The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-03

swing from a cane held in the hands of his sire with the ease and grace or q trained trapeze performer. And when this strong-arE baby takes notice of something on the table particularly at trastive or desirable to his baby eyes he does net cry for it, but ereeps to the table and raises himself by climbing the leg, hand over hand.
 Both MT. and Mrs. Schnars are abso- lute believers in the efficiency of phy- sical culture for the building up and proper development of the human body and their theory is that the earlier these exercises are undertaken tho bet ter for the development of the indi- vidual such exercises are intended to benefit, With an eye single to the pur- pose of rearing a perfectly developed child the father and mother began q ReatIe, but systematic and persistent training of the Infant a few weeks after his birth.
 Neither of the par snts are remark abIs for any extraordinary physical development or accomplishment. They are of German descent and show the sturdy general characteristics of that race, but nothing mere. But their
 baby boy is a wonder in muscular de- velopme mt about the trunk of his body and in this respect he Is probably the strongest baby in tEe world. Other- wise he is like, all healthy, normal children of months of age. A new variety of clocks now made in Europe speaks the hours instead of striking them through an ingenious application of the photograph. Many nervous people who object to the stri- dent and often harsh sounding bells proclaiming the hour and half hour will appreciate a softly modulated voice announcing the time.
 The French inventor has made clocks with speaking disks of various kinds tf serve as alarms. You can be awakened by the vigorous growing of a cock or the sound of a weIl-known voice. They are arranged to call out in various de- grees of n1odulation, some loud enough to rouse the heaviest sleeper. As alarm clocks they should in time supersede all others, for the disks car be changed as often as necessary. SC that the sleeper will not become so fa- miliar with the call as to slep on, which often happens in the case of the ordi- nary clocks with bells. If a boy is wakened out of his sIumbers by a loud call to Wake up?' or Time for school' uttered in the familiar voice of his mother or father he is much more apt to heed it than an ordinary alarm bell.
 To tear a pack of cards in two is regarded by some as a marvellous feat of strength, and yet the trick Is pos sible to anyone with fairly strong fingers.
 The secret of the trick lies in the fact that the entire pack is not torn at once, but in pretending to get a grip on the pack the strong man so manipu- lates the cards that they overlap. In this way but a single card is torn at a time. and once the surface Is torn the rest Is easy. .r,
 To anyone who can hold a pack of cards firmly the trick is fairly easy, and while in olden times a single pack of cards was considered to be the limit of strength many of our strong men tea" three and four packs at a time.
 The cards are restored to their orig inal form before being given out for examination and so the trick escapes detection.
 A novel and somewhat scientific
 method has recently been devised for the railways of Switzerland owned by the Government to determine the half fare limit for children. Instead of an age limit. which has been the custom hitherto. a standard of height is to be