The evening times., 1899-08-28
NOTES OF TIE DAY.


| in lse7, valued at sl2, 100000.
King Menelik Of Abyssinia has sent two zebras
as present TO Queen Victoria
General Boulanger's famous black horse, Tunis,
is dead. 1t had been cared for By an adInirer
| Of the general.
During a recent Sunday shower in Manila I-39
| inches Of rain were recorded. The July rainfall
| for fifteen days was 20 inches
| J. II. kibbey. a telegraph operator on the
| ''rerre Haute Express" has worked eleven years,
seven nights week, without FaeatIen
Belgium exports 600 dressed rabbits yearly
| 20 England. They weigh from six TO eight pounds
apiece, and the rabbit crop sells for q. Looo on
| the average
Only SI7l. Is5 was obtained for the Marlborough
| collection of gems, just dispersed at auction in
London. The lare had paid SIS, 500 Tor the
collection sold in one lot.
Three thousand Indians have been taking part in
the annual green corn dance of the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes, near Weatherford. i. I. GrseR corn
is something worth dancing about
The British Government has agreed to contrib
ute $225,O 600 to the proposed Antarctic expedition
\ under the auspices of the Royal Society. which
must raise an equal sun. FOR the project
Old age pensions have been established in Ko-
rea. but not a large item in the national ex-
pcnditure. Old age pensions TO sixty
$3.50.
London's General Omnibus Company runs 1900
omnibuses, which carry 100000 passengers a
| year and run 29O0O.0OO miles It owns 1881
horses and employs 5000 men. The annual re-
| eeipts are about s6,O0OCO-
Eighty-four per cent OF the entire State of idaho
| is still public land, amounting 70 than A.,
4 00O000. OF this area il has been estimated by
| the Government Geological Survey that 100000
\ acres be irrigated successfully.
| whangarei CSew ZealanD youth who adver-
| tsed for wife was amazed to find among the
replies letters from of his sisters with photos
enclosed In this case the mania for matrimonial
| alliances seems to have been quite family dis
order.
1t Is said that an unfinished romance of Rome
in the days Of the Caesars. from the pen of Dr.
| John Moore. the father Of the hero Of COrunna,
has been discovered in house in London which
| be occupied at one time, and that il may be pub
| lished.
French soldier Of twenty-one. named servand.
who is at present serving in the One Hundred and
Third Regiment Of the Line. quartered in AIgiers,
has just passed in brilliant fashion his final ex-
animation for his degree of doctor Of matheInati-
/ cal science
The offer of ]. Pierpont Morgan to light the IN
terror OF st. Paul's Cathedral in London with
electricity has been accepted. and successful
| periments in lighting the building have been
made. II is estimated that the cost Of the work
| Will be 81, 600.
Thurso Bay. in the north Of Scotland. is hav-
| ing trouble with whales large school OF bot
| tle-nose whales recently stranded in the
shoals Of the bay and driven On the beach There
/ Is no way OF hauling them of. that Thurso
| people must hold their noses for a good part of
the summer
1
Ohio, is expert squirrel hunter. and is also
afflicted with somnambulisui- Last Saturday morn
| ing at daybreak he awakened 10 fad himself at
| the edge of a wood half j mile IRON home He
| was IN his night robe and was carrying his gun
lie had evidently started OF on squirrel hunt.
\ New York druggist has hit upon device
which Is much admired by the persons addicted
TO soda water. very thin white Japanese paper
| napkin is placed beneath each glass before IL is
set into the silver holder The four corners fall
decoTative'y around the glass and additionally
prevent the seething deeoction from dripping on
the gown or gloves
There is not a city in the world that con-
| sumes as many frog legs as New York. While.
years ago, the French were commonly known as
frog eaters" the New Workers today should more
| properly be called 'frogeatins people rather
than the Par>ians Fully - per cent OF the frogs
( for the New York market shipped from the
| Ontario district, IN Canada.
| Austria's pension bureau has been obliged TO
| recognize polvsamy in the army. Since the oc-
| cupation Of Bosnia and Herzegovina many No
| hanmedan have become soldiers, and each one
| of these when he dies may leave several widows.
\ recent order settles the pension question thus;
In case soldier leaves more than one legal
widow the pension assigned 10 the widow shall
| be divided equally amonG all his widows who are
| entitled TO be peRsicned.'
| Someone told a Twentieth Kansas boy that
| mosquitoes would never come into the neishJor-
| hood Of dog. so he captured one Of the ours
running about The town and tOos him to bed rs
a result the dog filed the bed - full OF aeas that
| he hasn't been able 10 get rid Of them vet and
| he is sleeping out under banana tree. Mos
| quitoes are bad enough. the Lord knows" sGys
our soldier boy. but they are an ice cream les
tival when compared 10 a Philippine hea-''
Fifty acres of Adirondack burnt lands have been
| replapted this spring with white pine and other
| conifeTs by the New York State College OF For
estry of Cornell University. Woodchoppers were
turned into expert tree planters. and at the same
| time nursery has been established with enough
seed to furnish 3 coo 0)O seedlings which when
| two years old will be out and viii be Sllfi-
/ cient TO cover $500 acres II is expected that
the college will plant at least 500 each year.
The street cars to be used on the inter
urban line between ST. Paul and Saltwater will
4 be unique in their equipment They will have
compressed air for brakes and whistles 10 be sup
| piled by small motor. operating an cir pump
| The air whistle viii be used in the country where
| the will be at a high rate Of speed
! Each car also viii be equipped with a telephone
| with fifty feet Of wire and a switch plug. AT
/ intervals OF quarter OF a mile there will he
/ places where the conductor can cut in on the
| Telephone wire between 81. Paul and Saltwater
and communicate with the power-house or car
| barn.
! The stopping OF .pyoiee;ile always results in
the generation of heat. The velocity and weight
| OF proiectile being known. the amount Of heat
! developed by its stopPage can be calculated In
the ease of large bodies moving rapidly the result
| of the calculation is something astounding For
| example, The earth weighs 5000 million-milron-
million Its travels in its orbit at the rate
| OF eighteen miles second. Should it strike
a target strong enough TO stop its motion the heat
| developed by the shock would be sufficient not
merely to fuse the earth but also 10 reduce a
large portion of ir to vap0r- II has been calcu-
| lated that the amoun; of heat generated by
collision colossal would equal that obtained
from the burning of fourteen globes Of coal, each
| equal TO the earth in size And should the earth
after this stoppage fall into the san. as il GER
| tainly would do the amount of heat developed
| by its impact on the would be equal that
! generated by the combustion of 5000 eaTths Of
solid carbon
| Pittsburg telegram says: After little more
| than a year of welded bliss the Rev. T Dewitt
! Talmage finds himself the opulent husband of
/ woman with brsnd-new check for S1SO,0O0. The
| check bears the signature OF officials Of the big
| hoop trust, and represents Mrs. Talrages inter-
/ e>ts in the Lindsey & NcCutckeOn cotton tie
| mills. Several weeks ago Thomas C.. McCutcheon
1 and James H. McCutcheon. active managers of