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DIO RENTS IN LONDON,
Fabulous Prices Paid for Domiciles In Arls*
tocratic Quarters.
Pretty nearly everybody under
lands, of eourse, that house rents are
very considerably greater In London
than they are in provincial towns and !
that In the metropolis they vary great
ly and are very sllff In the regions
where society hovers. Hut a writer In
Tit-Hits ventures to think that even
few Londoners have much Idea of the
enormous figures paid for the rentals
of fashionable houses In Belgravia and
Mayfair or realize how few square
yards of the west end It takes to pro
duce n million sterling In this way.
Now, take, to start with, Park lane,
that highly fashionable thoroughfare.
It Is ralher staggering to learn that
$50,000 a year is really not nt all a
very extravagant rent to pay for a
good house in this quarter. The plain,
simple fact of the matter Is, however,
that you cannot get a decent house
here for less than $15,000, and even
such a one would only have three or
four bedrooms and, generally speaking,
would not have greater accommoda
tion than a house at $250 or $I!(K) a
year In the suburbs or at half that
price In a provincial town.
Grosvenor square and Berkeley
square are renowned headquarters of
society, which pays astonishingly for
Its residence there.
Consider the former first. The whole
square comprises fewer than sixty
houses, but It Is a fact that their com
bined annual rental Is about $750,000.
Big as the rents are, getting n house
here Is a matter of great difficulty, and
seldom Is there one to let for long.
Nothing can be got for less tlum $5,000 1
it year, and from this figure an in- j
tending tenant may go up to $50,000 i
a year.
Berkeley square Is likewise (lltlleult
to pet Into. It is rather old fastiloned
and revere, and the average man or
woman from the eountry might not he
able to see anything about the houses
which would Justify a heavy drain be
ing made upon a tenant's pocket, ltut.
all the same, houses here are always
at a premium, and you will not get
much of a residence for $2,500 a year,
nor yet, so fur as that goes. Is the ac
commodation very astonishing If $lO,-
000 a year is paid.
St. James square Is another ultra
fashionable quarter which a million
aire might have to wait years to get In
to If he desired to live there $15,000
or $20,000 a year is quite a moderate
rent for a house so situated while
Norfolk House, where the Duke of
Norfolk resides, and such others as
Lord Derby's residence, ut oil, would
easily realir.e $50,000 a year In rent.
Carlton House terrace, where states
men and embassadors live, also costs
its tenants dearly. At least $20,000 a
year must be paid for anything good
In this particular neighborhood, and
Mr. Astor gave more than slloo,ooo
when he purchased one of the houses
In the terrace, formerly occupied by
Lord Granville. Vet the ordinary man
would remark that the houses are not
even semidetached and that outward
ly. at all events, they are far from im
posing.
An Indian Summer Ctrl.
“What has come upon my daugh
ter?” grunted the great chief. "She
Is like a goose-feather blown by the
wind. One day she smiles upon the
love of Foxtail, the soothsayer, and
the next she frowns like the thunder
cloud. How? Is he not great medi
cine ?”
"Yes, Father," replied the wilful
maiden, whoso education among the
eastern pale-faces had been most com
plete. "Therefore he should he well
shaken before taking.” Catholic
Standard and Times.
Japan got its first telegraph line In
1860. To-day It has 144,570 miles of
line in service, with 1,267 office*
Indian V/omen Fond of Fine Raiment and Costly Jewels
i
There are well-dressed Indian women as well as American women. It
does not matter whether the red woman has her dresses trimmed and made
ui) In latest styles, because the cost Is there—any money counts.
Many women of the Kiowa, Comanche, Arapahoe and Ponca tribes have
dresses costing from $750 to SISOO apiece. Some of these expensive dresses
are shown in the photographs. Other women wear jewelry worth from SOOO
to SSOOO. And all this among the full-bloods, too. The half-breeds are even
more lavish In buying swell clothes and jewels.
