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ASPIRATION. I envy not tin* min Hi* lavjnh light; Rut O to ho th*» one* Pule orh of night. In Rilrncc and nlonr Communing with mine 1 « ' not the That froahenH all The parching hill and plain; Rut () the mimll Night-dewdrop now to he. My noonday flower, for thee! - John B. Tubb, in Ihirper’a Magazine. 130003000000000000ooooooco 8 HOW BETl'Y WAS LOST. | §0300000000000000000000000 1MID little Dorn did not like usu ally to go ilown t o w n shopping with her mother, hut Hetty adored It, uB she used to fiiiy in curious Im- llatlon ot the talk of older girls. Dora was twelve yours old, and had been down town so many limes that there n o longer a it y novelty In It while Hetty win only five, and had hnrrtly ever been at all. Neverthe less, when mother proposed the trip one lino October morning, hotli little girls wore pleased, Betty oil general principles, and Dorn because she liked to select her own lmlr ribbons, anil also beenuse she wanted to sec the display window at Lawson’s store, "The girls were talking about It at school,” she said. "Harriet Graham snhl I Just must go down. Each day they lit up (lie window differently •Yesterday It was n kitchen, and Har riet snhl there WHS a little girl In It 'who ployed cook. She swept up the room, and she cooked things on the stove, and idle scrubbed the kitchen table, and shu washed the dlslicH In the dearest dlshpan and dried them on pink and white glass towels. Day he fore yesterday, whon Lillian saw It, It was a parlor, and the little girl played she was a lady and wore n long dress and nil sorts of things.” 1 That was very exciting for Dotty, mid It was' a contented party tliat took the electric ear, rode through tho Sub .way, which still seemed to Hetty like some mysterious, cnclinntcd cave, nud started on the brief tour of Inspec tion and shopping which Mrs. Warren had planned. They bought' Betty's shecH and hat nud Dora's ribbons and gloves before It became convenient to pass by tho wonderful window, which In tho minds of tho children was their chief goal. It equalled and even sur passed their hopes. "There, now, Betty Warren!” said Dorn. "Did you ever In your life sea unythlng sweeter than thnt Uttlo girl )n thu nursery? See, she is dressed like a nursemaid to-day, taking cure of tho children! Look nt the twin brass beds, and that precious craillo ,wltli tho lluffy pillows mid the silk coverlet! Don’t you wish you could lio an advertisement little girl, and do nothing hut play with Such lovely tilings V” Betty said nothing. Sho was taking In. nil tho delights of tho nursery, mid bad no words of comment ready yet. Tho whlo window was furnished liko a small room, and tho little girl, who was Just then malting up a bed, was Just about Betty’s Size., Very cunning sho looked in her nursemaid's cap and apron, with n sett frill of muslin about her neck nud tho quaint arrangement of her half. All tho furniture, of tho room was fascinating, hut the crown lug chnrm here, as In every real, nur sery, was thu children It contained- the doll llgures which seemed to glvo tho tiny nursemaid so much care. She rocked the baby In Its cradle—In different to tlio wise Instructions given by those who know better—dressed and undressed dolls that took tho place of older children, showed black Dinah how to put a log prop crly-on tho grate lire, anil once sho oven found It necessary to make tho little hoy doll stand In the corner for being naughty to Ills sister. Mrs. Warren and Dorn both gazed .With great Interest, and Belly was .wholly absorbed. “Oh, wlint a .hnppy Uttlo girl she must bol" sho murmured softly, "I don’t know rfjout that,” said her mother. “It must ho hard to turn piny Into worts. Sho looks ns earnest over It ns Dora does over her arith metic problems. I should think this crowd of persons looking nt her would make her nervous. I feel sorry for the little thing." "Well, any way, mnmmn, they draw ,the curtains every Uttlo while to give her rest,”,su!d Dorn, comfortingly, ns >they turned reluctantly away. They stopped for nn Ice-cream soda before taking llio cars for home, nud It was here that Mrs. Warren met an old friend of hers with her daughter Lillian. "It Is tho greatest piece of good for tune thnt I have mot you," said Mrs. Hathaway. “I have