Show XOTES OP THE DAY Suicide is less prevalent in Ireland than in any other country in the world The property of the Salvation Army in the United States is valued at near 5000000 Physiological uses of the Roentgen rays have so increased that the publication pub-lication of the Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy has been begun in London Lon-don A Paris Shopkeeper who does not smoke is trying to get a divorce from his wife the only evidence he offers I of her infidelity being that her clothes i always smell of tobacco j When a Randolph Vt man was j asked how much property he had he thrashed the assessor who asked the question and was arrested convicted I and bound over for the offense i A single glass eye can rarely be worn 1 more than a yaar without being polished pol-ished for the surface becomes roughened rough-ened by the action of tears etc and irritates the lids as they rub over it The great new Boston public library has already been found to have been ill planned and inadequate It costs I 2500000 and now 25000 is about to be expended to construct a suitable reading read-ing room The Burns exhibition which is to commemorate the centenary of the i j poets daath will be held in the Glasgow i Glas-gow Fine Ant institute from July till October Her majesty has consented I I to become a patron i Intemperance among London women is increasing The metropolitan police I returns show that thei3 has been a decided advance during the last two years in the number of women apprehended appre-hended for drunkenness The revenue from tobacco in England Eng-land was greater during the last year I than ever before which fact the chancellor chan-cellor of the exchequer attributes to I the greatly increased consumption of cigarettes by children I Every ton of Atlantic water when evaporated yields eightyone pounds of salt a ton of Pacific water seventy nine ppunds Arctic and Antarctic waters wat-ers yield eightyfive pounds to the ton I and Dead sea water 187 pounds I There are numerous hotels in New York wher suites of rooms consisting of bedroom parlor bathroom and one oi two sittingrooms cost 5200 to 500 a I week This of cooimse incfudes table I service and a private diningroom and attendance A queer accident happened near Wal ball in England lately wlwre a canal fell into a coal pit The canal flowed over the pit the underground SUpports I sup-ports of which gave way letting down the ground above draining the canal i of water and putting a stop to all traffic Paris is rushing into the Bois de Boulogne for residence and abarJdon lag the district around < bhe Elysee palace The emigration to Dive west is so constant that people arc already speaking of he not distant time when I the Bois de Boulogne will be the center I of Paris I The salt product of the United States during 1865 was 13666649 barrels bar-rels of 2SO pounds each valued aJt 4 423086 About onehalf of it was produced pro-duced in the state of New York Although Al-though < the amount was greater by 600 barrels than in any previous year the value was 300000 less I At the Pasteur institute in Palermo I 2221 persons have been treated in ten years While the greater number of cases were of dog bites there were instances in-stances of bites by donkeys mules oxen pigs wolves a horse a ferr tan t-an a ralbbit and sixteen cases of bites by human beings suffering from I hydrophobia A small town in Bavaria is about to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary anni-versary of a lawsuit with a line of barons concerning the ownership of a forest of oak and beach < trets The villagers will come into full possession next month and have managed the property so well that its value has increased in-creased to 500000 Sleeping in the open air is a grievous and severely punished offense in England Eng-land Two little girls one five years old the other two were brought before a London police magistrate recently charged with sleeping out without visible means of subsistence He refused re-fused to commit them and ordered them to be let loose in the streets again as their parents had abandoned them On the b9undary line of Penobscot and Hancock counties Maine there is a post it is said upon which a man may sit with his feet In Hancock county coun-ty antfhis oattails hanging down in Penobscot county He may take a pipe out of his pocket in Hoiden tobacco to-bacco out of a pocket in Bucksport and lighting the pipe blow smoke into the town of Dedham Lord G iOrge Hamilton recently said in parliament that vhe English system of primary education was ths most expensive ex-pensive in the world Sir Charles Dike thereupon asked the government to give official figures asserting that the United States spent two or three times as much money on schools as England d < oes This is likely to be true yet the results obtained probably justify Lord George Hamiltons statement Mrs J V Bloomfield of Deerfield Me observed that her young child was restless and called a physician An examination led him to believe the little one was suffering from seine affliction of the blood and he advised poultlcing the thgh ITS a few days a fullsized needle was removed from the thigh the theory of the doctor being be-ing that the child had at some time sat down upon it and that it had worked upward and out A scheme is on foot to double the area of Edinburgh by the annexation of certain rural districts and also the towns of Leith and Portobello It seems that the present area of the city is less than ten square miles while the population is more than 275000 The present acreage of the city is 6216 land the proposed rural extensions 5780 acres The area of Leith is 2044 acres and the area of Portobello 257 acres I so that the prea of the extended city would be 14400 acres I r < < < 0 7 |