The evening times., 1899-11-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.


presents great difficulties to missionary effort.
| English coronial proceedings always aude to
suicide in as indirect terms the case will per-
nit.
village without a name, consisting of 50O
| tsherinens huts, occupies position eve-y win
ter on Lake Huron.
Il takes good horse to run down giraffs.
and If the least advantage is permitted the wild
creature the race is lost
In the course q the last decade the manufac-
| ture OF eo;tooH goods has become firmly es-
tablished industry in Brazil
There is r1sary in the British Museum made
OF the vertebrate Of snakes backbone. Another
Is composed of rats teeth
About 10000 tourists visited Switzerland dur
ing tie past summer, and their expenditures are
estimated at l2O,000,G00 francs.
Fishing is the favorite pastime of Rock
Rapids. Iowa. dog. 1t swirps out into the water
and catches the fish in his mouth.
The most ancient dictiopsry snd glossary in
the world is Of the Chinese lnnDnnge and ID the
lexicon of Pacutshe. This first known 81 s<ary
was compiled more than thoussSd years be-
fore Christ 49,
Ledingnan little town in the :Cevennes, is 50
strongly on Dreyfs side that il has named streets
after Alfred Dreyfus and Emile Zola, and square
Place Picqusrt- blind alley has been christened
''impasse de PEtat-M Major
According to English clergyman, the East
End must surrender the unenviable reputation Of
being the worst section OF Londcn- He says that
Southwark Is the fostering cancer of L0ndon's
supreme misery, the Black Hole of the metropo-
liz"
In Belgium organ grinders are compelled by law
to play each morning before the police magistrate
who must be satisfied that their instruments are
in tune. An organ which is out Of tune mus. be
put in order before license is Issued to the
player.
Pisan antidraries. who have been hunting in the
Church Of San Francisco for the burial place Of
Count Cgolino, have found tomb containing
the bones of a man and Of four children and 4
piece Of iron chain, which they think is the OBJ
ieet Of their search
A system is TO he established in PHILADELPHIA
this fall whereby teachers will be given permis-
sion to take their classes for one-haf day once or
twice a year, 10 Fairmount Park and to the
geological gardens. such visits to be regarded as
q part of the regular class duties.
All the exterior of the great sscre Occur
Church. in Montmartre, has been completed, and
the scafolding which has marked the hill for -
many years will be taken down. So far the
church has cost about S. 500 ODa and as much
more will be needed before the decoration Is
finished.
The Sons OF Rest is the name of club OF
youths in Bristol, England. One of the members
was lately arrested for the theft Of an umbrella.
and during the trial the secretary admitted the
Sons of Res1" had solemnly bound themselves
together not to work until they eighteen
years Of age.
Poisoning from oyefeoats is unexpected dan
ger. for not less than sixty CASES have been re-
ported among the street cleaners of Birmingham.
England On being wet, the cloth in the dyeing
Of which chloride Of zinc had been used, gave of
poisonous vapor, producing painful swelling OF
hands and arms.
Men expo d to the rigors Of the Alaskan win
ter wear mustaches. They wear full bear,k
to protect their troats and faces, but keep their
upper lip clean shsren. The moisture from the
breath eonsc1is 20 quickly that mustache be
comes embedded in solid cake Of ice, and the
tsce i frozen in short time
The suggestion made By the Denver Humane
Society that women give up the Use OF the side
saddle and 80 astride when riding horseback Is
meeting with marked opposition The mast
powerful. il not the principal, objection is that
no dress which could be devised for tie innovation
would he Il becoming as that now in use.
General Boulanger'= famous black horse TGnis
hast met an ignolniniou- death. After the flight
Of Bculanger the animal passed from hand to
hand. and finally descended TO the ingiorious
service of craving a cab through the streets Of
Paris This proved too much for Tunis and he
was sold TO Armand Delogle. a well-knGwn dealer
in horSeiesh. by whom ne duly slaughtered.
cut up. and sold for stewing purposes in the
market place Of ST Anne.
\ queer case of cannibalisn Is reported as hav-
ing recently taken place in the solomon Islands,
say, the London Daily Mall The Jeannettc
took from Noumea ksnaka whc had acted As
orderly 10 the immigration Office there, and
On his honeymoon with his wife intending to land
al Aoba. where his wife'S tribe live He. how
ever made the mistake uf disembarkug among the
wrong tribe. and WAS at once seized by the na-
lives overpowered. killed ard eaten. The widow
was provided by the tribe with 4 second husband.
II is stated by French scientific journal that
the surgeons of Austria and Germany, the mo-
lion Of DR.. Hubenek. of Brc>su. considering
whether not to make it rule thar surgeons
should be clean-siaveH. Hair is a nest of mi
robes some Of which are pathogenic Of course.
here l. another preventive Of danger-thst is to
iIsnect the hair by washing it before performing
ln operation. \ hungarian surgeon would not
lccept pupil woman doctor with a fine head
II hair. unless She cut it short, and. strange to
dy. she did.
DIR. DahlIS. of Shanklin. medical practitioner.
editor. and friend Of Tenny son. is not
Of modern illuminants. says the ''Wcst-
Minister Gazette. He plumps for candles. Winter
'ariy morning work. day after day" he writes,
makes me (and is making mel consider the
question of eye-weariness and proper and bear
Ibe and untirng light. On the whole. plump
o be at all near one. and even though we have it
iot-I never found the electric light good enough
not as a quality, ] mean. And candles
10Th cheap and good
1t may not he generally known tha, the by
PRODUCTS OF fruit stones OF considerable value.
ays the Chicago News The pits of peaehrs
pricots. nectarines. plums, and prunes. which
ave heretofore been thrown away or used for fuel.
ave a market value. This is specially true cf
he peach and apricot pits. There is now a strcnr
emand for them at IS TO so ton. delivered
an Francisco. The kernel Is of course what i,
ought From the kernel of the apricot Turkish
nut candy is made which has almos: displaced
he almond. The same substance is used fer the
dulteration of cinnamon allspice. and nutmeg.
'russic acid ard essence and oil Of almonds are
made from the peach and prune pits and the=c
avors used in many ways. The pits arr
racked in san Francisco and he kernels are then
eTt East.
AT the excavations in progress at the
,oman Forum. over thirty styli. or bone pens
ave come out OF the mud of 900 years. slys
'ibilia. They in perfect condition. Near
" found the tholus or store-pit. which was
scd as the corn-bn of the POntiAces Into it
he corn emptied from the jars in which it
rrived. A clerk mrs; have stood by keeping
ally OF the number OF jars received and emptied
herein. Occasionally. looking the edge to
&C the cavity filing up with grain. the stylus he
scd TO put behind Iis car. being smooth bone.
tipped and fell. and buried itself in the wheat
mil today. There was also found here black
one tabella, or writing tablet. six inches by
ur in size. somewhat worn down at one cor
Pr by the thumb of the holder and still show
X scratches where the spread upon IL
nd been penetrated by the sharp point OF the
strfs la sstrrNsT1 Of sta. .rxtv-