The evening times., 1899-01-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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A citizen of RockIand. Mass. has a flock
| of guinea hens that drive the crows out OF
his cornfield. AS soon as the thieves alight
the guinea hens march for them on the
double quick and start them of. 1t is an
amusing sight.
The empress Of Germany is one OF those
| women who have the habit Of growing oil
| charmingly. She was a countr;fied- o k
! ing girl at the time OF her marriage; she
IS now dignifed woman of attractive
| figure and exceptional grace. She is s8
years OF age and three months o. der than
her husband She is OF the swezt ond,
| blue-eyed German type When the En-
| peTor was courting her he wrCts to his
! mother My dear one may not be the
| most beautiful woman in the word, but
| she certainly has the loyeliest arms
! She is the most devoted wife and mother
/ and her whole heart seems centred on
| her husband and children. She troubles
herself little about state affairs and cares
nothing for the pleasures and vexations
! OF the fashionable wcrId-
! Not much is known about the Mad
| Muilah. the old man of India who is
] causing uneasiness in the minds OF Eng
| lish politicians today. He is mad only in
| the fanatical sense. He first male him.
self notorious in the ChitraI outbreak or
| 1895, when. although more than seventy
L y
! energy and strategic ability. In the
fighting at the MalakaRd he lost two
| fingers, and afterward the members were
| buried with great pOmp in the BOnair val
ley, and a shrine was erected to mark the
spot. The Mullah is a native Of the Bon
air country, and wields therein tremend
Gus amount of influence This influence
he has used in skillfulIy turning the en-
nifty Of the people of Swat against the
khan of Dir in the '-jehad. OF holy war.
/ There is feud of long standing between
/ the Swatis and the kahan and the mad
| fakir turned it to his account. The kahn
I claims certain parts of Upper Swat. and
| at intervals from before the British oe-
| cupation until this day he has been in
the habit of raiding the country.
Here are some answers to examination
papers collected by Chicago school teach
er: THE doctrine of evolution began WITH
the beginning of life and grew higher and
I higher until il at last regeneTated into
monkey. This process was so slow that
neither the monkey nor the man knew
! anything about it
"A germ is a name applied to a partieu-
lar particle, tiny sub-bactsrial organism
which, when demonstrated, causes dis
ease"
a germ is a tiny insect. sometimes
found in diseases or organs. II is so very
small that it can only be seen by a tele-
/ scope. That is why diseases re contagious.
~ times il appears like the head Of 4
| pin but il goes floating around in the at
I mOsphere.'
/ Habeas corpus means you may have the
I head and I will take the body"
The germ theory of diseases is contin-
ually floating around in the air and is very
I dangerous. especially when the atmosphere
| is unwholesome."
/ a dOwager is a widower without joints
| Gointures?J
| According 10 news from Japan published
/ in the German press. the oldest residence
on earth is that recently erected az YOko-
/ hama by an eminent scientist now sojouru-
| ing in the Mikado's lands. II is microbe-
proof house. built of glass blocks There
1 are no window Sashes- The doors when
closed are alright. The air supply IS
/ forced into the rooms through a pipe and
1 filtered through cotton wool 10 cleanse it
/ CT bacteria To insure further sterilization
/ the air is driven against a glyeerine-coated
/ plate of glass, which captures all the mi
/ CrobeS the wool spares. The few microbes
I brought into the dwelling in the clothes or
I the visitors soon die in the warm sunlight
with which the house is flooded The space
} between the glass blocks, of which il is
/ built. is filed with a solution of salts
! which absOrbs the heat of the SUM- so that
i the rooms are much cooler than those pro-
| tected by the thicker shades. In the night
! the interior is heated by the salts radiat-
! ing the heat they have absorbed during the
| day.
! new method of preserving freshly
killed meats has been discovered By the
/ Danish zoolOgist, August Fjelstrup, already
| well known through his method of con-
| densing milk without the use Of sugar The
| system according TO the printed repOrtsl
/ has stood a remarkably hard three months
/ test. The method in itself is extremely
simple. The animal to be used is at first
I shot or stunned by a shot from a re-
I vOlver loaded with small slugs. in the fore
/ head. in such a way as not to injure the
/ brain proper. As the animal drops sense
/ less an assistant cuts down over the heart
| opens a ventricle. and allows all the blood
/ TO flow out. the theory of this being that
! the decomposing of the blood is almost en-
I tirely responsible for the quick putTefac-
/ tiou of fresh meats. Immediately there
after a briny solution (made of coarse or
/ fine salt, more OF less strong, according TO
/ length OF time meat is 70 be kept is in
! iected by means Of a powerful syringe
! through the other yentricle into the veins
of the body. The whole process takes only
a few minutes and the beef is ready for use
| and can be cut up at once.
DR.. Sven Hedin, the weIl-known Swedish
explorer who some time ago made a long
and adventurous journey through Central
Asia. is planning a new expedition. His
intention is to try to penetrate the most un-
known parts of Asia. 1t is intended that
| the new journey shall begin next spring
and now also the starting point proper will
be Kaschgar DR.. Hedin will cross the TAX
| lamakan desert in two different directions
| study one of the largest rivers in east Tur-
| kestan and explore certain parts of the
| LopuOr district. He will try to penetrate
the unknown northern and central parts OF
| Tibet. in the highlands of which country
| at an altitude of about $4,000 feet, he may
also spend a winter. From Tibet he will
go TO India, and he has several times con-
suited Lord CurZon, the new viceroy OF IL
dia. about this part of the programme
The return from India will be made over
Himalaya, Karakorum and Kasehgar The
proposed trip will take about three years
| and the expenses will amount to about
SO, 200. DR.. Hedin expects much assist
ance from the Russian authorities, and
counts particularly on the interest which
the Gar has shown in his plans.
Quite an interesting story might be writ
ten some day about the attempts which
| have been made to acclimatiZe strange
| plants and animals. and then to eradicate
| them There is the famous mongoose cpl
Sode of Jamaica. The mongOose was in
| troduced to kill the rats which ate the
cane plantations. Having done this and
multiplied very rapidly. it proceeded to
kill the snakes and lizards as we'll IL
next attacked the birds Qearniug to climb
trees in the proceSsD until the poultry and
wild birds disappeared. Then arose the
ticks or chigoes. which the birds used
to keep down. and the island groaned under
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