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attention almost entirely to thrae
Misunderstanding, automobiles and
. improvements i'll electrical appli-
= ancGs.
! When widower begins going to
/ see a widow. guitar is about the
/ last thing he ever thinks about carry
/ ing With him. confesses the Dallas
/ News.
Remarks the Cleveland Plain
Dealer: The mass Of Chinese people
are no better qualified TO assume at
once the duties and responsibilities
OF representative government than
We're the Russians, and it is wise
decision reached at Picking 10 estab-
lish the elective franchise by de-
grees.
The automobile may be the dead
hest Ct weapons in the hands OF
Necklessness and guided by the cap
rice of alcoholic frenzy. A man
driving a machine when drunk may
be more dangerous than the bearer
OF concealed weapons. This is one
of the points to consider, says the
New York American in drafting meas
ures to cope with the appalling in
crease of automobiles accidents
We stand and sit too much, accord
ing to the views of DR.. Gelbke. ex-
pressed in lecture recently deliv.
cred before a body of German
physicians. Chairs may have been
known to the ancients, but they were
used only on extraordinary occasions.
Persons of culture, as well as the
barbarians. took their meals and
their rest reclining. In discussing
the subject. DR.. Kruche of Munich,
according to The London Globe, says
that ito this day the primitive peo-
pies prefer the reclining to the sit
ting posture, and the fact that they
lie not upon the back. but upon the
stomach. accounts for the better and
more supple figures of these people,
''The standard bread in Sweden"
writes Special Agent NJ. H. Davis.
found on the tables Of the working
people and seemingly always present
on the tables of the best hotels and
of the we'll to do, is a peculiar pro.
duct. 1t is not a loaf. 1t is round
about the size Of a dinner plate and
similar in thickness. and l am tempt.
ed to say nearly as hard. Apparent
ly no yeast is used in its makeup
Being of coarse material, the color
is dark. Though wholly uninvitinS
to one used to white, spongy, flaky
bread. and made more so to the aver
age American taste by the presence
Of caraway seeds in profusion, yet
70 those accustomed to it is the staff
If life"
Lord Brassey, in the course Of
school prize distribution, made the
interesting announcement that he
vas beginning to learn German. He
las not reached the age when Cato
earned Greek for he is only seventy
wo, and, as he thought it never too
German a fortnight ago. and was now
eading prince Hohenlohe's Mem
irs' in the original. He said that
vhen he did not know a word he
nut a number against it in the mar
in, and then looked the word up in
be dictionary. When he began the
ook he had to look up twenty-five
,ords to the page Now he is down
, nine on the page and is sanguine
! month that the total will be re-
uced to five on the page.
ANY scheme of State roadmaking
nd State maintenance of roads
aopted in Pennsylvania will only re-
llt in systematized iobbery unless
shall follow upon the adoption OF
well-considered and comprehensive
AN of procedure. Our present sys-
m is a failure, asserts the Philadel-
hia Record. A uniform method OF
,ntrol and construction is needed, to
, carried into execution by train
men of engineering capacity who
lould remain in charge during good
4havior. Politics and political
fuence should be altogether es-
lewed The experiment of political
of public improvements
as woefuly illustrated in Pennsyl-
mia in the building and -wrecking
the State canals. That expert
ice should never be duplicated.