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f; SHOWS HOW EARTH GllillS
j Mons. Flammarion Tells
j on Eastern Coast of Italy
j Adria, a Famous Seapo:
4 ? - * <r?i T 1
|| is Now Sixteen Miles ini;
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(From the European Edition of the
New York Herald.)
^^^^^^The Herald recently published an
count of the curious discovery at
W^^gCM^ium of a beautiful Greek statue.
KnwHH3ri|*h was brought to light by the upof
a wall of Nero's villa under
^^H^^^Birious battering of the waves of
SraraSraffigVea. This important discovery
double interest, artistic and
Not only does it put be- j
eyes a masterpiece of antique
|WMBflSB^^Mtit also shows us tbe work of
I the sea is taking possesI
^^^^^Hhis beach of Antium, where,
I centuries ago. the imperial
a sumptuous Roman palace
w^^^Kjlayed. Century by century,
yeHPy year it rushes to attack this
coast, on which it Is encroaching little
by little. It is destined to reign
over the place where the cruel and
tyrannical emperor, believing himself
master of the world, thought he
alone had the right to rule.
But the waves themselves offer
strange paradoxes. While the Tyrrhenian
Sea is eating away in this
vicinity the cliffs and the strand of
anoient Latium, on the other hand
fon the opposite or eastern coast of
Italy the Adriatic is constantly movy
ing away from the ancient Etruscan
town which gave it its name.
Adria, which three thousand years
ago was a famous and flourishing
seaport, lies to-day desolate and forgotten
in the midst of fields of corn,
of vineyards and of prairies, twentyfive
kilometres distant from the sea,
?.V. m/ITTiSrl n TXT Q V tVllR PT1 f 1 TP
wai^u uao uiu v ^ vx i* " vm.w ~
distance sinco the beginning of our
era. There is nothing there from
which one might guess its former
power?gone to-day. It is a dead
city. Agriculture and trade have
4 there replaced intense maratime ac*
tivity and are very much inferior to
it Here the land is gaining rapidly
?before one's eyes, so to speak?
at the rate of ten metres or so every
year, on account of the alluvium of
the Po and the Adige.
Alluvial Deposits.
Like the Rhone, in France, and
the Nile, in Egypt, the Po and the
Adige are constantly bringing down
soil from the higher ground and carrying
it to their mouths. The floods
to which this region was subject from
the beginning of the thirteenth century
necessitated recourse to dykes,
and they have since caused the adoption
of a general system of embankment,
with the result that the Po and
the Adige and almost all their tributaries
are now kept within artificial
borders, which are very much raised
-?vo1nr>itv whiph
up, *UC iuvivaavu ?V?w?v ? ? vcurrents
thus restrained acquire gives
them the power to transport to the
sea a very much larger quantity of
| sediment than formerly. Thus the
deltas of the Po ana the Adige have
constantly encroached upon the Adriatic;*
Moreover, a part of the sand
and slime, which in a natural condition
of things would have been spread
over the plain by annual floods, is deposited
on the bottom of the beds of
the streams, whose capacity thus becomes
diminished.
It therefore becomes necessary to
STRENGTH OF.
How It Kills Human I
Other A
Of all the existing man apes the gorilla
is heyond question the most formidable,
a large male standing not
infrequently over five feet six inches
in height, and bones being known of
on? which apparently measured in
life no less than six feet two inches.
It is not, we now know from experience
in the gardens and elsewhere,
always when young so "utterly untamable
a. beast" and so "entirely and
constantly an enemy of man" as Du
Chaillu represented, but it is savage
and morose enough.