Just been trying to rench you with tho telephone. Our old friend and schoolmate, Susan Haskell, is coming to luncheon with me, and I want you to come right homo with mo now, for she Is to he In the city only about four hours, on her way southward.” Mrs. Warren was pleased .with tho thought of seeing her old friend, but hesitated a little about tho children. “Of course, Dora, can go home alone all right,” she said, "but I wish Betty wore not here. Sho Is /such a little fly-away you must kcepf tight hold of her." ■ l, mamma Is going with you?” asked >ora, eagerly. Mrs. Warren seconded the Invitation, and the three children finally left to go home by them- i. After (bat. I.Milan had one or minds t o’do In the ulghborkood, and then Hie girls went to the florist's to leave nn - order from Mrs. Kaflm- wny. But nt Inst they were fairly started toward Hie subway entrance, where they meant to lake the ears. Suddenly, at (he same minute, both girls missed Betty. Neither could tell how' It happened. She Imil been skip ping from one to the other, holding now Lllli(in’H hand atttl now Dora’s, saying lllile, hilt making her presence constantly ovlden(. And now she was gone. "Why, she had” hold of my hand hen I was til. the llorlst’Kl" "yen, anti site went out to tho front of the store■ to’sco those Japanese flowers.*' Was It before then that wo met the man with lltc balloons, and she wanted one?" > ■Oil; dear, 1 don’t know,” said Dora, almost crying. ‘‘Wo must go bnck and look for lief." Thou a hnppy thought occurred to Lillian. . ■Perhaps,sho went bnck to Lawson’s to look In the window again. Don’t you romoitther.how she wanted us to go bnck for one more look?” So tho girls hastened to Lawson’s, finding the usual crowd before the window, hut, no sign of Betty. Then they wcut straight to a policeman and told the wholo story, and then there was telegraphing to thu central station, and tho policemen were noti fied to he oil tho lookout for a little girl, five years old, yellow hair, blue dress mid a little black silk bag In lior band. It was Dora's flrat Impulse to start for her mother, But Lillian anil, the policeman advlsefl her to wait a little longer,.and {the policeman, sure tlint the Uttlo one could not have strayed far, began a systematic wall: np one street nail down the next, tlio. girls following-ngd looking Into all the stores. "Somehow, J cptinot help thinking nil the;,lime of'Lawson’s," said Dom, Anally. ; “I,ct's , go .hack there once more, and then, If’wo do not see Bor, 1 wlll go Btrnlglit to mother, though I know * shall die If I’have . to toll her Betty, Is lost—poor, little frightened thing, as X know 1 she Is tills mlnutol" So’to Lawson’s they wontagain, and mingled:With the crowd In front of tho window, lint no Betty was there. They wore too disconsolate to look Inside, and tho crowd, which seemed lilgger mid more amused, than ever, hustled! them along. They hnd almost passed, when suddenly tlioro was a little stir, and a sharp rap on tho gliiHH made than turn their bewil dered eyes, anil there, with a doll In each arm, (ho rocking chnlr from which sho hhd risen still swaying hack and forth, with shining eyes, brimming o’vor with fun mid excite ment, her yollow hair tossed hack and her cheeks aglow with delight, was Betty, not frightened, not troubled, but supremely, radiantly hnppy, Dorn and Lillian stood motionless with nninzomcnt, and If Lillian at least felt that sho would like to shako the unrepentant enuse of nil tliolr suf fering perhaps she 13 hardly to ho blnmeil. But In Dora’s mlnfl Hie Joy of beholding again 1 lior llttlo, sister, alive and uninjured, bnulshcd every, thing else. An attendant who wns watching from tho Inside thou beck oned tho girls In, and they heard tlio whole story. Botty had walked In all alone, and going up to a clerk nn nounccd unhesitatingly her desire “to he nn advertisement.” He was sur prised to see so small a child alone, and asked her If she wore lost. "Yes, I suppose I’m lost, but they’ll find me pretty quick, nud I want to he nn advertisement while tlioy nro hunt ing." Tlio clurk laughed, mid called to a gentleman who wns Just passing in tho alslo of the store. "Mr. Harris, here’s nil applicant for tho position ot window girl, nud I think slic'd make a good one." Whon ltotty hnd repeated her