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THE TIMES
pH M PW M H
t cause* divorcer "Bum grub,
, the army of dyspeptics.
lx on the big hatpin*, aay* Chica­
go* (or the protruding umbrella.
• chanticleer fad in this country
'ledy confined to the cold storage
Chouse*'
In* Menellk will have to be dead
t time before foreigners will be-
that be Is In earnest.
ouml decision. A St. Louis Judge
ectded that a car seat belongs to
Brson who gets It first.
(Using Is unknown In Japan. It
ot surprising that they have been
ward many years In civilization.
W man who enters Harvard at the
[of 45 ought to have some bully
' times with his classmute, William
[es Sidis.
ygllsh papers speak of a man in
[Birmingham hospital for skin dis-
who Is turning to marble. He
[ars to be a hard case.
len and women who cry out loudest
[nst vivisection wear furs of ani-
and the plumage of birds. Con
[ncy, thou art a virtue!
[ Is promised that beef roasts are to
Cheaper. They can be a lot cheaper
[out causing any consumer to feel
i It would be a shame not to begin
g roast beef again.
alk a mile before breakfast to
up an appetite, advises the doc-
If you want only a light break-
walk say from the front of the
[e to the dining room.
j Missouri Judge has decided that
1 criminal negligence to get near a
Vs heels. It seems to be a case
;« the Innocent bystander Is, like
[ultimate consumer, a myth.
¡cretary Wilson thinks the sale of
[tuffs in packages is to blame for
of the excessive cost of living,
wives of the men who carry home
W es” will readily agree to this.
¡steamship in Florida waters had
3rd time getting past a school of
[-ter 1,000-pound
turtles
that
[ed fight. It is early in the sea-
| but the sea serpent Is not going
missed.
little girl who died In Philadel-
twelve years ago left her handful
[miles—37 cents— to start a fund
new Methodist church. From
tiny beginning much has grown,
work Is now going forward on a
in* that is to cost 375,000. No
.hat Is sanctified by love U small.
omas A. Edison says in Popular
rlclty that "there Is absolutely no
[n why horses should be allowed
n the city limits, for, between the
tne and electric car, no room is
ror them. A higher public ideal
dth and cleanliness Is working
, d such banishment swiftly, then
^hall have decent streets instead
ables made of cobblestones bor-
1 by sidewalks." Horses are pret-
and then there Is the man who
his letter up and throws It out
the street. He should go, too,
we are about it.
tsslmlstic old shipmaster of New
|has been confiding his discourage-
to a reporter. Boys no longer
[ sea, he says. American steam-
|!ines have the greatest difficulty
jtting the right sort of lads for
Pg up into officers Public school
^tion unfits boys for the sea. The
fit-day eagerness In the pursuit of
- makes the youngsters unwlll-
follow a calling the sacrifices
jkrlls of which are rewarded by
[antiest of livings. But It may
jack of opportunity rather than a
' for the seafaring life that keeps
pys ashore. The action of econ-
[ forces has swept our merchant
¡from the ocean. The small mar-
¡f Profit on which commerce Is
¡Jays conducted has apparently
[ed American capital from shlp-
f° business in which more money
earned. Only ten per cent of
uports and a much smaller pro-
(P of our oversea trade come in
fran bottoms. But given the op-
)lty to go to sea, the boys are
[ready to go. The navy has less
than the army In finding re-
^evertheless, the collapse of
(therlcan merchant marine is a
(misfortune. No great nation is
H to have its foreign trade al-
[wholly m foreign hands; and It
[*d loss to any country when so
fdent. adventurous and courage-
rate as that of the deep-sea mar-
declines and disappears There
th discussion concerning the best
°f restoring American shipping,
be necessary to wait for chang
»nomte conditions to undo the
fhey have already done. But we
** hope that the day when the
»gain hold the place on the
which It held half a century
J not long be delayed.
death of King Edward, so sud-
^ startling, was a profound
10 Britain and her colonies and
•»rid at large. Nothing had
twen the men and women
** the throne for such an un-
knd disturbing «vent, lor
h?u?
