The evening times., 1899-07-08
NOTES OF TIE DAY.

never to look upon the face OF
Half the ships in the world are British. The
best of them be converted into ships Of war
IN forty-eight hours.
Savings made by thrifty wives may be taken
by their husbands creditors, according to the
decision of a London Judge.
In Stark county, Ohio. twenty-one infants
have been named Dewey and it is estimated
that there are nearly 1000 Dewey babies in all
Ohio.
There are 100000 goats in the United States.
25s, 900 in the West indies (where goat mutton
IS extensively usedD. L,G00 in England, and H.
100000 in Spain
BY the systtm OF combining weak schools
and conveying th. Purils to central school.
one town in Iowa 5 saving $50 a year for each
discontinued school.
According 70 tie RAILROAD Gazette the Bal
tfmore and Ohio is running many Of It's
Passenger engInss about twice many miles
monthly formerly
4 chemical eIect Of Magnetism on other sub
stances than iron has been reported by Herr
Jahr. German eheuisJ. after experiments with
Photographic plates. sHe action resembles that
OF certain lIeEt T2ys.
Paul Kupper. the sculptor. is making a model
| of badger. TO be cast in bronze and present
ed to the new hattleship Wisconsin The animal
viii be a native type, and not the European
| one so long used for that State
The ''Kansas City Jou.rar' says: ''Out of the
| 1000 composing the Twentieth Kansas only
eighteen are OF foreign birth Nearly the whole
are OF Ang!o-Saxon blood, and good many
more than one-half the sons of farmers"
Mis- Hattie Smith. Of Long Island sound has
musical tastes which her family means do not
| allow her to cultivate So she is to give ex-
! hibitions in diying-beT this summer 10 raise
| money. She will be a diver 10 become diva
| The labor department Of the British Board
| of Trade reports that changes in work-peopIe's
wages made in England during May affected
| 2Oo,G90 individuals. all OF whom received adj
vances, the average advance being IA pence per
\ head.
According to the Chicago Railway Age rail-
road track has been put down this year in 81 OF
the 20 States and Territories. on 1i6 roads. 10
! the extent of I,9G0 miles, and the total new
| track to be laid in the next six months IS es-
trmated at S,0Oo nils
Moisture is prevented from eondsnsing on wiz
| dows and shutting OF the light by a new Eng
| Iish device which has an air supply pipe To-
/ Gated at the bottom OF the window, with an
| electro heater set the outlet 10 dr. the air
as it Is forced from the pipe
! six-masted Schooner IS being bailt at Cam
/ deI, Ne., and seafaring thereabout are nluch
concerned what name shall be given TO the sixth
mast after iigger-nast' has been suggested
Gates. The schooner is to be nearly 80 feet
long
| "a few DAYS ago." says an Englisbman in
Madrid Il called at the general postoffce about
a letter. and went into two departments before /
found the right one In the three departments
that | entered / did not a single person at
work; they all either standing, looking
out of the window, sitting down smoking
| and chatting
4-r-H ,ovfz sHa in
furious effects of anger: Anger serves the
happy mortal who indulges in it much the same
"a intoxicants constantly taken do the inebriate-
1t grows into a sort of disease, which has va
| rio;Is and terrible results. Sir Richard Quain
said not long ago: He is very rich in
deed in physical power who afford 70 be an
Cry This is true. Every time ] man becomes
| white red with anger he Is in danger Of his
life. The heart and brain the organs mostly
affected when ats Of passion are Indalgsd IN Not
only does anger cause partial paralysis OF the
small blood vessels, but the hearts action be
comes intefmitteRt-that is- every now and then
| it drops a beat-nuch the same thing a. Is
experienced by excessive smokers.
The device for sending cards upstairs at the
WaIiorf-Astoria is not one Of that noted View
Yorks hostelry's least interesting features.
series OF brass pipes occupy place IN the west
ern wall OF the Office corridor. Each pipe con-
tains a pneumatic apparatus that enables the
operator TO shoot your card directly up tC the
floor il Is intended for, where another operator
receives it and dispatches II on lis mission ny
| a bsIl-boy stationed there Above each OF the
tubcs a curved piece OF metal branches out like
an inverted arm Its under side IS concave-
AGAINST this the leather box Containing the re-
turn message l. shot from the mouth oil 'he
| tube and falls into the hands OF the Attendant
| b. this device a message can be sent 70 even
the fifteenth story in less time than II taxes
TO tell IL
When the statue of Benjamin Franklin, IN front
OF the Philadelphia poStoffce. is unveiled. SAYS
| the philadelphia Record numerous kites Of
huge size will be attached TO the canvas Gov
} ering OF the statue, and through the agency Of
these kites and by Of intricate electrical
appliances the statue VIII be unveiled without
! apv apparent human or mechanical assistance.
| Justus G. StrlwbFidge. who bears the entire
cost Of the statue. Sl7,2O), and VIII present II
to the city, ccGceivod the idea several years ago
. at a dinner, after listening 70 speech IN
! / which IL was pointed ont that there was no
: memorial in bronze 10 Franklin IN this city
The Tostofice pavement was selected as the site
because tradition says that that spot Frank
2 lin made his memorable experiment IN Kite,
fyins. and in later years the University OF
PennsylvIni Of which he WIS the founder WAS
erected there
DIR. ]. Clarence Webster, professor Of gyne-
t coIogy in McGiH University Montreal. and prob
ably the most famous surgeon in CInadI. has
. accepted the chair Of gynecol0gy AID obstetrics
= in the University OF ChicasO After his grad
: nation from college in New Brunswick he :0oil
Y hi, medical and surgical degrees az the UnIvsr-
sitv Of Edinburgh, and followed by taking his
: doctors degree at Leipsic. Two years were
q | spent hv him in research under Berlin special
= ists and DIR. Webster then accepted IN appoint
( rent to the medical faculty at Edinburgh Thers
he wrote his first two books, which were cons. Il
cred 50 valuable that the ROYAL College Of PLY
Sicians assumed the Cxperses OF their puole-i
lien an honor rarely conferred on any author
In ISq1 he went to MctiiA University HIS re
cent works have been accepted As standards II
surgical science. 1t present he Is considering
Is an offer from ! German firm for his coilabOFl
10 ton in editing an encyclopaedia OF gyneccl0sy
Gold Is talismanic word in Cuba, says -IIlr
per's Weekly" With all lis troubles and unccr
ta;ntiss Cuba never wavered in its devotion L
the gold standard An artificial premium va
,u put on gold TO keep it from going to Spain
he \ great transformation in its money system
n coming over the island. The American invasion
of peace has practically established new stand
iD ard-the American gold staHdlrd-not the arti
S fetal and slightly varying Spanish gold standard
% Our money in free circulation all over IN
island in February last. Merchants, ticket seller
on the railroads, and cashiers in other place
knew lust what to do when American none
was given them in payment for value ~
IL | ceived There would be invariably lot
figuring a pad-a figuring that could nevc
o pretend 70 comprehend-but always receive
his change accurately in Spanish America
money, the might be- The people pre-
at ferred American money, not much beCIus
he ii was gold standard money because it ha
an absolutely fixed value 1t became the stand
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