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VHE BROAD AX. WSWM bat Tnm. at Lafeac In. limit, a ao lose M i Arras eesserlpt has Jot frea three years serrise ho of agUaess. It was held that bis appearance would make his comrades lough sad thus iaterfere with, discip line. Young lawyers have a fine field open to them is Texas. There am forty counties la that state which have to seek legal advice outside their limits, as they bare sot a single attorney of their own. The vestry of Christ Church In Phil adelphia, replying to the many sug gestions for memorial tablets at the STave of Benjamin Franklin, says: "It may sot he generally known that the grave of Franklin, though simple. Is what he.fcimself, in his will, dictated it to fee. The church has for past years maintained a policy of keeping the historic spot as it is." Bocemac, and, in fact, the whole of Gallatin county, Montana, is afflicted with & scourge of dandelions. They are to be seen in every garden and in nearly every field in the county. In the summer the little globes pf fluffy cotton-like substance, containing the seeds of the dandelion, float through the air and alight in every nook and corner. No matter how poor the soil the dandelion flourishes. According to a paragraph which has been going the rounds of the French aewspapers, M. Waldeck-Rousseau the French premier has all his dogs vaccinated to prevent them from hav ing distemper, and has never lost one from that disease. Jenner, who intro duced vaccination, proposed that all the dogs in England should be treated la this manner, but was laughed at for suggesting it. Some curious botanical experiments made t a zoological laboratory at Naples are reported by Hans Winkler. A flowerlesB aquatic plant, that grows fiormally with its roots la the sand and leaves in water was inverted, speci mens being placed with the leaves hurled in the sand and the roots float ing in the -water in strong light. The roots changed to stems and leaves, and the buried parts becoming roots. Within two years the Cherokee, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and semlnoles will cease to exist as an In dian people governed by tribal laws, and their territory will be broken up sad allotments of land made to them sa citizens of the Halted State. They have been known as the Five Civilised Tribes, bat the government has decid ed that they have failed to live up to their same according to the American requirements of law and order for the Indian Territory. Swiss military papers speak la high terms of the aew revolver which has been adopted for the mounted troops of the Swiss army, and which is the In vention of two Berlin engineers. The recoil on firing brings a fresh cart ridge from the magazine into the bar rel. The pistol weighs oae pound, thirteen ounces, aad its center of gravity lies Immediately ever the hand of. the firer. The magaziae carries eight n cartridges, aad practiced shots can fire forty-eight Toaads la from tweaty elght to thirty seconds. The calibre of the weapon la 0 H la, aad its range is Uvea at 2,WS yards. King Alphoaso of Spain, whoa he attended his first ball fight at Madrid la fall state, was received wish uabeunded oathBHInwt. Unlike ate Austrian mother, whose 'aversion to this form of sport Is notorious, he appeared to fellow the Corrida with the most keen interest aad satisfaction, thereby shewing himself a trae Span iard, aad as pomesaad of what is kaowa as "saagre -torera," that Is to ay, 'bi fighting Woo." At the close of the performance, wbioh was parti aalarly ssagataary, eight balls having beam kUtei, aad twenty horses ripped p, the yeans king presoatid hmisowta saSo to the leading toreros, TnsBtnttal, Besakxta aad Fueates. Oae of the great pecking hewee of CMoajo has grehlfetted profaattarapoa itsjcaaataoB The primary parpcee of & order was m itself oaceeSeat, aame ly, to mnoiest etapleyaa agntast abase sy swaatlsL' jotomsb or overseers; hat xeasmet Jag stee to esereise a seed intooneo over aM those who work for the oesapoay, espfCMWy the yeamser moa. la oomaaowtlag the order the Afiiisa Poet trathfafly aays; Ictsoao la honor sagas ef the Haass tiwt k these day Js moa at the hood of to he. ht sot at wafs aaeaam of MlMMWlMtildlfaHl few (faJtomasBBnlesBa AST BSaamaaSMSPSamBr Vohaoam harm mtlr at?, ao lose m tkefar iiriiiliiriBjiiiiTiiTiiliiiiiitmillilSlj fitiil li tawe wiwirt far OTmr tifiljfraCJSWaKaoo. Lostl iiitnrirrm vi bare ywtf Mll Qa aMe oc too ww BMBBMaaaaBWB Jtwa nun mill uWfte MMNBKBSBaiBHHMHBI their washes iaaMfclsifcie aad aefeetive or, As T-frnnlin of aieefceaB? THE HAN FROlf YESTERDAY. St Practiced tta Good Ola Vlrtaa, Set tha Sooner Got Ahead of Him. , The Man from Yes-ter-day had leara-ed the old-fashrlon-cd vtr-tnes. So "he work-fed in-dust-rl-ous-ly. But the Soon-er, having pre-empted the laad ob -which