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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
How the supreme Court vote.

Some future Saturday the nine black
robed judges will descend by private
elevator to their consultation room.
observing with scrupulous care the
seniority of members, even to the or
der of the entrance into the room, and
begin balloting on the Porto Rican
cases. In the copsultation-room much
OF the dignity observed elsewhere is
eliminated. The stately black robes
are removed and the justices sit about
a long table, the chief justice, Mr.. Mel
vile Fuller, at the head and the Junior
Justice, Mr.. McKsnna, at the foot.
Justice McKenna will cast the first
ballot to settle those eventful cases.
1t is one Of the traditions of the court
that the balloting must be in inverse
order of seniority, the chief Justice
balloting last. Justice Harlan is the
senior member of the high tribunal,
from the point of service, but the chief
justice rates him.-Joe Mitchell Chap
pie, In the National Magazine.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
THOUGHTS ON MAN.

Man is the little world.-Lorvaster
Man is the wonder of nature
Plato.
Man is an epitome of the world
Pliny.
Man is the measure of all things
Protogoras.
Men were gay deceivers ever
Shakespeare.
Man is the great wonder.-Hermes
Trismeyistus.
Man is a sample of the universe
Theophrastus.
Infinite is the help man can yield
to man.-Carlyle.
Man the image of Gods personality.
bronson Alcott.
Man is a soul using the body of an
strument.-Prochis.
Man! Thou peidulum betwixt a
smile and tear.-Lord Byron.
Certainly the greatest scholars are
not the wisest men.-Regmer.
The great man is he who does not
lose his child's heart.-Mencius.
Great men stand like solitary tow
ers in the city of God.-Longfellow
All men commend patience, though
few be willing to practice it.-Thom-
as Fempis.
Man is an initiative creature, and
whoever is foremost leads the herd.
Schiller.
The most unhappy of all men is
he who believes himself to be So
Henry Home.
The real character of a man is
found out by his amusements.-Sir
Joshua Reynolds.
Most men employ the first part OF
their lives to make the last part mis-
erable.-La Bruyere.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
EUROPEAN ECHOES.

William the Conqueror's castle at
Bonneville, in Normandy, was sold at
auction recently for $4,000.
A Swedish turnip weighing 20 pounds
and yellow weighing % pounds, both
grown by Forfarshire farmer, have
been on exhibition in Dundee.
Berlin is afflicted by a new toy i'm
ported from Paris. 1t is a pocket
whistle that emits a whine, winding up
with a shrek of Mamma, mamma"
The water boundaries of France are
as follows: Mediterranean sea coast,
a9S miles; North sea, Straits of Dover
and English channel, s72 miles; At
lantic ocean, 5s4 miles.
The door by which the president Of
the republic, the king of Sweden, the
shah, and other distinguished visitors
were in the habit of entering the Paris
exhibition has been sold for IL guineas.
A Roman mob unveiled a new bronze
fountain in tho Villa NazionaIe by
force recently. An injunction had
been obtained against the exhibition
OF the fountain, on the ground that
the naked figures of Naiads that
adorned IL were immoral. A crowd
armed with tools marched to the place
and tore down the boards that inclosed
the fountain.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
LIBRARY GOSSIP.

A Roman journal estimates the
value of the libraries In Italy at S12,-
100000, and that OF the pain tings,
statues and vases at $3o,OOO,000.
Canadians have ever resented Rud-
yard Kipling's allusion to the do
minion as sour Lady of the Shows"
Goodwin Smith has now placated them
by calling It "This Land of Sunshine
All letters to the editor published
in the Academy begin with "Sir" and
end 81 am, etc" Sometimes the eff
feet is startling. Thus Andrew Lang
concludes letter TO the Academy as
follows: "Mr. Richard Grant White
was not infallible-in Greek. 1 am,
ETC., A. Lang"
In sending to George Bancroft a
specimen of the pork raised on his
farm in Vermont Mr.. Evarts wrote
this characteristic note, which was
found preserved among the histori-
ans papers after his death: Dear
Bancroft: 1 send you two products
of my pen to-day-my usual half bar
rel of pig pork and my eulogy on
Chief Justice Chase"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
WITH THE SPORTS.

