The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 32, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 25, 1903 Page: 13 of 16
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FRANCES GHEATEST ACTOR AT THE DOOR OF HIS RESIDENCE.
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NEW GOLD COA6T STAMP.
It ts net tike ty that the portal recelpts
of the Gold Coast will meet the enor-
mous deficiency in the Britiah budgek,
but it U nvertheless a fact that when
the new tamps bearing the counterfeit
pregentmnent of
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Any one who has ever seen a giraffe feeding must have noticed his gen-
Terat air of dejection and his apparent “loose jointedness." An observant pho-
tographer recently determined to ascertain whether or not his imagination
was responsible for this impression, which a sight of the animals at their
meals always produced upon him. The snapshot from which the accompa-
nying illustration was made was the result, and, as will be seen, the photog-
t rapher was fully warranted in his impression of the appearance of these
"living bean poles.”
top indicates
the shell
The French customs commission rej
porta a falling oft of $4,300,000 in the
export of the finer alike. such ns are
made in Lyons, owing to the prevailing
style of cloth skirts with power loom,
dyed in the piece slik shirt waists.
Self preservation is the furdamental
law of the cell.
The EngMeh people are the greatest
eonsumers of bacon in the world.
The Mexican government is estabhah-
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the bird, in pineing their Beets in the
ere v ices of preelpitous cliff,. The man
who wnni ' t suwa l» compelled to per-
mit hmeir to be lowered over the face
or this cliff. He nwings himaeir to and
Ro and aldewise at the end ot nt
long tether, krabbins the egg, from
their reating place, as he goe, by.
These exgs Ore largely used by baker,
in varlous citles of England, where
epicure, declare them to be greatly ,u-
perior in flavor to the ordinary egg.
Frahee,
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The statue deplated in the Mtustration ha, been widely discussed in Europe.
It representa Ht. George and the dragon and I, the work of the celebrated
French sculptor Fremiel Recntly it was shown with the putuit collection
to which it belongs, In the vestihule of t’e Reut Palats In Parle, with the result
that many critics gushed over it while ah equal number pronounced it a mon:
strosity. But upon one point all were nareed-that, high art or no high art,
the group is the most sprited ever turned out by any sculptor anywhere.
NOVEL LIFE SAVING CRAFT.
The companies operating the huge
ocean liners are ever on the lookout for
meritorious lite saving devices. The lat-
est of this class to U tested I, the in-
vention of an Englishman. It is really
little mors than a huge buoy, which
when necessity arises can be made wa-
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goes from house to house, investigaes
prsonulty every cese reportedI to .her
and then, without even letting the ben:
nclary know the name of hie good
Samaritan, proceeds to relieve the dl*-
treat She keeps an eye on the case
and if misfortune continues her aid also
cohtnues. Rut o* soon *• she detects
evidence of a willingness to accept
charity without making any effort to
make it unnecessary her assistance in
withrawn.
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Now, from the happy heights whereon you stand,
Why could you not have stretched a guiding band,
Or pointed but- a pathway for my feet
That stumbled blindly in this unlit land)
O child, yoU found your gypsying so sweet,
What though I strove, you would not understand.
theory Is that
. the hole in the
third elass, I, lets than two-frth or *
cent a mile. „ .,
The development of electrie are light-
Ing by means of carbons charsed "ith
relatively volatile substances 1* being
steadily pursued abroad.
In title, nt 100,000 to MO WO the an-
htAl cost of strset care far, ror each
t enon l, $ to 16.
According to a communtcation 10 ie
Soclety of arehmolosy of BruSSMs re-
cent borine, near Boertogen h,v» 2:
sultd In the 4tscovery of • maine ”
Emma Cave the satented French-
woman who commands a larcer sataty
than any singe, in the world with the
single exception of Adelina Paul, 1,
Mid to be delighted at the prospect of
her forthcotring marriage la Jules
Hols. one of Let countrymen. AL Bole
Just as Sarah Bernhardt is everywhere recognized a, France-, treatest
actrew, ao la Constant Benoit Coquelin, her frlend and frequehtartistte com-
panion, conceded to be France z greatesc actor. Coquelin hae what he denomi-
nate, n "holy horror" of being photographed extept in cherattn and H is a
aimeuit matter to get n portrait of him In "oitaen e dress. Tht snapshot nend.
however, never lets a Utile thing like a man’ personal preference or prejud ce
interfere with him, and a, a result this portrait of Al.Coqueln was recently
obtained just as the famous actor war about to leave Na Parl, residence for
hl, usual morning stroll. Coquelin saw the fell instrument trained in his di-
rection and was just about to protest when the photozrapher pressed, the
button The look of combined surprise an protest apparent on the actors
face constitute, one of the most attractive features of the picture.
AN INDIAN TOTEM POLE.
■The totem pole, of many of the In-
dian tribe, are becoming more acarce
each year as eivilizaton step, tn to
push aside the superstitions of the cen-
turies. strietiy speaking, the totem I,
a crest, and It had its usea In prevent-
ing Intermarriage, between member, of
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reck salt at a depth of ibout 3,000 feet
Th l» expected to ad greatly to the
cormercial wealth of the country.
