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[? Detecting / Counterfeits f QUEER SUPS MADE BY F0S6ESS OF BANK NOTES Jefferson's Eye Gone, William Win? . (Join's Lip Swollen, Webster's Nose Flattened, Grant Deprived of His Shirt Stud and Justice Afflicted With Club Fest. ?:? :* ON'T take any bad money 5 ?W while you're out."is advice ! O II o harder for the New Yorker i to follow than for auy else /- 1 tCOW in this country. wj According to tales published in the Jj Current "Dickerman's lf. S. Treasury / jOounterfeit Detector*' there are thirI leeu different kinds of counterfeit ' l>auk notes of this State, ranging in |denomination from $2 to $100, to say Nothing of the phony gold coins and email change. The bank officials of (Massachusetts, which comes second ;'?u the list, only have to keep their leyes peeled for ten different lunas 01 Jaative counterfeit bills. i1 Unless a mau's an expert, he would ^Aave to carry a small chemical las^Roratory, a pocket tool chest, and a SRomplete collection of United States ^B^urrency, indexed for immediate reJ^perenoe, if he would be absolutely safe ^against bad money. W 1 It would embarrass some folks, howf .fever, to hold up the box office line (while they droppedacidon their change and counted the hairs on the buffalo ia the five-dollar bills. The only proI jteotion afforded such people is that <tlerived from a hasty glance at the .color of the note and tha workmanchip on the portrait. ,*k Judghig from the descriptions of : / 'Counterfeit United States and Treas- 1 / wry notes given in '\Dickerman' De/ Sector" the most genera! defects are J f in the portraits. Watch out for the jevil eye, bad complexions, tousled hair ?nd the shaue of the nose; if you do it : Inay save you money. a 'For example, if a two-dollar bill on twhich Jefferson has only one eye is offered to a man, he shouldn't take it. Neither should he accept a bill upon iwhich a white'streak runs across the Iris of each of MePherson's.eyes. 11 If MoPhersoira hair and beard haven't been carefully brushed, or if be has a "staring look, and the head ^.appears tlat." have nothing to do with Bk biui. And above all things shun him I it, he has "many yrhite spots on his face." i Now for the.-ten doiiar-note. Be on your guard against Gen. Sheridan under these conditions: When his "face bas a moth-eaten appearance;" when jhis "right eye and mustache are hardly visible;" when his mustache and , chin whiskers "appear smoothly brushed" (they should be straggling and bushy): and last but not least, when the "right end ot" his forehead and right cheek is a mass of white patches." t Daniel Webster should be avoided ?a ten-doikir biHspvhen Lis nose is flat. , ! In twenty-dollar bills keep an eye on x [Alexander Hamilton. If his '"nose, s Instead of being round on the end, is , brought to a sharp point," and if "his < Chin, instead of being double, is ? square," he is an impostor. f The man who takes a bill with the line of Benjamin Franklin'.-? mouth and jthc opening fcf his ear too pronounced, imay be out fifty dollars. He may find , iconsolation. however, in the fact that ; indistinct tail feathers on an American leagle might have cost him a hundred, if Admiral Farragut has too long a nose and his upper Hp protrudes, that's also a sign that a hundred-dollar bill is bad. : As might bo expected in a counterfeit, the figure of Justice in the ?."300 kind is somewhat out of pinmb. The scale sh?? holds aloft is. very appropriately, slightly crooked. I* In addition to this she is club- c (footed, and her toes are too short. If < (further proof were needed, it may be j ifound in the indistinctness of the lobe < Of J. Q. Adams' ear. | In the silver certificates even Mar- < jtha "Washington's complexion doesn't , Cscape the hands of the spoiler. She < receives mention among tite one-uouar (Counterfeits as having "white patches ion forehead and face." i On two-dollar silver certificates it is Veil to make sure that Gen. Hanicock's hair and mustache are smoothly brushed, for one counterfeiter has mussed them badly. Also be wary of JWilliam Windom. especialy if his "upper lip appears a little swollen," or if liis "cheeks appear sunken and his chin out of proportion."' i Gen. Grant is chief sufferer in counterfeit five-dollar silver certificates. In one case "two white patches appear on his lower lip, near left corner of mouth." In other instances "he looks pock-marked" and "has a moth-eaten appearance." One counterfeiter seems jto have had all the instincts of a com>tn'on thief, for in his production the Vstud on Gen. Grant's shirt front is jmissing." | Ten-doliar silver certificates are dangerous when Hendricks lacks a right eye. i On the twenties look out for Man mng. Don t let the left side of his i face press against the background too i closely, and above alt things see that : his mustache is nicely curled. One i bungler has sadly bedraggled it. I j,' In the only described counterfeit of ' bne-hundred dollar certificates Monroe < Is the victim. His left cheek bone is t missing, and this, as might be sup- c posed, gives his face "a different ex- i pression." i Of course, the portraits on some Counterfeit bills are not defective. (With these, and in the case of coins, bther methods are necessary for detection'. But any one who thoroughly i masters all the portraits on our currency will undoubtedly find it some- j jtliing of a help.?New York Sim, 4 Ervglluli Imports of Iron. ! Ttio imports of Jron into T^rur >and ? about one-third of the totai ncQount consumed?