Telegram-herald., 1890-04-18
NEW NOTES OF INTEREST.

Tsxss are 80. Iss rsilroaa bridges IN
TIE United States spanning s.sls uiles-
kEsnAskA oners oent poand boan-
~ Oh sagsr made within lis so1 na4ries.
snS the bset is erSSail.s tie sGoealent
sorrhun-stalx % shs pr.2rlss " tie
West
Tsx greatest sunnei IN the world L.
ne new &C cue6uct which has bssn built
- convex the w4:ers u Crotor lake -
New York, and Which vii BE completed
ey tniasommes. Il Is thirty-thrss @sa
one-eiEhth miles long,
TIE Chinese Minister a. Washington
has so far overcome bis national prelu-
dices that lie has consented - allow his
~ife 70 hold . reception after the Amer
lean fashion. In China = woman o. the
upper classes never thinks ef such 8
thing.
Tzr new State Of Washington Is not
favored with very aignined set oi
Legislators. Thirty members q the
Legislature went 10 The theateT fe"
nights ago and threw paper balls, rub
Der oysrshoes ana orange peelings 81
each other and hooted and guyed the
players
TIE Fellowcraft Club, OF New York,
has put Stanley on the honorary list OF
life members. President Richard Wat
son Glider will notify Mr.. Stanley OF the
honor conferred upon him by this club
OF his brethren in America. The only
other honorary member Is Mr.. james
Russell Lowell.
TnFRE are now thirteen monitors ly-
ing idle, tho original coat Of which Was
nearly 81 ,oOo. 900. In their present con
dition they are not only useless, but a
source of expense, and Rear Admiral
Jouett fsvors plan for converting them
into floating batteries for coast and hsr-
Dor defense, which could be done al an
estimated cost Of 81 ,o00,o 900.
TnK Bismarckskopf is the name given
TO mountain in the neighborhood OF
Ems, Germany, because IL so much re-
sembles Bismarck in iss outlines. Mount
Valerian bears striking resemblance
TO NJ. Theirs. Mount Blanc and sew
eral mountains in the Pyrenees and
elsewhere were supposed 20 furnish good
portraits OF the first Napoleon hill
side in tho Isle OF Wight is said TO fur
nish very striking likeness OF Lord
Broughsm.
The city OF Mexico is TO have the
finest hotel on the American continent
according TO present plans and esti-
mates. II will cost $4,000, 900, and
among the attractive features mentioned
is a Turkish bath apartment the fxt-
ures in which will cost s35,00o and 8
bar upon the fittings Of which seo, 900
win be expended. With such provis-
ions for his mental and physical en-
ioymcnt and welfare. the guest will
probably be perfectly satisfied with the
other arrangements, which are OF littlo
moment.
SoME descendants Of the mutineers
OF the Bounty, living on Pitcairn ISL
and In the South Pacific, some months
ago boarded the harpue Carrie Winslow,
which arrived at Philadelphia from Val
paraiso recently. They had with them
bundle of letters which they wanted
forwarded, and two boatloads Of tropi-
cal fruit. The latter they wished to OK
change for any thing on the vessel they
could get, and -four, clothing, etc, were
given them. The islanders number one
hundred and twenty persons. They
said their only fear was that their
ocean homo would become over-popu-
lated. 1t is only three and a half miles
long and a mile wide, and is incapable
of producing much more than enough TO
supply the wants of its present popula-