The evening times., 1899-07-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Canada
The Sulu Islanders dress with great taste The
women are fond of bright colors, aad love to
adorn themselves with jewelry-
Smoking goes on in the Philippines every
where but in church Even your cab driver will
offer you a cigar il you not smoking ard
he thinks you have none.
Among the many things made nowadays Of
steel are bushel baskets, which are stamped out
in the ordinary form. The handles are riveted
on. These baskets cost more than splint bas-
kets, but they are more durable.
A Kentucky woman has patented rotary tooth
brush, in which the bristIes are placed around
a spindle with the opposite end OF the spindle
threaded spirally to be reyolyed by a projecting
pin carried by sliding carriage.
Opal mining is Of the latest Australian
mineral industries. The principal opal winning
centre is White Cliffs, where the gem has been
found in highly payable quantities and of the
richest quality. within a radius Of miles,
and population of 1,5O0 whereabouts is set
tied there.
Mrs. j. +. Demouy recently took contract
to remove dead cattle from the streets Of No.
bile Ala. and got along very well until the
railroads began to rush in by the thousands cat
tie in bad condition for shipment When these
began to die 50 rapidly to overwhelm Mrs
Dsrnouy she gave up the task
peculiar question OF ethics has arisen between
dry goods store proprietor OF Racine. Wis. and
one of his clerks named YlasdisIar Altmann Alt
mann took in dollar of 1904 in payment for
some goods and got q, 900 for the rare coin from
a Chicago dealer. Now the proprietor claims
that the coin should have gone into his till.
Though we've had the income tax in Eng
land until it is regular part Of system OF
government, it IS yet thoroughly detested," said
London recently 1T will be sad day
for America should you adopt this odious
and inquisitorial plan Of taxation. What We
ought TO do IS 10 put moderate tariff I'M
| ports, to benefit our home manufacturers.
for there is no chance for their catching up
| with American competition, but merely for the
| sake of raising revenue. | suppose, however.
! that there IS hope Of any change, and that
! we shall go forever taxing their in
| comes. which is unfair and unjust, seeing that
| it applies only to class.
The pansy is a lover of cool weather. ,ays
| ''Harper's Bazar." 1t gives its largest, finest
| flowers and its most profuse crop of them in the
| spring and during early summer, and, if the
| plants have been properly treated. again in the
| fall Ii would no doubt continue to~ bloom a.
] freely during the summer as in the spring or
| fall if the weather conditions the same. But
as soon as the intense heat OF midsummer comes
4
| fected, and this accounts for the indications OF
1 -.Gwindling" mentioned by my correspondent It's
| flowers become smaller and smaller, until they
! are wholly unlike in all respects the magnificent
specimens Of May and June. And as the heat
| of the season. generally accompanied with more
less drought, increases. the plants seem 70 die
! off by inches. The red spider, encouraged oy
| dry weather, which ne delights in, adds his ef-
| forts to the work OF the heat. and the luxuriant
| plants of spring hardly recognizable IN July
| and August.
| simple piece of apparatus to measure the IN
| tensity OF illumination recently described be-
| fore the French Academy OF Sciences 1t does
not need standard lamp, but it gives relative
values Of different sources of illumination 1t con-
| ssts of a box which is perforated with number
| of holes The first is covered with single film
| of collodion with slight tint the second mas
| two such films and Beneath the holes u
| placed 4 strip OF seRsitized paper. and an ex-
| posure of a certain definite length Of time l.
| made, and the highest number that can De read
| on the paper gives 4 means for estimating the
\ intensity of the light. The apparatus % nrst
| standardized with some source OF illumination
! whose intensity is known. and the results are
| then computed for the various openings The oD-
| lection 10 this method is its dependence on the
1 color Of the light. light from some sources
| has rays with properties quite different rom
| those of the sun, fOF example, which anoTd u
| Elimination yet do not possess as great actinic
| power.
| The tomb of Esther and Mordecai the famous
| characters of the Old Testament book OF Esther.
| has been discovered in Hamedan, Persia The
| inscriptions on the sarcOphagi. and the toEno
| itself which have been deciphered and trans
| lated, prove its identity. In view Of the fact
| that some writers have tried 10 discredlt the
| Biblical story. in whose eOmmemoration the les
| tival of Purim is still annually celebrated by
| the Hebrews. this discovery Is important. me
| s.Juedische Tagebatt' in a description OF the
| tomb states that it i sixty feet high, and evil
IDENTIFY has received additions at various periods
The entrance, which is TO the lett OF the centre,
| leads to outer passage, which contains on
one side the memorial OF some ancient
| sage and the other that of a physician, with
a stand bearing lamps in front OF each wall
separates the sacred part from the outer sec
tions at whose western end a door leads To
| the principal sepulchre- To the night Is Moroe-
| cai's tomb and 10 the left Esther's- A eorri-
| dor between the graves form a passage Tor the
pilgrims TO the shrine. scroll OF the Mosaic law
was found preserved in niche. and an ostrich
| egg suspended from the dome. the latter being
the custom in all Persian tombs.
EVERY American and Enelishman whom met
in ConstantinopIe went to the trouble 10 assure
me that the Turk not as wicked as som'
| persons would have believe" writes the Con
stantinople correspondent of the Chicago Rec
ord;'' and he continues: There was no deny
ing that the Turks had slaughtered several Ar
menians now and then, but this pastime was mo-
vanton and malicious. but had been provoked
Nv informants did not pretend to Justify tn
| killing Of Armenians, but they did say wlthou
| exception that, taken class. the Turks ver
| better than the ArmenianS. They said that IN
I religious prejudice in favor OF the Christian
| Armenian as against the pagan Turk had col
| Ored the opinions of Europe and America \
| an instance of Turkish tolerance the attitude o
| the government toward the American CoLeg
| was cited Here IS institution seeking TO dls
| pl,ee the religious belief OF the country and pu
| cbr;stianity in its place. vet it has had the I'm
| slant protection of the Sultan and has receIVe
| preseuts favors and concessions Of every sor
| from the government the MaAom
) atans founded college in america, and bega
| 10 teach the Koran, would they be as well treat
IS ed9 They would be tolerated. OF course. bi
| would they ride half-tare on railroads. the sani
| rs Christian Minister'S
An archaeological find OF great importance
| reported from the city OF Polenza, in Souther
= italy. saws the Chicago Record" While se'
a eral Iaborers we're tilling a field at lrsina the
e discovered what they considered to be an an
o cient tomb containing bronze vase. They oper
| ed the vase and found within il no less tina
1000 silver coins. The first impression seems
| have been TO keep the thing secret, and to d
| vide the rich windfall But better feelings PR
e | vailed either through sheer honesty or throug
| the fear OF the law regarding treasure troE'
| which is most stringent in Italy 20 Signor Mt
: ! reno the owner OF the field, notified. an
| the vase and all its contents are now IN pos
| session OF the authorities at PolenZa. The coil
| seem TO have been little used, some of thei
| apparently never in circulation at all, beng
| bright and fresh as when first struck. Each
: | them weighs exactly hve grammeS- few bea
Z the impression OF the legendary she-wolf, an
Il frsaF