-is not due to any fear of the exhaustion of the supply [ in Great Britain, bnt to a desire to \pave the non-phoepkarus iron used in acid jjroce&see, , AM EXPLORER'S INGENUITY Some Incident* in the Career of a Famous Australian. There was a jubilation in Queeualand on the last birthday of the "Grand Old Man" of that State. He is the Hon. Augustus Charles Gregory, eightythree years old, and a resident of Aus tralia since he was ten. He will De remembered as one of the greatest explorers of the continent. All maps of Australia showing the J routes of the explorers who solved its mysteries mark-the tracks of Gregory through North Australia, through the inner part of West Australia and along the southern edge of the desert. He brought to light important regions that were fit for settlement and are now among the prosperous parts of the Commonwealth, thought it was long supposed they could not be turned to good account. During the many speeches in his honor on his birthday much was said about the remarkable inventive genius which stood him in good stead at critical periods during his explorations. Clocks were few and far between when he went to Australia. Young Gregory decided that his parents needed a clock, and when he was fourteen he made one out of such materials as he could pick up, and it kept good time for eight years. When he was eighteen he built the first flour miH in Queensland, forging all the ironwork for it from old bedsteads and exploring the mountains for millstones. which he picked out ana lasmoneu with his own hands from the granite near his home. .He was scarcely more than a boy when he designed the apparatus for the first revolving light on Eotnest Island, wher? a lighthouse was needed for the safety of shipping. His contrivance worked without a hitch for thirty, five years, till it was replaced by a larger one. During his explorations he discovered a bed of Iron ore In Western Australia, fused some of the metal iu a blacksmith's forge, turned it into steel, made a penknife blade of it and mounted it in a handle of kangaroo bone. Some officials expressed doubts that it was a bona fide production, but Gregory was able to prove that the steel was actually the product of Western Australian are. When liis chronometer got out of or- j 3er he was able to repair it in the desert and continued the observations in which it played an important part. j Not a few of tus astronomical determinations of geographic positions have stood the lest of later observations. 1 One day wtfien he was traveling in the vast deser; plains he decided that liis provisions were too heavy for his party to carry, and yet every ounce of 1 food was needed. He set to work to reduce the weight while preserving the autritive qualities. 1 He found that he could greatly reduce the weight of his salt pork by ; aelting it. He also discovered by ex- j perimentation that the flour he turned ' into biscuits weighed more than ttie 1 biscuits. ' The bright id?a occurred to hitn of ( nakins meat biscuits. So he mixed 1 Jour with melted pork and tinned beef. I rhe biscuits turned out . weil and iveighed only at>?ut one-half as much is the meat a-ad flour separately. These are only a few of the many svays in which his ingenuity and ready resource contributed to the complete ' success of his enterprises. He was for nany years Surveyor - Genera! of Queensland, and in his peaceful old age ill Australia delights t? honor him.? S'ew YorL Sua. t 1 KdW:?b Discipline. Discipline in the Russian army is confined to the essentials very strictly. 1 mil does not concern itself about ' things not immediately connected with the movements oC troops and their eon- 1 luct in action, according to 0. K. : Davis, in, the December Everybody's. 1 fhey will tight maguiticently, but for the rest tliey are a lawless, unkempt. sloucliy. dirty lot, whose clothes seeru 1 perpetually unwashed and whose aands are in everything that is not their own. I 1 There v/c-re a dozen different breeds | 1 >f fighting men in the Pekin relief :olnmu. and among all of them I saw instances of unprovoked cruelty and savagery. With the others sirrh cases : svere sporadic-, but araoag the Itn=?iians discipline does not se^ui to undertake to provide against that sort of 1 thing. I never saw an officer make j in attempt to stop a Russian, soldier ' Crom such work, but I saw one sp.ink 1 l mau for letting a horse fall down. The officer who was in cinnmand of be guard that was escorting uie on jne occasion stopped hi* meci to lor>t a 1 shop and let me go and find my way is best I could without Aiem. The Duke'a K?