WILD BIRD’S EGGS AS FOOD; Many That Are Eaten in Europe and Re- garded as Delicacies. In Germany and Holland crows’ eggs are considered a poorer classes, and on Prince Bis- .and silver. WALRUS iLEATHER. Used for ‘Making \Vheels for Polishing— Other Polishing Leathers. Walrus leather is used for making luxury among the buffer wheels, for polishing brass, steel It has a peculiar, coarse ' marck’s eighty- -third birthday a pres- grain that holds the emery or polishing ent of one hundred of these was made to him. The eggs of the rook are also _ looked upon as delicate food by the Germans and Hollanders. The Chin- ese are not Only fond of swallow nest soup, but they eat the eggs of this little bird with great relish. Among the South Sea Islands the- natives depend largely upon this kind of food, which the birds prepare for, them in nests, and so important is the 2 source of. this. food considered that they will rarely destroy the birds. On , the great rooker‘es they have found the eggs supplied abundantly for them for ages, and they gather them " so easily that there is no disposition to destroy the birds. It is only when civilized man comes, intent upon des— troying the birds for their feathers and plumes, that these great island rookeries have been depopulated. " In Friesland the farmers have al- most tamed the sheldrakes like do- mesticated fowls. The sheldrakes have laid their eggs in countless num- bers on the heaths of the Dutch Nor- , folk, and the farmers, instead of kill- ing the birds or frightening them away cultivate their acquaintance and build artificial burrows or nests in the grass for them. In these nests the shel- drakes go on laying their eggs, des- pite the fact that they are almost daily robbed of them. In some instances the female birds will even permit the farmers to handle them to remove the eggs. In return for all this the farm- ers protect the birds, and after-a cer- tain season they permit the birds to sit on their eggs and hatch out young ones. The young sheldrakes are pro- tected just as much as our young barn-z yard chickens are. The chief eggs that are sold fo1 eat- ing in Holland and other European cities include those of the wild ducks and fowls, gulls, plovers, sheldrakes, meadow-hens, guillemots, peewits, redshanks, turnstones, snipe, curlews, d ' ' = . . unhns, crows, rocks, cranes, herons, : of the Vlct1m. .Then, headed by their COOtS’ storks,pe11cans, vultures, haWks’ medicine men, half the tribe will gath- owls and many of the smaller land birds. These wild birds’ eggs are cheaper in many countries than hens’ eggs, and they constitute the chief egg diet of both rich and poor.—Boston - Transcript. No Cork in 21 Cork Leg. The peculiarity of a cork leg is that apart from the name there isn’t a yes tige of cork about it. The origin of the term comes from the fact that nearly all the great manufacturers of such articles used to live in Cork street, Piccadilly, London—Philadel- phia Record. - ’ Eng purposes. powder well. It takes about five years to tan a walrus hide. Some walrus _ leather is made in this country, but the bulk of it is imported .from England. 5’ !Leather made from the hide of a cub «walrus would be about half an inch thick. The hide of an Old bull might be two inches thick. The value of the leather depends upon its thickness. Half-inch would sell for about 50 cents a. pound; one-a rfl- a-half—inch-would be 3 worth $1.40 a pound; and walrus leath- '2r, from oncaund-five-ei’ghts to one- 1 tnd—threc-quaritmr inches thick, smooth 1 1nd well-trimmed. would be worth $2 a pound, and a side of such leather ‘would cost about $300. - Walrus wheels are made in _a variety Iaf shapes, depending upon the work fan which they are used. They are .made with a flat face, grooved, cone- ’shaped, ’or of any shape that may be desired, and by cementing layers of jleather together wheels of any desired thickness are made.. Walrus leather is also used for valve packings. Bull necks are used, also, for polish- Three-quarter-inch bull necks sell at about 50 cents a pound. Leather made from the hide of the sea lion is used for polishing purposes. This is a smoother and softer leather, used for softer metals. Sea lion leath- er of an average thickness costs about 50 cents a pound. Built-up wheels of any thickness are also made of sea lion and of bull neck leather. Where Bears are Sacred. . The greatest bear country in the Southwest is the Navajo. Indian resci- 'vation, Where the bears are never hunted and may live, multiply and g1ow old in peace. The Navajo be- lieves that bruin is a sacred animal, ‘ and they will never kill or consent to , have one killed—except under one cir- ‘cumstance. This is when a bear has killed a red man, and the identityofthe culprit is as well established as that ‘ er at Bruin’s doorway, humbly beg his pardon for what is about to happen, and pray to his shade not to look for vengeance. This «done, one or two war- riors will boldly penetrate the cave“ and kill the bear, which is then accorded a. decent burial.