The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
NOTES OF THE DAY

The gondblas of Venice are being
gradually displaced by little steam
boats.
The Bank of England contains silver
ihgots which have lain in its vaults
since 1896
A number of summer schools for
teachers are being held throughout the
state of Nebraska
There is a possibility of Japanese
market for the horses now roaming use
less about the plains of Oregon.
The british own $4,000 sailing vessels
and 1900 steamVessels. The annual
entries into the ports of the United King
dom are 100000 vessels.
Greater Glasgow is often held up as
model municipality. There is some
thing in the claim. With a population
of $4,000 it has only 494 doctors.
The incessant fogs the past spring
kept the fog bell on Spring Point, Port
land barbor, ringing so hard that it's
vibration cracked the lens in the light
house.
The Connecticut legislature has voted
5000 to each of the seventeen newspaper
men who have reported the legislative
proceedings during the recent session.
A Greenwood, Me-, farmer found a
sheep and a lamb in his pasture the
other day with their noses SO full of
porcupine quilts that they were unable
to Craze.
The bill of expense of the Pennsyl-
vania legislative committee which in
vestigated the burning of the state CAPT
tol contained an item of SITS for cigars,
but it was stricken out.
The old house in Dillsburg, York
county, Pa, in which Senator Quay was
born, is to be purchased by the Repub-
licans of the town and neighborhood and
used as club house by them.
Atthe national convention of nursery
men in st. Louis it was predicted that
eff the present rate of destruction con-
tinues for the next twenty-five years
the United States will be practically be-
reft of forests"
The spot on Long island where Nathan
Hale, the martyr spy of the revolution,
was captured by the British has been
marked by huge boulder, with suit
able inscription. 1t was quietly dedi-
Gated on Decoration day.
aidhvickhillchattan is the name
of small hamlet on the Isle of Null,
Scotland, containing not more than a
dozen inhabitants. How they pronounce
it is a mystery to be solved by some one
acquainted with Gaelic.
A Deering, Me-, farmer who had lost
a great many eggs through the dlepreda-
tons of some unknown visitor to his
poultry yards, at last discovered the
thief to be moretrous milk adder,
measuring thirty-nine inches in length.
An Irish member of parliament the
other day said that Mr.. Balfour's state
ment of the British governments new
Irish policy ''came like windfall out
of a clear sky. and an English musical
journal recently said that an operate
manager had "unearthed new star"
The airship craze is said to be nearly
as strong in Germany and on the CONT
nent as in this country Prof. Hoffman,
an imperial councillor has invented a
machine constructed on the principle of
a dragon, with steam propellors, which
he is confident will work all right.
Inasmuch as photographic stone is
growing scarce and costly, many at
tennis have been made 10 and a, pood
and cheap substitute among the metals,
Zinc does not appear to meet the re-
ouirements of the situation but erea :
claims have RECENTLY been made in he
half Of aluminum as annlied to suob
service.
A eompany of men and some officers
Of the British shin Infrenia were ta,xen
from Vera Cruz To the CITY of Mexico
nv the English COLONY Of the canitaI citv
at an exnenso Of $4,000 and pave conoerts
there which captured the town The
men were entertained and as we'll
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