>Be> Garden. There is at least one mau in Eli?- 1 and who maktjs money out of his recreation. and tfant mau :s the orto- 1 ;ertariuu Duke of Rochester?Deau 1 lole. Combining deen learning with a ar^e fund of bright wit aud broad !ui- 1 nor. lie enn spare time I'rotn his heavy 1 ecclesiastical duties to add five thou-- : .and dollars i year to bis income by growing roses in the musty old town >o well known to the lovers of L?kk.*ns. For sixty yesrs tlie l>ean bus jeen studying the national flowor of England, anil during that time as nany as tivo hundred varieties have passed through his (muds. He is his ?wn gardener, eveu jt hu> present ad>-aneed uge. As eariy j* seven o'clock n the morning be may be seen in his garden looking after his pets, and bis method ot" disposing oC his growing is through a London wholesale florist, ft ho cuts them at Rochester under t'ue critical eye of the Dean and removes hem to G'ovent Garden market. Many >f the varieties are rare, and it is no uncommon tbing for a single blossom to fetdi as much as two dollars. F.8#t?ac*: of Orans^ Ceares. One of the remarkable industries of i iiriimia.y i.- me iuc(iai5iiuu ui iw.nvc of orange leaves. More than oue bundred and fifty years ngo tbo Jesuit priests, who then luled tbat secluded, country, imported orange-seeds and planted groves, which have now become immense forests, filled wiib smnll establishments for extracting the essence, which is exported to France and ihe United States for use iu soap and perfnmery making. It is also employed by the natives in Paraguay as a bealiag cnntmeat aad a hair tonic. oiiiiii - For Wagon Road?. ' <?tOJC. HERE is pending: in Con j# __ gress a bill called the o *P O Brownlow bill, introduced ft ^ by Hon. Walter P. Brown low. of Tennessee, wliict appropriates $24,000,000 as National aid for tlie building of wagon roads This sum is to be available at the ratf of $8,000,000 a year, is to be divided according to the population of the different States, but no State is to re eeive less than $250,000. Every Stat( receiving National aid must appropri ate and spend a like amount. The asserted growth of sentiment ir f?vnr of the measure has been chieflj due to the institution and extension ol the rural free mail delivery system which has brought the disadvantages of poor roads home to the farmers and other country dwellers. Applications for the extension of the free deliver? system are being refused by the post office authorities on account of the roads, and the disappointed communi ties demand their improvement. Theii demands are so in excess of the abil ity of the local boards to respond thai for a year past Highway Commissions nil over the country have been putting th-mselves into record in favor of Na tional ?id. It is claimed on .behalf of the bill that the plan of distribution is more equitable than the distribution of som< ?."52,500,000 a year under the rivers anc harbors bill, which goes principally*t( the seaboard States and to the Missis 8ippi delta. In support of the Brownlow bill as n measure attention fc called to the fnct that France has 23,COS miles of wagon road, which are built ami maintained by the nation, and Italy about 5000 miles, while many ol the States of the Union spend hun dreds of thousands of dollars annually lu highway improvement. Sucgefttious. The farmer should be particularly Interested in having good roads, first because he is usually taxed to main tain them, as real estate cannot es cape taxation. Secondly, for the rea son that he has occasion to use then; to a great extent iu the prosecution oi his business. And the last may ofter outweigh the first in dollars and cents when taken into consideration the mov ing of heavy loads for a considerable distance over poor roads. Here is a view of the case thai should not be lost sight of. It is no) alone those who drive for pleasure oi business over our highways that should ask for or demand their improved con itition. This is for their interest and convenience, it is true, and rightly too and the farmer who has to move his produce to market or place of ship ment or in the daily prosecution of his work needs to use the roads, gains oi loses in fhis direction iu accordance with their good or bad condition. Good roads in such cases mean the saving of time, the greater durability of ve hide and the wear of teams. Now, the farmer, to say nothing ol the others, can