The evening times., 1899-04-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Cincinnati has the largest tannery.

Cincinnati has the largest tannery.
A quart Of milk contains about the same
amount Of nutriment as threequsrters Of pound
Of beef.
General Booth. Of the Salvation Army. intends
to establish an industrial farm of l5.0oo acres
in Western Australia.
Canada Is building ten big steel wheat ships
Of 5000 bushels capacity. TO traverse her Is
loot canals to tidewater.
A, the railway stations in Russia books are
kept in which passengers may enter any com
p.aint they wish to make.
Margaret Deland says she reads economics, his
tory, and the newspapers for instruction, and
novels only for entertainment.
=. Marion Crawford has undertaken to write
biography of the Pope, and is now at work
upon it at his home in Sorrento.
Edward Everett Hale recalls the solemn fact
that when James Russell Lowell first went on to
The lecture platform he was content to earn y
a night.
the number Of regular physicians since 1879 has
been i'2 per cent, while that Of quacks has been
1,e01 per cent.
Colonel Egbert. who was killed the other day
in the Philippines, owned the ducling pistols
used by Hamilton and Burr in their deadly en-
counter in 1904.
Admiral schley was an officer on the srigate
Niagara when. in ls53 it bore back TO Japan
the embassy sent here to return the visit Of
Commodore Perry.
The first woman pensioner of the Spanish war
is Mrs. s. c. Gibresth. of Austin, Texas, whose
husband. major in the Eleventh Infantry, died
in Porto Rico last summer.
The ''Brookfe'd (io.) Gazette after taking
look At the country roads. declares in favor
of return TO wooden shoes. And 'let each shoe
be big enough to float man.
What was supposed to be strange disease
that was killing sheep in Wabash county, Ind.
turns out to be poreupine grass. which punetured
the Sleeps skins and poisoned them.
Oddly enough. most of New Jerseys public
men bacheiors- Among these Governor
Voorhees,, United States Senator Kean. Speaker
Watkins, and State Comptroller Hancock.
turnip seed increases its own weight ff-
teen times in minute. On peat ground tur
nips have been found to increase by growth
5000 times the weight of their seed each day.
Sinai Congregation, of Chicago. has voted to
pay its rabbi Dr. Emil c. Hirsch who was re-
Gently called to the Temple Emanuel. in this
city. annual salary OF $1,000 for fifteen years
There used to be an old, rather sarcastic say
ing in earlier days that prevalent in the
towns Jealous Of Lexington. to the effect that
the battle of Lexington was fought at Concord
by Acton men.
The young Duchess of Marlborough and several
other ladies Of much wealth and rank going
in for talcoIry. 1t is expensive form of sport.
ordinary hawk costing much 500 and
requiring quite an outlay for maintenance and
training.
When General Arthur Macarthur appointed
adjutant TO the Twenty fourth Wisconsin yolun-
teeTs in 1862 he was 50 small of stature and of
voice that he familisrly known The
Boy which still sticks 10 him in the
Philippines
Some musical notes are low and solemn, and
others high and quick. because the vibration of
musical strings varies from tlirty-two vibrations
per second, which produces soft and deep bass.
to l5,G1) vibrations per second, which yields a
sharp treble.
Each member of the staff OF ''Ll Fronde,'' the
Paris wcman's newspaper, Brought suit for libel
meutary remarks aLort the women On the paper.
The '.Iibre farole'' has been fined ssl. and cor
iemned to pay 500 collective damages.
Non-conforrnist ministers are accusing the Ia
warden Church of RoInanism. \ leIfiet oircu-
lated in the parish sa;d that it was sin to enter
a Non-conforrust place of worship, and both the
Rev Stephen Gladstone and Herbert Gladstone
are uow trying to explain away the matter.
At recent election in Hays City, Ran,
ticket composed of boys was run against The old
men and the boys won ont in a clRter. Fred
nlffaElicr. tie mayor. is barely twenty-one. and
only one of the councilman i older than twenty
three Hlifsmer born on the town site
Two Of the coGncilmen were pTivdtes in the
Twenty-frst Kansas
By mears Of a photograph. made with vi
brating lens. Mr. F. II. Glew. of london. has
calculated the time of j lightning fash 1t
cones out onenneteenth of a second. The cal
culation is based upon the multiple image in the
4 Of
The time applies Of course. only TO the paftic-
uIar ha=h that was photographed
Among the snail Islands which came into The
possession OF the United States with Porto Rico
is the barren peak Of rocks which the spaniar'ls
called la Mona" On this island tradition
saws the o.d buccaneers deposited great treas
ures. In isS1 American company was iofmri
TO seek the hidden riches. No jewels were found
however. though the deposits of susno made tie
venture financial success.
Hartford lawyer tells of client in one Of
the adjoining towns who had a farm 10 sell. ile
had recently sunk we'll on it, ard the job cost
quite 4 sum: consequently. when he talked OF
disposing Of his property. the well caused him
considerable anxiety ''How much do you ask for
the farm the lawyer asked. Wal, I'll tell
ver'' ,ravled the farmer; TN sell the place for
500 with the well, and let it go for 500 without
the WELL
4 London firm has applied TO the Suez Canal
COMPANY for authority TO install on its lands at
Port Slid and Port Tcwik four reservoirs for pc
trolc,lm of 5000 each. The same firm has oh
taned a grant of land at Borneo of 200 miles.
containing immense deposits Of petroleum Eiey-
en- reservoir depots have been established between
Ro,neo and Suez Two vessels with carsoes OF
netrole;im have already passed through the canal,
and will act as transport tanks TO feed the res
ervoirs which will supply fuel TO ships
Can't. Juan Fernandez, who was Cuban war
rior under Antonio Macec, and who Is ROW IN
Paris, is reported to have declared that he WIS
approachcd there by German agents, who prom
ised to supply him with 25o,oso francs. with ali
the arms and ammunition necessary for . pro-
lonycd rebellion against the United states tros-
ernment in Cuba. Fernando was born under
the United States dag. and according TO the
story-aIl of which is rather discfedlteu-rePu-
dated the offer with scoTn-
The American clement in London this season,
remarks the London Mall is larger than ever.
1t is a singular fact that London now looks to
the American element for its contribution to
the programme of social gayety. Some OF the
best houses have been leased for the season by
Americans, and their occupants are rei,lfdcu
by the London shopkeepers with afectionate IN
terest 1t is computed that the Americans vita
social aspirations spend 1t least f2,Vpo,Oco dur
ing the season in London
The nominal cost OF a set of Congressional
Records, from the first issue in 1859 to date.
would be s537. A full set consists of 35s vol
umes, or parts. including indexes. and the
price is estimated to be the cost of printing
from the plates, binding, etc. IL would he an
extremely difficult matter, however. to obtain
complete set The Superintendent of Docu-
ments Government Printing Office. who is Gus
todian OF all the extra hack numbers available.
could not supply more than 29O CT the 35S vol
umes The set might be completed, however,
from the shelves of second hand book dealers.