The evening times., 1899-04-27
NOTES OF TIE DAY.
The King Of italy is coaarmed vese..r;a

Inc hfng OF itaiy Is cohnrmeo veBet1noo.
Chinese schoiars claim that iron swords were
in use in their country 1000 years ago.
The bronze harp attached to the tomb Of Shell
ley at Rome has been stolen-possibly by some
admirer.
A beet sugar factory Is to be established in
Fairfield. Washington, the legislature having yot-
ed bounty.
Prospect (Me.) man has pair Of boots which
he bought in Scotland for p shillings, and though
he says he has worn them twenty-five years, they
apparently are as good as ever.
A convict Just pardoned from the West Virginia
penitentiary, got out last December. filed
gagement TO play the fiddle at a Christmas Eve
dance, and came back to prison next day.
Miss Elizabeth Brown, the English astronom-
cal observer. who has just died. observed several
total ecipses OF the sum- going in 1887 to Kinesh-
ma, near Moscow; in 1889 to Trinidzd, and in
1896 to vadso. in Lapland.
One Of the out-of-the-way wars of the world has
been in progress between Persia and the Arabs OF
the Lingah, on the northeast coast Of the Persian
Gull In the last battle reported the Arabs lost
l2e men and the Persians L.
In Cowley county. Kansas, the other day the
officials held sale Of judgments. as provided
for in the new law. The sale brought 500. and
the bill for advertising WAS 81 $50, leaving the
taxpayers out Of pocket just 81 80.
brated his ninetieth birthday. graduated at Yale
in 1s2s and is the sole survivor Of his class He
hIled the chair OF chemistry, nlineralogy, and ge-
ology in Dartmouth College from 1886 to 1905
DR.. Houseman. Of the Berlin University. has
made an examination of the brain of the late
Prof. HelmhoItz. The average weight Of the hI-
man brain Is .358 gramrnes. Gauss weighed l.
4s2, Cuvier's l,ooo. and Helmholtz's only lao.
Boston with a taste for fresh air Is
having constructed at the Cramp shipyards in
Phiiadelphia a floating house OF steel. $50 feet
long and IS feet wide. fitted up like a summer
cottage, to accommodate about twenty persons.
B. Ursel, Of Stockholm, who recently died. left
his entire fortune. reaching nearly million, to
charities, one OF them a Catholic hospital at Pa
derborn. Germany. He served in the Franco
German war and won the Iron Cross for bravery.
Kaiser Wilhelm usually call Hohenzoilcrn,
but as matter of fact the real name has been
heightened by the addition Of Hohen, upper. He
is a descendant of the Count of ZoIiern. Tiassa-
Ion by name, who founded the line about the year
500.
Electricity is used to produce the heat in an
mprovised branding machine, the roller contain
ing the characters being suspended a hinged
bracket. through which the current passes, the
circuit being completed by depressing the roller
against the base.
The original thirteen States contain 325, SIS
square miles. 20s, ,502. 400 acres. In 1898 the
United States contained 2.120 100 square miles, or
l.Gss 313. 80 acres. in organized States 1t also
contained $3.50 square miles, So .212, SO
acres OF territory not organized as States
At the last meeting of the Victoria Institute
Of London Mr. Pinches, of the British Museum
said that old records recently discovered in
the ruins Of Ninevah told the biblical story Of
the fall of man. representing the tree of life
vine and the tree Of knowledge as a cedar.
Jake Horn. of Corson's Inlet n. j.. who is
known as the "eeI king of South Jersey. has
caught, with the of spear, more than
100 eels during the past thirty years. Their
aggregate length was more than sixty miles, and
their combined weight was more than fifty
tors.
The lower house of the convocation Of the
Church of England has passed a resolution de-
claring that the law of the church does not
recognize divorce. and asking the bishops to de-
vote themselves 10 securing action of Parlia-
ment to the end that the church shall not re-
marry divorced persons.
1t is interesting to know that 400 species
of plants gathered and used for commercial
purposes in Europe. OF these 420 have perfume
that Is pleasing, and enter largely into the man
u:aeture of scents and soaps. There more
species of white flowers gathered than Of any
other color-1,lsi In all
German sta.istician has discovered that bal
let dancers, a rule, attain age much above
the average. Carlo,ta Gristi is a years of age.
and Amai'a Ferreris IS Taglioni 80
years old when she died. and Fanny Elsslcr
a. Rosita Mauri. well over 80, Is still dancing
al the Paris Grand Opera.
The highest windmill in England is the "High
Mill' at Great Yarmouth. 1t is believed also
10 be the highest in the world. Built in 1872
at total cost OF $4,000. its height in brick is
100 feet and the wooden cage on the summit
further increases this another ten feet. In
high wind tine mill works at 3o-horse power
The famous expression. "Don't shoot until you
can the whites of their eyes" has been sup
planted out in the Philippines by new phrase.
According to one of the members Of the Twenti-
eth Kansas Regiment the customary order prior
to attacks upon the Fiiipiros is. Don't shoot un-
til you can see the lights on their cigarettes"
The 10000 Indians. Cherokees. Creeks, and Del
.wares, who have voluntarily gone from Okla
homa to Mexico to establish a reservation. declare
they are actuated by desire to get far away
as possible from the white mans civilization.
They have about Si25, ,000 and expect further ad-
ditions after they have organized their settlement
The Obiziba farm. containing 440 acres of land.
in the Fifth district of Cecil county. was sold
at mortgage sale at the courthouse door in Elk
ton yesterday by Charles McH. Howard, trustee.
of Baltimore. The farm bought in by par
ties representing the mortgage, Jane II. Carey.
for $500.
Buddhist priests are very slack now, even
PLAYING football sometimes. Siamese football
is played with wicker ball. and the players
are not allowed to touch it with their hands,
being. however. allowed to use their heads.
shoulders. and knees. The object is not to let
the baH touch the ground, and some OF them
arc very skiliful at it,
The school commissioners have decided to close
the schools in Cecil county for the summer vaca-
tion May 90 The resignation of Miss Ruth
Brown as teacher in the Ninth district was
ccpted, and Miss Alma o. Dean appointed in her
place Miss Alice Perry, Of Chesapeake City.
was appointed an assistant in the schools Of that
town.
DR.. II. S,hlch;er. in paper read before the
ROYAL Geographical Society of Great Britain, on
Rhodesia. announces his belief in the great
tiGuity Of the Zimbabye ruins. He puts their
date at 100 Il. C., and asserts that early the
Semitic races of the Red Sea, Jews. Phoenicans.
and Western Arabs, had colonized Rhodesia and
worked the gold.
King Chulalongkcrn has begun to apply to his
own country the results Of his experience gained
while travelling through Europe. He has Just de-
creed that children ten years of age shall
no longer be allowed TO walk about clothed as
was Adam before the fall. and also that all per-
sons seeking audience Of his majesty shall pre-
sent themselves in some sort of footgear, even II
it is only sabots
The power Of the sad sea waves is to be utilized
outside OF tossing the seashore hathers around
and aifording pleasure to yachting parties. A
company has been formed in New York by Juan
Tonkin, engineer Of Chile, to introduce into
this country the hydro-dyn3mo. simple ma-
chine which takes up the power of sea waves
and makes it useful shore. The machine first
will be used as a motive power for 1000 horse
power engine. Tonkin sailed last Wednesday for
Chile to make arrangements for the use of the
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