BREACH OF PROMISE SUITS.
Some Interesting Deductions Drawn
From Published Statistics.
Of every thousand suits for breach
of promise to marry at least 999 are
brought by women. Now It Is prob
able that men are the victims of such
breaches at least as often as women
and therefore the question arises
whether the vast predominance of
feminine plaintiffs has any signifi
cance as to the relative delicacy of
mind possessed by the two sexes.
For a breach of promise suit is es
sentially Indelicate. To bring it re
quires a more or less brutal indif
ference to public ridicule and an
amazing willingness to place one's
self and one's private emotions under
derisive inspection and vulgar com
mentary. And men rarely do all this,
while women do it frequently. It's
very puzzling. Of course there is the
matter of money, more commonly in
the possession of men than of wo
men, but that explanation is not kind
to the women, for it involves the as
sumption that they are mercenary and
that for the sake of money they are
willing to go through an ordeal that
would be simply frightful for men in
most respect scallous.—New York
Times.
Great Depot.
The Pennsylvania terminal to bo
erected in Manhattan will be the big
gest railroad station in the world,
with accommodations for handling
200,000 passengers a day, or about 70,
000,000 or 80,0000 a year. From sixty
to ninety trains will enter and leave it
hourly. The tunnels will bo lighted
and trains moved through them by
electricity.
, How She Signed the Check.
“I sometimes think that if I had
my way in the matter I would make
it a law that women should not have
bank books,” said the tired-looking
cashier. “Some of their mistakes
would put a sensible schoolboy to
shame. Among the checks handed
in to me to-day was one for quite a
large amount which the woman who
drew it out had signed ‘Your loving
Carrie.’ '* _
Up-to-Date Medicine.
D’Arsonval, the famous Parisian
therapeutic specialist of Paris, stated
that the w-orld is on the eve of a
therapeutical revolution and that elec
tricity will be the medicine of the
future. A strong, continuous current
through a patient could, he affirmed,
produce local anaesthesia, permitting
slight surgical operations without nar
cotics.
Old-Time Business Methods.
Church White, of Atchison, regrets
that the merchants of the present day
do not do business as they did at
Hainesville, Mo., where he was roar
ed. The custom there was to settle
with the store once a yeart on the
1st of January. Once White's father
went Into McCrory’s store to settle.
“What’s my bill?” he asked of Me
Crory. "Well, George,” said McCro
ry, "pay what you think is right; I
ain’t kept no account.”
Probably Knew the Widow.
Visits of consolation are not by any
means pleasant, and there is no class
of men in the world who know it
better than ministers of the gospel
They try to be comforting, but it is
not always they say just the right
thing. “Did the minister say some
thing comforting?” asked the neigh
bor of a West Philadelphia widow re
cently bereaved. "Indeed, he did
not," was the quick reply. “He said
my husband was better off.”
Kaiser Admires Giants.
The kaiser is about five feet ten
In height, but he likes to surround
himself with giants, and by compari
son looks shorter than he is.
London Tower Guns.
It is in contemplation to remove tho
saluting guns at the Tower of London
and substitute forty-pounder breech
loaders.
England’s Food Supply.
An association of prominent men
has been organized in England to
force Parliament to create a royal
commission which shall investigate
the question of feeding England in
time of war. The association advo
cates the old idea of establishing
great granaries to hold a reserve sup
ply of food.
Before Rome Was Founded.
In one of the tombs recently ex
cavated in the Roman Forum a vase
was discovered, the inscriptions on
which show that it belongs to the
twelfth century before Christ, or 400
years before the reputed date of the
founding of Rome. Signor Boni, the
director of tho excavations, believes
the tomb to be a relic of a city which
existed and had disappeared before
Rome was founded.^
Edward as Speechmaker.
One of the results of the long train
ing King Edward had as Prince of
Wales Is that few men are so easy on
their feet in making a speech as he is.
The late Lord Houghton—an accom
plished man of letters and an experi
enced politician—used to say to the
Prince of Wales: ”1 have always con
sidered your royal highness and my
self the best after-dinner speakers of
the day.”
Bath,, Temperatures.
Remember that a cold bath Is one
from 60 to 70 degrees F.; tepid from
85 to 92 degrees; warm, irora 92 to 98
degrees; hot, 98 to 109 degrees. In the
case of vapor baths the warmest de
gree under ordinary circumstances is
about 130 degrees.
