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WAYS OF HOLD-UP MEN. POINTS REGARDING AN INDUSTRY THAT THRIVES IN CHICAGO. A Darle Alley is an Essential Tari of a Hold-Up-Til.? Highwayman Often as Frl?htoned as His yictltn Is - A Pretty Sure and Safe Method of Protection. The Chicago Trubune recently con tained the following article: Most persons who have never met a hold-up man while the later is ply ing his vocation ha re a wrong con ception of him. To most men he rep resents an angry, hungry beast prey ing on, society. The conventional highwayman must be ugly and have broad shoulders and curse horribly. He must have a trusty weapon and maybe two, one as trusty as the other. He says "Stop, throw up your hands!" as melodramatically- as any Jack Sheppard or Claude Duval, and under no circumstances must his demand for money be denied. That is the good old idea of him. It is romantic, and no highwayman of that class could work to advantage without a set of footlights and freshly painted scen ery, and perhaps an orchestra to dolo out slow and creepy music. But that is not the sort of highway man that gets arrested. And as those , ' who are taken into custody may be called fair .examples of those who es cape, it is easy to see that the hold up man this winter, or any other win ter for that matter, is neither a chiv alrous Robin Hood nor a heartless ruffian. More often he is the latter, but the general rule is that he is an experienced, tnick-witted criminal, trying to make a living cheaply. Of course, Red Sullivan, the short man of the famous team of the long and short men, who terrorized the town four witners ago; Harry Featherstone, Kid Murphy, and a few others of that . sort, the hierarchy of their prof-ssion, as it were, must not be considered fair examples of the hold-up man. They had more daring and more strength than the men who will work this win ter. The successors to those crim inals are ordinary stock, and once they are understood succ issful high way robberies will be less frequent. Much of their strength is ficticious. . The idea of an attack in the night carries freight with it to many men: and the appearance of the highway man is exaggerated in ferocity by the previous impression of his kind. Those hold-up men who are known to the police now are. with a few excep tions, the cheapest sort of cheap crim inals. They are born usually in a neighborhood where honesty is quoted at a considerably lower figure than the ability to get away from the police. They grow up on the streets, and then fail into the all night saloon habit. One saloon in the levee dis trict is the harbor of most hold-up men who are, as the actors say, "at liberty." A night scene in this place is interesting. Boys just out uf the reformatory at Pontiac, paroled convicts and some men freed from Joliet. the amateurs who are going into lives of crime because they im agine there is glory in them, and some men and boys who get into the place by mistake, are there to drink and talk crime and elimin?is. The police of the Harrison street station let the place run because they believe in the concentration of the habitues. A ney never have to go far to look for the men they may happen to want. Tue police have "stool pigeons," who are hired spies, in the place and they watch it closely. Hold-up men in em bryo are to he found there, and in a jew other places of the sort. But they are sadly lacking in the qualities that appeal to the seeker after the pic % . turesque in criminals. They are not the exceptions to the rule that hold up men are cheap thugs. The excep tions a:c cafe in jail. The common variety go armed, of course, but the armament is as old iashioned, usually, as the custom cf mounting Quaker guns of wood. As soon as one of them is arrested his - - revolver is confiscated and a needle is not found in a haystack more sel dom than is a good weapon found on a hold-up man. The j^ans are usually cheap buU-dog reyjivers that might have cost a dolja'r and a quarter. If the industri??Sjjiiold-up man paid move than two loltars for his weapon he Avas grovely swindled. Som : of them carrv^ocks filled with load, and willi these weaqons made In the humble ryome of thc operator must be classed -?"""the slungshot or bit of plugged leath er which is more often than not con structed at home and to suit the individual taste of the man who is to wield it. Many times have hold-up men been arrested with revolvers which have not en joyed the completeness thal goes with a weapon which is fit for shooting pur poses. Sometimes it is the cylinder that is missing. Sometimes there is no hammer, and often the trigger, that constant companion of a well equipped revolver, has been missing. A handkerchief makes the best mask, but most hold-up men do not mask at all. They often forget to put on their disguise when they hear their victim approaching. Sometimes if they want to mask, they would have to go all the way home for a handkerchief. A dark alley is an essential part of a hold-up. The pedestrian walks past the mouth of