Show miscellaneous ITEMS gold pens are now usually tipped with indium the bits of this metal are laid in notches at the point of the pen then fastened on with flux being afterward ground and polished for use pliny says that the liquor of the cuttlefish was often used by the romans as an ink it was considered superior to the lampblack preparation but waa not used so freely on account of its much greater cost several species of the rhododendrons have the singular peculiarity of producing a poisonous honey chemists have repeatedly examined the flower but have not detected the poisonous poison ons principle which appears to be only developed after the bees have manufactured the juices of the flower into honey A mrs richard king is the owner of a landed estate in texas which occupies nearly two thousand square miles she employs a small army of men on her property which is also a congressional district and her power is so great among her employed emp loyes that she can readily dictate it is said who shall be the next representative from that district at washington news was brought from sitka to port townsend recently that the whaling season had been the most unsuccessful of recent years the catch of the entire fleet so far as reported has been but twenty three whales fourteen deaths occurred in the fleet and a number of sailors who ran away ched since are supposed to have frozen to death two lyons students are traveling through france with a bousse bousse the form of perambulator used at the last paris exhibition it weighs one hundred pounds and they carry another one hundred pounds of baggage one rides while the other pushes him for an hour then they change about they have reached paris and will go to bordeaux marseilles and back to lyons british museum authorities have no right to exclude persons from their reading room according to a recent london county court decision they had undertaken to keep out one of the eccentric nuisances who plead their own cases in english courts but the court held that the collections by statute are free to all studious and curious persons so long as they observe the regulations A cargo of nearly three million feet of lumber was loaded at port townsend wash a week ago for delagoa bay south africa it was destined for use in the mines in the interior one usually thinks of africa as having no scarcity of timber but it is most probably the means of cutting it that are lacking american lumber finds a good market in most of the forest covered islands of the west indies for the same reason the sea serpent made its latest appearance pe arance in bellingham bay wash recently and seventeen residents of new are ready to make affidavit that they saw it they are equally positive with the wall street man who saw it or one off the coast last mont hand it is to be assumed cither that there are two or more sea serpents or that it is a very rapid swimmer or that it knows the route of the northwest passage the era of adopted during the early days of the roman empire commemorates the great victory gained by octavus over the troops of anthony and Heo patra january 1 B 0 80 it was often used among the romans both in writing and colloquially just as in england people speak of events as occurring before or after the conquest or as persons in this country frequently refer to events as having happened before or aft orthe war if the hair is falling oui or turning gray requiring a stimulant with nourishing and coloring food halls vegetable sicilian hair ia just the specific |