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Show COLLECTED ITEMS An electrically lighted cross revolves on top of a San Francisco steeple. The 554 people out of every thousand thou-sand in Switzerland who save money must be compared with a meager 108 'n this country, the difference accounting, account-ing, according to a Chicago banker, for the fact that in our large cities one burial out of ten is made in a potter's field. Pellagra may be prevented or cured by proper diet. A large eastern railroad is instructing instruct-ing its signal erectors and testing its engineers' knowledge of signals by means of modern pictures shown in a car which travels over its lines. "The flowers of Hawaii declare the glories of God. and the fish showeth his handiwork," declares a realistic writer in the Christian Herald, asserting, assert-ing, by the way. that nowhere else in Ihe world can fish be found in so many and such variegated hues as in the waters of these Pacific possessions of ours. Open air is the best spring tonic. Typhoid fever is a disease peculiar to man. Mutual benefit insurance societies have been established In the publio schools of Rome and other Italian cities The underlying Idea is that pupils shall pay small weekly sums to a general fund, from which certain amounts are paid out In case of sickness, sick-ness, accident or death. The system is said to be growing rapidly. There Is an unquestionable record of hearing the firing at Yprcs at a distance dis-tance of 140 miles and a somewhat doubtful one of 150 tulles |
