The evening times., 1899-08-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

British women are said to average two inches
more in height than Americans.
The Empire of Morocco is the most important
state that Is absolutely without newspaper.
1t is estimated that there are 5000 pupils in
the agricultural schools of the United States.
The German association for sffording assistance
TO the shipwreeked saved ninety-six lives Last
year.
In the San Francisco schools japanese children
are not segregated on the school rolls. but
elassed whites.
who is making manuscript copy Of the Bible.
lie expects to finish it in two years.
German government mine surveyor has en-
tered the service OF the Sultan in order to con-
duct coal explorations in Asia Minor.
The coffee plant is indigenous to Asia and At
riea, but the greater part of the worlds product
now comes from the Western Hemisphere
One Of the sights at Freeport Me-, on a re-
cent afternoon WIS a granddaughter OF fourteen
Years teaching her grandmother how 10 ride a
bike.
ing to do with the tides. but are supposed 10 be
caused by earthquakes. They do not, therefore,
appear at regular intervals.
Famine is general in no less than seven prov
,nees OF Russia. and the number of peasants
from hye to twenty million
The best and healthiest color for bedroom
blinds is dark green. IL is always recommended
by both brain doctors and oculists Dark blue
IS next best, but rot nearly good as green.
Only once in their history as a nation have the
Spanish achieved naval victory. That was az
the battle of Lepanto in I57I. when, with the aid
OF fenetians and Genoese, they annihilated the
Turkish feet.
The United States has about 450, ,0o0, ,0o0 acres
of forest. but this is being rapidly depleted by
the AK and by destructive fires. The Govern
ment IS row investigating means to prevent or
control the latter.
circus elephant needing medical treatment
was recently ehloroformed in Peru. Ind The
anaesthetic was given through the trunk by
means Of trouser leg slipped around it and
packed with cotton
Fort Scott, Kan. win give a medal to every
private and non-commissioned officer from the
town who has served in the Twentieth Kansas
Regiment in the Philippines. the expense being
betrayed by private subscriptions.
More ships sail the Detroit River than enter
Liverpool or London The suez Canal, which ear
ries the commerce of the world passed last wear
5,5o0,oO0 tonnage. while there were foated
through the locks Of Sault Ste Marie I8.5O0.-
900 in eight months
For every dollar spent in this country for spir-
itous and malt liquors, the Chicago News says
that 20 cents is spent for tea and coffee The
amount of money squandered by the American
people for tea and coffee is really astonishing
The Church Missionary Society of England
has been celebrating its centenary. This society
dominates missionary thought and action in
England, and has the largest income o; any
missionary society in the world IL has sent out
over 2,OJO missionaries, the first going IN 1903
Though the leopard gill sometimes. as all read
ers of Mr- Selous' books know. break into hut
and kill man at night, il j usually very much
afraid of him by day. noted hunter has him
self more than once beaten leopard 30 death
with his stirrup when he had other weapon
handy.
sixty-two vessels are being built at the sew
eral shipyards on the Delaware River, between
Philadelpha and Wilmington. Del. The "Ches-
ter Times' says that never before has there been
such great amount of work on hand at the
yards. and there are contracts ahead for years
labor in shipbuilding-
'Free Russia, published in London. SAYS that
a Nihilist paper called .'Rabotschaya Myssi'' Ohe
Laboring Mind), has existed in ST. Petersburg for
a year without the police having succeeded in
discovering the place where il printed. al
though from 500 to 5000 copies Of each issue
have been distributed
According to recent returns Krupp Of Essen
pays an income tax on a revenue Of 6.0O0O0O
marks Baron Willy Won Rothsehild. chief Of
the Frankfort banking house. estimates his in
come at a little less than krupps- Count Hen
ekel-DoHnersmarck occupies the third place
the list Of big taxpayers
Bishop Hendrix, in a recent lecture, is report
cd to have said: '-Methodisrn today breaches the
Gospel in more tongues than were spoken in the
whole Roman Empire in her proudest days; and
her children, taken together in all lands out
number the entire hosts of Christianity at the
end OF the FIST two centuries
Smoke-tinted speetacles are worn by the cat
lie which range the snow-covered plains of Rus
sia 1t was discovered that the glare caused by
sunlight the made them blind, and
spectacles fitted 10 them TO protect their
sight as they plucked the grass which sprouted
through the earth's white mantle.
From time to time experts have noticed GER
tain unexplainable peculiarities in magnetic IN
strurnents in various buildings. Electricians now
declare. as the result of experiments and inves-
tigations. that the vasaries due to the pres
ence of magnetism in bricks. They are made of
earthly matter, containing greater or less pro-
portion Of magnetic or magnetic iron ore
In criminal prosecution recently tried in
York, Neb, the jury, after a brief delfberation.
returned the following verdict: I'VE, the jury
in the above-named case. 60 not believe enc word
that the witnesses have sworn to; neither do We
believe that any of the attorneys have spoken
the truth, that either OF them could do so
even if he should care 10 take the trouble TO
try
.'curatorium'' for eye troubles exists in st.
Petersburg which sends commissions Through
the country districts for the purpose of giving
free treatment and advice TO those among the
peasantTy who are suffering from affections of
the eyes The report Of the year IS9S states
that thirty-three of these Ophthanolagical expe-
ditions were sent out during the year to
rious parts of the empire
c. l. Dewey, Kenosha Wis, hardware mer-
chant recently ordered ladder from a Chicago
house.-and after waiting a reasonable length of
time he wrote to enquire why ne had not re-
eeiyed il. He was informed that theS ladder had
been shipped by mistake 10 Admiral Dewey. at
Manila. tracer sent after it. and il was
overtaken Just as il was about to be placed
board of a steamer at san Francisco.
The Chinese have many things among their in
stitutions which call forth the praise Of travel
ers, but Chinese roads are not among them In
more senses than one the Celestials ought to
.'mend their ways" Confucius has left the say
ing that "a smoother of way is a benefactOr
of his Species" but visitors TO the Flowery Land
in the present day would come to the conclusion
that such benefaetors have been scarce for a long
time past
The strength of vision in savages proves to be
much less extraordinary than supposed Dr.
Beheim, on a visit 10 Johannesburg, has tested
the sight of 1853 Kaffirs BesutoS, HottentOts
ZuIus and Bushmen, finding 1.5G9 with normal
vision equal to that in Europeans; PSI with
stronger sight. and 81 with weaker. Phenome-
nal vision was shown by KaffiT girl of four
teen, who perceived objects al sixty feet away,
as well as a normal white could at twenty feet.
1t is estimated the 'breadeating'' population
of the world will need during the coming year