NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tur Argentine
weary of political
Republic has become
intrigues and
i
! Their Greatest Dexterity is Between
Thirty and Forty.
settle down to trade and commerce, and
to do her utmost to develop her resources
and pay her debts,
There is such a demand for houses
Kenova, W. Va., that they cannot be built
fast enough. Five
tively wanted last week
to Graham, Va., and five story
houses were torn down, carried to Kenova
in sections, erected and occupied, al
days.
nt
houses were impern
Trains were sent
Iaree two
in six
ExGaraxp’s wheat area diminished
by 510,000 acres, or over 20 per cent. last
year, while at the same time the number
of pigs was increased half a million, or 21
per cent. It is evident that
cannot profi
stuffs, but no reason has yet
for the turn toward pork.
WHS
ountr)
the ¢
fitably produce its own bread
nd
been for
A WESTERN man is in a pec
He is wanted for
to a large fortune.
tune he
fers to take no chances
the fortune.
money or his
mists and co
watching for his ac
the two
ar quandary.
murder, and also as |
If he claims ti
must risk hanging, and, i
of that,
is literally a
fe, and professional pessi-
il be interested
tion to decide
he
case of
WiliCi
is wi
rth the biggest risk.
Tue oil fever
increasi
other far Western States, and
dents of specul
pects that characterized the
ern fields vears ago
there. O.0 prospecting
over the coast country, ar
strikes have been made,
California, The oil field
Orange Coun
productive.
Moszs Cravns
ton, Penn. the
said, of being the brother
was killed 118 vears
a thing ld i
thought,
Iain is 83 ye
five years af
(1777
lost his lif
twenty-f
lain is tl
Pre
weather bure
loons can be
ting in options
Craze in
are
enjoys
r. Chamber.
born t
Germantown
18 vears old,
,
latter was the oldest of
and Mr.
Chamber
teoroloric:
by means of
and inven
in New Jersey
also sows
and
namite |
vile odo
burglars
a sugg
vauits ag
A
hat
lately
Yujiro
that a
several
Chie
to “The
Holmes,
the Am
idea of t
rest
cident onl
‘great
domain
setts
tions.
Ixcex:
of self
men )
lives that they
living
mode «
acal is
New
his head :
kerosene
his throat.
have been expected
ast
have at
life that he p
be no doubt. comments the Tribune. that
in this case at least an
was responsible for the
suicide.
#
+ §
ie re
ot ry "
oO determine
to
accounts the sieved
man Fas be
least a chance of holding on to th
rized so lightly here can
unbalanced mind
strange attempt at
Jos
Universi
Davip Srann
land Stanford
made some remarks concerning co
tion and matrimony.
lead to matrimony 2”
swers, ‘Most certainly it and this
fact need not be and cannot denied
But such marriages are got usually prema.
ture. And it is certainly true that no bet.
ter marriages can be made than th
founded on common interests and intellec.
tual friendships. A college man who has
known college women is not drawn to
women of lower ideals and inferior train.
ing. He is likely to be strongly drawn
towards the best Lie has known. A college
HIPAN.
“Does co-edt
he asks, and an.
does:
he
yee
accept the attentions of inferior men. [It
is part of the legitimate function of higher
education to prepare women as well
men for happy and successful lives,”
as
Avr our public men who have given the
subject of forestry careful and intelligent
attention are unanimous in the opinion
that public opinion should be fully aroused
Lto its importance. In a letter to the
American Forestry Association, ex-Senator
Edmunds writes : ‘“T'he subject of forestry
Sof immense importance to the future
welfare of all our countrymen, ns well m
Vermont as in the arid regions of our one
country.
the remediless evils of stripping the hills
and mountain sides of their forests great
or small, and I have seen in our temperate
and well.watered climate of Vermont how
great has been the loss from reckless tim.
ber cutting. The devastations of a dozen
years can hardly be repaired in half a cen.
