The evening times., 1898-11-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.


stem. leaves, flowers nor seeds.
The richest gold mine in the world is
located under the thriving town of Bal
larat Victoria. Australia. II has yielded
more than s15GOg0.OOO since it was opened
thirty years ago.
DunmOw. famous for the fitch of bacon.
has an old lady of ninety-three vino re-
Gently bought a bicycle. does all her
shopping and visiting on It, and says that
she feels better for the exercise
Russia is going to turn the harbor of
i.ibau on the Baltic. near Riga. into
first-claSs naval station and fortress The
port will be closed 70 merchantmen and
foreigners. for whom the harbor i'm Wiz
dau is being fitted up.
lightning recently brought about the
discovery OF an Etruscan tomb near Vol
terra. II struck an old pine tree on a
hiIiOok, and in cutting down the rem
nants Of the tree the workmen found the
top of the sepulcher under the roots.
\ bicycling lawyer of Potsdam. who
represented himself in court with his wit
nesSes. all in knee breeches and cycling
stockings. was fined ten marks for gross
impropriety. and the sentence has been
confirmed on appeal by the Prussian
courts.
Vienna telephone girls are required %
change their dresses and wear uniform
when. on duty, the dirt they brought
il from the streets affected the inStr,I-
n.euts. Their costume is dark skirt ard
waist, with sleeves striped black and yeI
low, the Austrian national coIOTs-
Paris has lost curious institution. thu
last of the cabinets de lecture in T. e
Passage de FOpera having been closed
For d small fee people could enter and
read the magazines and latest books. Tin
business was killed by the increased rub
location of ''feuilletons" in the daily
newspapers.
Recent Investigations have shown that
the principal source Of the GULF Stream
Is not the Florida channel but the region
between and beside the islands Of trr
West Indies. AT Binioni the volume cI
this warm water is sixty times as great
"a the combined volume OF all the :ivers
in the world at their mouths
By order Of the Berlin BARRIERS. Hai--
dresscrs and Wigmakers Union, appreu-
; tiCeS are forbidden 20 wear their hair cu.
short. because the practice is uEp-of s.
sionaI. The union decided that the ar,-
prentices' hair should BE- tastefully and
carefully dressed in order to act a. ir-
I
megS
\ Spanish GdAeou with a cargo of s=v-
eHteeH million minted dollars and as
much more wealth in bars OF god Va
wrecked about twenty wears ago in The.
Lizard district of Cornwall England
Dollars from il are fre quertly washed Up
on the sands and now Helstou an Ell
siish iron founder. has formed a com
/ paHy 20 exploit these buried treasures.
! Daniel Chester French. whose statu- of
I Rufus Choate was lately unveiled in Bps-
! ton, Is one Of the few surviving int mate
/ friends OF Emerson. He was one of the
/ caterie of famous men in Concord in the
I days of Alcotr Thorea and Margaret
I Fuller. and was one of MAY AIcott-S pro-
/ tege~ in the dawn Of MS artistic car. er
/ He figures in one of Louisa Alcst : books
under the name of David German.
/ IL j. an odd thing that Max Adeler.
1 whose real name Is Charles Heber Clark
| d man with a worldwide reputation aS
/ q humorist should sit in the Office of tn
I Textile Record and write p0udrr0Us rdj-
/ toridlS about the exports OF the last lis
| cal year The protective tariff. free trade
\ pig iron and the currency He il a sJancb
| teeJOtaIer, but a great smoker and he
I lives IN the country at ConShuhocken
! where he i al the head of a great firm
/ Of manufacturing chemists.
1 Salaries Of United States army officers
l are as follows. General S13,00U. Heuten-
! ant general, ST.. Gfa: major general. s. so.
/ brigadier general S5500. colonel. $3.50;
I lieutenant colonel s3."o0. major 81 SOD.
Z captain. mounted. S2.Nd0. captain not
mounted $I.SO1, regimentaI adfutant,
: SI.Nuu. regumentaI quartermaster. s.. SOS:
/ Hr>t lieutenant. mounted. 81 5ir. first lieu
! tenant. not mounted $3.50. second lieu
tenant. mounted. 81 $50. second lieutenant.
not mounted. $l.4oo, chaplain. S15"
II is hard work shipping fruit in Svirz-
I eriand. The fruit-growing peasants Of a.
district near BeTne recently petitioued
. the railway company 10 reduce the
/ freight rates on their fruit and provide
! more ears The company replied that il
! would be impossible for the company tu
/ reduce the rates for many reasons. and
one Of them was that tariff card had re-
Gently been printed and distributed and
a reduction would necesSiJate having new
ones printed and distributed. and il va,
rather late in the season. anyway. 20 hav,
this done. Regarding the petition foi
extra ears he said that if they mus
have more cars for their shipments i
should add 10 rates instead of causing
! them To b. reduced.
\ story about Carlyle which has re
/ Gently come 10 light runs aS follows A.
/ q Royal Academy dinner several ar
lists and literary men waxed enthusiastic
/ in praise of favOTiJe painters His cIo
riOus coI0rinS is a fact about Titan
said one And his glorious drawing
another fact about Titan cried see
ond Carlyle who had been listening. in
terrupted The remarks by saying witt
/ some deliberatiOn: And here sit mai
made in the image of God. who know
nothing about Titan, and cares uothiu;
about Titian-aud that's another fac
about Titan. Thackeray. slipping clarel
paused and bowed 70 Carlyle as he re
marked: Pardon me. that is not a fac
about Titan. But it is fact-and a ia
m-nrabie 0ne-about Thomas Carlyle"
There is an old municipal custom i
: / Paris which may or may not be cOnSi0
| cred good for the commonwealth by tn
5 ! American reader. Each year a prize
% I given 10 the wife who most effectuaII
! helps her husband by work The priz
means a yearly income of over sos
, / francs. The conditions necessary T,
competition are. to be Partisan by brit
and TO have been married ten years
| a husband employed in a state bureau
! and earning not more than 3.500 francs
! year There We're 100 applicants for u
! prize and. as may be imagined som
little difficulty was experienced in a.
e signing il. Finally. however. the vote
of the committee fell 10 a Nine Clergeri
who. though the mother of five childrel
has never ceased 10 contribute 10 Oh
family funds by working as a florist
The Portland Oresonian says that whe
the employees in the Office of the apDrat
or of customs have To examine shin
u snent of Chinese medicines the p.aC
u Smells like a fertilizer factory. On OF
particular occasion there appeared dri