| Show I r THE WIDOW SHEARS AND ALL SHE HEARS There Is a curious growth of trees at Tilden's Point oln Me Three yellow birch trees are growing on on a pine stump The i tree which was about two and a half I feet In irs d diameter Ieter ls is- is thought t to have been e n cut down Iv s some me fifty years years ears ago ago leaving a a. stump stump three and a half feet high The seeds of the birch must have lodged on this stump and as they grew grew they sen their roots down its sideS side to reach the ground The trees are re respectively respectively respectivelY re- re five six and seven Inches In diameter In the year 1811 an an anonymous citizen citizen citi citi- zen of New York sent a dollar to the Treasury department at Washington with an avowal that he had defrauded the government and wanted to make restitution A dollar donar meant s something to Uncle Sam in those necessitous days when the country verged on war A Ainsley's Magazine In a Philadelphia kindergarten school schoola a teacher was telling the little children all she knew about a a. clock Now NosY this this pendulum this thing sh she said is the pendulum that swings b back ck and forth Did any of you eyer ever hear the word pendulum before before be be- fore A child chUd put up her hand Yes teacher she said Pendulum Franklin Frank Frank- Frank Frank- lin un Ive I've heard beard it it often After fourteen years ears of close and diligent dill dill- I gent labor to save Oshkosh the Salvation Salva Salva- tron tion Army has given it up and retired from the field neld The last service was held on Sunday evening and after it the army packed bag and baggage and departed for more fuore impressionable fields Chicago Chicago Tribune Russia is Is' Is circumspect in Europe where her her Interests are seriously in involved but In n the East she occupies especially toward toward England and Japan a a. position which may be compared with that of f t the e loafer vis a the man marl of property Tokio Tokio Jonesboro a a. new village now being laid lairS out at Fort Lee five tive ml miles es from Richmond Va Is to to tobe be populated by negroes only The site consists of acres s cut up Into building lots a park orchards grazing lands and small farms for trucking All AU the inmates Inmates' tes' tes of ot the Texas State work on a workhouse are to be set to acre farm next year raising sugar beets In other ther words the dead deadbeats deadbeats deadbeats beats are to be p put t to work raising live beets Philadelphia Press Gen Oates of Alabama predicts that to be before many years those aspiring to editorial writer will wm be compelled their pass severe examinations as to J. J j t I J I r- r r. r J h |
