The herald., 1897-08-15
a commercial route by sea from west
ern Europe to the Obi and Yerisei.

Si IL GuIope " tIe Opi du1 eLdSei
In some of the great department stores
of Paris there is in opera ton for the con-
venience of customers a moving stair
case in the shape of an endless leather
belt transferring them from one story
to another. 1t is called a transporting
carDat.
Two faded, decrepit. but still intact.
loan certificates for 5 and so cents re-
spectively, issued by the city of Phila-
delphia in 1889 as part of the $150,0O0
loan, bearing interest at l per cent pei
annum, were presented at the city treas
urer's office there Monday for payment.
A Venetian glass manufacturer is now
making glass bonnets by the thousand.
The glass cloth of which they are COM
posed has the same brilliancy of color as
silk and is impervious to water. Glass
is also made into fine cloth which can
be worn next to the skin without dis
comfort.
The Cushing, Ok, Herald notes in its
society columns that "Nippigay Coon
skin, whose wife went two months ago
to visit her sick daughter in Iowa, got
tired of living alone, 80 he got married
again last Friday to the widow, Mrs
Rogers-Dus -Okathay. No
presents No cards."
A coterie of ministers in the south
have entered upon a crusade against
| the immortality of the wheel, which they
| promise to make universal throughout
the states This is not a bloomer cru
sade, but Is based on the same grounds
ont in or
| skating some years ago.
For the purpose Of removing horses
from burning buildings new fire mask
has been placed on. the market, con-
sisting of hood to cover the eyes and
nostrils to prevent the horse from see
ing the fire or smelling the smoke, the
device being easily slipped over the ami
mails head and fastened with a strap.
Newfoundland has at times peculiar
visitor, which is thus described: 1.-THE
occasional grounding of an immense ice
berg a short distance from the shore
produces an astonishing local climatic
change during its stay, preventing the
ripening of crops and garden fruits, but
presenting at sunset magnificent pris.
matte or iridescent effects"
Some OF the private camps in the Adj
rondacks are as costly as a cottage a
Newport. H. McK.Twombly owns
camp in the st. Regis region, which il
said to have cost not less than 500, 600
Coils p. Huntington fitted up camp i,
the same neighborhood a few seaso
ago, which cost 100000 or $4,000. aut
Whitelaw Reid has an Adirondack CAM
constructed on the same expensive scale
Barney Barnato's great palace in Parl
lane, London, completed just before h
committed suicide, has been sold TO
$500,O00 to another unwelcome rich man
Sir Edward Sassoon, heir of the Bomba
merchant prince. One of the Roths
childs wanted to buy the house in orde
to tear it down, as it interfered with hi
view, and it is said that the Bradley
Martins, too, were after it.
In Virginia court room last Friday
Lawyer Whitacre described statemen
made by Lawyer Byrd as untrue. Law
yer Byrd hit him under the left ear wit
!. an inkstand and stretched him out Th
!. doctors shake their heads and talk abou
, ooncussion of the brain. Lawyer Byr
has paid $50 for contempt of court an
10 held IN $4,000 bail to await the result {
i Lawyer Whitacre's injuries.