(i Graham County jail, at Clifton, Ar- izona, is probably the most unusual in America. It comprises four large ap- artments, hewn in the side 'of a hill of solid quartz rock. The entrance to the jail is through a boxlike vestibule, puilt of heavy masonry, and equipped with three sets of gates of steel bars. Here and there in the rocky walls WHAT IS A LOBSTER ? srapasipas Suit for damages 1s now pending in the Chicago courts which is based an} an unusual plen--the defendant called the plaintiti "a lobster." Under a re. cent law concerning libel the person sued for calling horrid names can ga iree if he can prove that the alleged "libel" is true. Ii that should enter into this case, some light upon the éxact mature and habits of the genus lobster humanus might be thrown. Ii the defendant were to undertake to prove the truth of his assértion, how would he go about it? ' 'This opprobrious epithet has «ast about among people of all grades of society for several years. When it has struck and stuck to the right person evervhody sees the fitness of the title. But what, exactly, are the main charcteristics of the "lobster ?" "Oh, he's a lobster !"" eoming from the rouged 'Cupid's bow mouth of Dot- ty Dimple, as she waits behind the wings with spear adjusted, ready . to lead the line of 'soldiers brave," means that the gentleman under dis- cussion. is susveptible to the right kind of manipulation which extracts birds 4nd cold bottles from his pocketbook. "Pell me, what is a lobster ¥' was the query put to a 'man who had just growled--the offensive word at the re- treating fi ure of un acquaintance who had® jostled him in the passageway. "Well, a lobster a--"" he paused helplessly. "He's kind of--animal that is alwavs in everybody's way-- out of place, vou know." And he brightened up . with the glow of. one who has 'accomplished that most dif- ficult process 'of "thought, a defimi- tion. "You see, a chap that tries to 'butt in' with another fellow"s girl-- the other fellow calls him a lobster-- 500 >" So that is 'a man's definition. how about the woman's ? "What kind of a man do you call a lobster ¥* 'The - bright young woman who was asked the question' pondered a moment, then said tersely: "A bore. '¥Hl#s always dense and stu- pid." And there you have the two ver- sions. But how came all those repul- sive qualities to be fastened upon that innocent, sugeulent, scarlet-back crea: ture, the emblem of jolly mid-night good-fellowship--the lobster of the sad sea waves? Fm eS bio been a But There zoological a oventury is a paraguet in the London gardens that has lived ior without tasting a arop of mater, | the war of extermination which holes have been blasted for windows, and in these apertures a series _of massive bars of steel have been fitted firmly in the rock. The floor of the rockbound jail is of cement, and the prisoners are confined wholly in the larger apartments. In some places the wall of quartz about the jail, is fifteen feet thick. MICROBE CARRIERS. have they the One thing the bacteriologists done for the country, even if have made life a nightmare with ~thought of microbes on everything we is they have inaugurated against flies and mosquitoes; for they have carried the campaign into the ranks of the little pest of a housefly, as well as organiz- ed regular and universal means to do away with the midnight serenader. The spraying of ponds and other stagnant waters with oil and the re newed attention given to drainage for the purpose of stopping the mosquito method 'of spreading disease have oc cupied much gray matter, bt now comes the fly literature, nih is cal culated to make your hair mise in hor ror at the contents thereof. It is en- vugh to cause a spasm when a fly pauses. to rest and refrésh himself for a moment on' your hand just to recal what you are told that. insect carries around: on his filthy little body. You see every kind of "bug" from typhoid to small-pox, sticking out all. over him. His annoying bite be- comes a secondary eonsideration in comparison. % Through the mails are sent to every- one interested plans for the making of a specially devised fly trap, which is expected to ensnare the wariest touch, taste or handle, and that Some of the most desperate crimin- als on the southwest border have been confined in the Clifton jail, and so solid and heavy are the barriers to escape that no 'one there has ever at- tempted a break for freedom. The no- torious Black Jack was there for months, Clifton is one of the great copper This treak of natute, situated Monterey Bay, Cal., was