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Show WHITE WINGS NO MORE. Prospect lof .Riding from Cpe Horn to Cape Town by Continuous Rail. It adds something to the zest of life if one has a healthy and active fancy to reflect that there are people now living who may travel by continuous rail from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope. The plan of a "pan-American" railway to connect the South American systems, through Central America, with the systems of Mexico and the United States, is already well advanced. There are, says the Review of Reviews, to be roads from the Canadian Cana-dian Pacific away up to the Peace river and Mackenzie valleys, and it is not very hard to believe that these may ultimately be extended across the Rockies to the Ukon valley in Alaska, and continued finally to the narrow and shallow Behring straits, across which a connection would be made with the Siberian road. Continuous rail travel from Siberia to Constantinople will soon have become an accomplished fact, and the link from Constantinople to Egypt may be expected quite' confidently. confi-dently. At the present ra'te of developments develop-ments in Africa he construction of a road from Egypt to the Cape ought to be realized within, twenty-five years. The channel tunnel will, of course, have been built, and electricity or some still more powerful .notive force a will have superseded steam; so that the Cali-fornians Cali-fornians and Puget sound denizens would naturally go to London by fast Alaskan and Siberian express. If they chose they might return by steamship, making the passage in two or three Labrador or Halifax. In view of all that has been done in the past twenty-five twenty-five years such further development of traveling facilities is easily within the realm of sober prediction. There Is Such a Disease, anct Its Cause Is Anxiety. Acquired gout is usually one of the consequences of errors and excesses of diet. Those who eat too much and drink too much wine are, as is well known, very frequently the subjects of the disease. But it is by no means so well known that beer is a prolific cause of gout, The fact is so, however, if the London Hospital is to be believed. Dr. The Kosettn Stone. .ine -'Rosetta Stone," a famous Egyptian curiosity now in the British museum, was discovered in the year ITii'J by M. Boussard, a French explorer, near Rosetta, a seaport of lower Egypt It is of black basalt, about forty inches long by thirty wide, with three engraved en-graved inscriptions upon its surface. The first of these is in Greek, the second sec-ond is a conglomeration of hieroglyphics hieroglyph-ics and the third in enchorical writing, a system used by the Egyptians in recording re-cording everyday matters. After years of laborious research the savants ol Europe ascertained that the three inscriptions in-scriptions were three versions of a degree de-gree in honor of Ptolemy Epiphones by the priests of Egypt because he had remitted re-mitted their taxes. This wonderful relic dates back to about the year 200 |