Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-16

mollusks, but there once was an Eng. fish king who liked his a month old.
 The 1902 appropriation for the civil service commission of New York city is SS0.000. The state expendc for the same purpose S4O.000, of which S2. 450 is for printing and Sll 900 for postage
 The largest number of separate cleo tric light stations in any state is in II. linois, while the largest capital invest. ei is in Pennsylvania, which also pos sesses the second largest number of stations
 NJ. Deraison. a French naval ensiga has been dismissed from the fleet fx writing a satirical novel in which sev- eral of the leading officers were criti- cised and caricatured in a very sar. castle fashion.
 There arc 200O0 square miles of az. ricultural land in Natal alous, which carries . population Uf but Ohe to the square mile. The same paUcity of farming population prevails over the whole of South Africa.
 The Austrian minister of war has is sued secret order to the officers to report every quarrel leading to q duel to the officer in command of the regi. ment. The latter may in serious cases criminaly prosecute the offenders.
 The Japanese government has decid- ed to open next spring a regular steam ship service between Tsuruga, on Wa kasa bay, in Nippon. Vladiyostok. The negotiations with Russia. which began fast summer. have now been conclud. ed
 Eighteen peasants of the district Of 1scherdinsk bearing the family name ot Dyayol (deviD have sent q petition to the czar asking for permission 70 change the name to BoSolubow God beloyedD. This request was granted them.
 Those to whom the mo-gUe counts as one Of the attractions of Paris VIII De interested to learn that at the last meeting of the general cou-cil that body decided to spend Sl,2J0 in light Ing the dismal institution with cleo. tricity.
 An ingenious head master Tn north Wales has calculated that the British boy loses on an average 273 whole school days by the clumsiness of the present system of weights and meas ures. The cure, he says, is the metric system.
 Dr Jay ". Seaver Of Yale finds that because the members of the freshmen class of that institution are unusually light smokers they have more lung power and can accordingly make more vocal racket in giving the college yell than any of their rivals.
 By the breaking up of the Servia and .he Alaska there disappeared two of the three famous Atlantic liners whose appearance twenty years ago was re garded as the opening up Of q new and most important page in the his .ory of Atlantic steaminc.
 The military authorities in Germany are, according 10 the Berllner Tage- blatt, becoming seriously alarmed by the ever increasing difficulty of keep ing the establishment Of the noncom- uissiOned officers of the army up to itF required numerical strength.
 IL is reported from Seoul that tEe Russian minister of Korea has intilnat- cd the intention of the Russian Gcv- ernment to lay a Russian telegraph line from Possiet bay (MauchUria) to Seoul, declaring that the emperor Of Korea cannot withdraw tue permits sion already given for the construction of this line.
 The three keepers of the lighthouse ct Cape Griznez have been fired r. for poaching by spreading nets to catch the birds attracted by the refectors Of tbe lantern 1t was stated during the bearing of the case that no fewer thar 5.314 birds were captured between Oct 10 and IA, Ehe majority being larks thrushes and corncrakes.