The Clifton clarion., 1886-06-09

have about the same number oi
 war vessels, yet our navy cost us
 S17,292,601 during 1881, while the
 Germans expended on theirs but
 S6,752,094.
 -St. Peter's Cathedral, just finish
 ed at Moscow, has five cupolas,
 and 900 pounds of gold were used
 in oYerlaying them. The doors of
 the temple cost S31O,OO0, and the
 marble floors S1, ,500.O00.
 Why does every man who has
 done something else want to write novel; That's what we would
 like to know. No man who can
 earn his living honestly ought to
 write a novel Buffalo Express.
 The Prince Of Wales, who is
 overwhelmed with debts, IS yet
 able to sell to his royal mother
 land. which she wants to add to
 her Balmoral estate, and for which
 the Queen pays Wales S125,000.
 By and by the people who are struggling for cottages and potato
 patches will begin to ask where
 these royal folks get all their land
 and plenty of money to buymore.
 The teru horse power is incor- rect, because it does not express
 the actual power of an average. or
 even an exceptional horse. This
 really makes no difference. The animal should be entirely elimi- mated from the mind, and the term taken at its exact meaning, viz, the raising of 33,OO0 pounds one foot high in one minute of time. A horse would fall far short of doing this for ten hours 2 day; steam engine will do it for 24hours.
 An underground hotel at Nj agara Fallsis the latest suggestion of the inventive irrepressible Yan- kee. The particular Yankee with whom this dazzling scheme origi- mates proposes to build his hotel underneath the American Falls, with plazza looking out upon the vast sheet Of falling water. "All that is necessary" he kindly ex- plains to g reporter of the Buffalo Courier, Sis to sink a shaft on Goat Island. tunnel straight out under the channel, blast out a cavern, put in iron pillars if neces- sary to support the ceiling, and construct any sort of an obser- v.,tion platform you blouse facing the i'll from the rear. 4 portion of the veranda might be shut of from the spray by means of plate glass doors, So DO change of cloth ing would be necessary for those who dislike dampness.'
 The American Inventor thinks that it is not generally known that coal oil and gasoline stoves rapidly vitiase the air of a room for breathing purposes by the de- velopment of large quantities of carbonic dioxide. How much long CT must this continue before manufacturers of such goods will 1 obviate this new danger by invent ing some form of hood and pipe ! for conveying this poisonous gas to the outside atmosphere? Vol | umes have been written concerning the ventilation of homes and the ! injury that arises, especially to ! children and the infirm, from l crowding foo many people together in closed apartments, and now, l with the introduction of oil aud . gasoline stoves in the household, ! q new difficulty presents itself, which Is not easily reinedied, in the endeayor to provide for health and comfort. These stoves are freauently found with several large burners in full blast, in small kitchens hardly large enough to contain air to supply the health ful requirements of one person. Evils of this kind, where they are widely spreal. must have a ter rible effect upon the strength of who breathe every day such an atmosphere, and, thus far, VIC have seen no remedy. It Is certainly q question for grave and whoever takes he problem in hand at once, and provides c means, at low cost, to ! aIiato this nuisance, will confer . grUat benefit npon thousands who are iunoceutly undermining { -hnir health .