Show discouraging vagabondage the luxemburg government Is treating incorrigible vagabonds to bread and water for the first four days 0 their imprisonment and to the lowest scale of ordinary diet twice a neek afterward the prisons are said to be emptying fast the lothrop lee shepard 0 has just received a letter from J T concerning whose safety EO much solicitude was felt aa he bad sailed tor southern italy in december the veteran author s at hotel bellevue naples where he expects to stay for some weeks to come mr trowbridge Is in excellent health at 81 and looking forward to the publication of bis latest book A pair of madcap which Is to come out april ast 1st ha writes that the only regret connected with his trip Is that it occurred at the time of the great disaster together with the tear that some of his friends la america may have been alarmed hawaiian girls will serve tropical fruit at the hawaii building during the alas yukon pacific exposition A large shipment ot faulta will be kept in refrigerators during the exposition in the january number of the north american review hanels taylor in an article entitled the solid south a national calamity deplores the fact that by almost exclusive at bentton to an issue which la purely local the south has deliberately with held itself from exercising its right ful influence in the determination 0 national affairs ar taylor a southern man urges his fellow southerners to broaden the scope of their political interests and he sees in the growing importance of south ern industries an influence which will ultimately compel southerners to lange themselves with their northern brethren in the attempt to insure vitae and sane national policies alve of local pre possessions and brej every large manufacturer in the united states will take part in the display of motor boats at the alasu yukon pacific exposition next sum mer on february esth lothrop lee shepard co will issue a revised and greatly enlarged edition of william correspondent s manual mr hickox as Is well known has for years conducted a shorthand school in boston and has built up a stand ard book from what be has found to be the actual needs of his students hawaii will have a tropical garden adjoining its building at the alaska yukon pacific exposition all kinds of tropical flowers and shade trees will be shown |