The evening times., 1898-12-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Gov Pingree owns the prize war scrap
book Ii Is of huge size, bat treats main
iy Of the Michigan volunteers
John r. Key. grandson of the author Of
THE Star SpangIed Banner is making
a name for himself as an artist
Playing cards were first printed about
1880. IL il estimated that the present an
nual output exceeds 100000 packs q year.
The prairie dog is becoming a nuisance
in West Texas, and people are holding
public meetings to contriye some mode Of
protection.
Many people have been inquiring. since
the publication Of THE Truce Of the
Bear" what Adam-zad Is supposed u
mean. 1t means Adam-born.
The champions Of Norwegian independ
ence are gaining ground rapidly. and
their dream of separate nationality may
be realized in the near future.
Mrs. Zerisah Gould Mitchell. who re-
Gently died. was the last Indian princess
in Massachusetts, and was said TO be a
lineal descendant Of Massasoit-
a German biologist has calculated that
The human brain has 800. 600. .0e0 nerve cells.
about Gne-sixtieth of which die and are
succeeded By new ones each day.
The earliest record of the presence Of
gypsies in Europe is in 1417. 1t seems GER
tain that they came from India The
mass of their language is Indian.
Lieut.. ]. G. Mason Blunt. Of the Third
United States Cavalry. now assistant
quartermaster general. served under Don
Carlos in the Carlist wars of 1S93-T.
1t is said that the nature of the narcis-
sus is so deadly that to chew a small
scrap of one of the bulbs may result IA
tally. The jonqUiI. white hyacinth and
snowdrop are also poisonous
There are depressing rumors about the
health of the German Empress II is said
that her majesty is suffering from con-
sumption. and that this is one reason for
the curtailment of the Eastern tour.
senor Bonteau. an inventor of Rio Ja-
neirO has devised "a way of taking pho
tographS under water. The 4ight is fur
nished by an incandeScent lamp placed in
. steel case in the divers headpiece.
The mechanical power of the blow from
the tail Of large Greenland whale has
been found 10 be equivalent 70 145 horse
power whale can move through the
water ~ the rate Of eight or ten knots
Canada lacks only 81. .eG6 square miles
to be large Is the whole continent Of
Europe, il is nearly thirty times as large
as Great Britain and Ireland. and Is $40
teo square miles larger than the United
States
After litigation lasting fourteen years
the Will GISposinG Of a san Francisco es-
tate once worth $75.ooD has Just been sJIs-
JaiHed aEd litigation suspended, because
the estate has been exhausted in paying
lawyers.
Edwin Lord Weeks. the American paint
er who-is now cheyaIier Of the Legion
Of Honor il France is native of Bos-
ton but has spent much Of his life in
travel, except for twenty years, when ne
lived in Paris
All the kings and queens OF Europe.
with the exception of the Sultan OF Tur-
key. are descended from one OF two sters.
the daughters of Duke Ludwig F>-dJIph OF
R-uns nswtck-WoIferbutteI VIII lived about
l5e years ago
Glover sickness. a common disease that
often ruins clover crops. has caused Ger
man scientists to make experiments. They
now say that farmers viii soon be able
to inoculate their lands just as human
beings may be treated
\ posja: service has been established
ut KharCoum. and letters 20 from there
to LoEdon in seventeen days A new
stamp has been introduced for the Sou
dan. bearing the name '-Ehartoum'' and
the surerseription "Soudan Passage" I'm
English.
Since Norway and the North Cape have
become hackHeyvd. British tourists have
discovered Il new summer resort in SpirZ-
bergen twelve de- SrceS north of the arc
tic circle The season extends from July
70 August -; and board at the hotel IS
$50 q day
Paris contains more trees than any 9th
er city III the world the trees being prin-
cipally Of three kinds-the chestnut and
acacia such rs line the ChamHS Elysees.
and the lims tree. which grows in ahuad-
ance on the Bais de- BouIggre and on cer-
tain of the outer bouIevaFGs.
in some of the less accessible parts Of
Norway visited by tourists there are no
inns i'll the villages The government ms
now decided to grant in such cases a GER
tain annual sum to the owner Of a spa
cious house in such q village pledsing
him in return 10 take i'm guests if neces-
Ssiry.
Americans are often amused at the odd
ity Of Chinese names as printed in our
Iauguase The reason Of their oddity is
that We spell them phoueticalIy. Suppose
We. were 20 refer to our public men as
Tee See PIatt Arr Al Ger. and Tom ASS
Reed. How would that look to an in
qUiSitive and earnest Chinese?
William p I.amothe. Mississippi Riv-
or steamboat captain who recently died.
is said TO have been the original Jim
Bludso. His ghost did not go up in
smoke in the wreck of any steamship
whatever for he has been living on
Missouri farm Just across the river from
Alton. H.. for the last twenty-thTee
years
There is no part of the world which
bas such q black record for wrecks as
the narrow Baltic Seas The number in
some years has averaged more than one
q day. the greatest number Of wrecks re-
corded in one year being i25, and the
smallest 15i. About 80 per cent of these
vessels became total wrecks. all the crews
being lost.
Tn, fire tug Illinois has been launched
from the yards of her builders. the Chit
csgo Shipbuilding Company, on the Cal
u,ret River The Illinois is the first steel
fire boat built in the West. and has a Cd
payity of twenty-four streams of water.
which can be thrown 290 feet high. the
largest to be inches III diameter. She
measures lis feet over all.
The Queen Of England will visit Flor
cnce in March, and gay season is ex-
pected Ii has been rather difficult.
strange to say to find any of the resi-
dents willing TO place his villa at her
nn44esty's disposal The large retinue of
servants who accompany her are destruc-
tive of furniture and property, and the
owners Of villas have concluded that a
great deal of honor can hardly compen-
ssts hem for their peeuniarS loss.