However that may be, it is certain that the disadvantages of mouth breathing are too numerous and glaring to be lightly passed over.
THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
Never Rode on Railroad Train.
Joseph McGinnis, aged eighty, is dead, in Findlay, Ohio. It is said that he had only been in three towns during his lifetime, and that he had never ridden on a railway train.
Ban on One Carnival Sport.
Coney Island and other amusement places of New York State will have to struggle along this summer with “red-hots” and scenic railways and other athletic diversions without the aid of that soothing exercise of hitting with a baseball the head of an “Ethiopian” as it protrudes from a hole in the canvas sheet and win a cigar. This is the depressing news which comes from Albany, N. Y., where a fussy legislature is interfering with the cheap and simple pleasures of the poor.
The bill, if passed, prohibits, on pain of fines ranging from $100 to $500, the earning of an honest though hazardous living by exposing the skull to the aim of snipers at Coney. Many persons who have no more profitable use for their heads will join the army of the unemployed, and the millions which throng Coney each week will have to content their violent natures by throwing baseballs at wooden heads instead of at the “African brother.”