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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-12
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-12

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The one great problem Is the selection
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Here, then are some admirable publ
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
EASILY DECEIVED.

Prof. Tanker. the famous Orientalist,
one day received the copy Of an inscrp-
tion which friend and ad,nirer Of his de-
clared he had found In a medieval tomb.
The sender asked him to decipher the
mysterious extract. promising to forward
the valuable, old MS. as soon as he got It
from its owner, a relative Of his. The In.
scription ran as follows
"uoy era woh rosseforp gninrom doog."
For three days the professor puzzled his
brains without making any sense out of II,
Then his little son. a fourth-form boy,
came into his fathers study and spied the
strange writing on the desk. After look.
Ing at 1t for while he asked his father
since when he had taken to writing back.
wards.
What do you mean?" asked the as
tonlshed professor
why" replied the lad. 'if you read this
from right to left It runs thus, Good
morning. professor. how are you? -
Deutsche Warte.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
MENTAL TRAITS IN WOMEN,
They Learn Languages More Quickly
Than Men DO

What woman loses in profundity she
gains in quickness. She excels in tact,
and extricates herself from difficulty
with astonishing adrotness. In Ian
guage She Is more apt than man, Girls
learn to speak earlier than. boys, and
old women are more tankative than old
men. Among the uneducated the wife
can express herself more intelligently
than the husband. Experience in coed
ucational institutions shows that wo-
men are more faithful and punctilious
than men, and at least equally apt In
colleges where a record Of standing is
kept the women gain probably a some
what higher average. In the years i'm
mediately following graduation the
men make much greater intellectual
progress. Women reach their mental
maturity at an earlier age, and de-
velop relatively less after maturity Tn
many kinds of routine work. especially
that requiring patience. women are su-
perior, but they are less able to en-
dure protracted overwork, says Pro-
fessor Patrick.
We have seen that woman Is less
modified physically than man and
varies less from the average. The same
Is true mentally. Women are more
alike than men. and more normal, as it
were. The geniuses have been men for
the most part. SO have the cranks. Wo-
mans thought pursues old rather than
new lines. Her tendency Is toward re-
production, while mans Is toward pro-
duction. Woman loves the old, the
tried and the customary. She is con-
servative and acts as society's balance
wheel. Man represents variation. He
reforms, explores, thinks out a new
way.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
AND THE DOG CANE BACK.
but Its Fair Owner Did Not Seem over
pleased NJ Its Return Home.

pleased at Its Return Home.
From the Chicago Tribune.
He was a particularly unattractive
specimen of the canine race; his coat
was a dingy yellow, his forelegs de-
scrlbed a wide curve. and his tail was
extremely abbreviated. When they saw
him first 1t was on North Clark street
and he was describing eccentric circles
with his nose to the ground, evidently
trying to follow some one.
Hello" said the boy with one sus-
pender, that's Mis- Sweeting's dog sure
es guns: seen her coaxin' him along
downtown this morning. Wonder how
she lost 'im?"
Dunno" said the boy whose hair
protruded from hole in his hat. '"rell
ye what, less take i'm home an strike
'er fer a quarter"
The idea appeared to be a good one
and a dingy assortment of bits OF
strings Were produced and knotted into
a continuous rope. which was attached
to the animals collar. In spite of the
fact that he followed his captors viii
lingly enough.
She'll think we've had more trouble
If She sees this string" said the boy
with one suspender, less don't hurry,
either: she'll come down heavier II she's
had time to think he's gone for good
this time"
So they stopped to throw stones at
the sparrows and listen to little Ger
man band.
"What'll we do with tn money!"
said the boy whose hair protruded from
a hole In his hat.
Hunk. Fourth O. July's mos. here,
m I've got little cannon"
'Hooray," he turned handspring.
M al1
tail to tie crackers tor'
Then they fell into such fits of merri-
ment that the dog gamboled about
them, barking. until he was so securely
wound up fin his leading string that he
could not move.
1t was growing dusk when two dis.
heveled boys and very muddy but
jovfal dog turned into quiet residence
street.
"She's 'ad time to telephone to the
cops m offer a reward by now," re-
marked the boy with one suspender, in
hopeful tone.
"Betdher life. Say, maybe her hus-
bandit be home m If she's cried
enough he'll give us half stead O. a
quarter. Don't let'm loose now, or he'll
go In by himself"
They led the dog, now barking wildly,
up the front steps and rang the bell
Here's tn lady's dog" said the boy
whose hair protruded from a hole in
his hat, as the maid answered the bell.
We've been chasin' him mos all after
noon to get him home"
Just then from the parlor came a glee-
ful feminine voice. "Yes, I've succeeded
In losing him this time for sure, though
Dick won't believe 1t. I took him away
down on Clark street. and while he
was chasing a cat / escaped on a cable
car. What's that, Mary? O., Dick, she
says two horrid little wretches have
brought that abominable beast back
again; whatever shall 1 do?'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
DIMENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
T9kcs o Thousand Years For Light of
Some Stars to Reach Cs.


