| Show EDITORIAL hoies HOTES of the tho members in the next national house of representatives only belong to the present house iia Ira hawaiian wallan wailan coins to the amount of and corresponding in value and denomination with our silver coinage are to be struck at the ban san francisco mint raint chicago la Is to have an elevated railway with a capital of an underground electric compa company oy capital and an oil exchange denmark has been provided with the first of several heavy guns which had beon been ordered from herr krupp of essen the one finished and delivered 19 fb is 19 82 32 feet 9 0 inches long 4 feet 6 5 inches diameter at breach bre achand yand land weighs 68 tons tous the carriage alone 1326 ia la 26 tons the sting of a bee bem it la Is said when compared with the point of a nae line needle under a powerful magnifying glass ia is scarcely discernible but the trouble ia Is nat that when a man gets a beesting ee sting he forgets to compare it with a needle hence it is always i and by a large majority the new now york magl mail exar express en has hag investigated the school accommodation in that city and finds that in one ward alone there are eleven hundred children who are unable to get into the schools the tha M N E better bother its brains about new york more aind and utah less leadville during the past live ye year arshaw shaa produced ss ounces of alivera tons of lead and 26 J ounces of gold ive lve I 1 ve of tons of ore shipped to other towns for trea treatment trient it will pay this year to the railroad comp ahles for the transportation i of bullion to the eastern market manket ete ate the tha philadelphia school boys who embarked in silk bilk culture two years ago have enlarged their in the city to accommodate worms with a branch at swedes boro N NJ J for the culture of mulberry trees tress they have invented a machine for winding the silk from the cc coons cocoons which they have been exhibiting at public fairs two monster rattlesnakes have been sent alive t to the national museum in washington by its florida age agent n t one which came from the ba banks s atthe oath 0 suwannee Bu Su wannes river measured twelve inches around its middle weighed twelve pounds and was nearly seven feet long tho the other from polk county was eight feet three inches long thirteen and a half inches in circumference and weighed thirty thirteen un and ahalt a halt half pound pounds the lancet protests energetically against the habit of smoking cigarettes in the belief that these miniature doses of nicotine are innocuous the tho effects produced on the nervous system bya by a free consumption of cigarettes are stated to be more marked and character than those recognizable after recourse to other modes of smoking and pulse tracings made af after ter ten cigarette smoking greeven are even flatter and an dmore more indicative of depression thail than those taken after the smoking of cigars it is estimated that within a few years the united untied states will be paying Inga as much for lemions as germany lays pays for her standing army of half a million men for the year ending march 1881 Germ germany anys military expenses amounted to 0 the pension appropriation of the last congress was but of this only about is for curlent nna the rest for arrears with the increase of the number of pensioners the amount paid on current account will largely increase A mr aud mrs mowbray have been appointed in england to the office of master and matron of the melton mowbray poor house the board decided that they cannot berve serve because becaas i e mrs me mowbray is the sister of her husbands first wife and therefore their mardla marriage e is illegal at the same time the poor law Commissioner commission er shave on appeal enforced a charge of bf 30 for income tax on a person in walea wales in respect of the income of his de ce ceased cifes sister whom the law in this case declares to be his wife there thele Is nothing ilke like consistency and this la Is a shining example recent evidence seems to indicate that under certain conditions vege i tabie table matter may be converted into coal in a much less period than many geologists have believed to be necessary at least au approach to such conversion has been baen discovered in some of the nines of the upper harz hartz in Ger germany where some of the til timbers abers originally used as supports have been transformed into what appears to ba be a genuine lignite brown coal theotime the time occupied by the process cannot it is believed have extended beyond four centuries a very brief period compared with that usually assigned to coal formations the century co announces for immediate publication in this country from advance sheets the new edition of the imperial dictionary a work which has been accepted in great britain for more than a quarter to of a century as a standard lexicon of the english language As now issued it may almost claim to be anew a new work it contains about words with illustrations As the real meanings of words and the grama gramatica gramaticas i constructions into which they enter are generally most roost clearly shown by means of illustrative quotations vast numbers of these are given many thousands of them being inserted in the present edition foz for the forai firs time the new york sun speaks of the long time it has taken to erect the salt lake temple and adds there is difficulty in gathering the taxes levied upon the believers for this seand the gentiles already count on turning the structure into a IL state house when utah ia Is admitted to the union the sun iq i doubly fooled taxes are not levied for building the temple donations are paid for it freely and tithing from which it is chiefly supported increases yearly when the gen tilea tilee turn the structure into a state bouee boube or anything else the vun sim will have turned into green cheese and the liberals that started the notion will bo be turned into truth tellers they are events equally probable |
