Show A funny thin thing funny runny about a position in society is that after you have it you don t need it any more new aorl press i it is estimated that canada s buys bt america worth of agrical euial implements a year how mild and harmless now appears the trolley car compared w with ith the jugg juggernaut binaut automobile yet it is only ten years ago that the trolley car had the d of killing more persons than iny illy other im mi antion of man the sun do move A Chi llast is a person who bel belmes ei es that there is go ng to be a millennium I 1 y and by desp te ind cit ons st lou s however hon ever has one who thinks that he can tell the exact date when the millennium is go ng to begin it is impossible to lemute a prophet and it will take ten years to dispose of this one for he gives h myself a long term nam ng 1912 as the year when things will beg n to happen we doubt if anybody will question the accuracy of the statement that va nety is an essential element in success ful avertis ad adi ertis ng var ety in mediums variety in methods observes pronta ble advertising the advertiser who bo sticks closely to one way of placing the merits of his product beacie the c fails falls to make his appropriation pay the most satisfactory div bends for a method loses force by constant use and the fickle populace turns from it to the new idea adopted by the mole modern business man preliminary reports of the twelfth census gine some large figures in con lection with the dairy interests of the country eighteen millions of dairy cows produce annually nearly eight b ilion gallons of milk mill wh ch ell was man into one and ow one half billion pounds of butter ind nearly three hun bull died in ilion tons of cheese fhe total value of dairy products is given glien at WO GOO these fiaui es are so vast that it is impossible to realize the full extent of their meaning A man in mich gan recently left a will in which he devoted some GO to establish a home for indignant old women and now a woman age not stated to whom he had once been en ell but whose charms had been only recently eel ased by a rival is bombin ing with various relatives on the ground that he meant md ind gent but surely there are ind gaint women enough to benefit even without going cuts outs de the circle most immediately in te rested and the age lim t seems to have been left pleasantly indefinite with the continued reiteration of what a fine nation we are both by oth ers and ourselves one begins to won der how long it will be before we at tain the complacence which Is the sure forerunner of degene atlon at pres ent cut there is nothing exactly complacent about our attitude toward ourselves or others other s the word connotes fat phlegm and fatuity we are still too actively jubilantly pleased with the discovery of ourselves for that reflects the phil adelphia saturday EN evening ening post being lean and young and looking forward expectantly for greater things there Is still some time ahead of us and a lit tie adolescent boastfulness will do no harm so long as it is wholesomely bla tant the budget commission of the ger man chamber of deput es has voted the sum asked by the government foi scientific re into the nature of cancer and the best means to be em aloyed in d finishing mini shing its ravages the representative of the government states that there has been established at the charity hoop hop tal in berlin a laboratory for scientific research into the nature cause and cure of cancer and that the sum of marks have been ap for the establishment of a permanent cancer institution the phy of frankfort on the main have already informed the committee of pa ris of the results of the study of more than 1200 cases of cancer from this report the on is reached that cancer is not hereditary but infectious the enormously heavy engines now used to draw long railroad trains have necessitated heavier rails heavier rails rail have required that the ties be laid close together one of the largest items of expense in r railway allway repair and construction is the outlay for ties A tie of the best wood for the purpose rarely lasts over tour four years to re duce this expense the bearing block system was invented in this system the ties are placed further apart and between them are short blocks bound to the ties by thin bars of steel the block can be inserted in place in one third the time and at less than one third the expense incurred in replacing the ordinary cross tie when a tie becomes defective at one end and must be removed it can be sawed and used over again as blocks |