The evening times., 1898-12-01
NOTES OF THE BAY.

| There are only three structures in the
| world $50 feet In height.
Korean paper is so strong and dense that
II can be used TO cover umbrellas.
| The University of Oxford has type and
| appliances for printing in 150 different
languages.
| Asparagus grows wild on the Russian
steppes In such abundance that it serves
as food for cows.
1 John Fox. the KeStueky novelist. is still
| suffering from the fever he contracted
while correspondent in Cuba
The civil population of Gibraltar
amounts TO 1s.100. A garrison OF about
1900 men is to be added to this.
Jerry Simpsons ranch near Medicine
Lodge Kansas. consists of 1 I60 acres and
/ is stocked with 800 head OF cattle.
Thirty years ago there were only two
! dozen explosive compounds known to
chemists; now there are over LOCO.
! The Kaiser has commissioned Leonca-
| vallo, the composer of .'Paglaeci'' 70
write a new opera upon the legend Of
Roland.
The japanese are, as a race. so small
that when they took TO the bicycle it was
found advisable to build special type
of bicycles for them
1t is computed that at the present time
the diamonds bought for American beat
ties living in the United States are worth
no less than S5.0OO0O0.
The only artisan buried In Westmin-
ster Abbey is George Graham, the instru.
ment maker, who invented an improved
| clockwork in the year 1700.
Rats and rabbits are becoming plague
in the Azores. The rats attack truits
and infesr the granaries. while the rab-
bits destroy the vineyards
NJ. de Blowitz, the famous Paris core
spondent of the London Times. was bora
in Bohemia in 1s25 and did not become =
naturalized Frenchman Till 1870.
william Allen Butler, the trans-confi-
Mental railway magnate, Is the man VINO
thirty years or more ago created the once
famous Flora McF'limsy in Nothing -
Wear"
William Tappert. a Berlin writer on
| musical subjects, has just published
list of ffty-four musical settings that
have been made of Goethes ballad, Der
E,rlkoenig.'
There are three places in the world
where green snow exists One is near
Mount Hecla, Iceland another IA miles
east Of the mouth of the Obi, and third
near Quito
John T. McCuteheon. the clever artist
and CORES spondent of the Chicago Record.
who had the good luck 10 witness tas
fight at Manila. is now in the Philippines
observing the conditions there for mis- pa
per.
The great Armstrong shipbuilding
wards OF England have just turned out
most remarkable vessel Ii Is giant
ice-crusher. TO be used in keeping open
the trade routes of the Baltic Sea IN
| winter
There will shortly arrive in England
from Assam a trial shipment Of Ne"
fiber for textile purposes The rongn.
outer covering Of the pineapple IS ths
raw material from which the new hoer
| is made.
..AlI is fair in love and war" is one OF
those proverbs 10 which no authorship
! can be assigned. In various forms and
language il is found in many poems 10
is cited in "Christys Proverbs as OF
very ancient origin
The Bonn. Berlin and Leipsic students
| have proposed a meeting of delegates
| from all the German universities, TO Ge-
eide in what way the memory OF Bis
marck shall be honored annually. and 10
choose the site of a memorial stone
The Interior Department has lately de-
cided that a full-blooded Indian has su-
perior rights over a mixed-blOod when
il comes 10 taking land in severalty. al
though the latter may have made prior
selection and complied with the law III
all respects
A nun of Origuy. France, has just IN
herited from her father, basket MANI
, facturer of that town. owning branch es-
, Establishments in Leeds and Newcastle-on-
E Tyne. where his money was mostly made.
e a fortune of nearly E9O.0d9. She is Sister
{ OF St Vincent de Paul
The function of bloom, the white
| powdery coating on some leaves and
: | fruit is not generally known. Accord
ing TO some notes by the late Prof H l.
Jones. OF Oberlin College, il has been
shown that bloom serves to check the
Transportation of water.
II Somehow or other, the forests of Siberia
e do not seem capable of supplying timber
Il for the Russian Railway through Man
. churia The wood comes from Oregon.
and is shipped 10 VladivostCck, sent hence
d by rail TO a tributary of the Amur, and by
e boat the remainder of the way.
In the Dutch province of OverysseI
there lives a writer called Doctor Cox.
who has published a pamphlet advocating
entire equality between men and women
y His house was broken into not long ago
after the pamphlet appeared, and when
r. the police ferreted out the culpfllS IileS
is proved TO be two young girls.
Rev Everett Bean. of Portland. Me is
a member of the local football team. and
the Universalist pastor in HallOwell, Me.
is captain of that towns football team
TO 1t would be picturesque if these two gen
tIeuen should chance to meet on the
gridiron during a struggle for the cham
pionship between their respective towns.
In the Philippines a somewhat different
idea of a factory prevails from that
which obtains in America. There are
ID three or four looms in a residence, and
lg the women members of the household
weave a piece of cloth whenever the
mood possesses them. 4 purchaser can
have a cloth woven according 20 MS Own
design, but it takes time
Il Preparations are on foot in Honolulu
to test the applicability of the United
States immigration laws to the hawaiian
he Islands by the Importation to the cane
fields of 10000 Korean laborers- The con-
tract form, as advertised by the agent
who proposes to furnish the Koreans
provides that they shall be paid $3.50 pei
or month each, United States gold.
f. \ year ago a German schoOlmaster
m Mr. Engler, was convicted by criminal
court of some act of immortality. Not
long ago he died insane and an autopsy
showed that he was doubtless morally
irresponsible at the time the Offense was
A With Csaru1ar