the alley, and then thc hold-up man gets out of the shadow with his request for money, pay. able at sight. It follows that if pe destrians do not walk close to the Wall or building line, if they seek the Curb stone, or, better still, the middle of the road, they are comparatively safe. A black, soft hat of th.e sombrero order is a means of hold-up prevention that is often effective. The police pa trol sergeant, the lieutenant, the cap tain, and the plain clothes men wear soft hats when net in uniform. So, if a citizen who is not on the police force, can affect the regulation swag ger, and can afford a soft hat, not many hold-up Lien will venture close enough to a??K for his money without having tv shout for it. William Buchanan, a colored hold upman, who, on account of the dex Wffly with which he used to operate, /is now reposing in a penitentiary cell, gjjr:made a favorite stamping ground of Washington park. Other lights that are lesser by many candle power alr.o affect tho parks, because at night they are provided with no many ob scure paths. Tilt, trers and thc shrub bery make good alleys to escape, and lt is never a cafe ulan to walk too close to the outlines of a park. Confessions of hold-up men show that the> are of-.en as frightened as ?be men they are holding up. They nave their revolver under the nose of the man freni whom they are getting rich quick, and with the other hand .'hey aro going through the pockets, l ome of them believe in tacklisg.sonie . pockets, others believe in ethers. Not ! one of them has time to go into their victim's shoes for money, and the rib bon of a hat is another safe hiding place. Threats to shoot are often idle, nut the question of the hold-up man's sincerity is such a delicate one that j it is best to believe that he will shoot if he says so, and then one is on the safe side. But if there is a policeman in sight it is always safe, the police say, to resist. No hold-up man win kill a policeman unless there is absolutely no other chance of es cape. Everybody familiar with the police department knows that when an outlaw has killed an officer that outlaw will fall dead just as soon as a policeman gets his revolver in his hand and the hold-up man within range, it is a way the police have of proving that they possess that which in other surroundings would be thc "spirit of the corps." The best authorities agree that while the energy and ability of thc average hold-up man is greatly exag gerated it is always beter before be ginning a dark journey home at night to leave the watch in some safe place down town and to secrete money in the shoe or an out of the way pocket.. Then if the hold-up man is met all that can pass between the honest citi- . zen and him is a greeting. As long as no money changes hands the hold-up industry has none of the best of the transaction. MAN A RATHER POOR LOT. Soiao of His Faculties Compared With Those oT Other Animals. "Maa is a vain sort of an animal at all times," observed a thoughtful citizen yesterday, "and in his precess ol' naming and classifying ihings around him he has attempted to leave reminders of himself in every possible place, and he has generally succeed ed, fer one's eyes may not escape fall ing on something named after some ol' his attributes. But when we come to think of it, when we come to look na ture squarely in the face, man is not the only thing in the land which ern lay claim to highly developed senses. "Take the human eye. Unquestion ably the little bundle of nerves in the eye which make visualization possible arid which present the mind with, photographic refinements which no art has yet equalled, is one of the physio logical marvels, and opens up an end less field for speculation in the realm of psychology, that unsolved riddle of science in whose presence even the ? giants have cowered and skulked in hopeless ignorance. Yet this eye. dis cerning with so much delicacy when the picture is ho farther than thc wall of one's room-this eye with its cir c?mscribed limits would be looked up on with dignified scorn by yon soar ing eagle if he only knew how much farther he could see than a human be ing. "Take the human ear. We may not hear so well as the rats and mice that burrow under the palaces in which we live, or tho squirrel that capers yon der in the forest, and countless other things ene might mention. We may differentiate with greater accuracy and trace refinements in sound which these lower creatures may h?t trace; but when it comes to the matter of catching the B??nd at long range, their ears seem to have been more perfectly constructed. "It is conceded that no human voice has ever been heard which could equal in sweetness of tone the lays which one may hear in the orchard. No hu man being ever sang more sweetly than Patti, but she never sang so sweetly as the meadowlark when he pours his? gurgling love song out on the suin?er air, or oriole when he shader' his silvered octave from the bending bough. 