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Tim to put that Russian r?olutloo
In the "alleged" class.
The Northwest Passag ti found, but
nobody knows what to do with it
The souvenir postal card bai led to
murder la New York. Not at all
surprising.
Pollteneee Is ,the bridge that spans
the abyss between truth-telling and
common sense.
The difference between the drama
and real life Is that on the stage trage
dies seem pathetic
Mark Twain Is to write an auto
biography. Mark refuses to tackle any
thing grave until he Is dead.
Teddy, Jr., hunted eleven days and
got nothing. Does he wish to bring
gray hairs In sorrow to the grave?
The Czar keeps a fortune-teller on
bis payroll. No wonder the poor little
father always wears such a melancholy
expression.
The truth of the matter Is that the
Russian peasantry are suspicious of
eating freedom cake from the hand of
Adam Zad.
way. The people of a village In the
province of Fuklen held a meeting, and
determined to break up the opium hab
it. At the suggestion of two men who
had gone to the Fucuau City Hospital
for treatment for opium-smoking, let
ters were sent to the head of the hos
pital asking him to come to A-long and
help them. One' contained a respectful
and carefully worded agreement slgued
by the village elders and principal men.
Doctor Wilkinson, who tells the story
In the Church missionary Intelligencer,
accordingly went to the village, and
found that practically all the people
The thinnest and toughest leather
Is made from frog's skin.
Out of every one thousand letters
used in writing English E occurs 137
times. T Is the next most frequently
used.
Yellow is far the most permanent
of any color in flowers. It is the only
one not affected ' by sulphurous acid
S. V. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
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! ST. NICHOLS HOTEL !
J. E. FROOME, prop.
were anxious for the reform. At a i f1inioa
meeting with the head men the opium , T. , . .,
. i . , . , . . . I In Italy you can tell where the
shopkeepers themselves stood up a.idi .
....ri, ... .ni.. Peasant women come from by the size
6ald they were willing to stop selling
of their earrings. The southerners
A rich Pennsylvanlan has hired a
trained nurse for his. sick bulldog. The
strange part of It is that this mllllou
alre doesn't live In Pittsburg.
As a matter of fact, the Cuban revo
lution seems to be the result of a dis
inclination on the part of the revolu
tionists to work for their living.
Mr. Rockefeller's pastor says tne
most miserable people on earth are very
rich. Most of them seem to get a good
deal of satisfaction out of being miserable.
The Sultan has pardoned a large
number of criminals out of the Turkish
prisons. From this it is Inferred that
his health Is either a great deal better
or a great deal worse.
That northwest passage has been
found again, but President Roosevelt
Is trying to open up a southerly pas
sage which he thinks will be more con
venient for general use.
Mr. Rockefeller has gone on record
as an exponent of the "simple life,"
and It is no surprise to the folks who
have noticed what a simple matter It is
for him to make a living.
General Weyler Is reported to regard
the Cuban revolution as a bit of child's
play. This may be due to the fact that
both the revolutionists and tho govern
ment are trying to make It a bloodless
affair.
One of New York's loveliest and most
aristocratic heiresses Is to become the
bride of a newspaper man. Titled for
eigners will regard this as another ag
gravating piece of affrontery on the
part of the press.
General Miles says that the open
ing of the Panama Canal will cause a
world war. Somehow, the General re
minds ua of those long-distance alarm
ists who say that In two or three mil
lion years the world will frizzle a ad
fade away.
One hundred thousand dollars' worth
of postage stamps belonging to Boston
collectors were exhibited at the con
vention of the American Philatelic As
sociation. The average boy collector
who has a hundred dollars' worth at
the catalogue price thinks he Is rich.
Sentimentalists always picture the
Indians as a vanishing race, shoved on
toward the furthermost edge of the
map by tho ruthless white man and
shot down now and then when they
do not obey with sufliclent alacrity
the order to move on. But cold statis
tics show that there are 284,000 In
dians now living, and that there has
been an Increase of 14,000 In the last
decade. It is estimated that there were
but 230,000 In what Is now the United
States when this country was discov
ered. These figures constitute a high
tribute to the vigor of a race that has
not only survived the encroachments
of civilization, represented by some
00,000,000 whites, but increased and
multiplied while defending Itself with
Inferior weapons against trained fight
ing men with modern arms.
