The evening times. [volume], January 23, 1906, Image 6

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Jji NEW SYSTEM OF NOTATION
fatra Convenience in Calculation's
Offered by Kngllsh Ed
:s. .K., uoatoia.
instead of.decimals are
offered from England. A notation
founded on 12 instead of ten is believed
to have been in use by the Chaldeans,
and since 12 is
and six,
the
divisible by two, four
tbls is manifestly superior to
ten, which is divisible only by five. It
If, would
be
necessary to forego the use of
Arabic system of numerals and have
11 new ones and zero before the undoubt
ed
advantages of the duodecimal sys
tem could be realized in practice. It is
argued that there is no necessity of dls
placing the old notation but merely to
teach every child the new system also.
The extra convenience in calculation
would soon leave the Arabic figures
stranded as historical curiosities. It is
inconceivable once a man acquires the
habit of reckoning by twelves that ne
should ever voluntarily return to tens.
It is suggested that a beginning be made
with scientific and technical students,
a
picked class of Intelligent minds
which would readily understand the
value of a duodecimal notation and not
grudge the small amount of trouble
necessary for memorizing.
ITALY GUARDS TREASURES.
Works of Art Are Jealously Kept
Within the Country's
Boundaries.
Italy desires the keeping of its art
treasures within its own bound
aries and sometimes with rather
odd results. The other day a
farmer, finding his finances low,
yielded to the solicitation of an art deal
er and sold him the removable masonry
of two ancient windows belonging to the
fragment of an ancient abbey, now an
outhouse. In his grounds. The govern
ment commissioner, hearing of the
transaction, visited the farm and offi
cially prohibited the removal of the
windows. The farmer was in despair
he had received his 500 francs and, like
the Irishman, had squandered his for
tune in paying his debts. The commis
sioner used comfortable words: "You
have sold the windows and he has paid
you money which you have prudently
spent. Be content." But the buyer was
not equally contented. He sought out
the commissioner, who blandly con
gratulated him on having become the
owner of the windows, which, however,
he could not remove. Shylock's pound
of flesh mildly repeats itself in a ton of
masonry.
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.
Debutante Who Was Prepared for
the Advances of Money
less Ken.
It was the sweet scene of the lilies
In the conservatory, the beauty of the
young girl's gilt hair, or the excellent
champagne he had taken with hts sup
per—at any rate, after the two-step, as
they rested In the shadow beneath a
palm, he proposed to the debutante in
White.
"It cannot be," she said. "I am un
worthy of you."
"Oh, rubbish," said he.
"It Is true it is too true." And she
Sighed.
"You are an angel," he said, ar
dently.
"No, no, you are wrong," said the
young girl. "I am vain, idle, silly, ut
terly unfit to be your helpmate through
life."
He laughed lightly. He said in a
mothing voice:
"Why, this is sheer madness. What
sort of a wife do you think I ought to
have?"
"A very wise, deliberate, practical
woman," she replied "one able to live
on your small salary."
ARCHDUKE NOW A CITIZEN.
Leopold of Austria Marries Beneath
Him and Is Doing Menial
Work.
According to Le Petit Parlslen, the ex
Archduke Leopold of Austria, who mar
ried Fraulien Adamovltch and became
naturalized as a Swiss citizen under the
name of Leopold Wolfing, is now serv
ing as a common soldier in a Swiss regi
ment of Geneva in accordance with the
law which requires military service from
ell citizens of the confederation. The
ex-archduke, we are told, has to perform
all the duties of his new position, help
ing to scrub the floors of the barracks
and to sweep the yard, besides partici
pating in several hours' drill each day.
Through a practical joke played upon
him by some comrades he lately incurred
the punishment of four days' arrest, but
It was not carried into effect, as suitable
explanations were forthcoming. Curi
ously enough, this new Swiss recruit for
merly held therank of major general In
the Austrian army..
Ships Built in 1904.
