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Death has all seasons for his own but
the foot ball season is undeniably one
of his favorites
Those who rudely broke their home
connections to go to Klondike aro
forming other ties up there Theyve
legun lynching each other
Judging from recent statistics ap
pendicitis seems to be growing into an
epidemic in the United States that sug
gests the idea of a quarantine against
the disease
A literary critic says that Kiplings
poetry is the only modern literary
work which shows the results of in
spiration Well a dollar a word is
enough inspiration to produce quite an
effort
The latest rules of the postoffiee de
partment require employes to use the
utmost civility in all their dealings
with the public Civil service will leave
no room for a demand for civil service
reform
A writer an -a sporting contemporary
Bays that the Laplanders when on
ekates think nothing of covering 150
miles a day The -average man in
this country wbo goes on a skate
doesnt think -of it -either
The giving of 50 cents a week to his
wife got a Pittsburger a thirty day
work house -sentence a deserved re
buke for recklessness Domestic econ
omy mustbe enforoed If he had given
her a dollar there is no telling what
mught have happened to him
An experienced man who has just re
turned from Alaska tells the Fargo Ar
gus how to cure the Klondike fever
Pick out a morning next winter he
says when themiercury is below zerct
shoulder a pick and go into the woods
before breakfast dig a hole sixteen
feet deep -come back to the house at
night and eat a small piece of stewed
buffalo robe and sleep in the woodshed
Repeat the dose as often as necessary1
Arab chiefs are regarding the discor
eacy of water by English engineers in
the Nubian desert with great satisfac
tion They believe it will revolutionize
the country and cause villages to spring
up in the heart of the desert Three
thousand men are employed in build
ing the railroad which is being laid
there many of them being dervishes
who were captured by the
forces and they will work with -a
will for the money they receive
One who heard Lord Kelvin and Lord
Lister at the late meeting of the Brit
ish Association for the Advancement ef
Science was struck with their gentle
ness of voice There was a restfulness
In the tones No fine frenzy helped
the -spectator to imagine for a moment
that he was listening to one who made
declamation take the place of demon
stration How well this simplicity
symbolized that true science that never
mistakes vociferation for verity
Quackery loves the sounding brass
of long words and a loud voice
If Diogenes were still on earth hunt
ing with his lantern for an honest man
Monrovia Ind would be the place for
him to turn his steps toward Clark
Geare lives there and if one recent act
of his is an index of his nature he is
Just the sort of manDiogenes was look
ing for Geare is aweteran of the late
war and some time ago applied for a
pension because of rheumatism He
got it but recently returned his certifi
cate and 350 back pension to the de
partment at Washington saying that
bis rheumatism had gradually improv
ed and finally left him completely and
that ho was -therefore not entitled to
the pension
The name of the river that is now on
everybodys lips should be spelled
Klondike according to the rules of
our Government Board of Geographic
Names which -say that in foreign and
aboriginal names C is always soft and
has nearly the -sound of S as iri Cele
bes and K -should always be used
for the hard d and that Y is always
a consonant as in yard and therefore
should not be tused for the vowel I
For about eight years the -orthographic
rules adopted by the leading geographi
cal societies have agreed In rejecting
the possessive case in many names
The rule adopted by our Board of Geo
graphic Names Is -The possessive form
should be avoided whenever it can be
dene without destroying the ouphony
of the name or changing its descriptive
application So Cook Inlet and St
Mfchael now appear in all our govern-
meet publications though Cooks In
let and St Michaels are 1H1 cur
rentiin many newspapers
Fanmers in America who are some
times unable to make both ends meet
would do well to study the methods and
processes of Belgian farmers Six mill
ion of people in Belgium live on a ter
ritory about equal to the State of Mary
land and a ifarm of two acres is enough
to support man and his family and
enable blm to lay by something for a
rainy day- Ad article in Colmans
Eural World tells something of the
methods of the Belgian farmer and
gives an telecasting insight into rural
ithrift and eeonomj in the most dense
ly settled country at Europe Describ
ing the typical two acre farm in Bel
gium the article sajs the thrifty Bel
gian makes the most of every inch by
heavy manuring and allowing no
waste places A patch at wheat or rye
and another of potatoes etc
and other garden truck even the slop
ing sides of the ditches for irrigation
Jbefcg utilized nod the general result is
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that with thrift and economy the far
mer provides about everything his fam
ily needs except a few groceries and
clothes while the surplus products
