The evening times., 1899-07-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

River at lewiston is about completed. and soon
the electric will be crossing it.
Only per cent Of the kilograms over seas are
concerned with family private matters The
rest are commercial. journalistic, or ofheiai
Among the II667 foreigners settled in China
at the end of 1897, England had 1929. the United
States 1.564 Japan 1,l06, Germany $50, and
France 69s
During the first FIVE months Of 1s59 Ensiand's
imports of metal increased in value sl3.245.OG0.
but its import Of textile materials de-
creased l0.73i. 500.
English collectors complain that the prices of
rare books on musical topics going up rap
idly. largely account Of the increasing de-
mand for the libraries OF rieh Americans
Electric road construction is proceeding stead
lily northward from Chicago and southward from
Milwaukee, and it is intended to make a
piete line between the two cities as soon as
possible.
An Indiaran has built a house clock which
weighs nearly two tons. and has hundreds Of
moving figures, music boxes. chimes. and other
complicated machinery. The spent seven
years in constructing the timepieee-
During the first five months of the present
year the number OF cases Of leze majesty tried
before the German courts has amounted 70 III.
and hfty-fve years imprisonment have been
imposed on the various offenders
The dearth of farm servants Is not confined
to Scotland. In England the same complaint
is heard and farmers compelled to work
with less hands than they require, and to pay
handsomely for the labor they are able 20 Sc
cure.
To Eceles. an English town OF 5000 inhab
itants. belongs the honor Of possessing the first
motor milk cart Its ''round'' embraces an
eighiy-nile radius, and this II can cover IN
day of seven hours. The work Of three horses
and carts IS saved
A six-pound cannon ball recently plowed
up on the farm of C. C. Bell. at Manchester.
Vt. and it is supposed 10 be a Revolutionary
War relic. as the troops OF Gen John Stark en-
camped in that vicinity short time previous
to the battle of Bennington
There is a town without a name on Lake HUI
ron. 1t IS composed of 800 huts. During the
summer the dwellings are hidden away IN the
brush tenantIess. but when winter comes theE
owners appear them out the Ice. cut
hole through the floor in the ice and proceed 70
fish.
Many birds fern their sounds without opening
their bills. The pigeon is a well-known IN
stance Of this. It's cooling can he distinctly
heard. although II does not open Its bill HE
call is formed internally in the throat and
chest and is only rendered audible by res0-
nance.
sits hen, and 50 far as Matching out part of
the eggs beneath her is concerned, she will SIT
there forever. The reason Of this sad state OF
affairs i because practical joker has put sew
eral hard-boied eggs under the poor bldaF dS
a joke the proprietor Of the machine shop
The ordnary-szed cracker. and one-haif
inches long by one-tourth of inch in dame
ter costs in the city Of Canton / tael. 81
cents per 10000 for export. At Hankow the
best qsality OF this size costs l tael for 5,0n
For the second quality but l tael Is asked Tor
%. 900. At Chungking 1900 of the ordinary
crackers can be bought for tael.
Tunnels under the Thames at London null
tiplying rapidly. Hardly has the Blackwell
tunnel been opened when another at RothcThite
is projected. II is TO be thirty feet in diameter.
three feet more than toe Blackwell tunnel
II is to be a mile and quarter long The
total work will cost about - 7.00O,O00,. but near
ly s4.OOO.0O0 of this viii go for the approaches
A Minnesota man captured kingfsher when
the bird quite young. and made a pct OF
him. and trained the bird TO capture fish ard
Law them at his masters feet. In summer the
bird is taken to the river, where fish are known
TO abound. and set at liberty. The bird polses
high in the air, and, suddenly dropping. gTasPs
his victim and promptly delivers the nsh 10 his
master.
Sultan, Il Newfoundland deg, has just died IN
France He was noted for having arrested
tuitf, capturing d->s4-cl0s ltctulh- NiAA4'
from drowning, and saving man who attempt
ed siicide. The Society for the Protection %
Animals presented him collar Recently he
prevented a castle being robbed, and was pois-
oned. it is supposed. by those who attempted
/ the robbery
C. 4 Dewey 4 KenOsha. Wis, hardware rher-
chant. recently ordered ladder from Chicago
house. and after waiting a reasonable length of
time he wrote 10 enquire why he had not re-
eeived it lie informed that the. ladder had
| been shipped by mistake 10 ADMIRAL Dewey az
Manila 4 tracer was sent after it. and it was
overtakeu lust as il about 10 be placed on
/ board steamer at san Francisco
| The famous clock in the Palais de Justice in
/ Paris dates from 1870, and is the work Of the
I celebrated De Wick, whose turret clocks are the
/ earliest on reliable record The carved figures
I Of Piety and Justice and the angels supporting
| the royal eoat-of-arms were executed by Ger
maine Pilon. II Is believed that IL was the bell
| OF this clock that rang the signal for the mas
| sacre Of st. Bartholomew IN l5'2
Bath. Ne, young man had occasion TO be
| out late the other night On reaching home
/ some time in the wee sna' hours he decided that
, it would be showing only due consideration for
/ his parents repCse to get into the house With
! as little noise as possible. and incidentally %
conceal from the anxious parental mind the eN-
I sct hour of his arrival To that end he re-
| moved his shoes laid them on the piazza. and
then proceeded to quietly unlock the door Next
morning his thoughtful mother brought IN tha
shoes that the young man had thoughtiessiy leit
exposed TO the night dews-
The TransvaaI Boer will eat almost anything in
the flesh fi-h or fowl line. for al Il gTist that
comes to his gastronomic mill, and the following
mixture IS voted most delectIble b. the majority
Of the rougher classes, SAYS .Chlmber's JourraI
great square slice Is cut of loaf made OF coarse
! unsifted meal. and covered with thick layer oi
iani-Prrferably strawberry row OF sariine5 .
then placed top. and the oil from the sardiH2
box is literally poured the whole l1uti
suacking OF the lips and other manifestations o.
thorough appreciation accompany the disposal ci
this delicate nne-bouche: but the un-opht~tlci-
ted Boer TO enjoy special treat. quite re-
gardlcss Of Sxpense-.
The popular game Of chest books" has taker
on new Lease of life in England. Rival news
papers are selling the Hundred Best Books
tions arc coming in for wide discussion Ia
bouchere asked the readers of Truth TO select
the twenty best books in the world con
scusus of the replies published in recent mum
Der reveals this selection. in the order given
The Bible, Shakespeare, Homer. Paradise Lest
Vanity FAIR" Dante, The Pilgrims Progress >
Gibbors' Decline and Fall, ''Ivanhoe. ''ROh
inson Crusoe" Cariyle's French Revolution.
! The Imitation of Christ" BoswelTs johnson.
.'Piekwck." Tennyson. The Arabian Nights,
Virgil, Moliere. '-Dayid Copperfcld." and 'Th'
Vicar of Wakefield
trying ordeal is in store for the dram1ti'
critics of the Fatheriand, says the t'Chicas
| News The Kaiser's onS-threatened play j
said to be now completed and the o
production, and the question naturally arise
how far the indications of its shortcomings mal
be carried before criticism merges into 1ez
| m In view of the facility with wh; cl