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Show THE SHAH IS DESOLATE. 'In- , Persian Ruler.Sends Home a Thousand 0PHI0 Wives. Thero Is something pathetic In tho figure of tho shah" of'PersIa Just now, a sort of wistful, lonesome, homesick something, as that flguro Is presented pre-sented to tho view of tho world at largo. This Is duo to tho fact that tlto cablo news reports that ho has Just reduced tho number of bis wives from 1,100 to sixty, and all Persia is dumtounded at what Is regarded' re-garded' an tho breaking up of a happy family circle. Just imagine bow solitary soli-tary and neglected , man must fool who has been ac" -itemed to tho ministrations of 1,100 wives, and who Is now reduced to tho desolation of sixty! It is small wonder that his people are protesting' at such a revolutionary revol-utionary step. Thoy havo boen accustomed ac-customed o' be rulod by 'family mon, andto tiJr.Pirsian wayof thinking-, a shah with sixty -wives It much more ot a bachelor than a benedict A Bishop's Compliment When Dr. Clark of Rhode Island was elected bishop and was paying his last pastoral calls before entering upon his bishopric, he visited, among others, a lady of his congregation, a good housewife, who was distinguished distin-guished for tho size of her family. After Af-ter ho had stayed a whilo the good doctor rose to go and tho lady said to him: "But, doctor, you haven't seen my last baby, have you?" "No, madam," mad-am," answerod the doctor, "and I nover expect to." A Matter of Punctuation. It was customary for ono of tho prefects at Olrard college, a few year ago, to have the boys in his section recite tho Lord's Prayer In concert each night before going to bod. He was also quite a stickler for accuracy In grammar, etc., and one night tho prayer bad Just started, tho boys having hav-ing gone as far as "Our Father, who art In heavon," when tho prefect called, "Stop! Start that again, and don't stop till you got to heaven." The World's Population. In his presidential addross to the Royal Statistical Society in London Major Oralgio polntod out that slnoe 1830 the population of tho world had Increased from (approximately) 847,-000,000 847,-000,000 to (approximately) 1.600,000,-000, 1.600,000,-000, of whom ono-fourth aro In continental conti-nental Europo. The empires of China and Croat Britain account for about one-half of this number. Six states, and six only, govern and protoct about three-fourths, and ton control six-sovenths. six-sovenths. Tho order in which tho nations na-tions stand is: Great Britain, China, Russia, Franco (all over 100,000,000), United States, Germany, Japan, Austria-Hungary, Holland and Italy. The Preacher'a Apology. Ono ot Detroit's best known German Ger-man clorgymen was to road an essay beforo tho Baptist ministers' Conference Confer-ence in tho Franklin house on day recontly, and when tho moment arrived arriv-ed at which ho was to begin, ho roso and said: "Brethren, poforo I say anything, 1 must say somcslng " la about ton minutes the clergymen wero sufficiently composed to listen to his explanation with straight faces. Detroit Evening Newb. Resented by Army Officers. In tho course of a violent sermon at Zaragozn, a Jesuit declared that tho loss of tho Spanish colonies was due to tho want of faith In tho army, which had not had one glorious day. This romark gavo umbrage to a number num-ber of olllcors, who rushed upon tho priest, draggod him from tho pulpit, mercilessly doggod him with tho flat of tholr swords, and finally rushed from tho church shouting, "Lonr Uvo tho army!" loavlng the prlost on tho floor almost dead with fear and brvisos. |