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The World's Wonders STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE EARTH Relic of Jail-Fever Days A curloua custom still observed In the central criminal court of London is that of placing sweet herbs on the bench. It dates from the days when jail-fever was prevalent and the rankness of the air in the courts was such that it was necessary to provide some counteracting Scent for those whose duty it was to administer justice. WHEN DEAD RETURN This is a story of Identity of remarkable character. Mary McCkra- igle was struck by a trolley car in New York last April and died shortly afterwards in a hospital On notification from the coroner, her relatives came to view the body and she was identified by her son, her sister, her brother and a cousin; a burial permit was issued in the name of Mary McGonigle; an insurance company paid $117 on the life of Mary McGonlgle; the traction company paid $350 for the funeral of Mary McGonigle; the body of Mary McGonigle now lies in Calvary cemetery. Late one night recently Mary McGonigle in the flesh walked into her sister's home.

To say there was surprise at her visit would understate the emotions of the relatives: The sister screamed; the brother dropped his new clay pipe and a small niece fainted. Mrs. Me- Gonigle herself was surprised but HOUR GLASS OF RECORD SIZE In London there stands an hour Class that undoubtedly is the largest constructed. It contains more than 100 pounds of sand. When the- lower bulb is filled the frame turns over, and the process is reversed to mark the Sight of another 60 minutes.

So huge is this glass that the revolution Is made by a hydraulic engine, shown on the left of the picture. The height of the glass is nearly 12 feet HOARD IN A FLOATING LOG A party of campers from Seattle were hauling a gigantic cedar log upon the beach of Lake Washington to be converted into firewood when what appeared to he a huge plug attracted their attention. One ran for the axe and the log -svas split into two pieces. The plug acted as a door of a safety vault where some logger twenty rears ago had hidden his savings. There were $600 in gold, S68 in silver and J300 in currency.

The name, though, dim, on the post office money orders appears to be Claude Parsons or Parker, and they are payable in the post office at Ean Claire, Wis. The money orders are dated April. 189L Efforts will be made to find the rightful owner of the hoard. Many stories are told of the prodigality with which loggers handled their money in the halcyon days of logging. A favorite bank was to put a boom augur hole in a big stump.

Into this hole was put the gold, silver and paper and a big plug driven into the hole. The plug was then sawed off plumb with the bark and the wealth until wanted. Many of these improvised banks were swept away by floods or destroyed in forest fires. placid; she had not read the newspapers, and did not know that she was supposed to be dead. Then came explanations.

Mary McGonigle had been buried all right, but it was the wrong Mary. The living woman is in private service and her address fluctuates with her employment The dead worneja who bears such an extraordinary resemblance to her was no relative, but had known her, and had given- her address to the hospital. The undertaker who buried the late Mary, was summoned to view the living Mary. "I never saw such a resemblance," ha gasped, "and I've buried many." PUBLIS For Benefit of Suffer from Female life Minneapolis, tnfferer from femaln troubto caused a felt sure me, ay it did hetoZ wonderfully. 2 i i grew stronger, and within three I was a perfectly well woman "I want this latter I years had been allowed, under the plan plated, for wiping out or pacifying the savages of Pormo- sa.

But now it is to be accomplished inside of a twelvemonth, and the Japanese government has made a special appropriation of $7,175,000 to pay the military expenses. This is on account of camphor business. recently the entire world has practically depended for its supply of camphor upon Japan, which ias held a monopoly of the produc- Jon of that necessary article. But Germans have begun to manufac- artificial (synthetic) camphor on a large scale, and thus are competing the market to an alarming extent. It is very necessary under the cir- 3umstances that the supply from 'apanese sources shall be maintained, est it be replaced and crowded out by ynthetic camphor.

The camphor rees which formerly grew plentifully Southern Japan have been to a great extent destroyed, owing to neg- SMALLEST OF TYPEWRITERS RODENT HAS MONEY TO LIGHTNING CAME BY PHONE ce While the sun was shining the other day at Clinton, and there was no indication of an electrical storm, a bolt of lightning struck a liberty pole In front of a hotel shattering the shaft and scaring a team of mates so badly that they ran two miles. The team tied to a ring attached to the pole. -was thirty feet high. After the animals had been stopped It was found that the belt of lightning -which bad the pole had also melted tbe Iron shoes from each of tbe males. Otherwise they were aninjared.

