The colored American., 1901-12-07
acosONAL AND OTHERWISE

.rov Nv. Life is too short.
r-.-v man should shun liquor
ling hIyt1 as he would taking arsenic.
-. cad consequence of detection in
..ircinIe is corruption in practice
Dickens.
Rad temper is its own scourgs. Few
,ings are bitterer than to feel bitter.
mans venom poiSOns himself more
than his victim
The following is a literal transcript
- sign on a Pennsylvania village
~ .-,re. "Tea and Taters, Sugar and
GfrgIes. BriCk-dugt and Lasses. whis-
Eey Tar and other Drugs"
The keel Of the ship lies concealed,
,st Il is indispensable to her progress
and safety: so virtue does not always
sDpear upon the surface, yet true man
hood Is unknown without It
Ope Of the stations OF the railway
which IS to be built from the Red Sea
n the TOD of Mount Sinai will be on
he sUot where 1t is supposed Moses
stood when he received the two tables
Of the law.
3 The age Of whales Is ascertained by
sze and number Of laminae OF the
vhalebone which increases yearly
Ages of three hundred and four hun
tred years have been assigned tG
whales from these Indications.
In consequence Of a telephone wire
falling upon the overland wires OF tbs
street uamWays at Zurich, Switzerland
Ge central station Of the telephone
service, which has five thousand sub
gribers, caught fire and was complete,
y destroyed.
The hard tack of to-day IL a good
Zeal better than the hard tack Of the
sixties which the soldiers broke thetI
teeth on. The crackers are smaller
softer, and more digestible, and theJ
cannot be used as plates.
Among the Stamese the curious Gus
tom obtains Of reversing the elbow
Joint Of the left arm as a sign Of su
GeriOrIty. The children of both sexeI
are trained to reverse their elbow IL
nls painful position at an early age, 1
0elr parents are persons OF htgl
grades
The CurfeW law obtains In Seoul
hoTea, but it is made applicable to mel
oly' When the huge bronze bell Q
ue city prOclaims the hour OF Gunse
snd The time for closing the gates ev
Il! man Is obliged to retire to hi
nome, under pain Of fogging; but tn
women are allowed to go about at al
bOurs
me abandonment Of the post ONCE a
AaSAaSkia, H., for want Of patronag
t.S 10 mind the fact that this Is tn
,ueSt town in the State, having beel
"llaed by La Sale in 1682-Cne sam
iSaF IN which Penn founded PhiIadel
qua 1t has remained disttnctivel
..slca 10 this day, and the moder1
~''sment seems to have avoided 1t.
me cost Of constructing the Sue
.alal amounted to nearly 100000, ,0O(
-r -IyU one-third Of this sum being con
1.DU'ed by the Khedive. TWenty-f1v
~. r~CSano men were employed on tn
,o" A' Food and water were trans
s~sso by regiment Of 1000 camel
.,.a,I q cost OF over $1,500 per day. Or
I@s I@ss'OnS were commenced on April 2E
b~raa ana the great undertaking wa
~OSnI 70 a successful finish In 1876!
M s'Clolers from Illinois, New Yorl
A.. 0ulo lead the army as letter W.T.
n.D.. Sdld an official of the Post Of1C
h. ssa, -. ',lent, and they come about !
sDH, Wuer named so far as number {
%@aunications is concerned. Jude
ns.. nom the stack Of letters at heaG
tsantt t.sIS OF the various regiments rel
,so0Io ,sIIong these three States, all th
0qa5 1o aI home are writing to the
01eS II camp at least once q day