The evening times., 1899-10-19
NOTES OF THE DAY.

s2,oJ0.O00 and The State about Sl,O5J,O9o as IN
heritaGce taxes on the estate of the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt.
The New England Education League is laborinz
for cheap book post by which boo.s from public
libraries may be conveyed second-e,ass matter
att cent per pound.
Six hundred and fifty thousand pounds Of tea
are eonsEmtd in Great Britain every day. which
gives 5, go gallons minute, night and day
throughout the year
sprinkliEg railroad tracks with crude petroleum
to keep down the dust has been abandoned. Live
sparks from locomotives set fire to the oil and
caused much damage.
The Msyfower. after her memorable trip across
the Atlantic with the Pilgrim Fathers Of New
England. went into the West indian cotton tradc
and was lost in cyclone.
The western part Of Persia is inhabited BY n
species Of camel which IS the pigIny Of its kind
They are snow white and are on that account al
most worshiped by the people
During the Exposition in Paris next wear there
viii be % omnibus lines and 1.5Oo vehicles. per
forming 25.OO0 journeys a day and capable OF
transporting 192s,O00 passengers.
Investigations made efFicisIIy in Illinois show
that pound includes 21s5.OO0 seeds of blue grass,
1.i2l 900 of timothy, Ss3 coo Of white clover, I53,
900 OF red clover, and 5000 of alfalfa
At Sioux Falls. 5. D., is the only plant in the
world capable cf polishing chalcedony. petriied
wood. The machinery used for saving ehaIcedony
cut into it TO the extent Of only three inches
a day
Dust of the sea is one of the mysteries which
perpIexes sailors. No matter how carefully the
decks of sailing ships may be washed down in the;
morning enormous quantity Of dust can be
swept up al night.
The Grand Lodge OF the Independent Order Of
Good TemPlars of The British Islands. which met
recently in Edinburgh, reported a membership OF
s3.Gi9- This was an increase Of AGA members
over the preceding year
The military household Of the Gar is composed
Of ninety-eight officers Of various ranks. eighty
three of whom belong TO the army and fifteen to
the navy. Nineteen members OF the royal house
hold are included in this list
An official of the treasury is quoted as saying
that owing to the great business activity the de-
mand for fractional currency is unprecedented.
ard that dimes. quarters and half dollars are be-
ing turned out al all the mints as rapidly as pos
sible.
The faculty of Yale College are going TO abol-
ish the custom of undergraduate students who
have been helping 10 pay their way through col
lege by acting walters in the Yale commons
The faculty claims that work inteTferes with
Study.
What Is called sInokeless powder really throws
off a shadowy vapor This vapor is perceptible
only when viewed through disk Of violet glass
inserted in ordinary field glass Colonel Sweet
of the Army Medical Museum, Washington made
this discovery.
The mcst singular vessel in the world Is the
Polyphemus. Of the British navy 1t Is simply
lcng steel tube. deeply buried in the water, the
deck rising only four feet above the sea. II
carries 10 maSts or sails and Is used ram
and torpedo boat
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts 10 $3.50 per
day: President McKin,ey's i equal to sI5l day;
Cabinet officers. the Vice President, and the
SPEAKER cf the House. get so p DAY; Senator's
ard COngTessTnen. $500. and the Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court, so day
In Arabia the Arabs sometimes fnd in the
sandy deserts a Kind Of fungus which apparently
resembles the mama of the Bible, and which
serves a. food fer both and CaEaels when no
better Is 10 be lad. II appears upon the sand
after every rain, sometimes in little heaps
In tie year 1850 the population of Ireland ex-
ceeded 100000. and the Iunacy report for that
year showed the proportion of lunatics to be 30
to every 10000 of the population. In 1871 the
estimated population was Cniy i,5bp,DJ. but the
number Of Iunatics mad risen 10 i25 per IooCn-
Philadelphia book cIers tziis Of richly
dressed woman who came into his store the other
day enquiring for "A Pay in a HIrem.'' After
period Ct search she given David Hlrurn.
which she took with the understanding thar she
could return il il it WAS rot the book she wanted
Catrrpi-lars sre driving loitereEs from the Bcs-
ton Common ard are becoming more and more Of
pest every day. To women and children e.
pecaI!v the enforced hansbrnent from tae popular
little park brings much regret Fer the time being,
and they are banning those VINO destroyed tAe
English spaFrovs last spring for the infection
A Topeka (Kan) man found in his garnet the
other day a pamphlet. which among other curl
ous things. contains this paragraph. Westward
of the Missouri River this side Of the Rocky
Mountains il a great desert, uninhabited by civil
Iized society, where there Is neither law nor
gospel How the writer OF that sentence would
stare, if alive, and go 10 view this desert
What's the weather going to be the flowers viii
tell you. if you watch them Look out for rain
when the clover stalks stand upright; when the
flowers of the eonvolvuus, the African mArigold,
the little pimpernel, and the dainty wood s0Trel
close Then. too. the pitcher plant turns its
flower upside down Fine weather i foret0ld by
the opening OF the flowers above named and by
the standing erect Of the flower Of the pitcher
plant.
Overrun with rats, the city of Copenhagen. Den
mark. Is trying to reduce the pest by Offering
snail bounty on each dead rat brought to the
morgue. In the first week 6.0G+ were officially
recorded aS killed: the number grew to 6,6l6 in
the second week. ard to $50 in the third When
the weekly slaughter reaches 1O.oO1 1t Is thought
some impression viii begin 10 be made on the
army Of rodents Meantime rat catching is
popular ard lucrative sport with the youth OF
the town.
singular and interesting discovery has been
made at Borbolya, in Hungary. where the
mains of an unusually large an1ediiuvian animal
have been unearthed. which a Hungarian savaut
prouounces 10 be Iarypr than any thing of the
kind previously found IN Europe According u
this authority the animal is whale. eight metres
long and judging by the stratum in which IL
was imbedded. he believes il 70 be the most
cient animal vet brought 10 light in that quarter
Of the globe.
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made at the promortory CT SsInium. now known as
Cape Colonua During the recent excavations
aIaong the ruins of the temple there. the thir-
teen marble columns of which give the place its
modern name. stone was found with an en-
gTaVed Inscription. which shows that the temple
was dedicated. not. commonly supposed
hitherto. TO Athene. but to Poseidon. IL would
thus be CORE spoHdent to the temple of PoseidOn.
on the island of Aesina, which lies over against
Sunium.
Waste of water in the pipes is a CRYING and
chronic evil in American cities. The more waste
the easier the pretended demonstration of insufh-
cheney, ard the richer the returns to coporate
greed when it is in control Of sources Of water
supply. New York city uses about 1la gallons
of water daily for every resident; the actual
amount required is about twenty-seven gallons
per capita. Nearly eighty gallons day per head
of population is wasted IN one way or another.
In England and in Europe where the matter Of
supplying municipalities with water has been
reduced almost TO IN exact science. the daily al
lowance per head varies from fifteen gallons in
Vienna to forty-two gaifors in Paris Ii ST.
Petersburg the average Is twenty-five gallons per
head. in Berlin eighteen ga;lons, in London thirty
eight gallons In comparison with these figures
the liberal supply Of most American cities seems
almost like extravaganza
For the last three years Miss Sarah Cunningham
of Vancouver. British Columbia. has blindioIced
her eyes whenever she steps outside the door Of