The evening times., 1898-11-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

as feed for COWS
The Russians are enormous eaters feed
ing about seven or eight times during tire
DAY. an average OF once every two hours
HentinG for old coins is such a proita-
bic business in China that it Is taught a.
an accomplishment in some of the schools.
During the year ended September /. ore
passenger was killed for every 2.250 900
carried on the railroads in the United
States.
An interesting test has just been made
by q French Woman With a view to
testing the sustaining powers Of cnoco-
late, she lived on that alone for sixty
days. and lost but fifteen pounds in the
interval
II is ciairaed that with cotton compress
ed in the round bale IL is possible TO put
7e,013 bales in a single railway car, while.
but EGO to l4.C,9 pounds of uncompressed
can be prt in car and 30.C-J to s10GJ
pounds of square-bale compressed cotton
WoiErn Abbey. the seat of the Duke
of Bedford. is surrounded by a nagnifi-
ce.iJ park. in which ali kinds of deer
white anteIopes. yaks, TIamas and even
zcbra&, are To be seen rowing about.
while on the lakes and ponds any num-
Der of quaint birds abound
The celebration of the one hundred and
thirty-secoRd anniversary of Rutgers Col
lege was marked by the unyeilis Of tab
let to the memory Of DIR. John Blair G bDs.
who fell in the first land conflict of the
war with Spain. when the marines landed
at Guantanamo on June II.
The Gladstone memorial is not aItogeth-
er success 1t was proposed ar the
outset to erect monuments of the deceased
statesman in London. Edinburgh and Dub
lin as well as TO furnish a suitable build
ing for the library ne got together at
Hawarden. But so far as they have gone
the financial appeals TO his admirers fall
far short of the sum required
1t has been less than two years since
the Law making life imprisonment instead
of death the penalty for murder in Colo
radO went into effect and yet agitation
has already begun looking to a revival
of the death penalty II is asserted by
those who wish a re-estabIishment of the
sallows that the iife-imprisonment law
has resulted In an epidemic of crime
\ New York paper is authority for the
statement that the Smith mills TonkerS,
make 3l,600 yards of carpet daily. Deduct
ing Sundays and half holidays and allow
ing 80 yards To the roll. the Smith mills
could produce AT this rate 1l7.60 pieces of
carpet per aHnum. sSS5fs15 yards Az
eraging this yardage at . cents. tAe value
of the mills output would b $500. 90
An inventor has hit upon a method #
putting stone seleS on boots and sho s
He mixes waterproof glue with a suit
able quantity OF clean quartz sand, and
spreads il over the leather sole used as
foundation These quartz soles are said
10 be very flexible and practically inde-
struCtibIe. and 70 give the foot 4 f. III
hold even on the most slippery surface.
In the autumn of 1921 Gov Bradford of
Plymouth ordained the first Thanksgiving
Day In gratitude for the abundant mar
vests Of that year. In l7ss. after the atiop-
tion OF the Constitution, Congress recon-
mended the President 10 appoint a day OF
Thanksgiving and prayer in recognition
of the fayors OF the Almighty. President
Washington appointed as Thanksgiving
Day November 25 OF that year
Lawyer James T. buchanan. OF Pitts
burg, had 4 quarrel with a restaura ut
keeper over the price OF a beefsteak. The
check was for greater amount than ths
bill of fare called for. Buchanan wou
not pay the check; there was a row.
Buchanan was arrested locked up and
kept incomuuicado over night He fued
and has been awarded 1900 damages BY
the trial judge.
When a Bar Harbor well digger com
planned that he received electric shocks
while descending a well in that fashion
able resort his felIow-w orkmen Taushed
at him. But when a dog fastened 70 a
platform was lowered tn the surfac. #
the water he howIed piteousIy for an in
stant and was dead when hauled up ia
the surface. Now the ignorant workmeu
ink he u-aFf * h0p-IrrbaI
a London paper says that an I'd utauy
in the Salvation Army has achieved the
remarkable feat Of singing ffty-line
hymns in hfty-nine minutes The o-cI-
sion on which this record was made was
called singing battle" He began with
Il will follow Jesus. and hymn after
hymn followed swiftly. When he reacEe
the DoxoIogy. after singing eight extra
hymns. he WAS two and a quarter mn
utes ahead of the stipulated time VIII n
he finished he shouted Bless the Lord.
I've broken the record.
Curious creetiS can b. found among the
upper classes. Lord Pollinston, eldest
son of Lord Marlborough. is a seIf-con-
fessei Buddhist The Duke of Northum-
berIand and his family including Lord
and Lady Percy. are IrviRgites as are
Sir Herbert Maxwell and Lady Frances
Balfour. daughter OF the Duke Of Ar
syIl. Lord and Lady Radnor are credited
with being ardent SpirituaIists The La
dy Charlem0nt was a JeweSs, not by
birth, but by conviction, and Lord Stan
ley of AIderly is said to favor the prin-
cipIes of Mohammed.
The last report Of the Commissioner of
Patents gives some historical notes on the
creation of electrical industries. The
manufacturers of electrical apparatus
and supplies began 70 be OF importance
shortly before 1850. In that year .24I pe,,-
PIE were employed in Seyenty-six estab-
lishments. producing an output valued at
s.. .665.c In ten years the output which
had risen To Si9. 11i.1Ii engaged the labor
of 9.fS5 persons in IS9 establishments
Since tS98 the increase in the output has
been proportionateiy large. The exports
Of instruments and apparatus for scieu-
titic purposes, including telegraph. tele-
Phone and other electrical appliances.
amounted in value in 1897 70 s.. .dS3 900 hav-
ing increased tc this amount from SSS Is:
in 1850 and 81 429 80 i'm 1890 In 1880 there
We're but three electric light and power
establishments in the United States en-
ployins 229 persons and producing an out
put value of $45S. 100. The investment in
electric lighting stations and plants in the
United States today is estimated at over
SeGJ, ,0C3t00. The year 1880 also markes the
commercial advent of telephony. AT the
close of 1896 there were in this country
96I telephone exchanges and So branch
offices. using 53s. S45 miles of wire and en-
plOying H. 425 people. The amount then in
vested in telephone property was esti-
mated at nearly $lG90e,G0o.
\ new slaughtering plant in New Jer-
sey illustrates the immense Improvement
that is being made in Industrial methods
in the treatment of slaughtered cattle.
The lower part of the building is used for
the hanging room while the machinery