The evening times., 1899-05-05
NOTES or THE DAY.

Sheep are uscd rs beasts OF burden ia India and
Persia.
The daily average Of immigrants to this coun-
try is 2,00).
The human voice can. in q few cases, utter eod
words q minute.
OF every 100 Portuguese peasants only twenty
can read and write.
Passenger fare on the New Congo Railroad is
30 l-3 cents a mile.
The Free Methodist Church of America has
about 900 members
Turkey and Greece the only European coun-
tries without telephones.
There were consumed in London in 1898 nearly
45J0,00 tarc2sses OF mutton.
Explosive bullets were first used in India for
hunting tigers and elephants.
c. p. Huntington las bought the famous Iron
Mountain at Durango, Mexico.
For $500 n year a man can in Japan pay for
house. food. and two servants.
While writing. william Dean Howeis, the now
eiist. insists on absolute solitude
Sails for small vessels are mad. of paper. They
are stronger than linen ones
The people of the United States consume about
40oo.ooo bottles of pickles every week.
The taste of strychnine can be detected when
one grain is diluted with C0g,0o) parts of water.
A German doctor finds that only in one cas-.
out of fifteen both eyes in good condition.
The shipyards in Great Britain. all working to-
gether. could turn out big steamship every day
Of the year.
Production Of pig iron in Russia is estimated
to have increased from CD0,000 tons in 1887 to
900 in 1893.
Oysters are such nervous creatures that sud-
den shock. such a. a loud thuaderc,ap, will kill
a -hole boatioad.
than average of book in every two years
Of his writing life.
There persons over sixty years OF age
in France than in any other country Of Europe.
Ireland CONES next.
There are in the United States fifty dis
tinct secret orders. with more than 30 900 lodges
and 5o)o.o00 members
More than 100 taverns in the Hartz Mountains
Of Germany have agreed to board students of
high schools and universities at specially re-
duced rates.
Russia has abolished the distinction that has
heretofore existed between Russian and Finnish
postage stamps. Finnish pcs;oftices provided
with Russian stamps only.
January /. 1856 the total amount of paper
money Of all kinds in Japan was sls0, ,so9.0p.
January I. 1850. it was sl3J. .100, 0O0 and JAN
uary l. 1893. it was S20l 0l.l0o.0oo-
Rear Admiral Kautz's interest in The Win-low
during the Spanish is due to the fact that
the admiral WAS once a prisoner on that boats
Confederate pEivateer pamesake in 15'l.
The ''Lordon Sketch" referring to the banquet
at the Auditorium. given to Lord Charles Bcres
ford, insinuates that the menu consisted Of
picked pork and stuffed spread eagle
Col. Duncan y. Hood. commander OF the IIol-
gun district of santilgo province. is the youngest
officer Of his rank in the army. and so far pos
sib!e selected Young men officers for his reg
imeDt. lie is son of the Confederate general.
Hood.
DIR. Minton Warren, who has for twenty wears
held the chai<- of Latin at Johns Hopkins Uni
versi,y. has been appointed professor of Latin at
Harvard Prof. Warren recently declined the d.
rsctorship of the American School OF Classical
Studies, at Rome.
Sian.cse women entrust their children to the
care of elephants, who careful never to hurt
the little creatures: and il danger threatens the
sagacious animal viii curl the child gently up in
his trunk. and swing it UP and out of harms
way upon its Own broad lack
\ rural post messenger of swardsston, Norfolk.
England has gained the prize offered by firm
in the Eastern countries for the pcsiman who
had been longest in the service For forty-three
years he lad never been absent from duty, and
had walked upward of 10000 miles.
Lcichtenstein, free and independent German
state is celebrating the 20Oth anniversary Of its
existence. 1t is sill technically at war with
Prussia. as it joined Austria in 1856. and
forgotten in drawing up the treaty OF peace
Its contingent in the German army WIS seventy
nine men
The commerce OF HioZo tKobe) during the year
1878 was almost si,500,00J in excess of that of
Yokohama thus making Hicgo the leading COM
merciaI port in Japan. although the exports do
not equal thcsc of Yokohama. The trade returns
of Yokohama huctuate according TO the silk mar
ket. while the commerce of Hiogo Is more gen
eTal.
The limited number of boots and shoes i'm
ported into Mexico from the United States comes
from Boston and St Louis American capital
has rot attempted TO establish shoe factorie, IN
the Republic: hut it is quite possible that such
an industry, using all the modern labor--aving
devices, and producing cheap shoe, would prove
a successful investment.
Richard Archer Prince. the mad actor, who is
row in priscu-aSyium in England, 10 he re-
strained during her majcsty's pleasure for
the killing of William Terriss, has managed u
write and post letter to Sir Henry Irving. in
which he threatens to kill the tragedian as soon
he shall be released. Prince is supposed to be
incurably insane. and will probably ncscr b.
given his liberty.
The Porto Rican settlement of Ponce de Leon
at Caparra. near the site of Pueblo yipio. across
San Juan Bay is now by than ffty-fv,
wears the first town established within the pres
rnt borders Of the United States One. there
fore must give the prestige Of antiquity. not to
the Spanish town OF st. Augustine. Fla. of l5b5.
n formerly. but to taplrri Porto Rico. ioui'ded
in the yoar ljn.
The Queen Of Roumanil has just completed a
very beautiful gift for the Church of C,ir;ea
d ArEesch. the oldest in the kingdom. II con-
sis:s of a manuscript copy Of the Evangelirm.
used in the Eastern Church. written and ilfumi-
mated by herself thirty sheets of parchment
Each sheet has border Of massive silver diintily
engraved and all are bound together in i gold
hinge OF curious workmanship.
IIarwood yanbrunt of the Twentieth Kansas.
tells the following story at the expense OF fei-
Iow-soldier: .When we were sent out on the
firing line Pete Began lying behind tree.
out CT the way of bullets. All at once he Yelled
out like a wild man: Captain. l cannot stand
these darned ants biting all the time Zip,
4 bullet passed close to his body ON second
thought. captain.' he yelled, 4 can stand
then.
Ventilation of mines by mechanical mears.
which has been forced upon the attention of col
liery managers by the disclosures regarding the
management of these properties in England IL
essentially one Of practical mathematics, and has
lately been considered by the National Associa-
ton Of Colery Managers and representatives of
practical acquaintance with mining operations IN
addition to a knowledge of pure mathematics.
have been retained to solve the problem.
The Rev. Wilson Garlic. rector of st. Mary-at
Hill, London, is up-to-date priest. He takes
a trombone with him into the pulpit, and when
the singing becomes spiritlcss he Ivens it up
with few blasts on that instrument During
the greater part of the service the church ia
darkened, and the hymEs. prayers. sacred. and
other pictures are thrown by lmelight huge
screen suspended across the altar BESIDES an
organ there is orchestra, compo,ed of girls