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MONUMENT IARRED BY AN OWL.
At Least it Caused the Recorded Swaying
of the Washington Plle._
In pne of the many glass cases in
the Smithsonian Institution at VVash-
i-ngton is a stuffed owl. This particular
owl is the one, in the words of the late
President Hayes, “that jarred the
\Vashington Monument,” and therein
lies the story.
During the Centennial 'year Congress
resolved to provide the necessary
funds for the completion of the monu-
ment, which up to that time had been
worked at only while the several
smaller appropriations lasted. It was
discovered, however, that the original
foundation was likely to prove inca-
pable of sustaining the enormous
weight of marble necessary for carry-
ing the shaft 550 feet above terra fir-
ma. A new foundation was theref01e
needed, and a1chitects thought asolid
concrete bed 100 feet squa1e and near- -
1y fourteen feet in thickness would ac~
_ complish the strengthening desired.
During the operation of replacing the
old foundation it was considered ex-
pedient to provide mean-s for noting
carefully the slightest vibration of the
walls lest the monument might be in
danger of collapsing. Accordingly-a
heavy weight was suspended by a
stout th1ead from the apex to a pan
of thick syrup located in the base, so
that no chance drafts of air would be
likely to sway the weight An inge-
nious contrivanrce was so attached t1
the weight that the slightest vibratim
of the shaft would be faithfully rt"
corded, and its insecurity would a
once he an established fact.
One morning, a few months afte'.
these careful precautions had been
taken, there was a great commo-
tion among the workmen. A complete
record of numerous,perturbactions and
tromblings had been written on 'the in-
dex, showing conclusively that' the
mammoth obelisk had jarred, swayed
and settled during the night. Scion-
tific heads were dubiously shaken.
After much persuasion one the men
finally, consented to go to the top and
examine into the cause. The aston-
ishing report came into the midst of
the anxious throng below that an owl
in seekng shelter in the lofty tower,
had somehow managed to catch its
wings in the thread and was still hang-
ing there, suspended in the interior
of the monument, and the innumera-
le fiappings and struggles of his owl-
ship had all been recorded by the in-
dex as testimony against the stability
of plumb— —laid m-a1ble blocks and solid
' -* wncrete. ——Philadelphia Record.
EGYPTIAN WOMEN.
l'hey Consider It Unlucky to Wash Their
Babies Until They Are a Year Old. ‘
" Egyptian women are not allowed to
go out-of-doors as Englishwomeu. are,
and many of them never get beyond
the walls of their houses. The cows
sleep in the same but with the people.
These huts are made of mud, with0ut
windows, and the doors are so small
it is a wonder how the people get in.
Their babies are not washed till they.
are a year old, because it is considered
unlucky to wash them. The Egyp—
tians rarely comb their hair. Their
chief meal is at sunset; at other times
when they are hungry they eat a piece
of bread. They never use plates 01'
knives or forks. All sit around the
table on the floor. Bread is their daily
food, and each family makes for it-
self, as it is looked upon as a disgrace
to buy street bread. The women clean
the corn, and carry it on their heads:
to mill. It is made into small thin
cakes, stuck against the sides of an
oven, and baked’in less than a minute,
A hundred cakes are not too many for
a family of four in a week. Travelers
are usually expected to eat three
cakes apiece. They make butter in
a strange way. A goatskin half filled
with milk is hung on a peg, and then
a woman jerks it too and fro till the
butter s formed. Then she drains it,
but never washes or salts it. The fa-
vorite dish is rice cooked with butter.
An Extraordinary Migration.
One of the greatest mysteries to sci-
entists, one for which there seems to
be no reasonable explanation, is that
concerning the migration of the lem-
ming, or Norway rat. Instead of tak-
ing place once a year, these migra-
tions occur only once in every eleven
When the time comes for the
exodus, the little animals journey west-
ward from Scandinavia, allowing noth-
ing to stop their movements, which
virtually amount to a headlong flight.
