The herald., 1896-11-30
NOTES OF THE DAY,

The ancient copper mines of Sinai have
just been re-explored. These were
worked by the Egyptians. or their
slaves 1000 years ago. and are believed
to have been abandoned about 5000 years
ago.
The Mississippi negroes are said to
have had a very prosperous season in
cotton raising. They will have more
cash money this winter than before in
ten years, and are paying up their debts
rapidly.
One successful venture which has
come of the Manchester ship canal is
the steamer service between the cotton
metropolis and London. 1t is long way
round, but the saving in freight dues is
enormous.
September will be long remembered
throughout Great Britain. 1t has
worked destruction to an extent rarely
equaled. both on sea and shore, and
it for black month for them.
Twenty-three colleges in the United
States were founded before the begin
ming of this century. Among the lead
ing ones are: Harvard, 1886; William and
Mary, 1893; Yale, 17O1; University of
Pennsylvania. 1740; Princeton, 1746;
Washington and Lee. 1749; Columbia,
mouth, 1863; Hampden- n-Sidney, 1775:
Washington (Maryland) 1882, and Dick
inson, 1855
Her majesty's state coach is the most
superb carriage ever built. 1t is used
only upon the rarest state occasions, and
since 1851 has not left the royal news
at Buckingham palace. The carriage
was designed by Sir William Chambers,
and in every part is richly ornamented
with laurel and carved work. beauti-
fully gilt. Its entire length is twenty
four feet, its height twelve feet, and the
weight of the whole four tons.
At the Theater Salon. the first of the
single performance entertainments to
open this season in Paris, the show con-
sisted of the recitation of new ballads of
low life, with living pictures as illus
trations. All the songs were indecently
ambiguous, while the pictures were not
ambiguous at all, providing the exhibit
ton of woman's underwear now common
to the variety stage. The show was pre-
sented as parlor entertainment
A learned scientist has recently been
| investigating the effect of food par
| ticularly vegetables, on the human char
| acter. He finds that a diet of carrots
ameliorates harshness of character and
reduces nervous irritability peas create
fatty tissue and encourage joyousness,
white turnips have depressing infiu-
ence. Cabbage is good for pulmonary
complaints. while lettuce acts as a Sc
datlve upon the human frame, owing to
the opium contained in its milky juice.
At Trieste three experienced divers are
just now engaged upon highly inter-
esting task. In 1911 terrible explosion
took place in the harbor there, the causes
of which have never been explained.
Much loss of life and property was caue-
ed and the Danae, French frigate. was
sunk. The divers soon ascertained the
position of the hull, but all efforts to
raise it have been vain. The vessel con-
70 inc IT,, -.
| jewels of French princess.
| England's royal marine corps is to be
| increased by 5000 men, who are to be sub
| stituted for the army contingents that
| form the garrisons of British strong
| holds out of Europe, such as Halifax,
| Hong Kong, Bermuda, ST. Helena and
| Alden. The idea seems to have sprung
| from the recent growth of the French
| infanterie de marine and colonial army.
| The result of the change would be to put
| the military control of these places en-
trely in the hands of the navy depart
! ment.
| Considerable apprehension has been
excited among Bostonians of a certain
| sort by the persistence of rumors about
! plan for combining the city's liquor sa-
| looms to prescribed territory outside of
the residential districts. Nobody seems
to know just how or why or by whom
| lilS SCutIlle is 10 De carried out, Dut as
Boston has few or no districts in which
| very considerable number of people do
| not live, those for whom a convenient
| saloon is regarded as a necessary condi-
ton of existence, show an angry irrita-
| ton that such project should have ad-
| vanced far enough even to have become
topic of conversation.
Newest of London periodicals is the
Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Jour
nal, a six-penny monthly paper, which,
in it's own words, anticipates the field
which will doubtless soon exist for it's
operations Its originators are con-
WINGED that in the near future the auto
car industry must become an import
ant one in England and other countries.
The marriage rate in Scotland is &C. .92
in every 10000 of the population. To
every 100 marriages 456 children are
born, as against AIS in England Of a
total of 27.604 marriages which took
place during thS year, 1855 were irreg-
ular, having been performed without
proclamation of purpose and without
reference to the Intervention of relig-
ious ceremony.