The evening times., 1898-10-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Liverpool is trying the music cure for
crime. 1t has free concerts in the court
yards Of the worst quarters of the city.
Capt. Sigsbee's artisS daughter. Mary
Ellen. has won the competition for a
scholarship in the Art Students League
in New York
\ good Arabian horse can cfutzr in
the desert for twenty-four hours in sum-
Hier and forty-eight hours in wiLt T
without drinking.
Thirty years ago there were only two
doZen explosive compounds. besides the
matrimonial. known TO chemists: now
there are over 1,009
Miss Helen Hay. the elder daughter of
the new Secretary OF State. Is b u, To
publish volume of roems in London
under the modest title Of ''Some Verses.
The gold contained in the medals. YES
sells. chains and other objects preserved
in the Vatican would make more gold
coin than the whole of the present Eu-
ropean circulation.
WyOmings woman superintendent OF
public instruction. EsreHe Peel las so
successfully managed the sale OF D b fc
lands 10 increase the States fac. m.
from $3.50 TO S1.0e0 a week
A'tL+A4A tptA - nave urtitlcu E0tI sum-
mer overeoaS is a luxury and not neces-
s!ty. and can therefore be seized By tne
sheriff Yet To many it is reserved cap
ital as security for a loan.
Chinese babies are fed on rice and
nothing else after they are a few months
old Cows milk is never given 20 them.
Chinese houses are never heated IF a
baby IS cold he gets sun bath
Major Baker. of Fort Sheridan. has
issued an order imposing a fine Of 81 for
each offense on every soldier who leave.
his coat unbuttoned. Girls who ask sol.
dieTs for buttons should note this
Levi T. Letter. the father CT Lady
Kedleston. has denied the statement
that he will buy the Curzons a London
house IF they are going To get one.
he said, they will do so themselves"
The recent Lafayette centennial re-
calls the fact that Mrs NJ z. Manser
of Newport, Ky, is the only survivor Of
40 girls who scattered flowers before
the FreRehman when he visited Cincin-
natl in 1875.
The Louisville COuTier-JogrnaI is mean
enough 10 block the effort TO organize the
I Daughters Of the COnfederacy by saying
the Confederacy died in 1853. A daugh-
Ter Of the COnfederaey must be at least
thirty-two years old Show up your ages.
ladies. when putting in claims 10 the
daughtership.''
Somebody with nothing 20 do has fig
ured up how far the eye travels in read
/ ing. He finds that 1.000 coo letters in or
I binary type would measure hardly more
4 than mile placed side by side. In
lifetime, however, the average reader
wends his way through 2009 miles OF
7 print The average novel of 3e9 pages
+ contains one mile OF reading. that i the
. eye travels l. 100 yards in reading the book
/ through
| The Church Militant says: The men,
| bers Of the Episcopal General Convention
/ now meeting in Washington, will erect a
/ stone cross of the site OF the proposed
/ Episcopal Cathedral for Washington
/ next Sunday. The site comprises some
Z thfrty-three acres Of land Ii stands at
| the junction of Massachusetts Avenue.
I the longest street of the city, and George
town Avenue. which is already being
rapidly built up Ii is d nearly level
tract, covered with a grove Of forest
/ trees. and il slopes on IT'S eastern front
/ toward the city in a series Of beautiful
{ and gradual terraces. upon which the
/ future residences of the clergy and pro-
I fessOrs attached to the cathedral fOunda-
ton can be built, without interfering IN
/ any way with the cathedral Itself, as
[ seen frGm Washington