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Kendall. Montana, July 21, 1903. 7. ILLITERACY OF IMMIGRANTS. Portuguese and Southern Italians Rank Lower Than People of Other Nations. An estimate has been made by the immigraticn bureau of the illiteracy of our immigrants according to theii various nationalities, says Gunton'E Magazine. So much is heard of the st: t ness and efficiency- of German schocls that, most persons would think the German irnm . grant wou'd rank first; that new-cosners from the fat''erland would have the sari lest p?reen.age of adults who can neither rend nor write. In fact. the German immigrants rank neither first, second mm third. The. Scotch and the Scan- dinavians come out far ahead of all others in educational qualifications for intelligent eithenship, only cne per cent, of their number help!, in the illiterate class. The English, Finns and Moravians come next with two per cent, of their number illiter- ate; the Irish and Welsh three ner c^nt.; (',ermans, Swiss and French, four per cent.; Japanese five per cent.; Dutch six per cent. Then the percentage of poorly educated immi- grants. takes a sudden lean upward.. The Italiens from the north nart of their country and the Magyars have 12 per cent, of illiterates; the He- brews 18 per cent.; Russians 21 per rent ; Greeks 23 per cent.; Slovaks 28 per cent.; Rotimaninns 29 !ler cent : Polish 32 per cent.; Dalmatian, Bosniin and Servian 31 per cent.; croafan and Slavonian 3; rer cent.: Lithuanian 40 per cent.: Syrian 44 per cent.; Ruthenian 48 per cent.; Porttigneese and Italians from south Italy 49 ner cent. It may be re- marked that a number of our states could not mike- any better show'n7 than is made by immigrants from several nationalities mentioned. _ LARGEST CIR 17LAR SAW. One in Pennsylvania Intended to Cut Plait Stumps Into Shingle Bolt. \ I The largest circular; saw in the world has just been tqrned out of s factory in Williamsport, l'a., for Illif in the lumber section 9f Elk county. The saw -h seven feet tour inches in diameter and wears teleth each one of wl ich is four inches long. The saw weighs 305 pounds.. The purpose for which the mam- moth saw was made is of interest says the Philadelphia North Amer. ican. It will he used to cut pine stumps into shingle bolts, thus open- ing to the market a vast quantity of ma:erial which until recently was considered tmeless. In Elk county. where 30 years ago the forests of white pine were hewn down and turn- ed into lumber, there are thousands of acres of great pine stumps as solid as they were the day that the trees were cut, any of these stumps stand from five to eight feet above the ground, so that in the swampy re- gions of the Elk county plateaus there are millions of feet of choice shingle wood. The big saw will be installed in a mill near Straits, and its particular business will be to eat into blocks of the ponderous pine stumps that are to be fed to it, and it is expected to make one bite of the biggest morsel offered. NOTHING POETIC. How the Pond Dream of a Devoted Wife Was Rudely Dis- pelled. Some men are never poetic; others lose their poetic sense with the en- croachment of years. At least that is the opinion of a matron now past middle life, says the Chicag) Chron- icle. \The only trouble with a man is that he loses the poetic side of his nature as the years roll by,\ she re- marked. \Now only yesterday my husband took on the far -sway look. I must confess it recalled the delight- ful days when he put all his ta ents into telling me how charming I was and how all his life wan wrapped up in me, saying it as consitantly and with as many enchanting - ‘'ar.ations as even a woman could desire For a long time I watched him in silence. Then at last. unable longer to bear the suspense, I a :My asked: 'What are you thinkirg about rear? 'I was wondering.' he answered. `if I shouldn't be quite -afe in ea lug off my winter underwear.' N w, wasn't tha: poetic! Yet that same Iconoc- lastic man is brave enoltgh to com- plain at times that I have changed.* MORE THAN FIVE SENSES. The Number Po,,. d by Ilan Ile- eeeded by Those of thisLowlot •utmains. Many of our scientiAts, tintil quite recently have been reluctant to admit that a number of the lower animals possibly possess other senses than ours. So much new and undeniably affirmatory evidence is.. however, now being offered on this point, that there can be no longer any substan- tial reason for doubting that the live senses man itr.erfectly exercises are by no means all that are possible to sentient creatures, says the Scientific American. . One, such sense not possessed by human beings; but to a greater or less degree almost universally pres- ent in mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and insects, is what perhaps may be called the sense of localization. It enables its possessor. apparently by Its sole use, to find a desired spot, It is evid.ently closely connected with an instinctive and perfect memory of distance and direction. That the . homing pigeon exercises it to some extent, though undoubtedly aided by the landmarks it recoguizes. is in- disputable; that the honey bee has it in its fullness and perfection can - 'not. after the careful experiments of Albrecht Bethe in Germany. be doubted. Examples of insects that possess an X-ray sense, not only among Eu- ropean but our own hymenoptera, can be multinlied indefinitely. Only one or two of the senses peculiar to the lower animals are here noticed. Lublieck suggests that \there may be 50 of them.\ MARTYRS TO VANITY. linglish Peasant 1Wonieu Eat Starelt to Give Their Faces AA Attractive Pallor. Modernmartyrs to vanity are Northumbrien women. The acquisi- tion of the pale. ethereal complexion so much admired by their men lead' them to the practice of a form of beauty culture which has lately re- sulted in the death of Jane Mold. whr succumbed the other day to an ill ness induced by the habitual eon gumption of raw starch and uncooke( rice. says Black and White. It is a well-known practice in the north, and hundreds of women who work in the fields have the whit , magnolia complexion resulting from this treatment. The Northumbrian women have an- other aid to beauty in the shape of \uzles\—a variety of la re- cot ton scoop bonnet' made on whalebones like an umbrella. This they wear a. - a protection from the sun and wind when working out of doors in the hot sun. Most of these pallid females. if one goes up close to them. are observed to be nibbling starch, thus preserv- ing this - doubtful advantage of com- plexion by inward and outward pre- cautions. \No . uncooked rice\ once appeared in a doctor's dietary prescribed for an ailing north-country servant. pa - zlinit the mistress exceedingly until she was enlightened as to the habits of the Northumbrian peasantry. Slunielpal Ownereldp. Municipal ownership of water, gas, electricity, street railways, markets, baths and cemeteries in Nottingham. England, has shown an average annual net profit of $158,000 for the last four years. The money is applied to the re- duction of taxes. Si Have Your JOB PRINTING done at the Chronicle Job Office 1 1\IrT7TTYYTYTTT HHH1-0000-00410111 AAAAIAAAAAAAA We Print Letter Heads Bill Heads Statements Business Cards Visiting Cards Posters in fact everything in the way of Job Work at Lewistown Prices
