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According to Harper's Weekly, Eng
land is looking forward to the fiercest
municipal contests the kingdom lias
had for years. There is not an alder
man in tho whole realm who does not
want to be mayor of his respective
town, because it has been announced
that every mayor in the United King
dom will be knighted when Edward is
crowned king. Whether Edward him
self will personally bestow the accolade
does not appear, but as he is going to
revive ail the ancient ceremonies con
nected with the coronation it seems no
more than fair that he gratify the in
tense desire of so many loyal subjects.
Only one thing could increase the hap
piness of John Bull when he is knight
ed, and that is to receive his knight
hood from his sovereign's hand. It
would he unkind in the king to disap
point the honored gentlemen.
The first case ot "tapping the wires"
of wireless telegraphy, if the Irishism
may be pardoned, has been reported.
During the recent French naval mane
uvers In tho Mediterranean the cruiser
Bouvines was entering at the Straits of
Gibraltar when its wireless telegraph
apparatus recorded the fact that in the
vicinity wa3 another ship similarly
equipped. The Bouvines, thinking that
the other ship belonged to the French
fleet, began to talk to it, and the other
ship replied. There was, so to say, a
confusion of tongues, and after a few
minutes the Frenchman discovered
that instead of talking to a compatriot
it was an Englishman "at the other
end of the wire." The report, or so
much ot it as has been published, un
fortunately does not tell how far apart
tho two shins were, but the epi
sode reveals the interesting possibili
ties ot what might have happened had
the two nations been at war. In such
a case the Marconi system coulu have
been both a source of danger and of
safety to the Frenchman. It would
have warned him ot the presem e of a
foe hitherto unsuspected, and if, as
might happen, the Englishman had
possession of the Frenchman's secret
code, tho latter might have been drawn
into a very pretty trap, it is a point
tor naval experts to discuss, and doubt
less it will i ot pass unnoticed.
LABOR WORLD.
France fears a general strike of the
coal miners.
The average pay of the day laborer
is $1.50 per diem.
The Itbenlsh Steel Works will re
duce wages ten per cent.
The fatalities among coal minors are
said to ho the greatest of any indus
try.
About 173,000 persons are employed
hi the Postal Department of Great
Britain and Ireland.
The eight-hour work day Is gaining
In poulnrlty, and its further adoption
is being more generally urged.
Three hundred longshoremen at Lo-
Taine, Ohio, quit because of the ap
pointment of an unpopular foreman.
Thirteen waiters at the Plaza Hotel,
New York Oily, who entered the coun
try under contract, are to be deported.
There are several unions in New
York City composed of clerks, l> v t
that class of labor is usually poorly
organized.
The Saturday half-holiday is being
continued with beneficent cffocis all
through the year by many large em
ployers of labor.
It is said that important labor legis
lation will be vigorously urged when
the various State Legislatures con
vene for the winter session.
Employes of Western railroads nra
talking of forming a mutual benefit
association to provide tor themselves
or their families in case of accident
or death.
The Black Diamond Coal Company
settled the wage scale with its men
at Coal Creek, Tenn., allowing three
fifths of a cent a ton advance. About
ioOO men have returned to work.
The average wages of male teachers
in graded schools In Michigan last
year were $70,811 per month, and in un
graded schools $20.03. Women teach
ers in graded schools are paid on an
average $43.50 per month, and In un
graded schools $24.78.
5 A REMAII THOUGHIj'
t *
A BY F. H. LANCASTEtt. q
When Ben Worth came opposite the
Darvvins' gate and saw Anna sitting on
the steps, he lifted his hat and went
in to sit beside her.
"Please don't get up; I want you to
promise me something."
"What is it?"
"That you will sit here with mo until
the moon rises."
"Certainly."
"Thank you. But then you ought to
sit down."
"Why, the moon has already risen."
"Is that so? Ah, but please stay. IE
you knew how good it is to be here
alter that hurly-burly down town! Be
sides, it we go in wo shall have lights,
and my eyes are tired. Please, I want
to talk over some of the recent psy
chological discoveries. You are inter
ested in thought waves, aren't you?"
"I have done some reading on the
subject recently," she admitted, and re
sumed her seat.
"Tell me about it," he said cornfor
tably.
"Why, I thought you wished to do
the talking."
"Oh, no!" cheerfully. "I've been
talking all day. It has been bargain
day at my counter."
"You poor thing! Shall I bring you
a fan or an ice?"
