The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18
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A drug gglst in Bangor, Me, invited q small party of his friends to quiet little celebration over the filing of his one hundrcd-tLousaudth prescription.
 The richest Eeld mine n the world is located under the rIriving town of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It has yielded more than S150 0y0,OOO of gold since it was opened. thirty years ago.
 A man was recently .50v lcted in En gland of having enlisted as recruit in fifteen places, d-cauuiug each time with advance money. Eugland loses about $5C0,0J0 a year from such opera tions.
 Boston has been obliged to give up its Pingree potato fam ns for this year because ta. Iud1sw-l Aid SOci ety has been unable 10 seeure suitable land for cultivation ly the poor from the park commissioners.
 A new addition to the fighting strength of the British navy is that of the clerk on board ship who have hitherto been uo#.eonbaJanls. An ad miralty order directs them to be put through a course of revolver, sword and rifle drill a87 10 ,c trained in row ing and sailing boats
 Among the wealulest u uembers of the English arls5ocraey a small private train is the tbiu-. Tine Duke and Ouch ess of Sutherland have one, with en- zine complete. included in the train is a saloou. wht.o ant green in color. with ducaI monogram in gold. The ve- hicle is upholstered in chenille and has silver ftttuas outside and in.
 A jetty uTe miles long has just been completed ig the month Of he Colum- bia River 4 was constructed by the Government and it is intended to con. fine the current of the river. A channel 2.OOO feet wide has thus been obtained. with a low water depth of twenty-o feet. The Improvement was begun ir 1880, and has cost S2025,000.
 Bristol, R. l.. has 8 spright!y old mar who receuIy celebrated his 92d birth day by dr,y.Hg his horse oyer a four mile stretch in twenty minutes. The horse is 25 years old. and he owner claims tha he is the fastest steed of his age il New England The wagon in which this record-breaEi drive was take years old. and the har. ness was bought eighteen yaars ago.
 A man employed as a motOrman on a St. Lou railroad and heretofore bearing tle name Patrick by gift of his parents, has had 1t changed to Percy by the court. 9n the plea that through his connectlon with the ccmpary. and also among those with whom he is as sociated in a social way. the name of Patrick has been used unpleasantly, thereby placing the petitioner in an embarras ing posilon'
 The Russian Government has decid ed to adept the metric system. The United State and the British Empire will thus soon be the only important countries which have not adopted the decimal system of weights md meas ures. An imperial commission has also been Tt ~ ersburg to con- sider the best n a4 0f abandoning the Russan caieH1ar in favor of that which prevails io other parts of the civilized world
 The New York Legislature has pass ed a bill which provides that Cornell University shall take in rust 25.OOC acres of timber land j1 he Adiron, dacks not already included in the State forest preserve. The State will make an anuua, appropriation of not less than S2T 5Co to assist he univer sity in ma1lug practical test of State forestry. It is believed that within ten years from now the enterprise will be self-sustaining and so soon as this has been demonstrated the system can be applied to the entire Adiron- dack park