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SOME GOOD DESSERTS. B M R A B NO TWO HATS EVER ALIKE WORK LEW ~~ BARGE • r.i£ ; <•. ••"ip . li i SOME ODD NESTS. Ingenuity Displayed by Some Birds In Fro,Tiding Places f or Thf§£> Toong, ' • There was a time many millions of years ago, when birds built no nests, but did as some specimens are doing at the present time, when the ostrich continues to lay her eggs in the sand of the desert to have the hatching done by the rays of the sun. The Talegalla turkey of New Holland also follows the old custom of covering up the the earth with feathers in the manner SO that the eggs may be hatched by the heat engendered by decomposition. On account of the temperature of the earth having become gradually colder And because eggs have no warmth of t|teir own, the birds later on were compelled to cover the mounds dug in <eggs with decayed vegetable matter, THE BALANGANE. the eider duck that builds a regu­ lar bed of down. i During the next period the nests be- -Icame not only the hatching place of ieggs, but were also used by the birds <for habitation. Special care is used tin selecting a place for the nest, or •ielse it is built in such a manner that St may form a protection against at- stacks of enemies. So the nest of the (moor hen is built in the reeds, near -the water's edge, and it has been no­ ticed that in case the nest in one year iwas endangered by inundation, thf bird selected a higher spot the next: jrear in which to build his nest. The birds have even become artls- .auis. The tailor bird of South America snakes his nest by sewing together a THE MOOR HEN, leaf. He bores holes with his beak Jand pulls a thread from bark through *he holes, thereby sewing the leaf to- jgether into the form of a bag. The tmagpie fixes the nest with earth, as idoes the swallow, the nest of the lat- •jter bird having BO small an opening It bat the bird 'is hardly able to enter At. i An artful bird is the" South Ameri­ can potter bird, says the Brooklyn Eagle. It builds the nest on the heavy branches of a tree or near thte roo( -of a house. The material of the nest* that nearly weighs up to ten pounds^ 9b mud and clay, the rear room to be Used for habitation. The salangane, a bird like our swal- 3ow, builds its nest from its own ̂ •" BIBS. rvT-gn-p AT>TT Therte'fi a little bird lives on the telegraph pole, And a very wise birdie is he; For he hears all the news from all over the land-- Tea, and even from over the sea. He's a little green fellow with silver- tipped bill, Though some people say: "How ab­ surd ! It is only a lump of green they're wrong; , It*a the telephone-telegraph bird. C . He's a fairy, you see, . and would staj - „ quite unknown, An«J from prying eyes make his escape; So in order to treasure the secret* he*| learned. He's obliged to turn into this shape. He has millions of little green brothers like him, And they all live on telegraph trees; So, of course, any news that the wires carry on . ^ It is strange all the things that they hear and they know, And these things very often they tell; For they fly round at night, when you They can hear and remember with ease. little ones sleep. And they whisper the things that befell. If you've told an untruth or been naughty or rude. By some means your mamma will have heard; If "a little bird told me." she says when , you ask. It's that telephone-telegraph bird. Now, of course, birthday secrets, sur­ prises and gifts . To himself he will carefully keep; And he'll even help out with suggestions and hints Whispered low in your ear while yon sleep. But if mischief you plan, or do rrrong on the sly, 5d advise you to think of it Wice; * that bird's bound to know and. a* , sure as can be. ' '? He will tell on you, too. in a TMce, I'm afraid there'll be some who won't credit this tale (Some grown folks and fairy-tale haters). Who will call the green things on the telegraph poles Long names such as glass insulators. Let them laugh if they will, for we know what we know; We won't care if they don't take our word; And a nice little secret well . and I And the telephone-telegraph bird. , --Julie Fay Shipman, in St. Nicholas* ? THE BOTTLE CANNON. M s T H E POTTER BIRD. "branches of a tree or near the roof moon. These saliva nests are being rjsent from Australia and Java to be ttsed in making bird nest soup. Many birds weave their nest from bark, shaping the nests like bags of -every description. The habit of the