DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN. Bureau of The greatest known depths of the different oceans that have been reliably sounded are the following, the data having been obtained from the Navy Department. Navigation, CZAR OF RUSSIA'S COURT. The Court of the Emperor of Russia | Imperial theatres, two chief masters of consists of the following: Chief Chamberlain, five chief court-masters, one chief gentleman-of-the-table, one chief huntingmaster, one chief court marshal, one chief carver, one chief stable-master, thirty-five court-masters, seventeen stable-masters, six hunting-masters, one director of the ceremonies, eight assistant hunting-masters, nine assistant masters of ceremonies, 173 chamberlains, 249 assistant chamberlains, twenty-four court physicians. twenty-three court priests, ten ladies-inwaiting, four ladies of the bed chamber, and 180 assistant ladies in waiting. The extra census bulletin, giving statistics of manufactures in each of the several States, gives the following figures as to the number of people employed and wages paid. NEW-YORK CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. (Adopted by vote of the people, November 6, 1894.) 1. Permits the Legislature to abolish, of Senators and Assemblymen, the memcoroners, by removing from the Constitution all mention of the office. 2. Requires that all bills shall be printed in final form at least three days before their passage, thus providing further safeguards against abuses in legislation. 3. Authorizes the Speaker of the Assembly to fill a vacancy as Governor after the Lieutenant-Governor, thus defining more fully the succession to the chief magistracy. 4. Abolishes the limitation of $5,000 for damages from injuries causing death. 5. Authorizes the President of the Senate to act as Lieutenant-Governor, thus enlarging the express constitutional powers of the former. 6. Includes institutions supported by private charity among those whose inmates do not acquire or lose a residence for the purpose of voting. 7. Removes the prohibition against the sale of the Onondaga Salt Springs. 8. Permits the trial of voting machines or some method of recording and counting votes, if found to be superior to the present system of election by ballot. 9. Abolishes the Code Commission. whose work has been completed. 10. Prohibits "riders" on appropriation bills. 11. Requires a period of ninety days instead of only ten days of citizenship before the right to vote can be exercised. 12. Changes the date of meeting of the Legislature from Tuesday to Wednesday, so that the Sunday before the beginning of the session need not be taken up by the Speakership contest. 13. Prohibits the issue of passes by railroad, telegraph and telephone companies to public officers. 14. Abolishes the contract system of convict labor. 15. Provides for securing fair elections by requiring that the two principal parties shall be equally represented on all election boards. 16. Requires the Legislature to provide for free public schools in which all the children of the State may be educated; and to prohibit absolutely the use of public money in aid of sectarian schools. 17. Secures a more speedy and effective administration of justice throughout the State by such a revision of the judiciary system as will remedy prevailing evils due to the overcrowding of trial calendars and of the calendar of the Court of Appeals. The principal features of this amendment are the consolidation of the Superior city courts with the Supreme Court and the establishment, in place of the nine general terms now existing, of four tribunals, each composed of five justices of the Supreme Court, who shall form a court of last resort upon all questions of fact and upon all interlocutory proceedings in each of the new departments. The imposition of a money limit upon the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals for a declaration and settlement of the law is prohibited. 18. Provides for a new apportionment bership of the Senate to be 50 and of the Assembly 150. 19. Prohibits the sale of public lands in the forest preserve and the cutting of timber thereon. 20. Establishes in the Constitution the present system of registration, forbidding, however, any requirement of personal attendance on the first day of registration in the thinly settled regions outside of the cities and large villages. 21 and 22. Separates in the larger cities municipal elections from the State and National elections. This is accomplished by rearranging the terms of office and times of election of certain public servants so that State officers will be elected in even-numbered years and municipal officers in odd-numbered years. 23. Permits the sale of the Hamburg Canal in Buffalo, 24. Authorizes the Legislature to provide for the improvement of the canals, without, however, borrowing money for that purpose, unless the people authorize it according to Article VII, Section 12, of the present Constitution. 25. Provides for regulating and limiting the payment of public money to private institutions for the support of certain wards of the State who could not otherwise be provided for, by depriving the Legislature of the power to pass mandatory laws compelling municipal subdivisions to make such payments, and by subjecting such expenditures to the control of the State Board of Charities. 26. Places a limitation upon city and county debts and effects a classification of cities. An important feature of this amendment is a provision that notice shall be given to municipal authorities before special acts affecting the larger cities can take effect. In case the consent of such authorities is withheld from any measure, the Legislature can pass it again by a majority vote. 27. Fixed the date for the Constitution to take effect-January 1, 1895. 28. Declares in the Constitution the principle of Civil Service Reform; that appointments and promotions are to be based on merit, and made when practicable after competitive examination; preference, however, being given to honorably discharged veterans of the Civil War. 29. Provides for progress in agriculture by giving the right of drainage across adjoining lands. 30. Regulates future amendments. 31. Defines the liability of bank stockholders. 32. Extends the prohibition against lotteries so as to include all poolselling, bookmaking and other forms of gambling. 33. Provides for a naval as well as a land force; to prevent the reduction of the militia below 10.000 men; and to compel the Legislature to provide for their support. Provides for an additional county judge in Kings County, and for an increase in the number of Supreme Court Justices in the Second Judicial District. REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS UNDER ACT OF MAR. 3, 1881. 1. (a) Any person, firm, or corporation domiciled in the United States or located in any foreign country which, by treaty, convention or law, affords similar privileges to citizens of the United States, and who is entitled to the exclusive use of any trade-mark and uses the same in commerce with foreign nations or with Indian tribes. (b) Any citizen or resident of this country wishing the protection of his trademark in any foreign country, the laws of which require registration in the United States as a condition precedent. 