The evening times., 1899-10-30
NOTES OF THE DAY.

an almost unprecedented sale for 4 book OF tia
| character.
Scientists declare that the physical deterioration
| OF the human race, which has been going on 70
centuries, has ceased and gradual improve
ment has commenced
The Glasgow Town Council has awarded
contract for two electric traction engines TO al
American company solely the ground Of al
earlier delivery than could be promised in Grea
| Britain.
Director Of the Census Merriam's love fo
horses is we'll known, but few aware tina
he was the first to oppose the theory that swift
| horses could not be raised in the extreme North
ern States, and to prove what he maintained b,
| actual practice.
| The Old Colony Company has applied for q
charter to construct railroad tunnel under Pixies
| Peak, with branches encircling the Cripple
Creek district, the total length being fty miles.
| The tunnel viii enter the mountains at Colorado
| city and emerge at Marigod.
| St. vinceht's Hospital New York, is to have a
| motor ambulance. 1t win be propelled by elec-
tricity, and IL expected to effect a great saving
| of time in transporting the victims CT accidents
| to the hospital. The ambulance is TO be pre-
sented to the institution BY wealthy resident OF
| New York.
| Only one-hsh OF those who enter the Military
Academy at West Point continue in il long enough
| TO obtain a commission, and in part because of
| hundred and ffty-eight cadets were admitted to
| the Academy up TO and including 1856, and only
1854 OF these were graduated.
Mrs. Clara Z. Wright. of San Francisco, started
the Rampant City Whirlpool in the klondike
last January, and it has proved to be great
success 1t j. issued once a month and sells at
81 Il copy. II is typewriter instead of being
printed-the work being done by Mrs. Wright and
her daughter-and is well filed with good pay
ing advertisements
A paper entitled Shakespeare and Sanitation"
was read at the recent provincial meeting of the
incorporated Society cf Medical Officers of Health
at Stratford on Avon. Among other things the
author related the following: ''It is interesting
to find that the name OF John Shakespeare, the
father of the poet. first appears in the records
Il the municipality owing fine of twopence
for having made a dirt heap with his neighbors
Adrien Quincy and Henry Reynolds i'll Henley
Street, and on another occasion he stood amerc-
ed in fourpenee for failing to keep his quite.
clsan."
An extraordinary case of theft is reported from
The Hague, the victim being no less parsonage
than Queen wilheImina herself. The culprit ap-
pears to be the person to whom the safe custody
Of the young Queens valuables were entrusted.
The stolen articles consist Of very valuable gold
and silver toilet pieces, and seem 10 have been
distracted from her majestys dressing -roon Their
disappearance was the cause Of enquiries being
made, and when the bulk Of them were discovered
in the possession of silycrsmith, he stated that
he had bought them from the official in question,
who has row absconded.
Every ship in the North Atlantic Squadron
boast of ball nine and these different mines
have formed league known the North Atlantic
League At every opportunity match games are
played, and there is grest rivalry shown to gain
the championship Of the league. Up TO re-
Gently the nine representing the New York were
in the lead, but the Massachusetts held them
safe second. just prior to the departure Of the
squadron for Philadelphia series Of games was
yed and the Massachusetts, men forged ahead
The latter expect stay in the lead for the
balance of the season, thereby winning the cham
piorship.
French BARRIERS are very progressive They have
tried the sanitary scheme and now have something
newer than germ-pTooi instruments. According
10 .-Electricity'' a Paris barber shop has re-
Gently been equipped with most elaborate elec-
the Dlant Inc water IS heated electrically by
means OF a German silver tube In sOapstone
casr. The tubing is electrically heated. that
the water Is nearly boiling when II Passes out OF
the faucet. The curling irons, which often used
to burn the hair, are no longer used for CURING
The electric curling irons which take their place
can be brought to any temperature. which they
retain indefinitely. The hair is cut by clipping
machines actuated by electricity; electrical de-
vices also used TO SINCE the hair. which are
much better than the timc-honored taper.
A London cable of October ) says: ''Dr. Man.
son. in the cuurse Of his inaugural address to the
School for Tropical Medicine, caused sensation
by declaring that the ordinary rat Is responsible
for the majority OF plague outbreaks He says
that rats are peculiarly subject to infection. and
If one arrived at the port OF London on a ship
hailing from plague port and died here the body
would TEEN with plague bacI!h- This would be
eaten by other rats or fieas that would transfer
themselves 10 other rats, which would in turn
Deccme injected with the plague. AT the present
uncture.' he continued. were the responsible
sanitary head OF any town in Europe l would, in
anticipation of this possibility, compared with
which the horror and destructivcness of a general
European war. would be a tride, do NY utmost to
ave every rat. and. ii possible, every mouse IN
ny district promptly eXteTmin5ied. In view OF
De-. Nanson.s position and reputation. for IT was
ie who first suggested that mosquitoes are re-
pOnSible fer malaria. the papers seriously dis
us-ed and the idea started Tor a universal raid
N rats in all the large seaporIs OF England.
The scarcity of rubber Is a matter that attracts
he attention of 81 many different people, in
many lines of applied science. that facts
rom one OF the United States consular reports
caring on the subject will not he amiss- The
fiEoipsl reason advanced 10 explain the laek OF
ubber is the great difficulty in securing enough
len TO go into the forests along the Amazon and
ap the trees. There l. no immediate danger OF
ny great shortage in the supply OF rubber, but
onseryative opinion in the Amazon district holds
hat there Is To be steady dimiHutiOa of
he output for two very cogent reasons; first, the
roeE growing the banks of the river are
ltuIally the first TO be tapped, and rCsnt
re now becoming exhausted. the milk becoming
oorer every year; second, the river banks have
II been worked inland for a distance of about
lree miles from their banks, and in order to
zach the fresh. untouched rubber trees deeper in
ne forest, a much longer time. and very much
.rger number of will be required. Tn.
nest rubber forests said 10 be along
lie Purus River. one Of the large tributaries ot
lie Amazon fIom the south.
All noted authors were not born with an in
met to grasp the pen, says the Chicago News"
hen Walter Besant a young he VAS
liking with friend about some of Dickers
ories. The friend said. iokingly: IF l give
III the plot for a story. Besant. will YOU write
- Bssaut said he would try and very soon his
st brilliant novel was half done. Rider HaSglrd
Us reading law nearly two decades ago when il
'curred TO him he might relieve the monot0Hy
his existence by putting paper some Of his
iuth African experiences. The Witch's Head
rs the result and king SOlGmcns Mines
liowed- Grant Allen primarily 4 scientist
I'd was much surprised any whsn he
und he could write novel well scientific
eati,e and make more money at it The stage
perience and rowing life of Jerome X. Jerome
ggested TO him the book ''On the Stage and
T.. He wrote ii TO vary tine mOnOtony of
arher's and clerks life Zangwill took TO
ritiHg because he got sick Of teaching, and
lrie Corelh training for a musical career
len a curious experience led her to write "a
lnance OF Two Worlds Loneliness inspired
i've Schreiner in South Africa to write her
vel of an african Farm" An Oxford tutor
ggested TO Mrs. Humphrey Wards mind til,
aacier of Robert Elssmcre and so she wrc.e
at famous novel.
Nr. W. II. White, author of the Autobiography
Mark Rutherford made his first ESSAY in lit
ture with paper in Chambers Journal
rch 6. 1s5s. on the prosiac subject OF Births.
tbs and Narriargs m .iortbt s,,OoaSted Inv