Show where all the m sooner ona comes bomes from to keep up pour our theatres theartres the atres and dances is a mystery to every body but ut it comes from some where all the same starving russians are said to be eating their own children famine is the greatest calamity that ever came to the human race and some part of the world is never tree free from its curse even in our own home cities hundreds die of starvation every year we better stick to the old constitution it will be a long time before we get a better and if another was in demand m an d where is the man we could find to write it read it over a time or two and see what a mine mine of wisdom it contains it reads like li 1 e an inspiration where not a word calibe put in and not a word can be left lef out the international smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company who owns the pine canyon smelter has still ol of working capital in the treasury and they are going to use that money or more to build reliving refi reli qing jing works at or near chicago and fril that connection they are going to manufacture their bars of 0 lead into white lead and their copper matt into wire household goods and fancy bric a brac instead of selling the copper and lead ead IA ij j the local markets such as an industry indu atry itry would woud give work to a large force of f workmen i the oil trust evidently prospers prospers pers on being dissolved standard oil stack has risen to the record price of 6 or more than double what it was during the panic of 1907 each share has gone up since the supreme court decision cutting the octopus up into 33 different pieces in the last 10 years the company has paid dividends from 36 to 48 per cent a year the three year old child of albert stepp living two miles from canton texas fell ell feet foremost in a thirteen inch bored well sixty feet deep by the use of a mirror the child could be seen and the little fellow was constantly crying and calling to his grandpa to come and get him the grandparents and parents were wild with excitement and overcome with grief at their inability to afford immediate succor forty or fifty men and women were soon gathered all anxious to get a loop over the child to draw it out but with no avail A negro boy twelve years old was let down and getting the child by the sleeve both were drawn up half way the sleeve gage gae way and thi the child fell back to the bottom all were horror stricken for fearther fear the fill fall would certainly cera kill the child then they tied a rope to the leg of the negro negra boy and let him down head fost first he put the loop of a rope about the childs body and then the two were drawn out separately the miraculous part of the incident is that the child was haq only b bruised a little and not seriously injured the people of vermont after trying liquor license under local option for a time are returning to absolute prohibition alo A number of 0 towns including montpelier the captian capt jal ial have liams just gone ovit over into the ary column leaving only 23 out of in the state soll vt arof F 14 abbott 0 of michigan university ia the to propose the reformation oatlie of the english alphabet alph alphi aliet bet sinclear since our ear present litters letter axe are so able he wants us to adopt an entirety entirely new alphabet consisting ot of and horizontal strokes arcs of circles etc somewhat after the shorthand system which will say what they mean and mean what they say practical people i have little idea that rny any such arbitrary language reform will ever be accepted by the public but they are good thin things n to keep college professors out of mischief delaware still has the whipping post the other day a white man of an old family received 70 lashes his bare back in the open air with the temperature pera ture below freezing as pie part ot of his sentence for committing a series of burglaries many people p 1 e ople b elleve believe that this cruel system of punishment should be abolished many of the british miners now on strike will return to the pits this week I 1 according to opinions expressed today tod a y it is believed that ty by next monday operations will be in full swing in many any collieries colli eries in spite of the strike leadens lead ets declaration that there will no resumption oi work up anum wag billhorn bill COrN e last ait ive including those bf th km ers unk union i alone adoll amounted led to asoo 1 SOO nine unions alone exclusive of 0 the miners saturday P passed their mem bet ber warden weyler of of the maryland p penitentiary proposes that instead of hanging or electrocution the proper method of capital punish punishment mehi would be by chloroforming chloro forming we dispose of dogs and cats in this way he says and why should we not be bec humane toward our own fellow creatures if we tire are to put them to death at all 4 armour plate is n no 0 better than cheese as a protection io to battleships said hudson explosive inventor to carnegie steel company officials it must go in in the next 10 years the new voile vik board of 0 education has wen bea asked by a committee of parent from one of the suburban suburb ari schools schoola to undertake it a revision ol 01 0 Shake works for the purpose 0 of eliminating profanity and language shocking to the sensibilities ol of youth ful school children the committee suggest thai ehfe caird might in iii some cis basei casei ea pt provide ovide so me harmless expletives to be used in in cases cases of emergency specific complaint is s lodged against the poets loeis me ach ant of venice which 11 i used as pAc practice tice in t the he class reading tot or pupils of about 12 years the parents explains one of the passages ts containing an objectionable oath fell to my daughter a girl 0 of peculiarly sensitive na ture lure against the dictates of a tender conscience t and under the stress of her supposed duty the girl ant nt obediently through her lines she and n other pupils pupils were much motti fied fiad the chinese empire is very accent and has continued longer than any other oher that has ever existed xi sted the narrative Q confucius the great historian of 0 china goes bade back to 2356 B C and since that time twenty two dynasties have successively ruled the country in the third century B C china was invaded by the tartars Tar tars and to prevent their inroads the famous chinese wall pas built in A P the empire was divided and governed by t three tee nion archi un 11 it was agan again united in S the anth r aez century it W awl h 1 f ewy pg in bisso A reb alion broke brit on sig against nip 1 st the aler let of the tartars Tar tars yand and its leader succeeded in establishing himself is as emperor he expel expelled lid i in a 1864 and the imperial authority ye restored stored meanwhile it A war ha had d taken place with france and england in 1857 in which the Etro european powers were victorious this year the ruling power is de thrones and china became a republic |