The evening times., 1899-02-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.


The London Athenaeun1'' recently gnoted a
passage from the indianapolis News" Chicago.
Ex-Gov. RomuaIdo Paches. who died in Oak
lard. Ca. the other day, was the irst native
executive Of that state.
The French government is bhildng al Cape
Grisnez an electric lighthouse. winch will be
visible at distance of fortyeight miles. IL viii
equal the light of 100000 ordinary candles
Tumblers resembling in shape and Dimensions
| those employed today have been found in gueEt
numbers in Pompeii. They were made 0f gold.
silver, glass; marble, agate, and Of precious
sto-2s.
The advent Of Queen WiIhelmina 10 the throne
has not put end to her studies She eontiRues
to pay frequent visits TO the museun's Ss9seiaI-
ly to the fine collection Of prints IN the fiSs-
| museum Amsterdam
Victoria, a Honess in sanger's circus, near
London. has given birth to six cubs. This Is
believed be the largest nuIabeE- bo=a al enc
time in captivity. The cubs have been named
| after Queen Yictoria's children
| Indiana is about to erect a monument on the
| scene OF the Pigeon Roost massacre, in Scotr
| county, where in ISL twenty-:om peapIe were
| killed and scalped by Indians. 4 monument -
| also advocated for the battle OK TipPecanes. .
| Gen. Guy V. Henry is the grandson 9is pspiel
/ ID. TOmpkins, twice governor OF New York, and
once Vice President of the United Stares. -tH-
| other grandfather. Smith Thompson, see
4
/ vt the little port OF PIou1nsnacil, France the
sea high tide oveTtfe~s into some natGrIT
| pools at a much lower level. This tall IS made
! 10 drive water wheel. and with dynamo and
accumulators constant supply Of electricity IS
| obtained
! After many years Of public discussion 81 Pc
tersburg has last established fixed 'tarif COR
cabs These cabs much used. the street.
car system Is little developed but they are
and IJfll There aIsl
0o0 in use.
The Chinese government does all "a its power
to chect. the opium habit. the pTnishnents eeri-
mon in the Chinese army for this habit beng
extreme For the first offence a man HAY have.
his upper lip cut; for the secend he may be de-
! capitated.
During the pontifcate of Leo xIH. I23 cardi-
mails have died As the full College Of Car,ii-
nals contains only seventy members and IS
I never up Ia fail trensth this means that IL has
been entirely renewed twice since Leo XIII came
! 10 abe Papai throne.
That plants when injured suffer from fever IS
discovery By a British l-ofanist. Pllsts
suffer in a similar manner 10 animals under ike
conditions The rate OF respiration increases and
the temperature rises reaching a maximum
withIn twenty four hours.
Fifty walnut trees in Cas- county Mich were
recently sold for $4,000 cash These trees
! have nov been teIled. and viii be shipped to
English buyers The largest tree was seven f.et
l in diameter at IT'S base and viii yiell lumber
worth from 500 to $1,000
Mrs. ]. w. r.. Bond. Of Chicago. vas one OF
Florence Nightingale's ablest assistants. and
served through the Zulu wIr and Egyptian esaa-4
: Piigns- u consequence. she i probably the
most decorated in America having re-
ceIved she Star Of Egypt rom the late kheCye.
ROYAL Red Gross iTom Victoria, and three others.
Thirty wears ago this professors in the Berlin
, study Of political economy This amount Of ti1,e
, j. than doubled The range OF this
subject has been extended and includes srch
questions labor rights. currency problems. So
Cial protective legislation, economic meaning Of
machinery etc
When Lord keIbUrne candidate for PJr-
Lament black and -rimy collier attempted 70
interrupt meeting he Was addressing and said:
! Lord Krii'EFHc- II you're returned 70 PaIlia-
neut. what's The fast thing ye WAd tax the duty
! of. Lord kelbIrne, his eyes sparkling at the
/ opportunity. bent down toward the hiekier and
said. SOAP. You dirty rascal
\ ~Sull-eap discussion has sprung up in HART
ford IN officer in courtroom requested
2 Clergy man TO retire for wearing a szull-cap in
tile presence Of the Judge One Of the Hartford
papers makes earnest plea Tor the recognition
I # the skull-eaP, claiming thHt it. saves
hundreds Of lives especially at funerals, To many
whose hair Is seanty IT i a necessity. and il X
seen more and frequently Il church and dt
, / 0pen-air meetings
Julia SIariowe received a Christmas gift from
| Rudygrd Kipling in the form Of a copy OF his
( latest book. Miss Narlowe used to pass her sum
mers at -Four Winds Farm, idyIIic spot up in
l New Hampshire. where she was ncghber to Mr.
t / kipling h;s Yankee estate. The book IS
The Days Work-" and on the hy leaf, II the
authors handwriting, are these lines
when skies are gray instead OF blue,
With clouds that come To di-hearten;
% When things wrong as they sometimes 10,
In Iife's little kindergarten,
i beg YOU nv child. don't weep and wall,
And don't don't take 10 tipping;
But cheer yoUr soul with htJle tale
BY Neisiib0r RUdyard hIptiHg-
= Russia Is the source OF practically the entire
amount OF platinum used in the arts. but the
mines are now nearly all in the hands Of for-
4 eiancrs Ia the Verkhotursk district. where the
most important mines are located. the procuc-
tinn la-. year amounted To about SIX tons.
amount that does not seem large when Il l. re-
nenbered that platinum i The heaviest OF met
ais except iridium, which i still rarcT. In val
, ue il TO I've compared only with gold. and tine
estimated price per ton IN connection with the
II purchase Of mines by Paris syndicate i stated
1 At between SSNOO00 and SJtat.tHEt No new VEINS
| of thi, precious metal have been discovered IN
Russia for a long time, and il seems probable
that the present veins viii soon be exhausted
= Col. H. Watkins Chief Inspector Of position
finding in the British army. has recently de-
N vi<ed 4 modification of the usual form OF
aneroid barometer. in which il Is claimed the
accuracy OF the instrument l. greatly increased
The inaccuTacy OF ansroids. owing TO tempera-
ture effects which cannot be eliminated entire
L. | w. and the experiencing ef a progressive error.
al low presSureS has been serious disadvantage
Il. in the use of otherwise extremely convenient
instrument Colonel Watkins cOTTectS these evils
by having the vacuum-bOX adjustable and placed
in position with a when il i desired To
take 4 reading. In this way there Is no cOntin-
uouS strain on the mechanism. and the vacuum
nd box can be raised or lowered as often as II
necessary One OF these harOmeters used
w about Zermatt by Edward WhymPer. the Alpine
5 explorer and the in comparison with a
g merguriai instrument found 10 be much less
than one-tenth OF an inch
In order 10 determine the effect Of acetylcne
gas on the health in view OF its increasing use
~ for illumination, some experiments were recently
IT. | carried on with animals. An atmosphere con-
tanning 20 per cent OF actylene was found to have
| no deleterious effect the animals. and from
li that it was deduced that living beings would
not be injured by breathing such an atmOs-
| phere. In atmosphere containing 80 per
J cent of actylene a dog succumbed after breath
ing 10 litres of the mixture. As actylene gas
/ has an intsense OdoT escaping into the air.
- | in the light of these experiments it may be
Ter said to be considered safer thar ordinary iliu
as | minating gas. There is no danger Cf explosion
until there is one-twelfth by volume of acety.
it Iene mixed with the air. I'm burning aCetylene
removes but little OF the oxygen from the at
an mosphere and has a small heating effect in com
parison with its illuminating power. the heat
of combustion being under 90 degrees c. while
d. with an ordinary fame it may be as high a
l.