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REAL MEANING TO
VISIONS OF SLEEP
Fantasies by No Means te
Be Disregarded.
While men will not admit it, women
usually are more intuitive.
Their more natural expression of
emotion, which so early meets with
repression from the men, is an ac-
ceptable explanation.
With the male of the household, pro-
viding he is strongly psychic, anyth
that passes the censor of his subcon-
scious mind is a “hunch.” But with
the female such visions are presentl-
ments, which carry tokens of good or
clou of depression, says a writer in
the {cago Evening Post. _
But instead of allowing dreams to
depress, they should serve as a warn-
u Jo repare us for whatever _hap-
Je 5 state of mind we
pet may idestep that
nich i Sd ring EE
Sometiuiés it 18 the Firiking of a
bell, the crying of a dog, the creak-
ing, creaking noise, a figtre in black.
There are many accounts of the ap-
pearance of one about to die, to the
loved one, even though distance be
great. Great rulers of Europe have
awakened from sleep and summoned
their servants to protect them from
objects in their rooms. Soon they
would be replaced on the throne and
driven from their homes.
If you will search your mind you
will recall the dream or warning that
came to you of something that was
about to happen. Did it happen? A
great many will find that it did.
Many have experienced thinking of
a friend very intently and then re-
ceiving news from him.
When you dream or have a presen-
timent, do not be alarmed. Think it
over. If it carries a message of good
fortune, all well and good; If it car-
ries a depressing message, be ready to
meet the situation—maybe you can
prevent it.
For one to cut a finger or suffer
other laceration of the hands or face
warns the dreamer to set up a bar-
rier against the treachery of one whom
she believes to be a friend.
However, should it appear that no
bloed comes from the wound, it is
indicated that the treachery will be
quite concealed and may work great
harm.
To be lonely and unhappy in a
dream means that you will be happy
and quite contented in wakened hours.
Dream records show that visions of
unhappiness nearly always are fol-
lowed by much happiness for the |
dreamer.
A lover is quite often visioned by
a dreamer and his or her appearance
brings both good and bad omens.
Ardent love will come if the lover
is happy, while unhappiness is quite
sure if the lover seems angry or indif-
ferent.
Dreams of collisions mean but one
thing; you are about to face difficult
problems which will end seriously for
you unless you exert yourself.
Such dreams of caution must not
be taken lightly. When such a vision
comes to you, prepare yourself to meet
the emergency and you will be pro-
tected.
Deception can readily be noticed in
some of these dreams which will give
you ample warning to beware of false
friends. Unless your companions are
Jovial and show good cheer, be on
your guard. All other visions are bad
omens.
Often the sweet strains of music
can be plainly heard in dreams.
It heralds for the dreamer peace of
mind in wakened hours and success
in love and business. It is a good
omen to seem to.be singtng alone,
while good times are ahead if you are
singing with a group.
One of the predominating dreams
that enter the nightly visions of young
women is the bridal costume.
Nearly every young woman will ad-
mit that she has at some time seen
herself attired in bridal attire.
a dream is often important.
If one seems happy while in such
attire, good fortune, happiness, suc-
cess In love and business are destined
for them. While, on the contrary, at-
tire forebodes of illness, unhappy mar-
riage and loss of friends and money.
Longings and Cravings
Lady Diana Manners visited one day
in Greenwich village a studio where
most of the young men wore sandals
and Russian blouses and trousers that
bagged deplorably at the knees.
Lady Diana, surveying that rapt
company while a super-realist read
a free verse poem, whispered to
Theodore Dreiser.
“I see that here, as In England, lit-
erary longings mean long teeth, long
hair and long faces—everything but
long pocketbooks, in fact.”
Mr. Dreiser nodded gravely.
“To put in it another way,” said
he, “the universal literary craving is
hunger, just hunger, ma'am.”
Intelligent Cow
A pet cow which pumps water from
a well in a pasture has made herself
one of the leading attractions of Te-
kamah, Neb. The animal belongs to
James Matthews, She will push the
pump up, then down, quickly bringing
her head beneath the water to get it
fresh from the pump, continuing this
for ten or fifteen minutes, One kind-
hearted citizen endeavored to assist
the cow by pumping water into a tub,
but the cow looked upon his effort
with disdain and, as soon as the citl-
zen had gone a short distance, pro-
ceeded to pump herself a cool, fresh
drink from the well ~—Indianapolis
News.
