Arizona republican., 1901-09-11
WHIRL OF THE WORLD


The latest dodge of the Paris vaga,
bond is a biting machine---a steel pin
Ger which. when it closes on a man.
arm, leave n mark closely resembling
hlat made by vicious horse.
| The modus operandi was for a band
of criminals to surround horse whose
driver was temporarily absent. While
one pricked the animal and made Il
savage, the accomplice cried out as II
| in agony. When crowd had collected
he exhibited his arm, which had pre-
viously been operated upon by the bit
ing machine.
The Indignant spectators proceeded
to beat the horse numerically. Final
~ the proprietor of the innocent steeo
paid the bogus victim anything from
ten to twenty pounds as compensation
But a company for insuring against
acciden,, alarmed by the number OF
people who claimed indemnity for horse
bites, grew suspicious, and the invent
ors of the biting machine are now IN
Jail.
The fashion of sandal wearing is said
to be growing popular in England. The
chief objection urged against the fash
ion is that it enlarges the feet--permits
them to spread-but this, II Is claimed
is an error; the wearing of sandals
merely allows the feet their proper de-
velopment. Every one will allow that
sandals are the coolest foot covering 70.
summer, but doubtless most people will
be surprised to hear that IL Is claimed
that they are the warmest wear in VIM
ter. III persons suffering from cold feet
or chilblains would wear sandals over
good thick woollen socks, it is said they
would soon find themselves cured OF
these Affections.
The burning mountain" of Montet,
in Aveyrcn. France, which is often ms
taken for an active volcano, because u
pillar Of cloud rises from it by day and
a pillar Of fire by night. is in reality a
coal mine which has been burning for
several years.
Paris is carrying on a crusade against
the mosquito, but not with oil. The
public fountains are being shut off,
those in the Place de Ia Concorde. at the
Luxembourg, the Observatory. the cas-
cade at Longchamps, and the little
brooks in the Bots 1t Is the council of
hygiene which has brought this about.
and II Is compelled, therefore, to suffer
the displeasure of the public. But the
council says that mosquitoes are dan
gerous to the health, and as the foun-
tains breed the pest the fountains must
be suppressed
In France and Germany the genuine
ways good during certain hours. at n
considerable reduction, amounting
sometimes to as much as so per cent. In
France tramway companies are mo-.
Bound to lower their fares for work
people, and as a rule have not done so.
but the running of special cars for them
has been made obligatory in some re-
cent charters. Similar principles are
adopted In Germany, and specia, cheap
trains for workingmen have been run
on several OF the London suburban
roads for a long time, with satisfactory
financial results.
A curious deed Is onlfllc in Northumb-
crland county, Pennsylvania. 1t bears
date of October g. 1893. In a series OF
whereases 1t traces the ownership of the
land conveyed from the Creator or the
earth, who by parole and livery of
selling dfa enfeoff the parents of man
Kind to wit, Adam and Eve, of all that
certain tract of land called and known
in the planetary system as the earth. y