~ NOTES AND COMMENTS. ha ha. he German commercial traveller al Ways speaks the language of the coun fry in which soll goods, he attempts to seems to be giving satisfaction of thirteen miles an hour, A woman who wears a stuffed bird on her hat is to fine of from $25 10 $50 by a law recently passed by the legislature of Hable i Arkansas, Complaint is Square, focruti made Girosvenor in London, is that losing its uris- ing one by one futo the hands of Afri can aml Australian millionaires, On an stamps are used by United Figure average 12,000,000 postage the people of the u the year, you van coin the States every it day |i up and see if preh nl AY days of what It means lor the yeat the report of the For According to esiry the recent stroved at of property Carelessness incendiarism ible for : : Liem Commissioner Pennsylvania ol in the State de- forest tires least a million dollars’ worth and Wel respols While cently indicated a temper ty degrees in the the thermometel Boston re in ature ol COrolosi nine il experiments with Kites showed that at shade, met 14,000) feet the teen an elevation of ature temper was from ten to fl below freezing point The cost of fuel is most important itemn to every manufacturer, and he it demonstrated that is methods that ial Gazelle, needs only to have fcable when smoke consumption irnct he will adopt the it says Plttsburg insure Commerc it will be money in his pocket to do Che smoke problem is a difficult one, but we have always believed that N00, American ingenuity and skill would finally solve it » ‘Ihe total number of cattle in the world is estimated ai $4 060) (RM are The conntries FO O00 (00, of which in the United Ntates, number of sheep in the ¥ ¢ principal of the world is 4 TO IRR) EN) SOL OAR), 11, 13,- United 16.204) 1K) Beeld Yee Britain has France, 21.500) 06x); red (MH: (zermany, 000.000: Russia, 40.500,00; Spain, 250.000: Argentina, 74,200,000; States 39,000,000; Uruguay, Anstralia, 110,500,000, Continental financiersare not about the Ch gotiated to pay the wal Japan. While the largest share of the loan was taken in Berlin, it Is be that most of it drifted In case of the dissolution of eit glish which was ne to nese loan indemnity lieved has to Loudon, the Chinese Empire the En ers would be the sufferers, unless they an to bank have already disposed of the | Chinese financiers The American Consul atl Formosa, notes the fact that the Famsy Hin phor product of the island now controls the markets of the world. yield exceeded The Chinese never uas Toi iEX) 300,000 pounds. Formosa how ever, ranged year during the past four years, i maximum yield was reached in 1805, when the hed 7,000,000 as, over INK) (EK) pound produs tion reas pounds. The new swoard of « onirol lunatic asylum number our! erection of five cated at Farmington, where ures. ueted of ground have Deen sed stitution will be constr cottage plan, and the bulldings erected at the present time w Hh capacity of about 350 patients propriation of $150.0080 is available the work Tramps and thieves find theh farions business flourishing in these life are locking up the house an easily duty. imperious requirements irksome The neglects Lost ses of vigilance in the need never buy a gun for purposes of desperate retaliation upon and elusive honsebreakers, do their best: but security from rob bery, like charity, begins at home suinmer The Japan Times, of a recent date, gays: “It is reported that a bill for pro presented at the House of Representa effect that juvenile smokers eighteen yeurs of age shall be punished by a fine ranging in amount from ten to one yen, and the confiscation of pipes and fittings usgd by the offenders, The bill is sald to have been drawn up on the model of similar enactments prevailing in Germany and the United States of America, The public bath movement has ex- tended to many of the cities having $00,000 population and Jess in most cases the municipality voting the neces. gary fundd. Philadelphia still has the distinction of having the only bath with washroom attached, The ostab- lishment of this convenience was due to the labors of a private association, | i | i Baltimore has a public bath, the gift benevolent citizen, and Hoston claims that her Dover street establish. is the most in Amer Chicago's free public baths were dpal ment