The Small Unwashed

The Lapp baby belongs to the class of the small unwashed. Whea its mother is in a particularly neat frame of mind, she daubs fat ou it, and that is all the bathing that the youngster is likely to get, as it outgrows fondling aud fat dubbing in time. A Massachnsetts soldier was the first :o lose a leg in the civil war. He enisted April 30, 1861, and 20 days later lis leg was crushed by the fall of a stack of his own company's muskets in the capitol rotunda at Washington. Spain has 22,966 elementary schools, tut only 41 per cent of the children receive even the rudiments of an education. The teachers receive only $25 to f 400 per year, and most of them are unable to collect that. It is said that it costs $23.82 an acre to raise wheat in Massachusetts.