The evening times., 1899-09-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Dog insurance aeurishes in New York.
English coilieries employ 3s5,Oo0 people.
Golf has been introduced in ConstantinopIe.
There are nearly 1000 stitches in a pair Of
hand-sewn boots
An apiary expert predicts honey famine in
Canada this year
Iron mining gives employment to more than H.
900 persons in England.
Corunna in spain, claims to have the oldest
lighthouse IN existence.
Russia consumes an average no less than -
100000 tons Of liquid fuel year.
Nearly Us Congregational churches have adopt
ed the individual communion cup
The theft Of electricity is not a crime in Ger
many, there being express law against it.
Within the last twenty years 1000 houses in
Dublin have been closed for sanitary reasons
The instruction of each student costs the French
universities about oil francs per
average.
There are 1000 vessels which cross the Atlantic
Ocean regularly every month, some Of them twice
a month.
Special courses Of lectures on railroading a
science are being delivered in Berlin and Bres-
i2u this summer.
Contracts have been made for the construction
of different telephone lines in Mucatah, Mexico.
at cost Of s2oO.0O0-
The value OF all precious stones found in the
United States in 1s9s S160,92O, compared
with sl35,G75 in 1897.
The United States imports verv little salt,
nearly all consumed. or about I7.529, ,291 barrels,
being produced at home.
A bicycle has in England been held TO be a
Carriage in the meaning of an act that made
furious driving criminal act
A soap factory at Acapulco Mexico has an
crrfr Hf md Tr.-fz
difficult to supply the demand
Japanese workmen are obliged to wear on their
caps and backs an inscription stating their basi-
ness and their employers name
Orthodox M8hammedans are forbidden 20 make
or use any 'grayen image consequently their
chessmen have no resemblance to human figures
Originally clocks had only the hour hand, but
the minute added later, as it became fash
ionable TO make the diaIs as decorative a. posi-
bic.
Within an area of fifty miles around the city
Of Manchester, England, 1.760 cotton manu-
factories, controlling 2,Ig1o 900 spindies and 6Ss
looms.
On an eizht-mile road. now being built in
Missouri. to connect with the Missouri. Kansas
and Texas twenty -four bridges to be con-
structed.
Wesleyan preacher named Houidsworth. who
had preached for eighty years, died recently in
the Halifax England almshouse, aged ninety
four years
The heart Of vegetarian beats on an average
Of IS TO the minute; that of the meat-eater a.
This represents difference of 20,9O0 beats in
twenty-four hours.
Near Grobogana Java. there is lake of boil
ing mud about two miles in circumference In
mense columns of steaRing mud are constantly
ascending and descending.
The Spanish among the most charitable peo-
pie earth. Without 4 poor tar Spanish COM
munties Of 5000 SelfsupporterS feed a pauper
population Of $500 more
One proprietor Of half a dozen boot-biaekins
stands in New York, who not many years
ago an active worker at the business, owns a
racing stable Of sixteen horses
The western part Of Persia Is inhabited by a
species Of camel which Is the pigmy OF its kind
They white, and on that account
almost worshiped by the people.
Investigations made officially in Illinois show
that a pound includes ., 5000 seeds of blue
grass. 600 OF timothy, se3.0 600 OF white clo
yer, $4,000 OF red clover, and $4,000 of alfalfa
return as to the inquests held in the county
of London during the past five years, per-
sons who met with accidents while engaged in
window-eieaning, gives a total Of, approximately,
forty deaths.
A German fsh-breeder named Jeffe has sue
ceeded after several fruitless attempts in trans
porting from Colorado TO Germany the eggs OF
the purple trout (salmo purpavata) and raising
a large brood.
A WhangaFei. New Zealand. youth who adyer-
tised for a wife. amazed find among the
replies letters from two of his sisters. with pho
tos enclosed In this the mania for matri-
monial alliances seems to have been quite fam
ily disorder.
A fly so minute as to be almost invisible
three inches in haif-second, and was calcu-
lated 10 make no less than $40 steps in the time
a healthy MIN would take to breathe
man with proportiOnate agility could twenty
four miles IN 2 minute
Fingers are valued at a high price in Australia.
Melbourne boy of eight had his fingers crushed
in gate at level crossing, and one had to be
amputated. An action his behalf was brought
against the state railway department The Jury
awarded the full amount claimed, $1,000
The hydraulic mining pits in California mate
rally changed the landscape in many places. The
| pit of a hydraulic mine IN Nevada county. Cal.
which was washed out some fifty years ago. Is
again covered with a growth OF pine and other
trees, and patches OF brush again dot the once
veTdTeess slopes
The time required for a journey around the
earth BY man walking day and night, without
resting would be l2S days; an express traia. 40
DAYS; sound. at a medium temperature, 32H
hours; cannon ball, 2lA hours; light. little
oRe-tenth Of 4 second and electricity, pass
| ing over copper wire, little under one-tenth
l OF second
| A mystery with which every sailor IS familiar
| is the formation of dust at sea. Those who
| familiar with sailing ships know that. no mat
Ter how carefully the decks may be washed down
i in the morning. and how little work OF any kind
! may be done during the day. nevertheless. il
the decks swept ct nightfall, an enormous
| quantity OF dust viii be collected.
| The language of flowers is now playing prom
| inent part in the political dscord OF the day in
Paris. White pinks and blue oeillets are the
signs of the Reactionary party while the Social
/ ISIS and advanced Republicans have adopted red
4 bou.Onnieres Sorre anti-Lcuhet papers advise
their followers to wear Panama hats on Sundays
| as a special insult to the President.
II is not surprising that the pan for billion
dollar iron and steel trust has failed billion
| dollars is good deal OF money. Counting one
| second for eight hours day IL would take a
man year TO count million. and thousand
| years to count billion: a thousand men.
| counting one a second for eight hours day,
| could together count billion in year One
hundred silver dollars make pile foot hign-
/ \ billion silver dollars would make a pile 1000
| miles high
| A convict in the Kansas State prison has writ
ten a book on prison life. He urges the grant
| ing of permission to smoke and the abolition
| of the Iock-step and SAYS: without doubt there
| are men here who are where they should be;
there may be some who should have been born
here On the other hand, there unquestions-
bly, some men here who viii make good citizens
some day The writer believes that the average
convict leaves the prison better man than he
| was when he entered there"
Domestic servants are agitating for their rights
in Berlin with spirit not TO be exceeded by a
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