The evening times., 1898-10-26
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Physicians carriages have the right Of
way in the streets of Berlin.
A phonograph Of sufficient dimensions
TO be heard by 10000 people is being made
for use at the Paris Exposition in 1900
Lord Chief Justice Russell has startled
British propriety by kicking of the foot
ball at the first match of the London
Irish Club
Archduchess GiseIa of Austria, wife of
Prince Leopold Of Bavaria and eldest
daughter OF the murdered Empress EIiz-
abeth. Will be the recipient Of the POpe's
golden rose this year.
a Paris surgeon has handed IN a thesis
for the doctors degree on The Physi-
ology of the Ballet Dancer" In it he
adopts Schopenhauer's view that all wo-
men have crooked legs.
A young Texas girl ate the heads Of
twenty-five parlor matches in an attempt
to commit suicide When she rep5nJed
she swallowed a lot of lard and bacon as
an antidote. The combination was IA
tai in few minutes.
To retain shirt bosoms I'm place a South
erner has patented a device composed of
two strips of flexible webbing crossing
at the back, with fasteners at the end
which clasp the edges of the bosom and
draw it against the body 10 prevent it
from bulging out.
The largest cannon in the world was
taken by the British when India was con-
quered. The cannon was cast about the
year 800 and was the work of a chief
named ChUIeby KOomy Khan of Ahmed
nusger. The inside of the gun is fitted
up with seats and is a favorite place for
British officers TO go for noonday
smoke.
italy has had 294 square miles of land
added TO its territory in the last seventy
years by the advance Of the deita OF the
| Po into the Adriatic Sea The measure
ment has been made BY Prof M2-lnelh,
I who carefully compared the Austrian
surveys to 1923 with the Italian surveys
/ of 1895 The addition amounts to one six
| hundredth OF the total area Of Italy at
/ the earlier date.
| SpeakinS of Bismarck the Empress OF
| Austria once said: Il think Bismarck
/ was also a disciple of Schopenhauer- he
| could not bear women, perhaps with the
/ single exception of his wife He disllked
! oueens The first time ] saw him he
/ was exceedingly stiff He would have
| liked 70 have said'-here she smiled
| The ladies had better remain in their
| anarrments 1 think all his hatred OF
! England is on account Of the Queen The
Door Empress Frederic has also had TO
| suffer.
Al a recent dinner of the ClothworSe-S
/ Company Lord Herries mentioned a p-ac-
teal experiment made by him Wnlch -
of interest TO spinners and weavers- he
! had sixty pounds of homegrown WOOL
| which he sent TO a cIoJnworker 10 be
/ manufactured for him Ii made thirty
wards of cloth. which was converted into
! suits for Lord Herries and his family
| According TO the estimate OF the tallor
| employed the cloth was worth A--9
! ward. wholesale price The cost 10 Lord
Herries, allowing a proper price Tor the
! wool, was only half that sum-
| The Denver & Rio Grande is probably
the only railroad in the world that ke ps
a chaplain John Brunton, once a brake
! man and later an engineer. holds the P'-
| sition. He is an ordained minister. anu
| devotes his time TO Charitable anu N :
! sion work among the employees Ice
railroad company 1inds that il pays them
Recent statistics show that under NJ
| too, wears there are more boys tnan
! GIRLS hut over seventy-five years there
are more women than men, and from tAe
| apes of ninety to one hundred the pro
| norton is about three to two In favor OF
| the women
| Nrrisnarists the world over are dis
| ,lay,ing much interest in news Just re~
ceiyed from Rh0desia respecting the as
| covarv of ancient Venetian coins IN prox-
| unity to one of the Mashonaland RIVERS
Tba coins in question are declared TO De
medals struck at Venice between 10l0 and
1871 A. d. On one side is ngure OF 81
Mark with the inscription: IhlS duke
dom be Thine. o. Christ. and the glver De
Thine" while on the reverse are three
6gures two in a kneeling position. the
| other upright with a halo, on which the
inscription is: THE Doge Alloys Mocenl-
go. the first Magistrate of Venice.
The sale of Netherhaven, in the middle
| of Salisbury Plain to the war office. by
! Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, recalls the tact
that Just about 100 years ago Sydney
Smith had his first curacy there. The
squire of the parish. Mr.. Beach, he says
in his mefasssr. took fancy TO me. and
| 1 served it two years Like st. AIDE
gonde in Lothair, Sir Michaefs forefath-
| er thought Sunday dun day IN count
| try house until he made it his custom 10
| ask the curate to join him at dinner The
! curate for mis- part, was probably little
loath. for he was drawing on his own eX-
! perience when he described the typica
young assistant parson of the period as
1.-THE poor workingman of God, a learned
man in a hOveI, the first and purest pau
per of the hamlet"
A San Francisco hostess. famous FOL
her tact and resourcefulness, tells good
story on herself 1t seems that an ofh-
Ger in one of the Tennessee companies
a very shy young man, brought letters
with him when his regiment came to tbs
coast, and presented himself one evenins
at the Get US say Van Ness Avenue resi-
| dence. As he was the son of a well
known public man and a member of al
old family, his hostess exerted herself Z
entertain him 1--WE should be glad Il
have the pleasure of your company Fri
,, ,, day at dinner" she said as he was leay
, ing; "the Hawaiian commissioners are t
, | be with us" Friday came, and the com
! mission Shortly before the hour for din
ner the butler excitedly entering tn
| room They're a regiment of soldiers
| mum. outside mo doubt in honor o
the commissioners; will tell them" Jus
4 then the lieutenant was announced
] when you are ready" he said.~"I wi
n have the men march TO their places
q I formation why" said the hostes: