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ENGLAND'S INCOME TAT.
Spurs Mont Heavily Upon Man ol
Average Income.
An effort made recently by bcv
ml enterprising members of 'Par
liament to Induce tlie House of
Commons to pass a graduated In
oome tax failed.
It Is held that the present uni
form Income tax, which is levied
upon all Incomes above $800 a year,
1a unscientific, because Its burden
U unequal. The present tax of thir
teen pence on each pound of Income,
approximating twenty-six cents on
ch $5 of Income.
All persons earning under $800 a
ear are exempt. This exemption
slleves the masses of the people
.om Income tax. The effort now ii
o obtain a scientifically graded tax.
"Xr. Channlig, M. P.. wants to amend
the law so that ir. o.nes exceeding
5800 and not excet '.lng $1,000 shall
be taxed at the rate of four cents on
each $3; Incomes above $1,000 and
below $2,000 eight cents, and In
oomcs between $4,000 and $",000
twenty cents.
Mr. Lewis, M.P., filso wants a
graduated Income tax, while Mr.
Trevelyan, M.P., favors a graduated
tax that will compel the rich to
pay In proportion to their wealth.
Mr. Trevelyan believes every person
with an Income exceeding $25,000
shall pay, In addition to the present
tax of twenty-six cents on each $5,
two cents on each $5 of incoma
above $25,000 and up to $50,000,
and four cents on each $5 of ln
aome above $50,000.
Under the law as nt present ad
ministered the Income tax bear'j
to ore heavily upon the man of aver
age Income than upon the very
wealthy. Nobody living In England
ean evade the Income tax, whether
Englishmen or foreigners. Even
the London correspondents of Ame
rican newspapers are not exempt
and have to pay income tax at tha
utiie rate as WUlam Waldorf Astor,
although their Incomes In many
oases are not quite as large. X.Y.
Journal.
GUARDING AGAINST FLOODS.
Warning Given Twenty-Eight l):iy
in Advance.
One of the most remarkable case.i
ef flood prediction on record was
the warning of the disastrous floods
f 1903. Twenty-eight days in ad
vance of Its coming the forecaster
at Washington, announced the ex
act time when the crest of a flood
would reach New Orleans, and said
that the height of the Hood would
-.n twenty-one feet. Punctually to
ha hour the flood came, and its
rest was 20 feet and 7 Inches, only
!ve laches less than the height pre
ilcted. The immense ocean of
vater had started one thousand
miles away. It had dropped from
the skies over a territory six time3
larger than the State of New York
(over 300,000 square miles); but
the weather man knew its rate of
march as surely as the engineer,
with his eye 5n the Indicator, knows
the speed of his locomotive. Thou
sands of men were set to work to
raise and strengthen the levees
and embankments, to clear the
wharves and river banks, to remove
women and children, to drive the
cattle to places of safety. When the
flood arrived the people were ready
for It. Comparatively few lives were
lost, ,and the damage to property,
while terrible, was millions and mil
lions of dollars less than it would
have been If the people had had no
sentinel to cry out the march of the
waters. Century.
Standard Oil in Roumanla.
Charles Wood, Bert Graham, C.
E. Detter, Joseph McCastle, and'
two other Muncie oil workers re
cently signed contracts to go to
Roumanla In the employ of tho
Standard Oil Company, where tho
Standard has come into virtual con
trol of the Immense Roumanian
field. One stipulation In their
agreement with the Standard Is that
on finishing their day's work the
men shall don evening clothes be
oause, it is set forth, there are but
two classes of people in Roumanla
the" peasants and tho rich and
the Standard desires to keep up its
prestige by having its employees
well dressed. Indianapolis News.
Royalty's Many Residences.
The Czar of Russia and the Em
peror of Germany might, if they
please, dispute with each other as to
which of the two owns the greater
number of palaces. Each might
Jeep in a different house every
night for a month and not exhaust
the number of his various dwelling
places. The Czar Is said to own
many country seats which are
kept up la every detail, furnished
and furbished and crowded with
servants Into which he has never
et foot. King Edward of England,
while regularly occupying only four
has a dozen or more houses which
are ready for him at all times.
