Show LOCAL NEWS 1 I J elkington sr has a variety of young grape vines for or sale according to rev M A matthews of 0 seattle wash the life of modern christians differs but little from that of nofi non christians men church members engage in about the same practices as a non church members while women church members play bridge whist follow extreme or freakish styles in dress and use just as much powder and paint as women alo never darken 7 a church door surgeons in a chicago hospital laid bars bare the skull of george weyer an epileptic i who suffered from a depression of the skull cut a piece of bone putofis oUt ofis shin inserted it over the wb A 1 c vied the scap aln 1 in place over it weyer was in a twilight sleep condition and was conscious through the greater part of the operation although he felt only slight slight pain at times H J black an american who has spent many years hunting and studying flowers in south america and has ha obtained many rate rare and curious specimens Is convinced that the rose can ice and that the perfume exhaled by 1 it Is really its song the strong scents corresponding to the low notes and the delicate deli cite odors to the high ones he his has found flowers that are sensitive to sudden sounds or poises and others which wilt into unconscious ness nesa under the influence ol of drugs he has found a plant that secrets a poison similar to the venom of a rattlesnake which it shoots through fangs when touched mating making a deadly wound he also tells of it i hairy plant which discharges enough poison to kill a man inan when one of its halts hairs is snapped by contact by a new process in glass mahu fact the dangers from flying glass in automobile and trolley and railroad accidents ci etc are practically obviated A thin sheet ot of transparent celluloid is laid between two sheets of ordinary glass and the three sheets are firmly united by chemical agents under heavy pressure the product known as G triplex glass will break and crack but it is tough and cannot be shattered into fragments mg ments like ora ordinary inary glass what is said to be the greatest speed ever attained by man on the face of the earth was made over a level stretch of salt deposit in utah some time lime ago wen aa automobile was driven at a j v speed equivalent to almost miles pt pir hour the crystallized salt bed wf there makes a perfect roadway for rapid auto travel for or it Is perfectly level and even in the hottest weather not heat the tires of the machine the federal court at new york recently sentenced T L milic an austrian and gustave gustavc waldeck his accomplice to prison terms one year for the former and three months for the litter latter for smuggling opium and cocaine into this country through the mails from germany miss annie peck ol of new yorla an experienced mountain climber declares that the sum of 25 cents a day is ample to provide food for one person and ahat hat many housewives who insist on expensive foods and who order by telephone are guilty ol of awful extravagance she considers a teaspoonful teaspoon fui of 18 cent coffee with rye bread and peanut butter sufficient for a good breakfast several years ago william popper a bohemian oh aiu knockeart the door of mrs jennie wolf and her sister in chicago and was given cloth cloah ing ine food and medical attention he told the sisters when he left that he would remember them in his will they thought little of his promise but a few days ago they were notified that the man had died and that he h had bequeathed thed to them mrs peter veuve formerly countess jea jean n de madre daughter of a belgian nobleman noble roan once a belle of european courts and a friend ot of empress eugenie eugenic died in a little hut at south bend ind P a few days ago at the age of 83 she was decorated for her services as a nurse in the franco prussian war |