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= Clean the Eggs. j Before placing the eggs in the basket after daily collections, wash them in cold water. This, is to guard xj against lice, and also the small mites, "which are not readily detected. They ., are also nicer to handle. To get the^, highest prices for eggs they should "be clean in every respect Buyers .Judge to a great extent, of the freshness of eggs by their appearance, and It therefore pays to have them as dean and as attractive as possible. ; Seed Corn. ; Seed corn can be selected in the ?winter or when the corn is being Irasked. A box should be placed near > V ' "the point of operation, and every perlect ear (selecting only the best) should be thrown into it while husking. It is possible that but few ears may be selected from among a large number, but if care is used in select 3ng, and the seed corn is put in a dry place, it will be found next spring that ? . more grains will germinate and a larger yield result. M*?. Pigs and Buttermilk. Buttermilk, provided no water is added, is practically of the same value for feeding pigs as separator milk. But it must be borne in mind that " Irattermilk from factories almost al'ways has mixed with it a considerable I* amount of added water, sometimes as r~ much as fifty percent, and, consequently^ ly, by itself is not a suitable food for pigs. Many .instances can be given of |V\ reat mortality among pigs fed solely - ?m buttermilk, practically from star"vation, because they were not able to , consume enough buttermilk plus water to derive sufficient nutriment to supPly the demand of nature. But when , the deficiency in solids is made up by | adding meal, or even grass, roots or other fodder, pigs are found to thrive , on the buttermilk.?R. T. Archer, In the Massachusetts Ploughman. ( The Waste and Expenses. Talk to almost any good business man and he will tell you that one of 'the most important points to be con ' ^sldered in conducting a business of - /-? Voon dftwn ' 4U|Jf &UIU DUV/V/COOi UJ1.T to w _ the expenses and wastes. That's just ! tie thing that the farmer wants to look into. There are so many things the farm that this little piece of ad"vice conld he applied to that it would A -take more than this page to tell of them all. The manure pile on many 'Harms is probably being drained of the equivalent of good hard cash every *4aar that it stands. Many a cow in the ^tables of some dairy is eating her allotment of food every day and returnlug only fifty or seventy-five percent Its cost Farmers should go around amd keep their eyes open and look into these matters and they would be money in pocket And making money - ~toy merely keeping v your eyes opened amd using a little thought comes much easier than by hoeing corn or potatoes.?Weekly Witness. f Space In. the Quarters. n \ r it ever occurred to poultrymen "that it may be better to keep small has, if eggs are the object, than to devote the space to birds of larger breeds? The object of most fanners and others is to keep as many hens In a poultry house as possible and that Is where the majority of mistakes is made. Judging from the weight and - ? .i. ,?, ? i Size OI xne Dl ru 1L i cyuuca a uuu portion -of tie roost upon which it can ' comfortably .rest. Two Brahma' or Cbcldn hens, weighing nine pounds ?sch (eighteen pounds for the pair), i will require fully as much room on the roost as three small hens weighing < ?ix. pounds each, and if the tables of lbod equivalents and amounts to sustain life, according to live weights, ^are correct the three hens will consnme no more food than two large ones. But they may do more, however, as they can lay three eggs, while only two can be secured from the large liens. Here, then, is at gain of forty percent in eggs in favor of small Isreeds because they cost no more than the same weight of large fowls, but Ibeing more numerous they conseT duenily produce more eggs. & K* - " . Exercise for the Cows. i The "best dairymen believe implicitly 3n exercise for their cows, but they wiso realize that they are delicate animals and that to permit them to re' main out of doors long on a cold or "Windy day during the winter does them more injury than good. While the feeding shed referred to in this department is an ideal place for exercise, it is not in the open air, so the cows lose the benefits of breathing trash air. An excellent way to arrange a yard for exercise is to build a deep shed in the portion of the yard where the wind is less likely to enter ?L Then, with boards or corn fodder, | erect wind-breaks all around the yard, i mining them up six feet or more Bngh. See that the yard is well drained and that it is cleaned of the excrement each day before the cows are permitted to enter it | In order that the animals may be snore contented while iD the yard, supiply them with just enough roughage iso that each one of them can make a ^ood cud. Have the shed and the yard ^arge enough so that there will