'Swhat device for measuring water pressure has man invented which .will compare with the nerves which I string thc sides of thc fish? It is a ! sense which if. not represented in the human category. Man must resort to j artificialties in order to learn the air : pressure and the degree of heat or i cold. But it is different with the fish, for he can always tell just what the water pressure is, and he knows how much he can stand, and he acts ac cordingly. "Take the olfactory nerves. Man is all right when it comes to attar ot' roses, violet perfumeries, and this and thar. sort, but you may pick out ; the measliest old hound in the swamps of Mississippi, and if he knew how . much superior his sense of sme?l was. " to man's, well he wouldn't want to If? caught in a man's company. "No, I am not running my own cp?ed ? down. I am just relating a few things which ought to make us all natural 1 lovers, for the many deserving beau ties that we wot not of in the|e hurry- j ing times, and among thefe r.iay be : counted the things menlihged, Prove ' it? Prove nothing. I a?? just telling ! you."-New Orleans 'IWes-Dcmocrat. . A Unique .AUvOf?V.n? ?indgo. A candy shop in Nassau street that long enjoyed and nursed the distinc lion of being thc only store in the j world that rnade a practice of closing up every T?iesday in the year, as well j as every Sunday, has just abandoned I its custom and taken in its "Closed I every Tuesday in the year" sign. Asked Why this was. the shopkeeper smiled ; a weary smile and said: .''Well, you see, as an advertising dodge it had abo\it performed its mis sion, and as it was costing me $0000 a year at least to make this voluntary sacrifice of one business day each week for thc purpose of making people talk and wonder, I decided to take in the sign and remain open Tuesdays. "Every day a dozen or more persons would stop in just to ask for an ex- ; planation of this utrange closing. I told them that as I made a practice of { keeping open all day Saturday while ! other si cres around toe closed at noon, ! I thought it no more than right to give my clerks a full rest day besides Sunday. This seemed to satisfy them, and so I got the name of being quite a philanthropist in my way. I noticed, too, that about eight persons in ten who dropped in to make inquiry ap peared pleased at the answer, and stopped to buy some sweets."-New York Post. A Duck's Suicide. Sportsmen who hunt ducks on in land str?ams and lakes have frequently known them to dive when wounded ; and fail to appear again. A professional guide who has shot ducks for many years along thc upper I Hudson says he has soived the myste ry. He shot a wood duck that fell wounded and dived in still water. It 1 did not reappear, and when he came : to look for it under water he could see the bird hanging with its bill to a root. I It was quite dead, and considerable ! force was ne *>ssary to loosen its hold. VL hunter firmly believes that tho duck committed suicide by drowning to keep from failing into the hands cf , .its mortal enemy-man.-New Ycrk Times, SHE KN EV:. "Seems to rae that the rising gen eration is rising pretty fast," said the bachelor, who expects soon to become a benedict, after bis friends had given him up as hopeless. "I was out walk ing with my intended the other day, and her small niece, a girl not ever seven years of age, accompanied us. Naturally the conversation, owing to the near approach of our wedding day, took a turn that was interesting to two of us, but not to the third. "Finally I turned to the young 1 Wy who is soon to he my bride and sam with a smile: " I suppose all this talk is over the little one's head?' "Before she could reply tho nose of the 'little one' went up several degrees, and she answered icily, her words falling like so many hailstones ou a lin roof: " 'Oh, don't mind nie' I know what it is! I've been in love myself!' "It was several minutes before I suc ceeded in catching my breath.-Detroit Free Press. SILENTLY ASSENTED. The Nervous Pedestrian ran plump into a Stolid Individual standing in front of a Clothing Store. "You Dummy!" he shouted. The Stolid Individual ignored the Accusation. A Second Glance showed the Nervous Pedestrian that he was Hight-Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald. Orr t'rerldents' Dunder. All of the presidents of the United Statea have been in tho habit of mingling freely with the people, but the danger of this procedure waj very emphatically pointed out in the tra gedy ot a few months ago. It is also danger ous" to trifle with unknown medicines for indigestion, dyspepsia, tlatulency, cemtipa ;iou, biliousness or malaria, fever and ague, i'ho tafett medicine to take is Ilostctter's Stomach Bitters. It will positively cure these discuses. Try it and see. The hay harvested in the United States in 1901 amounted to 51,000.000 tous. Kin?; Worm Konteri. 'Send box of Tetierine. It's the oniy thing that makes any impression on a stubborn | Tiing Worm.'--.Mrs. Katie Oldham, Bfontalba, j Anderdon County, Texas. 