Alaska sentinel., 1908-06-25
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 Mrs Stuyvesant Fish is said to be the best bridge player in New York.
 In Austria no fewer than forty-four out of every 100 doctors die of heart disease.
 With an income of S71,000 a day, MT. Carnegie can still give away a few libraries.
 The ninth International Geographi- cal Congress will be held at Geneva from July 27 to August 6.
 The cotton mills of Switzerland have remained almost stationary for the last ten years, owing to foreign competition and tariffs.
 The attempt to combine the business men of all France into a nonpolitlcal protective association, to be known as The Federation of French Manufac- turers and Business Men," Is reported to be making satisfactory progress.
 Within the memory of man all the nuncios accredited to Catholic courts have been obliged to sacrifice their boards and mustaches. Those accredit- ed to infidel countries, on the other hand. can allow their facial hair to develop at leisure. This is why NJ. Tucci, the new nuncio at Brussels, who was magnificently bearded at Con- stantinople, will be smooth faced at els.-L'Independence Beige.
 i,rb NF Ia. ship, but a blessing at this season. ac- cording to Dr. Bosley, health commls- sioner of Baltimore. pr. Bosley Is of the opinion that In the spring and sum- mer, when the body does not require so much heat, meat can be dispensed with the greater part of the time. The doctor thinks that with meat at Its present prices people will eat more vegetables and be the better for the change.
 More than 100000 pounds of hu- man beings, or over 3,75O tons of hu- manity, are transported through the streets of New York every day in pub lie cabs. In other words, more than 50.O00 different people use hired vehl- cles every day to take them about the city on business or in search of pleas ure. Moreover, according to the cab people who have made a study of the situation, there are fully 10000 peo- pie, exclusive of babies and invalids, who never use the street cars.
 A grizzled old colonel did not view with pleasure the recent promotions of younger and almost unknown officers who were jumped over his head. Strolling about his camp in the Philip pines one day, he came upon one of his officers fondllng a monkey. "Col- onel," said the officer, this is the most remarkable monkey I ever saw. Why he can take stick and go through the manual of arms, almost as well as one of the soldiers" "Sh :" cautioned the colonel, glancing about In great alarm. Don't tell anybody. Supposing the War Department heard Of 1t? They'd make him brigader- general"
 Tn the English Club n. Hong Kols a wbitt tbaired old gentlemen who had cone down from some Northern port was seated at dinner, when he sud denly became greatly excited \ let ter hhd been brought him by solemn faced Chinese butler and he saw so're- thing or the outside of this letter which sent him downstairs two steps at time to interview the hall porter. When he came back he told what was the matter. The hall porter had in- scribed on the envelope in Chinese for the information of the butler: This Is for the old baboon with white fur" Unfortunately for the hall porter, the little gentleman was frst-class scholar In the Chinese language.
 "I interviewed Alfred Vanderbilt, in Paris" said foreign correspondent, lon the coaching run he will make this summer from London to Brighton. I know that run we'll made 1t once myself on a May day-a run of sixty miles, over a firm white road, between parks and gardens loud with bird music. Now I am rather fat and as Mir. Vanderbilt talked he noticed this If you make the run with me- he said, don't order two seats for your- self, as a fat friend of mine did for comforts sake No? said I. My friend ordered two seats on the Brigh- ton coach last year. said Mir. Wander bilt, and found, when he came to oc-