The evening times., 1898-11-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.

new series of New Zealand stamps
has been issued, and will be eagerly
sought for by collectors.
subterranean town of over 1,00O in
habtants exists in Galicia, Poland. Many
of its people have never seen the light of
day.
The spiders of Japan spin their webs
all over the telegraph wires and cause
a serious loss of institutions and much
disgust TO the companies.
Mr. George Curzon's new barony is the
first Irish peerage that has been created
for thirty years. Only twenty-four In all
have been created since the union.
In India every town of any size has its
own ice factory, some of them capable OF
turning out from SO to LEGO tons of ice
day; and the same thing holds good In
Egypt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Spring Haskell,
of Brooklyn, have been celebrating the
seventeenth anniversary OF their we'd
ding. They remember when Brooklyn
was q wilderness
Miss Cromwell. Washington girl. who
entered Smith College this year, is the
first colored student TO enter that insti-
tuition, though Wellesley has had several
coIored graduates and Vassar one.
major in the Japanese army gets only
s27 month, and has to spend s13 of this
on horse. He must also buy his uni
form This leaves him with less than
the wages of an able-bodied coolie.
AT the beginning of the seventeenth CEN
tury Spain had I20O00 churches, 10000
priests, 81 bishops, 10000 monks and 5000
nuns. The clergy of CASTLE alone had an
annual income that would equal S2500o,0gO
today.
The German anthropolosist, Kollman,
lately declared that the prepOnderance of
the blonde type in northern and the bru-
nette type in southern Europe antedated
TIE appearance of the Germans and Ro-
mans in history.
a Spanish paper thought President Nc
Kinley was a naturaIized Chinaman he
cause he came from Canton. a French
paper is reported as announcing that cat
tie in the United States were dying OF d
disease called bIizzards-
One reason why the Chinese army is not
more effective is that soldiers are despised
in China. German officers engaged as
drilImasters by the Chinese government
found that the hardest task was 10 drill
self-respect into the coolie-soldier.
Consul Hughes, of Coburg. warns
American grass dealers not TO ship hay
i'm any shape TO that part Of Germany,
as the grass crop has been enormous.
Consignments will not only entail the loss
of the hay but additional heavy expense
Miss Alice Everett, a graduate OF Cir
ton College, England. at present engag-
ed In special work at the Royal AstrO-
physical Observatory in Potsdam, Ger
many. will be assistant in the astrOnOmi-
cal observatory at Fassar College next
year.
French periodicals have lately taken TO
publishing translations from the English.
Kipling's White Seal has been running
as feuilleton in the Temps. and in the
latest number of the Revue des Deux
Mondes is "Recits du Kansas. d'apres
William Allen White"
The Cairo correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph says that an en-
thusiastic scientist secured the Mahdi
head and sent ii to the Rolay. College
of Surgeons in London. There are head
hunters in Assam, but, of course, they
are not enthusiastic scientists.
The late Car of Russia was an ardent
lover of cats and on one occasion when
he was on visit 10 the King of Den
mark the whole palace was upset by the
Emperor of all the Russias rushing out
into the street early In the morning TO
rescue his pet black puss from big dog.
An officer of the United States gunboat
Montgomery, who visited the Maria Te-
resa after the destruction of Cervera's
fleet made a curious discovery. He found
a lot of Mauser cartridges containing
wooden bullets. Some army contractor
had imposed on the ordnance bureaus Of
the navy.
An ordinary bee, not loaded. weighs
only about one-third as much as when
carrying a load of honey or bee-bread.
In the former case it takes 5000 of him
TO make a pound. The frivolous might
add that when he alights on the end of
ones finger he weighs more than one
would think so small thing could.
American women have become such en-
thusiasts in golf that Hon. Robert Cox.
of Edinburgh. a member of the British
Parliament and a devOtee of the sport,
has presented a cup TO the United States
Golf Associat ton, to be played for by
women alone. 1t is a magnificent trophy
of silver an enamel, worth over s2500.
The most widely separated points be-
tween which a telegram can be sent are
British Columbia and New Zealand The
telegram would make nearly circuit OF
the globe, and would travel 90 900 miles.
II WOuIU traverse North new
foundland the Atlantic Britain. Ger
many, Russia European and Asiaticl.
China. Japan. Java and Australia.
All the members of the Bismarck fami-
ly are tall A door in Friedrichsruhe
bears record in pencil of the height of
each member of the family. Prince Won
Bismarck was feet inches tall; Her
vert Won Bismarck. feet IA inches:
William Won Bismarck, 6 feet threef
inch: Count Rantzan. feet 1-2 inches;
Countess von Rantzan, feet . l-2 inches.
inches.
Women who are in the habit of doing
much sewing and biting off their threads
are running more than one risk. The
habit will soon begin 10 show its effect
upon the teeth and a very sore mouth
may follow any one of the operations.
When silk thread is bitten the danger is
greater for it was probably soaked in
aceate OF lead during the process of its
manufacture and blood poisoning Is
among the possibilities.
a story is going the rounds of the pa
pers about man who tried the expert
ment of mixing sawdust with his chick
en- feed. The results were so satisfactory
that he discontinued the use of meal al
together and fed his chickens entirely on
sawdust Soon after adopting the scheme
he set a hen with fifteen eggs. She
| brought off thirteen chicks. Twelve of
| them had wooden legs and the thirteenth
was a woodpecker. People may do as
they please about believing this