Such”
Frigate Bird Used
as Letter Carrier
The swiftest of all sea birds Is the
frigate bird. In certain of the equa-
torial isles of the Pacific this bird is
employed as a letter carrier. Taken
from the nest before it can fiy, it is
fed on a fish diet by the natives. In
the course of a few months it beccmes
go tame that it can be set free dur-
ing the day and will return to its
perch at sunset. An American for-
merly in the foreign service, who had
frequent opportunities of witnessing
the performances of these birds as
letter carrie tells an Interesting tale
in \ this relation, eres SG fea
On Nanomaga, where the American
lived for 12 months, he had two
“frigates” which were given hjm by a
trader on Nultao, 60 miles to wind-
ward, and in 1 retufn the American gave
two plendid and very tame birds,
hatched an and reared NS ua The
four were continu vin
wh Gi gland to © Toma a He 5
the uitao pair would visit their
zbplace and visit the American’s
their perch outside his house,
uaa
= g one 3 OF TWO ays, fishing on on
their own account together and being
fed at dawn and nightfall by the na-
tives and the American. Then all four
would sail off to Nuitao, the Amer-
ican’s pair usually returning within 36
hours.
To test the speed of these birds, the
American once sent one of them to
Nuitao by the bark Redcoat, In care
of the captain, who kept it in his
cabin. It fretted greatly during the
48 hours the vessel was beating up to
Nuitao against the southeast trades.
The Redcoat arrived at Nuitao at four
o'clock in the afternoon. At 4:30 the
trader there, after writing a few lines
to the American, and rolling the paper
into a small square of oilskin, tied it
to the bird and cast it loose. It was
out of sight in a few seconds.
Now, the American and his friends
had been keeping a keen outlook for
the bird. They could only guess at
the time when the Redcoat would ar-
rive at Nuitao, but imagined it would
be at least 60 hours. Before six o'clock
on the day that the trader had lib-
erated the American’s bird it was set-
tled on its perch at home, accompanied
by another couple, which it had evi-
dently met en route. All three birds
were heavily gorged with flying fish
and allowed themselves to be caught
and brought into the American’s house,
where the note was removed from the
messenger.
Here’s a Real Record
Now, don’t crowd. The Cape Girar-
deau Southeast Missourian says:
Having established records, as yet
unbroken, for the most ancient collar
button and the most aged and honor-
able key ring, the contest now leaps,
with added zest into a different field.
This is the field of the razor strop
and the first to enter it immediately
sets a record that would seem close
to unbeatable. According to a relia-
ble communique, S. S. Smith of 1438
Bessie street possesses a razor strop
that has been in active service since
James A. Polk was President of the
United States. This remarkable razor
strop was acquired by Mr. Smith, who
speaks of himself as “only a boy of
ninety-two,” in the year 1845, and he
still uses it weekly, he says, therely
setting a non-stop record of 76 years
Jade Find in Africa
An important discovery of jade has
been reported from a farm near the
town of Britts in the Transvaal, South
Africa. The stone was found in the
various shades of blue, white, pink
and green, and in quantities large
enough to warrant commercial ex-
ploitation. The discovery was made
during prospecting operations for
chrome iron.
A company has been formed with
headquarters in Johannesburg, and has
obtained permission from the govern-
ment to bring in Chinese jade experts
as cutters and polishers so that the
jade may be marketed as beads and
art ornaments,
Birds Follow Icebergs
Each season when the icebergs
break away from Greenland and start
to the south in the Atlantic they are
followed ty ever increasing flocks of
sea birds, says the Ohio State Journal.
Officers of the coast-guard cutters,
on duty near the icebergs to warn
shipping, report the bird life with the
bergs is much greater this year than
in the past. Fulmars, shearwaters,
murre, kittewakes and dovekies are
there in large numbers, apparently to
get the food supply that is provided
when the waves dash against the
bergs and disable the little people of
the water, or the melting of the ice
releases food imprisoned in the Far
North ages ago.
To Make Study of Dams
To determine the weakest parts o1
dams and just why they sometimes
fail, the Engineering foundation, the
joint research organization of the
American societies of civil, mining,
metallurgical, mechanical and electri
cal engineers, proposes to construct a
dam at an éxpenditure of $100,000 and
then cause it to turst. The experi
ment is to be made near Fresno, Cal,
The main object to be achieved is the
knowledge of how to build dams of
maximum safety, yet with minimum
thinness of construction and conse
quent economy of material,
Russian Dancing Prodigy
Among the most promising dancers
in the Russian ballet season in Lon-
don this season was Serge Lifar, aged
eighteen, who had a dramatic escape
from the bolshevists af isn
FAT FEE ALMOST
LOST TO LAWYER
But He Recovered Himself
in Nick of Time. :
In a Missouri town there resided a
lawyer who had become rather suc-
cessful in getting people out of trouble,
H. K. Ford tells us in the Docket.
Most of his clients were white people,
and those who were in good circum-
stances would be charged “all the
trafic would bear.” But occasionally
an impecunious white person or darky,
whose feet had become entangled in
the meshes of the dragnet of fhe B
would call of Wg josh I
fessional serv. ces getting The @ ore.
