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Show Current Topics. (From Youth's Companion.) When a Cliinoso is puzzled, lie scratches his foot instead of his head. That seems a strange thing to do, but, after all, one operation is quite as likely to bo helpful as tho other. ! These are hard times for trees of all sorts. An okseuro and destructive disease now threat-ens threat-ens the chestnuts with extine-tion. extine-tion. Fortunately the peanut is still safe since it does not grow on a Commander Peary's famous hip, the luiosevclt, seems as unable to ivninin lit retirement ab the man for whom it was named, from lue arclic it Hri may now jrn to tne tropics, to ij be used as a wreciciug-vessel in i raising tne null of tne Maine. ! If every reader of "C'ran- J ' ford" hud expressed his plea- sure in that inimitable book, wliat a celebration it would 1 have made of the one hundredth ' anniversary of the birth of the J author, Mrs. Gaskell! Il oe- cured on the twenty-ninth of , last week. I ' ou$ite of intelligent efforts' B " reduce infant mortality in Hfj tho United States, tlie Census M Bureau reports that nearly one- -tiftli of all the deaths reported f iu 11)0!) were of infants under one Vt, .year of age, and over ono- 1 quarter were of children under 1 live. There is still room for 1 improvement. i si 1) Tho day beforo the census 1 figures for Chicago, wore an- H uounccd forty-two marriage Hi licenses were issued in that H I -city. A few days later the H ! aurnber rose to one hundred H aud sixty-live. Evidently tho H itizons of Chicago arodissatis- H' fled with its rate of growth, and H are taking measures to increase One of the most interesting uses for tho aeroplane is that iuggosted by Geuoral Burn, tho " Fronc.li minister of war. Ilo proposes to establish an aerial messongor servioe across the Sahara. The great desert would make a spacious aviation field, but the operator whoso machine was obliged to alight in tho midst of it would find himself in a; sorry plight for water. |