The evening times., 1898-12-27
NOTES OF The DAY.

Trtsfies will soon be cultivated on scien-
ten principles and are likely to become
cheaper.
The stan of the Central Savings Bank
In London amounts to more than $500
persons.
OF about thirty recognized coaIing sta
tions on the Pacific. Great Britain owns at
least twelve and the United States six
Italy exported last year 21 600 ancient
and modern works of art. valued at $780,
OOo More than one-half of them went to
Germany.
The original manuscript copy of MY
Country 'Tis of Thee is in the Vatican
Library at Rome. 1t was presented bv
the author. Samuel Francis Smith. 70
David Pell Secor. of Bridgeport, Conn
Cornelius Vanderbilt has furnished the
money for botanical exploration of the
island of Porto Rico, for the benefit OF
the New York botanical garden The ex-
pedition will leave New YORK in a few
weeks.
An ambulance of the Kilrush CEng)
workhouse was recently swooped down
upon by the sheriff just as il was starting
for patient The vehicle was taken TO
tie pound and held for the satisfaction OF
debt of $50.
Since coming to this country Mr.. Zang-
will has proved his philanthropy and good
will by persuading number of rich He
brews in New York to donate $500, 900 for
the building of new tenements on the east
side of New York.
A great fear of some impending dis
aster seems to have fallen over Pekin and
numbers of houses now have the words
Speak not of state affairs written on
slips OF red paper posted over the Iintels
OF each household.
Carmen Sylvia, Queen of Roumania, will
celebrate her fifty-ffth birthday the last
of December by issuing a new volume OF
folk lore, which deals with the stories and
legends which are attached to the forests,
towns and ancient customs of Rouma MIA
Among the papers of President McKin-
ley's mother was found the other day a
copy of her answer to letter which asked
how she brought up her children" Il
had six of them" was her answer ''and /
had my own work to do but did simply
the best / could
During the visit of the Kaiser to Kiel
one of the tests applied TO the vessels was
the feature of uneoupling the engines.
The cruiser New York on that occasion
made record of two-forty five, while
the British cruiser Blake. it appears, re-
qUired thirty-three minutes.
Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin. while
coming East on a through train last week,
was asked concerning the contest for his
seat in the Senate. He said There are
on this train so many applicants for my
shoes that when | go TO bed I'm afraid
TO put them out to be blaeked-'
Ptomaine poisoning due TO the inges-
tion of unsound fish destroyed nearly a
whole family in Florence not long ago. and
infective pneumonia communicated from
parrots became well-nigh epidemic in Ge-
noa till the Uffizio di Santa stamped it out
by veto on the harboFing Of such house
hold pets.
The worlds crop OF hops may be as
sumed to be as follows: United States.
$780, 900 cwts.; European Continent. 730-
600 cwts-; European Continent 80. .009
cwts.; England. 350. 600 cwts-; Canada.
Australia and others. 10000 cwts- An
American bale Of hops contains $50
pounds net
Apropos of the agitation on the subject
of cheaper postage between this country
and Great Britain. il is pointed out that
the cost of a frst-elass ocean pass sage be-
tween this country and Europe averages
about S10G. The charge for conveying he
weighs is $1S7.
William E Shipp and William H. Smith
studied together at West Point graduated
at the same time, each rising to the rank
of first lieutenant. At the battle OF San
Juan both were killed inside of fifteen
minutes. and now bills to pension their
widows have been simultaneously intro
duced in Congress.
Vice President Hobart patronizes a Chi
nese laundry in Paterson. and the celestial
is naturally very proud of his distinguished
customer Mr.. Hobart recently secured
for him a photograph of President MeKin-
ley, bearing the Presidential signature
This now adorns the laundry and the own
er is elated by the gift
1t is reported that the English postofiee
authorities are considering the advisability
of laying special cables to Belgium. HoI-
land and Germany for the extension of the
government telephone system IL is now
possible TO telephone from London to Paris.
and it is theoretically possible 10 converse
with every capital in Europe.
\ Pittsburg mechanic is working on a
double barreled engine-that is, an en-
-gine with two boilers, each about twenty
FIVE inches in diameter and eighteen feet
in length, not including the fre-box The
object is to utilize the force of gravita-
tiOn going down hill 10 pump air into
the cylinder or receiver. which is really
what one of the boilers will be.
A German statistician estimates that in
a year there is a daily average of 1851
sailing vessels at sea. with "A. 500 men in
their crews. Every day. also, 1904 steam
ships. with crews numbering 90, ,263 men
and 32,565 passengers, are ahoat on the
Atlantic. This makes daily average for
the year Of 5,155 vessels and 1922 per-
sons spread over the whole Atlantic sur
face.
At late dinner at the Mansion House
three foreign ConSuls were present, to
whom the lord mayor wished TO do honor
by drinking their health He accordingly
directed the toast-proclaimer to announce.
The health of the three present con-
suls.' The toast-proclaimer. however.
mistaking the words, rose and announced:
The lord mayor drinks the health of the
3 per cent consols."
An emigrant princess of the royal touse
of Tahiti has passed away in Eng and.
Titana Mariana was in the direct line of
succession to the South Pacific throne. but
fell in love with a Scotchman. She mar
ried him and discarded the cares o, roJal-
ty TO lead quiet and unsvsntfui life as
wife of Scotch baiIie at Austruther,
where she died at the age of 81. The
Tahitian princess was we'll Known and
much esteemed by the people of the toa n
and district.
The Chester County, Pennsylvania.
aimshouse gives shelter to three interest
ing characters, viz: a man who twenty
five years. ago was worth S200 coo, but
largely by his generous nature lost it all;
Sallie Elbert, one of the last of the Le-
nape tribe of Indians that were numerous
in Chester County years ago, and Rebects
Thomas, colored, said to be 103 years old.
and who says she remembers seeing the