re. A Pittsburg man claims that he can make his Lens lay by the use of elec tricity. Shocking! ——————————————— Chicago housewives want a fourteens hour day, this being a reduction of about ten hours from the time wany of them are on duty. a————————— -0ld man Giddles wants to know what's the use of wondering whether there are people on Mars, when we can't sell them anything, —————————————— How we love to talk of the wonder ful things we The reason for this is that nothing is wou derfv] after it has been done, F———————— have not done. A biologist prescribes a pound of dandy or a dose of cooking soda for “that tired feeling.” The young Amer ican will know which prescription to take, It is to be hoped that the news thal an American cornet player is receiv ing $1500 a week in Paris won't star the man next door to practicing here after double time. —————————————————— Mr, Carnegie says that millionaires who laugh are rave. It is quite possi ble that Mr. Rockefelier knew this and, wanting to laugh, not only became rare but disappeared altogether. Lots of people are poor to-day be cause they didn’t know what was going to happen in 1903. Lots more will be come poor because they think they know what will happen in 1906. ——————— The announcement that the Pennsyl- vania Railway Company is preparing to do away with steam engines and to use electric motors exclusively, throughout its extensive system, pres. ages the end of the age of steam and the coming triumph of electricity. The statement may seem startling at first, but as a matter of fact the railroads have been experimenting with electric engines for some time and their event- ual use was a foregone conclusion. Not only in the matter of speed but in every other respect electricity has the advantage over steam as a motive power. It is surprising how many people there are in this world who want to increase the discomforts of life. There is always bobbing up some professor or propagandist who informs us that everything we have ever done is wrong and that ‘the only road to physical sal vation is to follow his own schedule. ‘And now comes a man from Chicago and tells us that we must not eat soup. pie, pancakes, puddings and cold meats, except ham, and apparently make our principal diet spinach, as- paragus, lettuce and onions. Probably most persons eat more than is good for them and it is certain that, generd ally speaking, food is not well cooked But to lay down a law for the human race is absurd. ————— The idea that has prevailed up to a very recent date that organic life does not exist at great depths in the ocean, has been exploded by late scientific in vestigation. As a matter of fact, the pressure of water is so great that ordi nary articles of wood are compressed to half their original size if lowered to a depth of three thousand feet. If a human being were suddenly exposed td the pressure of water at that depth he would be compressed to the thin- ness of paper. A diver at the depth of ten thousand feet would have weight upon him equal to several hun. dred of the greater and heaviest loco- motives. There are depressions very much deeper, however, and soundings have been made establishing depths of more than twenty-two thousand feet near the Island of St. Thomas in the Atlantic, and of almost twenty-seven thousand feet near the Japanese coast. ————————— Dr. Stenson Hooker, who has applied the Blondlot ray discoveries to prob- lems of food, explains in the London Express how the colored rays that sure round every human being are affected by a “refined diet,” meaning a diet without meat. There are some visible changes, such as “shrinkage of the features.” The face becomes “smaller but more beautiful,” a fact which might incline persons with large and unbeautiful faces to vegetarianism. The ‘eye becomes brighter, the step more elastic, the brain quicker. ut perhaps the most remarkable discov- ery of Dr, Hooker is that the man who is “living a gross life’—i. e., eating meat—emits and is surrounded by dark rays from deep red to chocolate, while the ‘refined diet” generate cheerful rays of lighter red, or, if he is very refined, of yellow. If Dr. Hooker's view becomes gencral, sug- gests the New York World, the man who now complains of that dark-brown taste in his mouth next day will gloomily announce instead that he is surrounded by dark-brown rays. man will IF HE SHOULD PASS THIS WAY. You, on the heavy load, Plying your cruel goad, Are you a pagan? “No” Bitterly you reply, “1 am a Christian!” Why, Then, does your stinging blow Fall on the poor, old, blind slave that has served you long? Why is your look unkind? Why do you curse because You have heen forced to pause,