The herald., 1897-06-20
NOTES OF THE DAY

During the last twenty years Canada
has granted only 116 divorces.
The people of the United States have
over $3.50, coo invested in church
property.
The British possessions in America
have an area of $50 900 square miles more
than the United States.
Among the 1000 thieves arrested in
Paris during the last twelve months
were a princess a duchess and count
esS.
Iron has for ages been favorite med
icine Nearly 100 different preparations
of iron are known to the medical chem
lists.
In the famous Garden of Olives in Je-
rusalem there are eight flourlshing olive
| trees that are known to be over 1000
years old.
The revenue of nations, raised mostly
by taxation, has trebled since 1850, in
creased over five times since 1910. and
fortyf1ve times since 1880.
In Mexico city "first-class American
butter, made by an expert" is adver-
tised at so and Sc cents a pound, a.
wholesale and retail, respectively.
The grain trade of Buffalo, including
flour, increased in 1896 over 1895 from
1863, 755,12S bushels to 215,352,734 bushels.
The gain in the year was 105 per cent
The British embassy in Washington
costs Great Britain about 100000 year.
The German embassy costs about $50, ,000
the French about $4,000 and the Italian
$50, 600.
There are now in progress of building
for the British navy eightynine vessels,
for the French eighty-three, for the Rus
sian thrty-nire, for the German nineteen
and for Italy thirteen.
In New York the other day lot, go
feet front by 100 feet deep, on the corner
of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street,
sold for $410,CG0, which is $500 front
| foot and $S2 square foot.
A Minnesota paper prints pictures Of
the faculty OF instruction" and Of the
graduating class in the local high school.
The faculty numbers nineteen persons,
the graduating class eight.
| Anew kind of beer made Of the extract
of rice, has very peculiar effect. Some
times a week elapses after drinking 1t
| before it causes eXhilaration then its
muddling quality is unmistakably
shown.
| A school teacher at Port Allegheny.
N. Y, the other day received the follow
ing note: my boy tells me when trink
beer der overcoat vrom my stummack
gets too thick. Please be so kind and
don't interfere in my family affairs"
The results of the local option cleo
tions in New York towns under the new
law have been tabulated, and it appears
that 266 have voted against any kind of
| license, and "a for drug licenses only,
while 1858 have voted for every kind Of Ii
cense and 2S4 for various combinations
| of licenses.
| An Eskimo youth is qualified to marry
when he has succeeded in killing polar
bear unaided, this feat being regarded
as proof that he is capable of providing
for the wants of a family. He starts
forth at night to secure wife. which he
does by seizing the first girl he can sur
| prise unawares.
Mark Grant, travelling salesman.
while stopping at Covington, went to the
postoffice and was handed three letters
from his Michigan home. Upon opening
the first he read of the death of his
grandmother; the second told of the
burning of hie home, and the third an
nounced the death Of his child.
At Joplin, Mo-, drunken man fell
down a mine shaft seventy feet on Sat-
urday and lay there nearly twentyfour
hours before he was discovered. Beyond
a few slight bruiges he was not hurt.
On the following Monday another miner
sober, fell down a shaft at the same
place and died in half an hour.
1t is said that the hottest mines in the
world are those of the famous Comstock
lode. On the lower levels the heat is so
great that the men cannot work over
ten or fifteen minutes at time. Every
known means of mitigating the heat hae
been tried in vain Ice melts before it
reaches the bottom Of the shafts.
On an average about 100 persons COM
nit suicide in the river Thames annu-
ally; of these some thirty jump from the
parapets Of Westminster bridge. The