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- --r The number of lunatics under control in Ireland is 22,000, an increase of 1000 in two fears. FITSnermanentl^cuied. \o fits ornervousnessafter first day's use of Dr. ""line's Great JferveBestorer.$2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr.R.H. Eli>*e, Ltd.. 931 Arch St.. Phils..?-.. Were the land of the globe enuallv di vided among its inhabitants, each person would own about twenty-three and a half acres. Rheumatism's Killlnr Pain. Left in quick order after taking 10 doaos of Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure, in tablet form. 25 doses for 25e.. postpaid. Dr. Skirvin Co.. La Crosse. Wis. [A.C.L.] It has been demonstrated that a violin can be artificially aged by exposing it to the X-rays. 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To his surAT A It At Ak pi auu uciigiit iu. a. z>avi in an kjuscure corner of the shop a vase exactly similar to the coveted Dresden, and easily secured it for $240, with the assurance that the pair, if forthcoming would be worth $2,000, M. A. rushed off to his first dealer and offered him his own price for the vase. "Ah, sir," said he, uyou came too late. I sold it yesterday to a dealer at the Batignolles!"?Golden Penny. ' Buffalo, N. Y., after s, was finally cured le by the use of Vegetable Compound* :h t?e female organism is afflicted, unless prompt and correct treatment .ves. iam, early in her career, gave careful ler great remedy for woman's ills ? ?ma/)a n * m>*v 4l? M 4 ?4 a/\m . mpv/ujuu ? wane auic mat 10 cvni which was certain to control that >les. The Vegetable Compound acts bhe entire female system, and while kidney troubles. Lydia E. Pink5 only one especially prepared Weisslitz Says. 3 d years my life was simply a buris, and pains across my Dack and i kidney troubles and prescribed lis medicines, but grew steadily le to try Lydia E. Pinkham's . home a bottle. It is the greatest Within three months I was a ppeared, my complexion became stem in good shape."?Mss. Paula Y. .ydia E. PMham's Vegetable Compound. ery thankful to you for the good >ctored for years and was steadily ny kidneys, and two doctors told tiling of the womb, and could not head ached all the time, and I was ;eria and fainting spells, was tired tft side that I could hardly stand imething. itors, but they did not help me any. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Commforl fV?ron r\o olro era a flonotirA . UOCU UI1 1 ^ VA kJUiuwUTV . eat and sleep well, do all my own b feeling over tired The doctors now. I am so happy to be well, medicine."?Mrs. Opal Strong, romen to write lier for advice* 1. Address Lynn, Mass. . produce tbe original letters and signatures of ;heir absolute genuineness. i. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, M?? ^""^TooldeiT^ule^^ of Agriculture: Be good to your land and your crop '< will be good. Plenty of Potash Give the name of this paper when riting to advertisers?(At1-'04) '.'S'SSl.IJi Thompson's Eys Water PIT BROW GIRLS. Women Who Handle Coal atthe English Mines. Pit brow gills are among tbe most remarkable women workers in tbe country, says the London Sphere. They work as hard as men and almost like men do they dress. Very few pit brow girls are found in Britain outside Lancashire, and ."000 of them find employment at the coal mines, which are so numerous in the busy centres of that country. Their work lies on the pit brow?at the surface and not down below. Once women were employed in the coal seams, this being at the time young children also worked in those dark depths of the earth: but in 1842, in the face of great opposition from colliery owners, an act was passed prohibiting women and children from being employed below the surface in coal mines. At present the duties of the pit brow lasses consist in dealing with the coal as it comes up the shaft to the pit head. When the cage reaches the top the j girls haul out the wagons, which contain several hundredweight of coal each, and run them on rails to a sort of tipping machine. Which shoots the coal down below to the screen or riddling machine. This is a sort of iron slide, several yards long, with holes through which the coal drops at various stages into 1 trucks waiting beneath. It is jerked about by steam power, and the coal moves downward while the girls, stationed alongside, pick