| Show Is the en man mau deteriorating t A recent invest gator lias has compiled some statistics which would saem to indicate a rather rither alarming physical deterioration in the british people the figures b based ased upon the recruiting and medical reports of the army show for example that while in 1889 the proportion of men in the army under five fire feet fire five inches in height was in a thousand the following year it had rien to in a thousand in 1891 to in 1898 to the proportion ot of men measuring 0 less thin thirty three inches around aroun d the chest was in 1889 seventeen in 1000 in 1898 it was twenty three in 1871 4 per 1000 recruits were under pounds to in weight in 1900 the proportion had in creased to per 1000 harpers keelly L I 1 r 4 ro the breeding of cattle in mexico Is steadily Inci casing large numbers of different breeds have recently been imported from the united states hoi hot land and switzerland men of science have never been able to explain why a spoils in 11 beer meat and other art cles of on the latest germin german germ in the is tl at it there is some in junous elec tuc tile influence which also ilso causes head ache or depiesse depies son on in in U Y sensitive persons just beffie a d ce ei exl deits aie ale d escuss ng n sta sti as to the inci eise of longeN longevity ity and they genei genet illy agree that the sur est guarantee tor for a peaceful peace tui and happy 0 d age and for becoming octo genar ans aid nonagenarians aid Z d even en ell go i g I 1 beyond the century mark Is the tal vil ng out of a t plentiful ful sur ply of life I 1 sill ance i ol 01 caes cles tal automobile tr ps are becoming baconn g Dume iou but the pub lie is be bea i n n ns to d the value of a test of this kind mith n ath a specially specialty 11 I 1 i eh ell cle opel operated abed by paid ma chin st ats and fitted it tt i innusa points along the loute with new tires ditc itc tc as these become necessary such tests be made under normal tour ing conditions to hae han e any gi gibat eat influx ence upon prospective buyers the grind palais in pans paris possesses a wonderful clock cloch which 1 I aich was shown in the pans paris exhibition of it was the work of collin and has just been overhauled ver hauled it Is claimed for this chef d doehre heui re sq says s the debats that it does toes not vary moie mole than the hundredth edth part of a second in a year it Is four and a half maties in height and indicates the time in the twelve chief toes of the world each city having its own dial the clock not only marks the year month and day of the week but its pendulum forms a barometer u of singular precision at a recent meeting of the pans paris academy of medicine dr gamier garnier cited cases in which minch cal women had brought the most monstrous eions against their relatives their neighbors and the r N ery cry fathers and mothers the whole being entirely a figment of then thou sick brains but re na th ill such perfect self possession P os session that even courts of justice had been wrongly led to infer that they were true the judge in a trial where hys bys women appear ipp should be he said have them examined by a medical corn com mission as a means of protection protect io n the study of words serves a double purpose A wi wide de vocabulary not only enables us to express our ideas exact ly and concisely but new words actual ly bring us new ideas someone spoke to me the other day of exercising a corrigible influence over another the word was new to me I 1 looked it up and found a m whole hole train of new thought started up by the new word says adelne adel ne cnapp in the house hold it was a gibat pleasure an enlarged vocabulary actually means an enlarged mind every new word that comes to our knowledge brings with it a new chain of ideas by suggestion the sanitary measures introduced in uba during the american military oc cu pation have been continued and the I 1 land as a whole is now moie mole health ful than at any time in its history minister in a lecent report says in the district of havana the death rate deci eased cased in june to against in the preceding pie ceding eding thirty days andI and against 5 10 in june of list last year and is the lowest figure for june ever recorded in havana as far back as reliable statistics can be obtained jibe whole island Is free from small pox and yellow fever in many of the provinces the de death deith ith rate has been ab normally low for the time of year ow ing big to the improved impi oved methods of sani sant t ilion one of the strongest stion gest influences tor for peace among the notions is the grow ing habit of borrowing bon bori owing and lending money or international investment everybody recollects how abused the united states when this countie had to tali spam spain to task tor for the misgovernment of her colonies the root of it all was a huge amount of french money in spain france has now invested in foreign countries chiefly russia england spain and italy the sum of 0 six billion dollars england on the other hand has ten billion dollars invested abroad and a good sum of it is in france but per haps the greatest part of it Is in the united states but the american mil lion leonaire llo alre is also abroad and he Is buy ing everything he can lay his hand hands on in n europe and much of it he can cant t wing bring home in his trunk such as un railways mineral springs 0 hotels castles ivy clad ruins shoe stores electric facto factories Acs foreign brogues and anti american prejudices aA AAA da H |
