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p PRESIDENT'S SHOWS DAUGHTER PLUCK.
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While riding with President Roose
velt, her father, Miss Alice Roosevelt
lind a narrow escape in Washington
the other day. The horses were trot
tiug along Seventeenth street toward
the boundary, when, upon reaching
Rhode Island avenue, a lumbering
fiordle came upon them, frightening
Miss Roosevelt's horse so that It
swerved suddenly.
The President was riding slightly in
advance, and was interfered with by
the vehicle and prevented from going
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(Hie President’s eldest dnughter.)
to ids daughter’s assistance. In the
meanwhile the intrepid horsewoman
had gotten her slued under control.
President Roosevelt turned so quick
ly that the horse seemed to stand im
movable, the rider sitting erect, like a
sentinel on guard. An orderly in uni
form was Half a square behind.
President Roosevelt has purchased
flic original drawing of Bernard Par
tridge's recent London Punch cartoon,
icpvi seating the President as a Hough
Rider. A reproduction of the fatuous
picture is shown on this page.
THROWING THE BOOMERANC.
Fhclit of tl>* Australian Weapon Ana
lyzed by apirlrntlHt.
The wonderful flights of the boom
erang, described by travelers, are sel
dom seen to-day, and, though there are
many natives of Australia who can
make a boomerang go to a distance of
240 feet before lt returns to them,
there seems to be only one trustworthy
account of a much more sensational
throw. According to this account a
boomerang described five circles in
the air, traveled to a distance of about
270 feet from the thrower and rose to
a height of 135 feet.
There are two principal types of
this weapon, as described by a recent
experimenter. The first, shown, in
figure No. 1, is bent almost to a right
angle, and has the cross section shown
in No. 2. The cross section diminishes
slightly toward the ends, and the
weight is about 230 grams. The arms
are twisted from the plane, like the
sails of a windmill, being rotated in
the direction of a righthanded screw.
A boomerang of the second type is
shown in figure No. 3. It has a cross
section similar to that of a boomerang
of the first type. Its arms, however,
are twisted in the opposite direction,
and thus involve a lefthauded rotation.
On boih types one side is more round
ed than the other.
A boomerang of the first type is held
with the more rounded side to the
left, and the concave edge forward,
■and is thrown in a horizontal direc
tion. As much rotation as possible
Is given to It, hut Instead of remaining
parallel to Its original direction, “the
ylme of rotation has au angular veloc
ity, first about the direction of trans-
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lotion, nn<l second about a lino In Its
plane perpendicular to tills The ef
feet of the latter Is that the path
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over to the right, l. e., rotates in the
direction of the hands of a clock fac
ing the thrower.”
After It has described nearly a com
plete circle the boomerang goes more
slowly, and tinally falls near tlie feet
of the thrower. In figures Nos. 4 and
5 its flight is illustrated by means of
projections on a horizontal and on a
vertical plane. Until the velocity be
comes small the up bill path Is nearly
straight, but the moment that point
has been reached the weapon starts
to return along a track close to that
of the ascent.
If the thrower wishes the weapon to
describe a second circle in front of
him, he must cast it from him with
much greater force, so that after one
circle has been described it may still
have sufficient velocity to make a
second one. Moreover, after the weap
on lias described toe Brat circle and
while It is over the thrower’s head the
axis of rotation must point in an up
ward direction in front of him, for if
it points behind him the subsequent
path will be behind his back, and a
figure of eight will become possible.
If a path with a second loop in front
of the thrower is desired, a boomerang
with much twist and well rounded
should he chosen, and the thrower’s
body, while throwing it, should lean
over to the left.—Chicago Record-Her
ald.
British War Office.
This picture illustrates the famous
British war office in London, which
has been the European centre of inter
est in the great South African trouble.
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Here are received all the official tele
grams from the front and here are
posted the bulletins which the author
ties see lit to publish. Ever since the
war begau the street before the grim
old building has been crowded with
anxious relatives of the fighting men,
eager for news of husband, brother,
sweetheart ot father, and many have
been the distressing scenes the war
officials have been compelled to wit
ness.
The average duration of marriages
in England is twenty-eight years.
Russia, with thirty years, is the only
country to heat her. In France and
Germany twenty-six years is the aver
age duration.
THREE DOC STORIES.
AiTitetlon Tor Their Miiilwi of a N>t»
ton ml In ml, » Terrlvr und » Bulldog,
“Tlip most pathetic thin? about the
thoroughbred dog,” said the mnn
whose time has been spent about the
kennels, “is his devotion to the memory
| of a kind master of mine who is dead. There
was a friend who owned a
j Newfoundland, and Dash, as they
called him, was never contented when
away from his master. Not long ago
the master was taken ill. He had to
be moved to a hospital and Dash was
left at home. The dog refused to
I eat.