b* ,on* f8w ta o * that
dM
* '* 111 ** » “ • »»d thus, who
d d oousid.red the indisposition tri-
A ng. It Is true that In England the
king reigns without governing, and
that no perceptible constitutional or
political changes are to be apprehend-
ed. But while democracy rules and
l)olici€i, foreign and domtitlc, are die-
tated by essential needs, traditions and
fixed principles, it would be a mistake
to underestimate the personal and so­
cial Influence of the king
In diplo­
macy especially Is this Influence apt
to be strong, and King Edward took
a particular interest In foreign rela­
tions and is known to hsve originated
and favored certain alliances and un­
derstandings. In home politics he was
always scrupulously impartial or neu­
tral, but his sympathies were on the
side of progress and evolutionary re-
form. Many hsve called him "the most
popular man In England," and there
was little exaggeration in this. A re­
cent article containing daring, un­
friendly references to him and charges
of excessive love of ease and sport,
lack of vigor or Interest in serious
problems of state provoked genuine
national Indignation. Even radicals,
socialists and ardent home rulers ad­
mit that King Edward had no enemies
among the workmen and the masses
of the people. The republican tenden­
cies of a decade or two ago have dis­
appeared without a trace. King Ed­
ward may be said to have strengthen­
ed the monarchy in England by his
dualities and achievements and to
have recovered for it some of the pow­
er and prestige it had lost with the
advance of popular government and
radical liberalism. The new king can
but follow In his footsteps and court
general respect and admiration by
giving like evidence of dignity, tact,
a progressive spirit and an earnest
desire to promote the welfare of his
people, even at the expense of the an­
cient privileges of an effete peerage
or aristocracy.
BA RBE R TURNS BOOKWORM.
^ M IN IS T E R S
^
W IF E ,
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
Exportation of American eggs is in­
creasing constantly.
Rapid growth of*the finger nulls is
said to indicate good health.
At the last semi-annual official es­
timate there were 339,293 Indians in
the United States.
A healthy horse eats nine times its
weight in food In a year, a healthy
sheep six times.
For several years the use of wheat
flour has been increasing and the use
of rye flour decreasing In Germany.
The sum of *2,500,000 is now to be
spent on Irrigation works west of
Badgad, as a part of the stupendous
$80,000,000 scheme planned for Me­
sopotamia.
Riga, Russia, population 355,000, Is
to have a new central passenger sta­
tion with approaches, an improved
custom house quay, harbor extension
and new warehouse.
The largest wooden structure In
the world is the Parliament building
in Wellington, New Zealand, timber
being preferred to stones because of
the frequency of slight earthquakes.
One Le Roullat, of Limoges, in
France, seems to have been able to
make clocks from any material, how­
ever unsuitable. One clock he fash­
ioned entirely from old newspapers
converted into pulp; another from
large and small sticks held together
by wires; a third from discarded to­
bacco cans, and so on. Some of his
clocks are, however, triumphs of
workmanship.— Harper's Weekly.
An electric lighting plant in Nebras­
ka is manufacturing ice as a by-prod­
uct. The exhaust steam of the plant,
which would otherwise go to waste, is
utilized In the ammonia absorption
process of Ice manufacture and also for
distilling water from which the ice ts
made.
This venture has proved a
WOMAN 600,000 YEARS AGO.
very profitable one for the lighting
F a m o u s G i b r a l t a r S k u l l W a s H a s s , company, and might be copied to ad­
Says B ritish S cien tist.
vantage by other similar plants.
Professor Arthur Keith, curator ol
Nowhere for many years continuous­
the museum of the Royal College of
ly has the education machine worked
Surgeons In London, who ha* been
more untiringly than in London. Yet
engaged in an examination of the fa­
of the skilled labor of London two-
mous prehistoric skull unearthed at
thirds is done by men and women
Gibraltar some years ago, announced
from the provinces, while seven out
his conclusions in the matter. The
of every ten dock laborers and 80 or
chief of these conclusions is that the
90 per cent of these who seek refuge
skull is that of a woman who must
In night shelters are London born
have lived at least 600,000 years ago
and bred. What does this mean? Is
This skull has been the object ol
it merely the fierce competition caused
the examination of many scientists
by the compelling attraction of Lon­
and many theories have been evolved
don, with Its glitter of wages? Or
as a result.
