The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18

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most of his time at what he calls the Sign of the Blue Bell' enjoying the delight of talking over the wire with what his London experience made him feel was almost miraculous degree Of ease and convenience. Returning to Eng land he even called the attention of the London Times to the differences between American and English telephone systems
 Speaking of the ease with which business acquaintance talked from New York to Chicago the English observer be- comes positively quaint. As this came under my personal observation,' he says T state 1t as an absolute fact. It Is as easy to carry on conversation between New York and Chicago, a distance of about a thousand miles, as it Is to talk from one part of New York to another, and one does not have to shout oneself hoarse in trying 10 make man hear at the other end, as is generally the case in long distance calls in England. and, as matter of fact, sometimes even In London" And another thing that struck his attention was that in America he paid only for the time actually con sumed in conversation, the London meth cd being to charge for all the time nec- essary to make the connections.
 After a period of over three centuries
 
 sail from Spain and proved itself any thing but inyineible on the coasts of Britain, Tobermory Bay, just off the coast of Null island, has at last given up some of it's relics of that naughty squadron These relics prove the truth of the tradition that here was blown up | in August 15SS one of the richest of the Armadas vessels.
 The vessel was the Florentia, a Floren- | tine galeon from the Levant one oi spain's Italian possessions. She was re. ported to have carried an enormous treasure and many efforts have beer made to recover 1t. None of the efforts | have teen successful, but among the articles lately brought to the surface were several coins-to say nothing oi stone and iron cannon balls, human bones, and old iron and woodwork. But the most important find was a bronze breech-ioading gun, preserved in such good condition that the makers mono. gram and the date are plainly visible In the old gun still remained the can non ball with which the Spanish gunners had enthusiastically planned to destroy several of their British enemies.
 The tradition is that the Florentia car ried more guns than many d modern bat tleship and $3o,oOO.OOO of money. but only one gun, one pistol, one broken sword blade and few coins are all that have been yet recovered either of armament | or treasure.
 l When young man is engaged to one | of a pair of Yucantan twins his position must be especially perplexing. All sis ters. so 1t is said, dress exactly alike in Yucatan, even to the tying of bow or 1 the kind of flower worn in their hair. l Perplexing as this may be to lovers 1t must have its advantages when the head of a family selects dresses for a a growing circle of daughters; the more daughters the better his chance for buy | ing at wholesale prices.
 I Among other more or less pleasing l epithets that future historians may apply to this period in which we live is the Age of Psychology" We have all heard of the "psychologic moments;" many of us have even read some of the "psycho- l logic novels,' and 1t now appears that psychology, which dictionary tells us is study of the soul. has struck in at tn, universities. The latest statistics show that, among all the American colleg, | boys who have had an opportunity tt chose this branch of study, from 10 to 5 per cent have chosen it in preference ts something else. This represents a brett, large body of young Americans and yer, decidedly contradicts the theory that W, live in an age In which the soul is con sidered of very little importance.