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The number of lunatics under control in
Ireland is 22,000, an increase of 1000 in two
fears.
FITSnermanentl^cuied. \o fits ornervousnessafter
first day's use of Dr. ""line's Great
JferveBestorer.$2trial bottle and treatisefree
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Were the land of the globe enuallv di
vided among its inhabitants, each person
would own about twenty-three and a half
acres.
Rheumatism's Killlnr Pain.
Left in quick order after taking 10 doaos
of Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure, in tablet
form. 25 doses for 25e.. postpaid. Dr.
Skirvin Co.. La Crosse. Wis. [A.C.L.]
It has been demonstrated that a violin
can be artificially aged by exposing it to
the X-rays.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrun for children
teetbine, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays
naln.oures wind colic. 25?. a bottle
So light is the touch of the native barber
x>i India that he can shave you while you j
re asleep without awaking you.
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dyeing with prtv*>f Dyes.
The United States has 78.000 postoffices;
Germany is next with 45,623, and Great
Britain third with 22,400.
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man Womans' Club of
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. doctoring for two yeai
of her kidney troub
Lydia E. Pinkham's \
Of all the diseases known with whic
Iridney disease is the most fatal. In fact,
is applied, the weary patient seldom survi
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tained the correct combination of herb:
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changed woman. My pain had disa
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Wash, and feel like a new woman, can
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/ tell me that my kidneys are all right:
and I feel that I owe it all to your
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Thousands of letters from women
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Sold.
The bric-a-brac mania, as is wellknown,
sometimes leads enthusiastic
collectors into amusing pitfalls. A
French connoisseur lately entered a
Paris "curiosity shop" and saw a
beautiful Dresden vase. Asking the
price, he was told $200, "and," said
the dealer, "if I had the pair they
would be worth $1,000." Mr. A. offered
$100 and came several days running
to renew his proposal, but in vain.
One day a man came to M. A.'s apartments
to show him some old china
plates, and induced him to visit his
shop in the Batignolles. To his surAT
A It At Ak
pi auu uciigiit iu. a. z>avi in an kjuscure
corner of the shop a vase exactly
similar to the coveted Dresden,
and easily secured it for $240, with
the assurance that the pair, if forthcoming
would be worth $2,000, M. A.
rushed off to his first dealer and
offered him his own price for the
vase. "Ah, sir," said he, uyou came
too late. I sold it yesterday to a
dealer at the Batignolles!"?Golden
Penny. '
Buffalo, N. Y., after
s, was finally cured
le by the use of
Vegetable Compound*
:h t?e female organism is afflicted,
unless prompt and correct treatment
.ves.
iam, early in her career, gave careful
ler great remedy for woman's ills ?
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which was certain to control that
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bhe entire female system, and while
kidney troubles. Lydia E. Pink5
only one especially prepared
Weisslitz Says. 3
d years my life was simply a buris,
and pains across my Dack and
i kidney troubles and prescribed
lis medicines, but grew steadily
le to try Lydia E. Pinkham's .
home a bottle. It is the greatest
Within three months I was a
ppeared, my complexion became
stem in good shape."?Mss. Paula
Y.
.ydia E. PMham's Vegetable Compound.
ery thankful to you for the good
>ctored for years and was steadily
ny kidneys, and two doctors told
tiling of the womb, and could not
head ached all the time, and I was
;eria and fainting spells, was tired
tft side that I could hardly stand
imething.
itors, but they did not help me any.
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medicine."?Mrs. Opal Strong,
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PIT BROW GIRLS.
Women Who Handle Coal atthe
English Mines.
Pit brow gills are among tbe most remarkable
women workers in tbe country,
says the London Sphere. They
work as hard as men and almost like
men do they dress.
Very few pit brow girls are found in
Britain outside Lancashire, and ."000
of them find employment at the coal
mines, which are so numerous in the
busy centres of that country. Their
work lies on the pit brow?at the surface
and not down below.
Once women were employed in the
coal seams, this being at the time
young children also worked in those
dark depths of the earth: but in 1842,
in the face of great opposition from
colliery owners, an act was passed prohibiting
women and children from being
employed below the surface in coal
mines.
At present the duties of the pit brow
lasses consist in dealing with the coal
as it comes up the shaft to the pit head.