be no , - EDEN" crowding, hence no disposition to Quarrel. With such a yard the animals may be. turned out nearly every day during the winter, provided some care is taken to remove the snow-<in sections where the snow fall is heavy. Do not permit the cows to remain out too long. Err on the side of a shortr time and" daily rather than for several hou^two-or-three times dianapolis News. ??? The Large Corn Crop. Despite the fact that the corn crop is very large, market reports indicate that it will not be sold at extremely low prices as was feared some time back, when-ifc was-seen: the crop^-would* likely be (heavy. The intelligent and up-to-date farnjqft he&ryj c^crp'; of A1 corn can' pi^fierftSrield hiri;^>cfi ( returns by selecting tnev best of the* crop and putting it on the^market at the highest rates quoted and using the" proceeds to buy other grains which will give him the needed balanced ration for his stock. This is departing somewhat from the general plan of feeding whatever grain one has in abundance, but it will pay. Moreover it will pay even to -the.j>oint of reducing the herd to just the number that can be properly fed on well balanced rations. It is hot hard to use. the corn'crop for feeding so that the value of the milk produced is really less than the value of the corn and the manure, thus giving one a vlot of hard work and no profit.'.', , - : .On the other hand, if one feeds just the number of cows he can feed on a balanced ration, disposing of both the surplus cows and corn, .he? is .mopey j ahead at the end of the season. We J farmers are much given to priding I ourselves on the number of animals | we own, regardless of whether we are I keeping them at a profit or at a loss, ! and it is such lack of calculation that j makes some men say farming has ceased to be a profitable business. Think it over, friend.?Indianapolis News. The Next Fruit Crop. While there are as mar ->3 thirteen natural elements; that into .the structure of about e* .ning that grows there are four that seem to be more easily exhausted from the soil than the rest These are nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash and lime. They naturally exist in soils in such irarying quantities that it is often very iifficult to tell what is or not present In abundance and in available forms, tn most cases only the actual test of ipplications will tell us what is needed. But we may be sure that good manures wisely # applied are almost never amiss. ' Nitrogen is such a volatile and easily exhausted manure and sometimes in injurious one, that it requires the most careful and timely application Df all. When the trees are pale in follaee and the erowth is feeble, it is al- I most a sure indication that it is not present In the soil ip sufficient quantity. But fruits are not so likely to need it as the foliage crops. In case they do need it there is no form in which it is more economically applied than as nitrate of soda. Animal refuse, such as dried blood also contains It Owing to the rapid solubility of these materials spring is the preferable time to apply them to the soil. Phosphoric acid -plays an important part in the production of fruit as it forms a considerable proportion of the seeds and also helps.to give vigor to the tree or vine. It should not be forgotten that it is found largely in animal bones and from this we can get it quite cheaply. Phosphate rock is partly composed of fossil bones. They give the phosphoric acid up slowly even when well dissolved and this is why we should apply early in the spring or better yet in the fall This will allow time for the further decomposition in the soil and the chemical changes to take place that are necessary before the roots can absorb the fertility. Five hundred pounds per acre is a good application. Potash is perhaps the most Important tny fnilta r?f nil the* manures. It tdrUb 1V1 && v?4vw v* v>*4 ? . causes healthfulness and vigor of tree or plant and makes the fruit rich and highly colored. Wood ashes contains it but the proportions are usually quite small. Muriate of potash contains fully one-half of its weight of available potash and sulphate of potash about tlfe same. Both axe excellent and cheap forms in which to apply potash. The sooner either of them are put in or on the soil the more completely they will become prepared for the use of the coming fruit crop. If it is not possible to apply them to the ground this fall do it early in the spring. But above all be sure to do it, for in most soils potash will | pay a good return. One hundred pounds per acre annually is a fair application of either muriate or sulphate of potash. t i ? ~ Voe. a raw VionoflMal affar>t XjlUiC UCU a * V* J VVUVUV11U aside from being a plant food in helping to dissolve the elements of fertil- | ity in the soil naturally. This is especially true of heavy clay soils, and where humus is in excess it "sweetens" its acidity. About twenty-flre bushels of quick lime per acre is sufficient for some three years.?H. E. Van Deman. