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THE DI2MLN 0UAPI1IC DEMING, - . N..W MEXICO. U't the early spring bird thatcatchet ' cold. The man w ho proposes to cross the Sahara desert In a ba'.luon baa sand. RenewcJ health to Ian Maclaren of Drunitochty. We really couldu't spare him. It Isn't at all likely, however, that the empress dowager will consent to stay dead. Mr. Rockefeller has given 100,000 to the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. ten sec ondb' income. Things that seem serious to you might look funny if they happened to someone else. It is rumored that Mies Thaw of Pittsburg has melted the Icy heart of the Earl of Yarmouth. Jorm W. Gates talking of retldng? lie has never yet shown himself to be of a retiring disposition. Probably those French explorers will And the south pole fully as coy and evasivo as the north pole. Discretion is not exactly a brilliant or fascinating characteristic, but it is most indispensable to success. The discovery of gold In Indiana has not affected the price of rings, so far as we have been able to find out. And now Mexico puts in a claim. Venezuela seems to be the Mme. Hum bert of the International money mar ket. A Kansas editor printed an elabo rate cotice of Calomel." meaning "Camllle." Probably It affected him that way. If Edward Atkinson succeeds in his experiments toward making cheap fuel out of mud the coal dealer's name will be the same. Now that a veteran Yankee whaling aptain is to make a dash for the pole amateur contestants may as well pull out of the race. Still, it you run out of breakfast food and the grocery store Is closed, there is always a chance to fall back on bam and eggs. Some people seem to get a great deal of solace and satisfaction out of moralizing over Mr. Rockefeller's dyspepsia and insomnia. Automobillsts who will race through a foot of snow would prob ably want to keep right on scorch ing if the earth were buried under soft soap. In Utah drug stores are allowed to sell not more than five gallons of li quor at a time. Those who are real thirsty, however, can go back a sec ond time. The St Louis girl to whom a re jected suitor has left a bequest of $35. 000 Is more than ever Impressed with the usefulness of the old adage. "Learn to fay 'No.'" A Chicago milk, dealer has given up his business because be baa become converted. Evidently be didn't put water euough in the milk to wash away his sins. A Baltimore specialist comes to the front with the declaration that all Americana are neurotics. Well, who wouldn't prefer being neurotic to be ing an oyster? China commenced to coin money long before any of the other nations thought of the idea. The trouble A'lthin China is that she didn't coin enough of Jt. A New York playwright assaulted an editor for calling him "Oussle." It Is to be hoped that the editor will now concede that tiie playwright has asserted his manhood. For consistency's sake the enthu siast who wants "many here" incor porated Into the language 'should ad vocate it In all ways and at all times manyhow and manywhen, so to speak. While looking for the causes of the divorce evil which Cardinal Gibbons so properly deplores some attention at least ihould be paid to the causa tive factoi contributed by the reck less marriages. When little Prince George of Wales was baptized the other day he yelled like á yi.uhg wild cat and seemed to be halt scared to death. Royalty hst to a row oa a person, like whlsvpis pd some other things. . April a Lucky Month Aaeric-a Pccpíe Ihve Settled Grcsi ' Probkms During Its Thirty Days Momentous ia the Annals of Our National History, "Did you know that the month of April has played a more conspicuous part in American history than any other month of the year?" asked a man who is fond of things historical. "From the way I look at the eventa Involved Apr!! U the most Important of all the months and I have often wondered why the American people show so much Indifference to the fact Why, when you come to think of it, the Fourth K July, while, Of course, Important enough. Is yet not quite so momentous In the annals of American history as tome other days one might mention. April has been the one month of the year which has really settled the great problems with which the American people have had to deal. Suppose we glance at the record for a moment. "The war of the revolution began April 19, 1775, and ended April 11, 1783. Coming on down we find the Sabine disturbance, involving the southwestern frontier. Ioulslsna, Ark ansas and Texas, and which began In April, 1836. running through to June of the next year. Táe Mexlcau war began April 24. 