The evening times., 1899-09-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Calling gun, has just celebrated his eighty first
birthday.
The Livingstone (Tenn.l Crescent announces
that there is "no school this week, as people are
pulling fodder
There is in the far West a little insect called
the ..tule gnat." which Is remarkable for its al
most total lack OF weight.
The clam diggers Of Maine have decided to form
a trust, hoping thereby 10 control the prices now
paid by the wholesale dealers
It is said that Wayne Mcyeagh's retainer in
the case of Capt. Oberfin " Carter $4,000
and that his fee Is likely to be several times as
much.
W. Zola is nothing ii not unique He says that
what most impressed him during his sojourn in
Losdon was the number OF hairpins he observed
on the Sidewalks
by the fact that recently French investments in
Belgian banks have been augmented by many
millions OF money.
w. R. Smith, the superintendent OF the Cow
ernment Botanical Gardens, has given to the
Carnegie Library OF Pittsburg his valuable col
lection Of Burnsiana-
The will of Mrs. Hester " wetherefl, widow
Of Col. John W. Wetherell, of Worcester, Mass,
makes bequests TO religious and charitable insti-
tutions CT Worcester aggregating s100,0oo-
Someone claims to have discovered that the
constant effect of the wind blowing in the face OF
the motorman results, or later, in serious
injury to the lungs, by giving them no work to
do.
In Chicago. where the scarcity OF domestic
servants has been feature OF the social sitJa-
tion for some time past, the people are more
and more turning to the employment Of men for
such work.
Miss Coote has Just assembled the wetter-
horn, Alpine peak L. le5 feet high II she
wants a real good climb she should direct her
attention to Mount Assinaboine, in British Co
lunbia. No foot has yet been set on his bald
pate
Certain eurosities OF the Gregcrian calendar are
amusing Thus. since the reform Of the calendar
by Pope Gregory XIII, in 1872. no century can
begin with a Wednesday, Friday. or a Sunday
Also the same calendar can be used every twenty
years
Skaguay has annexed Dyea by taking up all its
buildings, foating them across the bay, and dis
tributing them within its own corporate limits
Even the warning Of earthquake while the re-
moyal was under discussion did not stay the
process
According to the 'Londop Leader Moham-
mechanism appears TO be growing rapidly in Brit
ish West Africa. and to Be sboving excellent re-
suits in the life OF the people. Temperance and
deeency accompany the march of the religion Of
the Koran.
Tire first Australian newspaper. the Sydney
Gazette was published March 5, 1893, fifteen
years after the rise OF the colony The delay was
caused through there being no printers among the
convicts, who represented every profession, in
Guiding the legal
French railroad companies have been ordered
by the courts 10 provide their passengers with
season tickets without advertisements. The West
ern railroad had increased the number Of advef-
tisements until season ticket was a thick as d
pocketbook, and commuters refused 10 carry
them.
Samuel jackson, who died recently at his home
in Wynn, Ind, at the age of ninety-one, oper-
ated the first paper mill west Of the Alleghanies
The mill in Cincinnati, but after being op-
Grated there for some years was removed TO Ham
ilton, Ohio, still being conducted under hia
name.
Among new measures contemplated for the de-
Yelopment of the Italian colony CT Erythrea, in
Africa. Is one for the construction Of railway
which shall effect junction with the British
Souian railway. The line will be from Aasso-
wah 10 Keren, where it will join the British
line 10 kassala-
The municipality of Berlin recently entered
suit against its chief of police, the charge OF
having prevented the erection Of arch in the
Friedriehshain in memory Of the victims OF the
instruction Of IS4s- The district judicial council
has now dismissed the action, imposing the costs
the municipality.
Friedrich Nietzche, the insane German philos-
opher. continues in the same hopeless mental
alteration that has elouded his mind for some
years; vet occasionally he arouses 70 the con
sciousness Of his present condition; then he takes
his sister BY the hand. and says gently. sister.
We are very happy now, aren't WEI!
correspondent of the s'Berlin TagebIatt'' calls
attention TO the fact that German was vieeroy
IL vr-s- E7a
! name was Teteus and he was captain OF ship
which exported Snails TO China. In 1855 he mar
ried one OF the daughters OF the King OF the
Carolines, and bought OF him one OF the ISLANDS,
Imported French brandy can no longer safely
be accepted as having been made from the pure
juice Of the grape. Official returns show that the
total production Of the genuine article IN France
| last wear was only about 100000 gallons, bu;
that the exports OF what pretended to be grape
brandy was over 5000 OJO gallons, OF which enc
| half went to England
Among the papers of the late Oriental scholar,
StickeI, of Jena, several dedications by Goethe
| have been found One of the pages contain the
following words: My principal teaching Sas beer
| this: Let the father for his household. the
| workman for his customer, the clergyman fol
| love TO another. and let the police keep from
| troubling our happiness ". (einaTl, October 20
| 1850. j. ". Won Goethe
| The son Of the Mikado, the Crown Prince o
Japan, now that he is married viii have built ful
him Il palace beitting his high estate TOkuma
| KatayamI OF Tokyo, the architect. has been in
4 this country three months TO buy plans and
specifications. and 10 place the contract for tho
4 structural steel Nr. katayama is now in NeH
| York considering the bids OF the makers OF stee
| in order to place the contract. About 5000 tom
| of steel are required, at an approximate cost o.
| S175,OO0.
! Mentz is TO have an important celebration next
| year 1t is to be the quineentenary OF the brit
| of John Gutenberg, the inventor OF printing Will
| movable types who was born in or near that city
| The Imperial Chancellor has lent his name 10 thI
/ movement, and it IS intended that the memoria
| ceremonies shall be on grand scale It Is
very odd fact. considering the career of the MAJ
! whose memory is to be celebrated, that the com
| mittee OF management does not include any mem
| Der OF the press.
| Labor is very scarce in Mexico owing to tn
wave of prosperity which has swept over TIN
land, and there is talk of importing negro labor
| ers to that republic from Jamaica. The '-Nexi
! can HERALD saws that within the next few
| months there viii be great activity in the wal
| Of railroad building and the construction of por
works. Fully 10000 laborers will be required
| and as NEST of this work Will be done in dis
| triets affected with yellow fever, the problem
| becomes more difficult. 1t is almost impossible
TO procure men from the North TO go down int
/ the hot country"
DIR. Cecil Wilson, the Anglican Bishop OF Me
lanesia. Is an enthusiastic cricketer- The grea
majority of the inhabitants Of Norfolk Island
the headquarters of his diocese. are the descend
| ants OF the mutineers of the Bounty, and form
what is locally known as the Community Tn
| minority, who have mutineer blood in thei
| veins. are styled the OUTLAWS and they good
| humoredly accept the designation. On the gen
eral holiday of the island, Anniversary Day. tn
''eoninHInity and the outlaws played cFicS
| ct match, Bishop Wilson csptaining the latter