afford to pay a fair 01 liberal road ,tax. provided he is as nured that it will be so expended as te result in a corresponding improved condition of the roads. Nothing will go so far toward re conciling farmers or others to paying what may be termed a large tax as tc tindthat it is being faithfully expend ed, and. above nil, that a certaic ivmount is annually devoted to im provements of a permanent character This is evidence that cannot be over looked or refuted, but is an ever pres ent fact, a raonumeut to tbe skill anc faithfulness of the intelligent road maker. We waut just all of this kinc of work that can practically be devot ed to ihe purpose.?Boston Cultivator Aid For Rnildlnfr WairOU F.oaill. There is a bill now before Congress introduced by Hon. Walter F. Brownlow. of Tennessee, and Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger. of New Hampshire, appropriating $24,000,000 as national aid for building wagon roads in every State of the Union. This appropriation is to be distributed according to the population, except that no State is to receive less tban $250,000. This sum i.> available at tbe rate of $8,000,D00 a year for thr.e years, and every State receiving this national aid must udd a like amount, so that S4S.000.000 will in three years be spent in building splendid State and national roads in every State of the Union. This bil! will cause to be built from 100 to 300 miles of road iu every State, or, say, i>000 to 7000 miles in al!. While this number of miles will be of great benefit to tbe farmer, yet its greatest benefit will be as an object lesson. Where ii community ha.? good roads they always want more of them. Motor Cars Dainac* Road*. With the lluest country road? in tb< world. England and France are facing a serious problem in the effect of ino tor traffic upon the ordinary broker Hint and gravel highways. It has been found thar. the large rubber tires ol cars mo vine at a high rate of spee<3 riislodsc the tine covering oti the sur face of the road, leaving only the iarg er aud sharper pieces of rock, thus rapidly destroying the highway. Ef forts are now being made to discovei some method whereby a smooth ant] hard surface can be obtained whicli will stand the wear and tear of tht heavy motor traffic common to thosf countries. Poorest of Koarift. Colonel Brownlow says that wo nave over 200.000 miles of the finest rail way in the "world, more miles of rail way thau all the rest of the globe pul together, yet we have the pooresl wagon roads of any civilized country, He believes that no one thing will dc this country so much good as the building of wngon roads, as provided for in this bill. As thes<? are to b? built in every State in the Union thej will bo especially valuable as an ob ject lesson. Experience has shown that wherever good roads exist eyerj oae wants more ot fbeaa. \ * . MAKES THE ANiMALS HAPPT; The Home That Women Have Made For the Lost and Sick. Thero is near New York City a stretch of pasture land in which usually a number of happy dogs are capering. and the land and other things belong to these same dogs. There is a barn for them v/ith its comfortable kennels heated by a coal tire, quite the same as folks have, and in the house near by is a friend ready to make a . pilgrimage to the kennels with medi cine and bandages day or night. And I this is not for some especially pampered breed of dogs, but for all unfor i. tunates of the race. I A woman not long ago realized' the practical good that would result from i establishing a home for dogs, cats and I broken down horses. She has organ? ized a band of workers to carry out the plan, and the result has been this home > for them, the Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals at Yonkers Park. The object of the bome is to provide i a place where animals will receive kind . treatment and care if'they are sick? t just like a city hospital for humans. If the case is hopeless the animal is chlo! roformed?not dumped into a gas tank [ with a dozen others to fight for a last ' breath of life. There are many people who would keep a dog or cat instead of turning it into the street to be abused and finally caught and killed if it could be taken ~ O A.MAi...:i.A..n1rr n A cure Ui. giaiunuuaijr jlul u wuiic. auj . animal taken to this .borne is welcomed. . If a release is signed the animal is placed in a good home and visited from , time to time by an inspector. [ Similar homes are doing good work elsewhere in this country and abroafl. [ The Animal Rescue League, of Bosk ton, cares for more than 1000 dogs and i cats each month, placing them in homes [ where they remain under the superj vision of the League. Some of the women who run this home have been asked why they don't direct their attention to human suffer, ers instead of to dumb creatures. One , of the reasons, they say, is