1846. The Yuma expedition Into Calltornla ended In April. 1852. having uegun in Decem ber the year previous. The Gila ex pedition Into New Mexico was launch ed April 16, 1857. The Colorado river expedition In California ended April Í8. 1859. The Pecos expedition Into Texas was launched April 16, 1859. Burled in Old Cathedral Famous Prelates That Hare Been Laid to Rest Within the Walls of the Famous Structure of Canterbury, Although since the Reformation, says the I.ondon Chronicle, no Protes tant Archbishop of canterbury was buried In his metropolitan cathedral until leave was obtained for the inter ment of Archblsalp Benson In 1895, the dust of many famous prelates lies within these ancient precincts. Cutn bert, the eleventh Archblshlp of Can terbury, powerfully affected the for tunes of the cathedral by obtaining permission from Pope Gregory nearly twelva centuries ago, that henceforth ail the Archbishops might be burled within the walls of thelr own cathe dral. Accordingly, from Cuthbert to Cardinal Pole, In 1559, the early re mains of all the filshops lie there at rest, including those of St. Odo, St. Dunstan, St. Alphege. St. Anslem, St. Thomas a Becket, Hubert Walter, Stephen Langton, Archbishops Peck ham, Wlnchelsey, Bradwardlne, Islln, Slmou de Sudbury, Courtenay, Arun del, Chlcheley, Báuchler, Morton, Waruam and other salnta and states men, famous In history for their high enrices to church and oommonwealth. The Interior of Canterbury cathe Iron a Valuable Metal its Importance Is Fur Greater Than Jhat of Both Silrer and GoldPrecious Things From Mother Earth's Treasure House, What are the precious metals? "Gold and sliver," you answer. That dependa, If by preclousnesa is meant the val ue of the product la dollars and cents our golden rule of measurement then gold and silver are .not the pre cious metals, according to the recently issued report of the United States geo logical survey, which gives the mon ey value of the products wrested by man from the earth's dark laboratory In 1901. The gold, the precious yellow metal, poured from nature's crucible In this land last year, is valued at $78.000,. 000, and if to this we add the metal value of the silver we have $111,000, 000. But what Is that compared with the pig iron product of the same time, which Is valued at $241,000.000? The Iron produced ia more precious than the gold and silver combined by $130,000.000. Modest copper, Indian complexloned copper, ran put the oriental hued gold to the blush, for last year It en riched us In the sum of $87,000,000, Different American Voices. Funds to enable Yale university to collect phonographic records of Amer ican voices, especially those of the disappearing tribes of American. In dians, have been granted by the Car negie Institute. There was the war of the rebellion, which started April 19, 1861. Hostili ties actually bepan when Fort Sump ter was fired upon April-12, 1861. "The Ute expedition) In Colorado began April 3, 1878. It la a rather curious coincidence that the late war with Spain bean April 21, In the same month and but two days later, with respect to the day of the month, than the war of the rebellion, which began April 19th. The Spanish-American war began April 21, 1898, and end ed April 11, 1899. These are tome of the more Important things which have taken place In the month of April and many of the events have been of deep Import from the viewpoint of Americans. What reason can you assign for the conspicuous part April has played In the history of America? Do men feel more like fighting In April than In the other months of the year? Is the spirit of war and revo lution Influenced by the rising of tie sap? I do not know, but there must be some good reason for the happen ing of these great things, wart, ex plorations, adventures and events of this sort In the month of April. At any rate they have happened In April and It wouldjae unreasonable ahd alto gether absurd to assume that these things are due to haphazard, that they are mere coincidences. April cannot be explained out of its rightful Inherit ance among the more Important months In American history." dral la so carefully preserved that It gives one the Impression of extreme newness. Yet the wnole choir and east end of the cathedral, as it now stands, is mainly the work of William of Sens and William the Englishman, who flourished toward the end of the twelfth century But the cathedral and the many buildings in Its pre cincts are a perfect museum of me dieval architecture. Next to the transitional style, which Is represent ed In the choir, comes