| Show THE WIDOW SHEARS AND ALL SHE HEARS Some copybooks ks s issued in the French schools Cont ln pictures pictures pictures' of English troops troop suffering defeat at the hands of the Boers and the letter letterpress ress is written In this vein The English army S is not a a. national army army lil like e that of France Is the sole method of recruiting employed ed on the other side of the tie channel It is chiefly in London at Trafalgar pl Place ce that this abominable ble white white- slave trade is carried on It g goes mes on to describe the recruits as vagabonds beggars the scum of oC great cities allured by y promises of gin the national English drink and it concludes concludes con con- with the statement that the English soldiers are a set of of drunkards When the Rev Dr Newman Hall was in this country in 1867 he attended a meeting of the American board In Buffalo and was entertained by Rev Rev Dr Wolcott Calkins and family afterward afterward afterward after after- ward of Newton Mass Those were days when the coming of the board to toa toa toa a city or town created considerable stir and when Dr Hall entered the house one ne of the children exclaimed The board d has come and early next morning a a. childs child's voice at his door kindly asked Will the board like some coffee The toothbrush plant grows In Ja Ja- Ja- Ja maica malca By cutting a e. piece of the stem and fraying the ends the natives make make a toothbrush sh and a to use with it is produced by drying and pul pul- the dead stems English is more and more taking the place of l French rench as as' the language of Russian court circles The Czarina sp speaks alts English c constantly and the Czar too likes to express himself l Inthe in inthe inthe the same tongue tp Allowing for breaks and scratches says a statistician the lead pencil will write five fifty-five columns of oC solid matter matter matter mat mat- ter or an page eight-page paper of seven columns to the page Before the Siberian railway was available a a. trip from London to Shanghai cost from to Now it can be made for from 65 third class to first filst class On the strength of a small appropriation appropriation tion by the St. St Louis Board of Education Education Education tion shade trees will be he planted o othe on the city school gro grounds this spring At the electric congress just held In Moscow an electric motor motol plow was exhibited which turn turned d a furrow twelve Inches de deep p. p Th The je re int Interest rest upon Frances France's debt Is equal to 4 20 for every man woman roman and Pd nd child in France There 1 i II a a general general crisis for wine wine- glow rs b ause of oC an overproduction i in hUh the entire nUr world orld The area rea of f the the Yellowstone park equals that of Delaware plus that of Rhode Island Af promises t to rival South AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica lea and the West Indies as a producer of cocoa St. St Louis has but six fast morning mall mail trains while Chicago has four four- teen Gasoline land hand ears cars cars cars' are giving ing satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory facton service on Western railways A motor sleigh propelled b by spiked wheels is patented In Germany C |
