The evening times., 1899-05-08
NOTES OF THE Day.

Of Illinois produced Is, coo 900 tons Of coal They
could have produced 100000 tons.
Sarah Bernbardt has given Gen. Horace Porter.
American Ambassador to France, season tickets
to box in her new Parisian theatre.
Bank shares in London have risen the aver
age to points in connection with the profit
able money market of the first quarter Of 1889.
What proper sanitary regulations will do for
the health CT a great city is shown by the fact
that in ls9s there but death from small
pox in London.
Immense coal fields have been discovered in
Zuluand, the seams being up to forty-fve feet
in thickness, and Of good quality for locomotives
ard other purposes.
A movement is on foot among Phillips Brooks
former Boston parishioners to purchase for tiie
Boston Public Library the bust Of Mr.. Brooks.
made by George Dexter.
The statue of Isabella, former Queen Of Spain.
which stood for years in the Central Park of Ha-
vana, Cuba, has been taken down by order OF
Military Governor Ludlow
In Russell Sage. Andrew II. Green. Charles L.
Tiffany, Parke Goodwin, and Robert olyphant.
New York contains group of the youngest look
ing cd men in the country.
Cecil Rhodes has donated 81 900 to the Saliva
tion Army. and in a recent speech in London he
spoke in terms Of high praise of the work done
by the Salvationists in South Africa.
number Of Spanish poets and prose writers
have formed project of crownng Ramon de
Campoamor king of poets. He is eizhty-two
years Of age. The ceremony is to take place
next month.
By order of the Emperor Of Korea the members
of the Korean Legation in Washington must here
after clothing required by the custom Of
this country. Hitherto they have appeared IN
Oriental garb-
VI Ii
ized a law firm which became more widely knowa
than any other in the Hoosier State. His part
Charles W. Robb, and the firm
read, '.Robb Steele
Johanna Nes:orf. director of the Schleswig-H Hol-
stein Antiquities Museum. at Kel, celebrated her
seventieth birthday on April Il. She was named
by the Emperor a Prussian professor, and is the
frst woman receiving the tide
The order issued by the Norwegian government
that Swedish officer shall be permitted here
after to inspect forts in Eorwav, il taken to
that is 10 come Il a separation Of
Norway and Sweden cannotsbe otherwise effected.
A months supplies for the South Carolina dis
pensaries. recently purchased, included 9l5 bar
res of whisky. thirty barrels Of gin. ten barrels
of rum i2O cases Of whisky, 100 cases Of wine.
four carloads Of beer five barrels of ale. and five
barrels of porter.
II is estimated that England's stock Of coal
will last 200 years longer. and North Americas
600 years. II is not likely. however, that these
supplies viii be needed, it is probable
that before many decades have passed power Viii
be gained in other WAYS
The contributions to the fund for the support
Of the family of Warren Guion the elevator man
al the Windsor Hotel who lost his life by tax
ing his elevator up for lone trip" in the
hope of saving another load of women and chill
dren, amounts to about 5000.
Nunsaczy. the Hungarian artist, who has now
for some time been mad, has occasional lucid
intervals of late. during of which he called
for print Of his Last Hours OF Mozart, and.
looking at it. remarked sadly: THAT IS my best
work I'll never be UP TO that again"
There are too many lawicss people in Lacka-
wanna county. Pa. The enormous number of Isl
criminal cases listed for trial at the present
quarter sessions court. Lancaster county. which
has about an equal population TO that Of Lacka-
wanna. has only l27 cases scheduled for the April
term.
4 white tiger shot lately in the Dibrusarh
district of Assam, according to the Calcutta
Engiishnian." He nine feet long. and in the
prime Of life. The Calcutta taxiderInist who pre-
pared tie si-in states that in eighteen years he
had neither heard of such thing as
white tiger.
The philadelphia Record SAYS that the late
visit to Paris. WAS attracted to Munkaczy. then
young artist having a desperate struggle with
poverty 1t was the commission given by Mr.
wi.stach to the painter that frs, brought him
prominently before the public. and led TO other
orders and great Success. The picture then paint
ed. Last Days of a Condemned Man. hangs in
Memorial Hall in the Wilstsch collection.
Municipal authorities of Mons. Belgium, have
Just adopted 4 resolution which will prevent
children from being born pauprrs in that city.
Every child born in Mons, after being registered
officiIlIy. will have bank account opened in its
name with the City Savings Bank. The auihrTi-
ties WIFI deposit l franc for The infant. who.
When h. arrives Z! a sufficient age. VIII md this
a. nucleus To augment with his penny savings
The original deposit of franc cannot b. drawn
at any time. bu; the interest aecTuing Is the
property Of the Young depositor.
leading Nsw York capitalist. after a visit
to the electric power system at Niagara Falls.
does no; hesitate to predict that in twenty-five
years steam power will lie a thing Of the pas.
in this country. says the New YORK correspondent
Of the .Phiiadelphia Ledger" Ten millions Of
dollars have been invested in the system at Mag
ara Fails The scenic hcIuty of the falls has not
been injured in the least. while the town IS
rapidly becoming big manufacturing centre.
As 4 large producer of carpets. Philadelphia viii
be interested TO know that leading ranIfactn-
sive carpet works at Niagara Falls, where he has
bought a large plot OF Land for the purpose
So careful are the health regulations for opeF-
ativcs in match factories abroad that before par
taking of any meal. and prior to leaving the
factory at the close of the day. each individual
is required TO dof his her working clothes and
put on uncontaniinated garments. The hands.
too. must be thoroughly cleansed br means of
snitsoap ard water the fuger-nails duly attended
TO, teeth cleansed. and mouth and throat washed
with a cargie specially provided all OF these
points being enforced by rigid inspection. Each
person seeking employment. moreover, is care
fully subjected to medical examination hy the
company's physician. who rejects all under six
teen years Of age, all possessed Of bodily intirm-
iies OF any kind TO sore or abrasion or
slight defect in dentition. or who delicate
or anaemic all, too. must either have been vacci-
mated or have secured immunity through small
poX.
According to NJ. Jolly. instances OF marked
character Of malignant prstuie. Egyptian optal-
mia and Delhi boil conveyed by iiies are matters
of record He has also found. as the result Of
careful observations that the legs OF flies may
he covered by staphylococci and many other forms
OF bacteria Again, tubcrcie is particularly liable
TO be disseminated by flies: they come in con-
tact with tubcrcle baciIii discharged from the
body Of the patient. and then alight on food and
deposit the tubercle baciili, thus easily conami-
mating milk, meat. and other substances- The
influence Of the mosquito. too in c1rrying the
fiaria sanguinis is well known. and it has also
been suspected the agent in the conveyance
Of malaria and by sumo the sleeping Sickness
As it is called, is thought to he due to iniec-
tion by insects For warding oil as tar as pos>i-
ble especially in cases Of the diseases mention
ed. II. Jolly suggests a solution of formal as of