The emote of the lightning bolt puzzled all the local electrical experts and meteorologists, but after Investigation it found that a telephone wire rua- nlsf from Stegac passed BO close to Cag pole as to touch it At the the pole -was struck a fierce thunder storm -was razing In tbe vicinity I of Sifigac, and the theory ig tha't lightning striking the telephone -wire i In the stona tone, traveled over tbe cable tsntll it encountered the liberty pole, where tbe full forot of the bolt rta spent A pet red squirrel belonging to Otto Speltz, farmer, of ias been under surveillance ever since was discovered tearing a $5 Canad- bill to pieces. Speltz rescued the money and sent it to Ottawa for redemption. He had no more than despatched the letter containing the shreds of the five than the squirrel -Bras found playing with a piece of a United States $10 bill. Speltz garnered this money In before it -was too damaged for barter, and is now watching tbe movements of his pet It Is believed the rodent has discovered a hidden board laid away in past years by a miser or cached by a robber in a hollow tree and found by the squirrel. ect of a regulation that used to re- uire the planting of one seedling for very tres cut, and so the Japanese re obliged to look to Formosa, where le camphor laurel flourishes over a great extent of territory, in virgin forests.

Unfortunately, it is in the mountainous interior of Formosa that the camphor laurel grows--that is to say, In a region which has been since prehistoric times, and Is' today, under savage dominion. Tbe savages who occupy this territory are very fierce, and earnestly addicted to head-hunting. Hitherto the camphor of their forests has been obtained only with their consent, and it has been customary to pay money to their chiefs as an inducement to refrain from destroying the distilling outfits. Nevertheless, trouble has been frequent, and the stills have been constantly destroyed. An unlimited number of laborers can be hired in Japan for ten cents a also contains much gold.

It should be added that the Atayal tattoo weir faces very elaborately, and build elegant hut? of bamboo, over the door ways oi which are hung as trophies the skulls of wild boars and ayes, and sometimes those of Japanese and Chinamen--the latter pigtails still picturesquely attached. They make bag; of a peculiar network expressly to carry human heads. One chief. captured and about to be executed, said: -'I have no fear of deatc. I have taken ninety-four heads ar.d wanted only sis mere to rnske -fce hundred." History tells us that the Sp took possession of Formosa in the year 1526.

They "ere espeiied by the Dutch in 1642. Nineteen years later a Chinese pirate chief named Koxiuga drove out the Dutch and proclaimed himself king of the island, but in 1G52 the Chinese dethroned his su cessor. and Formosa rerr.air.ed s. "evince of the Middle Kingcotn up the between China and Japan, as s. result of which it passed into the possession of the Mikado's empire.

A glance at the 2 that Formosa is reaiiy the srnher-ost island of the group whici --e the Philippines, beir.z situated a tend to the upbringing of her offspring. Twins are a bad omen, and among some of the tribes it has been customary to tic them to a tree and permit them to perish. Sickness is supposed to be a punishment inflicted by the spirits of the dead. Dreams afford a medium through which the spirits of tbe dead communicate with the living. The Atayal and Paivran groups believe tbe virgin forests to be tbe abode of the spirits of their ancestors, and on this account trees within certa nated areas are never disturbed men and women have supernatural rds powers of the kind usually attributed the to witches, and for this reason they perform the religious rites for the tribe.

Spirits of dead persons other than ancestors are dangerous and possibly malevolent. The Atayal consider that Ko Thousands of unsolicited toe testimonials like the rom roots and lierbs Women who suffer from tressmg ills peculiar to their Some ingenious man in Europe has Invented a typewriter so small that it can be carried in the waistcoat pocket This tiniest of all writing-machines is made in the form of a watch. day; but not for any such price, nor snort jj for many times that much can men be ----obtained to go into the forests of Its wild people are of ilaiav orisir -'-qV rormosa, cut down the camphor trees, ants distill tbe gum, at the serious risk of losing their heads. It is well known that the Japanese do not lack vere hlack dwarfs. to the ghosts of their forbears will not be satisfied unless a human head is part of the offering made at ceremonials.