It is still uncertain whether in a
wild state, except in the immediate
moment of attack, it ever actually
-walks erect without either resting its
knuckles <3n the ground or supporting
itself by a branch overhead, but that
it does beat its fists upon its breast
? -when enraged (Du Chaillu says that
he heard the noise "like a great bass
drum" at a distance of a mile) is established.
and when the male gorilla
turns, as seemingly it does, to confront
man fearlessly when attacked,
with its huge size, its great hairy
limbs, and hideous head set almost
down into its shoulders, we can believe
that "no description can exceed
the horror of its appearance." Add
that the gorilla usually lives in the
depth of forests where the light is so
dim that it is difficult to see any ob-1
ject clearly at a distance of more than
a few yards, and it is not to be won'
dered at that the natives have invest- J
^ } ed it with attributes even more hor,
rific than those which it possesses.
Many believe the gorilla to be Luman;
others hold that, though itself
im a beast, it is often informed with the
WU transmigrated spirits of the human
dead. It- is said to lie in wait!
SisV crouched on the lower branches of;
tr?es overhanging a path, and when a
V human being passes to drop one of its
V long hind limbs and, clutching the
M victim by the threat so suddenly avid
in so terrible a grin that hardly a sob
B is heard, to drag it?man or woman
A ?up to its lurking place. It is cred&
ited with capturing and stealing women
and carrying them off to keep
them in the forests, and, armed -with
clubs, is said to attack and beat off
elephants. The formldableness of the '
great apes as compared with other
-y V beasts, however, is not an easy mat"N.
ter to pass upon. In Africa it is noteworthy
that the lion and the gorilla
i do not occur together, and it has been
\ conjectured both that the Hon has ex
of iHEliaui^r
of the Encroachments of Land
?"Hn^ tn tfip Pn and Adifre?
rt Three Thousand Years Ago,
and.
LAilMARION.
dig out a certain quantity of this deposit
and carry it back to the banks.
This gradual raising of these rivers
has the result that in our day they
cross the valley on a greatly elevated
bed like water that runs in an aqueduct.
It follows that the surface oi
the Po, for example, is higher than
the roofs of the houses of Ferrara.
Encroachments of the Land.
The increase of the land is considerable
in aefl this region. The town
of Ravenna, which was formerly surrounded
by lagoons and was a seaport
like Venice, and under Augustus
was a naval station for the Adiatic
fleet, is to-day ten kilometres from
the sea and its only communication
with its present port, Porto Corsini
r J-.-, J_ inOC V,,, nanol /-,(
lUUIiUtra 1 Li .LloU, ID UJ v<?uai vj
that name.
Besides, all along this coast, sc
celebrated in history, may be seen the
works of man in constant struggl<
with nature and only dominating hei
on condition of subjecting himsel1.
to her laws. But, on the whole, th(
victory remains with nature. Th<
works of man are nevertheless lasting.
All the marvels of ancient ari
which have escaped the carnage oi
wars, of invasions and of revolutions
and which have been preserved
for us, often by the earth iself, and
handed down from century to century,
bear testimony to this.
Vestiges of Former Glory.
The ancient lighthouse of Adria
washed by the waters of the sea three
thousand years ago, is still standing,
but for a long time it has not looked
out upon the Adriatic, which is constantly
moving away. It has become
the belfry of a church. This lighthouse,
which antedates the foundation
of Rome, could tell us of mans
human depravities if only as the witness
of its neighbor, Ferrara, the
famous city over which still, hangs
the tragic memory of Lucretia Borgia.
For example among other deeds,
it might remind us of the following:
Marquis Obizzon d'Este, detested foi
his cruelty, strangled by one of hie
sons; Alberto, who cut off his nephew's
head and burned his wife alive;
Marquis Giovanni d'Este and his wife
torn to pieces with red hot pincers;
Nicolas III., legitimatized son of Alberto,
cutting off the head of his second
wife and aiding in the bloodj
quarrels of his twenty-two natural
children; Hercules I., causing hit
nephew to be hacked to pieces, cutting
off the right hand and puttin?
out an eye of 280 conspirators; his
son, Hippolyte d'Este, causing the
eyes of his brother Julius to be ton
out on account(of his rivalry in love
etc. In this order of things mar
sometimes seems to surpass nature.