Professor Keith ap
does It prove some fatal weakness in
proached the task of lifting the veil
the London schools?— London Satur­
from the past with a new system of
day Review.
intricate measurements and all the re
The great artists, like the great
sources of science at his back, and he
has compared the Gibraltar skull with heroes, have always done whatever
all other available prehistoric relics came to hand. Michael Angelo grum­
“ I have little doubt that the skull bled and said he was a sculptor when
Is that of a woman.” he said, "and Julius II. set him to paint, but he
discarding technicalities, from the size painted the roof of the Sistine chapel.
of her brain she must have been a Shakespeare chafed at the popularity
shrewd one—probably a woman, too, ol of the tool in the drama of his time,
considerable spirit. One can reckon and then produced the fool in "Lear.”
pretty accurately also the time at If either ot them had waited for per­
which she lived. It must have been fect conditions and an inspiration un­
trammeled by circumstances he would
at least 600,000 years ago.
"From the shape of the Jaws and have done nothing. They produced
the fact the muscles of mastication masterpieces because they made the
were remarkably strong It is possible best of things as they were. And this
to deduce what this prehistoric wom­ is the business of the artist in life.—
an ate. Nuts and roots probably en­ London Times.
tered very largely into her diet. She
King Victor’s decision to pay Sar­
was in the habit of eating things dinia his first visit since his accession
which required a great amount ol is a reminder that this large Italian
mastication before much nourishment island still belongs to the middle
could be derived from them, hence the ages. It is hard to believe that Sar­
unusual development of the Jaw mus­ dinia, known to the ancient Romans
cles.
as the granary of the empire and its
"The men of 600,000 years ago were mineral treasure house, should so re­
without doubt long armed. Their legs cently as 1828 have been entirely with­
were short, and they had abnormally out roads. The beautiful highways
thick necks. It Is clear, too, I think, over which, in Augustan days, golden
that their brains were far larger than harvests had been wheeled to the coast
has previously been conceded to be had been lost Rince the fall of the em­
the case. It seems reasonably cer­ pire. Even feudalism retained Its
tain. too. that they were able to speak hold on the life of the Sardes till 1S56.
to each other, for from my examina­ Pestilence, due to neglected soil and
tion of the brain cavity of the skull I undrained swamps, had no doubt help­
have been able to deduce quite clearly ed to retard the return of civilization
that the cells controlling speech were of the island which gave the crown to
there.
King Victor’s house.—London Chron­
"The prehistoric woman's skull In icle.
dicates she had a large nose. Her
The mother of Karl Luft, the aero­
eyes, too, must have been prominent,
naut who was fatally Injured by the
and her palate was one-third larger
collapse of his balloon at Reinchen-
than that of the woman of to-day.”
sachsen, has published a letter dated
at Bitterfeld. thanking the people who
The
P o r te r ’« D ilem m a .
The porter was greatly perplexed. condoled with her because of her be­
At High Polsover, says a writer in reavement. "Knowing that the last
London Opinion, a lady with a lo-gn- year of my son's life,” she says, "was
ette entered the train. She was a his happiest, and that sailing In the
middle aged, tall, angular, tailor-made air was his greatest enjoyment gives
woman, and she looked sternly at the me strength in my affliction. He used
commercial traveler in the seat op­ to leave his home enthusiastically and
posite through her lorgnette. Before reNirn as one in triumph when an­
seating herself she opened the carriage other flight had been accomplished,
window, and sent it down with a bang. and he thanked his mother for humor­
At Hilsdon Cross another w.oman came ing him in his passion, and not giving
way to fear. The consciousness that
In.
She had fluffy hair, and an appeal­ this early death closed a fully rounded
ing look In her blue eyes. She sat life, and that it was my privilege to
down and glanced at the open window make it happy and enjoyable In his
and shivered pathetically; then she own way serves n o * to bear me up.”
looked at the commercial traveler.
