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The death rate from Tuberculosis In
Massachusetts Is reported by the State
Board Of Health to be higher than In
any other part of the world except GER
tain restricted localities In Austria and
Bavaria.
The Japanese have again given EVIL
dence Of their practical ideas. Instead
Of presenting medals to the soldiers
who especially distinguished themsel-
YES In the late war with China, the gov
ernment has purchased $4,000 watches,
1t $3.50 each, In Switzerland, which will
be given to the brave fellows.
Anthropologists and other scientists
are deeply interested In discovery
made recently near Dickinson, N. ID.
A number Of well-diggers, while pick
Ing away at depth of forty feet below
solid four-foot vein Of coal came
across a human skull I'm an excellent
state Of preservation. How 1t came
there and to what race 1t belonged are
the questions to be decided.
The recent report on the National
Soldiers Homes of the country, seven
In number, shows that the average
number Of inmates in the different
branch homes last year was 16,477.
The number of needy applicants in
creases about 800 year. Congress APP
propriates about $2,5OO,OOO for the
maintenance of these homes and the
fund is increased by private contribu-
tiOns. The average cost for each in
mate is about $11S year.
NJ. Fischer, q French physician, has
recently come to the conclusion that
civilized man does not know how to
have his bed made up. The idea Of
allowing the head to be higher than the
feet Is the radical defect, and this pro-
duces, according to this authority, in
sOmnia and all it's attendant woes. The
condition of affairs should be entirely
reversed, and DR.. Fischer advises that
pillows should be placed under the feet,
or some other device used to make them
higher than the head.
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
steel manufacturer, authorized the trus-
tees of the Carnegie Art Gallery Of
Pittsburg, which is endowed by him, to
offer $4,000 in prizes for the two best
oil paintings by American artists pro-
duced before November 3, 1896, when
the exhibition is to be opened. The
first prize is $5,OOO the second $4,000.
The successful pictures are to become
the property Of the Carnegie Art Gal
lery. The only other stipulation is that
the two best shall be of sufficient artis-
tic merit TO properly represent the best
American art of the year.
Some of the Chicago churches are ar
ranging to check bicycles, so that cy-
clists may attend service on Sunday
and be sure that their wheels are safe
from harm. "The idea is not new"
says the Rev. Joseph Rushton, secre-
tary to Bishop McLaren (EpiscopaD.
"but it should be popular. The bicycle
is godsend in the rural distrlcts-it
brings the people to church. l can see
no objection to coming to prayers on a
wheel, any more than to coming in
carriage. OF course. the machines
should be cared for, If the rector has to
have an assistant to do the checking"
The Society Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution proposes to erect
in Washington a magnificent building
which shall serve the double purpose
of headquarters for the society and
fitting place where relics may be pre-
served. II the present plan is carried
out, $250,0OO building of granite will
be erected in one Of the most fashion
able parts Of the city. 1t is to be ''the
finest building ever owned by women"
and Is to be called Continental Hall.
Mrs Adlai Stevenson, wife Of the vice
president, is at the head of the society
and is working hard for the success Of
the project.
An estimate of the losses sustained
by the Italian troops in the disastrous
battle of Abba Carima, in Abyssinia.
has been made. There took part in that
engagement five Italian generals Of
whom two were killed. Da Bormida
and Arimondi, one was taken prisoner,
Abbertone and two returned to head
quarters, Baratieri and Elena. Two Of
the seven colonels engaged were killed.
one was captured and four "retreated,"
Fifteen out of the twenty-four COM
manders Of battalions were killed. The
total number Of Italians who went into
action was 9.50O of whom only 5000
have returned, many of them wounded,
while only 400 are prisoners. On the
battlefield 5000 Italians were left dead
or wounded. With the 400 native
troops similarly accounted for the total
loss in killed of the white and black
regiments engaged in the battle reaches
10000 men.
The plague of rabbits In California Is
growing constantly more serious, ac-
cording to recent advices, and it now
threatens to become almost as big a
nuisance as it is in Australia. In one
county alone last year the farmers lost
100000 by the rabbits and though re-
peated round-ups have been held, mt
which nearly half million rabbits have
been killed. the pests only increase In
number. The Australian government,
after expenditures Of $1.500.O0O in at
tempts to exterminate the all-devour-
ing rabbits. has about given up hope.
The only remedy that has been found
at all successful Is to build strong
wire netting around the infested dis
trict to confine the rabbits. There Is
one fence that is 40T miles long, and
another 346. As Is well-known, Aus