The evening times., 1899-02-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

ment, and the court calendar does not con
tain single criminal case Of any kind
Saturday has been a fatal day to the royal
family of England for the last lS5 wears. Will
lam III. Queen Anne, George l. George H.
I. George III, George ~, the Duchess Of Kent
7 the Prince COhsOEt, the Duke Of Clarence the
Duke Of Albany. and Princess Alice all died
that day.
IIeaEd's telegraph department recently proved
that it could manage Gaelic by taking the
speeches delivered at an Irish festival at Let
terkenny. County Donegal, in the naive tongue
and receiving them at Dublin, 50 taat they
could be published in Gaelic characters in the
| ''Freeinans Journal
For many years porpoise leather has been on
the market. High boots of porpoise SKIN were
in great favor 100 years ago with the fishermen
on the Atlantic coast, and il the producers
/ could put the raw poTpOise SKINS the market
| at cheaper price everybody would have boots
and shoes of it, IL IS very plant. and the
/ strongest leather made
| 1t is suggested that when the English people
I set up memorial to Gordon at Khartoum they
| should not forget the Frenehman. NJ Herbin.
/ who, holding some ill-defned diplomatic posi-
I tion, was shut up in the beeaguered city from
early in 1851 to October in that disastrous year.
/ and shared the fate of the other Europeans who
| stood by their gallant chief.
Some funny letters are written by parents to
the Lewistown. Ne, city clerk. giving their
| consent to the marriage Of their children. who
are under age. Here's Mr. CIek. that
/ girl Of min she went to be mary and l done
| care darn. She got a feller. and they earn
/ dollars week tween 'em. He good TELLER. She
\ all right You viii mary them for me, and be
/ much obliged.
| Christmas was first celebrated in the wear "a.
/ but it was forty years later before il WAS off,
| cially adopted as a Christian festival: nor was
/ Al. a
! its celebration became permanently hxed on
/ the 25th OF December Up 10 that time it had
been iTreguary observed At various times a
/ the year-in December. in April. anu IN May
/ but most frequently IN January
| George II. Baltic. Of Kansas City. has had
\ curious career. He IS a native of Spain. grad
uate Of the University Of Heidelberg, and served
this county as a soldier in the Mexican war. the
civil war. and in the campaign against the No
I docs in $50. He has been mechanic. a ply
sician, a piano tuner. teacher of modern lIn-
gIages. and professor Of German and ehem.S-
I try in the University Of Kansas
/ Paderewski Is the kindest Of landlords. and is
always planning improvements for the peasants
/ on his estate lie is very wealthy has fee f,r
twenty minutes at the piano Is 90 euineas and
4 fve-month tTip TO America neJted him $50.
0O0- He j. excellent business -IIln. though
I he hates t1 write letters, and never does eN-
I cept when he get 70 write for him,
pi With Nc cannot >1lAtl telt-4dlL
/ Nonsisuor Ign5zio Ef-em Rallrrzar.i the new
/ Syrian Patriarch At Antioch. speaks and writes.
It IS said. ten language. namely. Arl5c. Syriac.
/ Turkish. Grees Lstin, Italian, French. Eng
li-b. German. and Hebrew He has undertaken
the VugatiOn Of the 20 manuscript Syriac
codes Ee has in his possession. and has purchas-
. ed a printing press in order to facilitate the
, diffusion of these codes in the East.
/ Prof josiah Rcyee, Of Harvard. has sailed
for England to fill his engagement to deliver
the Clifford lectures on the Philosophy Of Re-
li-ion'' at the University Of Aberdeen These
lectures are ten in number Each lecturer in
yited 70 give the lectures Is engaged for two
I wears Many noted in philosophy and re-
+ ligiOn have been invited to deliver them but
/ Professor Royce Is the first American % t.
ceiye the honor.
