MEWS AND MOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 131, 29 November 1902, Page 12 (Supplement)

MEWS AND MOTES.

It is stated that Dover's national harbour will be completed in five years' time. After a. systematic exploration of the different strata of the iTorum, Professor Boni, the Italian archaeologist, believes that he has discovered the necropolis of primitive Home, dating as far back as the eighth century before Christ Because he wrote, "Take care, Kaiser, you may fall," in one cf his articles, the editor of a Leipsic new spaper has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for trea&on. Rosa Orengo, a young Italian lady, has been found chained and half-starved in a subterranean den at Dolosdo. It is jlleged that she had been thus ill-treated by certain relatives who wished to obtain possession of her fortune of £8000. Ten thousand pounds from the municipal tramway profits is to be applied to the relief of the rates at Sheffield. Timber is being exported from Bosnia to South Africa to be used in rebuilding farms destroyed during the war. At Budapest, xVustria-Hungary, the municipanty has opened a registry office for domestic servants. Orders have been issued to the Russian police to forbid the sale or use of phonograph rollers for the reproduction of sacred music. Wood-chopping is to take the place of the treadmill afc Deroy Prison, England. England has become a nation of drunkards, and it seems hopeless lo w.ork for its reformation, declared Lady Henry Somerset on her arrival at New York. SParis and Copenhagen were to be placed in telephonic communication with each other this month. Berlin's last horse-drawn tramway-car will be withdrawn from the slree\s on Ist December. Sir A. L. Jones suggests that ponies should be bred in Jamaica for the British Army. A " tramp ball " is the latest American society innovation. The guests are required to wear the tramp costume. The men will wear tattered coats, ragged trousers, battered shoes, and shabby hats, and carry the empty tomato-cairs which are the American tramps' drinking-cups. The ladies make an equally disreputable appearance. Professor Adolf Lorenz, a prominent Austrian physician, started last month for Chicago to treat a wealthy resident of that city, and will return to Vienna at the end of February. His remuneration and expenses for the journey were to be upwards of £15,000. The English School Dentists' Society is endeavouring to arouse the interest of teachers in the teeth of the children. The future prospects of many young people, it is stated, are ruined by bad teeth. Canon Glazebrook said at the Anglican Church Congress at Northampton last, month that the language of the prayerbook to tbe working-classes was as unintelligible as a foreign language. It wats one reason for many working men staying away from church. The New York Divorce Court on Bth October disposed of forty-one cases. There were 500 cases down for hearing. General Booth, on his arrival in New York some weeks back, was enthusiastically received. Fourteen tugs and steamers bore nearly 2000 people to greet him. They fired bombs and cannon, blew steam whistles, sang hymns to the accompaniment of several brass bands. The general was to start on an extensive tour through the United States and Canada. The Salvationist leaders deny the reports of further secessions- to Dr. Dowie. English railroads are beginning to realise the advantages of tha big American goods trucks. The Great Central is shortly going to introduce a bogie fish car on its lines which will hold fifteen tons. Those in use at present carry four tons. It is computed that American millionaires have given £77,000,000 to charitable and: philanthropic objects during the past nine years. Mr. Pierpont Morgan is credited with having distributed in this way just under £300,000. Mr. Carnegie's benefactions, however, exceeded six millions sterling tip to the end of last year. Mrs. Leiand Stanford gave a corresponding amount in one donation lasi year. Her gifts, with those of her late husband, ' total ten million pounds. As the result of an official enquiry instituted by the Hungarian Government with regard to the use of the typewriter for official documents, it has been estab r lished that such documents cannot be depended on for more than eight to ten years, at the end of which time the characters become invisible. The railway officials on the Siberian and on parts of the Caucasian line have been instructed by the Russian Government to carry rifles. This measure hae been rendered necessary by tho frequent outrages which have been committed along and in tibe neighbourhood of these railways. An immense forest fire was last month raging afc Pikanni, midway between Athens and Marathon, and threatened the complete disfigurement of one of the most picturesque and interesting districts of Greece. Mr. M'Wade, the United States Consul who recently arrived afc Vancouver from Canton, reported an apparent demonstration of the success of a cure for leprosy as the resnlt of the experiments of Dr. Bazlag, of Vienna, who is now attached to the United States Army Medical Corps in the Philippines. Mr. M'Wade has taken to Washington an official report of the successful experimental treatment of fourteen cases. According to a telegram from Irkutsk, in Siberia, a. huge rent of recent formation has been discovered on the Bide of Mount Verkholensky. It was thought at first that the fissure was the result of volcanic action, but ifc has been found on close exaisiinafcion by geologists that the steam and white-hot exudations thrown out. from the re^nt are duo to spontaneous combustion of the coal schists under the surface of the mountain. A memorial stone, commemorative of Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth Barnard, wife of Sir John Barnard, has just been placed in the church at Abingdon, Northamptonshire, where she was buried. She was the last direct descendant of the poet. Her death occurred in 1669. The memorial was given by Stanley Cooper. All of the engines on the great Southern Pacific railway in the United Statesare being converted into oil-burners as rapidly as possible. Coal is lo be abandoned entirely. Within a year, it is said, the whole svstem — which runs through extensive oil-fields, both in California and Texas — will be on an exclusively oil-burning basis. Tha saving is very large, calculated as amounting $0 about £20,000 a month on the whole Mr. William Ziegler, who fitted out the Baldwin North Pole expedition, ■which has recently returned fter an unsuccessful search ior the Pole,, is making plans for a fresh expedition, which he Itopes to bo able to send early next year. Rhodes Park in the Matappos is being rapidly pushed forward. Jt comprises nearly 2000 acres, and is tuated between the railway terminus and the World's View. A nursery has been sitarted. Over 4000 trees will be planted 1/his season, the seeds for which ' ye been sent for from every, known fore&uy depot.