The evening times., 1899-04-18
NOTES OF TaE DAY.
Ireland has 1000 mud cabins.

Parisians eat 10000 pounds of snals daily.
London has 1880 miles of streets; Paris COO
The number Of cities in Massachusetts, has
doubied in twenty-6se year..
1t was hfty-tbree years on February ~ since
the corn laws were abolished.
Hotel chsmbermaids are unknown in Mexico.
Men make the beds and keep the rooms in order.
When first known to the Romans silk was 50
dear that it WAS sold weight for weight with
gold
Queen Victoria has every throne in the
world vacated at least once. and some OF them
several times.
Indians in Oregon market every spring tons
Of wool gathered from sheep that die on the
ranges during the winter.
The present printing machinery Of the Oxford
press. il it were all running Bibles, would
turn out $50 copies per minute
Billboard advertisements are posted in some
PAGES by machines that reach to the top Of
'ofoot wall without ladder or paste pot
In 800 New York sweat shops the highest wages
earned. according to the Board Of Health report,
is i5 cents for eighteen hours work day.
During 1898 the labor commissioner Of Seattle
found employment for IS, l54 people, in addition
TO large number sent to the hop fields to picx
hops.
Gen. Guy v. Henry, governor general Of Porto
Rico, was born in army wagon at Fort Smith,
]. T., where his father, Major william s. Henry.
then stationed.
A scheme for carrying a railway up Mont
Blanc has been pronounced feasible by
mission Of experts. The total cost Of the line
is estimated at E400,000.
Though the name Of Coils p Huntington ID
generally connected with railways, Mr.. Hunting
ton owns more coal mines than any other man
in the United States. il not in the World.
James Doll. the oldezt actor. has just eee-
brsted his ninety fifth birthday. He friend
aud associate of Edmund Kean, Nacready,
Phelps, Fanny ke,nble. and Gustayus Brooke.
1t is asserted that property owned by religious
corporations in Cincinnati, but not used for
church purposes, has escaped taxation to the ex-
tent Of s2oo.0oo during the past five years. An
effort is TO be made to collect it.
Eugene Toulouze, well-known archaeologist
and student Of the antiquities, of Paris has Just
made restoration of druggists shop Of the
seventeenth century. with articles discovered re-
Gently in Paris some of them old
the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries
After the strike OF lawyers in Spain have
now a strike OF jurymen in Austria. The cit-
of Prague who are called upon TO act as
Jurymen have unanimously refused to attend for
that purpose. unless Il hall is bult TO
eommodate them. the old being unhealthy
and too small.
1t is generally believed that the common house
martin, which leaves England when nesting time
is over. spends the winter in Africa But, al
though millions of the birds disappear from Eu-
rope every autumn, the ornithoogist. DIR. Sharpe.
knows of only one single authentic instance Of
the capture OF martin in the African continent.
Mrs. Mabel French, OF Sullivan. Ind, i per-
haps the only woman who made out her
own marriage license. Before her marriage
few days she was stenographer in the county
clerks office She Was there when her hsncc.
Frank y French, druggist. for his IL
cense- He induced her make out the docu-
Dent.
DIR. Richard Carneti. the keeper of printed
books in the British Museum. SAYS there are
about 2,000.0Oo books in the museum The eata-
logue. which is all printed used to consist
oi 5000 yolumes. When il is all printed. how-
ever. it is hoped to condense it to 1000. About
ss0.V0 Is annually spent on the compilation of
the catalogue alone
Judge John B. Stone, of Kansas City. is being
sued for 5000 for having killed tree which
stands in front OF a neighbor's property The
tree was especially valued by the neighbcr he
cause of the fact that il planted By her son.
now deceased: but for unknown reason
Judge Stone bored large augur hole in it and
filled the cavity with coal OIL
The New York Police Department on March /
had a total membership OF 1854 officers and
men, Of whom 81 were in the bicycle squad. -
81 were in the sanitary corps. and y were de-
tailed for service in the house of detention. There
also Is police matrons, bringing up the
total of the force to more than 400.
The increase OF the United States in coal out
put III recent years is surprs ng the siatsticians
of the world Its production has grown far more
rapidly than that Of any other country IN the
past quarter cf century therelbouts Eng
land'- gain IN this respect has been - per cent.
that Of France 20 per cent; that OF Germany,
lI5 per cent. while the gain Of the United States
1893 per cent.
In the dry South african region. where every
green thing gets nibbed down in the rainle-s
season. certain ice plants and milk weed. have
the trick of forming tuber- stems exactly
like the pebbles among which they grow.
that when the leaves die down in the dry
weather the tuber> are not to be seen apart
from the stones These tubeTs carry the plant
till the next Tainy
Gen. EIwcll : Otis, while an Indian
paiSn. received this authentic letter, dated
simply. Yellowstone: want to know what you
doing travelling ON this road? You scare the
buffalo away. ] want TO hunt in this place. ]
you TO turn hack from here. Ii YOU don't
| will fight YOU again. | want you to leave
what You have got here and turn back from
here. am your isiend-Sitiing Bull.
A month ago there not single auto
graph hunter to do the French President
cnce. and today VI. foubets handwriting, cSpe-
tally il guaranteed by experts. is worth any
where from five TO thirty francs. VI. Faure.
happy in most things, took back seat in the
matter of autographs: not that his writing was
bad or illegible. hut simply that it net
negotiable the same extent as that OF most
Presidents.
The Johns Hopkins expedition has started fer
the Orient in order 10 study tropical diseases.
1t consists of DIR. Simon Flexner, professor Of
pathological anatomy and resident pathologist OF
the Johns Hopkins Hospital; DIR. L. =. Barker.
associate professor of anatomy and assistant
ident pathoogist OF the Johns Hopkins Hospital:
Joseph NJ Flint of Chicago, and Frederick =.
Gay, of Boston. who are medical students. and
Mr.. John W. Garrett, oil Baltimore.
All London is agog over the extraordinary
will made by The late Walter Broadwood, the
millionaire head of the English piano manufae-
turing firm OF that name, who is found to have
bequeathed almost the whole OF his colossal for
tune, including his country seats, horses, and
carriages. and all his private papers and cores
pondence, TO his nurse, woman of the name Of
Amelia Edwards. His two daughters are left
an income Of $4,000 year. The will is likely
to be contested.
Tie Rev. Samuel May. Of Leicester Mass,
says the Boston Transcript. has sent to the Mas
sachusetts Library complete set Of the Lib
crty Bell" covering the years. inclusive. from
1859 to 1858, with the exception of 1850. 1885,
1855 and 1857. when publication was Temporal
sily suspended. Mr.. May, who is one of the
three living members Of the celebrated Holmes
class of 1929, OF Harvard College (the other two
being Charles :. Storrew. of Boston. and Dr.
Edward L. Cunningham. OF Newport). has
NOT ats,d the volumes Systematically and o,Ic