The swell costumes of these women are mostly made from tanned buf
falo hides. The leather is soft and durable. It Is made up Into a comforta
ble-fitting skirt and loose waist. These dresses alone cost very little—not
any more than n good silk dress. But the trimmings cost. Not less than a
hundred elk teeth adorn the bosom of the dress and sometimes 200. These
can be sold at from $2 to $lO each. Then a row of gold braid must go
around the bottom and a string of pearl beads should adorn every swell belt.
With other additions of (“Ik teeth, pearls and oyster shells the dress soon be
comes valuable.
The Ponca women are eager for jewelry, and most of them have bought
so much tlrnt they are now good judges of gold and precious stones, ltubics
and opals are their favorites.
I FALCONRY REVIVED
i The Sport Wlilc-Ii the Smort
Set I las Taken Up.
NOT polo, or tennis, or golf, or
fox hunting or yachting or
horse racing—none of these
u Is the most “swagger” of all
sports Just now, hut the noble and an
cient sport of falconry. After being
a sport which was in England more
popular even than fox hunting, fal
conry died out and was forgotten. Now
It has been revived again, and before
long it may cross the ocean and we
may have the hen yards of Long Isl
and endangered by circling jerfalcons,
peregrines, goshawks or sparrow
hawks, ltul no kestrels, and you would
he of true and good form, for by the
laws passed by William the Conquer
or, Edward 111., Henry 1111. and good
Queen ltess, the kestrel is the hawk
assigned by law to a knave or servant,
while to royalty belonged the Jerfal
con, to the nobility the peregrine, to
the yeoman the goshawk and to a
priest the sparrow hawk. In England
now most falconers hunt with the
peregrine, always a popular hawk
there, and one which is getting more
and more rare along the British coast.
It builds Its nest in some almost in
accessible niche of a rocky cliff, and
an expert and hold climber Is required
to scale tin- eyrie and take the young
for training. If hawking becomes pop
ular In this country it will be rather
lmrd on the person who has just
learned to say mashie, clock, fore, tee,
brassey, etc., to have to go to work
and burn the midnight gas learning
all the terms of falconry, from cop
ing, crabbing, crennce, crop, down to
wait on, weathering and yarnk. One
term of falconry we have with us to
this day In rather common use but
misapplied. That is the word mews.
In England and In this country one
sometimes sees a lane of private sta
bles called a mews, such as Washing
ton Mews, just north of Washington
flXl J PALCONS HOODED 'fplvll
'ON THEIR SLOCKS - >
square iu this city. When a hawk
moults she is said in the "patter” of
the sjwrt of falconry to "mew" and
the place where she was put to moult
used to he called her “mew.” Hence
a row of such buildings were “mews.”
Ilnwlcs, not horses, belong In “mews.”
The training of falcons is an art re-
I FALCON UNHOODED
> I?E?ADY FOR THEr
FIELD.
ilk
qulring judgment and patience. Their
education begins when they are nearly
ready to tl.v. The young hawks are
brought to their future home and
turned loose In a shed open in front,
hut roofed in against bad weather and
with sides and a hack to it. Blocks
of wood are pegged into the ground.
These blobks serve the birds for roosts
and for dining tables. On these blocks
the falconer places the food for the
young birds, consisting of fresh meat,
dead rabbits or birds. The hawks
soon learn to fly and in a short time
can be seen soaring above their home
and swooping over the surrounding
country. Although before long they
can fly many miles, they always re
turn at feeding Hpic. This Is the most
anxious 'Vie for the falconer. lie
must kn~j just when to stop these
excursior’jpor his ynjng hawks, for if
he gives Ikeui liberty too long the
natural Instincts of the bird will as
sert themselves and she will stoop to
some natural quarry, such as pheas
ant or a pigeon. If she begins to do
this she will feel her strength and
gradually desert her home and go for
aging for herself. Another danger
when the young hawks are flying free
is that they may be shot by some
gamekeeper, who takes the bird for
a wild falcon. To obviate such nn un
happy ending, bells are attached to
the hawk's legs which, by tlielr warn
ing sound, give notice to the game
keeper that the liaw’k Is from a neigh
bor’s falconry. Before the falcon
learns to forage for herself the falcon
er snares his bird and hoods her, that
Is, places over her head a cap of leath
er to bind her. Then the hawk is se
cured by a leather thong to the peg
which holds to the ground its feeding
block anil roost, and the second part
of its education begins. The falconer
takes the birds out separately and ex-
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ercises them. A long string is tied to
the jess (a leather strip about eight
incites long which always remains
around the falcon’s leg) and the bird
is encouraged to fly in circles over the
falconer’s head. When she gets to
circling around pretty lively a piece
of meat, or a (lead pigeon is thrown to
the ground, and, as the liawk has
not been fed, slie stoops to it.
