RACE-WAR I HAWAII
IMPORTED PORTO RICA.NS NO
ADDITION TO ISLANDS.
Refusing to Work, the Emigrants
Beg nnd Steal, and Recently They
Hnve Resorted to \;h
way Robbery.
Since the recent murder by a Porto
Riean of a very prominent white man
in Hawaii, the Porto Kuans in"the
Islands" have been looked upon with
increased disfavor; and to-day it is r
very difficult matter for a member of
the despised immigrants to get any sort
of a position, any work at all.
The present state of affairs leads one
familiar with Hawaii to meditation on
the almost ideal conditions that pre
vailed there a short time ago, when
there existed so little of race prejudice
and hatred. Formerly, white man and
brown, native and oriental, oriental and
westerner, dwelt together in a degree
of harmony remarked far and wide. Of
course, there was political friction,
some employer-and-employe misunder
standings, but on the whole life in the
land of constant summer flowed on
smoothly and pleasantly.
Then came the overthrow of the mon
archy. and the feeling between native
Hnd white man ceased to be of the early
character, then there was less and less
of the fraternal aspect, trusting de
pendence on a sort of elder brother
basis. A decided anti-haeole (against
the-whites) tendency sprang up and
waxed strong. Next, annexation came,
and the feeling increased in bitterness;
haeoles and natives for awhile saw no
community of interests.
Annexation brought in also, along
with its admixture of good and ill, a
body of Porto Ricans. laborers import
ed to take the place of the excluded
Chinamen; the projector of this solu
tion of the labor problem arguing that
the inhabitants of Uncle Sam's new de
pendency over in the West Indies doubt
less would fit in well with the sub-trop
ical land of Hawaii. But the Porto
Ricans proved very different indeed
from what was desired of them.
In one way they resembled the na
tives of the land they had invaded, they
were not overfond of work, but in every
other respect—and perhaps in the mat
ter of industry, too, for the Hawaiian
can work effectively when he does work
—they were very much inferior to that
gentle savage known as the Sandwich
Islander. The Hawaiians are naturally,
and of habit, amiable, hospitable, tract-
IN THE MOUNTAINS OK HAWAII.
able people, simple, inclined to good fel
lowship. Perhaps it. is no exaggeration
to say of them that revolting crime is
scarcely known among them, murder
by a Hawaiian being most unusual.
In addition, they are in their way a
proud, independent people, beggars
among them as few as real criminals.
The Porto Ricans that came over wh
trust were not typical of their country,
for if so, Porto Rico can have small
cause to boast of her common people.
The ones thrust upon Hawaii were lazy,
thieving, ill-tempered, quarrelsome folk.
The first thing they did when they were
landed was to beg. and stealing soon
■went hand in hand with their begging.
It was hard to get any real work out of
them, and they scattered about the is
lands, a menace to a locality. Prox
imity to a camp of Porto Ricans inevi
tably led to the annoyance of petty
depredations; they became as unwel
come as once were bands of gypsies to
the English. Hawaiians regarded them
front the first with amusement and con
tempt. Now. after a few years of the
infliction of their presence, they have
decided to ostracise them utterly.
The Chinamen, too, have grown weary
of them, both John and the Hawaiians
having been preyed upon by the new
comers. As a consequence of the uni
versal detestation, the Porto Ricans
now find themselves in very bad shape,
and it is rumored many of them are on
the verge of starvation throughout the
islands; people fearing to employ them
as well as thoroughly disliking the char
acter won by them in their short resi
dence. Many have become brigands
and taken to the hills, and the Porto
Ricans in Hawaii detract front public
peace and safety.
A few years ago, and a woman could
ride alone with perfect security up and
down the steep gulches, over the lonely
mountain passes of Hawaii, but now
even a man traveler feels a bit of risk
in making a long journey unattended
or undefended. In the past he has been
■wont to meet on his way only such
pleasant interruption as "Ohio" front
the Jap foot-traveler, "Goo Mawlin' "
from John Chinaman (riding along like
a sailor), Aloha from Hawaiian horse
man; all either kindly intentioned. or
afraid to appear otherwise. Now. even
before daylight fades, needy Porto
Rican is on the warpath against the
■wayfarer, after plunder, and a high
wayman that is ready with his knife if
te meets opposition.
iN ROYAL CIRCLES.
