lopics or I
imp
Souvenir fiends stole a medal from a
Jap officer. Why not take the whole
Jup?
Dr. Long will have to admit that the
President has helied hiin to a good,
big slice of publicity.
King Edward is going to build a
castle In Spain. Hut It will be one of
the real kind, with a roof that won't
leak.
Dr. Iteltman asserts that holms neith
er carry tomato cans nor wear long
beards. Does that avord with your ob
servation. Mr. President?
There seems to be no chance that the
written life story of the Standard Oil
Company will ever occupy a place in
the Sunday school libraries.
We have 2-cent postage and the cry
Is for "iK'iiny postage." This may be
one reason why the railway people do
not enthuse over the 2-cent fare
proposition.
Mrs. Howard Gould wants $4,000,000
In the way of alimony. People who
drop out of the Gould family bcciu to
have an Idea that they ought to get big
prices for so doing.
Just as the rest of tlie world Is con
sidering a proposition to give up light
ing China begins to arm lierself for
war. The Chinese always have had a
habit of doing things backward.
"The wheat crop Is the vehicle of our
prosperity," says a Kansas exchange.
Translated Into plain United States,
tills means that dollar wheat will Boon
enable all the fanners to buy automo
biles. It Is said that the King of Italy Is
tmlmppy because his wife's relatives In
sist on making long visits to Koine. If
even a king has to submit to that sort
of thing what's the use of being a
king?
With one fell stroke of his anthro
pological snickersnee Prof. Starr am
putates eight or nine centuries from
the proud record of the late Mr. Me
thuselah. Will Methuselah's descend
ants stand for this?
An Osage Indian baby In Indian ter
ritory Is worth $!50,000 as soon as It is
born. In lieu of the conventional sil
ver spoon the t)sago baby Is born, fig
uratively speaking, with a few sec
tions of land In Its mouth.
It Is the modern theory of education
that the best way to teach good man
ners to the young Is to be polite to them
from the beginning. Possibly some
thing of the kind may have been In
the mliul of a MasNochuscttM woman
who advertises eggs for hutching. Her
Advertisement Bays : 'One hundred
eggs sure to hatch for three dollars. If
called for. Will hatch If requested In
Incubator."
In ninny educational Institutions of
tlie country the students sown to lie
allowed too much leeway In attempting
to dictate to tlie faculty how the In
stitution shall be conducted. This
probably originated in the Institutions
where the support of the parents of the
pupils, as somewhat and' In some In
stances Intlucuiccd by the pupils them
selves, was dcHndcl uioti for their
very existence. It Is conceivable that
In Buch cases a timid faculty nmy have
been weak enough to allow-students to
dictate what &hould and what should
not lie. Hut such an attitude Is not
comimtible with dignity, even when
adopted b a matter of self-preservation.
So many school children have been
found with defective eyesight that the
school couunlttees of several cities have
considered furnishing eyeglasses free.
It Is a question how far government
should go In supplying citizens with the
necessary things of life. Most Ameri
can imrents will prefer to pay the ocu
list In. many cities are free dispen
saries where poor children can he treat
ed and receive free prescriptions for
glasses. Parents should be warned
against Incompetent oculists who take
advantage of the reports of the boards
of education on the matter of eyesight
In tlie schools, and try to get business
for themselves by exaggerated warn
ings to the "parents of school children
.threatened with bHudness."
Those familiar with the results of
American exploration have knowu for
few years that tliere are three nat
ural bridges In Southeastern Utah as
much larger than the Natural Bridge In
Virginia as Pike's Peak is than Mount
Washington. It Is only within a short
time, liowever, that much accurate In
formation about these Utah wonders
has beeu accessible. In 1905 an expe
dition of Salt Lake City men visited
them In company with an artist and a
surveyor. Pictures of the bridges have
lately been published. The Augusta
bridge, -with u span of three hundred
and twenty feet and a height of two
hundred and sixty-five feet, Is the
largest, and so far as known there Is
none larger In the world. The Caro
line bridge has a greater span, three
hundred and fifty feet, but Is smaller
In other ways; and the third, the Ed
win bridge, although not so high as the
bridge In Virginia, has a span several
times as large. As one has to travel
about a hundred miles over a barren
country to reach these marveis of na
tare, the summer tourist will not visit
them very frequently.
