The evening times., 1899-07-04
NOTES OF TIE DAY.

railways during the first four months Of loS1
! increased e409,434 over 1893.
The public entrance doors OF the great build
ing Of the Bank of England are so hnels- pal
anced that clerk by pressing knob under his
desk, can close them instantly.
| The japanese railways have introduced news
| paper reading on some Of their passenger
trains. Tall piles OF newspapers are kept AZ tie
service Of travellers, that they may read they
ride.
The principles OF teetotalism appear 80 be
making way steadily in Scotland, notwithstanding
the enormous of expenditure which still
goes in intoxicating drinks among the work
ing classes.
Rev. Daniel ]. Hauer OF Hanover. Pa, is the
oldest Lutheran preacher in the country, in point
Of active service. at least. lie is ninety three
years old, and has been preaching continually
for seventy four years
The ancient Egyptians Used In pri-
vate tomb at Thebes one was discovered with sew
eral other carpenters tools. The blade is OF
brass, little ten inches long and one
and quarter inches wide
| Queen Victoria retains all her former fondness
for the ex-Empress Eugenie and when she
heard the other day that the latter indis-
posed she at once despatched 70 her Sir James
/ lsied, physician to the royal family
! Prince Henry of Prussia brother of the Kaiser,
became so delighted with the Chinese language
during mis- visit to the Flowery Land that he has
! taken up the study Of the tongue, and thinks
it superior to any other, ancient or modern.
| According to the annual statistics just pub
I lished, the membership of the Established Church
of Scotland increased last year by sos but the
/ contributions show a decrease of &I,ii9. That
decrease is chiefly due 10 a falling OF in the
/ legacies-
/ A Pennsylvania trolley company had to pay
young man sI.2O0 because its electricity got
{ into. barbed-wire fence the track, and
when he took hold Of the fence to Climb II he
I couldn't let go until his hand and arm were
! shriveled.
/ Nile. Lucie Faure Is going 10 write his
! tory of her fathers Presidency. working from
! papers her father gave her. She viii continue
/ the head Of the League Of the Children OF
! France, a charitable institution which she her
i self founded.
Canada still keeps up its reputation as the
| home of the Scotch agricultural settler. Al
ready this year nearly 300 farmers farm serv-
/ ants. and others. with families have left Scot
/ land to try their fortune among their kith and
/ kin in the Dominion
| The order issued by the Postmaster General,
/ instructing postmasters to mind their own busi-
4 mess may be interpreted by some of it, re-
I cipients as having reference to the approaching
/ Presidential campaign and the innumerabie pre-
/ liminary conventions
! Captain Pone of the New Zealand line, has
I crcumnavigated the glebe ffty-two and a haif
i times, and thinks he holds the record The
route Of the lines steamers IS from England 70
{ New Zealand by way Of the Cape oil Good Hope,
( and back by Cape Horn
Though none of jay GouId's sons are college
! graduates. each took an elective course at one
or other of the larger colleges and recent
calculation shows THAI their expenditure must
have really been during that time below the
( average for American students
! new system Of advertising is in vogue in
] san Francisco poultry dealer has inreIli-
/ gent rooster, which parades up and down the
4 street before the market with its owners busI-
/ ness card displayed in his bill, and cQTHmand5
| attention by frequent growing.
| D'Annuuzio the Italian poet and author. took
with him on a recent railroad journey fourteen
| trunks vhicE contained among other things
| y shirts. IA pairs Of plain s0ckS- "a apaIEs Of
| silk eockS = pairS of dav gloves. % pairs Of
| evening gloves violet umbrellas. 10 green par
| asols and $50 cravats
new method OF illumination on the ocean
| consists Of using 4 hollow cylinder OF steel
| tubing charged with calcium carbide This
| shell Is TO be shot from gun 10 distance
! Of two miles. When II strikes the water II
| generates aeetylene gas, and gives l'oge candle
/ power which burns from the end which floats
/ This light cannot be extinguished by water
whizzing meteor flashed through the air at
/ SsiIlnore. Ky. and was seen by scores Of per-
! sons II buried itself in a sand pit, df5y feet
below the earth's surface. The next Gay II was
/ unearthed. and proved to be hump OF lron'
/ nickle and cobalt eighteen inches long ten
/ inches wide. and weighing twelve pounds
/ Admiral Schley delights in telling how he
( was once an amateur aeronaut- As boy he
visited a Maryland county fair, azceuded IN
( balloon which rose eighty feet N the ar.
/ was wrecked. and let its occupants tail iutars n
Z 4 moi O.
/ Schley who escaped with few eon1usiors--
Heinrich Kiepert. the greatest authority on the
geography Of antiquity. i dead at the age Of
eishtv-one years. He professor Al ire tu!-
vers:tv Of Berlin His -.Atla= OF Hel'as'' began
u appear in parts in lsi5- His greatest worn Is
his map OF Asia Minor H a'zo published
7 general atlas Of the world. which ranks - t-e
best modern German atlas
The payment Of dividend OF one-ffth OF
Der cen, to the creditors Of the Iron Hall. winds
40 failure which involved 6S.000 members scat
tered through mere than twenty States. When
receiver was appointed il found LAat-the
liabilities Of the order were >5Igi.FEl MO
geJher - 900 coo has been collected and ,paia %
creditors leaving i permanent deficit Of So
100000.
The beer which is consumed throughout the
world in single wear would make a lake feet
| deep. Ss, miles long a mile wide, 2.Sl9 acres
in area In this vast lake of beer could
! easily drown all the English-speahng people,
10 the number of 120,005,000. throughout the en-
tire world or could give beer hath 70
, every man. and child az the same time
| in the entire continent OF America
\ beneficiary society is being organized by
employees of the New York. Ontario & Western
Railroad Co. TO be known as the o. 4 W
| CrippIes' Association. and 10 be composed Of
those still in the employment of the railroad
| who have been manned i'm its service. small
dues are TO be collected, and the funds which
come into the treasury 10 be used IN supply
| ing and repairing artificial limbs Of the mem
bers.
} The consumption of quinine by American SOL
; diers suffering from one Southern fever or an
other during the past year is said 10 exceed
l23 600 900 grains. In some instances men in
the hospitals of Cuba and Porto Rico were dose,l
regularly with 300 grains week, and there
was hardly man in the field who did not take
the drug at one time another Fully one
[ third of the entire quinine supply OF the world
| is consumed in the United States
l The costliest bicycle in the world has just
been finished at a gun factory in Vienna. 1t Will
: cost more than 81, 500 The owner is a rich
South African diamond king and mine owner,
, who will present the machine to his wife on her
i,next birthday At the last Vienna exposition it
I was admired by thousands. This South African
millionaire struck with the exquisite beauty
of the wheel that he bought il and had
| it nlaid with precious stones and diamonds on
every possible part
5 recent summary shows that twelve systems
of mechanical traction have been adopted on the
straat railv-ovs of Paris These oDerafe thirty