Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-26
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
ksrHEY OCCUR wEEKL
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages. Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land

The cost nf the Parls eNpositioh Il placed at S20 100000.
 The salary of the governor of Porte Rico is s'S000 which is more than tha of the majority of governors of oul states.
 The last survivor of the war of lSl is Hiram Donk. who lives near Rome \. Y. He celebrated his 100 birthday last Friday.
 Senator Horace Chiffon has with drawn from United States senatorial race in Texas, leaving Congressman J. w Baily a clear field.
 The republicans are casting about for war hero as running mate for Mckinley, but Secretary Long still has the call for the nomination.
 Five bundred thousand acres of the land now occupied by the Mescalero Indian reservation, iE New Mexico, will soon be thrown open to settlers.
 Murat Halstead, the noted journal ist, has accepted the presidency of the new college of journalism, an institu- ton devoted to teaching practical newspaper work, to be located in Gin ,cinnati.
 s.Porto Rico" is the proper spelling of our West Indian Island. It is so spelled in the congressional act, and furthermore is the orthography ac- cepted by the educated people of tho island
 The total exports from the United States during March, 1900, as shown by tho figures reported by the treas ury bureau of statistics, are valued at s134, against slo4 4,559,6s9 in Marcl of last year.
 Joseph Jefferson opened his fortieth year as Rip Van Wrinkle, at the Fifth avenue theater, New York, on the l1th instant. and received an ovation from the audience It is 60 years since he first appeared as an actor. He was then but boy.
 One of the exhibition buildings that is attracting particular attention at Paris is that of the Boers. The struc- ture is complete, but the exhibits are lacking for obvious reasons. Still, emptiness is eloquent in this depart ment of the show.
 And now it has leaked out that the British have been using expanding bullets in the south African war. The admission is interesting, in view of the outcry against the Boers for using the same kind of ammunition.
 Not only has American enterprise been demonstrated at the Paris expo sition by ar exhibit three times larger than that of any other country, but a Chicago firm has secured the contract for the removal of the buildings after the exposition closes.
 Chicago is said to be shy 100, COG freight cars to handle the freight busi- ness originating between the twenty eight initial lines. This fact has so affected certain branches of freight traffic that business in instances has been refused quite recently.
 That was bad blunder made by the committee of the Chicago Dewey Day celebration, inviting the Duke de Ar cos. Spanish minister at Washington, to participate The celebration will take place May 1, anniversary of the battle of Manila.
 Harry T. Wandell, city editor of the St. Lous Globe Democrat, and his sis ter, Mrs. Adam Wiest, learned through a dispatch from Albany, N. Y., that they were heirs to q fortune estimated at from sl0,O0O, GOO to S20,000,000 left by R. Wandel. hermit of that city. Coming so soon after the trial Of the double-deck turrets of the Rear sarge. the decision of the naval con struction board against this arrange. ment of the batteries of battleships yet to be constructed looks as if the Kearsarge tests were not quite so sat isfactory as they were cracked up to be
 The new postal currency proposed by a bill introduced in both houses ot congress embraces checks for s5, S2, Sl and any sum under Sl. Each note k to be signed by the person sending it When lndorsed by the party to whom it is addressed it becomes sight draf on the nearest postmaster. The fee i' 20 stamp for the large sums and 1' stamp for fractional amounts.
 A Frankfort, Ky, dispatch says It is consistently reported here tha Governor Taylor has been indicted by the grand jury and that the indict ment has been turned over, along witl those against Captain Davis and Greer Golden, but this indictment will no be given out until Taylor returns from Washington.
 The New York Journal, immedi ately upon learning of the admirap'