The evening times., 1899-04-22
NOTES OF The DAY.

Of Goethe
The French people still fight an average Of 1000
dueis every year.
The population of the world increases 10 per
cent every ten years.
Austria is the only empire in the world which
has never had colonies. nor even transmsrins pos
sessions
Conan Doyle Is an all-around sportsman. lie
Is good heavyweight boxer and a good foot
ball player.
The south Of England has lost in the Rev.
william Awary, OF Ludsershall. Wiltshire, its IA
nous sporting parson.
pearl diver considers II 4 good DAYS work IL
he collects ANYTHING over 30 shells thousand
shells is the record Of one day.
The Atlanta x'hooi board has repealed the rule
under which children permitted tn attend
church On church holidays without demerit.
The average rainfall of San Juan is 81 inches.
and fifteen miles to the east it is I53 inches tn.
trade winds accounting for this surprising di
ference.
The record OF the greatest number of note,
struck by musician in twelve hours is ssid t0
have been made by Paderewski, who struck l.
030 800 notes.
The Prince Of Wales, ever since the la.ning Of
his knee. has walked with an old ebony cane
once the property Of George ", during the lat
ter's regency.
Visitors to the court Of Russia are allowed to
kiss the hand of the Empress. Queen Victoria
is less generous in granting this privilege. and
only very distinguished persons are supposed to
enjoy il. As for ANYTHING 50 democratic as .hak-
ing hands. perish the thought. This is reserved
for relatives only
According to the '.Revue scienti6que,' Berlin
shows a greater increase in the number of wis.,
itors than any other European city. In 1sss
there were 2Gs.coo visitors; in 1897 there were
5l'.GDo-a gain Of 9s per cent, In Paris The in-
crease was smaller but the total number larger.
$4,000 in 1897. In the same year yieEna had
56i, 900 visitors.
II is not generally known that the remains OF
all the Cars of Russia, since Peter the Great,
lie in a memorial chapel built on one Of the
Islands of the Seva. All the cenotaplis are ex-
actly alike, each being block Of white mIrblr.
without any decoration whatever. The only dis
tiuction by which one Is marked Is the name VI
tine deceased Emperor.
Rather a curious sight was seen on Water
Street, Pittsheid, Me-, early last sunday morn.
ing. A large buck deer strolled down the main
thoroughfare in rather a leinrely manner.
though especially desirous of becoming acquainted
with the place, and after reaching nearly the
across Elm Street. up Grove. and then made for
the woods.
According to Dr. Schwalbe's medical directory.
the number of medical men in Germany is es.-
s51. Az article in the '.Deutsche Medicinsche.''
Wochenschrift states that there has been during
ISas an increase II sSi 1876 per cent?. While the
general population increased by 81 per cent dur-
ing the ten years Is55-lss'. and BY Ii.6 per cent
during the ten years lss5-ls2j. the medical pro-
fessou increased during the same two period, by
Ia and NJ per cent, respectively.
Workmen preparing Eifcl's Tower to re-
eeivc coat Of paint Tie mei5ilic monu-
ment is 10 be yellow washed. and the top will.
according to the engineer n-ebief. VI. Million.
glow like golden sum- Another 'uat of orange
paint is 10 lie put on before the exhibition.
electric globes will be placed around all the rib.
and the lifts are to be enlarged ard improved
to enable 100 persons to he taken up st
one time. and more quickly than before.
