A WARM SUGGESTION.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 448, 17 November 1904, Page 6

A WARM SUGGESTION.

Mode tr a Jrltrh CHabw VBh* gfcg -_ H»* Soiae Hot Bijm ~"~-. J? rieaaae. __,--' "H yoti want to know what heat is," finally said the High Climber, fa» the "Autobiography of a High Climber," in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, "you nrust be at the top of a chimney where the furnaces are going at full clip below. I was pointing up the sides of one high, chimney in Massachusetts one hot summer day. I was up about 100 feet. I had done ones two, three sides, and now pulled myself up to shift my hook around to tke fourth. My bo'sun'o chair swung dowm fmm this book, you understand. 0 "It was hot enough anywhere on the top, but around the cap on the fourth side where the wind was blowing out the smoke and heat it was awful. I dropped my hook down and .walked around to the cooler side to rest a bit. Around the cap I had • space of about a foot's width to walk on. In a moment I went back and put my band on the hook to elide ' down Hie rope to sky chair. Oak! 1 thought the hair woald come out of my bead. My shoes frissed. The hot iron of the book blistered my bands. I could stay nowhere near it. "Again and again I went back to that hook. Bach time I watt driven to the other side. There in the sun and the furnsee .heat pouring up. blowing this way, the hook got hotter and hotter. There was no other sray of getting down even. X was naught there. "Finally, in desperation, I took oft* toy undershirt and grabbed the hook srith it. Blistered and burned, I half fell into my chair and managed to let myself down.** % | OUTCRBW HIS COfWtS. We ami— Panesseas et taa JPamasnl e< , Wt BfaM JBTho BmS Matt* Mia Owes ?■ mwmimM OxkM. ' At Benton graveyard, near Port Washington, where no interment has been made for 20 years, a funeral was held on a recent Sunday that for strange and peculiar features had. no parallel in that vicinity, says the Columbus (O.) Press. It was the funeral of Philip Haas, an eccentric German resident of Buekhoro, and in compliance wrtfa his request his'body was kept five days before burial. The coffin in which he was buried .was one he had made fire years ago. ft was constructed of plonke and covered with black velvet. He made It when he was small of girth, and they had to squeese him in, as he remarked lately they would have to do. The coffin jsjes placed in a rough box he made. %i going to the graveyard the rough box was placed in a spring wagon and the coffin in it and two men sat on it, as per his wish. On the lid of the box was a card 10x24 inches, on which was the inscription he had pointed, as follows: t- . 'TwiMtrugirliiP*, _ p •» staavsn to my has**.** ' Ha told his friends if they did not carry out his wishes regarding the funeral he would come back, and, being superstitious, they did so. The ceremonies at the grave were marked for their simplicity. Each Sunday he attended church he put in the eoHestion basket as many cents as he was years old. He was industrious and frugal and owned several farms. WATER RJtTVID HIS WRIST. «rs>W »••• «sV Awi#fNoß W)Fsss%s9sf s-HITt-i# Ahem, the telegraph expert, put his brawny arm over the launch's side and let it drag through the salty :. water. He had half a dosen report* en in the launch, all armed with specials to file at the Highlands of Navesink, and after the launch had slipped through four miles of the Shrewsbury the operator withdrew his arm and looked at his wrist, says the New York Mail and Express. "There,*' said be, **l am good for 10,000 extra words," and he rubbed the wrist 'in a patronising way. Somebody asked him far an cxnJsaation, and he said: "I have found that by placing the wrist in cool water for half an hour any operator is able to double his energy and endurance for the following 12 hours. The wrist is the main machinery of the telegraph operator. Its muscles and nerves are dependent upon perfect action. This immersion in the sea is worth considerable money to the company. Not only can I send quicker, but I can send better and vptfc great endurance." f " " v With the exception of a small part . of the island of Samar the ground is ' entirely eorered with a dense jungle. [ which it is next to impossible to peneItrate, says a Manila newspaper. The ♦ trails lead off fairly and after a few miles end in a blank wall of jungle, which is so matted that it takes hours • for the soldiers to cut a traii wide •enough for the passage of a single man at a time. What the natives call 'trails in the momntaina are simply paths almost entirely eorered with jungle grass, rattan and bamboo, through which the hardy mountaineers force their way with ease, while ■ the more encumbered and less accustomed whit* sokiM|_ cannot gat .- through at all. -- m_ . wl -4_*«,«ttaa- «* Horaebaefc. aab otgun from Us back. Raooiters Tho Ajax Rabbit Ibap which has become so popular with trappers, tan be obtained from W. THE YE RE fc'ONS, Alexandra. Insist on having, .the "/The trap that catches."