magpie to have its nests decorate^ with stolen glittering pieces of metal is well known, and a kind of nightin­ gale, living in the Mediterranean • countries, uses skins of snakes for the •decoration of its nest. "The Australian chlamydodera buildat two nests, one a plain one of twigst rcfor habitation, and another, lined with . green grasses and the floor covered' -with litttle stones. This nest, about •.three feet high, is the so-called bower." ' He Wanted to Know. certain professor chemistry was HQftP day talking to his class about the value of oxygen. "Oxygen," said he, "Is essential to all ^aadmal existence. There should not be .any life without it And yet, strange -to say, it was discovered only about a .-century ago." At this one of the students, made a -4Sign as if he desired to speak, and When the professor nodded permission, rthe student said: "What ! should like to know, prores- tsor, Is how animal life got along b»> 2are oxygen was discovered?" • How Fun Hay Be Obtained with a Thick Bottle and 8ttake Chemicals. Take a thick empty bottle--a vinegar quart bottle will do---and pour water into it until it is one-third full. In the water dissolve one or the powders--bi­ carbonate of soda--that druggists sell to make seltzer water. Put the contents of the other pack­ age, tartaric acid, in a playing card rolled up into a tube and tied around with a thread, explains the Chicago News, one end of the tube being sealed^ or plugged, with two pellets of blotting paper. Suspend this miniature cartridge from the cork by means of a piece of thread attached by a tin tack. The open end of the cartridge must be up­ permost, and when all Is ready, you cork the bottle tightly, having allowed enough thread to swing the cartridge clear of the water. To explode the cartridge and dis­ charge your novel cannon, you lay the bottle horizontally upon two pencils on the table; they will act as your gun carriage. Pretty soon the water will penetrate the blotting paper plugs and reach the are Ho two tilings aWlw tn this world--no two atoms alike, no two blades of grass alike, no two peas alike, no two faces alike, won­ derful--most wonderful of all--no two ladies' hats alike! Has this thought ever been impressed upon you while sitting in an assemblage of women? Oh, the wisdom and forethought of nature, for were each woman to have a hat similar to her ^neighbor's what an infinite variety of additional woes and heartaches and tears the human race would have had to bear! And, yet, Mathew Softleigh, born and bred in New York, says the Sun, knew naught of this. His tender brain could not conceive the fact that every­ thing in this world is infinite in its revolutions and ramifications, partlo* iilaxly-4<ylisC hats, so Matthew backed his poor judgment with real money and made a wager with his friend Silas Cute, that he ttouM soon find him two hate that werp alike. Matthew and Silas selected a warm spring day and they walked up and down the great White Way, they promenaded Fifth avenue, they visit­ ed the parks, they strolled to the east aide, the west side and every other side, they visited the theaters, the concert halls, ^he churches; from day to day the quest continued until both were weary and footsore. They saw Gainsboroughs, picture hats, sailors, hats of straw, bats of felt, hats with ribbons, hats with feathers, hats with aigrettes, but no two hats alike. They saw dreams of red and blue and green, as well as nightmares and incubi of Arabian Night's phantasy. There was poetry and prose, music and flowers typified in every one, but no two alike! What ingenuity they repre­ sented, what ceaseless brain activity, what thought, what feeling, what deli­ cacy in some, which if put into a poem or a symphony would earn him or her a place in the Hall of Fame! Matthew lost his bet, and it is well that he did. There should be no two hats alike, there are no two hats alike and there never will be two hats alike. Nature, like woman, is feminine; she has a variety of moods, of expression, of beauty, of color, of form and figure, and a woman's hat is the embodiment, the epitome of her every thought, her every wish, her every desire. Not one woman is like another; neither can her hat be. And when the time comes that two hats are found alike then will genius have reached Its limit and the world will have lost all its beauty and ftll that makes life worth living. IT HAPPENED IN jtKSfcY There Was One Han Who Didn't