"Muggsy" McGraw has discovered a
Cherokee Indian who can hit like Dele
hanty, field like McGraw himself and
run the base distances in eight sec
onds.
English tennis players have chaL
senged Americans to a game and have
been accepted. The games will be for
the worlds supremacy, and will be
played in this country.
Ungallant students at Syracuse uni
~ersity have ripped the letter rs" from
the sweaters because the co-eds on the
basket ball team have been granted
the privilege of wearing the athletic
emblem.
Evidently Mexican followers of the
cock-fghting game do nothing by
halves At a recent series of BATTLES In
the state of chihuahua over 500, 900 Is
said to have changed hands among bet
tiers, and stakes of $4,000 were offered
for some of the mains.
While efforts a re being made in near
ly every state in the union for better
protection of game a northern New
York man gives hunters the cheerful
news that wild deer have DESTROYED his
crops for two seasons. He Is allowed
neither to shoot nor dog them, and
asks the state Legislature to repeal the
law protecting them in order that he
may save his property.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
MILITARY MATTERS.

The Mexican army of more than
$4,000 men is supported upon trifle
more than a million Mexican dollars
q month. The Mexican congress does
not cost million dollars year.
Men who are enlisted for service
in the navy are not to be assigned
to service in submarine boats without
their consent, and the bureau of navi-
cation will recommend that special
service enlistments for these vessels
be authorized.
Earl Roberts is endeavoring to abol-
ish the prejudice English officers have
felt against wearing their uniforms
in public. A new rule has been made
compelling officers TO wear their uni
forms when appearing at the war Of
flee, probably with the idea of helping
to overcome the popular taste for dis
play felt among the military men when
they are not on actual duty.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
BITS OF MISCELLANY.

Boston has much vacant land, the
assessed value of which is S62, OoO, 900.
SPANS kingdom of Austurias, ac-
cording to the British Medical Jour
nal, boasts of % centenarians in a
population of 100000.
1t is not difficult to make post
holes in Alaska. A mas of powder
blasts out the hole in an instant,
a telegraph pole is inserted, water
is poured in, and the intense cold
holds the pole secure in an incase-
ment of ice.
Rev. John L. Sewall, pastor of the
First Congregations church in North
Brookfield, Mass, has announced to
his parishioners that he will accept a
reduction of ten per cent of his SAL
airy of $1,000 a year, inasmuch as
many of the congregation are facing
ten per cent. reduction in their
wages earned in the local shoe shop.
A new province is to be formed in
India by placing the four districts of
the Punjab that lie beyond the In
dus under a government of their own.
They are the extreme northwest dis
tricts that have been the scenes of
the recent petty wars, Peshawur, Ko-
hat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan.
with the political agencies of Dir,
Swat, Chitral, the Khaibar, the Ku-
ram, Tochi and Wana.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

1t Is estimated one-third of the
jewellers upon earth are habitual
users Of tobacco.
The tip of the minute hand of the
average watch travels nearly four
ffths of mile every year.
The finest piece of amber ever found
of the English coast was recently
picked up by traveller near loves
toff. 1t brought the lucky finder the
sum of $137.
Only in II states can a married
woman dispose of her separate and
independent estate by will. In the
remaining 20 states she must have
the consent of her husband before
she can will her own property as she
may wish.
There has been no official designa-
ton of the recent additions to the
territory of the United States, and it
remains for congress to adopt one.
For the time being those who are
conducting the correspondence of the
state and war department usually re-
fer to "the United States and insular
possessions"
1t is cheaper to be born in New
York than married or buried. An ex-
ception may be found in the case of
the very poor, who oan be married
for nothing. A child may be brought
into the world among the poor of the
East side, clothed and given a nurs-
ing bottle for S6.40. But death sweIls
the bill to at least $40, the minimum
for which a man can be buried out
side Of Potter's field.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
Nature. Park. q. Africa.

