The Forrest City times., 1892-11-11
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions. Two ladies of the Rothschild family own pearls worth million dollars.
 The seal catch has been SO small this season that the sealers have lost money.
 The Prince of Wales, Czar Alexander and Kaiser William are all pronounced big feeders.
 The Chinese in the United States are organizing to make strong light for the repeal of the Geary law.
 E.F. Wheatley. Assistant State Ge- ologist Of Georgia, claims to have dis covered diamonds imbeded in the soil of that state.
 Uganda, once the most promising native state in Africa, has been laid waste by religious rivalries between Protestant and Catholic missionaries.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes is s) much interrupted by callers and correspond- ence that for weeks at time he is una ble to do any work upon his "Reminis- cences.n
 France has imposed tax on travel ing bicyclists. Every foreign wheel man who enters the Republic will be obligated to pay duty of from Sl5 to S20 on his machine.
 France has a population of 3S,2lS .903 comprising about 10.000,000 families, and of these 1000 900 couples have no children, while 2,0o0, 900 have only one child each.
 One thing which makes Wyoming distinctive is the fact that women vote there, and for the first time in the his tory of the United States, they will vote for President this year.
 That cherished volumn of Shakes peare. which Tennyson so often pe- rused during the last days of his life, was buried with him. The book was encased in metal and tenderly laid beside it's late owner.
 No death has occurred in the family of Rev. Samuel Wakefield, of Latrobe, Pa., in sixty-one years. He IS in his ninety fourth year; his wife few years his junior; they were married in 1921, and have ten children.
 Among the curiosities of the Royal Museum of Stuttgart is a beaker hold ing fourteen Suaban quarts, and marked with the names of several cav alters who succeeded in emptying that monster vessel to the last drop.
 The salary of the mayor of New York is SIP 900 a year. The greates [ power lies in the appointment of the heads of the departments Of Fire, Parks, Police, Dock and Public Works. In these appointments his choice is
 A statue is to be erected at Bar-le- Due, in France, to Earnest Aiichaux. who is supposed to have invented the velocipede, and thereby paved the way for the bicycle. MichauX was a black smith and constructed his first "wheel" in iS42 just half century ago.
 The famous leaning tower of Sara gossa is being pulled down at last, after repeated threatenings. It was repaired in 1860 but had long been pro- nounced unsafe. The New tower" was built in 1904 to hold the town clock, and was a brick construction of Arabic style,
 For nearly half a century the first class saloons of St. Louis have been steadily supplied with mint and straws by 'the little mint woman," whose real name, Mary Weber, only recently became known. She has made q big thing of it by careful cultivation of the mint.
 It IS Stateu tnat Aueiina Idtti iu- tends to spend the winter in Italy, af- ter fulfilling her English concert en- agreements, and that she will spend the spring in her castle in Wales, prepara- tory to visiting the United States on what, she maintains, will be her fare we'll trip.
 The second largest diamond in the world is now being cut at Antwerp. At present the stone weighs 474 carets but it will be reduced to 274 carets when duly prepared. Even then il will be as large as a pigeons egg, and only little smaller than the famous Persian diamond, Great Mogul.