According to Lloyds the United
Kingdom launched
712
gregating
new ships, ag­
1,205,162
tens displacement,
during last year. She also launched
37
ships of war, aggregating
127,175
tons. One, the Caronia, displaced
20,000 tons another, the Victoria, 14,
000 tons, Is the largest turbine «»i»p
afloat The United States launched
827
merchant ships ot. more than lot
tons each, with a total tonnage of 238
.518. Besides these there were launched
.1* war vessels, aggregating 170,885
tons. Germany came third, with 14?
merchant vesesls, aggregating 200,0M
tons, and 11 'ships of war, aggregating
44970 tons. France was fourth, with
80,000 tons In 67 merchantmen, and 43.
600 toos In nine ships of war. Italy
was Jlfth—«lght merchant vessels, ag
gregating 30,600 tons, and eight war-
la*
the bettoeC**
A lStaolaaaU millloaaiM ho sailor
lata* tfm Job cleaning
atroeta. Aaother
to dto itt.
whs
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THE MAKING OF SWORDS.
Bare Business Which puffers with
the
Blse of Modern Civ
ilisation.
"I
turn out," said
a
swordmaker,
"over 40,000 swords a year. I used to
turn out 70,000. But the sword crop
falls as civilization rises.
"My steel comes from western
Pennsylvania in 14-foot lengths, each
length an Inch and a half wide. Each
sword takes nine days to make, and
goes through 70 different processes.
"Our testing room is our most im
portant one. There the finished blade
is proved—first as to surface second,
as to back and edge third,
as
to
bending.
"For the surface test the blade is
screwed Into a vise, and brought down
flat with great force on to a steel
table, a wire cage covering all to pre
vent accident, if the sword fails, from
flying Bplinters. In the second test
the back and edge are struck by a
skilled swordsman against an oak
block. In the third tesi the sword
must bend into an arc of a certain
number of degrees, according to its
fineness. The best swords must bend
into a perfect circle.
"The best swords, further, are put
through the Spanish or Toledo test.
They are thrust against plates of solid
iron.
"Good swords cost from $15 up, and
of course presentation blades run Into
a lot of money. The last we made
cost $500. The pattern of the blade
was especially resigned and inscribed,
and the scaubard was of fishskln,
mounted with 22-carat gold. The
handle was of gold and ivory.
The czar of Russia, the sultan of
Turkey, and the shah of Persia all
have swords ranging In value from
$5,000 lo $50,000, but even these are
outdone by the massive scimitars
worn by many native Indlah princes,
who simply utilize the golden hilts
of their Bwords as settings for whole
fortunes of precious stones. The
Maharaj Kunwar of Baroda has a
carved sword whose scabbard and hlU
are encrusted with diamonds, rubies
and emeralds of the first water, the
whole being valued at $100,000.
"Actors are good patrons of the
swordmaker. Sir Henry Irving had a
fine collection of swords, while Fran
cis Wilson's and Richard Mansfield's
collections are not to be despised.
PANDEMONIUM PRODUCED.
Comical Spectacle on Mississippi
Steamboat Resulting from
Coin Shower.
A young fellow, a fellow passenger,
was leaning upon the rail beside me,
looking upon the scene below, relates
a writer in Harper's Magazine. He
told me to watch and he would show
me some sport. He drew a dime out of
his pocket He waved his arm to at
tract the attention of the negroes down
upon the lower deck, and then he
flung the coin. It fell tinkling, and
rolled between two cotton bales. With
yells, the negroes rushed at it tumul
tously, piling over one another, a
tangled mass of waving arms and legs,
whence issued muffled groans and
grunts. Then suddenly, the mass dis
solved again into a mob of rousters,
gaping up to us with rolling yellow
eyes and heaving chests and dilated
nostrils. Another piece of silver
twinkled in the air and fell among
them. Leaping and grabbing, the ne
groes snatched at the falling coin, then
plunged again into a heap.