While II is interesting to know the
distance of some of the stars in miles,
when stated in that way the numbers
are SO large that they frequently con-
vey very indistinct conceptions to the
mind. For this reason 1t Is customary
to estimate star distances in eight
years" A light year Is the distance
that light. moving at the rate of 1885,
300 miles per second. travels in one
year. This amounts in round numbers
to b,SSO, ,OOO, 100000 miles. The distance
of Alpha Centauri Is 4.35 light years:
that of Sirius, the Dog Star, is almost
exactly twice as great, or SO light years.
In other words light requires Sc years
to come to us from Sirius. And these
are among the very nearest of the
stars. Some. whose parallaxes have
been rather estimated than measured.
appear to be situated at distance
which light could not traverse In less
than one or two centuries.
The great Star Arcturus, for in
stance. has, according to Dr. Elkin, a
parallax OF only eighteen one-thous-
andlths Of a second. Its distance, must,
In that case be 1S1 light years, or more
tnan a thousand million million miles.
Ana IT Its distance Is so great then.
since light varies inversely as the
square of the distance from its source.
itcan be shown that Arcturus must ac-
tually give forth 5000 or 5000 times as
rSIch light as the sun Yields. Yet
Arcturus Is evidently much nearer than
the vast majority OF the stars are.
Not one In a million Is known to have
a parallax large enough even to be in
tell!gently guessed at. There may be
stars whose light requires thousands
instead or hundreds of years to cross
the space separating them from us.
We thus see that only a few points on
the nearer shores Of the starry universe
lie within reach of our measurements:
here and there a jutting headland while
behind stetches the vast expanse over
which the hundreds of millions Of stars
known to exist are scattered.-G, p.
serviss In the Chautauquan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
SWEETHEART, GOOD.DY.

The dew Is on the summer rose,
The summer moonlight sadly glows.
And softly, too, the night wind Blows,
And echoes sigh for sigh.
Outlines good night with smile and bow
I've said. while laughter lit thy brow;
But comes a sadder parting now,
sweetheart. goodbye.
Good-bye! II we should never meet
Thy smile hath made the past 50 sweet
Fair memory's lamp shall light my feet
Where'er my pathway lie,
But now, when fortune bids me stray
From all that makes the present gay.
Alasi how hard II IL to say,
6weetheart, goodbye.
Goodbye, sweetheart. with eyes OF blue.
Whose glance can shame the morning dew
And teach the stars to shine more true.
For thee I'd gladly die.
You are my dream asleep or wake.
For thee my heart would rather break
Than live In bliss for others sake:
Sweetheart, goodbye.
-eamuel Aluturn Psck.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
THE BOSTON VERSION,
Everybody nowadays has heard the
chorus:
don't want to play In your yard,
I don't like you any more;
You'll be sorry when you see mo