The falconer is constantly with his
hawks, handling them and dissipating
their natural fear of man, and every
effort is made to get them accustomed
to the presence of strangers. This is
called “manning” a hawk.
Finally the education of the hawk
is so far advanced that she is tried
afield. The hawker, being in the field,
unhoods the falcon, which is sitting
on the gaurilletcd glove he wears on
his left hand slips the leash from the
jess, gives the bird a toss, and away
she soars iu widening circles until she
ir V n,)Av^e x VI,
“casting” a falcon after a rART
IUDGE,
spies the quarry, when she swoops
down upon it and kills it. A piece of
meat is given to the bird as a reward,
and she is taken up and hooded again.
When several hawks are taken out for
Held work they are carried on a wood
en frame called a “cadge” until the
falconer gets ready to fly them. A
falconer after a successful day will
bring back home a bag of pheasants,
hares, rabbits, quails, partridges, etc.,
which will repay him for the trouble
he has had in training his falcons.even
if the sport itself did not—which it
does.
In North Africa falconry has been
for a vast number of years a favorite
sport. Ancient Egyptian carvings
seem to show that it existed in the
days of the I’liaroalis. At this day
the Bedouins fly their falcons and go
following them over the sandy plains
of Tunis and Tripoli on their fleet
horses. The reintroduetion of falconry
as a sport into Europe has been so
successful that international meetings
are now held. In a recent contest of
falcons at Spa, Belgium, several prizes
were taken by the hawks belonging to
C. E. Itadetyffe, an Englishman, who
devoted much time to the sport. His
hawks are especially well trained, and
were much admired at the meeting in
Belgium. He has the advantage of
an open country around his home at
Wareliam. in Dorset, so that when
game is flushed the falcons have a fair
chance of striking their quarry. It
should be observed that It is the fe
male hawk Which is employed in fal
conry. Falcons are found in almost
all parts of the world, and peregrines
can be bought in this country and
trained if the sport of hawking ever
crosses the ocean, and it is Hkely to.
—New York Press.
Government Contract With Indiana.
The Crow Indians of Montana, who
raise a great deal of wheat, have en
tered into a contract with the United
States Government to supply the
Cheyenne Indians with flour. They
have constructed a system of irriga
tion for their farms, and have a good
flour mill at the agency, while they
are building another at a distant part
of the reservation. They have sold
much farm produce annually for sev
eral years to buyers in the country
round, and many cattle and horses.
They are rich in farms and flocks and
herds, but this is the first time a
Government contract or a railway con
tract was ever let to an Indian—at
least to a “blanket Indian” of the
mountains.
Klectrlc Cartrldgea.
An Italian electrician has invented
an electric cartridge, which he offers
as a substitute for dynamite and
smokeless powder in mines, rock blast
ing and for heavy ordnance. The com
position used in the cartridge is made
up of carbonates of potash and chlo
ride of ammonia, the proportion vary
ing according to the use. The dis
charge is effected by an electric spark,
which produces electrolytic effects
upon the chemicals. The inventor
claims that the cartridges, until sub
jected to the effect of electricity, are
entirely inoffensive and perfectly safe,
so that there will be no necessity for
isolating the magazines where they
are stored. London Commercial In
telligencer.
STUDY IN SALT.
