The herald., 1898-12-01

ures from ordinary methods of introducing
new improvements In railway management
is the formal announcement by an electric
headlight company that it is ready to guar
antee railroad companies from any loss from
head-on collisions occurring at night /.
where the locomotives are equipped with
our headlights"
One of the unique features of the late cam
paign in Pennsylvania was the use of the
phonograph in the judicial fight in Allegheny
county. Jacob S. Robb, the Independent
Republican candidate, delivered addresses
one night at Mount Washington and Mill
vile, and while he was speaking at these
places photograph was reeling off his ad-
dress to large audience at Bridgeville.
An inventor has hit upon method of put
ting stone soles on boots and shoes. He
mixes a waterproof glue with suitable
quantity of clean quartz sand and spreads
it over the leather sole used as foundation.
These quartz soles are said to be very flexible
and practically indestructible, and to give
the foot firm hold even on the most slip
perry surface.
According to a note in the Courier do
Paris, the Athenians and Greeks collectively
intend to exclude all bachelors from their
bachelor has no stake in the commonwealth;
| if he is represented, that is as much as he can
ask for; representative he ought never to
be, for whom does he represent except him
self?
| Preparations are on foot in Honolulu to
| test the applicability of the United States
immigration laws to the Hawaiian islands by
| the importation to the cane fields OF 1000
Korean laborers. The contract form as ad.
vertised by the agent who proposes to fur.
nsh the Koreans provides that they shall be
paid $3.50 per month each, United States
gold.
Among the cities in the United States, San
Francisco has the least and Philadelphia has
the greatest debt. The debt of San Fran.
cisco is Sl33,9l7Ol, and of Philadelphia $685.
S72, 1882 In the bonded debt per capita
Boston is the highest, with 1913, while San
Francisco is the lowest, being Ss cents.
Mr.. Godin, French minister of public
works, in a circular addressed to railway
boards, urges the construction OF larger
number of corridor carriages, especially
third class, so that by 1900 all fast trains
going long distances may be exclusively
composed of such carriages.
| An Ohio woman has patented match box
for pocket use which is opened at the bot
tom to load, the matches being pushed out
one at time by button on the side of the
safc, the head coming last and passing over
roughened surface to ignite it.
After a litigation lasting fourteen years
the will disposing OF Il San Francisco estate
once worth $4,000 has just been sustained
and litigation suspended because the estate
has been exhausted in paying legal fees.
| A princess, a countess, duchess and the
daughter Of reigning prince were among
the 40O0 thieves, professional and unpro-
fessional arrested in Paris during the last
twelve months.
The most costly piece of railway line in
the world is that between the Mansion
house and Allgate stations, in London,
which required the expenditure Of close
upon Sl0,0OO,O00 mile.
A model farm on the American plan and
run with American machinery, stock and
methods. is about to be established by
a Chinese mandarin who lives near Shang.
hal
German university students have in
creased in number from about 10000 twen-
ty-tive years ago, to 1924 last year. The
increase is out of proportion to the popula-
| ton.