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CAVES 0F YUCATAN.
Were the Abodes of PeOple of a.
Prehistoric Race.
Scientific Expeditions {Sent Out from
.' Pennsylvania to Secure Relics
' of a Race Anterior to
the Mayas.
‘ If there is one thing more than an-
other which archaeologists would hail
with delight it would bevthe discovery
which would unlock the mysteries of
the Maya stone monuments and give to
the world the keys to the history of
the early races of Central America, as
the discovery of the Rosetta. stone un-
locked the history of ancient Egypt.
There has been for many years a dis-
pute as to the degree of antiquity which
is to be accorded to the remains that
are foufil in Central America. One sa-
vant carries them back to a time al-
.most contemporary with ancient
Egypt, while another will not allow
thatthey are much earlier than the
days of the Montezumas or the time of
the discovery of the continent by Co-
lumbus. If the Maya tongue was as
open a book as the records of ancient
Egypt this question might be settled.
Who were the builders of Uxmal‘.’
Whence came the ancient race that
carved the strange figures and char-
acters that are found on the altar slabs
at Palenque? No one, can tell. After
years of research we are but a little
closer to the heart of the riddle than
we were half a century ago.
Recently the inquiry has taken an—
other turn and the effort has been
made to ascertain something about
the prehistoric races that it was s‘up—
posed might have preceded the Maya
Indians in the occupation of the Yuca-
tan peninsula. There are in the hills
of Yucatan many caves, not large in
extent, butwhich it was believed would,
upon investigation, show in the de-
posits which might be found on their
floors some traces of prehistoric man
in that region. The. earlier races found
shelter in caves, built fires the-re, and
in the refuse of the ash heap are. found
the bones of the animals they consumed
and the fragments of the tools, utensils
and weapons that they used. Relics
of importance might be found in the
hill caves of Yucatan, and so an expedi-
tion was sent out from the' University
of Pennsylvania to examine these caves
and investigate the “kitchen middens,”
or “culture beds,” as science calls the
soil of which the. floors of these caves
is composed. The expedition was in
charge of Henry C. Mercer and was
known as the Corwith expedition, and
Mr. Mercer has written an entertaining
and valuable account of their re,-
searches. Ten 0.an were examined,
and the method followed was that usu-
ally employed in such cases. Trenches
are dug across the floor with great
care, the earth removed in layers and
carefully examined for relics and frag-
ments of pottery, bones of animals,
arrowheads and other weapons. It
was hoped that there would be found
traces of a. race anterior to the May-as.
In this the explorers were doomed to
disappointment They did not find
any traces of the prehistoric man; but
they found that the people who came
to‘the caves were generally identical
with the race that had reared the cities
whose ruins have excited so much at-
tention and wonder. They brought
with them whatever degree of culture
they were possessed of and had not
, developed after their arrival in Yuca-
tan. It was also established that these
people had reached the country in geo-
logically recent times. It will thus be
seen that not. all the results of the ex-
pedition were of a negati character
and that some of them w§bf impor-
tance from a scientific point’of view.
It was ascertained that in all probabil-
ity the ancient Mayas were cannibals.
They were an agricultural people and
not given to hunting to any great ex-
tent.
Nearly all the caverns contained wa—
ter, and it was that fact which first led
these earlier races to resort to them.
The party devoted its entire time to
cave explorations and did not study the
ruined cities. The fact was estab-
lished that no prehistoric race preceded
the Mayas on the Yucatan peninsular,
but no fresh clews were obtained as to
how far back into the past, that occupa—
tion extended—Brooklyn Eagle.
Not for Carriage Wheels.
