The Cottage Grove sentinel., May 06, 1910, Image 2

government has agreed with the oppo­
oroaa, sweeping assertions tnai icarueu GREATEST WOMAN SCIENTIST.
sition so far as to restrict the principle
lecturers like to make, perhaps to
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
arcuse the flagging interest of their Mine. Curie Share« with Most Sa­ of compulsory contribution to town
vants Faculty of Abstraction.
and rural wage earners, otherwise
audience and the public. The immi­
In a quiet little house in Paris, workmen In the ordinary sense of this
gration question can stand upon its
In Russia cigarettes are used more
own bottom. This country still wel­ screened from the outer world by a term, and to make contribution option­ widely than cigars.
comes aliens with few limitations, and high wall, lives Mme. Curie, co-discov- al to the large class of small farmers,
The earth’s fertile area is estimat­
a large percentage of the influx from erer with her late husband of radium, petty land owners and part-profit cul­
ed at 28,269,200 square milets.
Airships are almost as brittle a& foreign lands become valuable citizens. Other women who might be inclined tivators (metayers), all of whom are
Oklahoma has the greatest Indian
gingerbread.
But the national commissioner of im­ to envy this most-wonderful of fem- laborers in reality. If they do not
migration says that at least two hun­ inine scientists are disarmed by her contribute they cannot benefit by the population of any of the states of this
There is one thing that has not ad­ dred thousand, and probably more, of extreme modesty. When an admirer pensions scheme. These rural classes country, numbering 117,370.
Though heat will make a solid or a
vanced in price. Talk is as cheap as the aliens who came here last year belabors her with compliments upon are computed at 6,000,000, in number.
Forty years hence, when the scheme liquid incandescent, it can only in­
ever.
are not wanted; that they will be of her achievements she smiles almost in
“How do you keep your razor
no benefit to the country, but on the astonishment and shrugs her shoul­ is in full operation, the pensioners crease the pressure of a gas.
“Easy enough.
I hide it
sharp?”
Some married man must have orig- contrary a detriment. In 1905 Presi­ ders as if she had done little to make will have $83 a year. They will start
During' the last year the steamboat where my wife can’t find it.”—Cleve­
inated the idea of sending kisses by dent Roosevelt, speaking of immigra­ a fuss about.
the year after the bill is passed with inspection service of this country land Plain Dealer.
wire.
When, upon the death of her hus- $20.40 a year, the pension to rise passed on 161,206 life preservers,
tion; said:
“Distribution of these
“How Tillie’s clothes hang about
aliens is of little value unless there is band, she was appointed to a chair at gradually during the interval, a cor­
The highest inhabited place in the her! Why, they don’t fit at all.” “But
Boston is losing many of her tradi-
respondent
of
the
New
York
the
Sorbonne,
the
great
seat
of
learn
­
Sun
says,
adequate restriction.
These immi­
tions, but^she is still thankful for her
The chief newspapers on the gov- world is the Buddhist monastery of think how much worse she would look
grants are wheedled and cajoled often ing in Paris, it was decided by several
Ilaine, Thibet, which is about 17,000 if they did.”—Life.
baked beans.
against their best interests, to come women to present her with a testi­ ernment side predict that early in feet above sea level.
Guest—Gracious! What long legs
April
the
bill
will
become
monial.
The
.occasion
law,
and
demanded
it
Somebody, wants to change the name her.” So it seemes that our immi­ (so it was thought), for was not Mme. will be regarded as the greatest
Pure ground coffee will not discolor the new waiter has! Host—Yes, I en­
gration
laws
might
still
be
beneficially
of Oshkosh. Kalamazoo, Keokuk and
amended with a view to securing a Curie the first woman who had ever achievement of the, third republic, but cold water until it has been soaked for gaged him specially for the diners who
Kankakee are pooh-poohing the idea.
a great many prominent poliitcians some time, while the addition of chic­ are in a hurry.—Meggendorfer. Blatter»
I better class of incoming population and achieved such an honor?