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousivessaftor-first day's usaot Dr. JUin.e.'s:Grest.Nerve Rest or6r,'$2: rial bottle andtredtlseffee Dr. R.-H.Kliite, Ltd., 931 Arch "St., Pbtia., Pa. In ji recent burglary in Lgndon the robbers )ised a new '.weapon. *" ? r " " 1 Mrs. ^Vinslow'sSobthini? Svrun for Children teething,softens the sums,reduces inflammation,allays pain,o^res wind colic,25c.fc,bottle. Plentiful sales are the rule in the. diamond market. | Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used ! for all affections of throa: and lungs.?Wis.0. Exdslxv, Yanburoh,;*Ind., Feb. 10, 1&3&. 5?* ' . ; j. All 'sizes and ^qualities of diamonds' seepi tto be ;in demancfc r '4 Guaranteed Cure For Pile?tM. t " Itching, &lind, 31eadiul(^ ProtrudinjfPiles'. Druggists ase authorized to refund money if "Tazo Ointment fails to cure in o tb*14 days.5Qo."~ < ? ** '? t. Many German women.'s clubg ,aje Ji$>W producing cooking boxes. Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitapr Lotion; never faiis. Sold by Druggists. Mail orders promptly filled by ?>r. Detchon, Crawfordsville, Ind. SI. There is a railway over the Egyptian desert. STOPS BELCHING. Cures JB?<V tb?tl ye. &mV Instsn t Cure Free?No Drujr*?Cure# i s > ?\ i & Aljsorp^on. . . ^ # . A?w&| brtath if priceless/ : * - \ V* \ li - Mal^s Au&Bel^H '^a|er8'^11?fn??^^; breath ana bad taste instantly. Belchmg and bad taste indicate offensive breath, -wbrrbis dne'ttr-^toiimch trouble. Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers purify the stomach and stop belching, by absorbing foul gases that arise from undigested foocf, and by supplying the digestive organs with natural solvents for food. They relieve sea or car sickness and nausea of any kind. They quickly cure headache, correct the ill effect of excessive eating or drinking. They wiH destroy a. tobacco, ..whisky or. onion breath instantly. They stop fermentation in the stomach, acute 'indigestion, cramps, colic, gas !n the stomach and intestines, distended, .abdomen, heartburn, bad. complexion, dizzy spells or any other affliction arising from a diseased stomach. We know Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers will do this, and we wantyou to know it. > Special Opfter.?'Toe regular price of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers'is 50c. a box, but to .introduce it to thousands of sufferers ve will send two (2) boxes upon receipt or 75c. and this advertisement, or we will send you a sample free for this coupon. 12305 A FREE BOX. 1301 " i Scr.d this coupon with your name and address and druggist's name, for .a free box of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers, a cure for stomach trouble, to Muix's Grape Tonic Co., 328 Third Ave., Rock Island, 111. Give Full Address and Write Plainly. Sold at all druggists, 50c. per box. ? * ' There must be moments In 'Theodore, Jr.'s life when, as he toys with "the arnica bottle, he concludes that the pceession cf a papa with a reputation for strenuou'sr-ess has its disadvantages after all, thinks the New York Press. For fencing in 212,000 acres of Government land the Fe-deral Court of Nebraska ha? just sentenced" two patriots to a $300 fine. It does seem as if land must be worth more than that, even In Nebraska, thinks the Detoit Journal. 1 | STOP! 1 AND CONSIDER THE ' ALL-IMPORTAN ^^^FACT ^ That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham j aro confiding yourprivate ills to a worn ? a woman whose experience with \ man's diseases covers a great many yea You can talk freely to a woman whei is revolting to relate your private troub to a man?besides a man does not nnd stand?simply because he is a man. Many women suffer in silence and c from bad to worse, knowing full well ought to have immediate assistance, bui modesty impels them to shrink from e: selves to the questions and probably ex even their family physician. It is Without money or price you can corn whose knowledge from actual experi< Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Inv \A/Amon ont* ^AWll nf TT VUi^U OUiXOlUi^ A* VAU 1H IJ AVTA V/? ness are invited to promptly commnnic Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All letters opened, read and answered by won woman can freely talk of her private woman; thus has been established t confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and 1 of America which has never been broke of the vast volume of experience whic has to draw from, it is more than possi that she has gained the very knowlec that will help your case. She asks no ing in return except your good-will, and: advice has relieved thousands. Surely i woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if does not take advantage of this genei offer of assistance. ? Lydia E. Pinkl Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Following we publish two letters from ? woman who accepted this invitation. Note the result. First