The evening times., 1899-06-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Oatmeal is good for cleaning the teeth. 1t gives
them fine. glossy appearance, and is sweet to
the taste.
According to the London Statis,," the Chi
nase Government has borrowed in Europe since
1884 7s,775000.
The Peace Society Of Copenhagen had succeeded
on March 81 in collecting 10000 signatures To
an appeal for disarmament
The Turkish Government refuses to consider any
offer from rich leaders of the Hebrew Zionist
movement to sell part Of the Holy Land.
II is estimated that at the present rate of
growth London, which now has a population of
5657 900. will, in 1871 have over i3,0Oo,0O0.
James Elsey, the special messenger sent by a
member Of Parliament with letter from London
to Hampton, CAL, beat the mails by only twelve
hours
German steamship managers are making prep
arstions for regular subsidized ocean service be-
tween Bremen and the German territory on
the Chinese coast.
The nails Of two fingers never grow with the
same degree Of rapidty. The nail of the middle
finger grows with the greatest rapidity, and that
of the thumb the least.
s. b. Price. mayor of Macon. Ga, has begun
campaign of education among. the iIlitefate
Of his town by seeing thst the newspaper finds
its way-into every house.
Inc fTesDEtery OF Boston mas rt1useQ TO make
total abstinence from tobacco condition prece
dent to ordination in the of the young Ii
centiates under its care and of elders-eleet.
All doubt as to the belief of Rev. Dr. Park
hurst, Of New York, in the efficacy OF prayer.
is dispelled by his action Of last Sunday, when
he prayed in public Tor the rulers Of the city of
New York.
Fifty-two railways Of Great Britain, during the
first three weeks of April. reported increase in
aggregate gross receipts from passengers of s6s.-
55s, and increase OF freight earnings amounting
to slI0,122.
In emulation Of many regiments of the Brit
sh army which have animals as regimentll pets
the squadron of Lancers from Australia, which
Is soon TO visit Britain, viii have with it a
tame kangaroo.
A Perkins, o. T., bachelor started to Joplin.
No., not long ago with wagonload of peanuts,
children IL was case OF first-sight love- and,
marrying her the next day. he carried wagon
load of family back home with him.
map l31 feet high and 225 feet long. show
ing the railway system Of the United States. will
form remarkable feature at the Paris 1900 Ex-
hibition. Each line will be marked out by elec-
trie lights, and from time to time moving cleo
tric lights will show the position OF express
trains.
Samuel Tarwater, who died at his home in
Ray county, Mo-. a few days ago, aged ninety
three. had long enjoyed the distinction owing 10
a serious wound received in the Mormon war. Of
being Missouri's only State pensoner. He had
been married tve times, and the father Of
seventeen children.
Hall Caine confesses that he likes to be kicked.
ss long the thing is done in public. and
makes him conspicuous notorious. He says
in the London Mall" Even the slliest personal
reference | see, however inspired by paltry
feelings, seems TO me by implication a tribute
and compliment being recognition Of the fact
that ! am a factor worth counting with and an
adversary worth fighting. And when the most
FALSE. the most mean. and the most belittling Of
the kind has ceased TO appear. shall know that
am no longer of the least account
Through the Army and Navy Department of
the Young Mems Christian Association someone.
who desires to remain unknown, has just sub
srribed 5000. TO be used in providing shore
homes for sailors and marines in the United
States service in Brooklyn, Boston, Norfolk, Key
West. Galveston. and san Francisco. The only
condition imposed with the gift is that $780,
900 be added to il by other friends Of Uncle
Sans fighters. Rear Admiral Philip, Capt
Merrill Miller, Captain McCslla, Commander
Stockton and other naval officers have the mat
ter in charge.
The temperance Of spotted fever in Philadel-
phia will raise again the old question of the dis
ta-f >a.s the iIlldlGAli4iA
Opinions have been freely expressed of late, but
in no section of the country has the controversy
waved warm in kentucky, where it
naturally in proportion with the spread of the
fever. DR.. John +. Cashin. of Louisville. has
made careful stuGy Of the disease. and has
come to the conclusion that the germs do not
generally arise from deeaying vegetation lie
slys: ''Decomposing sawdust might generate ma
iarial germs, but at this season OF the year. or
perhaps at any other season. there could be no
cause. sporadic cases Of spotted fever are occur
ring all the time. and occasionally the disease
develops into an epidemic. apparently without
cause" The germs of the dsease-of which in
one small phial there could he kept enough TO
kill all Philadelphia-are very delicate. like
those Of most deadly maladies. and the bIcteri-
olosist is forced TO renew every few days the
preparation of beef tea in which they are kept.
At Usage City, says the Kansas City Jour
nal,'' Mrs. c. A. Stodard cleaning up her
gsrrct when by some means the family cat got
into old trunk filled with clothing. and
smut in tight and fast. Just twenty days later
Mrs. Stodard was In the gsrret again, and heard
the cats feeble cry from the trunk. When the
lid WAS lifted the cat had Just strength enough
10 climb out IL had torn the clothing in the
trunk all to pieces in its clawings. and had
gnawed the sides nearly through in several places
But perhaps the most singular circumstance
found in the manner in which the cat took
care OF itself after securing liberty. Mrs. Stsdard
set before it i big dish of milk and a big dish
of water 1t would lap a little OF each and
then lie down for few minutes, when again it
would partake s,,aringly of the milk and water.
and this proceeding ii continued through the
whole afternoon II that cat had been a human
doubtless he would have swallowed all that
placed before him at gulp. and before dark
the undertaken would have been pumping en-
balming fluid in him. Which teaches us, dear
children, that a cat in trunk sometimes knows
more than man in joint
In a recent article upon American luxury in the
London Spectator there very peril
nent suggestions Among other things. it says:
'The feeling for precious stones which survives
all changes partly understand, perceiv-
ing clearly that gems beautiful
the flowers whose colors they reproduce forever;
but what is the beauty in Jewel box of solid
gold which steel ebony would not possesss
Is the fancy-for it is a fancy-akin TO that Of
the collectors who, whenever the world is at
peace, ransack it for articles which they do not
care about, but which interest them
because there are no Others like themg' The
article concludes in this odd fashion: THAT
strange dreamer. David trquhart thought that
there was a centripetal force in capital which
would gradually place the wealth OF the world
in the hands OF man one trust, and ulti-
mateiy provoke savage civil war. in which all
but the human itself must perish 1t is
probable that we shall advance many steps
in that direction. and that Mr.. Rockefeller will,
in A. ID. 2000, seem but poor man; but thought,
We think. has become the prerogative Of too
many to permit of Armayeddou between cspi-
alsts and their slaves. No knows, and all
hat experience tells us. is that in A. d. 5000
Mrs. Vanderbilt's jewels will have fallen to per-
IONS of whose reign neither she the wisest
iround her have 50 much as dreamed
fascinating speculation for the electrical en-
yineer says Prof. Elihu Thompson, in the EN-
,ineer Magazine" is the possibility Of SO cooling
he conductors of electric lines apparatus
% improve the conductvity many times. and so