The evening times., 1899-09-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

fnlnpplnes
In certain parts of Africa croeodiles. toads. and
spiders are eaten
Music boxes for bicycles manufactured
by firm in Hamburg, Germany.
RedIands. Cal, has giant moving machine,
which cuts a strip of wheat fifty feet wide
Metallic furniture is to be placed on our men
of-war as an additional safeguard against fire.
It is estimated that the consumption OF beer
in the entire world amounts to 81 Oe0, ,00o 600 per
annum.
Half the ships in the world are British The
best Of them can be converted into ships OF war
in forty-eight hours
Twelve years ago one sailor out of every l0s.
on an average. lost his life by accident Now the
proportion has been reduced to 1 In 25o-
An Iowa engineer claims to have demonstrated
that a liberal use of crude oil on muddy roads
soon transforms them into models Of CLEANLINESS
Two recent eoRsignments of goods to London
houses include 5000 birds of paradise, 5000 hnpe-
yan phessants, $500 crested pigeons, 500 small
birds OF various sizes, etc.
black ioness has been added to the collection
of animals in the Jardin deS Piantes in Paris
Lions of this color found only in the interior
OF the Sahara, and are scarce even there
A curious barometer is used in Germany and
Switzerland 1t is a jar of water with frog
and little step-ladder in it, When the frog
cones out Of the water and sits on the steps
a rainstorm will soon occur.
Many birds form their sounds without opening
their bills The pigeon is a weIl-known instance
| Of this. Its cooling be distinctly heard. al
! though it does not open its bill The call IS
formed internally in the throat and chest and IS
only rendered audible by resonance.
Greek divers have discovered treasure in Rus
sian flagship sunk in Greek waters in I770. Gold
coins TO the value Of S55, 600 have already been
| recovered. and the divers report great stores of
| silver and jewels which the storms Of century
have washed cut from the hulk OF the old wreck.
Every boy in Germany, from the Crown Prince
to the subject, Is obliged TO learn sOuse
useful trade The present Emperor mastered the
| art OF book binding, though this is only OF
! his accomplishments for he could probably earn
| his living as 4 musician if anything happened 10
| his throne.
Free Russia published in London. Gays that
| Nihilist paper called ''Rabotschaya NyssF' (The
Laboring Mind) has existed in st. Petersburg for
| year without the police having succeeded in dis
| covering the place where il Is printed, although
from 800 10 1900 copies of each issue have been
distributed
/ Conductors on the Manhattan Elevated Railroad
trains in New York are hereafter To be designated
As captains" according to order Just issued
| BY the trainmaster. 1t has also been deereed
that the beard the side-whiskeEs, and the goatee
| must CO. and the a. captain must be eOntent
1 TO a mIlsrache-
The Turkish minister of public works IS con-
sidering the demand of a German syndicate for
a concession to construct and work during Pc
riod Of ninety-nine years railway between Alex
| andretta, Bdgdad, and Basra, the Persian Gulf.
with connecting line 10 KoHieh- The line IS
TO be completed In eight years
Women who wear imported switches may De in
| terested in a strange discovery made AT Ant
| werp In that city, bale Of human hair. weigh
ing I12 pounds. vas stolen from a railroad sta
| tion. 1t afterwaTd learned that the hair had
| been clipped from the heads of hInarics and
| yicts IN the public aSy luHs and prisons
| \ tract Of 300 acres Of land, beautifully beat
| ed in tine suburbs of Parkersburg. W Va, has
been arranged By its owner. ex-senator Camden,
for a playground for the children Of the city
part Of the rraet Is well shaded. and will not
! be disturbed except that seats and tables are
| conveniently placed, while the unshaded portion
| IS arranged with flowers, paths, and other pleas
| ant effects.
| In Essex, England, the unw0nted spectacle Of
monks riding bicycles may be daily witnessed
| The Franciscan Fathers, who have charge OF the
mission Braintree, have also to attend the spir-
itual needs Of TWO other missions al long dis
| tanees, and IN order that they may accomplish
this work they have, with the prmhsion of
Cardinal Vaughan, invested in bicycles, on which
they ride from one mission TO another
Live poultry commands high price and ready
sale in the Hawaiian Islands. and Missouri figures
largely in supplying the demand The Kansas
City Journal that c. z Lightner, Of
Trenton. No.. IS to begin at once the forwarding
| of shipment OF 2Og.0O0 1--we chickens 10 Hon
| oluu- Forty standard poultry win be re-
| qured for their transportation 10 san Francisco,
and 1900 pounds OF feed will be taken along in
| each car
The British are about TO commence their Pa
cifc cable, extending from Vancouver via certain
Islands 10 Australia and New Zealand. II will be
5000 miles long, and complete the electric cir
cult of the globe. The cost is placed at 81 ,5OO-
600, and Is 10 be borne by Canada Australia
and the British government, but chiefly by AUS
tralla The object Is 10 unite the scattered frag-
mentS Of the empire more closely, and also 10
| reduce cable rates.
In spite of British rule India is still virtually
a soapless country. Throughout the villages Of
HindoosJan soap is indeed regarded al a natural
curiosity, and it IS rarely if ever kept in stock
by the native shOpkeeper. In the towns it Is
now sold 10 a certain extent, but how small this
| IS may be gathered from the fact that the
| total yearly consumption Of soap in India Is
about 100000 hundredweight. that Is to say,
every 2-5o0 persons use average only Ils
pounds cf soap among them; or. in other words
considerably less than ounce is the average
consumption of 4 person.
An Italian newspaper publishes table giving
i list Of the various persons and their nationality
| who have been canonized or beatifed by The
: Church of Rome during the last 4Og years. 1t il
> | as follows: IS Italians, 2S eanonized IS beati
| fed; 60 Spaniarts, II canonized 30 beltified;
81 Portuguese, l eanonized. S6 beatified; Il
J | French, eanonized. beatifed; 13 Dutch. I.
cauenized, L beatified; BelgiaHs canonized
i beatihed: Germans. canonized J beatified
, Poles, 1 canonized, l beatifed. 1t will be no
tieed that neither Great Britain nor the UniteC
| States has furnished any saints
The ''Pall Mall Gazette IS authority for tn
| story that the Pope has had wine made iron
| the vines in the Venetian Gardens which has
quality all its own. and Is in high demand, part
ly because of its really delicious fIvor and part
I | because of the position of its maker. Leo XII
has now been approached for the purpose OF in
e | ducng him 10 exhibit this wine at the Paris Ex
position next year, elegantly bottled with labei
a | showing a picture of 81. Peters and the Eati
| can, and setting forth that this Is the famOu
.-Leonine wine of Leo NH. in the twenty-frs
year OF his reign syndicate is also anxiOu
? to control its sale on most liberal terms.
J. Deserted wives of pensioners are taking advan
tage Of the law enacted by the last Congress- pro
vidiug that oue-haf Of the pension be paid to tn
: wife on proof Of abandonmant> More than 200
: : of these claims have been fled with the Pension
Bureau. nearly all Of which have received favor
: bic action The pensioner in nearly every cas-
=, \ combats every prospective cvrtaiIaent of tn
amount he ultimately receives, but the proof
| furnished by the abandoned wife have almost in
variably outweighed his arguments. and the per
centage of such applications rejected by the Blu
reau is extremely small Thirty days notice