The scientist’s
reply, however, are not so optimistic. Many Senators ory as an adulterant will immediately
Miss Kidder—S’sh! Carrie has dyedL
I'to protecting, the immigrants them­
Young Philander Chase Knox swears
spoiled everything.
She said quietly: have voted for the second reading of impart a brownish hue.
Le­
her hair black. Don’t tell anybody»
that he will go to work, if there is selves against cajolery and fraud. As “It would be contrary to my hus­ the bill for no other-reason than get­
A new English safety oil lamp for Miss Askitt—Is it a secret? Miss Kid­
I for the university graduates and the
no other way. We don’t know of any.
immigrants, there is no just basis of band’s ideas and certainly to my own.” ting a better opportunity of making a miners is lighted without removing the der—Yes; she wants to keep it dark»
So her feminine admirers departed more systematic and concentrated at* protecting gauze by a platinum wire —Boston Globe.
If in 1,000 years from now it will I comparison between them. If the de- , without leaving their testimonial be­ tack on the compulsory clauses.
through which a current of electricity
“What part of the railway train do-
be possible to live 120 years it is to mand is for the most unskilled class hind them.
is passed from a storage battery.
of
manual
labor,
perhaps
the
humble
you regard as the most dangerous?’”
be hoped that it will be worth while.
Has
Pins
Worth
$25,000.
Yet, despite her modesty, it is known
immigrant is more valuable; but a
A Californian has taken advantage of inquired the nervous man. “The din­
that
she was more than a mere assist­
Led on by a love for rare and unique the fact that flies always walk up a ing car,” answered the dyspeptic.—
1
The minister who has resigned his young man, native to the soil, upon ant
to her husband. It is, indeed; scarf pins, A. M. Brinckle, known window by inventing a trap to be fas­ Washington Star.
1
pastorate to become an umpire must whom his family have expended lov- claimed
that she herself was the origi- throughout the country as the “scarf* tened to a pane in such a manner that
ing
pains,
as
well
as
money,
to
train
1
expect his future audiences to talk
“I’ll be ready in a minute,” she said
in the right way, and who has had the
a fly will enter it without being aware I to her husband. “You needn’t hurry*
back to him.
advantage of one of our great institu­
that it has left the surface of the now,” he called up some time later»
glass.
Cardinal Gibbons says that the rich tions of learning, ought to be more
“I find that I shall have to shave
One of the big Brazilian railroads again.”—Detroit Free Press.
cannot corner joy. And the poor do valuable in an all-round way. The
not have to suffer all the pain, Life complaint that scholastic graduates
has just completed a plan by which it
“I thought you said you told your
are not willing to begin at the bottom
will send four of its mechanics to the wife everything you did.” “I do.” mt’s
is still worth living.
of the ladder is hardly tenable as ap­
United States every six months and- mighty strange. She hasn’t said a
It will be almost impossible to coun­ plied to the whole graduating body.
put them at work in some of our big word to my wife about the $10 you
terfeit the new French bank notes, Most of the educated young men now­
railroad shops, so that they may be­ borrowed from me.’’—Washington Star.
but we get this information from the adays seem to be willing to begin at
come familiar with American methods.
Patience—They say she got all her
designer, not from the counterfeiters. the foot, in any line they may choose,
A will was contested not long ago in furniture on the installment plan?
and work up. This is one of the facts
New
York
because
the
testatrix
had
Patrice—She did. She has had four
The ways of women are past finding which affords the most hopeful Indi*
bequeathed a grand piano, several oil
husbands, and she got a little furni­
out. The divorced husband of an Ohio cation of the future of the country.
paintings and five pieces of Japanese ture with each one.—Yonkers States­
woman broke his leg and his wife
pottery to a police station. The pro­ man.
BASEBALL IN CANAL ZONE.
i came back and remarried him out of
testing legatee won out and there was
She—Don’t you think woman’s suf­
sympathy.
a reversion of those art treasures to
I Game Ha« as Great a Hold There
frage would be a fine thing? He—I
the
regular
heirs.
as It Has in the United States.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
know I could always persuade my wife
Rumors have been rife that the con­
Baseball has become as popular
decided that a woman possesses the in­
to vote as I wanted by telling her I
stitution of young Japan is degenerat-
herent right to change her mind. Hu­ I here as in the United States, a New
intended voting the other way.—Bos­
ing year after year, says the Eibun
man nature continues to play a strong I York Herald Cristobal (Panama) cor-
ton Globe.