the first point ed or early English style, which came about half a century later. To this period belongs the far famed "Arch bishops' chair," usually called the "chair of St Augustine," on which the archbishops are enthroned, and which was naturally the object of much Interest at the funeral of recent date. It la elaborately carved, and is made of three pieces of Purbeck mar ble. From the style of its decoration It Is believed to have been first placed In the cathedral In 1220, at the superb ceremony of the translation of Beck et's remains from the crypt to his priceless shrine. $9,000,000 more than the value of the yellow metal. Even the base lead that was mined Is one-third the value of the gold. When we go a little deeper and measure structural purposes gold and silver are again distanced, for the building stone, clay and cements that were launched by us Into the chan nels of commerce In 1901 are valued at $182.000,000. The gold and silver produced In the same time was $71.000,000 short of being enough to purchase this output. When we go a little deeper and measure the value of coal, petroleum and natural gaa that we purloined from beneath the fruitful breast of Mother Earth we find its value four tlmea that of all the gold and sliver taken from the same treasure-house in the same time. Gold and silver may dazzle up with their brightness and charm us wltn their nlmbleness, but In preclousness measured by worth of production and real usefulness tbey sink by their own gravity to the bottom of the list of minerals. The Tyrant Man Analyzed. What Is man? Man that Is born of woman Is small cabbages and few la a patch. In Infancy he la full of colic, paregoric, and catnip tea, and in old age he is full of cuss words and rheumatism. P I POPULAR SCIENCE f A Simple Typewriter. In cheap and simple typewriters It has heretofore been unusual In print ing a character to perform three dis tinct operations to find the letter, see that the parts were brought accurately to the proper position and then to Im prest the .character on the paper, this Operatea by the Sense of Touch, last portion of the work being often done with the other band than the ont which adjusts the mechanism. In the drawing la presented a machine for which the Inventor William H. Young of Athens, Ga. claims great simplicity of action, In that the sense of touch may be more fully utilized than Is possible with most machines of this character. This machine has the type on spring fingers, and all the lingera are secured to the bar, which slides on a horizon tal rod. To print the proper character It Is only necessary to insert the fin gor In the wire bale which lies above the flat plate on which the letters of the alphabet are embossed, printed or countersunk; move the bale along un til the finger Is In line with the letter desired, and depress the plate. A spring tongue on the plate transmits tne motion to the type finger, which It forced downward until It strikes the ribbon overlying tho paper. At each depression of the plate a rachet feed movei the paper forward to the next space. It It the sliding of the wire bale back and forth to Insert the finger in the proper character which brings the type finger beneath the tongue for printing, and aa there Is no adjust ment of the mechanism In addition to this movement the machine could probably be worked by a blind man, if the selecting characters were cm bossed on the plate. Water Curtains for Fire Protection. The principle of the so-called water curtain which was proposed quite a number of years ago for fir protec tlon In theaters, being Intended to cut off the auditorium from the stage, has of late been applied In many Instances for ordinary building protection the arrangement being such as to cause water to fall in a sheet either all around a structure or down one side or several aides of It. In the case of one large public building, of which particulars have recently been given, a 7-inch steel water main is laid around the top of the structure, upon the broad stone table formed by the top of the coping. This pipe Is con nected with force pumps In the base ment, and, through perforations prop erly .arranged. Insures the Introduc tion of a substantial sheet of water from cornice to pavement, around the whole or any imperiled portion of the building. The arrangement of the system of piping Is said to be such as to permit . operating In proscribed sectlona, and additional relays of smaller pipe are placed In position above windows and doors in order to complete the curtaining of theso points In the most serviceable manner, should the