The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

They used the queerest kind of words
and father used them, too
If father talked SO every day. I don't
know what I'd do!
But when there are no Scientists my
fathers "brilliant'' tneni
Down qnIde RI; the sofa is the place he
And he acts. any animal that ever lived
I've seen my father be some beasts that
really never were!
He's funniest as kangaroo" and fiercest
as the bear;''
1t makes me n me e., really shiver when he drags
His tigers really wonderful and so are
But. after all 1 do believe his lion is
the best.
My father is a brilliant nan-pm sure
that's very true;
But not when he talks with "sciensts, -
And if they think he's brilliant when he
seems to me bore,
wonder what they'd think of him If
they could him roar!
Hannah G. Fernald N st. Nicholas.
Prophecy That Failed.
One hundred and one years ago Gou-
verneur Morris, writing to Simeon De-
| witt, said:
York, while it confers uncommon ad-
vantages for commerce, involves con-
siderable and unavoidable inconveni-
| ences. The idle project for making
/ O1A06CS dC4OSS Inc NOIln ana East TlN-
ers can never occupy the attention of
! considerate men. To say they are inn
practicable would be rash, but they
certainly cannot be built but at an ex-
tages they can offer. And what is more.
| If thew were already built, the city of
New York would find it a cheap bar
gain to get them taken away for a
million dollars. Such being the facts,
| it follows that the only tract of country
which is easily and constantly accessi-
BILE is the county of Westchester.''
Prophecy is a dangerous business.
Saturday New York formally celebra-
ted the opening of it's third bridge
| across the East river. and within the
next II months the Manhattan bridge
should be ready for traffic. For passen-
South Ferry may be counted as the
equivalent of a bridge, and the Stein
way tunnel, which is completed and
must eventually be put to use. stands
for another. A century has elapsed
since Gouverneur Morris assumed the
role of a prophet, but 40 years have
sufhced for the construction of these
great public works. AS a matter of
have been built within a period of 10
years.
SO far as cost goes, the Brooklyn
bridge, which was begun in 1870 and fin
ished IL years later, represents an out
lay of about $22,O00.000. The Williams
burg bridge is estimated at 100000
and the Greensboro and Manhattan
bridges will each probably cost about
the same amount. To say that the four
bridges, by the time the Manhattan
bridge is completed. will have cost 49,
600 900, including terminals and other
necessary real estate, is we'll within
reason.
What in 1888 was one of the wonders
of the age has now become merely
passing incident in the growth of the
greater city.-New York World.
Praises Army Engineers.
Henry Savage Landor, the famous
exporter, has arrived in London after
completing a thorough investigation of
the work being done in the Panama
Canal Zone.
IT always had a very high idea of
the American peoples ability to ac-
complish a big task" said Mr.. Ian
dor to the Herald correspondent, but
this matter of building this canal, so
gigantic is it that I am all admiration.
was particularly impressed with the
personnel of the staff, especially the
tions of the work. These young army
men show ability and enthusiasm
which, I believe, canot be equaled by
any other body of men"
Mr.. Lander has added to his long
list of honors by receiving a request
from the royal institution to give a
special lecture on the Panama Canal
Friday, July IS. These special Fri
ed for men of the highest scientific
standing, and they have been placed
at the disposal of only such scientists
as Darwin, Huxley, Sir William Crooks
and other leading men.
Mr.. Lander expressed much amuse-
ment at some of the reports regarding |
DR.. Sven Hedin's explorations in Tibet. |
IT went over all that ground twelve |
years ago. he said, land the language |
used in these reports is exactly the |
same as I used in my reports. If the |
discoveries made were the same as |
mine, why was not new language used |
in reporting them ?''-and Mr.. Landor |
chuckled with keen amusement.
II don't know where will go next" |
he continued. 81 can't stand civiliza- |
ton very long, and even now I am |
yearning for the desert or the top of |
a mountain. London dispatch to |
New York Herald.
An Idiot Boys Memory.
At the last meeting of the Vienna |
Psychological and Neurological Soc |
iety a 10-year-o1d idiot boy was pre- /
scented who knew the calendar from
1000 to 1000 In every detail. With
out moments hesitation he would |
tell the day of the week of any date
mentioned, also the name, day, and |
the date of the movable feasts in any |
year. He answered Immediately and
accurately such questions as, What |
day was June IA. 1908 ?" 1.-THE name /
day?" when is Ash Wednesday,
1917. How long is the carnival in