Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-01
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 leaving profit of over $5,0O0.OOo.
 In London's new Criminal Court on the Old Bailey site, prisoners climb up white marble stairs to reach the dock.
 New York City has acquired the rep utation of having the most discourteous railway employees of all cities in the world.
 In the last six months there has been large increase in the number and size of robberies In the New York hotels, and the proprletors are using every possible means to prevent their puflic- ity.
 There is large army of push-cart peddlers who do business In New York City. One day recently 4,270 of them were counted on Manhattan Island be- tween the City Hall and 14th street, east of Mulberry street.
 Girls and men are still kept careful ly apart In Argentina, and a man does not introduce even his most intimate friend to his sisters. Marriages of girls of twelve to fourteen to boys or sixteen or eighteen are common.
 Pierre Thierry has entered an action against ex-Empress Eugenie. claiming $92O,OO0. Thierry's uncle lent Napo- leon $60O,OO0 In 1855. Napoleon re- l newed the note in 1870. It was lost at the time of the Franco-Prussian war, but was found recently.
 Mime. Rodileau, the oldest woman in France, has died at Neuilly at the age of 108 She came to Paris when quite child and never left 1t afterward. She remained in full possession of her fac ulties to the very last, and until recent ly was In the habit of taking a daily walk.
 Latest of vast fortunes sought by seekers of lost treasure Is the Traans- vaal war chest containing $o,0O0,0O0. The chest was taken from hiding at Delagoa bay In 1898 and shipped on the Dorothea, which vessel was lost on reef in the Indian ocean. Now the steamship Alfred Nobel has been spe- cially fitted up by . syndicate for the work of recovering this treasure. Consul general Alfred L. M. Gott- schalk of the City of Mexico, reports: {: According to the best private autho-- ity a conservative estimate of the Amer ican capital brought into Mexico since 1902 and invested In mining and smelt- ing ventures amounts to about $125.- 100000 gold. The figure may material ly increase the general estimates of l American investment in Mexico, which estimated some little time ago at $75O,O00,OOO gold value."
 When Mir. John Burns entered the Cabinet there were rumors that he would refuse to don the cooked hat and epaulets of official uniform. The King asked him about 1t. Mot true" replied MT. Burns; land, besides, have al- ready worn your majesy's uniform" !" The King naturally asked when that was. "When was In Pentonville," an- swered Mir. Burns, alluding, of course, to his three months sentence after the Trafalgar square riots.-Tit-Bits. | Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the we'll known English inventor, has . home In Holland Park, near London, that re- sembles a strange storehouse of cleo trical appliances He recently was pre- scented at court In recognition of the part he took in the development of the incandescent electrim lamp. During his early years he was associated with . firm of chemists In Newcastle. Sir Jo- seph had prided himself on the fact that all his inventions have been of practical things
 The fre-damp detector of M. Hardy, Frenchman, Is an ingenious applica- ton of the microphone. Two pipes of equal pitch-one In the mine and the other above ground-are sounded slmul- taneously, and the sound waves i'm pinge on microphones connected in series with a telephone. If both pipes are in pure air clear note is heard in the telephone. If the pipes arc in air of different density beats are heard and these give warning of the presence of fire damp In the mine.
 Although a millionaire, Edwin U. Curtis has taken the position of United States sub-treasurer at Boston. Early in life he took a fancy to politics, and having plenty of money he gratified his desire. He was elected mayor of Bos- ton. Twice afterward he was nomi- mated, but each time defeated. He docs not care for private business, and would prefer to be in public service. Iiis salary of $5,00o . year iu his new position would be only a small part of the profits he would find in a mercan- tile pursuit
 photographing wild animals as they roam in their native haunts Is . Fad of Ernest Harold Baynes, the naturalist and writer, who lives at Meriden, N. H. MT. Baynes gets acquainted with