more than supply his other wants and
leave a balance to his credit which
grows each year
Manitoba is beginning to look Con
fidently to the United States for an
overflow of population to make the
vast plains of the northwest a new ag
ricultural empire Basing their con
clusions on the fact that the public
lands of the United States open to set
tlement are practically exhausted the
Manitobans think that as the United
States now receives and has been re
ceiving the surplus populations of the
old world the surplus of the United
States will in turn overflow into Can
ada especially into Manitoba where it
is now much easier to obtain a farm
than in the United States A number1
of Canadian immigration societies have
already been established in this coun j
try and whether the Canadians are
right or not in their supposition theyi
iseem to think they are obtaining the1
overflowing of the genuine American
population people who want to own
their own homes while their places are
taken in America by the continued in
flux of foreign immigration The Klon
dike the Wawa and the Kootenay gold
mines will also add to Canadas attract-
iveness and draw hardy and adventur
ous men many of whom will so the
Manitobans think remain and become
citizens
The indictment of six prominent Ken
tuckians by the grand jury -at Frank-
fort for poker playing for money is
regarded by the Chicago Times Herald
as another sign of tlve decline of poker
For better or worse and without con
sidering the -ethics of gambling it is ap
parent to any one who will think of It
for a moment that poker is slowly but
sur ely going out of fashion Before
the war -everybody played it The
statesman of those days was as well
known for his skill in opening a jack
pot and the savoir fa ire with which he
staked all of his possessions on his abil
ity to guess whether his opponent had
filled -or merely bluffed as for his fo
rensic eloquence After the war the
game kept its hold on popular favor to
but a slightly diminished degree But
gradually it has lost its seductive pow
ers for American mankind until now
hardly anybody plays it While a few
years ago poker was played in every
cluu now it is forbidden by the rules
of most Then every hotel saw a
dozen or more games in progress Now
an order to the bell boy to bring cards
ana chips to the room Is a rare occur
rence Then everybody played now
the same men find it difficult to recol
lect when they last opened a jack pot
The game once a gentlemans game
has lost its favor and with faro and
roulette has become a gamblers game
played seldom by any one but profes
sionals
Some idea of the value and of the
terest that is being shown in Ontarios
gold mines in the newly discovered
Michipicoten district may be learned
-from the report of Mr Archibald Blue
director of the bureau of mines as
given in the Canadian papers Mr
Blue has organized the new mining dis
trict which has been placed under the
direction -of Mr D Boyd During the
fifteen days Mr Blue was at the office
there were registered between eighty
and ninety claims which had been reg
ularly staked out by license holders
and upon all of which discoveries of
gold had been made In all over 2C0
licenses have been issued since the new
regulations went into effect then about
a month The new law allows miners
to take out two licenses provided they
are not under the same vein and a
number of miners have availed them
selves of this privilege As the system
of mining enables miners to secure a
claim at trifling expense Mr Blue re
ports sit as very popular among pros
pectors Among the prospectors who
have staked out claims are Lord Doug
lass of Harvick and a company in
which Col EEsdale is interested The
director also reports that he heard of
one vein from twenty to thirty feet
wide which showed free gold in prom
ising quantities the samples of quartz
shown him being literally covered on
the faoe with the precious aaetal Many
of the prospectors had no experience at
all and many of them according to
Mr Blue never left their camp at
Wawa Most of those who did how
ever were successful in locating
claims
House-to-House Housekeeping
Why should not a staff of servants be
organized to do at any rate the rough
er part of the domestic service in say
fifty or a hundred federated house
holds just in the same way that a sin
gle staff could be organized to cook
their meals Why should I not pay
so much a year either to a bona fide
co operative society or to a private
speculator to have my beds made my
floors scrubbed my knives and boots
cleaned and other similar work per
formed at stated hours every day and
every week The agency which un
dertook to perform this service would
organize its workers just as do other
agencies which at present undertake
to keep our gardens in order to clean
our boilers sweep our chimneys or
clean our bicycles and the labor diffi
culty which meets us in domestic ser
vice as at present organized would
consequently be eliminated London
Truth
A Univeral Weakness
I never censure -lazy people
Why not
The laziest man on earth isnt half
as lazy as I would be if I could afford
It Chicago Record
Everlastingly at It Stark Is a bi
cycle crank isnt he I should say
