According to the statements we receive, the citizens take to the prairies the moment a tornado strikes a Kansas town.  As the children cannot run as fast as the grown-ups, they have often been caught and injured by the terrible storms before they could escape.

To prevent such accidents in the future, some one decided to build tornado caves under the schoolhouses.  These caves are large enough to shelter all the children while the blow lasts, and the scholars are regularly drilled in the methods of reaching these caves quickly and in good order.

The teacher sounds the alarm, and instantly the pupils stand up, and to the music of their own singing march down the stairs and into the cave.

Then, let the tornado rage as it will, they are safe.

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The tailors’ strike is over, and has resulted in a victory for the strikers.

The contractors have signed the new agreement, and most of the tailors are now back at their work.

This victory means a great deal to the workers.  Their period of labor will be reduced from fifteen hours a day to ten, and by the new scale of wages they will be able to earn from $10 to $18 a week, instead of from $5 to $10 as formerly.

The leader of the strike, Meyer Shoenfeld, has been working so hard in the interests of his fellow-laborers that he is quite ill.  At one of the last meetings of the strikers he broke down in the midst of a speech he was making, and was unable to continue.

When he heard that the contractors were about to sign, he insisted on getting out of his sick-bed and going to the meeting, to make sure everything was being properly arranged.

The success of the strikers will cause a slight increase in the price of ready-made clothes, but few are likely to begrudge this when they realize what an increase of comfort it means to the poor workers.

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Austria and Hungary are not getting along as well as they might.

There are two reasons for this unfriendly feeling.

One is that Austria has asked Hungary to pay a larger proportion of the common expenses of the two countries.  It was arranged that Hungary should pay thirty per cent. of these expenses, and Austria the other seventy per cent., because Austria was much larger and wealthier than the sister land.

Since these arrangements were made Hungary has become exceedingly prosperous, and Austria now asks her to pay thirty-seven per cent. of the expenses instead of the former thirty per cent.

Hungary will not listen to any arguments on the subject, and threatens to separate herself from Austria.

These two countries are governed by one sovereign, and, like Sweden and Norway, or the various States of our own country, have each their own local government, but are united on all matters of foreign affairs, national defences, tariff, etc.