The evening times., 1898-11-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

~+N~N-t~ AiONci 6doIChhrd yA q Nlduts
which Is hung over the ships side.
The collection of Bibles in the Lenox
Library. New York. is probably unequ8ll-
ed for variety and extent. IL contains
no less than 10000 different copies in all
! languages, exemplifying all the various
stages of the printers art. One-naH Of
these were presented by the American
Bible Society The remainder were the
result of Mr.. Lenox's indefatisable zeal.
During the recent maneuvers of the
British army the American flag fioated
beside the union jack as a compliment TO
Lieut. Col. Bates, military attache of the
United States legation in London who Is
immensely popular in the British capital
While in France witnessing the exercises
OF the French army he was decorated by
President Faure with the cross of the
Legion of Honor
NJ. Zola has received, and is said To
have accepted, a very favorable offer
from New York to deliver a course of
lectures in America that will IL NAV be
assumed, deal largely. if not exclusively.
with the Dreyfus case, which. thanks :.
his courageous efforts, seems now likely
20 be thrashed out. A preliminary sum
of $4,000 IS TO be deposited in order TO Sc
cure the contract.
Salmon now fetch Y cents each in the
canneries of Washington. This is the
highest price by almost 100 per cent ever
paid for the fish. which. by the way, are
silver sides, instead of the true salmon.
So great has been the slaughter of these
fish in the Columbia River in recent
years that there is genuine scarcity
now. and artificial propagation on an
enormous scale will be necessary 10 pre-
vent complete determination.
a Swiss anthropologist on his return
from Patagonia. brought home with him
a complete collection of PatasOnian skulls
and when the custOm-house proposed
10 tax them, on the basis Of animals
bones imported as manure. ne protested
that this was insult 10 humanity. To
his surprise his objection was listened
TO. and he received a receipt for the du-
" charged upon higher scale with the
skulls entered as returned emgrants'
worn effects"
Nearly 10000 letters in the course OF
last year were so badly dated and ad-
dressed that they could neither be de-
livered nor returned, in England. The let
! ters undelivered for one reason or another
but returned safely 70 the writer's were
very numerous. and they had Enclosures.
all told, of value considerably over e5l0,-
go. Over 2I.6e0.o90 of postal orders We're
issued. representing &26.000,C00 in cash.
The parcels going by parcel post 10 or
from the continent numbered 2.000e0e-
During the trial of a case at Woodward.
OkI. the other day. a witness admitted
10 the presiding judge that he had a re-
vOlver in mis- pocket and The court fined
him s25- The local paper says: When
the Judge fined Tom Word for carrying a
gun. every other man in the courtroom
sat erect and smoOthed his coattails down
10 hide his armament When a recess
was taken every man made for the near
est outlet and mid out his battery. The
best estimates place The number of guns
in the courtroom at the time al about
| two wagOnlOads.
The story comes from South London
that young man. charged with hitting
woman over the head with a beefb0ne.
I explained that she had been fighting from
> o'clock in the morning till noon with his
mother and that he thought il time 10
stop IT, policeman testified that in the
same street two women once fought all
i day long, stopping only for meals. till
+ one Went home and died. Her husband
+ had looked on calmly mendins shoes.
while the fight went on. Such tales as
/ these make an American feel quite civ
ilized-
! A most unique hint on the Virdsn trou-
I Die Is OIIEE6u DN LEE haNS4S. lily star,
/ which says: Eleven motoruen. who went
/ from Wichita to Waco TO I'll the places
. OF the striking mOtormen were filed
/ with good things 10 eat by the citizens OF
/ Waco. We're given money TO pay their fare
back 10 Wichita. and were so touched by
/ the generous treatment they received that
{ they left the town the day after they ar
rived there. All of the blOodshed and
trouble a Yirden might have been avert
/ ed if the strikers there had fed the Ala
/ bana negroes on chicken and catfish and
+ winter watermelOns and paid their fare
] back TO Birmingham"
An Oxford physician says OF the appli-
/ cation of cocaine that it is never entirely
free from risk As with many other
drugs. there is often an element of un-
: certainty as TO its action, which may pro-
duce unexpected and unpleasant results.
These occur more frequently when the
cocaine is injected than when il is sim
ply applied 10 the mucous membrane
Many dentists are abandoning the prac-
tice Of injecting cocaine into the gums
before extraction on this account and
some members of the profession are be-
coming skeptieal as 10 the desirabiiIty
Of driving il into the dentine by the mod
ern process of eataphOresis. in which elec-
tricity is the vehicle employed for carrying
in the nedicament.
\ Shansi missionary who went to con-
duet a funeral the other day narrowly
escaped being present at a MARI iage. The
dead man was bachelor of fifty. sCG-
fearing that bis spirit would wand IT
couapanionIess in the world of stades
relatives had secured the countryside Tor
Z n dead maiden to marry him and bury
/ with him. desirable bride had been
found some seven miles away. and waS
eneoflned and prepared for tne double
ceremony of marriage and burial AS
soon as the Christian service was con
cIuded. and the missionary and his
friends had left the other ceremonies De-
gan Marriages of the dead by interested
friends are common in ShansL
Mr. knight, the correspondent of the
Tondon Times had a somewhat peculiar
! tailoring experience while in Cuba lie
was imprisoned in Fort MOrro before MS
identity was fully established He land
/ ed on the coast in rags ana when ne got
to the prison asked that tailor shou q
be sent to him. The tailor came. but was
! not admitted to the cell IN which MT.
Enipht was confined However he meas
ured the war correspondent through the
bars of the windows, and next day re-
turned with the garments cut out ana
I Uinned to getheT for trying on ms W4s
, ACCOMPLISHED with some diflcuity,- Mt
knight standing UP close 70 the bars
while the tailor did the fitting. The suit
proved 10 be a remarkably good nt
An Omaha man. who was on the Ore
gon when she made her famous voyage
around the continent, vOuchsafes 'hi
information that on her way she actually
rassed through the Spanish fleet I1'
story as told in the Omaha Worid-Her