"About 11 o’clock one night he began
to howl. His cries alarmed the mem
bers of the family, who were greatly
I concerned about t lie condition of the
j patient in the hospital. While liis
erics continued the telephone bell rang
and the message of death came over
the wires.
) "Dash was sent away until after the
funeral. After his return a portrait
of his dead master disappeared from
the house. Search showed jhat the
j dog had carried it into a recess under
the house. It was rescued from him
with difficulty and screwed to an easel
j In flie library. A rug was put down in
1 front of it for Dash. He lay there
1 with an expression of unutterable woe
| on his face. Ho wouldn’t eat. For a
Week lie kept his vigil. Once or twice
he licked up a little water and tasted
dainty food, hut he grew weaker day
by day. One morning, ten days later,
the library door was opened and there
was the faithful Dash dead on his
j rug. "Instances common in which dogs
j | have remained are by the body of a mas
j ter, refusing to leave. It seems cruel
i to think of killing an animal of this
I kilKl to get him out of the way, and
yet it has been found necessary in
, n.any cases. A very remarkable case
of this kind happened a few weeks
ago within my knowledge. There was
a Uttio fox terrier, a trim little animal,
with a wag of his stumpy tail for ev
one, and he was the pet o,. a young
hoy who had reared him from puppy
hood. When the little fellow was taken
ill the dog would creep into the room,
without the least noise, and would
lift himself on the bed to lick his mas
ter’s hand. It was really touching.
After a time the boy became danger
ously ill. The dog had to he excluded
from the room, but he sat by the door,
never leaving it, with an expression
of abject sorrow on his little face.
“The boy died. The dog knew it
jus t as well as if he had been human,
and they took him away until after
the funeral. In some way, however,
he escaped and returned home just
as the body was being placed in
the hearse. He followed it to the
cemetery. At the grave be sat on
his haunches, his head oast down, and
now and then his cries, always low
and painful, caused big tears to fall
from the eyes of those who were
watching the last rites. He moved up
closer when the grave was being
filled, and when the mound was being
smoothed off and the flowers put
down the dog advanced and laid him
self down at the head. A member of
the family tried to pick him up, but
! he snarled threateningly, and they left
! the little country cemetery, and the
| terrier stayed there to guard the last
j resting place of his master.
“The family believed the dog would
return home that night, but he was not
in his box the next morning. By noon
he had not returned, and a servant
was sent to the cemetery. Just as he
got to the path leading down to the
grave the servant heard a wild scream
of pain ami terror from the terrier,
J and before he could hasten to see the
cause Mack had been killed. The
blow which ended his faithful life
was struck by a workman whom
Mack had attacked when he tried to
| arrange the earth on the grave.
“Dogs seem to realize when there is
trouble in the air. There is a true
| story of a big bulldog that seized the
hand of a drunken man who was try
; ing to kill his master. Blink, the dog,
i had followed bis owner into a bar
j room one night and was lying uuder
| the table when a difficulty arose be
tween Johnson, his master, and an
Italian. The Italian fired at Johnson
once and was about to tire again,
when Blink jumped and caught the
man’s wrist in a vise-like grip. The
Italian dropped the gun. Like a flash
Blink released his hold on the man’s
wrist and seized him by the throat,
j The Italian was thrown to the floor
i and it was not until Johnson had
kicked Blink in the side that he let go.
It was rather hard punishment for his
I good services, but if the kicks had not
| been given, the man would have been
j killed by the terrible laceration of the
I throat.”—Sun.
I’avitij; of Herrings.
j You would hardly think that red
herrings, or any sort of herrings,
mixed with oil of pine, would make
good street paving; yet that is what
the smooth streets of Herald Square—
aud all over the city where asphalt
is used—are made of, according to
the opinion of scientific gentlemen who
are always delving into the origin of
things.
These scientific gentlemen have
reached this apparently strange con
elusion after some very interesting
j experiments. They have made au ar
i tifieial asphalt that closely resembles
the natural substance, and used in its
! production only fresh herrings and oily
pine wood. These substances were
distilled, the product was condensed in
a Liebig condenser, and resulted iu
asphalt.
It is claimed that this experiment
confirmed the theory that asphalt is
the product of a natural distillation,
by which ancient animal and vegeta
ble life have been transformed into
asphalt under the crust of the earth.—
New York Herald.
A TIMBER-FLUME IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
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The flumes, which are used to float logs and hewu timber from the mount
ain tops to the sawmills, ;fre fed by the mountain toi'rents, and are in some
cases between three and four miles long. The lumber men, after their
week’s work in camp, save a tedious journey by constructing a rough wood
en skiff and using the waterway, trave ling at times at the rate of a mile a
minute. A gaff is used as a brake.—London Illustrated News.
