Items of Interest July 9, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

The Director of the Mint says that the last silver dollar that will ever be issued by the Government of the United States has been coined. The coinage statement for June shows the coinage of about $400,000 in standard dollars. These coins are now all completed in the Philadelphia mint. There is still on hand about seven million ounees of the silver bullion purchased under the act of 1800. This has been set aside for subsidiary coinage. There is enough of it to coin over $7,000,000. This, with the subsidiary coins now in the Treasury amounts to nearly $12,000,000.

The Navy Department proposes to send out from one of its wireless telegraph stations, most likely Key West, at noon each day, ball time as given by the Weather Bureau to points throughout the United States. Thus captains of ships. who are within the projecting radius of the wireless station at Key West, as well as those ashore, will be able to regulate their chronometers.

Postmaster-General Payne and Mr. Takahira. the Japanese Minister, have signed a parcels post agreemen' oetween the United States and Japan, to take effect August I. The treaty allows a maximum limit of weight of four pounds six ounces in the mails between the two countries. The rate fixed is twelve cents a pound or fraction thereof.

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