Enow About the San Frandaoo Earthquake. • |v"; FIRING THE BOTTLE CANNON. tartaric acid. Effervescence will at once jtake place, and the carbonic add gas thus generated will throw the cork i from the bottle with a loud report, the cartridge trailing after it like a rocket. : And you will have a still further imitation of field artillery in the recoil of the bottle, which will roll back sev­ eral inches. I Make this little experiment; It ]£ both pretty and harmless. -- • j.. .0; Eating Snails. Do you know how many snails are said to be consumed in New York city In one week alone, when the season is at Its height? Why, in the neigh­ borhood of 20,000! - They do not seem a very tempting food, but epicures like them, and pay high prices for the dainty. The supply comes from France, and it is stated that they are such a profitable product, that vine­ yards* are given m> as food for the snails, which bring better prices than grapes. Not all the world knew of the San Francisco earthquake. Within the range of vision one has from the top of the Fiatiron building there was dis­ covered the other day complete igno­ rance of the calamity, says the New York Sun. The discovery came as a joke to some literary folk who live the sim­ ple but busy life In a cottage among the New Jersey bills an hour's ride from New Yo.rk. With the rural free delivery bringing the city paper on the day of issue they keep in touch with the outer world, and it was only the morning after it occurred that they learned of the earthquake and fire. The nearest habitation to the cot­ tage is a farmhouse whence daily vis­ its are made for the purchase of milk. During the visit of Wednesday, the day of the earthquake, none of the farmer's family, allt gossips of the usual bucolic type, mentioned San Francisco at all. On Thursday night, the visitor, while waiting for the milk pail to be filled, remarked, apropos of a threatening sky, that she hoped there might be rain in San Francisco, too. • - "Why," asked the farmeff,,v: f^pon't they have rain out there?" v Amazed that anyone should not know about it, the visitor told in a rush of excited words of the blow that had fallen on the Pacific coast city. The farmer stopped milking to listen open mouthed. . "Durned if I heerd a word about it," he drawled, when the visitor conclud­ ed. "You see, I hain't been daown to the village sense Monday, an' don't do much readin' here. The Boonvllle pa­ per comes every week, but Samanthy's eyes hez been so bad lately guess she hadn't read the last copy." The next evening the visitor broueht, besides the milk pail, a bundle of New York papers. "Now," she said to the farmer's wife, "you can read all about the earth­ quake In San Francisco." "Land's sake!" cried Sam«ntha, "was it San Francisco? Silas said it Cincinnati." ' - / THEY A' HING THEGITHEB. w jQnard (searching for lost property) --Hae ye a black mackintosh in there' Passenger--Na; we're a' Red Alac- gregors.--Ally Sloper. ... *'jf - A. ' ":'TW Not Literature^" " . "Then your husband doe3n*t p~retcn<$ to be a literary man?" "Oh, no; he is able to make a living eat of the things he wrttsa." Chioegi Record-Herald. Compliment for Englfrfe. . Chinese Commissioner Shang Chi Heng before leaving England for France recently paid the British quite a compliment in a farewell interview. He said: "What has chiefly impressed me is the dignity and solidity of your nation. There is a compactness of spirit and conservatism which in spite of any political differences keeps the race well together. You remind me of the Chinese in this respect." Detective Story. "With unerring accuracy he fastened the crime on the beautiful woman. "Aha!" he cried, as he wiped his brow and closed the lagt loophole. For then did Jones thankfully real­ ize that he had his wife's waist but- toneu all the way up the back.--N. Y. San. Varying Conditions. "What sort of a man is Jinks?" "The impression you get of Jtaks depends on the circumstances under which you meet him. If you're there to collect money, you won't like him, but if you're there to pay money he seems a lovely character."--Washing­ ton SU1. Preliminary Profit. Mrs. Glub-dub--Did your dangfctei marry well? Mrs. FUnvFlam--Yes, Indeed; she had a trip all over Europe before the fivtvee.