/ Theodore Mommsen, who recently celebrated
! his eighty-fIst birthday. has Just completed
( book on Roman criminal law. German news
/ papers say that he i at work on the fourth vol
+ uue Of his History Of Rome" covering the
period Of the early empire. The statement i5
probably inaccurate. MOmnlsen has repeatedly
/ said thar he would never write that volume. ths
I reason given being his rePUgRanee TO reading
I up the early Christian theological works deal
4 ing with the period.
| In payment Of football bet j Boston actor
rode through some Of the main streets Of the
| Hub recently in an open carriage. dressed as a
| Spanish troubadolr and waving spanish flag
/ A curious crowd followed the unfortunate actor
and he was treated to expressions OF what
| the sidewalk contingent thought Of a man who
/ had the audacity 10 wave a Spanish faG on
/ Washington Street The expected shower OF mis-
/ siles, for which the actor had prepared himself
/ did uiateriaiize however. and he paid his
i bet.
1 The janitor of the PaIais de Ia Bourse. Mar
seilles. Yesterday discovered suspicious looking:
parcel in the corner OF one OF the principal halls.
! Upoa closer scrutiny he discovered a half f-burnt
/ fuse protrlsiing from one end. The police were
| notified. and the machine was conveyed TO Il
| chemist. IL found 10 contain leo grains
/ Of high rexpiCsiye. surrounded By a quantity Of
/ iron scraps. the whole being tightly packed into
a cylindrical sheet-iron case. II Is quite a
ciunsSiIy reconstructed affair. and To all appear
/ ances the work of inexperienced hand. but
/ deadly enough. for all that The bomb SEEMS
! to have been deposited about o'clock Nednes-
| day. at which hour the exchange Is most fire.
queEted.
1 \ single fine Russia sable skin Is worth from
500 To $50. II is a tiny thing, about fourteen
inches long by eight OF nine inches around A
bale Of dressed sable skins. as II hangs in the
| fUrrieT's shop. resembles a bundle of long
/ suede gloves; they hung UP wrong side out
and are all numbered and price-markcd in in
delible ink. The most perfect skins are tipped
with silveTy hairs which greatly increase their
| beauty The pelt when dressed i soft and fine
while the fur Is 4 lovely dark brown, which
shows blush tint like that of ripe Concord
grape. when the hair i blown apart by the
| breath. The skins are entire. being taken from
the animal without cutting, except for a tiny
incision at the throat and on .he inner side Of
each delicate little foot thus leaving the head
and claws intact
, The Chicago Record asserts that Count
Skorzewssi, a wealthy landowner in the province
| OF Posen, Germany, TO the amazement Of his
| rustic neghbors, has introduced a novel depart
ure in his Czerniejewoe estates which stands
fair chance of being widely initiated in ag-
ricultural districts in Western Europe Instead
of horse or OK, camel is yoked 10 the pIow,
I and the experiment has proved successful BE-
voRd the Counts most ssngtlinc expectations
The camel. Injured To hariships and privations.
does double the work Cf a pair Of horses "A
exceedingly tractahle. and can be kept in good
cordition-fOr caIHeI-cn comparatively
small quantity of iniericr fodder. The ''sznr-
zewsk quadrupeds. the peasants of POSen
facetiously call the laborious intruIeTs. were
soon acclimated, and are the envy cf the coun-
| tryside.
The death is announced Of James Tysoa who
was said to be the richest mau in Australia He
began life as a butcher at 4 salary q $50 a
year. In 1875 he went INTO sheep raa,hing and
made an enormous fortune ont of it. In 1852
when Queensland was in such desperate financial
straits he offered to lend the colony 9. 500 600.
| 4 unique petition in bankruptcy was recently
fled in the Federal Court at Nashville Tenn.
The Banner" of that city, saTS the petition
probably has equal in the country in the
way of liability. which - confined the one
item Of alimoRy due a divorced wife 1t was
filed by Gentry Il. Smith. Of AUrfreesbOro, who
sets forth that his liabilities are =. 10. due
Mrs l. 4. Fits, OF Enon College. nee Mrs.