letter. " Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? " For eight years I have suffered something terrible every month with my periods. The pains are excruciating and I can hardly stand them. My doctor eaya I have ovarian and womb trouble, and I must go through an operation if 1 want to get well I do not want to sifbmit to It if 1 can posftbly help it Please tell me what to do. I hope you car relieve me. "-Mrs. Mary Dhnmick, o9tn and E Capitol Sta, Banning P.O., Washington,D.C Second letter. * Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? " After following carefully your advice atuf faUn* T.tn4U V P(nlr)uM% VoMKahU Compound I am very anxious to sand roc my testimonial, that others may know tool] valoeacd what you have done for me. AGONY OF SORE HANDS ' Cracked and Peeled?Water and Heat Cauced Intense Pain?Could Do No House work?Very Grateful to Cuticura. < "My hands cracked and peeled, and -were so sore-it was impossible for me to do my housewbrk. If I put them in water I was in.agony for hours, and if I tried to cook the heat caused me intense pain. I consult ed twot idoctors, but their prescriptions were utterly useless. Now after using one cake of'Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Oiritmfent my hands are entirely well. I wn- very grateful. (Signed) Mrs. Minnie B?*r^8 Dana St., Roxbury, Mass." 7 ? "IN ADAM'S FALL." Sunday-school Teacher?Now, children, was Adam very happy in the Garden of Eden? . _ Chorus.,of Pupils?Yessum! _Teacher-?Aad .what great misformn^h'l^p'p'eneH <;^iiich ended his happiness? PV TV rs T Mm O ViiV/1 UO Jllig UUi u 1UUUV "m (* n*4w? ?Cleveland Leader. Deafness Cannot Be Cnre<l by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one i way. to cure deafness, and that is by constiI tutldnal remedies'.' Deafness Is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Jhfcaachfaii.Tube. J^hen this tube isinffcrnEdVyou-have a tumbling sound or imperfect hewing, and when it tt entirely 'closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube re storedto Its normal Condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafnessfcaused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for ! circulars free. F.J.Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The outcry against football is pe rennial, asserts the New York Sun but the season of 1905 has intro duced a new feature, unusual anc welcome?results. Cures Cancer, Blood Poison and Scrofula* If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands, bumps and risings, burning, itching skin, copper-colored spots or rash on the skin, mucous patches in mouth or throat, falling hair, bone pains, old rheamatism or foul catarrh, take Botanio Blood Balm (B. B. B.) It kills the poison in the blood; soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard swellings subside, aches and pains stop and a perfect cure is made of the worst cases of Blood Poison. For cancers, tumors, swellings, eating sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pimples of all kinds, take B. B B. It destroys the cancer poison in the blood, heals cancer of all kinds, cures the worst humors or suppurating swellings. Thousands cured by B- B. B. after all else falls. B. B. B. composed of pure botanic ingredients. Improves the digestion, makes the blood pure and rich, stops the awful itching and all sharp, shooting pains. Thoro-ighly tested for thirty years. Druggists, $1 per bottle, with complete directions for home our?. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. / During the month of September only one American was naturalized in Great Britain. To Cure ? Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. 25c. '! The natives in China eat very little | butchers' meat, except pork. WOMEN, 41Aa you know, I wrote you that my doctor ' said I must have an operation or I could not i live. I then wrote you, telling you my ailments. I followed your advice and am entirely well. I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and I owe my life to you and to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. ; I wish every suffering woman would read i this testimonial and realize the value of writinff to von and vour remedy."?Mrs. Mary I Dknmlci, 69th and E. Capitol' Streets, Ben nlng P. 0M Washington, D. C. When a medicine has been successful i in restoring to health so many women whose testimony is so unquestionable, , > yon cannot well say, without trying it, , " I do not believe it will help me." If van are ill, dont hesitate to get a bot' tie of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable t Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pink t ham, Lynn. Mass., for special adviceit is free and always helpful* % ' GIBIS'. NERVE .FAILED THEM. THEY MIGHT HAVE EARNED THE RENT WITH A HAND ORGAN. A Young Woman Whose Mother Was in Need Hoped to Replenish the Family Purse as a Street Musician ?But She and Her Companion Were Frightened Into Deserting the Organ by the Curious Crowd in Fin