To return to her from these scenes
the secular transformation of coasts
constitutes one of the most interesting
chapters in the history of oui
planet. Everything is rapidly changing
on our mobile globe. Alone the
progress of mind triumphs over the
slow and inexorable work of Time
whose Scythe gathers in its harvesl
everything about it. and this progress
is perpetually upward toward the conquest
of truth.
THE GOKILLA.
3einffs?Its Attacks on
nimals.
ritory and that the gorille ha6 driver
out the lion.
In Borneo the most serious neigh'
bors of the orang are the python anc
tl\e crocodile, and the natives say thai
the ape overcomes them both, the py
thon by seizing and biting it, and th(
crocodile by leaping on its back
clutching it by the upper jaw and bj
sheer main strength tearing it open
The name "orang" is in itself a tith
of honor,meaningroughly "wise one,*
the Malays giving it alike to theii
chiefs, to elephants and to the "wile
men." Perhaps, however, no nativ<
myth or story eclipses in wonder th(
statement of Emin Pasha, made seri
ously, that in the Mbongwe forest th<
chimpanzees used to come to rob th<
banana plantations in troops, bearing
torches to light them on the way
"Had I not witnessed this extraordi
nary* spectacle personally," he is re
ported as saying, "I should not hav<
believed that any of the simians un
derstocd the art of making fire." Un
happily we personally did not witnesi
it.?London Times.
Aot For Goodness Sake.
She was a blonde, very light o
hair, almost silvery yellow, very beau
tiful, but her hair was thin, exceed
ingly thin.
"You don't seem to be prudish,'
they said, "or too goody-goody t<
wear false hair. "Why in the goodnes:
don't you? If you would only puf
your hair out with curls you'd b<
beautiful."
"If you want to know the rea
truth of the matter," said she,
don't wear false hair because I can*
match the shade. I've looked till I'n
black in the face, and it's not to b<
found. That's all there is to it."?
New York Press.
His Cleverness.
ine cuusui ill i^oiiuou 01 a conu
nental kingdom was informed by hii
Government that one of his country
women, supposed to be living in Grea
Britain, had been left a million o
money. After advertising wltboui
result, he applied to the police, aid i
smart young detective was set t<
work.
When a few weeks had gone by hi;
chief asked him how he was going on
"I've found the lady, sir."
"Good! Where is she?"
"At mv place. I got married to hei
I I II I I
~ BRAIN BACKERS FOR
i OCEM1L CLERKS
Album, Gift to Postmasteri
General, Shows Whar They
Have to Contend With.
Postmaster-Gene al Hitchcock has
received as a present from W. E.
Blizzard, a steamship mail clerk, an
. album containing traced samples of
queer addresses on some of the letj
ters that cross the ocean. When a
r passenger on the St. Louisin 1906 Mr.
[ Hitchcock in talking with the mail
. clerk became so interested in the
; subject that the clerk said he would
i gather a few specimens and send
them to him. There are forty of the
tracings, each pasted neatly in the
little green morocco-covered alfaim,
. and on the page opposite each is a
i short story of the letter and a com
ment from the clerl: who collected
it.
! In the collection appears the fol
lowing:
I I Tvant the money that I have Fend to
I vou. . , AMERICA.
This superscription was taken from
I the envelope of a letter mailed in
Russia and no address or other clue
. for the delivery of the missive api
peared upon the envelope.
. Again an Instance of the mistaken
postscript appears in the last specimen
in the collection, which Mr. Blizzard
has described as "an old address
vet a most appropriate one
with which to write 'Finis.' " This
envelope bore the legend:
I M. Agoskino Moreli: Good by; good by.
(S. Ir. A.) I
I Another of the Russian specimens
I" "vas sent in reply no doubt to a letter
whose postscript, written near the
signature, asked concerning business
In the old country, or such would appear
from the envelope which bears:
> Mr. Burdensskj-: How is bissnes in
i Russha? AMERICA.
