The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-05-07

"A NEW TOfk man HAS SuCCcCu0u III
making a watch with wooden works.
He has astonished the natives by his
cunning with the jack knife. but has
not succeeded in demonstrating that
this watch is any better than the old
kind
In California there are 1904 bach
elors to S8,775 maidens. In Idaho there
are only 1856 spinsters to go round
among 23,421 bachelors, and in Mon
tana the surplus of possible husbands
over wives is in the ration OF about
seven to one. In Oregon 1t is roughly
four to one, i'm Washington over five
to one and in Wyoming nearly nine ON
Dne.
The King OF England's anxious in
terest in the research for the origin
and cure of cancer has prompted Thos.
Sutton Timmins OF AHerton, England,
TO establish fund of $4,000 to begin
a systematic study of the subject In
yestigatilks will be conducted at the
Liverpool Royal Infirmary and in the
laboratories of experimental medicine
Of University college, in the same city.
These Investigations may result in in
estimable benefits to medical science
and suffering humanity.
Mr.. Algernon Ashton, an English
man of letters, better known in Eng
land than elsewhere, recently made the
assertion that he had written more
letters to newspapers of England, and
had them printed, than any one in the
empire, daring proposition when one
remembers the columns of the Times.
His number of letters he put at 500.
He was Immediately taken up by a
man in Bristol, who said that year
ago he had celebrated the 2OOOth letter
he had had printed in the papers of
his native city, and the editors of those
papers were mklnd enough to say
that at least 1000 more had gone into
the waste basket This mans name, to
be kept for furture reference, is r. D.
Rodent
We have grown accustomed of late
to think of Germany as a country in
which practical science, fostered by
careful technical education, occupies
very advanced position, especially in
things based upon chemical knowledge
1t is therefore somewhat surprising to
learn, through Consul-General Mason
at Berlin, that fire-extinguishers. SO
commonly employed In the United
States and Great Britain, are used to
relatively limited extent in Germany.
Mr.. Mason has discovered but one
form 0f extinguisher made in that
country, and it is comparatively inef-
fcient. Lately, however, the German
postoffice department has ordered TO-
000 extinguishers of American make,
and il is expected that the eyes of the
people of the fatheF1and will be opened
to their shortening in this regard.
Human nature" says a writer in
The Queen, fairly revels in it's mis-
fortunes None is SO proud or SO ieal-
Gus as your travelling invalid, looking
askance at other travelling invalids,
suspicious of their peculiar symptoms.
indisposed t0 take their pains and
aches on trust He only wishes that he
could only have doubt ABOUT his own
peculiar and dangerous state, but, all
the best doctors have agreed upon the
shocking nature of his case. While he
thus holds forth the other sick ones
listen with smile OF patient increduli-
ty or their pale faces In southern no
tells great deal of ILL feeling is engen-
deEed by rheumatism. This malady ex-
hihfs an infinity of various and ex-
treneiy original phases; it is as full of
surprises as conjuror- have been to
an afternoon tea where Ia distinct va
rieues of rheumatism we're assisting.
But where there are IA varieties of
rheumatism there are IA people each of
whom thinks he is with thirteen hard
ened IisEs and there are IA polite OF
impoIite enemies The rheumatism
which comes ON at night has the most
profound contempt for that which is
a day bird, while equity rheumatism
has proud stomach and laughs to
scorn the rhcin,atiszu which has been
engeadered by sitting ON wet grass or
xesoSlag bc.weHn damp Rotsl sheets. ..