The evening times., 1898-10-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Kansas City Journal says that while
turnip contains 95 per cent Of water.
the city water is only 50 per cent water.
1t will cost Sir T. ]. Upton $4,000 to
try 10 win the Americas cup with the
chances all against him. The cup is worth
less than $50.
The average weight of brain is greater
in China than in any European country.
excepting Scotland In China they are
not reduced By Oyerwork
The ten public ice-water fountains in
Boston cost 10 cents day last summer
Next summer they will cost less as the
city is cutting its own ice.
AT the beginning Of the seventeenth
century the clergy in Spain had an annu-
al income equal 70 81, 0O0. 900 now. The
Philippine clericals have kept up the
pace.
The Eastern owners of an electric line
at Sioux Falls, s OAK, have torn up the
plant and brought ii away II ceased to
pay after Oklahoma offered better in
ducements to divorce seekers.
Young Jesse James was arrested at
Kansas City for train robbing solely be-
cause of his name He has been an or
derly and Industrious young fellow, but
the detectives believe in heredity.
The highest railroad in the world Is be-
ing built by Americans in Ecuador II
Will be 100 miles long and will cost SIS 600
00o- Its average height will be between
s.00o and 10.090 feet above the sea
With no duty on Porto Rico products
in this country We should have good
cigars at a low price. \ smoker there
says that for , cents he gets a cigar quite
as good as any lo-cent cigar in the Unit
ed States.
In the Polish provinces OF Germany the
Poles are compelled 10 Germanize them
selves They are not allowed TO speak
Polish and one who signed his name
Guecz, the Polish form. instead OF
GuJsch, has been fined so.
One cigar manufacturer in Detroit who
employs girls has estimated saving in
cigar consumption by employees of So
Coz in ten years. on the basis that male
workers use three cigars daily. The union
will insist on girls learning TO smoke
a German who is said to be an eminent
scientist says that sugar is almost the
most valuable of ali articles Of food: he
refers 10 testimony given by hunters.
military men, farmers and others to
prove its Importance as a feeder of the
muscles
First Sergt. ]. E. Miller. of Capron's
Battery, managed TO be fairly well per
foTated by Spanish bullets at the battle
OF Santiago. he was hit seven times and
still lives 10 tell the tale Three of his
brothers We're killed IN battle two in
Cuba and one at Wounded Knee
The great periodic star shower. which
is seen at intervals of thirty-three and
Ons-half year, is due November Y or IS,
1888. On the same dates this year, also.
a considerable display of these meteOrs
Is expected They are supposed to consist
of matter which is cold until rendered in
candescent by friction with the eartE'S
atmosphere. Nearly a century ago the
showers scared people into fits.
The original manuscript copy of Ameri-
cas- national hymn. My Country. 'Tis of
Thee. written in 1872, by Samuel Francis
Smith. IS nov in the famous Vatican IL
brary IN Rome. At one time il was owned
by David PeiI Secor. of Bridgeport, Conn,
the manuscript having been presented TO
him by Mr.. Smith. Rev Dr.. Maher. while
visiting Mr.. SeCor a few years ago. saw
il, and suggested that it should be sent
to the Vatican library, where many valu-
able CuriOs are held Americans need to
be reminded that such relics are welcome
at the National Museum