The evening times., 1899-01-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There are forty-fve colleges and seventeen State
| Christian associations among the COloTed
oi North Carolina.
In 1900 Iceland will celebrate the g0Oth ami
'ersary Of the Introduction Of Christianity into
the island
Race prejudice Is not strong among British
trade unionistS. The treasurer OF a miners as-
>pcdtOn in Monmouth. with a membership Of
close upon 1000, Is flIll-bIooded negro
N a policeman's bali held in Omaha last week
the pockets Of eight participants picked
and four umbrellas and ten oveTcoaJs were stolen
from the clOJkFOOm
GaIileo's maIslscript OF the treatise --Ou the
Ebb and Flow OF the sea written in 1916 has
been discovered in the Vatican library by Father
Luz. the sub-librarian.
The original blocss Of the wood cuts with
which Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated a SET
OF chap books have been presented 10 the Boston
Public Library through lloyd Osborn, Mr. ste
ycnson'S c0-labOFer.
Before Speaker Reed had ever been heard Of
/ there had already been two distinguished men Of
| his name. Thomas B. Reed represented Missis-
| sipp in the United States Congress early in the
century and another Thomas b. Reed did SINH
| lar service ;or Kentucky about the same time.
| The society of the Army OF Santiago Is A.
| sumiug form and the work OF completing the
organization, the making Of badges and other DE-
/ tail> = being rapidly pushed Anyone is eligi-
/ bic 10 membership who served in the Santiago
| campaign from June IA to July l.. 1S97
| \ Pitt,burg iron worker i experimenting with
| the waste Stag Of blast furnaces. with a view to
| making an artificial building stone. He claims
| that lie make more ornamental stone Tor
! architectural purposes than the higher priced
marbles and GRANTEES. and also stone that Is in
| perviouS 10 climatic conditions. well being
| absolutely freproof.
! In schoOlhouse in Lueerne. that Mecca q
summer tourists a new hot-air furnace has re-
| Gently been installed. Now on the blackboarts
| OF the various recitation rooms one may read the
| adnonititon: since a hot-1ir heater has beea
| installed in this building the opening Of any
| window Is expressly forbidden, since the hot air
\ would 20 cut
Orleans parsimOny i notorious. and sample
OF it, provided by the present head of the house.
! will hardly help him a claimant The Duke
| OF Orleans recently engaged a special car to take
him from Brussels 10 Vienna. the Gust Of the
| being twelve hrst-class fares in Germany and
| twenty in Belgium When the Belgian conductor
applied for payment the Duke refused TO pay more
than twelve fares for the Belgian stretch Of the
Journey and would not yield until assured that
| his car would be UncOupled az the frontier sta
tiOn, and not allowed 10 leave Belgium before he
| had settled. Then he angTiIy paid the sum re-
qJired 1t i hard to present the repre-
| sentative OF Saint Louis and the Grand MonaTque
| who will quibble over ear fares.
| An immense drive hunt of rabbits took place
4 o
game bagged was tremendous. The hunt was
given by Baron won Heyl. the largest manufac-
turer OF patent leather in the world and one ~
the weslthest in Germany. The grand
duke OF HeSse, Prince Albert OF Schleswig IIol-
stein. and Count AdIlbert Of Erbach- Pyrmont
were present. Two thousand nine hundred rab-
| bits killed In the drive hunt a great
number OF heaters were employed tu drive the
game down in the direction Of tn hunters. and
all that escaped the guns were run down by the
i .
| cruel. II i rendered necessary by the great
hers OF the rabbits and the rapidity with which
! they multiply.
LADY Curzon, the yicereine Of India, takes
with her some of the most magnificent gowns
that have ever been seen in India, saws a writer
in the Chicago Record These dresses have been
made by four of the leading eostumers OF the
| world ard have -sst Il small fortune. There are
| nearly 100 in all. and many OF them more
| splendid than those possessed by many queen.
one story is to the effect that when his aP-
| pointment was decided upon the new vieeroy
| informed his beautiful wife that he wanted her
TO be the best dressed woman that ever went
out To India. Certain it is that the dresses alone.
| exclusive OF millinery and lingerie, represent be
| tween sIOOO0 and $4,000 and the supreme
| effort OF the best artists in London, Paris and
| Vienna
Down at Lecsburg Va, maidstone which is
famous throughout that section. and IS said to
have cured many cases Of hyirophobia was sold
! at auction. o>wind up estate. for $50. The
| purchaser was J. A. Geiman. prominent resi-
| dent OF Loudoun County, Va, who has null faith
| in it's powers. II originally belonged 20 his
| great grandmother, and has been the family for
| 13l wears. The stone Is about Seven-eightlls OF
| an inch long. fve-eghths OF an inch wide, and
| one-quarter Of an inch thick People IN that
| neighbOrhood tell remarkable stories Of its pow
| ers. II has been used hundreds Of times and
| they claim IL has never failed. During the RevO
Iutionary War ii carried in the knapsack OF
A private soldier. and in Philadelphia used
! to cure seven persons who were bitten by a mad
| dog At that time it was brought To the atten-
ti0n of Washington.
Some good stories told in S. Petersbur.
about the Cars devotion to boxing. which is
| quite his hobby. AT the Kremlin Moscow and
| also at the Winter Palace, in the capital he
has rooms especially fitted up for his exercises
He usually dons four-ounce gloves, and the airy
| costume worn by gymnasts, and for an hoaT
| each morning boxes with some member OF his
| househould. To refuse bout with the Empe-
ror offends him. So hard a hitter is ne that les
| athletic nobemen about the court stand in posi-
| tive terror OF a command to spend an hour try
| ing to stand up in front OF their imperial mas
| ter Recently, however. he met his match in
Prince George Of Greece. When that vigus -
| young cousin was told BY the Car to box "a
| though he meant it he promptly let go his lei.
and with such force that the little father Of an
the Russians landed his back Raising hlr,,
self his elbow and rubbing his head, he said
: | George, You see me every government IA
Europe would like to see me-Aoored"