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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1902-03-13
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W2it pemIelben MaB, nit benz mir
In Der Manbi6urei neHen, fpiro man
nns pDrauslihtltb pleDer mehen ipplz
len, auf ben pbilipninen ndmlid, mo
Der nsue Sarif nit Der Soroerung per
ofTenen 5biir in Miberiprud 81 se=
ratben i9eint. Ssnatpr 2obse bat
5ipar Bel @infii6rung Der 8in erfldrt,
bisfelbe 6alte ii9 itreng an Den protlaz
mlirten 9runb5aB, auslGnbi9e Snz
iereHenten molten aber gefunoen baben,
bab berielbs in 5pei Punften ni6t
aufreht er6alten norben lit. Der elne
Deriel6en ion burin enthalten iein, oab
bic @usfubr50ne auf SnoisD. aeis,
&opra, 3uder, Sabaf unb Weanlla@
banf nur Dem Quslanb ssseniiber err
baltsn bleiben iollen. Oana6 bate es
Der gonsreB in Der Sanb, Die Nus
flbr5DGe 10 gu iteiesrn, oab ii9 Die
Maarenausfuhr nur nod nd9 ben
Ser. Staaten perlnhnt. 9sbe aber Die
@usfubr ausi9lisblid na9 Ameritd,
10 iperbs naturgemdb audi balo Die
eefammte ginfubr bon bort tommen.
Die 6anoelsbebingunsen ieien dio
obiidtlidb fir ben umerifunil6en
Mettbetperb giinitiger gelegt als fir
ben eurOpdif9en, mas elm pffentunz
bigger 8ruh nit bem aufseitellten
@runbfdb fei.
eSn 8esug auf Manilabanf, elmer
ipi1tigen Musfubrnaare Der Pbilippiz
men, lGgen bic 8ebingungen fir ben
ameritaniIden Gambler um 10 giiniti<
Ger, als Die Ser. 5taaten ben 6anf
3DlIfrei einlieben unb bic Waure eben
nur in ben pbilippinen eroeugt Diro.
Mun in einem anDsren Punfte ipiirben
Die eurppdiihen Witbelperber aui benz
Marfte Der pbilippinen sei9dbist,
ndmlih, ipenn, pie beabiihtigt, Die
3iiftenidiffabrts=Geiese aud fir Die
ssSnIeln eiiltts erfldrt merDen. Dies
psrbe Der San Iein, Iobalo Der ,augen=
blidliGe Mangel an amerifdntihen
@hiffen i'm Nrdipsl aufbDre. 9lber
in Der 3piI6enaeit lpiiroen fhon ieBt
frembe Mbeber benahtbeiligt tperben,
benn bic 8orIage beltimmt, bab aus@
l6nbiihe, 5ipiIhen ben pbilippiniIden
0Gfen ober 5pii9en oieien uno ben
Der. 5taaten perfebrenbe S4iffe nidt
nur Die 3onnengebiirben Der pbilip@
pinen, ipnbern audi bic Der Ser. Staa=
tn bsaabfen miiI5en. 5aas bieie Be-
ftimmunsen in Der Bin nidt noOifi=
3irt iperben. Fat man Demnad entipre=
1enbe Yroteite au eriparten.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1902-03-13
a1ir 1urltarTdj idJtiidrr ssrhe1t-
ttt1tp nea 4tiileu Orrn,ts.

