The evening times., 1898-12-29
NOTES OF TIE DAY.

a society ''in the interests of ne~spa-
| per Gorrespondents' has recent = oesa
! formed at Vienna. The object is 10 raise
! their literary and social stat
The locomotives working through tbs
/ AribeTg tunnel, On the Austrian STATE
I Railway now burn oil entirely. They ere
especially designed for this fusL
] Maracaibo is one Of the ara. S cst.~s o.
| Venezuela. yet only 200 Of its 3G,Os5 IL
/ babitants are foreigners. and to thar life
! is made a burden by the to-rid climate.
| Underground London contains a eco
| miles OF telegraph wires, 3,GG3 miles OF
! sewers, 4,530 miles of water mains, go
! miles OF gas pipe. all definitely fixed
Lieut. Hugh Willoughby, in a rec mt rip
| through the Everglades OF Florida, man
| aged to attach a cyc.ometsr TO his canoe
/ so that he could record the distance IL
| volTed in his journey
| Mrs Keeley. England's oldest actress.
celebrated her ninety-third birthday re-
Gently. Among her callers was James Dosl.
/ WEo is said to be the oldest actor in the
I United Kingdom He is nearly Binety-six-
/ In certain conditions of the atnos-
| phere electricity is so abundant on tie
! top cf the volcano. Mauna Loa, in Ha-
wall that an English geo ogist found
that he could trace electric letters with
I his fingers on his blanket
! Photographic clcck is z recent German
/ invention. 1t may be very fine to have re-
/ marks on the proper duties for each hour
/ added to the usual striking voice of tie
clock, but 10 most people that sort of thing
would be q bore.
/ Alt-Strelitz, a city. OF MeckIenbnrg, is
the first city in Europe to be lighted
throughout with acetylene gas This
/ method OF lighting has been in use since
{ the first CT NEVrmher iS gaid to 10,
I very satisfactory.
+ Ia rebuilding a large machine shop IN
New York recently it was decided 10 DO
away with the tall ehimneys and substitute
: q fan TO furnish the necessary draught for
I the oilers The result is said to be most
| satisfactory.
! The milk serTice at Islingtou, England.
! was recently inspected. with curious re-
suits. OF thirty samples of milk collected
/ on week days all were satisfactory. while
of those collected on Sunday six were aduI-
4 terated- The milkmen seemed 20 think it
/ safer to cheat on Sunday.
! A German historian directs attention to
I tae fact that in the middle ages the Medi-
/ terranean was connected by canal with
the Red Sea, and that in 1888 the Moham-
medan powers had project Of rebuilding
this predecessor OF the Suez Canal
The best hotel in San Juan. Porto Rico,
( charges 81 a day, but the sleeping rooms
all open into courts, have no outside win
dows and are extremely hot. Under span
ish law, in towns where houses join no
outside windows are allowed.
/ The Massachusetts board of cattle com
! missioners has been serving the State at
/ its own expense this year. the appropFia-
/ tiOn being too small TO provide for the
work. II hopes that the next legislature
viii reimburse the members for their out
+ lay.
/ y Vassar girl cut her recitations for
| three days in order TO conduct cooking
+ class in q college settlement in New York.
She taught her pupils TO cook ham When
] the time came for eating the cooked food
/ she discovered that she was the only per
son in the FCom who could indulge in pork
! The Empress Elizabeth bequeathed the
domain OF Achilleion in Corfu TO her ELL
est daughter. the AFckduchess GiseIa wife
of Prince Leopold OF Bavaria II is one CT
/ the finest royal residences in the world.
+ and 1t is said that the empress spent no
I less than L. eco GOO francs in beautiTFing
+ the palace and its grounds.
/ That there is after all some sort OF
honor among thieves is shown by 4 re-
/ cent communication 10 a leading PAPER OF
/ Palermo, Sicily. Candino. d noted bri-
I gand. writes thai one G&lbo. a notorious
member OF his band. has been expelled
Y
in his dealings with the public
Sir Walter Besant. who has Just an
nounced his intention OF accompanying Sir
j Charles Warren on an expedition 10 the
/ Holy Land, has always taken the deepest
/ interest in all questions relating 10 tha-
/ country As far back as 1868 he was ap-
pointed secretary 70 the Palestine Exp!cra-
tion Society.
/ ". E. Trumper. of Allen Township.
/ of a tsn-shilliug note issued by the gen
! eral assembly Of the colony Of PcnnsyIva-
MIA in the thirteenth year of the reign OF
His Majesty, George III, dated the first
/ day of October, 1IT}. The note is printed
on stiff paper. brown with age and bears
{ the legend, To counterfeit is death
/ An Auburn, Me, man, who drove
long way through the country recently.
says il is Iot an uncommon sight TO see
+ The top Of wagon which IS imbadded il
( Il srowdrift projecting above the summit
OF the drift. Travellers who got stuck had
/ been obliged 10 unharEess their horses
and leave their vehicles in their impris-
oned condition.
! The President of France was recently
( decorated with the Golden Fleece OF Spain.
I and had 10 pay for the decoration g 0GD
francs He was rather surprised at receiv-
( ing the bill but there was nothing in the
world TO do but pay il. Bismarck. under
/ similar circumstance. absolutely refused
I 10 hand over the money; but an old dipIe-
mat assured NJ. Faure that 10 FrenchInan
! could be guilty OF such gaucheTie as that
DR.. OTcnhyatekha, who has Just b-ea
/ elected vice president of the national fra
! ternal congress. is full -bIoodsd Mohaw X
Indian. He was educated at Buchtel Col
lege and Oxford University, the Prince OF
! Wales having become interested in n m
while on a visit to this country in III /,
COS The doctor also is supreme chieS
| ranger Of an order of foresters- He lives
ct Toronto. Ont, and owns an is,anI in
the bay OF Quinte
Christmas was first celebrated in the
years as, but it was forty years later be-
fore it was officially adopted as a Chrs-
tian festival: For was it until about TIE
fifth century that the day of its ceie5ra-
tion became permanently fixed on the
| 18th of December. Up 10 that time it Rad
been irregularly observed at various
times of the year--in December, in April
and in May but most frequently in Janu-
! AIRY.
The Treasury of the United States is in
the habit of collecting the very last
farthing that is due regardless OF what il
| may cost Deputy Collector J. c. Wilson.
; of Harrodsburg Ky. received orders 10
go out to the western part OF AndsrsC n
County and collect a balance of two
cents. He waited few days until other
business required his attsntion in that
| locality and then received and receiptcd
for the coveted two cents.
According to the Oil City Derrick 5
monthly report there was one less we'll
completed in the oil country in November
than in October. but the former month ex-
ceeds the month of October in production