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I Agriculture has just an
-£■ jounced one of the most vai
uab]e d j Sco r e rie.s of recent
years . lt is the introduction of the
drought resisting macaroni wheat, im
por ted from the Volga region of East
Ra ss ia. This wheat is adapted to
semi-arid districts and can he profita
pjy grown in the great plain regions
0 f the United States far beyond the
looth meridian.
Already astounding results have
been obtained by the Government,
in South Dakota, where the crop has
just been harvested from one locality,
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it is reported that the yield of maca
roni wheat will he from thirty-five to
forty bushels per acre, which is one
third more per acre than the average
yield of the regular wheat from this
section.
The establishment of this new wheat
Industry will be of incalculable benefit
to agriculture in the semi-avid plains.
A million or more of acres can thus be
given to profitable wheat raising,
which, on account of drought, have
heretofore been entirely idle.
Macaroni wheats differ radically
from the ordinary bread wheats. The
grain is much harder, and in the best
varieties contains an unusual amount
of nitrogen and a correspondingly
small amount of starch. The quantity
and quality of the gluten make it ex
ceedingly valuable for making maca
roni.
The area outlined by the Department
of Agriculture where macaroni wheat
will succeed best is a long belt extend
ing northward and southward through
the great plain from North Dakota to
the Texas coast. In width it embraces
nearly the whole of the two Dakotas,
Nebraska, the greater part of Kansas,
Oklahoma and the eastern sections of
Colorado, New Mexico and of Central
Texas.
The most remarkable thing regarding
macaroni wheat is this: It is not only
true that it can be grown in dry dis
tricts, but it must be grown there in
order to produce the best quality of
grain, and up to a minimum of about
ten inches of an annual rainfall the
drier the better.
Probably the most important an
nouncement from a commercial stand
point as a result of the new wheat in
dustry is the fact of immediate mar
ket for these wheats. The entire pres
ent crop of this year, which will be
about 100,000 bushels, was contracted
for even before harvested at a good
• average price. Another important
business enterprise may be brought
into existence, for the reason that the
macaroni wheat from Southern Eu
rope is succeeding so well in the great
plains as to warrant the establishment
of macaroni manufacturing. About
15,000,000 pounds of foreign macaroni
is imported into this country each
year, solely because being made from
true macaroni wheat it is considered
to be of better quality than our domes
tic macaroni, which is made almost
entirely from bread wheat. All the
costs of the imported product can now
he saved to this country if the farmers
and nml minors millers will will furnish furnish our our factories factories
with the right kind of material, and
the factories are anxious to have the
same.
The area of wheat in. the United
States in 1809 was over 44,000,000
acres. At the lowest estimate, there
fore, if the average yield of wheat is
increased only one bushel per acre we
xi ill have an increase of 4-1,000,000
bushels, worth at the former price for
1900—nearly sixty cents per bushel—
about $ 26,000,000. These figures will
give at least an idea of the possibili
ties for the new macaroni wheat indu
try.—New York Herald.
NECK AND NECK.
A Queer Sport That Find* Favor in the
Bavarian Alps.
One of the queerest sports is that
known as “Streck Ivatzenzichen” (a
word which absolutely defies trans
lation)—which is practiced by the
sturdy sons of the Bavarian Alps.
It is a trial of neck strength. Two
men, says a writer in the New York
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Herald, lie down facing each other.
Then a rope is passed over their heads,
as shown in the illustration. Two
chalk lines are drawn between the
contestants. The object is to draw the
opponent so far that his finger tips
shall be beyond the second line. This
rough pastime means sore necks and
bleeding ears, but it is greatly enjoyed
by all beholders. The winner usually
receives a cash prize, and the contest
is Invariably followed by dancing on
“the arena where the bloody com; -
was pulled,” as the local prints
scribe it.
Eggs and mulberry trees were sent
out to Georgia by the British govern
! ment shortly after the settlement ol
1 the colony.
AN IMPRESSION
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“I am very much afraid,” sria \v
tion Cayenne, "that keen observer I am losing my rep u !!*
as a and so?* a
"What makes you think
"Several people yesterday Said th
were glad to see me as if they rej! /
meant it. 1
WHEELS PALL OFF.
“There don’t seem to be so many hi
cycles as formerly.”
“No; it’s riding instead of riders that
is falling orf now."—Indianapolis News,
A CiUrlotin Custom.
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imperial throno of c lima unloss it bears a red
mirk seal placed there by tin. sovereign. becomin With
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of the bottle. For fifty years it haa been tbs
recognized complaints. rarccdy for It stomach, liver and
kidney will euro dynpepsig
indigestion, constipation fever and biliousness,also
pieTent malaria, and ague.
The furrier sometimes makes thina
warm bills. for his customers who don’t oJC ’
their
princess mom, m. a.
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