By this time others of the passen
gers bad heard the noise and the scuf
fling, and soon quite a crowd was gath
ered along the rail.. A shower of
change began to fall upon the deck be
low and into the crowd of now half
frantic blacks.
It was a comical spectacle. A little
while before the negroes had been
quietly busied about their own affairs
a handful of cheap silver had fallen
among them, and in less than a min
ute their small world was transformed
inte a pandemonium. I have heard it
said that the same phenomenon occurs
sometimes on the stock exchange.
An Editorial Mistake.
Mr. Russell Sage was making a care
ful survey of the display of marked
down clothing in a ready-made shop
not far from Wall street.
"Ah! how d'y. do, Uncle Russ?" we
greeted him in our most affable man
ner, "are you selecting something neat
but not gaudy for personal use?"
"Is it any of your darned business?"
he replied, in very direct fashion.
Realizing that we were not engaged
in selling clothing, we were so struck
by the appropriateness of his Inquiry
that we hurried along without re
sponding.—N. Y. Herald.
.. Chrysanthemums in Japan.
In the arrangement of chrysanthe
mums the Japanese guard against sev
en faults. Their stems must not be of
the same length, a single flower must
not turn its back or present its full
face, the flowers must not be hidden
by leases, or, should they be arranged
in the way of stepo, a full blown flower
should never be placed at the base of
the composition and one odd one must
rot be-allowed to fall between two otlp
ers alike in color. Three (towers
should not appear to form
a
"Why don't you let
triangle.
His Only Hope.
up
on me?"
complained the bad map of the village.
"This is the seventeenth time this
year you've had
me
arrested and fined
for sellin' whisky without a license.
If you do It again
I'll
move out of tbe
durned old town."
"If you do,"
gasped the village at
torney, "111
have t» move, toot"**
Chicago Tribune.
TM, sho ls trying to get a divans
Cross her hashand li— he snows la
Usslee».M
"Whan doss ah* waathla tononf*
Hooston Foot.
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X«gsl light
Alexander C. Botkia, who died recent
ly at the national capital, was chair
man of l&e commission charged with
the revision of tho criminal laws of this
***,
'ifk 1^^'"
4"-:
COOLIES ON THE RAND.
Chinese Prisoners Overrunning the
British Colony Cause Belgn
of Terror.
"The Chinese are everywhere,"
writes
an observer in South Africa. "You see
thein in the streets of the towns, on tho
platforms of the railway stations, or
about the Rand. There are now nearly
50,000 of them scattered up and down
a slice of country about 40 miles in
length. Some are working In mines
which are practically in Johannesburg
Itself. One morning I was walking
down Commissioner street, when I
came across 30 of them at work dig
ging out the foundations of a new
hotel. They were prisoners serving
terms of hard labor, and were leased
out to the contractor at one shilling a
head a day. And they were employed
in the very center of Johannesburg.
Out at Knight's I saw a huge camp
where 1,400 more Chinese prisoners
are at work making a deviation of the
railway Vine from Germlston to Boksi
burg.
"These sweepings of the Chinese
prisons, who are now overrunning a
British colonn are not content with
mere robbery. They do that as
a
matter of course. What those isolated
farms and lonely stores dread is the
cry of 'Tsa, tsa!'—'Kill, kill!'—from
the yellow fiends who roam over the
veldt. People in the country dare
scarcely go to bed at night. They
gather at each other's houses for pro
tection' and companionship.
"What wonder is it that terror
reigns on the veldt, or that the coun
try people are now all armed, and
shoot first when they see a Chinaman
at night?" The same writer adds that
these circumstances are hidden care
fully tbe outside world. The white
men of South Africa—with the excep
tion of the mine owners—he says, are
satisfied that the introduction of coolie
labor was a mistake.
BURNING OF THE EARTH.
Said That Collision with Nearest
Fixed Star May Be Source
of Fire.
If the earth Is to be destroyed by fire
as predicted In the Second Epistle of St
Peter, what is to cause the fire? Dr.
