The evening times., 1899-02-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

i hl4ilutE ~ a CDFfuptloH OF tflauert rom
Milan, which city at one time gave the fashion
| 10 Europe IN all matters Of taste in wOTnaB' )
| dress.
There are over POO brands of wine produced in
| France, bot more wine is drunk IN England than
| IN France, and London is the greatest wine MIR
| ket in the world.
| The highest church s;eepIe in England is that
| OF 81 NaTbursh's. Preston, which i SO5 feet
The highest cathedral steepie is that Of Sails
| bury, which is 405 feet.
! There are in the worlds oceans 7G0O.OJO cubic
/ miics Of salt, ard if this salt could lie taken
out in moment the level Of the water would
| not drop one single inch.
From young pupils composition on our
| provinces: Much tobacco Is grown in the hot
season in Cuba. but during the long. wet season
Ginberellars IS chiefly rails d.
A very interesting fact is that the first postage
! stamp ever used. in the British Empire at-any
| rate, was issued in New South Wales in 1885,
| two years before the appearance Of the black
| penny stamp of Great Britain
About 200 tons of the ballast which Captain
Anderson had IN the hold Of his bark Austria.
! British vessel, which reached Boston this week
/ from Manila, were rock from the fortiications
Of Cayite that were destroyed by Dewey.
The British Museum recently received a Gu
rious and grewsome rosary from the mystic
| Tious land of Tibet II is composed Of thin
disks made from human skuH, hnisled at
i
On piece Of common string
Prince Victor Napoleon has been generally
spoken of as a cousin to the Empress Eugenie.
but the word cousin is very vague one in
| French, and the Young BoElpaFtist pretender
was in reality only first cousin once removed
from the Empress husband Napoleon III.
Egbert Davidson. prominent citizen Of Meek
! lenburg county. y. C.. is on trial in the Federal
| Court on unique charge \ mal-earrier had
/ been stealing his melons. lie had stopped the
/ carrier IN the road and whipped him The
| rier missed the mail connection, and Davidson
| Is being tried for delaying the nails
John c. Geer. the .rattlesnake man. Of Port
| Jervis y. Y. died the other day n Eis eighty
/ first year. Since early childhood he I,5s, made 4
business Of catching rattiesnakes FOR usen3gerie
! managers and anyone else who wogId bgy them.
I He also made and sold ratte>Hake OIL and curl
osities made from the skins and rsttIeS Of the
SNAKES
I Mrs Violet Paget, the author Wno writes un-
der the nom de plume Of Vernon Lee i, Oh
/ tanning signatures Of artists authors and noted
/ people 20 petition which she has drawn up
/ 70 The town council of Florence, Italy, request
I ing them 10 stay the present work Of denOli-
/ ton II many Of the most beautiful and interest
/ ing historical monuments Of that city.
: The husbands wedding ring in Germany j as
sacred possession the wife's in England The
London Teiegraph's'' Berlin correspondent tells
. an amusing srory % butcuer who I0st his His
/ wife was Incorsolsble. and haTboTed al sorts Of
suspicious At last it turned uD in a sausage
shaving slipped from his finger. 10y reigned once
more IN the household az the discovery.
/ Archbishop Of Armagh Prim@te Of Ireland.
las seen fit 10 protest against the disarmament
agitation and the celebration # Peace Sunday
IN his diocese While he regretted the horrors
OF var. he said, all knew what II meant IN the
case Of England-the pulling down % her great
L q hg r.ffl ~
thing 10 do in view OF present conditions
How the late affected invention i shown
by Commissioner of Patents Duell. who saws in
report that on December - 1897. there we're
h,3s2 applications awaiting action. This num-
Der increased until March Is. 1s9s, when il WAS
1f-s21- on June 2s the number decreased
70 Y lsI- while on December o., 1S9s. the num-
Der then awaiting action was then only 5461-
Governor Mount, Of Indiana. says that the state
contains large tract Of land. which have been
exhausted and abandoned. in Clay county alone
10000 acres and fifteen square miles His idea
Is that farming can he made rs1re attractive by
teaching some of the science in the public
schools, and says: II expect 10 -ee a law placed
I Un the statute books Of the State tins winter
which viii provide for the teaching q the pri-
mary principles OF agriculture in the public
, schools"
/ A weIl-known collector once paid $500 FOX
single leaf with which TO make his 6sst folio e
I Shakespeare perfect copy. A complete copy
I Of this famous volume. Issued nearly three cen
/ tUrieS al about =, has been sold for $500.
