Arizona silver belt., 1900-05-03
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
AsrHEY OCCUR wEEKL
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

the city of New York has 1T, l9o salar jed employees,
 The attendance at the Parls exposi ton during the first week averaged 100,00O persons.
 Queen Victoria has given tlOO0 to be distributed among the poor in the Dublin hospitals.
 American women used sj0O,000 worth of imported perfumes and cos metics last year.
 A census of Klondike has been com pleted. The population of Dawson is DOH, and of the Klondike 3,397.
 Public lands in Hawaii will belong to the group itself as in Texas, instead of to the United States, as in Alaska.
 Thirty miles of overhead telephone and telegraph wires are to be put un- der ground in Chicago within the next six months,
 The Nicaragua government has hn- ally cancelled the concession to the maratim canal company to build a canal across Nicaragua.
 And so the American department of the Paris show is not to be formally opened until May 10 Apparently we t;,,a x,-tth ahnut all the rest of the procession over there.
 The side shows at the Paris fair are almost as attractive as the exposition proper, and far more expensive to the sight-seer Ten million dollars are invested in these outside attractions.
 The persistent rumor that General Joe Wheeler and the widow of the late George W. ChildS are to marry is not denied by either of them. They sim- ply smile when inquisitive reporters approach them
 George w. Bean and his four sons, all of Somerville, Mass, were recently made Master Masons on the same evening in Putnam lodge of that city. No similar event has ever occurred in Masonic history.
 Governor Roosevelt has publicly declared for the third time that he will not be candidate for vice-presi- dent on the republican ticket. He said further that he could render the best service to the party by running for governor.
 During the year that ended in July last 76, 4s9 Italian immigrants came to the United States more than arrived in any year since 1893. It is supposed that the number that will add them selves to our other afflictions this year will exceed 100000.
 The latest authentic estimates of the Boer forces place them at j0,900, of which 13,OOO are at Kroonstadt, 5000 at Fourteen Streams, 5000 in Natal 700 about Mafeking, and LOGO at Pretoria. The work of entrench- ing Pretoria is proceeding.
 The house committee on labor, at a special meeting April 26, directed a favorable report on the Gardiner g. hour bill which has attracted much attention in labor circles and among contractors for government work. The vote was unanimously in it's favor.
 The contract for the building of the hall in Kansas City calls for the putting on of the roof only eight days before the assembling of the Democratic national convention. This looks like a pretty close call, and the party will be mighty lucky if it doesn't have to assemble in a good deal of q barn.
 Chicago is to have a municipal tee phone system an innovation in America. It's immediate use if to be confined to the police and fire depart ments, but it's projectors say that eventually it will serve as the nucleus of great metropolitan system that is expected to become rival to the old and new telephone companies.
 Railroads throughout the country report enormously increased earnings compared with the first three months of 1899. During the year they are going to expend large proportion of the increase in building new lines, bettering old ones and providing new and better equipments.
 Ten states have exhibits at the Paris exposition showing how good roads should be built, and this in the face of the statement that the United States is notorious for it's bad roads. The government has experiment sta tions in every state in the union, where lessons in road making are taught.
 In 1899 the people of the United States consumed alcoholic drinks to the value of s973, 5S9, ,0SG, and sl73,30s,-