story and told her mime, tho gentleman hnd her take elf her Jncket and hat, and lifted her carefully to tlio big win dow sent. "They'll And her quicker there than anywhere olse," ho said. "Besides, It will please her, and her mother Is ouo of our best cnslomors. It Isn’t a bad advertisement, Indeed, to linvo tho daughter of lion. Hamilton Warren ns ouo ot our employes." And ho laughed ns If lie enjoyed the joke. Tho girls must linvo passed the first tlmo beforo the preliminaries were settlcjl. “I hope you'll like it,'\sa!d tho child who yielded her undesirable place to Betty, To Betty It was anything hut undesirable, however. She felt that her tlmo wns short, anil simply sot to play with all the single-mindedness and apparently nil the unconsciousness with which'slie wotilil lmvo played in her own room nt homo. “Well, 1 knew sho wns never shy tu her lifel” gasped poor Dorn, divided between jOy nt the recovery and simme for Betty’n shortcomings. “But never dreamed of her doing a thing like thntl llow could you run away from us, Betty?'.’ she salil, reprovingly, as tho child’s jacket and hat were being restored. “Wo were dreadfully frightened.’’ "Didn’t run away," was the coaxing answer. "Didn't run away at all. took hold of a Inily'H dress, and thought It was you, nud I was turning my head to look nt the balloons. And when I looked around It wasn’t you, and tho lady looked cross nt me, aud this wns just next door. And couldn't see you, and I hnd to come in.” Just es they were leaving the store, accompanied, to the door by several hnd given the desired permlstlon to Betty came up. "Hut we always pay for oar adver tisements, my dear,” lie said. And ho handed Betty n generous box of choc olate peppermints and a bright, new, shiny- ten-cent piece, and Betty went home as hnppy ns a queen.—Christian Register. FILIPINO DWARFS. (j ; ns Curious Durnrls In ills ritlllp- plne Islmids. President McKinley recently received from Professor Dean C. Worcester, of the Philippine Commission, a very Interesting account of the curious black dwarfs of the Philippines. There nbout 23,000 of these plgniles, ho says, anil they are known ns Negritos. They nro to be found of pure race In tlie provinces of Bataan, Luzon anil also hi Northenst Mindanao. Some of tlicso have been gathered Into settle ments by missionaries,' who are try ing to. civilize them, while others, mostly halt breeds, live near Cln'ls- thin towns, where they do a little work front time to time, for which they rp-, pelvo payment in the form of trinkets or cloth. Sometimes a Christian fam ily will buy a. dwarf child and rear It for a servant, But usually It escapes to tho forest as soon ns It Is big enough. These dwarfs are romnrkably like monkeys. According to Dr. Becker, the average stature of the men Is four feet eight Inches, and the women nro three or four inches shorter. Their chests are not well developed, and they linvo no calves to tholr legs. Each big too Is widely separated from the others, nud tho throe outer toes of each foot are turned' Inward, ns In some monkeys. Their feet urc large anil clumsy, nnd their pair, instend of growing all over the bond, Is distrib uted over tbo scalp In regularly scat tered clumps. Their heads are appar ently too large for their bodies, nnd the mop of wool which they weiir accentuates this effect. So nfonkoy- llko are they that they counterfeit npcs In a startling manner, their jaws projecting far beyond their noses and their faces deeply wrinkled, like mou- ys'. ■ > £,■ [ Tlio men wear no clothing except cord drawn around the waist, from which hangs a small piece of cloth, whereas tho .women wear an uprou made from the lmrk of a tree. Marrlngo among tho Negritos Is In dissoluble, and only one wife Is al lowed.' Matrimonial customs vary among them,'but usually tho ceremony of mnrrlnge Is unlike anything ot tho kind to ho seen anywhere In tho world. It takes the form ot a tost of marks manship, the young woman herself being the target. She stands nbout titty yards from her lover, holding under her nrrn a maRS ot palm lonvoB. Ho fires a blunt arrow, and If It passes through the leaves without striking tho girl this two lire married. If he falls tho un ion 1 Is ^forbidden, but ns the Negritos are very expert with tho how such n thing rarely happens. Tlio