They swim the lakes and rivers and
climb the highest mountains in incal—'
cu‘able numbers, devastating the whole
country throng h which they pass.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Decline of a Western Tpvvm
The towns of Woodsdale, Moscow,
and Fargo, in Kansas, which had a
population of eleven hundred in 1890,
have now only a population of eight
een, aCcording to a correspondent of;
The United States Investigator. Hu‘
goton has three families out of the
four hundred that used to live there.-
Nine children go to the $10,000 school‘
house, and there is standing, like a
monument of folly, a'waterworks sys-
tem that cost some Eastern: plutocrat
$30,000. The town' never paid a cent
'of principal or interest on all this and
never will.
“Happened to see your wife on a
wheel yesterday. If I remember, . I
heard you declare you would never
allow her ride.” “Yes,. I know. But
'she‘ hada chance to trade off her pug
dog for a. wheel and I thought I would
c loose the least evil.”-Roxb11ry Ga-
zette. '
- De. man w’at born wise hain’ so li-
able for pr-ofiok by bit as deman w at'
born a fool 1111’ find it- out. —Richmond
Dispatch. '-, '
' THEE VEN 1 N G (1 AZ E I TEE
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i RAISED "l‘HE WRONG FLAG.
I It Caused a Great Commotion 1n the Ru!-
, rslan Fleet.
' Not so very long ago a crack cruiser
0f the new navy ploughed its way
through the Baltic and dropped anchor
off St. Petersburg, according to the
,VVashington Post. There were Rus-
sian craft lying all about, and within
a quarter of a mile of the Yankee
cruiser there was the olive green.
high-turreted flagship of the Russian
squadron, with half a dozen great guns
poking their nose from her barbettes
fore, aft and midships. The white
cruiser, as custom is, ran up her ensign
with a salute of a single gun—that is,
she intended to run up her ensign, but
.what broke out at the yank 0f the hal-
yards was none other than the double-
headed eagle of Russia. Nobody on
board noticed it for a moment, but
what did attract their attention was a;
puff of smoke from the Russian’s for-
ward turret, and almost before the
boom of the g1ent gun had rolled to
them across the water the sta1board
turret roa1ed a. second g1eeting. This
was an excess of courtesy, but sur-
prise increased when the midshi-p bar-
bettes followed suit and the big bow
guns began again in turn.
~In casting eyes over, heaven and
earth to see what in the name of na‘
tions was the moving cause in this
cannonade, the Yankee bluejacks saw
to th lr surprise the Russian ensign,
which ll unintentionally floated from
their own peak. It was plain that the
Russians were saluting their own flag.
The salute was good, but the surprise
was at so much of it. Of course, the
American commander could not haul
down the friendly flag while the salute
was going on, so he kept it up, while
the Russians likewise kept up their
cannonade. It lasted for over an hour,
and every one had lost count of the
shots, but when it did finally cease, to
the further astonishment of the visit-
ors, the Russian admii'al’s barge was
lowered away, filled with a miscellan-
eous load of gold lace and epaulets,
and came skimming along across the
water. An excited load. of Russian
officers came swarming over the side,
which was courteously manned to re
ceive them, though the object of their
coming was a deep and shrouded mys-
tery. They fell on the neck of the
American commander and of his offi-
.cers, swearing eternal friendship and
brotherhood in a potpourri of French,
Russian and English.
The American crew had to take it
all for granted till by a series of diplo-
matic questions they elicited the fact
that it was the Czar's birthday, and
the hoisting of the Russian flag had
been accepted out of hand as the most
delicate sort of an international com-
pliment. The Russians had returned
it with the national salute of 100 guns.
PROCESS OF WHITENING SUGAR.
Discovery Made From 1: Chicken That ha (1
Been \Valking Cl 1y llIud.
The way in which sugar is made
perfectly white, it is said, was found
out in a curious way. A hen that had
gone through a clay-puddle went with
her muddy feet into a sugar house. It
was observed by some one that wher-
ever the tracks were the sugar was
whitened. This led to some experi.
ments. The result 'was the wet clay
came to be used in refining sugar.