A letter tracing from Germany
[ shows the following:
Herr Senatour Clarke,
i New York,
America.
The Senatour is domiciling
adjacent to Carnegie.
r Still another, to Mr. Carnegie,
' reads:
The Highness of Andrew Carnegie,
! My Lord Banker and Generous ilerchant,
Skibo Caetle, Oxford,
New York or New Orleans,
U. S. A.
Indian mails apparently bear many
letters to the wealthy men of Jhe
United States, for another page in the
collection shows the address:
, His High Majesty;
The Baroto J. Pierpont,
The Trustee of the Oceau,
America.
Opposite another page of the little
r album, whereon the address of an
I Italian letter is reproduced, the dons
or of the book has writtpn: "Some
wnere in ine wona mere uwens a
; Petroleum King, whose name and
3 generosity the writer knows, and
? judging from this address that's
i about all he does know."
From an Italian letter:
1 A1 Signor Saverino Monsarino,
icc coal and wood best, red ash coal bv
the Bush Pail Jce for family by a week
' 587 E. 163 St. Bet by near 3d ave. 100 lbf?.
' ice by pail. Please give a good measure,
New York.
c Also a Dutch letter, addressed evl
dently from a business head:
5 On Hevn S. Kanned, Amerike.
! Bought of Dealer in Delikateesen Ana
Fancy Groceories Fouchts and W'egetablea
In Season. 23 e 108th street,
[ New York.
' A German address reads:
/ L. Berman,
Dealer in all Kinds of
New and Misfit
Clothing Pants.
Amerika. New York.
With the same regularity aa that
demanded by the officers of the- ship,
the sea post clerks must observe the
I regulations governing the crew of the
ship, because of the fear on the part
of the steamship companies that, beJ
Ing in uniform, they will be mistaken
for officers of the vessel, and should
they be seen loitering around the
? companionways or drinking in the
1 smoKing rooms passengers mignt
' gain the impression that tlje rules foi
! the safety of the ship were not being
fully lived up to.
' The control of the sea postoffico
shifts from the clerks of one country
to another, in accordance with the
direction in which the vessel is head'
ed.
' The sacks of mail despatched to
! the United States from foreign coun;
tries by steamships carrying the sea
' postal clerks average about one thou?
| sand to the month, except in Decem;
ber, when the Christmas mail swells
' the number almost BOO per cent.
In illustrating the average of work
" done on one voyage from Europe by
" a sea postoffice Edwin Sands of the
; Foreign Mail Division said:
"On a voyage to the United State?
" the average extent of work done on
8 mail pieces handled is illustrated by
making extracts from the trip report
of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II.?
which arrived in New York on Feb!
ruary 25, 1909, from Bremen, with
. 192C sacks of maik The sea post
- force consisted of two German clerks.
two United States clerks and three
' German subalterns, who may ba de)
j scribed as employes holding a place
? | similar to that of porter in our postal
I j service. On the voyage 785 sacks ol
? j mail were opened, 455,500 ordinary
letters assorted, 3481 registered let1
' ters and parcels asserted, 34 81 reg1
istered letters and parcels papers disl
tributed.
j "To bring this about all had to
: work in the office eleven hours a day
In the pouching of the mails 780
sacks were made up to carry away
the letters, newspapers, letter packages
and closed mail3 assorted. On
me irip to .\ew rork the ordinary
mail for that postoffice is assorted into
sacks for each of its forty-seven
stations. The nail for the rest ot
the United States is assorted in acI
cordance v/ith a 'scheme of distribut
tion' having 128 divisions."
Strange Resemblance.
A statue in Wells cathedral, Ensland,
representing '"The Fruit Steal?
'. er," is almost an exact copy of the
features of Sir Henry Campbell-Ban.
