The evening times., 1899-01-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

/ Tomatoes have been grated upon pOta-
toes by a French experimenter, whose hy-
/ brid plant produces tubers under ground
and tomatoes above.
| London is delighted with the novelty OF
| having some OF its fire ladders drawn by
/ horses instead of by hand. These are cali
/ ed horse fire escapes"
Belgrades Svpski DCiek has suspended
| publication for time. as the sixteenth
/ editor it has had in tive years has joined
! his fifteen predecessors in jail
Besides the rindeTpest South Africas
| worst plague consists in the myriads OF
grasshOppers. which are sometimes so
dense that they stop railway trains.
Persian BARRIERS are legally compelled to
wash their hands after attending a Gus
toner and before waiting on another.
They must also use only niekeI-plated
i combs
To a marriage notice recently appear
| ing in a paper Of town that serves as
the Gretna Green for large neighbor-
hood was appended the following: No
cards NO cake and nobodys business
La Revue Graphique Beige says that be-
cause OF the scarcity Of raw material for
the paper mills of Holland they have
pressed into service the haulm or stalks &C
the potato plant. which can be bought OF
/ the farmers for 90 cents per ton.
The principal Irish national dances as
they exist today. are the jig. reel horn
pipe and hOptime-cailed also the slip-jig;
but il addition TO these there are many
/ figure dances in which almost all The
movements are in jig or reel measure
! BY decree of the congregation OF Ok
ford University the leadership in the Rus
! sian and other SlaTOuic languages, which
! has been in abeyance for some time, has
been revived The leadership carries a
| stipend Of $500 besides fees from stu
dents
Vienna paper declares that very few
persons in that city read poems. and fewer
still buy them; that the publishers refuse
10 print them unless the authors pay all
expenses, and that 10 ask for a volume OF
poetry in a bookstore is TO be stared at
as freak
The Havana floating dock having lift
| ing capacity Of 10 Gee tons, viii be sold for
the account Of the Spanish government
This dock was built in England at a cost
of 0,ooe, but is said TO have been so bad
ly used b. the Spanish engineers that it
is now not worth half that sum-
Herbert II. Lord. clerk Of the Committee
on Ways and Means, who spent his Con-
gressiOnal vacation serving as paymaster
in the army, has Just returned from Ma
Mia and says the people ont there think
the song. "There1l Be Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight. is cur national an
| them
French engineers have something TO
learn from America They undertook 10
move the great machinery gallery Of the
1888 exhibition in sections To new site in
the Champ de Mars for US in 1900 and dill
move two sections. While riveting these
together. however, they collapsed owing
TO the insecure foundations.
An acre of land in the city of London is
| worth million sterling So. at least. IL
appears from a sale in the city recently,
when about 1,IS9 square feet of land situ-
ated az 81 WalbrCOk, and No. 1 Bond
Court. fetched 1s.960 pounds which is al
the rate of over 10 pounds per foot OF
about Loco, coo pounds the acre.
| Physicians in Bellevue Hospital. New
York. report a great increase in the num-
ber of alcoholic patients under thsir
treatment Within two weeks six boys
under sixteen have been taken 10 the hes
uital in a state OF intoXica tiOn. Four OF
these boys are not yet fourteen years OF
age One boy nine years cid died from
alcoholism.
| American locomotives have recently
beer ordered in Japan in preference to
| English engines and will be used entirely
! on the railway that Is now being built n
China. Many American locomotives have
| also been purchased by the Russian gov
eTnment for its Transiberian railway Ths
! American locomotive IS clearly ahead o.
| all competitors
Queen Victoria has been quite outdone
BY Emperor Francis Joseph in the matter
of the beSsowal of titles, orders and dec
| OratiCus at a jubilee. In three days Aus
JFIa's ruler gave away 4.5cO of these bau-
bleS, and for weeks past the only two
firms in Vienna which make them have
been working night and day in order 10
catch up with the demand.
In the first four weeks after the opening
of the electric railroad at Cairo, Egypt.
it is said that no less than eighty persons
We're killed. and since that time the week
" average OF victims is seven or eight.
This very high rate of casualties is sup
posed TO be due ii part 10 the imperfect
sight OF many natives ii consequence OF
the prevalent eye diseases. but fully as
/ much Is due, perhaps, TO the fact thar
they are unfamiliar with such swift nov
ing vehicles
1t appears there are precedenjs for Con-
gTeSS extending q vote of thanks 10 4
woman. and Miss Clara Barton IS not the
first to be thus kOHored- \ vote Of thanks
was rendered 10 Dolly Madison. and 30
recently as 1873 Congress accepted from
| Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson the artist, pie
| Uure CT Abraham Lincoln and mis- war Cab
met and gave Mrs Thompson vote OF
| thanks The privilege OF the floor goes
Z with the vote, but il is not likely that any
: woman who receives the honor would care
TO avail herself OF that privilege.
Although women in Paris had the right.
for the first time, the other day TO vote,
few exercised the privilege In the sec
OEd reimbursement only three voted. and
a similar number in the eighth. Much the
. same was the result in every other arron-
basement, while in the Quarter Latin.
O which might be thought the very sanctUm
g sanctOrum Of womens rights not sim
gle member OF the fair sex took the trOu-
bic 10 vote. The sole exception To- this
otherwise general indifference was the
first reimbursement, which comprises the
r Halles. CT markets. where several hun
dred women gave their votes.
n There are now fifty young women study
ing at the College of Agriculture in Min
neapolis. They are entered for the three
years course in farming. and are TO study
side by side with the men. except that
r. instead CT blacksmithing. carpentry and
military drill they will be taught sewing.
| laundry work and cooking. Until now
Young women who desired a course in ag-
ricultuTe had 10 solace themselves with
such instruction as they could gain dur
X ing the summer months when the men
4 We're away. This year their fortunes bave
Il changed. \ new dOTmitCry has been built
> and new instructors in special departments
have been provided.
The LeipZigsr MissiOnsblatt. a German
missionary paper, reports that the Mahar-
anee Of Nepaul, India, recently commit
ted suicide in horror of the disiguremsut
Il which an attack OF smallpox had caused
in her features. The Maharajah. who
was passionately attached to her fist
| wreaked his vengeance on the physicians