The evening times., 1898-10-19
NOTES OF THE DAY.

A medical authority in Berlin declares
that not one of Germanys professional
hicycIists has n sound heart
A doctor says most Of the diseases are
due 10 insufficiency OF salt Is he
stockholder in Syracuse salt mine?
Porto Rico has sent one student to the
Tuskegee Institute of Alabama and will
send as many more as the school Will
take.
All the people of a Siberian village.
1.#J0 in number. are not at home. They
are in jail for refusing TO repair the
roads.
A sergeant of a Kansas eoIored regI-
ment says he has dined with Gen. La
chena. a Spaniard of Cuban sympathies
No distinction on account of color.
There is mechanic at Walkden. Eng
land. who would be useful in a medical
school. He has broken his legs twenty
four times in his life of fifty-two years
Western Australia has an act in force
prohibiting the landing of any one who
cannot write out a given passage in
English Are there no reporters there.
then?
The South brags that Judge Van WICK
Is a graduate from the University Of
North Carolina and married Richmond
girl: and that Ro0seveITs mother was
Georgian
Inc total amount OF money coined by
All the Queen of Engiand's predecessors
on the throne was 81. .025. 900 900 During
the present reign the mint has turned
out $50 90. including $4,000 600 ia
lndIa- The royal family absorbs a good
deal of il
The keeper OF the University records o,
Harvard I'uiy-zrSff,- =
complete list OF the Harvard roan-of.s-
GERS graduates undergraduates and tenn
pnraTy members of the university in anv
department-who have served in The VIZ
WIKI Spain. and asks the cO-ope-atiop ~
Harvard men in securing the Information
desired
There has been no religious census in
France since 1872 All religions are ao,al
before the law. and the Roman Catholics
Protestants and Jews have allowances
from the public treasury in proportion ~
their numbers as follows: Roman Gath
oiIcs. Al l26.923 francs: PrOtestants. !. .4s5 10
francs; Jews, 2o6.5S0 francs. According 10
the latest census OF Russia. the religions
division in lS%2 was as follows: Orthodox
Greek Catholics. 100000; United Church
and Armeni rs. 5000; Roman Catholics
SS0O.ooo: ProJestants, 2950. 600: Jews. 3.ds0-
$50; Mohammedans. 2.60O. go: Pagans. Is
Wv iApNENtL ilul dlI IleSE are EXaCTlV
pious, You know.
In 1862, Napoleon III addressed a peace
circular to the Powers. Like the Car.
he invited the Powers to take part In a
peace congress having more especially for
its object the revision of the pact signed
at Vienna in lS15. The congress proposed
by Napoleon III fell through. Great Brit
ain after some hesitation. refusing is
adherence TO the project. and Austria and
Prussia following suit The Prussian min
ister as the time was the then unknown
. Otto Won Bismarck-Schoenhau the fu-
ture Iron Chancellor. who replied 10 the
invitation: 1T is not with COMPROMISES.
but with the sword and with blood that
the questions at issue in Europe will be
settled.
Naturally the Italians TO show human
life is not sacred. have no mercy on
beasts An honorary director of the So
ciety for the Protection of Animals at
Naples. is just recovering from a five
months Illness caused by an attempt To
assassinate him as a proof of the Italian
dislike of interference in their brutality
He says that the opposition to the society
is wide spread. most ignorant ItaI-
ians believe they have right to treat
animals with cruelty; and he complains
that the church fails to do anything to
ceunteTact this belief