obtain theYr knowl
g. nd?<kwork tonka '
chordsplTO,<,t
lanne vegetable and
imal, Avm^“*"Vjr be introduced
W the tank either by accident ot
design, to make a further addi
to the tank’s attr«ptivpnps«
‘dge of ho'sl^fcnld animals'pounce
ipon their ^■o*, b<Mt ft trtrman
being"or a'^KUow brute, from
the picture ^Mook a will have to
revise thei«ideas if they are
made true S life. Most of the
l.conceptionsBfire entirely wrong,
. according V the statement of a
close stud«t of such things.
Jt Already in softie of the tanka
heil'e these lesser forms, either
planted or of accidental growth,
a»e beginning to appear; a notable
eMmple of the la^t-named kind
b^|ng found in the salmon rock
tanks, in which there may now
aseen, attached to the rocky lin
of the tank, a great colony,
setne thousands in i^umber, of
m familiar ascidian Commonly
hfiiown as the sea squirt. \
^Everybody that has beeb much
fraout the water knows the sea
staiirt, a leathery creature sbme
wjiat resembling a rubber water
bnttle in shape, with two siphon
tm>es like stubby little slightly
CyvecJ bottle' necks projecting
f|bm its top. The sea squirt takes1
ill nourishment as the clam does,
flj absorbs minute forms of ani
Al life of various sorts, along
iBth quantities of water, through
<jpe of its. siphon tubes, and after
extracting the nutriment it expels
1 water through the other, j
he sea squirt clings to the
is along shore, and to sea
ss, and it is found in many wa
i. It may be of a dingy white
'ray in color, like those now at
aquarium, though some sea
irts are of a dark rich brown,
there are others of a brilliant
The largest of those here are
ut an inch and a half in length,
squirts attain a length of two
hree inches or more. !
atliers who know about them
: sea squirts from the rocks and
*. play tricks with them by collaps
ing them"aiid so spurting the wa
"*jter on fellow bathers. Boys liv
ing by the water as in fishing
owns, carry sea squirts to school
,m ith them, in their pockets, and
|U"f squeeze the water out of
\To collapse one in that man
eans.the end of the sea
eo%««»
/ *a*r avei squirt left out of water by
Soin°oo tide Wht lie co1"
N JU * flop hut it would be
t" 1° t y to have taken in wa-!
I doo s. 1 pgrry it until the j
^ 'THE ;d it again, and it would
i felj^ .to be foundi' be-'
>a, in places where it
/ more or less moisture.
! ltd be left exposed for a
* than usual on some
*s it might be bvW un
• .Acorn Jj? would be
on tbnveled and de
jjee sun’s hot rays,
were “probably introduced
tapk mth shritpp put
food for the roekflsh.
Natural Soap,
diapers report that
ig taken in Algeria to
^natural soap on a
un a tree known as
-- ilis.” This plant,
% Wa); been known in
land India, bears a
Gro^he size of a horse
fontli and round. The
weerom a yellowish
j^r The inner part
Rockr l}“d kfts anoHy
e bears fruit in
ur},d yields from 55
to v is which can
^^-ifivtliefall. By
_alcohol the sepona
’ ceora ngredient of the fruit is ex
x trac^ . The cost of production is
1 nl small and the soap, on
accbi* \of possessing no alkaline
j qualil s'; is superior to the ordi
| ^naryB%,a^ of commerce.
§-/ f f Pigeons as Smugglers.
1 j a curious utilization of carrier
pigeons was recently attempted in
Belgiunp This was making them
carry contraband goods into
France., For a short time 24 pi
geons were letoff regularly from
the Belgian dovecot, each bur
dened with a small coil of tobacco.
They arrived at their French des
/ tination rather exhausted, and
j doubtless glad to be relieved of
their.load. Jn one case, however,
to pigeon, in Hiking the flight,
proved unequal to the effort, fell
into the Seine and was picked up.
Thh system wan thus found out
qd suppressed.
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kl Is? v A-.-.
“In sewing their prey tigers
and liodfc almost invariably go
for the tHk’oat,” he says, “though
■ in one or Jwn instances that have
come undiv my notice of animals
killed by iige'rs they have evi
dently firjst been hamstrung.
These, probably were the victims
of young and inexperienced ti
gers. I once saw a man charged
and knocked over by a panther
ahd he only saved his throat by
putting up his arm, which, as
well as his Shoulder, the animal
grasped with teeth and claws.
1 “Anyone who knows anything
about (\k‘]>bjints must be aware
that the trunk, and particularly
the tip of the trunk, is the most
delicate, and sensitive part <-t
the animal and that he shields
it frorp injury by every possible
means in his power. It is, there
fore, very unlikely that he would
expose it in the act of charging.
My experience, limited though it
b<S, points to the fact that an
elephant, ,once he has made up
his mind to charge, curls up his
trunk tight.
“Bisons and buffaloes when
they charge invariably poke
their noses in the air and com
mence running at you with their
heads well up, much in the man
ner of domestic cattle, and only
lower their horns when within a
few yards of the object of their
attentions. This I take to be a
mere matter of common sense
on the part of the animal, for if
he puts his head down, say even
40 yards away, he could not pos
sibly see where he was going.
“Bears when wounded will
often get on their hind legs and
dance about from sheer rage and
will also at times do so in order
to get a better view of the where
abouts of their enemy, but when
they charge, whether it be at a
man mounted or on foot, they in
variably charge on all fours.
