Miscellany

In San Diego, California, ministers' sons formed a society to combat the base libels fastened upon their kind.

Sixty people fainted when Ricardo Thanorro carried an open can of ether on a Manhattan subway train, " to cure his cold."

The Panama Canal had its greatest week of business--168 vessels passed through. Eighty-one of these belonged to the United States fleet.

In New York, 1,500 traveling salesmen cheered for railroad mileage books at a 20% discount and agreed to fight in court any opposition by the roads.

In the Hotel Raynaud, Paris, an obus, or mortar shell, surviving from the war of 1870 and used to break coal in the cellar, exploded after 50 years of service, wounding a workman and breaking the plumbing.

At Lynchburg, Virginia, a woman bought a peck of potatoes for 30 cents. She peeled one and found inside a note from a Michigan farmer: "I got 24 cents a bushel. What did you give?"

By rapid calculation, five times as much!