iteut profefIor Or. $. Sdumahsrz
&Oln in elmer 8roidiire n0eutine
S9ifffabrtsinterefen I'M Stiler.
Ocean" anI6aulidb Dor. nWie Miien
unter ben grbtbeilen, 10 nimmt Der
Stille Scean unter ben Meeren bon
Ratur cine beIonbere 9telIung Elm,
8ilbet iener ar0bte, bic balbe Menfdz
bsit ndhrenbe grbtbeil fait elm Drittel
Der feiten Sberfld6e Der grbe. 10 umz
faBt bieie srObte seosrapbiI9e gin=
beit, bic unler planet iiberbaupt aufz
ipeiit, msbr als bic 6dlfte bes Melt=
meers. gln Musoebnuns alle flint
gontinente suiammen iibertreffeno
uno in feiner srDbten 8reite bis gum
halben groumfany iicb ipeitenb, trGst
Der Stille Ocean on isinen bepobnz
barren @eitaben, Die sr nicbt nur, tpie
Der NtlantiIhe Ocean, i'm S5ten unb
Weiten, fonbern auber Sitaiien unb
Meitamertfa audi mod i'm Siiben =
in Nuitralien unb Nen=Seelanb - Be-
fiBt, 300 Millionen Men16en, etpa
100 Wfillionen mebr als bic 9dlfte Der
Menfdbeit." @9umatber seist oann
in ieiner in 59moller Sabrbu9 erz
idienenen Daritellung febr biibl9, ipie
ber StiQe Ocean allmG6li9 benz mo-
bernen WirthfhaFtsleben erIhlo1en,
fpie Die 3usangsftraben au linn ausz
seftaltet iporoen iinb unb ipie bic beut=
fde Sdifffabrt, fpitematii9 fprtfhrei~
tenb, ii4 an ben Rdnbern hiefes
grDbten Weeres eine tpertbbple poiis
tion seiihert bat. anapp unb flar
tptrb uns sefdiloert, ipie auf bem sro=
FEN Ocean Elm immer I9drferer Wettz
ftreit Der @Olfer unb 5lasgen ertitebt.
sMaes beutet barauf bin, baB bieie
grOBte Wafferfld9e unleres planeien,
Die bor Gur5em allein an Der oitaiiatis
fden Riiite n1ebr ais 125 Oampfer
unierer Rriegs@ uno 6anbelsmarine
nit minoeitens elmer balben MiIlion
Dampfertonnen true, bic beute bereits
aah amerifaniiher ShGBung einen
6anbel i'm Sabrespertb bon S Milli<
arben Dollars permittelt, 5Ansn in
ibrer 8ebeutnug fir ben Weltbanoel
ben NtlantiIden Ocean iiberfliiaelt,
pie biefer bas WaittendnbiI9e Meer
iiberfliiselt bat"
(0an1b. geitrdse.)
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1902-03-13

gBlabipoftDf an hieTer ifillen Buht
Roreas erbeben iDirb. Gin fleines ges
iafeltes Shulfhiff lit augenblidfi6
Der alIeinioe 0ertreter Der rliifiidsia
sGsemuht, ltaD ale 8eniihunaen bes
gDninIs, an GtsIe bisfer aIterihiimlis
hsn S6unerbarf nit fd)Dadber @rz
rlirung unb geringerJabr bfpiffbigz
felt sein gefedtstiihtiges. mDserneS
GabrSeiig afs bauernbes 6tationsfdliff
beraubefpmmen, miiifen fruhtlos blets
Zen, 70 lanae Die ruififdhe Slotie fdum
iiber bic nDtbisen 5hiffe Derfiist, UNI
in 5fdifu, yinston (Niutfdpdns),
port Nrthur, 0alnii (3alienipar)
unb MfabifDcffpf pertreten aal fein.
Der Gonful, Der feds sSaare lang in
Gulbiha, i'm hineiifden 9urteitan,
unD onnert1alb Sabre lang in port
4rtbur prafiiIde rufiiIhe pplitif
treiben selernt fat. ldbt es iiderli4 an
nidts fehlen. elmer Dauernbsn 5eitfeb~
ung HuElanos eie Weae all ebnsil.
Slber er tIast iiber Die 2anafamfsit.
ipomit in Yetersburg bic Dinge be-
trieben lperben. aiirolid lit Elm bDbe-
rer 8eamter bier setpe1en, Der ieBt benz
Marineniniiter bic pldne fir Die Gr4
rihtuns einesMarineboIpitals unb si@
ner 3oblsnnieberlage pprlesen iou. gs
perben aber !pobl nod Elm paar Sabre
ing 9anD geben, ebe biefa Bauten au
Wirflid3feiten tperben. Bis iebt lit
nur ihre aufiinftise Gage beftimm:.
2,lerft ipirb tpobl bic Roblsnnieberloae
fertis iperben, ba boran auBer berMa=
rine auh Die 5re;ipillieen : 5lptte unb
bic Oampfer Der ghineie @oitern
Haillpop Company, zines pDllia ruiz
iif6en unternebmens, irtereHirt iinb,
bic beihe raider iiber grDbere MitteI
psrfiisen tDnnen als bic Marineperz
lpaltung.
8Dn elmer ruiIifden golonie lit in
Mahampo AUDI nod nibt bas minbeite
gu feben. Muber bem Goniul, ieiner
Sanilis unb ieinere Gpupernante lit
nur mod Elm Hui5e am Srt anfGfIia,
Der in ipeifer 8orausiiht fommenoer
Oinge einen @aitbof eridtet bdt, benz
ni4ts feblt als gdfte, bic fid nod
niht einfinoen iOllen. Sn Oalnii
(Salienipan) bat Die Reeieruns felbff
fdon sroBartige Strabenanlasen unb
Wobnquartiere fir aufiinftise Nniieoz
ler sef9affell, bier aber i'm toreaniiGen
3utunftsbafen beitebt bic rufIiIhe
NieberIafune auber ben senannten
6dufern BLOB in Der abitracten .gpnz
cei1ion" uno ibrei 8ren5iteinen, unb
babel piros pObl nod fir sinise 3eit
bleiben, 10 bab Gnsldnber unb eSapaz
nsr iid nod etpas ssbulben tDnnsn
NIT ihrer stufreeuns iibsr bas aneebz
ltde rmd9tise Mufbliiben" Ser ruff
Iden Slottenitatipn. Oie INNER mad.
fame gtferfu9t Der Sapaner ipirb i'm
ilbrisen bafiir iDrgen, oob tpirtbI9aft=
lid bic RuiIen bier feinen SUB faifen
tOnnen. Oem leidtfertigen foreloIen
Ruifen iinb bic ssapaner nit ihrem
Spiirfinn unb ibrem ans &leinlihe
grensenoen Grnerbsiinn auf large
binaus selpa9Ien..
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1902-03-13
Cir neutrality-suspicious. Ingf
Hr,,rsnrlna.

