time of the earthquake no
less than 100000 people lett San iran,
cisco. Many of these never returned ana
many others who would have gone to the
CITY by the Golden Gate but for the Tear
Of a repetition of the disaster nave
stayed away. Yet the increase is norman
among cities of similar size. In a.
probability San Francisco will speedily
win back her old place. for history shows
no other recovery that compares with
hers.
Seattle and Spokane. state Of Wash
ington, are among the rapid growers.
having. piled up increases OF l34 ana $50
per cent each. Portland, Ore. Is in a
similar class with an increase Oh ID PEI
cent. All this region has piled thousano
after thousand upon its population. Ihere
has been the pull Of developing Alaska,
of INCREASED trade with the orient. OF rap
Idly developing agricultural communities
where irrigation is converting the barren
wastes into gardens Of unexcelled produc-
tivity.
But for real out and out running from
the scratch to the finish some Of the
smaller cities have surpassed them all
The blue ribbon winner has been Okla
bona City with an increase of $50 pei
cent. There were but 10000 people ii
Oklahoma City ten years ago, but now
there are $4,000, and the speed is not Oh
the wane Muscogee had but half a.
many people as Oklahoma City ten year:
ago. but she likewise increased amaz.
ingly, the rate being 494 per cent and
now she boasts 5000. Towns in thu
new southwest are marvels of the decade
in growth and the state that contain:
them has. surpassed all the common
wealths in rapid development.
X
But there are other southern towns tina
are cantering merrily on. Fort Worth
Tex, has increased ia per cent, while
her rival, Dallas, only % miles away. ha
grown 116 per cent. So rapid is TIL
growth of these "a ilroafl cities that the.
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Peculiar Exi1ed Came1s Of Pisa.

flourished very well, and at the end Of
the eighteenth century there were about
200 of them.
Then other princes in other parts OF
Italy tried to start camel farms, but their
camels did not live. The climate at San
Rossore seemed to be the only one which
they could stand; for, though 1t is cold.
it is sheltered and much milder than
many other parts OF the country.
So there the camels have remained.
They are used to carry burdens on the
estate of the king. and they are very
strong. One male camel can carry on his
back about 1000 pounds of wood at a
time. and that is the work for which
they are kept.
When the little camels are born they
are very weak and shaky in the legs.
and the attendants have to hold them up
to eat. In few days, however, they are
quite able to take care OF themselves.
In the park where they live they strip
all the leaves from the trees up to
height OF eight feet or so, and when there
are no more leaves that they can reach
they will eat prickly bushes. Grass they
will take when there is absolutely moth
ing else to be had. They live in two long
sheds and the males especially do not
like to stay out unless the weather -
good.
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pened to them, and there they remained
Returning from Europe to their former
residences in Scranton or st. Louis, the
same things happened to them and more
or less remained in New York.
So it is with even native-bOrn Amer
leans Nearly all go to New York sooner
or later. Many visitors establish bust
ness relations there. People going and
coming from abroad get line on New
York that ultimately draws them back
Ambitious young men realize that the OPP
rortunities in New York are monstrous
il one can but get going. Artists, actors
and literary people throughout the land
look ever to New York and eventually
drift there. More and more Is that city
becoming the center of the big things oil
the nation and the population still pyra-
nlids.
Chicago. which Is the second largest
city in the Union. now has o,1S3,2S3 peo-
pie 1t is just about half the size or
New York Its increase for the last dec
ade was y per cent. The decade before
it had grown "a per cent. The percent
age of growth is thus shown to be on
the decline. in accordance with the gen.
eral rule in the growth Of cities fe'
the tendency toward centralizing com
mercial activity in the middle west Is
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her overflow. But the rival towns cry
out bitterly against her.
-.
Los Angeles, Cal, is the second city
above the 100000 mark in the rate Of her
population increase. Out among the
oranges and the Spanish missions there
has been an increase of 211 per cent. 10
the square block which made up her city
limits ten years ago Los Anseies- mas
added all sorts and shapes of suburbs.
She has even taken in a strip half mlle
wide and nineteen miles long Leading
down to the port at San Pedro, and mas
then annexed the village by the sea- lnus
placing her citizens among those WY
go down to the sea in ships. Inc span
Of ten years is SO brief that 1t IS nara
for one who left his home in Birmlnsna an
or Los Angeles at that time 10 cohctn
of those cities now beng more .hai
three times as large as wien ,,;al, hoasts
There is Richmond, Va, Whlcn poa N
a population OF $4,000. growth OF ~
per cent. 1t is mostly all due 70 ar
neXation. The previous census shoWsu :,
growth of per cent and there mas De.'
little change in conditions. Denver, Iol.'
has grown somewhat, but large part
of her increase of 50 per cent IS que ~
annexation. Atlanta, Ga. boasts - pei
cent growth. most of which IS real ou'
some of which is annexed
Detroit, MICH. Is one " TIC . -,
cities of the nation that can boast the
healthiest of growths. With 46o,OO sht
is pressing hard upon the halt-mlllior
mark Ten years ago she was 6' pei
cent smaller The growth in that tel
wears has hinged largely upon the develop
ment of the automobile business. There
was a time when Detroit was far famed
as the city of pills. There were TIT
sugar-coated pellets of the natioQ manu-
featured But with the development o
that happiest solution of the get-abou
problem the automobile. the city by tn
lake got so busy that she has revolu
tionized herself. and large part of th
world looks to her for benZine buggies.