Chicago Journal.
Locomotives as Fog-Makers.
An engineer asserts that tho Lon
don fogs are caused largely by the
discbarge of steam into tho aiv from
the 800 or more locomotives operat
ing In London area. One steim
plant of 2,000 horse-power.the engi
neer figures, will discharge Into tho
air twenty tons of steam per hour,
or sufficient to produce a fog twenty
feet thick and one mile square; and
what plants with a capacity of 65,
000 horse-power can do In the way
of fog production may, therefore, be
easily estimated. The . proposed
remedy U to convert this waste
steam Into electric power. Railway
Age.
I HI! IK
Br RICHARD RODGERS.
Those who met Margaret Lowry In
the busy whirl of society Raid she was
a coquette. Those who had boasted
of her friendship for many years and
who knew her kind heart and spirit of
good will said she was not appreciated.
They said that she liked society for
the amusement It afforded and that If
hearts were broken and hopes were
shattered by those big brown eyes It
was not Intentional. And so the two
sides argued and raged over the mat
ter. For Margaret Lowry was as
much admired as she was disliked.
The young women of the circle In
which she moved took great pains to
Impress on their men friends the fact
that .Margaret was a heiirtbrenker of
the ruthless kind that leads you up to
the very threshold of love and Just as
you are about to make the leap slams
the door of her heart before you and
shuts you out. Yet Margaret had the
largest following of admirers of any
young woman In town. The society
leaders knew this, and so did the socie
ty editors of the newspapers. And
whenever there was a Bocial function
It was "Miss Lowry who poured," and
the newspapers seemed to take particu
lar pride In printing pictures of Mar
garet in her finest gowns.
As for Margaret well, she enjoyed
the distinction of society's favor and
she revelled truly In the hearts which
were flung about her. It was her de
light to think of the lovers she could
count.
But It changed. When Henry
Thorpe came on .the scene society
noticed a change In Margaret Lowry.
The heartbreaker seemed to pause In
her mad career of breaking hearts.
Everybody liked Henry Thorpe. Not
only because when his father died and
left him to support his mother and
two sisters he had gone out Into the
world and had carved a place for him
self in the rock of fortunes, but be
cause he was manly .and true.
"Don't you suppose you will ever
fall In love?" asked Margaret of
Thorpe one night as they were sitting
out a dance apart from the swinging,
swaying crowd in the ballroom.
"Yes, I fully expect to fall in love,"
was the candid answer. "But not until
I find my heart's equal."
'What do you call your heart's
equal."
"A woman who is constant in her
affections; whose love must be pure
and holy; who will come to me because
she loves me from the heart and not
from the social side of her character."
And then Margaret Lowry had an
ambition.
Society wondered at the change In
her. Margaret herself found it was a
hard struggle. It was the battle of
the true emotions against the super
ficial feelings which society builds up.
Henry Thorpe worked his way
through the social field for two
years. The lionizing of society amused
him, but did not change him. Then
Thorpe and Margaret Lowry sat again
apart from tho gay music of the dance.
'I have had an ambition and I have
worked two years trying to realize It,"
she said.
"Have yon succeeded?" he asked.
"I don't know," she replied, and the
red glow on her cheeks bespoke more
to the young man than worlds of
words.
"Margaret, will you be my wife?"
he asked abruptly. Everybody knew
that Henry Thorpe was business-like In
everything be did, but no one thought
be would carry It into his love affairs.
"Are you sure you have found your
heart's equal " she asked.
''The heart true and constant beats
within your breast, and the love pure
and holy is that which I feel Is within
you," was the reply, and then it was
the old story of two souls with but one
thought.
Margaret's ambition bad succeeded.
THE ALLIGATOR PEAR.
It la Both Pood and Medicine, 8y Ita
Enthusiastic Admirers.
