Arizona silver belt., 1900-03-15

ating ,0O0 to be paid to ex-Queer Lilliuokalani and providing an annua donation of >lO'O00 to her as long as she lives.
 The Paris peace commission cost the government S155, l02.12. The in vesugation of the conduct of the wal with Spain by the commission o 1 which General Grenville NJ. Dodge l was president, cost Sl05, ,144.54. l According to statistical table re gently prepared Denver leads the l United States in proportion of at ' torneyS to its inhabitants, Denver has a lawyer for every 32l inhabitants 1, san Francisco comes next with one for every 261.
 One of the results of the recent ad vance in the price of kerosene oil is another popular contribution of S1, 900, 900 through John D. Rockefeller l to the University of Chicago, The university has received up to date through this source SS, 100000 and another Sl 50O. .0G0 has been promised.
 The Berlner Post asserts on the authority of private letter from the Transvaal, received at Hamburg, that the Buer republicans on January 14 had issued altogether 46, 300 identitica- tion cards to Boers in the field. The writer of the letter claims that these figures represented the total federal forces at that time.
 The opening of the Paris exposition is less than a month off. If anticipa- tions are realized the admissions will number 6O,000,000, or four,fifth the population of the United States, and S250, ,000,0 ,00O will be left in Paris by foreign visitors, or about as much as the South African war will probably cost Great Britain.
 The clock on the Philadelphia city hall is the highest in the world, and has the largest dials. If the dialS were removed there would be space for two trains to pass each other run ming through. The glass in the four faces is fastened by ton of cement. The glass, if laid on the ground, would make walk square long and ten feet wide. The minute hand finished it's years journey on New Years day by completing 1l0-mile trip.
 That this is a great and growing country is again evidenced by the fact that it is proposed to establish two new governmental departments, the heads of which shall be members of the presidents cabinet. One of these new cabinet officers is to be known as the secretary of commerce and indus try, and the other as the secretary of mines and mining.
 Harlan Whitaker. who was arrest ed immediately after the shooting of Governor Goebel, on suspicion of being the assassin, had his prelimi- nary examination at Frankfors, Ky, on the 7th instant, and was ordered held to the April grand jury without bail.
 Washington city would appear to be the land of promise for the colored  people. Mir John ". Ross, of the board ofcommissioners of the District of Columbia said, in a recent address, that the colored people of the district numbered about 1000; that they wor- shipped in l04 churches, and that their children occupied thirty-nine school houses, worth Sl,l0O,000.
 Under recent ruling by the United States land office, in ali sections for unsurveyed lands under the act of June 1, 1S97, notice of the selection must be given for a period of thirty days by posting upon the land and in the local land office and by publica- tion, at the cost of the applicant, in q newspaper designated by the register as of general circulation in the vi- cinity of the land and published near est thereto.
 A close approximation of the British losses as reported to date places the total at l3, ,l5O, distributed as follows: Killed, 2,000: wounded, 1000; missing, 3, ,250; died of disease, 900 The Irish regiments have suffered proportion ately more than any of the others. The losses among eight of the Irish regiments up to February 2S were 1000 In the final attempt to relieve Ladysmitb, the lnniskilling, Dublin and Royal Irish Fusileers lost 80 killed, 222 wounded, 20 missing.
 Of the great commercial nations the two leading all others are Great Britain and the United States. For the year 1899 the exports from Great Britain or rather from the United Kingdom reached S1, 7,97l, ,OS9 the largest sum in British export records, while the exports of domestic merchandise from the United States for that year were S1, 252, 800, ,9S7, also the largest on record for this country, supplemented by re-exports or exports of foreign merchandise of s22, ,595, ,654, making a ko4ol 7, C SI o7E tsc pat