Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1904 — SHORT STORIES. [ARTICLE]

SHORT STORIES.

The stage which has run for sixty years between West Goshen anti Corn-

wall, Conn., has just been discontinued. Seafaring men say the gulf stream has increased its speed and incoming ships are several hours ahead of schedule time. Those bound south are delayed. Treasure hunting has become the principal occupation of the islanders of Martinique. They dig day and night among the ruins caused by the eruptions of Mont Pelee for gold and other valuables. The famous Snow telescope is to be moved from Williams Bay, Wis., to tho summit-of Mount Wilson, near Pasadena, Cal., where it will be in charge of Professor G. E. Ilale, director of the Yerkes observatory. The training school in courtship, which is one of the institutions In the Salvation Army, has no counterpart in any other organization in the world. All the courting is done in public—that is to say, in the presence of other members of the army. Strangely enough, the girls appear to like these extraordinary rules.