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The Progress Medical reports the ex-
periments made by physician to cure
| insomnia and other nervous troubles
by influencing the dreams of the pa
t1ent by means OF photograph and
suggestion. Cases are cited in which
by this means sleep was restored and
irritabilfty Gained.
A discussion having arisen in Kan
sas over the fact that Senator Pfumb's
grave has remained unmarked by q
suitable memorial all these years, the
Arkansas City Traveller suggests that
every newspaper published in Kansas
shall contribute a certain amount OF
type, out Of which shall be nodded an
mortal would have no duplicate In the
world
A law weS recently passed in Nor
way prohibiting the sale of tobacco to
any boy under Is years of age without
a signed order from an adult relative
or employer. Even tourists who offer
cigarettes to boys render themselves
liable to prosecution. The police are
instructed to confiscate the pipes, CT
in the public streets. A fine for the
offense is also imposed, which may be
anywhere between so cents and $25.
During his recent visit to the Saal-
burg, near Hamburg, in the Taurus
mountains, the Emperor William sane
toned the final arrangements for con-
verting the building into a museum for
the preservation of Roman antiquities
found on or near the Lines, the huge
wall erected on the German frontier
by the Romans to guard against in
roads from Germany. The Saalburg
itself was one of the Roman forts on
that wall. The emperor has already
given 10000 marks for the restoration
of the Porta Decumana and the adj
jacent walls; but about $50, 900 marks
more are needed for the restoration Of
the whole building.-New York Post.
When the late Lord Cairns was lord
chancellor, he was an ex-officio visitor
of lunatic asylums. 1t is related that
he went down one Wednesday, when
the peers do not sit, to Hanwell,
knocked at the door and asked to be
admitted. Can't let you in said the
janitor; days for visitors Tuesdays
and Fridays" "But 1 have a right to
go inside" said his lordship; ct insist
on doing So Read the regulations"
and the janitor pointed to them. ''Do
you know who 1 ann" asked Lord
Cairns. Don't know and don't care"
said the mental. "I am entitled to adj
mission at any and every hour; I am
lord chancellor of England" "Ah!
ah!" laughed the janitor, as he shut
the entrance gates in the noble lords
face, we've got four of 'em inside al
ready"
The servant girls of Brooklyn, N. Y,
have organized a union, and they are
trying to keep it a secret. The union
was organized in March, has $50 mem
bers, and interest is growing" These
are the demands of the combination,
which has brought about a corner in
help" market: Wages at least SIG
one whole day out each week;
two weeks vacation in the summer
with full pay; the use of the front base
ment as sitting and reception room;
no outside work-that is, sweeping
sidewalks or stoops, washing windows
Or cleaning brass trimmings; no carry
ing coal from the cellar except for the
range; general homework to include
onty cooking and light laundry work:
all shirts, shirt waists, collars and cuffs
must be sent to the laundry.-Corre.
spondence Ptttsburg Dispatch.