Notes And Novelties

S Tokio, Japan, is to have an elevated railroad. Foreiarn non-residents can not hold property ia ïtussia. There is an establishment in New York which prints 5,000 novéis an hour. Every time the great press cylinder go"s around a novel is printed, i'oided and trimmed. The.first notice of the nse of coal is in thu records of the abbey oí Petcrboroug-h, England, in the year 830 A. D. , which inention au item of twelve eartloads of "fossil fuel." In all Eng-Iand and Wales there are only 101 nomen physicians and surgeons. There are almost as many women chimney sweeps, and 226 women plumbers, while the niimber of women railroad porters is practieally the same as of plrysieians. The statutory limit of a British parliament is seven years. Kone of this eentury lasted that long-, however. The average length is about four years. The oue which expired in 1S93 continued six years, but the present one is not likely to live long er than half tiiat time. The aanouiitemen s made in the English journals of some new alloys for the manufacture of baring and cutting toois, the claim being1 made for the new substance- that tliey p ssess a hardness equal to that of tompered steel, with the additional advantage of not losing1 théir harduess when heated by fri :tion. A historical society has been organized in Chester county, Pa., to mark places of historical interest with memorial stones. biïfrinning1 with the Brandywiue battlefield and following1 the movements of the American and Britishforcesin the Revolutionary war so that the lines of maren may be tracedalong the roads of the country. There is a steady demand for walnut timbar, aud pnrchasers are scouring the Atlantic coast región in search of large trees. While metallic comas, usually called caskets by the undertakers, have displaced walnut coflins, the wood is inereasingly applied to other uses. The trees are scaree in most pirts of the East, and many are jealously g-uarded against axandsaw.