The times., 1899-10-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

N'tet-ff NAt-s - tttiAt - tH ol0 piano uHN
on an average every mau. woman, ard ehid
consumes about three bushels 81 apples per year
and only few are exported
The number paying subscriptions to the Zionist
cause now exceeds 10000. and sl.o0aoo0 kas besn
subscribed toward the Colonial Bank.
In Mexico vanilla Is much used as a heart toni,-
The plan i simply 20 take piece 81 vanilla, such
as is used in aavoriHg. and TO ehew IL
Verbatim reports are seldom seen in French pa
Pers. and the shorthand writer plays very n
significant part in Partisan Journalism
In $40 Angcsican Churches in England incense Is
IN ceremonial use. London tops the list with
f6 churches. and the diocese Of York comes next
with 81.
The largest watermelon ever raised in GeorEia
has been sent 70 stanley Little. of Peekskill. y.
y |. weighed li9 s4 pounds and was raised IN
Atlanta.
Near Groboeana. Java. there Is a lake Of boiliHs
and descending.
The Bank Of spain now holds Si2, 100000 mora
gold than II held year ago, ard s41 s0o. OD0
silver. Its note circulation meantime has in
creased S2I, 0.09a.
Badness Is far less common among red-heas.e1
people than among their darker haired neghbors.
The ordinary crop the head OF a res-haired
person is about 29,z00 hairs.
Eight sections at the Paris Universal Fxhibi.
ton of 1900 viii be devoted TO the history Of the
religions Of the world with the beliefs Of all the
known races Of men, past and present.
An enterprising liquor firm has engaged an
aeronaut TO give series Of balloon ascensions in
ceylon, and while ascending to drep snail
sample bottles Of whisky attached to miniature
parachuteS
There are peroxide horses as well as wo-
men in old New York Horses lust suitable for
carriage work, save that they do not quite match
IN color, are now Chemically biondined' 20 the
tint desired in a very few minutes
school for backward children viii be Is.
tablished this fall in Chicago, in affiliation with
the department Of pedagogy OF the University oi
Chicago There Is only one school Of the kind il
the country IL Is located in New York and =
known as The Physiological school.
An English chemist recently examined sls=
samples Of beer, Of which 42I we're found "a
have been adulterated. and the fact was also dis
covered that the aduteration OF beer Is almost
exclusively confined TO London. OF l57 sample
OF tobacco aRalyzsd % were found 70 be adul-
terated.
Five hundred Lithuanian girls have petitioned
to be allowed to form the sole guard Of honor
Of the German Emperor during the hunting sea.
son this year These girls are all skilled horse
women, and are of that became famous
under the Jagellons Their offer was provision
ally accepted
Medical journals are calling attention to the
fact that unimpaired hearing in railroad employees
is essential the safety Of the travelling public
as normal eyesisht- recent examination in EE-
rope developed the iact thar OUT OF eighty two
hremen and engine drivers only three possessed
perfectly normal hearing.
A woman Of perfect figure should weigh rs
pounds and be feet ) inches tall She should
measure feet inches from the Tip OF cre mid
die finger to the tip OF the other when the arms
ar cNTprGaI Tho fguu4h 0f sn.1
be just cne-tenth 0f this and one-seventh should
be the length Of the foot.
During the year 1875 the copper production Of
Montana i officially given at POS. I7s.l57 pounds
against 23o, 2as III pounds f.r 1897. decline Of
26,l18,9si pounds, equivalent to about 10 per
cent. During The same period the product Of
the United States increased from 49f. .0Is274
pounds 10 526,5I2.gS7 pounds.
The Santa Gertrude ranch owned and managed
by Mrs Richard King, is one vast pasture Of
million and a quarter acres with the girde
Of single fence long enough 10 reach from Lon
don TO Edinburgh 1t IS estimated that this tract
would hold all Of the live stock in Great Britain
and half the wcrld's population
The society Of total abstaineTs just formed in
Vienna is the first ever established in Austria.
Everybody drinks in Austria. An Austrian baby
begins to sip beer at the age OF three months.
and, as it grows up. learns 70 consume the liquor
in ever-ineTeasing quantity until. when a full
The Korean woman Is so little esteemed that
she has n5t even name. Ii childhood she has
nickname bestowed upon her. by which she IS
known TO her family and intimate friends, frt
after she arrives at maturity she i called thus
only by her parents To the rest OF the world
she is simply ..tke daughter or .'the sister Of
So-and-So.
British officer who recently visited SIenelek,
OF Atyssinia, was able to count 5000 men in his
arr,v and thinks that the $50 00D assigned % the
Ahyssinian army in rep-rts IS an exaggeratien.
Tire men he saw, however. were all armed With
modern rifles. and they had Maxim guns and
uitraiIleuses as we'll They have also shown that
they can stand up against civilized troops
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Hermann has proposed the
Introduction OF a telegram card, which viii un-
doubtcd,y be used by the austrian pestofiee- The
idea OF PTivy CounciiOT HERMANN Is 70 cheaper
rapid communication by a combination letter and
telegram, and special cards are TO be used toI
the purpose. These cards are to be sent at hall
the price Of the ordinary telegram
rhe number OF soldiers slain in battle depends
great deal On the eoloF Of their Uniform The
more fashy aEd conspicuous the helmet and jacket
the better the target and consequently the great
or the mortality. Red attracts the eve most read
ily and twelve men wearing that color are
killed 10 seven in riHe sreen- or SIX in blue, or
five in either brown, blue grey, or grey
There are $4,000 men in the world who gain 4
livelihood chiefly by fishing, making annual
catch Of s225 worth Of fish for each man. The
fisheries OF the United States supply s0oO00 pounds
annually. and those Of Europe f.slg,009 pounds
The American citizen eats about 25 pounds u fish
and 40 pounds of meat a year, while the Euro
pean eats ca pounds OF meat and II pounds Of
fish annually
According to a Berlin man. the German pest
master general has had entrust the business 5f
designing the new serial Of imperial stamps for
the beginning of the century to an Engiishrnan.
Moreover, the remuneration IS suhstantiaI-S
rIe stamps are said 70 be very beautiful obloug
in shape. like the American Columbus stamps;
and at the desire Of the Emperor, they Illustrate
the history of the Hohenzollern family. I.
An automobile street sweeper, the invention Of
NM. Thomas and LerOcher, has recently been ap-
proved by the head Of the street cleaning service
OF Paris ard viii doubtless be in general use be
fore the end Of the present summer. The psopell-
ing machinery Of the new automobile Is placed
in front, while underneath and behind j. tank
and the spTinkling devices; Tor the wagon sprink
les the streets as well as sweeps them. The
OF the street w.ile 1t is being spTiHkled. The de-
sign i~tO IUn the the street 10 be clean7d
first spFnkling it, ard then passing il again
to sweep the dust into small piles. II Is the in
tentiOn OF the Paris authorities TO also have
electric wagons TO remove the dust after il has
been gathered into the heaps.
The newest fashionable fad in London Is the
Kitchener muslache. Hairdressers are pushing IT,
You cannot 90 into of the hEst-ciass hair
dresseIs' establishments now, says correspondent
but what, upon the wall, right in front Of your
chair where you sit to be clipped and combed
hangs portrait OF the Sirdar showing To the best
advantage his handsome, well-groomed, expansive
mustache. BARRIERS proclaim it a model Of what a
musiaehe should be- They devotins them