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ANIMAL TOILETS. Cledjliness Rules and Some Creatures Wash Each Other. Most animals love cleanliness. We have all seen sparrows fill their feath. ero with dust and then shake them selves until they are clean. This is one of their ways of waohing. And we have all watched the cat lick her. self till she is spotless and shining. For her toilet the cat makes use of her tongue, tail and her pa's. A cat's tongue Is rough, having all over it tiny horny 1)apillao that are directed in. ward. Pussy brushes herself all over .with her tongue, using the hai'd rougi pads under her paws upon those parts that are beyond the reach of her tongue. 1eir clwa she uses as a comb to take taiglies and matted foreign substances out of her fur. She also picks her teeth with her claws. The cat uses the pads of her feet like a sponge, moistening themt with sa liva and passing them repeatedly over her head and face. Finally, to con plete her toilet, she gives herself a few whisks with her tail. Sone animals wash each other. Con. dors, vultures and eagles after a feast of carrion fly to the nearest water and splash about in it until their feathers are clean. The care that animals which live together in communities take to keel) their homes clean is as tonishing and is well seen in the nests of moles and especially among the bees and ants.-New York World. SAFETY FROM. FIRE. A Method For Inuring Escape From a Crowded Building. In discussing the best means of emp tying a loft or factory building of its occupants in time of fire or panic, L F. J. Porter, expert on safety from fire and known as the father of the fire drill, points out a method for solving the escape from a crowded building. This method is a fre wall so arrang ed on a building as practically to bisect it. This wall must be continuous from cellar to roof and be provided with doorways on each floor, closed by auto mnatic fire doors. The building must be designed with two sets of egress facili ties of ample proportions, one set locat ed on each side of the wall accessible from each floor. No fire Is at all likely to occur on both sides of this fire wall simultane ously. unless it is of incendiary origin. Should a tire occur the alarm sounds, and the occupants of the building on the side where the fire is merely have to pass through them and be perfectly safe. A fire drill will empty either side of a building so equipped, no matter how many stories high, in a minute. The refugees remain in the safe side of the building until the fire has been put out, or they may at any time without haste use the egress facilities provided there, which would be free from smoke or fire.-St. Paul Pioneer Press. Just Why We Sneeze. Sneezing may be due to one of a number of causes. A bright light will cause iany people to sneeze, as also the pollen of certain plants. while thete are few people but will sneeze in the presence of dust. When you have a cold the sneezling is due to an attempt by nature to cure you. She is- trying to inake you sneeze for the same pur pose that she wants you to shiver-to generate heat for warming the blood and pirevnting you from taking more cold-to help relieve the cold you have. For one dlos not sneeze with his nose, but wvith the on~tire body. During the act every muscie of' the body gIves a jumiip, as it were, it goes into a sort of spasm that warms the entire system.L \New York American. Forgot Her Sister. A Wolna~n lr')in i a1 smal town. in thle city to (10 somet shopp)Ilig. 51tepped( up to a clerk at the hosIery 'on ter in one0 of thle deparutmentcat st4&res. ''Say,'' slhe said, "I want 1o get two pairs of' stockings like may sIster from Kentiueky bought here last A ugust" 'i don't know your sIster, and proba bly w~ould not remiembier what she bought, even if I were acquainted with her," e'xphli~tnd the clerk, "You munst remiembher my13 sister," in. Sisted the ('ustomner. "Shte is a little, heavy sel woman."-Indianapolis News The Duke's Walk. "To meet one in the duke's w'ialle," This is an invitatIon to fight a duel. In the vicinity of Ilolyrood house, Scotland, there Is a place called the , uke's walk, so called from its being ,e favorite promneniade of th9 Duko of Vo,-k, afieti'td FRing 3aines 11. This walk is saidl to hiave bceen the comtiiuli rende'zvou~s for settling affairs of hoper, as the sIte of the British mnuseum was in IEngland, Revengel "Why are you so crazy to take mud baths? Tihere's nothIng the matter wvithi you." "It's tbis way, doctor, I was brought uip in a lace collar and a lFauntleroy suit. And I always vowed that I wontfd get mty aore of pllayhig in the mud1( some1 day"-- Louiisv ilo Clourer ,Jouirntalferne ro it 19ade aDifrn. "flliffers' is always tall~li n aout'his lovei 'for ihe plaini people." "Well, the other (lay somebody called his daulghiter plain, and he was hotter titan a red headed hornet."