sumptuous fea. established by the mun govern ment, of Min showing Niate Super ntendent Lewis, nesota, has compiled the growth of the school system in the State during the last twenty-five years The population has from 500.000 to something lke 2,000,000; the number of teachers from 2,399 to 13, OM}, tencher's sal in 1900 Twenty-five years ago there were there ngures increased In INTO the average ary was $30.25 a month; it is $40. O75 school houses, now are 300. The school property was valued could not be re. produced for $16,000,000, The perma school fund was a little over $3, To-day it is $13,000,000, o ‘ nent A little man, only = ? years old * hour ol New ) minutes after the ed, His gr had disag that out up resisted every ity fi fren lady, fancying rushed hoard again finally found tween and teamer's « dently amusing I'he are a question as ¢ necessary fe f the high aon o Zi. Ihode a florist has engaged est judicial tri The | resisted vavment of the hill of by the ninistrators of the estate at whose funeral flowers w credit of the estate, this expenditure, myving flowers universal ist country, abused gance or unseeml trava is certainly to commen appropri pe 4 of ng xpression to our ings resin parted ond, believed, of truth he is rece CARUS in many cases employing oflicial valuable exper ived endorsement from the A sxociat indoubtedly Ters Pennsylvania Bar on at its iit meeting am is y of an ia and t view ty « le 1 ween Peru, Boll Republic, with =a hili, an in Chili for a “Pern and well that the) the outcome American, who number of HAYS olivin know very sunot whip Chill, of a war, in the event of alliance 1 have named, would be the same. Fhe fight We ean tield, for per tion can be counted on in the eo We have fear fans put 375.006 men in te cent. of the popula ent ten 0 war. ample modern arms have no as to the outeome the and 1 should of England decide ree 0 igainst Pern in the boundary arbitra tion. a wit result, though I am Pe i 3 t th it cat » avoided nay \ Civil © CHUTIous mrts in Vienna, Ausiria, other day regard claim of a ra ng a accident ar The eived intern of t ing out ilwny al in. ident, thai cansedd the stated that he had re the I'he medical the shock of heart of the plaintiff to change from ite normal position, to one lower down jut ns resnlt iT 10 experts maintained the smash had in his body. This theory with incredulity by the jury. but their sceptism was satisfied when they ap could feel the organ beating in the potwithstanding the extraordi displacement of his heart, but to heart failure vears nary in doing his work. Under these cir The Real Chinaman. The Chinese are the most ensily erned race in the world, if people will only strive to understand them, The real Chinaman of the interlor—an in dividual totally distinct from the Treaty Port sharks and quayside loaf ers, who are generally former jallbirds from the Hinterland--is peaceable, hospitable, courteous to strangers, easl LOY relied upon to carry out his bargain honestly. Two hundred native-drilled troops will keep a district of 200,000 stich men in peace and order, so long as thelr religious and other ceremonics are not canselessly interfered with, AAAS AAO H00 The wheel of fortune is no longer the bicycle, i : i i } "OUR YOUNG FOL The Two Sides of It. There wis a girl who always sald Her fate was very hard; She always was debarred, There always was a cloudy spot Somewhere within her sky: Nothing was ever just quite right, She used to say, and sigh to RATE, for herself And vet her sister, strange “Ay, Whose lot the Found something pleasant In day that Of things tangled was quite every came, COUrse, up some times For just little But nothing ever stayed all She used to say, and smile, an while: Wrong. winiled or So one girl sighed and one rl all thelr lives together, come from luck cloudy Through didn’t From cles or fate, it ir Oo weather « restson lny within their hearts, nd colored all outside; one we to hope, and {appened to Lioyd's Toad. fond } of nll the creatures from thie ree: to thie homes in was always of thought any them, but more intet There oad Wis « own, and he i avy CYery hopped little ked, arder work pighi-ne long wis But he his forefeet tugged brave until ¥ 1 . ied wo on wt only, Flight and Song. iw ia ol A lat sideways back 1nd baby U1 showed meaning he mother