The evening times., 1899-09-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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and there were only nine days Of calm
Mr. Edward Bu1wer Iytton Dickens. son Of the
novelist has been appointed a rabbit inspector by
the new South Wales Government. lie was form
erly member Of the Colonial Parliament.
The shortest. s,raightest, and most profitable
railroad in the world is said to be the Marine
Railway at Coney Island, connecting Brighton
with Manhattan Beach Its length is half i
mile.
Fresh milk cannot be obtained in China.
Hence this country IS an inexhaustible market
for condensed milk ID IL imported via London
or Antwerp, and sold by German and English
firms
The opal mines in New Mexico and the United
States have been about exhausted. no gems Of
much value being extracted from them, though
at one time large sIms were made out of these
mines.
| When arrested for shooting at his wife. Robert
| Clemens, Of a rich farmer in Fayette county,
/ Ky, defended himself on the ground Of his wifes
/ deafness. saying that he put a bullet through
the ceiling simply TO attract her attention
! The better class of japanese do not live in the
] treaty ports of Japan, which freqIented by
! the casual traveller Life in these towns Is 80
different from the real life in Japan that II il
| impossible 10 get idea OF the country from
| them
! Marconis experiments have proved sltisiae-
! tory the British Admiralty that complete set
1 OF the apparatus for wireless telegrsphy has been
/ supplied 10 the Defiance, the torpedo schoolship
/ at Devonport, for further experiments by naval
| officers.
Senator Depew SAYS he believes that
1 of lectures on the operation of railroads would
be valuable addition to all our leading colleges.
| considering the large part which railroads play
| in everyday life, and how little they
| understood.
| While Parliament is sitting the American Am
bassador has every day two tickets for the House
Of Lords and two FOR the House OF Commons, for
! the use Of his compatriots This season the de-
| mand for these tickets Is said to have been more
| than usually brisk.
Packages cannot be mailed 10 the Yukon coun-
try, according to the order recently issued by the
| Postofiice Department Letters and postal cards
| can be sent TO the Yukon Territory, but there IS
I no way in which parcels. or third or fourth
| class matter, can be forwarded
An autograph volume of music by Orlando di
Iasso. the great composer Of sacred music Of the
sixteenth century, recently discovered in the In
| pEri3l Library at Vienna contains "A hitherto IN
! known portrait Of the composer, drawn when he
| was twenty-eight years Of age
While the learned Of Europe were forbidden,
| a heresy, the doctrine of the siobuiar figure of
the earth the Caliph Al Aaimon was measuring
| the length Of degree along the shores Of the
| Red Sea. He and his suceessorS repeatedly de-
| termined the obliquity Of the elliptic
According &c tables made by sporting men,
over Ss5a.Oo0 0,eoe Is lost the turf every year.
Of this s59.0e000o Is lost English race cour-es
! and about SiD90d0.0JJ on Australian calIrS-s The
remainder : chiefly distributed between France,
the United States, and British colonies.
\ Belgian has designed an apparatus for racing
automaton figures across a stage on bicycles. con
szting Of endless chains carried by pulIey- undcr
the tracks. the latter having central slots through
! gvh Oh -.
power being applied l. the chains drive the
hgures.
The Dreyfus case Is operating actively in Kan
sas, where agents of the French buyers have been
paving good prices for horses to be used IN cabs
in Paris during the Exposition. Vow the agents
| have received orders stop buying, becaHse of
/ the uE5idiJy as TO investments caused by the
1 Dreytus trial.
France in war has 1,G00 soldiers 10 l., i17 IN
hajiianrS; Germany in war has LOCO soldiers 10
| 17I27 inhabitants; Great Britain in war has 0s1
! soldiers 20 T2-if3 inhabitants. while under the
| House t5ii. during the late war. tine United
States provided for only 1000 soldiers 10 about
/ 7sl go Inhabitants
In the seeiu~ion Of IN Oriental harem a woman
invented tie weaving OF cashmere shagls and
besides this evidence of briiiilUce gave such wise
advice To her husband that he changed her
from NournEzhal eight of the h4TemJ 70 N0Ur-
jshan tEght Of the wo.idl- The same
invented altar of Tos<s-
\ we'll preserved Roman Car1 has been dis
covered on the risht bank Of the NIrentl, in
! HerzrUvina \ section 80 feet long hy 20 feet
wide h4s been traced. Part Of the walls. gates.
and towers are still standing. and many utensils
and weapons have been di4s up. Ii is believed
thar tie camp wds erected N the time OF Nero
The lighting Of the Red SeI seems 1t first
| sound 20 be too practical infringement upon
! ancient fliryland But Sir Thomas Sutherland
4 -~s-Ff
| shipping. are naturally ANXIOUS about the prog
| rtSs Cf The Lighthouses with which the Porte has
| promised TO bcjewa the southern waters Of tie
Red sea
\ list has been made Of churches in England
where incense i used and which viii therefore
he affected by the recent decision OF the Arch
! / bishops. There IRE - IN England, and perhaps
ucTe-Ihe diOCtses where the Is most com
mon being London with iorty-siS churches The
Northwest 0f England i comparatively free nom
the practice
By the death of the Earl o: Mexborough at the
age Of eighry-nine years, the last person who
sat in Parliament before the reform bill was
peer. aEd might have sat in the House OF Com
mems after Succeeding 10 the title II he had ehos-
To- lie waS elected in his fathers HfeJimc.
however, and before he cane Of age
The village of Slfrte Foy De TI7pntaise in
the Department Of Rhonc. Is attracting attention
situated on "A small plateau, which for some time
| has been in slow but cunJiuuoUS motion. Already
: tine bell tower ~ The church l. Gf the Pc
| peRdicuar AID Jhe interiors and cellars of some
Cf the houses show enormous cracks and h>Surrs.
Captain Harrington. a British oficer, who re-
: Gently visited NtHe}ek of Abyssinia was able 10
l.. count $500 men in his army, and thinks that
/ the Ij3Gt0 assigned 10 the 8by>siuian Army IN
/. rcl5Tts - an exaggeFafi0H- The mrR he saw,
| however, all armed with modern rides and
| they had Maxim guns and mItrailleusts as well
They have also shown that they can stand UP
against civilized troops
DIR. Livingstone grave in Africa Is now marked
by "a tai iron telegraph POLE carefully secured -
the deputy administrator for the district north
Z Of the LsInbesi reports with safisfartioR. Tn,
tree under which the explorers heart had IIiT
: WIS rOtting. so the section containing the IN
n scripton cut cut and shipped to the Royl
Geographical Society, while in the centre Of tx
stump the telegraph peie set.
The sydney. Australia cycle track has beer
lighted in novel way bE means Of inverted ART
Z lights Fifty FIVE arc lights and seventy incan
descenis placed around the track at inter
walls Of thirty-fve feet the lamps being inverted
with the TefoetuTs immediately the src
: There absolutely shadows east, and lead
I ing cyclists Of the opinion that il Is Safei
10 ride at night under this light than by day
light.
Some interesting particulars as to the extent
," and cost of lex hunting in England were given
the other day BIZ Lord Bathurst There are now
e 22l packs Of fox hounds in the United kiR-d0m-
n Isl in England. Pc in Scotland, and I5 IN Ire
a land. ard these packs consist OF G90 couples q
hounds. and they uecessitate the employment o
100000 horses, OF the value OF S559gL000. iHvolv
- gf,a a,nf.