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Show I Our Want Column Free to all Subscribers to The Re- publican. I! lines two issues abso- liitely free. Those not subscribers G cents ( BJ per line per Issue. Win. Bench Lawnm'aker and land-H land-H tscapo gardener. Address, 4M North 5th East. I Fou Salk Ciikai' Household furnl- turc. Inquire at inY. 1st South. 4012 I For sale Fine building sand for sale. W. T. Brown, 175 South Main street. tf I A young lady of Danish nationality I desires a position as housekeeper. Ad- dress P. P. care of the Republican. For Rent Two-room house, furnished fur-nished or unfurnished. Inquire F. this olllcc. ' Their First Sight or Snow. Although Luzon is a tropical cotm-'try. cotm-'try. It sometimes gets cold enough there to make a sleeper crawl under a blanket, especially In tho mountains. There Is an ofllclal record of Its hav lng snowed In tho province of Abrd twenty years ago, although no white man sow it. Tho natives camo to town and repotted a swarm of white butterflies having desconded from the sky and disappeared into tho earth, Thus tho Spaniards know It had , T snowed. Millions Spent for Tobacco. About J70.000.000, It is estimated, Is .annually spent on tobacco and pipes In the United Kingdom. i I ;B Borrower. Tho habit of borrowing is something some-thing that grows on pooplo tho samo as warts, says tho Dowllng Green (O.) Free Press. It generally commences to borrow a fancy comb for circus day and a tooth brush to put in a conspicuous conspicu-ous place on the clock shelf becautfe they are going to have company. Then they borrow tobacco, cow feed, salt pork and soup bone. Then they borrow bor-row a couple of quarters so that they can't see tho peoplo grin. Tho last seen of them they are clarnborlng along to where the sheep and goat get dlvldod, trying to borrow a reputation and a palm leaf fan. School Savings Bankt. Tho school savings bank system which has been put in operation in many places In New York State is now declared to bo a violation of tho banking act. Tho system was started by J. W. Thlry, who brought the Idea from Europe. Tho plan is to Induce children to savo their ponnles and bring them to their teacher, who places them In a bank. As the plan Is generally beneficial to the young, It Is probably that laws will be amended to admit of Its continuance. All Have Six Fingers and Toes. In tho south of Arabia, among the tribes of tho llyamltes, has existed for several centuries a patriarchal dynasty, dy-nasty, tho family of the Foldl, highly roverenced by the Arabs, becattso in that family all tho children have six lingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. Thoso of them that hup-poned hup-poned to bo born without this peculiarity peculiar-ity aro considered, as of another tribe, and aro Immediately put to death. Tho family of tho Foldi is very numerous, and Its members Intermarry onlj among themsolvcs. Target Practice Cartridge. A new cartrldgo for target practice by marlno, especially for ranges of about twenty-nvo yards, bos been do-vised, do-vised, Tho bullet will weigh seventy-eight seventy-eight grains, and will bo .31 Inch diameter, or a diameter of .002 inch greater than tho boro of the rifle. Three grains of smokeless powder will bo used, and with tho oxporl-ments oxporl-ments which have been made excellent excel-lent resulta have been attained at twenty-flvo yards. Minister Is sn Engineer. M. Bunau-Vurllla Is tho French engineer en-gineer who was invited by tho king of Kottmanla to Improve tho navigablo waters of that country. Ho utilized n dredge of his own Invention, which Is believed to bo ,tho first of tho kind to be operated by electrical power. Its advantages have lnco led to Its extensive use olsowhere. Topeka'o Geographical Position. Tho capital city of Kansas occupies a peculiar place In American geogr-phy. geogr-phy. Tho two legs ot n compass ni piled to a map of tho United Stat x will show how nearly central is It. position. Topoka is as far from (Ju 1 1 dy Head, at the extreme northeast 'rn corner of tho Union, as it is from th strait of .Htan do Fuca, at tho extr"no northwest. -Tho distance Is tho t,u.ae from Topeka to tho southernmost tip of Florida as from Topoka to !nn Diego, Cal. On tho north and houiii line, Topeka is Just half way bctweo: the Canadian border and the coast ol tho" Gulf of Mexico. Now York Sun. Queer Will Pronounced Valid. Recently a very singular case of will-making camo to light In an English Eng-lish court. A lady, possessed of considerable con-siderable property, was para'v.ed, po she sent for her solicitor tc Nuposo of her estate. Bereft of speech, she wbb unablo to give directions. Tho solicitor wrote down tho various Items on so many cards; then on other cards he wrote the names of the lady's family. fam-ily. That done, he "dealt" the cards. 'As ho did so his client coupled property prop-erty with names, and he was able to draw up tho will. It was declared good by tho court. Heating Power of Coal. Tho heating power of coal la measured meas-ured by the amount of carbon contained con-tained in a ton or a pound. Anthracite Anthra-cite coal is found In many countries, but It Is only In tho United States and In England that tho article Is high grade 92 per cent or better. Even our coal differs widely in its constitutional constitu-tional elements. One kind hold.s more nsh than another. 'Still another va-rloty va-rloty holds more clinkers, In spite of repeated burnings. Tho best coal leaves no clinkers and makes very llttlo ash. Who Wrote Mother Goose? Many peoplo aro under the Impression Impres-sion that "Mothor Goose's" stories and nursery rhymes woro written by some -ld housewife. This Is a mistake. The real author was a scholar of learning and renown, Charles Perrault, one of '.he first members of tho French acad-amy. acad-amy. Ho died in 1703, and though it Is over two hundred years ago, his tales still live. May tho falrlos over protect his name. Value Literary Degrees. In a foreign offlce report on tho trado of Nanking, It Is Btated that such is tho value placed on literary degrees by tho Chinese that during a period when hundrods of tho Inhabitants Inhabi-tants wore dying dally from cholera no fower than 17,000 stttdonts visited tho city to compete for two hundred vacancies, |