Gerrciponb. ber Srtf 3tg. aus Caracas.
Die @erbGltniFe biefes unsliidliden
2unbss finO pie bic neiften &affee
proouairenben iiibamerifanifhen
Staaten fhon ieit mebreren Salren
itets trubere aetporoen, insbeipnbere
in tpirtbl9aftlicher 8e3iebung, Dieler
beoarerlide Riidsane 1T banptldhlid9
auf ben umltanb auriidaufiibrcn. oaB
Der preis bes 8affees, als 5dupter-
tperbsatpeig bes 2anbes, febr erbeblid)
gefunfen 1T. @enn man annimmt,
baB 1enesuela ettpa 100000 gentner
idhrlih eraeust unb Der Gentneraaffee
np9 Dor 5-6 Sabren einen Prsis BON
Is Dollars reprdientirte, 10 1T Bel
elmer 8ebDlferuns bon runb 2 Wiu.
gtnno6nern leidt gu bere9nen, lpie
erbeblib Dieielbe an benz Nationalber=
mDsen sei9dbist iporoen 1T unb tpie
Die &oniumfdbigteit Suriidgegangen
fein mnB, penn man beriidlhtigt.
bab Der preis inoipiiden auf 81 Doll
lars suriidgegangen 1T.
Ils llriabe bisies Ridsanges i'm
preis lit in eriter 2inie bic ueberpros
Ouftion, namentli9 in 8raiilien, ar1aus
ieben. Sur 3eit als Der &dffee auf %
bts "a Oollars per gentner beipertbet
ipurbe, iinb bislfad aafao= unb3uders
plantagen aerltDrt unb an beren SteIle
Gaffee gepflanSt tpDrben. OaSl tDmmt
aber nod bic nicht au ,lnteridIBenbe
Sbatfade, baB itdtt bes Raffses per=
idiebene 5urrogate, baupt5dhli9 ssz
rOitete gerealien, tpie @erfe, 9aFer etc.
in @ebraud sefomnen iinb. Sn ben
8ereinisten Staaten fonlumiren bic
unteren &laife,i Der 8epDlferung Iehr
biel bon bieien Surrosaten. Nuh in
Oeutfhlanb tit Der Werbrau1 biefer
Surrogote Elm nett perbreiteter.
(9robbem 1T iii bsiben 2dnbern audi
Der 8erbrau4 bon Roffee geitiegen.
Geb.)
Wenn nun Der Gtaatsbaushait, tpie
es in @eneaueld Der Jall, ansl6lieBz
li9 duf Die @innabnlen aus 3Oler
ansetpieien 1T unb bisaoniumfdbisfeit
Der Bep0lteruns iih auf Elm Minimum
rebuairt bat. 10 gebt baraus flar ber@
bor, baB bic Resierung Nerbirblid=
teiten, bic iie in fetten Sabren iiber-
npmmen bat, in 10 GuberIt moseren
niM 3ll erfiil1en i'm Stanbe lit.
SdDn felt Monaien iinb Die @ebdl-
ter Der 8ealnteu I'm stipa so prossnt
herabgeiebt.
2ebrer bdben pbne Weiteres ibre
Shulen geldlpifen unb Dem Miniiter
bes Snnern MIR Die Miftbilung ges
madt, bah. ba fie tein pripatpernlDsen
batter, tic Iish beranlaBt ldben, bic
S9ulen gu fAlteben uho iid einen
anberen 2ebensunterbalt gu Iuden.
| gs TT begreiflib, baB folhs Werz
bdltniile seeisnet iinO, ben reDolitips
ndren @eiIt nod Su perfhGrfen, gan3
! dbgeieben bon bem GbrgeiS Der bielen
| @enerale.
Da5u fommt, bab Die BsbDIterung
fih aus brei Derfdiebsnen Mdffen alis
fammenfebt, ndmlih aus ben 1lrein=
ipo6nern (Snbiansrn), ben fpanifdgn
Golpnen unb ben irnportirten g1eqern.
ipobiir9 Der 5orti1ritt iebr sebsmui
ipirb.
Weniac tradeat cine Wmtsfptfs nm
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1902-03-13