he was When it rains he stays home
and runs his cyclomerer Cleveland
Plain Dealer
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Bribery and Bulldozing
One of Mark Hannas newspaper
champions describes the methods
which the big boodle boss has adopted
to make his calling and election sure
His first move will be to have no fed
eral appointments made in the State
so far as he can control the matter un
til after the Senatorial question is de
cided In short official bribery Nei
ther will he permit the general assem
bly to be organized until the Senatorial
question has been solved In other
words official bulldozing New York
World
The Situation in a Nutshell
New York New Jersey and Kentucky
cast fifty eight electoral votes for Mc
Kinley one of Kentuckys votes going
tb Bryan New York New Jersey and
Kentucky all went Democratic last
week Had McKinley been a candidate
last week instead of last year the pop
ular vote in these three Democratic
States would certainly have been cast
against him Now deduct these fifty
eight electoral Totes from the 271
which Mr McKinley received and
there are left 21 Add these fifty eight
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THE CURRENCY QUESTION
The first regular session of the Fifty
fifth Congress will soon begin and as
the House of Representatives is al
ready organized a message from the
President is due the first day While
that high executive has been jaunting
about the country to escape the pes
tilential breaths of those office seekers
who beset the doors of the White
House his Secretary of the Treasury
National Banker Gage has been busy
in preparing the financial propositions
by which he is reform our currency
The word of McKinley has been given
that he will approve the Gage plan
should it pass Congress and it is there
fore to be expected that there will be
an emphatic recommendation of it in
the annual message From the mo
ment when that document so con
structed shall be delivered to the
clerks of the two houses may be da ted
the revival of the currency question
and the renewal of debate upon what
shall constitute the money of the
American people That the lines of
party will be drawn definitely and dis
tinctly is inevitable and that the con
test thus commenced will outlast the
present Congress and enter into and
decide the Presidential election of
1000 would appear to be altogether
probable
It is twenty years ago that the with
drawal of greenbacks was inserted in
the Democratic platform by the agen
cy of Mr Man ton Marble then the edi
tor of the New York World It was
not then in the Republican platform
And a third party known as the Green
back party sustained the government
paper currency But for this Samuel
J Tilden would have been President
of the United States
The issue upon which McKinley is
now proposing to risk the success of his
administration the ascendency of his
party and his own political future is
the funding into interest bearing bonds
of these greenbacks now serving as
money and their withdrawal and re
placement by national bank notes on
conditions which would make the lat
ter more profitable to the banks It is
an attempt on the part of 350 national
banks to control the currency of the
nation such an attempt as the old
United States Bank made and almost
succeeded in between the years 1830
and 1844 President Jackson defeated
it when but that one bank made the at
tempt But now there will be 350
banks with the President on their side
New York News
Silver in the Senate
The Republicans are laboring dili
gently to fasten on the people of this
country the chains of gold They real
ize that If they fail to secure legislation
during the coming session of Congress
their chances of success will be entirely
swept away by an increased bimetallic
vote It is greatly fortunate that all
these plots will be made ineffectual by
the fact that the Senate as it is now
constituted will refuse to approve of
any bill which contemplates the issuing
of bonds to retire the greenbacks and
without such a vote all the plans of the
gold monometallists will prove futile
The New York World has made a can
vass of the Senate and announces that
neither Secretary Gages plan of mone
tary reform nor that of the self-constituted
monetary commission can be
adopted The conclusions or the World
upon this matter are as follows The
preliminary canvass seems to show for
gold bonds thirty three Republicans
and four Democrats a total of thirty
seven against gold bonds thirty Dem
ocrats ten Republicans six Populists
and six silver Republicans a total of
fifty two This would be a majority of
fifteen against the foundation stone of
the plans of both Secretary Gage and
the monetary commission It is be
lieved that the majority would be even
larger against the retirement of the
greenbacks
It is to be hoped that the Republicans
will insist on urging their proposed re
form and thus place themselves on
record as absolutely the friends and ad
vocates of gold monometallism All
their victories in the past have been
won by a pretended friendship for bi
metallism The majority of the people
in the United States is unalterably op
posed to the single standard and when
ever a fight is made on a square issue
