The evening times., 1898-12-31
NOTES OF THE DAY.

southern county Of California has de-
cided to send commissioner to Hawaii
10 search for parasite that will destroy
the purple scale
Frank G. Logan. Of Chicago has given
$4,000 to the Chicago Art Institute as a
Christmas present. The money will be
used TO build library building.
The contempt for money and trade.
characteristic OF Japan. has lost much OF
It's force Merchants have risen in social
standing and have been advanced TO the
peeTage.
Gelatoid. mixture OF gelatine with for
maidehyde. is being used for unbreakabIe
goggles TO protect eyes of workmen ex-
posed TO flying PARTICLES of stone, metal
or wood.
1t is said that when Cornelius Bliss was
small school boy his teacher asked him
II Jerusalem was common or proper
noun Neither" replied the little pupil.
''it's ejaculation"
By different nations every day in the
week is set apart for public worship-Sun-
day by the Christians. Monday BY the
Greeks. Tuesday by the Persians. Wednes-
day by the Egyptians. Friday by the Turks
and Saturday by the Hebrews.
When Chinaman gives grand party
he sends three invitations to each gaest-
on the day itself. and the third just be-
fore the hour has struck. to signify how
impatient he IS for his visitors arrival.
Great Britain takes $50. COZ, 600 pounds
of rice a year. OF pounds TO each per-
son; the United States requires but
pounds per capita; Spain. 5; Italy, II.
But Japan takes no less than 900 pounds
per person year, and the average OF In
dia is 2e0
NJ. Vernon, the French engraver, has re-
eeiyed an order from the King OF Dem
mark for medallion of Queen Louise, TO
be prepared from the best Of the family
photographs. Small reproductions of the
memorial are to be prepared for distribu-
tion in Denmark.
In the Chinese mOrgue one OF the
strange sights is a number OK Hfs-s.Ze
dolls which are burned to accompany the
coFpses as their servants to the next
world. They are doubtless relic OF the
time when human beings were thus burn
ed as companions of the deceased.
The largest private library IN the United
States is said to belong TO Col Reuben T.
Durrett OF Louisville. KY. which contains
over $4,000 volumes. collected during six
ty years. Books on the history OF the
West predominant, and among them Col.
Roosevelt worked while preparing his
Winning OF the West
There is no music so suitable for Irish
dances as that OF the Irish bagDipeS-a
very different instrument from the Scotch
pipes-but il is difficult to meet a piper
today in ireland. although twenty years
ago one could count ten fine players within
a radius of IS many miles. In the same
district there is not single piper today.
The smallest cemetery in the world
which only measures p IL feet by II feet
is situated in the tweed manufacturing
town of Gaiashiels. in Scotland The place
is surrounded by a wall feet high. with
doorway at the vest corner, which has
been barricaded 10 keep the children out
The cemetery has long been closed as
burial ground.
a Caribou man saws the Kennebec
Journal, lately wandered into a remote
hotel that doesn't keep dictionary. and
on coming down in the morning was ask
ed by the landlord how he rested Oh.
replied the gentleman. L suffered nearly
all night with insomnia" The landlord
was mad in a minute. and roarsd III btt
you 81 there amt one in my house
NJ. Charles Abel Ballif, founder and
president OF the Touring Club of France an
organization of bieyclists, has received the
cross of the Legion of Honor. He was
formerly deputy chief Of the Office of the
prefect OF the Seine. where he served
twenty-one years. Since his retirement he
has worked on committees and commits
sions, and has devoted himself zealously to
the cause of bicycling
The deepest shaft in Colorado is that OF
the Geyser minsS a. Silver CIiff. which
penetrates the rock TO depth of 400 feet.
But even that is a shallow puncture be-
side the enc which goes down into the
depths OF the COmStCck Lode, again active
and productive. In that wonderful treas
ure house, from which more than 500. ESQ.,
GOO in value have been taken out the new
explorations are expected to reach a depth
of 6.e6O feet.
III asked to say who owns the finest resi-
dence in New York city it is not likely
that the average citizen could name the
man He is E. J. Berwind, head OF big
coal concern, and he has an income OF
about S5e0, eco a year. He is now com
pleting palace in East Sixty-eighth
Street One manteIpiece cost $4,000 and
there are tapestries ranging in value from
$S,0eO to S15, eco. MIR. Berwind who is a
graduate OF Annapolis, is man Of great
culture and refinement.
An astonishing innovation of custom Is
reported from India, where Mrs. Solomon
GossOon. the managing partner OF we'll
known Jewish firm in Bombay and presi-
dent of several companies in which the
for a place in the governor generals
council. The proposal comes from lead
ing In,iian paper, and is probably due 70
two reasons-her great business ability
and the fact that she has made great ef-
forts to draw together the women OF
Bombay.
Venice without its waters would be 2, far
less picturesque place than it actually is.
And such a state of affairs, we are led TO
believe. may eventually come about. The
regular increase in the delta of the Po
has been studied by Prof. Aariarl1i. Ccn-
parison of the Austrian map of about 1929
with the records of surveys made in those
seventy years has been about three-tenths
of square mile. and from all known data
il appears that the total increase during
six centuries has been about 19S square
miles. The increase is continuing and the
Gulf of Venice is doomed in time to dis
appear. No immediate alarm need. how
ever be excited. for Prof. MaFinelli calcu-
lates that between leo and 120 centuries
will elapse before the entire Northern
AdriStic will have become dry land.
The chemical profession has entered
cIubland in New York A clubhouse has
been leased for meetings and lectures. and
library of chemical literature will be es-
tablished as we'll as means provided for
the social enjoyment OF the members. The
building. No. los West Fifty-fifth street.
has been leased by the club. which com
mences its existence with a resident
membership OF more than 100. The club
house will be first used for the annual
meeting of the American Chemical So
ciety. which takes place this week. and
it is expected that it will fill great need
in providing a place for such conventions.
as well as for receiving foreign chemists,
who are constantly visiting this country
and who are often more than willing to
describe events in the progress OF science