Sn Mafbinston lit Elm Mrlenifberg
entbedt iDorDen. Das ipdre 10 elm
Sommerreiort fir iiberfliii1ige Matten.
X y
Gin lsbbaftes Jarbenipiel 1T burh
ben 8efnd bes prinaen 6einrid Der@
anlabt norben. 0ier in ben 9ereinig@
ten 6taaten bebedsn fih aus 5troben.
burh bic ct fomn1t, nit BlauzWeiBs
Motb uno 5dndr3s MsiB zNOtb, 2Dns
bOn bagegen 1T 9riin unb @eI6 por
Merger.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1902-03-13

Meniec troaeas cine gmtsfetts I'm.
ben 0als. Wiele an Sub.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08
A ROAD TO FAILURE.
Another Has Never Yet Worked
Successfully.

II don't like Cousin Fanny" said 9
little girl, with the outspoken frank
ness of ''seven times one," and on be
ing questioned, she thus explained hel
prejudice. "When she tells me fairy
stories, she always acts as if she were
thinking of something else"
Those of US who do not have the
pleasure of Cousin Fanny's acquaint.
ance know her kind. There are some
people who never seem able to give
more than partial attention to those
with whom they are conversing. They
come back to the subject under discus
sion with start, as it they had just
nap.
Whatever one happens to be doing,
if it is only telling child fairy tales,
it pays to be ''all there" No business
man wants a boy in his Office who
over his bookkeeping falls to dreaming
of golf. And on the other hand, the
boy will not make a success on the
links, if along with his pntter he car
ries some worry over his accounts.
Doing one thing and thinking of an
other is a sufficient explanation OF
the failure of SO many. "Be all there"
when you are working, and so earn the
right to throw yourself into your rec
reation. No one gets less satisfaction
out of life than the person who never
can spare more than fraction of his
attention to the matter in hand
Wellspring.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08
NATURES GOOD COMPANY.
The Grandeur and Comforting In
nuence of Great Old Trees
FeelinRIy Described.