that there are 134 institutions in this city for the [ relief of humau beings, and there was , only one (two now) for the benefit of ] animals. The home seems to be a welcome charity, for it is finding many sympathizers, and since it has become known that it needs and appreciates gifts tc help its work along, it has been receiv. ing many?some in memory of lost ani< - mal friends.?New York*Sun. Horse Knew Land Wm Near. When Thomas McGuiness, a well* , known horseman of Philadelphia, went ' to Europe some time ago, he took'a 1 blooded horse with him. The animal ' was in a specially prepared stall on ' deck and enjoyed the trip despite the rough weather. When Mr. McGuiness thought land should soon be sighted, ; he asked the captain how far the ship was from the Irish coast. The com. mander of the steamer, in his usual gruff manner, said: "Your horse .will " tell you; watch him." The owner of the animal could not ; understand what the captain meant, and he was not particularly pleased with the answer. Finally, however, a couple of hours before land was observed, the horse, which was a magnificent bay, poked his bead through ) the grating, and, stretching his necfc, ' .whinnied loudly. "There you are," said the captain to Mr. McGuiness;. "your horse smells the land." The ^ horse was like a different animal thereafter until the coast loomed up. The captain, in explaining the odd i occurrence, said that the thoroughbred detected the odor from pasture lands that was wafted far seaward, and that horses on board ocean steamers always ' give the first signal when land is near." * ? Philadelphia Telegraph. Counting the Razor Stroke*. "Very few men realize the manual [ labor entailed in the operation of shaving. aside from the constant care and ^ skill that must be exercised." said the _ j handsome barber as-he paused to strop I ' his razor. "I didn't realize it'myself until the other day. The man I was shaviug was a stranger to me. and he seemed a trifle nervous. When I got through with him he said to me: *Do , you know how many strokes of the | razor you used in shaving me?.' I looked up at the clock. It had taken me nearly twenty minutes. 'I give it up.' I said. 'I never thought about it.' I 'Well,' said he, as he buttoned his col-1 lar. 'you used just 459 strokes with the ! ( razor. That's pretty fair for me, be, cause I'm nervous. I have frequently ' j been up to near 060. You see. I-'suffer I from insomnia, and the only way I can I get to sleep at nights is to He in bed and count. In that way I have gotten into the habit of counting the razor j strokes while getting shaved, and I , j .want to tell you that 430 is a pretty good record for me.' Say. do you be, lieve that?"?Philadelphia Record. Daniel Webster's Brother. Secretary Root, on the day he sailed for England on the Celtic to act as a . member of the Alaska Boundary Com. mission, told .an Interesting story of Daniel Webster's boyhood. "Little 'Dau' and his younger brother," said Mr. Root. ';had each s been given some money. They started ; out gleefully, and it was evening be. fore they got back home. i 1 " 'Well. Dan.' said the senior Webi ster. 'what did you do with your ; money?* I " 'Spent it.' the boy answered, . sturdily. " 'And how about you? What did j' you do with your moneyV" the father . asked the younger brother. 3 " 'I lent it to Dan,' wa6 the reply."? I New York Tribune. i i Precion* Stones Scnrce. i The United States can supply all the wants of its people for coal, iron, cop per. petroleum, and all the useful minerals; gold and silver are also found ? in generous quantities; but of precious stones the diamond, the ruby, the emerald. the topaz, etc.. it 1ms practically ; uone. except what it has bought i abroad. In 1002 we paid $25,000,000 , j to foreign countries for precious stones ^ j that we imported, while during that ] > year precious stones of the value of ] 1 only $338,000 were found within our , i borders. These were principally j . sapphires frcra Montana, tur(juoise.s . from New Mexico, Arizona,. Nevada ? t und California, and tourmalines and , , vhrysopvascs from California.?Na* , tiouaJ Oeoeraohic Mp^azine. i I ? _ (ffifTn rhnm^nmhint7 i// ijy c/ j The cathedral at Ulu). Wurttemherg. possesses the highest church spire in the world. It i* 533 feet high. Tn pulling down the old Cathedral of Metz a strong box has been found containing coius and watches valued at ?120,000. The earliest railways were designed to be tollways, oi: which any man could ruu his own cars on his <S xvU UWU ai'ueuunr, A Chimman is compelled, by the i law of his land, to leave his possessions *o his male children. He can make no exceptions in favor of any one. South Dakota claims the largest cave in the world. It is Wind Cave, j at Hot Springs, extending ninety miles in different directions and containing 2500 chambers. In