2. Every applicant for registration of a trade-mark must cause to be recorded in the Patent Office (a) The name, domicile and place of business or location of the firm or corporation desiring the protection of the trade-mark, and the residence and citizenship of individual applicants. (b) The class of merchandise and the particular description of goods comprised in such class to which the trade-mark has been appropriated. (c) A description of the trade-mark itself, with fac-similes thereof, and the mode in which it has been applied and used. (d) The length of time during which the trade-mark has been used by the applicant on the class of goods described. 3. A fee of $25 is required on filing each application. An application will consist of a statement or specification, a declaration or oath, and the fac-simile with duplicates thereof. It shall contain a full and clear specification of the trade-mark, particularly discriminating between its essential and ron-essential features. It should also state for what time the trade-mark has been used by the applicant, the class of merchandise, and the particular goods comprised in such class to which the trade-mark is appropriated, and the manner in which the trade-mark has been applied to the goods. No trade-mark will be registered unless it shall be made to appear that the same is used as such by the applicant in commerce between the United States and some foreign nation or Indian tribe, or is within the provisions of a treaty, convention or declaration with a foreign Power, nor which is merely the name of the applicant, nor which is identical with a known or registered trade-mark owned by another and appropriated to the same class of merchandise, or which so nearly resembles some other person's lawful trade-mark as to be likely to cause confusion in the mind of the public or to deceive purchasers, or which is merely descriptive in nature. All letters should be addressed to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. NATURALIZATION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. DECLARATION OF INTENTION.-An alien seeking naturalization as a citizen of the United States must declare on oath before a Circuit or District Court of the United States, or a District or Supreme Court of the Territories, or a court of record of any of the States having common law jurisdiction and a seal and a clerk, at least two years before his admission that it is, bona-fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign State or ruler, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen or subject. OATH ON APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION.-At the time of his application for admission he must also declare on oath, before some one of the courts above specified, "that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, State or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, State or ereignty of which he was before a citizen or subject." SOV It CONDITIONS OF CITIZENSHIP. must appear to the satisfaction of the court to which the alien has applied for final admission that he has resided continuously within the United States for at least five years, and in the State or Territory where the court is held at least one year, and that during that time "he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same." TITLES OF NOBILITY.-If the applicant bears any hereditary title or belongs to any order of nobility, he must make express renunciation at the time of his application. an SOLDIERS.-Any alien twenty-one years old and upward who has been honorably discharged from the armies of the United States may become a citizen on his petition, without any previous declaration of intention, provided he has resided in the United States at least one year previous to his application and is of good moral character. BROOKLYN'S MINORS.-Any alien under the age of twenty-one, who has resided in the United States three years next preceding his twenty-first birthday, and has continued to reside therein up to the time he makes application to be admitted a citizen, may, after he arrives at the age of twenty-one, and after he has resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen; but he must make a declaration on oath and prove to the satisfaction of the court that for the two years next preceding it has been his bona-fide intention to become a citizen. CHILDREN OF NATURALIZED CITIZENS. The children of persons who have been duly naturalized, being under twenty-one at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens. CITIZENS' CHILDREN BORN ABROAD.-The children of persons who or have been citizens of the United States are considered as citizens, though they may be born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States. CHINESE.-The naturalization of Chinamen is prohibited by Section 14, Chapter 126. Laws of 1882. now are PROTECTION OF NATURALIZED CITIZENS.-Section 2,000 of the Revised Statutes of the United States expressly declares that "all naturalized citizens of the United States while in foreign countries are entitled to and shall receive from this Government the same protection of person and property which is accorded to native-born citizens." THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.-The right to vote is conferred by the State, naturalization by the United States. In several States aliens who have declared their intentions enjoy the right to vote equally with naturalized or native-born citizens. But the Federal Naturalization laws apply to the whole Union alike, and no alien may be naturalized until after five years' residence, except an honorably discharged soldier or a person whose parents have been naturalized while he was under twenty-one years of age, as above recited. Even after five years' residence and due naturalization he is not entitled to vote unless the laws of the State confer the privilege upon him. INCREASED TERRITORY. The territorial extent of Brooklyn was practically doubled when the bills of the Legislature of 1894 annexing the towns of Gravesend, Flatlands, New-Utrecht, and Flatbush, were signed by the Governor. This makes the corporate limits of the municipality cover the entire Kings County. But this will not be fully accomplished until January 1, 1896, since the act relating to the town of Flatlands does not take effect till then. Flatbush Metric Measures.-Hectare, 2.47 acres; hectoditre (dry), 2.83 bushels; hectolitre (liquid), 26.41 gallons; kilogram, 2.20 pounds; kilometre, 0.62 mile; libra, pound; litre, 1.02 quarts; millimetre. 0.039 inch; becomes the Twenty-ninth Ward; NewUtrecht the Thirtieth, Gravesend the Thirty-first, and Flatlands will be included in the Thirty-first when the consolidation is completed. Brooklyn, by these additions, becomes the largest city, territorially, in the State of New-York; in other words, it has grown from 28.99 square miles to 66.39 square miles, and from 957,959 population in 1892 to above 1,000,000. centimetre, 0.39 inch; decimetre, 3.93 inches; metre, 39.37 inches; decametre. 393.7 inches; hectometre, 328 1-12 feet; kilometre, 3,280 10-12 feet; myriametre, 6.2137 miles. |