The evening times., 1898-10-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.


1t is said that when the wife of Henry
Clay was asked once IL she was not wor-
ried by his gambling she replied: "Oh.
not at all. Mr.. Clay always wins
Mr.. George. Curzon's new barony is the
| first Irish peeTage that has been created
| in thirty years. There have been only
twenty-four in all created since the
union.
The Empress Dowager Of China is six
ty-four years of age. Her title runs as
follows: -yu-Kans-i-sh
yu-chuang- -eheng- g-shoukung chin hsien-
chang-hsi-''
Probably the most expensive set OF
false teeth known IS that of the Sizsm
of Hyderabad. for which he has paid 9CJ
rupees t$3.500 in theory. but 81 I5j IN fact).
to a Madras dentist.
The Illinois Central Railroad provides
special Inducements for investment ia its
stock by employees 733 of whom are now
registered stockholders in the corpora
ti0n, with total holdings of 2.535 shares.
IL Is stated as fact that when a man
ill-uses his mule in New Orleans ne is
! fined S25. and that cultured Bcs,On fines a
man so for beating his wife. New
York magistrate holds that there are oc-
casions when man has warrant for
beating his wife.
Italy has had 294 square rIiies of and
added to its territory in the last seventy
years By the advance Of the delta OF T. o
Pc into the Adriatic Sea. The measure
ment has been made by Prof MarinelH.
who carefully compared the ACsrian sur
veys of 1823 with the Italian surveys Of
1895. The addition amounts to one six
| hundredth of the total area of Italy at
the earlier date.
Collars worn by members of the Or
| der of the Golden Fleece are, at the
| death of such persons, returned TO the
crown of Spain or Austria 10 be held
until some new knight is invested. The
name of the wearer is engraved on one
| of the links. and ii now turns out that
\ the collar given TO President Faure was
1 last worn by Prince Bismarck. and bears
| the name Of the most bitter and tri-
| umphant foe of France.
! There are twenty pieces Of realty in
! Pittsburg for which owners cannot be
| found. The properties in question range
! in size from by 60 feet 10 50 by 121 feet,
| and are located in eight different wards
| Altogether they aggregate over two
/ acres. What has become of the titles 20
\ these lands or the persons by whom they
| were vested. is what neither the city
nor county officials have been able TO dis
| cover.
| The Rev Sydney Smith. the eupeptic,
! ridieuled the written sermon. which he
! held TO be one of the prominent evils of
the church Bishop Potter. on the other
| hand. avows a belief that extemporane-
Gus preaching in the pulpitS is one of
the vices of our time. and he rates the
/ average extempOraneOgs sermon as moth
ing more than the rude maunderings of a
sophomore mind. often delivered in vul-
| gar and ungTammatical English. But
why should a man who is unable to de-
liver Il good sermon in grammatical Eng
| lish without reading it be in the pulpit?
The New York Tribune says the Cana
| dian authorities are arranging for the
| importation of a tribe of Russian peas
| ants known as 'Spirit-wrestlers-' The
people are in very Impoverished state.
| having suffered extremely from the Rus
/ sian attempts 10 stamp them out Some
philanthropists in England represented
! by Aylmer Maude. of Danburv. England.
| have interested themselves in move
| ment to transport the tribe 10 Canada.
| They number 75o0 The objection the
! Russian government has to them is that
the spirit-WreStlerS refuse to enter mill
/ tary service from religious scrIpieS. A
/ site has been selected on the New River
| hills. near Edmonton.
This paragraph is making the rounds
of the press: "One of the most curious
and alarming of audible phenomena OBJ
( servab1e in the Capitol at Washington
| so all the watchmen say, is a costly
| foOtstep that seems 10 follow anybody
d who crosses Statuary Hall at night Il
! was In this hall. then the chamber OF the
| House of Representatives. that John
| Quincy Adams died-at a SPOT indicated
now by brass tablet set in a stone sab,
| where stood his desk Whether OF not il
is his ghost that pursues is a question
| open TO dispute. though it is to Be hops d
\ that the venerable ex-PresiGent reSts
| more quietly in his grave"