Tsushinsha, but they are firmly ^enied
respondent says. The American na-
hand in Georgia.
“Why can’t that prima dpnna sing-
by the authorities, wh\) are of the opin­
tional game is now in its third year
ion that according to the reports of the more than twice a week?” “i don’t
A New York cartoonist has been or­ of prosperity.
physicians of conscripts both consti­ know,” answered the impresario, “un­
As a matter of fact so strongly has
dered to pay his former wife $400 a
tution and weight are showing an up­ less it’s because she tired out her vocal
month alimony. This will be likely to the game taken a hold in this tropical
ward tendency on the whole, and there cords arguing with me about salary.’”
add to the number of young men who country that little cards reading some­
is
not a bit of cause to justify the ru­ —Washington Star.
thing
like
this
are
found
in
the
offices
are learning to be cartoonists.
mors.—--Japan Advertiser.
Maud—So he had the cheek to ask
of heads of departments: “Notice—
King Albert of the Belgians has the my age, did he? Well, what did you
Philander Knox, Jr., has begun his All requests for leave of absence ow­
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distinction of being thè only royalty tell him? Ethel—I told him I didn’t
career as a married man by selling ing to grandmother’s funeral, lame
who has served an apprenticeship as know positively, but I thought you
two automobiles. He has evidently back, house cleaning, moving, sore
newspaper reporter. For four years were twenty-four on your thirtieth,
discovered that it will keep him busy throat, turning the wringer, headache,
brain storm, cousin’s wedding, birth
he was the regularly accredited marine birthday.—Boston Transcript.
supporting a wife on $100 a month.
of twins, general indisposition, etc.,
reporter of a Belgian weekly^ and in
“Now, your conduct during the trial
M&:
the pursuit of bis duties traveled may have considerable effect on the
Animated by a burning ambition to must be handed to the manager not
through most of the countries of Eu­ jury.”« “Ah, quite so,” responded the
do good and make his countrymen later than 10 o’clock on the morning
rope, visiting the ship yards. The in­ ultra-swell defendant. “And should I
happy, a distinguished investigator of the game.”
The Americans brought the game
centive, behind it all is a deep interest appear interested or just mildly
hastens to assure everybody that the
in the maritime future of Belgium.— bored?”—Kansas City Journal.
prices of things were just as high in here and it has come to stay. The na­
London Opinion.
1837 as they are now, if not a little tives and foreigners h^ve begun to
“You say you have quit smoking?’”
take an interest in the sport, and quite
higher.
Europe’s forest schools—at Charlot- “Yes, never going to smoke again.’”
a few not only take part in the “root­
ten-burg, Dresden and Elberfield, in “Then why don’t you throw away
Public charity is not always kind, ing” for the home team, but have
Germany, also at Bristal Wood, near those cigars?” “Never, I threw away
but the order recently issued by the learned to play.
London—are attracting the interest of a box of good cigars the last time I
Two well organized leagues hold the
Boston police commissioner indicates
physicians and teachers. Charlotten­ quit smoking, and it taught me a les­
that he understands human nature. chief attention, although a number of
burg school is situated in the midst of son.”
MADAME CURIE AND HER DISCOVERIES.
Hereafter the names of families found independent teams have been formed.
the pine woods, and the only protection
“The way to run this country,” said
in destitution are to be kept from the The two leagues are the Isthmian and
ever offered is a mere roof in case of the egotist, “is to put thoroughly wise*
public and reported only to such au­ the Atlantic. The former is made up hator of the radium discoveries. ‘ The pin man,” arrived in Des Moines to rain. No lesson periods are longer capable* alert, and honest men in con­
thorities as have a right to know and of teams representing Gargona, Ancon, best testimonial to her abilities came continue his search for new designs to than 25 minutes, and much time is trol of affairs.” “Yes,” answered Miss
Empire and the Marines, wKUe the At­ from Prof. Curie himself when he was add to his collection, the Evening given to play. Five simple meals are Cayenne, “but what are we going to
a desire to give relief.
