The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-06-24

In China an overtalkatiye wife may be divorced on that charge alone.
 The boilers of the turbiner Mature tania. placed end to end, would meas ure 547 feet in length.
 A meteorite that weighs 6S2 pounds has just been brought from Cripple Creek, Colo. and placed in the Amer ican Museum of Natural History in New York City.
 Last year more wheat went to Flu rope from the port of Montreal than from New York and all other Atlantic seaports combined Yet Montreal is a comparatively long distance from the ocean proper and 250 miles from the nearest salt water.
 The little King of Uganda Is an in telligent boy, II years old, now be ing educated by an English tutor. The fact that he is a keen football player Is itself good sign that he has been trained on right lines.-My visit to Uganda, by Bishop J. E. Hine.
 There are three cathedrals at Men go, Uganda, all on neighboring hills The Mengo cathedral of St. Paul Church of England, has a congrega tion of 5000 The other cathedrals are Roman Catholic, one English, the other German, both large buildings.
 In Constantinople a few better class women are feeling their way" in re gard to dress, but like all pioneers they suffer for their cause. If the customary heavy black veil is thinner, If the hair has an appearance of be ing puffed out beneath its covering, fl the rich silk mantle is cut to show the slender form or more mature curves of it's wearer, she is immedi ately an object of much attention and remark from Turk and Christian.
 No city has a happier name than Ispahan-the rendezvous" When visited by the traveller Chardin, in the early part of the eighteenth century, it contained 173 mosques, forty-eight
 
 public baths. But the Afghans, the local vandals, who did not care for bathing, destroyed the aqueducts and slaughtered the bathers. In the mat ter of great public squares Ispahan can easily outrival any European city. The Meydan, or great square, Is a third of mile in length and about half that breadth. It was once encir. cled by canal bordered by fine trees, but these have long since vanished along with the canal.
 The proceedings in a libel action now being heard in the Berlin courts are causing a sensation in medical cir. cles. The plaintiff, a well-known Der. lin doctor, alleges that the defendant accused him and others of paying com. missions to agents in order to secure patients. The evidence has shown that many prominent doctors, and even professors whose reputation ex. tends beyond their own country, em. ploy paid agents in society to enlarge their clientele. Well-known women are said to have made 1t their busi- ness to sell their sick friends to the highest bidder. The Berlin Medical Society will demand an explanation from several members.
 Remarkable has been the career of F. c. Selous, the famous hunter and avplorar uho aooomnapja, Mr Doo,o welt on his African big game expedi- tion. He was only 20 years of age when he went to Matabeleland, in days when railways were unknown there and when the interior of the country was a sealed book to the Flu ropean. For years he was in unknown countries hunting elephants, lions and other animals and at one period he was nearly three years without see ing a newspaper, a telegram or any kind of money and he was perfectly happy. He spent nearly quarter of century of his life penetrating the interior of South Africa. Then he went to Alaska on a 15,000-mile tour in search of moose and caribou.
 When the free trade bill for the Philippines passes Congress and comes up to President Taft for signature, says the Manila Times, he will have a gold pen with a pearl handle made wholly of gold and pearl from the Philippines with which to affix his sig. nature to that important document. Some time ago Manager Schwinges of La Concha button factory conceived