The first sleep Is the soundest—aft­
"I shall be frozen to death!” cried er the first hour the intensity of sleep
the fluffy-haired lady.
slowly diminishes— hence the value of
"If this window Is closed. I shall forty winks after dinner in quickly re­
suffocate!” cried the other woman.
cuperating shattered powers. Tempera­
The porter opened his mouth. He ture and vitality are lowest at about
stalled to raise the window. Then 2 a. ui„ so that two hours' sleep be
he retreated. Dazed, he turned appeal­ fore mlffnight are worth four there­
ingly to the commercial traveler. after. Nature has no rule as to the
Both the women also turned to the I length of sleep, except that men need
commercial traveler. That gentleman less than women, since women are the
rose, passed by the ladies, opened the more sensitive creatures, and a wom­
door to the platform, and went out, an's heart heats five times more a
followed by the porter.
! minute than a man's. 81eep should be
-And what, sir.” said the porter. I just so long that when y6u wake in
• would you say as 'ow I should do, I the morning a stretch and a yawn only
*ir?”
1 are necessary to land you in a daytime
"It's qnlte simple,” said the com­ of bounding vigor. As to early rising,
mercial traveler "Leave the window
it is comforting to hear Dr. Bryce
as it is, open, till one lady is frozen
aay It Is a habit that has gone far to
to death; then close It a n d e u f W e
[ wreck the constitution of many a
the other. I'm going forward for the
^ growing youth.— London Express.
rest Of the trip.”
Artist
FPXD ^ C T iA C r C I ^ .
The minister’s wife has many demands
Awaiting her busy but tired hands.
Who must rear up the perfect child.
Never by gossipers be beguiled,
Make fancy lace objects for the bazaar.
Wear lace on herself that is plainer
by far,
FIJI in at the organ, help out the choir,
Work for the church when all others
tire?
You’ve guessed the reply—perhaps you
knew It:
“ Oh. well, the minister's wife should
do it!”
The minister’s wife can look ahead
With so many burdens to shoulder in To winning a crown and winga when
dead;
life,
Who envies the white-faced minister’s While we, admitting her chance of re­
ward,
wife?
Is there a call for those frequent tasks Manage to make her way to it hard
Which Christian duty of each one The more that she does of our duty for
us
asks—
Teach a class that’s left in the lurch, And plods through life without any
fuss.
Respect a dull sermon (nor doze in
But when the heavens in Judgment*
church),
burst,
Sew for the heathen, visit the sick,
Bring peace twixt two whose tempers And God calls the meek to rise up
first,
were quick?
We say, while we dodge and even pooh- Long habit will make us answer to it;
"Oh,
well,
the minister's wife should
pooh it,
do It!"
“Oh, well, the minister’s wife should
—Cincinnati Post.
do it!”
he danced about the floor in ecstasy.
But recovering his
self-command,
within one month he had obtained
most of the leading facts known to­
day about the physics and chemistry
of the alkaline metals. What a pleas­
ure for Davy, and what an advantage
for science, if he could be alive now!
It Is well understood among naval
men that the speed of a vessel Is af­
fected by the depth of the water, not
merely In shoal places, but even In
the deeper waterways.
Seattle Is reducing Its staep hills.
When the work planned Is completed
34,000,000 cubic yards of material will
have been removed. Hydraulic sluic­
ing Is the method employed.
It is said that Prof. Karl Harries
of the University of Kiel has produced
a synthetic rubber. Attempts such as
this have been made time and again,
but with no commercial success.
Frof. A. Woeikof, after an exami­
nation of the geographical and eco­
nomic conditions of the problem, an­
nounces his conclusion that In the
future meat will become too expensive
for ordinary food, and that man must
eventually derive practically all his
sustenance from the vegetable king­
dom. But he believes that there will
be no lack of food on that account,
because the application of scientific
methods appears to be capable of In­
creasing the productiveness of the
agricultural lands of the globe to an
almost unlimited extent. He thinks
the successful substitution of any man
ufactured product for vegetable food is
extremsly Improbable, because plant
life Is capable of utilizing solar energy
much more economically than any ma­
chine.
The possibility of employing signals
sent by wireless telegraphy to correct
the time of chronometers and clocks
has long presented
Itself to many
transatlantic steamships in mid-ocean,
minds, and not long ago a practical
test was made
between two great
transatlantic steamships In mid-ocean,
which thus exchanged their chronom­
eter times. One was found a few sec­
onds In error.
