Show PERSONAL MENTION Gen Andre French Minister of War says it is a grave question how to combat com-bat tuberculosis In the army Typhoid fever Is also responsible for many deaths Tho average annual deaths number 2171 wlille they number only 7H la the German Ger-man army Statistics how that the French army since tho treaty of Frankfort Frank-fort has lost 00000 men from disease and the German army only 13000 C Sq Sam Hlldreth a horse trainer at the New Orleans track started belting the other day with what the sports call a dliocstrlng Ho won several successive bets and by night had nearly 10 Ho than visited It faro bank and won 2 O Turning to the roulette wheel he Increased in-creased his winnings by about JSOOO He sucesslvcly made ventures tt other games and J > y morning was J2GOOO richer For three days he ban pressed his luck and at tho end of that time found himself worth over GOAl 03 All the women who have written to tho bachelor Governor of Kansas proposing marriage will receive courteous ropllcs but not from the pen of Gov Bailey His private secretary has begun declining with thanks the offers Haying to each that Gor Bailey IB not In quest of a wife About tlfly photographs will be returned to the nemlcra Sixtysix declinations will go to Now York women and more than 0 to New ISngland I Slates Not one of the proposals came from a Kansas woman Robert Phllp Premier of Queensland who according to the latest telegrams Is heading a movement In tbo direction of accession from tho commonwealth Is I native of Scotland and Il tho age oC 10 accompanied bin parents to Queensland Mr Phllp was the only Australian Premier Pre-mier absent from his stnte during the visit of the Prince and Princess of Vales last year and It was said at the tlmo that ho look n trip to Japan to escape knighthood At the coronation he parsed the proforcc u knighthood on to his Attor neyGeneral Sir Arthur Rutlodgc an cx Wesleynn minister |