Mesa free press., 1900-11-09
The entertainment Of royalty cosls
British society each year fully f2,0OO,-


The United States courts in New
Mexico cost the Government about
$4,000 year.
An electric pneumatic brake has been
noopted for the equipment of the Met
ropolitan Railroad in Paris.
Earl Beauchamp is to resign at the
end of the current year from the Gov
ernorship of New South Wales.
Electric cars are immensely popular
In England, and the equipment COM
panies can hardly keep up with their
orders.
A New York authority says that only
a few Of the tall buildings in that city
are paying anything like fair rate of
interest.
Montreal has decided to erect the
finest monument In Canada in honor of
the Montrealers who have fallen in
South Africa.
There is a national movement in
Switzerland looking to the establish
ment of hospitals for the treatment Of
lung diseases.
The Mississippi River each year
washes away an alarming amount Of
shore, equal to ten square miles Of ter
ritory eighty-six feet deep.
Louis Dreyfus of Germany showed
Thomas Edison how to melt iron in five
seconds. The National Tubing Com
Ipany is after the invention.
/ The United States Government has
to pay royalty for the use Of most Of
the telescope sights now enjoyed on
the sea coast and field artillery guns.
England has Garden City Associa-
Ition whose aim is to build cities in such
q way that they shall combine the ad-
vantages of country life with those Of
town life.
Holland has National Woman's Suf-
frage Association with fourteen branch
les. At present the franchise is limited
to male citizens who own property and
have their taxes paid.
/ The ages Of the four generations Of
the English royal family in the direct
lime of succession are: The Queen, 80;
Prince Of Wales, 81; Duke Of York, "a;
Prince Edward Of York, 5.
Commander Seaton Schroeder, the
new Governor of Guam, was class
mate Of Commander Wainwright at the
Naval Academy. Both men were ap-
pointed by Lincoln in 1864.
In order to facilitate traffic along the
shores Of the Dead Sea it has been de-
Icided to establish regular intercourse
by means Of small steamers, and the
first steamer has been purchased.
A special expedition for the study Of
lleprosy is to be made by the Danish
specialist, DR.. Ehlers He WILL by invi-
ltation, visit Creta, on which there are
several hundred lepers, as well as Bos
mia and other Eastern regions.
! Golden and diamond weddings were
celebrated by GA couples in Prussia in
1899, and the state distributed jubilee
medals to each husband and wife. In
Berlin and provinces of Brandenburg
the number Of these couples was 115.
An inventor has recently devised an
illuminated sign which is sunk flush in
the pavement, consisting Of large
dead light, bearing sign secured in a
metal ring and a conical reflector, at
the bottom of which is located an in
ilcandescent light.
In February thirty-nine locomotives
were exported from the United States,
against twenty-seven in the same
month Of 1899. For the eight past
months 1872 were shipped abroad,
against 342 in the same months Of the
fiscal year 1899, and 269 in 1898.
In a recent lecture on the cannibals
of North Australia, given by DR.. Carl
Lumholtz, in New York, he designated
that country as the "land Of contrasts,
where women are without beauty,
birds without song, flowers without fra
GRANGE, and where dogs do not bark"
The Crown Prince of Germany, now
,1S years old, will now serve for some
,months in the army with the First
Prussian Foot Guard Regiment at
Potsdam. He will then enter the Uni
;versity of Bonn, like his father and
grandfather. His next brother, Prince
|Eitel Fritz, will stay two years longer
at Ploen.
One of the common grape vine pests
which thrives in this country and
abroad is the phylloxera. In a recent
French journal it Is shown that if
young grape vine shoots intended for
propagation are immersed in water
heated 122 degrees Fahrenheit for ten
minutes or so the insect and its eggs
will be entirely destroyed without af-
fecting the plant.
One of the Continental trips Of Queen
Victoria is a good thing for the class
Of officials known as Queens messen-
gers. They are kept actively employed,
and naturally profit by the arrange
ments made. The salaries Of those en-
gagged on3 ,reign service are f400 year
each, with an allowance Of FL a day in
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