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Show NOTES ABOUT MEN. Chauncey Depew remarked when rending rend-ing about tho Utah minister who had offered of-fered $1 an hour to Infidels who would listen lis-ten to hlmo: "A man might oven find men who would admit they wero Democrats Demo-crats for wages like that" Prof. Loeb, in Berlin, Ih experimenting with rattlesnake venom as a cure for leprosy, and he thinks he has hit upon the specific for one of the most loathsome diseases that human flesh ia heir to. Should he succeed in demonstrating that tho snako poison will euro this plague, rattlesnakes would at onco becomo commercially com-mercially valuable. The market value of the poison Is about $15 per drachm. Prof. Loeb gets his rattlesnake venom from a man In Colorado, who keeps Hnakea as pets. a a Plerpont Morgan says that the ncrvlnst mun ho ever met was with him In a railroad rail-road "Car while traveling In Europe The stranger, a German, took a seat opposite him. and was much interested in the big. black cigar the financier was smoking "Vould you mint giilng me one like daf" he finally said. Although much astonished aston-ished at tho bluntness of the request Morgan Mor-gan readily complied therewith. Tho German Ger-man lighted the cigar, took a few puffs, and. beaming with good nature, said: "I vould not haf droubled you, but I had a match In mine poggid and 1 did not know vat to do mlt him." a The German Crown Prince's riding of a lie with Rittmelster Von Holtzlng reeont-ly reeont-ly in tho grand military steoplochaBo at liorlln for the Emperor's cup marked tho first occasion on which a Hohenzollern go near the throne has been allowed to ontcr Into sport competition with any of his fellow subjects. At Bonn neither the present Crown Prince nor the father before be-fore him was permitted to stand up against any fellow student at the "mon-suren," "mon-suren," or corps duels, which thov could only attend ns spectators. Tho Emperor never rodo such a race as his son has now done, and for the simplo reason that ho has no power in his bridle arm |