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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. History has been made rapidly since Admiral Dewey sailed for Manila six years ago. A woman can't help having faith in a man who notices when she has on a new gown. After a young man makes up his mind that he is not a genius he stands a chance to earn his living. The advent of the odorless onion is announced. It will mean the death of the popular diversion known as the onion social. Thanks to its suggestion of comic opera, the news of the death of the king of Cambodia will make a good many people laugh. - ... —.. ... . • A scientist says that larks rise to a hight of 2,000 leet. That must be why. when people go out on a lark, they have a high old time. If the hoped-for boy turns out to be a girl, the czar may feel quite in the mood to proceed personally to the scene of the war in August. There is said to be a flood of coun terfeit money in New Jersey. Some thing of that kind might be made use ful in watering trust stocks. A New York man proposes to use tame snakes to clear houses of rats and mice. He will probably also clear them of women by this method. Boys have begun to run off with the circuses again. Boys are as much given to “the mad chase after pleas ure” as their parents, in these days. The patent office at Washington dur ing 1903 granted 31.699 patents, and if only Langley’s airship had done its duty they might have made it an even 31,700. So great is the demand for crude rubber for use in manufactures that the price in New York has advanced to something like $1.25 a pound. Save the bands. It is not improbable that future naval wars may be fought out with torpedo boats, torpedo boat destroyers, and destroyers of torpedo boat de stroyers, and so on. Another uprising is reported in Hayti. This seems to disprove the recent rumor that Hayti was in an . extraordinary state of confusion. Its ! condition continues to be normal. -— Barnum’s circus will this reason : “travel with a chaplain and be opened | by prayer at each performance.” Adults who go “just to take the chil dren” may usefully bear this in mind. Can the sociological experts tell us why mankind appears to take so much more interest in the trial and ex ecution of a bad man than in anything that can possibly happen to a good man? ___ I Chicago now announces the theory that disease is plainly indicated by the thumb nails. This doesn’t come from one of the professors of the university of Chicago, but it sounds as if it did. - The man who sells cakes of coap i wrapped in $10 bills usually explains ! that he is animated by a desire to | benefit the purchasers, yet few of the I victims have ever been able to figure out a profit. Editor Bok prints in his Ladies’ Home Journal the pictures of “the most beautiful children in the United States.” They number two or three dozen. But Editor Bok always was a fearless man. It has just become known that a gripman on a San Francisco street car is a descendant of a royal family of Servia. Probably he kept his identity secret for fear he might have to go home and be king. •__ Principal Tompkins of the Chicago normal school says he doesn't think it necessary that children should be taught to spell unusual words, and he particularly mentions “syzygy.” By the way, can you define it? A farmer of Nevada, Ohio, a dry town, having been arrested the other day for passing around a bottle sup posed to contain wmsKy, made the defense that it really contained hard cider. Speaking of technicalities! The careful, conservative plodder who makes fifteen or twenty millions in stocks during five or six years al ways has the utmost contempt for the simpleton who loses his money fooling with a get-rich-quick scheme. The great novel of the year is com ing at last. Its identity is revealed by the fact that the manuscript has al ready been rejected by no less than three great publishing houses. Sure sign of greatness! The emotion aroused In the house keeper’s mind by seeing the first fly of the season isn’t of the sort that will remind her that her husband has al ready seen the same thing at the ball games. -j On the theory of averages, last year’s total fire losses in this country should have been $75,000,000, instead of which they were $225,000,000. Talk of the costliness of war! It is nothing to the costliness of carelessness. A discrepancy of over half a million dollars in the expense accounts of the Nordica-Doemes shows that there must have been an irreconcilable dif ference of opinion between them as to which of the two was the firm. jnMn ^ l AROP AM» IMiffSlMY If Satan Should Come. Old Satan, through God's gracious favor, flung Ills manacles aside and made his way Forth from the gloomy depths and stood among The people in the teeming city. They Knew not, because he came In manly guise. That hell's dread ruler loomed before their eyes. The arch-fiend gazed upon the bent old men. Who toiled with weary hands and munched their crusts: He saw them get their pittances, and then He scanned the mighty profits of the trusts: He stood within the noisome precincts, where The toilers dwelt, and viewed the hor hors there. He saw the pale-faced