The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-17

The completion of the Waverly sta
ton at Edinburgh will supply the Scot
fish capital with the largest railway
station in Great Britain. 1t will cover
% acres,
The death rate among the filemakers
of England, between the ages of 80 and
IS, is 453 per 1000.
The land on which the South Sea
house stands on Threadneedle street.
London, was recently sold for 81, 75O. 900,
or about $14,000,000 per acre.
The corporation of the city of Dublin
has granted site for a statue of the
late Charles Stewart Parneu The cere-
mony of laying the foundation stone
will take place on the anniversary of
Parnells death in October.
Killarney benefited greatly during the
season now closing by the prominence it
received in the press of America and
Great Britain on account of the sale of
the Muckross estate. The number of
tourists during the summer months was
Unprecedented
Some rs years ago Benjamin Disraeli
startled the world by buying, in his
capacity as prime minister of England,
the controlling interest in the Suez
canal The Rothschilds were paid by
him $20,400000 for the shares they had
to sell. Today the market value of those
shares is $125, 600 600. The original pur-
chase money has been more than re-
turned in dividends, so that Great
Britain stands today in the position of
being the holder of $125, 600, 900 of capt.
tai which has not cost her cent and
which every year produces a large in
come. Add to this, the enormous politi-
cal influence which England possesses
through her ownership of the Suez
canal, and it can readily. be seen what
a magnificent bargain Disraeh made
that memorable morning when he so
boldly acquired the great waterway
whose construction was wholly due to
the brains and enterprise of the French
people
They have at last awakened across the
water to the value of an electric fire
alarm system and many of the princi-
pal cities are now being furnished with
the equipment. Some of the adopted sys-
TENS. however, are rather curious in
their style of operation. For instance,
in certain city the policemen are pro-
vided with a pocket telephone. This de-
vice Is said to be very handy and light
and consists of combination mouth
piece and earpiece, with about a foot of
wire attached, an affiXing pin and a
small key. The apparatus is to be used
by the officer in connection with the
fire alarm system Instead of breaking
a pane Of glass to pull down hook, the
policeman opens the door with his key,
places the afIixing pin of his pocket
telephone in a socket prepared for 1t,
and is at once in direct communication
with fire headquarters.
The genius who palmed off such a
system as that upon the trusting Brit
ish aldermen, need never be out of a
job, trusts or no trusts. He could sell
anything. from the right to vend pea
nuts on the steps of the national capitol
10 lease of the PHILIPPINE islands.
The city council of St Helens, city in
Lancashire, England, has taken for
ward position on the tuberculosis ques-
ton by opening municipal milk de-
partment The city supplies sterilized
milk to people who have infants to
feed, the price charged being the same
as unsterilized milk would cost from
an ordinary dealer. The municipal milk
is steriized by exposure to steam at
temperature of 1902 degrees c for ten
minutes.
The latest move on the part of the
British cattle dealers, who look with
anything but favor on the large lmpof-
tations of meat from abroad, takes the
form Of a proposal to have all meat
coming from America and Australia
stamped, to prevent the butchers from
selling it as English meat.
The summer has been an unusually
dry one in the British islands and har-
yesting operations have been retarded
considerably The drought has been
felt the most by the London water COM
panies, some Of whom are hard pushed
10 keep their districts supplied. A
large number of people have been called
INTO court for letting their garden
sprinklers run all night, and circulars
nave been selft around warning the
public on the necessity of economy In
water. One of those notices conveys
me information that sit is estimated
a half-inch garden sprinkler would IN
a hours waste as much water as would
supply 285 persons, or, If they were on
famine supply, between 500 and 600 per-
sons"
Water is not the only difficulty Lon
Qon is lying awake nights thinking
aoout. The housing of the poor con-
saututes a problem of appalling magni-
tude and one that must be grappled
with soon or the most fearful conse-
quences can not be avoided The roya
ttolnfnlsslon appointed to investigate
ne me matter has reported that more thar
LgOO,OO0 of the people of London need
accusing. No fewer than 141, 900 habi-
,allons have been condemned by the
health authorities as being unsanitary
a ana vet London's death rate is not al
~. dpnormal, even when compared with
oiues much smaller and more advant-
aageously circumstance. Nevertheless
me me mighty city by the Thames is toe
uuuWleldy for effective municipal adj
aanaiinlstration and the difficulty of man.
atS'hg It Is becoming more acute yeai
after year
a distressing affair took place re.
eoently at Bonnyglen, county of Done
Sal' ireland. Mr.. James M Sinclair
t the nigh sheriff of the county was sit
, tTs IN his library, after tea. when 9
,w,'esram was handed to him by a SER
me- ne IuessdBe read. come az
avg, Rose is dead" Mr.. Sinclair's
SS,sughter Rose, of whom he was pas
ssiSunately fond, was away at the sea.
n ynoee and for all the father knew. was
b GIsiectly we'll. With the telegram In
inS hand he rushed out of the house
tr,.5 cFazed condition. His coachmar
N'eu TO reason him into calmness. but
mo was no use; the suddenly-shocket
m" u,, kept staring at the dispatch anc
m' u,'trerin$ to himself; This is awful
w. rose dead. The coachman hur.
hS eI away for the family physician, but
tbo "au gone but short distance wher
tbe 5sS.port of rifle was heard from
stsrt lection Of the, barn and an in.
bsnst, later the Mortified servants were
msstnns over the llfeless body of theii
AVN Ihen came the discovery Of al
olunder. Miss Sinclair was