curtain In the main be broken by wind Impinging against the building or through some other cause. For Use In the Kitchen. Alfred Anderson of Frazee, Minn., aas undertaken to catch the bad odors Stove Hood for Kirhn n.. of the kitchen ancf pass them up the chimney, Instead of allowing them to permeate all parta of the house. His Invention consists of a metallic hood auspended above the ttove and having an entrance directly Into the pipe which leada to the chimney. Each cooking pot la provided with a cover havlnf a tube extending from one side through which the vapors are passed directly into the hood. Should tho boiling up of the contents of the pot elevate the cover tfce resulting pun or steam it also drawn Into the hood by , means of draft conduits arranged around the Inlerlor of tho hood, tho auction of air luto the conduits being stimulated by the steam rising to the chimney through the tubes V the cov ert of the pots. Revolvltg Tooth Brush. The dentist will tell you Uiat It la of vital Importance In cleaning the teeth that the brush be moved toward the edge of the teeth Instead of toward the gums, at the Improper use of the brush will cause the gums to recede from the teeth and expose the roots to the action of decaying acids and other detrimental matter. The new brush shown In the accompanying drawing hat been designed with a view to meeting this demand for movement in a single direction, having a mechanism which prevents backward rotation when the handles are relaxed for giv ing a fresh impetus to the brush. As will be teen, the handle Is designed to contract In the hand, and la ex panded again by the V-abaped spring at the ends. The shaft which carries the circular brush has a toothed wheel at the opposite- end, and a reversible rack bar It attached to the upper handle to rotate the shaft at the handles are contracted. Tbla rack bar can be shifted to either side of the shaft to move the brush In oppo site direction, and aa a ratchet Is lo cated Inside the gear wheel to trans mit the motion to the shaft the latter remalnt motionless while the rack bar Is moving backward. With a lit tle practice the operator carr produce a rapid rotation of the bristles In the proper direction on either side of the fare, cleaning the teeth much more Bristles Move Only in One Direction, rapidly and effectively than with the old style brush. The Inventor Is Homer Poling of Curtain, W. Va. Wonderful Mtat Preservative. The ships of the Russian navy are now carrying meat tor use on board that Is preserved by a process which Is said to keep It In good condition as long as seven years. The invention Is that of Dr. F. T. Schtdlovsky. who Injects a compound through the heart to the aorta, so that all the blood In the slaughtered animal's body is re placed by the preservative fluid. The carcass Is divided and packed In tinned Iron boxes and strewn slightly with salt. Taus prepared, It Is snld. to retain for a long time and under trying conditions Its nutritious and di gestible qualities. Some of It was tound recently at the end of a six months' voyage In the tropics, durlnR which the temperature of the ship's stores rose to 100 degrees, to be with- out perceptible deterioration and it Is said that other samples which weie found to have retained their principal qualities. The preservative solution Is. of course-, harmless, or said to be, to the human stomach. Pressure of Light Waves. Nichols and Hull made, before the late meeting of the American Astro nomical Society, a demonstration of the pressure of light waves. The ap paratus was an hour glass vacuum tube which contained some carbon sponge dust of particles only one or two nlcrons In diameter, the cham ber having been very carefully ex hausted to as high a vacuum as pos sible. When the dust was allowed to fall from the upper to the lower cham-' ber In a powerful arc-light beam the larger particles were seen to fall ver tically, while the liner ones fell out of Plumb and away from the light. The angle of deviation was stated to be about that to be expected oa the radi ant push hypothesis. Nstural Colored 811k. Recent experiments In France have shown that the yellow and green col ora possessed by the silk spun by certain caterpllltra are due to color Ing matter derived from the food, and passed through the blood of the spin ners. By Impregnating, leave, with artificial colora the experimenter, caused some species of caterpillars to produce silk of bright orange-ye.low and fine rose hues. By the aid of the spectroscope the presence and nature 2 Cu ?,r'd p'iment the blood of the little animal, was established.