The independent., 1907-01-31
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n CONNECTICUT is usually regarded
~ as safe and pleasant place to
live in, and yet 1t had forty-three mur-
ders in 1906, where Maine had only
two. To be sure, Connecticut has more
people than Maine, but not SO very
many more; 1t has fewer than 1000
900, while Maine has 725,000. 1t is fair
to state that 1t was an unusually bad
year for the old nutmeg state in this
respect, as it's forty three murders are
more than 1t ever had before in
single year, and seventeen more than
the annual average for the last de-
cade.
you know how a soldier traitor is
put to DEATH" said the colonel THE
traitor stands blindfolded, and half a
dozen privates shoot at him sim
ultaneously. But perhaps you don't
know that each Of these privates
though he take the most careful aim
may afterwards say, without fear of
contradiction, that the traitors blood
does not stain his hands.
This is the reason:
1.-TWO OF the rifles for the CHASTITY
shooting are always loaded with blank
cartridges. Then they are shuffied.
and no one knows which the harmless
citS dIG uC CAcCQlOuCI5 uidWi dllu
each is as like as not to draw harm
less gun.
$50 when they shoot, they can solace
themselves for their unchristianlike
work with the thought that maybe
they are only shooting blank cart
ridge at the poor, blindfolded wretch
before them"
Mrs. William n. Taft the war Sec
retary's wife, has given 10000 acres
Of land and $4,000 toward the construc-
tion of the projected Nueces Valley
railroad in Texas. Her Catarina ranch
100000 acres) will benefit by the
road
China now has railway mileage of
about 5000 miles. or this, 1880 miles
Is In operation and the rest under
construction, except $50 miles "in
abeyance." Last year the Chinese i'm
perial railways, 526 miles, paid 26 per
cent on the capital outlay.
Among the many curious and un-
usual animals which have been found
by Sir Harry Johnston, the African
explorer, in the Uganda protectorate, is
the whale headed stork. The bird re-
thing but the head, which Is anything
but beautiful. The beak Is enormous
and gives the stork peculiar, whale
like appearance. 1t Is rather puzzle
to scientists to discover the reason for
this enormous pendage. The whales
mouth is built to catch a multitude of
small fish, and possibly the stork's
beak may have been evolved by the
same agency.
Trypsin, the remedy now on trial for
the cure Of cancer Is one Of the secre-
tions of the pancreas, says the Lon
don Globe. 1t is powerful ferment.
If the whole amount secreted for di-
gestion were absorbed into the circula-
tion unchanged, it would digest the
body itself and so cause death. Tryp-
sin dsssolves otherwise insoluble pro-
teids, converting them into peptones.
1t is also able to split up these latter
bodies. The use of trypsin in cancer
was first suggested by DR.. Beard of
Edinburg. 1t is stated that several
cases of cancer have been cured or
much improved, by injections of tryp-
sin.
A statistician, whose calculations
may be taken to be as trustworthy as
statistics usually are, estimates that
the money given yearly In tips In
France amounts to nearly s75.000.000
over s20,000000 being bestowed in
Paris alone. His calculations are based
OH the assumption that each in
irsbitant in Paris spends seven
tGelfths OF a penny, and each inhabi-
tant OF the provinces one farthing a
day In tips.
There are people who say that they
never can enjoy a hot bath because
the hot water always makes them
faint. This trouble. according TO Sub
urban Life, may be remedied by the
simple expedlent OF placing n towel
which has been wrung out In cold wa
ter on the head and retaining II there
until the bath IL over, IL Is possible
that cases OF drowning have occurred
es a result OF faintneas while In the
bath, so that this precaution becomes
advisable.