The evening times., 1899-10-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.


New York consumption of champagne during the
past year Was the greatest ever known
The Florists Hall Association Of the United
States carries ss00OO0 insurance hothouses-
In Surrey England, there il a great poultry
fattening establishment which annually sends
about 5000 fOw.s to London.
German commercial men. travelling in Russia are
obliged to pay a tax of 500 rubles, in default Of
which fine Of LOO rubles IS imposed
One of the minor but yet very considerable. de-
mands for iron and steel. OF recent origin, is that
entailed by the Of metal tubing in mine
shafts.
A New York man claims to have shot a crane
up in the Adrcndacis that had forty-ive trout in
its stomach. none Of which weighed less than
pound.
Muzaffir-I-Din, shah Of Persia. was made the
governor Of province when he quite a small
boy; though he had no work to do in connection
with the Office.
There has been great difficulty in London in
finding drivers for electric vehicles and one COM
Pany has dismissed its employees and closed up its
plant on this account.
A tramp's minimum income in England is over
II day At least. tramp has declared in
court that he did bad days work IL he could
net md sixty peTsOus 10 give him a penny.
The sacred fires Of India have not all been ex-
| tinguished The most ancient which still exists
was eonsecrated at yodvsada twelve centuries ago.
IN cCmmemoration Of the voyage made by the
Parsees when they enigrated from Persia 10 India
According to a recent official return England
during the last ten years has paid of s55 900 900
of her national debt, and as matter Of rank in
the debtor nations has sunk 10 third place
France and Russia occupying respectively the first
two.
bridge composed wholly Of telegraph wire
was built over the Jhelum River at KOhaIa. in the
Punjab. in the place Of a bridge which was swept
away by the foods in 1852. similar bridge was
constructed during the first Soudan campaign over
the hokora River for military purposes.
Wet boots and shoes can be rapidly dried by
PennsylvaHian's patent device. which consists
of circular base OF tin, open at the bottom. and
provided with pair Of vertical tubes ending in
curved spouts, the boots being placed over the
spouts, and the device set on the stove.
Louds Island. the coast Of Maine near his
toric Pemaquid, in the Lincoln county town Of
Bristol is one Of the few places on earth where
there are no taxes. This island, otherwise known
as Auscungus was overlooked when Maine became
State. and was put into no town or county
yermouth Is composed of nutmeg, peruvian
bark, mild wormwood sweet flag, caTdamon, cen
taury, elecampane root. gentian, angelica root,
wormwood gTsna. alcohol, water. TONGA beans.
coriander seeds, cinnamon. dittany. sage, basil.
iTis, raisins mint, marshmailow flowers, sweet
maFl0Ezm, and white wine
At the present time there are between 500 and
1,0O1 men in New York who are worth a million
dollars more In ISIS, when New York had
population of 10000. there were only nineteen
who were assessed at 100000 or more. and
the highest assessment only SZ00.t00. In the
list The OF John Jacob AstOT. Jacob L0Fil-
lard. and Jonathan Ogden prominent.
The worlds production of gold for 1899. if Aus
trala aad South Africa maintain the Tate with
which they began the year, VIII probably reach
SS49.O)000O. or about S5O,O00O00 more than in
Is3s. II the end Of the current year the three
principal countries viii rank in the following
order in the list II goidprOJucing districts: South
Africa, SloS 1l. .3, Australia, S7S, 90 go; United
State~, S54.6d0.0J9.
rapid tendency TO decay, hitherto unknown
in extent. IS taxing Place in the teeth of the
children AID yaUth Of the present generation OF
the children of q large number Of parochial. in
dustrial. and other schools IN England ll.-
600 mouth. we're examined and the condition OF
each tooth vas marked upon chart Less than
ID per cert q such boys and girls Of an average
age q twelve years did not require some treat
uent for GeCayed teeth
The increase in the number Of medical women in
Great Britain is held By the medical men 70 be
astonishing. In L5Eton alone there are nov
esh,y-ave registered and qIl.- Il medical women,
almost al Of whom are il Practice Some q
these hO-d posts in dspeTslries, hospitals. chill
Grens hospitals. iHfTmari5s- posts Is OphJhalmic
surgeons, assistant aEaesthetists, medical exam
liners, inspectors and lecturers. Not oDly has al
NEST ever large English town lady HlediCO- but
remote Orkney Islands have qualified women
medical officers. The rapidity with which wo-
have spread over the medical field can best
be gauged by ,mbeTiGg that the London school
Of Medicine for Women only founded in ISL
hat manufacturer in Indiana has organized
u. IL Il. H.
so fine hares in tract OF land enclosed by wire
netting. says the .:C!othiess' and Haberd1Shers'
Weekly 1t expects 10 raise 1O0O0OO hares annual
ly. Since the practical extinction of the beaver
there has been sad lack of home grown furs suit
able for hat manufacture, and We have been COM
PEELED to wear upon our heads the product Of the
pguper bunnies Of Europe and Australia. Everyone
who has had experience with the fecundity CT the
hare viii wonder at the moderation OF the pro-
mOteTS Of the plan in estimating the output AT q
patry million year The hare growers viii DO
well 20 take pTecaUtiOES that Will keep the ami
H:als from COMBATING the soil like the rabbits in
Australia Perhaps. if the plan proves success
ful. we shall see the day when rabbit warren or
hare ranch vii lie adjunct TO every hat factory
method has at last been discovered in Ger
many. as announced in the journal der Gold
scfmiedkuus;,' for producing gold like alloy from
copper and aEtimony, one which, even il exposed
FOR some tine to the action Of ammonieal and
acid vapors does not lose its gold color. The
Journal sass that admirable is the product
question that it can be rolled and worked Ike
gold withou, containing the slightest adnixture
of the same, besides being far less costly than
other precious and semi-preciouS metals. Us well
as the compounds and alloys used as substitutes
for these Briefly. this alloy consists of copper
and antimOEy IN the approximate ratio Of 100 to
6. and IS realized by adding to molten copper
as soon it has reached 4 certain degree OF heat
the said percentage Of aRtinl0ny, and when the
latter has likewise melted. and entered into init
mate union with the copper, some charcoal ashes.
magnesium and linae-Spar added 70 The mass
when the latter Is still in the crHcifile The il
ventCrs name in this case does not appear; ard
although the action OF such material adInlxtuTe
OF fux is not entirely apparent the alloy Is said
to lose thereby certain porosity otherwise pres
eut and an exceedingly great density of the cast
metal Is obtained.
Dr. Albert B. Lyman. Of Baltimore is the in
ventor of 4 eontrivance for hanging criminals,
which he Claims vii not fail 10 break the neck.
says the News of that city. The number of in
from strangulation well-kDoHn, and the device
has worked admirably on dolls end manikins- The
eontrirancc does away with the haagman's knot
and cannot slip A bar of steel. curved TO the
shape Of the back cf a human neck, has ropes
leading to the center oe the inside Of the curve
which pass through a hole in fhe middle of the
bar. BY pulling the ropes out few inches and
crossing them over the other perfect moose
is made, easy in sip, but, when once attached
rigid in its action Dr. Lyman would have the
eond> musd stand on a low platform, with NJ
drop and the other end OF the rope atla,fi.yi to
weight heavier than the criminal When 10