The evening times., 1899-05-25
NOTES OF THE DAY.

! A savage can see one-tenth further than a
! white man.
| ton of water is supposed to contain abort
| fourteen grains Of gold.
| In New York blacksmth's shop is managed
by three young women.
Bostons debt has increased s5.Oo0,0o0 year
for the past four years
IIypnotsm is scientifically studied in some Of
the French medical colleges
In Vienna organ grinders are allowed to play
only between midday aud sunset
Nearly 10000 pounds OF bread daily eaten in
the Sultan of Turkeys household.
Fulton, No.. has had the same town marshal
continuously for tweniy-fonr years
From July l, 1893. to February l. 1880. Mexico
exported mineral products raiued s5I.3il .0DO.
The Siberian Railway has already fifty rcfrig-
orator cars for taking butter to the Russian cities
LynchiDgs in the United States numbered 1Gs
| IN loJI and l2i in 1st,e. Since January /, 1ssJ,
there have been 81.
Coils P. Huntington i, interested in the co..
lection of butterflies. and. it is said, will CON
tribute large sum to the University Of Califor-
mia for that purpose
Sims Reeves says he lost 10000 during his
career as public singer, because he too
conscientious to appear the stage unless
he could do his best.
stainer from the use of alcoholic drinks. He is
hard worker. and is sometimes at his desk at
O'Clock in the morning.
Horses have a great dislike for camels Their.
are many similar antip1thies in the animal world
Between elephants and rhinoceroses, for instance
and peccaries and bears
Anthony n Brady. the Wall Street fnancier,
who was one Of the late Governor Flowers mosr
trusted associates. began life as the keeper of 4
snail hotel in Albany y. Y.
The latest book on volcanoes. by Prof Bon
ney. OF London. declares frankly that it is LEI:
for the coming century to explain the causes and
significance Of volcanic ,cton-
The ink plant of New Grenada is a curiosity.
The juice OF 1t can be used az ink without any
prcparation- At frs; the writing is red, but after
few hours it changes 10 black
By means Of Il valuable toughenng process re-
Gently discovered glass may be nodded into
lengths ard used railway sieepers 1t Is, there
fore. possible to have complete glass railway
The original capital of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was 81, $4,000. The system its fifty
third birthday represented investment OF sa0D.-
0O0.DoO. Last year il carried Il 0D).DOO passen-
gers
The prohibition law still prevails in Kansas. but
lis enforcement Is matter Of local option.
Towns are wet or dry according to the de-
mands of public sentiment As to the closing %
the saloons.
By the admiraltys orders. perfect models are
made in parlitn OF every new English battle
ship before it is laid down. and these models ar.
from II to - fset long and the tank il 400 feet
long and 20 feet wide
Hauptrlanns "Fuhrmann Henschei'' cannot b.
performed at Hsrtoyenbosch. in Holland, IL the
burgonaster considers that it comes in conflict
with public morality" The preachers OF the
town also condemn the play from the pulpit.
copper mask believed to he unique l. IN
interesting object found in the wrappings Of
mummy in Peru recently. It was shaped from =
single nugget of copper by hsmmering a mold,
and the features are well formed and distinctive
Official returns of French railways indicate that
at the end of 1898 their mileage was %. .S5s. aa
increase for the year of 172 miles Total receipts
of lsJs all lines 1859. S,3 SCI francs. au
increase ls9. Of 4j915, ,l0i francs or - ls;-
90.
Fashion editors viii doubtless find suggestion
for note on summer style in the news that
Napoleon B. Adams. of Bloomfield V J.. was
nearly cored to death by a COW. which became
euraced at a red necktie the gentleman
ing.
Captain Pone of the New Zealand Line, has ,r-
cumnavigaied the globe ffty-two and hslt
times and thinks he holds the record. The routs
of the lines steamers is from England to New
Zealand. by way Of the Cape of Good Hope, and
back by Cape Horn
The Princess Of Wales always appreciates the
bouquets which fall to her share at public cere-
monials The flowers are preserved Is long ss
possible. taking their places among thousands %
rare eNOtics with which her rooms in Marlborough
House are decorated.
All sorts of skins have been tried for boot max
ing. porpoi-e, white whale spEingbok. horse. and
MANY Others. of all these kangaroo hide i the
very best 1t makes, when properly tanned. t;,e
finest boots whips and gloves imaginable. it 70
extraordinarily pliable.
The chairman of the Cuba Submarine Teie-
graph Company. at a meeting in London last
Wednesday. said repairs TO cables since the
had cost than Si0.0eO. and the dfrcctorB
were about to bring the secolnt to the notice 4
the Government Of the United States.
Tie Irish Land Court will offer the most
admired portion ri the Lakes of Killarney fre
sale The Muckroes estate has already been sd
to the tenants. and the mansion. deer park. etc,
will be offered with the lakes. The sum mcp-
toned as likely to be asked is eS9.003.
The pay OF a Russian army officer is said to be
very small. general gets from $500 to 5000
a year in English money. according TO the length
of service: lieutenant general from >l-liI to
81. $50; major general from $3.50 to $500 and
a colonel commanding three battalion regiment
gets S6y1
The present Shah has just celebrated his forty
sixth birthday. The Shah is enormously wealthy.
and almost the whole OF his fortune consists q
diamonds and precious stones. The royal family
OF Persia is of the largest in the world. There
are some thousands of Princes and Princesses.
and the present occupant of the throne has
family of about twenty
The creditors of the Rev. Prescott Ford Ierne-
gan. of Boston, whose scheme for extracting gold
from sea water duped hundreds of gulibc New
Englanders some months ago. were reimbursed to
the extent ct 20 per cent of their holdings 1t
stock on Monday last. sthis proportion of tn.
capitalization Of the Elcctrolytic Marine Salts
Company having been saved from the wreck.
..one of the stranccst accidents in nv expert
ence.'' said a boiler expert, occurred fev
years ago at small slwmill town over in Texas.
They had a narrow-gauge road which logs
were hauled by pony locomotive One day th.
two forward wheels OF the little machine jumped
the track and the crew of seven men went out
to Jack il into place. As the engine stood. it
had a cant forward. which threw all the water
in the boiler to the front end. and as there wIs
a lively fire in the box. it soon got the other
end redhot. This trifing circumstance was over
looked by the crew. who proceeded calmly with
and lying fat on his stomach under the
trucks. As the engine slowly assumed a hnri-
zonta position the water ran back to the re,i-
hot portion. and bang. the whole thing dSip-
pcared in space. The six men also disappeared.
They were distributed in small sections over a.
least ten acres. and there wasn't enough lett 1t
either engine or crew to make respectable SOU
yerir While this disintegration in progress
tho man who had been lying fat on his stomach
was experiencing the surprise Of his life He had
heard a hidsous clap of thunder, and when lie
looked up. 10. and behold he all 10y his
lonely His comrades and the pony locomotive.
which was but just then standing his back.
bad vanished like dream. All that WAS lett
he ltulS Hs.