The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-27

up to the house. When the man ar
rived he asked to be shown to the
dining ROOM and without a word he
dumped the contents of the sack in
which he carried the silver. 1t made a
big pile-600 round, glittering dollars
and Mrs. Broker was impressed.
A check wouldn't have appealed to
her for moment. but the money
actually talked. She looked at the
heap Of silver, and fingered 1t, too, and
at last she said: you take this money
back. Tell Mr.. Blank I've changed my
mind. I guess I can do without that
rug for the personal---very. York Tele-
graph.
Magic Well Discovered in Ohio.
Salt water and fresh water from
the same well is an Ohio novelty dis
covered by a member Of the United
States geological survey engaged IN
making Investigations of ground
water conditions in Hamilton county
Of that state. Except for the fact that
two pumps are set in it side by side,
1t resembles an ordinary well. But
one Of the pumps supplies water ex-
from the other is SO highly charged
with various mineral salts that it is
almost brine. This water has been
recommended by some physicians as
having big medicinal value.
When first dug the well was
phenomenon lies in the fact that two
water bearing beds confined between
layers Of limestone occur at this
point. the upper carrying fresh water
and the lower salt. The pipe of the
fresh water pump is but sixteen feet
long, and that of the salt water pump
is thirty-f1ve feet. The brine, being
heavier than the fresh water, does
not mix with it, but remains at the
bottom of the well and the longer
pipe consequently draws only the salt
water.-Chicago Tribune.
The Habit OF Introspection.
An English writer, commenting re-
Gently upon the ways of the present
time, says there has never been a
period when people were SO interested
in themselves. We have made a cult.
diet, ones body, and ones nerves are
studied closely, singly and collective
1y, and are treated according to ones
belief in what is good for them. 1t
is wise, this writer asks, to spend so
much time in self-study?
To frame his answer he says that
in the Stuart days the accepted time
for dying was set at a much earlier
date than we now fix 1t, and that in
the eighteenth century many Of the
ailments today associated only with
those in extreme maturity attacked
He says that youth never endured
as long as 1t does now, and notes the
further circumstance that heroes and
heroines on the stage, in fiction. and
in real life. are at least decade
older than they were century ago.
Today they are no fixed boundaries
for youthfulness though youth itself
may pass. All these conditions being,
he believes, due to the modern habit
Of introspection, he concludes that a
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Boston Transcript.
Too Fat to Stay in Jail.
Because there was no cell large
enough to accommodate him, and be-
cause he could no longer be kept in
the Jail hospital, Dan Wadsworth, a
lineal descendant of one Of the found
New England, was today released from
the county Jail and put In charge OF
the probation officer.
For years Dan has run a tavern and
road house and has sold liquor to al
most every parched throat that applied,
notwithstanding that he has no license
and would not he granted one When
he was convicted for the third time and
sent to Jail the sheriff feared to squeeze
him through cell door in the BELIEF
that he would rapidly take on more
flesh and it would be necessary to tear
down a sidewal to get him out. The
belief was well founded, for Dan got
so fat that he was nuisance in the
jail hospital.-Hartford dispatch to the
Philadelphia Record.
Troubles of an Absent Minded Widow.
Mrs Rebecca Jaffe, a widow. who
lives at 1916 Gates avenue, Williams
burg, got $1,000, her husbands death
benefit. a few weeks ago and placed
it in the Park Place bank. On
Saturday she withdrew 1t in the form
of a $1,000 bill and the bank in which
she proposed to Deposit 1t being
closed She took the $1,000 home and
hid it in a pocket of one Of her hus-
bands coats that still was hanging
there.
Yesterday Mrs. Jaffe felt in the
pocket and couldn't find the bank
note. In her excitement she set the
clothing in the wardrobe afire with a
match and the most Of it burned up.
Believing that the money, II not
stolen. had been destroyed. the wo-
man took on so that the neighbors
came in to watch her yesterday af-
ternoon.
Suddenly she stopped wringing her
hands and sobbing, jumped up,
rushed to her bed room and selling
her pillow ripped it open Out fell
the $1,000.
ST took it from the wardrobe and
put it there for safety and forgot all
about It," she explained.-New York