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MOUTHS OF INSECTS.
They Held 8heare, Saws, Files, Lan
cets and Augera.
The mouths of all creatures are
•constructed upon purely mechan
ical principles, and in few classes
■of the animal world have we more
beautiful illustrations of design and
contrivance than in that of insects.
Jaws armed with strong, pene
trating hooks for seizing and secur
ing active and struggling prey;
.sharp and powerful shears for clip
ping and dividing softer parts of
vegetables; saws, files and augers
for extracting and boring the
harder parts of plants; lancets for
pifcrcing the skin of living animals;
•siphons and sucking tubes for im
bibing fluid nutriment—all these
in a thousand forms are met with
• in the insect world and thus pro
vide insects with means of obtain
ing food adapted to their habits
and even of constructing for them
selves edifices of inimitable work
manship.
The upper pair of jaws in the
dragon fly are two hard and power
ful hooks placed immediately be
neath the upper lip and so articu
lated with the checks that they
move horizontally, opening and
shutting like the blades of a pair of
scissors. Their concave edge is
sometimes furnished with cutting
denticulations of various kinds, like
sharp shears, which will clip and
divide the hardest animal and vege
table substances. The variety of
uAh to which these mandibles can
jipY.irned is indeed amazing. Some-
A8ff| they form sharp and pointed
fang, adapted to seize and pierce
their . jet inis, and not infrequently
they constitute a series of grinding
surfaces disposed to triturate and
bruise the materials used as food.
In the carnivorous beetles their
hooked points, more formidable
/than the teeth of the tiger, penc
il rate with ease the mailed covering
of the stoutest insects on which
they nrey.
These organs in the wasps and
bees form the instruments with
which the insects build their admi
rable edifices.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
An Early Taxlmatar.
The taximeter cab is not an in
vention of yesterday. Such a ve
hicle was known to the Chinese
ages before the Christian era. Now
we learn from a Paris contemporary
that the Emperor Commodus pos
sessed a similar carriage. Commo
dus, some will remember, was the
worthless son of a celebrated father,
the emperor known as Marcus Au
relius through hi? “Meditations.”
Commodus came to an untimely if
not unmerited end about 102 A. D.
He posed as Hercules and was the
hero of about 700 gladiatorial con
tests with defenseless opponents.
His reign lasted only a year, and his
successor, Pertiunx, sold his belong
ings at auction, and one of the lots,
we are told, was a carriage which as
it Tnovod marked at the same time
the space covered and the time so
occupied.—London Globe.
A Triumph of Instinct.
A few years ago a colony of bea
vers was discovered on the Phone,
near Avignon. As there were no
trees in the neighborhood, these an
imals had not been able to construct
dams and lived under the banks in
burrows, the exits of which they
had stopped up by walls of beaten
clay. A Polish count became inter
ested in one of the colonies and re
moved some of the beavers to his es
tate, planted with forest trees. The
beavera immediately installed them
selves on the banks of a stream, cut
down the trees and built their vil
lages exactly as their ancestors had
done at the time when the hanks of
the Phone were wooded.
Th« 8'imoie Cat.
Siamese cats, with their curious
markings and loud, discordant
voices, are favorite pets both here
and abroad. In many respects these
animals of Siamese breed are
unique among felines. They follow
their owners like dogs, they, are
exceedingly affectionate and insist
upon attention, and they mew loud
ly and constantly, as if trying to
talk. They have more vivacity and
less dignity than usually falls to the
lot of cats. In color they vary from
pale fawn through shades of brown
to chocolate. There are two varie
ties, the temple eats and the palace
cats, the principal difference be
tween the two being that the pal
ace breed is darker in color.
Cast Off British Uniforms That Lend
Dignity to African Chiefs.
There is-a man in London whose
specialty it is to purchase showy
costumes ancl discarded military
and official uniforms for disposal in
the orient and in Africa.
It is said that even the retiring
lord mayors of London have be
come, almost by official tradition,
this man’s customers and that the
rocked bat, gold laced coat and knee
breoebos that have formed an in
spiring feature of the famous pag
eants in the lord mayor’s proces
sions are as like as not the next
year to delight the eyes of darkest
Africa upon the proud person of
some native.
Some amusing comments have
been made by the Londoner who
engages in this unique trade with
reference to the eagerness with
which the native in the interior of
the dark continent takes over this
discarded finery. ITe states that at
the bazaars where his goods are pur
chased lie has been blacks solemnly
walking around with waistcoats
buttoned behind instead of before
and oven men wearing women’s
costumes. Enormously big follows
have been seen in clothes so small
that one could not imagine how
they got into them nor how they
could get out unless the stitching
gave way.