In opposition to the suicide clubs,
race or Individual, which have de
manded the attention of the country,
several attempts have been made to
organize hundred year old clubs, or,
more explicitly, clubs composed of
members who will endeavor to round
out a century of human existence. To
a club of this nature belongs Chief
Chemist Wiley, and while he is merely
In his sixty-third year he expresses the
opinion that no man should live to be
less than a hundred, which Is In truth
scarcely more than a ripe old age. It
must be admitted at the outset that
tliere are many reasons why human
life should be prolonged beyond former
limitations. Sanitation and hygiene
have done wonders. Diseases that were
considered Incurable a few years ago
now yield readily to treatment or have
been practically stamped out The art
of living rationally and well bus be
come more generally understood, the ex
treme luxuries of a former generation
are now the common, everyday accom
paniments of life, and If the simplicity
of the fathers and their regularity of
living are not quite so strongly In evi
dence the extravagances are possibly
more than offset by the discoveries and
general advance In the medical world.
On the other hand, It Is not to be over
looked that while sanitation and the
spread of medleal knowledge have ar
rested or averted disease, other perils
threaten the would be centenarian. He
must take Into account railroad acct
dents, the electric cars, and other perils
of city streets, and, not least of all, the
operations so eloquently urged by the
ambitious surgeon. If be escapes these
and conforms In his mode of life to tlie
careful hygienic directions, he mny live
to be a hundred. But what avails it to
Mr. Wiley or to any other simple liver
that he reaches the century mark if his
friends do not accompany him the
whole of the way? Who cares to be a
hundred, or even the greater part of It,
If his children and grandchildren, the
friends of his youth, and the sharers of
his greatest Joys, drop off at 65? What
excesses of pleasure are tliere at the
disposal of the centenarian that the
sprightly young fellow of GO should
yearn to emulate bis example? What
assurance have we from the honorable
president, secretary, or member In good
standing of the Hundred Tear Old Club
that after we have conformed to all the
rules and regulations of sanitary sci
ence and turned the hundredth mile
stone, there will be anybody on earth
who will give us more than a passing
thought or even glance at our picture In
the papers? A record of living Blmply
to show that Methusaleh and old Parr
do not enjoy a monopoly Is hardly worth
the while. The pioneer In longevity, In
tentionally or accidentally. Is not a hap
py person. Let us live to be a hundred
when living to be a hundred is the fash
ion. BERLIN'S POSTAL SERVICE.
Connect the Ontrnl Office With the
Principal Stallone.
The Berlin postal authorities are
revolutionizing the conveyance of let
ters and parcels.
The Idea on which they are experi
menting Is to have an underground
tube with a large enough circumfer
ence to admit a man In a stooping po
sition. These tubes are to connect the
central postofnee with the principal
stations and with the district oftlces.
Two sets of rails are built In this
tube or tunnel, one over the other, not
side by side. The upper set of rails is
supported on the sides of the tube,
thus practically dividing It In two.
Small carriages, running on two wheels.
are automatically driven by electricity
along these ratla
No locomotive Is used nor Is there
any attendant with the carriage. As
many as six of these carriages can be
run together for conveying letters and
parcels from the arrival station to the
central postofflce and thence to the va
rious districts, or vice versa.
By this means letters can be dellv.
ered In any part of the cltr In le
than a fourth of the time formerly re
quired, so rar the scheme Is not be
yond the experimental stages, but I
promises to be a success and to banish
Trora the streets the mall van, with all
its poetry and romance.
How Inconsistent your nelirhhora era!
They refuse to say that you are a good
man, but after the undertaker
they delight In saying that too were a
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After ttie mnrringe" or Edna May,
the beautiful American actress, to Os
car Lewishon, son of tho New York
millionaire, at the register's olllce at
Windsor, England, the couple went to
n beautiful vlueclad villa which the
groom had prepared for his bride.
Tliere, shortly after their arrival, they
were photographed standing together
on the porch, n handsome pair In a
framework of Ivy leaves and flowers.
In 1890 a little girl with parted hair
and wise, demure eyes went from Syra
cuse, where her father was, and Is to
day, a letter-ninn, to New York, where
she nsked for a position In a chorus.
