The evening times., 1899-06-30
NOTEs OF THE DAY.
A frog cannot breathe with it, mouth open.

suicide were successful.
OF the ffty-ive Presidents in Mexico since IssI
sixteen have died by violence.
High cheek bones always indicate great force
OF character in some direction.
In Chicago is made As per cent Of the vinegar
manufactured in the United States.
The Congo River has at one place thirty-two
waterfalls within distance of ISL miles
To patent invention all over the world costs
about $1,000 This means in sixty-sour coun-
tries.
The British navy owns sixty-two docks OF
these sixty-one of stone. The other is OF
wood.
PrGL Hiram Corson. professor of English at
Cornell, hefan life a reporter in the United
States Senate.
Some naturalists believe that hares never tlr1ik,
but get enough liquids for their needs in the dew
on the grass they eat.
The product of the eighty seven milk condeIIs-
ing factories in the United States last year was
worth about 5000 900.
Olive schreiner has never told anyone her age.
ana there Is no mention Of the year Of her birth
in any OF her biographies
Commodore W W Meade. who has lust been
placed in command of the Brooklyn was one Of
the designers Of that ship.
Georgia has a mail carrier; she travels
a forty-nine-mile route triweekly. This youn,
woman also manages farm.
ID. o. Mills, the banker and philanthropist
who Row has fortune OF about S25 oOD 600. says
that while all his life has been blppy some oi
its happiest hours were when he was a small
country merchant.
Somebody asked Queen victcria's late
physician, DIR. Jenner. if anxiety ever caused him
to lose sleep. "why should ity' he said. II
go; do my best. Who do more! Why
should lose sleep2''
Frank r. Stockton the author. says that the
best training for literary man Is that Of the
newspaper Office, where he can learn clear
style, can observe all phases Of life, and learn
what work really
Gold in transit across the Atlantic "s,yeats.'
no matter how tightly it may be packed There
Is regular allowance for los by attriti0n upon
the voyage, and this loss amounts to large
SUN 10 the commercial world.
Mark Twain's lawyers have Sought for their
client the old frame house in which he was
born. at Florida, No. 1t i said that the new
owner will renovaie the place. and restore ii TO
the condition 1t was in during his bOyhood.
Philip d. Armour was asked by an American
friend. who met him st Baden, how much he
made or lost in opposing the Letter whoa, deal
The public will never know exactly said Mr.
Armour. for don't exactly know myself
1t i probable that few people know what an
enormous quantity Of old iron, in the shape Of
anchors. chains etc, is annually rescued from
the sea During ten months much a. I2e
tens weight WAS dredeed Up on the east coast
OF England alone.
The Russian newspaper, '.Sovosti.'' announces
that the Gar will make tour through Siberia
toward the end Of July. and will go through
several Of the convict prisons and settlements
IL is believed that he will mark the occasion
hE granting a liberal "a r.alffi,aT
A remarkable collection of japanese dwarf
plants has been exhibited in London. Not one
was less than a century old and the tallest wss
only eighteen inches high although it had lIG
the characteristics Of forest giant. These trees
are dwarftd in their growth by man, not by
nature.
In Boston last week some imaginative indirid-
ial started the story that there was a premium
Of 10 cents on the one-iollar certificates. Sc
-ies A. and that for some unknown reason the
Government had called in the entire issue As
result credulous people gathered together all
he one-dollar bills they could get ard Sa
apidly ohd the circulation OF the issue decrea.s
hat the officials of the sIIbtreasury felt called
ipon to announce not only that the premium
tory WAS untrue. but that the Government had
~ intention Of withdrawing the certificates.
The Venezuelan Congress Is considering propo-
ition for the establishment by the government
u peoples bank the capital Of which would
'e provided by the diversion TO the institutions
.ses of 30 per cent of the profits Of the state
monopoly OF the tobacco business and of - per
ert Of a 10 be laid spirits. perfumery,
nd foreign insurance companies. Money at inter
Il yields from Il to ls per cent IN Venezuela.
nd the hank project would probably result prof
tahly Incidentally the government proposes 10
institute prizes for the cultivation of tabIcro
I'd other products raised Tor expectation.
NJ u G RI
viii drive a stage coach at the Paris Exposition
n 1900 cracking the whip six prancing
orses. The managers of the exhibition have just
losed a contract with this enterprising woman
o drive visitors about the grounds in true West
rn style. 1t Is said she will receive 5000 and
sr expenses for the six months in which she
will be duty Mrs. Greenfield, having in
aid husband and family To support began
irving 4 few summer visitors about Manitpu
nd the Garden Of the Gods years ago Now she
; the propretress of hcurishing establishment.
England i willing to make considerable
ifces to retain Gibraltar. SAYS the View Yora
commercial Advertiser. battery has
ecently been made the highest point of the
ock. and the shells. Weighing four and FIVE hun
red pounds taken up narrow path on
arrow drawn by mule and guided by a man.
frequently. ii is said. mule and barrow and man
ave fallen the side Of the cliff; but in
ice. tine English gravely congratulate themselves
hat the accid ntS have not taken more serious
prn. considering that these shells are charged
sith powerful doses of luddite'' The whole top
{ Gibraltar might have been blown of.
The Times Of Cuba. prints this unique cir
ular. urging Cuhsns 10 rise against the United
tates. which was distributed in Havana the Other
ay: Down with the Atrocities of the Ameri-
an Government. To death with the Yankee
xS,1. NJ.
tho thims itself to be the elect Of good and
issory. and is responsible for the misfortunes
beedng Cuba. Yes shall demand from
res. Mckinley ard justly to that he shall irce
rom dious nation; and shoulded he refuse
re will srise in our might, and bow brave ori-
ntales. armed and seuppileed as they should he
rill triumph the cowardly L. s. govern
nen,. is by might alone the power OVER our
ountryH
Two pages of pictures in the June "Ladies'
lone Journal giving views Of the places
Where Our Presidents Buried recall til,
,ct that four of the first five OF our Chief Magis-
rates sleep in the soil Of old Virginia Til,
icture shows that the grave Of President John
yier, at Richmond. Va, is al,solutly unmarked
even hy a snail headstonc. Visitors TO Holly
ood Cemetery are shown scarcely perceptihle
iCund. over which magnolia tree >pcads its
lades in summer. the resting pace of or
nth President. The burial places OF all the
Tiers marked with monuments or tomiS,
rcept those of the two Adamsrs. who are b,-
ed under the porticO Of the First Church at
uircy. Mass.
When the statue of Benjamin franklin in front
the Philadelphia postoffcc is unveiled. says
ie .'Philadelphia Record" numerous kites Of
nge size will be attached to the canvas GOVERN.
the statue, and. through the agency Of these
ties and by means of intricate electrical appli-
,ces the statue will be unveiled without auy