originally a small oak of ordinary size, but the shifting sands which blow in from the ocean, only a short distance away, gradually covered the trunk and low- and | wigegt; of these household pests. He is | | said to be an easier 'mark' than the mosquito, etuber to stalk or to lure, and this new and deadly device of the | department of the agriculture will ac- complish the ambush without dif ficulty. SHOT AT HIS KING. Probably Prince Nicholas, of Greece, who is ane of King George's five sons, | inherits his wit from his father, for the king's most after his sound common sense; is unfailing good humor. The anecdote is related king was the military quays one dark night when he 'was challenged by, a sentinel. King George, who did not wish to be recognized, took to_ his heels, where upon the sentry fired on him. He was a good shot, and the bullet literally grazed the royal fugitive. entting piece out of his cloak. prominent quality, | 18 that the | prowling Caliph-like about ! ey | that some of the theories of anthro a Next day the sentry was command- | ed to present himsell at where the king received him, after complimenting him both on vigilancevof his watch and the accu racy of his aim, pinned the Order of the Redemption on his breast. , and the palace, | C | eptic the | epilepsy and genius HERE'S A MUCH-GNARLED on , er limbs. mining: camps in Arizona, and has the reputation .of being as depraved a community as yet exists on the fron- tier of civilization. In summer the mercury there frequently rises to 120 in the shade, and in the winter it nev- er goes below forty degrees. Sweet and low- cheap candy. = The top limbs -gradually spread and branched out until it now covers a large area. 'There ave limbs a hundred feet long, all originating from one trunk and RS Np 2%. 770 Fi J TA IU WB NO KY A) HAIR NE EXERCISE. EDS, One reason why so many men are bald, {ourgal, is, because the, By ita dig through wa Under" the skin which covers the head are several muscles, it explains, and these are never stirred into activity, the resalt 'being that they' do not per- form their proper function, and ¢onse- quently the skin is insufficiently nour- ished and the hair gradually dies. 1 "Women." it continues; "do not be- come bald, and the reason is because they spend much more time combine and arranging their hair than men do. During this operation the skin on the head-is stirred-into activity, and as a result the muscles remain active and the hair flourishes. "It is evident, therefore, that the best way to prevent baldness to rub the skin frequently and vicorous- lv. for, unless this is done, the mus- cles will be unable to supply it with the proper amount of allow 1s ART RELICS IN ORDER. In Rome and Naples there are fac- tories in which "ancient" art relics are made to order. Statuettes of Aph- rodite in bronze are manufactured there by the gross, and recently Sev- eral worthless objects were palmed off on unsuspecting tourists as being priceless relies which were unearthed in Macedonia. One factory even succeeded in sell- ing an unusually curious relic to the museum at Athens. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous manufacturers, when the experts examined it they at once discovered that it was bogus and no- tified the Italian authorities. into forty Wood 'intended to be made pianos requires to be kept vears in perfect condition. There are 3,000 words 'which are used alike in French and English with out change in spelling. OAK. twisting in and, out among one other like s0 many giant snakes. Also upon its many branches can be seen the names of many people who have visited this tree. an- IDIOT'S BIG BRAIN: Here is a «ase which seems to show pologists 'are not very sound. Dr. Walsem recently performed an autopsy on the body of a voung man who died in Berlin, at the age of twenty-two, and found, to his amaze- ment, that the brain weighed 2.850 grams. his is the heaviest human brain on record, and yet it belonged to an epil- idiot. True, certain scientists maintain that the border line between is very narrow, and thus they may account for abnormally large hrain. WOMEN HAUL PLOUGH'ROPE. Much has been written about the use of women ag beasts of burden in Europe, and photographs have shown them attached to ropes drawing boats on Holland canals, and sometimes voked with animals pulling farm im- plements. l I WW | \ a It may not be generally known that in some of the foreign colonies of the north-west women have furnished the power for turning over many an acre of sod and converting it into fields