ancial District?Italian Garb Did Not Deceive the Onlookers. A mild sensation was created one day recently in the downtown financial district by the appearance of twa young girls wheeling a hand organ. They were dressed in imitation of the Italian women, who are ..by this time familiar figures in the street, but they were unmistakably American, and equally unmistakably of a gentle class. Starting from Hanover square, they made their way slowly through an ever increasing crowd of curious spectators. Questions rained on them from every side as to their business In doing such a thing, but they merely went their way and said nothing, by the time they had reached Liberty .street they were surrounded by nearly 2000 people. The small boys in the neighborhood commenced to pelt them with fruit and other missiles, and the crowd was growing unruly. At this point a policeman. interfered to protect them, and the tall lighthaired girl who was playing the or gan broke down, stating tnat sne would not go another step. The other girl, who was the prettier of the two and evidently the leader, urged and coaxed her to keep on, reminding her constantly o? the money they would make and of what it would mean to them. But the player refused to be influenced, and the organ was deserted, and the two girls turned towards home. In answer to an urgent question, one of the two girls said that she came to New iorK with her mother five years ago from their home in Pennsylvania. The mother was a dressmaker. She thought that she could make more money and give her daughter a better education in New York city than in her native town. "But after I left the high school, about a year and a half ago," she said, I "I commenced to have trouble vith my eyes, andi on going to a physician discovered that cataracts were forming. It was a great blow, as my ambition had always been to be a teacher, j and the doctor told me this was out of the question." Through the influence of a friend for whom her mother had made some dresses, the daughter obtained work last winter, and for a time earned $10 a weak, and on that and what her mother made at dressmaking they managed to keep a little home. This last summer, however, everything seemed to go wrong. The work ceased, her mother's customers all left town early, many of them leaving their dressmaker unpaid, and it commenced to look as though the home would have to be broken up. As the first of October approached they commenced to worry about the rent. One evening, about a week ago, the mother and daughter sat in consultation about ways and means, and as they sat by the window an organ drawn by two Italian girls came in sight It was seeing them that put the idea into the girl's mind that she would do likewise. At first the mother opposed this plan, but later she consented, because they were nearly destitute. From an Italian organ-grinder in the neighborhood the daughter obtained the name of a man who rents out the large piano organs. At the same time she confided her scheme to a young friend who promised to assist her. From old-fashioned clothes of her mother's they fixed up the costumes as nearly like the Italian girls as possible. The rent that they paid for the organ was $3. The day before they made their appearance in Wall street they took the organ up Broadway and in' two hours made over $7. Although they were followed by a crowd, no one annoyed them. They were asked frequently if it was on a bet, and nodded yes when this question was asked Flushed with triumph at the money they had earned up town, they decided that the down-town financial would yield an even richer harvest They started the following morning, therefore, at Hanover square. A crowd collected immediately, which attracted the attention of a policeman. He came over to them, speaking in the roughest way, and threatening to call a patrol if they did not move on. They moved on in fear and trembling, and finally reached) the corner of Liberty street. By this time the crowd around them had grown very large, and they were becoming frightened. The girl who had planted the trip was much alarmed lest they get into trouble, but with the thought of what the money would mean to her mother she plucked up courage, and would have gone on down to Wall street, but her friend absolutely refused. It was then 10 o'clock. They had only been an hour on the street and had already earned $3.10. The policeman on this beat was kind to them when they had explained the predicament and he found that A1? Ho- did his best 11BU a .. to disperse the crowd, and promised to see that they reached Wall street in safety. The dressmaker's daughter would have kept on, but, of course, could not go alone. She did not know what to do with the organ until she happened to see among the crowd the man who had rented it to her. She v attracted his attention and turned the organ over to him, afflpretraced 'her steps homeward, bitterly Usappointed. / There was no doubt iri-jfer jnind