Putnam patriot., 1912-09-27
Editorial Scraps


 elegant new paper currency. but some Of Us will need as long as that to get ready to collect full set.
 That there is no close connection be- tween intellect and brain weight is again illustrated in the case Of the ate Dr. ". J. McGee, the eminent scien- list, whose brain is reported by Dr. epitzka, to whom 1t was willed, to weigh I4l0 grains This is somewhat above the average, but the average of 100 eminent men tabulated by Df. Epitzka Is 1489.6, or 59.G grains more. In brains quality counts for mofe than quantity.
 The death in England the other day Of Miss Octavla Hill was a loss to the cause Of social betterment comparable with that Of Gen Booth, which t so soon followed. she occupied in her country place not unlike that which Miss Jane Addams occupied in this
 Kaiser Wilhelm Is a pacific Kaiser, according Go Expert Andre" Carnegie. ssIt gives me great pleasure says An. drew in iust-published lettef, "to confirm Herr Friends opinion Of one Of the foremost rulers of the world, the German Emperor, as being intensely Tn favor of international peace. This 1 have long known. SobHety has in the Emperor it's strongest advocate. He k, indeed, model monarch.
 ssI never saw the flies 50 thick As this year, says a sharon lPa.1 dairy man, "and the cows are so nervous that we can scarcely do thing with them. Many reasons are given for the scarcity of milk, but the real reason is the fiies.p
 The population of Jerusalem, es- peeially the Jewish, has grown re- markedly during the last 70 years. In 1880 there were not more than 10000 Jews in the city; today, out of total population of 80, ,000 lo 90oo0, not less than 50,0O0 belong to their race.
 aNobody loves me, said Bismafk, during his illness, "foF what l have done. have never made anybody happy-not myself, nor my familyi nor anybody else. But how many have l made unhappyl But for me three great wars would not have been fought, eighty thousand men would not have perished. Parents, brothers, sisters and widows would not have been bereaved and plunged into mourning. have had little or no joy from all my achievements; nothing hn. vexalion, care and trouble.-Tran- script.
 When the latest million barrels of cement purchased have been used in construction work on the Panama canal the amount of cement employed In the building of lhe big ditch will have reached total of two billion two hundred million pounds. The cost Of this reaches S6, ,500, 900. If the barrels which contained the cement could be placed end to end they would extend 2,800 miles.
 American cities in which the un- earned increment of real estate keeps far ahead of taxation may study with interest the system in force in Frank fort.on.the Main, on account Of which by William Dudley Foulke, origin ally presented at the last convention Of the American civic association, is published by that body in pamphlet form. In Frankfort every change of ownership not depending upon inner. itance is subject 10 city tax of ? per cent. Of it's value, and if since the last transfer, in less than five years tor 10 for unimproyed property there has been an increase of 30 per cent in value, there is a supplementary tax,
 That there is waste Of fifteen years In the average human life in this eoun- try, owing to unsanitary modes of liv- ing, and that thIs waste can be pre- vented, thus to all practical purposes adding fifteen years to human life, is one Of the announcements which will be made by Prof, Irving Fisher ot Yale al the National Conservation Congress in Indianapolis on october I.
 The "Living Church'sH Presbyter Ignotus read in his morning paper that residents on fashionable,avenue had coereed real estate broker Into refus- ing to sell house to 8 man who had children. "lf the story is true, he writes, "God have mercy on those poor, blind, heartless wretehes Of that av- enuel They have their noisy, ill-smell- ing automobiles their wives have odi- ous Iapdogs; no doubt but there isn't a home among them. One of the prom ises of the Heavenly City is that it's streets shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets; and sound theology assures us that there will never be ,any little children in hell. These child -haters are surely not fitting themselves for heayen.'