Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-12-19
On Many Topics.

W. IN aA1A' h'R RSShSS'
The world will applaud Lord Rob
erbss manly appeal to the English
stay-at-homes not to degrade the re-
turning soldier by a debauch of well
come.
AS further evidence of the fact that
few men have ever amounted to much
without wife to help them, it might
be mentioned that twenty eight out of
the thirty immortals chosen for the
Hall of Fame were married men.
Rotterdam from its favorable situa-
tion has gradually pulled ahead of
Amsterdam and is now the most pros
porous harbor in Holland. 1t has cap
tured most of the German trade and
does an immense business with the
United States.
An eminent London surgeon, DR..
Treves, has expressed the opinion that
genius is only IAN untabulated nerv-
Gus disease" The London Spectator
makes a protest against this opinion
and insists that to repudiate genius is
to repudiate one of the highest at
tributes of life.
The Railroad and Engineering Re-
view notes the fact that the profession
of railroading is four times as danger
GUS as that of the soldier in time OF
war. During the year ending June 80,
1900, more than 1000 railroad en-
ployes out of total of 227 900 were
killed or injured at their calling, while
during the same period only 164O out of
an army of $4,000 in the Philippines
suffered in the same manner.
A restaurant for concentrated food
is to be started in Paris by an enter
prising French chef. The happy diner
will enjoy a menu of tabloids. His en-
tire meal will occupy only a cubic inch
or two The fault found with such
concentrated food hitherto has been
that it is not fitted for the stomach of
man as he is constituted, since 1T lacks
the quality of bulk. which seems to be
one essential of food. A horse will not
do we'll on a diet of grain; he needs
some hay or other forage to dilute the
stronger elements. So with man.
That the United States is far ahead
of other countries as regards popular
art education is one of the most pro-
nounced deductions to be drawn from
the exhibition at the Paris EXPOSE
tion. The drawing and color work Of
Chicago public school students iS away
and beyond anything shown by the
public schools of Great Britain. France
or Germany. Nor does the work of
cur leading art schools up to a certain
point compare unfavorably with that
of European schools. The very gen.
orally excellent ideas and methods
now finding place in domestic educa-
tional methods is sure to bear great
fruit in the next generation or two.
A feature of the postal system in the
United Kingdom, which has not yet
been made q part of the United States
is the telegraph. This is branch of
the service that has made great strides,
being about on "a par as regards the
rapidity of its growth with a postal
card branch. The number of MESA ges
increased from 39.146,2S in 1886 to
90,415,123 in 1900, an increase of about
1870 per cent. in the decade and a half.
1t is only about thirty years since the
transfer of the telegraphs to the pos
;al system, but in that period che num-
ber of messages has increased over
ninefold, the messages sent in 1901
numbering only 9.S50,177.
Sims Reeves, the English lyric tenor
singer, whose death at an advanced
age, the other day, was almost Brit
igh institution so intimately was he
connected with whatever progress in
musical art had been made in England
during half a century past. Poets and
composers gladly laid the treasures of
their brain coinage at the feet of this
autocrat of the concert stage, and the
public showered upon him one fortune
after another as their gifts slipped
Through his fingers. Within his chosen
sphere of ballad and oratorio singing he
WAS supreme, and many years may
elapse before another such tone magi-
clan shall arise in England to give
perfect utterance to the nations fav-
orite music.
Ballooning across Europe is not an
uneXciting sport, aside from the dan
gers which naturally attend upon such
ventures. One of the balloons in the
recent race from Paris to Russia was
the st. Louis, which lost because it was
filled with ordinary gas instead of with