out the rubbish. IA is dusty work. Among the other duties of the "pit broo girls"?that is the Lancashire pronunciation?is the leveling of the coal bwpotWgB^jvi MB^jTOgflMMBMiTOpWHrowWM THE SIBERI on the wagons which receive it as it drops from the screen. As to payment. The girls start work at G o'clock in the morning and finish at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and they receive fifty cents or less a day. Men who do the same work get $1. Taken altogether, the pit brow lasses are a strong, healthy lot, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-five. Their dress is distinctive and peculiar. The working costume consists of trousers, clojp and often enough a coat which has at one time been worn by a brother or has come from a rummage stall. When going to and from work the girls wear petticoats, which they roll up round the waist while engaged on the pit brow. The hair is closely covered with a handkerchief, on the top of which is a soft bonnet. Then round the neck AN ENGLISH PIT BROW GIRL and back of the head a shawl is folded, this apparently being a precaution to keep out the dust. Occupations and Longevity. With regard to the occupations which insure longevity, it is the universal testimony that clergymen reach the highest age, being close run by gardeners and vine-dressers'. Ordinary agricultural laborers, although their occupation is so largely in the open air, are not conspicuous as long-livers, except in France, Sweden and England. People working with wood are longer lived than those whose occupations are with metals, and both attain a higher age than textile workers and workers in chemical industries. The shortest-lived people are miners, except in England, where the superior mining regulations and admirable sanitary arrangements have a beneficial effect. In England and Norway sailors live to a far greater age than in Germany and France.?Tit-Bits. A Secure Foundation. The weekly that has the admirable general news, literary and other features of a first-class Beady Print, such as this concern furnishes, and pays good attention to home news, is built on a secure foundation, and will not be displaced by the daily. The birth rate in Berlin decreased from forty-six per 1,000 in 1876 to twenty-seven in 1902. * * The New St. Petersburg Mammoth Frequent reference has been made in Forest and Stream to the carcass of the mammoth discovered in Siberia some years ago. and from time- to time ve have noted the progress of the expedition, organized by the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy and led by j Dr. Otto Ilerz, which set out for the scene of the discovery with the purpose of securing the carcass and transporting it to St. Petersburg. It will be remembered that the mammoth was found on the banks of the River Beresowka, a tributary of the Kolyma, in the Province of Yakutsk, after a landslide, which entirely exposed the great head, .soon after its discovery the inhabitants of the village near by took away one of the tusks, while foxes, dogs ana other carnivorous animals gnawed away the flesh. As soon as the Governor of the province learned that the carcass had been found, he protected it until the arrival of the St. Petersburg expedit?nn pot?aocc ttoo nnrflrr hnr! nrl 11UII. JL 1 ? v UOO n CIO |/U1 ll%T UUi iVtA in ice and partly -*n sand and gravel, and was so covered with earth that it did not thaw at all. Dr. Herz began his excavations from the front, and found the fore legs widely spread and bent at the wrist, and the hind legs turned forward under the body. The mouth was filled with grass, and the well preserved tongue was hanging out of the mouth. The chest cavity of the animal was full of clotted blood, and it has been concluded that the animal fell into a hole. and. while striving to escape, burst a blood J vessel near the heart. It has been asi certained that the ice surrounding the carcass was not of a river or lake, but was formed from compacted snow. AN MAMMOTH. 