The empress of Russia spends no less
than SIO,OOO a year on scents, soaps aid
toilet waters, which she obtain* ex
clusively from Paris.
The German empress has a passion
| for flowers, but hat? only recently turned
| her attention to orchid growing;. She
| has now some valuable varieties and
j her orchid houses in Berlin are ex
| tensive.
King Edward endeared himself to the
' people of Glengarry, on his recent visit
| to Scotland, b" calling in person at the
cottage of a gardener whose child was
ill. and inquiring anxio"My for liie
little sufferer.
Eight of the 15 European thrones will
1 pass from father to son if all goes well
The sultan will probably be succeeded
by his brother and the King of Spain by
his sister, while there is no direct heir
to Queen Wilhelmina
The value of the art treasures at
Windsor Castle, whii> have been dis
covered and rearranged by King Ed
ward, is estimated at about $00,000,000.
So great is their value that the king has
been unable to get them insured so far.
Grand Duchess Olga, the eldest of the
czar's little daughters, is very fond of
popularity and on one occasion, while
visiting the old capital, she was heard
to remark: "I like staying at Moscow
much better than being at St. Peters
burg. At Petersburg the people only
cheer papa and mamma, but here they
always cheer me, too!"
Emperor William wrote a poem once,
which he submitted to a great literary
man who dined at the castle for that
purpose particularly. The critic read
It, and found his dual duties in conflict.
He had to advise an amateur poet with
an exceptional power for resenting a
hostile comment. He yielded only a
very little to the exigencies of the situ
ation. "This verse, your majesty," he
began, "seems to require alteration in
certain respects." The amateur took
the manuscript and conned it thought
fully. Then his brow cleared. "Why,"
he cried, as one seeing a sudden light.
"I have actually not signed the poem.
Give me a pen!" And the only fault he
saw in the work was forthwith reme
died.
PARAGRAPHIC PERSONALS.
Rear Admiral George Wood Pigman,
U. S. N., soon to retire, entered the naval
academy in 1861.
Rear Admiral Rogers, L . S. N., retired,
has been made president of a special
board for the improvement of the navy.
Henry Weber was a reporter on a
Denver paper a few months ago. He
promoted mining companies in Colo
rado and Nevada and now he is a mil
lionaire.
Henry M. Ledinger, of Washington,
D. G\, hale and hearty at the age of 83,
fitted up the telegraph experiment sta
tion in Washington for Morse, the in
ventor of the telegraph.
At last a monument is to be erected to
Maj. 1 Enfant, the French engineer
who drew the plans for the city of
Washington. It will be placed at his
grave at Green Hill, Md.
William Bell Cooper, for 25 years an
employe of the National museum at
Washington, is dead. Much of the
metal construction of Prof. Langley's
airship was his handiwork.
According to a report from Mexico
Gen. Luis Torres, who conquered the
Yaqui Indians of Sonora and slaugh
tered thousands of them, will be ap
pointed minister of war of Mexico, to
succeed the present incumbent, A.
Zmena.
Joseph Hayden, of Uniontown, Pa.,
says that he and his father have voted
at every presidential election held in
the United States. He is D 2 years of
age, and his father was a revolutionary
soldier and tne first man to make iron
west of the Allegheny mountains.
Mrs. W. S. Peabody, wife of the gov
ernor of Colorado, has been elected to
membership in the Archaeological In
stitute of America. For years Mrs. Pea
body has been interested in the study
of anthropology, and was connected for
some time with the bureau of ethnology
at Washington.
WINTER WEDDING FINERY.
Orange blossoms are no longer the
old-time floral fetich.
White roses, lilies of the valley and
white orchids claim a more modern dis
tinction.