the Mas from Yes-ter-day must work, charg-ed him rent every time be was ln-dust-xl-ous. B-vent-u-al-ly, when the 'Man from Yes-ter-day had raised all the po-ta-to-es the Soon-er could eat, the Soon-er gave him notice to quit The Maa from Yes-ter-day took' up ed-a-ca-tfen In order to m-crease his op-portmv-I-ties; where-up-on the Soon er bought up all the land a-ronnd him and held it for a rise, which he in-tend-ed to take out of 'the Mas from Yes-ter-day. The Man from Yes-ter-day, see-Ing that the Soon-er was get-ting more pos-ses-sions than he could man-age, rea-son-ed with hlm-self that If he could show his de-vo-tlon to his employ-ex's in-ter-est, he would be mora val-u-able; so he be-came very hon est. This de-creased the Soon-ex's ex pense of man-ag-lng his prop-er-ty, so it in-creased in val-ue, and he took up more land. Seeing that his share of his own pro-duct would bare-ly keep him, the Man from Yes-ter-day stud-led e-con-omy, where-up-on, see-Ing that he could live cheap-er than be-fore, the Soon-er cut down his wages; and when the Man from'-Yes-ter-day ob-Ject-ed, the Soon-er told him that if he was not sat-ls-fled he could quit work and quit living. The Soon-er cn-dow-ed & coH-ege to teach the Man from Yes-ter-day that it was all right, and when the Pro-fess-orsaald that Hon-es-ty, In-dus-try and Per-sev-er-ance were the ways to raise the rents, they were dis-mlss-ed for ln-sub-ord-in-a-tlon. Then the Soon-er, see-Ing that the Man from Yes-ter-day was be-com-lng rest-less, en-gag-ed a clergy-man to point him to the sky for the saMs-fae-tlon of his wants. Bolton Hall, In Life. Oar drawing- Seaport. The general development of our ex port trade has had the interesting ef fect of increasing the relative activity of several of our seaports, and -thus reducing somewhat the too heavy pro portion of the foreign business cleared through the port of New York. We were doing a large export business, in the spring and early summer of last year; but. the gains of this year over last; as indicated in the statistics of the last few weeks, are nothing short of startling. The greatest gains have been in cotton and cattle, with a good gain also In bxeadstuffa. As the result especially of the great export business in cotton, aided by the increased movement of cereals through South ern ports, New Orleans has for the first time taken a place next to New Ycsk as respects the value of Its ex port trade, thus displacing Boston. In the year 1900, New York was credited with only forty-seven per cent, of the total foreign commerce of the country, as against an average of mora than fifty per cent for Beveral previous years. New York still continues to receive conslderaCIy more than sixty per cent (in. value) of the country's imports, but last year it handled only about thirty-seven per cent of the exports. Boston and Philadelphia have been comparatively stable in the volume of their foreign trade, while Baltimore, Newport News, New Or leans, and Galveston have made great gains as also have the Pacific Coast ports, owing to the progress of our Oriental trade. The Review of Bo views. Hasczy Blah. That Beaaox, "Hero Is a curious thing that fishes do and one that seems clearly to show great intelligence," said an old flsher maa. "It might be that two fishes some feet apart saw the same object of prey, may be a smaller fish, at the asms instant, and they might both dart for It at once and come violently into collision while their prey escaped. Now that would be when they had each' the same chance of capturing what they wanted; they would both make a dash for It "But often have I sees something Tory different happen, Of two large fishes following along side by aide and pretty well dosed up together, pursu ing a minnow, I have seen the rear most sheer off and let the other fel low have it, apparently, either be- cause ho knew be couldn't reach it, aad there was so use of bis trying any mere, or because, he knew that If he kept oa and mixed in he would make the fish ahead lose the same, as well as himself. This last would seem to indicate, besides intelligence, unsol fiBBSoss oa the .part of fish No. 2; but the action of sheering off when he saw he couldn't get it showed Intel UfaBce, anyhow." Albany Argus. , SlM Power of Water. la Frank Leslie's Monthly there Is a captivating article oa the story of the greatest jam la the history of log ging. It was in the Grand Blver la Mkhigaata 1863. i So treaeadoBs was the pressure at tats time that here and there over the jBrfaee of the jam single logs could te sees pepping suddenly into the air. jroficHtd as an apple seed is projected from between a boy's thumb and fore finger, gome of the fifteen-inch man ia ropes stretched, to the shore part ed. Oae, which passed once around aa oak tree before reaching its shore aBchorafe, aotaaSy burled itself oat of sight la the hard wood! 