"Oh, you can laugh!" he responded
good-naturedly.
"A Pegasus in a plow!"
"Please don't. I'm tired."
"Is bargain day so very bad, then?"
she asked with a touch of sympathy.
"Very bad," he assureu her, smiling.
"Let me bring you something rest
ful."
"Nothing on earth could rest me
more than the delicious repose of your
presence:
"'Ye had better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said,
For ye are the living poems,
And all the rest are dead.'
Wait—don't move! I will shut up.
Please tell me where you learned the
secret of keeping silent. How many
owls did you sacrifice to Minerva be
fore she endowed you with her full
heritage of wisdom?"
"Owls to Minerva!"
"Didn't the Greeks use to sacrifice
owls to her? They sacrificed doves to
Aphrodite."
"To begin with, Minerva was a
Latin goddess."
"Was she? Well, what did the an
cients sacrifice to her?"
"Pretty much what moderns offer up
at her altars —midnight oil and medi
tation."
"Whatever It was, I wish you would
let women generally into the secret,
for I can assure you that few of them
possess it. I saw a poor fellow at the
opera with a girl a few nights ago.
I've seen something of him on the
street; lie's been traveling a rutty
road, and I imagine ho had taken the
girl to the opera thinking she would
keep quiet and give his l'razled nerves
a chance to knit up their ravelled ends.
But you can bet your life she didn't.
She talked a blue streak from the
time she took her seat until she left it,
curtain up or down. And he had to
listen and answer best way he could.
You know I caught myself wishing
the poor victim could sit down by you
and rest. Ho looked an ago older when
he went out and I felt ten years young
er. You can't imagine what a boon it
Is to a tired man to feel that he can
sit clown by the woman —he —well, en
joys being with—and needn't talk un
less he wants to."
"I thought," she commented dryly,
"that we were going to discuss psy
chological—what do you call it? Phe
nomena?"
"If you wish. Yes, we were. That
Is, you were to talk and I was to sit
here and listen and forget that it had
been bargain day at my counter."
"Well, let me get my thoughts in or
der."
She leaned her head against the ban
ister and looked away to where the
early stars were struggling against
the stronger moonbeans. The linger
ing after-glow touched her hair to
warmer tints and fell with exquisite
softness upon her upturned face. Ben
looked at her wistfully and his pulses
quickened. If only he dared to hope
that his good news would be good
news to her! She had forbidden even
the suggestion of sentiment between
them, yet they had never mot within
the last year that he had failed to re
mind her she was to him queen of all
women. He suspected that the size
of his salary was what stood between
them.
Once he had asked her nbruptly if
she would marry a poor man and she
had promptly replied:
"No; it would be doing him too great
an injustice."
Since then he had fancied, until re
cently, that he held the key to the sit
uation: that she preferred to wait for
him without being asked to do it. But
of late? Well, she had become very
much dearer to him, and she did not
seem to know it.
"Will you tell me something?" he
asked suddenly. "Why is it that in all
the time I've known you, you have
never allowed me to spend five cents
in treats?"
"Oh, I don't know. It is just an idea
of mine that a bank account is more
advantageous to a man than bills from
the confectioner or florist, and I did
not like to think of my friendship as
being disadvantageous. But this isn't
psychology."
"No," he admitted, and thought with
a guilty shock of what was in his
vest pocket.
What would her practical principles
have to say about a bill from a jew
eler. and of that size, even if it was
receipted? For an instant his eager
ac t tool: on the look of an enormity.
Then love asserted itself. She was
worth it ten thousand times if only
she would consent to wear it.
"One of the subjects of psychological
investigation that have always inter
ested me," the girl began, "is resul
tant thought."
"Yes," he said; then, with a sudden (
resolve to have it over, "I had an ex
periencc of resultant thought myself
today. Got a rise in my salary, and (
as soon as I realized it I found myself f
thinking that r.ow I could afford a dia
mond ring. And," desperately, "I
stopped on my way up town and |
bought it." His forefinger and thumb
fumbled for a moment in his vest
pocket, nnd he took nervous posses- '
sion of her hand. "Won't you wear '
it?" ho whispered.
The girl started as the beautiful | 1
jewel flashed in the moonlight, and all 1
her practical ideas of eeoncmy revolt- '
ed at the extravagance. In an instant
woman love rose above wisdom. She 1
turned toward.liim gently.
"Dear hoy," she said softly, "it is
such a beauty!" '
He caught the hand and kissed It
eagerly.