tr oon d soar i ouldu’t explain sun comes out after remembering. il know little $1 od Then, of a sudden, it had t Mink is t for a glorious light had spread CTeR: : ¢ orld. catching every leaf and of over the w blade grass in tears ig and a smile Into every teal baby. bird's breast swelled, i did fluttered from why. know ground, “The rain” it Thank why: nt it did not Know 1fter You, i sun has cone ont trilied “Th Thank I en Then up calling “Thank Thank Thank you! © mother did you hear me! 1 ink sun: you! you! mother, bear it you! n =ing.” me? floated Hy, vou! sing.’ floated up. calling Fhauk you! Thank youl” do you see me? in Serib- Then up “0 mother M arrie, ners Magazine A Doll's Hospital, tal in Chicago is conducted in the four in Wells street. Judging by the pum: ber of patients that are treated there, Strange as it may seem, however, the only living persons about the place are a young German and his wife, The patients are all dolls, The most im- portant medicine used for curing the bodily ills of the patrons in this novel institution consists of glue, Dolls of all conditions and descriptions are gathered there for repairs. One of the in a fashionable lake shore nursery and whose waxen features have suffer ed from the loving pranks of baby hands, Then there are broken noses, smashs ed porcelain cheeks, belonging to some little girl's faovrite, Dolls of this kind come to the hospital by the doz ens, in spite of the fact that new ones could be purchased for less money than the doll physician charges to make the repalrs, but of course any Httle girl will tell you that the newest doll in the world isn't quite as good as her old battered playmate, Dolls that have been snatched bald headed are impor of its little rooms there are hundreds of wigs of all colors and varieties, de stined some day to grace the bead of a doll of high or low degree, folk have found the quaint whose nursery darlings health and beauty in hospital Chicago Hed i ng renewed ord. Musical Taste In Animals Some years ago father lived I) of our large towns, The grounds wer it model was lis farm extensive sort of which gave mm many opportunities of studying ferent characters of the Various mals upon it, hen 1 saw the of wa=ic Upon mans of here was t utiful horse, the ul { others piri Vimhit : 1 11d delight di; snd Hi) hi to 1 al like trained the OWS milked i other « Nancy be was a thing n to bw liked and cook would manag Miss 113% But & lye ald fhe Cos were not careful go Nancy's foot, an 1 over When the cook milk i the If 1 wer fect any 1 “ in playing she ly still, yielding ! rot ble A tele The | Home, tender tried music, ind would remain long a Coane i played plaintive the Leal ‘Home Robin Adair” secined entram and o Sweet ans Wee! a martial whereupon she ably walked away I could { love for music i air--she have her, and changed to invar give many instances of a in animals, I will give another I was sitting in the drawing | room one evening, singing mama | It was a double room with double doors. She was in one where there was {a lamp. In my room, which was un lighted, the window was open, and close to the window was a stand for i music. When § ceased playing 1 heard a pecullar sound, and was conscious | there was something in the room 1 i called for a light, There, sifting { the stand, was a large white owl, 10 on He looked far less surprised than we did, | In a minute or two he stepped quietly out of the window and flew away. Af ter this we did not leave the lower sash of the window open; but the owl still came and sat upon the stone outside, listening. Chambers’ Journal a An Advastage in Being Short Colonel Burn-Murdock, who is now in South Africa in command of the “Kaix. e's Own,” owes his life to his short stature, When the square was broken at Abu Klea, Colonel Born Murdoch was sianding by the side of two other officers, both taller than he. The on: roughing dervishes fired a volley, and, unhappily, both of his tall neighbors fell shot through the head, while Cols onel Bam-Murdoch was hit in the hel met, That helmet 8 now la the une cestral ball Severe Shock te the Feelings of Northers Mon anians is bewalling the decadence the cowhsy, Justly, it would if there be truth the report that two border ontlaws chased Dinmwond | miles in Montana of seein, Northern in n dozen members