Likewise In the case of a dispute between two persons the spirits of his ancestors will guide and protect the one whose cause is just, so he may obtain the first head and thereby win. The soil of Formosa is exceedingly rich, and nowhere is a finer quality of tea produced. The eastern half of the island is covered with jungle, in which grows the valuable creeper Vegetable Compound to restore If you want special advice wto It Mrs. Pinkbazn, at Lynn, Hin desig- bAewilltreatyourletterasstrirth bed. Old confidential.

Per 20 years ifi i Las been helping sick women3 this way, free of charea. Dnt hesitate-- The Dentist's Joke. At recent dinner oi the Autiutf club in London to Mr. Owen Sean the editor of Punch, Mr. Water Emanuel, another member of thastd- of Punch, referred to the fact flat ttr man with the largest sense of ha he had ever struck was an Engllsliaa dentist He went to himafterstf fering long with a toothache.

Hs fused to have gas, and tie deatkT pulled out a tooth, leaving Urn wrtft ir.g In pain, and took the tooti to tin window, where ha laughed quite tart lly. He groaned, "What's the joW "Wrong tooth," said the dentist ery; but head-hunting to the Forrno- san savage is a religion; nothing from his point of view is so important, and he will lie in wait for many days at a time near a lonely path in the woods for the sake of getting one chop at a passing camphor-seeker. Luzon. Many of their 5 been found in the sour that they were exterminated by the savages who now occupy their territory. As already stated, these- have never been Formosa is a big island--as large as Sardina and Corsica put together.

It is 235 miles long and 15 miles wide. More than half of its entire area Is today in the possession of tbe savases. For some years past Japan has pur- Tie letters make their mark under the I ff a rather method pressure of the knob within the ring i 3e of bringing about their i i 1 i CAT BRINGING UP ROBINS A cat on the farm of Fred Schmetto near Marinette. is bringing up two young robins with her litter of kittens. The Sedgliags were found there one morning and the cat was and the writing is done on strip of glued paper.

PATRIARCHAL WEDDING PARTY eventual subjugation. She has estab- lished a "guard line" all around the mountainous interior, with small rnili- 1 tary outposts at intervals along it. and i has pushed this artificial "frontier ibere was a gay gathering of merry steadily forward, so as to the veterans at a wedding ceremony in i wild people to a slowly butlureh- Rome tbe other week, the happy cou- minishing domain pie being Signer Gaspare Finale, the i oldest member of the Italian senate, who is ninety-five, and a charming widow of some eighty-six summers. Tbe official witnesses at the ceremony were Senator Greffi, the late ambassador, who is ninety-three, and Senator Faranl, who Is in his ninety-first year. the same race as tr.e r.erritos known as ratten.

But tbe most precious vegetable product is camphor, which is the resin of a tree that grows to huge size, sometimes attaining a diameter of twelve feet. The only way to get the camphor is to chop the tree into chips, which are subjected to a crude process of distillation, the vapor, when condensed. being deposited in crystals on bamboo pcresns. This is crude camphor. which comes to market in wooden rj Ii; is refine(i redistillation.

At the present time Japan exports about 5.000,000 pounds of camphor I annually, one-fourth of pei to the United It used to refined in JCurnpr- and America, but JiH-c. rrom an point of view, they are more than ordinarily Their garb ranges from i colored garments of their ins. made from the fiber? of i Indeed. Hostess (at party)-- Why Miss De Muir? You've scarcel? i a word since you came. Youthful Guest--Really, Mrs.

er, I am having a very enjoyable tisn-; but my father has told me 100 timr never to say anything unless I law something to say, and I suppose-Hostess--But, my dear child, Old what a stupid and tiresome ciety would be if everybody folioni that advice! He Knew th: Kind. Little Edward, aged four, wu only child. He was anxioui for I it being ship- baby sister, and was talking of it day with a friend of ihe famflj. the friend's family was a baby girl 4" Like FIFTY-POUND HAILSTONE the Pestiferous Sparrow. This Import Also Has Become a Pest.

The notoriety of setting a new standard for all stories of big hailstones than 723 vas expected that fifteen years of the present time the entire island would be brought under civilized control. But commercial necessity has made necessary a change of plan. Camphor must be had, and it has been decided to wipe out or pacify ail the savages within the coming year. They can form, dwarf or take their choice whicb it shall be. found in Their numbers are not accurately unimproved t.wint!=i nf of course, but it is understood fountry seats, and 1 -hat they are split up into no DAISY CAME FROM ENGLAND one year.