Z But II full Of defects. MANY # the leaves
/ being in fac-simile and the celebrated portrait
/ Of Shakespeare being only a reprint. \ COM
+ plete and perfect copy such as is Possessed
by the Baroness BurdettCouttS, would realize
/ quite 5000 in the open market
/ Every visitor to the GraurFs Nasasins D1
I Louvre az Paris Ia, been up The wonderful NOV
I ing staircase. You put your hand on . rail. yau
stand still. and YOU md by delightful move
ment, which i both exhilaFatine and iascinlt-
ing. that you carried fraBs floor to- floor
without the least EFFORT, and without auy ct
those unpleasant thrills which elevators ALWAYS
succeed in giving 20 nervous persons II i worth
while shopping for the sake OF going up that
! moving staircase, and nova long way behind
/ the French-they have got one in London It's
I carrying capacity is upward Of 5000 persons
! contract has recently been received by the
/ Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com
/ pany for installing electrical plant 10 oper-
ate i large cotton mill near Manchester Eng
/ land The machinery involved in the contract
I consists Of two alternating current generators
! and twenty-ane motors, having aggregate ca
paCity OF 80 horse power. The contract was re-
t ceived through the London agency. from Beyer.
l Peacock & Co. ot Manchester. England The con-
tract is one of the first Of the kind being taken
up by the English manufacturers. The people
there are realizing that they can get better re-
suits by operating their machinery by electricity
Is = done IN tins country and at the same time
economic and get greater security from fire.
The wild scene in the streets of Edinburgh
the other Friday. when the Gordon HighIanders
returned there from India. recalls the return
OF the same gallant regiment to '-Auld Reekie''
after the battle Of Waterloo Between the Cor
dons and the Black Watch there had for A long
time been a friendly rivalry The Forty ssseeonf
had entered Edinburgh some time befOre.A and
of rkaTr rtrf1lsa had Elr z1TN
( to the Ninety-secord that the size of thesArowd
nothing to that which had weIcomeft hem
/ (the FcrIy-sec0nd)- We could hardly maze cur
way through the people" he added. " this
the newcomer replied You should hayek sent
to us. then, to clear the way for You, = YOU
have often done before" On the presenteocca-
sion it ''eminentlv fitting too. thart the
Gordons should have been played into EdinbaTgh
by the band of the Scots Grays. with whord they
fought side by side at Waterloo
Morganatie marriages between royal persons
and simple folk have in all times been common
enough. but the late King Ferdinand Of Portu-
gal broke through the rule by marrying with the
right hand a girl with no title hers by birth
an American named Elsie Hensler. who was even
an actress. Stranger yet, though the uncrowned
| King would not have let the objections of his
family stand in the way of his happiness that
family had objection to offer. Elise HenSler
! was born in Boston. Her parentage was respect
able, but she was poor. To exc out the family
| income Elise sung in the Park Street Church Of
her native city, and the beauty OF the girl. her
| rich, pure voice. and the gentIeness OF her man
ners her friends among the church folk.
who got up a purse and sent her to Europe for
musical training. She studied in Paris and It.
aiy, returned for an engagement in New York,
| and then to Europe for Continental tour
Although volcanic flames have been seen and
described by many writers, says the Scientific
American their existence has been doubted by
1 SDpciaI interest thus IN. he