The Haslingden Gazette. — 1904-04-02 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

GAZWITN" OPTIC& 13311 TRUT. ACCRINGTON.  LIFEBUOY SOAP.  For the Sick Room. For the Bath Room.  For the Lavatory. Prevents Infection.  Dr. de Fleury, a French physician Of solo, eminence, claims to have discovered that the passion of jealousy can be controlled or even eradicated by a course of judicious medical treatment. According to the 1;111.4 Doctor, M. de Fleury's method is this: Take a man who is unreasonably jealous and irritable early in the morning, and give Mm a good breakfast or a cup of coffee, and ten to one he will sit down and talk the matter over eeneibly with you. According to Dr. de Fleury, all jealous persons have lucid intervals, the malady being intermittent, like chill and fever. The treatment must include awrything that can be done to give strength and selfconfidence to the jealous wretch; in short, to make a man of him.  The building of steel steamships is one of the most mpirtant of the industries in which Britons engage. A great number of hands may be employed in thetetting of coal or the spinning and weaving of cotton, and the gross value of the product in each of these trades may be annually greater; but viewed in the light of the fact that the manufacture of a ship really begins with the ores and the undressed logs, ship-building seems to be absolutely the greatest of our industries. Just how many millions sterling are invested in ship-building and marine engineering plant it is difficult to say. In any case, the total is so vast as to be meaningless, and a better impression is conveyed by other easily accessible figures.. Great Britain, for instance. says a writer in britatot at Work, builds in a year about double the tonnage produced by the rest of the world. One British river—the Clyde—excels he output, including warships, of the United States, and almost equals the total production of both Germany and France. We continue to be the world's shipbuilders in the face even of subsidised opposition. The value of the shipping launched in this country in a fairly prosperous year is, roughly, £27,000,000, and no leas than £9,000,000 of that sum is expended in wages. Machinery is included in the estimate of the value, and engine-shop ayrolls in the wages bill. The figures refer to the finished ship. The number of men employed in ship-yards and engine-slmpa is, off and on, about 130,000, and nearly a score of trades go to make I e muster. A familiar division of them is into "black squad" and "white squad," but to the man in the street it is a little tnialeading. There are flame benders, platers, riveters, caulkers, and drillers; shipwrights, joiners, and cabinet-makers; plumbera, blacksmiths, them' 's, brass and copperworkers, and painters; patti ,sabers, and steam, electrical, and hydraulic enc.' . era.  A well-known writer has r ittly committed himself to the opinion that the tendency to homicide varies with those meteorological conditions which bring about an emotional state necessitating a considerable discharge of motor stimulus, the same conditions bringing about irritability and unruliness in the child accompanying suicidal tendencies. This supposition is upheld by the fact that suicide is less common hi the colder climates where the metabolic processes sre slow, and in the torrid zone where the heat produces a general depletion of energy for motor discharges, than in the temperate regions where the climate is exhilarating.  stonr is told of an old man who was engaged In poultry-rearing. One day a traveller expressed surprisea suggested te use of lo m h tatisi‘ouuclid' i meal axtetfieevel;innig time, , no dust. A few months later the traveller was again in the district, and he asked the man if the new diet had been tried, and what the result had been. "It works beautifully." was the reply. “See that old yellow hen? Well, I tried her on half-and-half, and she liked it so well I changed it to all sawdust, and the last time she hatched three of the chicks had wooden legs, and a fourth was a woodpecker."