8a) feet ex extricated from their inhos-
pitable surroundings. From these peo-
ple he sometimes received very small
fees; but he went on the theory that
all,” so he accepted their busine
and
collecled what he could from them,
One day an elderly negro, plainly
clad and humble looking, entered his
office. The lawyer told him to br
seated, and inquired:
“What can I do for you?”
The old darky said:
“Boss, dey’s got my boy in jail. Whut
will you charge to get him out?”
The lawyer, sizing up his prospective
client as one who was not very pror
perous, replied:
“Oh, ten dollars.”
Thereupon the negro, who had been
away from the community for some
time, and who had, without the home
people knowing anything about it, ac-
cumulated a little money, pulled out a
large roll of bills and commenced turn-
ing them over, presumably in an effort
to find one of as small denomination
as the fee demanded.
The lawyer saw the bills, and hastily
said:
“What jail is it where they have
your boy?”
“Why, boss, it’s de county jail, dey
calls it, up heah on de hill.”
“Do you mean he is in the big stone
jail up there, with steel bars on all the
windows?”
“Yas, suh; yas, suh; dat’s de place,
boss.”
“Oh, well when I answered your first
question, I thought you meant they
had him in the little wooden building
down here that they use a8 a holdover.
If he’s In the stone jail, with the
barred windows, it will cost $250 to
get him out of that.”
The old darky slowly counted out the
required amount, the while muttering:
“Dat pestiffous boy cain’t be satis-
fied wid no littie wooden jall; seems
lak he allus picks out dem ’spensive
places.”
Imagine
The statistician of a large manufac
turing plant states that the time may
come when historians will look back
on our mechanical age as a curious
freak, for, he says:
our processes undoubtedly lowers the
intelligence of all who have to do with
production except the experts who
make the machines. It also makes pos-
sible the rapid depletion of natural re-
sources. We are now going a mile
deep for copper here in Michigan,
where we used to get it from the sur-
face. Just what our mechanical age
will do to the human race is a nice
problem. Among other things, the ease
with which we get great quantities of
natural resources converted into usable
supplies appears to make possible the
rapid increase of the population of the
earth to a point where we seem to be
reaching a state of over-crowding.”
Royalty Taken Seriously
{mperial portraits are serious mat
¢ers in Japan, though the incidents in
connection with a certain set cannot
appear other than comic to the outside
world. Eight years ago copies of the
portraits of the royal family disap-
peared from a schooihouse near Osaka.
The authorities immediately prohib-
ited the press from mentioning the
fact. Though the mystery has never
been solved, the government, doubtless
feeling that the danger to the public
weal lurking in the episode has died
with time, has lifted the censorship,
and the Japanese press may now pub-
lish the fact that the portraits have
disappeared.
Her Choice of Suitors
“What a lucky girl you are, Daphne,
to be able to choose between two such
handsome and stylish young men!
Have you made up your mind which
is to be your husband?”
“To tell you the truth, I'm in a bit
of a fix. If I decide to wear my cream-
colored dress at the wedding, I shall
take Alphonse, as he is dark-complex-
ioned, you know; but if I decide to go
in my blue dress, I rather think fair
Algy will make the better match of
the two.”
Judge With a Heart
Here's a judge with a heart. A
emall boy was arrested for playing
hookey from school on circus day. “I
just wanted to see the parade,” said
the boy. “Sure, you did, and there's
no law against skipping school on cir-
cus, day,” said the judge.
Argentine Government Oil
Oil exploration in Argentina has
made such progress that the govern-
ment is to build an oil refinery. Re-
turns from gales of petroleum in 1924
amounted to $1,733,000.
No, No. Merely Shared It
Times of India—America, we are in-
formed, has given up the worship of
the golden calf in favor of the silken
calf.—Roston Transcript,
“Merchandising |
|
Icebergs on Lake in
Glacier National Park
Icebergs are usually thought of only
In connection with the sea, but there
are a few places where glaciers have
their outlet on bodies of fresh water
and where masses of ice float about
on lakes, writes T. A. Church in St.