She was made understudy to Lucille
Saunders in Santa Maria. She was
recognized us a type of girl which Is as
rare on the stage as a rose in a field of
flaunting Hippies. That winter was
uneventful and Miss May did no more
than get n nice little start. After a
brief American tour she went to Lon
don, where for several years she was
In mediocre plays whUh caused little
or no comment. In l'.H4 she wns at
Daly's In 7'ew York In The Schoolgirl,
and the next year she apiieared In The
Catch of the Season. Since then En
gland has been her field of action.
For almost ten years the little ac
A GOOD FIFE.
Shape Ilee More to Do with Inenrlng
Succeae Than Hae Material.
Pipes are smoked by millions, and
always will be, yet not one smoker in
a thousand knows the elements of a
good pipe. Engineers have been known
to talk bv the hour over the draft of
their lire boxes and never once In half
a lifetime think of the draft In their
pipes which they smoke hourly.
8nge attentlou Is paid to the pipe
material, all of which has little If any
thing to do with the qualities of a pipe,
and generally nothing whatever Is
thought of shape and proportions, the
two things that make a pipe good- or
bad. A two-cent postage stamp spent
with Intelligence will buy as good a
pipe as there Is In the world; every
thing added to that rrlce Is ornament,
vanity and especially Ignorance.
The corncob holds a high place
among pipe smokers and deserves this
place usually for the best of scien
tific reasons. When a pipe Is built on
right principles the bowl Is as narrow
and deep as Is convenient to fill; the
hole In the stem meets the bowl at the
very bottom and In the center, thus In
suring a perfect and even burning of
tress has been besieged with the atten
tion of England's titled sons, and het
name lias been In the papers constant
ly. That she Is wise to retire In the
height of her popularity cannot bt
doubted. Edna May did quite the
proper thing to wed, and the simple
little ceremony which united hep to
Mr. Lewis'ion puts the finishing touch
to her wonderful career. She and her
millionaire husband are going to live
a simple life In a "manor house.''
whatever that may be, all ivy-grown
and with the conventional swans in
the lake nud hungry deer in the spa
cious park.
Oscar Lewishon Is the fourth and
youngest son of Leonard Lewishon.
once well known as a "copper king.'
Mr. Lewishon, Sr., and his brothel
Ailolph were b:th jxior when they
landed In New York from Germany
many years ago. Their first business
venture was made under the all-embracing
heading of "general mer
chants" but they soon liegan to spe
cialize In two things only coffee and
copper. By degrees they became the
largest operators In coffee, and with
H. H. Rogers, of Standard Oil fame,
organized the memorable coffee cornet
In 1001.
the tobacco. The cake prevents the
fire from burning the bowl, thus pre
vents making Its bore larger or un
even, which would In proportion Bpoll
the draft The sides of the bowl are
thick to keep In the heat, thus making
the burning at the same temjierature
at the edges of the tobacco as at the
center. In thlfr- way a clean, sweet
smoke Is assured.
An Odd Bnelneae.
In France at this season the banks
of streams are yellow with bonfires
everj- night. About the fires loaf peas
ants, men and women, smoking, chat
tering, spooning.
They keep the blate going all night,
and at dawn tlie ground Is an Inch or
two deep with May flies, fireflies, moths
little creatures that flew out of the
darkness Into those clear and gem-like
flames, fluttered forth again In agony,
fell and died.
The tiny corpses are sold to the
French bird dealers at five or six cents
a pint, aud are resold for food to the
owners of pet birds, flnehes, thrushes,
canaries, nightingales and the like.
It's to a man's credit if he can truth
fully say that his credit Is good.
COUGHING IN CHURCH.
It Is an Opinion of the Sermon oi
Sltfn of Wandering lntereet.
