The evening times., 1898-11-19
NOTES OF TIE DAY.

4 nine are unanimous there Is no appear.
| The number of readers in the Lenox
and Astor libraries in a year is about
l3O.G0- The British Museum had Isl OJ) III
the same length of time.
A statue Of Gutenberg is soon to orna-
ment the front OF the Hoe building IN
New York. 1t is nearly finished. and is
the work Of Ralph Goddard.
Chicago has the longest police beat n
| The world. One patrolman has charge of
a piece of municipal territory seven miles
| in area. ar the extreme western limits
OF the city.
There is said to be 50 much red tape
| about bankins methods in Zurich. Swift
| zerland that il requires fifteen minutes
| to make a deposit and twenty minutes t.
| cash a check.
/ japanese children are taught 10 it
| with either hand The better " itine is
/ produced by the left hand, but the right
/ hand can turn out 10 per cent more work
/ in a given time
The Wheeling Missing Link says that an
| editors room is called sanctum because
OF the scripturaI language used when the
! editor opens a letter which he thought
| was paid subscription bill and finds it i
poem.
I in Philadelphia has hidden as a stow
away on steamers two hundred tim ).
cfrcumuavigated the globe seventee
/ times. and been TO every part Of tie
/ world where steamers are in the habit
| Of trading.
| A physician says that he once request
ed a mother to mark a stroke upon a pa
| per each time she asked her SEX daCgh-
| ter how she was Next day there were
1913 strokes on the paper The invalid
was ordered 10 spend three months away
from home.
II has been asserted that the germs 4
typhoid and malaria are anita SCuis;ic and
cannot exist together The inv sjigatorz
in the chemical laboratory Of the Uni
versity of Pennsy Ivanist found that tn
same soldier was a battlefield for both
germs; which breaks the aforesaid theory
into bits.
Kansas papers say that LeavenworJh IS
responsible for early snowfall in that
State II advertised its peace jubilee for
the 18TH OF October and wss showed unfsr.
The Jubilee was postponed Till the 9Th
and snow fell again. The question i stil
undecided whether this Is LeJysnwGrrh's
fault OF merely LeIyenw0rth : luck
a Spanish gaIleon with a cargo OF SI7.-
100000 and an immense Treasure in bars
of gold was wrecked on the beach at
Gunwallo- Cornwall more than twenty
years ago. and dollars are frequent
washed upon the sands \ comIaly Uu-
der one Helstou. an English iron found r.
has just been organized 10 gather up. if
possible. this buried treasure
The growing Of willows for weaving
promises to become an important industry
in the United States. /, i said that a re-
( turn Of from - 90 9 per cent can be Sc
cured on money invested in planting the
kind of willows suitable for basket max
in= and land can Pe utilized in this way
when worthless for anything else A
good basket willow should yield many
slender rods without branching
Lord Kelvin. who has held the chair
OF natural philosophy in Belfast UuiyeT-
sity for over fifty years, has just ce.e-
/ brated his seventy-fOUFJh birthday. one
I of his pet bits in a lecture Is using long
| words During a course of lectures on
! magnetism he once defined an ideal mag
net as an infinitely long infinitely tnin-
uniform and uniformly and loneitudin1lly
magnetized bar. The students cheered.
Corporal Casserly OF the Tenth Penn
/ syIvania Regiment recently mad a u
! rious discovery in Hawaii While climb
, ing to the summit of Diamond Head he
. Z
r in the ground on pulling it out il prov
ed To be a Winchester rifle The bTe eh
/ and chamber had been buried in the
ground II contained eleven shots On
pulling the trigger one shot was dis
/ charged The rife has probably lid
there since the insurrectiOn Of January o,
1886.
One of the things which make life bur
densOme in Russia i the passport sES-
tenn Without q passport, renewed every
year. the adult Russian cannot travel.
r stop at any house of eHtertainment or
at the houses Of his friends. Any one
' harboring a person without papers of
identity is liable 70 fine and imprison-
! ment. one of the CommUnesJ sights on
the Russian frontier Is the compulsory
returning of people travelling without
passports. The state sends them back
under escort 70 their native towns or VII
lages.
RUSSIA Is pushing the Siberian railway
: with all possible energy. Hand IN hand
:, with railway extension goes land oCcupJ-
y, tion. To overcome the obstacle raised by
II the poverty of the peasantry the govern
? ment has made extraordinarily cheap
d rates OF transportation The immigrant
y is carried go miles for Sl-5". 2.ti' miles
for $2IC and f.slp miles for $3.50 Ills
household goods and implements are ear
ried I2t0 miles for . cents q huudre.i
2OCo miles for IS cents and 4eeo miles foI
Is IS cents In addition, land is given and
- sustenanCe granted until crop can b,
raised
The death of the Queen of Denmark r.
| calls the fact that Queen Victoria an,
I Queen Louise were once rivals in ioNr
In 1870 the two particularly eligible caVd'
Iiers of Europe We're Prince Edward o
~ Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Prince Christian
of Schleswig Holstein. 1t is said tina
ne Victorias preference was for CHRISTIAN
ne bur he was already betrothed 20 the Prin
cess Louise of Hesse-CasseI. and preferre,
her to a share in the throne of England
An odd sequel to this lOng-past affair WI
the marriage of the Prince of Wales. VIII
- resembles his mother. and Alexandra o
Denmark. who is the image OF King Chris
tian.
Dean Stanley used to tell with som
amusement the story of his first n=eJin
with Gladstone. His father had prom
ne ised him when a schOoibOy that as a re
L, ward of merit he should be taken 10 se
- the great maan. He went and fouE
Gladstone in a summer house reading
:. book. As young Arthur Stanley enteie
Gladstone looked up and exclaimed We
rs hementIy: Little boy. little boy. hav
- YOU read Gray?'' The startled you1 gsts
Sc Estammered that he hadn't. and the states
man replied with increasing intensity o
manner: Then you must read Gray
And that was the extent of the converse
ton.
4 A unique curiosity possessed by Wood
& stock. in Oxfordshire, is connected wit
u an old custom of that region The farm
ers of the district used many generation