] nerman. The statue is carved on a
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?l5Ii&Vn-cBXP lfOVTO _
~ PREPAJ&ATnLTL I
Wellesley Tapioca. (
This is a pleasing variation from |
J the old fashioned baked Indian pud- (
ding. Soak five tablespoonfuls of |
I pearl tapioca two hours In cold water |
' to cover. Pour four cupfuls of scald- (
ed milk over four tablespoonfuls of |
j Indian meal and add three-fourths of
a cupful of molasses, three table
} spoonfuls of butter and one and one- (
i half teaspoonfuls of salt. Cook in ;
j double boiler twenty minutes, then ,
/ add tapioca drained from witer. Turn ;
" into a buttered pudding dish and pour (
over one cupful of cold milk, but do ,
j not stir. Bake one and one-fourth |
I hours in a slow oven. Serve with or
without thin cream. ? Indianapolis (
News. ,
Walnut Creams.
Work half a pound of fondant until
creamy, and add a teaspoonful of j
, vanilla flavoring, a few drops at a j
time. Have ready English walnuts
J 6helled and divided in halves. Take J
! a small piece of fondant, roll in a ball,
put between two halves of walnuts (
and press together. Stand aside to
harden on a platter dusted with con;
fectioner's sugar.
For creamed dates remove the '
stones and fill the centre with flav- I
ored fondant.
? Creamed fruits are made by dip- '
( ping in melted fondant. Add a little
| water, a drop at a time, until the fon- I
dant is thin enough to cover the fruit.
Melt it in a small saucepan over hot
water, stirring constantly. White J
grapes, candled cherries, slices of or- j
ange and nuts are treated in this
manner.?New York Tribune.
I
To Bake Potatoes.
Baked potatoes are a staple article
of diet in most families. They are in- j
expensive and easy to prepare. Yet I
constantly as they are used it is rare f
to find one well baked?the skin is |
: either burned or the contents are not j
I mealy. |
| Do not have the oven too hot for
i baked potatoes. If they are done in a
moderate heat for a longer time they ,
will be more evenly cooked.
Pricking the small end of a potato ,
i with a fork before putting it in the
oven will keep the skin from bursting, i ?
A German cook noted for her deli- J J
cious baked potatoes washes them '
j carefully, then rubs the skin with ' '
pure lard before putting them in the 1
oven. They are much more delicate^'
and. tender all through when so 1
cooked. | ?
A pleasant variety in baked pota-1 1
toes is to skin them when raw, rub 5
them over with a greased paper 1
dipped in butter and baked in the or- '
dinary way. 1
j In serving baked potatoes they
should be passed on a folded napkin, c
i and taken with the fingers rather than 1
with a spoon.?New Haven Register. '
t
90 ,1
Jellies often refuse to jell when 1
put into large receptacles. j t
Cream cheese mixed with canned 1
i currants or jellied cranberries makes '
a good sandwich filling. ji
To remove the odor of onions after
peeling, put the knife and the hands 1
| in very cold watfer for a few minutes. (
i This will entirely remove the scent . j1
i Small cold cream jars and the like, J
if scalded, make excellent container? (
for jelly which at some time or other |
you will desire to place in a luncb
basket.
j Jo get rid of rats and mice, stud
the holes where they come in with ab- ! ,
sorbent cotton moistened with formaldehyde,
then flover with plaster j
. of paris. !,
I To have bright lights boil the lamp ,
burners in a strong solution of soda j
and let dry thoroughly before using. f
Soak the wicks in vinegar while the ]
| burners are drying. 1 {
! If dark wool material, men's suits.' i
I women's 6kirts and the like, become j
shiny, sponge with a solution of com. \
i mon washing blue and water. Press ?
while still damp under a ihin cloth, j
At a certain cooking school they 1
recommend hot gingerbread served '
with fried apple sauce. The apples :
, are stewed and then reheated in hot <
I butter and browned like ordinary 1
fried apples. :
When the edges cf doilies or table
covers curl up, run weight tape into 1
i the hems and they will lie perfectly 1
j smooth. The same is very good to '
I run in edges of sash curtains on book- i '
cases and the like. 1
Did you ever use a shower bath ]
hose on ironing day to sprinkle the
j clothes? A watering pot with a fine
stream should do just as well. The ,
clothes are sprinkled more evenly
and in a shorter time. '
A perfectly clean paint brush is a
' good thing to keep on hand to clean
dusty fruit. Grapes, sandy dried
peaches, strawberries and other fruits '
in their season are quickly cleaned in | j
this way.
