Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-25

width ranges from one to two miles.
In 1890 the area of the national do
main occupied by the Indians aggre-
gated $4,000. 900 acres, which is about
as much land as there is in the states
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
The vessels built or authorized by
Congress since the Spanish war more
than equal in tonnage the regular ma
val vessels the United States then lad.
The effectiveness Of guns has also
doubled
With the construction of two short
gaps, one from a point in North Dako-
ia to Miles City. and the other from
Billings. Mont. to the same place.
there will be a telephone line from
ocean to ocean. via Boston. New York.
Chicago, Helena, Mont, Portland. to
Los Angeles.
A Boston school teacher had been
reading to her pupils about the rain.
Asking one of them to write a little
story about the rain he, after declar.
ing his inability to do so, upon the
teachers insistence, produced the fol.
lowing: What does the rain say to
the dust? I am on to you, and your
name is mud"
There are three nut-cracking plants
in st. Louis. The machines are driv.
en- by electricity. each nut being fed
individually into the crusher After
the shells are cracked the nuts a-o
winnowed by an air blast and the
meat Is picked from the cracked shells
by hand. women and girls being EN-.
ployed for this part of the work.
Plans to protect Galveston, Texas,
from another invasion Of the sea such
as the one which devastated the city
over year ago are being perfected.
These plans proyide for a sea wall to
be built on the beach and to extend
the whole length Of the city limits,
and for raising the grade Of the entire
city.
In Russia no meetings Of private
citizens for any purpose are per-
mitted. The privilege of holding meet
ings is granted only to chartered cor
pOrations or associations. All crowds.
except in places Of amusement OF wOr.
ship, are dispersed by the police. No
premises can be hired for the purpose
Of holding a meeting without a per.
NIT from the police.
French scientists are now assert
ing that it Is possible to manufacture
gold out of cheap metals. The French
men are little benin the times
American experimenters have no,
only asserted that the thing could bs
done, but have wasted considerable
good money in proving that they were
wrong. After centuries OF fruitlesa
experiments at imitation II is more
than probable that the worlds gold
supply will continue to be yielded
grudgingly but certainly by Mother
Earth.
Vermont is not one Of the great anc
growing States of the Union. It's popu
lation increased only three per cent
from 1890 to 1900 and the total is
only 343,641 But the Green noun
tain folks are thrifty, as their savings
banks show. deposits in these instt
tutiOns increased ninety per cent. dur
ing the past decade They average
nearly s10O for every man, woman
and child in he State. the whole
amount on deposit being SAC, ,209, ,059.23
OF this total SSS S,415771 ade the saw
lngs of 107695 residents Of Vermont,
the balance of about s7,O00,O00 being
deposited by 1886 non-residents.
Pedology, the science OF reading
character by the feet. IS gaining In
favor as a successor to palmistry. II
you want to know whether you have
dreamy feet. go to a ''pedologlst." The
round, muscular ankle, free from ugly
angles Of any sort, means that its pos
SCISSOR is Of an emotional nature. This
kind of ankle Is more common in
women than in men, and is what Is
called the pretty and we'll turned an
kle"-the sort OF which the poets
write. A wide ankle, measuring
through the ankle bone, is a sign Of
rorceful will though a narrow ankle
does not necessarily imply weak will
power A high instep Is the sign of an
impractical mind. and persons with
very high insteps are declared to be
ireamers, though ii the high instep is
united with a wide thin ankle it is
capable Of a different Interpretation.
Your heavy. slow, plodding people
have clumsy and heavy ankles. says
the New York Press. The science Of
pedology has not as yet advanced far
enough for its professor" to read
One's past and future from the feet,
but it probably will before long. What
with pedologlsts, palmists, phrenolo-
gists and physiognomists, which one
Of US is safe?