Many advocates of the use of the alii- '
gator pear, that lustrous green stranger
with the tough skin, say that It has the
merits of both food and medicine and
is remarkably nutritious, besides hav
ing that quality of flavor that seems
nicer the more you know about It.
It can be eaten one morning plain,
the next with pepper and salt, like a
salad, the next with lemon Juice and
sugar, and the partaker cannot tell In
which guise it is most delicious, being ,
60 satisfactory In all. I
Then It can bo served with madeira
or sherry as a dessert and made into a
pie If need be; only connoisseurs do not ,
especially recommend pie, except for ,
those pie enthusiasts who can be
taught to know and love a strange
fruit only through that familiar med- j
lum. It gains in popularity in New i
York yearly.
It is said the oil in the alligator ,
pear has superior nutritive value to j
the olive oil or to that yielded by pea- i
nuts, and that it Is almost equal to a 1
fresh egg In food value. It is in reality
one of the laurel family, not the pear.
Few people of the tropical cities
would willingly do without it, and it Is
valued and beloved both in Mexico and
In China. A small orchard of ths fruit
is bearing down by Palm Beach, Fla.
It was founded by French growers
who autlclpate great success. Cali
fornia now has several orchards of It
j The Brazilian variety Is pronounced
nner tnan either tne uuinese or Mexi
can. ne wbo knows not that be Is vic
timized and knows not that be knows
not, needs a guardian. Adapted.
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THE COLUMBIAN,
WHERE CHILDREN ABOUND.
Bounty I 'aid n Heavy Drain In Pro
vlncliil Resources.
In the province of Quebec there
are no less than 12,000 heads of
French-Canadian families each of
whom possesses a family of twelve
children or more. Under a provin
cial enactment these families are
entitled to a grant of 100 acres of
land from the provincial public do
main, and this law is now causing
much concern to the provincial au
thorities. When the law was passed provid
ing for this grant of crown lands to
productive married couples it was
never calculated that the number of
large families would prove so very
great. It has turned out that the
maMer Is proving a serious Incubus
upon the local government on ac
count of the many thousands that
have applied for the right of a grant
of land and the thousands that nre
yet to be satisfied. The French-Canadian
farmers marry young, and
they are a strong, hardy race of peo
ple. The fathers of those families in
variably choose the land, to which
they are entitled, as near as possi
ble to their own homes, lands that
are held under lease from the gov
ernment by lumbermen to cut their
timber thereon, but tho lumbermen
are bound by the terms of their
leases to relinquish such portion of
the lands as may be claimed for set
tlement, notwithstanding that the
limit-holders have paid the price of
their holdings to the government.
Lumbermen are therefore much
exercised over the present situation.
The tax on the timber limit-holders,
who are called upon to surrender
large portions of their timber areas,
has become so great that they are in
a quandary how to protect their in
terests. Applications for land grants be
came so numerous last year that tho
lumber merchants waited In a body
upon the Quebec Government, de
manding relief from the wholesalo
spoliation of their timber holdings.
As a consequence, the law was
amended so as to provide a bonus of
$50 in lieu of the land grant, and a3
many prefer the cash to the land,
It may serve to relieve the situa
tion somewhat.
BULL FIGHTING IN SPAIN.
Attended With Appalling Disaster
and Loss of Life.
Disasters succeed each other with
astonishing rapidity in the bull rings
of Spain.
On Easter Sunday eight matadors
in the various cities where bull
fights were being held, met with se
rious accidents. On Mayday, dur
ing a charity performance at Se
ville, an amateur matador belong
ing to a distinguished family was
gored through the throat and died
in the bull ring, a priest being hast
ily summoned to administer the last
Eacraments.
Nor does the list of troubles end
there. As three magnificent bulls
were being conveyed to the ring
from the train in which they had ar
rived from the country, tho most
powerful of the beasts knocked out
the side of the cage with a blow of
his head, and the animals on gain
ing their freedom charged the
crowd which had gathered to watch
their arrival. A panic ensued, the
people taking refuge in the stores
lining the streets and scrambling
into the traracars, many taking ref
uge in the trees.
