The evening times., 1898-12-17
NOTES OF The DAY.


pneumatic mail delivery service in Toxic
under American direction.
The tensile strength of wet rope is
only one-third the strength of the rome
when dry, while rope saturated with
grease or soap is weaker still
a start has been made toward lighting
the city of Buffalo with the power from
Niagara Falls. Last week for the f,rst
time the power was utilized ~. This wav
circuit of 4SO are lamps being supplied.
Municipal honors have paIled on the
British peers. Only two-the Earl of
Sandwich and Lord Forester-haye ae-
cepted mayOraIiues this year. Three
years ago the office of mayor was filed
by eleven peers.
DIR. Charles Neufeld, the German ex-
plorer who was rescued at Omdurrnau by
the forces of <he Sirdar, is now in Cairo,
hard at work upon a book in which he
will recount the story of his years of i'm
prisonment among the dervishes
Lord Kitchener has declined a score of
invitations TO write a book on his Sou
dan campaign, always on the ground
that he is not a writer. but a soldier BY
profession, and, therefore he is not pre-
pared TO write a book.
A man who can hold the hind legs OF
any recaleitrant mule in the State OF
Georgia, a State that is strong on mules
is the boast of Calhoun. county seat OF
Gordon County. Ga. John Ferguson, the
Mountain Giant as he is called. has
this reputation.
BY different nations every day in the
week is set apart for public worship
Sunday by the Christians. Monday by the
Greeks. Tuesday by the Persians. We'd
nesday by the Assyrians. Thursday by
the Egyptians. Friday by the Turks and
Saturday by the Jews.
Bunches Of bananas made of papier
mache have been introduced as signs on
the wharves of New York where the dep
relations of hOodlums are frequent Ii
is proposed To add wooden peanuts for
the benefit of policemen and other friend
ly samplers of the stock in trade
London's county council has decided on
the municipal control of the water supply
of the metropolitan district and viii try
to get a bill through Parliament TO enable
il 10 purchase. by agreement or by com
pulsion." the property of the eight COM
panies that are now providing the water
Japan with a population of 500 Coz
has ZZ0 towns that have more than / 0 on
inhabitants In 1SS6 the number of such
towns was III. Osaka has increased
from $4,000 TO $4,000 inhabitants in ten
years Yokohama from 50 0c0 10 IS1OoO
Kobe from SG.e0G to 1S5 coo. Toxic has
now a population OF 10000.
Of the 1.272 steam and sailing craft from
foreign and domestic ports which enter
ed New York harbO- in November there
was not single Spanish vessel Out Of
51S vesseIs from foreign ports 2SS were
steamships, Is ships. barks bTigs and
90 schOOners- The English flag fOated
over Hi vessels the American flag over
81, the German over - and the Norwegian
over 27-
German courts have just decided that
the place where a newspaper editor shall
be tried for libel must be the place where
the publication Office Of the newspaper is
situated. and not any place where the
newspaper may chance To be sold. The
point was decided by the refusal Of a
Berlin court TO assume Jurisdiction in the
case of an alleged libel printed in a Bres-
rau newspaper
Birmingham has received the offer OF
several important modern English paint
inss on condition that a suitable gallery
be- built for them They include George
Frederick Watts Aspiration and his
portrait OF Burne-JoneS; Holman Haur's
THE Triumph of the Inu0cenJs and
Burue-Jones' The Merciful Knight.
''The Garden of the Hesperides and the
"PysnIaliOr series
Journalism in Oklahoma has a hectic
complexion and high pulse For n
stance the Kay County Sun in scoring "a
political turucOat recently said: Had
We Vitriol for ink a sword for a pen ard
the fires Of hades for brains We Cou d not
do justice To an Arnold who has turned
traitor To his benefactor. Let his poiiti-
cal ashes rest in peace, but let no decent
man look him in the face,
The Queen Of England is possessed of
one cf the most remarkable articles ever
made in prison. The superintendent Of
Agra jail two years ago received an order
10 weave carpet of special design for
her majesty On it twenty eight of the
deftest convicts of the establishment have
been engaged. The carpet measures .
feet by - feet and is estimated 20 con
tain no fewer than 5e.aGe.ooo stitches.
Mrs. Ann Smith. of Worcester. Eng
land. 10 years of age. has spent over
hundred years Of her life in traveIin.
from fair 10 fair in a van She has had
sixteen children and one Of her daush-
tiers. now eighty years of age. has also
had sixteen. Mrs Smith eats four meals
4 day drinks sparingly of intOXicaHtS,
smokes a clay pipe steadily and attends
The Paris exhibition of 19oo will have a
section devoted 10 the Farce Isles lee
land and Greenland. II will consist of a
collection of things illustrating the social
condition of the ScandinaVians from an
Client days down to our own times. at the
same time giving an idea of the spreading
Of Norman culture from Norway via the
Farce Isles and Iceland to Greenland and
thence sporadicaIly to North America.
Archduchess Maria Autonla the fo-mer
Grand Duchess of Tuscany who died re-
Gently at the age OF 81 years was twice
driven out of her dOminions. in 1S49 ana
1853. She was the mother of the lost
Archduke Johann Salvador. who as Capt
John Orth. disappeared with his vessel
some years ago. She was never COnvinc-
ed of his death. but kept his rooms ard
belongings always ready for his return
\ fine of S15eo0 has been paid to the
London GOldsmiths' Company by a Hol-
born dealer on whose premises antique
silver of modern manufacture was
found. An eminent dealer in the trade
says that if the public is taken in by de-
ceptions of that kind they have them
selves 10 blame for il. because resoecta-
bic dealers who sell at market prices in
variably give Certificate with the
goods.
The projected birthday audience of the
dowager empress of China to the ladies'
Of the diplomatic corps has fallen through.
owing to the refusal to permit foreign in
terpreters to accompany the ladies' Thus
the ladies may never get Il close view OF
those magnificent flower gardens, upon
which, according to kang-Yu-Wei. the fu-
gitive Chinese reformer. she has sduan-
dered immense sums collected for othe-
purposes.