-—San Francisco Call. 5 A Footlight Meteor. Manager—Have you ever played a leading part? . Applicant—Yes. Manager—What was it? Applicant—I led the mule 111 an "Un- . cle Tom’s Cabin" company for two seasons—Chicago News. realize. , and cheaply. Which Ila/f Is Ifié BeIIer/lalf The housewife’ s duties are harder than men Cleaning alone is a constant tax on hc1 strength, a never-ended task. More than half the work of cleaning she can have done for her, if she will, and the expense will be next to nothing. V Does the better than any other way known THE N. K. Faith Chicago. St. Louis. New York. Boston. 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It con- sists of 95 per cent. of; copper and 5 per cent tin and zinc and bears on its face the legend “one cent.” Two recent devices'have been large- ly responsible for the increased use of our only copper coin. One is the penny- in-the—slot machine, which has spread over the land like the locusts of Egypt within the last two or three' years. A single automatic machine company in New York City takes in half a mil- lion pennies a day. As there isn’t a crossroad village in the country that hasn’t a chewing—gum, kinetoscope, music or weighing‘machine operated ‘ in this way the number of coins re- quired to keep them all going is en- ormous. The other invention respon- ‘ sible for the rise of the cent is the “bargain counter.” The craze for 49- cent and 99-éent bargains makes work for a lot of pennies. Superintendent Milman of the New York Sub—Treasury said the other day that it was no un- usual thing for one of the great depart- ment stores which make a specialty of “bargains” to' take $10,000 worth of cents—one million pieces—at a time. . The penny neWSpapers and in some places three-cent street—car fares have also increased the field of operations : , of the one-cent piece. f‘The cent is really the most interest- ing and least known of our coins,” said Mr. Milman, “and there are some very curious facts about it. The Sub-Treas— ury is the desiring-house for the pen- nies in circulation in the metropolitan district, and the penny is for us a barometer, a calendar and an accurate index of business conditions. “Why, in the middle of July there was a week or more of cold, rainy weather and the supply of pennies coming in for exchange into larger de- nominations fell off one-third. A heavy storm or the sudden coming of cold weather, anything that keeps the penny-spending part of our population at home, is accurately reflected in the falling off in the supply of cents com- ing to 11s for exchange. All_through the summer the pennies accumulate on our hands, but when cold weather comes and the children get back to school, and retail trade reviv,es there is a g1 eat demand for them. “Come this way,” said Mr. Milman, "if you want to see the way we handle pennies,” and he led the way to the minor coin division, where half a dozen clerks were busily at work. In one corner of the room was a stack of canvas bags reaching nearly to the ceiling and snaking a good-sized py- ramid. “Those are all pennies.” said the director. “I suppose there are some one hundred million pieces there, and we have more below.” In another corner of the room was a stack of loose coins piled high above the heads of the clerks, who were busily counting them off into the canvas bags. The pennies are kept in bags of one thous- and each, and when they come in they are all counted over. There are several unique features about the coinage of pennies, and the. work is managed in a somewhat dif- ferent fashion from the turning out of gold and silver'coins. , In the first place, although ' the United States Government is the only authority entitled to indulge in the manufacture of coins, our Uncle Sam- 11el does not prepare the blanks from which penhiesare made. He finds it cheaper to let out the work by con- tract than t?) do it himself, and it is at present in the hands of a Cincinnati firm. They prepare the copper blanks in sheets large enough to turn out one hundred pieces each. It is not known exactly how much the Government pays for these blanks, but the price is [n the vicinity of $1.25 per one thou- sand, or a trifietover one mill for each unstamped cent. When the copper sheets ready for stamping reach the Philadelphia mint, where all our minor coins are made each one is tested to see that the alloy is in the right proportion. Thence they pass directly to the coining room. Here the sheets are cut into strips, from which the round blank-s, called punched, and these are run directly through the stamping machines, where they re- :eive the impressions from the dies. Pennies are not counted by the la- borious process of handling each piece, but by a device known as the “count- ing board,” by which live hundred are counted at a.time. The counting board is an inclined plane, with columns the exact width of a cent, separated by copper partitions in height exactly equal to the thickness of the coin. The cents are spread over this board and fall into the grooves prepared for. them, all surplus coins falling off into a. trough. Then the counting board is emptied into the canvas bags, which are carted away to be shipped to any part of the country.