Nicholas. Cne of these is in Glacier
National park, in Montana, and visi-
tors pronounce it one of the most spec-
facular features of this scenic wonder-
land. "N37
Iceberg lake, as this body of water
is most appropriately called, is about
seven miles from the famous Many
Glacier hotel, and lies in an amphi-
theater formed by the p! recipitous
Cathedral wall and Mount Wilbur.
Between he © and the cliffs is a
acler, fe ae & on the water, and
large ‘blocks of ice break from its face,
80 that ther here are icebergs in the lake,
in mudsummer, :
The snow for the formation of the
glacier Tows bver the walls of the
amphithea er, and collects in the basin
fn huge drifts. These, thawing and
freezing, result in Ice. The outlet of
the lake is too shallow to allow the
icebergs to pass out, $0 they melt
there, with the result that the water
has, even in summer, a temperature
of only 39 degrees Fahrenheit. De-
spite the coldness of the water, many
visitors swim in it and are photo-
graphed scampering about on the ice
floes.
Near Iccberg lake is Gunsight lake
and Gunsight pass, the latter being
one of the most famous passes over the
Continental Divide. Glaciers are on
every hand, and dozens of streams
tumble into the picturesque lake. At
one time a fine chalet was located on
the shore, but it was swept away by
an avalanche. Ice may occasionally
be seen floating on Gunsight lake, but
most of the glaciers which feed the
lake are high above the water. The
Blackfoot glacier, two miles distant, is
the largest in the park, covering an
area of ten square miles.
How Sargent “Got” Them
Only a fortnight ago Mr. Ernest Ip-
sen, a distinguished portrait painter
himself, in talking of the character
displayed or concealed in the faces of
sitters, told me a story of Sargent. It
seems that in painting Wertheimer,
the artist was watching eagerly for
the psychological moment. “Finally,”
said be, “I deliberately asked him a
question about an interesting invest-
ment—then I got him.” But indeed
he nearly always got them; the strong
set face of a soldier like General
Wood, the lady whose gowns were
more important than herself, and the
lady whose face in its character would
make you forget any gown, the wind
and sea tan on the skin of an admiral,
or the soft texture of the complexion
of a little Beatrice Goelet, the person
who was bursting with health and the
one who would soon see the doctor.
Yes, he got them.—Edwin H. Blash-
field, in the North American Review.
Private O’Leary, V. C.
Michael O'Leary, one of the firs
men to win the Victoria cross in the
war and now a resident of Canada, has
been released from custody by United
States immigration officials; he has
been cleared of the charge of tiying to
smuggle aliens into this country. Mi-
chael won the cross in the early fight-
ing in the Ypres sector. Alone, he ad-
vanced up to an enemy machine gun
nest and killed half the crew, com-
pelling the other half to surrender
and bring their guns along with them.
Michael was brought to London to ke
decorated by the king. Admiral Lord
Fisher, that hard-bitten old sea dog,
was standing about at the time of the
ceremony and remarked: “Mr. O'Leary,
you're a d—d good fighter, I wish to
God I had you in the navy !”—Pierre
Van Paassen In Atlanta Constitution.
Plaster of Paris Houses
Sypsum, commonly called “plaster ot
paris,” which has been used for cen-
turies for plastering walls, is the es-
sential part of a new fireproof building
material. Mixed with cinders, gravel,
crushed stone or furnace slag, and
poured in forms, it can be used in the
construction of one and two-story
houses at a cost that compares favor-
ably with that of wooden buildings,
says Popular Science Monthly. In
a recent laboratory test the outside of
a six-inch gypsum concrete wall was
subjected to a temperature of 1,700
degrees for an hour, and at no time did
the interior surface become warm.
Began “Digging” In
During their advance to the Marne,
the Germans left sappers behind them
to intrerch a position on the Aisne to
which they could return if necessary.
After their retreat from the Marne,
following the first phase of the Battle
of the Aisne, September 18, 1914, they
took up their position behind the
trenches and the trench warfare,
which featured the World war, began.
Torch Fights Fires
A new apparatus for fighting forest
fires consists of a kerosene blow-torch,
useful for setting backfires, says the
Popular Science Monthly. By iis use
all the firing, it is claimed, can be done
by one experienced man, thus reducing
the attendant danger to a minimum,
Wholly Untrue
“John, dear; dinner’s on the table
Now don’t rush; take your time and
finish reading your story—there’s no
hurry.”—Life,
Croatian Railroads
Railroads connecting Croatia with
the ports of Bebenica and Spalato are
being constructed.
| MOTIVES OF MIRTH
MANY AND VARIED
But Adults and Childrer
Are Much Alike.
