The evening times., 1898-12-26
NOTES OF THE DAY.

presidency of the Navy League. He pro-
poses to take an active part in the move
ment.
Joseph H. Choate, who is spoken of as
ambassador to England, took part in
twenty-four public debates while at Har
ward, and won them ALL
Lord Leicester Mas 11,00 swans upon
his estate at Abbotsburg, charming
little village few miles from Weym luth.
England The cost of caring for the
swans averages over $4,000 per year.
Among the regulations posted by the
New England railroad for the guidance
of the wearers Of its uniforms Is the fol-
lowing: '''rhe cap shall be worn straight,
neither tipped sideways nor backwards
A. w. Whelpley, of Cincinnati, has
given to the Cleveland Public Library
autograph letters from Clay, Lincoln,
Dickens, Mackey, John Brown, Jeffer
son Davis and nearly all the Presidents.
AT the battle of Atbara number of
Italian rifles were captured from the der
wishes by the Egyptians. The Italians
lost them to the Abyssinians in 1887 and
the Abyssinians in turn to the dervishes
in 1889
George Knox, who died in London re-
Gently. called himself 1.-The last of the
Rosicrucians." He spent a long life and
a great fortune in looking for the phi
losopher's stone, the elixir of life and
other myths of the rosy cross"
Phillip d. Armour, John NJ. Clark, A.
c. Bartlett and other prominet Chicago
business men are heading movement
to have commercial training school es-
tabished in connection with the city s
public school system.
The Philadelphia Times says that
Congressman Greer received a letter in
which the writer says: Il hear you are
able u do anything you set out to de-
] have three houses and a vacant lot
that | want very much to dispose Of
Now, won't you please sell them for rhe?'
a Swiss paper relates that near the
Beautushoie. on the lake of Thun, an &C.
centric hermit has built a cottage, in
which he dwells. shut off from the world,
his food being brought TO him by a SER
want. He is a millionaire of Basle. affiict-
ed with the mania that some one intends
to poison him.
The last instance of boiling to death
took place in Persia in lS94. The Offend
er, who was guilty of stealing state rev.
enues. was put in large cauldroa OF
cold water. which was slowly heated to
the boiling point His bones We're DIS
tributed, as a warning, among the pro-
Vincial tax collectors.
In Germany the extreme activity of the
electrical trade is absorbing large sums of
money and has good deal to do with the
high rates. As an example OF the extent
To which the industry is being developed
II may be said that one of the large COM
panies. which had in 1889 ii2 men in its
T.. haS
Jane Batson is going to sue the city of
New York for damages in the loss OF her
luxurious growth of gray hair. which
was cut off short when she was sent TO
prison for three months as a disorderly
person. She says the cutting was not
only unusual but Illegal. because she was
not a twelve months prisoner.
Recent Investigations have shown that
the principal source of the Gulf Stream
is not the Florida channel, but the re-
gion between and beside the islands of
the West Indies. AT Binioni the volume
of this warm water is sixty times
great as the combined volumes of all
the rivers in the world at their mouth.
Gardiner tMe) dancing master says
allowing 6 feet for one waltz step. and the
waltz tempo sixty measures minute, and
taking three steps TO the measure. gives
$50 steps in a minute. Giving ten minu, es
for each waltz and ten waltZeS in an even
ing the waltzer has covered a distance of
I miles in Waltzes alone during the even-
ing.
Robert w. Shingle. commissioner gem
eral from Hawaii to the Omaha expo
sition, has, up TO date, received 100 let
ters asking about the islands. He says:
Don't go there to speculate in land.
for the land laws are very stringent and
as for coffee. you must have enough
money 10 carry you along until the first
crop is harvested, four years after plant
ing.
A ''sea cocoanut' was picked UP on the
beach at Biddeford pool, Maine. recent
Iy. 1t is a solid mass of sea MOSES ard
grasses. punched by the action OF the
sea and rolled into spherical shape. 1t
is queer looking object and is regard
ed as Il curiosity. though dwellers by the
beach say that similar specimens are oc-
casionally picked up some as large as a
golden pumpkin.
DR.. Sven Hedin proposes to start on
his next journey of Asian exploration
about the middle of next year. Accord
ing to the Stockholm Dagblad DIR. Hedin
intends to cross the Taklamakan desert
twice thoroughly explore one of the
largest rivers of Turkestan and again
study the interesting Lob Nor problem.
The most important part of the work
will. however. be explorations in the
north and interior parts of Tibet.
Prof Lombrosos daughter, Paola, has
been sentenced in the criminal court of
Turin to twenty-five days Imprisonment
and a fine of 62 lire. Her crime was pub
fishing an article in a Socialistic paper. in
which she described the misery she herself
had seen among the poor people, and de-
clared that the social system which made
such evil conditions should be oveTthrown.
Like her father, the anthrOpologist, and
other professors Of the University Of Tur-
in, she is a Socialist.
The most costly book in the royal
library at Stockholm is Bible. 1t is no
wonder that it is considered precious, for
world. It's weight and size alone is
unique 1t is said that 160 asses skins
were used for its parchment leaves.
There are 500 pages of writing, and
each page falls one inch short of being
yard in length. The width of the
leaves is twenty inches. The covers are
solid planks four inches thick.
The ownership of the top of Mount
Blanc is disputed question, three mu-
cipalites-ChamouniX SallancheS and
st. Jervais-all claiming proprietorship.
The leasing to enterprising projectors of
various spots at different attitudes on
Noun, Blanc has been most profitable.
Chamounix having proclaimed that the
entire summit is under its sphere of infiu-
ence the other municipalities hotly pro-
tested. A mass of old maps and docu-
ments comparable to the Venezuelan dos
Sier have now been submitted to the gov
ernment officials, who are trying to settle
the question.
Nikola Tesla was born in Servia about
years ago and is a Slay. His
father was an eloquent clergyman in the