The evening times., 1899-08-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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Our army has consumed Us, ,OO0.OOO grains OF
quinine in the last twelve months.
New Zealand farmers now send frozen cream
to London. where it is ehurned for butter
II all the hay now in sight in Texas could be
saved there would be plenty TO supply the State
for five years.
steel last month increased 271z per cent in ton
mage quantity.
For the first time in decade every board OF
the Presbyterian Church begins the fiscal year
without debt.
In Abyssinia the coffee plant grows wild in
great profusiOn, and derives its name from Kafa
a district Of that country.
1t is said that the peasant of the south of
France spends on food for a family OF FIVE an
average OF two-penee day.
An analyst has made the discovery that Cali
fornia roses contain 20 per cent more perfume
than those grown elsewhere.
London now has a population of 5,650,OO0. and
II Is Inquired that. at the present rate of growth,
1t will have Is, 100000 in 1871
An Oyster Bay. y. Y, man built coffin and
then tried to kill his wife in order that he
might have body to put into it,
Ten carloads of black walnut logs were sold
recently in Kentucky for export abroad princi-
paliy TO London, Glasgow, and Hamburg.
on the Island of Negros, consequently all the
crops have 10 be hauled in buffalo carts
In China, which has long been known as 'the
land Of opposites," the dials OF clocks are made
TO turn round while the hands stand still.
A Newfoundland dog made a determined and
successful attempt at suicide the other day in
the lake in front Of Lincoln Park, Chicago.
A Missouri man has gone into the business OF
raising tame quail. The birds he claims are
easily raised nd F.-
profitable.
The of coffee as beverage began in South
ern Arabia in the latter half of the fifteenth
century. 1t was introduced into ConstantinopIe
IN l554, and into Venice in 1615.
The winter of lsos-'99 has been the most de-
structiye of evergreens and strawberries in the his
tory OF Iowa 1t Is estimated that one-half of
all the evergreens in the State killed
When maid of honor TO Queen Victoria has
survived her youthful charms, and at middle age
is still unmarried, she is relieved Of duty and
has her salary increased from = 600 year 10
$1,000.
There is a curiosity al East Randolph, Vt, in
the shape Of a stone image of dog, life size,
lying down, with the head raised 10 a listening
pose 1t was located on the farm Of Col. \ c.
Chandler
One of Uncle Sans Alaskan islands can boast
the largest stamp mill in the world. IL has so
stamps and erushes quartz enough daily to give
s,6i0 IN gold, which the other mills in the plant
increase 10 $4,000
large hailstone cracked as it struck the side
walk in Louisville, by, during a hail>torm, and
out stepped two-inch lizard No wonder the
people of that State afraid OF water,
when II Is sOidifed-
Local fame is of many sorts in Kansas One
resident of Mcpherson is distinguished above his
fill -fa
miles one day last week TO attend a circus He
hadn't any little boy as a pFetext.
1t Is a curious fact that the roots and branches
of tree are 50 alike in their nature that if the
tree be uprooted and turned upside down the
underground branches will take unto themselves
the functions of roots, and the exposed roots
will in time bud and become veritable branches.
The natives of the Philippine Islands them
selves have never extensively engaged in mining;
but the little digging which they have done has
not been without It's good results In Manila
much gold in the form Of iewelry and ornaments
skillfully worked by the natives Is sold in the
shops.
After taking a snapshot Of Tenby Church
Gently an English photographer. was puzzled to
find on his plate the image Of vessel dressed
in bunting and upside down. He read in the
newspaper the next day Of ! launch at Penn
broke, seven miles away. and concluded that he
had photographed mirage
AT Bendena a small town in Kansas the pu-
pills got mad at the teacher and refused 10 at
tend school. He opens the schoolhouse every
morning and rings the bell No pupils show up,
and he devotes the day his amusement
The school board has offered him half pay 10
quit, but he will not DO it.
The grey-haired man is being pushed 10 the
wall everywhere During. discussion in Lon
don board of works one of the members stated
rbar ha had hoe hv local hair-tyS SELL
er that the enormous majority Of his customers
were workmen, who dyed their hair to secure
employment and retain it when obtained.
About a year ago a little boy brought a very
strange patient to the Sunderland Public In
frmary, England, in the shape of exceedingly
fine black and white cat, that had had the mis-
fortune 10 get a ishhook firmly embedded in its
paw. As puSs would not allow any stranger TO
touch him an operation seemed impossible, until
the happy suggestion that the eat should be
was made The anaesthetic sp-
piled 10 the novel subject with the greatest sue
cess, the hook drawn, and the paw bandaSed.
The report that Siegfried Wagner was to marry
an opera singer proved, like the story of Pad
erewski's second marriage to be eanard, but a
German musical paper supplies its place with
other WagDerian aneedote. The story goes that
Siegfried took his first composition. pOlOnaise,
10 his father and asked for an opinion Was-
ner, however, refused 10 look at it. saving that
only Tools wrote puioDal>sSa pointed out
that one of his fathers earliest compositions had
been a piece OF that kind. A boy twelve years
old ought to mind his books" said Richard.
Mozart began composing when he six,
piled Siegfried. You not Mozart NO.
but l am the Of Richard Wagner" After this
there nothing for Wagner 10 do but look
through the poonaise-
A prefeet in a certain French town issued
DECLARATION ordering severe measures to be taken
against divers malicious persons, who amused
themselves by stripping bark from the plane
trees bordering the public promenade. The
trees thus mutilated,' ran the afhche pre-
sent a most pitiable appearance" However. as.
in spite of the projects declaration, the mutt
lation'' continued undated, the worthy function
AIRY summoned his head clerk to consult with him
On the matter. ThereupOn the clerk informed
him that. the plane-trees themselves shed
their bark every year, it would be futile to in
stitute proceedings against such incoTrigible Of
tenders. The clerk seemed amused; the pre-
feet did not: anyhow. the notices were removed
with more than official despatch.
The philadelphia Record quotes an intelIi-
gent Italian workingman follows: They tell
you that ever gets drunk in Italy, and
you find it hard to believe, because you often
see US immigrants pretty well iiggered over here
But it is a fact. In Italy no one gets drunk
only sick. That chianti they have there is
harder to drink than water--yes than salt wa
ter-and though you have the best intentions in
the world, your stomach rebels against it before
you get the least bit gay Many time on
lovely Sunday mornings, / have reclined on the
grassy slope of mountain. in the shade of an
olive tree with gallon jug of ehianti by my
side, and have tried my level best to empty
that jug. but in vain Always I'd lug it back
home with me, only one-quarter empty, and in
stead of feeling happy I'd have the cramps. But
a gallon of beer-the divine American beers
nothing to drink. 1t is only eight bottles, and
drink twelve every pay-night of my life Some