Arizona republican., 1899-08-08
Mines and MininQ

A NA @ @\A&NA &<A1EA ATA<N%&N { ng the first half Of the year. out ot
 5 cases of typhoid fever noted nC
 ewer than 20. or over 8 per cent. were
 distinctly traceable to polluted shell fish. At present there is q bill before parliament relating 70 the control of oyster beds.
 i It is said that before Lady Randolph 1 ChurchilTs quarterly. the AnglO.Saxon l Review. had appeared. she had book l d nearly 3.000 subs scribers, not for a
 single number. but for a whole year. i That means guarantee of S60.0C0 Tor ] the production of four numbers. 4 Parisian lately travelling by train
 showed his ticket to the inspector con iuctor. but refused to let him take it into his hands because his hands were 90 dirty. He. the passenger. was un
 willing, he said to put into his pock- ct ticket which might be contamin-
 rled with microbes and might very
 likely give him some disease He was
 summoned before q court. and after d .ong legal discussion as to the exact meaning of the word show pres en- 5er,) the court fired this ardent disci- )le of modern hygiene the sum of ore franc, or 20 cents.
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 According to a Scottish fishery board report lately published. nearly 1,G00,- 900 barrels of Scottish he11ingS were aXportad last year to ports in northern Europe. Konigsberg imported 7.35S barrels: Hamburg. 231 ,9S1. while DantZig Libau and St Petersburg took rom 154,SS0 barrels in the case of the fnst to 10S.000 in the last. The UIited States consumed nearly 1S,000.000 pounds. of which Great Britain sup piled 7S44,203 pounds.
 Sona small fishes recently deposited in the fish house at the London Zoo Ogical gardens. exhibit a curious fel- tCre which is probably one of the marks of the transition stage betwee the purely water and the amphibious creature. 1T present they present the literal spectacle of d fish Ou; Of water. They Took ordinary to the casual in spectiOn. except that they are well pro viGsd with spiny processes on the fins. In the tank is q diminutive tree trunk. up which the fish climb with the help of the spines. Some time or other we must believe the fish, like the ancestors of the frogs and newtS left the rivers and lakes and weIt for nore prolonged strolls upon the shore until at last they finally took I'D their permanent abode there.
 This is an era of trusts or rings in Germany. So recently as last year as is gathered from the annual report of the British Consul General at Frankfort t-on-the-Main, there were founded rings in the following branch es of industry: Iron wire. woolen goods iron goods. wall paper. cast iron. cloth aSphaltUm. yIrr, cotton yarn. indigo. There is also q coal ring. and similar combinations are projected for spirits and sugar The evils of the Standard Oil monopoly are, however. regarded as .jha greatest. and have attracted the serious attention of the German gov ernment and of German chambers of commerce. but so far no effective rem edy has been discovered.
 
 Some startling figures are givea to show that there is probability of the Thames running dry this summer-at
 
 between the amounis of water passed daily over that weir last year and this: May. 1888. S43. .O0O. GOO gallons: May 1899. j5G, 100000 gallons; Jun.a 1S9S 429. 9.C90,OOO gallons: June 1899. 230.000.000 gallons. During the first F days of July this year the riv- er fluctuAted from 35.00O.OG0 gallons | to 142,GG0,0G0, and last year was dry year.
 Following the example of Holland. | tlH=, leaders of the Flemish movement in Belgium havs been organizing q i grat petition in favor of the BosIs ! This petition which urges GrsaJ Brit ain not t0 force a criminal war on the 1 rranSvaal. is being distributed in all | the large C ntars of population. and | will be forwarded to the Queen of | in a few days.
 4 Rome correspondent says that the British M diterrlnean squadron is to | visit Civita Vecchia- and that the Catholic officers and sailors will pro- | ceed to Rome. where the pope will re- ceive them with special sOlOmEity, | an allOcutiOn on England | and the CathoLc return movement. There is q crazA abroad for collect | ing curious silver trifies. People who are fond of music and everything per taining to it are gathering silver mu- 7icaI instruments, ill miniature, of .our-e.