It is good to live with fine old trees.
They are the best of company to
one who has learned their language.
They listen or speak as one chooses
and they never tell secrets, says
Youths Companion.
In the fair Kentish country OF
England there is certain pair of
English oaks standing sentinel be-
fore pleasant English country
house. Their proportions are noble
beyond praise. The great sweep of
their branches has gone, for they are
old-very old. But friendly ivy grow
ing thick and lush about the limbs
Topped by the hand of time conceals
the wounds.
Their gigantic trunks are three
times the stretch of a mans arms.
At night, sitting beneath them, one
is surprised by whisper of wings,
and ghostly company of white owls
sail forth, noiselessly and weird,
seeking their meat while the world
sleeps. They are the most timid of
birds, but the old trees are their
friends and protectors against in
truding human curiosity. In the
depths of their hollow arms the sol
itary birds are safe.
Five, six, seven hundred years
these trees have stood, looking on
the human life that has ebbed and
flowed about their roots. What low
ers' vows have they registered!
What lovers partings have they shell
tered! What children's games have
been played around them! What
weddings and funerals have passed
under their shadow! What bitter
quarrels have they heard, and what
lonely repentance have they sighed
to see! What crimes have been de-
sired or devised beneath their
branches! What gentle deeds of
mercy have been wrought. within
sound of their rustling leaves!
Gazing upon them now. there
comes to the sensitive spirit a vision
in which all ordinary human life has
the flimsiness of a dream. Before
the dignity, the silence, the age of
these gigantic trees human discon-
tent sinks away abashed, and one
trusts, childlike, the power that has
nourished through centuries these
great oaks, and has kept them ever
more beautiful from youth to age.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08
TIE ALBlNO ROBIN,
Bird Was Entirely White, with Pink
Eyes, But Too Weak to Take
Care of Itself.

In the summer of 1900 some friends
strange white bird that had been
seen several times among the trees
of a small grove in southern Ohio,
the state in which my home county
is, writes Henry Holcomb Bennett, in
St. Nicholas. Finally another friend
told me that he had seen a pair of
robins feeding it, and. between US,
we agreed that it must be a white
rObin-an albino.
An albino among men is person
whose skin and hair are unnaturally
white. Among birds and animals an
albino is one which is white, differ
ing from others of it's species. A bird
or animal the normal color of which
is white, or which changes to white
feathers or fur for winter, is not an
albino. The perfect albino has pink
eyes, and no color about it. The
white robin I saw was a perfect al
bino.
The rest of the brood, of which the
albino was one, had scattered and
were looking out for themselves; but
the parent birds were still feeding
their white fedgling. The other birds
in the grove took a great deal of in
terest in the strange inhabitant, es-
pecialy the purple grackles. AS the
white robin sat on bough the
grackles would perch near it, looking
at it with their heads turned, shrewd-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08

" to one side, or hopping from place
to place, as though to get better
view. All the time they kept up a
blackbird conversation about the OBJ
ject Of their curiosity, clucking and
chuckling away at a great rate.
The white robin did not hunt food
for itself, although it was fully old
enough to do so, but depended on it's
parents. When it few, it did so awk-
wardly and blunderingly, and gen
orally seemed to prefer staying in
one place.
A day or two afterward two boys
brought to my Office the white robin,
dead. One of the local papers had
said that an albino robin might be
sold to museum, and l accused the
boys of having killed the bird on the
chance of selling it. This they stout
ly denied, saying that they found it
dead. I took off the skin for the pur-
pose of mounting it, and found that
the boys had been telling the truth,
for there was no sign of an injury.
The poor robin was very thin, and
it's stomach was almost empty, ex-
cept for the remains of one bug. l
wondered if its parents had grown
tired Of feeding it. 1 found, also,
that the reason it few so poorly was
because Its eyes were defective, and
that it must have been almost blind.
Had its parents fed it until the time
of the fall migration southwark, the
white robin could not have gone with
the rest, and must have starved. The
robin was entirely white, with pink
eyes, pinlkywhite beak and pinkish
legs.
Albinism, by the way, is caused by
the lack of pigment, or coloring mat
ter, in the quilts. Birds so afflicted
are, usually, not well developed, and
suffer from attacks of individuals of
their own species.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08
WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP.
Others, That of Seeing Being
the First.

When a man drops off to sleep his
body does not do so all at once. Some
senses become dormant before 9th.
ers, and always in the same order. AS
he becomes drowsy the eyes close and
the sense of seeing is at rest.
It is quickly followed by the sense
of taste. He next loses the sense of
smell, and then, after short interval,
the tympanum becomes insensible to
sound-or, rather, the nerves which
run to the brain from it fail to con-
vey any sense of hearing.
The last sense to leave: is that of
touch, and in some representative peo-
pie it is hardly ever dormant. This
sense is also the first to return upon
awakening. Then hearing follows
suit; after that taste, and then the
eye becomes able to fash Impressions
back to the brain.
The same gradual loss of power ia
observed in the muscles and sinews.
Slumber begins at the feet, and slow.
ly spreads up the limbs and trunk un.
til it reaches the brain, when uncon-
seriousness is complete and the body
is at rest.-Chicago American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08
The Worlds Zenith civ

