Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-14
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
AS THEY OCCUR wEEKL
A Condensation cf Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space 10 tho News of
 Our Own Land

That was a meeting of two great
 fak,s when Otis and Shntter shook
 hands at San Francisco
 The Christian Scientists held a great convention in Boston last week. There
 were l0,0G0 people in attendance
 The democratic headquarters is to
 remain in Chicago instead of being
 transferred to Washington, as an nounced
 The government transports free an nually about 43,000 tons of postal mat ter, largely composed of the speeches of congressman.
 Neely is magnanimous thief. He stole only half of the Cuban postal re- ceiptS. when he might just as well have taken the whole cheese.
 The value of I'ransvaal mining ma chinery is not far from s4I 100000. Most of the machinery about S4o, ,00o,- GOO worth is on the Witwatersrand.
 Ice trust stock seems to have stuck to the fingers of good many distin- guished citizens of New York. Six of the supreme court judges have got some of it.
 Paris contains the finest labor tenn pie in the world, Eighty-two trades and organizations have meeting places and offices under its roof, for which q nominal rent is paid.
 Out of F, ,00O,0OO pieces of registered mail Landed annually, the loss has been one-thousandth of per cent and in the transmission of ordinary letters the loss is but seven-thousandths of per cent.
 Mir. Hearst, owner of the New York Journal and san Francisco Examiner, will establish an afternoon democratic paper in Chicago Then paper will make it's appearance July 1.
 The new Spanish loan has been greatly overSubscribed by the Spanish people themselves. A good deal of wealth in the torm of hard cash is stored away among the Spaniards.
 The fashion of foreign governments owning their embassies or legations in Washington is spreading. Both the French and Russian embassies are ne- gotiating for sites for the erection of buildings for their use.
 Princess Aribert of Auhait, eldest daughter of Princess Christian. and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, is in this country travelling incognito as the Countess of Munsterberg. She will remain in America only short time.
 The discovery of s,0000 between the leaves of magazine in the library of the late Robert Bonner would seem to show that the most prudent men some times find queer Repositories for their 
 The president will notify all nations with which the United States holds | relations that it is the in- tention of this government to cele- brate the centennial anniversary of the Louisiana purchase with worlds | fair at St. Louis in 1S03
 Counting about seventy-five millions ! of people is big job, but the fact that it is undertaken by no less than 2,600 ! not 10 mention several thousand supervisors, special agents | and clerks, makes the individual bur ! den less hefty than would otherwise be the case.
 The appearance of the fleets of six civilized nations in Chinese waters and | the demonstration in force at the capi- tai of China for the protection of civ ilization is a spectacular event of the greatest impor ,ance. It is doubtful if the forces arranged for the preser. vation of order will be permanently withdrawn.
 That was pretty cheeky census enumerator of the District of Colum- bia who called at the White House and asked the president of the United States his present trade or occupation. and how long he had been at it. How ever. he seems to have obeyed his official instructions.
 The session of congress just closed was reasonably short in point of du- ration, but not in eloquence. Tho proceedings and speeches fill more than 1000 pages of the Congressional Record. The Record for the entire session of the t'ifty-fourth did not run up to 1000 pages, and for the first session of the Fifty-tifth there were less than 5000 pages.
 In response to the request made by the United States and Chilian minis ters at Berne, to select the third mem-- Der of the arbitration court. which IS to settle the claims and counter-claims held by the citizens of each country against the government of the other, the president of the Swiss republic has