The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
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Il Is said to have cost the late Queen
Victoria $500 year TO pay bounties to
women who gave birth TO triplets, Each
tfiplet receives IS.
Somebody has estimated that there are
fewer than twenty good poets In the
United States. But then, that was no
difhcult thing to do.
Coming events cast their shadows be-
FORE Husbands arid fathers will be in
terested In the announcement that Io,-
900 seal skins from the north have ar
rived In the United States.
II Must be dfeadfully expensive to
use q long distance telephone in France.
as the people are so polite 1t would take
all the titiie for compliments.
Britons are advised In a London paper
10 study Americas movements" In f.
naneial and industrial matters. They
will have to be satisfied with d rear
view,
Mr. Rockefeller appears to have col.
lided with the old qiery as to whether
genuine business man cah become
philahihropist without ceasing to be a
business maf.
An .Englishmah has discovered a pro-
cess for making gas at four cents per
thousand feet But what the consumer
needs most is the discovery of gas
meter that won't work overtime.
All the railroads of the country, ac-
cording to an expert, can be built now
original cost. Or. IN other words, about
ten per cent OF their present capitalza-
ton.
A wealthy bachelor of Oregon left his
fortune to brother and sister, provided
they put in an appearance within six
months. And they were, no doubt, will
ing to give him rebate of about five
months and twenty-nine days.
The population of London, according
to the census just taken, is .4,s3o,o54, a
gain in ten years of 3o5,7I7, New York's
population last year was only u ,oo8,S3z
behind that OF London now, and the gain
in ten years exceeded that of London
64o,So4
The frequency with which women are
using hatpins as weapons may lead TO
Legislation prescribing the legal length of
that article Of dress, just as il does the
length OF knife man may carry with
out being amcnable to the law regarding
concealed weapons.
The daughter of an earl, who was mar
ried to New York man the other day,
has decided to give up her title and be-
come plain Mrs" II is generally un-
derstood that she is at least dozen
times more beautiful than any American
girl who has married foreigner for his
title thus far.
A Chicago decedent's will, which con-
tanned only fifteen words, disposed eff
fcctively of $Iso,ooo worth of property.
II the example of brevity were more
generally followed in similar testaments
by others there would be fewer conten-
tions over the disposition Of estates and
less work for the courts.
The Americans expectation of life at
any given period is best, the English
mans not so good BY just shade, the
Germans less by year, the French
mans a little better than the Germans.
Let US hear no more then of the pace
that kills in America and the nervous
strain that is breaking down our people,
remarks the Florida Times Union.
The latest daring astronomical inno-
vation in Paris consists of the prepara-
ton of soups, stews and entrees from
spiders, caterpillars, wasps and grass
hoppers, and culture farms have been es-
tablished for the raising of sufficient
supply to meet the growing demand. II
is claimed by the French chefs that the
world has hitherto neglected one of ma
lures most tempting luxuries through a
failure to utilize these insects.
The comparative cheapness of hard
pine lumber in the South has led to its
general employment in building, and thus
the risk of fire in built up towns has
been largely increased. This "fat pine"
30 n PiNy w llldl any Quiet
material used in house construction, and
its elimination from the list of builders
materials would vastly enhance the safe
ty of communities which, like Jackson
vile, Fla. arc subject TO the ravages Of
conflagration.
1t is now admitted that a woman is as
much entitled to education as man;
that thorough school training may be
of great benefit in her discharge of every
duty as wife. mother and matron, and
that il is unfair, as we'll as unjust, to a
young woman, to send her forth man
acled by ignorance to take part in the
strenuous life confronting every man
and woman of to-day The educated
woman is the best equipped of her sex
for wifehood By education is meant
not, OF course, mere book learning. but
that culture which is physical, mental,
ethical, and industrial, observes the Gin
cinnoh Commercial Gazette.
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