One man was impaled on a bull's
horns and died in agony. A wo
man was tossed a dozen yards, and
three cab horses were gored. The
gendarmerie arrived with rifles, and
armed guards belonging to the bull
ring also appeared. Shots were
fired at the bulls, much lead lodging
In the neighboring fences and
breaking the windows of the houses.
Land of Twins and Triplets.
Scotland is the land of twins and
triplets, holding a long lead over j
her sister countries in this matter.
In twelve months no fewer than j
1,625 mothers gave birth to twins
and twenty-five presented triplets.
Scotland is among the few countries
of Europe where the proportion of
male babies is greater than of fe
males. Striking an average, it is
found that there are about 104,
males to every 100 females, but the 1
surplus of grown-up girls Is never- ',
thelcss large, as so many men travel
south and apparently neglect to
take the precaution to obtain return
tickets to the land of cakes. 1
There is yet another interesting
fact about Scotland. It is the land
of halo old age. ocent returns
show that during one year 673 peo
ple died between the ages of ninety
and one hundred. Chicago Journal
Heavy Fine for Smuggling.
A smuggling case which is proba
bly, unique, even in the strange an
nals of contraband, has Just been be
fore the Customs Court of Mar
seilles. Besides its novelty, the case
has a deeper interest as indicating a
new danger with which the West Is
threatened by the insidious East. On
board the French steamer Touralne
there was found a large quantity of
opium smuggled, not by any indi
vidual in particular, but by the
whole ship's company, and the
strange spectacle was witnessed of
the heavy fine of 2,000 being loVled
on all, every man in the vessel be
ing mulcted In his proportion, as
sessed according to the wages scale.
The incident of an entire crew
turned opium smokers is the more
startling, as among French ships
trading regularly to the East it Is
not by any means so rare as might
be supposed. Loudon Globo.
BLOOAteBURG, PA.
CALIFORNIA KHl'IT HOT.
Disease Raffles Plant Ihictors Gov
eminent to Assist.
A dreadful plant disease hns aris
en to trouble California fruit grow-
pp nnd Prnfii.iuw t? V. Smith. nS-
tdstant professor In plant pathology,!
has been asked to cure tho ill. He
has announced that the Government
at Washington would co-operate
with the Agriculture College here In
an attempt to wipe out tho lemon
brown rot, a disease which Is threat
ening the destruction of the entire
lemon growing Industry of Califor
nia. The brown rot In lemons consti
tutes a new problem for plant path
ologists, its character differing radi
cally from any fungus or parasitic
growth known to those who make
the expert study of such diseases a
specialty. Its effects thus far have
been to partly paralyze the lfinon
growing business, nearly 50 per cent
of the crop last year having been
spoiled by the brown rot. The dis
ease spreads a brown mold on tho
surface of the fruit, which eventu
ally shrivels the lemon, making it
unfit for use.
Three years ago the first sign of
the brown rot appeared In the lemon
orchards of Southern California. It
spread and attacked nearly every or
chard in the State. It is a pest not
known In other countries.
Profesor Smith and his assistants
have four plant diseases to which
they are devoting especial attention
these being the walnut blight, which
is receiving study at the hands of A.
M. West, Government expert, at
Whlttler, in Southern California;
pear blight, lemon brown rot and
sweet potato blight. The Legisla
ture has appropriated $30,000 for
this purpose.
NEGROES AS FIGHTERS.
Many Champions, lint No Winner of
World's Heavyweight Title.
Whatever may be tho final decis
ion on the color line in pugilism
the fact remains that no negro
heavyweight ever held the cham
pionship of the world. Probably the
only fighter of his race who came
near to such a distinction was Peter
Jackson. But John L. Sullivan, who
then wore the crown, blocked Jack
son's ambition by refusing to give
him a battle. There have been In
stances where colored scrappers have
fought for the championship of Eng
land. This happened many years
ago, though. Of late whatever glo
ries the negro has attained in the
prize ring, were won in America.