50c. by mail from | ?f. T. Shnptrino, Savannah, Ga., if your drug- j ;ist don't keep it. Th '.cet. coming man often has a bill tc col FITS permanently cured. Xo fits or nervouB ncdsafter first day's uso of Dr. Kline's Great Serre l?es torer. $2 trial bottle and treatise f raa Dr. lt. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch ht., Phila. Ta. Thc revolver may not be a sociable weapon, but it never goes oft by itself. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften tho ginns, reduces iiifliirama tiCn.aUayspiin, cures wind colic. 25cabottlo. The chap who built obelisks must havo been paid by thc column. I do not believe Fiso's Cure for Consump tion has aneqnal for coughs and colds.-Jonx P. BOTE?,TnuitySprings, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. "When a tramp asks for a meal he inakea a sort of after-dinner speech. wr rausi "I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop my hair from falling. One half a bottle cured me." J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, 111. Ayer's Hair Vigor is certainly the most eco nomical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. 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I ( AlcILHENNY'S TABASCO ; i tn writing ta advertiser*. AKU-One-llKRi. Mentlcn this Taper ?ilcVc?? ?hampson's Eyo Water A imppy Dny. Two little girls, in BOWES of bluo ; i rwo littlo boys, witta blouses now; .'our liltlo spades, to dig the sand; 3no li' tlc* pail, for oach rifjbt hand, s'ow if you put all these together, Vnd add blue .-kies and sunny wo.sthf r, Tho yellow sand and tho rippling fea. iVhat do they maker1 Pray tell to mr*. Vb, you need not count. That's not tho way Co lind oui the su:n of a happy day. -E. M. Norris, in Youth s Companion. A Paney College Crow. There is a gentleman who ia beyond :iis school days who is interested la mickens. Recently he learned that :here was an institution of learning where a course of instruction was giv ?n in chickcnology and duckology, or n those branches designated by scien tific names. The fowl fancier thought Lhe matter ever-was he too old? He lecided to consult his friends. , "I don't mind the schoolroom," he ?aid with a frown, "but it is the Lhougiit of the other class meetings, lust as like as not we will all wear goose quills in our hats and have a college yell something like . this: Quack, quack, quack! Cock-a-doodle :lo! Roasters, broilers, 1902!'"-Alba ny Journal. A Mother'* Siiciifiee. Martha Russell, aged 40, died last light from starvation. The woman was assisted by the township for more than two years, and six months igo was threatened with being sep arated from her four small children md sent to the poor farm if she called for assistance again. She never called and nothing was leard from her until last night, when he county doctor W.-JS called. She was removed to the hospital, but was beyond all medical aid. A post-mor :em examination was made this morn ing and it was revealed that starva tion was the cause of her death. The children are all in good condi tion. One of the little ones said that [heir mother would work all day and then spend thc money for something io eat, which she would give to them ind go without herself.-Anderson (Ind). Correspondence, Chicago Rec Drd-Herald. Snake Swallowing Ycnnjf. Forest arid Stream contains m article in which one of a party of Missouri sports tells a snake story, in which he says he saw 99 little cottonmouth snakes run from the mouth of an old one he had killed. Now, I take it that this is meant for a joke, hut I can tell a true snake story in which this kind of thing did actu ully occur. During my boyhood days [ attended school at the old Cranford schoolhouse, near my home, on thfl west fork Lil' White river, near where Brentwood now is cn the St. Louis & 3an Francisco railroad. One day I was joing down a hill to the creek, when some 30 feet from the water's edge I saw lying in the sun on a ledge of large rocks a snake, and around it were quite a number of small ones. I picked up a stone and threw it at the large snake, when, to my utter aston ishment, the small snakes began to run into the mouth of the large one, and soon were all gone. I called some other boys, and we killed the large snake and cdt it into two pieces, when the small ones, 1? in number, rolled. out on the"ground, and we killed thert?: They were about six Inches tong, of. ? clark brown color, the same as the large one, which was a rusty black or brown, and between four and five feet long. My father once killed a rattlesnake in a log near the same place, and found it filled with small snakes, which were as lively as they could be; but he did not see them enter the snake. But I saw the ones I killed crawl into the mouth of the large snake and killed them all. I have told this to a number of people* who looked at me in thc most incredulous ri an::rr, and rcfuseii to believe my snake story, but it ls Lruc in every particular.