Extracted From the Oceans and Rolled
Into a ltig; Rale.
The London Daily Express says:
Roughly speaking, if you take the salt
out of sea water you deprive it of a
thirtieth of its weight. On this basis
one-thirtieth of the entire weight of
all the sea water in the world is salt,
and as salt and water bulk about the
same we may estimate also that, by
bulk, one-tliirtietli of the huge mass
of the oceans Is pure salt. What does
this bring us to?
Taking the 130 odd million square
miles of the live oceans to average a
mile and a half deep, we have in them
alone 200 million cubic miles of salt
water. A thirtieth of this should give
us the hulk of the salt contained in the
great waters of the globe.
Rounding the figures we get some
thing like seven million cubic miles of
salt. If it were all taken out and
spread over the surface of the six con
tinents they would be covered with Its
snowy powder to a depth of twice the
height of St. Faul’s. To put it another
way, if all the earth wore salt water
there would be enough of the flavoring
principle in it to make two moons of
solid salt but very little smaller than
our present satellite.
SALT J
TIIE SALT IX THE OCEANS.
But these comparisons are almost
too huge for handling; let us take
something smaller. The rolling waters
of the English Channel are familiar
to all Londoners. How much salt is
there iu them? Close upon a hundred
cubic miles. Made into a convenient
block and swung over the metropolis
by a giant derrick it would grind Lou
don to the dust.
A Feminine Artifice.
When a girl lends a book to a man
to read she always marks .the things
in it that she thinks look me deepest.
—New York Tress.
Insects in Psrto Rico.
The mosquitoes of Porto Rico are
distinguished by bodies as big as our
house flies. During the night they
would congregate in the little shelter
tents and amuse themselves by sing
ing and making onslaughts on the sol
diers, drawing blood every time. In
the morning we would see them at the
top of the tent, gorged after the ban
quet. In fact, these buzzards of the
insect tribe spilled mere American
blood than did all the Spaniards iu
Porto Rico. At first they' were very
annoying, but after a time we became
mosquito-immuues and indifferent to
them; or perhaps they ignored us when
the climate had reduced us iu weight
all the way from twenty to fifty
pounds apiece. Mosquito netting was
early discarded by the men, the at
mosphere being too close for its use
with any comfort.
The ants should not be forgotten in
this connection. The large black ones
would infest our mess kits by the
thousands, and the little red fellows
would get between our fingers and bite
with a viciousness out of all propor
tion of their size. Then there are the
wasps, whicu one of the men stirred
up one day while knocking down a
green cocoanut and which swarmed
over the horses and caused them to
stampede. Another insect well to
avoid is the “jigger” flea, which is
fond of burrowing in a person's flesli
and laying its eggs under the skin,
necessitating surgical attention. The
soldiers were not troubled by them,
however, as they prefer to devote
themselves to persons who go about in
bare feet.—New York Mail and Ex
press.
Th. Terms.
First Ex-Convict—You say you have
a diamond pin. What did it cost you?
Second Ditto —Six months. —Indian-
apolis News.
Rare Philippine Jewels.
The rarest corals in the world are to be
found in the Philippines and have now be
come American property. As precious as
this jewel is, there is still a rarer one, and
that ts the jewel of health. It may be pos
sessed by any one, who will keep the diges
tion active and the bowels regular with Hos
tetter's Stomueh Hitters, the king of all
remedies for indigtstion, dyspepsia, consti
pation, biliousness, belching, heartburn and
sleeplessness. Try it.
Sour Grjipt-s.
“Papa, what is the vain pomp and glory of
this world?”
“My son. It's the things wo preach against
when we don't succeed in getting them.”—Life
To Cure a Cold In One l>ay.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggiste refund the money If It falls to cure.
E. W. (.rove's signature is ou each box. doc.
Looks Ifeasonable.
We are in receipt ot the following inquiry:
"Dear editor: our cow has gone dry, do you
think we could sell her lor drlde beat? if so
wheat-?” —Indianupolts News.
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