The evening times., 1899-03-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Sweden is building a new navy. Its sixta ship
of the new type. the Niord. is Just receiving its
guns and Enal equipment. 1t is coast defence
vessel Of g. 500 tons
The children Of the poor in Japan nearly
always labeled. in ease they Should stray
f.om their homss while their mothers
gagged in domestic duties.
According to the Publishers Circular" 6.0o3
new books were published last year in England.
236 fewer than in 1897. The decrease Is almost
entirely IN the class OF novels and juvenile works
The great demand fer wheat in Spain and tine
present low price OF this article in the Emitted
States offer opportunity for our grain
exporting merchants 20 sell large quantities to
Spain.
If servant in Germany falls sick her mistress
i not allowed to discharge her. but must pay
= cents day for her hospital expenses Eltil she
Is perfectly we'll The wages of girls vary from
$40 TO SGD month, with board.
According TO news from Vancouver. B. c.. vol
canic action II in progress in Lookout Mountain,
which has melted the and caused disastrous
Hoods Thousands of collars worth Of property
and number of lives are said to be in danger
The most costly leather in the world is known
to the trade as piano leather. The secrecy Of
tanning this leather is known only to a family
OF tanners in Germany, though the skins from
which it is tanned come almost entirely from
America.
The report Just issued Of the Peoples Gas Light
and Coke Company, which controls all TIE gas
interests Of Chicago, showssaIes in 1seS OF 6.II4.
5S7 $50 feet, ard net profits. over and above op-
Grating expenses and taxes, OF $, 40 S2, 56.7
cents per 1000 feet.
When the Roentgen rays first came into use for
medical purposes they were open &c the objection
that they sometimes injured the skin and caused
blindness. BY DETECTING certain eolored rays
Prof Findsen, OF Copenhagen. has been able to
overcome THIS objection.
sharks egg is one of the oldest looking
things imaginable. Ii Is unprovided with shell;
but the contents are protected by thick, leath-
cry covering. almost as elastic india rubber.
The average size is 9 inches by 2% inches, and
the color is almost pure black.
Organ grinders in Yeryiers, Belgium are by
law compelled to appear every morning before
the police superintendent and play their instru-
ments. The organs which chance to be out Of
tune must be set in order before a license to
play the street viii be granted
Labouchere. of 'London Truth" in his latest
attack on the House of Lords, divides its mem
bers into the ''mentals' the ''OrnamentaIs" and
the ''detrimentals' and thinks that if the latter
two classes dispensed with room might be
found for the ''mshtals in the House Of Com
mons.
4 correspondent at Santiago Dc Cuba notes,
among other specimens Of English. As she is
wrote (cr printed. the following legends dis
played on signs in that city: ''Svvet Meals
Everything Is here for sail" Hot louncheS at
oil h0ures' Customers treated kindly and
quinky.
The eighty-two-ton stone which IS to form the
upper portion of the Rockefeller monument has
been delivered in Cleveland. II WAS shipped from
Barre. Vt. where it was gulrFied. On two heavy
fat cars lashed together. and URoadei with
much difficulty at a point half mile from the
cemetery where the monument is TO be erected
At a Topeka dining-tabIe one day recently
a member of the Kansas House made the remark
that 4 certain member must have been drunk
when he made the motion TO strike out the en-
acting clause Of a bill which was being dis
eussed by the diners Il examined the enacting
clause carefully he said, and found that il
did not differ in any other bill" And then he
wondered why the laugh started
Officers of the regular army greatly dis
turbed over a clause in the army bin II pro-
vides that ''no officer shall be detailed
a bartender in connection with post GAN
teens. 1t is said that the Military Affairs Com
mittee OF the Senate was urged to strike out the
word bartender on the ground that il was
an insult to tine officers to intimate that they
could serve IN that capacity. Now that the OBJ
iectionable phrase has been enacted into law,
there is much Indignation.
Capt. Arch Horner. who is widely known as
one Of Kentuel.y's most conspicuous characters,
Is seriously i'll, says a ysnceburg, Nv, paper.
.'He claims to have been drunk for fifty years.
and is now SEVENTY His house. a double one
il on the line between Lewis and I;reenup es1n-
ties. He has sold whisky for many years, and
wheE indicted in Greenup he walks 70 the Oppo-
site end of the house and IS in Lewis county.
Indicted IN Lewis county he goes 10 his bed
room. and Is in Greenup county
Antoine Jackson, fulI-blooded Indian. known
Il
justice of the peace for the reservation adjacent
TO Tacoma Although he can neither read nor
write he is said to fill his Office with dignity.
The first case he had To deal with. which came
under his notice the other day, was that Of
man arrested upon the charge Of carrying con
cealed weapons The Indian Judge demonstrated
that the alleged culpTit could not force the
entire revolver in question into any Of his pock-
cts, and, therefore. dismissed the case Although
the courts reasoning not based on Black
stone and Kent. it was strictly in accordance
with the evidence
The Hartford Courant has arrived at the
conclusion that in this country there IS West
at all The people that take the trains at the
Jersey City station of the Pennsylvania Road
it SAYS "are very much ancered when they hear
the announcer shout: Express Tor Pittsburg and
the Far WestH They don't like IT. The people
of Chicago point to Wisconsin being the West
The Inhabitants Of Wisconsin scorn 70 consider
Nt>tEfNrIS.
real WesterueIS in the United States the pe0-
pie Of California, Oregon. and Washington. When
YOU go and ask those people if they are West
erners they look at you with surprise and tell
you that they live on the Pacific slope"
The Joneses are doing very well lately in OH
cial life. says the Chicago Record In the
Senate of the United States We have James X.
Jones OF Arkansas and John P Jones OF Ne
vada who hold their seats until March. 1903
In the present House OF Representatives we have
". A. Jones of Virginia, who succeeds himself
in the next Congress. and William c. Jones OF
the State of Washington. who Is succeeded by an
other jones' whose initials are ". L. The pres
ent Jones is a Populist; the next Jones IS
Republican. Dan ". jones is Governor OF Ar
kansas. J. II. Jones is Lieutenant Governor OF
Mississippi A. W. Jones is Lieutenant Governor
of Ohio, F. L. Jones is superintendent OF 'in-
struction in Indiana, and ". D. Jones IS artor-
ney general OF Nevada
The squirrels OF Central Park are Just as ag-
gressive little beggars and as persistent Park
Row spanhaHdiers.' said man who always
takes a constitutional stroll in the park. to the
New York correspondent of the .'Pittsburg Dis
PATCH Il think I have a personal acquaintance
with nearly every one that lives in the park.
and all are consummate little frauds | always
carry 4 quantity OF nuts in my pockets, and have
a lot OF amusement in feeding them. Last fall
i noticed they made big fuss about bGrying
the nuts and thought they laying by
supply for the winter. but found they only
-jollving' me. The little rogues so used to
being fed by the public that they make ef-
fort whatever to- find the buried nuts and de-
pend entirely charity for their food"
Notwithstanding all our boaSted civilization and
the efforts of the Thirteen Clubs, how few there
are of US who are not in the innlost reccsses
of our hearts afraid of the simple nsimher 1S,