The evening times., 1899-12-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

More than 12,e0 people are regularly employed
in the London theatres
The oldest Presbyterian congregation in America
| Is located At Snow Hill, Nd
A quart Of milk contains the same nourish-
ment US three-quarters Of pound OF beef
A sicilian advocate charged with fraud was re-
Gently sentenced to 1eJ yeas imprisonment.
An Eastern syndicate is being organized TO buy
up all of Californias famous redwood forests
A vanilla bean kept in the sugar box impsrts
delicious favor sugar. The French do this.
The old Second Church. in Boston celebrated
its two hundred and fftieth anniversary recently.
Denver Relatives Union held a .'ManiIa Even
ing. Curios from the Philippines were exhibited.
The cotton crop is estimated by the statistician
OF the Bureau OF Statistics to be unfavorable
'"e-
Portraits OF sixteen leading citizens will sdorn
as many windows in the dome of Colorado's cap
itol.
The assessed valuation OF property in Illinois
this year is ss, i25 3s4 in of that of last
year.
According to the report OF the Mendicity So
eiety. there are 10000 professional beggsrs IN
London.
japanese mills prefer American cotton because
it has longer staple than that from any other
country
English business men in Paris are being boy
cotted because Of England's talk OF boycotting the
Exposition.
The soil of Egypt at the present dsy is titled by
| exactly the same kind Of plow that was used
5000 years ago.
Normandy fishermen complain Of the sudden ap-
pearance OF cuttiefei, which are making inrosds
on the fisheries.
| The length Of the worlds railways is more
than seventeen times the circumference Of the
earth at the equator.
The Universaiist Church reports I.O03 parishes
and 47,411 families. increase Of about l. 30
families over last year
| Monuments to mark the boundary line he
tween the Federal district and the state of Mexico
are to be erected shortly.
Seven japanese fishermen left Santa Monica,
| Cal. in open fiat -bottomed skiffs and rowed 80
miles In fve days without mrhap.
Albuquerque, \. NJ, has the record of the
greatest number of sunshiny DAYS in the year of
any town On the American continent.
Egypt and the Soudan have 2.0l4 mikes of
Of railways: the line from Boeber to Kassala and
suakim is under way Of construction
The longest continuous run Of 4 Railway train
IN Europe is that from Paris to Constantinope,
l9zi miles, in sixty-four and quarter hours.
Opium eating is described as making serious
ravages among the working people in the fen
district of Hanis and Cambridgcshire, in England.
In Connecticut the percentage Of criminal pop
ulatlon TO the thousand inhabitants -has fslIea
steadily from 2.is in 1896 to 2.3S in The present
yeaE-
An entire glass covering has been ordered
for the roof OF the Crystal Palace in London The
total glass area 10 be covered is about fifteen
acres
One OF the three old ash trees which mark tie
site of Lincumdoddie the upper Tweed Scot
land, inimortalized in Burns willie WastIe'
has been destroyed by storm.
Algeria. since the year 1862 has increased it's
railway system by no less than 1881 miles
New lines under construction Works on the
Great Sahara line have also been started.
Skates made of gold are popular in ST. Pc
tersburg- One lady had the blades Of her skates
enriched with diamonds. Skates with pearls
and precious stones have also been in fashion
Under government control Of the sale of into1-
icating liquors in Russia, there has been a No.
tieeable dimnution in drunkenness and in those
crimes ond misdemeanors which caused by In
toxication-
II is computed tlat the death rate of the world
is g. and the birth rate 20 minute, and this
seeming light percentage Of gain is sufficient to
give net increase IN population each year Of
1905 600 souls.
Milan possesses one Of the most curious clocks
in the world. II is made entirely Of bread and is
the handiWork of a native Of India. who spent
three yesIs in constructing it. It IS Of fair size
and goes we'll
An English authority has estimated that if all
the inhabitants of the British lies should decide
to attend church a given Sunday 25.eOo.Oo,
would he crowded out for lack of seating
in the churches.
The cultivation Of coffee on The northern coasts
Of Queensland is stated to be becoming IN i'm
portan; industry. Growers are making prepara-
lions 10 export to Britain coffee in ground and
timed condition
All New York city contractors wishing per-
mits for blasting will have TO make application
to board of examiners first and then send the
man who must pass the examination, which Is 10
be 4 practical
In Milwaukee recently nineteen aspirants for
the position OF keeper Of a city natatorium
required TO plunge into the tank in their street
clothing and swim. II part OF the civil
service examination.
The Cathedral Of St. John in course OF erection
on Norninezde Heights. in New York, will be
the largest ecclesiastical edifce in the United
,tates II will be $50 feet long and 296 feet
at the widest point.
British imports OF tin during October increased
over ls9s, in quantity. 30 per cent, and in value
,s7 81 per cent. Quantity Of copper imported
increased "a II aer cent; Of iron ore, "a IA per
sent; of iute. 1l3 per cent
\ factory for the manufacture Of battlefield
relies has been discovered hidden away in a.
lump Of trees at Gettysburg. Old bullets. can
non balls. soldiers buttons. swords. and buckles
Are turned on; in large quantities
The members of the Russian and Swedish Spitz-
Stands They supplied with provisions for
vo Years. thirty dogs for excursions, and
nos abi- hut, electrically lighted
German biologist says that the two sides %
face arc never alike; in two cases out of five
he eyes are out OF line; eye is stronger than
he other in seven persons out OF ten, and tn.
light eye is generally higher than the left
workmen while razng an old honse on farm
n the village of Greene. Me-. found a pewter cup
ipon which tho figures .'1ss2'' The wear in
which the house built Is not known, hut the
'arn on tine same farm constructed in the
forties.''
The Central Hudson Railway COMPANY is now
nsuring the li.es of all the employees OF the
DAD for So.060 each The men will paw an a.
essInsnt OF sl.a0 per month. No other person
mt an employe of the road can join this benefit
One of the most beautiful natural rock earv-
nss in the world is the Southern Gross. on the
sland of Grand M1nan. in the Bay Of Fundy
stands at the head OF a ledge of rocks jutting
nto the bay at the southern end of the Grand
ianan. Its shape is that of almost perfect
russ.
The Finnish Lutheran Missionary Society which
as been in existence for forty year. has th.ec
tstious and twelve out-stations in Ovarnboland
orth OF German Southwest Africa. Its agents are
tx ordaincd missionaries. two missionary sisters
nd twelve native helpers, and the number of its
onverts 200.
The philadelphia Record says billiard cue
18th square tip instead Of round one, is an