The gazette., 1901-04-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

tried in Germany.
A portion of the old wall of Lon
don has been discovered.
Garnets are found in scores OF
places in the United States.
incubation has lowered fatal cases
in cholera from 10 to 2 per cent.
The art of manicure had its origin
in the converts in France many CEN
turtles ago.
Americans in tropical countries eat
enormous quantities of quinine to
ward off disease.
Z Picked pigs heads are sent from
Denmark to Ireland as the food of
the poorer classes.
Some of the very valuable products
Of the Isle of Pines are marble, gran
tie and building stone.
Two hundred violet farms in the
United States supply the market for
the fragrant violet blossoms.
Newfoundland's natives regard
wrecked ships as their legitimate
prey after rescuing the crews.
The cyclorama painting of the bat
tie of Gettysburg, that cost 100000,
is stored in a Weather-beaten shed in
Boston.
Among the 1854 students at the
University of Edinburgh last year
there were 252 women and 16S stu
dents from India.
In spite of the growth of the in
dustry in California, 10000 tons of
coal were landed at port Los Angeles
and sent inland last year.
Peers of Great Britain have the
right to be hanged with silken cords
instead of hempen rope. Few avail
themselves of the privilege.
Col. Sharpe, assistant cOmmissary
general of the army, is a strong be-
lever in the policy of giving soldiers
a liberal supply of sweetmeats.
John Stuart Mills humorous home
version of the prophet without
honor" proverb was expressed i'll his
remark TO Caroline Fox: MY family
have no idea how great a man | am"
COlorado's one woman legislator,
Mrs. Evangeline HearZ, does not
neglect housekeeping for law-making.
She cooks well, dresses well anC ha
a tidy home for her husband and two
boys.
The door by which the President Of
the republic. the King of Sweden, the
Shah and other distinguished visitors
were in the habit of entering the
Paris Exposition, has been sold for
IL guineas.
1t is estimated that the pearl fish
cries of Black river, in North Arkan-
sas, have yielded 100000 worth of
marketable gems since the first work
ing of the mussel deposits in that
stream in 1899.
The oldest dresSmaker's bill was
found in the ruins of the city of Nj
pur, and can not be less than 3,70O
years old. 1t contains the names of
90 vestments given to the temple by
the King of Babylonia.
Queen Alexandra has chosen for
her private secretary and treasurer
er of Lady Eva Dugdale, who is the
favorite lady-in-waiting of the Ouch
ess of Cornwall and York.
The sea cucumber-one of the GU
rious, jelly-like bodies that inhab;t
the ocean-can practically efface it.
self when in danger, by squeezing
the water out of it's body and forcing
itself into any narrow crack.
Mrs. Carrie Renstrom and her two
sons, George A. RenstrOm and r. ).
Anderson, of Seattle, Wash, claim to
have discovered the lost art of tenn
pering copper to a fineness and
strength superior to the finest steel.
George w. Lederer, the theatrical
manager, has a scheme for building
in New York duplicate of the big
London hippodrOme, to contain cir
Gus, a theater and vaudeville house.
He has had an offer of 20 different
sites.
Khaki is being superseded among
German troops in China by clothing
called "feldgrau" field gray. 1t is
a mixture of bright olive and white,
and it is claimed that it is more at
tractive than khaki, and serves the
same purpose.
DR.. Chapot-Revost, who operated
for the separation of the Siamese
twins, has gone to Vienna to study
the case of the Chinese twins now on
exhibition there with a circus. The
doctor is prosecuting his examination
by the aid of the Roentgen rays.
Another piece of the great plan OF
the city of Rome in marble, the For
ma Urbis' of the time of Suipicius
Severus, has been discovered in the
Roman Forum, where it was used to
stop a drain. 1t has engraved on II
the plan of the greater part of the
Baths of Agrippa, together with the
Pantheon.
At the birth of a japanese baby q
tree is planted, which must remain
untouched until the marriage day OF
the child. When the nuptial day ar
rives the tree is cut down and the
wood is transformed into furniture
which is considered by the young peo
pie as the most beautiful of all the
ornaments of the house.
In Iceland men and women are il
every respect political equals. The
nation, which numbers about 10000
people, is governed by representative!
elected by men and women.
Women are to be employed by the
Riayan-Ural Railway, of Russia, 4: