Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-17
Ways Of the World.

interview that no one who wishes to
retain the freshness, sweetness and
power OF her voice should sing in
opera more than three times week.
President Loubet is probably the
most guarded of all living rulers, a
large flying guard of policemen in
plain clothes having just been form
ed to accompany him wherever he
goes.
B. w. d. Brooke, who rowed in the
Cambridge boat against Oxford the
other day, is probably the first son of
a reigning monarch to rows in a uni
versity race. He is the second son of
the Rajah of Sarawak.
Edward Nero, who succeeds Alexis
E. Frye as superintendent of schools
in Cuba, is said by the Havana Post to
be one of the best educated men in the
island.
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, the novel;
list, is at present at st. Thomas, Danish
West Indies, making Investigations in
Nevis and st. Croix concerning the
parentage of Alexander Hamilton.
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The human body, it has been found
is shorter at night than in the morn
ing, due to the weight of the body
COMPRISING the intervertebral carti-
lagos. During sleep, or while in re-
cumbent position, the pressure. being
removed, their natural elasticity en-
ables them to resume their normal
size, consequently the height of an in
dividual will vary from three-eights to
half an inch between morning and
night.
The late Cardinal Mezzofanti spoke
ia languages and dialects, so of them
so fluently that he was sometimes mis-
taken for native of the lands where
they were used.
Bliss Carmen, the poet, writes at all
times and in all places, as the mood
moves him. Most of his verse first
sees the light on odd bits and scraps of
paper or is written in an almost illegi- |
BILE hand on the backs of envelopes.
The canal traffic of Belgium repre-
sents over one-fourth of the whole
traffic of the country, averaging $780,
100000 ton kilometers annually,
against 2,SSO 900 900 ton kilometers of
railway traffic. AS the average freight
is 16 centimes per ton kilometer for
transport by inland cargo boat, as
against A centimes by railway, the to-
tai saving is nearly G1000000.
1t is said that the Duke of Orleans
was stopped at Milan when on his
journey to England by a message in
forming him that his attendance at the
late queens funeral was not desired by
the king and the royal family.
Sign-painting has now been added to
the list of trades practiced by women
in Berlin. Women sign painters un-
dergo a regular apprenticeship they
are taught how to use the brush and
to mix paints. Gymnastic training is
carefully gone into before they are al
lowed to ascend the scaffolding, so
that they may not lose their nerve
when standing on ladder.
There is project on foot for the
construction of a movable electric
platform underground on the right
bank of the Seine. The first platform
will be stationary, the second will
have a velocity of one and half
meters a second. the third three me
ters and the fourth five meters, or 1915
feet This will enable pedestrians to
have very rapid means of transit
afoot in a portion of Paris which is
greatly encumbered by traffic.
The first alcoholic perfume was
Hungary water, made from rosemary
by Elizabeth of Hungary, 1870, she
having procured the recipe from a
Hungarian hermit. This perfume be-
came popular throughout all Europe
in that and the succeeding century.