little children go To labor for their profits who were high: He saw the laws enmesh the poor and low— Those self-same laws he saw the rich defy; He viewed their splendors for whose profit they Whose sunken breasts were hopeless toiled away. And after he had scanned conditions, when He had beheld the glories of the proud, Had learned how men deal with their fellow men. He watched the children toil, and mused aloud: “This where tney call themselves en lightened, free! No wonder men have lost belief in me. —S. E. Kiser. NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD. Items of Interest Gathered from Many Sources. Cigarmakers of Boston have started a co-operative cigar factory. The United Garment Workers’ In ternational union has increased in 12 years from 3.U00 to 50,000. The International Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers’ Association will hold its annual convention at Buffalo in June. Louisville, Ky., Employers’ associa tion declared for the open shop and also for the establishment of trade schools. An international labor congress at St. Louis during the World’s fair has been proposed by the central body at Milwaukee. Judge Kavanagh in an injunction against the Chicago solar plate work ers, especially states that picketing is permissible. Boot and shoe workers’ union spent $404,322 last year. About equal sums were spent for sick benefits, strikes and advertising the union label. As a result of the meeting of the miners and operators of Beaver Val ley. Pa., the miners in the vicinity re turned to work pending the considera tion of the new scale. The miners of Christian County Coal company’s mine at Taylorville, 111., who have been on a strike since the strike for that district was agreed upon, returned to work. Two hundred moluers and pattern makers of the Fore River Shipbuild ing and Engine company, at Quincy, Mass., joined the strikers, making a total of 3,000 men now idle. The dissatisfaction of the sheet and tin-plate workers over the reduction of 18 per cent seems to be increasing. The Griffith plant at Waynesburg, Pa„ has closed. Others will follow. The United States Commissioner of Education says school teachers aver age per month $49 for men and $40 for women, Twenty-eight per cent of the teachers of the country are men. At Lawrence, Mass., the Arlington cotton and worsted mills will curtail production, operating but four days a week, because of lack of orders. Fif teen hundred operatives are affected. The Indiana block coal miners, Dis trict No. 8, have voted to reject the proposition of the operators for a two years’ contract under last year’s con ditions, with a 5 per cent reduction in wages. Bakers’ joint executive board has received word from San Francisco that many bakers there are unem ployed and warns fellow workers of New England against going to Cali fornia. The Amalgamated Association of Sheet Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Theodore Shaffer’s union, has accept ed a wage reduction of 18 per cent. The cut is operative until the last day of June of this year. On June 9 next the Order of Rail way Telegraphers will celebrate its eighteenth anniversary, having been organized at Cedar Rapids in 1886. Last month 1,070 new members were added to the order’s rolls. Brush Makers’ International union has requested organized labor to as sist that union in having the authori ties revoke their determination to in troduce the manufacture of brooms into the Minnesota state prison. From a toiler in the machine shops of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to the presidency of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway, which is one of the Burlington’s chief com petitors, Is the career of B. L. Win chell. An American steam thrashing ma chine has been taken Into Damascus, which is said to be the oldest city in the world. On its way to Damascus the heavy machine broke every bridge and attracted the attention of the en tire country. A strong fight against unionism is now being made by the Draper Ma chine company of Hopedale, Mass. Employes are being compelled to sign an agreement that they will not join a union as long as they remain in the employ of the company. Dressier & Hollender, contractors of Perth Amboy, N. J.. obtained a ver dict for $500 damages against the walking delegate and members of the Bricklayers and Plasterers’ Protec tive union of Perth Amboy for dam ages resulting from a boycott. The general strike and lockout of lithographers was officially declared off, the unions by a clear majority having voted for the arbitration agreement recently submitted in a referendum vote. The 10,000 or more idle employes throughout the country wrere ordered to return to work. Two hundred boilermakers em ployed In the local shops of the New I York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at New Haven, Conn., went on strike as the result of the company’s refusal to grant them a nine-hour day and a 15 per cent increase in wages. Out of every dollar that the Ameri can nation makes each year the rail roads get about 12 cents. And out of every dollar that the railroads get the employers gdt 66 cents and the government gets about 