'Benches of afies heat, twisted or were eat sheer oat so thOBgh they had been nothing hot thert't of Iaema cora. The cur rent was so swift that the.tsss eeald ...u. .1A 41... -l- --l u. M as a ronsesnoBce, before cemmeBciBs; eferaHoBs, seseeial meeriag p&os had toaoaferrea. TEEASUEEES OJT JOLD. BEINQ UNEARTHED FAB EAST. IN THB Old Hecale Tloor RoaUr or Vp la JrsB recatlar Dnwlog- that Tall of BUtorleal Sroats Ax Xge, Wbaa ChrUUaalty Wu Tonne. (Jerusalem Letter.) Former discoveries of fragments of mosaic pavements in Jerusalem, Pales tine, and its neighborhood have been eclipsed by a recent find which is most elaborate and exquisite in -design and execution, and which Is also In a state of almost perfect preservation, the col ors of the mosaics In their artistic combinations being as bright and effec tive as the day the work was finished. A few weeks since the owner of a little property in a small Jewish col ony Just outside the Damascus gate, in digging a ditch in his yard, came upon some mosaic work at about four feet below the surface which, when uncov ered as far as permitted by the streets bonnJlng the excavation on two sides and the wall of a house on the third. disclosed the ancient mosaic pavement which the illustration shows. Further excavations await the order of the Turkish government, whose officials have taken the site in hand, and which may sow the pavement to extend some what further in length on one side. The patter would Indicate that the complete width at one end has been uncovered. This mosaic floor Is about 220 paces west-northwest of the Da mascus gate. The part already un covered Is about 18 feet in length by 11 in breadth. The upper and larger part of the pavement is composed of an exquisite design, Including a central panel surrounded by an elaborate frame. The panel has its chief figure, a representation of Orpheus, In a sit ting posture, and playing upon an 11 strlnged harp. Grouped within the panel are animals and birds. Including a serpent and a salamander, which lat ter two are in an attitude of conflict In the lower right-hand corner is the homed and goat-footad figure of the God Pan, with his pan pipes under his left arm and his right hand out stretched, and beneath it a hare. In the other lower corner is a centaur, with his hand over his mouth. -The posture of these animals and figures suggests that they are entranced with the music of the harp of Orpheus. Green branches on the white back ground, interspersed here and there, given an added brightness and beauty to this central design. In the elaborate work of the wide frame surrounding THB MOSAIC FLOOB. this panel are wrought medallions la leaf-enclosed wreaths, 14 in all, con taining representations of fruits, ani mals, and birds, with symbolic human heads In the four corners, each looking -towards the center, where Orpheus sits. Beneath this main part of the floor, but wrought u. with it so as to form an harmonious whole, are two rows of designs, there being three in each row. The first row is composed of three panels, the central one containing two female figures in Byzantine drees, with a column standing between them, and a Greek name written alongside of each, la poor orthography and style of character. Tha lettering suggests the reverse side of the Byzantine coins. On either side of this central panel is an other, containing each a stone which protrudes above the surface and sug gests tombs beneath. The lower row is of three medallions, each contain ing a figure, the right-hand one of a hunter with a spear, running; the cen tral one of a lion, and the left-hand one of a leopard, both bounding away. The work is assigned to sot earlier than the Fourth century, and possibly as lata as the Seventh. The designs seem purely pagan aad classical. There Is little, If anything, to Indicate a cansuaa origin, -mere may &e a nimbus about the heads of the female figures, bat it is as likely to represent the dfeaatag of the hair or be designed to threw the faees iato bettor relief. The BOtkm that the horseshoe Is a preteetlom against era is as old as the bilk. There Is & legend that the devil oae day asked St Duastaa, who was Beted for his skill la shoeing horses, to shoe his "slagle hosf." Dua staa, knowing who his easterner was, tied him tightly to the waU, aad pro ceeded wkh too job, bat purposely pat the aevfl to so mea pair that he roar ed for mercy. The salat at met con sented to release hta oa eoaeatiea that ho never weald eater a pUee where he saw a horseahoa displayed Jllplliyilii IGNORANCE NO EXCUSE. Thb Twrnrnt BUa Tnpntf m eiwok CaVJk If in the eoarse of your wanderings, gentle reader, you should ever find yourself in the Grecian village of Mar copoulo, 35 miles out of Athens, dent as you value your celibacy If you are possessed of that