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THB AGE OF ALUMINUM.
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I metal aluminum from its ores-nnll
'j every claybanle Is an aluminum mine
-Inventors have dreamed of an "am-
mlnum age " whose mechanical mars .
a vels should leave as far behind the
present "ago of steel" as wo surpass
I the "ago of stano" of the primitive
man Here was a beautiful metal that
was only a third as heavy as Iron ; and
\ what limit could there bo to time wonders -
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deI's Its use would make possible. The
long.awalted airship was to become a
reality and a revolution was to come
ut once In shipbuilding , railroading
I. and automobiling.
i But little CUll he dune with n. metal
, so soft that to secure the sumo
, 1 strength as much aluminum In weight
I I fiS of Iron must bo usod. H only some
way of temperIng It could bo found !
Now the announcement comes from
Germany that this problem has been I
solved. "Metoorlt" Is a simple alloy
of aluminum and phosphorus , and for '
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it Is claimed that it Is six times as
strong as aluminum Itself , Is non cor.
. Toslve , highly polish able , and may bo
soldered and galvanized with nickel
or copper. If all that Is claimed for ,
it Is true , then the "ago of aluminum"
may not be Car dlstant.-Doston Globe.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN WAR.
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, less telegraphy in war has already
peen conshlerCll. Now It is supple-
j mented by that of Its legality. The
I I Rnamtlan government has practically
served notice that It regards It ! aR illegal .
legal At any rate , time use of such a
device at the seat of war will bo
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respondents telegraphing without
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I wires will ho shot as spies , and 'es-
I eels equipped with wireless tele-
; israphlc apparatus venturing near the
: steno of war will , If caught , be can.
I 'nscated as contraband of war. So far
, as correspondents accompanying the
, Russian army are concerned , we may
unhesltatlnglJ' concede the Russian
! right of consorship. That Is 11 matter
.of course. A belligerent power has
Ithe undoubted right to decide whether
1t will permit correspondents to accompany -
company Its army at all , of course ,
\ prescribe what matter may bo sent
through the lines , and how. Similarly ,
fl may exercise a censorship over
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' : \vllters , 01' time waters implicated In
the sphere of belllgerent action. , But
n general outlawing of wireless telegraphy -
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graphr in that part of time world
would ho a much more extreme mat-
tor.-New York Trlbuno.
WORTH OF CHEERFUL WORK
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That which mar truly be said of
Americans Is that they have not yet
J , learned to rest from their labors betimes -
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season , to "lollf and invite their i
souls , " as Whitman counseled them to
I o ; All work , not less than all play ,
makes Jack n dull boy or man Work
regularly , Intolllgontlr , no matter how
energetically done , is rather more
1IIe1to promote health Ulan to impair .
I plllr It , or to prolong life , rather Ulan
to shorten It. The idle man , who
; ladles employment of body and mind ,
Is more Illely to suffer from nervous
depression , or to discover , as Carlyle .
lyle says , that he has within him that
'infernal machine , n liver , " than is
time man who has serious work to
, thhtt : about , and who , br doing It ,
keeps his physical organs In normal
condition. Indeed , the secret of healthful -
ful living seems to bo a plenty at
wore } cheerfully dono-tho maximum
of inspiriting labor and time minimum
cOf dull care.-Phl1ulelphla Lodger.
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STATISTICS OF INSANITY.
A bureau at Washington has prepared
pared some Interesting statistics oj
the distribution of Insanity through
out the United StllteB. In the whol
country one person of every 628 is
crazy In New England , one in every
350 ! ) ; in Now York and Pennsylvania ,
one in 424 ; In ! Indiana , Ohio , Illinois ;
Michigan , Maryland , Virginia , Kentucky -
tucky and Tennessee , one In 610 ; in
time Middle West , one in 750 : in time
Southern states , one In )35 ! ) ; In the
Rocky mountain states , one In 1,263 ;
in the Pacific states , one in 387.
It will be Been that madness Is more
prevalent In New Englllnd than any-
where else , with the Pacific states a
close second. The sanest part of the
country is In the mountain region of
the west , and the south comes next.
In Kansas one person out of every 560
Is crazy , and Missouri has one for
every 602 of population. Some writer ,
111 commenting on these facts , says
that it anyone can construct and defend -
fend a theory to account for the variation -
riullull , ha Is welcome to the oppor-
tunlty. Still , the report gives some
basis for speeullltion as to causes or
reasons. For example , it is shown
that the proportion of insanity among
foreigners is double that among natives -
tlves , and that the negro is only hlllf
as susceptible to madness as his white
brother. This will account for the
low rate In the south and the high
rate in localities largely peopled by
foreigners , but how are wo going to
account for the big rate in New England .
glllnd and on the Pacific coast-Kan'
Sims City Jourlllll
SUBMARINE WARFARE.
As gunpowder eliminated the heav-
l1y armored knight , so the rapid de-
velopmcnt of submarine explosives
points to time disappearance of great
armored ships , which must always be
defenseless under the water's surface.
It is merely a logical development of
the inventive genius of the race that
so vulnerable a point in war ships
should finally be yielded up to the
Inevitable assault of any enemy. Even
now , with torpedo boats numerous
enough and with crews of sufficient
persistence and daring , the battle-
ships have met their match. In the
future It seems certain that the tide
of scientific progress will bo on the
side of the still imperfect su marine.
There Is but one possible outcome in'
such 11 struggle.-Springfield ( Mass , )
Republican.