In central Africa are found districts
which impress the beholder with the
belief that the hand of man has shaped
their features, although there il now
no population capable of producing
such effects. These districts, near Lake
Tanganyiks, are called "park lands"
and their origin was recently explained
before the Linnean society in London,
by Mr.. Moore. a. being due to the spread
Of vegetation over light surface soil
gradually deposited above the salt
stsppes left by former lakes. In some
places these districts are covered with
natural plantations that have a quite
homeEks look"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
ALL SORTS.

Lemon juice followed by salt takes
out ink or rust.
The manicuring art had it's origin
in the converts of France many CEN
turtles ago.
Lake Copals, in Boeotia, famous in
antiquity for its cells, has now been
completely drained and turned into
$4,000 acres of arabic land.
The cars loaded with oranges sent
out last month from southern Cali
fornia would have made each day .
train ~ miles long.
As illustrating the cumulative force
of the five-cent piece it is shown that
the total income of the "a street rail-
way companies operating in Pennsyl-
vania during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, was $24,457,1S1.
No longer will the school children
be bothered by the question of what
state in the union has two capitals.
An amendment to the Rhode Island
constitution was adopted at the last
election which does away with the
capital at Newport, and henceforth
the one capital city will be Provi-
dence.
The wood of the chestnut tree is
considered valuable for many pur-
poses. 1t is strong and tenacious and
may be subjected for years to the in
huence of air, wind or water without
decaying. In some places the trees
are cultivated solely for the wood. It
infames easily and produces a great
deal of heat, but is considered dan
gerous as fuel on account of its
tendency to throw out sparks. It
makes excellent charcoal.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
The Peanut as, CIv,II,.r

The peanut seems to be playing the
part of "civilizer" in some of the for
eign possessions in tropical Africa.
Traders give negro a bushel of nuts
for seed on condition that he returns
four bushels from his crop, and since
the yield in good years il twentyfold
the black man generally has a sur
plus which he can sell at the rate Of
a shilling a bushel. From a single
station In SenegambiA there were
shipped in 1898, 90 900 tons. Small boys
and scientists have long been In agree
msnt touching the value Of the peanut;
now statesmen also will have to 90
it honor, since it seems likely to lead
the native African into the paths of
agriculture.-Youth's Companion.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
OF ENGLISH MAKE.

England spends $4,000 a year on
backing.
Khaki cloth is out of fashion in Eng
land, the tailors offering quantities of
1t cat ruinous discount"
While the English law provides for
the organization of labor bodies it de-
prives them of the privileges of incor-
poration.
By 1910 the population of London will
require 42O,OOO,OOO gallons of water a
day. Only 30, 100000 day can be taken
from the Thames.
In England the breeding of mice has
reached high state of development.
A Manchester man recently paid $125
for a black and tan mouse of distin-
guished ancestry.
There are 400 tennis courts in the
various parks of London, and more
than $4,000 games were played last sea-
son. About $4,000 games of cricket
were played during the year.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
LIFE LINES.

Twenty-three persons a year are
killed by lightning in England, % in
France, 9os in Russia.
Yellow fever came first to Rio
Janeiro in 1s49. Since then it has
regularly killed 1900 year.
The British death rate has dropped
in the last 20 years from 81 per 1 900 to
1914; the French, from 22.3 to 22 only.
After the adoption of a proper
drainage system, mortality in Bristol
fell from 100 to 65 per 10O, 900 inhab-
itants.
For every person who dies In a year,
there are two people constantly i'll.
Each person loses, on an average, 1s
days year by illness.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
A LINE o. TYPE OR TWO.

a hot poker softens old putty.
Ants won't cross a chalk mark.
A little carbolic acid keeps mold
from ink.
Many guaranty isn't good.-Atch-
ison Globe.
"A sponge dipped in turpentine rem
ovates gilt frames.
Boston pays 100000 a year for it's
school janitors.
California fruit Gamers ship 5o,-
100000 cans a year.
The secret of success is constancy
of purpose.-Disraeli.
The loose tongue usually betokens
q rattle-brain.-Ram's Horn.
Anger is a stone cast into a hor-
nets nest.-Chicago Daily Newa
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
OF A SCIENTIFIC SORT.

