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

There are in the United States 5000 summer
| hotels.
Three hundred and sixty-eight vessels were in
! collision last year.
Spinach and dandelion leaves are said to be ex-
| cellent for the kidneys
Since January / England has built for other
countries 121 ships, valued at sl3. $50. 40.
In 1897 1,569 tigers killed in India 4,eos
ieopards, 2,o5S bears, s,li2 wolves, and 10000
| snakes.
The apple crop of New Jersey promises to be
| big, and the State win not go short on Jersey
lightning.
The coffee grain is the seed Of pulpy fruit,
| which resembles cherry, and is very sweet and
| paatable.
A farmer of Aurelian Springs. y. C.. few
! days ago plowed up an iron pot hIIed with oId
| gold coins
Infant mortality has been found TO vary from
| "a to 1000 births in Ireland to III in England:
lo5 in France, l92 in Italy, 207 in Prussia, and
246 in Austria.
1t is alleged that London money-Iender has
a50o note which he lends TO aristoeTatie brides
| to be exhibited as a wedding gift along with
other presents.
Most of the animals for American Zoos come
from the Old World but the young hippopotaBus
Cyrus IS to be sent this week from the New Iprk
Zoo to Germany.
No matter how hot it is on the deserts Of sri-
thermometer goes up to no and 100 in the ssade
you never hear OF a sunstroke.
According to statistics just issued by .fioyds
| Register Of Shipping" Ssi per cent Of theston-
mage elassed during the last year was built Of
| steel. and about 13 per cent OF iron
A great cave said to he larger than the Mann
| moth in Kentucky has been discovered in Vic
| toria B. C. 1t has been explored distanee Of
| twelve miles without the end being reached
The first American born in the army in the
| Philippines is daughter Lieut. F. L. King,
| of the Eighth Infantry. This child made the pa
triOtic choice OF the 18th OF April for her birth
day
| A rife Of very small bore invented by Captain
| Daudeteau of the French army. fires bullet
| with such force that it viii penetrate horse,
| from head to tail, at distance OF a mile and
quarter.
The industry of viticuIture promises TO attain
large proportions in New South Wales. the area
| in the colony suitable for the production Of
grapes for wines of all types being practically
unlimited.
California now has about $1,000 acres Of olive
trees Two-thirds of them are not yet bearing
fruit, but it is estimated that in FIVE years Cali
fornia will be able 70 supply the market for the
! United States
There are many languages spoken IN the
provinces of Austria-Hungary that interpreters are
employed in the various parliaments TO interpret
telligible to all the members
Probably for the first time in history, it IS
said has street in a German town been named
| after a rabbi. This has occurred al Ostrowo.
| where it decided 10 call street Freimann
Strasse, in memory of the late Rabbiner Dr. Frei-
mann =
The gross expenses of the State of New York in
the year 1879 VIII, il is computed, amount to-
s25 600 COO Of which nearly 10 per cent viii he
necessary to paw the deficits Of departments
which exceeded in 1s3s in previous years, the
/ appropriation made for them
Almost every nation. with the exception Of
Great Britain and the United states, is oTertaxed
10 meet the expenses of maintaining its army
and navy France runs behind to the amount OF
slO0. .00O, 600; Austria has an annual deficit OF
! ss1Gd0.000; Russia Of s5O,0o0,oO, and Italy CT :.
$50. 10000.
The Paris fire department has recently been
provided with an electric wagon. which will car
| ~ eleven persons. in addition to supply OF
| ropes and ladders. The vehicle was recently 3
| tested with full load Of passengers and EQUIP
/ ment and succeeded in maintaining speed Of I.
fifteen miles per hour
In 1881 the population of Crewe, England was
81 Ten years later it had reached 2ps. Now It
has over 10000. growth which puts in the
shade most of the boom towns Of America And
| this is all owing TO the fact that the London
and Northwestern Railway saw fl 10 locate their
! works in this lucky village
new industry is springing up in Northern
| MexicO-snking wells for salt water 10 manu-
facture salt for mining and domestic purposes
One company has secured I2O.0O0 acres Of salt
| water territory al Cameron 40 miles south OF
| Laredo. and have struck water containing u per
cent Of salt, worth from 70 cents a pound
In the BeIlefontaine glass works there four
generations of family at work The eldest
member is the venerable John Long, aged sew
enty-one years. who has never known sick day
or used medicine in any form Next comes his
son. William; then the latterS son Logan ana
| last. the youngest. Edward. great-grantson of
the head of the family
The continued iIl-health of Prince AdeIbert, the
third son OF the Emperor of Germany, has caused
his contemplated trip around she world 10 be
abandoned and though II had been intended that
he should enter the navy. \ commission lieu-
tenant having already been given to him.. the
doctors will not permit him 10 take up his
residence at the naval academy on board The ,
schoolship.
\ shoplifter in Hungary, Jewess of forty.
who SIX months before her arrest for stealing had
| been baptized into the Roman Catholic Chulch
| pleaded that she legally infant. and
such was not responsible before the law. The rule
of the country being that the date If birth dg-
ured from the date of baptism the court sIs-
tanned her plea and the six-m0nths-old shoplifter
of forty released
A New York chemist has discovered solution
which will keep collars and cuffs straight and
| stiff through all sorts Of weather All one has
10 do is 70 dip the collar or cuff into this solu-
ton and perspiratiOn thencefoTward only has
cleansing effect upon those articles cf wear For
two years the chemist saws. be experimental
upon this solution failing repeatedly. until
success has crowned his Efforts.
Brig. Gen Theodore Schwan, who has gone TO
Manila serve aide General Otis staff,
was born in Germany During the civil war he
high honoFs for his gallantry in the
pagns OF the Army Of the Potomac. In the
cent Spanish American conflict he went to Porto
Rico in command Of brigade. and took posses
sion of several important Towns before the prce-
lamation of the Peace Protocol
A steel birds nest was recently acquired by
the Museum of Soleure, in Switzerland. Sosurs-
has an extensive watch and clock king iutlls-
try. and thin metal filings continually being
swept into the roads with the from work
shops. One day wUTkingman noticed a pm If
, wagtails gathering steel filings shining in the
sunlight and carrying them their nests He
! had constructed big nest almost exclusively Of
steel filings. When the brood Of hedgliRgs had
flown the steel birds nest was taken away and
, sent to the
, Smuggling still forms regular and oarhbound
secret profession in the land Of the Hdalgos
| saws an exchange. Its operations have lately
Several murders have been committed within a
| few days recently Spanish soil near the Brit
| sh frontiers by band of Smugglers the victims
| being members Of the ''COmpania Tahacolera a
| sort of customs detectives for the prevention of
| tobacco smuggling. Upon request of the spanish
auihorities the chief of the Gibraltar police ae-
companied hy marine police officer and lieu
4 nf rGa uiSh rriIir sigI