between gold monometallism and bi
metallism the former will go down in
defeat Chicago Dispatch
votes to the 17G of Mr Bryan and he
would have 234 That is a majority of
twenty one in the Electoral College In
other words the Democrats do not
need to gain another State They need
only retain these three New York
New Jersey and Kentucky and they
will elect the next President New
York World
Growing Deficit
The Dingley tariff law was passed by
the last Congress for the special pur
pose of furnishing sufficient revenue
for the needs of the government It
has been in operation now fifteen
weeks and it has produced in that
short space of time a deficit of 42000
000 What is worse still it promises
to continue adding to the national debt
at even an increasing ratio so long as
it remains on the statute books
At the rate of about three millions a
week the deficit created by this hum
bug revenue raising measure will be
no Idss than 60000000 by the first of
next January and by the time it will
have been in operation a full year this
deficit will have mounted to close on
the two hundred million figure which
is twice as much as the conservative
opponents of the bill originally pre
dicted and which is therefore likely to
be largely exceeded
Considering the promises made by
the Republicans as to the consequences
to follow the enactment of the Ding
ley bill the actual result is decidedly
grewsome It is as if a friend had in
vited you to partake of a plenteous din
ner at his house and then presented for
your delectation the skeleton of his
cook
Underconsumption Not Overproduc
tion
The strawboard trust finds that in
one day with modern machinery and
thorough organization it can produce
twice as much as the country can con
sume in the same period nence an
apparent overproduction is brought
about The overproduction is of
course only apparent because it is
caused by the inability of the masses
of the people who constitute the home
market to purchase and consume more
than their income permits Their in
come in turn so far as they are wage
earners is limited by the extent and
power of consumption of the mar
ket of which they are a large part
Thus we have a vicious circle St
Louis Post Dispatch
Lively Times Coming in Ohio
You may look forward with entire
confidence to a disgraceful row in the
next Ohio Legislature all arising from
the election of a Senator Contests are
already announced from the doubtful
counties and if there is any opportu
nity for stealing members M Hanna
can be relied upon to try it It will
probably be a repetition of the situa
tion following the campaign when John
Sherman announced that Ohio was di
vinely commissioned to purify the bal
lot in the South and it will incidental
ly illustrate the desirability of electing
Federal Senators by poptilar vote In
dianapolis News
Gorman Still a Political Force
Because Senator Gorman cannot be
re elected to the Senate it is assumed
that his political career is ended That
does not necessarily follow He is re
tired for four years without question
but Arthur Pue Gorman is a resource
ful individual His party is disorgan
ized but if the Republicans of Mary
land make mistakes it would not be
surprising to see him revivified in four
years when a legislature to choose
Senator Wellingtons successor is to be
elected He is a force still to be reck
oned with Those who calculate other
wise are shortsighted Springfield
Mass Union
Prices Go Up Wages Go Down
The glass manufacturers are work
ing the McKinley prosperity in the us
ual way They have put wages so low
that the workers have refused to ac
cept the terms of the manufacturers
and there will be no immediate re
sumption of production In the mean
time the Manufacturers association
announces that it has advanced glass
from 5 to 10 per cent The jobbers
would import glass to meet the de
mand which is greater than the sup
ply but they are prevented from doing
so by a prohibitory tariff imposed by
the Dingley bill Louisville Dispatch
What McKinley Owes to Hanna
President McKinleys debt to Hanna
is unquestionably very great Hanna
by devious methods made him the can
didate of the Republican convention
Hanna procured the enormous cam
paign fund by the use of which his elec
tion was compassed Hanna in short
made McKinley President so far as
such an agent can be said to have ac
complished such an end That isr had
it not been for Hanna some other Re
publican would have been nominated
and perhaps elected Boston Post
Heroism of True Democracy
This has been a Democratic year
The elections of 1S97 have shown that
the Dempcracy rebounds from the
downfall of 1896 stronger and more
confident and combative than ever
Democracy exhibits every quality of
heroism It has courage it has the
genius of recovery and reconstruction
it knows not the meaning of dismay
Defeat leaves it without fear Danger
finds it without cowardice It is a
miracle of vitality of valor and of
hope Washington Post
Telling Some of the Truth
Chauncey I Filley in a signed arti
cle says that the McKinley campaign
managers paid the St Louis pla glass
works to close up their plant and re
main idle during the campaign to in
fluence the wTorkingmen to vote for Mc
Kinley to open up the mills When