/ don't like you any more;
You'll be sorry when you see mo
Sliding down our cellar door;
You can't holler down our rad barrel:
You can't climb our apple tree:
don't want to play In your yard,
If you won't be good to me.
The Boston version of this Is as follows:
do not care to indulge In any sportive
recreation on the land roundabout
your dwelling.
My affection for you has undergone the
process Of obllteration.
You will regret your course when you OBJ
serve me In the act Of precIpitating
myself along the cover of the en-
trance to the excavation under the
house In which ! have my residence.
You can indulge In no vocal exercises
whatever, directed into the receptacle
for raanwater established by my par
ents.
You shall not chamber amidst the foliage
of the tree upon which grows the sue
cilent apple peculiar to our estate.
As have before remarked, In effect, I
do not desire to gambol on the ground
surrounding your habitation. In the alb
eence Of sufficient guarantee that
you will treat me with due respect,
courtesy and kindness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
Tho Art Of POURING Ts..

pouring tea and coffee. simple as It ap-
pears. As q rule the guest OF honor Is Of
fered the flrst cup, which " the weakest.
the last and strongest. When 1t Ia desir.
able to have all the cups OF uniform
strength one should pour q little into each
and then bNgtn over again, reversing the
order. In England this 10 no well UNDER
stood that pourer OF tea or coffee does
not begin to replendsh the cups till all are
before her.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
Some Figures as
To immigration.
They Teach Very Conclusively That There
Should Be Much More Rigid Restriction.

The immigration Restriction league.
which advocates 'the further judiciOus
restriction or stricter regulation of i'm
migration" but not 'the exclusion of
laborers or other immigrants OF such
character and standards as fit them to
become citizens" Is. through its secre-
tary. Charles Warren. 42S Exchange
building, Boston, sending out literature
designed to stir public sentiment in
behalf of a more effective filtration OF
our foreign-born citizenship. Some
facts adduced from these publications
are reproduced below.
AS showing recent changes in the ma
tionalities of immigrants. the following
figures are presented:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
SHOES.

Well. did you hear the lstssti We are
selling Shoes for half their actual value. Such
remarkably low prices have never been heard
of before in tho city. Our line Of Sl.O0 La
dies Shoes are worth sl5Q and our line Of
Ladies' 81. so Shoes are worth $3.50 Our q 2S
Ladies' Shoes are OF the best Of makes and are
warranted equal to any $i.C0 Shoe in the city.
Our Sl.5O Mems Shoes are worth <20O and our
500 Mems Shoes are good enough for the
best Our g Is Hand. .Sswed Shoes arc worth
seeing. and you can't duplicate same for les
than @ 80 elsewhere.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17

That music hath charms to soothe the
savage beast We must believe II only
because 1t Is a quaint and vulgarized
assertion: but the assertion of "a Rus
sian professor is likely to shake the
credulity of many people: this learned
man says that by experience he has
proved music helps to drive out car
bonic acid In dogs and Increases their
consumption of oxygen; 1t also makes
them perspire. As regards the nature
of the music which produces these ac-
tive results. the Russian professor
does not enlighten us.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17

In other words, IN 1880, 37.4 per cent
Of the total white paupers were foreign
born. In 1890, as per cent. were for
eign born. Thus @ foreign population
which p II per cent. OF the total white
population. furnishes nearly one-half
OF the white paupers IN the United
States. These are some Of the reasons
why the Immigration Reatriction
league wants congress TO enact more
careful laws regarding the entrance
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17
'Cholera year. "Panic year.
Or, stated by percentages, the fore
going table may be expressed thus:

Thus II appears that In 1869 the i'm
migrants from Austria-Hungary. Italy,
Russia, and Poland were about 1-l00
of the number from the United King
dom. France. Germany, and Scanda-
navia; In 1880. about 1-10; In 1894. nearly
equal to it. In 1SS9-94 the former class
amounted to 1867 .229, or 1873 per cent.
of the total immigration.
-:ll:-
From the report of the superintendent
of immigration for the year ended June
80, 1892, the immigration by decades
from 1920 to 1890 appears as follows:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17

1t will be seen that the yearly aver
age, 1SS0-1S90. was 524,66l, while the i'm
migration for 1SS0-lS90 was S5.1 per
cent. of the 'entire arrivals in thu
United States from 1920 to 1890. From
1885 the immigration by years has been
as follows: