The evening times., 1899-06-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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model farm, an idea to which he has given much
thought.
Prof Pagenstechsr. the famous German
list, was paid $1,000 to take trip to London
and examine the eyes of a great English mil
lionaire.
Medical men now regard typhoid fever as
disease so Preventable that, of them de.
clares, for every fatal case of typhoid fever
somebody ought to be hung"
Partisan BARRIERS. sre itsally compelled to wash
their lands after attending customer and be
fore waiting on another. They must use alsc
only nckle-plated combs.
The Japanese railways have introduced news.
paper reading some Of their passenger
trains Tall files of newspapers are kept at the
service OF travellers, that they may read they
ride
There are 100 persons upon the German En-
peror's list of employees. including $50 womer
servants. who are engaged in looking after the
twenty-five royal castles and palaces that belong
to the crown.
Marie Corelli, the novelist, says that whatever
pride she has is not in her work. but that she
has fought her fight alone. II have" she says
no thanks to offer TO anyone save those legiti-
mateiy due my publisher
St. Petersburg is to have a novel kind of a
nuseum-a building containing models OF famous
insane asylums and specimens of clothing and
appliances used therein. together with the brains
Of lunatics. preserved in alcohol, books photo
graphs. etc.
Mr.. Peter Dunno took a stroll through the
Strand his arrival in London, and what sp-
pears to have impressed him most was the spec
tacle Of the street hawkers with 2-cent edition
Of the Dooley deliverances. .'Wlst do / think
OF London?' says Mr. Dunno. well, it's a
great centre Of piracy.
State Senator Stout. OF Menominee. Wis. who
was largely instrumental in establishing with
his own means, system Of travelling libraries
in that State. proposes to build several pieces
of practical road in his county this summer. at
his personal expense, in order to furnish
nonic object lesson TO the farmers
The petroleum output in Southern California
now amounts to about $500 barrels a day. and
it is all consumed on the Pacific Coast. Ii was
discovered about ten years ago. and has been in
use for about five years. 4 tank steamer
regularly between Santa Barbara and SaL Fran
cisco. carrying refined petroleum to the latter
market.
A handy German. who had served his time to
a trunkmaker in Berlin, started in business in
New York, in Amsterdam Avenue, and painted
his own sign. 1t read thus: "Gustave Fritz.
maker Of trunk sandbags" policeman called
on him to examine the sandbags and learned
from the frightened Teuion that he merely in
tended TO announce himself Us Il maker of
trunks and bags"
Belgium is expanding its industrial field ard
is establishing important connections in Russia
and the Orient. shipbuilding yard and engin-
eering works being constructed at Nicolaiev.
the chief Russian naval station the Black
Sea. The headquarters of the company at
BoufFonex. near Chatelineau. in Belgium. The
shpbuilding department is being set up with
facilities for building two largest type
clads and six merchant vessels OF the largest
tonnage.
The blue rose, which, with the black, has SO
long been the subject Of horticultural research.
has. it seems. quite Unexpectedly made its ap-
pearsnce in a Continental garden Kizanlik, in
Bulgaria, whence the rarity is reported. Is
district renowned for its altar OF roses, and con-
the flowers are grown on 4 very large
scale. The of the blue is VI. Slant
chef, who when visiting his collections day.
noticed bush that had hitherto produced
blooms Of a pale rose color FIVE greenish-blue
roses, OF 4 hue recalling the delicate tints Of
the turquoise. Samples Of the soil where this
rare plant is grown have been sent to the chem
lcal laboratory OF Sofa to be minutely analyzed
1t is known 10 be rich in lime, annoniac, salts
Of copper. and oxide Of iron
An English paper says that of Wiliiam
Morris tribulations at Oxford the tas%.
equally hard in either case. of eyIding
,epting the invitations Of DR.. Henry AckIand.
whose intimacy with Ruskin and appreciation Of
the pre- -Raphaelite school led him to offer
slant hospitality to the Young painters Once.
when they were TO dine with Dr. Ackland. Nor
rs invented an illness and sent his apologies by
Burne-Jones. Unfortunately. Burne-Joncs
lived with the message when there still wanted
few minutes to dinner time Ackiand who WAS
III kindness, instantly. TO Burne-Jones infinite
iisr.ay put on his hat ard went around 10 see
he sick man in his lodgings; he found.
apparently in the best OF health and spirits.
,t'ing at dinner with Faulkner and playing crib
,age the meal. He had to confess recovery
md be led of TO dinner.
Mannheim. Pa. has felt itself famous ever
,nee the philadelphia Record chronicled the
act that Samuel Hamaker of that place, had the
hampton long beard At least the Mannheim
,eople thought that Samuers beard which is
orty -four inches long. stood a championship
.hance The following letter however. will dash
heir hopes TO the earth: Minneapolis. Mimi.
NAY 10. 'a9-Dear Sir: your boast of the
ength of Mr. Hamaker's beard. know OF
Norwegian, Hans Langseth. OF Glyndon, Minn.,
who can easily dance the end 'of his beard
tandins erect. He is a siN-fcoter. ana I think
ne is entitled to the championship. His beard
: s:-ty-two inches long. ] would be interested
to know if there are any Others who think they
an beat Mr.. Langseth, who Il a farmer lie
wears his heard coiled inside his vest when lie
works. Very truly yours, o. b. Stevens.
John Morley. who has just startled England by
declaring that he shall oppose the granting Of
honors to the victorious heroes OF the 0udIr-
nan campaign. has been described a bundle
II contradictions. lie has been called an atheist.
His friends. the other hand. say he i one II
he most truly religious Of men lie was cdu-
,ated Tory. he is BY temperament Wing. and
~ conviction Radical. Until well along IN
middle life he was IN editor and literary man.
Born in ISIS. he did enter Parliament until
ssS. Nc one imagined he could make y cen.
md when he first ro-e in Parliament hi kn"s'
we're shaking and his words starmerinc. Vow
li> power a speaker. either in the iiouse ~
m the platform. Is great at least a. that of
INV man IN public life in England His literary
raining has made him a master Of expression.
while his splendid courage has won him the -
Peet q: even the biitsresf OF his opPonents
An interesting flh that inhabits tbe waters
J, the Nile is the msisp,crnrus sIectricus. which
: considered about the best specimen o. electrical
i.h. for. unlike the gymnotus and TORPEDO. its
electric ORGANS do not affect its motion. In
aper presented 10 the ROYAL Institute at Lon
ton the theory i advanced by Frut. Gotsh that
he vat Of the electro motive force l. the nerve
.rn;rc itself. aud not the collection of plates
shich have hitherto becn considered the
.ieciric organ .f the h-h- Thcs- plates
.nnber about 2.0n.0o. and coh>ist of
modified muscular substance separaf-
Il by an slhuminous competition, while each
: connected by \ single nerve ntrr TO tho nerve
entire. 4 mea-siTcment % the electro motive
orce of the cclls bv a capillary electrometer
rvesled the fact that the elcctro-rnotivc force
sss Of the same order that produced by the
uptraction of 4 Muscle. and amounted TO about
Oi or as volt Between the exeitation Of the
l-rve and the maximum c.ec'ro-rnotiyc force
here i a time lag Of about I-10(0 Of second.
nd an osciiaiory eiectro-motive force il gen
rated by single momsntary eNcitation OF the
lerve At the lecture before the ROYAL institu-
len already referred to the electric current was
hown with a telephone. and also shocks given
o many Of the audience. some oi these fishes