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beds; Pennsylvania third with 2,347
beds: Colorado fourth. with 1,4S0 beds.
and New Mexico Gfth. with l,104 beds.
Sally CABIN. n salesman in New York,
got permission from Supreme Court
Justice Whitney TO change his name
to Frederick Sally Calm. because per-
sons who write him business letters
think he is woman. Sally is "fanci-
full name for man to have in Ger
many" he said. but in this country 1t
leads persons to write him ms my dear
miss" or madam" and he has good
deal of trouble explaining that he Is
man.
A guest at New York hotel left
pasteboard box tied carelessly with
cord with one of the room clerks and
asked him to lay it aside until he re-
turned. Knowing the guest to be a
man of wealth the clerk took the pre-
caution to put the box In safe de-
posit vault. although 1t was thought
to contain pair of shoes. Several
hours later the guest returned for the
box and, opening it, revealed jewels
worth from $4,000 to $4,000.
Inventive minds have been trying
for long time to hit upon some proc
ess by which old newspapers could be
reduced to pulp and the ink extract
ed and the pulp made into printing pa
per again. But the extraction of the
ink has hitherto been unaccomplished
From Germany. however, comes the
news that the paper pulp treated with
alkaline solutions ceases to hold the
lampblack or other pigments of the
ink. and they are easily extracted from
the fiber ty making au emulsion of the
pulp with Gelatinous silica.
The batteship Indiana has under
gone some tests of the "ship brake"
with which she has been equipped. 1t
was found that the vessel could be
brought to Il stop within the distance
of her own length without injurious
shock or strain.
Three hundred years ago the FIRST
home of wood was erected ON Manhat-
tan Island. 1t was near where the
west end Of Pearl street is and was
made of rough iogs-quite different
from the last one of steel and stoue
site.
At the present rate of increase near
ly forty-five years must elapse before
4 sufficient hospital accommodations ia
provide for all the INDECENT consump.
tives in the United States will be pro-
lol 10
ton For the Study and Prevention OF
tuberculosis.
Measurements of the senior class at
Yale compared with measurements OF
the senior class of forty-six years age
show that the college man of today is
almost exactly the height Of his grand
father. but he weighs sixteen pounds
more and has chest measure of near
ly two inches more,
A ferry service between Dover anG
. Calais Is now being organized. and ir
two years time, according to Sir vii
liam White and Sir John Wolfe Bar
ry, the advising engineers. passengers
will travel between England ant
France without change of cars. Rail
way ferries such as are commonly II
use In many parts of the United States
will be employed.
''7pers have been discovered show
IL, "at an eminent Englishman once
nrgeL y" King George III. offel
Washing nkedom and sum o
money. In N Washington was t
ask for ter: .M"rica fair ant
just t,tr L. loint OF view
/ Probably the suHgc Il bribe wal
never offered Certainty If 1t was tn,
: answer was not such as to give KIM
: George hiall opinion of the perspicac
! ity of his adviser.
; Queen OLGA II Greece is the onl!
3 woman admiral in the world. Sh
was Grand Duchess Olga Constant
+ nova of Russia when she married
D Prince William of Denmark. who aft
: erward was elected king of the Hel
$ lenes and assumed the title of Georg
] ]. Before the wedding Alexander III
: then the czar. appointed her an ad
: mlra in the Russian navy, Today sh
0 Is he commander OF the second squad
ron of the Russian fleet.
Z The Brazilian government is begir
, ming to pay attention TO the cultivation
) and Improvement of various fruits fo
F.; expectation.