It is used in. this way: The sugar is
,put into earthen jars shaped as you
see the sugar-loaves are. The large
ends are upwards. The smaller ends
have a hole in them. The jar is filled
with sugar, the clay put over the top
and kept wet. The moisture goes
down through the sugar and drops
from the hole in the small end of the
jar. This makes the sugar perfectly
white.—Philadeiphia Ledger.
The Turk and the Armenian. .
It must be admitted, says Benjamin
I. Wheeler in the Atlantic, that the.
Armenians are not an easy people to
get on with. They are distinguished
by an eneigy, a b .1sy— ness, and a fond-
ness for acquisition that are almost
super-occidental. They are selfish, per-
sonally unattractive, and strikingly
lacking in traits of nobility and self-
1'espect. The average Armenian is un-
questionably of sharp intelligence so
fat; as small thin-gs go. The saying is
that it takes ten Jews to out wit one
(hook, and ten Greeks to outwit one
Armenian. He is unquestionably ex-
tremely irritating to the quietistic, re-
signed, fatalistic Turk. The two have
little in common. The Armenian is
clearly a pestile’nt fellow, and the Turk
has decided to get rid of him. The
Armenian is a persistent source of un-
rest. He is a “kicker.” What men do
with “kickers,” in the Occidental
scheme of things, is to vote them
down. The Turk knows no other way
than . to-"club them down, out their
heads OK, 01' sink them in the Sea of
Marmora. He is applying the triunc
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p. , vorce is limited .-New York Journal "
recipe with patient zeal as occasion
offers.
A Princess Marries a Commoner. *
It is not a Common thing for a prin-
cess to marry an untitled commoner
without protest being made, but this
took place in the cagee of Princess Hen-
rietta of 'Schleswig-Holstein, aunt. to
the German Empress and our Prince
Christian, when, twenty-five years
ago, she bestowed her hand on Pro-fes-
sor Esmarchl The Professor, 3. fa-
mous‘surgeon, had saved the Prin-
cess’ life, and he so added to his rep-
utation in the wars of.’66 and ’71 that
no surprise was expressed at the be-
troth-al. The Prlncess and her Profes-
sor have led-a q‘uietlife at Kiel, and
have recently celebrated their silver
r.'edding.7Philadelpha Ledger.
No Chance. ,, .
Dulcinea—Don’t you agree with the
Mrs. Lakeside—It is _'whe1e the di-
poet that parting is Worse than death 1- .
THE CHINESE CRIMINAL Coos.
The Dlnconian Criminal Code
- ' ‘ Flowery Kingdoln.
‘ Patricide is considered only one de-
gre'e less" culpable than treason; and
is punished as a crime of the deepest
dye, such a violation of the ties of na-
ture being held to be evidence of the
most unprlncipled depravitY, Any Del"
son convicted of a. design to kill his or
her- parents or ancestors, whether a
blow be struck or not, is liable to suffer
death by being beheaded. If the mur-
der is actually committed, all the par-
ties.concerned therein, whether princi-
pals or accessories, it related to the de-
ceased as above mentioned, suffer death
in a slow and-painful manner, being
cut into a thousand pieces. If the crim-
inal dies in prison an execution similar
in mode takes place on his body.
Murder in all cases, is punished by
decapitation; When committed with
the design of afterward mangling the
body and distributing the limbs of the
deceased for magical purposes, not only
is the offender executed but all the in-
mates of his house, although innocent
of the crime are perpetually banished.
Persons giving information by which
of the
'such offenders are brought to justice re-
ceive a reward of twenty ounces of sil-
ver from the Government.
All persons rearing venomous ani-
mals, or preparing drugs of a poisonous
nature, fer the purpose of murder, are
beheaded, their property. confiscated,
and the family banished, even if no
person is actually killed by such means.
The use of abusive language is very,
sternly represSed, especially if the of-.
fended person happens to be the hus-
band or ancestor of the offender. The
Code says: “Opprobrious and insulting
language, having naturally a tendency
to produce quarrels and affrays, this
book of laws expressly provides for its
prevention and punishment.”-—From
The Green Bag.
