The evening times., 1899-06-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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TUNES in 500 trunks, in charge of LOO servants
ments imported into Australia go from the Unite,
| States.
In the last three years the United States ha
bought >
Nebraska in 1893 added ss,0oo.0oO to its laud
| mortgage debt In 1s9s that debt exas reduced
| by SG,0O0.000.
In England the annual consumption. Of sugar
amounts to 50 pounds for each individual, and
l IN the United States to Gl pounds.
Mrs jefferson Davis is having i bronzr statue
OF her husband made in Ne~ Yot city. which
VIII be placed over his grave In Hollywood
| Cemetery. Richmond.
Note issues OF the Imperial Bank Of Germany
Of last year ran beyond the non-taSable limit
sixteen times. and the tax rad to the. govern
ment footed UP E96,OO0.
The duchess of Westminster takes active inter-
est in her husbands philanthropic work, and
especially in the London Society for the Prev-s-
tion OF Cruelty to Animals.
The Continental papers, commenting on Queen
VietJria's trip to Nice. say that since her last
visit there she has aged rapidly. and that her
health seems to be steadily ililing.
The British steamship Grangcwood ran out Of
coal when 800 miles from Halifax. End in order
TO reach port used her cargo of beet sugar for
fuel The sugar was worth $50 ton.
A Birmingham money lender sued for payment
of the balance of loan. The Judge made an
thus allowing sixty years for the repayment OF
the money
Mrs. Emily 4. FifeId. member Of the Boston
School Board. presided at a recent session of
that body in the absence OF the presi 'ent 1t is
the first time in the history of the HUB that q
woman has been honored.
Mrs. Margaret De!and is probably the best
mountain climber in New England. When she
finishes a book she is now a, work on she will
Visit switzerland. and try her mountaineering
SKILL on some OF the Alps
An official Of tine British Museum declares that
its chronological collections are not more than one
seventh the extent and value Of those in the Eth
biological Museum in Berlin. the most complete
institution OF its kind in the world.
When Admiral Fsrssut made his celebrated
tour Of the principal ports of Europe in ls57-'a
he so much exhausted by the festivities Of
month in Port Mahon Minorca, merely to recu-
perste.
Charles Broadway Rouss the blind millionaire,
is fond OF good reading. and has companion read
to him every evening after dinner The papers
be hears in the morning. the reader giving only
the headlines. except in Of subjects Mr..
Rouss IS particularly intercstrd in.
The microscope has revealed many wonders,
among others tina, the common caterpillar has
900 muscles in his body; that the drone bees
eyes each contain .3so mirrors, and that the
Large. prominent eyes of the brilliant dragon flies
are each furnished with 2s.O0O polished lenses.
Recent researches with the aid of Roentern
rays the movements of the stomach Of a cat
during the digestion of a meal showed in the
most striking manner that any slight yexation Of
the animal stopped with surprising promptness
and inyariability gastric contractions and move
ments of every sort.
So rabid the dogs of India that from July.
have been sent TO Europe from that country for
Pasteur treatment. The recent departure Of Cap
tains Highe and Archer for Paris impeis the
Civil and Military Gazette" of Lahore to SIG
gest the establishment of Pasteur Institute in
India.
few days before the death of Baroness
Iiirsch the Emperor of Austria. in recognition Of
The magnhccnce of her charities. conferred the
title of Baron upon Young Arnold and RAYMOND
lie Forest. the only children of the late Baron.
The deceased Baroness had adopted both lads
Is her own sons. even during the lifetime OF her
husband.
Columbia University will give its highest hon
,rary degree that of IL d., to Carl Schurz at
Is next commencement He has already re-
eived this degree from Harvard University and
rom the University of Missouri. and is a mem
'er Of the Massachusetts, Historical Society and
he American Philosophical Society.
So unmistakable was the evidence of Lord
so>ebery's popularity at the recent wedding Of
lis daughter in London that English Liberals are
howing signs Of alarm. Some newspapers grave
V urge upon him that he cultivate a sense Of re-
possibility. and onr declares: The problem is
lot much what shall do with him, but
What he will do with u.s.
The difficulty of getting men to serve on juries
las reached such point in New York that the
ppellate court justices have obtained from the
Jerks a complete return. showing how many
alesmen responded TO the call upon them. with
he number excused. and the exact reasons there
or. II is said that in many cases fifty 10 sixty
ut of every hundred talesmen excused
Portugars iron ore deposits are attracting at
ention and improved transportation facilities
lone needed to insure their Immediate de-
elopment Red and brown irmlii;e deposits
ccur at Cuba. in South hlemiei,. and the
ank of the Zezere. in New alfult,io there is
ed Of brown hsnatite Welding IS 10 r. per cent
I iron. 8 TO 5 per cent Of phosphorus. and no
nlphur.
A gigantic scheme is on foot TO buy up the
asst timber and mineral lands throughout West
irginia and Eastern Tennessee. and build rail-
Dads to all the principal points TO open them
p to trade. There are millions Of dollars inter
sted in the project There are thousands, ,.of
cres Of the richest lands in the world lying IDLE
n that section because Of the lack of railroad
iclitie<. Northern and English capital is back
the scheme
London is admittedly one OF the healthiest
laces in the world. and its inhabitants generally
iansge TO live TO a good age. Mr.. Charles Alb
oft, who also known ..tbe Abbott Of
iarterhouse, died last month, after completing
is 10lst year He the last survivor of
.miy of TWENTY-FIVE brothers and sisters one
whom died only few months before conplet-
,g his century. Mr.. Abbott carried his ake
ell. was not a teetotaller. but drew the hne BIT
,bacco. =
Lieut.. Charles Crawford. of the Twenty y-hnst
,fantry. lef. San Francisco with his regiment
bout three weeks ago. bound for the Philtp-
ines. 1t is quite possible that he will be T.
gned to General Funston's brigade. 1t tbs
me Crawford who. in a competitive esamirt,
on about fourteen years ago for cadetship.
eat Funston and The appointment. Craw-
,rd went through the Military Academy and
iS mevetted captain fOr gallant conduct un-
ar fire during the Santiago campaign.
Schlatter. the divine heaer'' who is now in
os,on announced upon arriving in that city
lat he proposed to be buried for forty days at
depth of 100 feet and that God would resur-
ct him at the end Of the period named. The
,ard of health. however. refused to issue
rrial permit unless a certificate of death should
fled OF course this action of the board was
10 tbs IiyypR heal.
tc. he said it was-and the credulous people
no had counted upon witnessing the intermcnt