tury, and so every energy of reason and
persuasion ought to be brought to bear
upon the public intelligence to avert the
evils that so seriously threaten large parts
of the republie from the destruction of the
forests.” ‘
The actunl amount of dexterity in
! the human hand has been measured
with more or less accuracy, and its
value in mechanical employments
traced form youth to age. How the
hand grows old, gradually lusing its
skill, has been described by Bir
James Crichton Browne, the British
labor student, who has made a long
course of investigations in the Eng-
lish rural towns. high
skill and endurance, this authority
says. is from thirty to forty, the
hand after that beginni y lose its
muscular delicacy and
ness
Between the ages of seventeen and
eighteen the hand of the boy
into the hand of the man, and %rst
becomes valuable from a commercial
point of view. If a workman is tem-
perate and industrious and continues
to improve in his trade, nnd’s
dexterity increases until he is thirty.
After forty the muscles re-
spond nearly as readily and certainly
to the orders of the brain, and
juality and quantity of the
‘one begins to fall off. While a man
th ard
‘inlly dextrous ean often Keep
his high degree of skill long past the
period of
ne t
ng
its
supple
Crows
2 v
118
ado not
wv
J
wv
in especialy fine heal one
pe
tion. This compar ly early ago
ing of the hand is an interestin
remarkable fact,
as a rule, that a carefully us
becomes the most valuable.
| British statesmen
rank are under forty; most
of them are above fifty, and often ten
years older than that. In the trades,
on the other hand, the
workmen, with hardly an except
are under the age of two score
The scale of the
QL
rade, for example, is a good
as it is after
1
t highest
ion
WHUes in
¢
t
tion of this
grow
}
", '
vest, in
" :
tendency of the han
i
old so early
his prime,
turner can make 6
in life. At his very
a skilled
240 iIVOry
a day on his
ceives io Sitiiil
. sral
tricks 1 8} g this
bsurd coming
the
and
while they
new
VEAr, one t¢ he most
fuesday
clic nt
at
usual
foaming
hrough the
nt
HOUR
h and going t
convulsions, a great crowd gathered
about hi and there was much ex~
citement for a time, nearly every
] booth being deserted tempora-
in,
He recovered in a few minutes and
went about his business
immediate demand
sympathetic people
dimes into his hand
could reach for them.
er too much for one
and in a few minutes
startled by a frightful scream,
this man was jumping
air, rolling over and over, tearing up
the grass with his teeth
the dickens generally. As a fit it
put the case of the epileptic quite
into the shade, and he was apparent-
ly so much more a subject for com-
miseration that on his recovery,
which came in due course,
was able to do more business in half
an hour than he usually finds in a
day. After the crowd left he gave n
knowing wink, and remarked that
‘‘that fellow over there needn’t think
he's got any dead cinch on fits, see!”
finding an
Wares,
the
his
pouring
fu
This was rath-
of the gentry,
for
fast as he
seen
A Famous Remedy.
““The Sun Cholera Cure.’ so called
from its having been published in the
New York Sun during the last chol-
ern epidemic, was used with great
success then, and has ever since been
in use as n remedy for diarrhoea and
similar diseases, which it controls ina
perfectly marvelous manner. ‘Equal
parts each of tincture cayenne pep~
per, tincture opium, tincture rhu-
barb, essence peppermint, spirits
eamphor. Take one-half tesspoonful
in water every two hours; in severe
cases one teaspoonful evary half
Jour.” If taken at first appearance
of cholera symptoms this is said to
be a certain cure. The prudent and
| considerate head of a family will see
the wisdom of having this mixture
| promptly made up by a careful drug-
| gist for immediate use in case of ne-
| cessity, Get it at once,
Hidden City in the North.
