The evening times., 1898-11-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| The British Museum has bicycle sta
/ BILE.
| Electric light has been used to stimulate
/ the growth of plants.
The total assessed valuation of Cali
fornia is sl.130, Ss5. .e97.
! About $3.50 words in the English Ian
suage have no rhymes
The letters received by the German En-
peror number coo day
Kangaroo tails are esteemed delicacy
In London. They are used for soup.
The vestry of Battersea has decided TO
put up refreshment booth In its ceme-
terry.
Two hundred and seventy-fve medical
periodicals are published in the United
States.
Thirty-six deserted wives applied to the
Charity Board OF ST. Joseph. Mo-. in one
day last month.
No married man in Vienna is allowed
to go up in a balloon without the consent
of his wife and children
. Col Joseph Henry. of Vanceburg. XIV.
Is the gTeat-grandson and only living de-
scendent of Patrick Henry.
III AlLtAId Tue average uuratlOu OF the life
of the natives is twenty-four years. as
against foTty-four in England
1t is estimated that over fifty thousand
people used the public bath house n
Hartford. Conn, last summer
Mrs. William z. Gordon wife of the
Porto Rican Commissioner is a daughter
of the first white child born in Chicago.
DIR. J. S Coles. of Newark. n. j.. has
sent Admiral Dewey a fine Barge bronze.
symbolizinS America as an eagle and
Spain as a dead heron.
Oberlin College students are now al
lowed TO play cards in their rooms ir
they wish. and some Of the old friends
of the college are Mortified
Paper floors for dwelling houses are
coming into use in Germany They are
made of several layers Of stout paper
dampened. pasted and rolled.
The smallest man who ever lived was
probably the dwarf. Bebe. born in France
in no He was. when mature man. %
inches tall and pounds in weight.
James S H. Bell. of Brooklyn. having
arrived at the age of eighty-three years.
has given MS private book collection OF
-. i25 volumes, TO the library of that city
It is said that a use has been found for
Hquefied air. According TO the Mining
Reporter it is now practicable TO use
hquefied air in underground work such
as mining, driving tunnels and sinking
shafts.
1t was a Chicago man who bought a
Kaleidoscope and brought it back next
day with the indignant explanation that
he had tried and tried to play on the
thing. without being able to get a tune
out of il.
Viola Grignou. wife of Edward Grignon.
who died in Seattle not long ago. was the
first woman to arrive in the kIondik-.
That happened five years ago. She located
for herself the Bonanza claim and made
a fortune
In the eighteenth century the m1trols
of Poland compelled their daughter to
wear little bells to proclaim their where
abOuts. What happened when way
ward damseI removed the bells is not
precisely known.
\ pretty English girl says that one
thing which she likes about American So
ciety i that one never has 10 dance with
spurs. In England there are always at
least a few officers at a smart BALI and
their spurs play havoc with gauze and
chiffon gowns.
\ German IandIady distracted her 1odg-
er's only pair of boots one night, and he
took the case to court alleging that she
had subjected him TO 'Unjustiiable tmpTi--
onment- he lost his case. the court de-
Gliding that the bOOtIess man is not mater
tally hindered in pursuit Of his business.
When J. A PaulseI. veteran of both
the Mexican and Civil wars. and now s.
years old. married a woman Of - years.
the other day, he used a novel wedding
ring Ii was of brass and was made from
a Bit of cannon used by the MeXicans 81
Chapultepec.
There is a cat in Chicago which Will eat
nothing but turkey meat. and what is
more wonderful its owner. Tom Major. is
willing 10 provide the turkey. The animal
is nineteen years old and has disposed of
s. .0j0 worth of fowl in its lifetime IL is
probably the most expensive cat in the
land
\ French railroad company has paint
ed the outside of its passenger coaches
with poetic devices. or the images of
stars. fishes. birds etc sketched large
and in emphatic cOlors- The object is to-
enable the passenger who leaves the
train for refreshments to recognize his
own car at sight.
one OF the especial treasures OF the
Wellesley College library is a double pho
tograph of Henry NJ. Stanley and his
wife, Dorothy Tenant The photograph
is framed in oak and across the mat
Mrs. Stanley has written:
And o'er the hills and Er away
Beyond their utmost purple rim,
Beyond the night. across the day.
Through an the world she followed him,
When Gladstone was premier he was
invited to meet Harry FurniSs "a one of
''Puuch's" famous dinners Furuiss had
discovered the Gladstone collar. and
was in the habit OF representing the
statesman as almost buried in enc Of his
own collars. When Gladstone apps rel
at the dinner he had around his neck
little band of white linen. as narrow as
a collar could possibly be.
In Baltimore on All Souls Day. the
members Of the WOmanS Literary Club
of that city visited the various cemeteries
and placed flowers on the graves of
authors and artists. Among the graves
decorated were those of Sidney I.anier.
Edgar Allan Poe, John P Kennedy
Brantz Meyer. W. Fl. Rineart Junius
Brutus Booth. Richard Malcolm Johnston.
Frederick William Nichols CrOnch Mrs
Tiernan and Mrs. Asia Clarke, mother Of
C'reSton Clarke.