"And you will wenr it always, dear?
You know what that means?"
"Yes," she answered a little tin- I
steadily. "I. too, have resultant
thoughts occasionally." Waverley |
Magazine.
RIOT AMONC OLD FRIENDS.
Pollen Culled to tile Homo for Over
worked Word* and I'lirase*. ,
The police reserves were called out
last night to quell a riot among the
inmates of the Home for Overworked
Words and Phrases. Trouble began in
tile big assembly hall on the top floor,
where a banquet was served to the in
mates in celebration of the 119 th anni
versary of the founding of the home.
Bountiful Collation sat at the head
of the table, with Magnificently Deco
rated at his left, and the row started
when Potted Plants and Cut Flowers
declared that they should have those
two places of honor, claiming to be
the oldest inmates. At first there
was only a mild dispute as to age, but
when Orchestra Concealed Behind-a-
Bank-of-Exotics, who always insists
on having his name written in full,
shoved Assorted Sweets against En
trancing Music and Order pitched into
the aged and infirm Chaos, real scrap
ping followed.
Beggared Description and Stay Tu
mult tried to quiet the other inmates,
but had to give up the job and finally
went down the fire escape with the
Human Chain. Hairs' Breadth fol
lowed them. Costly Underwear rushed |
to the window and shrieked madly for |
assistance. She, too, was helped down
the fire escape by Spot Where Body j
Was Found.
The rest of 913 inmates stayed to |
fight it out.
The bed-ridden Evident Refinement,
too old to sit at the table at all, but ]
who had been brought in on a cot to j
enjoy the festivities, was trampled into j
insensibility. Drunkard's Grave untied j
the strings of her lace cap and fanned
her vigorously until she revived. Her j
gratitude was pathetic.
"Alas, old friend," she said, gasp
ing, to Dttnkard's Grave, "I am going
at last. Wo came here together many,
many years ago, hut I will go first.
Don't forget me."
"1 never can." whispered Drunkard's
Grave. He would have said more, but '
it was too late. Evident Refinement j
was no more. A Touching Scene and i
lits grandmother. Mad Laughter, gent
ly moved the cot to a far corner of
the room.
In the meantime there had been no ;
let up in the hullabaloo. Foul Mur
der, who has given the keepers of the
home no end of trouble ever since he
was admitted in 1843, had Stolid Un
concern by the throat and Cold Snap
and Hot Wave were in a clinch un
der the table with their former guard
ian, Oldest Inhabitant trying to sep
arate them. Dull Thud pulled Slender
Thread's hair out by the roots and
slapped Doom's face with iL
Although too feeble to take any ac
tive part in the fracas, the inmates
from the Adjective Ward added to the
din by their shrieks, and it was this
thai finally attracted the police. The
Newcomers were met at the very en
trance to the home by Baflle and Mys
tery, both of whom were immediately
clubbed to death by the policemen.
It was not necessary to make any ar
rests, hut a general alarm has been
sent out for Human Chain and Costly |
Underwear and the others who es
caped.—New York Sun.
Putting Willi II Hone.
The waiting room of the Broad street
station is dusted by compressed air
every Saturday morning.
An hour after midnight an immense
step ladder, mounted on wheels, is
puiled into the waiting room and along
hose is attached to pipes which con
nect with the reservoir of compressed
air used to supply locomotives.
The expert duster mounts the ladder,
takes the hose in hand and merely
points it at a dusty place; the wind
doc-3 the rest.
Two fellow workmen push the lad
der truck from place to place, the air
is turned on here, there and every
where until walls, ceiling, frieze, col
umns, windows, seats —every nook and
cranny, in fact, of the great waiting
place—are thoroughly purged of dust.
The task thus accomplished in a
few hours by three men could not be
done in any other manner by 10 times
as many workers in 24 hours, the night
foreman says.—Philadelphia North
American.
EXPERT OX ANARCHISTS.
OF THE DEGENERATE CLASS LIKE
CRIMINALS AND INSANE.
Tlolence Due to Suggestion ltfentnl
Weakness and Heredity Kvolutlou of
the Anarchist—Why Mental Kphlemicft
Are Common Segregation a ICwuietly.
