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y BRIGHT IDEAS,
Gritty George—Yes, Cinder Charlie
made up as a Japanese and went
arbund telling people he was injured
in de war.
‘Sandy Pikes—Didn’t they think he
was a fraud when he asked for a few
cents?
Gritty George—Oh, he asked for a
few yen.—Chicago News.
FITS permanently cured. No flts ornervous
ness after iirst day’s use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerveßestoror,fétrial bottleand treatise free
Dr R. H. Kuixg,Litd., 931 Arch Bt., Phila., Pa
There is $300,000,000 worth of Knglish
money invested in submarine cables.
Figo's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of throat and lungs.—-Wu,
Q. Expsury, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900,
Texas has 352,190 separate farms, more
than any other State.
The French Gambler,
“A gocd many of the famous and
long established restaurants of Paris
have gone out of business of late,”
said Mr. W. Wright, an English gen
tleman who has lived many years at
the French capital, to a Post reporter
at the Shoreham.
“These were generally resonts where
the cooking was superb and the
charges high, placcs where the aver
age patrcm would give from 25 to 30
francs for his dinncr. These high
priced establishments found that busi
ness was leaving them, and perforce
closed their deors. Nowadays if you
see people in a Parisian restaurant
where the tariff is high you can gam
ble on them being foreigners, usual
ly Americans. A Frenchman of to
day is nothing if not economical. If
he is inclined to gamble, he will go
to one of the numerous baccarat
clubs, where he will get a dinner for
six francs that easily cost the man
agement twice that sum. The reason
to keep the players in the house, the
proprietor knowing that after a man
has had a gcod dinnr he is in the
mood for further encounters with for
tune. If allowed ‘o go away he would
satisfy his hunger =elsewhere and
probably omit further gambling for
that day.”—Washington Post,
A PROLONGED CALL.
“Did that young de Smith call or
your sister last night?”
“Yes.”
“What time did he leave?”
“He started at——"
‘“Never mind what time he started,
I asked you what time he left.”’—
Chicago Journal.
BY PROXY.
What the Baby Neede:l,
- I suffered from mnervousness and
headache until one day about a year
ago it suddenly occurred to me what
a great coffee drinker I was, and 1
thought maybe this might have some
thing to do with my trouble, so I
shifted to tea for awhile, but was not
better, it anything, worse.
“At that time I bad a baby four
months old that we had to feed on the
bottle, until an old lady friend told
me to try Postum Food Coffee. Three
months ago I commenced using Post
um, leaving off the tea and coffee, and
not only have my headaches and ner
vous troubles entirely disappeared, but
since then I have been giving plenty
of nurse for my baby and bhave a
large, healthy child now.
“I have no desire to drink anything
but Postum and know it Las benefited
my children, and I hope all who have
children will try Postum and find out
for themselves what a really wonder
ful food drink it iB.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Both tea and coffee contain quanti
tles of a polsonous drug called Caf
feine that dlrectly affects the heart,
kidneys, stomach and nerves. Postum
is made from cereals only, sclentifical
ly blended to %et the coffee flavor. Ten
days’ trial of Postum in place of tea or
coffee will show a health secret worth
more than A& gold mine. There's a
reason.
Get the book, ‘“l'he Road to Well
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'NOTES AND COMMENT.
A pneumatic tube for the transfer
of packages between Chicago and Mil
waukee is proposed.
The stork is said to be getting more
common in France. It seems, how
ever, to have lost its influence.
The death of Prince Bismarck
simply serves to acquaint the world
with the fact that the real Prince Bis
marck had a son. ,
If King Edward’s attempt to rein
troduce knee breeches should be a
success, what a run on the physical
culture schools there'd be!
Some Georgia girls have declared
that no one shall kiss them except
relatives. That must be a strong hint
to the young men to speak up and
get married.
Physicians insist that copper is a
germ destroyer, although Tom Lawson
declares that the speculative germ
fattens on a copper diet, says the
Washington Post.
The Russian war pictures drawn by
the artists “on ithe spot” look as
though they might have been copied
out of Fox’s Book of Martyrs, de
clares the Syracuse Post-Standard.
There will be time for a good meny
“bridal tours” before Niagara Falls
disappears, if Prof. Gilbert is right in
estimating that it is ‘“good” to last
3,600 years.
