The evening times., 1899-05-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Four million women in the United States earn
their own bread. They have invaded all occupa-
ti6ns, and one-thrd OF the persons engaged in
professional services are women.
Canada has forest area estimated at l,250.0o0
square miles 800 900 900 acres, the largest for
est area. 50 far as the woods Of commerce are
concerned, Of any country in the world. Its for
est production is SIS, 900 annually.
At nearly all the Kansas towns. camped in the
suburbs in gypsy fashion. you can find familie,
with lot of children and dogs, who wander like
Arabs over the plains from the mountains OF
wyoming TO the coast Of Texas as the weather
grows cold or warm
Leipzig made good investment in buying and
tearing down the old Pieissenburg on the city
wall, the scene OF the debate between Luther and
Eek. The city paid 4, l5O,OO0 marks for the cas-
lie, and has sold the ground since for building
sites for 6,l50,353 marks.
Leechcs, when applied to persistent cigarette
smokers, drop of dead. distinct traces of the
dangerous oil given off by tobacco being found
IN them Strangely enough. the same experiment
tried upon excessive pipe smokers, resulted in
apparent injury to the leeches
AT Nideggen, in the Rhine province, thirteenth
century frescoes have been discovered under the
whitewash in the parish church. The whole in
terror decoration OF the church. including the
poirchrome treatment of pillars and capitals, has
The largest block Of stone ever quarried in the
South. was the great block Of white marble taken
out few days ago at Jasper. Ca. This gigantic
block is q feet inches long, feet 4 inches
wide. and feet inches deep. II contains 800
feet inches, and weighs l00.056 pounds.
The hair the heads of most of the hundradJ
Of thousands OF dolls being exhibited in shop
windows is made from the hair Of the Angora
goat. This product is controlled by an English
syndicate, and is valued at si0o.0G0 a year. After
the hair Is prepared it Is sent to Munich and
made into wigs by girls
A British firm has just completed the last ship
ment to Mombasza Of 100 all-iron houses, amount
ing to ever $4,000 in value. and required for
protection to the workmen employed in the for
nation Of the Uganda Railway. which will ulti-
mately connect with the much railway
line from Cairo TO the Cape.
Ten years ago Charlotte. y. C.. had popula-
tioD of about 1000 and one cotton mill. Today
its population is more than 2s. Co., and its twelve
cotton mills running day and night in the
manuflt turing OF cotton yarns, gray cloths ginG-
hams, towe!ing. webbing. sash cord. hosiery. bat
ting and wadding. and its five clothing factories
are utilizing every hour Of daylight to keep up
with orders.
The ''Bakeiy (Ga) Reporter says there is
man in Early county who has been relieved of
road duty for ten years '.techniealiiy.' 1t
is customary TO summon a to work the road
nearest TO where he sleeps and has his clothing
washed As this man has been with
50 much as clean shirt on. the supposition is
that he has no washing done, and he Is relieved
of road duty.
A hungry traveller, stranger in Red Bank. y.
j., entered restaurant in that town and ordered
ham and eggs. AZ that seemed to be the only
available dish After he had waited half an hour.
staring impatiently at the bottles in the caster.
regarding the delay The ham is all cooked
the reply. but my little girl Is still out in
the yard waiting for the hen to lay another egg
Joaquin Miller has been visiting relatives in
Union county. Ind, where he born. To the
enquiry of newspaper to the place of
his birth, he said: YES: WIS born in Union
county, but | was taken away from there when
a very small child. and I have been shown
this visit the house where ! born. The old
church in which my father and mother
ried in Union county has been in ruins many
years. hut ! have obtained a brick from il. and
shall carry it home TO mother in California
Down in Manzanillo the other day." says
the Times of Cuba. "a number of didn't t-know-
it-was-loadcd people were trying to explore the
interior Of an urexploded she'll which fell in the
vicinity OF that town the day last year when the
American ships bomhsrded the Spaniards there.
The she'll had been lying about Manzanillo for
nearly year. but it still had its destructive
power within ii, and the result was that three
people killed and several others were wounl-
ed OF the party which curious to know
what inside it,
SAYS the Boston Transcript Owing to the
withdrawal of the Rev. r. T. Niclol from the
place of prior of the North American Cycle
Of the Order of the White Rose, the Jacohitc
Society of America. Ralph Adams Cram, of Boz
ton. has been elected to that office. The order
Is at present making strenuous efforts TO awaken
the American people TO what II believe would be
a reform in the Government of the United
states-the abandonment OF tine Jeffersonian idea
OF government. and the adoption OF that advo-
Gated by Alexander Hamilton.
Prof. Frederick Karl Christian Ludwig Buecl-
ner, author of '-force and Matter, died the 9TH
er day in Dlrnstadt at the age of seventy-fve-
Prof Buechner's famous book. Force and Mat
ter frs; appeared in 1855. In it he attempted
to establish scientifically a materllistic view Of
the universe. Its publication gave rise TO 4 vio-
lent controversy. the result of which the au-
thor WIS forced by the authorities TO give UP his
professorship at Tubingen and resume his medical
practice AT Darustadt. Many editions OF ''Force
and Natter have been published in Germany.
and il has been translated into nearly every Eu-
ropean language. In this work DIR. BuechDer eN-
ploits a system of philosophy which, he contends.
is in harmony with the discoveries of modern sci
ence. Its salient doctrines are the eternity of
matter the immortality of force, the universal
inity of forms OF being in time and space.
Compressed air ventilation has saved the IA
nous Gothard tunnel from eventual dis,ise by
railroad trains. The accumulated smoke from the
soit-coal-burning locomotives became dense
because of the constantly increasing traffic. that
engineers ard trainmen afraid TO venture
into the tunnel at times. As a cons quence the
directors of the Gotbard Railroad decided to try
compressed air for comprehensive ventilation
system in the tunnel. The scheme works per
feetly. and more danger from that source Is
feared. Observations made recent night, be-
tween 10 p. and i M, demonstrated the
excellence of the ventiatirg system. In that
time, in addition to the eight regular trains.
three extra passenger trains and four heavy
freight trains passed through the tunnel. De-
spite the heavy traffic. no smoke remained IN
the tunnel. the pipes drawing it out IN short
order. IL is no longer necessary TO keep the car
windows closed tightly while passenger trains
passing through.
Last Saturday" says correspondent of the
Chicago Record 1.-THE Territory OF Oklahoma
was ten years old. and it unique example
of nineteenth century civilization. IL did not
appear in the last census. but in the next it will
probably show something like 325.oo) popula-
lion for the last count made by the local enrn
crater. in 1897, 81. 400. The anniversary was
not celebrated in any formal manner except Mt
the town OF Kingfsher, but it WIS a great day
for "reminiscences. and the o.d settlers. who came
in with the rush. told incidents of the great
event when 10. coo people, at the boom of a gun.
started over the borders of Kansas and Texas in
a mad race for homes and fortunes The wave
from the South met the from the North ut
the Canadian River, so that the northern half ot
the Territory IL settled by Northern. and the
southern half by Southern men, but | am told
that the latter have been leaving and going hac'l
to their old homes in large numbers. The south
counties of Oklahoma at first east an almost
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