Arizona silver belt., 1899-10-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Brief MentioH of interesting Facts
 and Happenings.

established between Portland, Oregon, and Manila,
 Corn brought from Porto Rico and planted in Wisconsin in June has reached the height of fourteen feet,
 The Matin Paris, is authority for the statement that tle DreyfuS tami- ly will shortly go to Egypt for the win Ter.
 The navy department has decided to send four more war ships to Manila. The Brooklyn will be one of the num- Der
 The British Foreign Office has rati- jed the temporary Canadian boundary line agreement, Americans are not satisfied with it.
 The savings Of the enlisted men in he British army amount to S2,0oe,- e00 annually. all 0f which is on deposit with the government.
 The commissioner of internal rev cnuc has decided that qualified dealers are restrained from selling leaf tohac ro tO pcnitrutiary wardens.
 The Illinois federation of labor at Danville adopted resolutions ravoring Tree coinage of silver at lG to |. and conforming the prosecution of strik- crS.
 Admiral Dewey has elected to ac- cept a house in Washington already constructed, instead of having one built for his occupation, The fund amounts to S50.0o0.
 Dr. Gattling the inventor of the iattling gun, recently celebrated his cighty-tirst birthday Quite num- her have missed birthdays as a result nf his invention.
 Tn Japan vaccination is compulsory, and the government makes its own lymph and issues it free of charge. RevaccinatiOn at stated periods is also enforced rigidly. Only calf lymph is used
 The city prison of the City of Mex leo contains BPS prisoners. of which 20 are women. The monthly expenses uf the institution amount to Sl5,O0o X school k conducted in the prison and is attended by nearly 300 inmates
 The first railroad grant in the United States was made to the Illinois Cen ,ral Railroad company in 1850: the last was made to the Southern Pacific company in 1871. During the twenty une years waS thus given to the rail- roads 2I4.2Il square miles.
 The Spanish government has sold he Havana floating dock for S6O0, ,0OO toa syndicate of Vera Cruz merchants. several New York firms have been asked for terms for conveying the dock Co Vera Cruz. The purchasers wish to remove ii about the begin ming of next month.
 \ we'll preserved Roman camp has been discovered on the right bank of ihe Narenta, in Herzegovina. \ sec ion 80 feet long by 20 feet wide has been traced. Part of the walls. gates and towers are still standing. and many utensils and weapons have been dug up. IL is believed that the camp was erected in the time of Nero.
 Marcus Daily of Montana, has taken a ten-years' lease of fine house re- gently built by William Waldorf As tor on Fifth avenue. between Fifty sixth and Fifty-Seventh streets. New York city. II is the most arisiocratic site on the avenue, the Cornelius Van derbilt residence and the mansions of William C. Whitney and (. II. Hunt ingtOn being on the Fifty-seyenth- street corners. Daly in his new home will be just mile from Senator w. \. Clark < s2.000.o00 marble palace.
 Hans Lawthcr. il wealthy citizen of Fulton. Mo-. is defendant in q remark able law suit. Several years age MT. Iawther took Miss Ethel Lynch from an orphan asylum under the condi- ton that she should be educated and brought up as one of the family. The young woman alleges that instead of complying with the agreement he gave her such limited education she can only work as q servant. Because of this she asks s2 loo wages and s. coo damages.
 The old Baltimore Sun. which was lhc first paper in the world to use the Morse magnetic telegraph. for the transmission of news. was one of the papers that received reports from the yacht race by the first practical test of the Marconi wireless system. The steamships Ponce and Grand Duchess. which followed the yachts. were equipped with the Marconi system. and the reports of progress were sent from shipboard to Sandy Hook. and forwarded thence by ordinary telc- graph.
 The St. Louis Fair Association in- troduccd stecr-tyin:s contest this year, which proved popular attrac-