San Francisco. which was four year.
ago almost destroyed by a calamitou
earthquake and fire, has. nevertheless re
corded growth of p per cent. 1t nov
ranks eleventh among the cities. having
been passed by Detroit and Pittsburs
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unouestionably toward Chicago. That
city still tends to gain in growth on
Philadelphia. which formerly surpassed
it. 1t is business that draws IN chicago
Industry of all sorts center about IL dS
the vast receiving and distributing point
II has no threatening rival in its district.
nor is its place as the second creates.
city of the nation threatened
The growth of Philadelphia Is norman
and substantial. Here are many OF the
new citizens from abroad. Here IS vast
manufacturing industry, the business cen
ter of the state that is most seething Win
industry and most productive OF Wealth.
PHILADELPHIA increased 10 per cent last
decade. as against % per cent between
1880 and 1900. ;n,r
Ct Iouis and Boston have been running
neck and neck for fourth place. Ea a,a
increased - per cent in the past decade
ST. Louis now has $4,000 people ahd
Boston has 1900 less. There were bul
n 600 people between them ten years ago,
and twenty years ago Boston was the
larger. The increase OF each IS aoou'
per cent less this census than last
Cleveland this census put one over on
baltimore, and the two changed places
with but 1000 people between them. ! ne ne
change has been the basis OF contention
on the part of Baltimore ana denla'lu =.
for a new count From the standpolht o.
the city on the Chesapeake 1t was a
mighty mean thing Cleveland did TO her.
That hustling city of the m!ddle west
went out and annexed suburbs with
regulation of 10000 But for this annexa-
ton Baltimore would still hold sixth
place.
There are lot of these gains In pcpu
lation that may be explained by annexa'
ton. yet this is not apparent on the face
of the returns. Birmingham. Ala, FOL
instance. boasts a growth of 245 per cent
the highest rate of any city of more thar
10e 600 population. Birmingham now has
13a.OOO people. where she had but 3S,ea
ten years ago and $4,000 twenty year.
ago. But Birmingham has doubled he'
area through annexation. She has takel
in 5000 acres with l..ooo people; -
course. in a sense. she is entitled t
count this growth, because it was merel!
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the city. When all the returns are in ana
the right deductions may be made from
them 1t will be found that the young peo-
pie who are born on the farm are fleeing
TO the cities The farms of Iowa herself
are being deserted. Her cities are piling
up great increases in population and these
peoples are coming from her own farms.
The state of Missouri. near by and Won
drous rich, tells similar tale. Were st.
Louis and Kansas City left out of the
calculation Missouri would have lost
population. st. Louis has enjoyed
strong better-than-normal growth for a
city of her size. Kansas City has piledslp
an increase OF GO per cent. But the rest
of the state. being largely rural, has de-
creased in population.
There has been a great drain on these
states in supplying population for Okla
homa Also many OF the farmers have
sold their lands and migrated to the west
and to Canada: where cheap lands are 10
be had and where there is now the OPP
portunity that was in Iowa and Missouri
a generation ago.
II has been q merry scramble for the
honors in this, the first decade of a new
century. There have been scores OF cities
that have run like the proverbial scared
rabbit. The time and the nation have
produced such an array OF swift-growins
cities as the world has never before
known. Already they are away I'm the
second Of the series of heats that the
twentieth century is to put on. There 10
cause in plenty for pride in their gaits. in
the swiftness of the pace. in the mag
nificence of their strength These cities
are the greatest marathon runners OF
the world.
But for the country districts the data
is different. And here is the great Amer
lean problem. Here will q completed CEN
sus sound the alarm of tendency TO de-
cadence. For as the cities are growing
greater In population, the number OF men
who grow the food for the increasing mil
lions is growing smaller. OF course, when
the airship becomes little more common
and the swift trip from the clover to the
electric light is more assured there may
be contrary tendency. But otherwise
there is little hope.
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no rorcoran Gallery of Art. presented by
,oo American Irishmen of Washington.
The attendant ceremonies VIII be clad
,rate and praises Of the Irish poet Will
,esound but short distance from the
sttle house, which still stands, at All
PennsylvanIa avenue, where Tom Moore
made his headquarters during his memoir
,ble visit to Washington, in the spring OF
1904.
lie was a young man OF twenty-lour
hen. His melodies We're fresh from his
ben. and on the high tide OF adulauon
rom Moore became the first of the three
British writers who found much IN
America TO their distaste. As did Dick
,1s .aud then Kipling afterward, Moore
freely expressed his displeasure OF the
customs and people he found In WASH
lngton, where avenues were mud holes,
aouses unpretentious and the inhabitants
aalf-hewn forerunners and sturdy bull
aarks Of the embryonic republic.
But as the American people have today
forgotten Dickens criticisms under the
charming humor of his pen. and have for
given kipling his American Notes
when they remember how they love
aas Washington felt IFS difference with
Tom Moore fade into nothingness under
he spell OF his muse. And it is because
his is undeniably so that the Irish
American citizens of Washington have
.oined in the memorial to him.
Broad in its conception. recognizing the
claims of every Irish society to participa-
ion, yet limiting il 10 no organization,
he movement for the erection Of the me-
mortal, was for that reason planned by q
United number-l01--of Washingtonans.
And for that reason. Jerome Connor. the
sculptor. has made the heroic bust d
abor of love. the materials only being
supplied by the subscribers.
Yet all Of the Irish societies will par
.ic:pate in the presentation ceremonies.
Prominent among the societies will be the
Ancient Order of HiberniaTs and the
Gaelic Society of Washington, but every
society will be represented. The entire
program has not yet been formulated. A
speaker of international reputation, how
Ner. will deliver the principal address
when Tom Moore comes into his own.
While Mr.. Common, the sculptor. has vir-
ually entire charge of the memorial cele-
pration, he has taken into his counsel
mch men as Thomas j. Shahan, rector
bf the Catholic University OF America
Judge William II. De Lacy OF the Juye-
pile Court, Rev. William II. Russell, pas
Tor Of st. Patrick's Church; Francis kil-