E. Gore, the British astronomer, finds
that no outburst of the sun from inter
nal activity is likely to be sufficient, and
it is to heat from collision that we must
look. To collide with the. nearest fixed
star the sun must travel at its present
rate for 83,000 years. The sun is speed
ing 11 miles per second toward Vega
(Alpha Lyrae), and it is possible that
one of the dark bodies of space may ap
proach from that direction, or even now
be on the way. Dr. Gore calculates that
such a body having the sun's mass and
earth's density would shine by the sun'j
light as a ninth magnitude star on
reaching a distance of 15,000.000,000
miles. Moving at the sun's velocity,
with gradual acceleration, it would Ap
proach to 6,000.000,000 miles in ten years,
when it would flash into naked eye view
as a "new star" of fifth magnitude. In
four years more it would be as near as
Uranus, in another year as near as Jupi
ter, and far outshining both Jupiter and
Venus. Then the earth's distance
would be reached in 51 days, and the sun
in eight days more, the speed having in
creased to 400 mile£ per second. The
codision would be a colossal St. Pierre.
Both sun and colliding body would be
vaporized within an hour, and the stu-'
pendous heat, would destroy most of the
planets. If a direct course were kept.,
the strange body would not strike any
planet. But the body might be smaller,
and, if of the earth's size, would come
nearer than Uranus before detection,
giving only a few months' warning of
disaster.
DISSERTATION ON OLIVES.
Hard to Tell How the Inventor
Ever Got His Fruit on the
Market.
The olive is a bottled fruit serving
as an object lesson of the fact that ap
pearances are deceitful, says the Detroit
Free Press. What is more luscious
looking than the green olive of com
merce, and what Is more disagreeable
than the first bite? Historians tell us
that the taste for olives must be culti
vated, but anyone who wishes to treat
his palate in that rough and brutal
manner is at liberty to do so.
Having tasted an olive one cannot but
wonder how the inventor ever got his
fruit on the market. It is easy enough
to understand bow ice cream and short
cake became popular, but it is difficult lo
comprehend the reason for the success
of the olive. Cultivating a taste for the
Xtlive is about as pleasing as accustom
ing one's palate to quinine or bitter
aloes. Possibly It can be done if one has
no regard for the palate.
Having taken six lessons in tbe art
of cultivating an olive taste I am pre
pared to say that I am no nearer the
mark than when I began. I am not a
success as an olive eater. The vagaries
of the juicy dill pickle, the bite of the
horseradish, the snap of the chill sauce
and the surprising humor of the tobasco
sauce have no terrors for me. but that
indescribable flavor about the olive
seems too much. I should really like
olives if they tasted like anything else
but olives. In other words olives would
be first-rate but for the taste.
World's Water Going.
A shrinkage in the world's water
supply has been predicted by M. Mar
tel, the French explorer of caves. In
a! lecture. Through the erosion and
corrosion of the earth surface, he said,
the, water level is being continually
towered, and, unless measures for pre
senting this were adopted a large
part of the world will a few
hence die of thirst
Tho Ruaso-Chlasse bank at Toko*
hama is reopening In order to defray
the traveling expenses ot the Rualaa
/prisoners returning home. \.t.
tlllll^iio Black Viewer
No perfectly blaek flower hasas y«C
been grown.
jipgi!--.
Za Heartless Belatlves.
Blood is thicker than water, aad
oametfmes colder than lee water.
THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
CHILDREN'S BILL OF FARE.
Curious Table Which Was Furnished
bjr Woman School Inspector
cfc London.
