The evening times., 1899-04-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Real z5-eent cigars cost only .ss cents in Ma
Mia
OF sI2 known volcanoes 20 are usua,Iy in ac-
tivity.
handsaw bearing date OF Ie2o was dug up re-
Gently at North East, Pa
There are 40 employees 10 every 100 miles Of
railroad in the United States.
British eoHsuis are now required TO send i'm
PoFtant trade reports and news BY telegraph.
The price of medicine in Prussia Is regulated
every year.
The American Volunteers have established work
IN nine Of the principal STATE pIisons and are in
touch with nearly $4,000 prisoners
There are about 50o species OF hunmin~ birds.
all natives Of America and most a them con-
nned to Central and South America
mouse nest WAS discovered the other dav in
the Springfield Railroad s.stion made up OF over
Sl'oo worth OF railroad tickets and 9 bill. :
There are 6H public Libraries in Australia. with
I.i0haS5l Volumes 2;s. with 3Sg. .0O0 voin-Sies In
New Zealand; l00 with Sa9.9O0 volumes, in South
Africa.
William Earle Cook. of Portsmouth. r. l.. is
l12, and claims 70 be the Oldest Free Mason and
the oldest member OF the Methodist church in
this country
Paderewsti's home is a veritabIe museum of
musical relics. Belongings OF the great com
posaIs have been collected from all ends OF the
earth by the pianist.
The New York Commercial Advertiser savs
that when Peter Dunno. Of Dooley fame, WIS at
the Plavers' Club some tine agU he was imtro-
dueed 10 Richard Harding Davis. ''Vhy. Mr.
DIr,He.' said Davis. fseetiousIy. Il expected %
see you in chin whiskers.' Why. Hr Davis
rotorted MTnne, assuming an air OF surprise, Il
expected To find you in shirt Waistr
he =
100000 square miles or I3.OG0,OO0 if We iBciue,.
Egypt and the Soudan. and in this territory there
Is population OF about 40s .0fsl. which would
be increased 10 420. 600 600 if Egypt and the
>oudan were inciuded--a population about one
fourth "t the whole population of the earth Os
the population. again, about J).91000 IT
English speech and race.
While the Byron memorial is probably fail
ure, and even the Gladstone fIIad comes in rather
slowly. the Charlotte Yoage memorial in Eng
land seenls Co be an lsnslsubtet success on the
S3u,bD asked fur the establishment OF a scholar
ship al the Winchester High school. over -. .0eO
has been subscribed A memorial has asa been
suggested tor William; Black. to take the fg.m %
4 hie-saving station on the wild scottish Cea-t
lie loved 80 we'll
\ dispatch 10 the London Leader from Cairo
asserts that tire serious percentage os deaths
amcng the British troops who are nov IN :hr
soudan Is due 10 the fac; thai III, bodies Il
many Of the Deryi~iies killed at GYn.iarInan were
thrown into the Male. and the only water avail
able Tor drinking purposes thus c0utsninat-
ed- \ seriouf- epidemic Of typhoid fever en-lied.
and hundreds oi the s0itiiess -rlitttn while
returning to Cairo
Mis- Ellen BurdleTI. Young tmeFi, an woman
is said 10 have purchased the Pompciian Pzlae7.
in the Cour> Ia ReiHe. Paris. built by Plin-c
jerome B3raparte forty wears ago with tl. IN
III shr
the Paris Exposition where American visitors
may and American cooking. The decorations aTt
9" he preserved much possible and the
waitress all 81 them pronounced braBette> VIII
he dressed in ancient Posnpeiish costume.
The lighting Of a room. ~, tie --PislrniIceii-
,iesi Era" depends to large cxIeuj upon tn
caloF and material Of TIE wal!s: in 0thrr words
u,un the percentage Of Eight reflected b- them
Recent experiments have shown the proportions
u light reflected TO be in Per, eutagc~ a. foIioy--
Black velvet, 6.4: black cloth. II: black Paper
-: dark blue 6.j- dark greer. IHI; light red
l6-2; dark yellow. 21; blue. -; light yellow. ~:
light green. i6J; light Grange, J4.>;- white. %.
mirror, e9-a
When J. VI. barrie e5iJe5 tHa '-N,.5Iiu.4sni
Iuurnal'' john King Covon, whose ,elth + an
noUncFd. Wa The Iu4Hager ~ that paper. -tl5s
poltrlit. -ay~ THE London Globe. -rlay b.
recognized IN The chJIaster IN When "a Msn--
single. who '~huilri 5taUt The cfhre in Siip-
and hlI~trriug unnur-. HiS P..IiIics were re
~Fect for the Hau-e q Lorss~. L--ag5S. II rose
early. cIablin- hiu to have it in type bcf,re
supper time
\ kal.s- ~oldi,5 At Nanila thus write- home
about the Fiiipin,-. 1t la- beer thsiT custom
Ia attack jh, >psui1sd- in the night and tI,.
