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/ European nations can De Idlooi w
9. 366, 600 men, and the daily expen-
SEES will be nearly 500, 600, 600.
PROF. ]. Wy. SPENCER, the Georgia
ceologist. says that owing to geoiogl-
cal changes now in progress the four
upper great lakes will one day find
an outlet through the Mississippi
river.
RAILROAD between Coalzacoalcos
and Salina Cruz, Mexico, which opens
a new means of transportation be-
tween the Gulf of Mexico and the Pa
cifc coast, has been completed re-
Gently.
ErIHU RooT explains that the wo-
mans suffrage proposition failed pc
fore the New York Constitutional
Convention, because the great ma
iority of the women were either IN
different or totally opposed to it.
THE 400th birthday of Hans Sachs,
the shoemaker poet, " is to be elab-
orately celebrated this fall at Nurem-
berg, his birthplace All the shoe
makers of Germany will participate
in the festivities.
On Il territory about the area of
Montana Japan supports 40, 600, ooo
people in comparative comfort. RecE-
oning our own area at twenty-four
times that of Japan, this country at
that rate would support 500, oOo, 600
people.
PROF. ELMER GATES asserts that
wicked impulses cause certain harm
full chemical changes in the body,
and that these products, when treat
ed with certain acids, show a bright
pink color. Perhaps this accounts
for the color of the blood.
BosToN University established a
Professorship for the comparative
study of religions as long ago as In
1873, and now President Warren is
asking for 100000 with which to
found an american Museum of all
Religions" similar to the Guimet In
stitution in Paris.
In selecting the twenty-five ''im-
mortals," whose statues or busts are
to be placed in the new COMPRESSION
al library at Washington, Librarian
Spofford has named Fulton and Hen
ry for places inside, and Franklin,
Irving, Emerson and Hawthorne for
places outside the building. These
are the only Americans in the list.
OXYGEN is likely to play an import
ant part in the submarine boat soon
to be built for the navy. 1t has been
found that comparatively small
quantity of oxygen from time to time
admitted to submarine chamber
will keep the air of such chamber for
hours in the condition to sustain hui
man life. Instead, then, of carrying
large volumes Of compressed air in
many heavy metallic receivers, a
single receiver filled with oxygen may
be carried. This makes possible an
important economy of weight and
space.
A RATHER amusing, though very
significant affair, occurred in a court
room of eastern Kentucky the other
day. A criminal trial was in pro-
gress which attracted great deal Of
attention, and the court room was
crowded with people. The presiding
Judge noticed that several of the men
appeared to be provided with revol-
vers, so he coolly remarked that he
would allow ten minutes for all those
who had deadly weapons on their per-
sons to leave the court and disarm
themselves, at the expiration of which
time the sheriff would search every
man in the room. Immediately more
than two-thirds of the crowd arose
and filed out of court. Presently
they all came back, but the sheriff
found no weapons.
THE sale of horse meats in Paris
has grown to enormous proportions
since the first shop was established
in 1866. The estimate is, that it is
eaten now in third of the Partisan
households. In 1881 81, 321 horses,
sixty-one mules and 276 asses were
sold in the Paris shops, The meat
costs about half as much as beef. OF
course, the sale of decrepit or disea-
sed horses or meat is not permitted,
but use is found for these animals
by the thrifty Parisians, who sell
them to neighboring poultry raisers.
The latter use them as feed for chick
ems, which appear to thrive on them.
The Japanese. being sanguine
people, are already discussing the
amount of indemnity to be squeezed
out of China when that country has
been beaten. 1t looks as if the cul-
tivated gentlemen OF Toxic were anx-
ious to avoid the blunder of Prince
Bismarck after the Franco-Prussian
war The Chancellor demanded 81,
800, 900, 600 from France, and has not
since recovered from his chagrin on
finding that he might as well have
asked twice as much while he was
about it, as the sum was paid off with
evident ease. Japan looks forward
with cheerfulness to the bleeding of
China. A remarkable thing, though,
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