Notes And Novelties

7 Tokio, Japan, is to have an elevated ! railroad. Foreiq-n non-residents eau not hold property ia Russia. There is an establishment in New York whioh prints 5,000 novéis an hour. Every time the great press cylinderjios around a novel is printed, f'olded and trimmed. The tirst notiee of the usa of eoal is in tho records of the abbey of Peterboroujh, England, in the year 830 A. D. , which inention an item of twelve cartloads of "fossil fuel. " In all Eagland and Wales there are only 101 women physicians and surg-eons. There are almost as many women chimney sweeps, and 226 women plumbers, vvhile the number of women railroad porters is practically the same as of physiciaas. The statutory limit of a British parliament is seven years. None of this century lasted that long1, however. The average length is about four years. The one which expired in 1S92 continued six years, but the present one is not likely to live longer than half that time. The aanouncemenb is made in the Engiish jouruals of some new alloys for the manufacture of boring1 and tools, the claim being1 made for the new substances that they p jssess a hardnessequal to that of teinpered steel, with the additional advuntag-u of not losing1 their hardness when heated by fri-tion. A historical society has been org-anized in Chester county, Pa., to mark places of historical interest with memorial stones. bes-inning1 with the Brandywine battlefield and following the movements oL the American and British forces in the Revolutionair war so that the lines of march may be traced a'.ong1 the roads of the country. There is a steady demand for walnut timbar, and purchasers are scourinn- the Atlantic eoastreg-ion in search of larg-e trees. While metallic ooffins, usually called caskets by the undertakers, have displaced walnut coffins, the wood is increasingly applied to other uses. The trees are scarce in most purts of the East. and many are jealously guarded ag'ainst ax and saw.