The Western outlook., 1900-01-27
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A new woman's club is to be started
in London TO which no one under six
feet in height will be admitted.
German locomotive factories number
eighteen and have a capacity of 400
locomotives per year, part of which
output is exported. 1t is said that no
American locomotives have yet been
introduced into Germany.
There were $500 suicides in this
country during the last year, compared
with 5000 during the previous year.
At the same time there was falling
off of nearly 80 per cent. in the number
Of reported embeZZlements.
The latest lifeboat. which has been
approved by the British admiralty, car
1,0O0,00O cubic feet of air can be COM
pressed. This air will drive the boat
fifteen miles an hour for six hours.
! Maros- Ujvar in Hungary, a manu-
featuring town of 5000 inhabitants,
may be expected to grow rapidly. A
| Hungarian singer, who undertook to
give a concert there, found 1t impOssi-
BILE, as there was not single piano in
the town and he had not brought one
with him.
AS result Of the success of a num-
Der Of Jersey City women in causing
the streets of that town to be properly
cleaned it is proposed to turn the de-
partment of street cleaning over to the
women, having all the employees, from
superintendent down to sweepers, of
the feminine gender
A number of Russian off1cers-amOng
the highest Of the coSSacks Of the
guard-have been sentenced to long
terms of Imprisonment in Siberia and
elsewhere for frauds and peculations.
Gambling, as usual, appears to have
furnished the motive for the vulgar
crime of falsifying accounts and SINH
lar forms of swindling.
Harry FarjeOn eldest son of the nov
elist, and grandson OF Joe Jefferson,
has composed the music for twO-act
opera, "Floretta," for which his young
er sister, Eleanor, wrote the book,
which has been performed with success
in London. Young Farjeon is 81 years
of age and his sister is Is, but she had
completed the play when she was 16.
A divorced mans club has been or
ganized in Alameda County, California,
for the purpose of sending out scouts
and missionaries, men who have found
marriage failure and whose object it
is to impress upon mankind the dan
gers of matrimony and give those In
clined that way an opportunity to profit
by their sad and narrowing expert
ences.
If Pennsylvania is not we'll doctored,
from Il medical standpoint, it will not
be because of a scarcity Of physicians.
The State Examining Board has grant
ed licenses to 375 more doctors to prac-
tice out of 425 that made application,
and in view Of there being two exami-
nations held each year it is patent that
the supply of medicos is being well pro-
vided.
Mr.. Murray. Scottish naturalist, in
q paper on the habits Of wasps, tells
how a blackbird will stand at the side
Of a hanging wasp's nest and deliber-
ately tear it in pieces in order to get at
the larvae, apparently undisturbed by
the swarms of angry insects whose
stings instantly put to flight the hui
man curiosity seeker who ventures
near to watch the demolition.
So many children have been made i'll
by eating the samples Of medicine of
various kinds left at the doors by en-
ployes of makers in Los Angeles, Cal,
that the municipal authorities have for
hidden the practice and the manufac-
turers will have to find other means of
advertising iu place of delivering such
articles from house to house. This
mtthOd of bringing to the public notice
the remedies that are so innumerable
threatens to become great nuisance In
some parts of the country.
1ae average duration of yellow fever
week, but In graver cases the at
tack may be precipitate and prove
speedily fatal. There is usually an ini
tial chill, headache, pains in the back
and limbs and slight increase Of tenn
perature. In exceptional cases the ther
nometer in the mouth will register
from 100 to 105 degrees, as In other fe
vers, but more often the body heat is
hut nttlii slaEatsd and " some &C SOS 8.