-Correspond ence in Forest and Stream. After the Children T.fi'ft. Every ouc had gone to-bed and thc lights were out. A few dying coals, the remains of the cheerful sitting room fire still glowed in the grate and threw dark shadows of the furniture into corners. Philip's little rocking chair lay where he had thrown it, face down, on the rug in front of the fire, for mamma had a fancy that Philip would pick it up in the morn ing. Eut presently the little rocking chair rolled over and regained its upright position. "Hullo, there!" it called to mam ma's sewing chair, which stood by the table. "Don't you think it's a shame for a little fellow *o be treated ?o?" The locking chair gave a gentle little rocking motion and said indul gently: "Oh, well, you have good fun with Philip sometimes and he ran off in a tturry." . "We do have sport, that's a fact," chuckled the small chair. "Sometimes I'm a horse and I have to gallop just like this." he rocked furiously, "and sometimes I'm a locomotive and I go ahead of a whole train of chairs. And sometimes I'm a cradle and Daisy rocks her doll to Bleep in me. But she's a nice little girl so I don't mind it very much. I prefer being a horse, though." "The children have fiinny fancies," said the sewing chair, rocking gently. 'Of course I often help to rock the baby to sleep. But that's a pleasure. He's a dear little chap." And papa's big rocking chair shook his big inns and rocked solemnly back and forth as if he thought so, too. "But Philip is a careless boy," put n thc little rocking chair, for he thought they had been sentimental long enough. "He leaves his toys ill over the floor. And he knocks me around the room until every joint I lave cracks. I shall certainly break some day.' "He is careless," sighed the little sewing chair, "but he will be better >y and by. Thc littlo chair perked himself up ind down in his efforts to sec into the corners of the rooms. "I know those .vooden soldiers are all over tho loor. He ran out of the room before ?o picked them up." "It would serve him right of some )f them were stepped on," said the jig chair, sternly. Ho rocked himself teverely back and forth, and knocked >ver a little table which stood just be ilnd him. "There you go! It's done now!" ex .lainvjd the little chair excitedly, as i rattling and crumbling noice fol owed. T*?Vhat has happened?" asked the sawing chair, trying to see into the bick of the room. pnly that some of the soldiers have lauen off the table, and no's rcjcking all over them!" called out the litjtle chair. "Now Philip will catch rt,,for leaving them pn the floor. F The big chair still rocked sedately. "Well, it will serve Philip right," he said, presently. "But what about us." asked tho little voice from under the rocking chair. \ It came so suddenly that tho big chair gave a jump which nearly caused him to fall over. ''What-what is it?" he gasped. At wj?ich the little chair giggled and the sewing chair smiled a quiet little smile to itself, while it kept up Its gentle rocking. Evidently the little sewing chair was so in the habit of racking the baby to sleep that it kept on rocking even when there was no baby there. ' "You see," went on the little voice, "you've rocked over me and broken off my legs, and you've rocked over my brother, and broken off his head. How are we going to get mended, I want to know? Philip didn't do it, you did!" persisted the little voice, indignant ly. The big ch?ir was still so astounded that he did not speak at once. Then he repeated monotonously, "Philip left you on the floor. It serves him right!" And he went on rocking sterly. "But my legs are broken and I can't stand up to hold my gun!" wailed the little voice. "Never mind," put in the little sew ing chair, anxious to make peace. "The mother bought a bottle of glue today. I saw her put it on the mantel piece. When she rocks the baby to sleep tomorrow I'll whisper to her that it would be a good plan to glue your legs on. And your brother's head can be stuck on, too. You will be as good as ever. The little sewing chair beamed with kindness on the little wooden soldier. "That's so," called out the little rocking chair cheerfully. "Philip shall make up tomorrow for all the mischief he caused tonight. He shall stand me up straight and pick up his toys and mend the soldiers that were broken." "And I think we'll suggest to him to mend the baby's woolly dog that he dropped down stairs last week," said the sewing chair. "Yes, indeed," cried the small chair. "Philip's a pretty good fellow after all. A little careless sometimes-" "But he'll grow," put in the sewing chair. "And he bangs me and makes me do lots of things I don't bite." "He's a very lively boy certainly," interrupted the big chair. "But he don't mean to do wrong.and wun our advice-" ? "And a little glue," addea the big chair. "He'll flx things all right tomorrow." "Certaihj' he Will," said the gentle sewing chair. "He's a pretty g^od ; fellow, after all." The little soldier said nothing. He was relieved to notice that his legs lay near enough so Philip could find tnem easily. And just then the last coal died out and tuat's all I know about it.