nts
used by dentists for extracting nerves from teeth were even more
expensive, representing some $2,150,000 per ton.

AT A fete in the Elysee Palace the other day one of the features
prepared for the entertainment of the guests was a cinematograph,
which contained views taken during President Faure's visit to St.
Petersburg. One of the pictures settled for the President a question
which had been troubling him considerably. Several months ago a German
paper printed an interview with Bismarck, in which the ex-chancellor
commented on M. Faure's visit to St. Petersburg, saying that the
Frenchman had conducted himself according to etiquette except on one
occasion, when, on his arrival in the Russian capital he had been
saluted by the Cossack guard of honor, he had returned the salute with
the hand, not with the hat. M. Faure being a civilian, this was a
serious breach of etiquette, Bismarck said. The interview was
reprinted in the French papers and caught the President's eye. He was
much concerned about the matter and asked several friends who had been
present if he had actually committed the breach. No one could
remember. Then came the cinematograph show. As the small audience
gazed upon the screen they saw the President's image advance with
slow, dignified step before the Cossacks, then all at once raise his
hand to his hat, which he lifted with the quick motion so familiar to
Parisians. The guests burst into applause and the President smiled.
Bismarck was mistaken.

"WE HEAR a great deal regarding the decline of our shipping interests,
and so far as our shipping in the foreign trade is concerned it is
unfortunately true," says The Boston Commercial Bulletin. "But few
people realize the immensity of our coastwise commerce. The Custom
House figures on the shipping of the port of New York for 1897 show
that there were 4,614 arrivals of vessels from foreign ports, 7,095
from Eastern domestic ports, and 3,798 from Southern domestic ports.
Of the foreign, 2,313 were British, of which 1,667 were steamships;
952 were American, of which 323 were steamships, and 517 were German
of which 444 were steamships. This statement shows that the arrivals
from American ports were nearly three times those from foreign
countries, though of course this proportion is not borne out in
tonnage, vessels on the deep sea trade averaging larger. But it will
be doubtless a surprise that of the shipping from foreign ports more
than one-fifth were Am