Show many strange and unusual things have been happening of late in a region some IS 15 square miles in area in Amania county wash this region lies near the columbia river with mu mt 1 ranier adams and st helena all extinct volcanoes to the north of it A m mountain there which was 2100 feet high two years ago is now cose only L 1500 feet high a t farmers garden a tiel year a ago go lay by in a val valley below his house but it is now much higher than the latter he laid pipes from a lake to a tank and from the tank to his house aut but ht he aas fc as been compelled to remove three sections of pipe because the tank and the house were moving toward each other the beds of lakes there have been raised until they have become hillocks and a forest has been reduced to flinters plin these phenomena are r accounted for by supposing the region to have a thin earth crust and to b be by a lake or river gov Blease of S C the fire eater cater has again broken forth he has begun to stump for the p impose of being elected to theu the U S senate and the people of that tha state under the new alth amendment will have a chance to show I 1 conclusively weather they approve of the blease bilease type of statesman or not ile he said reforms are needed most in the pulpit and at the altar he had stopped going to church he said when he found the ministers were always preaching for prohibition and against blease he made the charge that some of the church deacons he knew drank liquor played cards and even stole cards in a poker game how is roes poes middle rame came spelled allen alien or allan that is a question of paramount importance to the ahe philadelphia board of education just now an architect designed a new school building to be erected there near the house where poe wrote the gold bag pd and the name edger allen alien poe is inscribed in larg letters over the entrance simon gratz a member of the board insists that allan is the correct spelling of the middle name and demands that the architect correct the mistake this the architect steadfastly refuses to do the qu question e i stion mayleo haygo to some higher tribunal for settlement most of the authorities say that allan is the correct spelling the wit of this world is not all to be A W round in the funny pages of the sundays edition of the comic paper at last a real cure for the smoking habit has been cound according to a news dispatch the treatment con fists of the application of a solution of nitrate of silver to the smoked s e it is said to give the weed a ivery very unpleasant taste three treatments effect I 1 A a permanent cure the next problem will be to induce smokers to submit to the treatment proprietor of summer hotels places of amusement etc sometimes issue notices that tha they will riot not accept negroes negro cs hebrews or others as patrons any such discrimination a is severely punishable under a n nw rw law which is just going boine into effect in new york state the proprietor of aw any public resort who refuses to receive a patron on account of color race or i creed will render himself liable to a hue fine of to SOO and imprisonment i of 30 to 90 days day for each 0 of fence cherries and milk made a bombl combination aa that proved fatal to two small sons of joseph leveille of belleflur che S D they ate it a basket of cherries and drank nearly a quart of milk between them it a lev few later the death of both boys resulted in a short time physicians w say the combination of cherries and milk produced produce dan an acid which caused the fatality C F drucker and rose marcewski Marke Mark ewski of chicago were engaged to mirry marry but he finally broke off the engagement on eugenic principles clai claiming that the young ladys brother is a sufferer it from m tuberculosis she says her brother brothel and herself are entirely free from tab tuberculosis and they both bolh are arc more robust than mr drucker and has brought an action for tor for breach if of romiee whatever upward tendency the prices price ol of food clothing and other commodities of daily use may have hadin recent years posta postage grates rates have bave been coming lower from alimeto li meto time Now adai we can send a letter anywhere in the united states for two centt cents newspapers are carried for one cent abound for publishers and four centia cents a pound for the public and with our new parcel il post system now in operation we cin can send falt fair sized packages of merchandise at reasonable rates anywhere we these and other advantages with the much more rapid rates at which our mall mail matter is earned carried makes the present mall mail service incomparably better than iban that of 1830 which the lewiston Ie wiston journal describes as follows according to it a table of the pow post c dee in the united states as they were oct 1 1830 the whole number of offices was the rates ol of postage established by congress in were on a single letter corn posed of 0 one ale piece ce of paper for any distance not exceeding 30 miles 6 cents over 30 miles and not exceeding 80 miles 10 cents aver over 80 miles an and 0 not exceeding aso 12 cents cent s over ovar miles and not axce exceeding eding I 1 18 sya cents over miles 25 cents a letter biter composed of 0 two pieces ot of paper was charged double these rates of three pieces i es triple and four pieces quadruple these rates for newspapers the rate oas was one dent cent tor for miles and a dent cent and a hall for over miles the nearest of ci th the fixed stars is alpha Cent iuri wi with th a distance ol of four and one third light years year from our globe A erht year by the way is astronomical W I 1 ai unit of measuring iv space ihal it a ray of f light at the rate c of miles a second would traverse in in a year it would take an express train tra velling uninterruptedly more than eleven million years i to make this journey |