“I often prescribe the slow sipping of at least a pint of hot water in the morning while dressing. This washes out the stomach, stimulates the circulation in the lungs and skin and promotes the action of the liver. If a person has a tendency to gout or rheumatism, the water-drinking habit is especially recommended.” One physician was found who recommended the drinking of a quart of water with each meal, but the majority were opposed to drinking water while eating. Soldiers in War, 21,770,000. A German military authority estimates that 21,770,000 men stand opposed to each other--12,820,000 on the side of the Allies and 8,950,000 for Germany, Austria, and Turkey. On the naval side the estimates are as follows: Germany, Allies. et al. Line ships 113 56 Big cruisers 87 17 Small cruisers 128 56 Torpedo boats 704 358 Submarine 179 [A]40 Miscellaneous 231 239 [A] Number of new boats unknown. The daily cost of the war to the ten nations now taking part he places at 169,000,000 marks--$42,250,000--and he estimates that up to the first of April the total cost of the war was 40,000,000,000 marks--$10,000,000,000. Italy again excepted, he placed the annual cost of such a war at $15,000,000,000. It would take 60,000,000 of the huge 1,000-mark bank notes to pay this cost, and these notes, stacked on top of each other, would make a pile 20,000 feet, almost four miles in height. In gold, this same sum would weigh 24,000,000 kilograms--52,912,800 pounds, whereas the entire gold production of the entire world during the last five hundred years has amounted to but 15,000,000 kilograms. The daily war costs for the German empire he places at 33,000,000 marks--$8,250,000, and only forty days of this conflict cost as much as the whole Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. The cost to England, exclusive of the colonies, is about the same, and three months of this war cost Great Britain as much as the Boer War, lasting two years and seven months. France spends a little more daily. Selling Street Cars Popular Bunko Game. Government buildings, skyscrapers, and “gold bricks” have been “sold” to innocent farmers, who, with carpet bag in hand, stand on crowded corners and view the “wonders” of great cities. The days of this kind of crooked work are passed, so police say, but nevertheless street cars have been “sold” in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois, within the last two weeks. Adorjan Antal is under arrest in Cleveland, Ohio, on a charge that he “sold” street cars to foreigners who recently settled in Kane County, Illinois. Report from Columbus says the Ohio governor’s office has honored a requisition from the governor of Illinois for the return of Antal, alias Ontal Impre. Wins in Long Name Contest.