Show An American i in London was reported as saying saying saying say say- ing Oh yes Westminster 1 ster Abbey is all right way but the greatest institution in this town is the taxicab Say they are cheaper than walking and they have got clocks that tell the truth The cabbies cabbies cab cab- bies are not on the crooked and they do not even try to give you the wrong time from the from the clock when they hear your American accent The starts with 16 cents a mile while in New Nev York the patron patronI of oZ the taxicab sees 60 cents cents making faces at him on the clock the ll the flag go goes s down Th The same correspondent says that Cecil Rhodes' Rhodes dream of a railroad from the tho Cape t Cairo will soon be an accomplished fact By the of end this year the entire line liI-e will have been surveyed and construction will follow fast on the heels of the surveying coi corps ps The road will be miles long Locomotives are now running to a a point forty miles beyond the Congo frontier or 2187 miles from Capetown and it is estimated th that t by Jy the end of 01 J April the road will be miles within the Congo territory Through trains are now running twice a week through Capetown and Victoria Falls v The Italian Halian review La R publishes a posthumous article by Professor Lomb Lomb- He ins insists that the number of insane persons in the next century will increase fold five-fold if not more as all the causes uses that bring the disease such as the use of f alcohol tobacco morphine cocaine I and over overwork vork are arc spreading And he lie sa says s that overwork exhausts prematurely the strength of men who do not seek rest except when they are in that stage of exhaustion which no rest can benefit benefi Every man over thirty years of age is more or less lessa a victim of nervo nervous is exhaustion Thus it happens that in the insane asylums of oi the future cases of mental derangement from alcoholic epilepsy dementia dementi demen demen- tia ti will Avill abound He thinks however that criminality crimin crimin- al alty ty will will decrease I W We have hare heard a good deal in the last week ab abOut ut Roo Roosevelt and and the pope and through th the bungling of outsiders we suspect a great disappointment disappointment has been inflicted upon both of them We V e suspect really Roosevelt wanted to see the pope more than anybody else in Europe and also that the pope wanted a glimpse of the rough rider and that if they could have got t together fether after half an hours hour's talk talk the pope would have felt like dismissing dismissing dismiss dismiss- ing his Swiss guards and engaging Teddy and would have gone away with the regret that the popes pope's place was the only one thing he had not tried We Ve are sorry for both of them |