pleasing attribute pick up any .handkerchiefs which yoa may see lying on the ground. A suit of breach of promise, which is sow be ing tried in the Grecian capital, should be a warning to all bachelors who in tend visiting Hellas without a chaper on. The plaintiff in this suit is a re markably good-looking young woman, who demands that a young man, a to tal stranger to her until recently, and who never asked her hand in marriage in his life, should become her husband or pay her heavy damages. In the vil lage of Marcopoulo there is a curious custom which has the force of law. On certain holidays the villagers assemble on the village green, and on these oc casions any unmarried woman who thinks It Is about time she took to herself a husband drops her handker chief has all the binding force of an engagement Now, the fair plaintiff In this suit made up her mind a while ago that the boys In Marcopoulo were rather "backward about coming for ward, and her chances of matrimony weregraduallysllpplngaway in spite of her good looks. So she went to the vil lage green on the next holiday and dropped her handkerchief. There hap pened to be a strange youth In the vil lage that day who was not familiar withthe local customs. The village boys fought shy of the handkerchief, but the unsuspecting stranger picked it up. Then the villagers set up a great shout and brought to him a blushing beauty, whom he had never seen before, an nouncing to him that she was his fu ture wife. Naturally he was astonished, and could only murmur: "This Is so sudden." Partially recovering his com posure, he inquired if he might ask Just why the young lady was -to be his future wife. He said he was over young to marry yet, and, in fact, declined with thanks. But the villagers ex plained their ancient custom to him and the young lady declared that he would marry her or she would know the reason why. The young man swore by Pallas Athena that he would "see her further" first, and made his escape from the village. But the girl was bent on marrying, and the personal inclina tions of the man in the case could not be considered. So she brought suit for breach of promise and It Is thought she will win her case, and the young rnn be forced to either marry her or "pay through the nose." New York Press. WONDERFUL COW-HORSE. Ww iexr Xftila la XJao Witt taJac AbaorxaaX. Veterinarians are interested deeply in a freak cow-horse, which is In the possession of Mr. William S. Hugo of Ellrabethport, N. J. At first glance the animal looks like a mare of nat ural alie, but on approaching her hind quarters the formation of a cow is dis covered in the hip bones, which are Iovel with the backbone. She measures 23ft inches from one hip bone to the other. The mare has natural shoulders and head, but when traveling has the peculiar stride of the cow. The animal has attracted much at tention, and several circus men have endeavored to buy her. The mare can get over the ground In lively fashion, while not appearing to be going fast. In the stall the animal chews her cud, as does a cow or bull, and if watched closely many of the attributes of the bovine can be observed. When swish ing flies her motion is the same as that of a cow. She can gallop, but in a clumsy fashion only. War Boy Woar Barrios. The custom of boys wearing earrings la China is thus popularly explained by the Chinese: The boy is the greatest blessing that heaven can send. The spirits like boy babies. It is natural that they should, everybody likes them. Very often, if the boy babies are not watched closely, the spirits who are constantly around grab up the un watched boy babe and carry him off to their home. Girl babies are not such blessings and the spirits care nothing for them. The earring is a feminen ornament, and the spirits know that; so the Chinese mothers have the ears of their boy babes pierced arid put In huge earrings. When the sprites are around looking for boys they will see the earrings and be fooled into think ing the boys are girls and will pass' on and not trouble them. Chaaaalaoa Colon of Sattorfltao. Butterflies change their colors ac cording to the heat of the atmosphere. This interesting fact has been discov ered by M. Sandfuss of Zurich, Swit zerland, who subjected 40,600 butter flies to experiments under different de greees of the sun's heat On one occa sion. It being unusually cold in Swit zerland, a butterfly common there took on the appearance of a butterfly from Lapland. On the other hand, butterflies which were subjected to a higher de gree of solar heat than the normallook ed as rf they had been born aad raised In Corsica or Syria. One result of these novel experiments la the production of butterflies of aa entirely sew type, some of them being of bewildering beauty. President Richard O. Haghes of Tabo College, who has accepted the