The evening times., 1899-06-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.


There are in Paris three great slaughterhouses.
where 10000 head Of cattle are killed annually.
Canada sells us farm products valued at $3.50
ooo but buys OF us other goods worth s7s, 1000
In Mexico school children are allowed to smoke
in school hours when their lessons are well pre-
pared.
Utah gives its convicted murderers the choice of
now they will be executed. The latest one chose
to be shot
Tons of wool gathered by Indians in Ore
gen from the bodies Of sheep that have died in
the winter.
to her parents some slight recompense for
their trouble in rearing her.
Japan has considerably more than half as many
inhabitants as the United States, though our
country is twenty-five times its area.
James Bryce is making a study of the govern
meBt of colonies by republics which is to have
special application to the United States
Most CT my biographies" says Sir Henry
Irving, ''prefer to say that I born IN Gla5-
tonbury, but / wasn't. Keinton the place"
The bishops Of the Church Of England in convo-
cation have welcomed the revised version Of the
Scriptures and sanctioned its use in the churches
There 50So licensed liquor shops jn st. Pc
terburg against 25000 a few years ago, and under
the law person obtain but one drink OF
liquor In one tavern.
The two Sevres vases recently presented b. the
French President Faure, have been placed on
either side of the large windows the south
side of the White House.
Swiss society has laid cut an Alpine gar
den at Montreux. at elevation of 6.O00 feet.
where the characteristic trees and flowers Of the
country TO be cultivated.
Experiments seem to show that a large ocean
steamer, going at nineteen knots an hour, viii
move than two miles after its engines
have been stopped and reversed.
Joseph Pierce who lives on farm Flora
vile. Ohio. and is 65 years old. is the father
of thirty five children. all living. \ family re-
union will be held this summer.
The duchess Of Portland, unlike most wearers
of the strawberry leaves. goes into society very
little She is a religious woman, and is de-
voted to her two small children.
Ogden Mills. the son of D. o. Mills. Of mills
House. fame. together with Ernest Flagg- the
architect of the Mills houses. is to erect group
Of tire-preof model tenements in New York
Many animals in desert regions never have any
water except the dew vegetation. parrot
in the London is known to have lived nifty
two years withou; drinking crop OF water
William F. Curtis. formerly Chief Of the B1-
reau Of American Republics, will visit the prln-
cipal countries Of South America in the inter-
ests Of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo,
Henry Clews in talking TO young men
on the best way to amsss wealth. advised sim
ply adherence to the Biblical command 10 do
with all our might whatever our hands find to
do.
A stroke of lightning burned the rim from the
hat Of LYMAN Newkirk, of Worcester. Ohio; tore
off his coat and shirt. and took a strip OF flesh
and skin from his back, but failed to iniuTe him
fatally.
The Ethical Culture Society of New York
city has raised fund of more than sls0.oOo for
lis peruanent home This creation Of Felix Ad-
Ter has become an important feature in Nam
haitian.
Asia Minor was the chief opium market until
the twelfth century. and from then on it was
gradually distributed all the globe. The
Chinese obtained the drug in the Thirteenth
century.
Mrs William Rockefeller has received at her
country residence. 200 Mamaison carnations ard
100 of the gold nugget variety. They came from
Paris and cost s. 010 which is at the average
rate Of SO apiece
Rev. C. J. MILAN said at the annual meeting
of the American Tract Society in New YORK
that in ten Southern States last year the Nor
mon Church obtained more recruits than thc
Presbyterian Church.
Kansas soldier who was present at the
CAPTURE of Malolos saws that the aag of truce
,iisplaved bv tie natives who remained in the
town when the American troops advanced was
pair of white duck trousers.
New York city is to be the terminus of the
trans Atlantic cable which will connect the UNI
ted States and Germany. The German terminus
will be at Ems. Prussia and the route as no"
planned will be by way of the Azores
pension of s27 month has been granted
Inla B. Randall. the lG-year-old daughter OF
Frank b. Randall chief engineer of Deweys
IL. =Ez 1r.I FrIr m
tr5ke the day after the battle OF Manila
During the cholera epidemic of ls92 Hamburg
had 5000 CASES. with I,l6i deaths, while Altoona
had onIv 55s cases. though it gets the Elbe WI
ter with the added communications OF HamouIs-
The difference between the two cities was that
Ntora had a filtration plant and Hamburg dFihA
the water unflicFcd
The workingman's insurance laws have had
VERY good effect in German cities IN diminishing
tuberculosis by compelling the wage-earnlnr class
es 10 ioin sick clubs, and thereby putting them
in the way OF taking better care OF their health;
and providinc them with medical attendance ani
nursing at an carly stage when tuberculosis L not
yet incurabic.
The Missionary Review" says that one Of the
six Cinnamon recently executed in accordance
with the imperial edict of the Empress Dowasef;
brought her wrath upon him because ne ret'fih'eu
an astronomy compiled by two OF the ml,'ioni-
ries and added certain notes of his. in which he
pointed out the incompatibiity of the facts re-
vealed by astronomy with ancient Chinese doc
trines-
There is some chance that an aquarium for fresh
water fish may be started in London. The try'-
tai Palace Company is repairing its aq'iariunis'
and putting them in connection with the lakes
reservoirs and fountain basins in the grounds
Fifty Thousand trout eggs have already been
hatched and a beginning is made The COM
pany cannot he loser if it rear aEi sell the ash
Tor il can get 25 cents pound for trout through,
out the season. and its lakes and Reservoirs would
Weld an income with very little expenditure is
a set-of.
An ofertory bag in English rural church
was recently found to contain very rare speci-
men of a seventeenth century token made OF cop
per, which had apparently been dropped into the
receptacle in mistake for 4 farthing. The eurio
WAS valued by a local dealer al II shillings-
A description Of the article and the circumstances
under which it was found were affixed to the
church porch but the donor seemed ashamed to
turn up and explain matters. A few days after
ward the clergyman received typewriter let
ter from address long distance fro" Inc
church, stating that il the token were sent to
~ V u care of the householder, a remit
tance of half sovereign would he received IN
exchange. 1t was duly sent in a registered let
ter. and postal order for ten shillings arrived
in return
Neapoiitans are proyerbially crafty race. and.
as one would expect, the milkman is at all
events, no less crafty than his fellow-tradesmen.
In Naples o. in other Italian towns the usual
way of selling milk is to drive along your cows
or goats and draw the milk fresh from them
when the door of purchaser Is reached. II would
seem that by this means all chance OF getting
adulterated milk is put an end 10. but this is
by no means the case. for the milkmen OF Nj
pies have way of carrying concealed in their