It is related that the Frince de
Joinville, when off the Gaboon
coast, once received on his ship an
official visit from two chiefs, father
nnd son, who must have been cus
tomers of the Londoner mentioned.
Each owned, for ceremonial occa
sions. a military uniform.
That of the father wns a French
general’s, while that of the son wns
a hussar’s. Its intricate cut, nu
merous buttons, straps nnd lmekles,
together with the painfully small
size of tiie uniform, proved too
much for him. lie sent the prince
despairing message imploring
help, and a relief party of delighted
midshipmen wns sent to dress him
nnd bring him aboard.
They obeyed orders, but with (be
mischievousness of youth. They
so tightened every fastening of the
native’s already oVertight attire
that (lie poor follow wns nearly
bursting with combined pride and
suffocation when ho arrived. Every
one agreed that he could never he
got out of lbs unwonted finery hv
nnv method less drastic than cut
ting him out.
it is said that no manner of wear
ing a complete costume ever equals
in comic effect some of the savages’
combinations of unrelated items.
One venerable African chieftain re
ceived bis European guests with an
antiqnaled evening shoulder cape of
pink flowered satin nnd spangles
worn about, his waist as an apron,
while his white wool was martially
crowned with a military helmet.
Still another conducted impor
tant negotiations with an exploring
party clad simply nnd impressively
in a woman’s large Gainsborough
hat. a pair of cavalry hoots and a
necklace of the glistening tin orna
ments used to decorate Christmas
trees.
Denver City’s Name.
Denver was founded by roving
prospectors, the first of these pio
neer miners settling on the site of
the citv and erecting their rude
cabins in 1858. So rapid was the
growth of the settlement that in
the following year it was incorpo
rated as a city by the provisional
legislature and named Denver in
honor of General J. W. Denver,
then governor of Kansas and a
man identified with the early
growth of the grent west. The city
was reincorporated in 18G1 by the
first territorial legislature, and
1807 it became the capital of
territory of Colorado.—New
Times*
The Jacana Dance.
In tropical South America and on
some of the islands in I he Pacific is
found the beautiful bird known as
the jaoana. It is famous for its so
.called love dance, which is executed
by the males to increase the admi
ration of the female birds. When
the mating season approaches the
jaenna will single out its favorite
lady and try to win the admiration
of the attentive female with all its
bewitching maneuvers. In the dance
the wings are spread and worked in
such a manner that the beautiful
'colored feathers produce a brilliant
effect.
Held Him For a Minute.
Preparatory to going away for
the remainder of the season a Gi
rard building lawyer stepped into a
Chestnut street shop and asked for
rubber combs, says tho Philadelphia
Times.
“Do you want a thin man’s
comb?” asked the clerk, turning
around and scanning the boxes.
“Not necessarily,” retorted th®
lawyer. “Let me have a comb for
u fat man with long teeth.”
Helping the Engineer.
During a strike on a railway
much difficulty was experienced in
finding engineers to keep the neces
sary trains running. One of the
substitutes, a young fellow, ran
some distance past a station, and
then, putting hack, ran ub much too
far the other way. He was prepar
ing to make a third attempt when
the station agent shouted, to tho
grent amusement of tho passengers:
“Never mind. Rob; stay where you
are. We’ll shift the station.”
Friendship Sale Continnes
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Big Bargains For All
Distance of the Sun.
The latest determination of tho
I distance of the sun has been calcu-
! lated from observations of the
planet Eros. This is one of the
minor planets, nnd its orbit is be
tween that of the earth and Mars.
The observations, as reduced by Ar
thur IThiky, give an angular meas
urement of 8,800 seconds of paral
lax. This works out to 92,725,802
miles as the solar distance. This is
rather less than that given in most
textbooks and is held to be more
accurate.—London Globe.
Bolls In China.
The natives of China use large
bells of their own make in many of
their temples and monasteries. I
have noticed all through Japan and
China that the tone of the mon
astery and temple bells is very soft
and smooth, due to the superior
quality of the material used in theii
manufacture and to the absence of
iron clappers, the result being a
marvelous softness of tone. The
bells are never swung, being alwnvs
suspended in a fixed frame, and the
sound is produced by striking them
on the outer edge with a wooden
mallet. This makes the soft tones
which are so delightfully melodious.
—Consular Reports.
Something Alivo.
An Irishman with one side of
his face badly swollen stepped into
Dr. Wicten’s office and inquired if
the dentist was in.
“I am the dentist,” said the doc
tor.
“Well, then, I want ye to see
what’s the matter wid me tooth.”
The doctor examined the offend
ing molar and explained:
“The nerve is dead; that’s what’s
the matter.”
“Thin, bo the powers,” the Irish
man exclaimed, “the other teeth
must he boldin’ a wake over it!”—
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