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 Owing to the limited supply of plati
 mum, which is essential for electrica
 work, Germany proposes to prohibit tn
 use of the metal for photographic pur
 poses.
 The emperor of Japan Is poet Ac
 cording to Baron Takasaki, scarcely al
 evening passes that he does not com
 pose from twenty-seven to thirty of tn
 thirty -one-syllab couplets called
 sswa-ka." In nine years he has writer
 87o0o.
 MT. Brenan, British consul-general z Shanghai, says that Russia and Ger the Chinese government than Grea1 W Britain. He believed the United States < would be the greatest sufferer by the z closing of Manchuria to foreign trade
 The Board of Assessors of Chicago .N x has added to the city's list matter of $20, 000 as the valuation of the ele-
 yated railroads of Chicago The tax
 that will be produced on this valuation
 will aggregate $25S,542 year-a net
 gain of $196,5OO when compared with the gs returns last year.
 H. A. Honseal, Baltimore engraver,
 is credited with a remarkable feat. On S the head of a pin one-sixteenth of an < inch in diameter it is said he has en-
 eraved all the letters of the alphabet. They are arranged in two circles, with tle character & in the center. All the letters are capitals.
 The Washington Post sees indications of a serious conflict in the Republican party as to Cuban trade and Cuban Annexation. If were on the lookout for X Democratic campaign capital, it says, five should see chances in this connec- < tion. It Is an issue that bids fair to be clearly developed in the course of few xuaonths; and when it shall have taken
 ~4>e 1t will grow. There may be presidency in it."
 The statue of Queen Victoria which x IS to be placed in front of the Ontario Parliament buildings in Toronto is a replica of the one erected in Hong Kong, the work of Signor Reggi. The pedestal will be of Canadian granite There will be bronze panels on two sides representing scenes in the late Queens life. One will represent her first council meeting. The other has mot been definitely selected, but will probably be the golden-jubilee ceremo- ny In Westminster Abbey.
 oil isn't the only profitable thing in Texas The fruit and vegetable indus- try of eastern Texas, developed within | the past five years, has become one of | the most lucrative pursuits in the State, | netting half a million dollars in profit this year, since the middle of April. lThe shipments included thirty -four oars of strawberries, fourteen of can ltaloups, eleven of cucumbers, 275 of to- lmatoes and 275 of .peaces. Nearly every cdr was sold on the track for cash. I This year the product went as far east as Philadelphia, and next year, with doubled output, eastern Texas expects to send Its delicacies west to Sale Lake and east to Cape Cod.
 In the discussion of the airshlp of M Santos-D -Dumont, says the Spectator, Ia curious fact has come out. Another Brazilian, Barthoomeo de Guzman, WHO ndQ DSGH 6QuCdteu Dy tile JeSulIS I Of Paraguay, constructed an aerial ma chine in 170o. ir, which he flew from church tower to church tower in Lis- bon The descriptions of the machine are hopelessly vague, but we take 1t it { was a kind of parachute, which en- abled him to leap safely from a high, point on to lower one. The Inquisi- ' tion naturally arrested him, nominally l as magician, really as a man of I science, and probably therefore, an un- f and though he was rescued by l the Jesuit fathers he died of chagrin ( md disappointment. M. Santos-Du- l mont will not die that way but cour- 2 age, however superb, will not alter the ( s.ws of sIavitation, any more than ia ] aatacism will stop a bullet. The real | nope for an aeronaut is that bird can Q iy but even bird cannot remain pas S i've in the air. The albatross, which e las the best chance of doing it, from T 17a t,oa rua1io11S size 0f itc 11if,cc c1aapc l {