The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-05-26
A Possible Reason.


at know of a prominent banking house
where the clerks are not permitted to
let their mustaches grow What is the
sense in such a ruler"
'It is merely for the protection of
the public. There are microbes on
bank bills. Bank clerks handle all
kinds of bills, and if they have mus
taches they finger the mustaches be-
tween times. Then they go out calling
and according to the scientists there
are already enough microbes in kisses"
''Shucks!"
''Well, if you know of any better rea-
son for it let's hear IT,
Women Fire Brigades.
Fire brigades manned by women
are not uncommon in England. There is
one at Girton college, where the stu
dents have their own brigade and appli-
ances. Several of the hospitals have
separate brigades Of the nurses and of
the male attendants, and the nurses are
said to be much quicker than the men.
At Holloway college there is a brigade,
formed of the girl students, capable of
getting the engine at work in less than
a minute. Several establishments in
London having large corps of women
employed have fire companies among
the employees
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
England had been free from the grip
forty-three years when it reappeared
about ten years ago.
A fluent speaker utters between 1000
and 5000 words in the course of an
hours uninterrupted speaking.
Goethe, Byron, Napoleon, Moltke, Tai
leyrand and Bismarck, while not DAN
dies, were careful about their attire.
The number Of church-goer in the
United States in 1898 was 27,714, 523; an
increase for the year Of over $4,000
A resolution adopted by the Atlanta
school board leaves the application of
the rod to the discretion of the teach
ers.
Another Indian congress is to be i
feature Of this years Omaha exposi-
ton. It will be more extensive than
that of last year.
He and Human Nature.
II have been trying for nearly a
year." he said, "to get chance to ask
you to be my wife,"
"Ah, Francis she replied, ST am
glad to know that you are perservering,
and I shall not let your constancy Of
purpose go unrewarded. I will be
yours"
ooh, but suppose ought to have ex-
planned first he made haste to an
swer, that now the chance is offered
I haven't any desire to accept it. What
a queer thing human nature is, isn't
it? People are always longing for that
which they do not possess, and when
they finally get it, or have chance to
get it, they don't want it,"
She was too busy looking hard at
nothing to make any reply.-Chicago
Daily News.
Pathos Mingles with Love.
A love story comes from romantic
Roumania. It all happened in the lit
tie village of Vacresti de Rastvaca,
near Bucharest. A young peasant,
Damian Valda. loved a beautiful young
person, whose parents, at least, did not
'treciprocate his affection
Valdas was O0HISQ Tic Jul AlC
remembered that the little god laughs
at bolts and bars, and took comfort.
He procured a covered wagon and
dozen friends, drove up one night and
rushed the house. The girl, already
muff1ed, was brought out, and Damian
industriously plying the whip, away
they tore to his home.
He lifted down his precious burden
and gently drew the veil from her face.
The features were those of the girls
mother.
All doubts as to the burial place of
Turgot, Louis XVTs great minister of
finance. have been removed by the open
ing Of the tomb in the chapel attached
to the Laennec hospital in Paris. His
coffin was found, together with those
Of his father and two others of the
family, in excellent preservation.