one of the Republican bosses turns
States evidence it makes mighty in
terest n readin
Piatts Future in McKinleys Hanai
If President McKinley desires to put
the finishing touches on the career of
Thomas C Piatt as boss of the New
York Republicans he has an excellent
excuse and opportunity for doing so
now Piatts power in the metropolis
is hopelessly shattered and his influ
ence in the State outside of the city is
languishing The only chance he now
has to recoup himself is afforded by
the dispensation of federal patronage
which the President has turned over to
him Through his influence at Wash
ington the defeated boss may be able
to come to the front again Detroit
Free Press
Vast Sums for Pensions
The cumulative result of years of
pension giving is the monstrous annual
burden of 140000000 a year a sum
nearly equal to the revenue produced
by our customs tariff The commis
sioner reports that the list is still in
creasing It is time that Congress was
made to heed the citizen vote the vote
of the taxpayer who will beyond all
question make a powerful and effective
protest against pension extravagance
as soon as he can be made to realize
the unworthiness of a very large pro
portion of the pensioners New York
Times
Too Narrow Minded
Republican statesmen should broad
en generally While they take such a
comprehensive view of the Hawaiian
question they should widen out on the
tariff It doesnt consist to argue that
we need a mid Pacific station in the in
terest of extended commerce and then
regulate our tariff laws so as to de
stroy that commerce Nashville Amer
ican
Polly of Paternal Legislation
We regret to observe a growing ten
dency on the part of many worthy peo
ple to demand paternal legislation
Such legislation is not only unwise un
necessary and undemocratic but it
causes a great many people to lose re
spect for legislation that is not open to
such objections Atlanta Constitution
Trusts Outwitting the Law
The failure of practically all the le
gal proceedings against trusts does not
prove the justice or legality of these
conspiracies of greed It simply
shows the astuteness of the trusts in
dealing with the bosses who control
legislation and make judges New
York World
Every Politician for Himself
The argument that Governor Bush
nell is too much of a Republican to op
pose Mark Hanna for United States
Senator might possess considerable
force in any State outside of Ohio But
there a mans first choice is usually
himself Kansas City Star
Pictured by Lightning
During a recent thunderstorm in Nu
bile a flash of lightning played one of
the strangest tricks ever known It
went into the photographing business
without the aid of any apparatus ex
cept an object to be photographed and
a piece of sugar candy for a receiving
plate In the candy store of Mr Tons
meire on lower Dauphin street was the
candy that the lightning chose to ope
rate upon The candy was of sugar and
glucose brown in color and transpar
ent It lay on a slab on a table in the
midst of the store The article photo
graphed was the wrapper of small
American flags then lying imbedded in
some melted candy on the floor of the
store in front of the table but not in
line of view of the candy on the table
On the wrapper was an inscription in
condensed gothic type reading Na
tional Flags This inscription begin
ning with the fourth letter of the first
woirl and part of the third letter just
so much of the lettering as was visible
on the wrapper as it lay in the midst of
the sticky stuff on the floor was taken
uy iuu uguimng ana transterred to a
piece of the candy on the table not
transferred simply but imbedded in it
beneath the surface the smallest frac
tion of an inch It was a perfect repro
duction and perfectly black but Insert
ed face front just as In the original
and not reverse as would be the order
of the letters if any one should attempt
to transfer them by applying the wrap
per to the surface of the candy
In the search for a clew to the sud
den and mysterious appearance the pa
per wrapper was discovered on the
floor with those letters exposed which
appeared on the candy Mr Fosdick
says that there is a mirror in front of
the table that possibly had something
to do with the photographing Chicago
Chronicle
Swellings from Blows
The swelling which follows from a
blow is natures effect to protect the
part from further injury and to keep
it at rest while repair Is going on
What actually takes place at the seat
of injury is not even now quite under
stood The injury to the smaller blood
vessels interferes with the flow of
blood through them and the white
corpuscles with part of the serum the
watery part of the blood escapes in
to the surrounding tissues At the same
time the blood vessels in the neighbor
hood dilate and the increased 3ow of
blood with the thoroughfare obstructed
increases the swelling It is probable
that the white corpuscles of the blood
pass into the tissues to assist in the re
pair as bees or ants assemble at an in
jury to their storehouse but with the
difference that the substance of the
corpuscles is probably converted into
the tissue of repair From one point of
view the human body is only one gigan
tic colony of individuals and the swell
