The evening times., 1899-04-15
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Paris has an automobile club with l,soe nenp
ben-
Smoked snow water Is a tavorite tipple in Lap.
Land.
| Paper quilts are extensively used abroad by the
poorer classes.
The State Of Texas is about 7lOeo square miles
larger In area than Spain
| The srea.est song writer was Schubert. who
/ produced I 20 songs.
In Germany clock has been made that is
warranted to go for 1000 years.
The greatest university is Oxford which has
twertyoIie colleges and five halls.
| 1t is estimated that thirty or forty thousand
Russians visit the Holy Land each year.
1t il expected that the Siberian Railway will
be completed to Irkutsk in February. 1900
Europes product in silk amounted in 1so6
! to 4.s63.eo0 kiogrammes, Of which Italy yielded
3,0s3. 900.
Japan has lighthouse made of bamboo
which is said to resist the waves better than any
kind OF wood
fish stories in Connecticut are restricted by .
| law which penalties the catching of more than
| thirty trout in one day.
The assessed valuation OF Boston is 81 u36 &C.,
$40. and the value Of the property exempt from
taxation is sl'2,2s.5Is.
Al lola. Kan. the other day bail given
| IN order TO raise money with which TO buy =
cork leg for legless and INDECENT citizen.
Fire las DESTROYED the cottage in which Jo-
scph Haydn was born at Roirau in Lower Aus
tris The commemorative tablets were saved
Al Stra,ford-on-Avon. the poets birthplace. is
a desk said to haYe been used by Shakespeare.
The desk looks authentic. 1t shows marks where
generations Of schoolboys have whitfield it.
weli-dres-ed young woman in Buffalo
Gently entered the police station, having in
charge drunken Indian. whom she had found on
the street. and whose hands she had secured with
Ler belt.
The Rev. John ". shanahan. of Philadelphis,
! recently declined appointment the bishopric
Of Harrisburg but the Pope has commanded him
| TO accept it, and he will be conseerated on
April IS.
Theodore Rocscveit's fast word to Dewey be-
fore the is said to lave been reply to the
iatter's question: do YOU think well ever he
at with Spain?' The-answer was: ..H
are, you'll win if.
The State auditor of North Carolina says that
the report from Columbus county does not show
that any marriage licenses were issued there dur
ing lsss. The population of Columbus county in
1880 was 1l.sss white. and 6.Oz7 black: total,
11.sG
Mahogany sawdust. which may he found
at almost any mill. and has heretofore been
allowed to 60 10 waste, has been discov-
cred to have value. Successful experiments
prove that it be used for curing hams,
and experts state that mahogany-snoked hams
of superior favor.
President Loubet is taking advantage Of the
fne weather TO enjoy morning walks in the
streets of Paris attended only by his son. Paul
Loubet. All hostility 10 him seems now to have
disappeared The President leaves the Ely-ec
Palace by small garden. gate. and walks qri-
city toward the Arc De Triomphe and back.
k.-
tween the residents of Pine Bluff, Ark upopa-
lation 5000, and these of Creenyillc Mis-
i,,opulatiun. 6.03n). the Delta Light House
says: The Hon. John ". Strauther deserves spe-
cisI credit for the tie that binds the two
tropolises together. respective Pine Bluff. Ark.
and Greenviile. Miss, both gardens Of peace,
IaSeantry (sic). pomp and prosperity
A singular circumstance is related in
ton with the death of Lieutenant Alford of
the Twentieth Kansas Regiment. who killed
in battle the other day. identification badges
with numbers them were given out TO the
kaEsas troops. The man who got number thir-
made such strong objection to the uniticsY
number that Lieutenant Afford exchanged with
him. and the lieutenant had it hi- person
when he killed
Lady Randolph Churchill. editor Of the
English quarterly. was. Jennie Jerome. the
daughter Of editor. and doubtless inherits her
taste for journalism. Her father. Leonard j.
editor OF country newspaper iur
wears before he went New York and dictated
term, to Wall Street lie startled the world at
finance ard fashion with his bold operations. and
his icsIsr. horsrs. and stables surpassed any
thing Of the kind in the world
Samuel Southland President Pro TEN. oi the
Senate. was Acting President from April to
,pril q. 1871. when the Vice President, Tyler.
sworn in as President TO succeed Harrison; d.
vid r. AtcIison. President Pro Tenn. Of the Sem
ate acted as President Sunday. March 4. lsil.
bccu,rsc General Taylor was not sworn IN until
Monday the 5th and again July e1o $50. 'Tay-
Iur having died Iuly .. and fimare not be-
ing sworn in until the next day. No. acting
President has ever acted
Mis- Elizabeth Brown. the English astronomical
observer. who has Just died. observed several
total eclipses OF the.sn. going in 1885, to kine>i-
ma near Moscow; in lss,. 10 Trinidad. and IN
1886 TO Vad>o. in Lapland. The London Globe
saws of her: Her power OF organization. eSi'-
ciaIlv in connection with the British tstron"u-
ical Association. and her skill as an artist were
the greatest service to the astronomers Of TINS
country. and she proved an admiFahie uhre''of
of the solar section of the association
Tie Troy Times tells OF visitor at pub
lie school. whc. being requested to addIe-> the
pupils spoke Of the necessity Of obeying their
teacher and growing up be useful. loyal. and
uatriotic citizers To emphasize his remarks he
pointed 10 large national fag that almost COW
cred end of the room. and said; Now
boy-. who tell me what that nag Is there
f0r.'' CEc littlc fellow. who understood the co'i-
dition Of the room hctter than the speaker. re-
piled: Il know, sir; it's to hide the dirt
Probably the ionges, beard in the world i that
OF a metal worker in Mar>cilleS- The man Is
,cventy-fo,,r years old When fourteen years 1t
a.c lie had 4 beard six inches long. IL grew from
wear to year and his hirsute att9chHleni,
when unrollcd. reaches the respectable length ct
ten icrt ten inches When this man goes oiit
walking he carries his beard rolled up in hi.
size measuring but FIVE feet three inches. the
beard is more than twice the mans height.
Nearly all the historic wars that llsye taken
place in Europe since the days of the first cruz
SADIE may be attributed to tine existence OF tn,
Silic law and in the present century san
culinary struggles have taken place on it, ac-
count. Great Britain and Russia arc the only
1--WE countries where it has secured any
foo,hold and neither the one the other has
ever had any reason for regret, since the SOW
ereicns who have contributed most largely 10
the glory of the country have been women
The peculiar hallucination Of Baron
Alfred De Stern. the London million
airc who has Just been adjudged in
sape. is that he is the Prince Of Wales.
to the Prince. which has frequently caused
him to I've mistaken for the heir apparent 10
the English throne, is undoubtedly the cause of
his nalady Once when the Baron arrested
by the police for creating a disturbance riot
was nearly caused by the crowd which thought
he the Prince.
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes. in Berlin, spoke very frankly
about the events OF lS6 his part in the Janic-
sur affair tho South African committee and