--Life. Otmtrary to Stories Circulated Scftne Time Ago That He Was Defec­ tive, He Manifests Groat * Precocity. .. * & tffeert time ago the'l&^-g&iied wide circulation that the czarawitz, the oikly son of the czar of Russia and heir to the throne, and over whose advent such rejoicing took place in Russia two years ago, was deficient mentally and phyiscally; the story going on to say that the child, al­ though now over two years old, had not talked or walked and seemed not only to be dumb, but deaf as well. At the time this report was going the rounds of the newspapers, a pic- tfctfs* of the child was printed which told another story, and made it hard to believe that so bright and beautiful looking n_ baby could actually be lack­ ing in physique and mentality. As far as one could judge from the pho­ tograph, which was said to be one of the latest taken of the young heir, and from which the splendid line draw­ ing herewith produced was made, the son of the Russian ruler possessed a well-molded body, a pretty head, poised gracefully on sturdy shoulders and a face on which was stamped intelli­ gence ang amiability. And now in harmony with the ap­ pearance of the picture another story is being told of the precocity of the little czarawltz. At the age of 14 months, it is said, he could already distinguish his nurses by name, and now begins to spout Muscovite nouns of 25 consonants, koks preferred. Near the battlefield of Lobovltz, In Bohemia, they have a brook that flows along for a couple of yards without any vowels at all. The Brotlenka, or something worse, but the heir of all the Russlas would probably manage to pronounce It. He can also fac-simile kitten mewls and imitate caterwauls --Wagnerian efforts perhaps excepted. When brigadier generals strut into his presence he scrutinizes them with a sort of zoological Interest, and after handling their sabers will walk around to see If nature has developed brass tackle on both sides. Two years Is a little early for an es­ cort of pedagogues; but this little Muscovite has already four of them, including a supervisor of his gym­ nastic amusements. The rest are kind­ ergarten experts In various rudiments of science, and the one for "elements of construction' Is kept busy straight­ ening out the building blocks which the descendant of the Ruriks Is piling to realize his palatial Ideals. The col­ lapse of his Kremlins does not dis­ courage him at all. He routs an In­ truder In the shape of a suspected THE TOUkO HEIR TO THE RUSSIAN THRONE. French poodle, and tfien clears the ground for the work of reconstruction. But there BeemS to be one dark cloud on the horizon, and that Is the ominous predictions of Prof, Hertwig, of historical omen studies, and others, who say that the czar's kingdom is doomed and that only trouble and that of the most distressing kirfd awaits the young heir. Prof. Hertwig holds that ' the wunderkind's ("Wonder Kid's") chances for domination are nil The Russian empire, he predicts, will be split up Into a wilderness of repub­ lics, with a great probability that the work of disintegration will bejgln with a contagious revolt. Somewhere in Finland, Poland or the Caucasus an insurrection will make headway, and a world of mal­ contents will fly to arms. Often smothered sparks will rise In Irrepres­ sible flames and the throne of the Ro­ manoffs will come down with a crash. And even more solemn warning comes from Frapc$, Col. Maurice Gas- car, "the pious Pagan," as his com­ rades call him, has no doubt that the days of czardom are numbered. But the prediction of a learned mul­ lah of Erivan, a sort of Mohammedan divine, who had, It Is said, foretold the fall of Port Arthur, has caused the Czar the greatest unrest. When the former had looked upon the picture of the czarowltz he said: "He is a Jen- net-al-Rhas, a doomed child. Rank, health, wealth, beauty, intelligence mean mischief whenever they come to­ gether. It never fails." The mullah's prediction has stalked abroad, and is said to have cost the czar many a sleepless night. % For the woman with who Is obliged to satisfy her desire for beauty and tasteful variety on a mod­ erate Income, housekeeping becomes a matter of nice balances, especially in regard to the table. Success is made possible, however, by a minute atten­ tion to details. Variety isX^e spice of life, and where the dull level of plain pie and pudding is varied with a de­ licious dessert, simplicity may be ex­ ercised in the rest of the menu, or vice versa, the elaborate dinner may hare for its dessert a basket of apples or other'fruit. Gelatine forms the basis of a large variety of refreshing des­ serts, of which I rive a few: Snow Pudding.