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Prince George of Greece is regarded
as an expert in torpedo work. He is
very large man, fully six feet tall and
strongly built.
The Populist governor of Kansas has
appointed the wife of Ex-Governor John
p. st. John, the Prohibitionist, to a
place on the board of regents Of the
State Agricultural college.
William Jennings Bryan appears TO
be prospecting financially since he ran
for president. He has refused an offer
of $4,000 cash for all rights in his book
from his Chicago publishers.
Mrs. Swan Of Scranton, the only We
man in Pennsylvania who has ever
served as a member of Il poor board,
has resigned from the local board. She
was known as ''the best man on the
board"
Up in the North Woods the deer are
said to be preparing to shed their horns
in manner which indicates an early
spring. and in New Jersey the early ar
rival of the bluebirds is said to confirm
this indication.
John Cooper Van Tassell, who died
the other day in Greensburg, N. Y, at
the age of ninety five years, was the
son of William c. Van Tassell, who
fought in the War of 1872, and the
grandson of Van Tassell who fought
in the Revolutionary War.
hansen lectures very modestly and
simply, with no frills and no attempt
at heroics. But he is enabled to do this
by the graphic nature of some of his
adventures, which are sensational in
their bare recital. The explorer shows
no outward signs of the hardships he
underwent in the frozen north.
Paper is now being used for under
ground gas pipes in England. The ma
terial is cellu1ose paper soaked in as
phalt The pipes are said to be imper-
meable to water and air, capable of re-
sisting heavy pressure, not subject to
the ordinary causes of deterioration,
and not affected by the action of cleo
trio currents.
The special train that is to convey
President-e1ect Mckinley to Washing
ton has been made up, and it will start
from Canton on Monday. There is the
usual talk about guarding the train en-
route, but the chances are that Presi-
anxious about it than President-ele
Garfield was when he started from
Mentor to Washington.
Andrew Blair of Warfieldsburg, Md,
lis a vigorous and active man of eighty
three He has never eaten a pound of
meat in all his life, his diet being strict
" vegetable. He has never experience
ed 1, days sickness. lie is regular in
his habits, and attends to his farm
work lately failing rye all day, taking
his turn regularly with two young men.
TIe attributes his good health to his
vegetable diet
The use of compressed sir in operat-
Ing the pneumatic broom recently in
troduced at the railway yards of the
Santa Fe line in Chicago for sweeping
cars has proved great success in Its
application to carpets and upholstery.
Several hundred yards from the cars,
says the Times Herald, is the power
house, In which is the powerful engine
for comprising air which is to do
broom service; through long under
ground pipes of about two inches i'll
diameter the compressed air is carried