-Mar ion Brower, in the Brooklyn Eagle. ? bil ul Humid'* Treasury. Turkey may be poor and oppressed, but the sultan has in his treasury a collection which even at a forced sale wtftrrd pay the entire debt of the coun try. The treasury consists of three large halis, hil 6f ?ill sorts of pre cious articles, but, unfortunately, the light is so bad that a close inspection h? almost impossible. At the entrance a splendid throne, captured from the Persians, is the first object seen. It is one mass of pearls and studded all over with precious scones The first hall is filled with a vast collection of gold and silver cups and plates, an cient stones, jewelled daggers, swords, knives and suits of armor. From the top cf a second throne hangs a huge emerald, Which locks too large to be real. Gases round the room contain I necklaces, brooches arid rings by hun- j dreds. A dressing table covered with I pearls is exceedingly beautiful. Among this mass of treasures it is rather sur- : prising tn' ftntl such articles as modern silver mounted dressing bags, telc: j scopes, photographic cameras, and even i a case of razors. The next hall ls ! given up to gold and silver ornaments j and blue china, and lovely sets of coffee cup holders worked in gold and silver and precious stones, with a mag- j nificent collection of enamelled cop- j per bowls. Among the ornaments were j many toys made out of the most pre cious material. The body of one little doll was formed out a single pearl. Tho third hall contains Quantities of j coins. No attempt has been made to j classify them, but I hey are beautifully arranged in large cases. No one In the treasury, not even the guardians, seems to know anything about tho history of the articles confided to their caro. No Chicken. Trust a messenger boy to be up on j expressive slang. The particular one ! wno had a message io deliver yester day morning at the office of the general ; passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad was as tough a looking speci- i men as you could find in a day's jour ney. His cap was placed at a perilous : angle on his frowsy head, tobacco stains lurked about the corners of his mouth, and he was puffing a cigarette stump. The dignified clerk who took the message scowled. "Sign dat." demanded the boy. hold lng out his slip, and expectorating co piously on the floor. "I'll have you put out of here if you don't know how to behave," said the j clerk, severely. A look of scorn passed over the boy's grimy features. "Aw, don't git icy wid me, or I'll slide all over youse!" he exclaimed. Then he saun tered out whistling "Go Away Back and Sit Down."-Philadelphia Record. Relic* of tko Past. One of the most precious possessions of thc Reims library is an evangelis tary in the Slav language. This work te in two volumes, the first dating back to the 11th century and the sec ond to thc end of the 11th. It has : only been the properly of the Reims . library since the revolution, having 1 previously belonged to thc cathedral to which Cardinal dc Lorraine had presented it. The first volume is writ ten in the Cyrillan character, tt?r> sec- ' ond in the Glagoiitie. According to the legend, it was on this book that j the kings of France took the oath at j their coronation ceremony. The li brary also possesses a manuscript dat ing from the year 10-S 0. describing the ; marriage of Henry ?. of France with j Anne of Russia, which was celebrated at Reims-Notes and Queries. j SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Incandescent alcohol lamps have been under investigation hy the Pms sian railway officials in competition with acetylene lamps. It is asserted that the unpleasant odor emitted by them is practically prohibitive of their use. The introduction of telephones in coal mines has been suggested. In cases of accidents the imprisoned miners could communicate at once with friends at the surface, state the nature of the peril, and perhaps sug gest modes of immediate relief. Flywheel accidents can be provided for by insurance policies covering all damages to persons and prop erty caused by the breaking of the flywheels. The wheels are in spected before the policy is issued and at regular intervals thereafter. A very simple, but effectual, means of keeping telegraph poles from rot ting has been devised and put into use in France. The bottom of the pole up to and a little above the sur face of the ground, is encased in an earthenware pipe, and the space be tween the pipe and the pole is filled with a mixture of sand and resin, which ?olidfiea and becomes water proof. offered for sharpening scissors is de scribed by ope of the hardware jour nels, whose editorial department vouches for its efficiency. It consists of a small glass rod with bulb ends con venient for holding. To sharpen the scissors it is only necessary to draw the rod backward and forward a few times between the blades. When test ed, says this journal, on the dullest pair of scissors in the office, it was found to act in quite a magical man ner. The depth of the atmosphere is still a matter of great uncertainty. Thc Belgian Royal Meteorological Observ atory has been