--^Dissolve half a box of gelatine in a pint of water, adding the juice of two lemons and a cupful of sugar. Bring to a boll, strain, and when partly cool, add the whites of two eggs, and beat till white. Pour Into a mold, and when cold turn into a glass dish, and pour around it a cus­ tard made with the two yelks and one more egg. Lemon Foam.--Soak half a box of gelatine In enough cold water to cover for two hours. Squeeze four lemons, and mix the strained juice with a large cupful of sugar. Beat the yelks of four eggs thoroughly. Add water enough to the yelks to make a pint, and cook with the lemons and sugar In double boiler till it thickens. Strain Into a bowl, and when cool, but not stiff, add the whites of the eggs, and beat steadily till it begins to set. Heap irregularly in a glass dish. Princess Pudding.--One pint of fine bread crumbs, one cupful of sugar, one quart of milk, the beaten yelks of four eggs, the grated rind of a lemon, a piece of butter the size of an egg. Bake until done, but not watery. Whip the whites of the egg stiff, to which add a cupful of sugar into which has been strained the juice of a lemon. Spread pieces of Jelly over the pud­ ding, add the beaten whites, and pat into the oven to brown. To be eaten oold. 4 Raisin Pie.--Simmer three-quarters of a pound of raisins in half a pint of water. When cool, mix with an egg, a dash of lemon, a little sugar and a cupful of rolled cracker crumbs. Bake in two crusts. Lemon Pie.--Have crust for pie baked. When cool, put Into It the fol­ lowing mixture, made of two eggs, one teacupful of sugar, one tablespoonfu! of butter, three tablespoonfuls of corn­ starch, one cupful of boiling water and one lemon. Put grated rind and juice of lemon, butter, sugar and boiling water together In a vessel, and let come to a boll. Beat yelks and corn­ starch, and piour Into the boiling mix­ ture. When baked, add beaten whites, and brown. Chocolate Pudding--Butter the size of an egg, half a cflpful of sugar, the whites of four eggs, a cupful of rolled cracker crumbs, half a cake of grated Chocolate. Flavor with vanilla, and boll in a mold for one hour. Japanese Fruit Ice.--Make a pint of syrup, of sugar and a little water, by boiling until a little dropped Into cold water will form a soft ball. Pour hot over the beaten whites of two eggs, and beat again until white. Mix with a quart of berries or the juice and rind of six lemons, and freeze.--Country Gentleman. COOL HOME-MADE DRINKS. feed Coffee and Tea Nectar Refresh­ ing, as Also Strawberry and Angel Frappea. A GOOD SHELF SUPPORT. Eyelets and Strong Wire All That Is Necessary to the Putting Up of Shelf. Here Is a cheap and eflBefeat shelf support It requires four screw eyes and two pieces of galvanized Iron--No. 8 to No. 14, according to length of shelf and load to be carried. The diagram shows the form of wire braces and method of putting up. For bending the wire, a tool made of strap Iron, one-eighth by six inches, with a hole drilled through one-fourth inch from one end, to admit the wire, will be THE SHELF SUPPORT. found convenient. The screw eyes should be long enough to reach well Into the studding. If a series of shelves, one above the other, is want­ ed, the upper screw eyes for one may be used as the lower set for next shelf above. The end of shelf should ex­ tend about two inches beyond the wire support, to avoid all danger of slip­ ping. For a very long, heavily loaded shelf, place extra wires at Intervals to prevent bending.--Gordon Dins- moor, in Success. „ ^ » SIMPLE GATE HINGE. Twisting of Two Pieces of Reuikd Iron Hakes a Host Satisfae<< p tory Article. To make this hinge two pieces of round iron will be required, says the National Tribune. Heat the pieces and twist them around twice, as illus- A SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE GATE HINGE, trated, then bend the ends out and flatten them for screw holes, as at A and B. The twisted part will act as a screw, and the weight of the gate will cause it to close itself. NEW WATER TURBINE?, Designed to Drive Electrical Gener­ ator at Sewell's Falls, New Haven, Conn. Called. "William Henry?" "Yes--yes, Maria.* ' "What are you doing?" "Reading about the 'man with the tnuck rake.'" •••>• "Well, you go right In that garden and let me see you be the man with the garden rake and be quick about It--Chicago Daily News. Unlike Mother. "You can't cook like motheir could," growled Newed. "No," replied Mrs. Newed, "and I can't take you across my knee and wield a slipper like your mothci oould, either."