The Dickinson press., 1883-08-25
Current Eotes.

ern firm. Every night the sign is COW
cred with wire screen to protect it
from mutilation. ''The boys try to
make US company of dues by remov-
ing the m said member of the firm.
The cholera scare has stimulated the
authorities of Vienna to unwonted &C.
tivity in sanitary matters. Not only
have they decided to take a number of
measures of precautionary nature, but
they have published long list of the
most stringent regulations. to be carried
out in case cholera should make its ap-
pearance in the capital.
1t seems that the steps on the social
ladder in Pennsylvania are as far apart
as they are in England. Asuperintend-
ent of a coal mine in Scranton refuses to
recognize the marriage of his soma
minor-with Lowell girl, because the
latter is beneath her husband in station.
The officials charged with the man
agement of the hospital of Paris at Log
gerheads with the attending physicians
about the value of beer az medicine or
an article of nutriment. The doctors in
sist that beer shall be retained in the
list of articles furnished to the hospitals,
and are sustained in this by the entire
medical fraternity of the French capi-
tai. The managers of the hospitals how.
ever. have the disposal of the fund, and
for the present beer is not among the
things that they supply.
IN quarrying sandstone in the yard of
the state prison near Carsee22, ,1li1llIal
numerous footprints have been discov.
cred. Some were made by AM nimal
allied to the elephant; some resemble
those of the horse and the deer; others
were apparently made by wolf. There
were also tracks made by large birds,
and some which bore strong teIo.- ess
to human: footprints. Prof. Marsh, who
has examined photographs and casts Of
them, is of the opinion, however, that
the latter were. made by large Edentates,
and not by human beings.
Competition is necessary in the hotel
and tavern business in the Yosemite
Valley. A tourist, who is evidently an
Englishman, writes to New York pa
per TO complain that he had to pay So
for "French claret," which was neither
French nor claret, 25 cents for blacking
his boots, and had live on "sogged" po.
tatoes and bad bread, ''leathery" beef
and vile coffee, When he demonstrated
the hotel man replied: "Well, you
need not expect to set every comfort
when you come here" The hotel
keeper saw that the tourist was "blars.
ted Britisher," and "socked it on to
him." for such comforts as he enjoyed.
From statistics recently published it
appears that there are in the world no
fewer than 1886 paper mills, producing
every year $50, 600 tons of paper from
all kinds of substances, including rags,
straw and alfalfa. About one half is
printed upon, and of these four hundred
seyenty-six thousand tons of paper,
nearly three hundred thou.
sand tons are used by newspa-
pers. The various Governments con-
sumo in official business 100000 tons;
schools, $4,000 tons: commerce, 10000
tons; industry, $4,000 tons, and private
correspondence another 10000 tons.
Including women and children, the pa
per trade employs $4,000 hands.
It is a wonderful fact that shipping g.
as old as civilization and once the great
carrier of the worlds commerce, has
been far outstzipped in its capitalized
value bv the railroad. an institution but
little more than fifty years old. The
value of British shipping is 81, 900 ,OOO,-
600; value of British railroads, S., 700 600, :
600; value ofAmerican railroads, Sc, ,3OO,-
100000. Great Britain herself, the
queen of marine commerce, finds her
railroad investment to treble that in
shipping, while our railroad plant nearly
doubles in value that of the mother
country.
Some of the scenes at the hotels in
Bethlehem and Jefferson. at the White
Mountains. during the stay of the hay
fever patients in August are quite anus
ing. These unfortunates get together in
knots, detail their symptoms and pass
round for inspection and criticism the
various medicines they use, unmindful
of their poorer brethren in misery,
who, not possessing money enough to
migrate to the mountains, have to stay
and snuff and cough it out at home.
Ex-Secretary William M. Evarts is to
deliver the annual address at the joint