The director of the solar observatory
at Kensington In England announces
that at the time of the San Francisco
and Valparaiso earthquakes and those
which occurred In 1004 the spots on
the sun were at the maximum of their
size. It Is not known that the sun
spots and the earthquakes have any
relation, but their simultaneous ap
pearance has been observed often.
There Is another theory of the west
ern earthquakes, however, which Is
more simple and probable. It is that
the mountains on the western shore of
the continent are. slowly but constantly
being forced upward. Occasionally the
upturning strata of rock slip and the
result is destruction to the cities with
in the area of disturbance. This theory
fits well with the recent successive
earthquakes on the Pacific coast
Frogress In China has recently been
shown la a remarkable. If not unique,
the drug, and fifty dollars was raised
to defray the cost of medicines. Last
March the village ancestral hall was Neither in France nor In Austria
turned into a hospital, and seventy-nine are children ever permitted to be re- J
men patients were admitted, a woman (sieu mio worsnouses. j.ney are
from the mission having charge of nino boarded out with peasant families,
women la another place. For three The highest clouds reach ten miles
weeks they were treated, during which above our heads. They are the white,
time only two lost courage and left, feathery forms which we see on a
Dully morning and evening religious clear day. Although apparently mo-
servlces were held, with an lncreaspd tlonless, they travel from seventy-five
Interest as time went on In the sing- to ninety miles an hour.
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lng of hymns and the simple Bible
talks. During the day the tedium of
the patients was relieved by magic-lantern,
photographic and gramophone ex
hibitions. What the result of the move
ment will be It is of course impossible
to say, but at the request of the village
elders and head men, the mandarin put
up a proclamation forbidding any me
again to open an opium-shop in the vil
lage.
It Is desirable that the lands re
claimed by national irrigation projects
should go Into the hands of actual culti
vators, and not of speculators. Presi
dent Roosevelt calls special attention
to thl8 In his letter to the national irri
gation congress. He wishes to see a
multitude of small farms, each sufli
clent to support one family, Instead of a
much smaller number of 160-acre farms.
Doubtless the speculators already have
their eyes on the lands which the gov
ernment is about to endow with special
fertility. They would like to get posses
sion of extensive tracts so as to profit
by the great Increase in value which Is
certaln to come. If the reclaimed lands
are sold at first In small parcens to gen
uine cultivators they will stick to their
holdings and the speculators will not
be able to get In. No legislation can be
framed which will automatically keep
the speculators out. For many years
unscrupulous men have been able to get
around the land raws, and help them
selves to choice portions of the public
domain. They did so with comparative
Impunity until the present Secretary of
the Interior got after them. He has
prosecuted many and has punished
some. He has exemplified the familiar
principle that laws' are of no value until
somebody makes It his special business
to enforce them. The Irrigation act
says that the limit of area per entry
shall represent the acreage which, in
the opinion of the Secretary of the In
terior, "may be reasonably required for
the support of a family upon the lands
in question." In one locality he may
consider five acres enough, and In an
other forty. If this discretion Is to be
wisely used by the Secretary or by the
subordinates on whose Judgment he has
to depend to a considerable degree,
there does not seem to be need or room
for any additional legislation. The
President says the national Irrigation
congress can do sometmng towards car
rying out the policy of placing on each
reclaimed area the largest number of
families that can get a comfortable liv
ing when the land Is well tilled. It
can give advice as to the size of allot
ments. It can assist In the detection of
attempts at fraudulent entries. . No
doubt ingenious men will, try through
dummies to get control of large tracts.
If they shall succeed It will not be due
to Imperfect legislation but to the laches
of the agents of the government
Warns Bearded Men.
"It Is well that old men should weir
beards," said a physician, "for when
one becomes old one should be spared
the' exertion of dally shaving. But I
would like to Issue a warning to all
beard wearers. I would like to shout,
"Keep your beards dry,' In a voice loul
enough to be heard around the world.
Were those words heeded many cases
of sore throat, cold, and Influenza
would be avoided and many deaths
would be definitely put off.
"So many men with beards neglect,
when they wash their faces, to wipe
their beards dry. A beard a foot long
demands a lot of toweling. It should
be toweled after every wash a good
five minutes. Otherwise It Is damp.