presidency of Rlpon College, la 44 years eld, aad has a high reputation for scholarship and executive ability. - Abyssinia was converted to Chris tianity ia the fourth, eeatary. Tee ebuntry'has now ever 12,00 bmtv H0N0BING A HEEO. GRAND OLD MAN OF THE FIRST AMERICAN NAVY. XJ. 8. War TosmI to Bo CfcrtaUced ta Hamorj or Comraodor Trartoa Woo Sfaay Victoria Orr tfeo British la tfca War ( laiiepaadoaea, The honor of christening a war ves sel of the United States navy, which is to perpetuate the fame of a revolution ary hero. Commodore Thomas Trux ton, belongs to the beautiful grand daughter of the celebrated fighter, Isa bel Truxton of Norfolk, Va. The craft, a torpedo boat destroyer, was put afloat a few days ago. Commodore Truxton was born on Long Island, February 17, 1755. He be gan seafaring life when 12 years old and soon after was Impressed into the English service. Obtaining his dis charge, he entered the merchant ma rine and quickly rose to command. In 1775 ha had charge of a vessel in which large quantities of powder were brought to Philadelphia. In the latter part of that year, his vessel was seized and condemned under the restraining act Making his way to Philadelphia, he was made a lieutenant on the Con gress, the first private armed ship fitted out by the colonies. In 1775 he was given charge of the Independence, with which he made a brilliant record, and later he commanded the Mars, the Commerce and other vessels which did great service for the American cause, he being uniformly successful in his many engagements with British ves sels. Upon the organization of the U. 3. navy, June 4, 179S, he was named as and was appointed with a squadron un der his command to protect commerce' THOMAS TltUXTON. in the West Indies. He passed success fully through several brilliant engage ments, for one of which, the worsting of a French (through the machinations of a pro-British secret order the Unit ed States had lately been drawn Into a war with France, which, when tha truth became knoto, was ended by consent of both countries) frigate of 50 guns after a desperate flght. Con gress voted him a gold medal and Its thanks. In 1802 he was appointed to command the squadron fitting out for the TripoUtan war, but through a mis understanding was retired from the service. Subsequently he resided on a farm in New Jersey and later he re moved to Philadelphia where he was sheriff of the county in 1819-21. His death occurred in Philadelphia May 5, 1822. The record made by Commodore Truxton stands out prominently in the early hlttory of the country and his memory has been handed down in the navy as one of its most brilliant offl cers.' Too Old tadr and Her Trog. There is the well-known medical story of the old lady who imagined that she had a frog in her stomach. Her doctor, after vainly trying to per suade her that it wasonly Imagina tion considered a little deception justi fiable to prevent this idea becoming fixed in her mind. Having administer ed an emetic, he managed to adroitly Introduce a trog into the basin, as if it had just arrived from the old lady's stomach. The patient's Joy was great, as there was proof positive that she had been right all along as to the cause of her illness. Her joy was as soon overclouded, as the idea struck her that, although there was the old frog, there might be little frogs left be hind. The doctor, however, was equal to this sudden emergency, for on a rapid examlnalton of the frog he im mediately assured the patient that her fears were groundless, as her late guest was a gentleman frog. Notes and Queries. Haw BagUad Womaa at BvaVtlo. The national secretary of New Eng land Women has established registry headquarters at the Pan-American Ex position at Buffalo. From the 1st of July the office will be In ohargs of a clerk who will engage oa order, at spe cial rates and privileges agreed upoa by the management and committee, rooms with or without board, at hotels, boarding houses or In private raMifa, for all women of New England ances try. Those interested can obtain far ther information by addressing the secretary at the New England states building, Pan-American Exposition. Buffalo. N. T. rsBUo Kxsoaitltsro la HaxJoo. The Mexican army of more than 2t 600 men is supported upon a trifle more than 1,000,600 Mexican dollars a moath, The Mexican congress does net eost $1,666,600 a year. . The cross of the Treaea LegtoB of Honor has been bestowed upon thirty- etgat TWO BOY HEROES. Artsoma Xmarters WInalnr Dbtlaotla, a Oat law Han tan. Two young heroes have been devil, oped in Arizona. They are Dick a&, Alfred Bocha, 14 and 15 years old r& spectively, and already they have lajj a foundation for fame as Indian trail, ers and sleuths. These lads have ac companied their father, Pete Boscha, deputy sheriff at Congress, Ariz., oa the most perilous