"IN Chapter I he shoots at her five times. Ain't that grand?"

"Yes; but them novels are misleading, Mayme. There ain't no earnest love like that in real life."-Kansas City Journal.

Frankness

"DID that young man kiss you last night?"

Perhaps

"YES, sir," said the man who would not vote for a Republican, even though he was on a reform ticket, "I'm a Democrat. And so was my father and my grandfather and my greatgrandfather."

"Huh!" said the candidate, "and if your father and grandfather and great-grandfather had been horse-thieves, what would you have been?"

"Wal," responded the other thoughtfully, "in them circumstances I reckon I'd 'a' bin a Republican."-Everybody's.

NEWLYWED "Well, since our baby's been born it's been like an opera, full of grand marches, with loud calls for the author every

with solenoids (practically large charged magnets) furnish the magnetic lateral force, leading an amateur scientist to remark that M. Bachelet had "harnessed magnetism."

Between the two lower rails are

"levitating coils." As the car passes, the force in these levitating coils repulses the aluminum base of the vehicle, raising it one-half inch in the air.

The car is given direction by "brushes" which slide along in grooves in the lower rails. There is also an upper rail somewhat similar to the overhead feed wire above the trolley tracks. At each

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THIS python was captured by some Chinese farmers in the hills near Foochow, in southern China. They beat it to death with hoes and clubs and then brought it to Foochow, where they sold it for four dollars, Mexican currency, or less than two dollars gold. The American who bought the snake wanted only the skin, so the Chinese kept the flesh and sold it again to some native doctors who use it in their practice. The Chinese have great

end, the car, in passing along, comes into contact with the solenoids.

It is by means of the brushes that the current is automatically cut off after the car has passed over that particular section of the track.

The model car used weighed forty pounds. To work the coils sufficiently to raise the car one-half inch from the track, 220 volts were found to be required for the purpose.

"I believe that a speed of 1,000 miles an hour for passenger trains is not beyond the range of possibility," said M. Bachelet. "That is because there is practically no friction."

faith in both the oil and flesh of snakes. to cure diseases. This large snake, however, is not so highly valued for medicine as the smaller varieties. These are especially prized by the native physicians, who are evidently far behind the Western nations in the theory and practice of the healing arts.

This individual was thirteen feet one inch long, with a circumference of fifteen inches, and weighed 107 pounds. This species has no fangs but kills its prey, as do all pythons, by encircling it and crushing it to death. Although a fairly large specimen of a snake, others of still greater size have been killed near Foochow.

This building represents the last word in the construction of heaven-towering skyscrapers. The task of the workmen looks extremely hazardous. Think, however, of the photographer who was obliged, in order to secure this series of magnificent pictures, to place himself above these men, at a still more perilous altitude.

So long as great buildings must be reared, men must jeopardize their lives. In spite of various safety appliances that have been introduced in later years, the numerous perils to the structural steel-worker's safety have diminished but very little. As in the past, he must take his life in his hands.

GOING TO LUNCH BY A SHORT ROUTE. These workmen jauntily take their lives in their hands, confident of their ability to look out for their own safety.