A physician connected with many
hospitals and institutions for the
treatment of nervous and mental dis
eases made the following summing up
of his conclusions respecting the men
tal condition of the anarchist and his
relation to the criminal and insane
cl.sses:
"As a rule, anarchy is something be
low the superficial surface of society,
closely connected with, though not a
part of the 'submerged tenth,' or pau
per class of the community. From the
standpoint of the expert on mental and
nervous disease, the anarchist stands
sharply outlined in two varieties, the
man who 'suggests' and the man who
Is 'suggest! hie.' There are the brainy
men of the submerged tenth and many
others following them who are not
brainy. The followers are better
known to the police than the leaders,
who are not usually known to the pub
lie.
"The criminals, the insane, and the
anarchists are all members of the de
generate class, differing in many par
ticulars, but all agreeing in being anti
social. The deeds and actions of the
three classes may be the same, mur
der, or assassination, or other crimes
of violence. A 'degenerate' is a word
used in various ways. Popular use at
tributes to the 'degenerate' abnormal
or un-natural crimes. The newest
books on mental diseases uses it in
a much broader sense as indicating a
class of mankind who are abnormal in
mind and body from Inheritance. Her
edity as understood today ignores any
definite type of disease. Because a
parent was tuberculous oreccentricor
alcoholic the child does not of neces
sity inherit the same conditions. Her
edity passes down abnormal tenden
cies in various ways, but surely and
certainly mental abnormality super
imposed on physical abnormalities.
These comprise the chief signs of a
degenerate as the word is used sci
entifically.
"in examining a suspected lunatic
the general outlines of face and head,
sometimes almost on the lines of the
old-fashioned phrenologist, are first
noted. Most painstaking attention is
given to the position of the eyes,
whether too near together, too far
apart, or too high, or if irregularly
placed. The eye itself presents nu
merous defects in color and shape of
pupil, which appear as a rule only in
degenerate types. The ear and roof
of the mouth are especially valuable
in giving a hint that a hereditary con
dition is present. Next to physical
stigmata of degeneracy and of insani
ty in particular, come mental stig
mata. These include a variety of
traits found in normal men, such as
passionate outbreaks, vanity, self-con
ceit, selfishness, jealousy and numer
ous other mental characteristics. The
criminal having an increase of some
one of these traits, or, what is far
more common, a complete lack of self
control or inhibition, which readily
exaggerate any positive trait of char
acter, readily falls into a criminal life
and eventually finds his way to pri
son. He may or may not have physi
cal stigmata of degeneration. A large
proportion of criminals show them,
especially of the professional orimi
! nals. Whatever view may be taken of
i their mental weakness, as enemies of
i society, no one has yet, on any large
scale, viewed them as subjects for
! insane hospitals. Though theories of
reformation are entertained in indi
! vidual cases, as a class of the commu-
I nity they are to be regarded as ene
mies of society.
"Between the ordinary criminals and
the insane and mentally unbalanced
come the class of anarchists now ex
citing public indignation since the as
sassination of President McKinley.
They are more positively anti-social
than the ordinary professional crimi
nal. The 'crook,' robber, or common
murderer is an enemy of society, but
more as an individual, as man against
man.
"The anarchists are organized in
their hostility to society, and are defi
nite in their methods of waging war
against society. To them the indi
vidual counts for little, the system
for much. Like the criminal, their
mental characteristics resolve them
selves into two varieties, those who
show excessive development of certain
aggressive traits, and those who are
weak and show the lack of self-con
trol in marked degree. Hence come
the two kinds of anarchists; first, those
who lead, or 'suggest,' like Emma Gold
man and others less well known; and
second, the flock of rather feeble-mind
ed anarchists who respond to tiie sug
gestions of the master mind as cer
tainly as the subject of a professional
hypnotist.
"In the crowds of anarchists that
frequent the headquarters in East side
saloons are many types presenting
marked degenerate characteristics.
The marks of discontent and oissat
isfaction with the existing order of
society are to be expected. It Is the
kind of discontent that a man contin
uously unsuccessful snows.
"One of the marks of a degenerate
child is failure to 'get along' with
other children in school. Simple shy
ness. or cowardice, or self-conceit and
vanity may exist. Even as children
the insane delusions that they are per-
secuted or oppressed by other boys or
the teachers become frequent and an
noying. They increase as the children
grow older. As these children grow
up to be 18 or 20 years of age, these
mental traits Increase, fliey arc never
able to hold any business position sny
length ol time, being incapable of
working continuously or giving satis
faction to the most kind-hearted em
ployer. After being discharged by
every employer, and being very deserv
edly despised by society, they naturally
drift into the ranks of the feeble-mind
ed anarchists and are easily worked
upon to do the bidding or follow the
suggestions of the stronger intellects.
