The evening times., 1898-10-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Swiss hotel keepers take In s25.-
W1eO9 year from tourists But il is di-
vided among 1.700 of them
At Stockport England. giant tree has
been unearthed. II is an oak and is fully
lo,oe0 years old 1t weighs forty tons
In Maine the goose bone determines the
severity or mildness of the winter. In
the South the activity of the squirrels In
packing away nuts.
The relentless paragrap pher, because the
Alger Relief Commission is under the
craftsmanship Of Gen. Dodge, calls it the
General Dodge Commission
When American enterprise gets in its
work we shah have the best coffee in the
world from Porto Rico at much lower
prices than we pay now We use nearly
half the worlds supply.
We may hope for almost anything now
The Boston and Maine Railroad Company
has issued orders against trunk smashing
and 'scoOts or slides are used TO get
trunks out of the car 10 the platform
Germany has S20.6is square miles OF ter
ritory in Africa. and keeps good order
with army of 5000 men. mostly natives.
The fact that the latter make fair soldiers
should be OF interest TO America just
now.
mere Il no Idht ABOUT tNe interviews
with Col. Roosevelt in the New York pa
pors that contain thrilling accounts of
his remarkable feats and deeds Of kind
ness They are unmistakably the colo
ners own.
Everybody else having applied for Iegis-
lation 10 prevent unrestricted competition
the BARRIERS of Boston have asked the
legislature to require an examination in
the case of every man who wants 10
scrape chins.
Richard Mansfield once threatened t
cut New York forever because Of its lack
of appreciation Of fine stage work Yer
at the opening Of his engagement Monday
night there were 1.C5J persons inside the
theater and 80 were turned away.
The Philadelphia Medical Journal grows
sarcastic over persons who boast that
they are indifferent 10 noises. IL says
That is. indeed. a thing TO be proud Of
almost as great a sign Of superiority as
the Indifference OF the inhabitants of the
sluras to the odors of the sewers.
There is a growing idea that from the
scope of the questions asked of the de-
partments by the AIGer Relief COmmis-
sion the members have a life contract,
like the justices of the Supreme Court.
Somebody gives the information that they
begin too far back-that it is not the civil
war that is in issue
Sir Henry Thompson has reached the
conclusion that more than half the dis
ease which embitters the middle and lat
ter part of life is due to avOidable errors
of diet: and that more mischief, in the
form of actual disease, of impaired y'gOr
and of shortened life. accrues to civilized
man from erroneous habits of eating than
from the habitual use of alcoholic drink
IL. A.
a century ago.
Among the persons mentioned for pO-
litical nominations in New York are the
following. whose wealth estimate is mad
by a paper of that place: John Jacob
Astor S5o.a 600: Z. A McAIpin. $5.O0lG0J:
o. II. P Belmont, $5,e0o, 900: William Astor
Chanler. ,e900o9; Jefferson NJ Levy.
s.. 800 coo. and Stewart VI. Brice. the son
OF the millionaire. II will be remembered
that W. W. Astor could not get a con-
gressionaI nomination and his failure
drove him into exile.
In a Dingley paper. the New York
Press. it is said that ''the lumber trade
has been dead in Maine for two years"
This surprises the Hartford Times. which
remarks: I'VE had supposed that the
high duty on Canadian lumber in the
DinGley law had given a great impetus 70
the Maine lumber trade The Wilson law
was passed in 1891 and the Maine lumber
industry should have expired in 1898 in
stead Of in 1896 in order 70 be in har-
mOny with Mr.. McKinley's tariff
speeches"
An EngIishman who is driven mad by
the growing of cocks has suggested a
muzzle. He is serious in his circular to
inventors. saying; What l propose is u
have light headgear made and to affix
to this some thin tough wire, encirciing
the beak very loosely. \ little in front OF
the nostrils. the space TO be large enough
TO allow the bird TO drink and feed. yet
sufficiently small to prevent the opening
of the beak wide enough 10 crow. All
should fit easily and well and then it
could be slipped on from the front and
fastened at the back of the skull