The evening times., 1898-11-26
NOTES OF TIE DAY.

OF 1000 deaths in Europe, sixteen are
by violence; in the United States. forty
one.
Many of the cast-off uniforms of British
soldiers are exported to Africa. for trad
| ing purposes with the Kaffirs.
The revenue of Denmark Is 900
crowns. one-half OF which sum is alb
sorbed BY military expenditures.
More than 12OOo.Oo0 acres Of the Sahara
desert have been made useful for raising
crops with the aid of arteslan wells
Oxford University has decreed that
when men present themselves 10 receivs
degrees they shall not wear tan-colored
shoes.
In the Black Sea no animal life OF any
kind is found at depth below 800 feet
owing to the large amount of hydro-sul-
phuric acid.
Heidelberg University has struck blow
at the institution of dueling by suspend
ing eight corps students for four semes-
ters; that is, two years.
Moritz Frank. who. as a child. was ex-
hbited as a mathematical prodigy, re-
Gently tried to commit suicide by jumping
from a Vienna bridge into the Danube
His power TO add figures was falling and
| he had learned no other means OF earning
living.
Some of the wooden churches of Nor
way are fully 20 years old, and are still
/ in an excellent state of preservation
| Their timbers have successfully resisted
the frosty and almost Arctic winters be-
cause they have been repeatedly coated
with tar.
The steamer BarbarOssa of the North
German Floyd line came to New York
the other day with a queer cargo con-
I sisting of l2.b00 canary birds. 40 mon
keys. 1000 goldfish and two zebras The
birds came from the Hdrtz mountains.
In June last a swarm Of bees took pos
| session of the fiue of copper boiler in
| the kitchen of the CHERRY Tree Inn. at
Seething. in Norfolk. England. The bees
/ made their entrance and exit via the
/ kitchen chimney. ana were not disturbed
/ The landlord of the inn. Mr.. Jesse Car
/ rod. has now found a hive Of honey in
: the hue.
/ Aldlle- SchepkOne-C0pernic has transIat-
I ed NJ. R0stand's play "Cyrano de Ber-
Z serac." into Russian. and Signorina Lam
/ bertin has translated it into Italian IL
/ appears that women are the chief trans
/ lators Of the play. as it has been done
/ into English by TWO ladies'. and Miss
! Marguerite Hall mas made an adaptation
/ for America.
| The Chinese government does all in it's
power TO check the opium habit the pun
I ishments common in the Chinese army
/ for this habit being extreme For the first
( offense a man may have his upper lip
| cut, for the second he may De decapitd--
I cd For the last sixty years on an av-
| erage half-ton Of opium has been sent
/ 10 China from India every hour
/ It is generally known that any small
| dead mammal bird when left near an
! ant hill will ultimately De found picked
/ clean of flesh quickly. 1t has been late
| " demonstrated that they can b. made
| useful in the direction of slSeIetonizinG
I specimens. 4, Prof Bernard has been en-
/ plOying ants as his servants. While i'm
\ Florida he had fox squirrel thus skele-
/ tonized in a single day The only agents
employed were ants.
] A quaint little church similar 10 many
others. the only difference being the con-
! structiGn of the back. which is curiOusIy
wedge-shaped. is situated on the side Of
I a mountain above the village of Frduen-
/ kirch. at Davos Dorf. Switzerland. Here
/ the avalanches not unfrequently fan and
/ the V-shape of the back of the church
/ breaks their force and sends them sIid-
ing harrIessIy of on either side, thus
/ not only protecting itself. but also the
| village below.
There are in France 215n women aU-
thors and journalists and about 10 wO-
/ men artists The provinces contribute
most Of the writerS-ahOut Twa-thirdS-
! while Paris i represented in the same
; proportion among the artists Among thf
/ writer's leo are rovelists 2p3 are poets,
/ I5p educational writers and the rest writ
/ ers Of various kinds. The artists com
prise To- sculptorS. and the others aT-
I painters. ranging over all branches of the
. pictorial ART.
Rats are playing havoc with JAe under
| ground telephone and telegraph cables in
81. Louis. They have discovered that the
wires are covered with pdrafined paper.
and Jhey like the taste. To satisfy their
appeutes they must suaw through the
lead casting around the wires IL has
happened in e number of cases that the
rats III sndviuG through the lead cables
| TO get at the creased paper have barred
| the copper wires 50 that they touch each
| other and cross in such manner as to
make ii Impossible to establish commgni-
I cation over Them
An ingenious plan for the economic re-
generation OF Ireland i proposed by + f
| BdineS in the London Spectator. IL is to
make Galway a transatlantic port and 10
connect it with Kingston by deep water
/ canal across the island 10 miles iOGg. Tn"
fish of the west coast and the produce of
! the interior would be taken up along the
canal or from some central poin; and con-
| veyed To Liverpool. Fast trains across
! Ireland and the proposed tunnel under tlL.
| Irish sea would serve express. passenge
Utilizing the present grand canal. h.
thinks his canal would cost S15 5t".601
| So Injurious i life on a torpedo boat
that years continuous service Will men
tally and physically incapacitaJe "a man.
This assertion Is made on the authority
Of Lord Charles Beresford. but that the
| strain on any one serving on these craft
is very great i shown by the fact that
| to one months service the British naval
regulations allow one week of. Auscri.,
is endeavoring TO mitigate the hardship
of service on these boats, and life on one
built for the Austrian navy and. tried on
the Thames recently was demonstrated "a
be pleasanter than on those Of the Eng
lish navy.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
PittSbUrg Museum with the bones of the
largest maStadoH ever found. The skele-
ton was discovered in an Indiana peat
bog eighteen months ago. 1t took seven
teen boxes To pack the bones and 7.51d
pounds of freiShtase represents the s.ze
of the relic of past ages. The ivory tuskS
five feet long. are in good condition. and
the whole skeleton is in n renll rL9 bl1