lantic is composed of the Commissary- offered the decoratiop of the Cross of Tribune of that city says.
served the children daily.
do? There’s only one of you.”—-Wash­
The inducements to temperance are Subsistence, Civil Administration, Pa­ the Legion of Honor and refused it be­
During the years of travel in his
At the opening of the Ruskin park ington Star.
many. A smal town recently voted to nama Railroad and Colon. Practically cause the same decoration was not of­ capacity as salesman for a Connecti­
Cholly—The deuce, old chap; T
extension, Denmark Hill, Mr. George
remain “dry” for fifty years in order all of these nines are drafted from fered to his wife.
cut cut-glass concern Mr. Brinckle has Alexander said that in coming down cawnt go to the party. I have no col-
to accept the conditional gift of a mil­ the men working for the government,
She shares with most savants that gathered together the largest assort­
Reggie—Go across the
lionaire, who offered it an electric but the class of ball put up is excep­ faculty of abstraction that is so valu­ ment of rare and beautiful scarf pins he asked Mr. Severin what was Rus­ lah button,
light plant, a sewerage system and, to tionally fast and the rivalry is in­ able to those engaged in scientific in the world. The collection contains kin’s favorite game, and was told, i street and buy* sonle, deah fellow.
“Battledore and shuttlecock.”
Mr. Cholly—But I caawnt. Nobody has my
cap the climax, a water works, plant. tense.
work. When she is employed upon a 1,016 pins and is valued at $25,000.
Severen also told him that Ruskin be­ measurements except my tailah, jdofit-
The* season opens with the dry sea­ difficult piece of research she hears
Other improvements of less impor­
Jewelers in all large cities know of
tance were included in the proviso. son, In January, and the fight for the nothing, sees nothing and is unmoved Mr. Brinckle because of his fad. He is lieved in exercises that were useful, cherknow.—Life.
Mr. Dubbs (with a newspaper) —
All in all, everybody, even the million­ pennant will last until June, when by anything that is not directly con­ referred to in most localities as the and when at Oxford advised some la-
aire. is benefited.
the rains put in an appearance. The cerned with her investigations. It is “scarf-pin man” because of the fact dies who had given him a catalog of It tells here, my dear, how a pro­
competition for places on the regular said that once when in the middle of that he wears so many unique pins. the various exercises they practiced gressive New York woman makes her
Four hundred and fifty-nine dollars nines is as spirited and interesting an absorbing experiment a servant He declares that only once during the that better than all would be to carry social calls by telephone. Mrs. Dubbs
Is the amount which a young man as those which take place in the States ran into the laboratory, screaming last fifteen years have any of his cus­ the coals upstairs.—Westminister Re­ —Progressive. Huh! She’s probably
working as a day laborer saved in two where college men are trying for the loudly: “Madame, madame, I have tomers seen him wearing the same view.
like me—not a decent thing to wear.—
years. He had insisted in an argu­ varsity.
Many amazing sounds have been Boston Transcript.
swallowed a pin!” “There, there, scarf pin. He also has a collection of
Many previous college ball players don’t cry,” said Mme. Curie, sooth­ 300 scarfs.
ment that a laborer can save money,
heard in various parliaments, and it is
In a written examination on astron­
and to prove his point announced that are here on the Isthmus, and most of ingly, “there is another that you may
Gathering scarf pins is a hobby with not so very long ago that the barking omy one of the questions was, “W’hat
he would save four hundred dollars in the teams are fully equal to the best have.”
