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Today Jan. Z is the anniversary of
the birth, in 1718, of Gen. Israel Putnam.
o. Revolutionary fame; of Willard Fill
'hore' In 1900, the thirteenth president; of
Aipsft Bterstadt, in 1880, the em.nent
landscape painter; of Thomas Dewitt
vine. r.
THE Bonnie Brier Bush author, Ian
Maciaren, says: 'It appears to me that
the great political danger in the begin
ning Of the new century will be the
collision IF tae Western powers in the
East, anG the chief social danger will
be anarchy among the masses of the
people at the base of our modern So
ciety May I add that in my opinion
the safeguard against Doth perils is the
application of the Sermon on the Mount
to the lite alike of nations and of indl-
viduals?"
A marble statue of Frances E. Will
lard IS soon to be placed in statuary hall
in the capitol at Washington. 1t will
be the only statue of a woman ever al
lowed in the historic chamber 1t is
donated ~ the state of Illinois, each
commonwealth of the Union being al
lowed to honor two persons in this man
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of the unveiling.
1t is the opinion of the Electrical Re-
view that the time will come when grass
grown streets will be the sign of prog
ress. And why not? When all freight
traffic has been banished to under
ground or overhead railways and the
automobile has displaced the horse for
surface travel nearly the entire street
between the pavements can be devoted
to green turf and shrubpery. Cities of
the twentieth and following centuries
may be free from dust and the odors
arising from animal traffic. The autU-
mobile moving machine may be substi-
tuted for the sweeping machine, to the
great improvement of health and in
crease of enjoyment of citizens.
Just as wireless telegraphy is well eS-
tablished comes a still more wonderful
invention, the radiophone, an apparatus
for talking miles away without the use
OF intervening wires.
A couple of Chicago university pro-
fessors, after series of experiments. de-
clare that common salt in the blood
makes the heart beat. What is more,
they declare that not only does salt keep
the heart in action, but it may cause the
heart to beat again after it has once
stopped.
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Ignatius Donnelly said in Doctor HUI
guet'': There are threads that connect
the conscience of the humblest with the
great white throne of heaven, and when
any man murders his sense of right all
the 1egior1s Of angeles are disturbed In
their serenity"
A new comet, called Giacobini, has been
HiSNnx-arod-+ fire. oil o,,1
then at the Lick observatory. In astro-
ncmfcaI terms, it was located 'in right as
cension p hours 81 minutes and 1 second
and declination minus % degrees As min
utes."
Several Eastern dailies have what may
be termed. "a glove editor" woman who
answers all binds of sentimental cues
tons from young folks in distress or
bilious. sSoe
A Chicago Judge recently decided that
there was no law compelling a woman
to work, - and, therefore, discharged a
woman charged with vagrancy She was
defended by woman lawyer, Kate Kane
RoSSo. So that a woman cannot be a
vagrant. Furthermore, have you noticed
that no one ever calls a woman a scamp,
scoundrel or a rascal? These choice
epithets are applicable to men only.
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Three hundred Boston school boys were
asked for written answer to this ques-
ton, ''Wotld you rather be a man or a
woman, and why?" OF the entire 300
only two preferred to be women, one be-
cause 'the female sex is good without
any trouble, but 1t is hard for the male
sex to be good.'' The second boy wanted
to be woman because women have
more sense than men,