Lace in profusion to trim her bridal
gown is the one aim of every fiancee
when her trousseau is in course of prep
aration.
November weddings, botli in town
and at country houses, have shown the
dominating favor in which transparent
white fabrics are still held.
The age of every bride-elect governs
her choice of material to a very great
extent nowadays, though the bodice
models may vary very little.
White satins in clinging softness and
peau de cygne, peau de soie, as well as
heavy but soft French taffetas, are by
no means left out of the bridal choice.
There have been recent wedding gowns
where both silks and satins of this sort
have been used as frilled flounces, along
with mousselaines and malines, to the
greatest advantage.
BREEZY BREVITIES.
Freezing politeness is on a par with
cold comfort.
The most brittle thing in the world is
a good resolution.
The difference between a cook and a
chef is about SIOO a month.
Some men are too busy to make
friends and others are too lazy to make
enemies.
One good turn may deserve another,
but this doesn't result in perpetual mo
tion.
The rain falls alike on the just and
the unjust, and. furthermore, they both
gat stuck in the same mud.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904.
LITERARY LITTER.
The greatest living authority on the
aborigines of Australia is W. Howitt.
He has sailed from Melbourne for
to see through the press an
elaborate work embodying the results
of all his recent researches in aborig
ines ethnology.
James Jeffrey Roche, the author, in
a very amusing story teller. One of
his friends thus identified him to an
unknown admirer: "If you see two
men sitting together, and one of them
is all broken up laughing, the other
one is James Jeffrey Roche."
Copenhagen has lost its pro
lific novelist by the death of Louis De
Moulin. He -ised to write half a
dozen stories at once. Many of them
were printed in the Danish Review,
and he is said to have been bound by
contract to furnish at least five mur
ders in each story.
Joseph Pulitzer in his article in
the North American Review on"This
College of Journalism" makes this pa
thetic allusion to his blindness: "If
my comment on these criticisms shall
seem to be diffuse, and perhaps repe
titions, my apology is that —alas!
I am compelled to write by voice, not
by pen, and to revise the proofs by
ear, not by eye—a somewhat difficult
task."
Of all authors, Henry Harland prob
ably writes the smallest hand. So in
finitely minute are his letters that on
one page he has more words than usu
ally cover half-a-dozen pages of ordi
nary manuscript. His chirography is
very difficult to decipher, and it re
quires an expert to make it out. The
typist who transcribes his books for
him regularly uses a magnifying
glass.
Rider Haggard has done a great
many things besides write the stories
through which lie is best known to
the public. Back in the '7o's he was
a prominent personage in Africa —
master of the high court of the Trans
vaal, and the man who, with Col.
Brooke, hoisted the British flag over
the South African republic. He waS
a mighty hunter in those days, too,
and many of the adventures so ex
citingly set out in his novels are
written directly from his own expe
riences. Some years ago he took up
the investigation of the condition of
agriculture in England, and is now
noted for his tireless activity in the
interest of the British farmer.
BITS ABOUT RAILWAYS.
The directors of the Great Western
railway (England) are about to intro
duce an American engine for their long
distance expresses.
The initials, "M. C. 8.," seen on so
many freight cars, stand for "Master
Car Builders," and refer to standard
measurements of the car and standard
appliances, such as couplers etc.
Lucius Tuttle, now president of the
Boston & Maine railroad, was the first
man to hold the title of "passenger
traffic agent." It was bestowed upon
him by President Van Home, of the
Canadian Pacific railway.
The Chinese of An-Sang recently
sold to the East China railroad the
franchise for running a branch of their
railroad through the city cemetery, an
almost unheard-of thing, as the Chinese
have believed it the worst sacrilege to
permit a railroad near the burying
places of their dead.
Last year coal constituted about 40
per cent of the total tonnage of the
American railways. To carry a ton in
England from the Yorkshire coal fields
to London, a distance of 158 miles, costs
$1.87, while coal is carried from the
Carbondale coal region in Illinois to
Chicago, 276 miles, for 75 cents a ton.
