The evening times., 1898-11-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

lgnorances of the game laws of the
State of Maine has cost Senator Eugene
Hale $4p f5f eight partridges, Illegally
transported
Copenhagen's round tower. built in the
eleventh century and 15O feet high. is to
be moved bodily "a distance of 15j feet in
order to widen a business street.
Lieut. Carr, Troop X, of the Rough
Riders who was seriously wounded at La
Quasina and received a medal for gallant
ry, will join the British army for the Sou
dan campaign.
The Grand canyon of Arizona the
greatest known, is about 200 mi es long
upward of 1000 feet deep and at sum-
points, from rim to rim, measures tea to
twelve miles in breadth.
In the early days of Rome the ladies
of that city wore such heavy earrings
that they made the ears sore and some
times tore the lobes There were doctors
whose business was chiefly to heal ars
thus injured.
Not long ago King Humbert surpassed
Victor Emmanuel's achievements as
hunter of the Stambecco. Now at Ame-
rls, near Cuneo. the royal party has killed
seventy chamios in one day of which
iifty-one fell to King Humberts rifle.
The historic house in City Road Lon
don. in which John Wesley lived and
died, is TO be formally opened early mkt
month museum for Wesley relics.
For the greater part of the present year
this house has been undergoing repairs.
Bank of England notes are made from
new white linen cuttings-never from
anything that has been worn. So care
fully is the paper prepared that even the
number of dips into the pulp made BY
each workman is registered on a dial by
machinery.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, second son
of the elder Cornelius is a student at
Yale, and is said to be kept on an allow
ance, which, perhaps, while not mean Is
much smaller than that of many students
whose fathers are by no means so rich
Vanderbilt's.
A Polynesian bridegroom is conspicu-
GUS by his absence during the wedding
festivities. AS soon as negotiat ons are
opened with the family of his bride The
young man is ''senu into the BUSH. ana
there he is obliged TO stay until the wed
ding ceremonies are completed
In the last forty years the death rate
in the Prussian army has fallen from
sixteen to six per 1000 per annum in the
;
about nine; in the French army from fiji
teen TO nine and one-half: in the Russian
army from twenty-siX TO thirteen.
A strange clock was made during the
last century for French nobeman. Til.
dial was horizontal. and the figures, be-
ing hollow, vwere filed with different
sweets or spices. Thus, running his fin
ger along the hand, by tasting. the owner
could tell the hour without light.
A salmon which weighed fifty-eight
pounds was landed recently on Lord
Mansfield's water in the Tay near Perth,
England, by Capt Goodwin. This IS the
heaviest fish (which has been taken from
the Tay by an angler for many years past
and took an hour and half to capture.
The official statement of the sealing in
dustry in British Columbia for the sea-
son just closed shows a total of $50
skins for the fleet of thirty-nine scho1n-
ers, the highest catch in years. The catch
was divided as follows: Asiatic coast 4iD:
British Columbia coast, l0.055; Bering
Sea, 1880.
William r Harper. head of the Uni
versty of Chicago, is said 10 be Ameri-
cas- hardest working college president.
He teaches all the year round edits two
magazines administers the affairs Of his
cipal of the Chautauqua system and the
American Institute Of Sacred Literature.
Women are running men Glossy pro
fessional competition in the Uaitei
States. There are 600 actress and 80
10t women vocalists; li.0oJ follow art as
a profession; 2,S10 literature and so
journalism. The women also try their
hand at dramatic authorship AID man
aging theaters. The number 50 emp Dyed
is 500
James r Keene. whose fortune made in
tobacco has so stirred he financial world.
is said 10 be the most methodical man in
New York. He has his whole day laid out
to the minute long beforehand. and can
remember at once the opening and clos
ing. highest and lowest quotation Of even
the most obscure stock for any day OF
week previous.
The Duke of SaXe-CoburS, Queen NictC-
ria : second son. recently celebrated his
hfty-sixth birthday. He has never done
anything To especially attract pubic at
tention and is of d reserved nature, pos
sessing nothing OF the popular character
istics of his courtier-like brother, the
Prince of Wales But he is in reality "A
sturdy warm-hearted Engilshman.
1t is an amusing instance of the irony
of chance that the collar of the Golden
Fleece. which has just been conferred
upon NJ. Felix Faure, was the very same
one which had belonged to Bismarck
1t is also stated that the one now worn
by King Humbert once adorned the
shoulders of Christopher Columbus, but
that is less easy to verify.
The highest mountain railway in Eu-
rope leading to the top of the Corner
Grat in Switzerland, situated between
the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa, is about
completed 1t was begun in 1896. A train
can take 10 passengers TWO miles above
sea level. The power is furnished by the
water which flows from a glacier. and is.
therefore. most abundant in summer,
when most needed.
1t is said that the oldest inhabited
house in England stands close to the
River Yer and about $50 yards from st.
Adams Abbey. 1t was built in the time
of King Offa of Mercia, about the year
795, and is thus over LOO years old. 1t
is of octagonal shape, the upper portion
being of oak and the lower walls of great
thickness. At one time it was fortified
and bore the name of St. Germans gate.
In private life Duse, the noted Italian
actress, dresses almost entirely in white
and never wears a corset. Notwithstand-
ing an extraordinary pred -spoSiitn to mel
ancholy, she is splendid talker,
though only on rare occasions does she
engage in lengthy conversation. Her
hair is beautifully black. with the excep-
ton of one snow-white lock that sweeps
across her temple. OF this particular
tress she is very proud.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean Roy, of st. Joseph,
Beanie, Canada. celebrated last week the
ti.afh yhr 1rN- nf hnir ar-t-i1c
and the event presented some extraordi-
nary features The bridesmaid the hest