'Many years ago there arrived in this country a poorly-fed, penniless, German immigrant boy.' He died the other day down in Louisiana, worth probably more than a hundred million dollars. 'This man, William Edinborn, led a life which ig an epic' of the steel age. In Germany he, had been buffeted about as a blacksmith's apprentice, and when he passed the Statue of Liberty was induce to go down to St. Louis to work at his trade. He went, and his "boss" seemed to be getting the better part of the deal, until one day young William invented a machine for making barbed -wire. But nobody with capital believed that farmers would ever want to buy barbed wire, so William started out with a peddler's pack on his back to make enough money to set, "himself up in the business to show, them, For a long time after he had his small factory going at St. Louis it appeared, however that the ca ists had been right, for the farmers convinced a jury that he had not nitious utterances, but to be seditious and was acquitted, inborn was a_picture-que character, typically the pro duct of the United States, and did much good by stealth, Chemical Element "Number The chief se month has una cording to Mr. E.R, Free in the May' "Forum") the discovery of the new chemical clement by Prof.
Hopkins and his sociates at the University of Illinois, The element has been named Iinium, but greater interests resides in its other common design nation "number sixty-one." Callirg new clement by number implies! Hw a remarkable truth, the truth that we know the whole lis] of elements so thoroughly that we can arrange then in order, assign a number to each, and know if any ave still missing.
That we can do this, says Mr, Free, is the restilt of the development during the past ten years or so, of the famous Bahr theory of the atom. Thirty years ago we believed that} Jatoms were original particles of matter. Each atom was supposed! to be different, as all men in middle life learned at college. A mass of iron was composed of tiny atoms of iron, a piece of gold held tiny gold atoms and 20 on. This idea, however, has gone the way of most ideas—it is dead. We now know that all toms, no matter of what Substance, re composed of different numbers ud ngements of the same two kinds of fundamental particles, Both of these particles are! electric in nature. One is called the electron and is familiar' to radio people as being the electric particle that operates vacuum tubes, \The other kind of particle is called poets Ir. Free goes on to say that we understand, moreover, enough about the structure of different kinds atoms to say that the outward apearanee of the atom, the properties, ch it chews to the worth, ~ll be determined by one group of the electrons which the atom contains, by those electrons which revolve i side the atom in orbits not unlike {the orbits of the planets of the Yolar system. These -are not Fealize that a ation that only ad-|"
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Tuy people of Peking are aulffere lacking in the political significance nay none the less be full ing heavily from the depredations of of the former, are the announc of vitality and confidence, This very soldiers stationed in and around the mants of men and affairs to which largely has been the experience of jolty Foud and stores of all d one half of the prper is devoted the extremely shrewd and knowledand which seem to have flowed criptions are seized and paid for in gable hotel-keepers from the United along with a quiet current despite worthless military notes. Riesha States whom it has been our pri-the military happenings so brilliantly ure made to carry soldiers vilege to entertain during the past described in the other half of the frow of charge, and harmless citizens fortnight. As the heads of a huge are beuten and tortured for porte and highly technical industry, and, Hesentment is growing, and a nuns One never tires of reading these one that brings them in contact ber of instances where the worms with an extraordinary variety of nouncements, couched as they are have turned on isolated soldiers are in their quaint phrasing and sre people, our guests have learned sing their now old-fashioned idea reported. As a result of the fight" very rapidly that the England of ing, and the disruption of the railird and lodging are advertised the doleful reports is not the Engespoctable family residing in way services by the military, there ud of reality. They went back the neighbourhood of Brunswick ix a shortage of oval and foodstuffs esterday, having to all appearances in the city.
Squars, who wish to receive one Breatly enjoyed their stay, and or two gentlemen as iamat A confounded by the contrast between can procure for a gentleman of spring novelty show under the ex-anticipations based on hear-say and spectability an adequate Mercantile
them. the fects that actually confronted pert guidance of W. De La Roche, Situation?" mechanician, lends "itself to pro: Chief among the entertainment minent display on the subject. of It one of the purposes of their announcements is that one desetihits musical automatons: "First trip was to get some insight into ing "A View of Paris, taken from part, two beautiful automata fig-the truth about England, they came the Tuileries, comprising the Gar-tures, that will perform 12 duettes at a fortunate time. They found len and Place Carrousel, the Quays, on the flute; second, a mechanical us in the thick of a coal crisis that the Bridges, and most of the public ird which sings 10 differ-means far more to Great Britein buildings, with the hills command-'a Dutch coffee house than any corresponding ing the City, which are now fortify. could possibly mes vending' all kinds of figures by a ing by Buonaparte, Ons mechanical process... The public is must not take the pleasant We of the present generation may respectfully informed that the above said by departing guests too well sigh after the competency imp-ally, but in this ease it is plain automatons perform at the will of lied in the following "vant-ad", person present." All of which that the calm thoroughness and "A cook and housekeeper to a sin-good temper with which the coal is clearly cheap at six-pence, gentleman, or in a regular, gon-According to the yellowed columns problem has thus far been handled teel family, where the lady is her "A single gentleman wishing by all parties have profoundly imdomesticate in a genteel private f2- own housekeeper, a sober steady pressed our American visitors. They person, who understands her busi-muy can do so on a supe have had a glimpse of that essential
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