The evening times., 1899-03-28
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Bishop Potter. of New York. has a dislike Of
elevators, and generally walks upstairs in bgild-
lngs where they used
George Frederick Watts, the English artist.
who IS now eighty-two, was Ellen Terry's Erst
husband, fact not generally known
Lord Salisbury has had a special bicycle made
for his own use, and when affairs OF state pcF-
Inif OF sleh diversion j. learning 70 ride the 81
lent steed.
Harlow VI. Higinbo,haa former presiden, Il
the Worlds Columbian Exposition. has grcsn-
houses IN which are 50.10J carnations his favor
ite flower
Last year the United States imported 9.2si
horses worth $200.GG0. and exported over = .nJD
horses worth S6.000.000. In 1890 this country
imported Ss2is horses, and exported only $500.
King Oscar OF Sweden has had his life insured
in the Swedish Company Norden. the premium
being SI,000 kroner (sI0.360) per year. He Ceie-
DRAFTED Ais seventieth birthday on January -
When members of the Queens family or any
German relatives visit London and occupy Buck
ingham Palace ''by invitation" they pay their
board Just like common folks in hrst-cass hotel.
The most miserable young man in Auburn. Ne.
at the present time is unquestionably the one who
had a slight scratches bis nose, ard accidentally
got some vaccine virus from his arm into it,.
IL took beautifully.
method has lately been invented OF con-
Verting sawdust iEto smelling gases. something
after the manner in which acetylene gas il
manufactured. IL il expected TO revolutionize
the iron making industry.
The Siamese haze 50 strong a superstition
against numbers that they viii have none
of them- The number of rooms in house, of
windows or doors in room, even Of rupgs on
4 ladder, must always be odd
The French astTologer who predicted the ter
rible hFe at the Charity Bazaar and the death
IT
events actually occurred, in prophesyiRg all sorts
OF dire things for France in lg00
Perhaps the finest mausoIeJlm in existence is
that in Agra, India. which was built by the En-
peror Shah JeIon for himself 1t was twenty
two years in course Of erection, and on IL D.
900 Elen were constantly employed during that
period. The cost was -, ,0Og-JOJ.
Oakland Ne, Las become such farorite re-
sort Of tramps OF late that the town authorities
have voted to purchase and Use a Baker prim-
tive chair 4 kind o. modern stocks. Wherevith
70 make il interesting for visiting wayiIrers-
Ihe burning Of witches viii be next IN oEdcr IN
Oakland
Hanover is to establish series of lectures and
demonstrations for the instruction OF artisans
and apprentices in all trades. and If they are
found successful they viii be instituted through
out the empire There are to be model work
shops, and Instruction in bookkeeping and in
making estimates.
Elibu Burritt gave all his library. including
many volumes Of manuscript TO the school in
New Britain, Conn, which wa7 named in honor
ot him. No care has been taken of the coIlcc-
tion, and il has been discovered that all
the manuscript volumes have disappeared. to-
gether rith many other books.
Satin Pasha Is about 10 leave the Egyptian
army in order that he may spend the remainder
Of his DAYS among hi, friends in Austria he had
enough ot the S0u,ian during the advance On
Umdurnan. Tie left vienna for Cairo az the age
OF seventeen. and siN years later was appointed
by Gordon governor OF Darfur.
TIE descendants Of Matthc- Grant. Of Wind
sor. Gem. who now number many hundreds.
have organized society and elected As pre-i-
ident l. :. Grant. ir-. OF san Diego Cal Biog-
raphers Of the great general have usually claimed
Cor him Soo;cli-ir~h origin. but the new society
says the family i from the south Of England
An Auburn. Ne. man cane home a fay nights
ago to md his wife standing in ! rocking chair
with broom in her band. while the cat played
with a mouse on the floor. Whenever she start
ed To get down out OF the chair the car wogld
let the mouse 20. and she was glad u hasten
back TO place ot safety When Ler husband
came TO the rescue she bad been balancing IN
thu rocking chair FOR about hour
\ man who has been gathering gum in ,He
MesaHl., region Of Maine. tells OF most r.
deer ward. which begins mile north
west of Mount Ahran, and extends ~iy miles in
one direction. lie was gathering gum when he
discovered what he thought TO be an ordinary
jees ward but soon found IL 70 be mammoth
one He counted NJ les than ninety deer.
bucks. and does, and the former had shed their
horns. giving parts Ct tbv ward the appearance
Ct bone yard
Vienna has opened is new municipal saloon.
the RaJti~keller. in The basement OF the CITY
Hall. The place has been decorated by the fore
most artists Of the city and in ii only the yiHl-
ages OF Austria proper viii be sold, foreign 4Ed
even Hungarian wines being excluded. The Rat
iiSScller l. conducted by the municipal aTth0ri-
ties. It's establishment has aroused the wrath cf
the restaurant keepers OF the city. whu have
been among the most useful supporters ot the
present aHti->einitic mayor, Dr. LuegeT-
During the course of the trial in Boston IL,
other day Of a woman restaurant keeper, who
was charged with selling milk below Standard
the ilct was developed that no Bo>tcniJn di--
satisfied with his miIkman can change unless
the new mikinan be ready 70 submit 4 fire
Of so from the Milk Dealers Association. The
defendant testified thar upon finding that the
milk was getting poor. she tried in vain 10 buy
from other mikmen but they feared the $50 Of
the trust, and refused 10 sell her She finally
succeeded in getting better milk by purchasing
from another dealer in the name OF her iauitor-
In the current number Of Golfers Weekly
Frederic Remington gives his impressions Of the
leader OF the Cuban army Is follows 'Gomcz has
a curious head-a very interesting head. 1t i
fierce and warlikc. and brown and mustach,d
and 4oatccd and altogether Spanish American.
which does not mean white man. His profile
i, a triangle. with the inv a, the base From
his looks, I should say his not a great
brain. SO far as We know, he i a man OF
one ideI-whieh happens in his ease to be a
very good one; and there Is the force in the base
Of that triangle which has carried that idea
is tar Is the blood and iron and hoTsefiesh OF
Cuba could carry it..
People who claim that women have never IN
vented anything received famous setback at
the beginning OF the week. SAYS Paris letter
in the New York Herald,'' when 4 former ac-
tress sent 10 her rival some eachets repuJedIy
remedy against fatness. The in
tended victim does not seem 10 have been over
weighted with confidence in her former friends
intention, or else she had double dose Of Ewes
curiosity. At any rate, she only took of
these oaehets, then opened the Others and found
them full of the tniest fshhcoks instead Of
lnti-fat. A. these little baTbed affairs had al
ready began to make trouble in the victims in
her organization. she had Nile. Regime Martial.
the actress in question, arrested Probably Mile.
Regime had grown accustomed To the idea OF
crime on the stage. for she was formerly at
ached to that home Of glory meodrama. the
Ambign- What i particularly cheering is her
remark when arrested that she did not want
10 Hill her rival. but simply to punish her with
mild disposition.
DR.. Lauder Brunton draws a broad distinction
between exercise which is beneficial and over
'xereise which Is pernicious. says the Chicago
Record Exercise should be carried only to the