The evening times., 1898-11-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.
CrispI has written hIs memolrs.

Crispi has written his memoirs.
Atehison has lately acquired a hospit-
al and is proud of it.
Society girls in New York are taking up
boxing for amusement.
The Emperor of Morocco has forbidden
the use of the bicycle in his dominions.
1t is on record that in the London 10
oioslcaI Gardens a parOquet once lived
over half century without drinking
London's new lord mayor. Sir John Voce
| Moore, Is seventy-two years old one Of
| the Oldest men ever elected 10 the posi-
ton.
They have enterprise in Garden City.
Kan. y cake-walk is TO be given there
10 raise money with which 10 improve
the cemetery.
At recent dinner Lord Rosebery de-
/ fined memory the feeling that steals
over you while you listen 10 a friends
original stories
In England and Scotland the fad for
sheep dogs is growing. Owners Of these
dogs say that gentleness goes farther in
training than anything else.
The writing of r d. BIackmore IS so
fine and small that the letters are so de-
ftached that magnifying glass is some
The richest gold mine in the world is un-
der the town OF Bailarat Victoria Aus
+ tralia. II has yielded more than $l5O.-
! 0o0.0G0 since it was opened thirty years ago
/ The average yield from potato patch
{ farming in Philadelphia this years was
800 an acre For each dollar expended
! from $50 to $ worth Of potatoes was real
+ lied
/ President Eliot. of Harvard. says that
the modern university develops very
peculiar human being. the scientific spe-
cialist. He wants his name known not TO
millions. but TO five or six students Of
I the Latin dative case.
| King Street. Westminster. is in process
of demolition. Many famous people have
lived there. including Oliver Cromwell.
| Thomas Carew, the second Lord North
and many others. Americans are not the
only relic destroyers in the world
A curious watch lately made in France
has a transparent disk with apparently
no works behind IT, and the hands seem
to move by magic The works are in re-
ality concealed at the edge Of the case.
and the motion is communicated TO the
hands by means Of glass disk
DR.. Arthur T. NeaIe. Of the Delaware
College Experiment Station, has tried the
experiment of raising susar-cane II Della
ware, and finds that the sugar from cane
/ grown in Delaware will YIELD 3,2o0 pounds
Of the refined product TO the acre. as
compared with 2.So1 pounds, the best re-
suits from beets in California
(. \ New York man has devised a com
bined wagon. sleigh and boat. which has
the body formed Of water tight box.
with axIes underneath for the attach
ment Of wheels. a pair of runners being
hung below the axles 10 rest on the
ground when the wheels are removed II
may be used for something besides a Gu
riosity, and it may not.
Various aged persons have ascribed
their longevity 70 good habits, but
a centenarian smuggler said that his
prescription for long life was wet feet
every day and drunk every night. Sir
Isaac Holman, an aged man who recently
died I'm England. said that he owed his
long life TO his abstinence from bread
and Thomas Wilmington, who lived TO
10l years. never drank any liquid except
ardent spirits
One Of the favorite amuseTents Of Gar
Alexander III when he went 70 visit MS
mother-in-law. the Queen of Denmark,
was mushroom hunting in the park about
the palace. Each morning he would come
in with a great quantity Of what ne said
he served for breakfast, but they never
were Queen Louise and her imperial SON
in-law were on excellent terms but she
never dared risk feeding her family on his
fungi II might have put too many king
doms into mourning.
Under the collective mourner system in
Germany all the relatives Of the dec asad
bind themselves TO mourn his loss and
defray the cost Of advertisement In the
case OF Mrs Regina Wers chaU- who lived
70 be III the results were somewhat
quaint TIE advertisement reads: 'Ftlled
with SORROW We announce 20 all cur rela-
tives and acqUaintauces The departure Of
our innermostly loved mother, mother
iu-law. grandmother. great-grandmcther.
great -ereaJ-ErandmOther and great
creaI-ereat- grandmother" The gra-
lures OF the afflicted ones follow The
German f0r the last title "UrurUrgross-
mutter.
During Sir Baker RusseITs spe eiai ser
vice in South Africa he applied fer al
Iowances for another horse 10 cover the
district over which he had TO travel The
authorities measured up the distance on
the map and said that according To- tie
mileage "as the crow flies" another ami
nal was not needed. Sir Bake replied
that he didn't ride crow; he rode a
horse CAT last accounts the gentlemen
of the foreign Office were trying 10 dis
cover his jokeb Sir Baker RusselTs ser
vice includes the Indian meeting. Ashan-
tee. the Zulu campaign and Kassassin,
where he led the brilliant charge for
which he was knishted.
An English soldier tells this tale of
himself. Ii may be appreciated by some
of the men who fought-aDd cOOked-in
the Spanish-American war. II was not
this soldiers business to cook. but he
vas spending a week with a garrison bat
'ery in a south coast fort. ''On the last
day" he says. THE sergeants sat down
to an exceptionally fine dinner the
crowning glory OF which was large plum
pudding l had made the pudding two
DAYS before had il boiled. and now. re-
heated. it made its appearance, amid the
welcome shouts of my brother warriors:
and l naturally felt a bit proud of il, FOR
I hadn't been ships cook for nothing.
Seems mighty hard. remarked the
sergeant major. as he vainly tried TO stick
his fork into il. Have you boiled up a
cannon ball. Browney?"
Where did you get the flower from?''
questioned Sergt. Smith.
Where from" l retorted. From store
No 5, of course"
THE deuce you did, roared the quar-
termaster sergeant Then. hang you.
you've made the pudding with Portland
cement"
And so it proved That pudding is now
preserved in the battery museum.
CURRENT HUMOR.