The evening times., 1899-08-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

ish America. including Ontario, Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland,
etc.
Church Army tea saloon has been opened
at Atlantic City, \. j., with many OF the schar-
acteristic decorations of the ordinary liquor sa-
loon.
Beginning with July 1. no one in Switzerland
will be allowed to import yellow phosphorus for
matches but only for scientific or medical pur-
poses.
All men of genius are said to have eyes clear,
slow-moying, and bright This is the eye which
Indicates mental ability OF kind, IL doesn't
matter what.
Iron production in Great Britain Germany and
the United States increased in 1897 .s43 tons
over the previous year, and in 1898 rose 2,567,-
634 tons further.
Ii is estimated that this year the yield Of the
three principal grains will be: Corn. 2,i21 ,600,-
600 bushels; oats, as, 900 bushels, and wheat
500, 600 bushels
In Chicago woman has sued for divorce, set
ting forth that her husband treated her with
as much arrogance a man would weman
partner IN game Of whist
Two Burmans, one of whom is lad Of seven
teen, were sentenced 10 six months aud .iouE
months rigorous Imprisonment each by the Myook
! OF Hnawza for attempting 10 kiss young Bur
| mese girl
\ writer in the German scientific periodical,
! ''Globus," denies that insanity is on the in
| crease, and that the recruiting field exhibits
| larger amount OF physical degeneracy than IN
former generations.
Cuba and Porto Rico used TO buy annually 81
| 100000 worth Of shoes Of Spanish manufacture.
and CLUMSY article they were. A much better
i grade Of American shoes is selling in the island
now for 80 per cent less
| In ten years American life insurance companies
| have doubled their assets the amount rising
from S657 I2s e42 in Isss TO s1344 19s in 1853
The increase has been decidedly the greatest since
| prosperity returned TO the country
| Senator Depew says he believes that course
of lectures on the operation of railroads would
be valuable addition to all leading col
leges. considering ;hc large part which raiiroaris
| play in our everyday life, and how little they
| are understood.
Delaware county contains 212 public schools,
176 OF which are graded This is claimed 10 be
| more in proportion than any other county in the
! State. The Bible Is read in every school, The
| female teachers number 2O3, while there are only
10 male instructors.
The first essential for enduring hot spells IS
to get plenty of sleep. There Is eminent medical
authority for the statement that heat prostratlons
are due much more to the exhaustion lnelcehS
TO insufficient sleep successive hot nights thah
/ 10 the actual intensity of the daily heat Any
| thing that deprives of sleep ought TO De
| summed during the heated seaSon-
Some country boarding houses in the East now
include among their regular attractions the ao-
! sence of electric lights and electric cars Il
seems this season applications have been made
by many city business men FOR sIch pFiEililSe
! Accommodations. and the desire 10 he fTee rom
[ what Is absolutely necessary in town LIE IS
! apparently growing rather than dying out
We call II ice cream To the English it IS
| known as cream ice Just when or where II was
| invented is the question many people have tsled
to solve. In the beginning OF the century II vas
almost unknown in England. though wei Ah"Nh
/ in Naples and Sicily, where the cream Was any
fully made into copies OF peaches, apples, apfl-
/! cots and such dainties, much as We nave them
! today made in molts-
| Ii has been shown by Koch and others that
soap is a microbieide or germ-killer, and, ae-
| cording TO PROT Serafni, soda or potash sap -
I quite good disinfectant, not only because ol
! the aIkalis but the combination itself heatIAo
! the water favors the effect Reslnous soaps are
not the best disinfectants MarsellLes soap =
| very good \ solution Of 3 or per eent AI4is
| the most resisting microbes
The total length of railroad in the world
amounted in 1897 to 45i,73o miles, and IN the hve
/ wears from 1888 10 1897 the total increase vas
| Il 4s5 miles or SO per cent. The same year the
| totsI leDgth Of railroad in the United States
was ISL 2.s miles. increase IN nve years OF
( SO per cent North and South America anu the
| West India Islands are credited with over ohe-
/ half OF the total mileage, OF -So,-4e miles
wonlan's glory is her hair. and that Of her-
cedes Lopez, a Mexican, Is said 20 be unique
Mercedes height Is five feet, and her hair, whlch
= s,id To Le the Longest IN the world trails N
the ground four feet eight inches Ii Is So thick
that she can wrap II around herself I'll she IS
I completely hidden Mercedes Is the vile 81 :
poor shepherd and fast does her hair grow that
! She Is able 10 sell large tre>ses OF IL TO h44f
dealers every few weeks
Tucked away in quaint old-yyorld corners we
find some of the most cdd persouages. says Les
lies Weekly Such is the great artificial eye
maker and painter. y Muller Hipper. In quaint
Lauscha in the very heart of old ThuTingen
dense forests and high mountains. ne slts ana
works away DAY in and day out, surrounded pN
his family the male members OF which are al
experts in this delicate work. aud have been
such since the days Of his ETeat-sr2nofsther VINO
first started the work 81 Paris, but who ewing
to the strong anti-Cernan feeling, was forced te
return 10 his native mountain land Ihey nave
grown rich but lead simple. quiet lives While
the writer sat in front Of Mr. Hipper he deity
mixed different colored glasses over ms gas-Iainp
and within half-heur brought forth perfect
reproduction. in everything but real SlSht- OF tlt
! writer's eve Ever wear thousands Of eyes. made
by this old-world family, find their way 10 Amer
lea
y learned pundit Of India, Raia Sivaprasad
Z thus explains the aversion Of the followers o
JainiSln, one Of the many Indian religions, Z
Interfering with the existence q any lIvlng thing
We eudeavOr 10 avoid even green Vegetahles
| under the idea that cutting the plant may hur
| il thlr diet as lar As possible. is dry vegetable
! food We would not needleSSiy pick leaf IRON
! 4 tree, lest the tree should possibly feeh pam
! That plants are not unconscious, but share IN
| attributes Of man, i maintained IN the JAN
| scriptures. AZ the nature OF man. il Is held
| is TO be born and 10 grow old 50 IS the-satsF
of the plant; the one needs food. so does III
! other; as the one falls. sick when damaged,- .
! does the other; as the one is not eternal. tn
other is not eternal; a. the one has reason. :
the other has reason This the Jain eomInen
tators ampify by rem2rking that the plants Oh
serve the seasons. and spreut at the proper time
the seed always grows upward. and on a
which would not happen 4 the plants had n
knowledge Of the things about them"
The philadelphia Record says Gerrnantow
clergyman is writing a novel The date OF th
, story is 300. and the author describes the al
pearance Of his characters in this interesting naI
! ner: physically they were perfect; they vel
!, ! most beautiful. II common for men IN
, : wcmen to have the forms of gods and godtlesSe
No long and irksOme course of exercise gave thel
| those superb chests. shoulders, arms. and leg
:, those slim and supple waists that graceful cal
5 riasc The massage machines. while they slun
bered. nodded thin into IDEAL proportions. FroI
| childhood the wealthy class slept at least twic
| a week at the gymnasium. There the attendants
/ having decided the parts that needed deve
! opnlent. arrayed their patients cots in cas-
attitudes. and set the electrical massage machine
| to WORK. This muscle. that muscle. the def
velvet-eoated- hands of the machine kneaded swift
| ly and smoothly. and in the morning there wa
only a slight stiffness 10 remind the patients
what they had undergone. Yet the visible e
| feet would in a brief period be tremendous. tn
calf OF the leg, for example. would be built Il
| in a month by machine 10 the same extent jh.
| would have followed had the patient dali
| for year ten miles