The evening times., 1899-06-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Smoked STOW water is favorite tipple in Lap.
land.
! The city directory Of London weighs eleven
| and one-half pounds.
Joseph Hatton. the author and journalist, takes
q ten-mile walk every day.
Half a dozen American women are earnn; a
living as stenographers in Havana.
A polite Chinaman considers II a breach OF
etiquette to wear spectacles in company
The Wisconsin Legislature has forbidden the
use IT living rooms for manufacturing purposes.
The Russian sceptre is Of solid gold. and con-
tains 2ds diamonds. 3G0 rubies, and Is emeralds
In his young days Emperor Franz Josef rose
at a. IN. in summer. but he sleeps until
i.
Chicago has $50 cabmen. who drive go public
two-wheeled cabs, 100 hansoms. and 80 four
wheelers.
A fact foundry-or agency for supplyin.
facts upon any subject at short NOTICES the
industry Of two Chicago women.
1t is computed that there is 800. 900 .000 in
gold and jewels at the bottom Of the on
the route between England and India.
George More. the novelist, says he can trace
his ancestry back to Noah, because that patri-
arch had three sons. Shtm, Ham. and one more"
Secretary Holls, of the American Peace Com
FfHete,ta
eornplishment. He writes equally well with both
hands.
Prospects are promising for sIiipbuilding in
Maine. Las, year the tonnage of new vessels WI,
1895, as compared with 5,057 in 1897, and -
iG5 in 1880.
President Eliot, of Harvard says he considers
Herbert Putnam. Librarian OF Congress, not only
of the best Librarians in the country, but
one of the best that lived anywhere.
The elm tree is full grown at the age Of 80;
ash at 100. and the oak at 300 years The growth
of an elm is about two and half feet per an
mum; that Of an cak less than one foot.
England is Dragging about the performance Of
the battleship Renown in making the 5000 mile,
from Bermuda at the rate of fifteen knots an hour.
1t is chid's play. though. when compared with
the Oregon's record.
Jules Claretie proposes that the chair in the
French Academy. which has been vacant since
the dssth Of Dumas. forever remain 50, out Of
honor to its lat occupant. and that another
'be created TO I'LL up the requisite number Of
forty.
Irving latest success has started some of the
English eSqui-ites to wearing 'Robespierre' hats.
not limitations in plant felt, but the real ar
tcle in back and glossy silk As vet they have
to be made 10 order. but there is no telling how
far the fashion may spread.
The praise which Archbishop Ireland is receiv
ing in Europe for his eulogy of Joan Of Arc is
not the first given him for a treatment of the
same subject The first prize of the many he
captured during his schoolb0y days WAS for
paper on the Maid Of Orleans
After the Britomart is launched Liverpool will
see the last launch which will be made within
the city limits Seven miles of shore is now
under the control of the dock board which has
fla z.Ia or -trItgf inn ha
docks, authorized by Parliament.
Thomas Bailey Aldrieh. since inheriting for
tune, has been criticised for writing less than
heretofore This Is unjust" he says. .-for.
though DO not have to produce much, give
the time careful consideration of what | 10
write. ! work Just much as ever
Roswell Beardsley was appointed postmaster
of North Lansing. Tompkins county. y. Y. june
2s, ISIS. and has held the position ever since
In all his seventy y-one years OF service com
plant has been made against him, nor has
the slightest error been found in his accounts.
Each American soldier in the Philippines is
provided with two full suits of khaki. two white
duck suits. unlined blouse. pair of kersey
trousers, campaign hat cork helmet, pair
Of leSgi1s, one pair of harrack and of
set shoes. and both wool and cotton underwear
Miss Ellen Terry's favorite hobby is the collec-
ton of eyeglasses worn by celebrities and when
ever she makes Il request for pair-a request
never refused-she gets the wearer TO write his
or her on one of the lenses. The collec-
tion is kept in a special cabinet in her house
in South kensington.
The New York State College Of Forestry at
Cornell University has Just replsnted fifty acres
of the Adirondack burned lands with white pine
and other eonifers and has started a nursery
with enough seed TO cover 800 acres with seed
lings two years hence. II expects to replant II
least so acres of denuded lands every year
Wellington is doubtless the most famous Eng
li,h soldier. but Lord Roberts has Just written
a preface for book on Twelve British Sol
diers'' in which he assigns the highest pinnacle
Of honor to Marlborough. From mOrali>tS
point OF view. he observes. Marlborough was
not fault'ess. hut general he had few equals
and superiors"
John $. Sargent. Il. A. is painting three
quarter length life size. standing portrait OF Jo-
seph II. Choate. the United States Ambassador
in London. showing Mr. Choate in ordinary
morning costume The portrait ordered hy
the Harvard College Club. Of New York When
the picture is finished Mr.. Sargent Will paint an
other for Mr.. Choafe.
There is much complaint of the Pennsylvania
failure pass required revenue
bills. Only two were enacted, One provides for
the payment of bonus Of one-third Of cent
on charters and on the authorized increase OF
capital stock of certain corporations, the other
for a like bonus bonds which corporations
other than those of the first class are authorized
to
Thomas Edison frequently has his lunch served
in his laboratory and is ss frequently distracted
from eating by interest in his work. When this
occurred the other day of his assistants
substituted an empty plate for his chiefs null
one and the result that when Edison at
last returned to eat he cried out: why. my
memory is getting poorer ever day! Here. I've
eaten my lunch and forgotten all about 1t.
The report that every married woman employed
by the Western Union Telegraph Company in
Kansas City had been. or was TO be. discharged
and that the vacancies thus created would he
given TO men. receives qualified denial from the
night manager Of the company in Kansas City.
who saws: These women have been merely laid
off, owing to dull business. There is no inten-
tion. so far ] know. Of retiring all the mar
ried women in Western Union employ"
All the obituaries of the late Mr.. Flower agree
that he optimist. and that he was al
ways ready to bet on the American eagle. says
the Boston Herald" He cheerful.
hopeful and seli-relianr. and he abhorred any
thing that squinted in the direction of hypoc..
risy Young man., he said to one who asked
his advice as 10 investing IN ont oi the rioHef
specialtes in the stock market. stop preaching
against the trusts and look pleasant IL there's
a good monopoly around manage to get into it,
and don't make faces at it, The advice may
not have been based on sound economic princi-
PIES but it had the merit of being frank, any
way
Lake Michigan's water. rushing through turh-
inc wheels at Lockport. will furnish power to
supply the current for the electric lights needed
by the city TO light the streets of Chicago. il
present plans are carried out. II is planned,