Messrs. Claude and
Frere have Just reported to the Paris
Academy of Sciences the results of
their experiments with wireless time-
signals between Paris and Montaourls,
showing that the method Is capable
of furnishing comparisons within a
limit of error of less than one one-
hundredth of a second. The experi­
ments are to be continued between
Paris and Brest, by means of the great
Installation of the Eiffel Tower.
We are apt to think that It Is only
In recent years that scientific discov­
ery has become so accelerated that Its
announcements make people catch
their breath
But Prof. T. E. Thorpe
reminds us that seldom In the history
of science has any discovery, so mo­
mentous in Its results, been perfected
and announced so quickly as Sir Hum­
phry Davy's discovery of the metals
potassium and sodium by the action
of electricity upon solutions of potash
and soda. On October 19, 1807, he got
his first results; on November 19th he
astonished the Royal Society with a
masterly account of their completion
When he saw the new metals appear
In shining globules, and then take fire.
CANARY BIRDS.
The
C a r e T h a t S h o u ld B e H e a to w e d
l p u n T h u s « S o n ft » te r fi.
Those who are charmed by the sing­
ing of the canary will find In the fol­
lowing directions much that will in­
crease the happiness of the songster,
provided the hints are heeded:
Place the cage so that no draft of
air can strike the bird. Give nothing
to healthy birds but rape and canary
seed, water, cuttlefish bone and grav­
el paper or sand on the floor of the
cage; no hempsecd; a bath three time*
a week. The room should not be over­
heated— never above 70 degrees.
When moulting (shedding feathers)
keep warm, avoid all drafts of air.
Give plenty of German rape seed. A
little hard boiled
egg mixed with
crackers grated fine is excellent.
Feed regularly at a certain hour in
the morning. By observing these sim­
ple rules birds may be kept In fine
condition for years.
For birds that are tick or have lost
their song procure bird tonic at a bird
store
Very many keep birds who
mean to glvs their pet all things to
make them bright and happy and at
the same time are guilty of great cru­
elty in regard to perches. The perches
In a cage should be each one of a dif­
ferent size and the smallest as large
as a pipestem.
If perches are of the right sort no
trouble Is ever had about the bird’s
to« nails growing too long, and. of all
things, keep the perches clean.— Ex­
change.
•
A
H ard
Lot.
Nicaragua has been distinguished
even among Central American repub­
lics by the number of its revolutions.
Discovered by Columbus. It takes Its
name from the chief who ruled It at
the time of its exploration by Doirla,
in 1522. Of its earliest rulers it has
been said that "the first had been a
murderer, the second a murderer and
rebel, the third murdered the second,
the fourth was a forger and the fifth
a murderer and
rebel.” Nicaragua
abounds In prehistoric remains, and
In some parts, it is said, the inhabit­
ants still supply themselves with pot-
t ,ry from the vast quantities preserved
below the surface.
K ille d
bjr
Fear.
Frederick I. of Prusia was killed by
fear. His wife was insane, and one
day she escaped from her keeper and,
dabbling her clothes with blood, rush­
ed upon her husband while he was doz­
ing in his chair. King Frederick im­
agined her to be the “ white lady”
whose ghost was believed to Invari­
ably appear whenever the death of a
member of the royal family was to oc­
cur, and he was thrown Into a fever
and died In six weeks.
Your working hours have been re­
duced to eight. Then for heaven’s ‘
sake, work eight hours!
YESTERDAYS.
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AFTER THE WEDOINQ.
— Minneapolis Journal
üh
W h o « » U e c lla ln v Y e a r»
He l*a««e«l la S t a d f ,
W ill
Deciding to devote the rest of his
life to study and scientific research,
Peter Loesch, 75 years old, formerly
of the Rozler hotel barber , shop, has
abandoned the rnzrr and thy brush
for Hegel and Kant. Loesch has been
a barber In St. Louis for thirty-five
years, the St, Louis Globe-Democrat
says, and during that time has seen
the city grow from a small town to p
busy metropolis. He retired from
business two weeks ago, and will study
philosophical works for the rest of
his life.
“ I came to America In 1851," said
Loesch, “ and moved to St. Louis four
yearB later, when I was 20 years old.
I procured my first position in a bar­
ber shop at 11th street and Washing­
ton avenue. Although it then was re­
garded a high-class place, it had none
of the modern conveniences which we
now regard as Indispensable.
