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Show THE ECCENTRICITY OF GENIUS. Writer Points Out Peculiar Facts Well Authenticated. The proportion of distinguished men and women contributed from among tho families of tho clergy can only bo described as enormous. In mero number tho clergy can seldom havo equaled tho butchers or bakers In their parishes, yet out of 1,030 cases of genius only two butchers and four bakers are definitely ascertained to have produced eminent children, as against 139 persons. The eminent children of the clergy outnumbered those of lawyers, doctors and army officers put together. On tho other hand, such is the eccentricity of genius that the clerical profession produces more Idiots thnn any other class. From Haveloc'.t Ellis' "Study of Drlt-ish Drlt-ish Genius." Gold Mine 3,900 Feet Deep. What Is believed to bo tho deepest gold mine In the world is being worked at Dendlgo, Australia. Tho mlno In question, which Is called tho New Chum Hallway tnine. has sunk Its main shaft to a depth of 3,900 feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quarters of a mile. The chief problem 13 how to keep the tunnels and general workings cool enough for the miners to work In at such a depth. It 13 usually about 108 degrees and, to enable ena-ble the men to work at all, a spray of cold water let down from above has to be kept continually playing on tho bodies naked from the waist upward of the mlnprs. Even then they cannot can-not work hard, or they would faint from exhaustion. His Self-Sacrificing Disposition. "There Isn't anything my boy William Wil-liam won't do to oblige a friend, if ho likes him," Mrs. Hockafus was saying. "We had a leg of lamb tho other day for dlnnner, and Willlo ato till 1 thought he'd burst, but when ho wont out to play, ten minutes afterward, a neighbor's boy told him thoy wero going to havo roast gooso for dinner at their house, and asked him to go and eat with him. Willlo didn't want to be uncivil, so ho went along, and just as sure as I'm sitting hero, ho pretended he was hungry and ato more of that roast gooso than tho other boy did!" . .. Plan to Restore the Sphinx. A project Is ou foot In Alexandria for restoring the Sphinx, near the Great Pyramid n" Ghlzoh, to its original origin-al condition. Thick layers of soil completely com-pletely cover tho head of tho monument, monu-ment, while tho lower parts aro greatly great-ly obscured by accumulations of sand. It Is proposed to clear all these accumulations accu-mulations away and to clean tho head completely. When the work has boon completed tho Sphinx will onco more appear, if not In Us first freshness, at least In tho grandeur of its original proportions. Where Is the Finish. According to tho Now York Herald tho latest cure for rheumatism is going go-ing without breakfast. As tho latest euro for dyspepsia Is going without dinner, and tho latest cure for sleep lossness Is going without supper, thero Is apparently nothing left but to subsist on air. But then again thu scientist tells us that every time wo breathe wo run tho risk of swnl lowing bloodthirsty bacilli, so that the best thing, perhaps, all things consld ered, Is not to breathe at all. River of Sulphur. Tho niver Doubs, on tho western Swiss frontier, Is frozen over, nnd when tho Ice cracks fumes of sulphur, which take flro when a light Is applied rlso into tho air. i |