Negritos tiro very Independent, and neither tho Spaniards nor the Malays havo over been nble to sub- duo thorn. Of a geutlo nature, they never kill h human being wantonly, but they regard with suspicion tlio Christianized natives, who often mal treat them. If attacked, they defend tlicniBelvcs vigorously, nnd In retalia tion will rob and destroy tho fields of their enemies or even assail their vil lages nt night. To their children they Ivo tlie names of birds, plants or Insects. They cannot count above ten, nnd, while nble to distinguish col ors well, have no words for them. If plague breaks out, such ns cholera or small pox, they nro apt to desert tho sick. ‘.'Oli, Mrs. HntlmwnJ-, mayn’t Lil lian come, to lunchepn with me. if i admiring clerks,. the gentleman who . An klilioile In Ills Career. There Is a middle-aged, unmarried man hi this town who lias the making In him of a confirmed old bachelor in such proportions to Ills other com ponent parts that nothing short of dl- Ine Interposition can save him. He tins been courting a young woman for a year or more In his peculiar fashion, and last Suudny night It occurred to him that an appropriate moment hnd arrived for him to mnke a formal pre sentation of his claim nnd have it act ed upon. It happened at a picturesque resort In tlie mountains of Loudouu County, and tho soft summer air nnd tho quiet valleys stretching miles awny nt tho feet of the lovers should havo roused nil the 'romance In man’s nature, nud made a declaration of this cort of a poem nnd a fantasy, skipped all that, however, nnd came to tho momentous question pretty much ns a hunter comes to a fence. “Miss Katherine," lie said, after a very little “mooning,” “will ybu' bo kind enough to marry mo?" “No, sir,” slio replied, with commend able promptness and Indignation. "Indeed; why not?" bo Inquired eon sldorably surprised at lior answer. "Simply because 1 don’t want to.” To most men tills would have been In tho nature of total extinguishment, but tills man Is different, “Well, well,” lie said, apparently studying out the proposition, nnd not nt nil overcome by the young worn an’s answer, “tills Is what 1 would call an episode In my career—an epi sode, Miss Katherine, being something thnt is entirely unexpected." Then he began talking about some thing else, and sho got up nud went Into tho house.—Washington Star. Thu llorlln Museum. The Berlin Museum of Natural His tory contains l.SOO.OOO animal speci mens, representing 200,000 species, kt is estimated that a total of more than 400,000 living species has now been described, of which tho Insects number 2S0.00C; birds, 13,000; fishes, 12,000; reptiles, S300; amphibians, 1300; spider family, 20,000; sliellfisu, 50,000; worms, SOOO. -il-'L.i ... A O(■ oil KF.mil Urn. T il 10 question ot tho Improve ment of the Amerlcnn roads has been for a long tlmo ngl- tntlng the minds of the peo ple who take a pride la the welfare of the country, writes James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, la Harper’s Weekly. • Tourists have been forced to make comparisons unfavorable to tho home highways when they have gone abroad and seen the beautifully, level nnd well-kept roads of Great Britain aud ninny of the Continental countries. It will be good news to the whole nation to learn tlmt ronil Im provement Is to bo made a special study, nnd wide inquiry to ho set on foot among the several States ns to the best ways nnd means of placing tho highways of the country upon a superior basis. Tlie Department of Agriculture has a little ronil office by which a few thousand dollnrs a year are spent nlong tlie lines of both educational nnd practical work. Innumerable projects havo been advanced, consid ered, nnd abandoned ns being Inade quate to meet the difficulty of Improv ing our highways. One of these pro jects led to the sending out by the Department of Agriculture, wltliln tho Inst yenr, ot experts to moot nnd co operate with different-bodies in vari ous States for the purpose of carrying on practical experimentation with steel tracks that would cnnhlo the farmers to get tliolr produce to mnrket with out running the risk of tho heavily laden wagons sticking fnHt In tho ruts of soft rends, made softer by contin uous .rains. Tbc.se experiments have caused sncli a demand to bo made for