The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-12-05

--As tending 70 show th6 ox ~ 4
which compound locomotives ar6 n y 4
introduced In Germany. 1t III fns,1ft y IN
TINT toward the end Of last year Vi N
directors of the Prussiau state rnIi<'
ways decided. after exhaustivc tr{AiS,3
to use compound locomotives for klf I
through freight and express crxica>;
but not for suburban services or Sof
trains requiring 60 make any stcps
pages In order to carry this dccision|
into fleet orders have been given f0f
the construction of one hundred and
sixty-seven compound locomotives Ga
be supplied during the current yosr
The Japanese government Is aaoui
TO build two new lines of railway.
about fifty and half miles loag. ha-
tween HoDgo aud Senior, and Mika
and Odawara, the latter an extension
of the Tokaido railway. But, Instead
of asking for bids from abroad. In the
old-time manner, the government only
publishes its proposals and spccifca-
tions in the Japanese language; states
that II will publicly let this work to
the lowest bidder, and compels all 3
foreign bidders TO come provided with
Interpreters and Japanese technical
and commercial agent. Times have
changed in Japan.
Mime. de Rute, who has had an adj
venturous career as Marie Bonaparte-
Wyse, the princess of Solms, and Nine.
Ratazzi, is mixed up in mysterious
jewel robbery that occurred recently
in Paris. Her jewelry was given TO
man Tor repairs, and soon after the
police commissary of the quarter re-
ceived an anonymous note accusing
the jeweler of substituting false gems
for the real in the objects confded to
him. His stock was seized and the
statement found TO be true. But no
sooner did the man surrender himself
aud acknowledge what he had done
than Mime. de Rnte ran away from
Paris. .@@.E-. %t&
The popularity OF American shoes
in Europe, and other regioaS abroad,
is steadily increasing. The exports so
far this year show considerable in
crease over last year During the last
week in September seven thousand
four hundred and forty-three pairs of
shoes went from boston to England,
and in the same week New York
shipped abroad fourteen thousand two
hundred and seventy dollars worth Of
shoes, thirty-four cases OF this qnanti-
ty, valued at two thousand dollars go-
ing to Constantinople. During the
second week in September ten thou
sand dollars worth of American shoes
We're imported into England.
PROT Hommels, in his Aus der
Babylonischen Alterumskunde," shows
how thousands OF years ago CONNER
cial relationships were constant. The
professor has found out that in 1000 3,
c. Babylonia was in active business
with Arabia, Syria and Kurdistan,
The idea of isolation, which has been
somehow entertained, is to forget the
wants and the activity of man. In the
past IL was pretty much like the pres
emit. only,if we think of 1t, the risk
and dangers attending commerce were
greater in remote periods, and that In
clines us to consider that more courage
and patience were necessary on the
part Of traders six thousand years ago
than to-day.
Speaking Of the visit OF Lafayette
to this country In the winter of 1924
25, the American Monthly Magazine of
Washington says: 1T was during these
days that George Ticknor, of Boston,
presented foreign gentleman to ex-
President Adams. Politics was n Ia
booed subject, but just as they were to
take their leave Mr.. Adams asked Mr..
TiclSnor how the election was proceed
ing in the house. Mr.. Ticknor replied
that nc understood it depended on the
vote of New York. Mr.. Adams arose
and exclaimed: Then God help usl AS
boy and man have known New York
politics for seventy years, and her pol.
itics have always been among the
DEVILS incomprehensihilities