The evening times., 1899-05-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

VI ncphih-, Pieciosu.
DIR. GottIieb William Leitner, the Hungarian
who died the other day, could speak, read, and
write twenty-five languages
The fruit growers Of Caroline county. Nd, are
expecting big crop of Strawberries and are lay
ing in supply of baskets and crates.
The Lancet" in statement OF the number
of doctors in Great Britain holding British de-
grees. gives the total OF practitioners as 1884.
Chief Justice Fuller. Of the United States su
preme Court. always walks with n goldheaded
cane, given him by grateful client thirty years
Lieutenant Burke found fourishing market
garden by n Chinzman on the site of the
Second Massachusetts, Regiments last camp in
| Cuba.
| Strrups were unknown to the ancients. They
were first used in the fifth century of our era.
but were no; in common even in the twelfth
| century.
Peuchong tea, which has been produced in
Forn,osa for eighteen years. is the pure leaf arti-
hcially favored with the scent of white jasmine
or olea-
scientist has calculated that the eyelids Of
the average man open and shut now fewer than
i.ooOODo times in the of a single year of
his existence.
Schoolboys of Philadelphia and Camden are
excited over the adventures Of RED Dick, the
River Pirate. youth who is in the Camden
Jail awaiting trial.
The imposition by the United States of a tax
tea almost ruined the tea trade of Formosa
last year. The United States furnishes the CHIEF
market for Forinosa Oolong.
Peanut or grcundnut butter has been success
fully made and marketed wholesale. at 10 and IL
cents pound. Ii is put up in cans OF various
sizes. from one pound to 100 pounds.
The Swedish bride fills her pockets with bread.
which she dispenses TO everyone she meets
her way to church. every piece she disposes Of
averting. she believes, n misfortune.
Iron rusts more rapidly when wetted because
the water contains so large a proportion OF oxy-
gen. some Of which combines with the iron. and
forms an oxide of iron. which is rust.
Rear Admiral Kautz takes pride in the fact that
it he who hauled down the Lone star
flag from the New Orleans City Hall and hoisted
the Stars and Stripes over the custom-house-
Asia Minor was the chief opium market until
the twelfth century. and from then it was
gradually distributed all over the globe. The
Chinese obtained the drug in the thirteenth cen
fury.
The tails of fishes are so much larger than their
fins because their tails are their chief instruments
of motion. while their fins employed more
TO direct their progress and steady their move
nents
John Timpson. the engineer who ran the spe-
cial train bearing ". K Vanderbilt. ir., and
his bride from New York, also ran that which
their wedding trip
Brevet Col. J. G.. Maxwell, who is 10 be the
new Governor Of Khartoum. entered the British
army twenty years lieutenant IN the
Black Watch. He served with his regiment al
the battle of Tei-el-kebir.
Atlanta University has recently received addi-
tinns 10 its permanent funds in legacy of Sl.-
900 from the estatc Of the late Frederick +
Weber Of Boston. and donation OF Ss-5oo from
living donor in New YORK clty-
The head CT the FIRE department in an Eastern
city says that persons who perish in burning
building are invariably suffocated. and that the
death Is painless. One breath of heated air and
smoke causes unconsciousne=s- and the victim has
further sensation.
A. Rsbinoh a native Russian and prominent
at the Chicago bar. owns copy of the terrible
.'Code of Alexis promulgated by the early
Rdmanofs over 200 wears ago. This is said TO be
the only genuine copy extant outside OF Russra-
where it is very rare
Lc-rucl Collins. Of Bath, Me-, has an intelligent
dog named Pomp. who viii I'll the woodbox
wheneYcr he is requested TO do So The animal
carries the wood in his mouth, stick hy -stica,
from the shed into the kitchen, where he care
fully deposits them in the woodhox-
Mrs. Sophia Nyurd, wife of one OF the American
sailors captured by the Filipinos at Baler. Is a
resident Of Brooklyn. Her husband has been
ssndin. her 81 4 month regularly, but she and
her one child. daughter one year old. are
Threatened with eviction for non-payment OF
rert.
4 singular objection TO good times and civiiza-
tion has been found by the citizens Of London.
who complain that the prosperity of the psor'e
has had the effect to multiply the classes who
er1piov domestic servants. ard 10 decrease the
classes from which servants are ordinarily
recruited.
The paintings and objects of art of the late
DR.. Cornelius Herr of Panama fame, were re-
Gently sold at Ction in Paris The great M
iority of the naintin.s belonged 20 the modern
French school, and in the 2O0 the catalogue
were many fine specimens, especially of the Bar
hizon painters
Moths fy against the candle fame because
their ewes can bear only small amount OF light
when. therefore. they come within the light OF
2 candle. their sight i overpowered. and their
vision confused. and they cannot distinguish
objects they pursue the light itself, and NJ
against the fane.
II il : left 10 his native city. Tours. Balzac
will he little hon0red at the coming centenary
of lis birth on May l6. The municipal counci!
refused te give any toward the eclehra-
tion because it does not like Brunetiere. who Is
to deliver the Grafton. The department. how
ever. voted to eSpend the large sum OF $i'sl-
According to NM Bianchini and Regnault- the
size and position Of the internal organs out
lined on the SKIN. Turkish bath causes thl
heart lungs liver. and kidneys 10 dillte with
the dry heat aad return TO their normal Size
in the cold water. This action appears 10 their
mind sautary.
Tom Manu. the weli-known London labor lead
er and trade uniorist, has retired from active
life and opcned a saloon. Tom Mann has been
identified with labor agitation for twenty years.
He was born in 1856. and worked rs boy on
4 farm and in the mines. Going to London. he
became 4 iourueyuan engineer. In lso' he joined
the socialists. Mann is the president OF nirner-
ous unions. ard the author OF many labor pam
phlets-
Superintendent John Stuart, of the Northwest
ern Railway. was formerly telegraph operator
at Hokendauaua. in Lehigh county. He went
West and found employment in Chicago At
the time Of the great strike he volunteered to
take Charge of the locomotive Ct important
train on the Northwestern road, which he did
siccessfully This service attracted the attention
OF the yander'ilts. who advanced Mr.. Stuart
rariidly until he was appointed superintendent
of the railway at $4,000 salary per annum.
Not long ago the Princess Charles of Denmark
was waiting at a railway station to receive a
distinguished guest. when She a reporter
oIbbling irdustriously in Notebook. The
Princess and the reporter caught each others
glance for 4 moment; then the royal lady began
to make entry in her own notebook. With
a glance toward the reporter she tore out the
leaf. dropped it on the platform. and Walked
| awa- OF course. the excited journalist seized
| it, Opening it, he read: Il wish j were re-
| porter He is still wondering.
! Prof. Deuar. Whose early experiments with
| liquid air won for him the gold medal OF the