The evening times., 1899-02-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Most Chinese mandarins pass the whole of their
| lives without taking single yard Of exercise
! Under no circumstances whatever is mandarin
ever seen on foot in his own jurisdiction.
The German government has Be.a asked TO
contribute $4,000 for an earthquake station 40
mas not at present single station for seismic
search
The most valuable land in London isn't to ha
compared with New York'S most precious real g.
tate Lond9n's most costly stiip j. worth SlG8 4
square foot In New York 500 and has
been paid.
The following very brief and pftfvsreviey of
Thomas Hardy '-Wessex Poems" recently .4i,-
peaTed IN an English newspaper Nature said 4,
Mr. Hardy: You shall be a poet ST.
Hardy answesed back: 4 VIII -
St Louis grand jury reports that 70 per
eent ot all crimes committed by intoxicated
persons and that most all She burgaries and
fobbeTies are committed by boys and Young men
} between the ages Of - and y wears
\ pension OF $500 year. granted te the Earl
OF Surrey in 1913 Tor his victory over the Scots
at Flodden Field. and drawn rErularIy bv tl,.
Howard family ever since. has iust been ,ou;-
resentative for S4,g0D in cash.
| Powder costs from ~ 10 u a son in Noytlu,1.
berland England That's what the msnuta.-
turers get. The iaborers who mine ami max. is
are gong 20 establish d mill and try 20 -eE the
stuff tire whole world az a smaller f.a.rr Per
| haps IT Will be a cheap then 10 saoct to eat
game.
France ha- now a iaw by which marriage nav
be dissolved without co-t 'to the applicants Tie
Paris divorce courts devotes Thursdays to lrtai-
tous DEGREES. 0n one day recently 20 couples
wese divorced daring session Of four hou-- ..ll
average Of mere than divorce a min;te. rns-
applicants belonged TO the Worsing class. iu
which divorces were inireqgeEt before the ..s-
sage OF the nav law.
II must surely be with a shiyer. says tne
! Westminster Gazette that ths Alumni Of the
older universities win hear that There Is a pgo-
fosal TO establish aud endoq7 Al Ia new Birnlirg-
/ ham University a chair Of brewing and nl4ltsnsr
/ birmingham has BFIJon-on-Treut within is
! sphere of influence, and thr flea Of a bre.fn,,
chair has struck iJs citizens - ~ good that a.
I readf t22-1' has been raised toward as fgssii-
I zatIOn.
German geographer- are usually credited with
the closest computation OF the wcrid', uapu.s-
tion. There latest figures are I5o0osn.oo0 an
addition Of 20,oa0,O00 in the past seven ve---
/ An increase Is found in every part of rnc world
I II j. most rapid ia civilized countries, --...,-
ially those that lad IN the ,t,, Of iabor-ss,,I,g
( machinery. Greeuiand's Eskimo population IL
/ growing. but the natives OF tAe Paciae islands
/ are dying cut.
New YORK /, to have cheaper ice nest --,n-
Eiff- ! I-Hi against TIE irt~t ans trff-t
price viii be begun by the erection ot su i'm
mence ice manufacturing plant on Stetcu Island
I II viii have a capacity z lueG tons "a ,iay and
Z Viii be by lar the -,rrJte-t ice-rnakiu.. ---4f-
ii-hmeHt in The world The compans that wrif
enter INTO such active competition On tl- field
now occupied by The Consolidated Ice t-.a-
psny Is the General COMM eial Cenlpau,. and
i,s capital Is SIoee.asd @sbi,h m5r t@ IN
+ creased To s5.6o6Dda.
/ Reforms ia the electoral system af Jaran hx
the property qualifications az q very small --m
( ami fy the minimum age Tor .candidayes-~lr
thirty years There some discussion ~ e.. sEe
methods % voting Iu one biU 10 i prsvi'i-,l
+ that each voter mas hand q signed lai'pg .a-
each candidate lr Ic7Iu. which Naysi have
sixteen representatives under ghe new -g-f.tI.
and would. Al the same time be oHe -iccJ-.al
1 dist~iet every franchise huldrr would cast
teen ballots There J. provision fa- ui--
Bcrty representation
! process Of seasoning timber by meals OF si.r-
tricity has recently been brought cIt- Tbs.
