| Show EDITORIAL NOTES A newspaper in constantinople says that christians and jews have become edans during the past year a larger number dumber than those who have abandoned mohammedanism for other religions religion it all depends which side you are on A man who changes his bis opinions to our side of a question is a growing statesman nho bai the courage of his new convictions A man who changes fron conr side to the other is Is a monumental turncoat and fraud I 1 I 1 english papers sav that the swallows are scarce carce in ia various parts of be country where chev used to be abundant in some localities they are hardly seen at all chii is attributed to the rain which had deprived the swallows of the debes necessary oary supply of winged insects which are fostered by sur u shine federal point florida has a lear learned leard d blacksmith second boniv 11 c le orated ellhu burritt Burrl tt ills hla sign reads thurston general repairing and jobbing in all materials neatly and promptly done specialties surveying and photograph v information given on scientific and mechanical subjects on the road aiom bar harbor to te hulls cove mount desert Rh shamrock amrock grows in great abundance it is said that many years ago a vessel from ire 1 land having some shamro shamrock k aboard i was wrecked on the coast of mount desert near this spot and that the plants washing ashore took root and formed the nucleus of the present pro line growth nowhere else in maine is the shamrock to be found the chinese question is a problem i that vexes more countries t than ban this one notwithstanding that australia has taken steps to prevent the celes bials from landing there they are pour inz ins into that country the australians are in doubt about what is the best beat means to employ to check the influx no matter what legislation any country attempts to keep them out ont so far has proven ineffective whenever they wish to enter a country they seem to know just where the toll toil roads are A curious looking craft built in a chinese yard near Tun kadoo a sort of stern wheel boat in which the motive power was supplied by a number of coolies working with their feet was seen passing down th eNile by an enthusiastic thusia amateur photographer a foreigner ile he began to get his ap caratu abatu aratu sin order to photograph itchen he g e was accosted by an officer who said no can makee picture this steamer beem by you go to england side make mak e all sime same and to make sure he warned the foreigner with his camera aff the river tank bank A lady interested in growing the silver skinned onion has discovered that this fine variety cures much better in the shade than in the sun it makes a handsomer show and is more attractive to purchasers thus cured probably the action of the suns rays after the plant is loosened from the soil effects chemical changes analogous to the greening of potatoes thus exposed curing under cover also protects the onion from rains and dews which when it is partly dried must injure its appearance and perhaps also its quality new yerk rk is going to try electric street cars again the ten new dew cars fitted with electric motors which the fourth avenue company proposes to put in service between the grand central station and the cat city hall are nearly finished and one ky u them Is ia already on the tracks iracks and making experimental peri mental trips between midnight and dawn is the hour selected for the trials it is a regular palace car and will leave the broadway pullmans Pul mans far behind xv hen it begins regular trips it is roomier and more expensively fitted up than the best of the cars in present service and is brilliantly lighted by electric electricity it here is the way in an english paper the cheltenham le tells the tale of an execution with a history of the case which the morbid taste for such rich reading in this country would require to be spread over a whole pa page e with screaming head lines here Is is the whole story at worcester on wednesday thomas wyre 30 agricultural ri cultural laborer was executed for the murder of his son I 1 aged four years by throwing him down a well at wol verley near Kidderminster last march dearil was apparently instantaneous w 0 A physician writes in ia a medical journal that he learned to get cinders or other substances out of the eye from an engineer on whose locomotive he was riding the doctor got a cinder in his eye and began to rub it let that eye alone and rub theother the other said the engineer the doctor paid no attention do as I 1 tell you said ane engineer land and have it out in two minutes the doctor obeyed rubbed the well eye and in a moment the cinder was lying on his bis cheek he says that the treatment never fails where the substance has not cut into the eyeball A writer figures out from official data viat that the number of smiths in england and wales is and that there are more smiths in england and wales than there are people in ia dublin fil indeed deed excluding lonion london there are only four towns in the united kingdom namely birmingham glasgow liverpool and manchester containing more people than there are smiths while twenty six out of the fifty two counties of eng land and wales or one half have fewer ewer people than the immortal house of smith has representatives I 1 |
