Evening journal., 1903-11-16
AT RANDOM

CAUGHT AT RANDOM
The Oldest graduates Of Yale and Har-
ward are ministers.
Glass models of mines are now made
showing all the workings.
If small quantity Of radium is held
against the forehead while the eyes are
closed one will see light.
Professor Dunbar, of Hamburg, claims
10 have discovered the poison in the pol
len Of flowers which causes hay fever and
also its antidote.
Microscopic experiments have shown
that the electrically made steel is not
different in any way from crucible steel.
OF the strikes in Great Britain last
year 36,9l7 were successful, 355l5 unsuc-
cessful, and Al ,G45 accepted compromise.
There are lots of people who don't have
to belong 10 the theatrical profession to
make a show of themselves.
In view Of the fact that hair cuts are
soon to cost 20 cents, musical genius will
lose its distinguishing mark.
Mrs. Houseman-"T doctor says we
must boil all the water we use?"
Mr.. Houseman-"The deuce he does;
then you might as well stop taking ice"
The man who wins fame and fortune
is not the one who tells everybody in the
trolleys just how he does it.
The Korean Government has ordered
that all Koreans, without regard TO rank
or class should not wear clothes except
Of blue or dark color.
Kerosene inebrity is becoming common
in many cities. The boys climb upon the
tank car, place their noses over the man
hole and thus inhale the fumes.
Patricb-"Sme, Moillc, an do vez
thanke thot ther half is better thon ther
wholel"
Michael "Begora, an Oh do thot if
ther hole is in grave yarrud.'
The German Empire is divided into 45
Chamber of Commerce districts. Each
Chamber of Commerce has control of its
own finances, and is compelled by law tc
appoint an able and experienced man as
Secretary.
A unique spot in Europe is the village
of Altenberg, on whose border three
countries meet II is ruled by no mon
arch, has no soldiers, no police and no
taxes. It's inhabitants speak a curious
iargon of French and German combined
and spend their days in cultivating the
land or working in the valuable calamis
mine of which the village boasts.
Waggers-"I will never complain OF
the heavy wind again"
Jaggers-"Why notg"
Waggers-"B Blew my hat Off with lot
of others yesterday, and after | had
chased it four blocks ! got on the wrong
track and picked up a new one"
King Edward perhaps wears as many
different types of necktie as any hvins
man. His prediction, however, is to
wards ties that have been made iron
some spotted material, preferably darl
with spots OF light gray on white upol
il.
The first American baby to be born O
the island OF Guam was tho daughter q
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene d. Ryan, and sh
is now nearly two months old. Tic
father is a paymaster in the navy, an
was on the Concord during the battle G
Manila Bay.
Among the little-heard-of relatives q
the famous is Orestes p. Chnfiee, brothe
of Major General Lnalfec, who has jus
visited Washington. He is a vigorou
small man, with 20 years and many aS
ventures behind him-a Confederate We
eran, for twenty years resident {
South America, hut for long time wit
- the military department in Cuba.
y A few years ago, when Car AlcNand,
r III was alive and his family include
g three sons, it almost seemed beyond
. doubt that the succession to the throl
1 was secured TO his descendants, and thu
d it could hardly pass 10 his brother
e nephew. However, the eldest son, no
e rcigning as Nicholas III, though marie
o is the father OF daughters only; the Sc
= ond son is dead, and the third son, no
b 25 years of age, is unmarried and appa
e emily content to remain so.
Is Baron Won Echt, an Austrian, who h
d been travelling in this country, is in ra
p lures over his treatment here. Il do n
l. believe he says, that such hospital
d treatment would be accorded a strang
2 in any other country in the world
t have sojouned in many lands, but in
Is other have ] been received with su
marked courtesy and open-hearted he
" pitality. My tour of the United Stat
to convinces me that the American peoT
re in many respects are superior TO the !
n habitants OF all other lands"
rs There arc 1,0Sg,473 Odd Fellows
f. the United States and Canada, 941, .
IN Freemasons. and 92s,0S5 OF the Ancie
MI order or Foresters.
Of The production OF Pennsylvania
Of in June aggregated S9,2s9 barrels p
I'd day, which is 5,452 barrels above Il
T. daily average for May.
Il Seventy-fve people out o