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FIND LENGTH OF THE NILE. Surveyors Estimates That the Mighty River Extends 3.975 Miles. The length of the Nile is usually given as 3,355 statute miles to the eentpr of Lake Victoria, or 3,728 miles for the continuous j waterway from the source ot the Kagera to the sea; the nrea_ <?f j its basin is given as 1,119, 737 square miles. These measure- - meuts have hitherto beeu made on small scale maps, but since a considerable part of the upper, Nile has been recently surveyed on 1,250.000, or a larger s ale i and numerous points in its course' have beeu fixed astronomically and by triaugulation it is now j possible to measure its length sufficiently accurate to furnish a value which Captain 11. (r. Lyons I in a paper published in tha (Jeo graphical Journal, says later surveys probably will not materially alter. According to the data obtain ed from measurements made with t he curvi meter and the mean of tour concordant readings, Captain Lyons finds that the total length of the Nile from Ripon Falls to the ltosetta mouth is 3,473 miles, and the length of the Kagera Itiver, a tributary to the Nile, to Ripon Falls is, ac cording to the latest charts, 502 miles. This makes the Nile from its source to its discharge in the Mediteranean, 3,975 miles in length. The area of the Nile basin will vary according to the distance to which its limits areconsidered to extend on the west of the Nile northward of Khartoum, it has here been taken as far as the cliff of the desert plateau, or the first marked rise of the desert, where the cliff is absent, probably, on the average, two to two and one half miles from the edge of the cultivation. The latest compu tation establishes the area at 1,107,227 square miles.?Chicago Chronicle. Man and^Blrd. -- ??f'? We were at Manassas in \ ir ginia some months ago and saw at the express station a lot of "homing-pigeons." About ten o'clock in the day thedoorof the crate was opened, the birds soar ed straight up into the air sev eral hundred feet and then, with strange but unerring instinct, struck a straight air line for Boston, Mass., many hundred miles away, it was an almost daily occurrence and the homing birds seldom failed to reach their destination somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty hours. For these birds will make from 500 to 1,000 miles in one unin terrupted flight, going at 30 to 45 miles the hour. Uermany, France and other Furopeau powers have long made use of these birds in time of war, some times sending as many as 30,000 words on films of collodion by one pigeon. The homing-pigeon, though the only bird used for practical purposes as carriers are by no means the swiftest nor the stout est flyers. The blue throat, allied to our robin, spends its winters in tropical Africa or India and summers on the shores of the North Sea, in Siberia or Alaska, a distance of 1,000 miles ana always makes the journey in one uninterrupted flight in less than a day and night. But even the Blue-throat is not equal to the stork that spends his summers in Austria-Hungary and his win ters in lndiu or Central Africa making the journey twice a year in an unbroken flight. The dis tance in an air line is twenty four hundred miles and thestork makes the trip in less than twen ty-four hours?one hundred miles an hour for the whole distance. By steam, electricity or airship however propelled, will man ever equal this speed? That is doubt ful. With all his energy, skill and equipment, man has uevei yet equalled the industry of the ant, the subtlety of the bee auu the speed of the bird. "When 1 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mind ful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him?"?Chris tian Bun. "A cold or cough nearly always pro duces constipation?the water all runs to the eyes, nose and throat instead ol passing out ol the system through the livtr and kidneys. For the want of moisture the bowels become dry and hard." Kennedy's Laxative Honey ami Tnr is the original Laxative Cough Syrup. It Meets and corrects the above conditions, bv acting as a pleasant cathartic on the bowels?expels all colds from the system and cures all* coughs, croup, whooping cough, LaUrippe, bronchitis, etc. Hood Eros. Benson Drug Co. J. R. Led better. Drinking Less Whiskey. E During the last five years there * has been a steady decrease it whiskey drinking. A Chicago aewspaper has been gathering statistics which warrant it i: ^ sa> ing that the consumption o ' t distilled spirits, other thanthos* r made from fruits, in the tisca11 * year 1905, was 116,143,732 gal- j ' Ions, or 704,640 gallons 1*8 than in 1904 What is the cause * of this falling off? The Chicago I paper says: "The falling off is attribute* to various causes, among whict a genuine reform in popular ? drinking habits is gratifyiugly ? included. Another cause is th* rigor with which the Sunday ea \ loon closing laws have been en forced in many cities since Gover nor Folk, of Missouri, led th* ' crusade for law and order in that'c State." The decrease in drinking and 1 drunkenness in North Carolina 1 in the past few years has been ( most remarkable. There have c been several causts, the first be- i ing the pronounced sentiment c for temperauce that has ma*!e it- ' self felt in the Watts law, the J Ward law, the voting out of sa- 1 loons in more than a score of 1 towns and the crusade against * the use of intoxicants. Another cause has been the action cf business men and corporations that refuse to employ men * known to love strong drink, en- j forcing practical temperance as a condition precedent to secur- * ing a job and as a necessay con- | dition to holding one. f There is still all tco much drink- < ing, but if the decrease is as t marked during the next ten f years, as during the past ten years, many thousands of do!