It is not generally understood as it
should be, perhaps, that bicycle wheels
seldom or never are subjected to lateral
strains. They need to resist only those
strains which pass through their own
plane and in this plane only have they
any strength worth speaking of. This
is worth remembering when the use
of wheels of this type is being consid-
ered for three or four wheeled vehi-
cles, where the conditions are essen-
tially different and where, in turn-
ing corners rapidly, or in' going over
ground that causes the vehicle to be
inclined sideways, a. very considerable
lateral strain may be brought upon the
wheels—a strain which the ordinary
bicycle wheel is, very properly, entire
ly unfitted for. This is to be consid-
ered also in connection with devices
for attaching two bicycles side by side
to make a duplex or four-wheeled ma-
chine of them. Neither the frame, the
bearings nor the wheels of a properly
constructed bicycle are adapted to such
use without injury—Chicago News.
Menu for a Children’s Party.
A very good menu for a child’s party
may consist of bouillon, with bread-
sticks and celery, creamed chicken in
little paper cases, served with tiny
homemade biscuits, sandwiches of
tongue and white bread rolled with
celery, and ice cream, with such ligtht
cakes as macaroons and lady fingers.
Lemon or orange jelly in orange shells
may be served in place of ice cream.
Have for favors the bonbons that con~
tain pretty tissue paper caps and bon-
nets, and a cake containing a ring,
or in its place a little gift for each
child—Philadelphia Times.
FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. :
Kier Hardie says there is more real
poverty in America than in England.
As an acknowledgment of Queen Vic-
toria’s hospitality to his son a few
months ago the ameer of Afghanistan
has just sent her presents valued at
.9 120,000.
Li Hung Chang, says John W. Foster,
neglects no opportunity to express his
zadmirat-ion for America and Ameri-
cans.‘ He has an Aerican tutor for his
children.
A French newspaper publishes the
following advertisement: “M. Emile
Zola, of Plambeuf, inventor of the
spring nippers, notifies his customers
that he has nothing in cemmon with his
namesake, Emile Zola, the writer.”
Princess Letitia, dowager duchess of
Aosta, has had a $20,000 necklace, a
wedding present from King Humbert,
stolen from her." Several persons be-
longing to her household in Turin have
been arrest-ed. The necklace has been
sold in France.
During the interchange of compli-
ments at Cannes between Mr. Gladstone
and President Faure, of France, the lat.-
ter asked the great Englishman if he
found time hanging heavily upon his
hands. “N0,” answered the grand old
' man; “I follow very closely the affairs
of my country. The man who has noth-
ing to do is the most miserable being in
existence—the most to be pitied.”
FASHION’S GIDDY WHIRL.
White satin and silk are made into
collars, collarettes and cuffs to wear
with thindres‘ses. -
Collarettes and fronts of green taffeta.
are much admired, and will be worn
with dresses of almost all summer ma-
terials.
IIeliotrope and orange is a new com-
bination. It. is just.- tolerable if the
proper shades are placed together. If
not, it is atrocious.
Skirts of lawn and dimity and or-
gandie are made up with ruffles,
trimmed with narrow Valenciennes
lace, with a scalloped edge. '
A girl’s hat has a wide brim, peaked
over the front and faced with velvet.
The Tam O’Shanter crown is. of velvet,
and there are loops and quill feathers
at the side.
Bright green is to be one of the pop-
ular colors of the season. It is specially
liked with the new linens and dimitics,
which are among the. most desirable
for the coming warm-weather dresses.
A dressy afternoon costume is made
of white Irish poplin. It has the usual
full-gored skirt and a waist fitted at
the sides and back, and with entire
front and very full sleeves of crepon.
The collar, shoulder seams, front and
division between the puffs of the sleeves ‘
are trimmed with gold galloon.
THE DOINGS OF WOMEN.
Women in Holland are employed as
watchers at the railway crossings, and ,
no accident has ever occurred through
a woman’s carelessness.
Miss Virginia POpe is a head window-
di'esser for a large dry goods estab-
lishment in Buffalo, and receives next
to the largest salary paid in the estab-
lishment. .
An enterprising woman in a large
city has made a study of entertaining
children, and has turned her acquire-
ments in this line to practical account.
She assists at children‘s parties, ar-
ranging beforehand an entertainment
suitable to the age and tastes of the
company.