When the cage reaches the top the j
girls haul out the wagons, which contain
several hundredweight of coal
each, and run them on rails to a sort
of tipping machine. Which shoots the
coal down below to the screen or riddling
machine.
This is a sort of iron slide, several
yards long, with holes through which
the coal drops at various stages into
1 trucks waiting beneath. It is jerked
about by steam power, and the coal
moves downward while the girls, stationed
alongside, pick out the rubbish.
IA is dusty work.
Among the other duties of the "pit
broo girls"?that is the Lancashire pronunciation?is
the leveling of the coal
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THE SIBERI
on the wagons which receive it as it
drops from the screen.
As to payment. The girls start work
at G o'clock in the morning and finish
at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and
they receive fifty cents or less a day.
Men who do the same work get $1.
Taken altogether, the pit brow lasses
are a strong, healthy lot, ranging in
age from eighteen to twenty-five.
Their dress is distinctive and peculiar.
The working costume consists
of trousers, clojp and often enough a
coat which has at one time been worn
by a brother or has come from a rummage
stall. When going to and from
work the girls wear petticoats, which
they roll up round the waist while engaged
on the pit brow.
The hair is closely covered with a
handkerchief, on the top of which is
a soft bonnet. Then round the neck
AN ENGLISH PIT BROW GIRL
and back of the head a shawl is folded,
this apparently being a precaution to
keep out the dust.
Occupations and Longevity.
With regard to the occupations which
insure longevity, it is the universal testimony
that clergymen reach the highest
age, being close run by gardeners
and vine-dressers'. Ordinary agricultural
laborers, although their occupation
is so largely in the open air, are
not conspicuous as long-livers, except in
France, Sweden and England. People
working with wood are longer lived than
those whose occupations are with metals,
and both attain a higher age than
textile workers and workers in chemical
industries. The shortest-lived people
are miners, except in England,
where the superior mining regulations
and admirable sanitary arrangements
have a beneficial effect. In England
and Norway sailors live to a far
greater age than in Germany and
France.?Tit-Bits.
A Secure Foundation.
The weekly that has the admirable
general news, literary and other features
of a first-class Beady Print, such
as this concern furnishes, and pays
good attention to home news, is built
on a secure foundation, and will not be
displaced by the daily.
The birth rate in Berlin decreased
from forty-six per 1,000 in 1876 to
twenty-seven in 1902.
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The New St. Petersburg
Mammoth
Frequent reference has been made in
Forest and Stream to the carcass of
the mammoth discovered in Siberia
some years ago. and from time- to
time ve have noted the progress of the
expedition, organized by the St. Petersburg
Imperial Academy and led by j
Dr. Otto Ilerz, which set out for the
scene of the discovery with the purpose
of securing the carcass and transporting
it to St. Petersburg.
It will be remembered that the mammoth
was found on the banks of the
River Beresowka, a tributary of the
Kolyma, in the Province of Yakutsk,
after a landslide, which entirely exposed
the great head, .soon after its
discovery the inhabitants of the village
near by took away one of the
tusks, while foxes, dogs ana other carnivorous
animals gnawed away the
flesh. As soon as the Governor of the
province learned that the carcass had
been found, he protected it until the
arrival of the St. Petersburg expedit?nn
pot?aocc ttoo nnrflrr hnr! nrl
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in ice and partly -*n sand and gravel,
and was so covered with earth that
it did not thaw at all.
Dr. Herz began his excavations from
the front, and found the fore legs widely
spread and bent at the wrist, and
the hind legs turned forward under
the body. The mouth was filled with
grass, and the well preserved tongue
was hanging out of the mouth. The
chest cavity of the animal was full of
clotted blood, and it has been concluded
that the animal fell into a hole. and.
while striving to escape, burst a blood
J vessel near the heart. It has been asi
certained that the ice surrounding the
carcass was not of a river or lake, but
was formed from compacted snow.