The decision of the board of educa
tion that children under five ought not
to be sent to school is on the saie side,
although much adverse criticism has
been poured upon it, says the Church
Eclectic. By way of answer to these
critic the board has issued a volume
containing a memorandum by their
chief inspector of elementary schools,
and reports by five women Inspectors
who had been instructed to inquire in
to tho whole matter. The chief inspec
tor's summary verdict is that "there is
no intellectual advantage from school
Instruction under five," and "that un
suitable rather than insufficient feed
ing is responsible for sickly chil
dren." With reference to this'latter
point there is a curious table furnished
by one of the women inspectors, giv
ing the choice of 46 children who
were asked what they would buy for
dinner if provided with a penny and
told to purchase it themselves.
Thirteen chose fish and potatoes
five, fish only five, potatoes only two,
peas and potatoes three, pease pud
ding five, soup two, meat and pota
toes four, pudding one, Christmas
pudding one, apple pie one, jam
noil one, jam tart one, rice, one,
chese one, apples.
Pickles and even raw onions figure
largely in the diet of the slum chil
dren of London, and for this the ig
norance of the mothers is clearly to
blame.
At present many parents seem to
need education far more even than
the children.
ODD WEDDING SPEECHES.
A Number That Were Delivered in
Dumb Show and Some That
Were Sung.
The recent wedding in New York at
which the bridesmaids were representa
tive of six nationalities, and each felici
tated the bride in the language of her
own country, was an odd affair, but
probably not so well received as the
speech of a young Englishman who was
called upon to propose the toast, "T'he
Bridesmaids." Apprised of his ordeal
in advance he had devised an escape, and
with the single statement that silence
was golden he brought from his pocket
a set of gold'bangles, which he bestowed
upon the attendants of the bride.
At a wedding feast at Dol, in Nor
mandy, the demand for a speech result
ed in the production of a guitar, upon
which the speaker accompanied himself,
while he chanted the praises of the bride.
Had he stopped there all would have
been well, but he changed to a praise of
his store, and the guests threw him out
of the house.
Doubtless a similar fate should have
befallen the sharpshooter who wrote the
name of the bride upon the wall with
pistol bullets, to the serious damage of
the wall paper. Almost as odd was the
performance of a German music hall
performer, who, when called upon for
entertainment, mounted the table upon
his hands and balanced himself upon
glasses, cups and other furnishings.
PLACE FOR BACHELORS.
They Would Get Their Just Deserts
Were They All Sent to
Korea.
"Korea's the place for bachelors, nit"
said the sailor. "Bachelors in Korea is
considered as children and has only
children's privileges.
"Just ponder over what that there
means.
"You, a Korean bachelor, get thirsty.
You enter a rest house and call for palm
wine. The pretty, little amber-colored
waitress says:
"'Married?'
'No,' says you.
"'Heraus, then,' says she and out
you go, unslaked.
"You want to vote, but they won't let
you vote If you ain't married.
"You apply for
a
job somewheres.
'How many children have you?' is
the first question you're asked.
"And as soon as you say you're unmar
ried. they laugh in your face to think
that you should presume to apply for
work anywheres.
"Bachelors in civilized lands has all
the best of it. But in Korea they lead
a
dog's life."
Like It, But Different.
The capital of a western state had
been relocated at
a
small county Beat
village where an old-time exhorter
preached every Sunday with increas
ing enthusiasm as the building boom
enlarged his congregation. He want
ed a big revival, and urged all to join
fn the Christian work, saying vehe
mently:
"The Christian work is just like any
other work, only It is very different.*'
—Magazine of Fun.
Most Unique Book.
In the possession of tbe family of
Prince de Ligne is a book which au
thorities declare to be the most unique
publication In the world, because it is
neither written nor printed the let
ters are cut out of each folio, upon tho
finest vellum, and are interleaved with
blue papep, so that the text can be read
with perfect ease. Rudolf^ of Germany,
in 1640 offered $60,000 for the volume.
Chinese Competition.
California growers are alarmed over
the fact that Chinese in Asia have
gone into the business of exporting
pickled olives to the United States to
compete with the California product
The import duty on olives in aJar of
ten gallons or mors is only lis cents
per gallon, acc6rdlng to the decision of
the San Francisco collector.