LATIN-AMERICA.
It is a curious fact that the Latin.
American countries have so little diplomatic -
lomatlc intercourse with one another.
This does not tend to confirm the allegation .
gatlon made every now and then that
the Central and South American nations -
lions have a consuming jealous and
dislike of the United States and are
inclined to form combinations to re-
sist the assumed "aggression" at the
Yankees Time Mexican Herald notes
that there is but one diplomatic representative -
resentatlve of Latin-Amerlclln governments -
ments at the capital of our nearest
southern sister nation , and that is
the minister of little Guatemnala a
noxt-door neighbor. Mexico has lega-
tions in the Argentine Republic , Bra-
zil , Chile , Peru , und in fact aU the
other countries on the isthmus and
in South America , but there is ! no reciprocity -
ciprocity , for the habit of leeeping
ministers at the respective scats at
government Is more honored in the
breach than in the obser\'ance. It
the Latln.Americans are not thus
friendly among themselves they are
not likely to combine against the
United States.-Troy 'rimes.
LENGTH OF MARRIED LIFE.
Statistics Show Joy Should Last for
Twenty.Seven Years.
Statistics gathered in various countries -
tries of the civilized world show that
married life , on the average , lasts
twenty.seven years , or a little over
one.thlrd of a man's life , estimating
the latter at three - score . and-ten. The
illustration presents the idea In
graphic form , for the happiness or
consolation of those Interested , as the
case may be.
The figures also show that , as a
rule , married people live longer than
the unmarried , which carries out the
clictl1m at the scriptures that "It Is not
good for man to live 1l10no. "
According to the statistics Juno
holds the palm for the union of hearts
and fort\mes. It appears that there is
some subtle connection between the I
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month of roses and the poetic fancy
which leads brides to choose that time
of the year for time happy ceremonJ'
May Is the l . ' - - : unpopular month.
Candidates for marital honors seem
to have taken seriously that old say-
ing , "Marr In May and repent for
aJ'e. " People who arc matter-of.fact
about all things else pay due regard to
the popular superstition when it comes
to this serious question.
Next to June comes January as the
marriage month , and December is
third Them come , in order July November -
"ember and April , while September
and October show an equal number of
marriages : , lending August by one.
Pebruar and March are dull months.
Phenomenal Luck at Whist.
An event which has been vouchea
for by witnesses and which was duly
recorded in whist annals was the phenomenal -
nomenal hand of thirteen trumps. It
occurred in n. game at the United Service -
vice club in Calcutta in 1888 , the
players being a judge antI three phJ'-
slcians. ! The pack had been perfectly
shuffled ants cut. It has been calcu
hated that in a game of whist every
one holds one of 635,013,559,600 possible -
ble hands , and 1\11' Babbage reckoned
that if a million men were to deal
cards day and night at the rate of one
deal per minute for a hundred million
years they would not exhaust one hundred .
dred thousandth part of time possible
variations of the cards.-New York
Herald.
Dog Suits-London Style.
Here is a photograph of a lucky dog
owned : bJ' an English peeress. Booted
and clothed as shown In the picture ,
the animal appears in Hyde Park
when his aristocratic mistress is out
for a "consUtl1t1ona1. " A maid accom
panics the pair and manipulates time
handkerchief whenever his dogshlp .
neezes or snifies.
UMBRELLAS OF HUGE SIZE. I
Are Marks of Dignity In Ashantl andi
on the Gold Coast. IAn I
An inferior chief in Lagos has , it iSI
feared , committed time Indiscretion oft \ . '
using a large and elaborate umbrella , . 1' . .
with the result that his superior chief " '
is offended at what he regards ai ;
breach of Court etiquetto.
Hitherto no one but a principal chief Ir
had been allowed to carry an umbreh { > c
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ordinate. made an appearance with one I
of rather showy design ho was promptly -
ly fined by the local Council. :
The principal umbrellas for AshanU'
and the Gold Coast chieftains are off
enormous size , some of them when .
open measuring ten feet across
A state' umbrella dispatched from
London a few weeks ago had for its I
apex a slIver eagle ' standing on twol
slIver cannon , nine inches in height.i ,
Another had as a symbolical ornn- ,
ment an elghteen.carat gold hen surrounded -
rounded by ei ' hteen . carat gold chickens ' :
ens , representing the chief and his
tribe. ,
The coverings of the umbrellas are
of red , white , yellow , and blue silk , :
with deep fringes. The largest urn- ; II J . ,
brellas are carried over the heads of _
chiefs by bearers , while other hearers :
steady the umbrella by cords attached ;
to the uppermost parts. A conpara-
lively small umbrella , surmounted by ,
chased silver knobs instead or an elab-
orate design , is for the inferior chiefs
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The latest thing in jewelry is tee :
wear a large diamond surrounded by J. '
little rubles upon the back of the " '
hand , the ornament being fastened as -
shown in the sketch. The fashion ,
comes from Paris , where this design
has been patented The prices run
from $150 upward bracelets and rings
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toilet articles of a Grecian lady of '
antiquity. Figure a shows her hairpins -
pins , b is a hall' ornament , c is an ear . . . . - . . . , . . . .
clearer , d , 0 and f are jars for ointment
ment and g Is a back scraper.
Old Apple Tree Still Vigorous.
The oddest apple tree in the state
of Pennsylvania Is ! owned by Henry
J. Miller of Holendauqua. It is a
paradise dwarf , 21,4 feet high , with 72
blossoms , and It bore two apples last
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