"To kill a ruler to avenge the sup
posed injuries of society is the sim
plest sort of a mental conception. Sane
as individuals, mankind in large num
bers is more or less hysterical,
and always markedly suggestible when
the individuality is swallowed up in
the mass. Mental eplJemlcs have al
ways been common, and the only dif
ference between them has been in the
subject of the mental delusion that
has shown itself as a mental epidem
ic. In the time of the Crusades, for
two centuries people were drawn by
an irresistible longing towards the
holy sepulchre, and journeyeu there
iirst as pilgrims, later as soldiers. In
the 15th and ICth centuries men went
wild over tueir belief in witchcraft
In 1G34 the Dutch developed a craze
for buying and speculating in tulips.
In ii2o the famous South Sea bubble
became a popular financial craze.
These and many others are types of
hysteria of man as a mass, not as an
individual.
"The mass of unsuccessful men who
develop radical views of socialism are
easily subject to the more radical men
tal contagion when annihilation of the
existing order is suggested. It is no
longer a question of reasoning, but of
following the common hysterical words
passed from one to another.
"An anarchist, therefore, resembles
and yet differs from the criminal and
the lunatic. Undoubtedly, he belongs
to the borderland of cases of mental
abnormality, where the 'neuropath'
and 'psychopath,' which are the scien
tific words for nervous and mental
wrecks, take their positions.
"What to do with him is a different
proposition, and one of the most diffi
cult questions of the day. To prevent
the mental contagion, the passing of
the dangerous 'suggestion,' segregation
and breaking up their headquarters
form the only remedy. As an individ
ual, the anarchist is comparatively
harmless; as a class, he is the most
dangerous element of modern society."
—New York Post.
LOCKJAW AND ITS CAUSES.
Coiintries Where It la Moat I.iable to
Oic nr.
Lockjaw, or tetanus, is a disease
which fortunately Is more read about
than seen, yet it is not very rare, at
least in its mild form. It occurs more
frequently in children than in older
people, and oftener in boys than in
girls; but this is probably only be
cause boys are more liable to cut and
scratch themselves, for it is after
such injuries that lockjaw usually oc
curs.
The disease is more common in
some countries than in others, Eng
land being one of the countries and
Cuba another in which it prevails to
a much greater extent than in the
United States. Here, too, some states
and some portions of states have an
unenviable pre-eminence in this re
gard.
The trouble usually begins with a j
stiffness and tendency to contraction
in the muscles which bring the teeth
together, and with the progress of the
disease it becomes impossiole to open
the mouth; hence the popular name
"lockjaw." The other muscles of the
face soon become affected in the same
way, and after them the muscles of
the neck, the trunk and the extrem
ities. According as one or another
set of muscles is the strongest or
most firmly contracted, the arms and
legs will he thrown into constrained
positions, and the body will be bent
forward or backward or to one side.
When these spasms, which are
usually painful, are very severe and
recur frequently or even become con
tinuous, tetanus is usually fatal. For
tunately, however, this is the less
common form of the disease. In the
usual milder variety the spasms aro
less severe and less frequent, and
scon, with proper care, begin to be
come less and less marked until they
finally cease entirely.
Lockjaw is caused by 1 poison ex
creted by a microbe which is found
in the soil, especially near stables and
in manure beaps.
This poison, which is somewhat like
strychnine in its effects. Is absorbed
into the system through a wound
made with a rusty nail or other dirty
object, or through a wound which has
been soiled with earth or bound up
with a dirty rag. Sometimes, espe
cially in tropical countries like Cuba,
the disease comes on after a wetting
or a sudden chill, even when there Is
no wound of the skin so far as can be
seen, or it may follow insect bites.
A person with lockjaw must be
uept perfectly quiet and shielded
from anything that may bring on a
paroxysm, such as a touch, a jolt of
the bed. or even a strong draught of
air. The treatment belongs directly
to the physician, for tetanus is too
serious a malady and too rapid in its
course to permit any experimenting
with domestic remedies. The fatal
rases usually last only four or five
days, but the milder forms may con
tinue for two weeks before recovery
is complete. —Youth's Companion.
Kducntinn.
"These Indians who have been edu
cated at. college seem quite like the
others, do they not?"
"Except for their' Rah! rah! rah! at
each end of the war whoop, yes."—Do
troit Free Press.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY".