There
were no electric lights, fine mirrors,
cushions or adjustable chairs. We
could not fit a chair to suit the man.
as we do now. We were forced to lit
the man to the chair. If he happened
to be too tall we shoved him down In
the chair and held him there until he
was shaved. The chairs were station­
ary, and we were forced to dance all
around a person while we were shav­
ing him.
"When I first came to St. Louis all
the beaux of the town wore their hair
nearly to their shoulders, and had It
curled inward around the neck, some­
thing after the style of the modern
English bob.
The fashions changed
after several years, and men wore
their hair sticking straight up and
curled on the end. This did not seem
any more foolish In those days than
the modern pompadour does now, and
I doubt If It was half as ridiculous.
“ I was not only a barber In my
youth, but a dentist and physician as
well. Every barber pulled teeth and
kept leeches to draw blood, bleeding
being regarded as a sure cure for all
ills. I pulled many a tooth and treat­
ed many a patient before I settled
down and did nothing but wield the
shears and razor.
“ I could not speak English when I
first came to S t Louis, but I pur­
chased a good grammar and mastered
the language without much trouble. I
listened to the conversation of the
men who came to the shop, and I
soon became well informed on all
phases of politics and current news.
“ There are many books I have not
read and I will spend the remaining
years of my life in study. I will read
the German philosophers, also Byron,
Shelley, Tennyson and the other great
English poets, and I may have a look
at the new problematic school.”
Mr. Loesch owns one of the finest
German libraries In St. Louis. He Is
an ardent student, being one of the
first subscribers to ’.he old St. Louis
library, which Is now the public li­
brary.
BR AID 'S PHRENO-MAGNETISM.
T o u r h I i i ir t h e llu iu i*« o t H y p n o t i s e d
S u b je c t anil tlie Itesu lt.
“ There Is one curious phenomenon
In hypnotism which I have never been
able to explain satisfactorily and
which seems to be Ignored by the m od-,
ern hypnotist,” says a writer in the
Metropolitan. "It was first studied
by Braid. It Is called phrenomagnet-
lsm and has been advanced by the
phrenologists In proof of the correct­
ness of their localization of the men­
tal faculties of the head.
“ As far as I know, it has never re
celved serious consideration from sci­
entists, perhaps because based on two
theories that modern Bclence has not
yet accepted, first, that there is such
a thing as animal magnetism, and, sec­
ondly, that the phrenologists have cor­
rectly located the faculties on the hu­
man head.
"However this may be, phreno mag­
netism Is a phenomenon which can be
tested readily by any one interested.
The technique of phreno-magnetism is
this: When the subject Is in the hyp­
notic sleep the operator, standing be­
hind him, places the tip of his fingers
upon the subject's head and watts.
Soon the subject will begin to act or
sing or speak. Any one acquainted
with the phrenological system of lo­
calization will recognize at once that
the action or words of the subject cor­
respond to the organ on the head
which has been touched by the opera­
tor.
“ Thus If you touch combativenesB
the subject U very apt to square off
and strike some one or speak of war
or a drum. If you touch veneration,
he is very apt to lift bis eyes and
pray. I have heard a very eloquent
sermon thus Inspired In a subject who
was gifted with a ready tongue.
“Touch the organ of color and he
will speak o f beautiful colors. Touch
tune and he will sing or whistle.
Touch caution and Ms face will ex­
press vivid fear. I remember that one
subject startled me by shouting 'Look
out!' and making a leap that he could
scarcely have equaled In his waking
state. When I touched tbe faculty of
caution he thought he saw smoke.”
Took
the
H ost ,
T oo .
"W e’ve been troubled by burglars In
our neighborhood and the other day
I bought a ferocious and very expen­
sive bulldog. Funny things Is, tho
burglar* visited my bouse that very
night."
"Good! Of course the new dog pre­
sented them from taking anything?”
"No, he didn’t.”
“ Why, what did they take?”
"Oh, a lot of stuff—silverware and
clothes, mostly.”
"Good gracious! Didn’t the bulldog
get after them?”
” 1 guess he did— I haven’ t eeen him
siaca.”—Cleveland Plain Oealar
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