The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-08-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

G,3O0 species has been secured for the
Liverpool museum.
Eton, the most famous of British pub.
lie schools, now has 1919 students.
Among them are four earls and seven
eldest sons OF peers.
A London clergyman will have doc
tor occupy his pulpit hospital Sunday
to urge the claims of the hospitals oh
public sympathy and support.
The new British silver dollar coined
for the use of merchants and bankers
In Hong Kong and the Straits Settle
ment weighs I16 grains 900 fine, equiv,
alcnt to the Japanese yen.
In Geneva, Switzerland, the street
railway system Is expected to earn
enough In ;he next fifty years to turn
over the roads at the end of that time
TO the city without compensation.
A German has invented chemical
torch which lgnltes when wet. 1t Is to
be used on life buoys. When one Is
thrown to man overheard ut night he
can thus see the light and find the
buoy.
Inc total number OF Japanese Killed
III tne war win Cnlnn was oniy 40.
The chinese were the iirst people In tho
world To use gunpowder, but that Is
about all they have been able to do In
'hut me-
1t Is reported that whales in large
numbers and of huge proportions are
tumbling In on the shores of Massa-
chusetts, and the incurslon Is said to be
due to q scarcity of food In the deep
waters of the ocean.
n man who lives near Ncwburg, Orc,
recently sold a well-matched yoke of
oxen for 500 and bought team of fine
bay horses FOR 500. lie says he VIII
buy set of harness ana then have
money left from the sale.
Rev. John ID. Long, pastor of n church
at Oak Island Beach, has cleared that
neighborhood of mosquitoes by pouring
kerosene oil In the surrounding ponds,
and by so doing has earned the title OF
"the modern st. Patrick"
A London restaurant uses an electri.
cally heated plate to keep ones food
warm. So long as the current is turn.
ed on one can dine In as leisurely n
way as he likes. There Is no danger
of receiving shock from touching tine
plate.
The new city of Depew. which pro.
poses to make Buffalo one of its sub.
urbs. has the distinction of being n mill.
ionaire town. Vanderbilt and Astor
united for once in their lives over It's
foundation walls, and its stockholders
are millionaires.
The twenty female teachers appoint.
cd few days ago to teach I'm the West
Chester, Pa, public schools during the
ensuing year were required to sign an
agreement not to get married during
the year for which they were appoint
ed.
A chemical works on the banks Of
the Rhone, in the canton of Geneva, is
devoted to the manufacture of artifi'
cial musk, and 1t Is found that the
fishes, more especially the trout in the
river, which are caught In the neighbor.
hoou' nave musKy navor'
The natives who gather sulphur from
Popocatapeu secure small packages of
1t which they fasten to their backs.
They then slide down the snow on the
mountains, after the manner of the
woodcutters of France. For this ven
turesome work they get about 20 cents
day.
1t Is the custom of the Bank of En-.
gland not to pay any fractions Of a
penny. In the case Of dividends ON
government stock these fractions have,
in the course of years, amounted to
100000, which amount, it was stated,
was few years ago paid over to the
chancellor of the exchequer.
OF the thirty-six generals in the Ger.
man army all but two are mobiles az
the seyenty-fiye lieutenant generals all
but thirteen. of the 40 major generals
all but thirty-eight, and of the 294 colo.
nels all but elghty-five are mobiles. In
the Prussian army there are forty-nine
! regiments in which every officer Is a