that had she remained a few hours longer * she would easily havje earned the $18 for the landlord. Her mother's necessity had given her cotfrage. She felt that the worst ordeal- was coming down in the elevated train dressed in costume. No one. seemed to mistake , them for Italians and they were star '' m ed at and snoken to at every turn.? New York Evening Post.' N "" ^4 j ' ' $ ASIATIC PRESTIGE. * T'v y History Repeating It selfthe 8uL? mission of Rueela. It is now more than 2 J00* years since Herodotus eipounded assembled Greeks his celebrated theory that the cardinal tact in history was the interaction of AsfiS -"^afSS the pendulum of ascendancy swinging * now to the east and now to the vest. * * -M From the fall of Troy to the membrable land and sea fight at &fcykal?. he depicted many a "Vicissitude, bus of 'M course, he could not foresee thaftthe ' ^ grandsons of the men who heardjbim would witness the destruction o^the Persian empire by Alexander an<? the ; ' ? penetration of India by the Macnonian phalanx. f? i ,i As little could the western ,ped$ie3, ? which in the 19th century despoiled / r and insulted China and wrenfthed open the gates of Japan, hawfe expected that in the course of arfew decades a tar eastern nation wuld exhibit a degree of military and laval efficiency unsurpassed, if equalled in : /f. the annal3 of mankind. Y] Had our memories been more tena- v 5 cious none of us would have taken lor ( granted, as most of us have, that Asia was beyond the hope of resurrection, doomed to permanent prostration*: under the European heeL Such, undoubtedly was the delusion in which the eastern subjects of the Roman empire long abided, although such defeats as those of Crassus and Valerian ought to have excited deep - ':40s misgivings. ^ Everybody imagined that the Orien- ' tal wave had spent itself when Hannibal was routed at Zama, and nobody g, could have anticipated that, from \ y the second half of the seventh to near the close of the 17th century, Eu- ' rope would be haunted with, the;dread . t of Asiatic invasion and conquest Yet , more than a thousand years- were to elapse from the seizure of Roman Syria by a successor of Mohammed to Sobieski's repulse of the Turks from HI oeiore tne wans or Vienna. .?v. ''5 Of all Ayran countries Russia had least reason to arrogate an innate superiority oyer the Turanian, stock. The grand dukes of Muscovy had been. ; $ paying tribute lor two centuries to \ the Mongol rulers of the Golden Horn when the Turks took Constantinople, and some three and a half centuries . f more were to elapse before the Russian regained control of the Crimea. Even China in the 17th. century, when the Manchu dynasty was young, 'bt drove Muscovite pioneers and merchants out of Manchuria and forced ^ them by treaty to retire behind the i Amur river. History, therefore, will '' -% but repeat itself when Russia submits to similar boundaries at the command of the Japanese.?New ? York Sun. > QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Among elephants both sexes of the v- f African species have ivory trunks, I while in Asia these are generally re- . stricted to the male. A farmhouse near Minehead, England, is situated in so deep a hollow that for three months of the' yedr the sun's rays do not fall upon It ? Pet dogs in sunbonnets and bine glass spectacles are to be seen fol- .. allowing their owners through the streets of Berlin in hot weather. * A London firm has constructed on the roof of its warehouses a rifle range; f so that its employes may have prae- , tice without going far or being put to traveling expenses. Lord Roberts j* will open the range. When the Booth liner Cyril sank in the River Amazon, a wealthy Brazil-'' ;:^gj ian banker was the only person who was able to save his personal property ^ which consisted of a small handbag containing $90,000 In banknotes. The importance of removing all unnecessary objects from the decks of ; i men of war was emphasized on board F] the Japanese Mikasa, on which 23 men were killed or wounded by the fragment of an optic telegraph that had been hit by a bdmb, - V'Js ' ? The other day thousands of rats \ 3 were seen running along some of the i A' streets of Paris, near the Eastern Station. , They had been driven from - \ their hannts by the destruction of an old bridge. Many were killed by man a f and beast, but some of the attacking cats were killed by the rats. The pavement before the door of the Church of San Carlo de Borromeo, Is Monterey, Mexico, Is a curious memen- + to of the whaling industry of that -?v, town. The roundv mushroom-like objects in the pavement are the ver 4 tebrae of whales. This is one of the churches founded by the Spanish mi? sionary fathers ih the 16th century. Queerest of Accidents. A woman who was bicycling along an English road felt something strike : > her head. Reaching up she discov* 9 _ ered that a sparrow had impaled it* V \ ' self on the hatpin, which was protrud- ' ing about two inches.