The epidemic of coughing that at
tacks a congregation at times Is re
garded as of sufficient Importance by
a writer In the British Medical Journal
to merit discussion In a column article,
lie Is of opinion that the cause Is
nervous Irritability, but will not accept
the theory of an American physician
that It Is due to prolonged attention,
holding that lack of attentlveness must .
rather be held resiionslble. He goes on
with his Investigation thus:
"Persons who will sit out a play or
listening to an Interesting conversation
without coughing seem to be seized, as
soon as they compose themselves to
hear a sermon, with distressing Irrita
tion of the windpipe' that can be re
lieved only by violent and "continued
coughing. The affection Is contagious,
spreodlng from seat to seat, cough an
swering to cough, till the church Is as
full of noise as Prospero's Island. As
far as we know, the etiology of this
strange disease has not received atten
tion from tho scientific Investigator.
I It due to sudden changes of tempera
ture In the sacred edifice, or to the
sudden Inroads of malign drafts? It
may be granted that the eloquence of
some preachers has a chilling effect,
while that of others Is of a windy char
octer; neither of these things, bow-N
ever, can be accepted as a vera causa.
We note with interest that the problem
has been attacked from another side
by an American scientist who has
studied the epidemic as it occurs In
theaters. He has satisfied himself that
there, at least, the coughing which
sometimes goes far to spoil the 'per
formance Is due to reflex Irritation
propagated from the ear to the larynx.
"The source of the Irritation, accord
ing to him. Is to be found In the strain
on the auditory apparatus Induced by
the effort to hear what Is said on rh
stage. This suggests that actors of the
present aay do not know how to use
their voices. It would be a comfort to
preachers If the church cough could
also be explained by overstrenuous list
ening. We fear, however, that a solu
tion of the riddle Is rather to be found
in what Falstaff calls -the disease of
not listening, the malady of not mark
ing.' It Is related that once nnnn a.
time when an author was reading a
new piay Derore the members of the
Comedle Francalse. an actresn fnlt
asleep. When the company were ex
pressing rneir various opinions, the au
thor maliciously lnslted on having !,
of the sleeping 'beauty on the ground
that the attention she had given to It
would make her opinion especially val
uable. The reply was dlRmnportinin-
to the point: 'Monsieur, le sommell
est une opinion" f 'Sir. sleen la n nnin-
Ion'). In like manner It may be said
that coughing Is an opinion. At a full
dress rehearsal of a new play by Sar
dou, the audience, which had nnnin.,.
ed the first act, began to cough In the
m.ume or tne second. The author at
once exclaimed: 'Thev cono-h . t oi.
ways thought that scene was too long
nwic-uers mignt sometimes at least
1raw the same moral rrom the cough
ing of a congregation."
SEARCHING SEA DEFTHS.
Places Where the Long-eat Sounding
i.ine uoea Hot Tonch Bottom.
The little German nian-of -war Plnnot
of 820 tons, Is at Maniln.
out from Germany, sailing around" the
tape of Good Hope to Colombo and
tnence to German New Gninen. an
the Los Angeles Times. After this
voyage of about 20,000 nautical miles,
during which more than 200 riMm-p
soundings were made, the ship was oc
cupied some three months on survey
work around the Bismarck arcbipelngo,
off the east coast of New GuJnpn Sho.
came to Manila from Yap Island.
among Germany's possessions In Oce
aulca, having followed a verv Irremilm-
course westward to the Philippines, In
close study of the ocean's profile be
tween ner point of departure and the
islands.
The most Interesting result f thaoo
soundings she has Just completed In the
lacinc to tne eastward of tho Phtitn.
pines Is the discovery of an unuBual
uepression in the ocean's bed off th
east coast of Mindanao. About thirty
two miles north, 104 degrees east of
l-usan point, Mindanao, all her sound.
Ing wire was In the water, showing a
depth of 4,678 fathoms and no bottom.
Mnety-two miles due north of this snot
she sounded 4,648 fathoms. Later off
the northeast coast of Samnr n flonth
of 4,001 fathoms was discovered In a
spot twenty-five miles off Tubabat Isl
and ana in north 07 degrees east bear
ing. According to Commander Kurts thpaa.
are very remarkable results, as the ex
istence of such a'deeo Phlllnni mm n im
pression has hitherto not been suspect
ed, and, moreover, suboceanlc slopes
snowing sucn steepness as thes
quite extraordinary.
Plna.
The number of Dins m fl n n f n ni-n ml
lally In England la ru.oon nnn . in
France, 20,000,000: In Gertnnnv 10.
300,000. It la estimated that about
.uuu worth of pins are dally lost la
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