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Show I can make the same mistakes today to-day that I made 50 years ago. What appears to be the world's record for youthful fecundity is held by Mrs. Marsha Pctrovich of Belgrade, who at the age of 19 had become the mother of 10 children. Married at 14, she gavo birth to two sets of triplets and two pairs of twins within fiec years. This roc ord is said to have been officially ! verified. Timely Topics John-Bowers of Philadelphia was fined$10 for beating his wife because be-cause she did not have his dinner ready on time, but he did n'. have to pay.- Mrs. Bowers interceded with--the judge in his behalf, say-imj:"He say-imj:"He is a model husband and he was justified; I should have had his' meal 'ready." So Magistrate Xromer: remitted the fine. Looking for evidence of vice on -South-State street in Chicago, Rev. - Davis- of a civic vigilance commit-ee commit-ee found it. Two 'strangers whom iVfcc interview- led him into a dark '-Viiallway and robbed him of $40. Florida has no mountain, bo it -''was-suggested that no be built -with dirt excavated from the proposed pro-posed cross-state ship canal. Now liat the canal scheme may fail, the . political campaign will probably ..furnish sufficient dirt for the pur-poee. pur-poee. Are Siamese twins ono or two persons? Margaret and Mary Gibs, ' Joined together since birth, are won Bering. A railroad carried them from Chicago to New York on one ticket, but a steamship company -charged them two fares for trans-' trans-' portation abroad. A wealthy Kansas woman who tad suffered a bereavement invited riends to a wake which lasted four iays and nights, during which time he recounted the virtues of the Wead to any who woudl listen. Then the remains of Phil, beloved French Poodle, were deposited In an elegant ele-gant marble tomb. Ladies who pluck their eyebrows to a thin line are warned by Dr. Bruckner of Berlin that many cases f inflammation of the eyes result rom the pracie. We never could .JJie11 lt 10 their baut7. A sports wrttr-who has been "ggin into past records says that Nap Rucker, famous" ld-time onthpaw of Brooklyn, pitched as tu the most nearly perfect me of all time against Boston In i8. He struck out 14 men gave u passes, bit no batsman, made o wild pjteh and allowed -no Hits or rung. ; Samuel iRothschild of New York, lOO-years.-old, boasts of bavin re-merall re-merall hi8. mental faculties. He ays: My memory is So good that i |