The Brandon news., 1907-04-18

Thomas Carlyle, likened the railway
whistle to the screech of ten thous-
and cats, every cat of them as big as
a cathedral
The ability to keep constantly and
untiringly at the same thing is what
makes a genius or bore, according to
the Springfield IIl) Journal.
A million Chinese are starving, ana
the government has set aside $10,O00,-
600 to begin the reconstruction of
their navy, notes the New York World.
China will soon be civilized.
The New York Evening Sun de-
clares: 1T is possible that in time
we may reach the happy condition
when every citizen twenty-one years
of age will be. compelled to show
cause why he has not the degree of
bachelor of arts"
Mr.. William Dean Howells con-
tlnues to inform us, observes the At
lanta Constitution, that Genius is
hard work" AS the farmers hope for
an early season, he must have an eye
to the strenuous spring plowing..
A London professor Of an inquiring
turn of mind, observes the Washing
ton Post, has discovered that a wo-
man who dragged her skirt through
the street gathered up 10,500,000 dis
ease germs. And probably every one
of them had Latin name foot long.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
thinks the people of the country are
to be congratulated that they are to
have two battle ships as powerful as
any on the planet, if not more power.
ful-ships which need not feel appre.
hension of any enemy on the high
seas
The first woman juror in Denver
was "a beautiful young girl with
masses of fluffy golden hair and dane
ing blue eyes," The plaintiff, notes
the Courier-Journal in the divorce
case, was a man who charged incom
patibility of temper, cruelty and de-
sertion and the verdict was, Of course,
for the plaintiff.
There is a man out in Toledo who
wants to know what is the use OF
eating, declares the New York Tri-
bune. Sixty days are a moderate
fast" for him. Sometimes he eats
just for a change, for everybody likes
variety. He lives on air and predicts
the time when all mankind will do sc
Properly heated air will undoubtedly
accomplish a great deal
In these days of instantaneous COM
munication by wire, the Boston Posts
thinks, there is no excuse for ignor-
ance of the exact position of delayed
trains at any point of their slow pro-
gress, and surely no justification for
Withholding the information from per-
sons at the station, chafng at the non
appearance of expected friends.
'When there is so much material
for scarlet fever to prey on as there
is in Chicago" suggests the Chicago
Tribune, ''it is not easy to stamp out
the disease after it has once got a
good start The most energetic eff
forts may be of little avail, because
the intelligent cooperation of the
mass of the community cannot be Sc
cured. Many people cannot or will
not adopt the precautions they are
advised to-
The code of unwritten law is likely
to become bulky if present tenden-
cies are not checked, admonishes the
Washington Post. If a man may kill
another for one kind of insult he can
not reasonably be denied the privilege
of numbering for any other Insult.
The scope of unwritten law is there
fore very large, and the horizon OF
its operations is far off, Yet there
must be a boundary somewhere ii
the human race is to survive the sud-
den judgments of the man with the
gun.
The Springfield Union recommends
that while the Japanese are being lect-
ured on the necessity for commercial
honesty, it is instructive to read that
a line of $2.75 shoes from America
was lately landed in Australia Of which
the Sydney Bulletin says: "The only
scrap of real leather about them was
a shaving on the soles, the rest con-
sisting of cloth that looked like
kid, some wood, some paper and about
80 stitches.
Crown Princes Romance.
Tho crown Drince of Sweden now