What do children laugh at, always
and everywhere? Kurt Pinthus asks in
Uhu (Berlin). They laugh because
things are breakable. They laugh at
aller children whom they can trip
up, and at the naughty psanks with
which they disput the normal order
of events.
In general, we may say that they
gu h_from a feeling of superiority
the Weaker or the injured; and
ey laugh whenever they can show
themselves apparently superior to the
older persons in charge of them—per-
haps by misbehavior before a teacher.
A child laughs from malicious en-
joyment, from the triumphant con-
sciousness of another’s humiliation,
from an impuise which the child
knows is “naughty” by the traditional
moral code.
§ & Pesult of the Findrancs in-
volved in our ordering of society, most
i grown-ups attain in early youth a men-
tal level not too far removed from the
\ child's. So that the laughter of aqults,
. even though they have learned—or
should have learned—to understand
the traditional distinction between
good and evil, springs for the most
part from the same roots as the laugh-
ter of children.
The motives of adult laughter are
mere variations of the things that chil-
dren laugh at. The adult laughs at
physical oddities or their imitation.
He laughs because somebody else has
fallen down or because somebody else
has caused a second somebody to tum-
ble, or because somebody who thinks
| himself In safe superiority goes sprawl-
ing.
The adult laughs, above all, at any-
one to whom he himself feels superior
and in whom some antisocial quality
is represented with very one-sided ex-
aggeration. Thus he laughs at Don
Quixote, who forgets the world of
reality while he plays at being a
knightly hero in a world which no
longer knows such heroes. In comedies
he laughs at the greedy man, the vain
man, the boaster, the timid man, and
the sham—because In every situation
these types show themselves to be ex-
aggeratedly greedy, vain, boastful,
timid or deceitful, and because the
preponderance of these typical char-
acters which dominate each like a
kind of fixed idea leads to unusual
and surprising situations.
Give and Take
Representative Clint Cole was talk
mg about the aircraft controversy:
“First one side scores,” he said.
“then the other side scores. It’s like
the doctor and the man with the
mumps. :
“The man with the mumps halted
the doctor and said:
“Doc, what ought a chap to do
when he’s got the mumps?
“The doctor's lips closed tight at
the thought of being buncoed out of
a free prescription, and then he gave
a harsh laugh and said:
“ ‘Such a man, my friend, ought to
consult a good physician.’
“The man with the mumps laughed
harshly in his turn.
“ “Thanks, Doc,
what I'll do, then.
he said.
So long!”
‘That’s
His Looks
“The bank was robbed just before 1
ot to town,” announced Gap Johnson
of Rumpus Ridge upon his return from
the county seat.
“Mercy sakes!” ejaculated his wife.
“It must have been exciting!”
“It shore was] Just ag I driv’ in I
met the robbers tearing along the road
in a rattling old auto, and after ’em
came eight or ten other old cars with
fellers in ’em, all shooting at the inner-
cent bystanders at every jump, as you
mought say. Ill b'dogged if I don’t
reckon the reason I escaped with my
life was b’cuz I didn’t look innercent.”
—XKansas City Times.
His Guess
=What kind of a store is that fellow
sver at Toad Rock running?” asked a
motorist.
“Well, he has auto parts for sale,”
replied the attendant in the filling sta-
tion at Ten Degrees, ‘buys butter, eggs
and poultry, deals in real estate, paints
houses, marries folks In his capacity
as justice of the peace, runs the post
office, sells stamps, hams, molasses,
etc, and takes boarders upstairs. 1
reckon you'd call it a drug store.”—
Kansas City Star.
Modesty Insisted Upon
Men at Marshfield, Mass., may not
parade the shore clad only in bathing
suits. The movement to censor wom-
en’s bathing attire was extended to
include that worn by men also, with
the result that this famous old town,
once inhabited by Daniel Webster and
Thomas Lawson, requires that neither
men nor women parade the streets or
avenues unless they are covered with
wraps that extend at least to the
knees.
Anglo-Jap Air Project
i A four-day nonstop transarctic air
| ship service between England and Ja:
pan is promised, the route to be across
cotland, Norway, northern Russia, Si-
berin and Saghalien, a distance of 5,000
miles.