A speed of 150 miles an hour is ex
pected to be reached in the new tests
which will be made on the high-speed
electric line near Berlin. The last ex
periments which were made on the
specially laid track from Berlin to Zos
sen resulted in a speed of over 130
miles an hour. It is now proposed to in
crease the speed. The tests will begin
within a few months.
A new railway track layer, with a
crew of 40 men, will lay two miles of
track a day, The wack layer has a huge
crane, GO feet long, which projects for
ward over the road and hauls behind it
a train of 16 flat cars loaded with ties
and rails. A continuous double line of
cars moves constantly over rollers and
carries the ties with it. Both rails and
ties are seized at the proper time by the
machinery and placed 011 the road in
front of the train, where they shortly
form part of the track over which it
passes. This device is said to be the
most expeditious as well as economical
track layer in the world.
GASTRONOMICAL GRIST.
Select a firm Hubbard squash; wash
thoroughly, cut into sections, orange
fashion, and place in a pan and bake. If
preferred, the squash may be parboiled
and each section thickly sprinkled with
maple sugar before placing in the oven
to bake.
Sprinkle the bottom of a pudding dish
thickly with cracker or stale bread
crumbs, pepper and salt; then drop bits
of butter over it. Next add a layer of
chipped American cheese, and so on.
alternating the layers of crumbs and
cheese till the dish is filled. Over the
top turn a lightly beaten egg. Set in the
oven and bake for a half hour.
Butter thick slices of bread. Separ
ate the yoik and white of an egg, care
fully preserving the shape of the former
and beating the latter to a stiff froth.
Turn this beaten white over the but
tered bread, then put the round yolk
in the center. Sprinkle salt and pepper
over the whole and set in the oven to
brown. This is not only very dainty to
look at, but extremely appetizing as
well.
MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.
Tobacco has been discoverea by M.
Delie. a French physiologist, to have
a selective action upon the auditory
nerve. He, therefore, cautions modera
tion in the use of the drug, and avoid
ing it altogether where deafness has
already begun, or where there is a fam
ily history of such troubles.
For two years the conviction has
been growing upon Dr. Menzer. of
Halle, that articular rheumatism is a
parasitical disease, due to a streptococ
cus that enters the organism through
the lungs. Acting on this theory, he has
prepared a curative serum, with which
lie has very successfully treated both
acute and chronic rheumatism.
A peculiar sign of lead poisoning is
known as "the dead line." This is a
black deposit of lead sulphide between
the inner surface of the gums and the
teeth, and a late medical writer notes
that it. is almost invariably present
whenever there is the slightest space
between the gum and the teeth. The
smallest distinct fragment is as signifi
cant as a large deposit.
The much-ridiculed name of "liquid
crystals" is still retained by Dr. Otto
Lehmann, who has publl bed au en
larged list of the organic compounds
having the peculiar properties. These
substances, as was first made clear 15
years ago, have two melting points and
at intermediate temperatures move
freely like liquids, but polarize light
like crystals and show the dichroism of
crystals. Whether they are really like
solid crystals is still disputed.
The pulse register of Dr. Gartner, of
Vienna, has proven very successful in
1 lessening the surgeon's work in watch-
I ing the circulation of patients under
! anaesthetics. It consists of a watch
like box. which is attached to the pa
tient's forearm, and with hands that
are moved over the dial by a sensitive
1 spring, very accurately showing the
pulse and blood-pressure vibrations,
it ewn reveals pulse action so feeble
that the finger cannot feel it.
Students of the brain are hampered
bj the scarcity of specimens of famous
brains. The French Societe Mutuelle
d'Autopsie, founded in 1881, now has
ten brains or more, including those of
Gambetta. Bertillon and G. de Mortii*
let: the Cornell Brain association,
I founded by Prof. Wilder, in 1889, has
i bequeathed to it 70 brains, of which 11!
have been delivered and preserved, and
the American Anthropometric society,
started in Philadelphia in 1890, has six
I brains of scholars. 111 Sweden, Retzius
is making a comparison of the brains
I of an astronomer, a mathematician, a
! physicist and a pedagog
RECENT INVENTIONS.