Among the smaller brigade the
negroes may be said to have been
very conspicuous. Three have held
the world's title at their various
weights. George Dixon was the ban
tam and featherweight champion of
the world for nearly ton years, and
only relinquished his laurels to Ter
ry McGovern when It was evident
that the noted negro was on the de
cline. Joe Gans, has been on top
for a number of years and Joe Wal
cott has never been directly beaten
for his belt of welterweight cham
pion. Walcott may now be consid
ered out of the hunt because of an
injury to one of his hands, which he
received In a shooting scrape about
a year ago. Walcott had ambitions
to become tho heavyweight leader.
He tried his skill against Joe Choyn
ski as a starter and triumphed,
knocking the Hebrew out in a short
fight. Walcott felt very proud of
his feat and some facetious sporting
writer dubbed him "Joe the Giant
Killer. N. Y. Times.
Laziness in Holland.
The man who is too lazy to work
keeps out of Holland if he Is wise,
or makes his escape as soon as he
discovers that 'there at least a
means has been found to mako him
work. When a prisoner or pauper
refuses to work he is lowered into a
cistern, which is provided with a
pump at the bottom. A stream of
water is turned on and the idler Is
left to his own devices. The capa
city of the pump is but slightly in
excess of the stream flowing Into the
tank, and to keep his head above wa
ter he must keep pumping.
As a rule, he spends some little
time before he flnda that the water
is slowly creeping upon him. Ho is
not urged to go to work, but pres
ently he takes his place at tho han
die and begins the task. By work'
ing quickly he is able to clear out
the water after a short time, but he
has to keep at work If he wishes to
keep dry feet. There have been
occasions when a stubborn offender
has refused to pump and fias quietly
floated upon the water until fished
out by the keeper, but this simply
doubles his task, and he is not taken
from the water until he is able to
keep afloat no longer.
Fate of Men Who Shot a Spy.
"While with the British army in
South Africa, "said Major Burchard,
an attache of the British Consulate,
"I was allotted on one occasion the
stern task of commanding a firing
party of ten men who executed a
Boer officer who had broken his pa
role and afterward been condemned
as a spy. He had assumed the uni
form of an English soldior and pene
trated our lines after having le
vanted when on his parole.
"Every member of that firing'
party has come to fatal or seilous
grief since that Friday morning
when in the gray dawn we shot the
spy. Sudden death or a bad acci
dent has befallen each one.
"My turn has come, as you see,"
And the soldier who had fought In a
half-dozen campaigns pointed to his
loft arm, which was In splints, hav
ing been fractured in a street car
accident.
'WHAT THE SIMPLON MEANS.
The New Tunnel Hns EfTiired A Ho
mantle and Historical Path.
The plorclng of the Slmplon hns
unhappily, brought with it the final
effacenient of one of the most ro
mantic and grandly historical paths
in human expedition the closing
curtain in the most picturesque
drama Europe has afforded. The
Napoleonic spectacle was full of
surprises; its argument narrates
the complications of society and
war; Its complexities detail the rn
thralment of personal magnetism
and force.
The superbly built road over the
Alps has remained one of tho most
fascinating diversions for the
thoughtful tourist, and has been
fraught with memorable experi
ences. From the moment of em
barkation In the yellow diligence,
when the whip was cracked over the
heads of tho post horses at. Iliieg,
until the arrival In the gorge of the
Gondo at Iselle, It was a continu
ously unfolding tableau of grandeur
and charm. The overture had be
gun back in tho Rhono Valley with
the castles of Sion and Slerre, the
towers of Louccho and Martigny, at
the foot of tho Great St. Bernard.