5 - 1 and it is concluded that the mammoth, fi while grazing over a meadow which c formed the thin covering of a glacier, r fell into some crevasse that was hid- a den by the loose earth, and perished a at once. i The remains, which have now been t mounted in the Zoological Museum of ( St. Petersburg, show the animal as he died and was found. The frozen skin has been carefully prepared, the skeleton and all the soft spots that could be saved have been taken from the skin and preserved separately. The skin of the head and ears, which had been destroyed, has been copied from the specimen obtained from Siberia about 100 years ago, but, apart from the head, the skin is nearly perfect, and it was found necessary only to add in one of two places wool and hair from other specimens. It is to be noted ?thajt the tail was well preserved, and that it bears at the tip the tassel of long black hair. The mammoth is a young male and not a large one. Thii rl { or?/1 enV\PAAiiftnf in. JLur U10V.V/T j aiiu ouuouijuciii nr spection of this specimen at the Zoological Museum at St. Petersburg has led the director, Dr. Salensky. to make a careful scientific investigation of this specimen, as well as to show all ? that is possible of it He studies ^ will be published in the series of mem* y oirs which will appear from time to D time: the firs^?that dealing with the T skeleton?having already been issued. Unfortunately, these memoirs are writ* ^ ten in Russian. s Plants That Shoot Arrows. t The arrows are crystal needles of oxalate of lime, of microscopic dimen- 2 sious, and are shot from minute, cap- n sule-shaped bodies, found in the tissues a of such plants as the Indian turnip and v the Polynesian taro. Dr. H. W. Wiiey, a Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, de- a scribes the extraordinary spectacle he f beheld in the field of his microscope I when the "bombs" contained in a drop n \ I of taro pulp began to discharge their c arrows. Sometimes only one or two needles, and sometimes groups of four to ten were discharged at once, th<> bomb recoiling as the projectiles left it. Dr. Wiley suggests that the intense burning and pricking sensation experienced in chewing such plants as those described are due to the release and discharge of these crystal arrows when the plant tissues are crushed iD the mouth. A l>anger Signal. At a wedding in a church, noticing the dim religious red light ;:hat burns ever the chancel, Teddy asked his ~ bachelor uncle, "Is that a danger sig- o nal, Uncle Tom?" and Uncle Tom. who b is suspected of hovering on the brink S of a proposal, was heard to rerV, e "Yes."^Deccmber Jjppincott's. c; . - - ~ AUTO BOATS? THE LATEST FAD Water Toys That Are Expensive, Bui Can Fly. jSf-Tjgj XE of the latest fads T\-ith -L-v those who can afford such I I costly toys is to own and race an "auto boat." For HHi some time these dainty little macmiies have been very popular in France, where their number is legion, and there are many of them owned by Englishmen, but it is only i-U . ' ' v . ' *' * * * ? --***y THE "ARROW," CHARLES R. FL) EST BOAT ON EARTH, MAR] FORTY-FIVE MILE recently that they have become popular here. The fastest of these boats, so far as the records show, is the Rollo, owned by M. Giraud. It was built by a firm that has become famous for . turning )iit fast automobiles. The motor is of twenty-four horse-power, just as is used in road machines, but with certain modifications that adapt it to Iriving a boat. The canoe into which the motor was put is thirty-nine feet three inches in length and four feet :hree Inches beam. In model the boat s almost wedge shaped, the entrance jeing fine, the run almost straight, ind aft the hull is flat on the bottom :o prevent squatting when running last The hull is constructed very ightly and the deck is of the thinnest naterial. The Helios Club is the leading organization for the sport in France, and vhen M. Giraud had finished his boat le applied to that club to manage a leries of trials. The first trial was at ^rgenteuil, and several boats of high ipeed were entered against the newcomer. The Rollo won the race. She nade 14.90 statute miles in one hour leventeen minutes thirty-one seconds, veragmg 11.03 stature mnes an nour. n her next race she did better than his. At Meudon, in the races of the lercle de la Voile de Paris, she made MR. EDGE'S BOAT APPEARS 0* THE 2.30 statute miles in two hours fory-one minutes thirty-eight seconds, rhich is a little better than twelve ailes an hour. . Mauy experiments' rere made with the motor, and its ower gradually improved, so that in ubsequent races the Rollo showed a peed of fourteen miles an hour and hen a speed of 15.67 miles an hour. In a long distauce trial the