II the world be divided into land
and water hemispheres, London Is
the center of the land, New Zealand
of the water.
The hill of the termites or white
ants of Africa are very high. IF the
houses of men were proportionately
lofty, the humblest residence would
be mile high.
Animals are sometimes turned
green by copper. A sheep which had
been exposed for years to copper
fumes and dust had a fine green
fleece. This animals drinking water
was also contaminated by refuse
from the copper works, which seemed
to have no bad effect upon its gen.
>eral health.
Unless strong measures are taken
the sturgeon will soon be extinct in
the Lake Huron and Georgian bay dis
trict. The fish are being slaughtered
at fearful rate, one firm alone hav-
ing shipped 10000 pounds of caviare
in the season. The roe is the part of
the fish that is most valuable, and as
they are therefore taken just before
spawning they have no chance to re-
produce themselves.
In France a so-called lamp has been
invented for the production of dark
Tadiations, which, although them
selves invisible, are capable of inn
parting phosphorescentg glow to GER
tain objects brought within their in
fluence. A statuette, coated with lime
sulphide, for instance, when placed
in total darkness near dark lamp"
soon begins to. shine, emerging into
sight as IL it had been created out
of nothing.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
A MuatcaI Typemrit.r

One Of the most interesting of recent
inventions is the musical typewriter.
IL does not Play music, but writes it,
the keyboard being an arrangement
OF musical characters instead of or
binary letters. The mechanism is in
most respects similar to that of the
everyday typewriter.
The sheet of paper on which the mu-
sic is to be written is printed before
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
RAILWAY RUMBLES.

A railway engine is equal in
strength to 800 horses.
Senator Hoar believes, and acts on
the belief, that the last car in a train
Is the safest.
The life of a steel rail under req
ular traffic is not more than 12 wears.
On a siding or spur it will serve for
a long period.
One of the Oldest railroad men IN
Indianapolis is C. B. Cole, who is en-
ployed by the joint inspection and
weighing bureau. He will soon be 70
years old, and for 60 years has been
in railroad service, mostly travelling.
but he has never even seen a wreck
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
FACTORY FIGURES.

Norway works 6s4 factories by
steam, and 637 by water power.
Great Britain's factories consume
over a quarter of all the textile fiber
in the world.
Belgium's horse power employed in
factories has grown from 10000 to
ESQ, 900 in so years.
The average product per factory
operative in Canada is $3.50 a year
In the United States it is $1,45o.
Out of 100000 tons of soap made
yearly in the United Kingdom, they
use 235,O00 tons at home, an average
of IA pounds year apiece.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
RAIN AND SNOW.

England's rainfall is equal to 5000
tons on the acre each year.
London gets Is inches of rainfall in
summer, against IL in winter.
Snow falls on Is days in the year at
Dublin, II at Moscow, 10 in Iceland.
October Z, 1929, saw the earliest
snow of the past century in England.
England gets on an average 80 inches
of rain in the year, Scotland gets 80
and Ireland 35.
The level of perpetual snow is 1000
feet in England, 1890 at the equator,
2,400 in Norway.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
A Failure,

Did anybody ever try to start a
newspaper here?" asked the intellec-
iual-looking man with glasses.
Yes" answered Broncho Bob. "But
1t failed. The editor wouldn't tend to
business"
Was he dissipated man?"
No. But he insisted on sitting at
his desk with his back to the door,
when he ought to have been standing
with six-shooter in his hand and his
eye at a knot-hole." Washington
Star.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
They Can't Helm IL.

ut seems to me-" said the lovely
Mrs. Kaflippe, shat society isn't what
it was when I began going out"
NO." her gentle friend replied, 'fI
suppose it isn't, but then you must
remember that nearly everything else
has changed along with society dur
ing the past 40 or so s."-Chicago
Times Herald
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
Needed Further Instructions.

