Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1900-07-07

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An Eastern journal has it that perpet-
ual youth has been found in a muddy
swamp of New Jersey. Fifteen miles
from Atlantic City is little town called
Egg Harbor. The swamp lies on the
northwest boundary of this town. On
any Sunday morning It's said that from
fifty to hundred men, women and chill
dren may be seen wading in this muddy
water. They firmly believe it to be the
fountain of youth for which Ponce de
Leon searched in vain 300 years ago. To
live hundred years, they say, it is only
necessary to wade in its muddy depths
once every week and to drink glassful
every day.
When Mark Hanna recently was asked
whether women as delegates could not
introduce worthy bills, his answer was
that making bills was their speciality"
and as for the delegates adjoining the
Senate it would be a sight worth conf
ing miles to see when they presented
themselves in Senate or on the House
floor on Easter Monday morning" He
reasoned also that extra sessions could be
held for the exhibition of afternoon
toilets and pink teas, and as for argu-
ments they would be absolutely success
full as arguing is their strong point.
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The custom among men of removing
the hat when entering the company of
ladies is said to be remnant of the olden
times. When knight came into room
where there were ladies he dotted his
helmet, thereby showing that he was
among friends and needed not to protect
himself. The practice has survived in
the custom of removing the hat when
saluting ladies.
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The most wonderful crustacesn known
too biologists was recently captured III
the Indian ocean, near Calcutta. 1t is
sixty-two centimeters In diameter and its
claws are more than a yard long. Its
voracity is incredible, and its great eyes
protrude in such manner as to give it
peculiarly frightful appearance. 1t is in
the aquarium of the Geological Society in
Calcutta. At night it emits long, phos-
phorescent rays of milky whiteness,
and persons interested in scientific phe-
nomena have travelled for miles to wit
ness It.
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A beautiful and truly Catholic work
has recently been cOnsummated in New
York City by the broad-natured and
clever Father Ducey. A House of Repose
for the Stranger Dead has been erected in
East Twenty-eighth street, a new and
much needed place for the accommodation
of those who having either no homes to
be brought to by friends or for those
dead not recognized and having conse-
quently no suitable place other than the
morgue wherein to repose preparatory TO
their burial. People of all denominations
helped to construct it. Father Qucey
has been the principal contributor to the
project, having bought and contributed
the ground and generously given to the
fund besides. The money. $4,000, has
been contributed mostly by Protestants,
and the building will be for the use of
the homeless dead of any denomination
or of none On the opposite side of the
continent, in San Francisco, Mrs. Stan
ford, of California fame, has erected a
handsome House of Repose for tine Stran-
ger Dead.
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The many diseases transmitted from
one patron to another by the use of tow
els, shaving brushes, soaps and razors in
barber shops is receiving much needed
attention. Fungi that accumulate in
brushes near the handle are easily forced
down upon the skin by the pressure nee
essary to making lather on the face and
neck. Many forms of disease are COM
municated in this manner. BARRIERS will
be compelled to use the sanitary pre-
cautions of absolute cleanliness, that
these skin diseases may not be dreaded
by desirable customers. Straps, combs,
clippers and sponges come under the ban
of dirt and disease or else perfect cleanli-
ness.
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The wolf that saved the lives of Romu-
lus and Remus has been outdone in these
latter days by the story that comes from
Brazil. poultry raiser missing one of
the hens off a nest from which the peeping
chicks were supposed soon to appear
found instead of the good mother hen
only few tufts of feathers near the nest.
She had formed chicken breakfast for a
snake eighteen feet long, known as the
surukukss. The reptile bearing the long
name then took upon itself the incubation
of the eggs. Natural history states that
this species of reptile does not rely on
sun and sand to hatch out its eggs, so that
its natural instinct led it to bring safely
to maturity a whole brood of young
chicks. With great delight she fed her
strange family, never trying in the least
to harm them till they were old enough
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