Show gettysburg memorial pennsylvania in which gettysburg Is located has taken time to arrange for a state memorial on the famous battle field and the result shows that deliberation has not been in vain an no Is made of the acceptance of a design for the memorial for which V has been appropriated there was lively competition for the first prize which has been awarded says t the troy jn Y times illustration shows the design to be most artistic y and effective the memorial will be a massive double arch 80 feet square and feet high with granite steps to a terrace which will give the whole f structure a conspicuous and dignified appearance there will be bronze pan els containing the names of officers and men who took part in the battle the idea being to record every son of pennsylvania so distinguished fig urea of abraham lincoln and andrew G curtan the latter being the great war governor of the state will flank one of the arches has of arall lery cavalry infantry and signal men will be placed appropriately and the whole will be surmounted by a bronze statue of victory the memorial is to bo dedicated in july 1910 and will add another notable attraction to the in numerable interesting features of the historic spot new york hag a hand bome state monument in addition to scores of regimental memorials at get and sympathizes in the spirit which moves pennsylvania to its recent action electricity Is the one branch of set ence which honors the great names in its history in its fundamental terman the other day a tablet was un 15 veiled at ampere N J in honor of andral marle ampere the french phy t elcust who first measured the current and for whom the unit is named the ohm bears the name of georg a german man of science who erad the law on which the unit of elec resistance Is based the volt Is named tor the italian volta the great est electrical authority of the elgh century who was the first man to construct a rude electric battery A farad the unit of electrical capacity Is named in honor of the english phyll cist faraday the coulomb the unit of quantity for the french physicist cou i lomb and the watt the unit of power tor jamea watt the scotch inventor who improved the steam engine the concern felt for the teeth of the children by a brooklyn alderman who proposed to save their grinders by clos ing the candy shops to all consumers under 16 years of age Is eminently praiseworthy but it will never be ap predated in youthful quarters the i children will take all risks what Is f toothache when a nickel la burning a u hole in the pocket very likely there will never be an ache detter to roll a sweet morsel under the tongue with a pain in the left bicuspid than to have the pain of self denial eating some little heart out says the boston herald the brooklyn Dro oklyn alderman might be made to see his way to repairing defective dental works in such reckless spendthrifts without closing the sweet shops it Is an extreme measure the patriotically inclined will ably be horrified to learn that when the officers and men of the fleet at tempted in foreign ports to sing their u own national anthem when those of the ports visited had been sung few could go beyond three lines of the star spangled banner there Is some cause to suspect that this ignorance of our national hymns Is not confined to the fleet and the fact Is not creditable every child who goes to school and Is large enough to sing should be taught the words of the star spangled ban ner one of the noblest patriotic poems every written the young idea Is to be taught liter ally bow to shoot in the project for rifle practice by schoolboys it Is a trifle appalling to think of the havoc to property and animals to say noth ing of the human sacrifices while the necessary skill Is being attained but y then there must always be some to buffer for every good cause and this will have its quota unless the outraged mothers of the nation rise in their wrath and interfere 1 the plan is now tor chauffeurs to wear women s veils one reason Is it i spares their blushes when they run over a victim and also allows the rt wearer to escape j the japanese emperor s satisfaction L in contemplating peaceful relations and growing friendliness with all abo treaty powers la all the more imbres alve coming as it does from a ruler who has the men and the means bea bind him to unset peace it necessary only an uncompromising optimist J rejoice at the enormous decline in liquor drinking and simultaneously at tte fact that the internal taxes continue as heavy a ever |