further and more extensive experimentation, to de cide the best plan for roud Improve ment tlint I linvo decided to organize an office on broader lines nud prepare It for doing more thorough work. To this end It Is proposed to dlvldo tlie United States Into districts, secure an educated agent In each ot those districts to study conditions, confer with scientists nnd practical load- makers, address students nnd educa tional Institutions, nud make reports of work done and proposed to be done thnt will form the basis of road lit erature. To begin with, It Is proposed to lo cate the agents In the Eastern States nnd the Southern Slntes, one Ill tho prairie States, nud one in the moun tain States of the far West. The value of this plan Is that ns the conditions In the several localities nrc peculiar nnto themselves, by a system of Inter communication between the various agents wo shall gather the best infor mation *us to the needs of the whole country nnd tho best methods of In augurating a scheme of national road Improvement. It Is proposed thnt these agents shall send specimens of good ronil inatorinl to the chemical division of tho Depart ment of Agriculture for analysis; that study shall he made nlong the lines of affinity nnd possibility of coalescing tho several materials to he obtained nt each ot tho several localities nnd tho advantages accruing from the Inter change of material between the differ ent districts. It Is Intended tlmt each agent slinll reside within his own dls trlct nnd concentrate -his entire time nud thought-on the study ot tho con ditions found within that district. Those agents must of necessity be good engineers; . they should know something nbout geology, for It will be necessary to polio around In all the corners of tho surrounding country In search of material suitable to the roail-mnliiug needs of thnt section; a knowledge of draining will bo ad vantageous In making reports of the general conditions and the difficulties to he encountered In road Improve ment, and tho practical acquaintance with the art of grading thnt those familiar with road-malting acquire will greatly help In a comprehensive •urvey of tho situation. The first thing an agent will be ex pected to do when ho arrives nt his district will ho to make lilmself thor oughly acquainted with tlio material at Ills command. There are many lo calities In tlie United States where stone cannot bo found within a hun dred miles or more. Other localities are so stony as to mnke the farmers who try to mnke tlio soil fertile almost despair of overcoming the obstacles tlmt nnturo 1ms placed In their It can easily be seen liow the reports tlmt come in from ngents In districts where the ground is of these two sepa rate natures enn be made valuable. The material for road-making that Is absent from one district will be found in nbundnneo in another, and tho office nt tho Department of Agriculture will thus bo placed In possession of intelli gence tlmt will make tho lnying ont of a great plan of campaign for road Im provement a comparatively easy mat ter. The stony section can be drawn upon to supply the wants of the district tlmt is_ all sand nnd soil, nnd from the sandy quarter can be obtained In exchange for the stone the ma terial tlmt Is lacking In the stony country. The wants of the peo ple in one place will not be the wants of those In nuotber. These needs will be studied by tlie agents, aud reports made In due order, Each man will work earnestly and methodically for the good of the whole, and the road department will keep a guiding hand over all, accepting and using sugges tions from tiny one who lias anything to offer on tlio subject hnd inviting co operation from the entire country In the important work of bringing* our highways np to the level of those of other nations. Authority will be given to tlie agents lo conduct experiments, with nny ma terial or along nny lines that are sug gested by those residing In nuil fa miliar with the districts In which they are located, and these experiments will reported on nnd the reports added to tho valuable literature that the department will gutlier In the course of tho movement. Where tho traffic of tho locality Is of sufficient extent to necessitate It steel experiment* will be carried on upon a more extensive scale