Show SOIB TBINGS TO ENOW The Inspector of the Fifth gendar merle cOiIfS of France has foibidden th0 use of the bicycle in the service He has evidently not read General Miles assertion concerning the vlctpey that is to perch on the first army to adopt the wheel A shrewd shopman on Broadway New York has placed genuine 13inch 12inch and Sinch shells and 6 and 1 pounder shells in his bg window The huge messangers of death aad destruction destruc-tion draw crowds of rubberneeks from the bulletin boards Natural gas has been flowing forages for-ages In several sections of the Caucasian Cauca-sian provinces bordering the CaSPIaXL sea Many of these gas wells have constantly emitted flames for a period beyond the memory of living men and are superstitiously spoken of as the eternal fires The lighthouse on Armish rock in the Hebrides is about 500 feet from the shore To avoid having an attendant oil the rock the light is produced on the shore and projected across the water upon a mirror iii the hightheusi the mirror reflecting the light In the desired de-sired direction ResignatIons from the French Legion of Honor owing to the persecution of Zola continue M Jules Barbier the well known comic opera librettist eulogizes eulo-gizes in his letter of retirement the great Zola and remarks that he is as glad to resign the rosette of the legion as he was to receive it The crown princess of Greece who is a trained nLrse is making a thorough investigation of the German hospital methods She Intends also to make a tour of the English hospitals with a view to having a number of uptodate hospitals erected in her own country immediately upon her return Denmark makes a clear distinction between the thriftless and the respectable respect-able poor The former are treated like English paupers The latter never cross a workhouse threshold It des tltute they receive a pension ranging from 14 to 54 a year or if too feeble to look after themselves they are placed in an old age home Near the main highway leading through York Harbor 3re ae the remains re-mains of the mansion where 230 years ago dwelt a young English nobleman Sir Thomas Gorges the first mayor of Georgiana in the province of La conia In the year 1641 York was invested in-vested with the powers of a city con porate and became the first English city in America Dickens would have been pleased with the title of the Church of England Eng-land Burial Funeral and Mourning Reform Re-form Association which at its 20th annual meeting has issued the follow lag manifesto No darkened house no durable coffin no special mourning attire no bricked grave no unaeces easy show no avoidable expense antI no unusual eating or drinking The railway from the Congo rivers mouth to Stanley Pooh 240 miles Ia length has finally been completed after eight years work and a vast area of the interior of Africa has thus been opened to modern methods of trade and commerce There are 10000 miles of navigable watereay above Stanley Pool and 20OdO000 people inhabit the tenri tory which may be thus reached The following is the oath which the queen of Holland will take at her coronation coro-nation soon I swear to the Dutch people that I will observa and always maintain the constitution I swear that I will defend and guard with all my power the independence and he tern tory of the empire that I wIll protect public and private liberty and the rights of all my subjects and that I will use every means confided to rue by the law to foster and uphold the national and individual well being as a good queen should do And may God hp me |