The evening times., 1899-07-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| camel can carry load OF 100 pounds
There is only cne fock of pure merina sheep
! in England
Comparatively few Of Chicago's churches viii
close during July and August.
1t is estiH.ated that there are 59.G3o.99o Eng
| lish sparrows in Massachusetts,
/ For nervous disorders ii ia now found that the
/ fnest cure is the simple enc Of lying IN he'd
Over quarter Of million of people have al
| ready persisted in consequence of the famine IN
| Russia.
The highest point to which man can ascend
| without his health being very seriously affected
| Is lG0s0 feet.
In Sweden good hotels are erected by the
| communities in Places where il is thought tour
| ists would like TO tarry.
| In backwoods county Of California there
| lives man vino refuses to travel railroad
| train, as he prefers the stage coach
Now the highest Of the graduating honors at
| Cambridge University, in England goes To
coiored u-=s. Brahrnin from Bombay.
| Livery stables in New York city. without ex-
ception, it is stated. refEse to house zutomo-
| biles. and this is well urged as a strong reason
for the formation CT automobile club
| Norwegian legislators propose that girls who
| do not know low TO knit. sew, wash, and cook.
should be refused permission 10 marry plugh-
teTs OF wealthy men rot 10 be excepted
Every year Chicago uses up about fi.oo9OOO
] pounds Of soap. This Is for all purposes. but
does not include the various soap powders and
other compounds which are sometimes used in
/ its place.
The Detroit News says last year saniIac.
/ Mich. man succeeded in growing tomatoes graft
4 ed into a potato vine This year he is trying
| tie experiment Of grating a rose bush on an
1 apple tree.
4 g -
prises I55 schools manned by 5000 devoted vol
| untary teachers who. week by week, all the
year round give the children of these schools re-
Egious instruction
4 Sir Robert Rawiinson, r. C. B., Is the only
man who ever knocked out Of the saddle
, by cannon ball without being killed The
| identical i21-pound shot Is preserved by Lady
/ RawliusOn interesting relic.
The California State board of prison directors
| adopted rule that hereafter when a convict IS
found with a deadly weapon in his possession
! he shall be kept in solitary confinement for the
rest Of the term, even if it be for his natural
life.
One Of the queer freaks OF the Bangor. Me-.
police grist the other day was an intoxicated
| man. who went into leading hotel and tele-
phoned himself for the patrol wagon When il
came he climbed in and rode over TO the City
/ Hall TO be locked up.
Lester Z. Gilbert. OF NarysyiIle. No., started
this week from DalIes, Ore, with 25 900 sheep.
| which are to be driven overland 10 Kansas.
! Twenty men assist him in herding the sheep.
4 and Atty horses taken along The trip Will
| occupy the entire summer and fall
Some statistics recently collected in regard to
the education of 2eO literary celebrities OF the
! day indicate that Eton. which has always en-
iOyed distinguished place in letters. leads with
eleven representatives Then follows Harrow. with
ten, and London school, Kings College, IS
| credited with SIX.
The increase Of insanity in civilized centres of
! population is appalling. haIf-dozen new asy-
! lums have been built in and about London in
| the last dozen years, and each one i flied al
I most soon completed The number Of in
sane in London institutions alone now reaches
an aggregate OF over 5000
| recJfd has been made in the sehuylkill
4 county court that vas never before eqlaled. In
one day the grand jury ignored forty nine bills
| OF indictment out OF sixry-one that were passed
4 upon The costs were placed upon the prose
/ cutors in all but one case for bringing before
/ the court trivial cases, and the magistrates es
| capped
1 An Ornamental species Of tobacco. the nieotina
sylvestris. discovered recently in tine Argen-
| tine Republic. growing at altitude Of 5,Olo
feet. The large white tubular and dropping frry-
/ ers borne in graceful panicles at thc summit
| OF tee main stGm anu the principal uIIDCNtSr
/ the flowers have very sweet and pleasant odor,
| especially N the morning
/ There are mary fishes that in captivity seem 10
| follow definite in their movements.
| as, for instance. they may swim round and round
| the tank in oae direction. The goldfish. how
| ever. in its moving about, appears 10 be sort
/ Of aimiess fish; IL goes down 10 the bottom and
| up TO the top. and cr.ss-cToss and every which
| way. and moving commonly rather slugyishly-
1 i IL =, -
subject OF a strong haIlucinltion. A woman in
the neighborhocd has bantam hen with ten
| chicks. so nearly the size and appearance Of
\ quail that the dog has evidently been COM
pleteiy fooled to their identity, and fer sew
l eTal days past has been setting them as he would
4 a coyey of qliais- His stands perfect. and
! he always stays until called or dragged away.
4 Western justice Of the peace adyertises for
business ~ follows: III mans in love that's
his business; if girls in love that's her busi-
ness; If thsy contemplate nlatrimony that's my
| business. William Dash. Justice Of the Peace.
Right reserved TO kiss the bride Orders BY tele-
phone. telegraph, mail. messenger promptly
attended TO- Terms HbeTal-time If desfred-or
will take stovewood, baied hay. dairy calves.
| secondhand milk cans, most any old thing
in part payment.
/ The New York Sun says: |-ROsie Pierre.
sixteen years old. 81 Madison Street. met with
4 d dCtitSiaI III J1SSPii attn "a W. IaLA
or shop. at 6s6 Broadway, yesterday. she was
putting buttons On trousers, using for that pur-
pose i machine tlal stamps them and clinch-
! es them on the ether side. She got her hand
| into the machinery. II did not stop il went
1 right on The next button sunk deep INTO
the fish ef fhe last joint OF her index finger, and
| clineked all right on the rail side With it 50
l fixed she taken over 10 police headquarters
| The button fasJeEed ii it were never TO
4 come of. An ambulance sent for, but the
4 surgeon knew of no way TO get II OIL He took
her over 10 st, Eineent's Hospital The sur
4 geons at tie hospital cut the button out Il
had been cIineked iEto the flesh, aud II was
necessary to put the girl under ether to per-
form the operation.
1 While the Rev W J. Davis iivfay in
| Africa his Ettle son. John. boy Of four years.
went too near to a chained lion in a neishbOr's
| yard II was called pet lion, but was wild
| and vicious that living thing safe within
4 the radius OF its beat The unsspectipg child
| stumbled within its reach. and the fion instant
| Is feiled hi.- 10 the ground. and set its huge
| paw ON his head. There was great CONSERVATION
| among the bystauders. but none were abie~to de-
liver the child The ''Airican News tells the
4 story of has escape, which seems eqUais-tlue 10
| the lions love for music and a young w0man's
presence of mind. His goyeTuess, seeing the peril
| Of the child. ran upstairs seized an accordion.
| and fastened 10 a window which looked out upon
| the lion. There. with shout to arrest Its
4 attention. she began playing tune TIE lion
| at once released its prey, went the length OF
| its chain te'Sard its fair ehsrmer, and stood in
| rapt Alteration. The boy in the meantime got
Z. up and ran to his mother. He never thought