- ] lars will go into the comforts of home and new and better <, houses that have goue down j thirsty throats. There is a duty | for every business man: Discour- * age drinking by the exampleyou ( set the young men in your em- j ploy, and who look up to you , for guidance, and by tactful c admonition to men with whom j you come in contact in business, ^ particularly young men who r have not contracted the degrad- , ing and demoralizing habit.? j News and Observer. e $117,000,000 To Run Gotham. New York, Sept. 23.?In spite i of the extraordinary efforts of ] Mayor McClellan and Comptrol- t ler (iroute to keep the budget ] for 1906 as low as possible to c prevent a cry of extravagance ] from Fusion candidates, it is probable the city's current ex penses next year will exceed #117,000,000, an increase of more than #7,000,000. The , total estimate, it is expected, will ( exceed by $50,000,000 the ] amount actually allowed by the ] Board of Estimate when it meets ? to make up the budget on Mon- r day of next week. t ^ 1 A 500-Pound Bridegroom. s Tarrytowu, N. \\, Sept. 21.? ; Thomas F. Hogan, North Tar- f rytown's fat man, was married c to Miss Helen E. Fitzgerald, of \ New York City, at St. Teresa's s Church this morning. Hogan s weighs more than five hundred e pounds, and his wife about a e hundred pounds. e "It was a case of love at first^ t sight," said Hogan. i He has only one eye, but he ? said he knew that Mies Fitzger ald was his affinity as soon as he saw her. They met only once previous to their marriage. \ Japan's War Losses. C London, Sept. 27.?The Tokio correspondent of The Standard says that Japan's war losses to date are as follows: Killed, 46, 180; died of wounds, 10,970; ? died from sickness, 25,300. The j( percentage of deaths from sick- r ness was less than one-fourth of ^ the total, which is not paralleled in the annals of war. A Cold Storage Romance. He?Had an odd experience the other day. < >ne morning my breakfast boiled egg had an in scription on it. It said: "The J1 finder may write to me," signed y "Mary Smith." 1 She?What reply did you get? F He?The postmaster replied. J' dan said that Miss Smith died ol '' old age several vears ago.? Louisville Courier-Journal. TO CURE A COLO IN ONE DAY. | Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money If It tails to cuve. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 2 Re. IRYAN STARTS ON MORLD TOUR tetuses a Private Car and Pays His Railroad Fare. Omaha. X ?b , Sept. 21.?Mr. \ illiani Jennings Bryan, accom >auied by Mrs. Bryan aud their wo children, William and (Jraee. itartei we*t ov?r the I'uiou 'acitic thits afternoon for th?-ir oug-contemplated trip around he world. Mr. Bryan bought railr >ad ickets for himself and the mem >ere of hie family, having de. iined a proffer from the I'limn 'acitic Itailroud of a private cut rum Omaha to San Franeisvo a this action Mr Bryan acted h ?onformity with the plank ?>i the Nebraska Democratic platform, idopted at the convention which te addressed ut l.iucolu yeater lay, which reads; This convention emphatically ?oudemns the issuance of free rausportation for any ptirpose jtber than in genuine cases ot ?harity or bonoJide employes ictually in the pay of the issuing :orporatiou, and demands the adoption by the next Nebraska Legislature of a law making the ntentioual acceptance or issu ance of such free trausprotation a criminal offence." Woes of 12-year-old Wife. Carrollton, Ivy., Sept. 23.? A'earing a dress that barely ?eached her shoe tops. Mrs. Mar garet Darboe, the 12-year-old vife of Kiley Darboe, one of the jest Known young men in this lection, appeared in the Carroll Jircuit Court yesterday and ask ;d for a legal separation from ler husband, and that her maid in name of Butts be restored to ler. The petition was granted. Margaret Butts is an orphan. Several years ago she was taken rom the Kentucky Orphans' dome and adopted' by Mrs. J. A*. Butts, of this city. The girl ;ook the name of Butts, and be ng mature for her age, became, vhen she was not 11 years old, >ne of the belles of the county. Six months ago she was wooed md won by Kiley Darboe. Their narriage caused a sensation. Lfter a few days the wife retured ;o the home of her adopted par ents. Good advice to women. If rou want a beautiful complex on, clear skin, bright eyes, red ips, good health, take Hollis er's Rocky Mountain Tea. There is nothing like it. 35 ents, Tea or Tablets. Selma 'rug Co., A. H Boyett. President Should Apologize. It seems to be a fair question vhether President Roosevelt loes not owe Judge Alton B. 'arker a public apology. The 'resident's quick sense of 'squareness" must certainly be nuch troubled by the disclosure hat at the very moment last November when he was hotly re lenting Judge Parker's charges ?egarding the squeezing of cor lorations for Republican carn taigu money, the committee harged with forwarding his can vass was accepting money ab tracted from a fund for the as istance of widows aud orphans ind using it to promote his lection. Probably Judge Park r at the time never supposed he case was quite as flagrant as t is now known to have been.? Springfield Republican. The Merry Bells. Vhen Sorrow comes a-sighin' 1 our pleasure to destroy, let out in the sunshine An' ring the bells of jov. ?Atlanta Constitution. FARM FOR SALE. About ninety acres of land ad Mning the place on which 1 live jr sale. Farm is on a public oad; about 55 acres cleared aud as two dwelling houses. 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