The population of Moscow show,
remarkably rapid increase. Within
the comparatively short period of 30
years the number of inha bitants has
just about doubled. At the time Of
the French invasion in 1912 the mr.
pan Muscovites numbered about 3o0.-
600, although the official figures were
$4,000, says the London Standard.
In 1871 the official census gave the
population as Coz, 1000, in 1852 it was
76s'ooo, and according to the reckon
ing now completed the historic cant.
tai contains 1,173,50O inhabitants
thus taking the tenth place among
the most populous cities of the
world. Moscow covers an area ~
1o1 square kilometers, OF only two
klometers less than that of g.
Petersburg. Area is not. however
Dy any means q general criterion.
in questions Of populations. as an
pears from the fact that where's
London, with the largest population
OF any city in the world, covers 20.
square kilometers, New York, with a
population numbering more than -
million less than that of the British
metropolis, has a total area Of 7oE
square kilometers. The population
OF Moscow is less dense than those
OF st. Petersburg, Glasgow. London,
Berlin and Paris,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08

water are fed into the hopper at the
rear end as the drum is revolved, power
being obtained either from a electric
motor connected to the trolley wire
or from steam engine. AS the mate
rial becomes thoroughly mixed and
ready for discharge the pivoted beam
on which the drum rests is tilted for
ward, without interfering with the
rotation of the mixer, which then de-
ivers portion of it's contents into
barrow set beneath the mouth, to
be wheeled to the exact spot where it
is needed in preparing the roadway,
or by keeping the machine in close
touch with the workmen the concrete
may be delivered direct to the road
bed without further handling. AS tho
machine can be built with large ca
pacity and is thorough in its work it
will probably be found more econom-
ica1 in use than the fiat mixing boards
on which the concrete is now COM
monty mixed with hoes in the hands
of laborers. William j. Judd, of New
York city, is the patentee.-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-08
PERSONAL AND 1MPERsoNAL.

Among English artists probably the
quickest worker is Cation Woodville
the brilliant painter of battle scenes
Mr.. Woodville has been known to com.
mence and finish an elaborate canvas
| within three weeks.
A girl in London few days ago
died suddenly while singing at Saliva
ton Army meeting. The doctors found
that death resulted from valvular dis
ease of the heart directly produced by
tight lacing.
Two Franciscan monks, dressed in
the robes of their order, have just
made the ascent of Mont Blanc, accom-
panied by three guides. They are
stated to be the first priests who have
ever accomplished the feat.
Sir Joshua Fitch told story at the
nature study exhibition in London
illustrating the popular wonder at sci
entific knowledge. Sir John Avebury
was showing the heavens through his
telescope to some neighbors and serv-
ants, when one exclaimed: II do not
wonder. Sir John, that clever people
find out the sizes and distances OF the
stars and how they move; but what
beats me is how you ever could tell
their names!"
The official executioner of Toxic died
recently. His death was curious in
itself and, considering his profession,
was little short of remarkable. He
was crossing railway track near
n, I nv a
fast express. The body was found by
the track with the head as neatly de-
capitated as any which had been cut
off by the official executioner himself.
Otherwise there was not mark on
the body.
The late Senator Mcmillan, of Michi-
gan, used to tell about green Irish
man employed on his country place
near Detroit. He had a severe attack
of malarial fever and the senator sent
him box of fve-grain capsules OF
quinine. Upon the occasion of his next
visit to the farm the senator called
on Pat and asked him if he received the
medicine all right. Eyes, sor," said
Pat, land it cured me, too, but it was
a lot of trouble to dig the medicine out
of those little shells"
Pillsbury, the American chess ex-
pert, is entitled to be called the great
est second" chess match player in
the world. He has the habit of gen
orally finishing second in a match. If
Lasker is entered, Pillsbury will be
second to him, but if Lasker is not en-
tered, Pillsbury, who, barring Lasker,
cs1ght to be first, will continue to end
Second to some player of the second
Ass. He has thus been second in
riore chess matches than any other
expert. Only once did he take first
place, and that was in his first inter-
national contest. In the recent match
at Hanover, Pillsbury's failure was
chiefly due to very bad start.