AN UNWRITTEN LAW.
Useful'Knowledge for Travelers Crossing
the Ocean the First. Time.
At the end of a trip every passenger
on a transatlantic sterner is supposed
to give fees. It is an unwritten law, but
as binding as the English constitution.
The amount to be given always wor-
ries the novice, who dreads giving too
little, and usually begrudges giving too
much. If you give two dollars and a
half to the man who waits on you at
table, says Robert Luce in ‘his book
entitled, “Going Abroad,” and a like
amount to the man or woman who
takes care of your stat‘eroom, he or she
will be perfectly satisfied; that much
and no more is expected; if more is
given, you are thought generous, but
no benefit accrues to you, and often
but slight benefit to the recipient for
frequently the receipts of all the stew-
ards are pooled at the end of the trip,
and then divided equitably. So, in
making a large gift, you but present
so much money to the whole body of
stewards. The deck steward usually
receives a small fee from those who
have called upon him for services.
When there is a band, it is customary
to take up a collection for its benefit.
The men who frequent the smoking-
room usually make up a purse for the
smoking-room steward, but that is
wholly a matter of generosity. All in
all, probably the majority of passen-
gers give between five and ten dollars;
married couples give between them lit-
tle more than single passengers. And
more is given on the outward than on
the homeward trip, after novices find
that feeing is, for all but the Ameri-
can, a matter of business and not of
kindness. Steward’ s fees are included
in the passage money on a few boats,
but your steward would‘probably feel
unhappy if he didn’t get at least a dol-
lar extra.
' ADOGAS LEGATEE.
Old John A. Spooner of Chicago,‘Has Left
by \Vlll, $1,700. to 'His Pet Dog.
There is a dog called Rover in Chi-
cago, who will'one day be heir to an
estate should he live long enough. The
deed constituting him the sole lega-
tee of John A. Spooner was executed a
few days ago by Attorney E. E. Elli-
son, and it has now been filed away
until Spooner’ 5 death. ‘
Spooner is an old seafaring rrian, who
has also been a tramp, a fisherman, and
an oysterman.‘ During the course of a
long life he accumulated $1,700. This
money he has now left by will to his
dog Rover, naming the Guarantee Title
and Trust Company, of Chicago, as
trustee. After the death of Rover the
money is to go to the sister of the tes-
tator, living in England. ,
' Spooner discovered the dog when the
latter was little more than a pup, while
he was tramping in Southern Illinois.
Rover had a. tin can tied to his tail and
whined so piteously at Spooner that the
latter took pity upon him and made
him his companion.
Since that day Rover and Spoonex
have been inseparable, sharing each
other’s food and bed when sleeping out
of doors, and occupying the same room
when putting 11p at city lodging houses
——New York Journal.
Popocatepetl’s Rabbits.
One would hardly look for a. new
species of rabbit high up on the sides
of ’a great volcanic mountain. Ye:
Dr. C. H. Merriam has recently de-
scribed just such an animal, which was
discovered at an elevation of 10,00(
feet, on the flank of Popocatepetl, the
“mountain that smokes," near the cit)
of Mexico. It .is remarkably small
does not jump like an ordinary lab
bitt but runs on all fOurs, possesse
no tail, has short ears, and lives on th.
grass covering the lepes of the moan
mm below the region of snow and vol
canic sand.
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“Bertie, you cruel. boy, how can you '
(hear your baby sister cry?”
, “Why, that’s. easy~cvc1ybody in the. " .
; b ock can."—_Truth. ’
- The Laundress:
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one condition, 'ma’am.
1 must have IVORINE WASHING .1 (
POWDER. the kind that has that splendid cake of. Toilet
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aEATH OF AN‘TAG‘ED Decoy ST‘EER.
the Old Fellow At Last Met His Fate as
Do All Traitors.
After having enticed thousands 01'
his fellow creatures to their doom.