Mr. Brinckle. Although unusual and of dogs, the mewing of cats and the happens when there is an eclipse of
twenty-four months. He worked for of the college and university nines in
Mme. Curie has a sister who is a costly, it has proved to be intensely quacking of ducks were upon occasion the moon?” A student with rather a
States. Baseball Is so notable doctor of medicine in Austria, interesting. A large number of the heard in our own house of commons. good knack of getting out of a diffi­
eleven different men in that time, and the United
the highest wage he received was forty American that even those who did not and as an instance of heredity it may settings have a history, which the It is rather curious, therefore, that yes­ culty wrote: “A great many people
dollars a month. But he demonstrated care much for the sport in the States be said that the famous scientist be­ owner, with enthusiastic pride, loves terday is said to have been the first come out to look at it.” f
that a man can save money if he is take in the games here and there is no lieves that her little daughter shows to relate. The collection was recently time that the shout of “Pfui!” was
“What’s that party kicking about?’*
lack of support. The prices for ad­ promise of even more brilliant scien­ placed on exhibition at Tiffany’s in raised in the Prussian chamber. It is said one New Yorker. “Oh, he’s one
willing to make an effort.
mission in silver run from bleachers tific powers than herself. She is train­ New York, where many admiring col- a sort of combination of the English of those guys who are lucky and don’t
Mrs. Martin W. Littleton’s Bible at 50 cents to the box seats at $2.00.
ing the child with the intention of de­ lectors offered immense sums for the “boo” and the French “Gonspuez!” and know it,” replied the other. “He came
study class has evoked many imitators
is singularly
impressive. — London here on a round-trip ticket from Phil­
veloping these talents to the utmost.
rarest specimens.
Easy Case for Sleuth.
In New York, and society women, we
Globe.
adelphia and lost the return coupon.’*
A New York poet, at the Authors
are told by veracious correspondents,
FRANCE’S OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
Kipling; in the Herring; Line.
Have you ever heard your blood? —Washingtoff Evening Star.
are enthusiastic over the new depart Club in 7th avenue, told a Coman
Senator Beveridge, apropos of fame, Have you ever put one of those large
“I’m sure,” said the interviewer*
ture. Quite apart from its religious Doyle story.
Act Which Propably Will Pass Fol­
sea shells to your ear and heard what “the public would be interested to
said at a Washington luncheon:
‘
Sir
Arthur
Conan
Doyle,
”
he
said,
lows
German
Lines.
significance, the Bible is a comprehen­
“What is faipe, after all? Kipling, the children say is the sound of the know the secret of your success.”
sive compendium of literary excellence “sat at a dinner on his last visit here
The French old-age pensions scheme,
when
he lived in Brattleboro, Vt., took sea, the “music of the waves?” Well, “Well, young man,” replied the cap­
in which the most capricious mind can beside a lady, who asked leave to con­ ¿he bill for which has just passed
a trip to Montpelier. The first even­ that is really the sound of your blood tain of industry, “the secret of my
sult
him
about
some
thefts.
find satisfaction. Roipance, war, gov­
its first reading in,the Senate, follows
—as it circulates—echoed in the empty
“ ‘My detective powers,’ he replied, the Prussian rather than the English ing he came down to the hotel dining shell. You can hear it sometimes when success has been my ability to keep it
ernment, intrigue, law and civiliza­
room
he
overheard
this
dialogue
be
­
a secret.”—Sacred Heart Review.
tion are all written into its wonder­ ‘are at your service, madam.’
measure. As in Prussia, it is contrib­
your head is on a pillow, but it does
tween two waiters:
“I’d hate to be a millionaire.”
“
‘
Well,
’
said
the
lady,
‘
frequent
ful pages. And, to judge from the
utory and compulsory, workmen and
“First Waiter—rDo you know who not sound so musical then. Try the “Gosh! Why?”
“Well, millionaire»
stories that fill the newspapers, society and mysterious thefts have been oc- employers contributing
an equal
shell at any time and you will find are always getting letters threatening
that is, George?
will be none the worse for a daily curing at my house for a long time amount annually.
that your blood is always flowing. Stick them with all sorts of horrible fate»
“Second Waiter—No. Who is it?
chapter from the Bible. The absence Thus, there disappeared last week a
Men are to pay $1.80, women $1.20
your thumb in your ear and listen. unless they immediately pay the writ­
“
First
Waiter
—
That
is
the
cele*
of moral training from the average motor horn, a broom, a box of golf and persons under 18 90 cents yearly
That is nature’s way of constantly car­ ers large sums of money.”
brated
Kipperin.