seeking to throw light on the problem, and has collected these widely varying estimates by dis tinguished authorities: Blot, 40 miles; Bravais, 70; Mann? 8i; Callandran, 100; Schiaparelli, 125; Marie Davy, 187; Ritter, 216. Early in the last century British physicists generally assume the depth of be 47 miles. Meteors, which become incandescent through friction with the air, afford a means of roughly testing these esti mates, and Sir Robert Ball shows Ritter's figures to be nearest, by stat ing that meteors have been observed at a height of more than 200 miles'; The use of acetylene for lighting railway cars has made considerable progress in the last year or two, and a number of Continental lines are so illuminated. It is a good deal of an innovation, however, to extend thi<" kind of lighting to street omni' ^s. Such is the case, nevertheless and ac cording to a reliable London paper, it ?>?>ms probable that before long all the omnibuses in tile metropolis will te so lighted. One of the largest omnibus lines haxe been driven to system of lighting for six months, and so satisfactory has the illumin ation proved that it has been decided to apply it to the whole of the rolling stock. It is intimated that the various omnibus lines have been driven to adopt radical innovations on account of the keen competition of the under ground electric lines. Puzzled by a Queer Flab. Naturalists are at a loss to classify ? strange fifth recently caught near ?he?ier island, L?._ In a woy it re sembles a dozen diff?rent species, but, on the whole, it is strongly unlike any of them. It is now in the collec tion of Charles Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt has 'sent detailed de scriptions and photographs of thc fish to all of the prominent naturalists' societies, but no one has yet been able to identify it. The fishermen who frequent the waters in which it was caught declare they never saw anything like it before. He waa pulled j in by a luggerman and brought to the city the iioxt day. Mr. Schmidt says ; the fish probably belongs 'to tba j teteradon class, but states at the same ! time he can give no conclusivo reasons for such a classification. The curious fish is about twenty inches ih ieugth and weighs about twenty-five pounds, it has the mouth of a parrot and well-developed lips, which are like unto those of the hu man being. The under part of his body is covered with projections similar to those of a porcupine fish, with the difference that the quills are ?horte?; It has no gills, but breathed through its nostrils and spouted water like a porpoise.-New Orleans Times Democrat. Vencztielnn Vcarls, When the Spanish discovered Vene zuela they found tho natives wearing pearls for ornament and the fishery is still flourishing today. Moro than 400 boats are employed in thc work, each one paying about $3 per year to the government. The pearls are of fine Quality, usually white or yellow and rarely black. Only recently a white pearl valued at $2000 was found. The shell of the pearl oyster cf Vene zuela is small and of poor quality. The oysters themselves are short lived eight years or so. A French company has lately been formed to exploit the fisheries by means o? divers, who take only the mature shells and leave the smaller sorts, so that the beds will not be exhausted. The annual output of these fisheries is about $000,000 and it is said that most of the pearls are sold in Paris. A Hl?li Rtilloon Ascension. MM. Siering and ?erson of the me teorological institute of Berlin have lately ascended in a balloon af S000 cubic metres capacity to the great height of 10,300 metres (33,800 feet). Success was possible only because thc aeronauts began to breathe pure oxy gen at an elevation of about 8000 me tres. Thp scientific results of this as cension re now in process of calcula tion and will shortly be published. Animal! In tlie United States Tho department of agriculture has recently published an estimate of the animal population of ihe country on Jan. 1, 1900. It comprised 13,537.524 horses, about 2,000,000 mule?, about 28.000.0110 cattle. 10.202.000 milch cows, <ril,?83,065 sheep. As automobile trac tion is introduced the number of horses and mules will gradually di minish, and the effect ls already evi dent. Thc waves left In sand by tidal cur rent have boon Mund by Dr. Vaughan Cornish to measure 3 1-2 to 54 feet from ridge to ridge, ihe common length being 12 io 24 feet Fasting and Loss of Weight During a prolonged fast the loss of weight is unusually rapid at first, and decreases as time goes on; death en sues when a certain percentage of the loss has been reached, and this per centage varies according to the origi nal weight. Fat animals may lose half their weight, thinner ones perhaps two-fifths; a man or woman cf rather spare build, weighing 143 pounds, might therefore lose about fifty-five pounds before succumbing. Children die after a fast ol from three to five days, during which they have lost a quarter of their weight. 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