The evening times., 1899-05-29
NOTES OF The DAY.

begging.
War news is sent from Manila to New York at
an expense Of s2.a5 word.
The shipyard at Newport News. Va, has
tracts for nearly 100000 Of work.
Experiments to reproduce dead mems features
from their skulls are being made in Germany
Advanced English barmaids object to that name.
and call themselves '.licensed victuaIlers' assist
ants.
The Joagat Grru Sankaracharyya, of Dwarsa,
is lecturing in Calcutta on the vedas and the
Upanishads.
Corn will yield more pounds of dry matter per
acre than any other forage crop that be grown
in the East.
Thomas Hardy built himself his present country
house Of the profits of his first novel, DIS
perate Remedies"
Mrs. Eliza Lyrds. OF Peacham. Vt, has cake
of maple sugar that made in 1884. The
sugar is well preserved yet
Shanghai. which was not opened to foreign
trade until 1872. has population of about
'.oO Europeans and Americans.
A beavy stroke of lightning in the city of
Lynn. Mas, the evening of May ], caused
the breaking of many water pipes
Owen wis;ar will read the Phi Beta Kappa
poem at Harvard this year. He is the first Phiil-
delphisn to do so in ten or fifteen years
In front Of a grocer's in the Rue de Rivoi.
Paris is sign which reads: "Madeira, francs:
old Madeira, francs; genuine Madeira, III
| francs
The Egyptians bestowed great labor their
tombs and little on their homes. They regarded
the latter mere temporary abodes. but the for-
they looked on as eternal habitations.
The North Carolina courts have Just approved
the will Of +. 7. CIemmons. of Forsyth county.
who left sIooooO to the Moravian Church to build
a house Of worship and school. and bequeathed
TO each member o. the congregation an acre oil
land
| Rev. Tucker Wilson, pastor Of Baptist church
| in Munce. Ind. has established new record,
| having immersed eighty-seven newly-convertcd
members of his flock in twenty-sevcn minutes, or
| at rate greater than three minute. and that
without any assistance
! Estimated expenditure for the British navy dur
| ing the coming year Is in American values, sIS2-
| go OO1 Our Congress appropriated for SIM
| liar purposes this spring s551es.ssJ. Ten years
ago. in lsSJ, Great Britain spent only s69,2lD,OD
| on lis navy. and the United States s21, $500.
The first cotton mill known in Kansas is being
built at Independence. where there is natural gas
| to furnish power. The cotton will be drawn from
| Oklahoma ard thereabouts. and some seyenty-fve
( skilled operatives will be drawn from New Eng
! land form the nucleus Of a factory force oil
about 200.
| The Berlin correspondent of the ''London Stand
! ard ,elegraphs: The engineering committee OF
! the army has received report on the recent ex-
/ periments with liquid air for blasting purposes,
I carried out in foreign country They are stated
/ 10 foresEadow complete revolution in the appi-
cation of ezplosiyes
! At Bendena snail town in Kansas, the pupils
| got mad at the teacher and refused to attend
school He opens the schoolhouse every morning
| and rings the bell No pupils show up, and he
devotes the day TO his own amusement me
I school board has offered him half pay TO quit,
buf he viii not do 1t.
r., oil Dxip
! new pastor of Plymouth Church.. Brooklyn. has
hecp preaching sermons on the characters in we'll
[ known novc.s librarians throughout the city re-
/ NOR. greatly increased demand for the novels
themselves ard the men al the street book stands
, are hardly able 10 meet the new demand
| The present Shah has just celebrated his forty
sixth birthday The Shah is enormously wealthy.
| and almos, the whole of his fortune consists OF
! diamonds ard precious stones. The royal family
Of Persia of the largest in the world There
are some thousands of princes and princesses- ard
the present occupant Of the throne has family
! of about twenty.
Fred Huson. of the Twentieth Kansas yolun-
| tcers. writes from the Philippines: Il am not
much afraid of battle. I would lots rather go
J into battle than Ciiml, Kansas windmill III.
..Karsas City Journal thinks that this corupar-
! ison will be appreciated by every nan who has
I climbed rickety tower TO pour oil into tue
| cogs one of those buzzng demons
| LADY Henry Somerset will. it is feared. b.
| compelled to close her beautiful park. Just out
/ side Reicate England. For several wears hardly
/ a single Young tree planted in the park has e.
( capeti destruction. and recently large ciuinp ot
Scotch hrs. planted near the gates has been mo-,
! wifuy destroyed. some OF the sapiings being
| pulled up by the roots. TO fewer than thirty
| being destroyed in one night
Tie recently published army returns for the
wear Is17 give the nationality OF Great Briians
! 2l9s5s soldiers then serving as Us, so English
t 6isJ Scotch, 1884 Irish. SEQ Indian and CO.
| lonial I:2 foreign. and 2.5jl unknown IhrSt
/ figures sav. the Regiment proves that the
/ Enslishfran las The largest amount of military
| enthusiasm and seryes his country TO the extent
| o. $50 per l,0o) of the population
While fishing Of Carlngtord Lough on the
| Irish coast the trIwler Bournemcuth. of Milford
/ Haven. dreIged up in the net bundle of papers
4 sealed and tied With red tape. and perfectly m
/ tact The skipper brought them to port anc
handed them 10 a gentleman. vino found ihat
| they purported to be will in favor OF Miss
Mary Mac cDOuald. and that they had reference 10
| estates in Ireland valued at $4,000
! The Canadian taxpayer spends less than one
| thirteenth of what the British taxpayer spends
! for defence With i population computed at
/ 50lo.0lo Canada has Federal revenue OF sj.i9
per head. ard Gf this in lst' spent sl,6Si-oJl
upon her militia farce 5000 strong. thus spend
/ ing si55s per soldier. No contribution Is made
I 10 the ROYAL navy. Canada spends - cents per
4, head as opposed 10 - cents pes head IN New
{ Zaal1rd and Cape Colony: G. cents per head in
! Australia and 9s per head in Natal
Rev. Wilson Carlile, rector of st. NIry-at-Hiil,
Iandon is an up-to-date priest. lie takes
trombone with him into the pulpit. and when
| the singing becomes spiritiess he liyeIS il up
I with a few blasts that instrument During
tine greater part Of the service the church i darA
| ened and the hymns. prayers. sacred and ether
/ pictures are thrown by iime!ghr On a haze
| screen suspended across the altar. Besides an
J arran there is an orchestra composed OF giitS
wearing si,rplices and college mortar-boards-
| There are many curious tracts extant. says
| writer in London TRUTH but have come
| across nothing more precious in this form Of
! literature than a printed paper which has been
| distributed by the missionary at i kafir mission
I at Groutve. in Natal. Dear Friend, the
reverend author begins, having come to realize
| the solemn fact that the Lord Jesus Christ Is
| liable to call for me ut any moment. and thlt
| il is his orders for to have everything III
T! readiness, a. would wish TO have when he comes.
| l AM offering the following propertv for sale
| at the reasonable prices given" 1t seems that
| his reverence is doing so. in the first place.
\ because most Of the things offered have been
| snare to him in taking his attention away from
the ministry of the Word. To prevent any
| misconcep,ion the part OF possible custom
| er- however, he is careful TO explain that ''hc
a.! does not mran that it Is wrong for anybody 30
| use these things. only that it is wrong foT him
! AID then he gives price list, from which II
appears that he has been lured from the ministry
| of the Word by the attractions Of such miscel-
!lneous goods turning lathe and portable
forge, gTnilstone and snapshot camera
printing press and bicycle. The catalogue eon-
xfgrfn ntiD IN ft