Jsfial which il Is desired o" treat Is placed in a
tank containing specially prepared liquid and
immersed TO rather more than half iJ- depth y
7 current Of electricity i then applied At NJ
end Gf SIX hours all the sap has been extracted
and the wood i then placed ia another tank
where septic solution j forced into the pores ay
eiectrn-CapillaTy method. The cost OF seas
lEg TIMBER by tins process iS not GIvcr- bHt 70
would seem questionable whether IL II auy less
than the ordinary method u eEeosotiBg amy
more efficient
Paul Addison OF ElIweod Ind sued the town
because his little boy Of eight tell iuJc q sewer
and was drowned The jury gave Addison
verdict ef S5g@95. the net cash value Of the BOYS
life from eight 70 JweuJy-one, when he Would
have been his osu master. iSurjng it ouf in this
way- From 10 Ia wears old the boy would 1c
able 10 make - cents week. During that V.I-
icd u would cost - cents 10 keep him From 10
20 Il he would make - cents week and II
would cost 81 - 10 Keep him Prom = 90 %
ne could r1ake - d week and the cost II living
would he s3 Prom Il 20 = he would make -.
and the living cost would be - By tine iUys
calculation the valuable time Of the ehild's
life would be from so 9" le-
/ II Is not unusual 10 md eats that take pleas
/ uFc in walking up and down the keyboar,i~ II
( pianos. often causing trigh, To timid folks at
! night says a Wilmington tDel-) correspondent
! of the New York sun. There seems 90 be
fascination for the either in the notes It
the piano or IN the thrills through the eats
by the vibration Of the wires Mrs. II. r.
Price, Or thI> city has cat that does NOT
follow the usual WAY of enjoying the piano lt
E due> climb upon the Keyboard. but simply
spUat~ ON the piano stool and strikes the Fevs
/ with itS front paws. II taught itself the tric-.
and every opportunity makes music for Itself
1t ha> not vel attempted To >iHE. but II i young
/ yet, and may Try vocal music LATER.
Here l. a curious item from the r l~fiiii-
! Gazette He who wishes may lind out the exact
age of an oyster. though he has not the tell
tale evidence in teeth. The lines in the groove
/ OF the hinge OF the she'll tell the whole story,
each line representing year. AT oyster i of age
/ 90 four wears: that is he i old enough 20 vote
take care Of a family and &c market Going
to market i a disastrous undertaking. for a -four
year-oid oyster i particularly FaiatJhle BY this
II must not be supposed that after an oyster has
passed the four-layer period and has rye. SIX. OF
/ even Ten wrinkles his she'll he i back
number Indeed there records of oysters being
eaten lust after celebrating their thirtieth birth
,lav. and in most eases they formed a delicious
meal Thirty l. an unusual age for an oyster 10
attain. because few given an opportunity u
live 50 long. If left To ENJOY life in his way
IL i guite probable that al oyster would become
an octOgeuiarian even eenJeuarian. Captain
d Cochran his last trip Fulton Market brought
IL an oyster found his beds that j. believed to
be al least thirty-fiye Years cid
Dean Worcester in his book on the Philippines,
tells story of some devdut FIipinos getting hold
of a caricature Of President Cleveland in a copy
Of Judge that some one had sent him. repre-
senting the then President "a saint in i'll
fitting nimbus weeping over the sins oi his
couutrvmcu: the innocent natives begged this
caricature and hing it up and worshiped IL
This reminds of a French story: In the little
village Of Chamban, Nillemes-snt. the great etll-
tor Of Figaro had his country house That
was A good while ago. Only Hftie while ago
Partisan visited the church in this little town,
. and close by the altar he hanging the pie
ture of Young woman dressed in black. with
sweet and poetic face. Bless me- don't know
that facey'' he asked himself Then he went To
the priest and asked him where he got the pie
ttire ut il a gift from Monsieur lie Vile
messant" the priest said cone dav l dined at