If you are beginning to have trou- ,
ble with your feet, bathe them often,
powder them freely, rub alcohol on f
them occasionally?give them careful j
attention until you discover the sort ,
of treatment they respond to.
In choosing footwear ior young i
children, it should he remembered <
that lace boots are better for them ]
than buttoned footwear. The shanks '
of the button are apt to press on the ?
instep or ankle and cause discomfort, ]
while better support is naturally I
given to the ankles when it is possi- i
ble to draw in the laces at will. 1
The flavor of the seeded raisin is
better than that of the seedless sultana
raisin, but some cake makers
and pudding makers find the stoning 1
of the fruit tedious and object to the 1
waste involved?for there is a cer- 1
tain amount of pulp cleaving to the
seeds when removed. A little butter *
rubbed on the fingers and on the 1
knife will do away with much sticki- 1
OPENING UP BRAZIL.
Enormously Rich Country to E<
Reached by New Water Routes.
Bolivia east of the Andes is one o1
the richest regions of the world ir
timber, rubber and minerals and il
las some fine agricultural lands. II
aas no outlet on the Pacific coast. Its
snly outlet is through the Amazon anc
Para, and since peace was made witt
Brazil a railroad activity in this direction
has taken possession of the
whole republic.
East of Bolivia is the great Brazilian
State of Malto Grosso, a territory
nearly three times the size oi
Textfe. A dozen large navigable rivers
pour northeastward out of this
State into the Amazon. According
:o the Engineering Magazine its agricultural,
mining and grazing possiJilities
are very great.
It is said that a great deal of this
:erritory will grow as fine long staple
:otton as Mississippi or Alabama,
rhe Brazilian Government has maured
a plan to connect by canal one
)f the tributaries of the Amazon witb
jne of the tributaries of the La Plata
n this State, thus opening an all inand
water, route from Para to Buenos
kyres, a distance of nearly 600C
niles. This extensive route would
each the whole interior of the contilent.
Turning to the west and northvest,
the Amazon is navigable in its
shief tributaries in Peru, Ecuador and
Colombia to the very walls of the
Vndes. One may go aboard a steamer
it Para and remain on board until it
las ploughed its way up to the hilJ
:ity of Iquitos and several hundred
niles beyond. Peru has little Pacific
:oast trade now and the development
of this country must pour iti
vealth into Para.
But if Brazil and Para had none ol
;hese Andean republics to draw trade
Tom the development of the Brazilian
Amazon Valley alone must ir
:ime amount to untold wealth. Ic
.he States of Para and the Amazonat
Hid the federal territory of Acre
:here are near the water's edge ten
nillion rubber bearing trees of the
3evea variety. These trees if properly
tapped will live indefinitely and
steadily increase their yield. The
State of Para is considerably largei
;han Texas and much of this State
tvill grow excellent cotton.
The Austrian Navy.
Because Austria has not been a
sea power in the past is no sign thai
she is not going to be one in the
'uture. You are not aware that withn
two years Austria will have availible
thirteen of the most powerful
jattleships in the world. Do you appreciate
that these thirteen battleships
will be at the service of Gernany,
and do you appreciate what
;uch an Austrian fleet can do in the
Mediterranean with no force to hold
t in check? It would have-Malta,
Cyprus and Egypt at its mercy.
Austria would not find the slightest
lifficulty in despatching an expediionary
force to any of these points,
md once in control of Egypt and
lominaung me oum vauai sue wuiu
iespatch her smaller ships to attach
commerce proceeding by the Capt
oute to India.