3 cents in taxes. The total income of the rail roads last year was nearly $2,000,000, 000. The strike of the truckdrivers at Kansas City, which has been in prog ress for several weeks, has been de clared off by the Truckdrivers’ union, the strikers being advised to make peace with the employers and each striker instructed to secure employ ment on any terms that he may choose. Every man or woman who holds stock in a company is responsible for the acts of that company, says Henry White in a recent editorial. Those who receive the profit of child labor and sweat shops and the oppression of the poor should be held responsible for these social evils. The negotiations between the Na tional Metal Trades’ association, the employers’ organization and the Inter national Association of Machinists have been abandoned, with the result that the strife which has character ized the relations of the two organiza tions during the last few years will be renewed. In Brantford, Canada, there Is a co operative binding twine factory that is owned and operated by S,000 farm ers. It was started twelve years ago, so that it is no business bubble. Last year it paid 34 per cent profit, and sold twine lower than any other twine company. The 8,000 farmers are about to start a co-operative factory to man ufacture their own farm machinery. “The National Metal Trades’ asso ciation has found agreements with la bor unions in most cases worthless. They are not lived up to and afford no protection to our members. The association discourages the signing of new agreements. It is safe to say that but few will be made this year,” said Secretary E. F. Du Brul of the association, after the negotiations had ended. There are now in, Belgium four schools for the instruction of fisher men. The pupils are taught how to read weather charts, how to make the best use of currents, what the bottom of the sea is like, how to man age their own nets, how to manage a boat in a storm, how to use the latest inventions in the line cf fish ing apparatus, etc. There are about 250 pupils now in these schools. A proposition to form a wage work ers’ anti-high-rent union to demand a reduction of 25 per cent in rentals was not approved by the New York Central Union. Telegraph operators have demanded $2.50 per day and train dispatchers $80 per month from the elevated railroad systems of New York. The only labor bill to pass the New York legislature was one to pun ish counterfeiters of union labels. “Trades unions cannot be de stroyed,” says the editor of the Cloth ing Trades Bulletin. “Unions repre sent the upward striving mass of the people. They have brought the bene fits of progress to millions, and they can never be broken up. The union is firmly implanted in the soil of our industrial system, and lopping off a branch here and there will not de stroy unionism.” In this month’s Federationist Presi dent Gompers says: “Organized labor will resist any attempt at wage cut ting just as it has prevented wage cutting in -the past, and preparation is necessary to accomplish this work. Just as sure as the sun rises and sets, just as sure as the tide ebbs and flows, there will come an Industrial stagnation in our country. We should be prepared for it and let the burden of it fall on those who are directly re sponsible for it and not on the work ing men and wage earners.” The A. F. of L. exhibit at the St. Louis fair has been arranged. It will contain 54 articles, forms of commis sions to organizers, forms of certifi cates of membership, forms of obliga tions and methods of procedure, in structions to locals, histories and methods of all the affiliated interna tionals. photographs, constitutions, la bel bulletins, trade banners, the orig inal charter of the National Labor union, organized In 186f», and a chart showing the growth in membership of the American Federation of Labor, from a few thousand in 1881 to nearly 2,000,000 in 1904. Alleging that the United Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America “is a trust, an illegal associa tion, a combination against, public pol icy and contrary to law,” a petition was filed in the office of the circuit clerk at Si. Louis by the William G. Frye Manufacturing company, the Charles A. Olcott Planing Mill com pany, Fox Brothers Manufacturing company and the Ixthso Patent Door company, asking a restraining order and injunction, pending action seek ing the dissolution of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, agalnRt. the Carpenters’ District council of that body. President Gompers of the A. F. of L., in addressing the United States Senate committee on the Foster bill for compulsory arbitration, stated that he had been placed In a false light before th« committee by Mr. Foster, who had quoted him as saying, “strikes are a good thing.” Mr. Gom pers stated that the workingmen would continue to strike as long as they had grievances. No man in the country has done more to avert strikes than he has done he said. “But it will never be possible to eliminate striker.he continued, “so long as a man shall have divergent interests in buying and selling his power to labor.” The best possible way to prevent strikes, he