The National tribune., 1911-02-16

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these rooms to try their luck, altho only
a small proportion of them are real
gamblers. So absolutely open and
aboveboard is this gambling hell that
1t gives rise to the suspicion that it has
protection.
| A ND now some New York physician
~ is advising people to eat rapidly;
perhaps not exactly to bolt the
| food, but no tiresome Fletcherizing. nc
| giving each mouthful so many chews
after the manner of Gladstone, is ad-
vocated by him. The digestive appara-
tus of thefcamel, he says. may require
slow eating, but not a human animal.
This is so radically opposed to every
thing taught by the medical profession
| heretofore that it rather takes the
| breath away, and makes us indeed
wonder where we are at" Neverthe-
less, this new theory is something of a
comfort to those of us who are in
clined to make way with our food with
| possibly too great dispatch.
I'D OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, in
N his matchless English, expresse s
that eternal warfare which goes
on between the trees of the great for
ests as silent attack; silent defeat"
| The warfare among the deniZens of
! the ocean is even more constant if less
silent. There are no Vcgetarians among
this horde of hungry mouths, and but
one object in life animateS them-to
| fill their own stomachs before helping
to fill that of some other member of
the finny tribe. The fecundity of the
ocean is so vast that unless this de-
Struction of life went on the ships
| an . l.
that If all the Goldfish, for instance, that
were born were allowed to survive for
two years the Atlantic would be solid
with the mass and this ocean practi-
cally put out of commission for all
navigable purposes.
NJ EW YORK is soon to have the tall
~ est Office building in the world,
which will occupy an entire block
and be $50 feet high. 1t will have SIS
stories, and its cost will be $4,000
900.
A JAPANESE Palladino has been
~ discovered. Palladino it will be
remembered, is the Italian wo-
man whose psychic powers created such
widespread interest awhile ago. This
japanese woman, now only about 25
years of age, is more wonderful in some
respects than the Italian. 1t is claimed
for her that she can see thru stone or
iron as clearly as thru plain glass and
into the human body with equal ease
She can discern abnormal growths in
the internal organs. and can take a
peep into the stomach, but she says
she does not like to do this, as the sight
is not pleasing or agreeable. If all this
be true, such person could be used
very effectively by the doctors in their
business
A GRUMPY old bachelor of Hun
~ gary, a woman-hater and at odds
with all his family, has recently
died, leaving his fortune to his IL draft
horses. In order that the number
might always be maintained it was dis
unctly stated in the will that If one OF
them died another aged horse should
be taken to supply its place, so that
there might always be IL. The amazed
and enraged relatives have taken steps
to break the will, of course.
A SOCIETY called the "Gideons,"
~ composed of Christian commercial
travellers of America, has placed
$4,000 Bibles in the bedrooms of the
different hotels over the country. With |
in the cover of each book is pasted the |
following lines:
IF lonesome or blue and friends un-
true, read Psalms % and 81, Luke I5. |
If trade is poor, read Psalm 81,
John Is
IF discouraged or in trouble, read
Psalm 126, John IA.
IF you are out of sorts, read He
brews 12
If you are losing confidence in men.
read ! Cor. 10.
IF skeptical, read John $40; TT;
Phil. 2:9-11.
IF you can't havs your own way,
read James 3.
IF tired of sin, read Luke 1S:35-4s:
1874; John 8.
If very prosperous, read 1 Cor |
1912, 49,
Happy conclusion-Psalm 121;
Matt. 6:33; Rom. H."
A man away from his home on BUSH |
ness goes to his room In the hotel and |
discovers the Bible on the table, the |
only reading material in sight. Per-
haps he is not sleepy, and to make
himself so he idly picks il up, notices
the references and curiously turns to |
them. He becomes interested and goes
on reading Or, perhaps, some of the |
references seem to fit the particular
case of man. He turns TO that refer
ence, and finds help in 1t. 1t is GER
talnly an ingenious way of inducing
men Of this large class to open the
Holy Book, and it is claimed that many
conversions have resulted from it.
ID oYALTY'S relatives must be a good
N deal of a trial. OF course. thew
must be kept a credit to the family
Us far as outward appearance Is concerned, /
and when the number of these relatives is
great, the Ieigning member not infreauent-
ly has to put his hand into his own pocket
TO help out. The stables of the aged En-
peror Francis Joseph. of Austria. have
been at the disposal of the numerous
archdukes and archduchesses for ages. but
these have abused this privilege so outra
geously that the Emperor has been Obliged
TO send them each bill for the use of the
imperial equipages for the past year. This
reform of the Emperor's has nearly re-
duced TO state of nervous prostration
these fair daughters of the house of Hans
burg.
M ORE Americans than those of any
IH other nationality are already apply
ing for accommodation in London at
the time of the coronation. The Germans
come next, and after them the Russians.
1t is now rumored that Queen Alexandra
will not be present on the occasion, tho no
reason is given for her absence. 1t seems
hardly possible that this can be a fact.
Surely that sweetness and graciousness
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