The evening times., 1899-10-26
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Electricity IS suggested substitute for ths
guiilotine in France
Last year the income tax yielded Great Britain
revenue OF S22, ,5O0, 900
The average wages of domestic servant ir
London is SI-so week
Australia is TO have naval reserve modeIee
on that OF the United States.
The cable rates between South Africa and Eng
land are to be reduced TO s. word.
Brooklyn man says every woman says '.I
SetIrzs TO me- At least AK times when she makes
speech.
Crisades against slarg have been begun b,
women IN Sacramento, Cal, Fall River. Mass
ard Brooklyn.
The union cigarnakers Of Tampa, Fla. have en-
forced demand that cigar factories be scrubbed
and cleaned once month.
Two new fruit jar factories at Fairmount. Ind.
now Use blowing machines Heretofore the woFs
has been done by hand blowers.
Japan will rot restore captured ships To China.
put viii sell her new ally 240GOG MaGser rifles and
zs-ob,O1O ROUNDS Of ammunition at a low rate.
There are no textile mills of any Importance in
the ifSnSsa@l, and, as consequence, large guam
ported.
SO many Chinese officials are resigning that the
Empress Dowaser has ordered the punishment Of
those who apply for leave without pressing
necessity.
All street railway companies operating in the
city of New York required By law TO run
at least one closed car in every four al all SEA
sons Of the year.
The japanese Government decided some time
ago 70 ineresse the price Of railway tickets by
one -'niru- Inc result was loss instead OF
ea:n IN receipts
People who s,:ffer from heat in the hand. and
ieet can obtain speedy and easy relief from the
same BY putting iEside their stockings and gloves
small portion Of very fine oatmeal
Swiss archeologists have decided that a certain
rum rum near BET which has been held TO be one of
the many Roman remains is really Celtic the
only one OF the kind IN the country.
Berlin has 229 common schools. with 4a34
eiA,st iAS oi Nhicn le6i are for boys, 1876 for
sIis; i % mixed and 30 for the weak minded OF
al these schools, only Il Catholic.
Prrssia's anti,Poiish campaign has reached the
Polht oil iorbldding the teaching Of Polish ,c
children after they have left school even by their
own families. under penalty of heavy fines.
In railway building in the soudan there are two
harP players and a hute player to every canr AZ
LOFTY lot qT my men As long as the music is brisk
the iaborers do not seem to feel fatigled
1t IS predicted that in less than five veary m.
sturgeon will become PRACTICALLY extinct in ,Ls
great lakes and the Atlantic coast unless rIgir
existence be maintained by artificial propagation
In Germany the capital for carrying On the
pawnshops by the municipal authorities i De,
rived either from the city treasurer or the civ
sAsings hank, which Is usually operated in coz
neetioH with the shops
The catalogue Of tie 1900 Paris Exhibition WI
consist Of eighteen volumes. en- for each Of
the group, INTO which the general classification
Is divided zach will inelu,!e an Iist0-igaf sEstc5
OF the industries dealt with
There Il lemon grove Of 1000 aer,s in san
Diego county, Cal, and it Is said 10 be the
largest IN the world. II was begun in $50. when
llJ aeFts were planted AID il has been annually
suded To- until II has reached It's present size
German Psychologist attacks the prevalent
notion thar sugar is injurious TO the stomach.
lie considers il enc of the most wholesome and
houFishirg foocs. admitting. however, that dys-
IertIcs should not eat sweet dishes in IN. even-
The lat Federal census showed that during the
ten years Is6.-Is36. there were Is2. III divorces
in the United States and during the uexr I'm
years lS4f-lso5. thsTe were ~, so divorces The
ratio Of increase greatly exceeded that Of popu-
lation-
\ circular has been issued by the French mn
ister Of public works 10 the railway companies
Of France informing them that unless shei- trains
Keep better time the government Will eurorcs
ne iuii penalties ordained By law fgr railvay
ms cement
One Of the euriosiries of New Zealand is a
vegetable caterpillar. What happens. saws New
into an urfoTsJ; J;Este caterpillar and IN seeds
grow 10 plants sometimes foot long Ia the
meantime the caterpillar dies a lingering death
Two-thirds of the quiuine consumed Is produced
in the Island Of Java, from cultivated trees the
yogns plants having been procured by the Dutch
government from Peru II 1552- The English GOV
eminent also started cincho.a plantations IN In
dla. which ROW produce Iargr Quantities of qui-
nine.
1t is reported that the wireless telegraph Ip-
raratus of young Swedish engineer named OIL
ing viii be tested by Lord Armstrong He viii
get some Of the Atlantic liners 10 use the trans
mittcrs and receivers while crossing the ocean.
ard thus try to communicate with then al i
land station
While manufacturers ard others throughout IL.
United Kingdom protesting against fo0iiH.
their h Ee markets with goods marked made
peals 70 Germans to snow their patriotism and
assist home industries by buying German made
cloth in place of the English material
The Society of Total Absrainers just formed in
Vienna, Is the first ever established in Austria
Everybody drinks in Austria. An Austrian baby
begins to sip beer at the aSe Of three months
and, as IL grows up, J. arms to consume The hqior
il cver-incTeaSing quantity until. when 1Ul-
grown man, he can drink IT by the gallon
1t is said to be the unvritten rule of Beer
warfare to kill the enemy's officers For this
purpose the Boer commander generally selects six
of his htSt maFEsmen and inStTuets them TO shoot
simultlaGc cIsly at the Particular Ctcer IN view;
and they would rather kin general than ser
geant any day Their idea Is 10 leave the foe
leaderiess.
The college graduates of the country make 4
pretty good part Of the population. and Har-
ward takes the lead. with total of - 2S9 grad
u4tes. Yale has sent out into the world Is Is9
men and Columbia l9,9sl Princeton has grad
uated 1,500 students Dartmouth $50. Brown
4,S0, BowGOin 46I9, Amherst 4,O0O. and Wash
ir@tOn University 1886.
a firm in Albany. Y y. recently sent an ad-
vertseEeEt 10 La Presse,'' newspaper printed
in Montreal. and by return mail received the To-
lowing: Replying 10 your favor of the sth in
stant, We are sorry 10 say that we do not publish
any advertisement having for its object the i'm
migration of our people to the United States
Yours truly, La Presse- >"
In Waller they have devised pan Tor giving
non-transferable checks to persons leaving thea
ire other place OF entertainment, and az the
Cardiff Eitedfodd there was some Indignation
because the new plan (said TO be Of japanese
OTisin) Was not adopted 1t consists Simply IN
stamping the baes If the hand with a rubber
stamp, the inS. it Is to be hoped. EOt being too
iEtielible. Indeed in the north Cf England EheT.
the plan has been tsipd it was given UP because
Of the ease with which the impression eoald he
transferred.
Judging from recent report CT the registrar
general II New Zealand, that fine martial race,
the Mlosis is going the way of ali a5origiEes
whose coErtTy has been colORized by the whites
Thcy r.ay rot become Absolutely extinct for
few more decades, but their doom Is sealed
Among the causes officially assigned FIR the thin
nia. VI their numbers the high infantile
mortality resulting from improper food, expo
sure aad the want Of ordinary care, colstitu-
tlonS GebilItated by past debaucheTy, the belief
IN ratiye doctors. and neglect Cf the sick. and
the adoption OF European habits and eostunle-
.