The evening times., 1898-11-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

required to pay the policeman for his
trouble in taking them to jail.
London is 10 have its first roof gar
den. 1t will be on Charles Wyndham's
new theater near Leicester Square.
Hall Caine, since the preliminary pro-
ductions of THE Christian calls Al
bany and Washington his two dogs. Is
that Christian?
A modification of the Gothenburg sys-
TEN is in use in the Scotch town, Hill of
Beath, near Dumfermline. This village
municipalized it's public house and made
enough money to light the town with
electricity
a Polish carpenter named Gutsch, living
in Prussia. was severely punished for
writing his name in the Polish form,
Gucz. He was condemned to a fine of
$50 marks (nearly s4O) or months inn
prisonment,
They had a motor car funeral not long
ago in France the corpse being conveyed
to the grave lin a motor car instead of
a hearses AT about the same time a
christening party of nine persons came
10 church by the same vehicle.
a Missouri lady was so angry because
her husband went to seek his fortune in
the Klondike that she got a divorce.
Meanwhile the husband found a fortune
of $4,000 in gold dust, and. returning
begged his ex-wife to marry him. which
she did.
G. Frederick Watts, the artist. is going
to establish an open gallery in a public
garden. where heroes and heroines of
humble life shall be, commemorated
the first subject being a servant who lost
her life in saving some children from a
burning building.
The Boulogne tugs have been fitted with
guns for firing a line across vessel at
sea and establishing communication by
means of life saving hawser The tug
gets To windward of the vessel stranded
n lee shore. and. by anchoring short
distance from it, is enabled to take off
the crew.
Taking advantage of the offer OF the
railroads TO grant half rates to soldiers
and sailors returning To their homes Chi
caSo ticket scalpers had some of their
employees don the uniform OF the Ameri-
can soldier and by this means succeeded
in purchasing number of half-rate tick
cts before the trick was discovered
They have new and outlandsh way
of violating the lobster law in Maine
The law-breakers save the eggs of the
shelliish. and when they have accumulat-
ed buShel or more, pat them through
! cider press and make wine Of them There
Is not much alcohol in the wine so the
prohibitory law is not violated. but the
lobster law is broken into little bits
An American editor who, if he were A
| German editor would be prs!nptIy clap
| ped into jail. remarks thar the announce
nlent that Emperor William will enter
Jerusalem on milk white steed will re-
| lieTe the mind of the public because il
! has been feared that His. Imperial High
ness might get on hts ear and 90 into the
Holy City on that.
Punch had its origin in India, and the
| name comes from the Indian word Iunf.
meaning five. and having reference To tn
number of ingredients in the original
mixture: spirits, water lemon. sugar and
! spice. When it was first introduc "a into
| England. IL was named Contradiction ="
! because it was composed of spirits to
make 1t strong and water to make It
weak of lemon juice to make it sour
! and sugar 10 make IL sweet
| One of the odd developments in the Gu
! ban campaign was that the army chap
! lain's Were often so busy that they did
| not know when Sunday came. Somebody
writing a letter would call out, Il say.
! what day IS this?'' Sunday" another
I
| had perhaps just wandered up would cry,
Bless my so,h. Is that so?' and then run
! off TO see If he couldn't tinker up some
kind of aispecially good deed in honor Of
| the day.
One reason why our warshlps are paint
! ed white in time Of peace IS that many
| of them are stationed in tropical waters.
| and black, being an absorbent of heat.
makes the ship hotter than white This
! physical truth may be proved by placing
a black poker on hearth in front of a
| fire with one that is nickeed. or white
| In few minutes the black poker will be
too hot to handle with comfort. while the
| bright one win not be uncomfortable to
| the hand.
A New York storekeeper went to the
sale of the Rough Riders mounts and
bought meek tired-lookins little bron-
| cho. for $50. That night the broncho
! kicked down the partition between its
stall and feed bin and ate up so worth
| OF feed, kicked new SEQ buggy into
| splinters. chewed up a set of harness.
| had fight with a high-priced horse and
| came out winner, nearly crippling its on
| ponent. and was looking for more trouble
when the owner and the hired man came
with pitchforks and cornered it. The
hroncho has been sent into the country to
! rest.
| The death of William Strut. son and
| heir of Baron Belper. recalls story
| which is told of the first Lord Belper He
was blacksmith. and was connected
| with Arkwrights inventions When Ark
wright made his first spinning frame he
| found the threads twisted Greatly cha
| grfned he went to the blacksmith, who
| said he would remedy the matter on con-
| dltion that he receive half the profits
! Of the invention for ten years. Ark
| wright, it is said. agreed to this. where
upon the blacksmith rubbed his hand
over one of the cylinders and cooIly said !.
That is all ii wants. He had chalked
| his hand and had created rough sur
| face, where Arkwright had 1t too
| smooth"
new kind of safety paper for banks
| has been invented. One feature of the
product is that there are printed or 9TH
| erwise impressed on the paper a plurality
| OF sets OF lines or marks one or more of
| which sets are indelible and the remain
| ing sets deiible; these lines or marks are
made so fine and so closely alternating or
| relatively disposed that, in ordinary oh
| servation with the naked eye, no single
| lire or mark is distinguishable. Again.
the indeiibie lines or marks are made of
| color differing from though comnla-
| mentary to, that of the delible lines or
| marks, so that. owing to their close INK
| Imposition, they will convey the impress
sion of color differeng from those of
| either of the sets of lines or marks. Thus.
| any chemical action or erasure on such
| paper would, it is claimed, be at once
discernible, and the shade made by the
| two color combinations would be hard to
duplicate.
The national flower of England is the
| Oldest in the world. The rose has been
III existence so long that all account of