The evening times., 1898-12-28
NOTES OF The DAY.


| mounted on rubber tires was made in New
York the other day. IL is said TO be de-
| cidedly successful.
An average man of 154 pounds weight
| has. it is said, enough iron In his coustitu-
| tion TO make a piowshare and enough phos-
| phoTous to make half million matches.
| 1t is announced that carbolite can be
] manufactured out OF blast furnace Stag
Carbolte is necessary for the production OF
ethylene gas, said to be better and cheaper
| than acetylene.
The Austrian minister at Berne. Count
kufstein, has sent TO the Swiss government
| a sum of 10000 francs. which the emperor
desires TO be distributed TO the poor in Ie-
membrance OF the late empress.
"A woman" says the Syracuse Post.
| dropped memorandum on the street one
day last week on which was written
| among other things, the following: Pay
taxes; kill rooster; get dinner; come
| home.
| Only seventy years have elapsed since
| the first railway in the world was anish-
ed. During that comparatively brief pc
! riod 400. 900 miles have been constructed
| the British Empire accounting for about
| sixth.
| hair Of the beard of the Prophet Mo-
| hammed has been presented to the Con-
/ stantinople pOorhoUse by a lady OF that
I city They had a procession of great
/! pomp and grandeur 10 escort the hair 10
its new resting place.
PadeTewski has bought the villa of Nor
ges, near Lausanne, Switzerland, and with
it cellar of 10000 bottles OF wine and
/ store OF Kirseh twenty years old. The es-
tate mas It's own vineyards and the great
/ pianist Will own six cows.
| The Minnesota building at the Omaha
Ettrr,n ion, 6ve
( Tor permanent erection in one of the city
/ parks. Kansas man wanted to buy II
and move it 10 Topeka for a dwelling
| house, but his offer was refused
| The Vermont legislature has passed a
I bill creating the Office Of attorney gen
/ eral- Connecticut voted for that official
/ the first time this year New Hampshire
has an attorney general whose salary is
larger than that of the governor
Charles Paul Auguste CuvilIier who has
! just died. was the Delmonico OF Paris
| His catering extended to all the royal
families of Europe. and many of them
sent wreaths and other floral tributes 10
| the funeral He was 20 years old.
Italian high schools have been opened
for years 10 women as well as to men
Every year a prize is offered To students
in the teachers seminaries for an essay.
This year fifty women competed and only
five men The women got the prize and
all the medals.
Prof. Kune Francke of Harvard; Prot
James T. Hatfield, of the Northwestern
I University, and Prof. Horatio s. White OF
/ Cornell. have been named members Of the
committee Of 100 to arrange for the SJras-
burg celebration OF the 15Qth anniversary
of Goethe's birth. 49,
Sir Thomas Upton challenger for the
relief of the distressed English colony OF
Barbados. He is prepared 70 invest So
coo, 900 in the sugar industry Of that ISL
and. and has named to the English gov
ernment few easily filed conditions.
The motive power department Of a rail-
way keeps an accurate double-entry ac-
count with every locomotive and every
car, so that. ii is known without trouble
now much it has cost 10 maintain and re-
pair it, how many miles it has travelled
and what work il has done. i similar ac-
count is kept OF every freight and passen-
ger car.
Luncheon for Coils P. Huntington and
Russell Sage costs Just 10 cents daily Mr.
Huntington pays that amount for bowl OF
bread and milk. The other multi million
aire gets his MONDAY repast for nothing
by patronizing the free lunch set by the
Western Union Telegraph Company, OF
which he is a heavy stOckhOlder. -.-
\ decided novelty in the way Of news
paper enterprise is announced from lap
land. The first paper in that country has
appeared. IL is written upon a single
sheet of paper. and is published every sun
day at a town with an unpronounceabIe
name. Up TO the present the journal has
only half dozen subscribers. and every
issue is welcomed with loud applause.
Sir Francis Grenf.u, governor Os Malta.
lost favorite nephew at the battle OF
Omdurman. and has succeeded in recover
ing the dead soldiers watch II was
pierced by an Arab spear, but the hands
are untouched. and point 10 $50 the time
of the owners death. Sir Francis has had
the watch mounted on block of crystal
as an ornament for his writing table.
Mrs. Frances A Carver. wife of Joseph
W. Carver. a well-known citizen of Grif-
fifth Mills Va. is dead from the effects OF
the scratch of a cat Mrs Carver was
fondling the family cat when the animal
scratched her slightly on the right hand
No attention was paid to the wound. which
was considered trifling. The hand began
to swell, and later the whole body turned
black. blood poisoning having developed.
Gen. Wood has granted the petition OF
several Spanish merchants for permission
to close their stores on Sunday, they hsv-
ing been compelled TO keep open seven
days in the week under the Spanish law.
He has also issued an order directing the
closing Of the saloons on the Sabbath and
there is not likely 10 be a Sunday clos
ing question in Santiago so long as that
city shall be under military rule
A curious and interesting calculation has
been made on the dynamic power of coal
From this we learn that single pound OF
good steam coal has within it dynamic
m tho work NJ
for one day. Three tons of the same coal
represent a mans labor for period OF
twenty years, and one square mile of a
seam OF coal. having depth OF four feet
only represents as much work as l loco 00o
men can perform in twenty years.
Mrs. Ritchie says that when Thackeray
visited Coventry one of party who met
him said: Mr.. Thackeray. We want you TO
let Give marry Ethel. Do let them be
happy" He replied: The characters. once
created, lead me, and l follow where they
direct / cannot tell the events that wait
on Ethel and Give" He told Miss Hen
nell that he made his women without char
acter or else so bad, because that was how
he knew them. Next morning. when they
asked whether he had had a good night. he
answered: How could /, with Col. NewA,
come making fool of himself as he has
done?" Mrs. Bray: But why did you let
do it. He must
Somebody suggested to Senator Perkins
of California the other day that $4,000
900 for the Philippines would be almost
81 head for an inhabitant. Well"
said the Senator, recalling the days when
he was a sailor. II can remember the
time when / would have paid $1,000 a
head for those people-if somebody had
killed them. We were lying becalmed.