On tho
M,w
"On tho golf links," remarked Urn ob
oervor of events and thing* "a two
somo Is company aad athreeeome. is a
crowd,"—'Yonken Statesman.
N
British Ann? Mep.
The regular stepof tho British amy
is 130 to tho minute.
Ml
*t .*3,1*•-.
It is easy to resolute It to hard to
get thein
GOOD SOUP RECIPES.
sila?
Cream Soups Easily and Speedily
Made and Variations with One
Cream
Soups.—Cream
jjp$
ot These for Baee.
soups are
also
Inexpensive and quickly made. Their
daintiness makes them suited to eveU a
course luncheon, where they are served
with'souffle balls or croutons of toasted
bread.
All the cream soups are made in the
same general way, and a few recipes will
serve as pegs on which others may be
hung.
Cream of Corn Soup.—Cut from the
ear enough corn to make a pint or use
its equivalent in canned corn. For the
fresh corn, use a sharp knife, scoring
the rows of kernels, and then pressing
out the pulpfrom the kernels with the
back of the knife, leaving the hulls on
the cob. Add to the corn a pint of plain
white stock or simply cold water, let It
come to a boil and coo& in ten minutes.
Meantime add a sliced onion to a quart
of milk in the double boiler, and heat
to the boiling point. In a third sauce
pan. if you have room on the stove, put
the cobs with a cup of water and let them
simmer, to extract any flavor remain
ing. When the milk reaches the boiling
point add it to the cooked corn and
thicken with a tablespoonful of flour
blended with a tablespoonful of butter
and cooked to a creamy consistency,
with a little of the hot soup. Stir it in,
together with the hot liquid, in which
the cobs were steamed cook for ten
minutes, then strain through a puree
sieve, pressing through as much of the
com and onion as will go. Add a table
spoontul of cream or butter and a cup
ful of half-inch cubes of browned
croutons or souffle balls, and serve as
hot as possible.
Souffle Balls.—To make the souffle
balls, boil together a half cup of milk
and a tablespoonful of butter. The mo
ment it reaches the boiling point add a
rather scant half cup of well-sifted flour
and stir well until the paste can be
pressed with the finger without its
sticking. Take from the fire and cool
about ten minutes, then add two eggs,
beating them in one after the other.
Dust the molding, board with flour, as
lightly as possible, lay the paste upon tt
and roll out until a little thicker than
vermicelli. Cut into balls the size of
large marrowfat peas, and fry In boil
ing hot f$t. They will swell uif Into ten
der hollow souffles, that are delightful
to use in any of the cream soups. They
should be a delicate brown.
Creant of Celery Soup.—This can be
made from the outer tough stalks of the
celery head that are not suitable to eat
on the table. Do not use the green stalks,
but those that have been at least partial
ly bleached. Wash and scrape, and
when you have the equivalent of two
heads cut in inch pieceB. using a few of
the leaves, and cook slowly for three
quarters of aft hour in a quart of water
or water and white stock. When tender
press through a puree sieve. Add a
quart of hot milk, and when It comes to
the boiling point thicken with two
tablespoonfuls of flour blended with the
same amount of butter and cooked witn
a little of the boiling soup. Stir the
soup constantly until smooth and thick
ened, add a tablespoonful minced parsley
and a half-cut cream, and serve with
souffle balls.
Cream of Tomato J3oup.—Put on to
boil in a porcelain-lined kettle one quart
can of tomatoes, or the equivalent, in
sliced fresh ones. Add a tablespoonful
of salt, a bay leaf and white pepper to
season. Cook until soft and strain. Put
into a small saucepan a tablespoonful of
butter, and when hot add a tablespoon
ful of minced onion and a tablespoonful
of cornstarch. Stir until mixed, then
add a little of the-hot tomato juice and
cook until smooth and thickened. Now
add this to the kettle of tomato, stir in
well, cook ten minutes, then add a quart
of milk that has been heated to the boil
ing point. If the tomato is very acid,
stir in a salts poo nful of soda before add
ing the milk season with more saltand
pepper, if necessary, and serve at once
with croutons.