—Washington Star, Wh at “’ould Bring Heat. Warwick—That man Wilkins is a ge- nius. He has the finest plan I am heard of for raising the temperature of Alaska. Wickwire—What’s his scheme? (1.0,. mg to fasten an aurora borealis‘ 1n po- sition so it will keep off the north 'winds during the day? .. Warwick—No; he’s going to build a hotel and advertise the place as a cool . “uck. ‘ summer I'GSOl‘t. THE TURK AND THE IRISHMAN. 'mldy Didn’t “'11“. for Ceremony or Prayers. , Among the Turks employed on the line of the first Turkish- railway was in old man who had a son who was a soldier in ,one of the regiments in the’ garriSon at RustChuk, whom he had not seen for a good many months. Each day the regular through train 1rrived and left, but theold Turk nev- er got the chance to run up to Rust- :huk to see his son, for the train just :ame and went at the very moment ' when he was engaged at' his midday prayer. “Why don’t you get leave, and go to 1ee him?” said the, practical Irish- nan. How can I?”, replied the old man. ‘Doesn’t the train come in and go way while I am at p1ayers? Allah wills it that I should not see him.” And so the time continued to pass, :he old man telling Flynn how his leart was weary to see his son.‘ It nappened one day that, as the train irew 11p at the station, the old man was engaged at his devotions on his arayer carpet close to the line, on empty truck with the door run back, 1ad stopped just opposite 'Where he was on his knees and his forehead to she ground, and the Irishman came llong. Seized by a sudden inspira- ion, he caught up the old Turk, prayer :arpet and all, and landed him in the .ruck just as the train moved off. Two lays after the old man came back by :he down train, his face beaming with ileasure. , “Ah, my friend,” he said; as he saw Hymn standing on the platform, “on- y for you I should never have seen my 1011. It must have been Allah who put it into your heart to throw me nm the train. May he reward you for. t.”—Harper’s Round Table. MAID OF HONOR’S DUTY. those Who Attend the Czurina Must be Able to Sew and Cook. Those who think that the life of a ady about a court is necessarily that 11‘ a butterfly, may be surprised to earn that cleverness with the needle 5 an adjunct demanded of the maids 1f honor at the court of Russia, tobe if use in cases of emergency when in 1ttendance on the czarina. That they iave also to read well aloud and to stand for any length of time goes With- )ut saying, but it would hardly be be- vieved that in order to pass into the mperial presence Russian maids of' 10nor..have to obtain a diploma for :ooking! Such is, however, the case. 'n some imperial menages, too, the naid of honor has to compose the ev— :ryday dinner menu. And in all this _.raining there underlies the teaching :hat an empress or grand duchess of. Russia is a personage of divine voca- .ion. Having passed through all this )rdeal, the would-be maid of honor, at :he age of 16 or 17, is presented to .‘he empress, and if finding favor in ;he imperial eyes, is appointed a de- noiselle d’honneur passingsubsequent- y through the various grades men- ioned. From this body of maidens, 00, the various-grand duchesses, with :he czarina’s approval, also make their lelections.—Chicago Times-Herald. CURRENT HUMOR. Mistress —- 0h, Bridget! Bridgetll vhat an awful numbskull you are. You’ve fiut the potatoes. on the table vith the skins on—right in front of )ur visitors, too! You—you—what 1hall I call you? ' ' Bridget (affably)—Call me “Agnes," f ye loike, mum; ’tis me'other name-I \lew York W’orld. fl Mrs. Pakenham (of Chicago)—So *ou passed right" through London and 1ever stopped to see the Queen? Mrs. Be. constreet (of Boston)-Yes. Mrs. Porkenham-—Goodness gracious! 'should as soon think. of passing hrough Dakota and not stopping for a livorce.——Judge. Fuddy—What has it to do with the :ase that the new doctor has lots of noney? _ ‘ Buddy—Everything, my dear boy. ‘he man who is well heeled ought to 1e able to stamp out disease if anybody tan do it.—Boston Transcript. Neighbor—“Does your father »rent hat house you live in?” Boy—“No, indeed. It’s his own. muse, very bit of it. It’s been mught and paid for and insured and mortgaged and eveiythingf’ New Clerk—“Have you ever 'read The Last Days of Pompeii’?” Mrs. Neurich—“No;' what did he die 1f?” ' New Clerk—Some kind of an erup- ion, I believe.”——Chicago News. A German thus discoursed learned- y upon the business situation recent- “If business is no better next week lan it was "yesterday two weeks ago, ien I’m :1, son of a gun, dat’s v'at I 1opes.”—'Philadelphia'North American. The Sentimental She—Oh! the ever— estless ocean! How it fills me with 1ad, vague longings! The P1 actical He—You’re mighty icky. It e: 1pties me of everything——I - cw Y01k Herald. “I see the critics, almost to a man, 9 praising Pensmith’s latest book.” ' "Then they must regard him as being no 11931: to be in any danger of get- :12g to the top by their help. ”—,Cleve-’ and Leader. . ' “So you refused him?" "Yes; I told him it was better to "3 .1 great many men happy‘hy engaged to them than to make n1.serable by marrying him." ..'dnn Fun Almanac. ——,.—..~_. . -._.._. A-.._... , THE .YEAR IBY SUBSCRIBING - FOR THE 11. El“- EAEETTE AND N. 1. WEEKLYTRIBUNE. scru- P APERS Sent to anv Address ‘ EFOR 0 he ,— — Dollar I e
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