The evening times., 1898-11-12
NOTES OF THE DAT.

marvellous memory in the Senate.
More than 12.OG0 election officers are re-
quired to man the precincts in New York
city
1t is said that the worlds yearly pro-
auction Of paper is 3O000o9G0O pounds,
and that this eTnanates from 289I mills
On an average each inhabitant OF
france consumes fifty quarts of wine In
year In Paris the average is 1876
quarts.
Copenhagen's round tower. built in the
eieVenth century and $50 feet high. is to
De moved bodily a distance of $50 feet in
order to widen a business street.
The house in City Road. London. in
which John Wesley lived and died has
beeu undergoing repairs and will b. for
mally opened next month as a museum
for Wesley relics.
Seventy prominent painters. among them
Phil May and Dudley Hardy. have or
sanized the London Sketch Club IL will
meet once week, when each man is 10
work at given subject
The State of Vermont is thinking of
providing Dewey HaIr' in honor Of Ad-
Hiral Dewey. 1t will be used for drilling
purposes in the States military institu
ton, Norwich University
The Crown Prince of Siam is among
the boy authors of the world He has
written several stories for English chill
| dren's magazines and can write ffuentIv
in three European language,
Pope Leo XIII recently remarked To a
visitor: They say that / have actually
lost my memory. Now listen" And he
recited page of the Aeneid adding tri-
umphantly. How many Of them will be
able to do that when they are eighty
eight?'
with the West Point foundry Of New York
to construct an engine guaranteed to make
10 miles an hour and haul three times its
owr weight This locomotive was called
I Best Friend" and was the first built in
I America.
! The Musical Mutual Protective Union
I is about 10 hold competitive examina-
! tion at which one cornet player will com
! pete with himself This musician one
! Of the players of the New York Orches-
/ ira, does not come up to the standard
/ Of the union.
! The success Of the motor carriage is
I shown by the fact that some OF the Eng
I lish companies had to decline To send any
/ specimens OF their work TO recent exhi-
I bition because they Were so rushed with
/ orders that it was Impossible to spare a
machine for exhibition purposes.
t 4 cycling firm in Cologne has patented
I a new bicycle bell. in which Is concealed
a kind Of revolver. BY pressing but
I ton attached To the side of the bell
/ ten cartridges can be fred or in sue
I cession. giving a report loud enough 10
! terrify obnoxious tramps and dogs.
I Gen Shafter says he is decidedly and
I totally opposed TO wOman's suffrage, be-
/ cause he thinks men ought 10 look after
I wOnens political affairs. Then ne adds
/ that he has voted bur once in thirty
! years and has no desire TO do SO again
/ The common council Of Hayne lately
/ decided To pay a compliment 10 Queen
I WiIhelmiEa by naming six new streets
/ lying at the back Of the ''BezJIideh l4ut e
/ or South-Wood. after six wives Of Stad-
/ holders of the house OF Orange viz:
| Louise de CoIisny. AmaIia Of solms Ju-
| llama of Stolberg. Anne of Saxony. Char
I Iotte of Bourbon and Anna Van Bu-en
German chemist. Julius Nortien. Of
AIdeThoyen. Germany. has succeeded in
hardening alcohol until il becomes a solid
/ mass II viii in future be obtainable in
small cylindrical pieces packed in Tin
I boxes II burns without wick. can be
\ blown out after use and hardeuS again
! within a minute IL Is not claimed, how
\ ever. that man viii chew his brandy and
1 soda instead Of drinking It.
! curious quadrUped lately discovered
1 Is said 10 have bulleJ-pToof skin Its
! discoverer. Ramon Lista. called il the
! pan=oIin. IL is described as without
! scales. and covered with reddish hair;
/ and under the hair is a tough skin in
which are imbedded bOny OSsicles. The
animal Is d survivor of the old ground
sloths. and has been named after its dis
( cGverer. Neomyiodon listai.
( NJ Henri Menier. of Paris. who bought
the Island OF Anticosti for $500. hsS
/ encountered curious difficulty. He has
! been forced To become a citizen OF Cana
! da in order to retain his property. the
/ present inhabitants. who were not aaN-
! icus TO leave having declared the mex
/ pediency Of allowing a Frsnchman to
own an island which commands the
| mouth OF the St Lawrence.
Lord Curzon. the new governor
1 general of India. is said 10 write an eX-
treuleIy iuezible hand Thereby hangs
a tale When he was at oxford he wrote
! two letters. one TO a relative, the other
| to a chum, discussing quite freely the
| character of the relative When he dis
/ covered that he had put the two letters
! into the wrong envelopes his distress may
| be imagined He was about to write a
1 humble apology To the rv.ttJlNt. WHtA 4
note arrived from that gentleman eucloS-
ing a bank note 1t said: cant read a
word of your four pages. but guess You
want some money, YOU young rascal
| The largest book in the world is in tn
! possession Of the British Museum IL 5
/ IN 1.I5e volumes. and i a Chinese dc
| tionary compiled by imperial commission
| ut Pekin in T725 II was purchased by the
| British Museum Library in ISIS and is
| seduIousIy guarded under lock and key
| in the strongest Of eases in the Kings
library section of the museum. A cUt1us
! fact about the book is that the frs wo-d
! is upon the last page. and a library VT
! once remarked that the proper position
| for reading it is standing on ones head.
so as to bring the pages in order IL was
| the work of many authors for numb
of years.
| Somebody has been collecting StaIis-
| tics about the creeds of the English no
b1itv. and has found that Lord Polling
| TON eldest son of Lord Marlborough Is a
| RuddhiSt The Duke of Northumberland
| and his family are Irvins.;es. as are Sir
Herbert Maxwell and Lady Frances Bal
| four. daughter of the Duke of Argyll
| Lord and Lady Radno- are spiritualistS-
| The late Lady CharlemOnt was JeTeSS.
| not BY birth but by conviction Lord
Stanley of AIderIy is said 10 be Mo-
| hammedan All of which indicates that
| the English nobility, like other Nine
| teenth Century folk, exercise the prtvi-
| lege of believing what they choose
A prominent Boston physician IS re-
| sponsibIe for the startling statement
that every woman has either crooked