Bill, the big steer who acted as decoy
:n the abattoir across the Schuylkill,
has succumbed before the fury of one
9f his victims. It was a nefarious
2alling was Bill’s. His duties con-
'sisted of leading other cattle into the
slaughter pens, lulling their suspicions
.nto fancied security, establishing
:hem in .the right positions in the right
quarters, and seeing that no bad
breaks were made while they await.
ed their fate. Bill lfid performéil this
:luty as far back as the oldest em-
)loyee of the stock yards can remem-
ber. There is a tradition that he was
:aken to the stock yard when it was
Founded and there trained in his life
work of enticing his fellow creatures
'0 destruction.
make the time he had been engaged
n this reprehensible business more
han twenty-two years. Another and
much younger steer, apparently real-
zin-g the traitorous actions of the old
'ellow, charged furiously at him and
:ored him so badly that Bill died the
em. day.
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THE CZAFI’S HORSES.
Fifty Perfectly White Ones,
Eyes. Make Up the Gala Turnout.
The Czar of Russia has four sep-
11'ate services of horses and carriages
—the gala sets, and the French, Eng-
l.ish and Russian sets. Each set com-
prises at least fifty horses.
The Russian set accompanies the
emperor. wherever he goes,
Gatcliina it is used together with the
English set.‘ The gala and French
'101' es and carriages are housed at St.
Petersburg, in the Winter Palace sta-
L) 6.5.
The gala turnout consists of fifty
Hanoverian horses. These horses are
perfectly white, with blue eyes, and
anything more magnificentin the way
of trappings than their harnesses can
hhrdly be conceived.
The State carriages are of the Louis
XV style, and the one which carries
the sovereigns has large'circles of dia-
monds set inside, among the cushions
and the roof. The Imperial crown sur-
mounts this State carriage, which is
irawnby eight horses, each. led by a
postiliion dressed in white and gold.
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This, if true, would .
Wlth Biuo,
and at
MARLBOROUGH MAGNIFICENCE. .
The Young Duke Determined to Have His
Liveries Made of Royal lied.
At Queen Victoria’s latest drawing
'00111, the Duchess of Marlborough
vore more jewels than any one pres-
:nt. Her tall diamond crown and the
I lecklace of famous Vanderbilt pearls
caused a great sensation. The co .1c '11’
n which the American duchess drove
0 the palace is said to have eclipsed
Ill the equipages that were in line. its
)ody was of deep red, and it was
idorned, in addition to the ducal coat
>t‘ arms, with a princely coronet, as
.he Duke of Marlborough is a prince
let the Roman Empire—~a title inher-
ted from his great ancestor’s services
:0 England’s German allies. There
.vere three footmen behind the coach,
who wore red liveries covered ‘ with
:old. specmlly embroidered by Italian
.vorkmen.
An amusing story in connection with
:hese red liveries is going the rounds _
’ )f London society. It seems that the
young duke was determined to have‘
:he particular shade of red which is.
:onfined to royal use, and it was-only
because the tailors steadfastly refused
:0 make the liveries in that color that
re was obliged to accept'the shade
Boat has been used by his ancestors.
In spite of—or perhaps because of—
111 this magnificence, we are told that
:ho Duchess of Marlborough refuses
;0 subscribe to the fund for maintain
ng five American beds in the leading
rJondon hospitals on the ground that
she is no longer an American.-—Puri-
:an.
Dudley Canesucker (who is not as
Iblg a fool as he looks): “Did you give
my cawd to Mith Bondelipper?”
Servant. “Yes, sir.”
Dudley: “What did she say?”
Servant: “She'told me to tell you,
sir, that she was sorry she was not
1n n ' .
Dudley: “Ah, indeed! Please tell
your misthress that I thaid I wath
‘glad I didn’t call. ”
Mrs. Henpeck—“What makes you
t‘alk so much in your slebp, Joseph?”
Henpeck-“Great Scot, Maria! It’s
the only chance I ever get. ”
Price 'of Silence. .
Browne—:1 hear you’ re compelled to '
pay that druggist on the corner hush“
money. 4 /
Towne—Yes; I buy the baby’ s pare
goric there. —New York Journal. ‘ '
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