Safety reins for runaway horses is
]an Austrian's invention. Two small
| rollers can by means of the reins be
j made to press against the horse's
J windpipe when desired. The animal
! must stop at once for want of breath.
Some one has invented a scheme for
I inclosing eggs in metallic cases and
I then giving them to a hen to hatch
out. Just what the advantage of the
scheme is is hard to understand, but
an iron-bound chicken will be bad
news for the boarding-house.
Mrs. Alice Galleher Sessums, wife
of Rt. Rev. Davis Sessums, bishop of
Louisiana, has received from the
United States patent office letters cov
ering an improvement upon the bod
kin. Mrs. Sessums has already re
ceived three flattering offers for the
patent.
A Minneapolis genius has invented
a 2(i-inch umbrella which will fold up,
, frame and all, into a little case to be
; carried in the pocket. The handle
and all the ribs consist of fine and
i very strong steel tubes in sections,
| which telescope one inside the other,
i The covering is of very fine silk,
| which takes up but very little room.
The wooden handle of the umbrella is
| hollow, and receives all the rest of the
telescoping umbrella rod when shut
up. A small and light case, not too
big for the pocket, is provided to con
tain the whole.
A new fuel successfully tested at
Muncie, Ind., ' has been invented by
Jacob Smith, a glass worker. It is
said to possess more heat units per
pound than either coal or wood, it
can be manufactured and sold at a
profit for half the cost of coal, and
jit does not smoke, except when a
j strong draft is used. The tuel is made
largely from the refuse of the pulp
mills. The refuse, a combination of
soda and lime, is mixed with crude
rril, and the finished product resem
bles putty. It may be cut with a
spade and thrown into a furnace or
beneath a boiler. No kindling is
necessary, for a match touched to it
will light it readily, the material
burning with an intense heat.
FOR FASHION'S FOLLOWERS.
Fluffy tailored skirts are the most
striking departures.
Pale colored gloves are worn as fre
quently as white ones.
For the knockabout suit there is noth
ing like good corduroy.
White jet is used with beautiful effect
on some of the white gowns.
Long gloves with wrinkled tops are
worn with the elbow sleeves.
With the silk dressy gown a cockade
of silk to match is worn iu the hair.
Shoulders are spreading out to a pro
digious and most unlovely width.
Velvet flowers in lovely shaded colors
are used on some of the best hats.
Tight bodices and loose blouses will \
share honors for some time to come.
New ostrich plumes show the light, 1
color at the stem, deepening toward the ;
Up.
One plaited length of ribbon looks like !
a cross between & cockade and a pom- !
l>on.
! NOTES HERE AND THERE.
It takes mail at least seven days to
j go from Chicago to London,
j San Francisco is thinking of having
: a world's fair 011 the completion of the
I Panama canal.
! The skeletons of four men who mys
teriously disappeared there, between
wo days, 20 years ago, have been dis
covered in an old water hole near
I 3uartrite, Ariz. They were on their
way to California and no doubt were
| murdered for their money.
Eastern capitalists have bought
! three of the heaviest timbered canyons
j in the Rockies near Colorado Springs,
Col., with the purpose of making a
| i;reat game preserve. More than 300
| liead of elk have already been pur
•hased. It is reported that the princi-
I pal stock will be elk, deer and ante
: :ope.
A curious effect of the war in the
far east is the migration of sharks to
European waters. The submarine ex
plosions are supposed to have fright
ened the creatures, which have passed
through the Suez canal, and have been
making havoc among the fishes of the
Adriatic. Invasion of the Black sea
even has been feared,
j The forestry department of the Unit
' ed States government has three expert
men in the field at Colorado Springs.
I Col. Close to the city they have es
tablished nurseries and they have col
j lected and planted the seeds which
with growth will replace the fallen and
burned timber on Pike's Peak and the
adjacent range of the Rockies. The
work may cover a period of 20 years
1 and it is estimated the expenditure
i will approximate $2,500,000.
Mexico is credited with being at the
head c* the Latin-American countries
in the matter of letters. Besides pos
sessing the oldest organs of Spanish-
American journalism, it is said to have
iin active existence the firrt iibrary
established in America, which is now
at least HOO years old. In Chili, Ar
gentina and Peru there are papers that
have been published for 50 years and
more. One is the El Comercio. of
, Lima, which has had a career of 60
. years of uninterrupted daily issue.
YARNS BY THE WAY.
Miss Mary Manning, the author
while seeing Rome for the first time,
was anxious to include .1 visit, to the
tomb of Caesar. Meeting a citizen on
the street, she inquired, in her best
Italian, the location of the tomb. The
man looked greatly embarrassed. "I
am desolated, signorina," he apolo
gized, speaking in excellent English;
"I do not know. Caesar has been dead
so long!"
A country sexton in England offi
ciated at a funeral clad in a red
waistcoat. At the conclusion of the
obsequies, the vicar gently remon
strated with the old grave-digger, say
ing: "Robert, you should not wear
a red waistcoat at a funaral; you hurt
' the feelings of the mourners." Rob
' ert replied, placing his hand on his
j breast: "Weil, what does it matter,
sir, so long as the heart is b'ack?"
A very pretty manicurist in Bond
1 street recently was attending upon
j Joe, and, as she added tie finishing
: touches, she looked up with limpid
| eyes, and said: "We are always so
1 glad to have testimonials from our
customers. Do you mind?" "Delight
; ed," responded gallant Joseph.
Whereupon he wrote upon his card
and handed her the following: "There
is a divinity that shapes our ends."
Full of pitfalls for the foreigner
who is logical is the English lang
guage. A Frenchman was invited to
lunch at a club of "workingwomen"—
an association of progressive Eng
lish society leaders. "Ah," said the
Frenchman, "these workingwomen,
they are the wives and daughters of
your workingmon." His hostess air
ily explained that the two phrases did
not balance. "The workingrean," she
said, "wears his garters outside his
trousers, and does not use a handker
chief. But the working woman"—siie
glanced around—"wears rather nlc?
hats, don't you think?"
TALES OF THE TOTS
"Papa, did you ever see an artificial
whale?"
"There is no such thing, my son."
"Then where does artificial whale
bone come from ?"
Little Margie—Mamma, the lady up
stairs is a widow, isn't she?
Mamma —Yes; that is, she's a grass
widow.
"Why, mamma, did her husband die
of hay fever?"
Fred (at breakfast) —What kind of
fish is this, papa?
Papa—Planked shad, my son.
"Well, 1 wish you would tell cook
to pull the splinters out of the plank
next time."
"Johnny," said the teacher, "can you
tell me what a coincidence is?"
"Yes, ma'am," answered Johnny.
"We've got one at our house."
"Well, what is it?" asked the
teacher.
"Twins," was the prompt reply.
"What shall I get you for your
birthday?" asked a father of his five
year-old daughter, who was suffering
from toothache.
"I'd like some teeth like mamma's,
so I can take 'em out when they ache,"
replied the observing miss.
"So you have a stepmother?" said
the lady to j. little girl of six.
"Yes, ma'Arti," was the reply.
"Well, you have my sympathy,
dear," continued the lady.
"Oh, I don't need it," rejoined the
small maid. "Give It to papa."
FOREIGN CELEBRITIES.
Alfred De Rothschilds, one of the
fatuous banking family, has a private
circus at his country seat, Halton House,
England. The ring, about 100 yards in
diameter, is surrounded by trees.
Eminent German professors are be
coming proverbial for their longevity.
The latest to celebrate his seventieth
birthday is Ewaid Hering, of the Ger
man university at Prague. Like Helm
holtz, Brucke. Dubois. Fechner and
others, he has done original work ib
several branches of science, but perhaps
his most important discoveries relate
to the physiology of memory.