a Berlin insane asylum is a patient, it is said, whose hair changes color with her temperature. When she is cool and quiet her hair is a light yellow, but when she is restless and it becomes auburn. In Taranaki, Australia, Is a church labeled in large letters oil its outside walls with the names and trades 1 of a grocer, a draper, a painter and a miller. These tradesmen built the church in return for the advertise-ment they obtain. Some years ago the sexton of the Catholic Church at Grand Falls, N. B., had a head of pure white hair. It became .thinner and thinner, until in 1900 he was perfectly bald. Then a crop of thick black hair begau to sprout, intermingled with gray. He is in his eighty-fifth year. The beggars of China have organized a regular system of blackmail. Every,town has a band of them with a "King;" The "King" goes among the merchants and others, collecting tribute, in return for which he gives a signed document insuring them against all annoyance for a certain length of time. BLOODIEST OF MODERN BATTLES B6rodino a Useless Fight Which Didn't Influence the World's History. The battle of Borodino, fought between the French and the Russians near Moscow in 1812. was the most murderous fight, not only of the last century, but, perhaps, of the last 500 years. The records show that Borodino engaged armies of from 120,000 to 130.000 on each side; that there was bat one day of vigorous fighting; that the French .iftor nourinir a most murder* ous cannon tire upon the Russians, | advanced upon the Russian's position, were repeatedly repuisefa with terrible loss, and finally rnshed the soldiers of the Czar off their feet and out of the vantage ground. The French won, but lost 12,000 killed on the field and 28,* 000 wounded. Fifteen thousand Russians were slain and 30,000 wounded. Out of r.bout 2HO.OOO men who made up the contending armies, 85,000, or thirty-four per cent.?more than onethird?were struck by bullets, bayonets or swords. At Waterloo about 4.1,000 men were killed or frouuded out of perhaps 200,000 engaged. At Gettysburg about 100,000 fought F.ud eacn army hgd, approximately, 3000 killed and 14,WW wounded. In the Wilderness probably 200,000 men were in action, and the fight?which lasted a week or more?resulted in a combined los3 of about 8000 killed and 40,000 wounded. Borodino, a fight now alaost forgotten, which had no influence on the history of the world, and which, so far as actual results went, need not even hoi-a hoon fniirrhf VMS thn bloodiest of modern battles. Napoleon's victory availed bim nothing, for he was burned out of Moscow, anyway, and the Russians simply sacrificed men in the vain attempt at a triumph which the .snows of winter soon brought them anyjjbw. The most gory of battles was also the most useiess, and is now one of the least remembered.? Chicago Journal. Baked Mad a Food. Consumption of earth as food is said to be common uot only in China, New Caledonia and New Guinea, but in the Malay Archipelago as well. In Java and Sumatra the clay used undergoes a preliminary preparation for consumption, being mixed with water, reduced to a paste, and the sand and other hard substances removed. The clay is then formed into small cakes or tablets about as thick as' a lead pencil and baked in an iron saucepan. The Javanese frequently eat small figures roughly modelled from clay which resemble the animals turned out j Chi'/viffA Trihnna ill our pastry am/fa.?\_/i-iiv_^_,v? Afeik#M.v. Huuor For Berlioz* Whatever iudifference may be displayed by other countries towards Hector Berioiz's centenary, it i3 only natural and proper that in France, just now, his name should be especially honored. All th? same, there is something a trifle bizarre in the appellation given to an hotel which it appears has been opened at Saint-Andre-Legaz, near Grenoble. It has been named "Hotel de la Gare 'et Berlioz." We make no comparison, of course. But what would be thought here of the title, a century hence, say, of "The Station and Sullivan Hotel?"?London Daily Telegraph. Cor!on9 Barometer. A curious barometer is said to be used by the remnant of the Araucanian race, which inhabits the southernmost province of Chile. It consists of the rast-off shell of a crab. The dead shell is white in fair, dry weather, but the approach of a moist atmosphere is inlicated by the appearance of small, red apots. As the moisture in the air increases. the shell becomes entirely red, md remains so throughout the rain/ KMOM. A STORY OF CRANES Hoir the South American* Utilize tb Birds. The natives of Venezuela and ad .joining countries on the north side o the River Amazon often avail tliem selves of the services of the nativi crane to care for their poultry, an< also use it in the place of a colie o; shepherd dog to guara ana iiera taei domestic animals. Tim remarkable bird, which'the Indians caNydkamili and the ornithologists-Fsophia Crepi tans, is found in a wild state-In-grea forests that lie between the northeri coasts of South America and the Ama zon and British Guiana. The bird never leave the forests unless shot o raptured. They travel about in flocks of fron 100 to 200, in search of the berrief fruits and insects upon which the; subsist. Their usual gait Is a slow am stately march, but they enliven them selves fro a time to time by leaping uj in the air, executing eccentric and fan cy waltzes and striking the most aS surd and preposterous .attitudes. I pursued they endeavor to save them selves by running, i'or their flight is ?