The story of the hidden city re-
vealed to the world by a mirage seen
over the Muir glacier in Alaska has
once more been started, says the |
tochester Democrat and Chronicle
Several alleged observers have
this alleged mirage, the most favored
of them being an
White, of Philadelphia, who on June |
21st, ‘'some years ago,”’ was able to |
study it for nine hours, from 11.30
a. wm. to 9.30 p. m., through a pow- |
erful glass. Mr, White is quite cer-
tain didn't dream mirage,
becuuse he has seen photographs of
it. taken by other people. The pho-|
tographs do not look in the least like |
the mirage Mr. White saw, but that
is immaterial to his argument, which
that the mirage could very
well have been photographed unless
the mirage were visible, that if the
mirage were there no
reason why he, White
not have he were
Muir glace proper time
the year:
i
i
seen
this
he
is not
visible, is
Mr.
if
ier as ie
that
Muir glace
should
seen it at the
indisputably,
be proper
decidedly
having,
at the jerat t
time of
ned to believe ti
been
the year, he 18
ken in his rece
£ mirage.
ilere
Million Houses
the world
ven resident
loadon has
increased in thi vary rapid-
ly, for at i ’
sent century the
was only I
New York
population of otdon at that
1.800) was ! It isnow 4
So it has reased nearly five
thi
ERY
fold
P14
but nuinber of houses has
t increased in nu»
Paris has $0 000 houses
Jose of the Franee-Prussian War it
had 70,000) At we of the Na-
poleonic wars 28.000, The
area of tho cit
while,
The average number of ients in
a house in Paris is twenty-five,
arge arn ’
At the
*
the Ci
had
y has extended mean-
it
rea)
Valuable Bookmarkers in Old Books
It is told of Xavier Marmier that
he one day discovered a 1,000 franc
note between the leaves of a book
which he had picked up for a few
gous at a street stall. A similar. but
happened to a young doctor itn Tarin.
While turning over the leaves of a
book which had been bequeathed
along with others to the medical fac-
ulty of Turin by a certain Dr. Gior-
dani he was astonished to find be-
tween the pages no less than 40 bank
notes, amounting to the handsome
sum of 40,000 lire. This incident will
no doubt give rise to a mostinterest-
ing cwse in the Turin courts. Al-
though Dr. Giordani undoubtedly be- |
queathed his books to the library of |
the faculty, his other heirs will hardly |
be disposed to admit that he intended |
to leave it his monetary savings as
well. Pos«ibly. however, the library
trustees are quite prepared to prove
that the decensed doctor was in the
habit of utilizing ‘his thousand-lire |
bank notes as bookmarkers.
A
The Alligator Was Lively.
W. A. Gilbert, the gunsmith, and |
a party of friends have returned from |
a hunting and fishing cruise in Nas- |
sau Sound in the yacht Fanny, and |
Mr. Gilbert has good reason to con
gratulate himself that he is not |
sleeping his last sleep in the stomach
of a monster ‘gator,
The 'gator was found ore morning
———————— ————
of
part
bosom the
and a
Mr.
“Crack!
half
Then he
Mr
dozing on the placid
sound, only his nose
his head protruding
bead him.
the gun, and
leaped out of the water
churned it into a bloody foam.
Giilbert hurried to
pumped eight mi builets into him
I'hen the saurian still, and Mr
(zilbert concluded that he
dead.
Not caring to lose
he pulled off his clot]
the ‘gator to tio a
He had
suddenly,
and hor
around,
on
he gator
wile id :
up
re
ny
Wis
adjusted
surprise
wheeled
be slayer.
Mr. Gilbert
presence of mind,
surface the
he
rose to the
him again, and on
clipping pace Mr
again Three time
was repeated.
reached the sl
winded,
& 1 OO
| of
waiter
the quil
Sumatra, Nature's Museum.
A Japanese Bell,
garding the tric
smugglers te
2
iis
i to take
forwards
case where
woman i
wards
bottle
id
use
and
It always
but it wasn't.
made of opaque
snd contains
iow did we find o
accident. One day the baby dropped
the bottle right in the gangway, and
instead of the white fluid we expected
to see, there brown-gold one
and an odor like anything but milk
The bottle
MIUKY-I00KIr
Was
ig
Rianss Dest cognac
sir? By
sheer
Was a
The Spade’s Testimony
According to a recent statement of
Professor Savre, it is how determined
beyond a doubt that there was such
a person as the Queen of Sheba, and
that there was such a district from
which she hailed, and that her jour-
ney to see Solomon was one of the
most uatural things to be expected.
