The evening times., 1898-10-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There is cafe in Venice which has
never been closed, night or day, for 80
years.
Italy will use aluminium instead OF wood
wherever possible in battleships, the
result of the victories of American fleets
so constructed.
Siegfried Wagner the son Of Richard
Wagner has completed his comic opera
Die Barenhauter.' and is TO bring il out
in Munich next month.
Persons who seem 10 know all about it
advise reformatory preacher of Chicago
not to carry cut his purpose of taking a
number of men and women TO see the
dives of that city.
The city of Churches in England is
the old town of Rochedale. which has Ii5
churches and chapels. Fifty belong 10
the Church of England and ninety-hve to
the NOncomfOrmists.
Lobster-egg wine is a Maine coast
drink, popular because IL can be made
without violating the liquor law. al
though it does fracture the lobster law.
IL is made by putting the eggs in press.
The saloon keepers and restaurant keep
ers OF Kansas City are on the warpath
after the free lunch. They want it abol-
ished- They say that it swallows up all
the profits of the bar, and also makes
the restaurant keepers bankrupt
The African tribes who live near Lake
Nyassa have an easy though scarcely
agreeable way OF committing suicide.
When they feel that they must depart
this life without delay they wade into
the water and wait for the crocodiIe5.
Allegations that a child less than two
years old was capable Of rendering and
did render valuable services 10 the pa
rents by doing errands and performing
services about the house. such as bring
ing fuel and caring for younger child.
are rejected by Georgia court
Verdi's Home for Musicians is com
pleted- II occupies pleasant building
in the Piazza MichelangeIo. in Milan
In addition to the living rooms there are
a concert hail. chapel. an fnfirmary and
TWO covered terraces. There are accom-
mOdatiOnS for sixty men and forty WON
en-
At the funeral of a Pennsylvania Ger
man. the men keep their hats on In
church The old custom of serving fJ-
neral meats is still observed among some
of the farmers, and four hundred or five
hundred people are sometimes fed. most
of whom never saw the deceased in Whose
honor the barbecue is held
Robert Rennert, who died in Baltimore
not long ago. was the last member Of
the Bread and Butter Club. The club
consisted of some of his most intimate
friends. and fine dinner was given each
year at the hotel by one of the mem
bers. While all delicacies of the season
were included in the menu. no bread or
butter was served and for this reason
the club was given that name
One of the oldest exports from the
h.
which it goes is the birch canoe Ban
gor manufacturers are sending large
numbers of these articles to Palestine.
Japan, India and China and one lately
sent to Palestine was intended for a tr!T
on the River Jordan One recently sent
to India was made to the order of a Brit
ish officer, and the cost of transportation
vas more than SO.
The late Col. Joseph NJ Bennett of Phil
adeIphia. in addition to his bequest of
property worth $500, 600 10 the University
of Pennsylvania. to further the scheme
of coeducation, gave to the Methodist
Episcopal Orphanage several lots of land
with buildings thereon, and directed that
the income of the residue of his estate.
after the payment of bequests to various
persons and the distribution of $1,000
equally among five other charities. be
paid annually to the orphanage.
1t is said that the gross receipts of cot
ton at Houston Texas, on September 3.
broke all records. The total amount was
II SIT bales Some of the statistics re-
garding this enormous days business are
as follows: II took over 1,506 cars to
bring this cotton into Houston. The
gross weight of all the bales exceeded
q 900, 600 pounds. There were required
over 40 eco acres of land to produce the
cotton that came into or passed through
Houston that one day. There was
enough cotton in the entire lot to give
fully seven pounds TO every man, woman
and child in Texas. Even at the present
low price of the staple, HoustOn's gross
receipts yesterday are worth over S.000.-
900 on this market. Allowing each picker
an average of 800 pounds a day. it has
taken 2.4e0 men one solid month to pick
this amount of cotton. Giving them 80
cents per 100 pounds for picking the seed
cotton il can be safely estimated that
it cost sl65.000 just to have this cotton
taken from the stalks