The evening times., 1899-05-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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! this country and Mexico next autumn
wouid-be Colunbuse. will be glad TO learn that
| one tenth Of the world is still unexplored.
In France during the period of the Capetian
and va,ois dynasties. the year began with Easter
Governor Cand.er, of Georgia. viii make the
opening address at the Atlanta University negro
conference on May 30
Tie great pineries Of the Southern States con-
tain. an average. about 900 feet, board meas
ure. OF standing timber per acre.
The educational system Of Denmark is so per-
feet and popular that throughout the entire coun-
try there Is not an illiterate family.
About 100 years ago the use of starch for stifen.
ing the frils around the neck considered
highly reprehensibie. il not positively sinful
Drums were first introduced in Europe by the
Ssracens The fife WAS introduced into the Eng.
li-h army by the Duke Of Cumberland in I745.
The blood completes its circuit through the
body in twenty-five scconds Every three min
utes all of the blood in the body is revitalized
The orchid. found in the iungles and difficult Of
access. sometimes commands 81 .Oo5 for single
specimen II takes months to stalk the demon
flowers"
Mrs. Nettie A. Miller Of Chicago, shot and
seriously wounded Charles Seibert because he
married Hattie Leonard, with whom Mrs. Miller
was in love.
Louis Dyer. Of Oxford, England. formerly an
assistant professor OF Greek at Harvard. Is de-
livering course OF lectures Machiavelli ut
the Royal Institute, London.
There is creature known as the hagfsh. which
is in the habit Of getting inside cod and SINH
lar fish and devouring the interior until only the
skin and the skeleton left.
II is probable that the French Government will
purchase the home Of the late Baroness Hrsch.
in Paris, to place of residence for guests
Of the nation during the exposition
Senator Carter of Montana says that in ten
yrars Montana will be producing annually more
wheat and -four than any two States in the Union.
1t will be shipped. he ADDS. to Asa;c markets.
Among the provisions of the will of Mrs. Mar
tina D. Stevens. Of Hoboken. one that. after
certain property had been distributed. the siy
heirs should draw lots for the remainder. This
provision WIS carried out.
In Japan most OF the horses are shod with
straw. Even the clurnsiest OF cart horses wear
straw Aoes. which. in their cases. tied around
the ankle with straw rope. and are made Of the
ordinary rice straw. braided to form sole
for the foot about half an inch thick
Each member of the stsf of .'La Fronse.- the
Paris woman's newspaper. brought suit for libel
mentary remarks about the women the paper
The ..Libre rarole' has been fined So and con-
denined TO pay 500 collective damages.
Governor Bradley. at the recent dedication at
ChickAnauga Of the first monument TO he erected
10 the memory Of both Federal and Confederate
soldiers. said: This monument the work Of
Kentucky. is what the whole country, both North
and South. has been waiting for during the last
quarter OF century
The race question cropped out in the Interna-
,iunal Sunday School convention at Atlantis the
other day. Georgia laws say colorcd people shall
sit apart from the whites in all public gather
ing4 The police called Chairman Gamblers at
tertion to this but afterward decided TO let the
delegates sit as they wished
The workmen's insurance laws have had
very good effect in German eitiss in diminishing
tuberculosis by compelling the wage-earning class
IS TO join sick clubs. and thereby putting them
in the way of taking better care of their health.
and providing them with medical attendance and
nursing early stage, when tuberculosis is
not yet incurable.
Thomas Edison's absent -mindedness about every
day affairs is proyerbial. He goes to New York
at least three times every week. and yet last
week forgot TO purchase a ticket each time When
he does manage TO remember this little neces-
sity for travellers the ticket Is generally covered
with minute and intricate calculations by the
time The conductor comes to collect it.
T Thoroddsen, who has explored Iceland dur
ing his vacations for fifteen years, and
every part OF it. will shortly publish his results.
He has discovered SCORES of crater lakes in
the interior. and regards the country about Natna
Iokul Is a counterpart of the scenery on the
moon. allowing for the fact that water exists in
Iceland. hut probably not in the moon
A certain class OF Londoners docs not ap-
pear to take very kindly to the publication in
that city of Sunday newspapers which innova-
tion has Just been introduced by the Daily
MaiI'' and the Leader" On a recent Sabbath
a prominent clergyman preached sermon against
Srr,,fl and n
remarks h. burned a copy Of the DAILY Mail''
in the pulpit presumably by way of an object
lesson.
Canadians seem TO he a triae hard to please
in the matter Of governor generals Lord and
Lady Aberdeen were regarded as 100 democratic
when they ruled in the vice regal court. Their
SUCCESSORS. Lord and Lady Mimic. being put
down too exclusive. The latter won some IA
yor during the winter by showing that she is q
capital skater. but his !ordshp twho. on account
of his somewhat short temDer. has long borne
the nickname OF ''PeppernintsO is not well re-
ceived by ''our lady of the SHOWS"
The Danes are, according TO a paper in topen-
hagen exercised over the fact that the members
of the royal family cannot agree 10 worship in
the same church. The King. a matter d
course attends services in the established Luther
an church. Bat Of the princes is a dissenter.
Princess Marie goes to the Roman Catholic
daughter Of King Christian. is Greek Catholic,
while another daughter. the Duchess OF Cumber-
land. when in Copenhagen attends worship in the
German Reformed church.
A resident of this city has pair Of eanaries
which absorlIs a great deal Of her time. says the
Springfield Union The Oldest bird is over if
teen wears of age. and has been entirely blind
for two years II has to be put on its perch
at night and in the daytime is fed regularly
II it wants something extra between meals it
futters faint peep" Age has made it bald
headed. but that it is well taken of is shown
in the continuance of its life Not many persons
would have the patience 10 attend to il When
food is offered it feels with its bill along the fin
gers which hold it, and then eats freely The
second bird is also bald-headed. with few feath-
ers sticking out like sde-whiskers which gives it
a comical look. Ii IS not blind. but sings little.
seeing one is master, of the situation, and pecks
at the blind bird. who cannot defend himself.
So they kept separate.
William aud Mary is the Oldest college in Amer
lea. although Harvard graduated class first.
In 1855 the Rev James Blair was sent over to
Virginia to act a sort of deputy for the Bishop
of London. who had ecclesiastical iurisdiction
over the colonial churches They called him
..commissary" In 1861 he returned to England
to represent TO the King and the Bishop the
necessity for institution for higher education.
He was kindly received by his sovereign and by
the clergy. and in February, 1922 the King
granted him a charter and gave him f2O 900 in
cash and the revenues OF certain crown lands.
Seymour. the attorney general. having received
the royal command to draw up the documents.
demonstrated. He need of n college in
Virginia. The patient Mr.. Blair explained that