The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04
SAYINGS AND Do1Nes.


 Peru is considering the feasibility of building a seventy-five mile railroad from the rich rubber districts of the Purus to a point on the Ucayall river, which would turn the immense rub Der traffic to IquItos. At present these products go through Brazil.
 An undertaken named Roberts, at Walthamstow, England, several years ago buried, at his own expense, the bodies of friendless woman and child who had been murdered. rather than see them laid in a pauper's grave. He has just received $25, 1000, bequeathed him by an old gentleman who had admired his act
 During the Boer war many British officers lost their lives because of hav- ing carried their swords into action, the weapons enabling the Boer rifle men to distinguish officers from the rank and file. The losses became so serious that orders were issued for officers to carry rifles and equipment similar to that of the private soldier. These orders have remained in exist enee up to the present time, but their further necessity is now matter of debate.
 An interesting application of the K rays is fer the detection of the pearl inside the closed shell of the mollusc. Tn paper contributed to the Comptes Rendus, of the Biological Society, of Paris, R. Dubois gives an account of radiographs which he has made, showing a pearl inside a species of pearl-bearing mussel. He notes also that similar radiograph of pearl inside shell was made by Auguste Lumiere, and exhibited at the Colonial Exposition, at Marseilles, in 1906.
 
 The farmers who are planting To- .cust trees in Kansas declare that there lis no more profitable way of utilizing cheap land. They figure 1t this way: Two thousand four hundred trees can be planted to an acre; in eight years these trees will be large enough to cut for fence posts and each tree will yield two posts At retail these posts will be worth twenty-five cents each, or fifty cents a tree. That means at re- tail crop worth $1,200 per acre at the end of eight years, or an average of $150 an acre a year.
 St. Helena is determined to suppress juvenile smoking, The new law that has just come into force in the lonely little Napoleonio island would proba- bly, be deemed Draconian by the aver age London youngster, says The Pail Mall Gazette. Any person giving or selling tobacco to boys or girls under the age of sixteen Is liable to fine of twenty shillings for the first offense and forty shillings for each subse- quent offense. Boys detected in the act of smoking or in the possession of tobacco or cigarettes are liable to a fine of five shlllings and twelve strokes with the birch.
 The Iron Age says that evidence ex- ists that work similar to the famous Simplon tunnel, but on a smaller scale, was executed some twenty-four centuries ago. Owing to the bad state of the water supply of Jerusa- lem, the King ordered a reservoir to be made at the gates of the city, to which water was to be brought from various springs. The Shiloh tunnel, by means of which water was brought down from source to the east of Jerusalem and poured into the pool of Siloam, was 1,0S0 feet long and in a straight line. It has been learned that work was begun at both ends of the tunnel and the direction altered a number of times. The floor of the tunnel is finished with great care. The width varies from 19 to three feet, and the height from three to nine feet. There is much speculation as to how these engineers gauged their direction so well as to be able to re- cognize and correct errors in align t,oapt