maintained, was to prepare for them through organization. v OJ3d Inv^nti^l Doubt Value of “N-Rays.” The existence of the rays discov ered by Blondlot, of Paris, and named by him “n-rays,” about which much has been written lately, is seriously questioned by an eminent German physicist, who thinks M. Blondlot has suffered from optical illusions, owing to the fact that in manipulating the screens the experimenter turns aside and this causes an apparent increase in the light on the test object. John Butler Burke, who is one of the wide ly known English observers who has been unable to produce those rays, says: “I am at a loss to find any other explanation of M. Blondlot's re sults than that he has come across a radiation to which some men are blind. Self-hypnotism, due to fatigue cf the optic nerve, may account for the results of one observer alone.” The fact that M. Blondlot has, in in struments of precision, measured the wave length of these rays would seem to be conclusive evidence of their ex istence. And, too, Carpentier has, by passing these rays through the brain, produced a perception of light which changed the size of the pupils. New Thimble Attachment. When we hear of a poor bachelor sewing on buttons, mending rips and tears, pricking his fingers and break ing his needles, we are inclined to say, “Serves him right! He ought to get married and let his wife do the mending.” But how about the woman when she has to do this work? Of course, she is more experienced by long years of practice and can handle her needle more deftly and perform neater work than the man; but even she will sometimes break needles in striving to work them through an ex tremely hard piece of cloth. Some one may say that here is where the thimble comes into play, and that the man does not know how to use that device, any way. But, even with the aid of the thimble to force the needle through as far as possible, it is more than likely that trouble will be en countered in pulling it through, as the pointed end affords so little chance to secure a hold which will not slip on the smooth surface. Here is where the advantage of the device shown in the picture makes it self appreciated. In one side of the thimble, near the base, will be seen a projecting knob, in position for the Clamp to Grip the Thimble. thumb to exert a pressure on the end of it. At right angles with this knob a small hole is drilled through the base of the thimble, in which the thimble can be inserted. The inner end of the knob is slightly serrated, to enable it to grip firmly a needle in serted in the aperture beneath. The seamstress has then only to use the thimble as usual, until the needle sticks in the cloth, when she inserts the sharp point in the aperture, de presses the clamping button with her thumb and pulls the needle through. Cleveland Hemenway of North Adams, Mass., is the inventor. Value of Radium in Cancer. In the London Electrician there is printed an article in which the author states that while it is not yet possible to speak with certainty as to the exact therapeutic value of radium, yet he is confident that by its means it is possible to modify profoundly and in some cases apparently to cure surface rodent ulcers and epitheliomata. The method of application is to enclose the radium in a small India rubber capsule with a mica window’ or in a small glass tube. The radium is used most conveniently in the form of the bromide, and should be of good qual ity. The small tube containing the sale must be placed directly in con tact with the ulcerating surface. It apparently is of no use if applied to the unbroken skin surface. The ac tion of the radium is strongest at the immediate point, of contact, and les sens in power according to the dis tance from that point of ccntact. New Wall Papers. Fabric effects are seen in some of the new wall papers, silk, satin and water or moire surfaces being faith fully represented. Papers of this kind, when used in a single gentle color, give an air of richness and luxury to an apartment. They are suitable for pretty parlors, drawing-rooms, recep tion-rooms and boudoirs. Soft old rose, canary yellow, mandarin yellow, silver and green and robin’s egg blue are delightful in silken surfaced pa pers. For libraries and dining-rooms there come other fabric effects, as burlaps, canvas weaves and gobelin tapestries. The burlaps and canvas weaves make lively backgrounds for oil paintings, sepia sketches and etchings in their warm tones of reddish brown Liquid from Stov.e Pipe. A. M.