The sea coast echo., 1903-03-21
THE SEA COAST ECHO.
cHAs. O. MOREAu, Editor aad prsprie.u.


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There seems to be good deal OF
room in Mexico when barbed wire
fence can be put around one cattle
ranch of 100000 acres in the State
of Sonora.
In many Of the continental cities
and in some few American cities gar
dnns are laid out n the neighborhood
OF public schools, and the children are
taught to cultivate them.
A worthy woman has just given up
S6000,000 to marry the man of her
choice. 1t takes the hay scales to
weigh such love as that. On such a
foundation it should last forever.
According to DR.. Grossman. "the
best cure for lyin..'is an improved d.
gestion." Possibly. But 1t is a mat
ter Of history that some of the worlds
ablest liars had digestion almost
equal to that of an anaconda.
That Russia nobleman who adver.
tises for an American wife--maid or
widow-with no objections as to age,
religion or anything else, so long as
the $4,000 per annum is certified,
puts the modern foreign-marriage
business on its true basis--money.
An official investigation has shown
that seventy-two per cent. of the en-
ployes of the Turkish Government
never receive more than half of the
salaries and wages due them. Twen.
ty-six per cent. obtain from seven to
ten months salary in the year, and
the remaining two per cent. get their
full due.
A letter from Athens to the Paris
Figaro states that the Greek Archaeo-
logical Society has just discovered at
Samos the Temple of Juno. described
by Herodotus, as being one of the
wonders of the period. The altar. the
bases of twenty pillars and various
other things of minor Importance
have been unearthed. -.-.5-
In the annual value OF carriages
and wagons manufactured Ohio ranks
first. with s16,OO0,000; New York and
Indiana. about $140O0.00O each, and
Michigan, S12.000000. The aggregate
for the United States is little short
of 500 000,0 900. OF this more than
half Is for $4,000 pleasure carriages
which are sold each year. .
The South African Dutch language
is in some respects simplification Of
its mother tongue. The genders Of
the nouns, for instance. are by no
means so confusing as in the High
Dutch. On the other hand the South
African dialect has abandoned all dis.
tinction of person in tho verb ITO be-"
and also uses the double negative.
If Canada were ever troubled with
coal famine due to q strike, she would
have an easier way out than we have
found. Fifty square miles OF the coal
lands of the Northwest have been Set
aside as Government property. IL be.
longs to the State, and some day the
State may use 1t, Meanwhile, there
must be some reinsurance to the Can
adams to know that in q pinch they
could get coal through Government
agency.
An institute Is to be opened In Lon.
don at which young women are to be
educated in the practical details of
everyday life. They will be taught,
among other things, how to alight
from an electric car in safety; how to
open a window and put up shade In
n railway car; what kind of shoes
to wear for comfort, and when to
wear them; how to do up umbrellas,
to trim lamps, to open boxes and tin
cans, to drive nail and to light a
fire.
The Medical Society of Paris has
expressed the opinion that 1t is nee
cssary to adopt some measures against
the alarming spread of petroleum
drinking. At first 1t was thought that
the habit had eprung up from the in
creased taxation on alcohol imposed
by the French Government. but an
investigation showed that this was
not the case; the habit had been pre-
yalent some time previously in GER
tain districts and had spread with
great rapidity. The victim of the Pc
troleum habit does not become brutal,
only morose. Opinions differ among
physicians as regards the effects of
petroleum drinking on the human sys-
tom, but all agree on its harmfulness.
The government of British Columbia
has established travelling libraries"
for the benefit of the numerous lum-
ber and mining camps and townships
in that Western Canadian province.
After an extensive tour the secretary
of the Canadian Reading Camp
Movement" reports that these libraries
are doing excellent work. Asked what
class of books was most In demand
he replied that fiction undoubtedly was
most acceptable. He thought that S5
per cent of the books read in the
camps came under that head. These
men worked hard and needed mental
recreation They would read only
little biograph. and less science and
history 1t was no use sending them
books they would not read. Even
good detective story is better than
nothing"