Rollo ran 00 miles at an average of thirteen liles an hour, and once in a speed tri1 over a measured mile on the Seine, rith the tide in her favor, she slipped long at the rate of twenty-five miles n hour. This is a remarkable perormance for a boc.t of the size of the tollo and having such a small powered lotor. This boat has caused many thers to be built, and they have been 0 successful that next season they rill be seen in these waters. In England Alfred Harmsworth, who 1 an enthusiastic automobilist, recentj offered a cup for international races rith power boats. It was the intenion of two Americans to send boats cross the ocean to try to capture the rophy, but they could not be got ready i time, so the idea was postponed for year; but when the races are held /%w4> io Txrlll ho ran. CAl OCU9UU LLliO Lvuntij if xi i i/t esented. Three boats raced for the up, and the winner was the Napier, > " ' THE N^ER LAUNCH wned by S. F. Edge. This boat was uilt from designs by Linton Hope, he was forty feet long and was drivn by a seventy-five horse-power fourjrlindered gasoline motor attached to % : ' ^ ??1??????agggggg. a two-bladed propeller. The cylinders ' are six and one-half inches bore and tne stroke seven and one-half inches. The hall of the Napier is built of steel. ^ the frames and doors are of light anal? and plate, while two longitudinal girders ruu fore and aft to carry the motor and separate thrust bearings. There is no deck to the eraft. but , merely a covering of canvas stretched tightly over the hull. The beam is five feet moulded, and the draught two feet. The total displacement is 3000 pounds. The course over which these boats i V"-;; .. ? :M I : NT'S FAMOUS YACHT, THE FAST- . ? :NG THE WORLD'S RECORD OF IS IN ONE HOUR. ' ?Collier's Weekly.* raced was eight ana oue-balf knots, . and the Napier's time was twenty-four minutes forty-four seconds, averaging 20.G knots an hour or 23.7 statute miles. Against the Napier was the Beadle, thirty feet long, driven by a fifty horse-power eight-cylinder gasoline motor and a Thornycroft boat, thirty feet long, driven by a twenty liorse-power four-cylinder gasoline, mo- tor. So far there have been no boats that have done as well in these waters as the Napier and RolJo. Mr. Charles R. Flint's instructions to his yacht builder were terse and to the point. 'When the man came pre pared with plans and specifications, Mr. Flint waved them aside. "I want the fastest boat afloat," he said. "I do not care how you build It ' > or what it will cost. Build me a craft that will break the speed record." When the Arrow was delivered te Mr. Flint a number of months later, > the magnate took her out for a trial .trip overya measured mile course. The lithe, slim, low-lying craft*with its raking, squat funnel and sharp bovr darted through the water like a greyhound. She seemed fairly to leap from one wave crest to another. The torpedo boat stern was smothered in foam, and against the knife-like edge of the bow curled an enormous "bone^ - / i . i THE LEFT; MR. BEADLE'S ON RIGHT. which wet the forward deck with spray. Her owner stood aft with watch in hand. In affairs of commerce he was always cool and collected. His deals were executed with the sang ' froid of a Napoleon. Now he was transformed. His nsnr.Ily imperturbable face revealed an intense eagerness not at all characteristic of the man. He alternately eyed , the second hand of his watch and the , red-painted buoys marking the course. As one after another was passed he laughed aloud. Then when the last buoy faded astern he clapped bis uands in an ecstasy of triumph. "Forty-five miles an hour!" he cried. "That beats the record!" When Charles R. Flint stood on the deck of his boat and saw her travel faster than any other craft had traveled before, he typified in himself the spirit that seems to be born in man? and especially in Americans. The desire to do something a little better than any one else has done, to move a little faster by train or boat, in running or swimming or driving, is in nercnt in a groat many numan beings. Americans consume 36,000,000 pounds of Chinese teas, 31,00,000 of Japanese and about 4,000,000 of Indian. ^ * OF S. EDGE, ESQ. According to the Mexican Journal of Commerce seventy per cent of $500,000,000 capital invested in Mexico by Americans has gone towards building railroads. r * '.