The evening times., 1899-05-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.


bicycle paths through the streets.
The greatest university is Oxford. which has
twenty-one colleges and five halls.
r. Merrill, Of Fresno, Cal, sat on . can OF
dynamite and smoked cigarette. He is dead now
1t has been proved as the result Of experiments
that the circulation OF the blood Is affected by
music.
German newspapers are discussing the important
question where the first picture postal card was
printed.
Lambeth Palace show specimens Of almost
every style OF architecture which has prevailed
since ll90
clares that 1000 European soldiers could conquer
that country.
The tax on coffee amounts in France to about
IA cents a pound. while in England it is only 8
cents a pound.
In st. Petersburg is the largest bronze statue
in existence-that of Peter the Great, which
weighs 1000 tons.
All attempts of foreigners to establish direct
commercial relations with the interior Of China
have 50 far failed.
Special courses of lectures railroadng as
science viii be delivered in Berlin and Breslau
the coming summer.
By the will of Mrs Luther Etting. Of Pough-
keepsie, vassar College gets 5000 with which TO
found scholarship.
Attention has been called to the statement that
in 1880 Kansas had li6 Democratic newspapers;
today there are but 43.
Mrs. Russell Sage is an admirable needlewoman.
and, for .museuent's sake, insists upon DONG
much of her own sewing.
The hiehes; number Of emigrants from Ireland
in any one year since 1851 was 1882 in ls5, and
the lowest B, 2,241, in lSJe.
Herman Holdheim German journalist, has been
arrested fifty times for political offences. and has
served twenty terms in prison
Nearly all the taxes levied in the United States
are imposed upon production and consumption,
rather than upon accumulation.
1t takes about a billion and a half Of eggs every
year to supply the demand in Great Britain and
Ireland, besides all the ratve eggs.
There are nearly i0,0Oo,OoO more 81 notes; p
Ooo. 900 more = notes, and 100000 more s.
noles than there were three years ago.
An enactment of tine Texas Legislature pro-
vides for the teaching in the public schools OF
a course of humane treatment Of animals
Mrs Choate, wife of the American Ambassador
in London. is in Paris. where she has bought
of the most exquisite court gowns made IN
that city.
In the last three months the FIRE insurance COM
panes of New York have paid in losses two and
a half times as much they have taken in in
premiums
A Buddhist temple has been opened in the
museum Of the University Of Pennsylvania Prof
Maxwell sommerviile spent nearly six years in
collecting material for II
A woman in Greensboro. n. C.. has won suit
against a water company. because there was no
water in the standpipe when her house took tire.
thus rendering the freinen poweriess
arizona's Oldest white resident is Charles d.
Paston who brzved the Apa,hes in ls98 and has
lived in the Territory since. He has Just
been voted pension by the Arizon1 LeglsiatuFe-
A rare and beautiful sight recently wit
messed at Mount yesuvius during 4 snowstorm
The volcano was in eruption. and three streams
of red-hot lava seen spouting through the
snow.
To aSis, in illustrating eclipse and the phases
Of the moon Maine woman has patented Il
,.lIu,ian. with a lamp attached. TO represent the
sum- the earth ard moon revolving around II on
horizontal arms
A railroad is building from Haifa. on the Med
iterranean coast of Syria, to Damascus. distance
of lis miles and the project contemplates an ex-
tension to Bagdad ard the Persian Gulf. 1t viii
be Of standard gauge
During the nine months ending with March
this country exported 81. .09l,0i3 worth OF mer-
cisndise TO Spain. and imported s2.9oi, ,095 from
it. Even in May o; last year we sent sSsG,9so
worth of goods TO SPAIN
Uncle Sans youngest army officer is Hugh A.
Drum who. though barely nineteen years OF age.
is a second lieutenant, and is on his way 10
Manila He is the son of Capt John Drum. WHO
was killed in the battle Of FL Caney.
saxony's minister of cducstion has issued d.
cree that all young girls attending public schools
ard colleges shall abandon the use OF eorsets
and stays 30 great was the evil that girls OF ten
and twelve were addicted TO tight lacinS-
Lava streams that have flowed out Of vesiIvius
d,r;pr the last three years haze deposited la5.-
90, eaD cubic metres OF lava the side Of the
mountain A cone of lava $50 feet high has been
formed. out of which fresh streams are flowing
Al silver Ridge Me- April Is. there was good
sIcching, with only one spot of bare ground riSi-
bic April % the snow was all gone except IN a
few shaded spots in the woods. the grass WAS
green in Tie dooryards, and farmers were planting
potatoes
In Aachen. Rhenish Prussia, the Karis Schuetzen
Guild will celebrate next month the eleven hun
drcth anniversary of its foundation by Louis !. OF
the great ChaTlemagne. Originally 1t was io9naed
for ..th. protection of the cathedral and divine
service"
JJovd Osbournc the stepson OF Robert Louis
Stevenson. and former United States Consul at
.ria Samoa who recently declared that the mis-
s;onaries were at the bottom OF all the trouble
in Samoa, should rot be confounded with Luther
A. Osborn, the present United States Consul at
Apia.
The hard luck OF some men doesn't cease even
with death At Winfield. kan.. every arrange
ment had been made for 4 funeral. when the
graye-digger came rushing in anu announcer thit
| he had struck solid rock in the grave and would
| REQUIRE considerable time TO blast through II.
| The funeral postponed for day
| CornorsI Conway. of st. Joseph, Mo-, who spent
| last summer at Camp Ager Us member of the
Fourth Missouri. ia likely to be benefited IN q
financial wav as a direct result of his experience
| there He invented garbage crematoTr. Wiilch
he has recently secured patent on. and from
which he anticipates good cash returns
A German paper gives the following method OF
detecting small cracks in steel tools: The tool,
near the cutting edge. is to be dipped in Pc
troleum which must he rubbed of clean asd the
| surface then wiped with chalk. The petroleum.
which has entered the fine cracks. sweats out on
| the chalk, and the rent is visible in its Whole
extent.
MANY of the French papers keep in their en-
| ploy harmless persons who registered as man
| ayers Of the respective publications When "A pa
| per has published any article OF a hbeions char
acter. in regard 20 which the victim makes legal
| c.mpaipt the registered manager stands trial as
| an offender. and is subject 10 me or iupr's""-
| mcn, perhaps both
| In B.th. England. there is a dentists assistant
Who has A mania for tooth-cxtraotion. He goes
| along the streets. and on meeting little boy
alone tells him to .'open his mouth and shut his
| ewes When the request is complied with. and
before the unsspecting Juvenile is aware OF what
| ia going on. a pair OF fdrceps is introduced he
| tween the open jaws, and out comes a molar
| An interesting divorce assigned for trial
| at the present term OF court, held in Bath. Me-.
Al ro, c,me IN for a hearing as the trouble