Tbe lady said, you may have my baby; she isprefl and sweet." "Ob," said Edward, "I don't rants old baby. I want a bran new nofBn on but tacum i Hen. I Memorial day to Fni-fn nf July the large whjt.o tsil-urowinir Hbtiiifiance. rj i accurately unimproved Hons prr.sr.rved in memory of Sir Vuilmm Keith and the say life hero the dashing, pleasure loving tenant pov-rnor) has of late known as home of the daisy." HIGH The Real Thing. "You say your husband by his neighbors at the parrjr "Yassah, dat's so, sp.h." "Did they cut him with mallei pense?" "No, sah; wlv a razuh, sab." tribes, whose villages com- hills and It Is believed that she killed the parent bird and then took the little ones out of the nest and brought them befell William Dittenhafer.

a cellar prise from three to upward "of' three iiir.r.11* Vit.n^i« J3 1 digger of York, entirely unsolicited. He found a mass of many hail stones congealed or together, thirty-six inches fourteen iacbes hundre houses. of the wide and five inches tbicfl. In a deep to the boi in whicb her kittens are depression in the lawn. This mass stored.

CHILD WITH TWO HEADS A inert wonderful child is toe six- year-old daughter of John O. Nelson of Brooklyn Hilli. X. T. Sb- hes two developed and though -an- i eltljer to clt up or walk, her gen- i health irood.

and she normal i tie child wie bora the MM she ccraJd not 3Jve, bat Mr. NeliOB, possessed of considerable engaged tbe best pby.ciciat* the little oae tbe most care- to! attention, sparing no expense IB trytac to make tie delicate infant a healthy child. According to her fa- the child speaks English and G-er- mn with eqsa! fluency, nxjng both wteo she weighed more than fifty pounds. WILD GEESE ATTACK GIRLS WiM wlilcb WHHaia SiaWey, Of FelUW, PIL. Ujonfht he had proved untamed when tiwy attacked aad frightened almost to Opbelte Paine and Miss who gathering HM flock mramded tbe two iteklag timn biMlae atanpSBf Tke tat tkt ctaM Cannon Used at Agincourt providing of wontferfu! for ihe tnd Jrt titme them valuable lewent in the tory of warfare the ecrliett the English ae a nation.

All the eeetvmw are historically correct In the tableaux there are Mtval ef the pertetf The eM 6Mmen, In me NMfe el Aftncewt, ntnct eepeeiel The tribes are divided into nine groups, whicb arc mutually hostile" and whicb differ one another ia customs snd language. Some nf them, particularly at the south end of the Island, have already been rivi- and there is even among them a sort of rural fi-e delivery mail 1 service, by native kttt-r carriers. In the central ratice nf n-jnun- tajns dwell the tribes of the Vomiurn group, which arc very fir- and terprising bead-buntere. 33(15 became FO troublesome that a inilitarv was made upon tfiein. ins in their partial pacification.

The Ateyal, or notbem savaei tbe largf-st and roost powerful look upon heari-huntine chief f-rjd and aiai of man head is necessary as an in all tbeir relipi a dispute arises one who first secures a fj )s not recognized a.s adult until betaken a head. But must bear! a Japanese or customary method 1 0 wait in tbe Jungle, near a path, several of Uiem togeUir.j-, in of obtaining the mur.i tropby. Thus civilized existence near to savage border is no 31tt3e peril. the of tbe AUyU i taatpins by reason of Jts tormt prodwru, especially camphor. It To farmers throushu-ir valleys east-Til 1'en; aeconline to a Philadelphia He'-ord.

Xr er arc the aj oa season than the little 07. other white antj jii dark renters, known ciist daisies, and i. MORALS IN AMERICA Standard Higher Than in England i American Tells British Royal Commission. R. Xcwton th -')'-n1h- have "jiarl: weeds." 1b' oi i has tief-n In ruin ana 'low-yard have iMf.

Undoubtedly Bad. Mar? Mild--Wouldn't you all doubtful character? Carrie Caustlqae--Not unlesi wanted to give her the Set Hungry Little Fob find delightful satisfactioa ft bowl of tooihsoDis Post Toasties When the children lunch, this wholesome ishing food is always serve right from the without cooJtinff, arid many steps for mother. Let the yoongtcrt Post msr food..