The evening times., 1899-08-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

last week rather than go 70 work
woman teacher in Philadelphia retired re-
Gently after service of fifty-three years
During 1895 the number of persons who made
Alpine tours neeessitating guides in the Tyrol
was 1900.
Maryland law prohibits Baltimore policemen
from doing mechanical work for the department
or for hire.
The average duration Of life in Chicago has
been greatly increased in the last thirty years,
resulting in the saving of A., $50 lives.
watertown, " Y. peddler has been sent to
jail for four months because be kissed a child
without permission being first obtained.
The proposed public warehouse to be operated
by the Toledo banks 10 be go, as
majofity Of the banks favor the project.
Ii is believed that the most ancient dictionary
in the world is the Chinese lexicon. complied by
Pacut-she thousand years before Christ.
The ''street Railway Journal estimates the
life of iron poles for overhead wires at thirty
three years, and Of wooden poles at eleven years.
young woman at Muncie Ind, was married
in costume of iesh-eolored tights. She was
ballet dancer, and the wedding occurred between
the acts.
Two Cinnamon. driving reckIessly through VAN
eouver, in endeavoT to overtIke 4 funeral
and drive away the evil spirits, ran over and
killed child.
There parts Of Spain where the hat is un-
known except in pictures. The men. when they
need a covering, tie up their heads. and the
women flowers
The report of the Russian department of pris-
ons shows that in the past two years the total
number Of persons banished to Siberia has been
20,O56. OF whom s94 were Women
A marriage license was recently issued in Ken
tueky to William Bird, aged seventy. and Mary
Chaf, aged twenty-five. Remarks about catching
old birds with chat in order.
Eight hundred japanese workmen are now en-
ployed in track work on railways in Washington
and Oregon, and they are said TO give better and
more constant service than white labor
The output Of sIrdines on the Maine coast
is likely to be increased from 10000 cans in
le9e to 100000 this year, in consequence OF
the introduction Of the new canning machine. -
The diplomatic career Of Baron De StaaI, who
presided the Peace Conference. has been-a
long and distinguished one. He is the soul Of
discretion having never opened his lips in public.
1t is estimated that 9s per cent of the South
African cattle were infected with the rinderpest,
and Of this number S5 per cent perished. The
Ellington system OF incubation saved about SI0,-
COO. 600 worth of animals.
Switzerland breaks the record in regard TO eases
of insanity With a population of a little over
5000, ,OOO there were At the close of 1897 in the
262 We're males. against 2,902 females
Mexico is raising hops for her own breweries
this year. The exports Of hops from the United
States during the nine months ending March last
were Sl.yt3; the same period last year. S31. .439
and the same period, ending March, 1885,, 40,56I-
At Watkins. " Y, water is now sold by the
cubic foot instead of by the gallon. The rates
80 cents per 100 for the first 1000; 10 cents
per loo for the second LOCO, and cents per 100
for each additional l,O00 feet These rates make
the water a little more expensive 10 the largest
consumers.
Women interested in employment for the work
ing girls Of New York have on their lists Of sa-
healthfuI emplc, ments that of pearl button max
ing. These buttons stamped out with die,
and the dust which arises is bad for the lungs.
An effort has been made 10 improve the condo
ton, but the evil is not entirely abated-
Arthur W. Bonnell, of Brooklyn, whose son Fad
been struck with umbrella by seven-y yeaT-ald
boy, recently took il upon himself 10 spank the
offending youngster. the latteT's parents having
refused 10 administer the chasIisement Themselves
BCnnell was thereupOn sued for damages by the
father OF the spanked boy, and the Jury decided
that he must pay sl,O'5.
Dr. Koveos, of Amorgos Greece, tells OF
relative Of his who died recently aged ninety
He had never been i'll in his Iife but the hair
of his head and face had become prenat,ireIy
white. SIX months before his death. however,
his beard and mustache suddenly became dark,
the color continually deepening Ito the curiosity
and stupefactiol OF all
No wonder that Chicago complains Of New
York for winning away 50 many of its clergy
men The researches OF careful statiSlician
show that no city in the country pays as well
for i sermon as Gotham In the West 80 per
discourse is the ruling price. but in New York
the average fuetuates between SIS and SEQ the
latter being the latest quotation.
In the fruiting season the banyan Is an arbor
for the feathered creation. and a rude temple
is often set up under or close 70 its shade. AZ
which the wayfarer stops 10 cook a meal
frequently than to offer a prayer. These sacred
trees, with their grateful shade. are common in
every part of India, and are confined 10 the trep
ical zone. As timber they are OF no value, but
gunllae is obtained from their juice. and the
bark is used by the IIindus incidentally.
Austria is about to try the motor omnibus in
interesting part of the country. There is 10 be
a daily service from Meran. in the Tyrol TO
Trafol and back. from Handeck to TrafoI and
back and from Meran TO Handeck and back On
the first line a ten-horse-power car for fifteen
persons will be used. and on the second motor
OF equal power. the car seating twelve persons
and with standing room for six The third ear
is to take the mail and ten Passengers, arrr viii
run at higher speed
Two more monuments will perpetuate the men,
DRY of the late Iron Chancellor German admirers
of Prince Bismarck. living in Switzerland, have
commissioned several prominent sculpIors 10 fur
nish designs for Hfe-Size monument in MARBLE
which is TO be erected in a beautiful private
park in Zurich. The other is Bismarck foun-
tain. constructed of stone and cement in the
station yard at Brea. Camero0n, bearing on its
front excellent medallon-likeness of the Prince
just the former is the first work OF the kind
SWITZERLAND 81 lat il he Srcra -,
the Dark Continent.
Vegetables and flowers have their noxious ten
ants. Certain microscopic fungi which grow on
sick plants can produce actinomycose and other
ailments in men, Cancer arises sometimes from a
vegetable origin. Senor Domingos Freire. of Rio
Janeiro, famous for his NEGOTIATIONS against vel
low fever. has found that even flowers are IN
fected with dangerous microbes. Flies and wind
spread the Infection The rose (RothSclIild va
riety) swarms with the leptothrix ochracea; the
Rosa Gallica has microbe like streptococcus pyO-
genes, and another like bacillus gallus. Other
flowers have colonies not well determined IL is
considered not unlikely that the colors and per-
fumes of some flowers due to microbes for
the light red Of the RothschiId rose is the color
of the leptothrix, and the yellow hibiscus has a
yellow mierobe. The moral is to smell flowers
at safe distance.
The production of the beautiful coIorfng OF
glass is a art which has come down in par
tieuIar to the German glass blower of today
through many generations. The apparatus used
is sheet-iron cylinder twenty inches long and
eight inches in diameter standing vertical Nv
and having small cylinder riveted across the
top. thus forming T-shaped muite. While the
glassblower is reheating his work for the last
time an attendant slips into the muffe long
iron ladle. which has been made red-hot, and into
which has been shaken specially prepared chem
ieal mixture The mixture immediately gives off
vapOr in the horizontal cylinder where the work
of the blower, heated 10 even red by the blow
pipe, is being rapidly reyolysd- In short time
the object is covered with changeable lustre