But when the ascension of tho Slm
plon began It became a long series
of windings tbiAugh fortified defiles
leading around terrifying abysses
and through the wildest of moun
tain recesses. One was awed by tho
splendor and stirred with conflict
ing emotions. It was indeed a ref
uge the hospice of tho Augustine
monks. Who that has experienced
it will ever forget the welcoming
hospitality of the four secluded
brethren in the desolate spot?
Century.
Diamonds for Div.winx Wire.
Diamonds are used quite exten
sively as dies for drawing wire of
the smallest sizes; for instance, the
size less than, say. .025 inch diam
eter. The hardest steel dies are1 not
suitable for this work, for the rea
wom that the wear upon them so en
larges the die that the diameter of
the wire is not uniform within the
required percentage of variation at
the beginning and end of a drawing.
Sapphires are used sometimes for
this work. Copper, silver and plati
num are the metals usually drawn
to the very small sizes.
With diamond dies it Is practica
ble to draw platinum to a diameter
of five ten-thousandths of an Inch.
An idea of the fineness of a copper
wire drawn to only three one-thousandths
of an inch in diameter may
be gathered from the fact that in
one pound of the metal there are
over six miles of such wire.
The weight of the diamond used
for thitt work is from four to five
carats, and they are uncut except
as to the die. The value of these
dies, which, of course, are not of
the first water, varies from $15 to
$20 a carat, nnd several hundred
thousand dollars' worth of dia
monds are utilized as dies in the va
rious wire factories of this country
alone.
Skilful, however, as must be tho
artisans who sink these small dies,
and attenuated ns tho wires drawn
through them may be, yet neither
will stand comparison with. the out
put of the spinneret of the common
spider, which ejects a single thread
of silk so fine that 18,000 threads
are required to equal in thickness
an ordinary single strand of sewing
silk. Electrical Review.
The South Becoming Active.
There is noticeable activity in the
development of -railroads lu the
South, and more especially toward
the south Atlantic and gulf ports.
Much of this is, no doubt, due to the
prospects of the Panama Canal,
which should be completed within a
decade at most. The great systems
of the middle west are striking for
outlets to the ocean highways, and
the short water route to the Orient
Is especially engaging their atten
tion. The eastern systems are pre
paring to conserve their own inter
ests in the great developments that
will come from this lmmenso work.
The Increasing product of the coal
mines of the South In Tennessee and
Alabama and southern Ohio and
Kentucky also Justify the eutabllsh
ment of depots at the southern coast
points for fuel for tho ships of com
merce, which are coming In fleets to
tho South for the splendid trade
that is growing almost beyond meas
ure in this section. Charleston (3.
C.) Post.
House of Puul Revere.
The house of Puul Revere, In
North Square, neur tho old North
Church, in Boston, from which h
started on his night ride to arouse
the countryside wuy up to Concord
and Lexington, April 19, 1775, wa8
to be torn down, but has been res
cued by a number of citizens,
among whom are Governor Douglas
and Mayor Collins. The sum of
$17,000 Is to be raised to buy the
property and put it in good condi
tion, restoring It to its colonial dig
nity, and making It a reliquary of
the past.
A Drain on India's Population,
Few probably realize the constant
drain on life in India by the plague
since it and the fauiiuo scourged
the whole country. Even during the
seven days ended on May C, 62,262
deaths were returned, showing a
decline of 4,478 011 the prev'ous
week. The mortality in the Punjab,
however, increased by over 15,000
la the same period. N. Y. Sun.
COMMODORE PEARY'S NEW SHIP
Specific Point" of Difference From
Ofber Arctic Ships.
First and foremost, she will bo a
powerful steamer, carrying all the
engine power which the slA of her
hull will contain. All previous arc
tic ships have been sailing ships,
with only accessory or auxiliary
steam power. The sail power of
the new steamer will be auxiliary
only.
Second, she Is the first purely foro-and-aft-rlgged
vessel yet biillt for
arctic work. None of the others
have been able to get away entirely
from the old-tlmo square-rig. Her
rig will be three-masted schooner,
and her sail area about three
fourths of the sail area or the typi
cal Maine schooner of tho SHtne size
of hull. In hull model the ship dif
fers from other arctic ships In sev
eral points.
