The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1905-07-08

An institute for the treatment of
sufferers from chest complaints, neu-
ralgia, catarrh and other maladies, by
means of opium smoking. has been
opened by London physicians.
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Mrs. Emma Ranslow Allen, of Swan
ton, VT, joined the Woman's Relief
corps at the age of SO. She Is a grand
niece, Of Samuel Hopkins. one of the
signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendenee.
Mrs, G. w. Manning, who lives
seven south of Monroe City, Mo-, is
probably the only woman engineer in
Missouri Her husband operates
sawmill, and for two years Mrs. Man
ming has acted as engineer.
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Man has been proven by M. yaschide
to be more sensitive than woman to
a salt taste, and in less degree to a
bitter taste, while the two sexes are
about equally sensitive to acid and
sweet tastes. With better developed
olfactory sense, however, woman is
better able to distinguish fiavors.
DR.. Ralph Hamilton Curtiss, lately
Carnegie's assistant at Lick obserya-
tory, has been chosen assistant profes-
sor of astronomy by the University of
Western Pennsylvania DR. Curtiss,
though only "a years old, recently took
his doctors degree at the University
of California, where he received his
astronomical training, supplemented
by graduate work there and at Lick
observatory.
The progressive Japanese have not
failed to learn the merits Of the auto
mobile and to show their fondness for
it. Recently, while in this country
Korekiyo Takahashi, special financial
commissioner OF the imperial Japan,
csc government, member of the House
of Peers, and vices governor of the
Bank of Japan, who supervised the flo
tation of the Japanese war loan OF
$3.50 100000, completed an automobile
tour of Westchester county, New York
Headed by the United States, with
their S19, 273, SIS, 200 of life insurance
in force, the human family is totally
insured for the gigantic total of $26.,
77,409,640 Should any simultaneous
fatality occur among the holders OF
insurance policies, or even a 1.-THE OF
them, every insurance company on
earth would be bankrupted in paying
the. benef1ciaries, the aggregate amount
of insurance far exceeding the total
amount of money in international cir
culation.
Probably the most remarkable shoes
ever produced within recent times
were those worn at a function in Lon
don the other day by a lady well
known in society. In keeping with a
gorgeous gown, which is said to have
cost fabulous sum, she wore a pair
of shoes that were literally covered
with flashing jewels-diamonds rubies
and pearls The style of decoration
was of a remarkably striking charac.
ter. Five hundred dollars was the
price of each shoe.
Cigarette clubs, the object of which
is to provide their members with Gig
arettes by buying them in bulk outside
of the state, have been formed in In.
dianapolis and in other cities of the
state, and thousands of packages are
now coming into Indiana through tho
mails and by express In nearly all
the counties the decision by Judge
feathers, holding that cigarettes so
bought may be smoked legally, has been
generally accepted. Local dealers who
refuse to handle cigarettes are taking
the orders for the clubs.
President Roosevelt has indicated
the metes and bounds of the family by
numerous letters of congratulation to
fathers and mothers of II, 16 and 20
children and upwards, and the public
mind was reaching a sort of fixity and
finality on the vexed subject. Now
comes Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge, presl
dent of New York's Federation of Day
Nurses, with a new dictum which up
sets everything. She declares the ap-
solute limit of a woman's capacity for
taking care of babies is eight, and she
ought never to have more than six"
There are domestic fires burning in
Yorkshire, Eng, to-day which have
never been out for hundreds of years.
At the old-fashioned farmhouses in the
iales of Yorkshire peat is still burned
The fuel is obtained from the. moors
and stacks of it are kept by the farm
ers in their stack garths. The country
roundabout is noted for its ''girdle-
cakes" which are made from dough
baked in quaint pans suspended over
the peat fires. These fires are kept
glowing from generation to genera
ton.
The federal commissioner of educa-
ton has given some facts of interest
with reference to the libraries of the
United States other than private Ii
braries, which he Classics as public
school and society libraries. In 1903
these libraries of public or SEMI
public character contained 54,419, coo
volumes. That is. certainly a large
number, but still 1t is but little more
than one book for every two of the
population The surprising statement
is made that the increase in the books
in libraries of this sort for 28 years
has been S74 per cent.
From present indications It seems
improbable that New York City will
reach the 100000 mark in the new
state census report, although pressing
it closely From the best procurable
figures. reliable statistics and reports
from the still uncompleted districts
in the city. it is predicted that the pop
ulation in New York City on June /