Frank J. Gould has just purchased
2900 acres of land in Virginia to use
as a game reserve. The Birmingham
Herald thinks he should have nego
tiated for the State.
Airshins that will stay in the air
and submarine boats that will not stay
on the bottom all the time are yet
to be consummated, althceagh the lat
ter is nearer reality than the former.
Lewls Yost, of St. Louis, won a
bride by demonstrating that he could
live on 15 cents a day. Almost any
woman can afford a husbhand who does
not cost more than that for his “keep,”
the New York Tribune comments.
The police say that the women’s
fashion of carrying handbags is re
sponsible for the many hold-ups. As
in the days of Adam, the woman is
to blame, says the Chicago Evening
Post.
Good wishes for that Italian baby
are very sincere because everybody
respects the high character of the pa
rents of the little Prince of Piedmont,
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Helena, says the Buffalo Courier.
Dame Fashion decrees that the leg
’o-mutton sleeve must be the thing for
women this season. If her vagaries
had evolved a side-of-beef sleeve the
Bankruptcy Court might have to resort
to a might =shift of Judges, declares
the Baltimore Sun.
A Newark, N. J.,, man woke up to
find that his home had been entered
by a freight train and that one car
fad fallen through into the cellar. A
“gondola” loaded with coal stopped
outside in the street, however. Such
is the perversity of fate sometimes,
remarks the Boston Traascript.
The dressmakers’ convention that
convened in New York recently has
decided that gowns may be fastened
either front or back, but none but
slender women are to use the back
fastenings. No doubt the stout women
will be greatly incensed by this sug
gestion. Surely they can’t expect to
adverfise a belief in their own stout
ness by parading these front fasten
ings, says the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
In an article in the British Medical
Jouftnal some time ago Dr. H. Walter
advanced the theory that atmespherie
pressure plays an important part in
determining the occurrence of strokes
of apoplexy, states the New York Com
mercial. He cited the well known
fact that at certain times there seem
to be short lived epidemics of apo
plexy; that these are coincident with
a rise of the barometer; therefore, he
argues, the increased air pressure is
probably the cause of the excessive
number of apoplectic seizures.
The New York Mail has finally fixed
the responsibility for the baldheaded
aass of the men of this generation,
tha Watertown Times-Standard states.
It is the nightcap that did the mis
chief, and while it did not make the
generation that wore it baldheaded, it
weakened the hair producing organs
and subsequent generations have ‘had
to pay for the same. That is The
New York Mail’s explanation. It is
just as good as any. Still the musi
cian’s explanation given a short time
ago, that baldheadedness was caused
by antagonistic vibrations of certain
tunes, is rather better, because it ap
pears so much more scientific and
gives range for wider speculation.
WHAT IS THE MILKY WAYT
Australian Amateur’s Solution of an
Astronomical Puzzle.
A nove! theory as to the Milky Way
has been evolved by S. L. Adams, an
amateur astronomer, of Sydney, N. S.
W. This luminous phenomenon, f&
appears, is really a shadew.
“The Milky Way,” says Mr. Adaras,
“is constaatly being seen at many
different angles and in many parts of
the sky, but it always preserves tle
same luminous front aricing from tke
telescopic stars in its background.
“Now, as this background is con
stantly changing, and the Jluminoua
effect is only seen wherever the fore
ground happens to be the Milky Way,
it 18 evident that it is not the teles
scopic stars themgelves which pii
duce the effect, hut something pre¢-
jected on the foreground of the sKky
That gomething is the earth’s shadow
“T%e sfipposed Nebulae,” continues
Mr. Adams, “are all shadows, and this
explaias their contempt for the laws
of gravitation and their refusal to con
form f¢ the globular shape assumed
by celestial objects generally. They
are apets of wshadow representing
mountatns or mountain ranges on the
earth.”
Mr. Ajams anticipates that his dis
covery will be received with smiles
of incredgulity, but he exprestes his
belief that his view will one day be
accepted &8 correct. He is to read a
paper on ‘he subject before the local
branch ¢! the British Astroaomiczl
Associatic# —London Mail.
Squint Now Comes Too Late,
Flashligit powder for photography
has now bhecome so perfected that,
according %0 an expert, the notion
that such & picturec is iiable to be
faulty becavse of the®startled expres
sion which ¢vmes to the eyes of some
of the sitters is entirely erroneous.