Thus it is clear that in case of wai
i powerful British fleet must be stationed
in the Mediterranean unless
:he British people are prepared to sef
heir commerce destroyed, their comnunications
With the East interrupt?d,
their fortresses in the Mediterranean
one by one attacked and capturec
md staggering blows struck in everj
luarter against their empire. Witt
i navy which, will certainly be tin
most efficient in the Mediterranear
n the near future, Austria may entertain
daring ambitions. ? Everybody's.
Fishhawk Nest on Telephone Pole.
Fishhawks built their nest on th?
Providence-Fall River toll line of th?
American Telephone and Telegrapt
Company, in the town of Swanzey
rhe fishhawks feed in the smal
streams that flow into Mount Hop*
Bay, and build their nests in nearbj
;rees or other convenient places. Th?
3est place seems to be on the top oi
? vn'crvi nnio anrt whsrft there are tilen
* Ufgu ^ m
:y of wires to hold the foundation foi
i nest and also to protect them. Thej
jsually build in late spring or earlj
summer.
Trouble does not show up on tin
wires unless there is a lot of wel
weather. It has been so dry this summer
that the nest has not been lo:ated
and taken down. Probably iE
this case the hawks have had theii
poung and departed.
It is not easy to take down one ol
these posts, as the material used it
tvoven in and about the wires. It if
^specially hard when the nests ar<
Dccupied. Three or four years ago i
man was sent to take one down anc
had to call for help from a nearb>
farmhouse, as the hawks atiackec
him and tore his clothing badly before
he could get the nest down.?
Telephone Topics.
Victor Emmanuel's Rnrc Coir.s.
King Victor Emmanuel, according
to a French newspaper, is a numismatist
of the first rank, and hiB Majesty
possesses a collection which maj
be termed a museum. His cabinets
?ontain 60,000 coins, some most rar<
ind almost priceless.
The King is a scientific collector
md will shortly publish a treatise or
numismatics. It will run into several
volumes, and will be entitled "Corpus
Minimorum Italicorum." The worfc
tvill be a complete catalogue of melieval
and modern money struck bj
Italy or by Italians in foreign lands
rile printing of the first volume is
ilmost complete. To insure correctless
proof sheets have been submitted
to the keepers of the coin departments
in the principal museums ol
:he v/orld.?London Globe.
Dodge Library in Paris.
The American Chamber of Commerce
in Paris appears to be prospering.
Its membership is steadilj
ncreasing.
The remarkable military library ol
:hs late Gen. Theodore A. Dodge
which was bequeathed to it by him,
aas just been added to its already
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Circulating Children.
A scheme has been originated in
; Italy which we are sure will have
little co-operation in the United
f States. Miss Laura Garsin is entitled
" to whatever credit is attached to or.
ganizing an international Jewish child
exchange. But meagre reports of
the plan have reached here. The
plan roughly seems to be to exchange
children from one country to another
so that the child may better learn
the different languages.?American
Hebrew.
Dutch Home Names.
In few of the affairs of lifo does
the Englishman display such a lack
of originality as in the choice of a
name for his house. Often enough
it would seem that he does not choose
at all, but meekly accepts whatever
designation an unimaginative builder
cares to place above the door.
In Holland they do this thing much'
better. A recent traveler in the land
of dikes and windmill^ has been at
pains to make notes of the names bestowed
by Dutch merchants upon
their country houses.. Here are a few
examples, translated: "Our Contentmenti"
"Joy and P6ace,"' "Leisure
and Happiness^ "My Desire is Satisfied,"Friends
and Quiet," "My Wife
and I," "Not So Bad."
To say the least, any one of these
would seem to indicate more of the
' gfenulne sentiment of the householder j
than can possibly be expressed by the |
] "Bellevues" and "Cedars" of Suburbia.?Westminster
Gazette. ' '
No fuss?no flurry?no smell?and,
Automatic Sm
I which automatically locks absolutely pre
Solid brass font, holds 4.quarts of a
for 9 hours?solid brass wick carriera?
