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59 rOh VlCE PRESIDENT,
GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
Twenty-one firms engaged in the
making of bicycles failed last month.
But there are enough left to keep up
the interest over the different makes.
Signor Ernesto Nathan, Grand Orient
of the Italian Free Masons, advises
them to put aside secrecy and to pub
licly declare their connection with the
order, as the order is hostile to no form
of religion and to no political party.
The immense and convenient water
power of Switzerland has enabled the
government to connect the entire coun-
try to the remotest districts, by long
distance telephones, used at a very
makes the crime to be the uttering of
lighted by electricity. Trolley lines
over the Alps will come next unless the
Park commissioners stand in the way.
In an interview with representa-
tive of the Paris Gil Bias, DR.. Proust
has confirmed the report that a great
advance had been made in the search
for a means of incubation against chol-
era. He declared that conclusive ex-
periments had been made. The discov-
erer of the new treatment was, he said,
a Frenchman, but he declined to di-
vulge his name.
Hair splitting on a legal technicality
has released another alleged criminal,
this time in Minnesota. The crime al
legged was forgery, and the indictment
charged the defendant with having
fraudulently and feloniously uttered
and disposed Of a forged instrument
then knowing the same to be forged.
That would appear to the lay mind to
be sufficiently definite. But it happens
that the statute, in defining forgery
makes the crime to be he uttering of
forged document "as true The
words s'as true were omitted from the
Indictment, and this, in the opinion of
the Supreme court, was a. fatal defect.
Sister Marie ChautaI. a French nun,
who has been Superior Of the Sisters
of the Hospice-G General of Tours since
1868, has been made Chevalfer in the
r 80 ;.t;,
for a woman. She accompanied the
French troops through the disastrous
war of 1S7o-71, and rendered incalcula-
bly, great services on the battlefield.
Though her own life was constantly in
danger, she directed with Christian in
trepidity the ambulance brigades, and
was untfring in her attentions to the
wounded. 1t was stated at the time
that she saved more lives than did half
the medical men in the army. For the
last twenty-eight years her services
have been mainly directed toward min
istering to the patients in the military
hospitals.
Goslings Sharpe's bank in Fleet
street, one Of the Oldest private banks
in the city of London, has been ANAL
gamated, together with half dozen
less-known firms, with Barclay, Bevan
& Co. The exact date of the bank s
foundation is unknown, but it was in
existence in 1850, as a goldsnith's shop
with the sign Of "The Three Squirrels. "
The firm has all it's ledgers since IT'S,
and can show the bank accounts of
Warren Hastings and Lord Give, of
Bishop Percy, Alexander Pope, Rich
ardson the novelist, Tonson the pub
Usher, Lord Chancellors and Lord Chief
Justices like Camden, Campbell, Ellen
borough, and Denman. They were the
bankers of the Times and of the socie-
ties for the Propagation of the Gospel
and for Promoting Christian Knowl-
edge. The title of the firm had re-
manned unchanged for hundred years
The Boston Transcript says that a
: minister was recently the guest of a
friend who was a college president. On
Sunday morning he arose very early
and went out to take walk in the de-
lightful air. Not a soul was stirring
at first, but as the clergyman's steps
led him toward the business portion OF
the village he noticed a seedy-iookine
individual peering into various shady
resorts in turn. He watched him with
a mild curiosity. and apparently the
other was not wholly obvious of him
and he considered that the doctor OF
divinity was up for something. Al
last. after the two had proceeded al
ND and down the main street in semi
company, the shabby and blear-eyed
man turned to the Immaculate minis.
Ter and remarked, with infinite sad.
ness and pity in his tone: "Tain't nc
use, pard; all the places is closed up