This year Calve is the best paid of
the singers in the Metropolitan opera
company, getting more than Melba or
De Reszke. She has an offer from an
American manager for a tour of the
country next year in “Carmen,” 50 per-
formances, $2,400 a night.
The term “abigail,” as applied to
ladies’ maids, originated from the Chris-
tian name of Mrs. Masham, better
known as Abigail Masham, at first
a waiting-maid upon Queen Anne, and
at last the intriguing favorite who sup-
planted the duchess of Marlborough in
the good graces of that sovereign.
SEMI-NEWSY AND INTERESTING.
The old-fashioned gavotte and redowa
are again the fashionable dances in
Paris.
The conscience fund at Washington
has been increased by a $15,006 contri-
bution from LOndon.
A huge egg-bake was witnessed re-
cently in Ovid, Mich. A warehouse took
fire, and in it were 72,000 eggs, all of
which were baked hard.
A cougar, six feet long, and two well~
growu cubs were killed near The Dalles,
Ore., recently. The family had carried
off many calves and sheep from neigh-
boring ranches.
Oakland, Cal., claims to be the
healthiest city in the world, or, at any
rate, in the United States. The death
rate has fallen since 1882, when it was
3.56 a thousand. Last year it was 11.85
a thousand.
A tramp at Decatur, 1nd,, rescued Miss
Elvira Rex from drowning. She had
been skating and fell through the ice.
Her rescuer has since been a guest of
the young lady’s family, and will be
started in business by the grateful
parents.
ABOUT THE WORLD’S NAVIES.
It is the custom of ships lying at the
Brooklyn navy yard to discharge their
powder before entering the docks, as
a precaution against accidents.
A torpedo boat was successfully trans-
ferred by .rail from St. Petersburg to
Sebastopol a little while ago, and a num-
ber of others will now be sent in the
same way to the Black sea fleet.
By the end of the present year Eng-
land will have under construction or
newly c0mpleted 13 battle ships, 36
cruisers and 68 torpedo boat destroyers.
Between the years 1835 and 1895 Eng-
land’s increase in naval strength was 37
per cent, that of France 42 per cent,
Russia’s 71 per cent, and Germany
doubled the number of its war ships.
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THE" FINDINGS OF SCIENCE.
Messrs. De Morgar and Meir, during
their excavations in the neighborhood
of Gizeh, discovered an almost perfect
yacht or pleasure vessel, which has
been ascribed by c "ports to the 11th or
12th dynasty, or about 3000 B. C.
While boring a well at Mulhausen,
Alsace, the temperature was taken at
various depths. At 1,650 feet the ther-
mometer recorded 160 degrees F.; at
770 feet, 6-11/3 degrees. From this last
point down the variation was an in-
crease of one degree to every 22 feet.
Two English bacteriologists conclude
that an average of 1,500 microbes must
be inhaled into the nose every hour,
while in London the number must often
reach 14,000. The organisms are caught
by the nose and pass to the digestive
organs, which in health destroy them.
At the Pasteur institute in Paris 1,520
persons were treated last year, of whom
but two' died, the smallest proportion
yet attained. In~tcn years 17,337 per-
sons have been inoculated, 85 of whom
died. Nearly a third of the patients
last year came from Paris and its neigh-
borhood.
Lemons are considered healthful be-
cause the acid they contain acts as a
diuretic, having power to excite the se-
cretions, and thus regulating the sys-
tem. They must, of course, be used
in moderation, or they will pull on the
appetite and cease to have any medicinal.
effect.
iPEOPLE ABROAD.
Etienne Chatelain, who died a short
time ago at Cornwall, Ont., at the age
of 109, left a widow, aged 90, and 275
descendants.
M. 'Wierokin, chief of police at “Var—
saw, has died of st-rychninp poisoning.
One of his servants, who is believed to
have relations with the nihilists, has
been arrested on suspicion. .
Lord Ranfurl y recently had the Dun-
gannon town council to dinner, and
after they left they found that a val-
uable heirloom, a gold snuff box pre-
sented to John, Earl of Bute, by George
IL, had disappeared.
