Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Magma Charta or great charter of English liberties is still preserved in the British muaeum. The impress of the seal and King Johns name are both very distinct
 At the end of the civil war the gov ernment had 671 ships in it's navy, with 7600 officers. Of the officers only one seventh had been educated by the gov ernment and only PIT of the ships We're government built.
 The Connecticut branch of the Univer- sal Peace union WAS founded by the members of the Whipple family. who 200 years ago came to settle in the vicin- ity of New London and were followed by the so-called Rogerine Quakers
 The compulsory education law of Pennsylvania requires the attendance of all children between the ages of & and 13 years in a school at which the common English branches are taught at least sixteen weeks in each year.
 China used last year 17.00o.008 yards of American cloth less than her usual con sumption. It is thought that the war with Japan caused the falling off. which meant quite serious loss to a consider able number of American workers.
 In Chattanooga Judge Wilbur has just held that no matter how abbreviated the bathing suit the swearer cannot bn prose- cuted. There has been no law passed de- fining how much bathing suit woman shall wear, he says, and he does not pro- pose to fix the limit
 Had Shakespeare been more modern he might not have written of the ridiculous excess of casting perfume on the viole. for La Nature prints picture and de scriDtion of an elaborate apparatus used in artificially pertaining flowers for the French market.
 The balloon by means of which M. Andree. the Swedish engineer, will en- deaVOr to reach the north pole will be capable of carrying three persons, four months provisions. a sledge and a sail ing boat, and will be sufficiently gas tight to hover in the air for thirty days
 Explosive bullets were first used in India for hunting tigers and elephants They were brought into use in Europe by their introduction into the Russian army in 1863 In 1868 an international convention declared their employment in war to be inhuman and unnecessary.
 Paul Novicow. Russian. is writing to demonstrate that poverty is due to hu- man stupidity. as result of which. 1t is said. not more than one person in ten is well fed and well clothed. He thinks the stupidity consists chiefly in producing too little and wasting too much.
 Professor Stoddard writes that while 'argon" is undoubtedly new substance the evidence does not warrant tho posi- tive assertion that it is an element rath- CT than mixture of elements. Having discovered it's existence, the scientists are now busy attempting to imagine a use for it.
 Over 100 negro students live in the Paris Quarter Latin. They come chiefly from Hayti and the French colonies of Guadc- loupe and Guyane. The Haytians are well off and dress we'll as their government pays them $90 a month while abroad. They have newspaper of their own, La Fraternite.
 pr. Ferguson, who writes of the in- huence of the nerves in education. agrees with Mirabeau that the proper time to begin the education of a child is twenty years before it is born. II is held by the strictly orthodox, however, that this time ought to be extended backward to the third generation or hnndredth year.
 Rev. J. A. Smith, rector al Shrews- bury, England, recently discovered that some of the English sparrows have kind hearts, as he found nest of young wrens was being fed by the mother of the brood. Apparently the father of the wren family was dead and the sparrow noting this, had come to the little birds assistance.
 MT. Edison's spring attachment to his bicycle saves a considerable part of the power which is wasted in going down hill and utilizes it going up hill. When the device is perfected a pressure of the brake may be sufficient to charge the coil with power or to apply the stored power to turning the wheel on an up grade.
 Professor Sekorske of the University of Kew thinks the low rate of suicide among the Russians-t is but thirty to 100000 inha bitants-is due in part to the patience and long suffering of the Rus sian even under the worst treatment but also to an indecision of chara cter, which fears to do anything from which it can not retreat.
 A Portland man, upon whose landed possessions at Byron gold has been dis covered, is very enthusiastic over the prospects, and if his expectations prove to be well based silver may yet become the rarer metal. This man reports that the prospects for rich find are becom- ing brighter each day, and that the eX- citement of the natives is intense.
 One of the largest terrapin ever seen by the people of Long island was sighted in the East bay the other day. The bay was full of boats loaded with summer guests when the monster came swim ming along among them with his head high out of the water. The frightened pleasure seekers vary in their estimates of his size, but all of them agree that he Twas not less than feet across his hack, with a head as large as a water pail A few boats started in pursuit of the mon- ster, but on nearing him he sounded and was seen no more.
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