Show A busy office when the third assistant postmaster general makes his annual report to his chief the introduction reads like the list of titles of an oriental potentate for it summarizes the subjects with which that office has to do here are just a few of them the classification of domestic mall matter including the determination ot the ot publications to the second class rates the hearing of cases involving the withdrawal of those rates use of pen alty envelopes and the franking eriv liege questions involving limit of weight the financial salem and this in itself ial an enormous business the supervision of the manufacture of stamps stamp blohs stamped anvel newspaper wrappers and postal cards money order and registry tern this year the deficit of the department part ment Is the largest yet nearly the most of the increase over last year is duo to the action of congress in raising the salaries of post ro asters and other employed emp loyes of the de apartment part ment and the rest to the extension of postal facilities the constant study to bring the department into closer touch with the people remarks the youths companion is shown in nu little things mentioned in the report for example new postal cards with space for message on the address side changes in stamped envelopes which will permit choice of paper by the purchaser and the printing of ad matter upon them elon to perforate postage stamps for purposes of identification this has hitherto been withheld but Is granted now partly because so many office boys steal stamps a curious commentary on the class of boys who are entering business A celebrated palmist mind reader and general second story worker of those who were weak in the second story has de campea from paris taking with him to show that he was a thoughtful man the fortunes of two confiding young women as well as what small change he could pick up eternal vigilance on the part of the police will not keep some persons from giving their money to crooks and fa kers whose only excuse for getting it Is that they appear to want it A curly mustache a dark rolling eye and an office fitted up with a bev charts of the stars Is all the capital needed to make a living by the man who Is on he doean doesn t have to know much of anything except humain nature with a general understanding of that and of the desire of the owner of the human nature to give away bis or her money the wonder worker gazes into the fu ture and sees nothing but a ife of ease for himself in his own case his prediction comes nearer panning out than do many predictions that he sells to customers for a neat price ski riding now in vogue norwegian ski riding or ski jumping as it Is popularly termed in america is a manly and healthful sport which in the northwest at least has come to stay the ski in this country are ally made of birch ash or hickory as pine or soft wood ski prove very ex pensive articles they break easily and may be the cause of serious accidents makes a very good ski possibly the best for ladles as it is lighter than the wood used by the professional rider namely hickory the white ish is used mostly by boys as it Is more durable than birch and less expensive ban hickory tho jumping ski says Recie atlon should be as long as the height of the man plus the distance b can reach with extended arms over bead usually 7 to 8 feet the ski for distance are usually longer they weigh from seven to eight pounds each a heavier ski being rather better for jumping A supreme court judge in brooklyn beet aside a will under unusual circum stances the testator had directed his property to be invested and the income devoted to the care of his burial lot the judge ordered the estate to be distributed among his immediate heirs on the ground that so purely a disposition of property was too much opposed to public policy and duty to humanity to permit the needs of the living he said were paramount to the claims of the dead this sounds like the sound plain sense on which law is supposed to be based remarks the boston herald the man who stall monopolizes his property even after death hould have such post mortem power of absorption taken by the law the survivors of are already holding meetings and conferences about rebuilding the city these are not times when the world alts down and walls helplessly over misfortune it Is distinctly as every great disaster crovea an age of effort and hope the ivory nut which Is so much aimed by button manufacturers Is ana andt of a species of palm which STOWS in central and south america it tonn a valuable crop ial PAna aaa colombia ecuador and |