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The East Indians called rock crystal
an unripe diamond.
One factory at st. Etienne, France,
made last year 269 cannon to be used
r against hailstorms.
All code books carried in warshipS
hN'e leaden backs, to make them sink
should the vessel be wrecked.
Over one thousand dwellings in Co.
logne have just been condemned by the
police as bad, either for the health or
morals of the occupants.
A naval gun when fired sustains a
pressure of fifteen to seventeen tons to
the square inch. 1t has previously
stood a charge giving force Of twenty
tons to the square inch at the proving
grounds.
1t Is proposed in France to establish
subterranean observatories by drilling
miles into the earth with oil well ma
chinery. In these the strata, tempera
ture and gases at various depths would
be studied.
Mrs. Amy Corbin of Phoenix, K. l.,
who has just celebrated her ninety
ninth birthday anniversary, has never
been beyond the boundaries OF her lit
tie native State and has not been in
Providence since the war of 1872.
Thomas Sexton has declined the in
yitation of the Irish national conven-
ton to re-enter Parliament, saying his
strength is not equal to the trying du
ties of a member of the House. Mr..
Sexton retired from Parliament in
1896.
The great Duke of Wellington has
been dead for half a century, and his
monument in st. Pauls Cathedral, Lon
don, has not been completed yet. 1t
= has been the subject of animated dis
cussion at brief intervals ever since his
death
a wireless telegraph plant Of the
Marconi company will be placed at the
foot of Fulton street, New York, which
will work with all steamers having APP
paratus. This will enable ships held
outside the harbor by fog to communi-
cate with the world.
Prof. +. r. Marshall has left a col
lege faculty to he head man Oh
great farm in Iowa. He was assistant
to the chair of animal husbandry at the
Iowa Agricultural College, and his new
place is in the live stock division OF the
famous. Brookmount farms.
The Manchester Guardian is author
tty for the information that when Lord
Roberts visits this country with the
Honorable Artillery company, the COM
pany will take four guns used by the
Imperial Volunteer Battery in South
Africa. These guns will be taken to
Canada first and then TO Boston.
Lady Algernon Gordon LennoX and
her wavy blonde hair We're great
blessing to New York hair dressers.
n Every blonde who saw the English
, womans mass of wavy locks became
possessed of mad desire for similar
head dress AS result they are pay
ing 50 and So for each treatment, only
experts being able to do the work.
The most notable feature of the re-
port of United States Commissioner OF
Education Harris is the great increase
i'll the number of college students.
There are, he says, 15,412 men in col
leges and universities, as against 44,926
ten years ago, and 27,S19 women stu
dents, as against 10,761. The only de-
crease noted is in the schools Of the
ology.
The coffee chewing habit is increas-
ing alarmingly. 1t is easily contract
al Of N nj ta ata ~ he
fresh roasted berries and the exhiara-
ton from the active principle Of coffee
being similar to that from the alcohol
in beer and whisky the habit is hard
to break The effects of coffee eating
are much more marked than those
from tobacco using. 1t wrecks the
nerves, yelows the skin and destroys
the appetite.
At Broughton, near Brigg, in Lin
conshire, England, some lands are
held by the following tenure: Every
year on Palm Sunday person from
Broughton enters the church porch at
Caster having green silk purse con-
tanning two shillings and n penny, tied
up at the end of a cart whip, which
he cracks three times in the porch and
stays there until the second lesson be-
gins. Then he enters the church and
cracks the whip again. finally depos-
iting the purse and contents.
The way in which billiard playing is
simpHfied by the device of a Munich
professor has astOnished those who
have witnessed the test, says the
American Inventor. THE sides of an
ordinary billiard table are provided
with six mirrors, one or more of which
can be turned down when a play is
made, and the advantage rests in the
fact that any image is reflected in the
same angle in which it falls on the
mirror just as the billiard ball re-
bounds from the cushion in the same
angle as that Of striking. The mirror
shows at once the different ways in
which shot can be made. Even the
tyrO is said to make difficult indirect