Blalse Pascal, the famous mathema•
ticlan is sail to have introduced the
important vehicle* which we call the
• omnibus and puahcart.
In round . figure*. $000 000,000 gold is
A CURIOUS ORNAMENT.
The odd ehell pictured herewith W
recently dug out of some tertiary rock
of the Red Crag, near Walton-on-thet
Nate, by Mr. Stopes, a fellow of the
-eg Royal Anthro-
-gg7Ey pological insti-
AKS-*4i2 tute Mr
Ing Slaby wireless telegraphy between
Sonora and Lower California. .
The rapidity of movement in nerve
impuises la approximately 300,000 wave*
a second.
The farmer gets $i a loadifor Christ-
mas tree*. and 200 make a Had.
The number of teachers in the cot*
leges of the United Statea last year was
11,801.
On Indian railway* th* averese fere.
Nay, but some mark you might have left behind.
Some token that my frightened eyes might find,
Some little sign to hid me know and stay
And find my pathway ere the day declined.
O child, my feet were bleeding all the way;
Yet to their stais so blind you were, so blind!
The youngster so contentedly reclining
within this mammoth shell is the
grandson of this man, George Bolgers.
Mr. Bolger* declare* that there I* very
little demand for these curios, and he
is now obliged to eke out an exlstence
with his garden truck and hl* hen*.
These clam shells, as he call* them, are
pure white and range in weight from
about ten potnds to one ton. Strange
to *ay, however, not one ba* ever been
found with it* original inhabitant in«
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WORLD'S LARGEST SHELL.
Here is a shell which weighs nearly a
ton and is said to be the largest in the
world. It came from Magnetic Island,
off the coast of Australia, and was
brought up from the vasty deep by the
one man who inhabits the little island.
- some person cen-
turies before the Roman comuest it
53 but fair to say, however, that Mr.
Stopes’ Idea is not shared by most of
his fellows, who give the curious fossil
thell a much more modern origin, plac-
ing the time of It* manufacture In the
reign of Henry II.
use of the army thouM he the product
of British colonles. Thls is a very no-
riou* matter tor Argentina and I* In
rhe direct favor of New Zealand and
Australia.
Hay is the most prctable eroP in
England.
The Unlted Ststes now u»M more
the same family. Eath totem boars ft
different device. usually of an animal, a
bird or a fish. Some totems are mde
ot hammered copper and are very val-
uable, one owned by a chief of the
Queen Charlotte Islands being valued
at $2,000, though there have been no
• takers” up to th* present time. The
tents of the tribe* using totem poles are
always painted with the same device*
a« are cut upon the poles.
tertight. The passenrers remain in th*
lower part of the boat, and to long ft*
the food bupply holds out are safe, no
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an orna-
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th* amount of Amerltat capital in-
vested in /Mex!co by 1,117 American
companies1 firm* and Individual*.. । ---regg-mrz- . » ,
TbeBrrieh government ha* lsued an 1 in the stuta A Ohio end -1m
order that all vre"V“ "uton lot the » now """ par "" "" —
“TAKING THE CURE” IN THE
ALPS.
A few years ago if any one had sug-
gested that the best remedy for tuber-
culosis is fresh air he would have been
looked upon as a crank. Today there
ar? “cures” in the best favored sec-
tions of nearly every civilized country
on the globe in which about the only
medicine given is fresh air.' To such
lengths is this plan practiced that the
patient* are required to sit outdoor* so
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with the children. The iast is bls most
wonderful performance, for he acta *•
schoolmaster and does everything that
he should do under ths elrcumstances
except talk.
Hop*" nued with atroAg aequnelatlens
of hl, countrymen's st9pld obuinacv in
rejecting wedtemn methoda and solenee,
together with urgent 4emands tor in:
atant reform. The main object of th,
hook I. that of faeing manfully th. dir-
neuitles of China's poaltion and mak-
Ing strenuous effort, to keep his coun:
try from being reduced to a atate of
imbecility ana -o tailing an essy prey
to the wene m nation,. The book ha,
long since been transiated.!nto French
and Is now translated into Enulish.
LADY ROTHSCHICD, BENEFACTOR,
PHILANLHBOPIBT
There are many thousands of benev-
olent persons in the world, but those
who do not contrive to let report, of
their good deeds get Into the now,pa-
per, are few and far between. Lady
Rothschuid, wife of the head of the Brit-
ish branch of the family, however. be-
long, in the category of those, who ar.
charitable on a large scale without her-
alding their «oodnena from the house-
.many hours a day and are not permit-
ted to close the windows at night even
when the thermometer I* coquetting
with the zero mark. The illustration
shows a famous resort of this tort lo-
cated in the A!ps. well up toward the
summit of the spur of mountain on
which it is built. The patients of this
nanitarium nre drawn from many of
the most wealthy familles of Europe,
for the charge* are very high, and the
poor man who has tuberculosis must
die or go elsewhere, which is unfortu-
nately true of too many institutions of
the sort even in this country.
top*. She bellves in what is known as
th* “concrete form" of charity as op* i
posed to the Carnegie idea of reuevine
poverty by enabling It* victims by edu*
cation to ward it off. Lady Rothwchid
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was long a tamous leeturer n mental
myatielam and extra mundane extat-
«n«. It was at on. of hl, "sonter-
once," that he met the linger whom he
I, ahortly to lead to the altar. It has
been alleged that Calve’s determination
to wed M. Bol, was largely th, resuit
of jealousy over the fact that a certain
well known Parisian writer who had
been attentive to her tor year, had sud-
denly abandoned her and found a wit,
elsewhere. In well informed ntrles,
however, tht, alary Anda Uttl, credence.
A BROAD MINDED CHINAMAN.
Chang Chh Tung, the new viceroy of
Nanking. Is looked up to in China as the
greatest literary man the .country Po3-
seasea. Though not enamored of Euro-
peans. he wishes for their friendship
and co-operation with him in plans for
the welfare of his country, more ezpe-
daily in aiding the spread of education.
Shortly after the close of the war
with Japan Chang Chih Tung wrote a
spirited work enutted "China1, Only
that the consumption of badly cured
nsh is ihe cause of leprosy.
A aredge recently built tor leve*
building at the mouth of the Saere,tnen-
lo riser has a "elamanell" scoop on a
’ pom 165 lest long which raises iret -
e-e ton, Ot earth in each bite and de-
posit, Il on 'he bank in on, minute.
the ROll tit Eeundot 1 so triable, and
veh that tte rice l« planted tn hole,
made with a mschetA, where b'tng in
prevlous rnertior nor nehrequtnt
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AN INTELLIGENT MONKEY.
The smtan, whose portrait appear,
herewith is declared to be the miost In-
telligent monkey in the world. He can
light and smoke a cigar, pour out and
drink a horn of liquor and play school
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num. Th* coat of operating them I*
stated a* 55 per cent ct the Ero tet
Mr" Jochelson, chief of che Jerp
north Pacific exploring cxpediton ju*t
returned, states that ihe tribes which
he etudied in iberia al PoBe488e char-
actertstia in common with the Indiana
Ct North Amteice. ■ .
Mr. Jorhthan lutohinson, F. T S
manufacturing than
matter how hard th. tempest may rag,
out.irle. There is a mall mH which I,
capable of driving thl, odd erar at a
•peed of a mile or two an hour. Thl,
is to bo used enly when tho wind hap-
pens to blow in i ractically the enect
direction in which it I, desired to trav-
el. So far all the indication, ,eem to
point to the ultimate success of the It-
4o long you walked upon the selfsame way,
" The crooked paths of many a night and day,
%) You who have passed the pitfalls and the enares,
Could you not warn me where I went astrayt
0 child, did I not call! My fears, my prayers,
Drowned in your laughter, jubilant and gay.
Edwara VIL.
rex and a whole
lor of other
thires. were ar-
ranged for, the
firs: to be print-
ed was th* ll«
sue for the
Gold Cosst in
Africa. Higho-
fit la’s of th*
British empire
FREMIETS MUCH DISCUSSED STATUE.
ke= meN 1 1 /e
Now, if some day I gain my goal indeed,
Will I find solace for my want and need?
• Ah, surely never evil may befall
As sore as these sad wounds wherewith I bleed f
0 child, you too must know the worst of all—
To cry to one beloved who will not heed.
(Copyright. 1900, by Theodosia Carrison.1
lh« etntnent i.ondon surston. I, abcut
to start 0v n todr of C’ey’on and Tn- . -
dia, hoping to conhrm his hypothenis ; cultivation of the Are
ogg
5 2gde-EAESN35 are proverbiAl-
. ly • grand stand
players," and the independeot prerg of
London 1* now deciaring that the Gold
Coati stampe were given preference
over really important issues ior no oth-
er purpose than to attract attention to
the Kumassi railway, now it. cou’se of
construction in Ashantiland. fit hat
as it may. th* stamp herewith repro-
duced a a pretty example of work.
Ou lb* death of a hpongyt, or Budahtat mnk of any sanctity, htabody l»
aried, and then at an intervai proporonate to hl, holiness, he l, publloly or
mated. For thl, a tower of bamboo and paper wonderfully ornamented with
gold leaf and patntinge l, construotea, and below th» canopy at th, top tho
body is solemnly burned. The occaslon l* made a pretext for dramatic per-
feet by 75 feet at the base. After cremation the sdlnt’a asbes are KePt in •
gold box in hl* monastery.
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COLLECTING BEA BIRDS’ EQQB.
. Iacuve conectorsotbirdd.se--
scarcely feallze the danger Involved In
supplying them with the material for
the gratification of their fad. The
egg, ot sen fowl, in partteutar are
hard to get at because of th. habit of
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