Heater beautifully finished in nickel i
Every Dealer Everywhere, If Not At
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STANDARD O
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Retribution.
"Stand up, prisoner," orders the
' stern judge..
The trembling culprit, wbo bas
been found guilty by a jury of his
delighted peers, stands.
| "Prisoner at the bar," solemnly de:
clares the judge, "you have been convicted
of building house after house
containing one of these confounded
' little boxes called 'reception rooms,'
in which there is neither room to receive
nor hooks to make it a ward1
robe. The sentence of the court is
! that for the next ten years you shall
1 be confined in one of these alleged
reception rooms of your own construction
and design!" j
Immediately the lawyers for the
defendant begin work upon an ap* 1
peal on the ground that a cruel and
1 unusual punishment has been de'
creed.?Life,
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| > SORE EYES CURED. I
? Rye-Balls and Lids Became Terribly ]
r Inflamed ? Was Unable to Go
, ? About?All Treatments Failed?
, Cuticura Proved Successful.
I "About two years ago my eyes got in
j swcji a condition that-I was unable to go
about. They were terribly inflamed, both
f . the balls and lids. I tried home remedies
' without relief. Then I decided to go to our
family physician, but he didn't help them,
j Then I tried two more of our most promi- '
l. nent physicians, but my eyes grew contini
ually worse. At this time a friend of mine
" I advised me to try Cuticura Ointment, and
" I after usins it about one week my eyes were i
i considerably improved and in two wee Its j
they were almost well. They have never i
given me any trouble since and 1 am now
f sixty-five years old. I shall never fail to
praise Cuticura. G. H. Halsey, -Mouth of
J Wilson, Va.. Apr. 4, 1908."
' Potter Drug & (Jliem. Corp., Sole Props,
i of Cuticura Remedies. Boston. Mass.
I Norway has a factory in which 24,,
000 pounds of haddock can be turned
I into fish balls in a day.
Ivory doubles in price every re?/
years. N.Y.?52
.Mrs. Winslow's Soothing S.vrup for Children
teething.softens the gums, reduces inflamma,
tion.allays pain,cure* wind colic,20c.u bottle
It is claimed by the inventors that de.
railment is impossible on a railroad line of
r mono-rail construction.
3 Some people suffer continually with
, tired, aching and swollen feet. Little do
' they know how soothing is Hamlins Wizard
0>1. Huh it in at night and have
, Ihsnkful. happy feet in the morning.
> Sicily lost 60,000 inhabitants by earth|
quake in 1693.
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Reflections of a Bachelor.
A really brave mas is afraid to act
so.
Friendship best endures by not undergoing
any tests of it. ^
If the baby would sleep all night
the house would catch on flre or ' $
something to keep you awake.
The trouble with making love to
your wife is it gets you into the habit
of doing it when she's not around.
There's nothing makes a man ad
mire a costly ggwn on a woman as
mnci as If lie didn't have to pay for '\It.?New
York Press.
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Tien your bed-room, bath-room ''M
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e heat brought to you in just the >?
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Tbe Swiss watchmaking industry baa .' I'm
shrunken to half its one-time size. -! "0
itch cured in 3C minutes by Wool ford's /*
Sanitury Lotion. .Never fails. At druggists. ]
Tbe German army numbers 5,000,000
men..
I For Sore Throat |
I ^ WnfWna wi'11 rfn mnr? nwt H /
\ia so short a time with
so little trouble as ' j
Hale's
Honey "SS" |
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f A DOSE OF 1
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m best mmi m (gifts *%s
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B ia as safe aa it is effective. Guar- ?
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One gets it by highway men?Tenc I
of thousand* by Bad Boxed*?No difi J
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body know* it? CASCARETSregulate?f I
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Million* u*o CASCARETS, Life Savsr^ "fl
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ccive a haiuterme sonvenir srold Bon Bon JFim, I
ThorapsoD's Eye Watai I
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