The evening times., 1899-04-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The paper production Of the world in year
| weighs 5000. 900. 900 pounds
| Senator Hoar will be seventy five when his term
in the United States Senate expires In 1901
Within six months Venezuela. as the result Of
North American enterprise viii begin the man.
nfacture of cotton.
| the governors of the maritime provinces to re-
i sist forcibly any landing of armed foreigners.
Andrew Carnegie is a collector n fossils, AMI
Is now anxious to buy that Of the Camarasau-
rus Dinosaur recently unearthed in Wyoming.
Irving ". Scott. the millionaire builder of the
Oregon. il lover OF books and pictures. and
has of the best private collections Of the
latter in the United States.
Gout is rarely known among the working
classes Of Ireland. Their immunity from this
complaint is thought to be due TO the fact that
| their food consists largely of potatoes
A Bath. Me-, druggist has novel display in
| his show window. II consists Of than
| twenty big volumes. filed with physicians pre-.
| scfiptiors, which he has filed since he opened
| his store in Bath years ago.
( The imports Of mutton into London from sl
parts have increased from 900. earcssses in lssO
! to nearly 4,5Oo,o0 in 1896 and the fact is no.
ticed that the condition Of frozen meat ar
rival is gradually improving.
The silk worm was first introduced into Europe
| by two monks engaged as missionaries in China.
who obtained a quantity of silkworms' eggs.
which they concealed in a hollow cane and con-
| veyed in safety to Constantnople in 552
The Queens rare and splendid collection Of
Stuart relics at Windsor Castle has received =
valuable addition in the shape Of 4 gold mna-
ture sBuffbox, the lid Of which Is painted .
fine portrait of Henry. Cardinal York (de jure
King Henry IN, Of Great Britain) the younger
brother Of Prince Charles Edward, who died at
Rome in lsT.
The illiteracy of recruits for the English
army is commented upon in the report just pub
| lished in London Only forty-one in thousand
\ are well educated and eighteen utterly illit
| crate. Thirty five per cent of the applicants
rejected for physical disability, and this proper
| tion is said to show slight improvement; over
! former reports
] In her book LA F-minisne.'' Mi~s sciiirma-
| cher declares that in France the of wom-
ans advancement has been cultivated principally
by the men. not the women: that in sweden
| very few women are interested IN It, though
| the King fIvors il, and that in England II II
/ opposed by the learned institutions. while In
| Russia they all favor il.
( Jules Verne says that his Tour Of the World
| in Eighty Days has been worth s2.ooo.o1 TO
| the Paris theatres. He got the notion which
| the book il based in scanning newspaper one
day. Verne. Likes Charles Reade and saif fr-
| and forth. for his subjects, and he i nern-
Der Of the learned societies.
| Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota. and CALI
! fornis were the four States OF the country which.
| by the Federal census of 1850 had larger for
| eign born than native born male population 4
| voting age The percentages -. 81. -.
| and sDl-. respectively. Wisconsin, Minnesota.
| and North Dakota have a Large Scandinavian
population: California has many Chinese rc-i-
\ dent- Of voting age.
| \ dispatch to the LONDON Leader from Cai,"
| asserts that The serious percentage of deaths
| among the British troops who in the
Souiln i due to the fact that the bodies of
many of the Deryisaes killed Oni,iIrman were
thrown into the Nile. and the only water availa-
ble for drinking purposes was thus contaminated
serious epidemic nf typhoid fever enst,ed. and
hundreds Of the soldiers were snitten while Tc-
turning to Cairo.
There are. it i said. few versaiilc men
| in England than Nfred Lyttleton. the youngc-t
| son Of the fourth Lord I.yttleton. At Cambridge
| he tle equivalent OF five distinct blues"
and represented hi- varsity in cricket. football.
racquets. tennis. and athletic sports. He has
represented England On both cricket ami football
fields, and has been champion tennis player for
fifteen years lie is further clever lawyer.
i rising politician and good speaker and NIL
sician-
| 1t is said by American manufacturers of wom-
| ems -hoe> that a marked change ia styles has
| been goin.: on during the last two YEAR. Th-
shoes in favor are heavier, with les flexible
soles and with palmer uppers. Outdoor eNcr-
| else and recreation for women have resulted IN
the demand for comfortable and >nbstiii-
tial shoes. which also last longer and wear more
evenly English women have alway, preferred
a comparatively heavy shoe. and the Laws Of
health back up their choice.
The Minnesota supreme Court Ia, Just affirmed
| a decision OF lower court. which held that -
| telegraph company was liable for damages i''r
| tho transmission of libco,is matter over iiS
wires The lower court found verdict tur
saD.uD0 damages. The supreme court eaid the
| principle Wis correct but the dLnldse' exec
| sivc: that the damages should not have been
| more than >l.O0. Unless the complainant con
sents 10 4 reduction of the amount to sl-"J
| the will :" 10 trial again
The planters in Hawaii realize that Jhr con-
| tract system Is at an end, and now tryin.
the experiment of proit-sliaring with the laboF-
| ers 81 far the plan has worked we'll and -
believed 10 be the final solution OF the labor
question. The sugar industry Is by all odds the
most important. and get sufficient lahorers the
planters have To offer liberal terms. They claim
that profit sharing Is the fairest To all concerned
| and will make the islands more prosperous than
! was possible under the cnolie system.
| Th.. maximum amount of money coined or is-
sued in the United .States-that i. the money
/
So 5si SIS npl and the largest amount in actual
circulation was 81 >.si2.6l2 The increase IN
| the money in circulation in the last twelve
| months WAS the large oi SOL. 2.i6l.itn. ant
| the increase is still going on apparently IT TIN,
| rate OF Sl0.0O0.0D per month The per capita
| circulation S25jl. is slightly below the highest
| point which WIS reached in the latter part oil
| 1895.
| James Garrison, a farmer living in tamden
county. Mo-. put up ice during the cold snap
last month, and his crop is all in one piece.
1t measures twenty feet each way He construct
| ed a box into which. by means OF trougli- he
conveyed streams of water from spring IN the
| hillside The water froze. and when the box
was filed the trougiis were removed Around
/ thi, box Mr.. Garrison built larger one- hliius
l the space between the two with charcoal anh
saw,lust He slys he will drill and bio his
| huge cube of ice he may have ocot>lhn to
| use it during the summer.
| In connection with the peace proposals Of the
| Gar there has been pointed out curious coin
| cidence between 1883 and 1899. and some inter
esting and not generally known facts are rr-
| called saws the ..Pittsburg Dispatch In the
! first mentioned year the Gar and the hing OF
| Great Britain had correspondence on military
I armaments but it then with view to
\ their increase. not decrease. Th. idea WI, to
! cou,bin,. England Russia. and Prussia against
| ..our common enemy, France Russia was !"
| supply the .men and England the money Tht.
| Gar informed his good brother. George. King of
Great Britain, that .he ready to afford their
alIv the King of Prussia. succor of land
forces and that he had destined for that pr-
pose a. 900 men-nfantry and cavalry and artil-
ieryr The government of George III then under
/ took to furnish thesCzar with a subsidy Of fI5.-
UgD a month. and engaged to pay the frst amount
| as soon as the Russian armament had crossed
\ the Russian frontier, and to pay like ut