The evening times., 1898-12-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

N--N hAfN SAFA4ANCA t4iON
The grave Of an unmarried woman in
Turkey is often indicated by a rose ca-v-
ed in stone.
Ihere Is more machinery made in Phi!-
adelphia than in any other city in the
United States.
Ihere is a rosary in the British Muse
um made of the vertebrae Of a snakes
backbone Another is composed of rats
teeth.
They had golf game in the parlors
at the country home of Chicago wo5n-
an not long ago. Shades Of the Scotch
nationi
Lord Kitchener is engaged to Miss Ma
rie Evelyn Moreton, whose father was
private secretary to the Marquis of Lorne
during his stay in Canada.
Vanillin. an artificial substitute for va
nilla. is made from the sap OF the Scotch
pine. while a kind Of rubber has en-
obtained from the common birch.
There are 256 railway stations witaia a
six-miIe radius of ST. PauPs Cathedral.
London, while within a twenty-mi.e IA
diUs there are nearly four hundred.
ground Over 80 90 square miles have
been photographically plated and sur
veyed by the surveyor general of Can
ada.
The earliest artillery known was a
small piece devised in 1857, first used in
war by the Moors against Spain at A
geciras. The English troops at Crecy
used a rough sort of artillery
curious flower has been discovered on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 1t changes
70 f.fNTr. 81
1t Is white, at noon red, and at night
blue That flower ought 10 be trans
planted TO the United States.
A Missouri man claims to have discov-
cred the only sure remedy for hog choIe
ra- When he hears that the disease IL in
the neighborhOod ne salts mis- hogs down
in the smokehOuse- He has never yet had
a case Of hog cholera on his farm.
The Aztecs had various customs con-
nected with the number I3 and they did
not regard il as a hoOdoO. Their weeks
consisted of 1S days. their public archives
were of circular form. with sun in the
center of each Of the Is parts. and their
tribes numbered I3.
Ex-President Bartlett. Of Dartmouth
College, who recently died, was at the
time Of his death one Of the two surviv-
ors Of Dartmouth's class Of 80. The other,
Id d4'A4GS D. w SUSlEE- EUUSul dL SIEUleiQ-
England, for considerable time, now
lives at Concord. Y. H
The amount of powder required to pro-
pei cannon projectIles is about half The
weight of the projecti,s. \ projectIs
four inches in diameter weighs g pounds.
5-inch 30 pounds, 6-inch 10. S-inca go 10
inch 800. 12-inch $50. 15-inch 90, I6-inlh
2,370 pounds
Buckingham Smith. who was secreta-
~ of the American legation in Madrid IN
1855. wrote that the tune of Yankee DOo-
die is derived from an ancient Biscayan
sword-dance. And America is borrow
ed from England CnquestiOnably The
Star-Spaugled Banner is our national
hymn.
Dean PigOu says that many clergymen
cannot trust themselves to repeat the most
familiar prayers Of the liturgy from mem
ory, and he tells how ArchdeacOn Sinclair
was much put out because he Deem
PigoD sat directly behind him at a pubic
meeting. The dean was puzzled, but un-
derstOod all when the archdeacon removed
his hat and knelt 10 pray. In the crown
of his hat was printed in large type. Pre-
vent US, o Lord" etc.
James r Richardson, who died recently
on one of his plantations in Mississippi,
was not only the largest individual grow
er of cotton in the world but also the
owner of one of the best appointed plan
tatiOnS in the country. There Is in op-
Grafton on one Of his places in Mississ-
ippi a complete railroad devoted exclu-
sively to the service OF the plantation He
employed several thousand hands upon
his various places. which are located IN
Arkansas and Louisiana.
\ fashionable London doctor. whose
mornings are fully occupied in paying
visits TO his many patients. has succeeded
in effecting decided economy. He may
be seen driving through the West End
squares eating his breakfast in his
brougham His morning meal is nicely
packed in a hamper a wooden flap is in
front Of his carriage This is propped up
and the table spread The doctor thus
eats comfortably and at leisure.
Rock Island. in the Straits Of Mackinac.
was recently sold by the register and re-
ceiver of the Marquette Mich. land office
for cents. II was put up al auction IN
a bunch with Goose. Eagle and Haven
Islands. and was sold to the highest bid
der, who happened to be William St.
James. of St. Ignace. St James bid sI25
an acre for the islands and as Rock
Island contains Just one-twenty-fifth Of
an acre. its purchase price was cents
Green Island another tiny bit of land.
which was put up at the same sale.
brought the same price
A. II. Nelson. Of Detroit. contributes to
the Baptist Missionary Magazine an arti-
Gle in which he estimates that the cost
per capita Of the converts Of the North
ern Baptists is S42.27. while the converts
of the Southern Baptists cost SI46.32
each. The. COngregationalist converts
cost $1I6 each. while those of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church cost but s24G4
each on the other hand the converts of
the Methodist Church South cost $SS6
The Northern Presbyterians involve an
expense of s297 a convert while the
Southern Presbyterians expend $3.50 on
every soul saved.
The Kansas City Journal thus quotes
the letter of a soldier in Honolulu to his
friends: The New York regiment here
wants To go home very bad They are dy-
ing OFF very fast, there being a funeral
from their camp almost every day Ii is
mostly their own fault, as they won't
take care of themselves. but drink and
carouse around all the time. The natives
make a kind of beer called SNAKE II
a white man drinks it il Will make him
crazy and probably kill him. One of our
soldiers went to town yesterday and drank
some of this SNAKE 1t didn't do a thing
to him but make him crazy. They had 10
keep him in irons most of the night He
is all right today but walks around with
a guard over him all the time
The American Baptist Publication So
ciety now operates five chapel ears. Each
car is constructed especially for the pur-
pose of holding meetings, with an audi