The Boston Transcript tells a story Of Q
Boston woman member Of the Wouans Chris
tian Temperance Union. who recently tfly-
cling to the Pacific coa=i the Northern Pa
eiic Railroad Now. North Dakota is a rigid
prohibition State and the dining cars have this
notice posted up in them: No intoxicating liq-
uoTs will be served while the train Is passing
through the state Of Dzkota. The tain had
heeu rolling along through t.i1i interniinabie
State lOie time. when the Boston wurtsn. wlo
Is interested in temperance. came into the din
ing for her dinner Casting her eye out Of
the window upon a somewhat changed land
scape. she said 10 the waiter. with pgreiy geo.
graphical intereSt: Are NE s;iil in North Ia
q bospitabie grin; .'~hat'n YOU take TO drink,
ma smi'
Some months ago. says the "kansas City
Journal" PRO-. l. T. Weeks Of southwest Col
legc. wrote a poem which he thought was all
right. and which he offered 10 the fsntuIy
Magazine for publication. His wife. Ada Aie-
born Weeks made Inn Of hi- literary aspirations.
and kept telling him about the rill that lay IN
wait for his vanity. In dGe time. however, all
nc, cptarce cine taom the magazine. accompA-
MED By check Tor so, and then that man be.
gan 10 lord it the woman. Finally she got
mad and declared that she could write bet;ef
poetry than he with one hand tied behind her.
and TO prove it She indited piece and sent il
10 the Century Almost at nnce she
hack an acceptance. accompanied i,y Check Iur
$50. ard row she is making life such i burden
inr her ten-delsr husband tEat he doesn't knox
what 10 do
Judgment kas been given in the Bismarck PHI,
asrarh sssudal case and two entsipriSiDs Ham
burg phoIogTspi, have been sen; 10 Jail The
night Prince Bismarck died they hril-ed the
watcher, and entering the in which the
body lay by winduw. took j hashiight photo
graph OF the dead chancellor. This they rii,j u
Ill hut the Bismarck family inteErened the
ground that i;s permission Lad not been given;
The perpetrators weie caught by their own pho
OgTaph. The sly Germans did not notice a
.icck on the wall which narsed tho exact
nent when the picture Vas iaksn- This todd
he police which watcher, wefe on duty. ana
pictures. The case has dragged through the
rosirts for nearly /. year. aud hiss Just been de-
rided. Sente,;-rs al from three 10 >ix month";
imprisonment indicted pud the pictnrvs
have been suppressed
According to our Dispatches from Cambridge,
,ays the ..Bslumcrc San Dorchester is cnti-
lied 10 the prp.d distinction OF being the great.
=, n,,isSrai producing county IS Maryland. Two
hundred ard fifty thousand mu>krs,s in one yea:
IS the record, ans: other county can approach
il. This increase in rau-STai production i most
timely. Not only Is there Profit in the peltries,
but the flesh OF the n.usiSrat is -aid TO be 'y
.omc of the local rrtcyuss eycelient suistI-
ute for dar,ondIi'scsl 'crrapin When any of
me neressaiics OF !ifc- become scarce some sub
titute is quickly discovered, and Just soon
ne J,rice of diamond backs rcscii. Il $50 dozrn
/ WIS found that the mrssral was good sub
.titute Indeed. in the hands of skillfal cook,
[ Is said II can be made to masquerade the
,ostly and altogether sik--tockinc.d reptile. It
5 apparent that limit can be placed upon the
csourccs Of the astern shore. 1t j. always
.Pial to tire occasion
OF the origin Of Judge Lynch the Chicago
Tribune says: 1T goes back to Ii9S when
Iaures Fitzstephcns Lynch mayor anu
len of Galway. Ireland. He sent his 10
spain to purchase cargo of wine. The Young
nan ssran.!cr.d the money. hut bought Il ship
osd OF wine on credit, bringing with him hack
o Ireland the nephew of his creditor. 10 whom
he debt TO be paid. Young Lynch threw
he Spaniard overheard to conceal his own de
alcation, and was received Al home with great
.onor as having conducted successful basi-
less operation. But sailor confessed on his
eathbed to the father OF the culprit, and yo,ns
.ynci was taken tcfpre the mayor Of Galway,
is own father. tried and condemned to death
he family tried to prevent the execution, but
he father rather ti;an sec justice thwart-
d. tcos his scn ep a winding stairway opened
= window overlooking a pun.ic street. fastened
he moose with his own hands. and acted
cutioner. Ever SINCE. whenever man has taken