The evening times., 1899-12-23
NOTES OF THE DAY

the figures of 1897.
A Connecticut man is building an ark in anti
cipation of another food.
Paris is seeking to establish telephone connec-
ton With Mii1n and Rome.
Factory work occupies woman out of every
twenty-seven in the German Empire.
The Oklahoma anti-horss thief association has
l50 subordinate lodges and over 30o0 members.
The German Emperor's favoritr saddle horse
is an Irish hunter. Il is brown geldng, bred
in the United States.
A Gfteen-year-old English girl tried TO drown
herself in Wimbledon pond because her mother
insisted on her wearing corsets-
Highland officers uniform costs between $50
and 500 This includes full dress uniform, un
dress uniform, and mess uniform
New York City has 206 veterans of the Mexican
war. seven Of the Indian wars, and 1900 Of the
Cisil War on the pension rolls.
The Big Four Railroad has planted large
tract OF land in Indiana with quick growing trees,
which will be converted into crossties-
Pope Leo XIII : has 100 Swiss Guards. I2o
gendarme-. and the Guartlia Nobile. to constitut.
his army, numbering over coo men in all.
In the mails recently received in Milwaukee
the ashes of a lady of that city who died
while visiting Germany and cremated there
There is no yellow fever scare in the South
this winter, and the Crescent CITY is fairly alive
with health and pleasure seekers from the North.
II has been decided by the Municipal Club.
OF New York. to offer prizes for the cultivation
and Improvement cf uninvitine sections OF the
city.
A turkey hen belonging in Pleasant Valley,
Pa. which disappeared during the summer. has
returned with brood Of two young turkeys and
ten quail.
In map of China recently published BY the
China Inland Mission. il il pointed out that it
is wrong to speak Of the ''Yangtse kiEg River
as kiang mears river.
The British military authorities are 81 we'll
convinced of she practicahility of the wireless
telegraph that they will Use il large scale
in South African work.
Prof. Ripley finds tiat the average Hebrew in
Northern Europe is from feet inches 10 ,
feet 10 inches in height In Italy the average -
much lower feet inch.
Chicago makes provision for its deaf children
in the public schools. There eleven schools
at present scattered through the city, and they
contain about 200 children.
The Richmond Locomotive Works has receive
ed an order from the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road for twenty-five consolidated locomotives. de-
livery TO begin next August.
Toledo Ohio. has trolley road that is doing
unique work for the farmers by hauling the farm
wagons themselves II IL said 10 be the only
railroad of the sort in the world.
There viii be plenty OF ice racing in Canada
this winter, and. usual, Ottawa will take the
lead the first weeks meeting being scheduled
10 De helu IN tn5t picturesque CitA
Reports from Boston state that the horse b,lsi-
ness throughout New England is in the best pos
siblc condition and that the demand for good
horses is better than it has been for years.
The United States Court OF Appeals has decid-
cd tIst suicide does not nvalidate life insurance
policy unless it can be proved that the insurer
contemplated suicide at the time Of taking out
the policy.
Three Presidents ard one Vice President have
died the Fourth OF July. John Adams and
jefferson expired on the day-JuIy !. 1926
Monroe July I. 1851. and Hannibal Hanlin On
July 4. 1891.
The French staisscisn, Dr. Lvrier. says half OF
all human beings ole before seventeen. that only
one person in 1000 lives TO be 100 years old
and that only person out of every l,0D lives
20 be sixty.
The connection between bees and six NAV not
be obvious to ordinary moFtals but Germany has
an association called the Bienen und Seidenzuciit
Verein. which hiss existed fifty years and now has
6 l35 members.
The cultivable area OF Egypt does not exceed
II, 900 square miles. BY the construction of
immense dam on the Nile at AsSouSn nearly p
500 square miles of arabic land will be added by
artificial irrigation.
The finest scenery in Ireland j. the nerih-
west coast of Ccnnemara. Mayo. and Donegal.
There are no grander beadlnds in Europe than
broken. higHlsiiu
ing above tie Atlantic.
Some Of the Paris papers arc excited to violent
tlerlunciaton by the report that two American
prize fighters are TO meet in the ring of that city
EeNt year. They think the puslllstS should ''pfac-
tice their brutal trade At home.
II i, seldom safe to trust the wafer supply in
Italian cities. Rome u>ially has pure water, hut
during August and September there were many
cases of typhoid fever that two Of the water
sources had 10 be temporarily closed.
The Mexico City lighting service comprises Isl
electric street lights. of 2.oOO candle power SO
OF l. 200 candle power. and about $50 incandeseent
lights of sixteen and fifty candle power. The cost
OF the service per month is about s2i-00a-
Below the waters of Monterey BJy. Cdiiior'i1,
lies sunken craft that once helped make his
tory She is the Natalie. which in ISL carried
Napoleon back to France from EIba and set the
Kings of all Europe trembling again upon their
thrones
A horse can draw on the worst kind of road
about four times as much he carry on his
back On a good macadamized road he can pull
ten times Is much. wooden road twenty-five
times much, and on 4 tramliue fitr-eight times
As much.
A medical enthusiast on the subject OF auto
mobiles SAYS tine banishment OF horses from cities,
with the resulting cleaner streets will greatly
tuce the number Of cases OF lockiaw. typhoid
poisoning from wounds.
A few DAYS ago Kansas City man who had
proclaimed himself an infdci for twenty-five years
died and left curious will In it his fortune
oi Sl50.OOO, with the exception Of $1,000, was
given religious and charitable organizations
No explanation was made
There i a man in Western Massachusetts, over
sixty wears old who lives the line OF the Bos-
ton and Albany road: he has been in the service
0f that company for forty Yeas. and could
ride free On its whenever he chose To do -;
vet he had never visited Boston
Among the smaller Institutions Carleton College
reports an increased attendance compared with
last year of 10 per cent; Colorado College, 1a
per cent; Ohio Wesleyan, per cent; Pacific
University, 10 per cent, and the Western Wo-
mans College, of Oxford, Ohio, per cent.
Fer service in the United States nurse re-
paid By the hospitals which employ graduate
nurses. The pay of a graduate serving ON the
operating rooms of city hospital ranges from 50
10 $40 per month. cut Of which she must, like
he army nurses. supply her own wardrobe.
The '.Depeche Tunisenne'' relates that rcgu-
ar panic prevailed in Tripoli early in Novcm-
Der because of the predicted collision Of the earth
With Biel's comet on the thirtecenih- The He
,rews prayed in the synar sues. laborers refused
o work a. they would survive pay day, snd
he Mohammed1ns arranged professions.
A rather curious religious row las broken ont
II Kenosha, Wis On recent Sunday Stoydn
'atralsky. Bulgarian, leetured in the Methodist
'hurch. In the course of his address he criticised
t,,ot ,i,o