Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-15
ENGLISH OPINION
OF AMERICAN MEN
Many Able Ones, but None OF COnspiCuOW
Merit-LansdOwne Refuses to COM
ment on Nicaragua Canal.

home. The number OF spectators Of
"Bobs'" march 10 ST. Paurs accom-
panied hy the Prince OF Wales, Janu-
airy @. is likely 90 break an records. The
officials are already besieged for tick
cts for the thanksgiving service, and
window owners are anXlously awaiting
the announcement OF the line of march.
BRITISH ADMIRALTY MAKES UP.
The British admiralty has thoroughly
awakened 10 the importance Of SUBJ
marine and similar methods OF war;
fare. IL has arranged 20 test various
inventions for steering torpodoes and
submarine boats by means of wire-
less telegraphy operated by Mr. A. G..
Higgs, the United States consul at
Weymouth.
The United States naval attache,
Commander Glover, is following up the
matter closely Germany has made an
oner for the German rights. The in
Nentun has been considerably altered
since IL was first shown to the German
government
The inventor expresses the belief that
the danger OF interference, or lam
ming as Il Us technically Callei has
been eliminated. As recent Marconi
experiments prove the instruments not
exactly tuned to the same note can have
no influence over others, regardless OF
the power Of the batteries. Mr. Higgs
provides each torpedo with a different
note, and directs it from a ship or the
land, on or under water towards the
object 1t IS desired 10 destroy, by means
of the same current whereby wireless
messages are transmitted
POLAR DOG TRUST.
The latest form Of trust Is that OF poll
ar dogs. According 20 Sir Clements
Markham, president VI the Royal Geo
graphical society. Americans are re-
sponsible for forming such a corner in
these animals that the pending British
and other Arctic expeditions are con-
tronted with difficulty nearly a5 great
as the icei.elds. il appears that MIR.
Il. j.. Baldwin, the American explorer,
has bought up such % large supply OF
dogs that their price has risen from
SIS TO 800 and they are hard to procure
even at that price Capt Bcrnier. the
Canadian explorer hopes to get out 0f
the dilemma 10y taking young dogs and
training them on the voyage. What The
two British antarctic expeditions win
do Sir Clements Markham does not yet
know. Mr.. Baldwin says he has not
more dogs than he needs, He foresaw
the scarcity and bought early.
A MISER'S GIFTS TO CHARITY.
Mr. Robert Arlington. the eccentric
gentleman OF Leeds who lived in a
misery manner IN order 20 De able to
devote his wealth 90 foreign missions.
left over cl,Ol0OO0 to charities Of all
kinds. lie made his fortune out OF a
brewery and lived I'M one filthy room,
containing about as much furniture as
a paupers howell Disappointment in
love Is said % have been responsible
for his extraordinary life. This tall,
spare man, who wore a slough hat and
dressed In fraycd garments, made In the
style OF the sixties never was known to
give away a penny In his lifetime.
The death OF Sir Arthur sullivan has
had curious effect on the audiences
Of Patience" at the Savoy. II has so
stimulated interest In the dead COM
poser's work that the audiences are
exceeding the record Of the production
OF the opera,