ing that follows injury but the rush of
these to repair that breach
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IfooTEfcOM EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
PIL AND TEACHER
United States Commissioner of Edu
cation Kccommends Better Grading
of Pupils Practical Journalism In
Schools Educational Notes
Better Grading Needed
At the National Educational Associa
tion meeting recently held at Milwau
kee Dr Wm T Harris United States
Commissioner of Education pleaded
for a better grading of pupils in the
public schools claiming that the classi
fications are seldom as accurate as
they should be Bright active well
advanced pupils are herded with duIL
slow less well advanced pupils Af
ter three or four months it is found
that the dull ones are holding the
brighter ones back and the brighter1
ones are hurrying the slow ones for-
ward at a pace which prevents real
comprehension of what is passed
rer
The School Newspaper
Did you ever try it Then start now
It is brought out by the school weekly
or monthly as is seen fit All the school1
act as reporters and collect items
Some write little stories and essays
but the main thing is school news
The editors notes John Smith read a
fine composition on Courage last Fri
day and Avas complimented by Mr
Jones our teacher There should bo
items about good conduct this will
stimulate We cannot go on to enu
merate Will some teacher try one or
more of these plans Let us hear of
your success The teacher will be
gratified to find some school-homemade
brighter by its efforts Canadian
Teacher
2ivil Government in Primary Schools
About the time that the child goes to
school he begins to take lessons in civil
government This also is developed
on the basis of his previous home
training It begins at the very door
step The letter carrier the police
man the justice of the peace and the
postmaster introduce him to the gov
ernment of the outer world Some or
all of these officers he sees and knows
and others he hears about The very
mail wagon that rattles along the
street teaches its lesson and so do oth
er symbols of authority that confront
him B ninsdale
Items of Interest
Several Yale students make tuition
fees during vacation by working as
motormen on trolley cars
The University of the City of New
York has enrolled for the new year in
all departments 1300 students
Fourteen hundred students have
been admitted and 050 are waiting for
admittance at Cooper Union New
York
The University of Illinois has 1C00
students In 1S03 04 it had 743 The
new school of law opened with twenty
live students
Lawrence University is to have a
new science hall 22000 having been
contributed for this purpose This
building will cost 23000 and the ap
paratus 15000 more
Dr Henry Preserved Smith who
was formerly professor at Lane Theo
logical Seminary has been recently ap
pointed to the chair of Biblical inter
pretation at Amherst
The will of the late C T Wilder of
Wlilesley Mass leaves 10000 each
to the American Board American Mis
sionary Association Roberts College
at Constantinople the School for Girls
at the same city Whitman College
Carleton College and the Mount Her
mon School at Northfield Mass Dart
mouth College receives 73000 and
Amherst College 15000
At Pittsburg Pa a movement is said
to be on foot to have placed in every
public school swimming pools and a
complete bathing equipment The idea
is to have the swimming pools placed
in the spacious basements of tbo
school buildings and have the children
take a bath every time the teachers or
the principals deem it necessary
A Curious Oil
It has been found that the oil bursting
out of the bed of the creek near Camp
ton says the Courier Journal contains
a very valuable quality hitherto un
known By laying a plank or anything
across the creek a person can dam the
oil up and gather any amount of it and
it has been discovered that the oil will
burn as fast as dry paper The people
through curiosity go to this oil spring
dam it up on the top of the water and
then strike a match to it in order to see
spread over the whole surface of the
water a perfect blaze This oil for lu
bricating purposes is hard to surpass
and the beauty of it rests in the fact
that it does not have to undergo any
process whatever to be valuable for
such purpose
The Lightest Known Solid
The lightest known solid is said to be
the pith of the sunflower with a spe
cific gravity of 028 or about one eighth
that of cork The sunflower Is exten
sively cultivated in Central Russia and
various uses are served by its different
parts the recent discovery of the light-
ness of the pith essentially increasing-
the commercial value of the plant For
life saving appliances at sea cork has-
a buoyancy of one to five while with
the sunflower pith one to thirty five is
attained About 800
cubic inches of it
would weigh as much as one cubic inch
of iridium the heaviest metal
Rev Dr Parkhurst
says in a recent
etter to a friend in New York I can-
not stand by the Sunday saloon pure
and simple but I do believe in allowinirr
the sale of beer
and light wines
on Sun
day provided they are the accompany
rnent of an honest meal honestly paidi
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