Cream of Cabbage Soup.—Chop the
cabbage quite fine and cook' in boiling
salted water until tender. Just before
serving pour off moBfdf the water, add
milk, pepper, butter and more salt If
necessary, and thicken with a table
spoonful of flour stirred smooth in a lit
tle milk. This Is
a
Btaple article of diet
among the. Adirondack guides, where
they cannot always get fresh meat or
other vegetables. It is both delicate end
nourishing,—Washington Star.
REALISTIC.
The senate boasts that it governs it
self. The Tillman episode demonr
strates that It makes a bad job of It
ot the best—
TELEPHONE
Train
"U
Arrives.'1
.8:00 p.m:
4:10 a.m.
8:05 a.m.
7:36 p.m.
.}
Amateur—Will there be real food
In the banquet scene?
Professional Manage?—Yes, and rao)
poison in the death sfeene.—Phlladel*
Qhia Bulletin. /,
Cf.V
LUNACY DUE TO LAZINESS*
Devotion $0 Bridge and Whist Pre
vent! Undermining of Minds of
'••'^"'.'Women ot Leisure Class.'..
4 .. .yjffeV.
London.—"Lsslness Is a gnat con
tributory cause of lunacy," Uicidental
ly observed Dr. T. Claye Shaw, who
took part in a discussion at the Har
velan society recently.
The grounds on which he based hlo
assertions were explained by r. Claye
Shaw, who is a .Harley street special*
1st on mental diseases.
"The only way to preserve a healthy
mind Is to lead a busy life," said the
doctor. "But modern conditions—the
tompulsory retirement from profes
sional occupations of men who have
eached the age of, say,
55—condemn
•hem to spend the rest «f their exists
ence in idleness. They become intro
spective and prood. They feel them
selves 'sidetracked' from the main line
of life, and almost unconsciously a
state of rebellion la set up. From lacs
of ihental exertion the brain loses the
nutrition It has been accustomed to
over a. long period of years. Other
conditidns are set up which culminate
In mental degeneration.
"Young men who Inherit fortunes
and devote their time to spending them
fall ready victims to this undermining
of the brain. Tragedies,of the kind
are constantly occurring in London/
"Many young women and girls who
belong to the leisure classes are saved
from a like fate by their devotion to
dress and bridge. The zealous pursuit
of those pastimes requires at least
some measure oi mental exercise. Per
haps that is the best that can be said
of them.
"It Is dangerous for a man who has
led a busy life to abandon, brain exer
tion. Medical science has prolonged
the span of human existence, and yet
retirement Is now forced upon men at
a much earlier age than hitherto. The
only .hope for these men is to cultivate
some engrossing hobby."
OPTIMISTIC OBSERVATIONS.
Even dyspepsia, that awful curse ot
humanity, has its lighter sjde. It saves
grub.
There is good in everything. A man
may be ever so bad and still have good
teeth.
Let the fat man rejoice that he is no
fatter than he is, and the thin man sing
because he has skin and bones left.
The man who has two mothers-in-law
may take heart of-hope, for he might
have liad three or four or half a dozen.'
If it rains, be glad the rain Isn't
bricks. Show your teeth moBt of the
time and you will soon find life one long
jag of joy.
The. man who is alive should be thank
ful' that he is not dead, and the dead
should be thankful that, they don't, have
to pay rent for their tombs.
The married man can truly be thank
ful that he is not single, and the single
-man thankful because he Is not mar
ried. There is room for rejoicing on all
sides.
The skinniest pig that ever rooted in
the ground will make good soap grease.
The toughest steak can be ground up in
a meat grinder, disguised with spices
and things, and made into mince pies.
WISDOM'S WHISPERS.
Women even carry their bias into
the way they have of looking at a
man.