of the round-up outfit twenty terror-stricken for refuge, to the of Culbertson, Think of it! Twelve doughty knights of the plain, blue of lip and wild of eye, spurring their flight over for gogreh town horses to incontinent and ever faces pil turning bunchgrass, anon thelr wan # backward over shivering shoulders for at the relentless Pieture in pursners your mind's eye the send ding of a dozen jack rabbits, close pressed by olyes! the The that a pair of ravenous = of it} from i hore report Culbertson thie BIA rie thie COWhHOYE were two guns in outfit %« nu harsh allegation, and we suspended f further particu ah, well for the traditions f thu Western heart it and order, thie true a must blush The iu the 0 of ard COUTSe ¢ “shooting Has it buffalo gone and bold the 1 ontint All | ern the feonoclast, idol of the The been norin- Montan: Pine } “wild ‘ ' ana Way Weel, ong locks of the ave shorn. ed only as a of Buffalo habliiments nis gon ter | ory mem on we nging 0 Bill Jin and . «1 id jumj between of novel hnsed by ot believe in wiar idea of the newhat awesome in Montana, THE WILY JOHN ricas Machinists Whe Go te China Gen- erally Get the Worst of It s and from skilled machinist China 4 during past ten d the captain of a large car- Lea mer made frequent kingdom. “Most engaged to take charge « and while the job seem gone to the vears' sa £0 ho has trips to the flowery of them were Msier nilan Mg pliant of | the the resalt I'he avail surface tip-top on nearly always disappointing very anxious of for skili but with it at the earliest A manufacturer, are Io eign take lo dispense possi ile 1 ent for will machin. expert him a couple Chinamen the slog Pps all the and some example, in modern American RIVIDE put ery and an ns ®t Young as nasliat months looking techni ants pair have mastered the plant { getting rid of the alitios of i for g pretext is found Americal | The fact tl your 1 All labor contracts in and in wt he has oniract is no gw al obstacle. ay be voided for China there is 4 Eom CRUSE «dif new ler any plty in proving anything 1 knew an Ohio to Lanton a bont Rn rou like engineer who went several | yours ago 1o set ap and operate a larg« ii. He under a aniract at Fink, he his first { plant In a sik wm {Hive annum, and { thing Bet elapsed hie Was Was Year « gold, per wilt wd the hit had =a YOATr hi ' Y houg discharged on ground of habitual drankenness, { leet { material, ordination and a dozen or 80 other lit fieg of duty, waste o insub- Being en fight, but averw helmed clond of wit i the him {| made so strong that the conanl refused ; interfen {lis place was taken by | his native assistant, who made a botch of it and destroyed thousands of dol {lars’ worth of costly machinery, but that didn’t help the engineer who was sacked, American experts who Know the ropes insist upon baving a “clause in their contracts authorizing them to employ thelr own assistants, It hos been the same way with even the mil itary instructors, The soldiers of for tune who went there expecting life time Jobs were crowds] out as Seon ar young native officers frarned enough to take oharge of the troops them. selves.” New Orleans Times Dem ¢rat. : tle things 1 have forgotten innocent, he showed | tirels Was by Rn posses and case against was i In Robert Clive As a Boy. Robert Clive, the English general, was dubbed a “dunce” when a boy, and to get rid of him his family glad. iy permitted him to go ax an ensign to India. Tie fought he way to a cok oneley by the time he reached his sue costes against the French, and in 1756 gaved the English rule in India by driving Surajad-Dowlah out of Cal cutta and routing his army. Eventual iy he returned to Buglind wealthy and eoverad with honor, KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST NEWS GLEANED YROM VARI. OUR PARTA, NEGRO STOLE GIRL'S HAIR. Crept Up Bohind Her at Chester and Cas Off Long Braid aller of Columbia County Sawmill Blown Up, Wrecking Building - Norristown Girl Walks Out of Her Bedroom Window Other News. Slipping up behind Mabel M., Gyles, who was wheeling a baby coach on Edgemont man avenne, (Chester, colored off the a cut ong braid of hair hanging down the voung The inder the and made his escape was committed are light Mabel, to her thought neck countered whoge hung down waist, say ie 3t what was ghee a bug