While tlii* tire Hint destroyed the
four-story SiilltiiHii department store
In Miineie recently was nt its height
an excited womnti rulleil police liend
qmirlers, saying that her husband. a
workman, was supposed to he repair
ing the risif on tin* Stillman building
and she feared he might Itave perished
in the flames. A policeman who in
vestigated found that the man in ques
I lion not only hud escaped hut had
helped to save n woman clerk who was
l In danger. The officer Informed the
\ wife of this, thinking she would not
■ only be relieved hut proud of the bus
'■ band. Instead she snapped hack:
"What was my husband doing on the
I roof with a woman?”—Indianapolis
] News.
Length of Life Extended.
> In 1:I4S-."|0, 2fi,t>00.000 deaths from
! the plague or "Idacl; death” occurred,
; which was one-fourth of the entire
| population of the world at that time.
The average length of life In the six
teenth century was only 21 years,
while In this, tile twentieth century,
the average life Is forty-five years. In
India, however, the average life
today Is only twenty-four years.
We are enabled to see what the sci
ence of medicine is accomplishing In
i more civilized countries, where tgno
1 ranee and superstition do not prevail
| to uny great extent.
Precocieu* Youth.
Mary and Ruth were discussing
plans for playing house and Mary sail
•Til be the mother and you he my 111
U- girl.”
■ No," said Ruth. "1 want to he the
father."'
•oh.” -aid Mary “let's play we’ve
o », , i*v t»i‘ to r.*"i and then w‘e
• «»'• l»* »*«l H fit 1 »iv i.
Importat'Ci of Intestines.