Badly Out of Tune.
Plano tuners have their trials along
j with the rest of humanity, and the
j experience of a Philadelphia tuner,
the other day, goes to prove it. He
was sent into a suburb to tune a piano,
which he found practically as good
as new. He put the Instrument In
proper shape, and felt well satisfied
with his work until a day or two
later he received a note from the
owner, saying the piano had not been
properly turned. Thereupon he made
j another Journey, tested every note,
| and found no fault. Ho told the lady
so. “Yes,” she said, “it does seem
| all right when you play on it, doesn’t
it? But as soon as I begin to sing
j it gets all ou% of tune again.”
Lots of Work for Idle Hands.
Ixmd and urgent are the calls from
western farms and orchards for
scores of thousands of wage earners
for the harvesting of the crops and
tho garnering of the fruits. But too
many idlers, tramps and beggars in
our cities, and in the country regions
also, turn deaf ears to such appeals
and refuse tempting opportunities to
earn honest and comfortable livings.
The vagrant spirit, the “dead-beat”
desire to get along without working,
is too conspicuous everywhere.—New
York Tribune.
Where Violets Are Raised.
Recent years have brought an
enormous growth in the use of violets,
and this has been to the great ad
] vantage of parts of Dutchess county,
New York, where the soil is proving
especially adapted to the growing of
violets. In the vicinity of Red Hook
and Rhinebeck more than 125 violet
houses are operated, and dozens more
aro being built..
Prospects of Longevity.
Out of every 1,000,000 persons who
are born in the sanio year. 312,000 live
for seventy years, 107,000 for eighty
years, and S.S41 for ninety years. Two
hundred and forty-five persons out of
every 1,000,000 live for ninety-seven
years; 119 for ninety-eight, fifty-four
for ninety-nine, twenty-three for 100,
nine for 101, three for 102. and one
for 103 years.
insanity Among Women.
A German professor has been In
vestigating the causes of insanity
among women, and has come to the
conclusion that if women are admitted
Into competition with men the inevita
ble result will be a tremendous in
crease of insanity among the women.
He finds that the percentage of wom
en teachers who become insane is
almost double that of the men teach
ers.
Weird Idea of the West.
Mrs. George R. Smith of Lanca
shire recently wrrote to the Kansas
City chief of police asking for infor
mation about her husband, whom she
had not seen for thirty years. She
thought that he was hunting buffa
loes in Kansas City and wanted him
locked up and sent home.
Gave a Picnic to 26,000 Children.
Senator James John Frawley, the
Tammany leader in the 32d assembly
i district of New York, recently gave a
picnic to 2C.000 children in Central
Park. None was ‘barred in the en
tire assembly district on account of
color or creed. At the picnic there
were used 80,000 lemons, three tons
of candy, 25,000 sandwiches and 1,000
gallons of ice cream.
Lord Minto Not a Social Success.
The rumor is revived that Lord
Minto will shortly resign the lieuten
ant governorship of the Dominion of
Canada. He confesses that he has
, been a social failure at Ottawa,
■ through Inability to comprehend the
j lines of social demarkation that ob
i tain among the elite of Ottawa.
Railway Cars Are Small.
j Prussian railway cars have only
; about three-tenths the carrying capac
j ity of those used in the United States.
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The most expensive wine in the
I world is some 1778 Madeira received
from a wreck in the Scheldt in IS 14.
It was sold at $570 a bottle.
French Soldiers of Fortune.
Gen. O’Connor, who seems to be
bent on carving out for France a new
colony in Morocco, made his military
debut in the corps of guides, which
distinguished itself in the battles be
! fore Metz In the Franeo-Prusstan war.
! During the second siege of Paris,
I brought about by the commune, he
: was aide-de-camp to Gen. De Galliffet,
j who was the first minister of war
under the recent Waldack-Rousseau
administration. He has also cam
| paigned in Tunis and commanded the
| cavalry in Tonquin.
Resemblance in Ruins.
Striking resemblance lias been
pointed out between the remarkable
ancient ruins at Zimbabwe, in Rho
desia, and antiquities in Cornwall.
I England.
Gold In Other Worlds.
