The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-09-04

of succession to the presidency. lie
has charge of all matters relating to
military affairs, subject to the direc'
ton of the president, the distribution
Of stores the signal service. the sur.
vey and improvement Of harbors and
the administration Of the insular pos
sessions. .
Naming the Baby.
Down in Princeton there is baby
four months old who has not yet beer
christened. 1t has worried the friends
of the parents, for they are anxious to
know what the child is to be called
The other day a friend Of the father
stopped him on the street and said:
NAMED the baby yet?'
mo, not yet" was the answer.
"Well, why don't you name him."
"What's the use? He's red headed
isn't he?"
But what difference does that
make?
"All the difference in the world. 1t
wouldn't do us any good to name him.
The kids wouldn't call him py it any
ow."-Indianapolis News.
Measles.
Measles is the most "catchable" OF
all the contagious diseases. says the
Youths Companion. but it is pretty
well conceded that it can only be
caught from a person who has 1t. 1t
is not carried by the we'll. This being
the case. its control should not be diff
Hcult. Every child who develops a
somewhat violent attack of coryza,
with running eyes and all the usual
symptoms of cold in the head, should
be isolated for a day or two and
watched for the development Of the
characteristic eruption. When this
comes out it is certain the child has
not a ''cold," but has measles, and its
isolation should be continued until the
eruption has entirely ended.
Woman as a Traveller.
When a woman who is travelling Ia
assigned to her room in hotel she
looks up the hotel rules on the door
and carefully reads them. When she
comes to one as follows, NO washing
Of clothes permitted in this room." she
gives a satisfied sigh. Then she un-
packs her trunk, rings for hot water
and within an hour has the mirror
covered with handkerchiefs pasted
there to dry. and has hose, underwear,
waists, ETC.. hanging over the back OF
every chair. Then she gets out he1
diary and notes in it how much money
she has saved. There are said to be
some very historic places In this
town." she notes after detailing her
wash. "but I will not have time to see
decentralization Globe.
Curved Bridges Of Japan. Isl.
The curved bridges Of Japan are Of.
three kinds-first, those known an
spectacle bridges. with ansarch In the
center suggesting a pair of spectaeles;
second, the camel back bridges. which
60 up very high indeed; third. the DRY
binary one arch, semicircu1ar Bridges
The reason the Japanese sotottdn have
curved bridges is because HntA mpd1
ern times they could not USRR them
fat, and even today there isl 1eyal
stone to the Japanese arches1N
are not generally familiar vii 3SYe
keystone. A great many Of two des
of bridges-the camel back am the
high curved bridges-are found M the
palace grounds at Pekin, in China.-St.
Nicholas.
Coral Reefs Inland.
Mention of coral reefs brings to ones
mind a picture Of palm dotted tslets
girt with white sands in a tropical
sea, but biologists find coral reefs in
the midst of great continents. These.
of course, belong to a past age Of the
earth's History. but on that account
they are the more interesting. Within
late years several remarkable reefs Of
fossil coral have been explored near
cambridge. on the Flint river, in
Georgia. In one case very large por.
ton Of the reef exposed consisted of
coral heads. some of which were more
than foot in diameter. Between
twenty-five and thirty species Of coral
have been recognized in these reefs.
They are ascribed to the tertiary age.
-Harper's Weekly.
Gajicia. ...s /. .. r i
Galicia is country as large as Scot
land, with a population one-third
greater. There are 100000 inhab
itants, Of whom perhaps rather more
than half are Poles and rather less
than half Ruthenians. In the western
half Of Galicia the Poles and in the
eastern half the Ruthenians are the
more numerous. The country is form
ed by the northern slopes. Of the Car
pathian mountains and by the plains
of the basins Of the upper waters Of
the Dniester, the Bug and the Vistula.
It is that part of the fringe Of the
plains Of Poland and Russia that po.
litical events In the past, among which
the partitions of Poland were the most
Important, gave to Austria.-Dundee