--Chicago Daily News. A Fellow Feeling. Uncle Rastus--Who was dat man whut saved you from lynchln*? Deacon Johnsing--De gem man was once a baseball umpire.--N. Y. Sun. Can't Shake TEro. "Still hanging on to those town tots IB the suburbs?" "Not a bit of It. They're hanging oq to me now."--Chicago Tribune. Iced Coffee.--Make two plaits . of good, strong coffee, and clear It with the beaten white and shell of an egg. Strain, sweeten and let it get cold Add the juice of one lemon and set the mixture In ice for an hour. Serve in cups or claret glasses with a little whlped cream on top. Tea Nectar.--Draw one and a half pints of strong tea for three minutes and pour off into a bowl. Sweeten to taste with sugar, the juice of a lamon and a wlneglassful of brandy, fee for an hour, decorate with thin slices of leifton cut in quarters and serve in small glasses. Strawberry Frappe.--For one quart of ripe berries use four lemons, three cupfuls of sugar and three pints of water. Crush the berries with the Bugar, and let them stand an hour be­ fore adding the juice of the lemons and the water. Mix weH. pour into a freezer and stir for 15 or 20 minutes. Pack In Ice for an hour or two and serve In glasses with or without whip­ ped cream on top. ' Melon Sherbet.--Boll one pint of water with half a pound of sugar for 20 iplnutes, then stir in a little gela­ tin melted in cold water. Add the strained juice of two lemons, half a pint of melon juice and then the beaten whites of two eggs. Whisk all togeth­ er and partially freeze. Angel Frappe.--Dip half a pound of lump sugar in the strained juice of some white currants and boil them to the "thread" point. Beat the whites of two eggs till stiff, then pour on the sugar and continue beating. Whip a pint of double cream, add a quarter of a pint of currant Juice, mix all quick­ ly together and freez^ without stir­ ring until nearly solid. Serve In tall glasses with a few white currants in the bottom of each. A 9Q0-horse power water turbine, having three sets of blades, has been designed for driving electrical genera To Remove BuA i To remove rust irom a kettle put into it as much hay as it will hold; fill it with water and boil it many hours; if the kettle is not entirely fit for use repeat the process. It will be certainly effectual. Rub the rusty spots on the stove with sandpaper, then with swee' oil. THE DIAGRAM OF VTATER TURBINE. tors at Sewall's Falls, New Haven The use of three sets of blades allows its adaptation to the variations In head which occur between the maximum fall of 16 feet and the minimum of 12 feet. The upper and lower runners discharge downward and the middle one dis­ charges upward. This tends to balance the turbine shaft and relieves some or the strain on the thrust bearing. This installation, says the Electrical Magazine, is typical of what- can be done with low variable falls and should provide material for others of a similar nature where recourse to steam or oth­ er power may be under consideration. The efficiency of this turbine is esti­ mated at 75 to 78 per cent. Hetbods by Which the New ¥i Waterway Is Being Prosecuted "1 Hear Oneida Lake. Alftreat .expanse of marsh bmd H dotted here and there with miniatum lak?s, cut by turbulent little rivulet* and flanked on each side by clay ami sand levees stretching away into th* distance. In this desolate waste um unsightly stumps of trees and 3limy^ tangled undergrowth, dead branches off trees and Indescribable debris. In tte distance a huge machine Is vomiting billows of black smoke, and from it* interior an endless chain of immens* scooplike pans shoots forth and disap­ pears into the earth; one bucket after another reappears, describes a circle^ deposits great quantities of dirt in as even, mammoth pile and dives into tip* earth again for more. / As one flounders and slides along j|a the slippery mud of the tops of one Of the levees and gazes upon this chaos of activity, it is hard to imagine that he is viewing the preliminary work on a section of the great barge canal, which is to revolutionize water trans* portatlon in the Empire state, says tl*» New York Tribune. Since last October this preliminary work has been going on in the sectiea running into Oneida lake from the east. Some idea of the immensity of the work may !