—Undoubtedly, the liquid that Trips from the pipes of a stove burn ing wood contains creosote, pyrolig neous acid (impure acetic acid) and other matter found In “oil of smoke,” but we very much doubt the advisa bility of using it for curing meat. We should expect it to contain iron, dis solved by liquid from the stove pipe, and this, if present, woud assuredly spoil it for Web a purpose. Of course, if it is desired to make a test of it there Is no objection on the gorunds of poisonous substances be ing present, but as the taste imparted to the meet may be more or less un pleasant, we should experiment at first on a small scale l HOME-MADE WAGON JACK. Simple of Construction, and Will Lift Much Weight. A reader recommends the accom panying jack, which he claims to have used for many years, raising at times as much as 800 pounds. The dimen sions of the parts are as follows: A, base, 2 ft. 10 in. long and 6 in. wide; B-B, uprights, 2 ft. 2 in. long; C, brace, 1 ft. 8 In. long; D, hand lever, 3 ft. 6 in. long; E, upper life for hind axle, 1 ft. 7 in. long; F, lower lift for front axle, 1 ft. 10 in. long; G, lock standard, 2 ft. 2 in. long from base; 1 in. 1% inch with a plate of iron 1*4 by % inch with six notches to hold lever where desired; H, connect ing rods, 10 in. long, with holes foi* one-quarter inch bolts; J, lock plate screwed on to G; K, plato on hand lever to fit into notches. When an n axle is to be raised, the lift E or r is placed beneath it by raising the hand lever D, which is pressed down and hooked under the notch in the plate J. Feeding and Watering Steers. It makes little difference whether the water or chop is given first, pro vided water is given as frequently as it should be, so that a very large quantity is not taken at once. Chop should not be given in its pure state, but be mixed with a more bulky food, so that it will be returned to the mouth for mastication. In the water ing of stock the animals themselves are the best judges, and they should be allowed to drink when disposed. Where no succulent food, such as roots or ensilage, is given, a drink should be allowed before feed, then coarse fodder, such as hay, followed by the chop, mixed with cut hay or chaff. If succulent food is given, the animals will not require water until two or three hours after they are through feeding. It is well to allow them all the water they wish at least three times daily, if all the food is dry, and if roots are fed they should drink once or twice daily, according to the quantity of roots given. Mating Poultry. L. M.—I am much interested in poultry raising, and would be much obliged for the following information: 1. How many hens can be mated with one rooster? 2. At what age will a rooster be too old for mating? 3. Kindly answer the above two ques tions also for geese, turkeys and ducks. 1. From 5 to 9 of Asiatic varieties; from 7 to 8 of American, and from 9 to 13 of Mediterranean. This is for fowls in limited runs. If at large a greater number cf hens may be kept with one male. 2. Male birds should not be used as breeders after they are three years old. 3. Turkeys, one male to 10 females, the male not to be over two years old. Ducks, one drake not over two years of age, with 5 or 7 ducks, if birds are in confine ment; if running at large, 10 or 12. Geese, one gander, from 2 to 7 years of age, with 1 to 4 geese. Testing Incubator Eggs. In the absence of an egg tester, which is usually supplied with an in cubator, a simple tester may be made by using an ordinary lamp. The light ed lamp should be set in a box in a dark room; the side of the box should have an opening about the size of an egg and before this each egg to be tested should be held in front of tbe eye. Eggs which are fertile and contain live germs show, in seven or eight days of incubation, a black spot with spider-like legs radiating from it. The stronger this appears the stronger will be the chicken. Eggs which are clear or contain no spot are infertile or dead, and should be thrown out. Stall for Breaking Milch Heifers. L. C.—Kindly advise how to make a stall for breaking heifers in to be milked. We know of no special stall for breaking a heifer. A very good meth > od of fastening a cow so that she cannot kick while being milked is to place her head in a stanchion so that she cannot jump forward and back ward; then attach a strap with a ring around the left hind leg just above the hock; to the ring in the strap fasten a rope and tie this to the top of the stanchion, just short enough to raise the foot slightly off the floor. A cow fastened in this manner can not kick and will soon give up trying if kindly and quietly treated. Quantity of Cement for Cellar Wall. How much cement would be re quired to build the walls of a cellar, 12 feet square and 6% feet high, the walls to be ten inches thick at the base and seven at the top It would take eight barrels of na tural cement or six of Portland for your work. — Powerful New Poisonous Drug. Lascellus Scott of England has re cently published some startling facts about cyanid of cacodyl. It is a white powder, melting at 33 degrees and boiling at 140 degrees, which, when exposed to air, gives off a slight va por, to inhale which is death. Its ef fect is so powerful that Mr. Scott states that he has seen the one-mil lionth part of a gram of the drug in stantly kill four dogs when they were introduced into an airtight cage with it. While but little known, it wa3 made many years ago by a noted French chemist, Cadet. He combined potassium acetate with white arsenic, producing a fuming liquid, oxid of cacodyl. This, when combined with cyanogen, a radical of prussic acid, produces cyanid of cacodyl, thousands of times more poisonous tnan the pute prvisic acid.