The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS. OF THE WORLD

i be distinct loss for Miss Marlowe te leave the stage in mid-season before the great majority of her admirers have had an opportunity of seeing her. Miss Mar. low will spend the winter in New York where she will write a series of maga- zine articles about the stage.
 Andrew Carnegie has returned from abroad and takes occasion on his arrival to make few remarks on the financial condition of the country According to this dispenser of weath "saturnalia' has been in progress among the bulls and bears of Wall street and now that every one is sober again he expects to see matters improve. It is good thing to squeeze water out of securities. He be- lieves that this operation has now been satisfactorily performed. Although there is no doubt that there have been stormy times among the financiers it is hardly probably that their saturnalia was due to an fntoxication of joy. Although no one doubts that squeezing is greatly to be desired in the case of watered stocks the operation has not been very pleas ant for those concerned.
 The gowns of Madame Patti are receiv- ing much attention now and the diva is the recipient of much free advertising that will be of advantage when she be- gins her tour. It would be a sad state of affairs if many of the ladies should come to see her clothes instead of hear her voice, but nevertheless there is ground for this belief A certain New York estab-. lishment will soon exhibit copies of gowns that Patti will wear and it is predicted that they will attract almost as much attention as if they were the originals A sort of reverance surrounds the great singer which has been heightened by the magnificent creations she wears on the concert stage. This year the diva will have need of fine clothes, for she is not so pretty now, and can not depend on her face to charm her hearers.
 IT. W. Horwil1 in the Critic has some thing to say about a new trouble afflict- ing humanity which he styles Linguistic laziness." This Is a complaint which is responsible for the colning of new words
  thought Although this is a species of in- dolence that is almost as old as the hu- man race itself it is one that has not been generally condemned before. Most per sons think they have 8 legitimate right to slur over words and phrases in or der to get out a sentence as quickly as possible and this practice is responsible for the execrable English spoken by a great many people who should know bet ter. But laziness has been classed as a disease now, and has it's own chosen germ, so that the warning of Mir Hor- will has come too late. Besides incidence in words is not considered so bad a fail- ing as physical laziness.
 A new explosive, called "Schneiderite." has been discovered and the science of fighting has made still another step for ward. Experiments conducted in France show that the new powder possesses many advantages in addition to its explosive name. Experiments conducted in France show that it is perhaps the most valu- able explosive yet discovered. It is not susceptible to varying degress of temper ature, burns with difficulty, and can be thrown around without fear of an ex. posion by shocks or detonation. When if becomes too moist little baking in the stove makes it as good as ever. The now der is light yellow in color and forms Jumps when under pressure. It really seems that an ideal explosive has teen found. The only trouble about Schneider ite is the fact that it's composition and methods of manufacture are a profound secret. P. c.