The St. Johns herald., 1899-10-21
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week days and take them walking sun day afternoons.
 The order issued by the Norwegian Government that no Swedish officer shall be permitted hereafter to inspect forts in Norway is taken to mean that war is to come if a separation of Nor way and Sweden cannot be otherwise effected.
 A months supplies for the South Car olina dispensaries, recently purchased included 915 barrels of whisky, thirty barrels of gin, ten barrels of rum, 42i cases of whisky, 100 cases of wine, four carloads of beer, five barrels of ale and five barrels of porter.
 Since the British Government formed its plan for establishing a telephone system for the public service terrOl has seized the National Telephone Company. The company is now will ing to sell it's entire plant and business to the Government for sum not great ly beyond S20,OOO,OO0.
 The kissing of the Bible has been ta bOoed entirely in the courts of New York State. The book has been kissed religieusly since 1776 by witnesses, and there are we'll authenticated cases of fatal results arising from the practice The practice will be discontinued be cause of the passage of the law which has already received the signature of Governor Roosevelt.
 The officers and men of the garrison at Brussels were recently invited to lecture given by the Mayor. The sol diers were instructed to keep their eyes on the commanding officer, MT. PoOdts and to follow his example, rising and applauding when he did. Unhappily Colonel Poodts had occasion to blow his nose. Instantly the hall re-echOed with the music of 1,500 soldiers noses being blown.
 Harvard University is to pension pro. fessors and assistant professors who have served the institution for twenty years or more, plan of retiring allow ances having been established by the president and fellows of the university. The plan was first suggested in Har- yard in 1880, since which time the nec- essary fund has grown to $340,000 Harvard is the first American univer- sity to establish a general system of retiring allowances.
 Shopping has really become a profes. sion in New York City, and the profes. sional shoppers manage to rake off'' big incomes annually from percent age allowed them by the big stores in which they spend the money of wealthy women who employ them. For an en- terprising woman there is just as big B field to amass wealth in the metrop- oils as there Is for a hustling man. Thousands of them are doing 1t, and doing it we'll, too.
 Four hundred dollars a square foot, or $50,000 per running foot, has been at the southerly side of Wall street, New York. In other words, $1, POO, GOO was offered for the premises and lot 86 Broadway, 24 feet wide. This is the highest price ever offered per square foot for land in North America. The offer was refused. Benjamin Stillman, the owner, did not wish to sell, and he thought that if he did the property was worth $500 a square foot.
 An examination of 4,OOO criminals in the French army has just been con- cluded by pr. J. Marty, the criminolo- gist. The result is curious. It proves that the. criminal soldier is far better specimen of the human form than is the ordinary military man, whom he surpasses in height, weight, chest measurement, muscular power and general condition. It is necessary to find some theory for the way in which the wicked flourish like a green bay tree, so pr. Marty suggests that 1t is only the very strong who can survive the wretched conditions of French criminal families.
 There were 39S colored commissioned officers and 9,761 colored privates and nOn-commissi0ned officers serving among the volunteers during the Span ish war. The Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Twenty y-fourth infantry of the regular army are composed of colored men under white officers, aggregating about 4,500. It is impossible to, ascer- tain, even approximately, how many colored men are serving in the navy, because they are not designated, but they must have numbered from 800 to I50 when, the navy was at its full war strength, making total of about 15,- poo colored people in both branches of the service.
 There is someone in France, whose name has not been divulged, who has placed a handsome sum of money at the disposal of the University of Paris for the purpose of encouraging travel among Frenchmen. The university is now ready to send out five associates of the faculty of science and letters on trip around the world. The recipients of the money are not required to fur nish any, report. They are to store away their knowledge for future use. The amount given t0 each of the tour lsts is liberal-$3.OOO for travelling ex- penses, $1O0 for books and $200 for the purchasing of souvenirs de voyage.
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 You wouldn't ride the bike, JohA, ~s
 But now your spine is bent.
 I see you riding by, John,