expeditions and crim inal hunts, never flinching, even under the hottest fire. They are expert marksmen, having been trained to fire arms from their infancy. Alfred first distinguished himself two years ago b the capture of SInovia Garcia, a notori ous Mexican desperado, who had shot the husband of a woman of whom ha was enamored. Sheriff John Munds, Deputy Sheriff Pete Boscha, and his two sons started in pursuit of the bandit, and, after following the trail for some. distance, separated. Several days after Alfred encountered the des perado in a lonely canyon, and suc ceeded in getting the "drop" on him. Garcia surveyed the dwarfed and youthful figure before him with considerable amusement, and laugh ed at the boy's assertion that ha was under arrest. He reached for his gun, when young Boscha open ed fire, clipping off one of Garcla's ears and sending two bullets through his hat This was convinc ing proof of Alfred's aim, and tha bandit surrendered himself uncondi tionally. A few months later Dick Boscha was the hero of a capture that was equally as remarkable. Vincents Ortego and two others cut the throat of an Italian and robbed him of con siderable gold dust The lad trailed the murderer over precipitous moun tains, and after several days returned with him triumphantly. Ortego Is now serving a life sentence In prison at Yuma for his misdeeds. The Weaver district, where the Boschas live, is tha heart of what once constituted the bad lands of Arizona. Famous old Geron imo, at the head of the most san guinary band of Indians then In ex istence, infested the Rich Hill moun tains and the Weaver and Blue Tank districts, firing settlers' cabins, mur dering, plundering, robbing stages and bullion trains, and creating a reign of terror that will live In history. THE "WISDOM RELIGION." Sana Bailor of Mambors of too Th- oaophical Sooletloa. Theosophy, the Wisdom-Religion, has existed from Immemorial time, writes Alexander Fullerton In the Arena. It offers a theory of nature and of life which Is founded upon knowledge acquired by the sages of tha past, more especially those of the east; .and its higher students claim that this knowledge Is not something imagined or inferred, but that it Is seen and known by those who are willing to comply with the conditions. Upon the subject of man it teaches: That each spirit is a manifestation of the One Spirit, and thus a part of alL It passes through a series of ex periences ia Incarnation, and is des tined to ultimate re-union with the Divine. This incarnation is not single but repeated, each Individuality becoming re-embodied during numerous exist ences in successive races and on suc cessive planets, and accumulating th experiences of each incarnation to wards Its perfection. That "Karma" a term signifying two things, the law of ethical causation ("Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"), and the balance or ex cess of merit or demerit in any indi vidual determines also the main ex periences of joy and sorrow in each incarnation, so that what men call "luck" is in reality "desert," desert ac quired in past experience. That the spirit in man is the only real and permanent part of his being, the rest of his nature being variously compounded; and decay being Incident to all composite things, everything In man but his spirit Is impermanent Further, that the Universe being on and not diverse, and everything within it being connected with, the whole and with every other, of which upon the tipper plane above referred to there Is a perfect knowledge, no act or thought occurs without each portion of tha great whole perceiving aad noting it Hence all are Inseparably bound to gether by the tie of-Brotherhood. Bias Uaoartha Dlaoaaar. Professor Biggs of the Field Colum bian Museum, of Chicago, who has bees, delving la the earth tea miles below this city on the other side of the Grand Blver, has discovered the re mains of another immense spechgts of the dinosaur, the prehistoric mon ster that used to drink out of the vast lake that once covered the territory bow known as Grand valley. The fos silized remains of the dinosaur are nearly perfect and as complete as any yet discovered in any part of the con tinent The oae under discussion must have been over seventy feet in length aad nine feet in height Grand Junc tion (OoL) Sen. SCado 840veeo,eee la a Toan Capt A. F. Lucas, the discoverer oil la Beaumont, Tex., who Is said to be worth $46,660,660. was praotieally BennlleeS a Tear aso. Thnnrn a min ting engineer aad geologist by profes- aioa, he was a railroad ooadactor for a number of years. After Joeing his plaee about two years ago, he drifted about aad finally west to Beaumont He saoeeeded ia Uterestiag some cap MaUatr in the regioB, aad the eele- -hratod Lucas gather was seen struck, God dees net expect oa bare rooks. ' to bloom