| Show THE fractional silver certificate bill pa by the house of representatives is an important measure the following is the text of the bill that the secretary of tha treasury be directed to issue silver certificates of the denominations of 20 15 and 10 cents in euch form and design as he may determine such certificates to be received redeemed paid and reissued in the sanae spanner as silver certificates of larger and to bo exchangeable for silver other and the secretary is directed fo make regulations for distributing and redeeming the denominations of silver certificates herein authorized tho bill was earnestly opposed by cox randall bacon of bew york and other good speakers and influential men the fact was recalled and tho old were abolished by an almost unanimous unan demand of the people but on the other hand dingley and phelps asserted that a new issue of fractional notes was demanded by popular so that small sums might be pent by mail mr bland denounced tho bill as a scheme to drive small silver out of circulation it would be cheaper for the banks to transmit the notes than to transport silver and therefore they would dorco them into circulation whether the people wanted them or not THE tichborne claimant is going to england as soon as ho can raise buffi ciment means to plant suit for damages against the british government sustained by his false imprisonment my ticket of leave has expired and I 1 am going to england as soon as I 1 can get enough money said the tichborne Tich borno claimant lately 1 I shall have new witnesses and shall produce arthur orton at the proper timo and prove hia identity since aug 8 1871 he has been confined in a lunatic asylum in new south wales if everything is favorable I 1 expect to get my case in court by november next ican prove that the jury which convicted mo was packed I 1 have been promised by miss baring of the london banking firm of baring broa to carry on my caso has been subscribed by the tichborne vindication andragna and Magna charter association for the same pur coee THE iowa legislature has passed a hi to regulate the toll of custom mills which only needs the signature A the governor to become a law it reads the toll or charge for grinding and bolting any sort of grain by water power fidall not exceed one eight part thereof and by steam power shall not exceed one seventh part any owner or operator of a gristmill grist mill or any employed therein who shall violate the provisions of the foregoing shall bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and conviction thereof shall be fined not less than 5 nor more than 50 for each luense and ahall stand committed until such fine and are paid 1837 the united kingdom imported of wheat flour of pounds each and of that great total the united states furnished sacks commenting on these figurea our esteemed london the miners gazette says editorially by this time it is generally conceded that nothing short of a failure of the american crop or a miracle can stop the cloud of american flour which continues to roll into this free country by this time too it ia unfortunately truo that hundreds of british mills have been beaten in the fight and consequently there is a less active competition at home which for those who have survived the hard straggle is so far in their favor at any rate immense aa have b cen the recent importations of american flour they do not exercise the great depressing influence which they formerly did our british cousins ought to be thankful to the yankee millers for sending them such an abundance of so excellent and so cheap flour still there is more to follow THE cyclone is capturing admirers in the south after the cyclone has been harnessed by man let the blizzard receive some attention then Keely and perpetual motion will come in for utilization yankee inventors should never pause till every source of power is utilized they ought to employ the cranks too in some useful pulverizing ver operation for instance feed the cranks to the cyclone ane number of telephones in ansa in the united states is and the gross income from the same for alie year 1886 was the expenses were and tho net earnings the number of miles of wire is the telephone companies obtain 2681 net profit per subscriber after paying 14 royalty to the parent company and all expense of the business MANITOBA is oaid to be in a fair way to receive a large number of Ic elanders who are finding iceland unable to furnish them a living A warm like manitoba will probably prove too rich or the Ic elanders blood we advise them to move into dakota where they will find blizzards vigorous enough to remind them pleasantly of their old arctic home THE Cli inese language is spoken by persons hindustani Hindo stani by upward of englich Eng liah by moro alian russian by more than 70 german by spanish by and french by only 40 THE city of naiden north of china which was submerged about 1000 years ago lias recently been exposed to view and a number of vases plats and other uton sila of the sough dynasty have been recovered by the natives JAY GOULDS addiso to bivs is keep out of bad company and go to work with a will and if you cant keip ke ip out of bad company my boys do as jay does and wipe out alio company IK lancaster county pennsylvania a man was imprisoned days to insure his presence ai a witness at a murder trial and when ho put in a bill of 1 a day for liia time the bill was not only disallowed but the man was charged 2 a week for board IT is estimated that there are of coin in the present circulation of the world or available for circulation of this magnificent total are in geld and in ail yer |
