The evening times., 1895-08-26
General Information.


General Information.
The shipment of California wines this
year is nine millions gallons, valued at
$1,000, 900, against seven and third
million gallons last year, up TO July 81 /,
valued at 3,OOO,OO0.-New York Trib
uue.
The progress OF photography Under the
sea, by mea ms of the newIy'levised ma gne-
sum light-a marvel of iugenuity-may y
Justly be described as something wonderful
though the timing OF the exposures is said
to stiil present one OF the most serious diff
culties yet to overcome.
Capt. Gus Jaubert, who has been engaged
to make the burgoo for the q. A X. encamp-
ment at Louisville, said he would cook
$4,000 pounds OF meat, beef, mutton and
pork. 1t viii all he cooked ! n the most dp-
proved barbecue fashion.-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
Sheep breeding IN Patagonia is q profita
bic industry, notwithstanding the rayages
of wild animals. Down in Punta Arenas,
a port on the Terra del Fuego Islands, u
French company owns over 100 900 sheep,
and the manager makes about Is. Sd. per
head, "clear OF all expenses, from the sale
of wool alone Rio News.
The largest and perhaps the only funny
ever caught on the Pacific coast was
landed by c. Valanco!a and Capt. Gusti,
at Monterey Bay recently, after n desperate
fight The fish measures over six feet in
length and Weighs 460 pounds.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The Royal Exchange of London has de-
cided to expend 81, 800 for large panel
representing William the COnqueror grant
ing the charter 10 the citizens of the English
metropolis. The work is to be place in
the exchange building.
Two more siabs Of stone inscribed with
" ords and music have been found in the
treasury OF the Atl.enians at Delphi by the
French. By using some of the fragments
previously discovered, a second Hymn TO
Apollo, with its notes, has been put to-
gether. The date is after the conquest of
Greece by the Romans. The Greeks seem
to have used twenty one notes in their nusi-
cal notation, where we use only twelve.
Considerable excitement prevailed in a
prayer-mecting recently in Marion, " J.,
when one of the good brethren declared
that the Bible, explicitly denounced the
wearing of the large sleeves which fashioa
has decreea 10 &c an essential feature in the
apparel of an up-to-date woman As proof
f,f G af,tn hp Z,nIof nunfnh a
of Ezekiel Xiii: Is, as follows: Thus saith
the Lord God, Woe to the women that sew
pillows TO all armholesr The women pres
ent Were, of course, very Indignant. but
due allowance was made of the fact that
the good brother some time ago received
injuries about the head which had affected
has mind. and his eccentricity has taken the
form OF an over-wrought religious eEthu-
siasin.
The recent report of naval experts aga ainst
the use of aluminium on naval vessels be
cause OF its corrosive tendencies does not
apply to the plates used in the construction
of the Defender. The aluminium furnished
for ship construction to the Navy Depart
ment, was alloyed with zine, which is not
proof against corrosion. The Defenders
plates. however, are alloycd with nickel,
which will successfully withstand the COR
rosive action of the salt water. James C
McGuire, consulting engineer Of the com
pany which furnished plates for both the
Navy Department and the Defender, says
in the New York Times: Il personally
supplied the aluminium plates for the De
fender. They are made with nickel alloy.
There is no danger in her plates at all, SO
far as direct corrosion goes: the only thing
to be feared is galvanic action between the
aluminium plates and other metals"
In North Carolina the Judges of the supe-
rior courts "rotate''-i e. ride each circuit
When Judge Ship, of one of the mountain
circuits. in regular rotation came to ride
a circuit on the sea coast he was much
pleased with the clans, which were new
to him. He had a clam supper, with the
result that lie had Il most violent illness,
and could not hold court for two or three
days. When able to sit on the bench the
first case tried was an affray in which one
man used n pistol and the other knocked
him down with clam. in a shell. Manly,
appearing for the State, introduced wit
ness TO prove that ,ne clam, so used. was a
deadly weapon. Stop, there, Manly"
said the Judge, earnestly; 1.-The court Will
hear evidence whether or not a pistol is a
deadly weapon, but the court knows with
ont further evidence that a clam is"-
Argonaut.