The Indianapolis journal., 1904-03-26
NOTE AND COMMENT.

There are fully 200 cotton porters unem-
ployed in Liverpool alone and many thousands
Of other classes of workmen.
Methodist church out in Kansas was moved
a distance of forty-two miles to a new LOCATION.
The moving required eight days. and not 4 win
dow broken.
Twelve hours day was the working time of
a Great Eastern Railway porter of seventy-four
who fell while loading truck at Bishopsgate
Station. London. Monday week and who has
since died from pneumonia and exhaustion.
A young woman in Texas, Miss Ida Lee Cow
den, who had spoken above almost in
audible whisper for over year. arose the other
night thought she a burglar, emitted a
piercing scream and has been able to talk
since.
The Manchurian ''brigancs'' have a reputa-
tion for skill and courage in guerrilla fighting
as well as for rapacity and cruelty. If they
definitely side with the Japanese, the Co.'S
sacks guarding the railway will not eat the
bread of idleness.
Hitting a bridegroom in the head with bag
of rice with such force that he is knocked sense
less is about on a par with that class Of humor
which prompts fool friends to label the baggage
of the happy couple and hold them up to ridi-
cule. The man who INDUCES in it comes from
the same stock as the fool who rocks the row.
boat
In Bloomfield. N. J.. a saloon keeper had a
present OF bunch OF shamrock on st. Patrick S
day and proudly exhibited the precious leaves.
While his back was turned a colored man came
In and ate the shamrock under the impression
that IL was watercress. is uncertain whether
geographical location or the ieetness of the cul-
prit prevented war in that saloon.
The Railway Age prints table showing that
with the exception of Boston. all the principal
Atlantic ports are nearer Colon than New York
by distances ranging from twenty y-one miles for
Philadelphia to 637 miles for Pensacola and
argues from this that the completion of the
Panama canal will benefit other-especially
Southern-seaports. to the detriment of the
metropolis.
letter mailed to a Wisconsin young woman
last October by a friend who resided in a city
but forty miles distant has just been delivered
TO her. In some way the letter became attached
to one bound for South Africa. and the post
| mark upon it shows plainly that 1t went to South
| Africa before IT was detected. II bears the
| postmark of johannesburg and was received
| there last December.
| A writer in the Educational Review recalls
| that Herbert Spencer was among the eminen,
| men who have advocated a duodecimal instead
| OF decimal system. for the reason that while
| ten can be divided by only five and two. twelve
| has four factors. two three, four and six, Sc
| that II is much more facile both for daily use
| and for large arithmetical operations. But
Spencer was not mere theorist and was ready
TO support the introduction of the decimal metric
! system as a practical compromise.
The proposed school of philanthropy at Har
ward under the direction of DR.. Jeffrey Brack
EFT of Baltimore. the Simmons College fol
! Women cooperating. promises well and viii
doubtless succeed IL not too much hampered b,
| fees and rules. Its model. the New York cit,
+! school, directed by Philip Ayres. owes mr n o
| rs success to its informality and It's IA orabl
location for experimental of the great cit,
charities Such informal colleges of ex,,erts ar
| a stimulus and a check TO the administration o
| prisons and charities. when that tends too mucl
sas IL always inclnes) to follow rus and de
| yelop Official selfconeeit-a weed that fourishe
easily in all soils and iatitudes-