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and it is concluded that the mammoth, fi
while grazing over a meadow which c
formed the thin covering of a glacier, r
fell into some crevasse that was hid- a
den by the loose earth, and perished a
at once. i
The remains, which have now been t
mounted in the Zoological Museum of (
St. Petersburg, show the animal as he
died and was found. The frozen skin
has been carefully prepared, the skeleton
and all the soft spots that could
be saved have been taken from the
skin and preserved separately. The
skin of the head and ears, which had
been destroyed, has been copied from
the specimen obtained from Siberia
about 100 years ago, but, apart from
the head, the skin is nearly perfect,
and it was found necessary only to add
in one of two places wool and hair
from other specimens. It is to be
noted ?thajt the tail was well preserved,
and that it bears at the tip
the tassel of long black hair. The
mammoth is a young male and not a
large one.
Thii rl { or?/1 enV\PAAiiftnf in.
JLur U10V.V/T j aiiu ouuouijuciii nr
spection of this specimen at the Zoological
Museum at St. Petersburg has
led the director, Dr. Salensky. to make
a careful scientific investigation of
this specimen, as well as to show all ?
that is possible of it He studies ^
will be published in the series of mem* y
oirs which will appear from time to D
time: the firs^?that dealing with the T
skeleton?having already been issued.
Unfortunately, these memoirs are writ* ^
ten in Russian.
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Plants That Shoot Arrows. t
The arrows are crystal needles of
oxalate of lime, of microscopic dimen- 2
sious, and are shot from minute, cap- n
sule-shaped bodies, found in the tissues a
of such plants as the Indian turnip and v
the Polynesian taro. Dr. H. W. Wiiey, a
Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, de- a
scribes the extraordinary spectacle he f
beheld in the field of his microscope I
when the "bombs" contained in a drop n
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of taro pulp began to discharge their c
arrows. Sometimes only one or two
needles, and sometimes groups of four
to ten were discharged at once, th<>
bomb recoiling as the projectiles left it.
Dr. Wiley suggests that the intense
burning and pricking sensation experienced
in chewing such plants as
those described are due to the release
and discharge of these crystal arrows
when the plant tissues are crushed iD
the mouth.
A l>anger Signal.
At a wedding in a church, noticing
the dim religious red light ;:hat burns
ever the chancel, Teddy asked his ~
bachelor uncle, "Is that a danger sig- o
nal, Uncle Tom?" and Uncle Tom. who b
is suspected of hovering on the brink S
of a proposal, was heard to rerV, e
"Yes."^Deccmber Jjppincott's. c;
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AUTO BOATS?
THE LATEST FAD
Water Toys That Are Expensive, Bui
Can Fly.
jSf-Tjgj XE of the latest fads T\-ith
-L-v those who can afford such
I I costly toys is to own and
race an "auto boat." For
HHi some time these dainty little
macmiies have been very popular
in France, where their number is legion,
and there are many of them
owned by Englishmen, but it is only
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THE "ARROW," CHARLES R. FL)
EST BOAT ON EARTH, MAR]
FORTY-FIVE MILE
recently that they have become popular
here.
The fastest of these boats, so far as
the records show, is the Rollo, owned
by M. Giraud. It was built by a firm
that has become famous for . turning
)iit fast automobiles. The motor is of
twenty-four horse-power, just as is
used in road machines, but with certain
modifications that adapt it to
Iriving a boat. The canoe into which
the motor was put is thirty-nine feet
three inches in length and four feet
:hree Inches beam. In model the boat
s almost wedge shaped, the entrance
jeing fine, the run almost straight,
ind aft the hull is flat on the bottom
:o prevent squatting when running
last The hull is constructed very
ightly and the deck is of the thinnest
naterial.
The Helios Club is the leading organization
for the sport in France, and
vhen M. Giraud had finished his boat
le applied to that club to manage a
leries of trials. The first trial was at
^rgenteuil, and several boats of high
ipeed were entered against the newcomer.
The Rollo won the race. She
nade 14.90 statute miles in one hour
leventeen minutes thirty-one seconds,
veragmg 11.03 stature mnes an nour.
n her next race she did better than
his. At Meudon, in the races of the
lercle de la Voile de Paris, she made
MR. EDGE'S BOAT APPEARS 0*
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2.30 statute miles in two hours fory-one
minutes thirty-eight seconds,
rhich is a little better than twelve
ailes an hour. . Mauy experiments'
rere made with the motor, and its
ower gradually improved, so that in
ubsequent races the Rollo showed a
peed of fourteen miles an hour and
hen a speed of 15.67 miles an hour.