< weak, according to Schomburg, tha when they attempt to fly-over a bod: of water of any considerable widtl they are often compelled to drop upoi it and save themselves by swimming. vvnen aiarmeu mejr unci iuc pcuuna cry whi:h has obtained for them thi name of trumpeters. The sound i: something like that produced by a per son endeavoring to shout the syllable; "tow, tow, tow, tow, tow,' with hi mouth shut, or the doleful noise madi by children on New Year's Day wit! their trumpets. The yakamiks usuall; deposit their eggs in a hollow In th ground, often at the foot of a tree. A nest generally contains ten eggs o a pale green color. The'young "bird follow their mothers as soon as the are hatched, but do not lose their prei ty down c6verlng*urktil several week old. The yakamiks are very readil; tamed and prove valuable servants t the Indians, who domesticate then and as they are courageous and wl protect animals intrusted to their car at every risk to themselves, even dog are obliged to yield to their autnority. Tbey may be trusted with the care c a flock of sheep or domestic fowls, an every morning will drive the ducks an poultry to their feeding places, anc carefully collecting any straggleri bring them safely home at night, j yakamik soon learns to know and obe the voice of his master, follows hli when permitted wherever,he goes an appears delighted at receiving his cj 1 resses> It <plnes at his absence an welcomes his return, and is extreme! jealous of any rival. Should auy an mal attack Its master the yakamik i ! utmost fury attacks it with wings an beak, driving it away. It presents itself regularly diirin meals, from which it chases all dc mestic animals, and even the negroe who wait on the table, if it is not wel acquainted with them, and only ask for a share of the eatables after it ha driven away all who might aspire t a favorable notice from the family.Montrea! Star. Helping Oat the Law's Allowance. They do say tliat^hls actually haf peued in this county not a great whll I aso. It wrs a part of the incidentals at' j wedding of some note. The ministe had just finished the ceremony \yhei he was accosted by the groom: ? "Say. how much do you charge? asked the new Benedict. "Oh," said the minister, "I make n specific charges for services of thi kind, usually being satisfied with what ever sum the generosity of the happ; groom may prompt him to give. Th law, however, allows me a fee o $2.50." "All right," said the^groom, handin; the minister a. piece of silver. "There' I another dollar. That makes $3.50. Wil that do you?" And the astonished minister had t say "Yes."?Winchester Sentinel. Kentucky's Giants. w A ftunn of Lefcinerton. Kv.. ha suggested a unique, feature for tb Kentucky exhibit at- the world's fai in St. Louis. There is, according t< him, in eastern Kentucky a family o seven sons whose height' runs fron six and a half to seven feet, and h. proposes that the State arrange fo them to form the nucleus of a reuuioi of giants, which would undoubtedly prove a popular attraction at the ex position. There wereneight In thif family, but one of them died. The: ate middle-aged me0;-i6aiuly farmers finely built, and of good appearance The committee to whom Mr. Gunt sent the suggestion has taken the mat ter up with the Kentucky Exhibit As socialion. disclosing the identity of tin family, and an effort will lie made ti induce the men to go to the proposct reuniou. (. Coldest Liquid. Liquid hydrogen is by far ihe colder liquid known at the present time. Ai ordinary atmospheric pressure it boil! * A**'* ^A/?i?Aoa I? anrl Ol at cco , ?