The evening times., 1898-11-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

1
Sims Reeves is eighty years old, but
stiH appears at London concerts
| An English typographical novelty is a
map stamped in timed steel plate
Henry Ziegenbaum, mayor of st. Louis,
is an illiterate man and proud of it.
| The fir tree is the commonest of all
| trees. being found in every part of the
| world.
To make paper fireproof it should be
saturated in q strong solution of alum
| water
| No person in Norway is allowed to spend
more than cents at one visit to drink
!. ing place.
! A breechloading cannon made in 1t5,
has been discovered in an old museum at
| Hamburg.
| Brussels has a tower clock which has
never been wound by human hands. The
wind does the work.
1t is said that the obliqueness of eyei1
| which characterizes the Japanese is caus-
| ed by their living in high latitude.
| The first passenger elevator in the world
| was that erected in Tufts Hotel, New
| York IL was known as Tufts vertical
railway
| Probably the most expensive set of false
teeth known is that of the Man of HUI
| derabad. He paid for them about 81. 750 to
| Madras dentist.
The expenses of Great Britain are about
| $5e0, 600 600 a year, nearly $1,000 per
| minute, but there is an annual surplus
of about s20000,001
The London Daily Mail calls Delhi "the
| Clapham Junction of the East" Proba-
| hlU Hindu would call lanham
| the Delhi of the West.
George Julian Zolnaz, the sculptor has
completed a bust of Edgar Allan Poe.
which will be placed in the library of the
University of Virginia
1t is said that blind beggar b. tie
name of Carl Berkoditz. now in the work
house on Blackwells Island, has made
s50. 600 out OF his affiict'on.
A Missouri preacher says that st. Paul
is responsible for the theater hat beca' s.
he instructed women to remain covered
in churches and public places.
Chicago is abolishing grade crossings
and has spent in the last six years about
50 GOO 900 on the job 1t Is hoped that the
work will be completed by the year 1890
curious feature of India is the num-
ber of its deserted capitals There are
each other and south of the present city.
Tarring and feathering was once a
legal punishmeE9 for theft II is 10 be
found on the statutes of both England
and France at about the time of the Cru
sades.
The result of the national subscription
made in Sweden at the time of the King
jubilee was s623, 742. The sum will be
spent in building a hospital for consump-
tiyes.
BY a system of numeral type invented
by Rev. w II. Murray, a Scotch clergy
man of Pekin, blind people are now taught
TO read and write in less than three
months.
Cats can smell even in their sleep. II
piece of meat be placed in front of
sleeping cats nose the nostrils begin to
work, and a minute later the cat will
wake up.
st. John Broderiek. who has succeeded
Lord Curzon as2lnider secretary of state
for foreign affairs, had distinguished
career at Balliol and was president of the
Oxford Union. 8
Apropos of Englands warlike activity
. Mr.. Gladstone's famous reply in the
! House of Commons may be recalled: NO,
We are not at war: We are conducting
military operations
Thomas F. Pendel. the last survivor of
LincolnS bodyguard, much resembled
Lincoln that he was chosen to sit to Will
liam II. Hunt. the artist, for portrait
of the dead President.
Italy has had 29i square miles of land
added to its territory in the last seventy
years by the advance of the delta of the
Po into the Ariatic Sea. The addition
z Of IT To nTN- ~,
1873.
Mark Twain believes in his own dys-
pepsia cure. He frequently goes without
eating for an entire day. but is seldom
without a cigar. He says that the cigar
he can not smoke has never been put to-
gether.
Fifteen per cent of the revenues of
Georgia during the coming year will be
paid out in pensions to old Confederates
The total receipts of the State are esti-
mated at 50 60O,oo0 and the pensions will
require over 5000, 600.
The Prussian Diet at its next session
will have to decide whether or not the
rivers Rhine, Veser, Elbe. Oder and
Weischsel shall be connected by a $780,
600, ,OOo-canal system. The plan has been
on foot for some years.
John L. Elliott the last survivor of the
original members of the Athen2eum Club,
died recently at the age OF ninety-four.
He held Queen Victoria in his arms when
she was a baby, and walked across the
Thames when it was frozen over in 1914
The recent political activity of Carl
Schurz recalls to old-timers a remark
made thirty years ago by George D.
Prentice: Personally. Mr.. SchurZ is an
estimable gentlemen, but politically he is
an Amsterdam, Rotterdam. gotterdam
fool"
The first monument to Alphonse Daudet
will be erected in his native town of
Mines. Already 10,00o francs has been
raised by subscription, and this amount
will be added to by garden fetes. bull
fights and subscriptions raised privately
in Paris.
William Haggard brother to the noVe'
ist, has made himself persona non grata
as the British minister to Venezuela by
much the same process as that of Dupuy
de LONE in this country, but the Venezue-
lans have thus far been unable to secure
his recall.
On Doniphan Lake, Kansas, it is possi-
Bile TO build bonfires whenever the lake
is frozen over by simply breaking through
the ice. Natural gas bubbles up through
the water and accumulates in large bub-
bles or pockets sometimes ten or twenty
yards in extent
Three years ago Paris began to dispose
of it's sewage after the manner of Ber-
lin, by turning it into fields planted with
orchards and vegetables. One-fourth of
tha ic bi,S diSnoSad of