for raising grain. . The accompanying 18 illustration and shows a Bohemian farmer furrow ing the virgin prairie with a team 'of members of the col of them are over fifty | Sons a photograph taken in Manitoba fourteen female ony. Several years of afe. this | ! destructive TELEPHONE FIRE GUARD. Novel and up-to-date is the method . of bridling the fire monster when he goes forth to devour a feast of forest that is in use in the San Gabriel for- I est reserve, in California. This is a | chain of fifty telephone stations about the reservem for the special purpose of. giving warning if a fire should break out in the woods. In addition a. patrol of twenty-five rangers are on guard. They carry por- table phones, with which in a sadden emergency they can cut in on the nearest wire and so save valuable time, which would otherwise he wast- ed in reaching the station. This somewhat expensive scheme was put into execution by the electric and irrigation companies, who control the | water and wood facilities alone the | | San Gabriel River. If some one would'! only invent some equally efficacious method of guarding against the ¢ther ! element, water--in/ the | form of rain; especiallv*--he ould benefit the whole human race and in- cidentally become: a multi-billionaire as well. If one could only press button and turn off the weather ! f : iw / There are-four dilierent stafe swords belonging to the city of London. The black sword is usea on fst days, ana during mourning for the roval fam ily. The stairway leading to the tower | | operation las Swiss postal officials are to be em ploved "to assist in the reorpaniza: tion of the Japanese post office. The Swiss postal systém is to he taken gs { a model. Seventy-eight profit-sharing schemes affecting 53,526 work 'people were in vear in this country. The art of papermaking has so aa vanced that excellent material an be ohtamed at small gost. Cameras can grasp more than the naked. eve. This assertion is said to have been proved by the remarkable photograph taken by Herman Vooel an amateur photographer, of Passaic. During a heavy storm pi thunder | a» of the 'Philadelphia city "hall contains | 305 steps and, ds said to he the tall est continuous stairway in the world Ever ROO je to bes pent-on--h-- mountings for the bharbette of the battleship Ring Edward now builhing at Deyvorport Planta. a Swiss, bas, after a tigation, in estab his right | of han the automaohils officials are held tv. before the Son H drouths, famines, natural <alamiti tt vile dranlic uns Vi! Cg long ceden lish redin ny toinvented Chinese Paros, hile hath Vif foot Ww aghoarn ' Shi Perlin lif sense of crete tox An elephant's. SUG ERE icate® that the in Paine at a animal can se distance |, of New Zealand women vogers than men sone towns then are more a + according to a foréign medical ! ar fof exefGse. | nourishment," Here is the sixteen-inch gun which has just been completed at the Water vliet arsenal. * This view shows the muzzle, with 'a man in it weight is 168 pounds. 'I'his gun' is ummense, when one con siders the quality of the metal tained in it, which is, of course, the best thai science and skill can pro duce at the present time. It is built up of nine pieces of steel forgings, the hrst piece being the tube, all in one piece, forty-eight feet long. The whole length of the finished gun is forty- nine feet, the diameter at breech end is five and a hali feet, and at muezle whose WOMEN AS STUDENTS. The remarks of a distinguished Am- erican professor on women gs students of knglish literature as quoted in the Delineator for October will: be inter esting to instructors and students, both men and women. "In seminary work the papers of the women are al- ways. without exception superior to the men's; the best man's paper never equalled the pst woman's paper. In fact. Lpdver Anc a really -able paper from youn men,- except in three cases. | (fink literature teaches that wherever there is a spiritual element women excel. So far as English lit- erature goes, it is scarcely worth while to teach most men. When they come here very few can speak good English. Five hundred words consti tuté their average vocabulary. A large proportion of the men in the general "courses flounder about for years with no aim or object beyond barely getting a diploma at the end, which amounts to nothing. They think more of athletics than of litera ture; of sprawling in the mud at foot ball, ana the mud seems to strike in and affect their souls. Women are far more serious. 