The evening times., 1898-12-13
NOTES OF The DAY.

rated AT s25.a0J and doesn't owe "a dollar
According 70 English statisties the Iiv
STOCK "i that country is on tn ircrea e..
cattle n0w numbering s5.ss4 iu-f
''i"9'S,'' M ls>9 the lowest numEe- in ten
years.
from Southern Pines y G.. during tn.
past season, there We're shipped by *
press 2.5is crates of bIackbarrles - W,
crates OF peaches and 7.5f5 crates Of
grapes.
The armchair In which Burns wrof.
The Cotter's Saturday Might Is IN rs..
lexington free library in C.s shi - Tb..
founder. Joseph Mayer. bought il Of th,.
poets son.
The only Indian woman LAWYER in ,b,.
country Is said To be Miss Laura I.vi.srs
haif-bTeed Shawnee graduate Of sh.
carlisle Indian School. who is practicina
in oklahoma
he town of Wildbad in W-u~tcrnbur.
probably beats the record in re.,r,I T.,
water facilities. The supply would SUI.
fee 10 provide every iahabitsnt win
l.-JJ quarts a dsy
In the streets and suburbs Of London
there are now not only ~ fountains f.r
human beings. but 20 large trouehs Tor
horses and cattle and 40 small rrouyrs
-'I SH'vp ana dogs.
\ number Of Michigan farmers in roa
Grand Traverse Region have been ezp.rj-
m~niiES This season ia growing peanuts
and iH every sense tn experiments seem
to have been successful
Capitalists are trying 10 get FIorid.,
farmers to go into cass,tra raising
Starch will be manufactured from il
Three tons 10 an acre al Sz0 q tD! il he
golden promise held out
The cheese mite j. more tensc;cus Of
ne than any other insect I.ruwenh1e 1erk
glued one 70 a pin in order 10 max "a
micrcscoPioal examination. and in ttis
situation it lived eleven " eks
The Princess Feodora Of Meiairgen
whose wedding to Prime Henry Of z us,
took place at the end Of September j.
the first I" be married Of the Queens
t"eHty-odd srsat-sraHdclEdren.
In Kentucky 4 druggist has been sued
Tor Slr.erf damages for selling poison fn
a young man who made use Of it to com
nit suicide. The suit Is brought by IN.
administrator Of the suicides estate
Several scientific papers have recentfv
announced the discovery that the odar
Of sweet peas * very 1baoxious 10 lies
ana that VIXEN placed IN a room il will
Keep u free from these very tir-sorne
pests.
The registered distiIIeries Of North
Carolina, liG1 in number. last YEAR pr,,-
cuced 62i.'i6 gallons II spirits TIE noon
shine output for the same period Is
thought 20 have been about the same
amount
NiEety-five per cent Of all the -5Jta-
picks made iH the United st ties are form
ed from white birch timber in Franklin
County. Ne. and yet sc5rc-.y more rhan
a hundred persons are employed in the
industry in that State
The Per~iaus In III Il. O.. invented Z,
transparent glass yarEiSh which they
laid over SculpJured rocks To prevent
them from weathering- The coating EaS
lasted tn our day. whi," ths Iocks be
meath are honeyeombed.
The French minister oC a.rie.liv ,ure h-ts
sent two commissioners To this country u
study the American machinery and tools
used N the manufacture Of -four. AMI 10
ascertain their price and the cost Of their
transportation to France.
The expulsion from Monaco If Otero.
the Spanish dancer, was due. il i said
10 the jealousy Of the Princess Of Monaco
The prince paid the dancer too much at
villa NJ Monaco is deserted.
Al the Paris Academy for Medicine Or.
Dpyau gave the other day his experience
in regard To the result of 14S cases ~
surgical operations on the stomach
There We're only =! deaths in alI. and ~
OF these were in cases OF cancer
Among the mysterious customs of III
Zu!uS is the dread which th,. married man
has Of his mother-in-law. He is afraid
10 meet her. and always holds Ut this
shield To screen him from her slauce
when he passes her dwelling
\ German biologist says that the two
sides Of a face are never alike In two
cases out of five the eyes are out of line:
one eye is stronger thar the other in Scy-
en- persons out Of ten. and the right eye
is generally higher thaH .he irfy.
Water can b. distilled for household use
by means of Ohio mans device. i'm
which a kettle is placed on the fire To
generate steam. which passes through a
pipe in th,. lid to a receptacle below COR
densing before it leaves the pipe.
\ nun of Or.gny France. has just n
hcrited from her father q basket manu-
faCtUreT of that town. owning b amen IS
adjustments III Leeds aud NeWca t.
on-Tyne where his money was m stls
n;,d,, a fortune of nearly G9d 90
The Bonn Berlin anI LEIPZIG students
have proposed a meeting of delegates
from all tine German universities to de-
eide I'm what way Prince BiSmarck's mem
ory shall bc honored annually. and To
choose the site uf a memorial stone
The Russian metecrologfs;. Frof Woat-
!5of calls attention to tre almost unin-
terrupted sunshine that prevails in win
ter in the IrkutSk region OF Siberia II.
thinks il would be an id=aI place for con-
sumptiyes ard for raising plants under
glass.
The Paris Petit Journal declares tnat
IL is in Il position 10 assert that up tn.
the present moment no less Il su.n than
g. .tNa1 1tJ francs has been expended upon
the Dreyfus agitation. a great deal "s
which. It afirms. has been supplied by
England.
The recent strike of typosraphers in
Antwerp suggested To the Petit Bleu a
new scientific possibility. that of pub
fishing a newspaper without a single
printed letter. and therefore. without the
aid Of printers. At the end of week il
published Il supplement, the pages of
which We're simply photographs Of yype-
written copy
TIE pineapple crop in On, district aI,n'
of Florida is estimated az $5G."J before
January l. Owners If piHe.ies realize IS
much from the sale of suckers Is from IN
fruit Each pineapple plant produces from
five to six of these Il year, and. separated
from the parent plant and planted. they
grow into new. strong plants. They sell
for 10 cents apiece.