The evening times., 1898-10-17
Saks and Company,
Peuqa. Ave. and Seventh ST.
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The sick Of Topeka where prohibition
prevails, bought 1000 prescriptions Of
whisky in September.
Boston seems to be proud Of her biz
fire of 1872. in which she lost so G0J0 90
in property She viii celebrate" it next
month.
In this country, where infant indus
tries must still be protected. people have
been rich enough 70 import SlSj 611J1
worth of jewels in the past twenty-five
years.
\ cheap restaurant in the Fast End Ct
London displays before its patrons a card
on which is written this advice. DO
not tip the waiter. he makes more than
the owner. and has a pay day
\ dollar goid-pieee is worth s2 Of good
money No gold dollars have been Is
sued for years. and they have become q
scarce article. The scarcity makes the
demand. The coin-hunters are largely re-
sponsible for it.
AT the Loyejoy school for co'ored chill
dren. AT Alton, Ill. there is only oIe
pupil The parents OF the Cthsr Iored
children refuse TO send tn II c-{ldren 10
an unmixed school. IL costs the town
81 200 a year for the education of the one
child.
A fine weapon Of defense. designed By
al Enslishman. Is shaped ike pistol
and has a Hquid-eontaining chamber in
the handle, air being compressed by the
trigger to give the liquid force when
thrown by a second pull on the trigger
TO open the valve.
Ii is said that letters d.opped n tre
POstoffice at Paris are delivered in Berlin
in one hour and a half and sometimes
within thirty-hve minutes Th- dist
between the cities is $50 miles AID the
letters are sent by means of pm umatlc
tubes 1t beats the teIesrap phi
An elderly Philadelphia woman Sarah
Loura. recently went 10 ST. Mary's Hos
pital and asked TO be relieved OF distress
ing noises in her ears. Experts found a
living spider that had made a nest in her
ear This was successfully removed and
the old lady now hears as we'll as ever
The New York Mail AMI Express notes
that 10 read the utteraaczs of tn Faris
newspapers concerning the peacs confer
ence. one might suppose that il was
America and not Spain that got thrash i
in the recent war This is one IF the
things that must be Unlearned before tie
proceedings can proceed
The transportations OF prisoners to
their own country by the victors is not
novelty in warfare. In 1905 after the de-
feat of the French a the battle of Vi
mierO Portugal the victorious English
dePorted 22G10 French prisoners, with
their equipments from OpOrto and Lis
bon, and landed them at Brest-
According to the London Times the
Cars disarmament proposal had its oTi-
gin and inspiration in an interview
which the monarch granted three mOl tbs
ago TO retired Hebrew banker. his
man, who is known in Russia as a writer
on financial subjec cts. mad a deep m
precision upon the Gar b. his statements
The latest reports concerning the AngIi-
can Church in Hawaii. which may be
transferred 10 the American Episcopal
Church show that there are in the ISL
ands seven clergymen, seven churches
and a membership of l,500, of whom hf-
teen are Hawaiians. There are $1,000 Con-
gresatiCnalists and 2s,oo0 Roman CathO-
lies in the islands.
The London Chronicle says that for the
purpose of marking his satisfaction with
the fact that his daughter viii be the
first American vicereine of India Mr.
Levi Letter. the father of Lady kedle-
ston Mrs. George N CurZOu), will pre-
sent her with a residence in London. The
place will not be occupied by Lord and
Lady Kedleston until the formers term
of office as viceroy of India shall have
expired, although it will be at his wife's
disposal if she shall visit England while
Lord KedIeston is in India.
As a result of careful investigation
of "A 900 cases. DR.. JarOsie presented to
the director of the Hungarian bureau Of
statistics the following conclusions: The
offspring of parents between the ages OF
twenty and twenty-five are likely 10 be
weak and delicate. but between twenty
five and forty-five will probably be strong
and thrive. The mother bears most ro-
bust children between her twenty-ffth
and thirty-fifth year. When the mother
is ten years younger than the father the
proportion of healthy children is great
est. the chances being 10 per cent more
favorable than when the parents are of
about the same age.
'"The mixed metaphor" says the De-
troft Free Press. So has for years been
considered what is technically known as
a peach. but not long ago an embryo
Henry Clay. contestant for Oratoricai
honors in the University of Michigan
sprung one so much more rapid that in
the metaphor race it may be said to win
in a walk. Rising up on his tiptOes and
swelling out his chest like a pOuter pig
con, the young orator exclaimed as
though his words might go a-thunderinE
down the ages: The star of empire, trip
ping with light footsteps across the At
lantic. poises on her Outstretched PIN
ions in the air. and then pftches-and let
us hope it may be forever-her tent above
the dome of the Capitol at Wash
ington-'