An Australian scientist has ana
lyzed a meteor which contained
traces of gold, showing that that cle
ment is not monopolized by the earth.
Improve Back Yards.
A prize competition in creating at
tractive back yards Is under way in
certain sections of St. Loi'js.
Strong Paper.
So strong is Bank of England note
paper that a single sheet will lift a
weight of 100 pounds.
TOADS FOUND IN ROCKS.
Scientist Explains the Reason of
Their Presence There.
“Amazing!” said a scientist, “is the
popularity of the belief that toads live
for long spaces of time In rocks. Only
last week a quarryman sent to me a
toad that he had found imbedded, he
said, In a solid block of stone. Of
course there is no truth in the Idea
that these reptiles can exist shut up
for years without food and air, but
there is truth in the stories of their
being found in rocks. Thf> rocks,
though, are not solid, as the finders
Incline to think, and the toads have
only been in them, it is probable, for
a few hours instead of for years and
years. Toads, you see, take naturally
to sequestered places—to clifts in
rocks or trees. A quarryman or a
lumberman breaks into a rock or a
tree, finds a live toad imbedded and
thinks the reptile has been there
since time began. As a matter of
fact the toad has but recently crawled
there through a little passage of some
sort, but the passage is so well con
cealed that the eyes of the man have
failed to discern it.”
Ill 1'raiKe of Gliumharlain’* Colie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy*
“Allow me to give you a few words
in praise of Chamberlain’s Colic, Chol
era mid Diarrhoea Remedy,” says Mr.
,lobn Ilamlett, of Eagle Pass, Texas.
“1 suffered one week with bowel trouble
and took all kinds of medieire without
getting any relief, when iny friend, Mr
Johnson, a merchant here, advised me
to take this remedy. After taking one
dose I felt, greatly relieved and when I
had taken the third dose was entirely
cured. 1 thank you from the bottom
of my heart for putting this great rem
edy in the hands of mankind.”—For
sale by Odendahl Bros.
Russian Wheat in Good Shape.
Consul -General W. R. Holloway
writes from St. Petersburg, May 15,
1903, that, according to data compiled
by the Ministry of Agriculture, tho
outlook for wheat in European Rus
sia Is satisfactory. Winter wheat is
fair, especially in the southern prov
inces. The spring has been unusually
mild.
Timber Is Disappearing.
It is estimated that nearly all the
pine timber now growing in Minneso
ta (about 30,000,000 feet) will be cut
and marketed within the next fifteen
years.
Library Donations.
For the year ended May 31, $10,
300,400 was donated to the founding
of libraries., of which Mr. Carnegie
gave $0,079,000 for buildings.
tiiiergeiicy Medicine*.
It is a great convenience to have at
hand reliable rernidles in case of ac
cident and for slight injur'es and ail
ments. A good liniment and one that
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Pain Balm. By applying it promptly
to a cut, bruise or burn it allays the
pain and causes the injury to heal in a
bout one third the time usually required
and as it is an antiyipticit prevents any
danger of blood poisoning. When
I’aln Balm is kept at band a sprain
may he treated before inllamation sets
in, w hich insures a quick recovery
For sale by Odendabl Bros.
Priest and Painter.
Rev. A. R Shields, rector of the
Church of the Redeemer, Boston, is
an artist as well as a priest. He
earned enough money painting the
past winter to afford a summer in
the galleries of the old world, and
sails for Europe to paint in the na
tional gallery of London, in the
Louvre and Luxembourg galleries
during his vacation season.
Says Women Should Study Atone.
Prof. Ludwig Siieda, probably the
most famous anatomist in Germany,
recently published a powerful protest
against the movement among the pro
fessors of medical faculties in Ger
man universities for permitting wom
en to attend medical lectures in the
same classroom with men. He ex
presses the opinion that the presence
of women must have an Injurious ef
fect both on the professors and on the
women themselves. Prof. Stieda will
not exclude women from medical
study, but it is absolutely necessary,
he says that Miey be instructed in
anatomy in separate classrooms.
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Liquid Koal that John Solms sells so much of.
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t atarrh of the Htouiaeti
When llie stomach is overlook'd;
when f ood Is taken into it that fails to
Jljjist, it decays and enllautw* the.
mucous membrane, exposing the nerves
ami causes the glands to secret mucin
instead of the natural juices of digestion.
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