Needeu rurther Instructions.
Prison Warden-1t's just been found
out that you didn't commit that crime
you've been in for these years, and so
the governor has pardoned You.
Innocent Man-Um-I'm pardoned,
am /?
Prison Warden-Y-e-s, but don't go
yet. I'll have TO telegraph for further
instructions.
innocent Man-What about?
Prison Warden-Seems to me that
considerin' you hadn't any business
here, you ought to pay the state for
your bOard.-N. Y. Weekly.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
AnprehensIon.

Employer-Yes, L knowl They
claim that our goods were not as
represented. Didn't we write that
our salesman would call on them
about the matter?
Clerk-Yes; but they don't want
him to call. They're afraid he'll sell
them more goods!-Puck.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20

The Doctor Prescribed Change.
Arabella-George, dear, I want
some money.
George-Why, I gave you a check
yesterday.
Arabella-Yes, dear, I know, but
the doctor said I was to have plenty
OF change. Inter Ocean.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
WILL INTEREST BRITISHERs.

The population of London has in
creased to the extent of 100000 since
1881.
Every inhabitant of the United King
dom may be said figuratively to hold
sway over 80 acres abroad.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
The RenI Thing

The Suitor-Here, on my knees, I
place this ring upon your finger. My
love goes out to you.
The Coquette-But how do 1 know
it is genuine?
The Suitor-My love is as genuine
as the bush on your cheek.
The Coquette-Bother the Lowell ]
mean the ring.-Chicago Daily News.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
A SENSATION IN BRooKLYN-A MINIS
TIERS STATEMENT.

wish 20 state that one or my parishoner
vas sick and In trouble for long time, Mrs
srown, 80 Gay Street, No one seemed Co uE
out none or them seemed To know what wa.
the matter. None could do her any good /
aer. Hearing of the wonderful Work bei9,
lone by DR.. Shea the last few years though
would call and see him myself. 1 founr
one wonderful test or his povTars. told m,
&c cend him lock of patient ,htch
lid by her daughter.
He told at once what W" .OUer am
IN a short time cured ..s,t and well
her family n had seeming, .Ider clouc
prosperous. lean truly and heartily recon-
mend DR. Shea TO all those IN sickness or drs
Pastor Lebanon Church, Brooklyn.
above,
has been carefully educated In the Homo
pathic and Eclectic Schools OF Medicine
His success is wonderful in curing paraIy sta
Cancers, Constipation. Ague, Dyspepsls
Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Deafness
Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases q
women and children, Fits, Kidney Diseass
and all strange mysterious diseases whicg
matter what they be. Nothing but honora
BILE treatment He can and will honesty
remedies and new success Has had ampI,
experience in public hospitals and prtVaSs
clinics N" trtting with human life. Cali q
once.
Do not delay Diplomas nang In parlors
Is registered physician A new remsdy
for Rheumatism Just discovered not a iRa
ment. Hopeless cases and those that other
cannot cure solicited TO call. Fat folks thin
the endless made parents. All letters mus
contain 81 90, two stamps, age, lock OF hafF
ForconsH1tation, advice and diagnosis. Nc
postal cards.
Charges scr medical treatment only MEN
zion this paper.
661 FUITON STREET.
BROOKLYN, N. u
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
Not So Far RehiuI

Aunt Geehaw (of Hay Corners)-
Jist think of it Joshuway! them
city wimmin git a moo bonnet every
Easter!
Uncle Geehaw (soothingly) - Wall
M'riah, you git a moo bonnet about
every three or four years YOURSELF
Brooklyn Eagle.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-20
4 Correct Guean.

'1 guess It's time to 60" he said,
And started.
you've guessed it," she replied. And so
They parted.
Detroit Free Press.