A man who talks glibly to a woman
Is generally put down as a most enter
taining person.
A cj*nic is a man who has no tyme
for anyone but himself or those who
agree with him.
A woman in love is an idealist of
the most pronounced type, but who
may be brought over in time.
The warmth of a woman's thanks
depends to a great extent on the diffi
culty she had In getting the favor.
A woman usually has a.pretty clear
idea of what she wants and has a
shrewd method of securing the
"Whom the gods would destroy they
first make fnad," is as true at the pres
ent time, as it was when first uttered
many centuries
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TUESDAY, JANUAKY
Scotland, in p&portlba to her p6jfr«r
lation, sends more bojhi to cpU$go tha»
any other country.
Dr. Klsaburo Yamaguchl, of ItoUoy
has announced that Johns Hopkihs la
to be. the recipient of an exjenslve col
lection of Japanese minerals.
Japanese children begin to go to W
school when six yean old. During tho
first, four-years they learn Japaneee
and Chinese .'In :the next .four yeara .::
every child hap to learn English.
Several schools in Nevada have Men
compelled to close because the trustees
-have found it Impossible to 'secure
teacher*. Almost as soon as they
rive and take'charge they vwtgfr. aai
marry.
President Dabhey, of the University
of Cincinnati, is advocatong the form-#-|L%^?w
ing of a student body at his ihstltn- fppg^!
tlon to control college ethics. He be*
ileves that a student body, which
woull have general supervision over
all student affairs, would be, a good jj
thing. 's
Miss
Helena T. Goessmann, who
the leader of the Catholic womenfe ofrgjpj^jp^
ucatlonal movement 4n the United
States,
in spite of the tremendous„
amount of work she is required to do
a a a 2 0
lectures this winter before clubs and V'
colleges.
The Teachers' Federation of Belgttna^
has compiled statistics which go to
show that boys from six to seven years?
of age who do not attend school both
increase in stature and In weight In a
higher ratio than the hoys af the samo^i
age In a school.
The supreme court of the state
Washington has decided that the law 't
against disturbing a public school ap
plies ,to schoolboys as well as to oth
ers. feo John Packenham, the 14ryeap
old boy who disturbed his class at Che-13
h&Hs, has been sent to the reform
school.
It is reported that many Roman
Catholic colleges are to be changed
Into free high schools. This movemtent
was led by the rector of the Qatholio
university at Washington, then.
Y. Press, -j.... •.
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nal Rampolla.
GOING THE BOUNDS. "T
"The professor's wife oui't hold a
candle to him." "Of course not HO
wears celluloid collars."
"Bridget" "Yis, mum." "Did yon
boll this drinking water, as I told':
you?" "Yls, mum. I hiled it two hours.
Why, ain't it done?"
"They say the dialect business is dy
ing out." "That's what But who'
cares?" "I do. I don't
'i*y
know
gram­
mar enough to write plain English."
'Where's that umbrella I lent yon
yesterday?" "Jones borrowed It
Why?" "Oh, nothing only the fellow
I borrowed it of says that the owner
has been a&klng him for it'.'
"The hotel is so crowded, sir, that'
the best we can do is to put you in thOiiSfe^
-same room with the proprietor." "That-: y-r, .'a
will be all right just put my valuables
in the safe." *,/
"Do you think you will live In his
try?" asked the somewhat sardonifl
friend., "I don't know about that," an
swered Senator Sorghum, "but I'll Uvo-v
in the best hotels while I'm here."
'I suppose, Bridget," said MIi
Woodby to the new servant girl, "yo*?
think it strange that one who plays
the piano so perfectly as I do should
practice so much?" "Yls, mum," re
plied Bridget "Shure, if 'twas me Oi'A
give up in disgust'^'|lt-i'-'®:: •Q'-i
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No Way to Please Him. '7
A man hates to see hlo sister get mar-^^f
ried because he knows what men are,
and he despises her if she doesn't—K. '*4
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Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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