The owner goes about with this damp
thing upon his delicate and sensitive
throat. Then, If he takes tonsilltls or
Influenza, he blames the American cli
mate. There are too many dam,
beards among us. Too many men,
washing their faces three or four
times a day, have their beards damp
and clammy a good three hours da!'y.H
Certain butterflies have marked '
odors, some good, some bad. Dr. F. A.
Dixey, a British entomologist, men
tions a white butterfly ot England
that has the fragrant scent of lemon .
verbena, and has noted many species
In Africa with such odors as those of
chocolate, vanilla and various flowers.
The agreeable odors belong to males, '
being a charm to attract females. The
offensive odors, shared by both sexes,
are protective, repelling enemies. I
There Is being exhibited !n Liver
pool a prodigious ecu. that of a tall. '
I t frrit loco Html Hiiimttrif a in ivl. 1
t.iuuvua k J. i. 111. Ul UIO UKIAI
inns which formerly inhabited the
island of Madagascar. The eggs of ,
this Immense creature are nearly a '
yard in circumference and a foot In
length, and their cubical contents, 1
roughly speaking, are equal to six os-
trich eggs, or 150 hens' eggs, or sixty ,
thousand humming birds' eggs, or two
gallons of water. The market price
ranges from 35 to 00, only twenty
known specimens being in existence, j
"Having personally eaten some hun
dreds of species of caterpillars," says
M. Dagln, a French entomologist,
"raw, broiled, boiled, fried, roasted
and hashed, I And most of these pleas
ant to taste, light and digestible." But
the despised cockroach of our kitchen
is what M. Dagin waxes most en
thusiastic over. "Pounded in a mor
tar, put through a sieve and poured
Into beef stock, these creatures make
a soup preferable to blaque." Never
theless, a Chinese proverb runs to the
effect, "If your stomach Is delicate,
abstain from the cockroach!"
' The tortoise is a great sleeper. One
was a domestic pet in an English
house, and when his time for hiber
nating came he selected a corner of
the dim coal cellar for his winter
quarters. A new cook was engaged
soon after who knew nothing of tor
toises. In a few months the tortoise
woke up and sallied forth. Screams
soon broke the kitchen's calm. On
entering that department the lady of
the house found the cook gazing in
awestruck wonder, and exclaiming, as
with unsteady hand she pointed to
the tortoise: "My conscience! Look
at the stone which I've broken tho
coal wP a' winter!"
At the cuose of a banquet given by
the Maharajah of Gwallor to the
Prince of Wales a centerpiece In the
form of a temple and decorated with
electric lamps and flowers was hoist
ed to the celling by pulleys, and re
vealed a perfect model railway on the
table underneath. The locomotive and
train was eight feet long, and car
ried decanters, cigars, cigarettes and
matches. The train was started by
closing an electrical circuit As long
as this was closed by a spring the
train moved, but the lifting of a de
canter or box of cigars resting on the
spring allowed It to act, thus breaking
the circuit and stopping the train.
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Exciting Sport.
Last winter the Norwegians varied
the excitement of ski running by yok
ing the runner to a motor cycle by a
long leather strap, which he grasps
with his left hand. The speed attained
Is enormous, and great skill Is required
to avoid being pulled over, as the body
Is apt to outrun the feet The pastime
Is growing very popular.
"As the Romans Do."
Bishop Dudley (Episcopal), of Ken
tucky, when hunting and fishing, made
the acquaintance of a mountaineer,
who took a fancy to him without sus
pecting his calling. When the bishop
was about to go home he Invited the
old man to Louisville to hear him
preach.
"Preach? What, you preach? Kin
you preach ez well ez you kin shoot an'
fish?"
"Better. No joke. Come Sunday
with your best clothes, and I'll give you
a front seat"
The old chap was there, right up la
front and remained until the bitter
end, after which he hurried forward to
shake the bishop's hand. "Parson," he
cried warmly, "I don't know a great
deal about your creeds and dogmatics,
but I've rlz and sot with you every
time!"
Ilrlwht Answers.
"Noah's wife," wrote a boy In an
examination, "was called Joan of Arc." j
"Water," wrote another, "Is composed
of two gases, oxygen and cambrlgen." j
"Lava," said a third, "is what the bar-
ber puts on your face." "A blizzard,"
declared another child, "is the inside ot
a fowl."
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