The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
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 La vis ct vaine: Un peu de'amour. Un peu dc haine. Be puis, bonJour. <.
 This life is-niti ! Love Fspiels one song: ~ Hate throws one at. And then, so long! La vie est brave: Unpeu d'espoir, Un peu de reve
 Et puis. bonsotr. l This life ist kurz. Some hopes--but schIimm; Some dreams--by spurta; a
 Then--douse the giim.
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 Cows are now millxed by electricity in some parts or Germany The Ameri- can consular agent at Gera reports that the method Is proving very suc- cessfu1, as the cows. which have most interest in the matter. appear to pre- fer the device to hand milking. Further more, absolute cleanliness is said to be assured. the milk flowing from the udder down through a sterilised rub Der tube.
 | It is claimed for Md1ie. Carmen Sylva. an 1s-year-old singer who made her first appearance. in London the other day, that her voice has one of the | greatest ranges of any living singer. | and rises to the top c. Mime. PattrB voice did not go beyond the top D, l Miss Ellen Beach Yaw's goes to the top E. and Miss Edith Helena can reach the top F.
 l Trains in Spain are certainly slow. A rate of ten or twelve miles an hour is considered a good average of speed | for everyday travellers. When the | Spanish officials wish to show visiting foreigners what they really can ac- complish in the way of rapidity they | offer express trains which dash madly across the landscape at an average rate of fifteen or eighteen miles an hour. Tn | one way this proves an advantage. for the traveller sees a great deal more scenery for his money than If he were rushed past 1t swiftly. 1 eeR | Anent the proposal that the remains of William Penn shall be gathered out of Stoke Pogis church." the Rev. Arthur Lawrence. of Stockbridge. writes to the 1 Springfield Republican that this is not | Penn's burial place. william Penn Is ! buried near the Quaker meeting house 1 f-now seldom used--at Jordans' Buck inghamshire. near Chalfont, St. Giles, in which latter place Milton lived for some | time during the London plague, in a | house still standing. and in which he | finished Paradise Lost '"--Boston | Transcript.
 eee The museum of the conservatory fin | Paris has obtained the harp which | once belonged to Marie Antoinette of l France, magnificent instrument, heavily gilt, made by Nadermann in | 17S0. The short arm Is ornamented with marvellous wreath of roses, on the top of which is carved an eagle with spread wings Diamonds are i'm cased in the eagles claws. | HeH l A recent attempt to reduce the daily hours of female factory workers at l Freiberg. Germany, was opposed on the l grounds that competition with Italy, | Japan and China would not permit 1t and that if factory life were made too attractive domestic help would be still more difficult to obtain than 1t is now. & q c | l almost a necessity by the postmaster of Des Moines, who has made a recom- l mendation to the department at Wash l ington favoring the removal of the ban that now limits the civil service examination for letter carriers to males.
 When you send a woman on an er- rand." said he. "she will return in half the time that a man will. She does nf atn NA al a..A ,.AI | and even superior to men in the money order, stamp and other divisions. and I favor giving them a trial in the de- livery section"
 The Japanese advance in advertising as in all else. Here is an illustration: Our wrapping paper is es strong as the hide of an elephant Goods for warded with the speed of cannon ball. Our silks and satins are as soft as the cheeks of a pretty woman. as beautiful ed with as much care as young mar ried woman takes of her husband"
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 What hodge -podges of picture decora- l tions people in general furnish their houses with! says an exchange. Even
 when really good pictures are pos | sessed, how litle taste is displayed in
 hanging them. In an artists country
 home near New York, an excellent plan
 is followed. The drawing-room has
 only oil paintings. framed in Floren-
 tine gold frames. Naturally, most of | these are from the artists own brush,
 but perhaps a third of them were gifts from other painters. They are hung
 very low on the walls, and no such atrocity as picture wire and hangers are allowed. The frames are hung fiat against the wall on nails driven in for | the purpose. In the dining-room are | all the etchings and uncolored prints owned by the artist and his wife, many of them inscribed by the etchers. etc. 1 On the stairs and in the large recep- ton hall are water colors. In the dim
 ing room and hall are plenty of casts, some of them colored by an artist who