>e gained from the know­ ledge that in the section in the vicinity of Oneida lake all of the last winter has been devoted to erecting two mam* moth levees which serve to keep bade flood waters from the proposed bed Of the canal. These levees have been built by a machine which is the first of its kind ever used in this country. In ap­ pearance It resembles a large concrete mixer. It was made in Germany and set up on the canal here by German ex­ perts. It works, too, upon the sam# i " , i DIGS CANAL AND BUILDS LEVEE SAME TIME. plan as a concrete mixer. The engia# drives an endless chain to which at* attached large pans with sharp, scoOp- like noses, which dig into the earth, each to a uniform depth, and deposit upon a pile of uniform height its load. The machine can be run backward and forward upon a railroad track at th* will of the engineer. A ditch can be dug to any reasonable depth by sim­ ply lowering the chain of pans. Tits advantage of this machine lies In tbt fact that while it is building a levee It is also cutting the sloping embanfey ment for the canal. It will excavate 1,200 cubic yards in eight hours. The methods of canal building now in vogue are In striking contrast wit!* those of 1817, when the first canal was dug. Now earth is taken out at the rate of 65,000 yards a month of 2C working days. The invention of a Chicago engineer, cow dead, will sooat be placed at work on the canal near Rochester. This machine, costing 1100,000, Is designed to seize a heap of blasted rock, elevate the large load and carry It beyond the range of work. By way of contrasting old canal making methods with the present, it may ha stated that 60 men, with machinery, excavate as much now in 24 hours as was excavated by 400 men In the same length of time on the original Erfa canal. CLEAN HOUSES WITH STEAM New Hethod by Which the Work Quickly and Effectively Performed. *t' In England a new method of deaiiil ing the exterior of buildings has beea introduced, says Popular Mechanic*. A workman dressed in waterprooC clothes and with face carefully pro* w yJr< Care of the Hands. Thr^w a handful of bran in the wash water. Wash them very ofte: In very hot water, but do not go o for an hour afterward. It injures the hands to expose them to cold air after washing. Use the skin food on them. .? An Ideal Duster. chamois skin soaked in cold water and then wrung nearly dry Is the ld§ak duster. It can be used on the flnelit turnlture and it wili It dean, bright surface. . ; * Worship Bismarck as God. A missionary lately returned from South America says that an Indian tribe there worships Bismarck as a god. Last year the Indian tribe's crops were failing from drought. The | chief, having seen at a farmer's hut > the picture of the Iron Chancellor, cut i out from an Illustrated German pa- j per, asked the farmer to make him ai present of the print, which request! was willingly agreed to. Thereupon j the Indians brought the picture in great procession to their temple, and, strange to say, a welcome rain wa­ tered the lands of the tribe. Since that time the deity of the chancellor, whom the Indians call Bimbarko, ts firmly established, and all kinds of reptiles are offered up to him in sac- rlflce. - To Tell Stee? from Iron. To distinguish 8t«el from iron apply a d*"op ot nitric teid and let It »a- inain for s moment, then rinse with water. If the metal is iron a whitish- grayish spot will remln; if steel, a! Them is about eae a.»«klag a»r»t JET OF STEAM USED TO CLEJUt HOUSE. tected handles india-rubber tubes h|f" means of which a jet of hissing steam is played over the building, cleansing i t b e a u t i f u l l y . I l l ' • "rft'X Oldest Tree in the World. ' The oldest tree in the world is said to be the famous dragon' tree of Tea- eriffe, which is estimated to be from 4,000 to 6,000 years of age. The won- del of the plant world was 70 feet o* more in height until the year 181$ when, during a terrific storm, one of the large branches was broken off. A similar storm in - 1367 stripped th* trunk of Its remaining branches aaip lift H standing alone. . „ Canadian Hloa. ^ Canadian mica has been tlrii steadily in value trow 1S95 to the pres­ ent time, an.l that of India has bee* almost as steadily decreasing in value; ao that, where in 18&a the imported value of Indian mica aaines was near* ly three times that of Canadian mica*, in 1904 Canadian mica stood higfeiff than Indian. black stain. A/ '-.-.i m •:> week pattttt**. . . . . . .