*??? ? the pressure by an air pump brings th< temperature down to?132 degrees, a which the liquid becomes a solid, re sembling frozen foam. According t< Prof. Dewar, to whom the credit is due of having liquefied hydrogen It 1898, the liquid is a colorless, trans parent body, and is the lightest liquic known to exist, its density being onlj one-four teen tli that of water; \ ttu lightest liquid previously known-was liquid marsh gas, which is sis times heavier. The only solid which has s< small density as to float upon its .surface is a piece of pith wood.?Cas sier's Magazine. A Child's Natural Wonder. A story illustrative of the severe logic of some juvenile minds is related by a reader of the Sun, who got it from a friend, a woman of family, one mem ber ot' the latter being a four-year-old daughter. One day this observant miss saw a lame man oa me ttireei, oud asked her mother what made hitu walk so queer. The mother told her it was because one leg was shorter thau the other. "Well," she said, "there is o girl around the corner who is that way." After a few minutes' meditation she remarked: "Mamma, wasn't it funny that Clod didn't give the two long, legs to the man and the two short ones to the Sirl?"--Baltimore Sua Our. Budget ,| of Humor- jf I, r> r. i i f The Bleflftingpt of Old Age. r "I am old," said the man, a* he shook hjus 9 gray lockn; :: "I am old and quite feeble and weak;, . When I tiik to myself I ne'er make a re? t For I'm deaf and can't hear myself 1 speak." ?Columbia Jester, j A Nwtowwl Horison. . , ) r Stella?"They u^ed to think the'world of each other." . ^|a 1 Bella?"Yes, hut now they only think ^ South Dakota."?New York Sun. - < 3 An Exception. i- Friend?"The hand that rocks thtf P cradle rules the world." ! - Henpekt?"Not much, it don't! Mrs. Henpekt makes me put the baby to f sleep." ? 9 Suspicion. t "Do you believe-in telepathy?" p "Well, this morning a man paid m? i $100 he owed me, and this afternoon I i got a letter from my wife asking foe a hundred.'VLife. , More Generally the Case. * -|J| j She?"Don't you believe that 'a sofl answer turneth away wrath?'" 3 He?"Oh, yes. Ofteuer, however, 8 wrath frightens away a soft answer.'* & ? Kausas City Journal. * ^ Abont an Even Thins. y Mr. Mlllyuns (engaging valet)~"l 0 warn you that frequently I am.exceedingly ill-tempered and gruff." Valet (cheerfully)?"That's all right, ? sir; so am I."?Stray Stories. ' No Joy For the Blnger.. . 9 Yeast?"How joyous the wedding; 7 bells make every one feel." 0 Crimsonbeak?"I don't know about > that! Did you see the fellow who was 11 ringing them ?"?Yonkers Statesman. ^ S '* Difference#. "Singing is a great art," said th$ ' | if music lover, < ' m d "Occasionally," answered the moroae d man. "With some people it's an art I, and with others it's merely a habit/* 3t ^ Baihlnf BaslneM. v Yeast?"So he's busy at his restaur* antv' 1 n aui* . :* ,3 Crimsonbeak?"Busy's no name for t, it. Why, he hardly has time to go out (j to get his meals!"?Yonkers States man, ' Got Slipped Up On. "Do you know anything about flirt* S ,ne?" ":"%M "No," he replied sadly. "I thought I JI'l K?*- r 4-hJA/I 5f hangar! If ^ U.IU. UUl nucu A, U icu ll, MUU^V-U V-'?QS * girl didn't marry me."?Chicago Post, ^ s. "What Manner of Mant -^a Mrs. Brown?"How are. you getting 8 .along?" s Mrs. Jones?"Splendidly. Charle? 0 has two schemes that can't bring less ~ than $1,000,000 each, and a ten-dollar* a-weelc Job."?Smart Set. .~*rnil Friends. '* Hawkins?"I have lost all; not M e thing remains." 1 Bobbins?'"But think of youc a friends." ( ,, r Hawkins?"That's so. It'-s . pretty ? a hard on them, too."?Town Topics. ^ Book Learning. fi ; I i 7^-' ' Mr. Newedde?"Tbese biscuits art ^ awful." , 1 Mrs. Ncwedde?"Impossible. Why* 3 tin* rpppiot sars ther are excellent."-* r f New York American. ~1 i\ 7 Not Hia Fault. Magistrate' (sternly)?"Didn't I tell * you the last time you were here I 7 never wanted you to come before me . againV Prisoner?"Yes. sir: but I couldn't . J i make the policeman believe it."?New Yorker. , - ' * 1 .1 1 ! > Setting the FmIiIobi, , "Where have you been, Tommy?** "! I ' Been out watching people &it dowtt on the sidewalk." i '''Nonsense! .No one sits on the side* walk this weather." t "Yes, they do: after we made th* t bricks slippery."?Chicago News. ^ e nf f!udfnTii. ? I The handsome young dentist slipped t the diamond ting on the lovely girl'* . shapely linger. I , "If you breai; this engagement, dear5 est," he said, with a dreamy, farawajj i gaze, ''I shall have to charge you for . my time, you kaow."?Chicago Trifrj 1 t uue. k Didn't Apply in His t'aw. "Some ot' the proverbs about trt 1 men," said Mr. Ilenpeck, "are ridicu) lous." <j "As, for instance?" queried Meekton. | "Well, that oue that says 'the hand; that rocks the cradle is the handl j that rules the world." "?Philadelphia; Leaser. . >, .1 JL Dead Easy. 1 Friend?' How did the count propose1 to you. and you accept, if he could not understand your language, nor yotr ^ his?" i American Heiress?"It was very simi pie. He showed uie his family tree* and I showed him my bank book."? New York Weekly. ??? >' Doing: Hin Gayeboye?"I understauil tliat Wllda* ooye's father left him nothing." Highflyer?"Nothing but his debts.* ! Oayeboye?"So? And how is thd j vun^ciri #|,riuu(, . Highflyer?"Veer nicely, indeed. He's i managed to increase bis legacy bjj thirty thousand."?Smart Set "'i 2 ,?? ......... - -t vv ffT'-fiM