The evening times., 1899-09-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The estimated value Of the worlds product OF
slate Il sl6, 800. 900.
There is only one sudden death among women
to eight among men.
journal called the Automobile has already
appeared in New York.
About German woman in every twenty
seven works in a factory.
There are said to be Ss.OOO.OOe bushels in the
Kansas corn crop this year.
The life-boats around the British coast during
the last year rescued $50 people.
Twelve American cities own their gas plants,
and 130 own their electric light plants.
1t is a popular belief that a holly bush planted
near dwelling protects the house from lightning
Lightning few weeks ago fused plate. glass
window in Chicago into the form OF 4 perfect
cross
Projecties for modern big and rapid-hre guns
require about half their weight in powder to fire
them.
There are 1900 species of plants used for COM
nercial purposes. OF these 420 used for per-
fumes.
Owing to the development of the Natal coal
fields the shipment of Welsh coal has declined Sc
riotisly.
Thirty-two mayors of English provincial towns
said TO have signed the pledge Of total ab-
stinence.
Eight thousand young Firms have left their na-
tive country in consequence OF the Cars Feb
ruary manifesto.
The total displacement of ships now under con-
struction for the British navy amounts to no less
than Ass, 900 tons.
OF the worlds annual yield of petroleum.
amounting to 500. 100000 gallons. the United
States produces half
Thirty years ago there were only two dozen
explosive compounds known to chemists; now
there 1000.
Interest in the diamond mines in Waukesha
county has been reawakened by the recent dis
covery Of two small gems
An analysist has made the discovery that Cal
fOrnia roses contain 20 per cent more perfume
than those grown elsewhere.
There are now published in Paris 2.5s5 period
icals, nearly 100 more than were issued at the
corresponding date last year.
A new process introduced in the production Of
mirrors has leSsened mercury poisoning among
the workmen over 80 per cent
According to tradition Arabic figures were de-
rived from SoIomon's seal, upon which they can
all be traced with a little care.
The frieze in the Paris Pantheon, left unfinished
by the late Puvis de Chavannes. Is to be COM
pleted by Cain, the French landscape painter
4 new Italian gas. said to be 80 per cent cheap
er than aeetylene, il composed of 80 parts OF
quickiime and each Of eolophony and calcium
carbide.
The latest thing in company promoting comes
from Paris. where a dogs cemetery has been
foated, with a capital of $4,000 The promoters
ladies.
Perfect quiet conduces to longevity. During
the first two weeks of August % persons, I2 men
and II women who had passed eighty, died in
Philadelphia The average was eighty four
The Berlin authorities have strictly forbidden
collections among school children for missionary
a,I IL. -hovr
prove burden to parents, and create ill-ieelinS
among pupils.
'Pompeii Alive" IS the suggestion of Ital-
ian archaeoIogist for one Of the attractions OF
the Paris Exhibition He would have the forum,
theatre. temples, and Characteristic buildings rep
resented as they were before the eruption Of We
slIyius-
A writer in the German scientific periodical,
'-Prometheus' declares that overindulgence in
tobacco will prove the ruin of South American
people Not only do children Of two and three
years smoke all day long, but mothers have been
seen trying 20 quiet their babies by putting ci-
gaTs in their mouths
NJ Dostre. in the noted periodical, the ''Revue
des Deux Nordes,'' SAYS that in some portions OF
the country there is one liquor shop for every
eleven Inhabitants, every three adults In other
words. he SAYS: ''One elector IN four passes his
life in pouring out alcohol for the other three
The consumption Of brandy has increased four
fold since 1880.
Over 100 volumes of the Rebellion Records have
been published by the Government at a cost
of S2,sD0.eG0- public library in a town near
Boston has full set, and the librarian says in
his report: when Henry B. Pierce was alive he
used TO look at some of them once in a wiiiIe
but there Is only man in town who ever
calls for any of the set
The cure of Ciccgrola, Italy, was celebrating
mass at the Ceraballo. near Genoa, when imne-
diately after drinking some of the consecrated
wine he fell to the floor in front OF the altar
and died almost instantly The cures nephew
had by mistake Hlled the cup from vessel con-
tanning liquid used for cleaning purposes in the
church. and which was deadly poison.
Statistics show that persons with red hair
far less likely to become bald than those who
have hair of any other color, SAYS the ''Cincin-
natl Enquirer. The average number Of red
hairs the human skull is %. .200. Hair of
dark colCr is generally much finer than red hair
and three dark nairs cover as much space as
single red hair. As rule, dark-haired person
has about l05.001 hairs on the scalp Fair-haired
persons. on the other hand-men as well as wom-
en-Eave from 10000 to 100000 The strongest
hairs, however are those OF a red color and
hence they endure the longest. II may be add
| ed that red-kaired persons generally Of
symPathetic and passionate nature, and are.
rule far apt to be optimiSts than pessimists.
| Whether the conservation of a piece of ground
| extends ike the law maxiIn's definition of its
| ownership down to hell and up to heaven" is
| puzzIing some people in England, as a new under
ground railroad station has been constructed di-
| rectIy under the Church of ST. Mary Woolnoth.
| at the junction of Lombard Street and King Will
| liam Street in London In Boston a piece OF
| ground bequeathed to a church for sacred pur-
| POSES is now covered several stories high by a
department stere, legal ingenuity having discov-
cred that chapel in one of the upper stories.
I nd that lryuIOr ShOuH rot he sold
at that end OF the store. would satisfy the testa-
| tors intentions. The ground thus to be
/ cut from both under and over the cid law max
\ i'm
| With population OF exactly 206. Servia. a
! village in Indiana on the line OF the Chicago
| and Erie Railway, has twelve who weigh
| more than 200 pounds. and some OF them tip the
beam at very nearly 800 Nor is this remarkable
/ tendency to obesity in the community confined TO
/ the men The stranger who visits the place cannot
| but be impressed he strolls down the single
busineSs street from the station with the extraoT-
| diniry number OF large women count of noses
| among the feminine portion OF the community y
uhl carry than the rag of adip reJ eals
! no fewer than fifteen whose avoirdupoiS Will
| range from 100 to $50. The town has two hotels,
| and the landlady of each caraVansary serves as
| a most attractive advertisement of the quantity
| and quality OF the daily bill OF fare, since each
| calls for the 200 weight when she steps upon
the scales.
| An interesting question of insurance law has
| arisen out of a fire which occurred in April last
| on Doyer Street in Boston. The destruction was
| :, great as TO demand extensive repairs TO the
| damaged buildings. These repairs the insurance
| coupanies interested in the loss are willing 10
| MAKE 10 the extent of putting the insured struc-
/ lures into as good condition they were in
stace TO this course exists in the present build
| ing laws appicable to Brst6n under which no