—Albany Medical Annals. WITH WE WORLD’S U^BEST WRITERS POLITELY DISOBEDIENT. Twenty years ago a famous Ameri can millionaire, speaking of his un ruly and pampered little son, said with a smile: “Yes, Harry is a politely disobedient boy.” The other day, after a disgraceful career extending over two continents, that boy was placed behind the bars, a prisoner of justice. His polite disobedience was but the seed of future lawlessness. Obedience is not only the soldier’s first duty, as we have been told, but the first and most important duty of all of us; and the place to learn it is in the home; and the time, when we are children, says Robert Webster Jones in the Housekeeper. The dan ger of acquiring the vice of disobedi ence is not confined to the children of the rich alone. It is a constant menace in homes of all grades of society. No greater harm can be done to a child than to permit him to be disobedient, either politely or im politely. There are many troubles laid up for him who has not learned early in life to obey. Obedience to parents, obedience to teachers, obedi ence to employers, obedienoe to the law, are all allied. Failure in the first means failure in all. The question is often asked wheth er the children of the present genera tion are as obedient as were their parents and grandparents. Certainly there is not the outward reverence that characterized the children of a former generation, but we need not say that the feeling of respect and the desire to obey are not there. The dan ger, however, is right here: that the omission of the outward appearance of reverence and obedience may lead, in time, to the omission of those vir tues themselves. The parent who per mits a child to grow up without learn ing and learning thoroughly, this great lesson of obedience, commits a crime against society. There are pris ons waiting for the "politely disobedi ent boy.” THE DANGER IN KISSING. - - A new danger has been discovered in kissing. The discovery is made by a scientist, of course. All these dead ly dangers in kissing are discovered i by scientists. The New York Medical Journal an nounces that to the danger from germs “is superadded, in the case of ! the neuropath, that of shock highly | injurious to the nervous system.” This, if true, is bad for the neuro path. But is it necessary that anybody j should kiss as a neuropath? That a shock comes with kissing, many people know. But would any of them have it dispensed with if he could? No, indeed. A kiss without a shock would be a dull affair. That there are actual dangers In kissing it has not remained for mod ern bacteriologists to discover. If we might project the imagination back to most primitive man we would per haps see there and then, as we do here and now. a thousand things for kissers to be afraid of. The old man's boot and the rival young buck have become traditional among a multitude of other dangers. The men of all ages have felt fear of these dangers, far more material and threatening than mere germs, and braved them. So will they ever meet and face them.—Chicago Journal. “A TERRIBLE BUSINESS.” "It !s a terrible business,” wrote Lord Elgin nearly fifty years ago, "this living among inferior races. I have seldom, since I came to the East, heard a sentence which was reconcil able with the hypothesis that Chris tianity had ever come into the world. Detestation, contempt, ferocity, venge ance, whether Chinamen or Indians be the object. There are some three or four hundred servants in this house. When one first passes by their salaaming one feels a little awkward. But the feeling soon wears off, and one moves among them with perfect indifference, treating them, not as dogs, because in that case one would whistle to them and pat them, but as machines with which one can have no community or sympathy.” Yet, it is a terrible business. And now, for many generations, large and ever-increasing numbers of our yel low' countrymen have come back from contact with “inferior races,” bringing with them contempt for the rights of human beings whom they deem lower than themselves in the scale of hu manity. And the poison has spread through all ranks of society. "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” A nation, no less than a man, may ask the question.—Lon don New Age. NON-SINKABLE BOAT. The Board of Supervising Inspect ors of Steam Vessels of the United States has indorsed the merits of the Englehart collapsible boat, and au thorized the adoption of the same on passenger steamships. A contract for building one of the boats has already been awarded. The question of pro viding sufficient lifeboats on trans Atlantic and coastwise steamers has for a number of years been a serious one. The ordinary lifeboat takes up too much room, and it was in hope of providing something more compact that a number of inventors have for several years been experimenting along these lines. Capt. Valdemar Englehart of Copenhagen, Denmark, has been one of the most successful of these in his experiments. He has in vented the boat mentioned above, which not only presents excellent features In taking up one-third the space of an ordinary lifeboat, but is said to be unsinkable. The newr boat is even considered seaworthy if its sides were torn, its bottom crushed and the plugs gone.