than any heretofore conducted, nnd a careful record of tho cost ot the rand made In this way, with the approximate saving to the wagon wheels nnd the benefit to the district, nnd forwnrded to tlie department. It 1s nntlolpatcd tlmt questions will arise where steel tracks are laid and lmrd rock for tlio filling up of the spaeo between tho tracks cannot read ily ho obtained, an to the cheapest method of supplying tlie deficiency. It will ho tho duty of tho agent to make experiments nlong these lines with tho rauterlal nt his hands, nnd If he finds fie cannot obtain tho necessary ma terial In Ills vicinity It will be left to him to, make trips farther out and search tho district to see If nnturo has not In some hitherto undiscovered spot left n bountiful provision for just such a need anil kept It hidden, nwnitlng tho Ingenuity nnd perseverance ot man to illg out nnd utilize. Having found the material thnt he, with his practical knowledge of road-mnklng mid the oddltlonnl knowledge nequlred by ex perimentation, llnd3 Is needed for the betterment of the highways In that dis trict, It will be the duty of the agent to apply to the transportation compan ies for rates, so thnt when he makes his report regarding tho needs of the district he will nt the same time lmve the figures of the cost complete and accurate. When tho reports of tho various agents nro printed there will nnturnlly he sufficient rivalry nmong them to call up tho best efforts of tho mou to excel In tho report tlmt will follow, and advantage will bo taken of tho suggestions In the repol-t of one agent by another ngent, so tlmt the second reports will bo sure to contain even more valuable data’ than the first. In this wny tlie foundation will be laid for useful rend literature, tlio attention of others will bo drawn to the matter, papers will be rend by men who are Interested and lmve a practical knowl edge of the subject, nnd the whole country will bo stirred to action nnd helped in tlie work of Improvement. The Intention of tlie movement is to ensure practical results In a matter that lias long pnsed tbo talking stage. The Department of Agriculture will plnco nt tho disposal of the agents hi co-opcrntlon with them tho faclll tics of the experiment stations to bo found in the various Slates, nnd every encouragement will ho given for the formation of classes by road experts. In a word, the department Is prepared to give the whole matter tho broadest anil most careful attention with a view to tho extension to tho people ot tho various States every possible as sistance to better the condition of the highways nnd lessen tlio troubles of those who uso the public roads extern stvely. A VINE-DRAPED WINDOW. It Give* a Small Dark Uomn a Dclltlit- luilT Cool Kffect. was n small, dark dining-room, with only a narrow side yard separat ing it from the brick wall of the neigh boring house. It would have been gloomy nnd unattractive but for the flowers nnd vine Vlrnpe-y of the one window. And tills same window was discovery well worth describing, anil hotter worth Imitating; for few beauty-loving housewives seem to re- WORbS OF WISDOM. Tyranny is always weakness.—Low- ell. Patience is bitter, but Its fruit Is tweet.—Boussoaii. A well-bred man Is always soclnblo mid complaisant.—Montaigne. The talent of success Is nothing more than doing whnt you can do well.— Longfellow. The sower of the seed is assuredly tlio author of the whole harvest of mischief.—Demosthenes. Of all the faculties of the mind mem ory Is the first that flourishes, and the first tlmt dies.—Colton. Where there Is the most love of God, there will ho there the truest and most enlnrgcd philanthropy—Southey. Look within. Within Ir tho fountain of good; and It will over bubble up, If thou wilt dig.—Marcus Aurelius. The morose mnn takes both narrow and selfish views of life aud tlie world lie Is cither envious of the happiness of others, or denies Its existence.