Arizona republican., 1898-06-25

StaMding twenty fleet from double
 thickness of heavy paper, about three
 feet hong by two :wide, Adolph Toep-
 perwein. of San Antonio, Tex, with a
 riflesshot on the Naper the outlines of
 an 1ndian's head He fired 150 shots and not one was misdirected.
 American advertisements are not
 ahgy7e reproach, but what of the fol-
 lowing. taken from London paper: I Lady offers good price and pays car
 r1Fe for left-of clothing, jewellery tsac), rummage parcels, teeth, etc.
 Highest references gladly given" Quick work enabled the London Pal ace theater to exhibit the race for the derby by biograph on the evening of fne day the race was run. The films reached Lcnsfon at o'clock, were de- fWeioped at ouce by electric light, and fshown on the. stage before half: past 10. Charles Dgdley Warner was once
 talking informally to the students of the Art League in New York, on Re
 finement" And how. may one best attain to this ideal of refinement?' asked one young man. MT Warner stroked his whfskers very earnestly for space, but this is the utmost he could find of encouragement: -"A very
 good way is to inherit ft-'' A southern paper having remarked
 that the south would probably refuse to counteuance the playing of March
 ing Through Georgia" in spite of the present era of good feeling, the Louis vile Courier-Journal says: Not
 much are we going to taboo Marching Through Georgia in this war. It is one of the finest martial airs this
 country has ever produced, and, like Dixie it now belongs to all Ameri-
 cans" r,~<-z-,.,. Y
 Dr. Johnson was once consulted by an old lady on the degree of wickedness to be attached to her sons robbing an
 orchard. Madam said Johnson s'it all depends upon the weight of the boy
 I remember my school fellow, iDavy
 Garrick, who was always little fel- low, r0Dbing a dozen orchards with
 impunity; but the very first time I
 climben up an apple tree (for I was always "a heavy boy) the bough broke with me, and it was called a judg-
 ment" ~s-s.-zsr5r .s.s s-s
 Those who remember the court mar stial of Captain McCalia of the Marble head, few years ago, for cruelty to his sailors, and his subsequent humili- ation by the government, will observe
 with pleasure the great activity and gallantry of that officer in the present war. Admiral Sampson has afforded him several opportunities to distin- guish himself, the latest being the cap ture of Guantanamo bay. It is evil dently McCalla's ambition to retrieve the points he lost through the court martial by conspicuous service at the front
 Agricultural labor in Lucerne re- to the Lucerne aterland At o'clock in the morning the laborer arises and puts away a glass of schnapps or of wine with eggs and bacon; at he has the first breakfast, milk and coffee, bread and butter, with something to go with it, sometimes soup; at comes the znuni, bread, cheese and cider of coffee; at 10 a second znuni, cider and bread. Between 12 and 1 he eats his dinner, consisting of soup, two kinds of vegetables, meat, sometimes two kinds of it, cider and bread; at 8 he has milk and coffee with bread and butter; at 5, what he calls z'funfe, "5 o'clock tea" of cider and bread; at ', supper, of coffee or soup, vegetables and usually meat.
 Probably the largest canal in the world-a distinction of some note in these days of wonderful engineering feats-in the Chenab irrigation canal in the northwest provinces of India Its breadth is 200 feet, with a main channel some 450 miles long, while the, principal branches have an aggre- gate length of 2,000 miles, and the vil- lage branches will extend, when com- pleted, some 4,000 miles additional. But, apart from irrigation the longest canal in the world is that which .ex- tends from the frontier of China to St. Petersburg, and is 4,472 miles in length. The Bengal canal, connecting with the river Ganges is 300 miles long and in all India, there are 14,00o miles of canals, irrigating S,000,000 acres.
 The memorial window to Edwin Booth is being placed in position in the Little Church Around the Corner, in New York. The window, which has been presented to the church by the Players club, of which MT. Booth un- til his death was president, was de signed by John La Farge. It repre- sents the figure of an actor holding in his hand a mask, at which he gazes refectively. The picture is entitled "Vanitas, Vanitatum," and the face is evidently that of Edwin Booth. Many people profess to be shocked at the incongruity of costumed actor in a church. On the other hand, the vast body, of his admirers feel that there is no place too sacred for a memorial to Edwin Booth, and they commend the design as fitting and significant