On Lord Kitchener's recent tour in
the interior of the Simla hills he re
ceived an address of welcome from the
rajah of Bashahr, who assured him that
"the songs of your excellency's stain
less glory, of the sincere, impartial and
the honest acts of the late Transvaal
war (which are the real ornaments of
the honorable officers of your excellen
cy's position), are cheerfully sung by the
heavenly nymphs in Paradise."
William Evans, formerly protector
of Chinese in the Straits Settlements,
who was induced by the British gov
ernment togo to South Africa to super
intend the arrangements connected with
the importation and the housing of the
Chinese in South Africa, has refused t.i>
remain there. He said he would never
consent to be a slave driver, and that
the conditions under which the Chinese
worked in South Africa were inde
scribable.
The late Sir William Vernon Har
court, though an ardent lighter, was
one of the most forgiving and kind
hearted men. On one occasion, years
ago, T. P. O'Connor asked him in the
house of commons regarding the size of
cells in convict prisons. Sir William
gave the desired information with sucli
exactness as to suggest a laugh in the
house, but cheers followed when the
head of the home office quietly ex
plained that he had considered it his
duty to visit several such cells, so as to
know by personal knowledge how the
unfortunate beings who were con
demned to dwell there were accustomed
to fat©
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
At the international poultry show,
j Alexandra palace, London, November
9, a partridge Wyandotte rooster was
sold for SB25 —a record price.
In spite of the war, the cultivation
of European classical music is rap
idly extending among the better
classes in A native Beethoven
society has been formed at Tokio.
England has more doctors, propor
tionately speaking, than any country
in Europe. For every 100,000 persons
England has 150 medical men; Ger
many, 48; Switzerland, 42, and Russia,
15.
A railway i 3 about to be construct
ed near Elsinore, which will run
across the sj>ot traditionally believed
to be the grave of Hamlet. Numerous
signed protests against the projected
railway have been addressed to the
government.
A sausage exhibition is to be held
in Berne next spring. The Berne butch
ers have offered a prize for a popular
sausage which must be "nourishing,
strengthening and cheap." It ia
stated that 1,785 varieties of sausage
will be shown at the exhibition.
Prof. Mendelejeff, who occupies a
prominent position in Russia, declares
in a recent article that all Russians,
from the czar down, know that many
things in their country are not as
they ought to be, and that reforms
are urgently called for. "These re
forms," he adds, "will come inev
itably after the war with Japan, be
cause this war has, I think, opened
everyone's eyes."
STOLEN SQUIBS.
She —"Are you sure you love me for
myself alone?" He —"Did you think I
loved you for your mother?"
"How well Mrs. Packenbam holds
her age." "Yes. She had ceased to be
a mere girl even before Port Arthur
began to fall."
Visitor—"l've bought you a few
chocolates. But I suppose you always
have a quantity of sweets?" Ethel—
"No, 1 don't. I eat 'em all."
Miss Fibb —"I think Harold's en
gagement with Miss Sweeney must b«
broken off. I never see them together
any more." Mr. Jibb—"Ah! That's a
sure sign they're married."
First Commuter—"Let's slide into the
next car. Here comes Noowedri and he's
just gotten his first baby." Second
Commuter—"l'd rather stay here. Gog
glebat is in the next car and he's just
gotten his first automobile."
"I suppose you have made it a rule in
politics never to forget a 'friend."
"There's no danger of that," answered
Senator Sorghum. "If a man has clofifl
anything friendly for you in politics he
never lets you forget it."
HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
Some husbands never know how
much they are beloved until their wives
want a new hat.
Look after the pennies—your wife
will see that the dollars don't get away
from you.
Some women are born bargain hunt
ers. others contract the habit at the age
of three or four.
The man who is always giving
pointers on how to manage a wife can
usually be found in the woodshed after
supper smoking his evening cigar.
When a man's hat won't fit him in
the morning it is not always a sign that
he's been out with the boys the night
bet ore. He may have got the best of an
argument with his wife.
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