Show NOTES OF THE DAY The income of Oxford university Eng and is slightly under 3CO000 I has been found that nearly all the rivers in west Africa within 1000 miles east and west of Ashantee yield gold A doctor says that half the deafness prevalent at the present time is probably the result of children having their ears boxed A carnet used in the room of the Eng lish mint after being in wear some years was recently burned in pans and yielded 2500 worth of gold I any member of the imperial family lives out of Russia for more than one fourth of the year then his or her income is considerably reduced At the beginning of the century the population of London Increased yearly 20 per cent It increased only 1 per cent from 18S1 t 1891 and now the increase is still less The petrified remains of a whale eighty feet in length have been found in the hills north of Lombec a few miles back from the sea in Santa Barbara county California A remarkable success is claimed for the London Schools Swimming association associa-tion During last year no fewer than 10 000 school children were taught to swim by its instructors The most curiously made soap in use Is that supplied to the stations of the London Lon-don Northwestern Railway company which is made from the fat and grease washed out of their meat cloths In a coroners jury empaneled in London Lon-don the other day there were twelve Smiths one Jones and one Brown To complete the cycle it is only necessary to mention that the deceaseds name was Robinson Within the last twenty years 120 new British peerages have been created while fiftyfour have becane extinct nearly half the peers and baronets have inherited inher-ited or received their titles within the last ten years Englands nickel trade is passing through a severe crisis owing to the diminished di-minished consumption of the metal in German coinage and the competition of the French Nickel company which has reduced the price from 4 a pound t 27 cents At South Beach Staten Island an enterprising en-terprising concert hall proprietor has engaged en-gaged the Stapleton Salvation Army corps with a brass band from New York to hold prayer and song services on the stage while beer i being sold on the main floor Im 1897 Portugal will celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the voyage of Vasco1 da Gama to India by way of the cape of Good Hope and it ha invited the United States to send some of their men ofwar to Lisbon t participate in the celebration cel-ebration One of New Yorks comic weeklies has for many years had an old man on its staff whose duty i Is to see that no old jokes are accepted Ho has a remarkable memory and nearly every week he kills something which has passed muster mus-ter with the younger editors He knows the flies of his paper thoroughly and not Infrequently when a stolen sketch or a old joke is submitted he can name the month and year when it was first printed print-ed Long years of mirth killing have left their mark in the deep furrows that line his face I has made him suspicious of every one and particularly of writers of jokes and comic artists This man has passed his whole life in New York employed em-ployed at the unending task of exposing fakirs He said to a friend not long ago that old jokes haunted his sleep and made life a burden but it is his boast that none of them has ever worked its way into his paper During the reign o Emperor William T when the present emperor was a boy Prince Bismarck walking one day through a corridor of the royal palace at Berlin came upon a strange scene Hearting inK within the room which he passed a great racket he opened the door and saw the young grandsons of the emperor dancing about while their father the crown prince ground the handle of a hand organ All were in high spirits and seeing the chancellor the young princes laughingly invited him to join in the dance Prince Bismarck declined but he offered t turn the organ if the crown prince would join his sons Prince Frederick Fred-erick consented and the chanctllor turned the handle with great animation The laughter and sport grew louder with the increased speed of the playing Just then the old emperor came in He took te in the empror a glance I see my lord Chancellor he said said with a smile that you are beginning early to make the princes danc to your music |