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Show i - ... j 0;i ta t,...:: t cf : arc; t f..e 1 " ; ' teU.:..;.e line U ' - n..:, 3 In ler : a and runs Tetween Berlin and Taris. Then follow Berlin and Buia-Festh. 612 miles; BerKa end Kernel. C'J rr.lles: Berlin and liasel, 2.7 miiea. : A writer In CnmMIl says of vilify life In England: "The p.aln and terrib le truth of the matter Is that, in districts far lder and more numerous than the kind dwellers dwell-ers In towns and casual visitors to our pretty vlllapes can be ejipected to reall"r the agricultural laborer, his wife and his children are half-Btarved from the beginning begin-ning to the end of life.' . In th last nine years 51.000 motors have been registered in England. Of these Jo00 have been used for commercial purposes. pur-poses. The motor-wagon usere have formed an association and It has Issued a circular In which it la, urged that jsorn-mercial'automobillBm. jsorn-mercial'automobillBm. if general, would reduce the cost of keeping up the roads and streets, lessen the -blocking: of the streets by congested trifflc and make Wiem lesa dangerous to pedestrians. e President Kooaevelt's eulogy of the family fam-ily doctor recalle the fact that, unnoticed by the general public, one of the aP"! guests who sat Jy the President a side at a recent dinner he attended in Uila city waa the old family physlclali. who had presided at the future President a birth, the venerable Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet. It ia a family tradition among the Hoose-velts Hoose-velts that Theodore got his teeth so hard that Dr. Emmet had to lance his guma to help them through.. ,. Natives of Morocco think that Europeans Euro-peans and Americana are dirty. The habit to which they object is that -of washing the hands or face in a basin, and still more, taking a bath where the water Is not running. The cleaner the bather becomes, they say, the dirtier the water he is washing with must necessarily neces-sarily become. And eventually the. bather bath-er steps forth as ' cleansed from water which is no longer clean. . . Now. that Kansas has appropriated money to mark the old Santa Fe trail, an enterprising cltlsen of New Mexico suggests sug-gests that a hotel be built .H.X'-SI to be called the-Santa Fe Trail hotel. He would portray, on the walls of Us b g dm-lng-room the' scenery of the trail. In other rooms would be hung paintings of old-time stage coaches, cavalry squads, buffaloes. Indians and scouts. The sleeping-rooms to be named after the States in the Union. Kansas City Journal. - Photography, which Has caught the Empire Em-pire 8tate express In full motion by the cinematograph, has also been brought Into In-to use to depict, with equal fidelity. action so slow as the growth of a flower. By-exposing a plant every quarter of an hour for sixteen days to a camera it Is now possible to watch a bud open gradually: to see the blossoms clase at night and reopen in the morning: to see the-Jeaves increase in size and the stamens peep out. And all in the space of a minute or two. ... ; Wales Is' by no means disposed to bend the knee to America. The Welsh "yells-are "yells-are fully up to the transatlantic level. The University of North Wales haa a yell something like this: "Bravo, bravlssimo, ray. ray, ra-o-rock! Ray-ray-ra-o-rock! Ray-ray-ra-o-rock!" ' Cardiff has a somewhat some-what similar . "yell." while at Aberystwyth Abery-stwyth the cry is: "Hip-hlp-hur-aber H Ip-hlp-hur-aber ! Hlp-hlp-Abery t wyth ! With a pip and a pang, end a yip and a yang. -Yak! Yak!! Yak !!" London Mall. Lord Grimthorpe. who has been devoting devot-ing his eighty-ninth year to designing a clock for the tower of the parish church at West Melton. Yorkshire, is surely the most remarkable of living clockmakers. It Is more than half a century since he waa busyi superintending the design of the great clock at Westminster; the original Big Ben" was the child of his inventive brain, and its successor bears in Gothic letters the legend that It was cast "under the direction of Edmund Beckett Denlson. Q. C," as long ago as 185S. Westminster Gazette. ' , A substance possessing curious properties proper-ties Is announced In Germany a compound com-pound of carbolic acid, saponlne and camphor cam-phor with a little turpentine. This mixture, mix-ture, it is asserted will solidify when heated and melt again when cooled. Solidification Solid-ification with heat is a property of albuminous al-buminous substances such 'as the white of an egg, but such substances will not liquefy lique-fy again on cooling, the coagulation being a permanent chemical change. The mixture mix-ture described above to which' the name "cryostase' has been given, will apparently appar-ently solidify and liquefy as often as desired, de-sired, when heated and cooled to the ! proper points. .' . Certain fabrics ere being made in Europe, Eu-rope, the warp of which is composed of cotton and the woof of a thread made from wood pulp. These goods were in troduced almost four years ago. At the outset sheets of wood-pulp paper were Cut into finest shreds and twisted into thread by machirea made for the purpose. Lately the paper process has been abandoned, aban-doned, and wood pulp is passed directly over grooved-metal sheets, farming very thin ribbons, which Dass In turn over a machine that twists them Into a very regular reg-ular thread of any desired length. . . . Experiments with a dietary of fruits and nuts at the University of California have shown that both furnish the body with energy, and the nuts yield some building material also. The cost of a diet exclusively of fruits and nuts varied from 18 to 46 cents a day for each person, which will compare favorably with the cost of an ordinary mixed diet. One student gradually changed from a mixed diet to fruits and nuts without apparent loss of strength or health. He waa able for eight days of the experiment to carry on his usual college work, and for a part of the time he also performed heavy physical labor. The articles are quite thoroughly digested "and have a much higher nutritive nu-tritive value than Is popularly attributed to them." The wholesomeness of a long-continued long-continued diet, of fruits was not tested. ... Attention has been drawn lately to the Insufficient food on which many of the children of the poor have to subsist, 'and to the impossibility of ill-nourished brains assimilating a due amount of mental pabulum. pab-ulum. The food may In other instances be sufficient, and the child may yet be unable un-able td thrive upon it owing to -defect In those much neglected organs, the teeth. An Inquiry carried out by E. Rice Morgan 1 into the state of the teeth of children I In the Swansea educational area showed" that of 295 children of both sexes, only eleven had mouths free from dental defects, de-fects, while on an average each child had more than three decayed teeth. 8uch figures fig-ures need no comment. If we can not, as Horace says permanently expel nature with a pitchfork, we may yet perhaps repel re-pel physical degeneration with a toothbrush. tooth-brush. London .Lancet. |