The herald., 1897-02-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS

NJ les AND COM MEN .
According to the Lancet methylene
blue Is being used by Paris physicians
for gastric troubles and for Brights
disease.
In the Buda-Pesth opera house when
the ballet girls" trip through the rose
dance, the perfume of white rose is made
to pervade the entire house.
At meeting the other day a Belgian
company declared it's inability to pay
dividend because of the hard times ana
the severe competition in gambling IN
Belgium"
1t is a singular coincidence that ex-
Congressman James Wilson. the next
secretary of agriculture, is father OF the
position, having first introduced the bill
creating 1t.
An English periodical paper recently
printed a sketch of Chauncey D'Epew of
New York city and laid especial en-
phasis on the fact that his Gallo wit was
in keeping with his Gallo name.
Senator Hoar is one of the best read
men in the senate. His prodigious
memory allows him to quote. at an in
stant's notice, the verse or passage of
prose which he regards as fitting the
occasion.
Mrs. Gadabout-What was the news
Mrs. Onthego-Mrs. Buddins has new
cook and Mrs. Remnant has the same
one she got two days ago.-Philadelphia
North American.
Gov. Lowndes of Maryland admits
that as a farmer he has been COM
plete failure. Unlike most unsuccessful
farmers, he says it was not the fault
of the farm. but because he doesn't I'M
derstand the business.
Miss Mckinley, a favority niece of the
next president and Miss Bryan, sec
ond cousin of the defeated Democratic
candidate for the presidency, have en-
tered Mount Holyoke for the class #
1900. They are now boarding together
in the South Hadley hotel.
The widow of the late Justice Miller
of the United States supreme court has
been forced to rent rooms to support
herself, and a bill to pay her $1,000. as an
extension Of her husbands salary, is be :
fore congress. He was one of the ableSt
jurists who ever sat on the supreme
bench.
An industrious Individual has taken
the pains to discover the political COM
plexion of all the legislatures of the
forty five states of the union. and finds
that there is grand total of 3493 Repub-
licans, 32e9 Democrats, $40 Populists and
PA fusionists, clear Republican ma
jority of $50.
There are one-fourth of a million negro
Catholics in this country, three negro
priests and thirty young darkies pre-
pairing for the priesthood There are
three colored converts, with about 200
African sisters. Louisiana leads, with
/ $4,000 negro Catholics, and Maryland
comes next. with over 36,OOO
This is the jubilee year of the vegeta-
rian movement and there are prospects
that the event will be becominG.y cele~
brated The number of persons pro-
Tossing vegetarianism has largely IN
creased in England, ard In London many
new restaurants have been opened whlch
provide only a vegetable menu.
Prince Alexander Imeretinsky, the
newly appointed governor general at
Warsaw. is the son of the last indepen-
dent prince of the Caucasus, and was
formerly regarded as the Russian candi-
/ date for the Bulgarian throne. He TOOK
a distinguished part in suppressing the
Polish rebellion of 1868 and in the Russo
Turkish war of 1877.
Mons Osires of Paris. who recently
bought the castle of Malmaison, Is haV-
| ing every room in 1t carefully restoreu.
Among the best-known rooms are Ma
poleon's study billiard room ana oraM
! ing ROOM and the room where the EN-
press died. La Petite Malmaison Where
| Josephine had her greenhouses, has d.
ready been restored.
| The English governess of Alfonso
Kill, king of Spain, is responsible Ior
this story about her royal charge: HIS
| majesty evinced one day at luncheoh u
| decided preference for fingers IN place OF
| forks After he had offended several
times in this way, his governess renion
| strated gently: Sire, kings do not eat
econ sIIv sIuI .sIaSuu LIoul ul!M
came the gleeful reply.
Harvards old student motto reter-
| ring to a sudden and summary dlspos.-
| ton of her rival, Yale, seems to nave
gotten her into trouble in western COM
| irurities. So long as the use OF IL was
confined to New England, where tradl- l.
tion justified it, If not quite sanctlIleo ~,
no complaint could be made. but ~
seems that an ingenious Cambridge s'a,
| tioner has stamped the motto. ITO nell
with Yale" in crimson on piue paper,
and has sold the same to enterprislns
| freshmen. who have used II lnolscrlih-
| inately for correspondence
A process of extracting gold by whlcr
| every particle Of the metal IN the ore IL
| recovered is stated to be in successlu u
operation in West Australia. II is caii'
! ed the oreatomic process. Golu qual "a
| is crushed into small Jumps, ana Is lneI
| nut into q clOStu ClldlilbCi, So0JNNso -
/ the heat of furnace and to the action OF
water and of hydrogen gas This elimi-
| mates sulphur and reduces all oxides tc
| the metallic state. After being heatec
the material is suddenly cooled by Jets
of water; an operat ton repeated severa
! times until the quartz crumpies 10 pow
/ der at the touch of the finger. III Is thef
thrown into a tank, and the gold Is
| separated by washing.
Rugby football, having ravaged Amer
lea, has begun the conquest or France
LIE Petit Marseillais recently devoted
two columns on its front page to an eX
PLANTATION, with pictures and diagrams
of the strange game. M. Pallles tn'
writer of the article, traces the origin
Of lie football" back to the Romans
Describing it's "melee compacte,' 1t:
dennis (half backsD," "agiles ct auda
cieux," it's tongues passes ct vigoure
uses charges" and the ''regles precise
qui obligent les jouers a certaines for
malites,' he commends it warmly as
game "seduisant ct bien fait pour de
volopper les muscles la rapidite al
coup d'oeil, de la decision, lie courage
| ct lie sang-frod."
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