The evening times., 1898-12-12
NOTES OF THE DAY.

" MN TOT ana shoOinS at MS reHecJOn-
Joseph II. Choate, who is spoken OF as
ambassador TO England, took part in
twenty -four public debates while at Har-
ward and won them all
In China there is no regular standard OF
distance Chinese mile may be from
a quarter of an English mile to a mile
and three-quarters, according TO the prov
ince.
The Queen rarely sends any kilograms
to any member of the royal family or
to her intimate friends, otherwise than
in cipher. a system Of figure ciphers hav-
ing been carefully arranged for her and
their use.
Upon his arrival at Manila Gen Merritt
asked Admiral Dewey how far on the is
| land his jurisdiction extended. The reply
| was: From as close to shore as / can
move these fiat-irOns tthe ships 10 as far
inland as l can throw a she'll"
The popular rating of the commanders
who figured most prominently IN the re-
cent war as shown in the naming OF new
postoffices now stands as follows: Dew
ey. eighteen; Schley, five: Shafter and
Sigsbee, four each, and Sampson three.
The Gar is very foEd Of eggs. and eats
large quantities of then He tn nks poi
son could not be seCrsted in them with
find that by pricking them with poisoned
needles acouite could be placed In them.
a new Knlepp has arisen in the person
Of Pastor Felke, who has a parish in
RepeIen Rhenish Prussia The number
Of his patients already runs up into the
thousands, and early next year an insti-
tuition viii be erected for their better
treatment.
The Princess Theresa, of Bavaria. is
scientific writer of considerable merit
| She has already published one book on
/ South America. and is now at work on
| another, TO get materials for which she
made journey Of exploration In the
widest parts of Brazil.
The real motive Of the German En-
peror in sending his sister-in-law. Priu-
cess Henry Of Prussia, 20 China and Ja-
pan, OsteEsibiy for the purpose of being
with her husband. is alleged to be 70 have
her become personally acquainted with
the two expresses. which would be great
/ ly 10 the advantage of Germany in di-
DlOmatic movements.
a Boston woman. selecting a hat at a
miliiner's. asked cautiously: rs there
anything about these feathers that might
+ bring me into trouble with the Audubon
! Society "Oh. no. madam" said the
milliner. who was from London: these
ItdtA4tLSr lEducillls dIE the LCclNt--ES bA q
howl, and the howl you know madam,
! is more of a cat than a bird"
| The wife Of an English clergyman has
/ made collection OF all the buttons
\ placed in the ofertory bags during the
I last two or three years. and has fastened
/ them to cardboard in various cunning
/ shapes OF animals. birds and flowers As
/ a bazaar is shortly 10 take place In con-
| nection with the church she has had
I these button pictures photographed a-d
/ copies Will be on sale at the exhibition
: The recent sale in Boston Of the estate
/ OF Jernegan-who organized the com
pany and engineered the scheme-Tor eX-
/ tracing gold from water-Showed
| that he was not only thrifty. but i'm
| posing in more ways than one. II IL
said that a parlor set. apparently Of In
| laid rosewood. was but imitation. ard
/ that hardly any Of the Jerneg furni-
| ture proved TO be what it purported T. be.
! Thomas Ryan whose discovery of the
| famous Republic Mines in Washington
/ converted poor man into one of fabu-
/ lOus wealth says OF his find: Thou
| sands of experts would have passed the
| ledge as worthless. for the quartz is Of
| such a peculiar appearance that not one
! miner in million would have suspected
| one ounce of gold could have been found
in a ton OF the stuff, and l didn't at first
The best hotel in san Juan. Porto Rico.
| charges 3 q day, but the sIeeping-rO0ms
| all open into courts. have no outside win
! dows and are 20 the last extremely hot.
! Under Spanish law. in towns where houses
/ Join. no outside windows are allowed.
I This is 10 avoid the danger of dirt from
/ the interior blowing cnto adjacent roofs
| and coHtdminatiuE the water. as all the
/ supply is collected from the rainfall and
/ stored in ciSterns. from which il is drawn
I by small force pumps in those Of greater
! preIensi0n
Mr. Ed Jack. of Wyandotts Eas.. has
| applied Tor a patent for a ContriVauce TO
| prevent snoring. Ii is based on the theo-
| ~ that no one can snOre with his mouth
| shut. Mr.. Jack has arranged a bride Of
/ rubber webbing to accomplish this pur
| pose y band is passed over the fore
| head and round the back of the neck
above the ears, while another goes under
| the chin, with a c-oSs-band over the jaw.
/ To keep il in place. There are buckles TO
! adjust the bride to all sizes Of heads.
| Mr. Jack also cIeaims that his invention
/ can be utilized to keep bies from cry
| ing and women from talking.
The oldest novelist in the world is NJ
| Louis Enault the well-knOwn French ro-
! nance writer who was born at Isisny in
1872 and will in few days attain his one
| hundred and sixth birthday, Novehsts.
| as q rule do not attain any great axe,
/ but NJ Enault. il is said. leads a very reg
| uIar life and still possesses all his facul-
/ ties lie took part in Nap0leon's cam
! paicn in Russia. and at the Pass of Bere-
sina lost three fingers by frost bite. II
| Euault has published a large number Of
| novels, and has still a wide circle Of
I readers in France He intends. on the an
| niversary of his one hundred and sixth
| birthday, to issue Il new novel.
The daughter of the well-known antt-o-
| pOlogist and Criminologtst, Professor LON
! brosO, Paola L1mbrosO, has been sentanc-
| ed by the criminal court of that city 70
twenty-five days imprisonment and a fine
! of G. lire on the charge Of melting class
hatred and eulogiziug violation of law
She holds sOcialiStic views. ike her fathe-
and other professors of the University of
| Turin During the Italian upris' ng n MAY
she indisCTeetly published an article in the
| Grido del PO1olO, a sOCialstic sheet of
| Turin in which she described the misery
she herself had seen among the lower
| classes. and from which she drew the So
ciaiistic conclusion that existing social
conditions should lie overthrOwu-
Admiral Schley lately attended the the
ater in Philadelphia, and this is what hap
pened 10 him. He sat In box with the
| handsome and benignanr Col Mcclure,
| and every movement he made was watch
| ed by the thousands in the place. II he
took a glass of water they applauded If
he bowed to an acquaintance they ap-
plaudcd IL he smiled they -applauded- In
fact the whole evening was an incessant