“That’s
American school is blamed by many balls, a left riding boot, a dictionary until their 65th’year, when they will
rying the nourishment from well di­ nothing. I get just such letters on
“Second Waiter—What’s he done?
students of history for the present un­ and a half-dozen pieplates.’
become entitled to a pension, which
gested
food
to
every
part
of
your
“First Waiter—Hanged if I know .
the frst of every month.”—Cleveland
“ ‘Aha,’ said the creator of Sherlock will be paid from the total contribu­
settled condition of public and private
body.—New York Press.
Leader.
conscience. It is, perhaps, too much Holmes, ‘the case, madam, is quite tions plus the employers’ quota and Fish line, ain’t it?”
“Any one wtih the price can do as
“Why,” asked the judge, “do you
to expect that Bible reading will not­ clear. You keep a goat.’ ”
a sum of $12 pafd by the State. The
A Relief.
Gaylord Wilshire did—go to Inyo think your husband is dead? You
ably improve the present adult gen­
conditions for receiving thé full pen­
“
Johnny,
”
said
the
boy
’
s
mother,
“
i
Just a Reminder.
eration, but, if it serves only to
sion are that the worker shall have hope you have been a nice, quiet boy county, California, and stand on a say you haven’t heard from him for
John
Mitchell,
at the Civic Federa­ contributed to the
mountain of gold and silver ore,” said more than a year. Do you consider
awaken the public mind to the neces­
fund for thirty at school this afternoon.”
sity of teaching children at least the tion’s recent convention in Washing­ years, including in the case of men
“That’s what I was,” answered a mining man. “Every one of my age that reasonable proof that he has
ordinary virtues of good citizenship, ton, said, apropos of manual labor:
the two years of military service. Johnny. “I went to sleep right after in the business,” he continued, “knows passed out of existence?” “Yes, your
“The «man who boasts that he works Those who have contributed for more
great good will result.
dinner, and the teacher said she’d about that mountain of gold and silver honor. If he was still alive he’d be
with his head instead of his hands than ten years and less than thirty
whip any boy in the room who waked ore. The late Senator Stewart and ex­ askin’ me to send him money.”—Chi­
Senator Jones, both of Nevada, spent cago Record-Herald.
One Dr. Steiner, Professor of Ap­ might be reminded that . the wood­ will be entitled to a reduced pension. me up.”—Boston Post.
millions trying to get gold and silver
Cincinnati Tourist (who, for the
plied Christianity at Iowa College, in pecker does the same, and is the big*
Existing friendly societies which
When your cow gets out, how the out of that ore at a profit. That was first time, has just entered a restaur­
may be taken into the scheme will be
a recent ¿ddress to the Young Men’s gest bore in the business.”
Christian Association at Columbia
authorized to collect old-age contribu­ neighbors enjoy running in and telling the famous Panamint mine operation. ant in Paris)—Have you ordered? St»
Of Course.
Jones and Stewart and others lost ev­ Louis Tourist (who has reached the
you about it!
University, asserted that “the nine
“George, what is this ‘Rockefeller tions from their members. They will
ery cent they put into that deal. The table some minutes before, and who-
hundred thousand immigrants who foundation’ made of?”
receive from the State a contribution
If a man’s acquaintance don’t know gold and silver are there, sure enough, looks up from a French bill of fare)
of
30
cents
a
head
for
sickness
and
came to our shores last year served
“Rocks, of course.”—Cleveland Plain
that he is in love it's a sign that he but the rock is ‘rebellious’ to a degree
insurance, plus an additional sum to
—Yes. Cincinnati Tourist—What did
a far better purpose than an equal Dealer.
isn’t.
that the science of mill men and fur­ you order? St. Louis Tourist (impa­
cover expenses.
number of university graduates un­
What is one man’s hobby may be nace men has never been able to over­ tiently)—How do I know?—Chicago
The working classes in France are
willing to begin work at the bottom
Every man who owns a show is too
come.”—New York Sun.
Daily News.
estimated to number 11,000,000. The another man’s nightmare.
•f the ladder.” This is one of those prominent in it himself.
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Topics of
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