—Boston Journal. MID-OCEAN DAILY PAPER. The project to publish a daily news paper on board all great Transatlantic steamships while at sea Is expected to be in operation next May. News is to be furnished by the Marconi wireless system. The Marconlgram my 9: "The newspaper will be of standard size, and will contain full telegraphic reports from the Associated Press. Its advertisements will be contracted for ashore, and it is expected that a very profitable business will thus be estab lished. The combined circu.ation of this journal on board all st. am hips Will be large enough to warrant its use by advertisers, whereas th. issu ance of different papers on board i separate vessel renders none of th*. m a profitable medium, by reason of t comparative small circulation of • a< : The projector of this publication is said to have contracted with the Mar coni company to receive as many words per day as the company can transmit with its present facilities at a rate per word which will prove ex tremely profitable to the company. The same matter wull be printed in each edition of the paper, whether issued on board the Lucania. the Kai ser Wilhelm or the Minnehaha. “The editorial rooms will be located ashore, either in America or Europe and the news, editorials, and misc* laneous matter ior ea<^i edition will be furnished fresh each day by wire less, as well as the changes of ad vertisements. There are at times a population of 20,000 to 30,000 people afloat in ocean steamers between the United States and Europe. To fur nish this vast multitude with a sum mary of the day’s happenings, in vari ous languages, is an enterprise which cannot fail to become popular.” THE AGE OF HURRY. There is no backwater to which this impetuous tide of hurry has not pene trated; and if we try to find one wherein we may lie in a punt on pink cushions under a tree we are certain to be made restless by the long single hoot of a fussy steam launch or the short double one of a tearing motor car, and instead of lying still we jump up and cry. “Oh, wait for me and take me! I’m in a fearful hurry to get there and do it with you!” And when we are taken in and have recovered our breath and are well on our way there to do it, we remember to ask where we are hound for and what we are going to do!—"A Countess" in the London Outlook. AN OCTOGENARIAN S MEMOIRS. In comparing the manners and cus toms of my youth with those of the present day, I should say one of the chief differences is in the attitude of children toward their parents. Cer tainly my father’s word was law whit h we never dreamed of disputing, and a girl never acted independently of her mother. At the end of ea h dan <* she returned to her chaperon, and 1 never heard of a young lady receiving presents from or driving in cabs with her partner before being engaged. In the matter of dress 1 think it was much simpler and less complicated, than it is now; at least. I was never allowed to wear anything in the even ing. winter or summer, hut white mus lin made low* with short sleeves; and I remember that when my elder sisters were going out in London all their ball dresses and even their court dresses were made at home by the maid. Almack’s was the fashionable rendezvous of the elite of London so ciety; no one was admitted except by ticket from one cf the lady patron esses. On one occasion my mothar saw one of her friends, who happened to be very absent-minded, walk up the ballroom with only one stocking on, he having altogether forgotten the other one. The effect of the pink foot appearing in contrast to the white silk stocking on the other foot may be better imagined than described.—Pall Mall Gazette. THE BRITISH EMPIRE. The British Empire occupies about one-fifth of the surface of the habi table globe and consists of the United Kingdom, with its attendant islands, and about forty-three dependencies under separate and independent gov ernments, varying in size from Can ada, which is thirty times the size of the United Kingdom, to Gibraltar, the area of which is two square miles. * * * Thus the area of the Brit ish Empire is ninety-eight times that of the United Kingdom, while the area of the self-governing colonies alone is nearly sixty times as large as that of the mother country.—Lord Thring in the Nineteenth Century. FORTY-TWO REVOLUTIONS. Thirty years ago. visiting San Do mingo in an official capacity, he was taken in hand by a newly appointed minister, who undertook to show him round. Coming to the courtway of a prominent building, the guide pointed to a doorway and remarked, as com placently as if he were indicating the name of a street: " That is where our last emperor was shot.” In the course of his sojourn he came upon an aged man, held in high es teem by the community, .because he had been witness of a quite excep tional number of revolutions and lived to tell the tale. “How many have you seen?" the visitor asked. "Forty-two,” the patriarch modestly replied. It appears that, when a boy, the old man had seen Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette carried to the guillotine Emigrating to San Domingo, the tale of revolutions rapidly ran up till it exceeded forty.—Henry Lucy, iD The CornhilL