The evening times., 1898-10-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.


produce only five pounds of nutmegs.
The reepyds of the law courts show that
| In fort ty}sAFen out of every hundred
cases tried the defendant wins.
1t is said that the oyster is one of the
| strongest of creatures The force re-
| quired to open 1t is more than 300 times
| its own weight.
| A movement is on foot to found Char
| lotte NJ. Yonge scholarship in the Win
| chester Girls High School, near which
| place Jane Austin Is buried.
Sir, Thomas Upton has plan for fur
nishing meals to the poor at a merely
nominal price. and the idea Is strongly
criticised by the small tradesmen of Lon
don. ~
4 thief who went into a widows or
chard near Columbia, s. c., and stole
about 81 worth of peaches, dropped a $40
| watch in the act. The widow is quite
| contented.
| 1t is said that only about 10 per cent
| of the flowers known in Europe have any
| odor whatever. The commonest flowers
are white and only one-sixth of these are
| fragrant.
Over the door of a church in the south
of England is the inscription, This is the
| gate of heaven" Underneath that legend
is another which reads, mo admission
during the winter months"
The authorities of Hartford have be-
come stirred up on the question of the
atrical posters, and any press agent de-
string 10 post bills in that town must
! now have the approval of the city coun-
Gil.
A young couple at Webb City. Mo-. were
married upon the 30-foot high platform
used by the high-diving horses. This was
not altogether a freak performance on
| their part. They won by it $40 bedroom
suite.
The craze for poster collecting has at
tackled a member of the English royal
family. The Duke of York is said to have
some fine and rare specimens The fad OF
the Prince of Wales is the collecting of
single pearls.
The latest use TO which an incubator
has been put is the Matching of ostrich
eggs. One Edwin Clawston. owner of an
ostrich farm in South Pasadena. Cal. has
an ostrich incubator. II takes forty days
for the egg to hatch
There was much talk some years ago
of increasing the length of the steel rail
from thirty to sixty feet; but 1t is now
said that until something is discovered
to prevent contraction and expansion by
cold and heat. this idea is not likely 10
be carried out.
The bottom of the Pacific between Ha-
waii and California is said to be so level
that railroad could be laid for 500 miles
without grading anywhere. This was dis
covered by a United States surveying yes
sci which was engaged in making sound
ings with view to laying a cable
They are telling somewhat amusing
story OF an Eton master. One day his hat
blew off. Just as he started in pursuit a
black hen ran down the street, and the
dgnifed master gave chase, while a
the town wondered He was short-sight-
ed. and supposed the hen TO be his hat.
\ Western firm recently adopted the
name Of The Flying Squadron" No
body exactly understood the title until the
first of the month, when bills came due.
Then they found the office closed. and
tackled on the door the brief le
gend: Ordered to the Philippines" Then
they understood
a blind newspaper man of New York,
Harry F. Watson. has opened an exchange
for the blind. The field of labor will of
course, be limited but Mr.. Watson thinks
that work can be found even for the un-
trained blind. There are at least 1868
blind people in New York who are at
present dtpSl4uN4AN Oli Nii<Aii
One of the nicknames of Spokane.
Wash. is THE City of Busted Million
aires" II was originally intended that
the rows of beautiful houses on the bluffs
overlooking the river should be occupied
by the real estate men and the bankers.
They are now owned by the lawyers
who acted as receivers for the banks.
The King of AMMAN has a royal treasury
might be that the correspondents would
world He has the trunks or trees hollow
ed out. filled with gold and silver and
thrown into his private lake. The lake
is inhabited by crocodiles, which are
most effective guard. 1t is evident how
ever, that the king does not draw on his
treasury very often.
Our consul at Birmingham. England.
says that American dealers are extreme
ly careless in shipping goods TO Eng
land often sending only bill of lad
ing from the shipping agent. without for
warding copy of the bill direct from the
house 10 the consignee. For this reason
American goods are frequently held up
in the English custom-houses.
An American claims the distinction OF
being the only white man who has seen
the Devil Dance" of the Filipinos and
remained alive TO tell the tale. He de-
scribes the ceremony as more revolving
than a Spanish bull night. A priest sing
ing a low. weird melody, performs a
dance during which he hacks at him
self with sacrihcial knife. 1t is not
unusual for him 10 inflict a mortal wound
upon himself during this dance.
A Boston paper suggests that a misft
bureau, at which persons could exchange
articles which did not suit them. or OF
which they had grown tired, would be a
great blessing. Perhaps ii would. but il
should be taken into consideration that
nine out of every ten people would ex-
pect ten dollars for a five-dollar article
There may be persons in Boston pa
tient enough to conduct such an exchange
but the ordinary dry goods clerk will
emphatically refuse the task
Mrs. Amanda Purcell. of Portsmouth
Ohio, who died some time ago, was the
only woman who ever hired substitute
and sent him to war Her husband died
in 1856, and at the beginning of the war
her sons were small boys. She b. ieved
that it was her duty to contribute to her
countrys cause, and paid a naan $500 TO
never know his name or his fate. Her
nephew secured and paid the man, and
nothing further was heard of him.
The law of Maine affords especial pro-
lection TO the deer. and the farmers COM
plain that these animals are nuisance.
A Dedham farmer was recently on his
way to the Bar Harbor market with a
load of apples and on the way his team
broke down. that he was obliged to
spend the night on the roadside. When
he awoke In the morning ne found three
beautiful intelligent deer chewing away
al his choicest apples. He drove them