“In charging most animals
give vent to certain vocal sounds
—grunts or roars—and this, it
is natural to suppose, is done
with a view to terrifying and de
moralizing the object they are
attacking—in fact, more often
than not it is a mere Diuir on the
animal’s part. I have often seen
tigers roar when charging who
never really mean mischief and
who when met by a bold front
turned off.”
A BjT OF HENNERY LORE.
What Hakes Brown Eggs Brown Re
vealed by a Woman Who Is
Onto Store Tricks.
“You have just started house
keeping, Maud,” said the visitor to
the bride of a few weeks, accord
ing to the New York Sun. “I have
been married a year now, and have
learned a great deal about dishon
est practices of shopkeepers..
“Tradesmen are up to all sorts
of tricks. The other day I went to
the dairy to get some eggs. Would
you believe it, the girl in charge
tried to make me believe that the
brown eggs were better than the
real white ones? She came from
a farm, too, which is a surprising
thing.”
“Why, I always thought the
brown eggs were the best,” said
the bride of a week. “I am sur
prised to learn that they are not.”
“No, indeed, they are not. Do
you know how they get brown?
Well, it’s from lying around the
store so long. They just get stale
ahd take on that brown look. Oh,
they can’t fool me! When I began
housekeeping, I did not know that
the storekeepers laid an egg down
on the counter and stamped It
‘Fresh laid.’ I know their tricks
now, though.”
The King's Coach.
The young king of Spain’s state
coach is drawn by eight pure
White horses with white plumes
and white harness,' says "Chtims.
Plumes wave from each corner of
the coach, and there is a crown in
the center.
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I_Invasion
Ranted by Number of Kaiser’*
SubjbctS at Present Rekding in
South America.
German , migration to South
America, and especially to some
of the southern states of Brazil,
is periodically a cause of com
ment and concern to some who
think they see therein a sinister
scheme of imperial conquest.
For two or three strong reasons,
says the New York Tribune, sucli
fears seem to us to be not well
founded. One such reason is
that the number of Germans in
Brazil is not, after all, ominous
ly large. The total population of
Brazil, according to the census
of 1890, was 14,333,915. No later
census returns are available, but
careful estimates now place the
total at more than 17,000,000, of
which number less than 3,000,000
are Indians and negroes, leaving
certainly more than 14,000,000
whites. Of these, in 1901, only
2,700,000 were immigrants, and
of the latter number only 300,000
were Germans.
The latest and highest esti
mate of the number of Germans
in Brazil is only 4§0,000, or a lit
tle over three per cent, of the
whole. Really, we cannot regard
that as a dangerous percentage.
Nor does it represent the largest
foreign element, bv any means.
Portuguese immigrants into Bra
zil are twice as numerous, and
Italians three times as numer
1 ous, as the Germans. Nor yet
are these Germans so masse*! in
j certain states as to form a ma
jority of their population, as
some have imagined. Germans
are most numerous in Rio
Grande do Sul, where there are
200,000 of them, but the whole
population of the state is 900,000,
so that the Germans are less
than one-fourth. In Santa Catha
rina the Germans are 100,000 in a
total of 300,000, or one-third,
the largest proportion in any
state. In Parana they are 47,000
in 280,000, and in Sao Paulo 30,
000 in 1,430,000.
It is pointed out as ominous
that these Germans continue to
use their own language, to pub
lish newspapers in German and
to demand the official use of that
language in courts., a mL schools.
Well, the same may be said of
Germans in New York, ajj^d in
Milwaukee, and in manyS other
parts of the United States^
The conquest which Get many
hopes for in Brazil is not' polit
ical, but commercial. The.profit
she looks for in this migration of
her subjects is to be found! in in
creased commerce. In that Ger
many reckons shrewdly. Every
shipload of Germans, landed in
Brazil creates a demand for
many shiploads of German man
ufactured goods. Every so-called
German colony in Brazil means
a market for German trade.
Upon this feature of the case too
much stress cannot easily be laid.
Fro visions from Trees.
There is a tree which grows, in
Sumatra, Algeria and China which
is known as the vegetable tallow
tree. From its fruit large quanti
ties of oil and tallow are extract
ed, and the fruit is gathered in
November or December, when all
the leaves have fallen. Excellent
candles are made from the berries
of a tree which grows in some
parts of South Africa and the
Azores. At Sierra Leone is found
the cream fruit tree, the fruit of
which is very agreeable in taste.
In Ceylon there is the breadfruit
tree, from which a food is made in
the same way that we make bread.
Itissaidto be equally goodand nu
tritious. In South America we
find the milk tree.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Curious Incident.
A man on Twenty-third street
furnished much amusement to a
number ot people on a recent
windy afternoon by a predicament
he fell into, or rather that fell
onto him. A large gunny sack
dropped from the roof of one ol
the buildings, and, as it descend
ed. filled with air, coming down
with mouth wide open, like a bal
looji. It struck the unfortunate
man 'squarely over the head, cov
ering.vhim completely down be
low U«i shoulders, and pinioning
his ahns so that he had difficulty
in extricating himself. He strug
gled as if he thought he was being
kidnaped until he managed to gel
the sack off his head.—N.- 1t\ Post
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the best materials and workman
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