The evening times., 1899-02-27
NOTE, OF TIE DAY.

theTe are about JDJ iOii0WeTa on tIids ft4i5i'h
The lumber output of the Saginaw River mills
last season was the smallest Of any season since
1863
II i stated that a deserted and ruined horsc az
EartUioor has been struck by lightning oysr so9
times.
Fourteen Of sixteen leading railroads IN This
country show increased net earnings over those
of 1S59.
Nasssehusetts lawmakers. ike those Of Nsw
York, talk of reducing the esal rate OF interest
from 10 ner cent
William Watson, the poet. has received. hy tie
d-ath Of = distant relative. legacy which VIII
render him INDEPENDENT Tor life
The SuItans wives are divided INFO three elI---
Is; Five OF the frst. twenty-fcur q ;le ceHd,
and hundred and ffJy Of the third
Bcnni won flaz5 ldorf. eldest son II Baron
Hazedorf, a distinguished general in she Aus
trian army. is a blacksmith in Hammond Ind
Mr.. Iau,sefj Tlsa has offered the iE,Fsn gov
ernment 81 80 900 for the estabI-lilueal iu tra
Of a university for research the ruadr! 0i j1ins
Hopkins
The smallest salary paid TO the head ot CIV
ilized government +, sI5 Il year, wHics; Is paid
to the President Of the Republic u Aa,ora, IN
the Pyreuces.
There two islands in New Zealand set apart
for the preservation 0f remarkable Wild biij- and
other animals. All hunting and trapping is for
bid6en thereon.
\ Swiss society has laid ont an Npine GARDEN
az Nontrcux- d elevation % 6,00J feet anere
the characteristic and flowers Of thy country
10 he cultivated
Experiments seem To show that large. ocean
steamer. going at nineteen Knot, an hl7U- VIII
move than two miles after IFS rnsia- have
been stopDed and reversed
Judge FelJou. Of the Georgia supreme ,ours.
recently adjourned court because on" of o., wiz
nesses preferred. instead 0f te-tifyiugs o. keep
an engagement To be married
! The heart Of a vegetarian beats "a an average
I OF hity-eisht to the nsiEgte that of the medr-
I eater seventv-two. This represents a difference
( Of 20.gJ0 beats in JWeHty-fouT hours.
( The British steamship Grangexood ran out q
( coal when 800 miles from Halifax, and N order
/ 10 reach port used her cargo Of beet -u-Ir tor
| fuel The sugar was worth so a ton
In Iceland and women are in. every re-
| speci p0.itICai equals. The nation, wHlcf HuIE-
! beTs about 11.ODJ people, J. governed hy rapre-
7entatiyes elected by men and women together
I In Governor Roo=evelt'- study in MANY IS the
head Of large der. victim Of the owners
rife, and ON the spreading anterz hangs a..
paign hat oi the Rough Riders lieutenant colo
( mel
I Mrs NJ. Fleming recently appointed curator
( OF astronomical photographs i the first woman
| whose las ever appeared in The catalogue
/ Of Harvard University among the officers u 5Ae
/ institution.
/ The fortune Iefr by Aiolph D'Ennerz. the
dramati-t who wrote The Two orphans.
{ amounts 10 more thau Iz.ppJOGp Francs. or s.
/ fO8.0O0 and Of his relatives are soine 70
/ law 10 obtain H.
John Doe and Richard Roe have IIwavs
I been regarded a fictitious persons. created t's
I legal purposes but in the United states Com
missioner's Court At Bo-ten the either day -=1rneu
bearing these names were put on trial tor -
/ saut upon another sailor.