Diamonds From Belgium
Diamonds sent from Belgium to thi
country in a recent month were valued
at $1,500,000, while steel shipped from
f Shen igi in Se same time was worth only
Says Women Owe Debt
to Immortal Writer
Shakespeare was a great student
and admirer of women, said George
Gorden Merton, professor of English
literature at Oxford university.
In the history plays women had a
hard time, and had to fight principally
with their tongues. They sometimes
threatened to scratch, but as a rule it
would have been unnecessary to use
thelr “ten commandments.” ——
In the comedies young men were
splendid fellows, but were better at
talking ‘than doing. When any real
business had to be done or when any
difficult arrangements had to be
made it was the young women who
acted. Shakespeare was so consistent
about this that he must have meant it,
2nd Mr. Gordon believed that in pri-
te life it it was pretty near the truth.
hakespeare appeared to have be-
lieved that it was one of the para-
doxes and one of the puzzles of the
feminine character that love as a rule
made women not less but more prachi.
cal,
Considering what Shakespeare had
done for women, Professor Gordon
thought it was singular that women
had done so little for Shakespeare in
the w way of interpreting him and study-
ing his character. io
Shakespeare had done women more
honor than any other dramatist, ex-
cept possibly Moliere, and yet hardly
any women had applied to his works
those powers of analysis peculiar to
their sex, which they exercised daily
in all the drawing rooms of Europe on
the characters of their friends.
Shakespeare paid women the high
compliment of supposing that they
might have knowledge, shrewdness,
wit, and courage, without ceasing to
be wholly feminine.—London Tele-
graph. 4
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Delicate Instrument
A newly mounted radiometer is to be
ased In an expedition about to be
nade half way around the earth to
:ake daily measurements of the heat
of the sun in the interest of long-
range weather forecasting, The
radiometer is so sensitive that the
ray of a candle situated 7,000 feet
iway and focused upon it is sufficient
to turn its vanes through several hun-
fired scale divisions. Even the face
»f an observer, when placed in the
position previously occupied by the
candle, will produce a deflection of
twenty-five scale divisions. It has been
suggested by a humorist that with
fhig instrument one might almost note
the approach of a friend, while still
some miles distant, merely by the
glow of his countenance. It might
even detect the sun in an English
summer.
Little Need for Muscle
Two thousand years from now man
may have hoofs,
Tharaldsen of the zoology department
of Northwestern university. He will
probably have a huge dome of a head,
a spindling body, dumpy legs and feet
something like those of a horse. As
a result of inaction and little need of
muscular strength man’s arms and legs
are already beginning to dwindle in
size, says the professor. Mechanical
inventions are rapidly doing away with
the need for muscle, he says, and lack
of use is causing the muscular por-
tions of the body to degenerate. But
man’s ever-growing brain will need
more room. As a consequence his
skull will get bigger and bigger until
it resembles a dome.—Pathfinder Mag-
azine,
Suspicious Resignation
Governor Silzer said at a dinner in
frenton:
“When a man is resigned to a cor-
rupt government, mistrust him, He is
likely to be profiting from the cor-
ruption.
‘Hoskins, clad in deepest black, said
resignedly as he drained a large va-
nilla soda:
“*‘The Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh away. Blessed be the name of
the Lord.
“ ‘Hoskins,’ whispered a bystander,
‘has evidently suffered a bereavement.’
“yes, said another bystander. ‘He
buried his mother-in-law this morn-
ing.’ »”
Remarkable Memories
Germans believe that a member ox
the staff of the Prussian State library
has the finest memory in the world.
Hé has specialized in weather reports
and from memory he can describe the
weather of any day from ‘1881 up to
the present time. His wonderful mem-
ory recently was tested by the Berlin
Meteorological society and he came
through with flying colors. Colonel
Charratie of England once memorized
the entire issue of a mewspaper on a
wager; a stoker memorized Haydn's
“Dictionary of Dates,” and Lord Ran-
dolph Churchill, also of England, was
able to repeat a page of print after a
single reading.
Old Custom Revived
Great Britain’s return to the gold
standard has revived an ancient cus-
tom at the Bank of England. At four
o'clotk each afternoon one of the old
employees emerges from his sanctum,
walks with dignity to the courtyard
and there posts upon a bulletin board
a list of the bank’s sales and pur-
chases of bar gold during the day.
At the same hour messengers from the
principal private banks, clad in their
shintest silk “toppers,” arrive in the
courtyard and, after copying the fig:
ures on the board, depart in all haste.
It is one of the happlest signals of a
return to gold currency after a lapse
of ten years.
says Prof. Conrad