The evening times., 1899-07-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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| dian, successfully conducts general store at
Great Falls, Mont He will not give his own
/ people credit, but extends il to a limited
/ Der Of whites.
j Rudyard Kiplng has by means given up
| the idea Of a Mexican tour with which he came
| from England before his illness He is still bent
| upon visit to Central America. and will prob
| ably start in few weeks.
| Cornelius Vanderbilt was once constant
| smoker, but Of late years he has had to give
| up tobacco 'I fnd." he SAYS, that anyone
/ can learn 10 do without il. 1t is at once the
most expensive and the most unnecessary Of
| habits
Brig Gen Asa B. Carr. Paymaster General Of
! the Army, has been granted leave Of absence to
and including July IL. ON which day he will 20
on the retired list on account of age. Col Al
/ fred I. Bates has been assigned to duty as Act
/ ing Paymaster General.
/ Rhode Island is talking of repeating the free
textbook law. There are only ten States in
which school books regularly furnished free
/ to pupils. These Delaware, idaho, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Nebraska. New Hsmp-
shire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Isl
and.
/ Lewiston, Me. street car conductor says
/ that the who inyents a step-ladder for
suburban will make his fortune He will
be canonized by conductors Of short stature who
have to lift heavy women down from the
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| jump Of five feet
The languid interest felt outside Of New York
in the passage Of the corporation franchise tax
law through the efforts OF Governor Roosevelt Is
likely to be somewhat quickened BY the state
ment OF the governors secretary that he has
! received from governors and officials Of many
| other States requests for copies Of the law.
Charles Burkowitz blind beggar Of New
York, who for long time has frequented the
4 dizfri ~ gpnli. nd vho
arrested the other day for insulting 4 woman who
refused 10 give 10 him, is said 70 be the owner
of two tenements. each valued at $4,000. and
to have large OF money in several Of the
savings banks Of the city.
How hard the Cubans are working to learn
English appears from this advertisement in a
Havana newspaper: This is without doubt one
of the factories Of first class and Of the most
universal credit, and We affirm that other has
this credit with more merits, by the goodness in
, telIigency and employed in the preparation
and perfeetionnent of his productions
There curious marriage at Toledo few
days ago The bride was Miss Lydia KingsmiH
Commander. and the bridegroom the Rev. Her
! bert y Cason- By pre-Huptial agreement the
/ bride is 70 retain her own name-Mrs. lydia X.
| Commander Mr.. CasOn will be known as Mr..
Cas0n. II is not stated whether the future
bers OF the family viii be Casons or Command
eTs. or half and half.
There has lately been much speculation re-
garding the origin Of the word tip, says the
Buffalo Commercial The truth is that in an
old English tavern a receptacle for small coin
! was fixed IN a conspicuous place, which ap-
! peared in writing: To Insure PromptneSs.' What
| ever was placed in the box divided among The
servants. Other followed the example.
and soon the words were abbreviated 70 T.
! story Is told OF young man IN England
a great chess enthusiast, who annoyed
at his failure 10 solve an apparently simple
problem that be vowed he would neither sleep
nor eat until the solution found. He shut
himself up in a disIsed room. and was found
four DAYS later by his relatives terribly cmaci-
ated and ont Of his mind He spent year in
lunatic asylum a result Of his rash vow;
and the problem remains uns0lyed-
Colonel Little has sent to his mother in Abi-
lene Kan, a newspaper printed in the TsGalo
tongue. says the kansas City Journal" As
an example of the language spoken by new
citizens across the seas, the f0sowing extract
from an editorial IN this paper NAV prove inter-
ing: '-Sa bukirin ng :. Juan del Monte az may
iSang calling doom nag sabi amin may
isang amenicanong humuhuh ng kalabaw ar ng
ma3mo'y it0'y americana az slnuag hangan
di naHatay- SUiong tayo't nati na hayCp tumt-
tulon atm
II really begins 10 look As if there moth
ing new under the sun While scientific minds
are discussing the antitoxin serum treatment OF
disease as if it were a thing. the people
Of ancient BuTuah calling attention 10 the
| fact that for centuries the material they have
I used in the common custom OF tattooing has
been an efficient antitoxin for snake bites. says
I .-IesIie's Weekly" The ratto0ed Burmese
gard the bites of poisonous snakes rs harmless
( This, at least. Is the statement OF a gentleman
from Burmah. who brings testimony 10 bear in
/ corroboration OF his singular statement
The Sanitary Record calls attention 10 the
fact that Hezekiah. King Of Judah C717-6ss B.
c. was a pioneer in the construction Of water
works. having built system to bring water
! into the city OF jerusalem. The Bible says
, HE made the pool and the conduit and brought
the water into the city. stopping the upper part
OF Gihon and brought il straight down TO the
west side OF the City OF David And HezekIah
/ prcSpfTpd in all his work" " II Is worthy OF
I note that Hezekiah believed in municipal con-
troll OF the water supply, and did not put the
/ construction of the system into the hands of 4
gang Of promoters
. \ Latin newspaper is row regularly appear
ing in Rome says the London News" The
news of the dav and editorial comments upon
the politics OF bagbarians may be read in the
tongue Of Cicero. The paper * vet only
iS-5-ed once a MONTH 80 that some VIII be in
cIined 10 give the '.yox Urbis.'' for such is its
| title the humble name Of magazine. But II the
experiment should prove successful nom @ nn1n-
5 cill standpoint, the ''Vox Jrhis may become
I a weekly The contrast between the
vulgar modern matter and the sedats
I | ancient matter is often entertaining, and
N =
v ! dicare' in the number before = ciaSsleaily
eIori6ed into a ''FactiO pro DTeytuS c0nstituTa-
J NJ CIemenceau IS described by his modern Ctc-
! eroniau critic as ''fe-ox vehemeneSiue homo
! The modern Gauls sad to be enthusiastically
) shouting '-Yivat eNcrcituS and even "Bene
exercitus.'' Old classical tales are occasionally
called into service Illustrations 10 modern in-
stances. and there is Il strong dash OF the peda-
gogue in the editor.
Blasting with high-pressure steam. instead Of
the usual inlammable explosives is PROPOSE
tion made recently by Mr.. H. Schaw before the
Institution of Mining Engineers OF Great Britain,
, ! slvs ''CasSier's Magazine" Briefly. his sigges-
e tion. which has been prompted more particularly
\ | hv accidents in coal mines rom eoal-tlust i-
| nitiOns. due to the OF the customary eXplo-
| siveS is that a cartridge of water, lodged N
: | Shot-hoe should be converted into steam al 4
pressure Of about 80 pounds per square inch by
means of electricity Of low tension, and the cart
| ridge or boiler TO be made OF Such strength that
! il would burst at about this pressure, when the
! force set NJ liberty would break down the coal
% | Mr. Schaw found by experiment that II would
be easily possible to boil water by the heat
! produced by a current OF electricity passing
:. | through a platinum wire. similar 10 that Used
| for firing mines immersed in water, and Is OF
; | the opinion that the moment when the boiler
! or cartridge bursts the wire viii fuse AID the
| electric circuit viii be broken. and no risS Of
| ignition OF fre-damp cOa!-dust will remain
| from the heated wire Under the suppOsitson
| that the force developed by the water cartridge
Z | would be sufficient to break down the Cndercut
J. | coal in a mina Mr. Schaw thinks that the prac-
| teal working of the proposed method would pre-
e sent no great difficulties, and that Il would be
I perfectly safe in any coal mine; and this Is its
| only recommendation, for il certainly would be
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