-Cleveland PlaIn Deailer. Curious 6iti Custom. In Pern It as'bnce tho 'custom for 'domosic e vatdts to have t wo of their upper frocnt i'euth extracted, Their ab 'ente iitetd's'ei*tt'ao. MACHINICOUNS. These Deadly Weapons Fire Some 700 Bullets a Minute. Thle machine gun, which pours forth a direct hail of small callber bullets, is one of the deadliest weapons of mod. ern warfare. Froin 'the clumsy Gatling gun hats come the modern "autoulatic," mount ed on a light tripod, and weighing less than forty pounds. All the armies use these guns, which. although they vary somewhat in type. are essentially alike in their mechanism and in their efree. tiveness. In- tho lienet-Mercle auiitomatic ma. chino gun of .ite French army a metal feed strip, or cll. that contains thirty ordinary army ritle eartridges is in serted in a slot on the right shle of thu gun. As the trigger is pulled the bolt mechaism is released and. guiled by the main firin:. spring, ushos a car tridge into tho rifle chamber. ' The instant the cartridge is in place the breech mechanism locks and the charge is exploded. On its way through the rifle barrel, a little of the gas from the exploded powder is diverted through a hole in the side of the barrel, and so acts on a piston as to force the bolt mechanisma back and to compress the main spring. In returning, the bolt mechanism pulls the empty shell from the chain ber and throws it out below, so that it does not interfere with the new cartridge that is now forced in from above. The mechanism is so perfect that the operation described takes place in a small fraction -of a second, and the bullets *issue from the mouth of this deadly weapon at the rate of seven hundred a minute.-Youth's Com panion. ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES. Origin of Starch From Corn and of Silver Plating. How to make starch from corn (maize) was discovered accidentally by Thomas Kingsford, a mechanic. One day he threw a mess of cornmeal mush into a garbage pall. His wife emptied some lye into the same pall, and in the morning when he emptied the pail he was astonished to find a small quan tity of starch at the bottom. Thomas Bolsover, a Sheffleld me chanie, was mending the handle of a knife made of copper and silver. He saw these metals fuse together and the idea of silver plating was born in his mind. He laid a thin plate of silver on a heavier one of copper and heated them till the edge of the silver began to melt. He took them from the fire, let them cool slightly, then rolled and hammered them' to the desired thick ness. This was the oright of "Shefield plate," all of which was made in this way until electroplating was invented. Cornelius Dubbel left a bottle of aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and muriatic acids) on a shelf. It fell over, the acid ran down over a window and dropped into -a bottle containing an extract of cochineal This turned to -a vivid scarlet. Dubbel found that the acid had dissolved some of the tin of the window casing and the combina tion had produced the new color. A few experiments added the most bril liant color to the list of dyes. The accident by which Roentgen dis. covered the X ra's Is too recent to need repeating now.-New York World. Sammy's Wisdom. It was nlever a hlapply day for Sam my's painstaking falther whlen lhis young hopefuil's schoo0l report arlrived. As for Sammy himself-well, lhe was a phillosop~her. Th'le n wfui day3 had1( comie on1ce more, andt father wa'zs ini tile lowest dlepthls of mnisery.. "Sammy3, Sammiity," lhe gr'oaneld, "why i. it t hat you are at the bottom of your class a gain ?" "Whlat does it matter, fatther, whleth er 1 am1 att the toip or tile h)ottom?" (lueried thlat wise youth. "They teaich tihe sameI alt both endus, vou kniow." rl..indon Tit-Ihits. afrw To Give Quinine To Children, PEtfR1ILINJs is thaetrade-manrk naone given to on improved Quinine. It is a Tastelehs Syrup, plea ant to take and does not disturb the stomach. c'tidren take it and never know it in Quinine. M!so especially adapted to aduits wvho cannot *take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervounness nor ringing in the head. Try It the next time you need Qnn f.os...,.,. The New '1915 Maxwell "25" is the -_ - - biggest automobile value ever offered for _W less than $1,000. 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