The herald., 1896-12-06
NOTES OF THE DAY.

By recent order Boston policemen are
prohibited from leaning against any up
right object during working hours.
Amsterdam will have next year an inter-
national exhibition of hotel arrangements s
and accommodations for travellers.
The iron industry in Southern Russia Is
rapidly developing, thanks to a great ex-
tent to the investment of Belgian capital
Quite recently Edinburgh and Christiania
Were by a competent medical authority
coupled as the two healthiest cities in Eu-
rope.
The new Russian imperial yacht Stand
art in its final trip in the the Kattegat made
an average speed of 21.1S knots an hour.
The contract stipulated for twenty knots
only.
In the opinion of the best-informed au-
thorities. Shanghai will become the great
central manufacturing point of the Pacific
coast. even surprising ultimately Osaka.
Japan.
A ball-bearng has now been applied to
the mounting of eyeglasses and spectacles,
preventing the rigid contact of glass and
metal and rendering them less liable to
fracture.
Microscopcal investigation is said to
prove that the pores of wood invite the pas
sage of moisture in the direction of the tim
ber's growth, but repel it in the opposite
direction.
A great Photographic camera for taking
full length life-size portraits has been made
and used with much success by Dublin
firm. The camera takes plate seven feet
high and five feet wide.
Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol
are used as trophies in various parts of
France. During the czars recent visit 70
Paris four of these identical guns were used
in firing a salute to welcome him
1t has been estimated that at least 21s per
cent of the entire population of the United
light and power industry and the branches
of trade directly dependent upon it.
Acting under the authority granted by
the South Carolina legislature. General
+. w h.
lish in permanent form the rolls of all the
companies raised in that state for service
In the Confederate army.
A medical paper prints statistics showing
that in eight of the largest southern cities
the proportion of deaths from consumption
among the colored race, as compared with
the total mortality, is mOrethan 30 per cent
greater than that of the white population.
There is home for women inebriates in
Brooklyn, n. ", kept by woman of whom
the Brooklyn physicians speak highly. The
patients are not treated like prisoners, but
are amused and entertained in different
ways, going to the theater and other places
of amusement.
Members of the house of commons are
supplied, ad lbitum, with stationery of The
very. best possible quality, and generous
| use is made of it, During the session just
of commons, which gives an average OF
over 600 letters per member
In many parts of Germany particularly
in the Hartz mountains, women make a
good income solely on canaries. They give
up two or three rooms in the house to them
and in one room sometimes have as many
as 200 cages, each containing pair of birds
busily engaged in raising families.
Experiments recently reported to the Bel.
gian academy of science seem to show that
the perfume rather than color Of flowers
| is the real attraction for bees and butter
| flies. Bright colored blossoms were COW
cred with leaves and paper pinned closely
about them, yet the insects not only visit ed
| the hidden flowers, but endeavored to force
| their way under the papers in order tc
reach the blossoms which they could moi