The evening times., 1899-11-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

made to develop the mines on q large scale. The
deposits occupy elevations of from so to ESQ feet
ab.ve the SEA level, and are known a. Stands
being surrounded by low Marches
California promises to become one OF the lead
ing manufacturing States in the Union. Its
backbone. the Sierra Mountains, is the home Of
innumerable streams. which are being harnessed
To generate electrical power thirty TO forty miles
away for light and power purposes
All our .senses do not sumber simultaneously.
They fall into insensibility one after another
First the eyelids obscure sight. and the sense OF
taste Is the next to lose susceptibility Smelling,
hearing, and touch then follow. Touch is the
hshtest sleeper and most easily aroused
newly designed street sweeper has of the
rear wheels replaced by a large drum, with
opening in proximity to the end of the brush,
the latter throwing the dirt into the drum,
whence 1t Is carried upward by the revolution OF
the drum and emptied into the receptacle at the
top.
The st. Lawrence canals will attract a good deal
OF trade when they completed. The capacity
OF the canals now nearing completion viii at first
De about 3UO,U0 tons year in one direction.
but by degrees ships built more to the re-
quismenfs of the trade the capacity may be
doubled.
The detectives in the large department stores
are kept on the alert all the time to prevent
depredations by sSilful shoplifters. In order
to do this most thorough system of spot
ting thieves by the Of photographs has
been adopted. In one OF the large department.
stores. in the recreation room used by the fe-
male clerks, is collection OF photographs num-
bering nearly 1000. In tins lot can be found
the pictures of nearly all the notorious shop
lifrers in the country. The young women are
encouraged to study these photographs and in
many instances they have been able TO call .
detective and point out a person whose picture
is caught there is little ceremony used. The
detective quietly comes alongside and seizes
arm in grip that cannot be mistaken. Straight
to the nearest door she is conducted, and when
once outside a stern admonition to never come
back under penalty OF arrest is given. Some
times the suspected person is searched and if
particularly notorious, the heads Of each de-
partment are called in TO get a look at the
features. The detective system is so perfect now
that there Is comparatively very little thiev-
ing INDUCED in.
A recent number of la Tribuna di Roma con-
tains a communication from Don Emanuel Rus.
poll, the syndic of Rome, whose wife is an
American woman, proposing that there shall be
a worlds fair in the Eternal City in 1919 The
suggestion is understood to have the encourage
ment Of the Italian Government, and it is
pected that the Socialist press viii soon
ably support the enterprise IL Is pointed out
that the undertaking would give work TO thous-
ands of idle laborers and mechanics. not only on
the exhibition ITSELF but also in completing all
the buildings which were begun years ago, but
were suspended for want Of funds. 1t Is pro-
posed to run the exposition on the plan OF an
open corporation. much Of the funds for which
could be subscribed abroad. thus giving the
government the means TO make all adequate. i'm
prosements. In this way the palace Of justice.
Bridge. the Janicuum and Momentana neighbor-
hoods. and the archaeologic walk could be COM
pieted. The Forum excavations in which for
eign archaeologists much interested, would
he carried on with greater zeal and there would
be circular railroad around Rome. The syndic
says that there are funds ready to meet all pre-
liminary expenses. and all the works might be
completed within five years.
"Intemperance anticipates age so said the
late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson. The more
the social causes of mental and physical organic
diseases are Investigated, says the American
Journal of Health" the more closely the origin
II degenerative organic changes leading to pre-
nature degeneration and decay are questioned.
he more closely does it come out that intenIper-
nee. often not suspected by the person himself
sho is implicated in it, subtle its influence,
5 at the root Of evil When old age has really
its march toward final decay it Is
est delayed by attention to those rules of
ervatiou by which life Is sustained with the least
rietion and the least waste The prime rules for
his purpose are-to sfbsi.t on light, but pittri-
ious diet, with milk as the standard food but
aried according TO season; to take food in mod
rate Quantities four times day, including a
light meal before going to bed: TO clothe WARM
=, but lightly, so that the body may in all
easons maintain its equal temperature; to keep
he body in fair exercise. and the mind active
nd cheerful TO maintain an interest in what
going on in the world. and TO take part in
labors and pleasures, though old
ge were not present; TO take plenty of sleep
urlng sleeping hours; to spend nine hours in bed
least, and To take care during cold weather
hat the temperature OF the bedrooms Is main
aimed at 90 degrees Fahrenheit; to avoid passion,
and luxury.
Authentic history and biography in China ern-
races period from the year ls2 of our era
ack to the remote period of 2.697 years be-
pre- Christ, says .'Sei Culture The histo-
ians of China embrace a succession or un-
Interrupted series Of more than 2i0o years
he full and continuous history of the en-
ire was compiled in the second century of our
RI. The great Libraries of Pekin contain vol
mes of books numbered by the hundreds II
housands. In the archives Of the government
re still to be found the ancient predictions of
clipses made with great accuracy, together with
orks astronomy which show a fair knowi-
ige of that interesting science. Biographies.
cry succincily written. Of the Emperors Il
he most ancient dynIsties still exist. and
ritten works of learned men are voln-
linous those of European nations. And MI
MS learning and love of learning has been
ured without the help or suggestion frcm anv
oreign people. II their authentic histories
zach back to nearly five centuries ago. myth
Al history reaches still further back into the
sry night of time. When Nineveh and BABY
IN were in the spIendor of their might. men
China We're predicting eclipses. making cata-
,gues. and giving names to the stars. Bat
ineveh and Babylon were mere mounds of
nth and rubbish when China great. and
this date the civilization and life of the
npire is the wonder OF the world.
Professor Croft, the Psychologist, writes from
hizeh TO the Paris Daily Messenger" about the
haraohnic mummies at the Ghizeh Museum con-
ming the tradition that the scenes described in
lie first chapters of the Book OF Exodus took
ace under the reign OF Rameses ii and mis- son,
erenptah. The Phsraoh's daughter of the Bible
as Princess Bent ANITA. and the great magician
that time. Hamus another of Rameses II.
he mummiss OF the latter had been discovered.
1t it thought that OF Hamus was missing.
r. Croft now has identified one of the mummies
that Of the Prince and Magician Hamus and
rifed the writing on the shroud as ''Ra- Hamus.'
After having opened the case in which the
ummy is kept, he gays, '.and carefully remoy-
& the outer cloth covering. there appeared writ
n on the shroud, Just over the breast Of the
ummy, His majesty commanded in the seventh
ar, third month of the season of planting sixth
anus. This note proves that the object of my
search was correct. that the name is not Raha-
US, as heretofore supposed. but Hamus, that OF
e great magician with whom l had already
ption, all the mun,mies of the principal royal
.rsons spoken OF in the first chapters OF
II, the Pharaoh of the OPP
ession; Merenptah. the Pharaoh of the Exodus;
anus, the great magician-are still extant at
iizeh. There still lacks the mummy of Princess
mt ANITA, Pharaois daughter. the foster mother
Moses. Certain indications her sarcophs-
IS might lead one to suppose the mummy had
en- destroyed, but it is probably in tomb
the valley near Thebes, hidden with other
incesses and queens.
In these hot days, says the Chicago Chroni-