The evening times., 1899-12-11
NOTES oP THE DAY.

Uncle sam issued 80 900 600 two-cent stamps
in 1893.
1t is said that one-tenth Of the world is still
unexplored.
No fewer than 112 families Of injurious Insects
sex farmers.
$4,000 year.
The chafng dish is an accessory to the nursery
In preparing special foods for children.
The "Adamless dinner" at which mer are Ia
booed, is a new fad among society women
Poultry scissors for clipping wings and legs
are welcome addition to the carving set
A British Chamber of Commerce. authorized by
the prime minister OF the Bey, has just been es-
tabshed at Tunis.
The Cuban colony of Tampa celebrated the
thirtyhrst anniversary of the raising OF the
Cuban flag in Cuba. -Ba
indianapolis has 3sG8 dogs licensed and l.50O
unlicensed. and still has public place where
one of th.m can get drink Of water.
Cleveland has one policeman to every 1,0zj Of
the population, while Boston has TO every
a3a persons, and Buffalo one to every 569 N9
Milwaukee is to have new museum Of Spanish
American and Revolutionary war relics. under the
auspices of the Milwaukee Monument Association.
Pope Plus ks private library is offered for
sale at Roman book auction. Many volumes
in artistic bindings. bearing the late Pope's
| arms.
New York has school in connection with the
fire department. where firemen are taught to
Scale buildings, catch dummies, and handle fur
niture.
The output of iron ore from the mines in Italy
during the year. ls9S amounted to only lo0,ll0
tons. as compared with 200,109 tons in the pre-
viors year
Women grooms to attend young persons when
they ride is recent london innovation. Pro-
priety gains and new occupation is provided
for women.
Ten torpedo beat destroyers of the Sokol type.
but with speed Of only twenty-six knots. have
been ordered by the Russian Government of the
Neva works.
A number of eases of illness in German earrisons
are reported. due to spoiled geese and bad po-
tatoes. Not a single instance OF disease was
traced to American meat
schliemann's Palace on the Phidias Street in
Athens has been bought by the German Govern
ment for the use of the German Archaeological
Institute The price paid was $4,000.
Michigan will endeavor to have law passed
that will ALLOW the use OF eonyicts in the building
and repairing of the State highways Kentucky
will have a similar law before its legislature.
A company with $4,000 capital largely sub
scribed in New Haven. Conn, where its treasurer
and two directors live. has been incorporated
under the laws OF Delaware to raise fruit in Porte
Rico.
Massachusetts is making hard fight for the
passage OF a law compelling the railroads in ths
State to carry bicycles as baggage. Fourteer
States have passed this law, and Massachusetts, IL
expected to get into line.
The reports Of the trial of the Holland subma-
rine boat have created great interest in London
and the newspapers there and in Psris full OF
descriptions of the various submarine craft IL
process Of building throughout the world
La Sociedad Talleras Electro-Meeancos is tn.
title of company which has iuet been formed
in Madrid with capital of sIOO.G09 TO establish
electrical engineering work. The works vii
eventually manufacture telephone appiianees-
The New York State Commissioners the faris
Exposition have appropriated si,2i0 for a dairy
exhibit from New York, 81 900 for Photographic
display, $50 for fruit exhibit and 5000 FOL
securing and furnishing State headquarters ii
Paris.
Most of the Eastern States and many in th
West win have good roads and cycle path bilh
introduced into the legislatures this winter. Al
added factor OF strength in the fight for the pas
sage OF these bills Will be the support Of til,
farmers.
1t Is significant that the Central Federated
Union, of New York, which has heretofore helt
its meetings in a hall where beer could be easil,
procured. has decided 10 use new hall and e =
do away with that feature Of the gatherings IL
the future.
Turkey has been engaged in IS years Of ths
present century, considerably more than one
third Of the time; Spain comes next with 81 years
of war; France has % years: Russia. u: Italy.
49, England. II; Austria. Il; Holland. Il. and
Germany, 13-
A Hungarian pbilologist thinks he has disc1rcred
the original language of man. He has found that
the great group of languages, Indo-Germanic. Sc
mitic Hamitic. and Altsic. are all based on be-
tween two hundred and three hundred ancient
Chinese roots, some of which have disappeared
from the Chinese language and are now found
only in japanese.
The Federation of Churches of Pittsburg has
investigated tenement house conditions in that
city. sixty persons sleeping (hali by night and
half By day, apparently in three small rooms
contaminated by two typhoid fever sufferers IS
one of the discoveries which has been made by
the Allegheny department Of charities Ten TO
fifteen boarders, mostly Hungarians, in one room
seems 10 be the normal state of affairs in certain
section.
4 woman who has lived in the Transvlal says
that there are no ..old maids in South Africa.
and that the supply of wives is never equal TO
the demand 4 school teacher seldom remains
teacher for mere than one term, for the admird-
tion of the young Boer planters is so great for
woman gifted enough TO read and spell. and
thrifty enough to earn money with her BRAIN that
some well-to-do bachelor soon persuades her to
marry him.
The town Of Adrian. Mimi, is overrun with
cats. and the local council is seriously thinking
Of offering bounties for the destruction of the
surplus feines. At 4 recent peeting of that body
the town clerk stated that conservative esti-
mate placed the number of cats Wiling the bor-
ough limits at 3.5Oo more than three times
the human population, which is ], 100. The resi-
dents engage in cat-shooting bees twice week,
but the animals multiply more rapidly than they
can be killed
The Westminster Gazette tells of an English
night editor who found in despatch this IN
formation. 1.-The Beers have taken umbrage.'
and who wrote for it displayed headline. start
ing Of in this style: Capture of Tmbrage by the
Beers" He tried to pad his despatch by giving
an account of the location of Umbrage. but was
unable to find a town of that name in the glz-
etteer Ii may he observed that the exploit
of this night editor throws ordinary newspaper
blunders in the shade
The newly founded town of Triangle, Tex,
to be unique. 1t is laid out in the
form of an equilatcral triangle; its lots are tn
angular in shape. and the ground plan of each
OF the twenty-three houses which have thus far
been erected there is three-cornered. The three
principal streets are named Equilateral, Scalene.
and ISosccIes and the residents have even carried
their curious ideas into the local government.
which consists Of Il so-called triangular council
having three members
II has been discovered in st. Paul that electric
ground connections, made BY attaching wires to
water pipes not only ruin the pipes by cleo
trolysis, but seriously interfere with the opera
ion Of the water metres. In one case metre
through which large quantity of water dis
charged failed to register. This was extreme
.ase and easily detected, but what the effect has
been upon the indicators in cases where the cur