The evening times., 1899-10-21
NOTES OF The DAY.

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/ Of hides last year.
Japan bought over sI.OoO,OO0 worth Of sugar
| last year from Germany.
| Hominy is corruption of anhuminea, the In
| dian word for parched corn
| All the emery in the world comes from the
little Island OF Naxos. near Greece
Switzerland has at present s2s cooperative as
| socia.ions for buying food, with 10l,920 mem
/ bers.
"GOosseberry fool 50 popular in England, Is a
! corruption OF gooseberry foule-pressed gooseber-
The screw Of Atlantic liner reyolves some
| thing like $4,000 times between Liverpool and
| New York
| The Narragansett Indians had dish called
m siekquatash. which have borrowed and nam
| ed suceotash-
20 The The Malay language is spoken by more than
/ as II has almost no grammar.
| Charlotte comes from the old English word
eharlyt, meaning dish of eustard. and charlotte
russo is simply Russian custard-
I There are 1.6l0 cooperative societies in Great
! Britain, with more than 100000 members do
/ ing business of sS25,COO,DOO year.
/ At present Australasia is the largest producer
of wool in the world. with Russia second, the Ar
; gentine Republic third, and the United States
fourth.
When potatoes were first introduced in Germany
they for long time. like tomatoes. cgltTvat
ed merely a curiosity No ate them, even
pigs refusing them
The great Cascade tunnel on the Great Northern
road. 5000 feet two and half miles through.
i being pushed BY 900 men, day and night Ii
will be finished by October l, 1900
Something entirely new in China is that the Red
Gross floats fully equipped hospital, where
from 80 10 100 Or more patients treatcd daily
The hospital Is In charge Of four natives physi-
clans.
In India there is more wealth than in any eoun-
try in the world. Gold fabrics, jewels. and
spices-for ages these have been produced and
found in this land One OF the Indian prinees
. owns jewels valued al Slj.OOO,000.
negro wearing monoele in the streets OF
Baltimore the other day excited d certain kind
Of interest among the passefs-by. The American
SAYS: Many eOlCred people wear speetaeles- but
they cannot wear eyeglasses, owing to the fat
ness of their nose
This is a Boer dslicacy: A great square slice
is cut OF loaf OF coarse unsifIed meal, and
covered with a thick layer Of jauF-preferably
strawberry. A OF sardines Is then placed on
top and the oil from the slIdine box is hberaIly
poured the whole.
The Minnesota Valley Historical Society has de-
cided TO build granite shaft hfty-two feet high
to the memory of Indians who befriended white
settlers during the Sioux rebellion in lSd2- II
viii be located on State land near the village Of
Morton, ReEyille county.
The Holy synod Of Russia has ,iecreed that the
insurance companies obliged to pay losses
incurred during anti->emitie riots. They did not
say the companies are not 70 pay Hebrews. bur
il Is well known that in these riots the Hebrews
only suffer lo.s. and. - by this measure, Hebrews
alone are afflicted
First-clasS railway carriages have been abolished
in Belgium, except with trains from other cOun-
tries In place Of them elegantly furnished parieT
cars have been introduced, with buffet, and first
seeond-class passengers make OF these
long they please, payment, in the CAR.
itself OF an extra SUN
A veritabIe fortune it is said. Is gathered for
the sultan from the wrecks Of the battle Of
smyrna. Since I17G number Of Russian and TuT-
kish ships have rested at the bottom Of the sea.
These are now being Investigated and the snip
OF the Russian admiral alone has yielded over
S25O, ,GOJ in coin. besides silverware and jewels
A singular and interesting discovery has been
made at Borboys, in Hungary, where the remains
of an unusually large autediluvian animal have
been unearthed, which a Hungarian sayaat pro-
nounces to be larger than anything Of the kInd
previously found in Europe According To this
authority, the animal IS i whale, eight metres
long.
The guardians OF a London workhouse have
adopted a commeudable plan for classifying pau
pers. About four years ago the inmates were sub
divided with reference to their moral character
their behavior. OF their previous habits Now a
further step in advance has been taken BY pro
viding two comfortable and well furnished Wards
for thOse above sixty-hve-
1t Is said thar Levi T. Letter. the Chicago
millionaire. intends to erect handsome monu-
rnent in the old Letter graveyard On the David
Strife farm. near Hagerstowu- Md. where he was
born This farm. il viii he remembered, Wa rs-
= frrrr
access 10 the buTyinG ground Is held by the
Letter family in perpetuity
Twenty-seven mining companies owning prop
eTty in Storey county New, and all included IN
what is known as the Comstock group. have con-
tracted with electric company for power al
s. horsepower. The power used by the
company costs about SO. and the great saving
made by this change VIII make it possible to
handle vast quantity Of low-grade ore that has
heretofore been cast aside as net worth the cost
Of reduction. There l. promise OF increased ac-
tivity and prosperity for the people in that re-
giOn that they have not known for years.
A big piece Of granite has been cut from the
Palmer quarry, five miles from yinalhaven. Me.
1t measures III the rough state 81 feet in length,
and is feet inches thick, by feet in width,
the total weight being $40 tons When TUNED
into cylindrical form it will be 81 feet in length
by feet inches in diameter, and will be the.
first OF eight columns which are destined to sup
port the great dome OF the Episcopal Cathedral
OF ST John the Divine of New York Two of the
eight columns TO be of this size; the other
six are to be of the same diameter and y feet IN
length.
An interesting feature Of the London Coal Ex-
change which is 10 eeeb1te its jubilee next
month, says the -'Yorkshires England Post" is
its floor 1t is constructed Of inlaid wood
ranged so as to represent the mariners compass
Woods of many kinds went the making of the
pavement; among them being black ebony Eng
lish oak of various hues, white holly, elm (both
English and AmeTioan), red and white walnut
and mulberry Some of the slabs of wood, of which
there are altogether 1000. have interesting his
torical association. One piece. forming the haft
Of the dagger represented in the city corporation
arms, is a portion of tree planted by Peter the
Great, when he worked i shipwright at Dept
ford
Dromedaries have a great love for tobacco
smoke, and can be made to do almost anything
under its influence. and in Egypt they rely more
on il than on anything else 10 control these
huge animals In cases where the dromedsries
have TO work night and day 10 accomplish
journey in the shortest possible time they are
kept going with cigars. The driver inserts a tn
angular piece Of wood. pierced at one point hike
a cigar holder into the mouth OF the animal; the
cigar being lighted and pressed into the hole in
the fashion followed by man. The dromedary I'M
mediately shuts its eyes and putfs away through
its nostrs till the cigar IL burnt out The smoke
appears to refesh Z and the driver has no din
Guilty in peTsIading it 90 without further
rest.
No less than l05 sorld's congresses have been
officially authorized up to the present time by
the directors of the Paris Exposition, and the
number will steadily increase as the scientific
value Of these assembages shall become more
clearly apparent to experts in every branch OF
industrial development, philosophie enquiry and