It was the agricultural department
that started the present organized war
on mosquitoes, and now it has started
one on the fly. A special form of trap
has been devised, which it is believed
will prove to be better than anything
yet tried and directions for making it
are to be distributed throughout the
country. The fly renders some service
as a scavenger, but it is so potent a
factor in the spread of disease that it
should be killed oft as far as possible.
Professor Simon Newcomb, in an
tide published in McClure's Magazine
expresses doubts as to the realization
of aerial navigation, unless some way
of controlling gravity shall be discov
ered. The balloon is too bulky, the
flying machine on a very small scale K
may be possible, but hardly on a large
scale, weight offering an obstacle
which will increase with every addi
tion to the size of the machine, more
rapidly than the propelling and sus
taining power can increase.
When the two Hungarian scientists.
Messrs. Pollak and Virag. displayed *
their new telegraphic apparatus at the
Paris exhibition last year, they were
invited by the French government to
make experiments with it over the
lines between Paris and Lyons. On ac
count of the enormous expense, how
ever, the inventors declined the invita
tion. Since that time, however, they
have established a line of their own
extending from Buda-Pesth to Flume,
a distance of 375 miles, and have been
carrying out a series of tests with their
apparatus. A speed of 40,000 words
per hour has been attained.
A distinguished English authority in
veterinary science suggests that the ze
bra be domesticated as a beast of bur
den in British East Africa and the
Uganda protectorate, where these ani- "1! >
mals are found in great number. It
is well known that they are immune
to the poison of the terrible tsetse fly.
which horses and mules are not, and
that ef itself would be of Inestimable
advantage. The adult zebra is domes
ticated with great difficulty, but there
would be little trouble in getting the
young, and they might readily he
trained. They would be specially
adapted to army use in Africa and
India.
Dr. Calmette, the director of the
Pasteur institute at Lille, and the dis
coverer of a curative serum for the
effects of snake bite, is said to have
been severely bitten recently on the
hand by a trignocephalus. Without de
lay he gave himself an Injection of
his anti-venom serum, but neverthe
less the hand swelled and acute fever
set in; but by the afternoon of the
same day he was sufficiently recovered
to attend a sitting of the conseil gener
al of the department and on the fol- .a
lowing day was perfectly well. Dr. f -
Chalmette has thus afforded in his own
person though unintentionally, a con
vincing proof of the efficacy of his rem
edy.
A French scientific investigator be
lieves that he has discovered a flash
light powder compound which is prac
tically smokeless. The principle is to
keep the magnesia that is formed when
magnesium powder is exploded as
much as possible attached to a heavy
substance that will not easily fly about
and which soon falls of its own weight.
A substance suitable for this purpose
is found in the binoxid of barium. At
red heat this substance gives up half
its oxygen, and supplies that neces
sary for the rapid combustion of the
magnesium powder. As the binozid
must be kept from contact with the
air the flash powder is made up in col
lodion capsules. This is also con
sumed and its combustion adds to the s
intensity of tho light developed. The
proportion of smoke produced by flash- If*
light powders of this description is
as small as 10 percent compared with
ordinary makes.
ytnimxl l'Hycholojjy.
The psychology of animals is a sub
ject which seems to bo progressing
rapidly, says tho London Graphic. Not
long since a society in Paris for tne
"Investigation of the soul of animals"
made the great discovery that lions
were greedy and monkeys vain. More
recently a savant, after many experi
ments at the zoological gardens, elic
ited proof of the high aesthetic ca
pacities of the feline tribe. A tiger
purred and smiled over a piece of wool
dipped in lavender water, and a lion
hit his consort on the side of the head
when she approached his bottle of eau
de cologne. Another professor has now
shown that animals are at least as
subject to hypnotic influence as men. "*
Lobsters for Instance "when stood oh
their head for live or ten minutes, be
come so thoroughly hypnotized that
joggling did not awaken them."
Guinea pigs are equally susceptible,
if care is taken to avoid making a
sqeaky noise. It is curious that in
this investigation into animal psy
chology scientific appliances are not
more used. The phonograph would
be of inestimable value in the hands
of an experimenter in finding out the
language and might be almost as use
ful as "gazing hypnotically at croco
diles" or "spinning guinea pigs like
a top."
Internßted.
Mrs. Frills—Now that I have en
gaged you. Bridget, I am going to begin
right away to give you a little train
ing in the art of waiting on guests.
You see, my daughter is coming out
next month— ;,
Bridget—lndade, mum. How longK v
was she sint up for?— Richmond Dis
patch.