The spade did it. And we were told
that there was no such person, no
such place, ete. Wonderful thing
that spade. And it has come to pass
that the testimony of a piece of old
crockery is worth a dozen statements
from the Bible——ah me!
An Interesting Petrifaction.
One of the most interesting of Dr,
Girolamo Segato’s petrifactions has
a Bavarian village, and will be rent
It is the head of a young woman who
with the blonde hair wavy and soft
us that of a living person.
The Doctor's Bear.
Dr. J. A
ton,
Gelsendorfor, of
recently made an excursion
the mountaing for health and recrea-
tion and expected to have a rattling
He was yanied by
and for both
oyed themselves in fis
good ti
a friend
en
me, accomi
sBVe
hing for the
The Doctor
of
pickled mountain trout
to fish, but he fonder
shooting at game iggested
ia friend that they go
stroy bear and other wild
One bright morning, wel
hey started After
ugh woods and over h
JULI
BO He &
out.
they were abo return to
utterly disgusted and tired out
their fruitle Sudden-
however good
brown
bhaunches under
himself
Ramp
v 1 ¢ y
wered a good-
sized pitting on his
1C} leberry bush
Oorging 18C
{
A Murderer's Fortune.
¥ \¢ $i
He yan!
ansnet
His fathe:
ghly=&
i Was
she had fail
her child
pened, and
found it lving
iside with the
Birthplace of Lincoln
The following item regarding the
birthplace of Abraham Lincoln is
from the Bluegrass Clipper of Ken-
tucky. “Lincoln Park, in Larue
County, is to be made one of the
historic piaces in the South.
un the Lincoln farm is to be built at
once a log cabin on the site of the
Abe Lincoln homestead, in which
the martyred President of the United
States born and spent many
hours of bis life I'he cabin is to be
built of the same logs that were used
in the original cabin, and the same
design will be used in its constrac-
tion. The logs are now in the house
of John Davenport, but he has sold
his home to allow the erection of the
historic old Lincoln landmark, which
will atiract widespread attention.’
most
was
A Monster Cannon,
The largest cannon in the world
the dead so as to retain the appear-
ance of life forever, died with him,
but the specimens kept in the Ital-
inn museums show no signs of dete-
rioration,
BR ———
George "Washington, of Washington,
D. ¢., registered in a Chicago
the other day.
was conquered. The cannon was cast
about the year 1.5600, aud was the
work of a chief named Chuleby Koo
The in.
fitted out
with seats. and is a favorite place for
English officers to go for a quiet
sleep.
A A 545143
Best Mead Dress for Hot Countries.
——
A turban has bean proved by act.
ual practice to be the best possible
head covering in hot countries.’
is light, and while it excludes the
!
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Two Pairs of Eyes~-~As She Viewed
it-~As Usual--Not
The Baker's Joke
Forgotten.s
s Ete., Ete.
Neighbor-—Mr
tianta Exposition,
him a good deal of
Mrs.
going with him
Gay bos
money
(av hoy Not ve
LETTING WIM ¥
Clothier Were vou i
overcoat which 1 sold vou
Customer, iH my
worn i
Clothier
{ ustomer
next smaller one bad to 1
yes, al boys have
Well, think of that!
Every time after a rain the
ake 1
’
Mr. Depew's "At Home'
Chauncey M. Depew is not Mayor
of New York, but he has two lamps
in front of his residence, just as the
Mayor has, and he also has a private
signal to indicate when he is at home.
The signal consists in allowing the
lamp on the eastside of the house to
remain burning until the “*Doctor’’ is
ready to retire. It isthen put out,
Signal.
in
Beds of the Ancients,
The ancients slept on a floor or on
a divan covered with skins. During
the middie ages beds were made of
rushes, heather or straw. It is be~
lieved that feather beds were known
to the Roman, since a mention in one
of the poets of men so luxurious
that they slept on feathers is sup.
posed to refer to this kind of bed.