—0, Simmons. Setting out on thy soul’s pilgrimage, unite to thyself whnt hearts thou ennst. Know well that a hundred holy temples of Mecca have not tho value of a heart—Omar Khayyam, Gasolene a. a.Woman EUIer. It Is probnblc that, If the statistics were gathered and compared, it would be found that the gasolene stove Is more deadly to the women of this country than the campaign In . tho Philippines Is to tho men In the army. Scarcely a day passes without a rec ord of the burning, seriously nnd of ten fatally, of one or more women In this city alone, and there Is no reason to uellove that Philadelphia has a mo nopoly on such casualties. In most eases the woman Is the victim of her own Imprudence, ns she tries to HU tho stove-while tho fire Is lighted or tries some experiment with It which results in nn explosion, but this cir cumstance only shows the dangerous character of tho fluid. It does not seem to bo Eafo for any but nn expert, and a careful one at that, to handle.— Philadelphia Ledger. Cause of Lessoned HXurtallty ot Late Wars The lessened mortality In recent wars Is due especially to the “first-aid package with which the combatants are supplied. Without this, the results now would be practically the same ns during tho times before the packet was used.—Toledo Medical and Surgl cal Reporter. A WINDOW D11APED WITH VINES, nllzo tlmt window boxes may flourish even nt the most 'bcltcred nnd shaded windows. As this om hnd only n glimpse of sunshine In tho early morning (be cause ot tho surrounding brick walls), pnnslos nnd ferns nnd tuberous bego nias were grown In the box, Instead of tbo bloomers that demnnd plenty of- sunlight. The deep window box was arranged bo that the upper edge was even with the glass, thnt tho full benefit of the growing plnrts could be seen from tlie Inside. In one- corner of the. box thrifty honeysuckle roots bail been placed, anil these soon sent strong branches up to the top of tho whidow where pliable splints had been ar ranged to form nn arch." Clematis nnd other sun-loving .limbers could lie grown In less shady quarters,but this position the honeysuckle proved most satisfactory. With a very thin lace drapery on tho Inside of the window, to flutter In every passing breeze, nnd this vine drapery rf green on tho outside, nnd the blooming pansies nnd begonias peeping In nt the sill, tills one window transformed the whole effect of that small, dark dining room. Tlio Karri Tree. It Is generally known to most peo ple tlmt the karri tree, which Is now used so largely In paving the London streets, is the giant tree of Western Australia, but few nrc aware, how ever, of the enormous proportions which tho species sometimes attain, nnil it may, therefore, bo ot interest to glvo the measurements of n tree re cently discovered on tho hanks of tho Wnrron River. Tho specimen In ques tion Is thirty-four feet In circumfer ence three feet from tho ground, four teen feet In clreumfercneo nt the first limb, which Is ICO feet from tho ground, nnd over 200 feet In extreme height. In other words, the whole of the tree from tho bottom to the first limb contains nearly 0000 cubic feet of timber, which means that It lms a weight of over forty tons In all. For street blocking the karri timber Is pronounced by exports bettor than Its colleague, the ✓.rah, in thnt Its surface Is less liable to get slippery for tho horse’s feet.—St. James Ga zette. CRUDE APPLIANCES STILL USED. Clumpy Itazorp, Shear, and Spado. Still Mticle.nnd Hold. After viewing some of the Interest ing refinements of modern tools nnd appliances it Is surprising to turn to some of the oxhlbi.3 and sec the crude, clumsy, Inel,..-lent articles still In use In various lands. The group shown contains fo.r typical examples. Whnt appears to ho n knife Is really a razor, tlmt Is made in large quantities hi Austria nnd shipped to tho Far East—Chinn n-d Jnpan. Thg’han dles arc exactly simlk r to clotfibs pins, no attempt being made to finish or pol ish tkc-j. The blades nro crude In proportion. Below you will note a pair of shears that a village blacksmith would lmrdly bo willing to claim hav ing nmde. These are also made In Austrin, and find a ready market In Syria and Morocco. The wooden spade Is such as is used • In Finland. In that lnnd wood Is far more abundant than Iron, nnd, conse quently, It Is utilized wherever possi- SIANTPACTTJHED POD THE ANTIPODES, ble, only such parts o^ agrlculturn piements being made 1 of iron as subject to the greatest wear. 1 clumsy contrivance is not a mus specimen, but a spade that is in nc everyday uso. As shown, It com of a wedge-shaped piece of w pointed with an iron\ sheathing, provided with a crude wooden ban