The evening times., 1899-04-25
NOTES OF THR DAY.

| railroad In the United states
The Chinese taeI Is coin which has never cx-
listed. 1t is simply unit used for convenience
| The highest masts OF sailing vessels from
100 to lS0 feet and spread from 60,0o9 to 10000
| square feet Of
The Kicwa Indians in Kansas recently chose
as medicine man. the white WIDOW Of the pre-
| yious incumbent OF tae Office.
Rudyard Kiplng is something Of an artist. and
amuses himself during his convalescence by draw
| ing caricatures Of all about him.
tenyear-old Georgia boy. while eating chick
| en-, got to laughing drew bone down his
| throat. and died in few minutes
| Iron visiting cards are popular in Germany. The
name Is printed in silver. and forty OF the sheets
! only measure one-tenth Of an inch in thickness.
| Chief Dinixulu, son and successor to Cetewayo.
| IS advertised a subscriber TO the London
Times !" reprint Of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
| About 100 years ago the of starch for
| stifening the frilis around the neck coisid-
cred highly reprehensble. If not positively sinful
The children of the poor in Japan are often
| labeled, in case they should stray from their
| homes while their mothers engaged in do
| mestic duties.
| DIR. Richard Garne;t keeper Of the printed
booss, British Museum. says there are about >
| 00O0o0 books in the museum, their length being
| thirty-fve miles.
Berlin booksellers are strictly forbidden to sell
1
| several Of blood poisoning have been traced
to scratches from rusty wire
| John II. Finley, who has for a number Of years
been president of Knox College, has resigned
| thst position TO accept a place on the editorial
| staff of ''McClure's Magazine
! Prof. William Crans:on Lawton. in Brook
lyn lecture, declared Kipling and Roosevelt TO
| be akin in nature. the same motives moving the
to song and the other to action.
Lord Salisbury once handled pick and shovel
During the great Australian gold he set out
a gold hunter. ard the hoveI in which he lived
as rough. red-shirted miner is still standing
1t is said that ''pure Missouri maple sugar
will supplant the Vermont article to a consid
cradle extent in the Western markets this year.
the crop in the Green Mountain State having al
| most wholly failed.
Another breach into the sanctty Of Londons
Sabbath has been made by the publication of
Sunday editions of the "Daily Telegraph and
the "Daily Mail" The latter calls its venture
"a journalistic bombshell.'
Major EsterIiazy has dealt another blow to the
anti -Dreyfus by asserting in his confession
that ''thc souls of condotteri are not the souls
of grocers.'' The Paris bourgeois is now bitter
against the military caste.
John ". Mackay the other evening sent to
| the opera in san francisco fifty girl employees
, in the Postal Telegraph Company. in which he
\ is stock,older. Each girl supplied with
| two tickets, a carriage, and bouquet.
| Few people probably know what an enormous
| quantity OF old iron in the shape of anchors.
/ chains. ETC.. is annually rescued from the
\ During ten months much 12D tons weight
was dredged UP on the east coast of England
| alone
| The seven principal Bibles in the world are the
| Koran of the Moiammedars: the Eddas of the
/ Scandinayiaus; the Tripi;ikes of the Buddhists:
tha NJ rha tNo I.Fir-
/ Of the Hndns. the Zend1vesta, and the Scrip
lures OF the Christians
| Within eight more centuries leap year viii have
| become a relic OF the present time BY that
time the extra eleven days lost to make up the
changes from the old Julian calendar TO that of
the present day will all have been duly account
ed for, and the world will around in just
5S5 days. and no more.
Tunnels under the Thames below London Bridge
multiplying. Hardly has the Blackwell tam
mel been opened when another at Rotherbithe i,
projected 1t is TO be thirty feet in diameter,
three feet than the Blackwell tunnel. a
mile and quarter long. aud to cost Ss0D.Do.
OF which si.oo0.oDo will go Tor the land needed
for approaches.
Great is red tape, A telegraph repairer
sent out from Great Bend. Ind. the other dsy
TO locate a break in line No. l. on climbing
the pole he found i break there also in line No.
.. After fixing No. l he climbed down the pole.
walked two miles to the nearest station and tele-
graphcd to the superintendent Great Bend
for orders TO rN No. ,
a London bookseller has just been sentenced to
nine months imprisonment fer selling indecent
French books in spite Of his counsel's plea that
a hoo!. in a foreign tongue could not corrupt
the morals OF her maiestys subjects. Though
this the first successful prosecution on rec
ord where the book not in English, the
court would not allow appeal.
electric equipment. both for government and pri-
vate supply. and in keeping with the military
ideas that are 81 prevalent there it has been de-
cidcd to locate the power station in of the
best protected positions the rocks. This is
what j, known IS the Kings Bastion cut out Of
solid rock. and formerly used AZ an artillery
barracks.
Lewellyn Iousstaf. who has just subscribed
the muriiicent sum Of sl25.Oo9 toward the equip
men, OF British Antarctic expedition. is the
son of Dr. C. n. L0ngstaf. who OF the
founder, of the Chemical Society. Mr.. Lcngstsf
was for many years the chairman. ard it still
director. OF a large manufacturing company. lie
studied chemistry at Frankfort and at the ROYAL
College OF Chemistry. Mr.. Longstaf has ali his
life taken the keenest interest in scientific mat
tiers.
A suit at Oklahoma City has brought out
most curious train OF Circumstances. \ woman .
secured a divorce from her husband. together
with lIfge amount of aiimony. The divorced
husband then entered into agreement with
a good looking Young man in the neighborhood
whereby the Young was to pay court to the
woman. marry her. get control of all her prop
erty ard then divide it with the divorced hus-
band. The young man carried out his agree
ment the letter and then fed the country
The s,it is now brought hy the woman to
cover the property of which She had been de-
frauded by the conspiracy.
when Col. Richard /. Dodge" says the Kan
sas Citt Journal" Twas in command of one OF
the southern Kansas forts many years ago. h.
was ast arishcd day TO receive delegation of
Indians, who complained to him of the quality of
the soap issued to them by the Government.
Thinking il would be impossible to make soap
too bad for Indian. Dodge investigated with
the result of finding that the tribe had been
eating their soap allowance. and didn't like the
taste. All of which is brought to memory by
letter from one of the Kansas boys in the Philip
bought monkeys, which they keep about the bar
racks and adds that they awful nuisance,
because they steal and eat the soap
An English paper recently conducted inves-
tigation to ascertain what the working classes
think OF Kipling. and concluded that he
practically unknown to those about whom he has
view is the following incident by the New YORK
Commercial Advertiser" During Kipling's i'll
ness lady visiting Florida standing
wharf with newspaper in her hand. A
mon sailor stepped up to her. and, lifting his
hat. said he she had paper, and wished
to know il she could tell him how kipling was.
1t little incident. bat showed how those
stories ard peers Of Kipiing, which some critics
have thought too technical. have touched the
hearts of the workers among these technical