>panIaTd> have OnlY resisted Jirir attacks 1t
SEEMED o. surprise them when We came from be-
hiEd oJr entrrnchmeuts and attached them dur-
iRg the d1y- Ne have -eEelal hundred prisoners.
We don't want any more Nhea they surrender
their taken and they turned lcoS,
again the oItsj,ie u our lines. This agra
yatys hem. for they heped to ~ ted Ly our
Government. \ >pluis1d wbo tad been held hy
them for SONG Time escaped tbs morning, I'm!
gave valzlIIlr jnI"rulati.z. il il J. trvs-
The h0ys are longer Fome-iek- Thry Eags jeei
that they doing smelling
Mr. sherman has employed hi ti.a- since hc
left the CIl'inet in thc preparation OF 4 tbisd
volume of hi~ Autobiography. vbieil carries him
irom his election TO his last tenn in the senate
down 10 the present date. sHd hi- comments
uIon the policy oi the Vfe-guf administration
and his OSn Treatment are Said to be very
we've, SAYS v. T. curtis, in the Chicago Rec
ord lie di-,U--t=- the with Spain in
rTu>t vigorous manner. ] told. attacks ghe
War Department. and = especially viudiy-t I've
toward the President. Secretary AlsgF- aEd JUtGr
DJy also. while he defends General Mic. isr
husband al his niece. with great yi2pr Tie book
l. still IN manuscript sIVi Il i aid % b. hi-
intention 10 seEd il 60 tiie P1b,i-h~r this spring
The Portland C'regoniau' ~ay-; y n.en who
has long been identified with the FISHING interests
ii Astoria va- in Poytiaad yesterday. and =ivsS
II aS his opinion that tis ,.Ilau-ealn:RG industry
ot the Columbia Viii soon Lc e thing 90 the past
The hJi-in,~S of exporting fsuzru 4Ed picSisd
salmon l1- been Increasing rapidir, and l>I ysJG
il j. estimated used ort-tliid ut ,sr citch, tAS
materially reducing tine pJc-- Tta uleu engaged
IN ircvZsn- and picAiiHg salmon lfu e.stbid titc
Cinnefymen f-r ti-h- For INSTANCE. tGry biye vt
salmon. until within the la-- faN DAYS when
larger catch oi ssh bruae the market aud re-uscd
the price 10 or 6i2 cents ta.-nerynen can
never afford Ia pay such prices Tor ESd To pack
in competition with Alaska csuEerjv>. NJ
SciEsidj Of New York. who has been in Ite hIl>i-
o. shipping c0dstorJge t>h for several wears.
is putting UP IN extensive c0l,'->-elas.- plant
and several ctLsrS are figuring Un going into the
's'~ine>S oi ireezing and picking salmon fer eN-
polt-
London. according tu some sociological per
son, i, CRYING for NIa'tht.s >ays the -'Philadel
phia Press" Never were lodgings ssarccr or
rent, higher The competition Is as fierce as
that uf uade. AID the landlord gets any rent
he chooses 10 ask. SAYS writer IN the Len
doa Daily News" Houses aud trnemeajS. and
CHe-lcCu,ed homl, have been divided and sub
divided till now il has come To pass that ia,
very b. gtis are let oil at Euch rent II j. be-
coming common for night workers, such baS-
eIS and watChmen- rent a bed To- >lecp in
during the day from people already living in an
oyercr0wded state. who occupy the bed at night
Among some families in Spitallields the beds are
rcited on the eight-hOur principle having three
different sets of sleepers every twefty-Our hours
Iittl. room though the law allows. there 9tt-
013 i.unJonerS living in less But more than two
in room does mean Simply three in T"on.
four five In some eases IL means twelve.
ard even seventeen in ruuaa. Tne E-t census
return, eight years ago. when overtFov'iia- was
less severe than it is TO-DAY. showed n,Inber
of families living more than twelve in ROOM