In a long distauce trial the Rollo ran
00 miles at an average of thirteen
liles an hour, and once in a speed tri1
over a measured mile on the Seine,
rith the tide in her favor, she slipped
long at the rate of twenty-five miles
n hour. This is a remarkable perormance
for a boc.t of the size of the
tollo and having such a small powered
lotor. This boat has caused many
thers to be built, and they have been
0 successful that next season they
rill be seen in these waters.
In England Alfred Harmsworth, who
1 an enthusiastic automobilist, recentj
offered a cup for international races
rith power boats. It was the intenion
of two Americans to send boats
cross the ocean to try to capture the
rophy, but they could not be got ready
i time, so the idea was postponed for
year; but when the races are held
/%w4> io Txrlll ho ran.
CAl OCU9UU LLliO Lvuntij if xi i i/t
esented. Three boats raced for the
up, and the winner was the Napier,
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THE N^ER LAUNCH
wned by S. F. Edge. This boat was
uilt from designs by Linton Hope,
he was forty feet long and was drivn
by a seventy-five horse-power fourjrlindered
gasoline motor attached to
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a two-bladed propeller. The cylinders '
are six and one-half inches bore and
tne stroke seven and one-half inches.
The hall of the Napier is built of steel.
^ the frames and doors are of light anal?
and plate, while two longitudinal
girders ruu fore and aft to carry the
motor and separate thrust bearings.
There is no deck to the eraft. but
, merely a covering of canvas stretched
tightly over the hull. The beam is
five feet moulded, and the draught
two feet. The total displacement is
3000 pounds.
The course over which these boats
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:NG THE WORLD'S RECORD OF
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raced was eight ana oue-balf knots, .
and the Napier's time was twenty-four
minutes forty-four seconds, averaging
20.G knots an hour or 23.7 statute
miles. Against the Napier was the
Beadle, thirty feet long, driven by a
fifty horse-power eight-cylinder gasoline
motor and a Thornycroft boat,
thirty feet long, driven by a twenty
liorse-power four-cylinder gasoline, mo- tor.
So far there have been no boats that
have done as well in these waters as
the Napier and RolJo.
Mr. Charles R. Flint's instructions
to his yacht builder were terse and to
the point. 'When the man came pre
pared with plans and specifications,
Mr. Flint waved them aside.
"I want the fastest boat afloat," he
said. "I do not care how you build It ' >
or what it will cost. Build me a craft
that will break the speed record."
When the Arrow was delivered te
Mr. Flint a number of months later, >
the magnate took her out for a trial
.trip overya measured mile course. The
lithe, slim, low-lying craft*with its
raking, squat funnel and sharp bovr
darted through the water like a greyhound.
She seemed fairly to leap from
one wave crest to another. The torpedo
boat stern was smothered in
foam, and against the knife-like edge
of the bow curled an enormous "bone^
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i THE LEFT; MR. BEADLE'S ON
RIGHT.
which wet the forward deck with
spray. Her owner stood aft with
watch in hand. In affairs of commerce
he was always cool and collected. His
deals were executed with the sang '
froid of a Napoleon.
Now he was transformed. His nsnr.Ily
imperturbable face revealed an intense
eagerness not at all characteristic
of the man. He alternately eyed ,
the second hand of his watch and the ,
red-painted buoys marking the course.
As one after another was passed he
laughed aloud. Then when the last
buoy faded astern he clapped bis
uands in an ecstasy of triumph.
"Forty-five miles an hour!" he cried.
"That beats the record!"
When Charles R. Flint stood on the
deck of his boat and saw her travel
faster than any other craft had traveled
before, he typified in himself the
spirit that seems to be born in man?
and especially in Americans. The desire
to do something a little better
than any one else has done, to move
a little faster by train or boat, in running
or swimming or driving, is in
nercnt in a groat many numan beings.
Americans consume 36,000,000
pounds of Chinese teas, 31,00,000 of
Japanese and about 4,000,000 of Indian.
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According to the Mexican Journal
of Commerce seventy per cent of
$500,000,000 capital invested in Mexico
by Americans has gone towards
building railroads.
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