The powd@#r is quicker than human
perception, #nd long before the sit
ter has had time to be startled the
plate has cavght the impression. It
is, to be surve, possible 50 to arrange
the powder that its flash continues
long encugh %0 show such expression,
but no photographer who knows his
business dces this. The peculiar
staring look seen in the faces in
some flashlight pictures is generally
due to the feeling of expectancy cn
the part of the sitters while waiting
for the flash. If they did not know
the flash was coming they would
never juimap or stare in time for the
camera to catch it.—Philadelphia
Record.
Rattler in Dresser Drawer.
Dr. George B. De Tar, a county
physician, near the city, opened a
dresser drawer at his home yester
day and found a large rattlesnake in
side. After having almost laid his
hand on the reptile he saw it and
kiled it with a club.—Evansville
currespondent Indianapolis News.
FROG RAISING INDUSTRY, |.
To Be Encouraged by Pennsylvania
Flshing Commission.
“Frogs!” said the marketman. “i
could sell a thousand of them this
minute if I had them. While the
clubs and big hotels are crying for
them we can’t get a baker's dozen in
a week.”
R:cognizing the growing demand
for frogs a+ an article of epicurean
diet, the Fishing Commission of the
State of Pennsylvania has decided to
encourage the raising of tadpo’es to
farmers and others who are in a posi
ti-n to take up frog raising as an in
dustry. Heretofore there has bein
little svstematic attempt to %upp'y
the market with frogs. In vacation
days bands of boys have hunted the
marshlands in gearch of the croakers,
knowing that they were sure of a
little pocket money for the trcouble
of taking a basketful of “bulls” to
market.
The method of catching the {rogs
has been to fish for them with a hook
and line, thw bait being a piece of
red flannel. The game will jump for
this delusive temptation and find it
self caught on the hook. Another way
the boys have of obtaining a supply
of frogs for the market is to shcot
them with small shot from an air
rifle. The regvlar fishermen, those
who eke out a living by catching
frogs when fish are scarce, and who
ply taeir trade im the swamplands of
Jersey and elsewhere, depend on a
net and the quitkness of their hand
to capture the elusive quarry.
With only these irregular sources
of supply the marketman have been
unable to furnish their customers
with a steady quantity of {rogs, and
at times the caterers have been com
pelled to withdaraw the item {rom
their menus. The law governing sup
ply and demand has put the price of
frogs in these times to a figure that
makes it actua'ly profitable to raise
them for market purposes, aad the
State of Penns®lvania intends to as
sist all who wish to take up the in
dustry by supplying the nucleus for
a froggery. :
Epicures say that fried frog is a
dainty fit for a king. Some eat only
the legs. In the markets, however,
frogs are exhil'ited in their entirety,
minus the skitm. It is said that all
parts of the frog are edible, but some
limit their des¥res to the hind lega.
The appearancs of ‘the frog, both be
fore and after he has been prepared
for sale in the market, is not appe
tizing, but thos,» who are able to close
their eyes to this drawback say that
as between friel frog and fried chick
en their preferences are decidedly
with the formei’,—New York Tribune,
A Fren:h Fast Train.
It is reporte from Paris, France,
that on Novembher 1 the Paris-Lyons-
Mediterranean Railway Company will
<4sart runmning an exceedingly fast
long-distance express train, This
train will be gheduled to cover the
distance of 670 miles from Paris to
Nice in 12 hours and 34 minutes, or
at an average speed of 53.4 miles per
hour. The Twentieth Century Limit
ed on the l.ake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway covers 1,000 miles
between Chicago and New York in
20 hours, or an average speed of 50
milss per hour, making it the fast
ezt long distance train in America,—
Railway and Engineering Review.
A Freak Locomotive.
A special to the Times from Chey
enne, Wyo., tells of one of the most
extraordinary accidents ever report
ed on the Union Pacific. The engine
attached to thes Overland Limitedd
jumped the track and ran along on
the ties for almost a mile, owing to
the momentum of the train, which
was going down grade at a terrific
rate. At the foot of the hill the en
gine leaped back on to the track
without damage to the locomotive or
the train. The train is the fasicst
of the Union Pacific, and was loaded
with human freight.—Pueblo Chief
tain.