The evening times., 1899-06-15
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Minneapolis mills grind Ia0Oo,o0o barrels
OF -four year and consume 10. .003 900 bushels Of
wheat.
Nearly 29.cso Canadians erigratcd from
the province Of Quebec to the United States this
| spring.
| It is predicted that the apple crop ~ Kansas
this year will be the largest in the history II
| the State.
An eminent physician nys that persons should
not drink tea coffee until they are eighteen
Yeats OF age
The United States is the only great nation
whose postal receipts fall below its expenditures
for the service.
bust Of Sir Waiter Scott has been set up in
the Boston Public Library. 1t is copy OF the
Hutchinson bust in Westminster Abbev.
In the western islands Of Scotland there is no
industry which exrrts much influence upon tine
conditions Of life as the herring fishery.
According TO statistics just Issued by ''Iioyd's
Register Of Shipping 9s.: per of the tonnage
eiassed during Last year was built Of steel.
!, has been proved that com and potatoes and
a few other farm products thrive best when
Cultivated in rows running north and south.
A new word applied to Americans Is 'qiino-
phaSists Indicating that they consume more
qiinine than any otEer people in the world.
During the last ten years the quantity of
phalt exported from the famous Pitch Lake of
Trinidad has amounted to very nearly 5000
tons.
Since the price of silver bullion has reacted
prices of railway and public securities in coun-
tries on a silver basis have also declined in
LONDON.
The late Ex-Governor Fiogrer was not a vain
man. bu; liked to see his name in print and
80 was one Of the easiest in the country
TO interview.
The '..Topcia (Kan) Plain Dlaler' has issued
specal Dunbar number. containing critical
es-ays on the work Of Dunbar. and sketch OF
his life.
dental authority declares that IT is not ur-
common at the present time to find infants with
decayed teeth. and girls of fourteen or sixteen
wearing artificial teeth.
The recovery of Khartoum and the southern
provinces Of Egypt has cost s1i .5OoeoO For the
current year the expenditure in the soudan Is
estimated at Sl.o00.0O0
Helen GoulTs income is the largest Of anv un-
married in the country She does not
spend much on herself On churches and charities
she spends sio0.DOO year.
An English correspondent writes from Cons,an-
tnOple thar there upward of 3s OOa Ar
menian children stii uncared for, among whom
the distress is appalling.
The Germans in st. Petersburg have been ccIe-
brating the twenty fifth professional anniversary
OF josef konig, the head Of the German school
there, which has I.io) pupils
Japan is very small country having an area
OF less than 10000 square miles but it has lc-
cording to latest accounts 1900 elementary
schools and 3.10D.oOD pupils
Gold has been discovered in Kamchatka.
peninsula Of Northern Siberia. The population %
hanichatkl Is ony i.5g1. most of the inhabitants
being Indians like the EsSimos.
Charles Broadway Rouss. the blind millionaire
is not in favor of speculation or stock jobbing
The best way to get along he says, ii, to
stick TO your regular line of WORK
Recent events have shown that the supply Of
natural gas in the intiisna fields is slowly giyin,
out. In some parts of the gas bel; row TIN. "a,
companies refuse TO make rev conrcctions
Tyndall's plan Of purifying water By means
Of electric currents has been tried successfully
in the Burgrs Canal. in Belgium After being
subjected to a current of I.g1J volts the w.ter
became pure and palatablc.
A Maryland man wanted a wife hut failed
for long time to obtain his desire because he
was nearly ninety years old. Finally. however.
he Induced a Young woman 10 wed him by pre-
scnting her beforehand with 500.
The Prince of wales is said TO have deter
mined 10 give UP yachting His ventures in the
sport have resulted well. and he has al
ready withdrawn from two yacht clubs with
which he has been long identified.
W. S. Cilbcrt has collection of euriositics
at his heme at Harrow weald. and among
them is the model of man-of-war of 100 years
ago. fifteen feet long; it was from this that the
scene in .'Pinafore'' designed.
Mrs Hetty Green is OF the opinion that money
making is easy for women, but, she added.
in interview the ether day. ''the most i'm
poItant thing FOR a wdmsn to learn to be sue
cessiul is to mind her business''
Fire losses continue to far ahead of last
rears figures Tie New York Journal of Com
nerce's'' figures for the four months past
sig. So. .001 compared with SO ,a5S. .0Ol during the
aule time last year, and So, ,y62, 400 in ls9I.
Seth Low says the les. political advertisement
le ever had the publication Of the announce
rcnt that he had refused to give money To help
lloug in his campaign. That" says Nr. Low,
is what elected me mayor Of Brooklyn"
Hydrogen light is especially favored in hospi
al work for hygienie reasons, aside from the ad-
;antages Of economy. and the recent experience
With the strache lamp at the Vienna General
hospital confirms the favorable reports already
eceivcd.
In recent letter on the use of riches, An
lrew Carnegie SAYS: in the final aristOcracy
he question will he, what has the rich man
lone for his fellows? 1t will no. be asked under
What form he wors,iped God, but how he
d man
Former President Harrison's work in p;eplrin:
or the Venezuelan arbitration though it has n
nterfereI with his health. has been most
he would frequently sit down TO it at noon and
ontinue Al his books until early hour the next
morning.
The Methods. twentieth century mIlion-poy;nd
und in England is progressing. Already over
81. eeO guineas reported. and very large
lumber Of circuits have not yet contributed. and
he Sunday school contributions have yet
een made.
The air is clear at Arequipa Peru. From the
hsSrvatoTy at that place. $3.50 feet above the
ca, black spot. inch in diameter. placed
m 4 white disk, has been Mount Char
hani. a distance of eleven miles, through
Sinch telescope.
Books can he adjusted in a convenient position
D be read by the Of I support. consist
ng of vertical standard mounted on bail bear
ngs TO revolve freely, having 4 fitting rack At
he top, which clamps the book and holds il at
be angle desired.
A pike was caught in the Connecticut River
he other day which thirty ty-one and one-hali
nches long and weighed six and one-half pounds
he catch made with ordinary trout hook
nd line. and required a good deal of playing
eforc il could be landed.
In 1851 the population OF England and Wales
as about 0,O0O,O11. In that year 25S divorce
Iits entered. Ten years later there
10 suits among 2300D.0bD population. In 1881
here els cut OF 26.0s).00o, and last year
here s22 out Of Sl.D00.091.
arrage license BILL requiring that five days
apse between the granting OF license and the
arriage, the license meanwhile to remain on
e. The purpose is to stop the incurson Of
oping couples from other States