Mr. Arthur Balfour came to grief
with his bicycle in “’hitechapel the
other day. He got jammed in the crowd
of vehicles and had to take the pieces
of his bicycle to Downng street in a
hansom cab.
The royal family have never given up
the custom of wearing crape; Queen
Victoria has always worn it, and when
her majesty and any of the princesses
have attended the funeral of relatives
they have worn crape veils almost to
the ground.
Of all the sovereigns of the world, the
shah of Persia is said to possess the
largest treasure in jewels and gold or—
naments, it being valued at $60,000,000.
The chief object of value is the Old
crown of Persian rulers, in the form of a
pot of flowers, which is surmounted by
an uncut ruby the size of a hen’s egg.
ART AND MUSIC.
Thorneycroft’s statue. of Queen Vic-
toria will be set up in the Royal ex‘
change on the Queen’s birthday.
Mascagni’s new opera, “Vest-i113,”
will include a gladiatorial scene in a
Roman amphitheater.
Franz von Lenbach, who has just
finished another portrait of the pope,
says that his holiness is greatly inter-
ested in Prince Bismarck. He. could
not hear enough about the ex-chan-
cellor from the painter, and ended by
ordering a portrait of him.
In Germany a city of‘25,000 people
which has not heard “Lohcngrin” is a
curiosity, but Worms had that distinc-
tion until recently. It is rather curious.
for, as the city of Nibelung legend,
Worms is more closely associated with
the Wagner Operas than any other ex.
cept Nuremburg.
It is an interesting fact that the new
president of the Royal academy, in
common with others of his colleagues,
has in the course of his career been a
sign painter. Sir John Millais, in the
early days, long before he met the tide”
which carried him on to fortune, paint-
ed a “St. George and the. Dragon” for
the Vidder inn at Hayes, in Kent.
SPRY OLD PEOPLE.
Calvin Flint, of Williamstown, Vt,
who was 88 years old last January, has
split 40 cords of tough firewood the past
winter. ‘
Mr. and Mrs. Moulder, of Honey
Creek, Ind., are hale and hearty nona-
genarians. They have just celebrated
the (39th anniversary of their, marriage.
‘ Mrs. Annie Merrifield, of Limington,
Me., is still industrious at the age of 94.
She spends most of her time in knitting
socks, which are sold in Portland.
Michigan’s oldest practicing physi-
cian is Dr. William Sprague, of Cold-
water. He is 90 years old, and has prac-
ticed in that town more than half a'
century.
Chief Justice Mercer Beasley. of New
Jersey, now‘an octogenarian, not:
on the-bench for nearly ~10 years. "11"»-
spite this advanced age,” says til». Philo-
delphia Record, “his intellect is
bright as ever, and his sense of humor I
as keen as it was 50 years ago.”
DECISIONS OF THE COURTS.
Certain Oxford tradesmen were re-
cently fined $25 apiece for selling Amer-
icans ham as Irish.
The Louisiana supreme court has (In--
cided that the Sunday liquor law ap-
plies to social clubs. _
A Russian naval lieutenant at Sebas-
topol who struck his captain has been
degraded from his rank and condemned
to 18 years’ hard labor.
‘To emphasize his opinion upon a dis-
agreeable thcme, a teacher in Honey—
brook, Pa., embellished his comments
with 12 oaths. A magistrate fined him
$8.04, which is 67 cents per oath.
Ina Crabtree,’ aged 14, 01‘
0., was thoughtless enough to whisper
to a companion in‘ church. A’ magis-
trate sentenced her to ten days’ im-
prisonment and to pay a fine of five dol-
lars.
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34- West Main St., Norwalk.
Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and builder
in Norwalk for the past 25 years. and refers to
owners of buildings erected under ins suDeI-
viswn as to worlananship.
, Chilton Paint,
Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. All shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making them uniform and
even. Compare the size of cans and
weight with the cheaper makes. You
get an honest gallon. Give it a trial and
you will be convinced.
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About 300 pairs in this lot.
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