/ The Queen os sweden Possesses an in.ner-e
| fortune, which -he owes 10 the gambling tables
! Of wiesbaden Her majesty did not win Ihe
/ money gambling al the tables; her brothers
we're the propret0rs. AMI she inherited the
/ wealth accumulated hy them
Lady Randolph Churchill, who as~ Miss j.
rome. Of New York i about 70 start a quar-
terfy magazine in London which viii be
thing like the Yellow B01k, enlarged and am
! pIihed with particularly fine illustrations and
I binding. Each number : 20 cost guinea
\ Portland. Ne. man who PuJ sulphur in MS
shoes to prevent grip found that he exIsles sul-
phurou- fumes. and that the silver change in is
pocket turned quite black lie say~ thar the 81
I ver watch If the mate Of q vessel which brouglt
cargo of sulphur 70 Portland last week was
| thoroughly blackened from the same caus4-
The members Of the Two Hundred and second
Regiment New York Volunteers, have secured a.
trophy Of the war The fgurehead Of the Spanish
steamer Alfonso MI. which sunk hv the
American naval forces in the hsrbor Of Hari~i,
I Cuba. on M4y last The oguTehedc 5a- neen
forwarded TO Buffalo, y. Y. where it VIII be ple-
served by the Buffalo Historical society
The Dismal swamp Canal. which connects CHes-
apeake Bay with AIbema1Ie sound. eulbl,s snail
craft 10 avoid the perilous passage around 'spe
Hatteras. and Is part Of the inland navigation
between New York and Florida VIII be opened
soon, after extensive repairs This waterway -
said 10 have the oldest canal charter II exist
ence, dating back 10 rs
Miss Jennie Hancock. nurse, oj 2lu Be-
more Street. Philadelphia. has received letter
from Berlin. Germany. stating THAI George
I Richtrsn a LAWYER. who for a short i'm, lived
in Philadelphia. recently died there and be-
queathed her S.2.Ul0 Mis- Hancock. who -
twenty years old, says Riehtamn teH ia love
whit her some time ago and offered to marry
her but she rejected him because she did not
love him
Manhattan viii soon be an island no longer.
save in name. Bridges Of steel unite it to
Brooklyn and Bronx, and it VIII soon be united
TO New jersey by a tunnel under the Hudson
River. The tunnel was begun Years ago. but
financial disaster overwhelmed the company, AMI
! the panic prevented any new capital engaging
/ IN the undertaking, but English capitalists have
now taken hold ot the enterprise. and there $
good prospect OF it, speedy complexion
During the last season a popular toreador n
Spain took part in ~ixry-tve fights and killed I33
bulls His net profit was S69,0DO and the only
injuries lie sustained were brui>e on his foot
and a rather had wound in the leg Sometimes
( one viii he badly gogcd, but a week or two It
hospital viii generally set him On hI~ les again
I These men. often uneducated- and proceeding
from the lower classes. are ccurted and feared.
, and even the larger newspapers OF Madrid arc
careful to give nothing but praise 20 them, tor
! fear Of incurring their ennlity-
Nearly 1OO1O0O.O0O yards of ribbon of all
shades and colorS axe consumed 10y the fair sex
in general Of the content OF Europe everv year.
OF this huge amount France alone takes one
third it being a well-estsblished fact that
Frenchwomen are particularly prone 70 anything
OF a ShOWy color Britain comes next. but a
very long vav behind. with 3o.001.00a yards,
I and the rest is divided principally between
Spain. Italy, Germany, and Belgium and small
: er principalities. Blue and the higher pinks
and scarlet the favorite shade.
To those familiar with the enormous salaries
paid to the Judges of the higher English courts
! il may come as something Of a surprise to learn
that the president-in-ehei Of the French coUI
de cessation gets only about 5000 year. u
no country save the United States do judicial
salaries reach in amount even third Of th0ss
paid in Great Britain. The heavy rise in iudiciI
salaries in England began about the middle OF TN,
last century, based the assumption that the
payment should be in ratio with the earnings o
barris;ers from whom Judges were selected
memorial to the President and Congres
is before the New Mexico Legislature proydiH.
that a large part OF Southwestern Texas be an
: nexed to the Territory of New Mexico Accord
! / ing to a special dispatch from Santa Fe, y NJ.
; in the "St. Louis GObe-Democrat a commits
I sion of three will be appointed, consisting O
\ three. senators and three congressman and 20