Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01

Things Quaint and Curious

| man in the water Twelve ounces OF
the new material will, 1t is claimed,
save person from sinking, The in
vention has been tested with favorable
results at Christiania. Successful trials
were also made with rugs made of the
same material capable of supporting
two persons in the water.
The smallest inhabited island in the
world is, we believe, the rock on which
the Eddystone lighthouse stands. 1t is
only just large enough to admit of the
foundation of this structure being laid.
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On one occasion President Lincoln,
on entering the telegraph office of the
war department, writes Mr. Bates in
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office" was
heard to remark to Secretary Seward
by jings, governor, we are here at
lastl" Turning to him In a reproving
manner Mr. Seward said, "Mr. Presi-
dent, where did you learn that ineie-
CANT expression?" Without replying to
the secretary Lincoln addressed the tel
egraph operators, saying:
Young gentlemen. excuse me for
swearing before you. BY iings' is
swearing. for my good old mother
taught me that anything that had a
by before it was swearing"
One day Secretary Seward, who was
not renowned as a joker, said that he
had been told that a short time before,
on a street crossing, Lincoln had been
seen to turn out in the mud to give a
colored woman chance to pass
YES" said Lincoln. ut has been the
rule of my life that if people would not
turn out for me 1 would turn out for
them. Then you avoid collisions
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bo n 10 yo sa,,ea 80 ~
NOR" says M. A. p, "and can jest in
English as well as in his own lam
guage. He was introduced to a we'll
known rolo player, and the person
who introduced him remarked as he
did so:
"I hope you two will be good
friends, for you are both leaders of
your professions, though they are. of
course, very different
"'Oh, not so very different, replied
Paderewski, smiling. My new friend
here is dear soul who plays polo, and
am a dear Pole who plays solo,
s.
Women cigarette smokers. q woman
gambler and men gamblers kept inter
est aglow on both the Adriatic and tho
Amerika, arriving the other day. With
Lut these episodes both trips would
have been quite dull.
lHOSe VINO set the up-lO-udLe eXdu-
pie of semi-public indulgence at the
shrine of My Lady Nicotine on the AL
ratio were Mrs. r. G.. " Duff, the
statuesque, tall blond daughter of Lore
Lonsdale. and tn Hon. Violet Vivian;
While the devotees to the scented wee1
en- the Amerika were Lady Alan John-
stone. wife of Sir Alan Johnstona
Fritish minister to Denmark, and
Madame. O'Gorman. wife of Col. the
OGorman, head of Scottish clan.
1t is estimated that the fertile lands
of the globe amount to 2S.000. 900 square
miles, the steppes to 100000 and the
deserts 10 1,00U,000. Fixing 207 persons
TO the square mile for fertile lands, ten
for steppes and one for deserts as the
greatest population that the earth
could pcssibly nourish, scientists have
arrived at the conclusion that when
he number or inhabitants reaches six
billions the earth will be peopled to its
full capacity. At present it contains
somewhat more than one-quarter of
that number, If the ratio of increase
shown by the latest census statistics
should be uniformly maintained the
2lobe would be fully peopled about the
year 2072.