1 should long ago have given up the post of English litera ture if it had not been for the inter est shown by women who have come to my classes." BEAUTIFUL ROMAN COFFIN. Near Konia, and within a stone's throw oi the Anatolian railroad, was recently discovered a beautiful marble sarcophagus. Finely carved it is, and in' all' other respects a notable work of art. On the massive "lid is sculptured the figure of a seated man who is reading a sheet of parchment, and on oné of the sides is admirably portrayed a life-like hunting scene. There is scarce lv an inch of the great coffin on which the artist has not worked. In every figure, from the largest to the smallest, he has shown marked evi dence of his skill, especially surprising being the manner in which he has por- traved - the attituaes of the various animals and the costumes of the rid- ers in the hunting scene. The sarcophagus supposea to have been. wrought in the third cen- tury after Christ, and it is now in the musewn' at Constantinople. Since ifs discovery a zealous - search for other works of art bas been. made near Konia, and archeologists are confldent that it will not prove fruitless. 1s The process now in use for collect ing tin from the waste of sheet tin by electricity is comparatively costly, A RARE LIGHTNING PHOTOGRAPH. and lightning Vogel 'stuck his camera out of a doorway and snapped the shutter. The streak of lichtnine was distinctly portrayed on the plate. This same streak of lightning struck a pole a block away and demolished it? con- } two teet four inches' Ti 130 tons, and it is rifled with ninety. FIX OFQOVEN. Fea i 4 he | Iwéeghlonding wachanignt | is operated "by" "the * one "movement fof turning a raph, 'Twenty Tiros of the crank swing' the 'breech : block out reaay for the firing, which is done by pulling a lanyard after the primer has been 'placed in position and coh nected with electric contact. The firing mechanism is connected so as to make it impossible to explode the primer before the breech block is properly closed and locked. SHAH EXEMPT IN COURT. When the Shah of Persia was in Europe he instructed a clipping bu- reau to send him all the notices about his trip, that they might be published in the leading journals. His instruc tions were carried out, and bejore Le left France 43,000 clippings were\sent to him, and with them a bill for 42, 800, \ As the Shah paid no attention to the bill swit was begun in a French court, and the judge recently delivered his decision. : "The Shan of Persia; v.ho ordered these 43,000 clippings," he said, 'is 4 sovereign, and as this was an act of sovereignty on his part, no. French court is competent to iwdge him." The Shah was not represented in court, and the French minister of for- eign affairs declined to draw his at tgntion to the fact that suit had heen begun. Fifty Years After. Iobert Mackav, in 'Success. Oh, days of youth, oi love awl truth, of la bor in the mine, a vanished days in Time's dn "faze oh, days oi Forwv-Nine ! How fecling burns as memory turns to those dear scenes of old, When, pick in hand, a fearless band, roamed 'the wes), for gold | # Oh, Wo From the solemn, snow-crowned 'Rockies, from the hills of Santa Fe, From the Colorado, leaping down its castus- bordered way, To the poppy-glowing valleys by Saint Francis blessed," Every. hill and dale (ears witness of men who "went out west." the bay the the thirsty, sun-parched desert. toiled those stalwart men and Beaconed by they Star of Empire smiling downward from the blue, i Westward, westward, ever westward, till each hillside and 'ravine ¥ ? Opened to them as the heavens opened to ~ + the Florentine. O'er Lang years have fled; shose days are dead: but still _ their wealth is ours; The golden grain on mauy a plain, the or ohards the bowers, lowing herds, the bright-plumed birds, the homes 'of peaceful rest e crown the soil: won by the toil those who. "went out west." The That of Charles Birch, of Hight Wycombe, Bucks, England, because someone stole his broad beaus, advertised for the thief to return and get a piece gf bacon. > Italy amd Spain have fewer houses in proportion to population than agy 'other countries. Argentina and Uri guay have most: : Thea production of anthracite i {1900 in Germany was 100,000,000 tons, |= against (101,000,000 tons in 1899. A large batch of Missouri officials { haye been indicted for playing penn I ante on 4 fishing trip. ¥ Hundreds of people who saw the flash did not realize its magnitude. § is believed that the bolt that hit the pole was from the fork in the flash ag shown on the upper right-hand ade of the plate. :