crawling on Putting hand 11 the g of a Then there a sharp “click BCIBBOTSE i Pedestrians on the saw colored man vau “ dash the lot. Officer Bex notified onee guilt, but in the man was The braid was head en man as Lhe cut ite sidewalk fs and War OP POR a it ACTORS at went the dar lost Three Injured by Kaplosjow lkeler twenvy engin sawmill of Everett Fishing & Valle ¥ Creag Lhe report building m Robert Evi engineer, horribly scalded badly lacerated by % fron; Charles Savage cut and bruised by fiying sawyer, skull fractured The victims were moved to Benton, medical attention sible was done but few hopes are recovery The force of the great that many of the mill were found on side of the creek, a 200 yards away, and the was hurled a distance the of the 1 ana Ying pleces SLT ie helper veil about head and timber Ema: head uel and face badly imme where they received and everything afford them relief entertained of their fiataly 13 2LBLERY Te 1308 io was =0 of the heavy timbers the OppORILS distance of oO» heavy boiler 900 foot f of 1 Bene 1d Te Qisasie Seranton Speak} any Law Mayor Moir, signed speak -easy which has been fought wit} nestness in the City Coun eral months The ordinance provides n on prop complaint being lodged Mayor or any alderman of the city can order that any place where it is suspected liquor is sold without a license shall be raided, and, if the proof secured is onvincing, the proprietor can be fined sums ranging from $10 to $100, and in default of payment be committed the county jail for thirty days A conviction under this ordinance will not be a bar 10 a conviction under the terms of the Brooks high-license law The Men's Union, which has making a spirited fight against speak for some time, announced that hereafter it will arrest speak-easy pro prietors under the provisions of this srdinance, because they can secure a summary conviction in that way of Scranton, wdinance g James the reat for sen tha ' er he to been PAKIES Advance for Tin Workers Word comes from Pittsburg that the tinplate workers all over the country will probably receive an csdvance when the mills start. It is expected that the American Tinplate Company will sign the scale for the coming year shortly The scale prov for adjustments syery two months based on the aver- wo selling price of tinplates for the previ ths, ides two moptia According to the examination of the sompany's sales records just made by the Workers’ Unian the tin nen will get an increase of 12 per cent under the next arrangement, The scale for next year is the same gs txat of last year, and it is not be- lieved that any difficulty will arise its signature i over Walked Out Window Annie Rose, a domestic employed by WwW. W. Potts, at Swedeland, placed her bed at an open window to get the benefit of the draught. During the night she dreamed that her mistress called her. She arose and in a som pambulistic state walked out of the window. Although she fell a distance of 15 feet, the shock failed to awake her Members of the family were aroused by the noise and discovered the girl sound asleep on the iawn un- der the window. She was uninjured, Sime red Amidst Disaster. A horse belonging to John Miller, attached to a carriage, ran away on Wyoming street, Hazleton. The only geenpant of the carriage was a §-yenr old boy, fast asleep. The horse ran at a terrific pace for several blocks. Peo- ple gazed in horror at the scene, ex- pocting to sec the child dashed to death. but when the horse was finally captured the lad was still sleeping peacefully on the cushions and knew nothing of his exciting ride Sinte Neus in Reiel The coroner's jury exoneraten the nine men arrested for the murder of William Sinkowicz during a row al Shenandoah. The mill and botler house at the Ho- boken quarry, at North Bangor, were entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is about $6000, with an insurances of $2500, The body of an unidentified man, about 4% years of age. was found banging from sn apple tree on the farm of Daniel Updegraff, near New. berry. : The hearing in the Parsons post. office robbery case was held before United States Commissioner Hahn at Wilkes-Darre, The defendants, Mar. tin Golden and Patrick Colloran, were held under $1000 Ladi each for court,
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