Tho rake of her stem is much
more pronounced than in any pre
vious ship of her class. Her fore
foot Is more rounding, and her bows
are more wedge-shaped. This in
crease In the rake of tho stem not
only makes her effective as an Ice
breaker, but Is necessitated by her
unusual engine power, the incline of
the stem acting ns a buffer to her
Impact against the Ice.
The pronounced wedge shape hns
been given to her bows because the
greater portion of her work will be
that of slowly and laboriously
squeezing her way through and be
tween fields and fragments of heavy
Ice, nnd the sharper her bow the
more effective will be her engine
power. Harper's Weekly.
EARTH RISES LIKE DOUGH.
Action of Moisture on Mineral Mat
ter Nearly Wreek School.
A natural phenomenon recently
caused considerable damage to the
State Normal School Bulldlug of
Los Angeles, and there was also
great apprehension until the real
cause of the disturbance was
learned.
For some time past the centre of
the building hns been slowly rising,
being thrust upward by some mys
torlous agency. It has caused the
floors to bulge, doors and windows
to be racked to a degree to prevent
opening and shutting, and finally
the walls of the building began to
crack. The building frequently qui
vered as though from light earth
quake shocks, and pupils and teach
ers were in a chronic state of ner
vousness. State Superintendent of Publlo
Instruction Kirk investigated the
trouble, and digging down under
neath the centre of the building he
found great masses of swelling
earth, caused by tho crystallization
of ferrous sulphate.
The building stands over a great
body of mineral matter gypsum.
iron aluminum salt, sulphur and
other minerals. The ..chemical com
binations brought about by mois
ture penetrating the mass are what
has caused the disturbance. Many
tons of, the earth have been taken
ort, and Iron and stone supports in
troduced. Resting the Heart.
"Rest your heart now and then
during the day," said an instructor
In gymnastics.
"But the heart can't be rested," a
pupil objected. "It works incess
antly from birth to death."
"It rests the heart to lie down,"
said tho instructor. "Every night's
sleep of nine hours saves the heart'
the lifting of 32,400 ounces of
blood. Considerable rest there, eht
"When we lie down, you see, the
heart's action becomes slower
slower by ten strokes a minute.
Thus In an hour 600 strokes are
saved, and in nine hours 5,409
strokes. Each stroke pumps sis
ounces of blood, and therefore, la
nine hours the heart Is saved the la
bor of pumping 32,400 ounces.
"The heart often requires a rest.'
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Money Hotel Cashiers Dislike.
"It is a curious habit the great
American public has of wanting the
kind of money that hotel cashiers
dislike and have the least of," salt
one of those useful functionaries.
"Many are tho times each day
that I am culled upon, by ladles es
pecially, for 50 cent pieces. Quar
ters won't answer, they want half
dollars, though why that particular
coin I've never been able to under
stand. No cashier cares to keep
halves on hand, but always main
tains a good stock of quarters and
dimes for the ruason of their great
er convenience. Many of the guests
also beg for $2 uotes, despite the
fact that of all forms of currency
they are tho most objectionable. We
nevr take them voluntarily ,and pay
them out us fast as they conir in.
Modern 1 Inanclal Ranking.
Tho newer plan of using deposi
ted funds not so much for the dis
counting or tho regular commercial
paper of customers as for the pro
motion of more or less speculative
enterprises has come into use In an
swer to a natural demand and is
doubtless capable of being employed
to tho groat advantage of general
business as well us that of individ
uals. Hut the greater profits possi
hie In this kind of banking business
ueceaarily involve greater risks, and
these should uot be incurred witheut
the provision of extreme precau
tions. These precautious are to be
sought primarily In the Integrity
and exceptional-ability of those who
secondarily lu a proper system ol
governmental examination and eoart
ttrol. pfevtdenee (R, l.) Journal,
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