| Show NOTES NEW new commissioner of street cleaning retires by the advice of his physician who certifies that the worry annoyance and vex scions connected with his position have already mado made serious inroads on his bis constitution the solving of the street cleaning problem in our great cities seems to be about as far off offart as ver A NEWSPAPER reporter in buffalo has brought a gang of counter felters within the grasp of the law by be becoming doming a member and joining in the rather questionable pastime of passing counterfeit money AT kansas city a man stabbed his bis brother but the wounded man survived the jurys verdict was we the jury fand the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the third degree agree had the prosecuting witness died IN iii brussels there to is trouble between the owners of carrier pigeons and the telephone company because the fine wires of the latter strung over the streets are traps into which the pigeons run blindly and where they receive frequently fatal injuries 23 IT is stated that the municipal hospital in philadelphia contains a an indisputable leper lo io the shape of a chinese chingee the knowledge of this fact has had a depressing effect upon noon the C chinese laundry business and the childlike and bland john is not looked upon as a man and a brother to the same extent that he be has been THE french government is taking vigorous measures to suppress the morphine habit by punishing the druggists who sell the drug to persons whom they know to be addicted to its use one druggist who had been convicted of this offense in ore district and had paid the penalty has been refused a license 1 in another other district where he had opened a new shop KEELEY whose motor was a standing joke for many year sas well as a scheme by means of which to extract money from the pockets of credulous investors claims to have discovered dif je another new and wonderful force A high scientific authority states that this it is true tut but the public will want the best bast of evid evidence enbe before believing it owing to having once been so deceived by this same inventor THE announcement that the late sir william gull Gult one oneff of londona Lon dons most successful medical practitioners left a fortune of over behind him although he started on the poor boy plane and never got a guinea fee until he was past forty turned many young mens minds towards thoughts of medicine as a profession until it came to be known that most of his money was made by quick turns in stocks which he bought and sold on tips P which he be got from great city magnates who were his patients A and nd so the young mens minds have once more turned to thoughts of speculation THE biographical notes of bismarck that have appeared in the press in connection with his retirement from the have had bad so much of the post mortem flavor that one is tempted to believe thit that many of the newspapers drew upon their stock of prepared in advance obituaries to supply the ma aerial which the prince princess a unexpected stepping down and out made it her essary for them to have on the instant and this became all the more apparent to those who noticed that in many of these thee the e articles he was spoken of in the past tense bismarck Is not is ia back number yet by any means A VISITOR from australia to chicago recently stated that the people of that continent are in need of metal furniture P he has been in england to secure school desks and seats of light metal which will be durable and cheap but neither in england nor in america has he be been able to get what he wants he says I 1 the pest peat of Queens queensland laud lathe ia the white ant against the ravages of which sheet iron roofing and tin covered chaire are the only protection thus far devised the ants eat wood of eve every description borl boring in the doors an and house rafters until until they are honeycombed honey combed tables and bedsteads and bureaus suf suffering foring similarly BIG between the ocean greyhounds grey hounds has already been arranged for the coming season some day one of these ocean races will result in a catastrophe but bat aside from this there are other reasons why persons going abroad for health or pleasure should give the racers the gony gody go ny dy pest best and change are nowhere found in gr greater Leater perfection than aboard ship add for those who enjoy the sea bea no part of a european trip is more delightful or more conducive to health than that passed on the ocean people who go to eurott europe e for business may be excused wanting above all things to got get here but with those who go tor for rest health or pleasure it to is or should a to be different baa just come into posses possession won of a number berof of interesting reli relief crof of the firt first napoleon they cum comprise prise the red velvet robe which the first connul wore on great occasions notably the te deum sung at notre dame in honor of the concordat the saddle and holster bolster used by the em emperor at austerlitz the cashmere giedre girdle worn by napoleon at the battle of the pyramids a cane chak chair from st helena the cup teapot sa saucer and candlestick used in the bedchamber bed chamber 0 the dying exile as well as the sheet and pillow of his deathbed death bed the handkerchief he be used in his last moments 0 wipe his face and the case of mathematical instruments st he always carried THE reports which have come to hand thus far of the proceedings of the berlin conference are very meager and any extended discussion of its work must be postponed to a later day for one thing the conference has decided in favor of the principle of arbitration it recommends the establishment of courts of arbitration consisting of representatives of employers and employed for the settlement of labor disputes in addition to various limitations of the hours of labor in the case cam of women and minors the conference cori ference also recommends the general observance of sunday as a holiday in all trades and where continuous work is unavoidable it is recommended that employed emp loyes have at least every alternate sunday bunday free AN exchange says the north dakota legislature seems to have overstepped over stepped the bounds of prudence in extending the time of redemption on real estate mortgages from one to two years and if the ballnow bill now lacking only executive approval becomes a law it is to be feared that the farmers at whose de mait was passed will be the chief sufferers even in that sparsely settled community the mortgage loans as estimated by western agents of eastern loan companies amount to upwards of of which a large percentage can be foreclosed at once that it will be foreclosed and that outside capital invested in these theae loans w will I 1 be withdrawn from the state as vapidly as possible is as inevitable as that north dakota farm ers ere will find it extremely diff difficult to place loans in the future IT IS 18 worthy of notice that in ina mapy py of the new civil app appointments which the german F emperor in ont has made he has selected army officers the military tendency of his bis mind is strikingly shown by these preferences brought up to consider the trade of the soldier the most honorable pursuit in which man can engage and having been from his early youth surrounded by army officers his tendencies are apparently all in one direction in spite edite therefore of what be has lately said add as to the necessity of ameliorating the condition of the working classes it may be doubted whether with this inherited and cultivated disposition toward military methods he can present plans of social improvement that will commend themselves to those who look upon warfare as one of the great defects of modern civilization THE largest gun yet tur edat krupps works at F essen which is intended for the naval fortifications at cronstedt Cron stadt is made of the finest quality of ft cast steel and weighs pounds undo about tons the calibre is r 16 inches and the arrel barrel 44 feet long the core having been removed in one piece rhe fhe greatest diameter is aj 6 feet and the range about 12 miles it will fire two shots per minute each estimated to cost at the tri althe projectile projectile four feet long and weigh ing ig 2600 pounds was propelled by a charge of pounds of powder and penetrated 19 inches of armor going 1812 1312 yards beyond the target it was carried from essen to hamburg on a car specially constructed for the purpose work is reported as now being pushed forward on several guns of this class and a number of smaller ones have recently been ordered BUSTON boston poet new discoveries always bring about economic changes and you never can ter tell who 0 is going to be hurt or who helped somebody has invented devised or discovered put it as you will is new style of gunpowder which has many advantages over the old style article camphor enters very largely into its compoe composition up goes the price of camphor that hurts every thrifty housekeeper he cause she cannot have as much as in previous years yeam to protect her furs and woollens that helps the moths then the japanese who have been making it by a band process requiring the labor of many maby men and women determine since the demand is so great to use machinery that temporarily hurts the workingmen and working women of japan but it helps the machine shop in pittsburg that has the contract for the machinery which is to cost and all that are connected with it and all this and in other directions very much more juat because european soldiers wanted smokeless powder so that they might kill one another with greater ease precision and certainty |
