The evening times., 1899-04-11
NOTES OPTHR DAY.

ing TO ttfne-honoren TRADITION.
The Parliamentary reporters are up in arms
against the length OF Sir Henry campbeIl.Ban-
nermans name.
The per capita cost Of main.,ining convicts
at the Michigan prison is 351x cents day. and
the average daily earnings are 35k cents
While the wedding service is proceeding in
Japan the bride kindles a toroi, and the bride
groom lights FIRE from it and burns the wife's
psythngs.
Every iniabitsnt of the Austrian village Of
Storbeck Is = cicrsplayer. Tie children are
taught TO play chess just as they are taught TO
read and write.
transferred to aEetfer side OF the summit. as in
its former place it was almost impossible to keep
IL ADORE the STOW.
''Brchihirsty'' Is recent contribution TO the
English language by woman member Of the
Lordon school board. who objected to the boards
attitude toward the corporal punishment Of school
boys.
An Indiana married her fourteenth hus-
band the other day. She was fifteen years old
when she married first. and has averaged about
one marriage every two years since. Nine OF
her husbands have been lost by divorce She
has had six children.
Factories in this country are now engaged
in manufacturing eighty-one locomotive engines
for the Trans Siberian Railway. thirty for the
Midland Railway OF England. twenty for Swe-
den, fifteen for Egypt, and ten for French state
RAILWAYS
1t has been pointed out that OF the 81, 00.o19
square miles OF the whole world y, 2ss, IJ2
held in a colonial protectorate form, and that
all this territory has been acquired by Christian
governments since 1900, and the greater part
since 1900.
After the hailstoIm of last week at Louisville.
Ky., strange ANIMAL between an alligator and
a lizard, with whiskers its upper lip.
picked up in the streets by a letter-earrier. 1t
was supposed to have come down encased in
Of the large hailstones that fell.
Eugene Toulouze. weli-known archaeologist and
student of the antiquities. of Paris. has just
made n restoration Of druggists shop OF the
seventeenth century, with articles discovered re-
Gently in Paris Some of them old the
fifteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The .'Kief slavz" reports an abstract Of the
official statistics of health in Russian cities for
the year 1897. The number of sick in that year
is reported to have been aGOOo.O1o The number
OF deaths IVES larger than in any other country
in proportion to the population. In some cit
es-ss in Charson. Astrachan. and Saratow-
there were more sick than sound Inhabitants
All told, there were at last accounts only III
holders uf the medal of honor in the army and
on the retired list Among them are General
Miles. Gen. John VI. Schofeld. Cen Guy V.
Henry. and Gen. Henry ". Lawton- General
Miles received the distinction for hanging To
| a position at Charlottesville with superb tenac
ity. although himself wounded. The others named
won the medal of honor for leading charges.
writer in Cosmos " Emile Mason. argues
that the East Indian dugong or lamatin Is the
natural foundation for the myths Of sirens. nere-
and tritons. \ female dugong recently captured
in the Red Sea has head and bust which, when
at some little distarcc. might be taken for
a mermaid The lama,in has also a vibrant voice.
and these two combined make good base for the
theory which the writer has advanced with a good
deal of elaboration.
The residents of Gloucester Mass. are to hold
a memorial service in the City Hall, in memory
of the lost fishermen of Gloucester Statistics
compiled by the Gloucester Relic. Association,
which provides for the families of those who lose
their lives at sea. show that in tine past twenty
five years no les than iI3 seafaTing men from
the sbOve-named port have been drowned Last
year the rate of lives lost az saa was l2-s per
thousand Of seaiarers; in 1885,. q per Thousand.
There has been surprising and unaecountablc
decrease in the number of marriages annually
performed in Cincinnati since 1890 In that year.
when the population of the city was 29e.ooa.
3si3 marriage licenses were issued in Hamilton
county In 1875 the population 3s6.Os3. AMI
the number Of licenses s.lh1; in Isl. the popula
tion to f10.U00. and the Gnarriages decreased
to s.g61. and last year. with further increase
in the number of inhabitants, there were but =
si7 marriages recorded
Heroes have been plentiful in the last year
-av, the New York Tribune '.ss in all the
military history of America, but they can never
he 20 uany tha: We can afford TO overlook .
single one. cEe Of the latest and not least
bright rare. to go upon the roll i that of Col.
Henry C. Egbert. dead the field of honor
This was the fourth war in which he served his
country with distinguished eaiantry Honor to
hi, memory, and success and victory to the son
who follows in his footsteps
To extinguish oils which have taken fire. the
.Iustrirtr t;ewerbe Zeitung' recommends tho
Use of a fine meshed wire net o; the size oi
boiling pan. which should be kept on hand in
every varrii,h factory. etc. In the same moment
when the netting is laid upon the burning sur
face. the flame Is eStingnished. because II =
glowing mass Of gas. which the iron wire quickly
cool. off - much that it cannot glow any more
Tie Use of water is excluded and that ot earth
and sand undesirable. because both dirty the OIL
The movement for the study Of the Irish Ian
gt:age in ireland has met obstacle in the "p-
10 pcsition of a number OF prominent Irish edil-
,.,tor- among whom DIR. Nahatfy and DT.
Atkinson. both of Dublin University Dr. Akin
-on i regarded the greatest living authority
on The Irish language and literature. and might
have been expected to favor the proposed re-
| ra-c,.rlce: but he takes the surprising ground
that the Haas of cxtant Irish literature. incud-
| ing I'll. modern folklore, Is too indecent ipr
\ popular teaching.
| An interesting story is told abont Herbert Put
nam when he was librarian OF the Minneapolis
| Pubic Library Orc day he delivered lecture
| to gathering largely composed of girls from the
| University OF Minne-cts. The girls were capti-
! tiya;ed by Mr.. Putnam's address, a well Is by
| hi. manner Of delivering il. and when it was
| concuded one OF them said: ''oh. ii only had .
! million ,ioilais.' what would you do with ity
| asked her companion Tie reply was ce-tdtic.
| and in . Sudden hush everybody heard it: I'D
| Just buy Herbert Putnam with it,
| The old London banking house Of Go-ng S
Sharpe which in bygone days was known by tue
| sign OF the Three Squirrels has been pulled
| down and boarding remains around the site.
| while new premises are being erected in which
| the banking business. now analeamsted with
\ that of Barclay, Bevan & Co.. will continue to
| be carried on and where the ancient sign. form-
| e, If three little iron squirrels. which had been
| disp'syed ;pon a window bar Of tie goldsmith :
| and bankers premises upon this spot for more
| than 30 years. will still have Place.
Among the reforms which to be introduced
into the London telephone service when the post
| Office takes control OF it is the Swiss system of
| charging which will reduce the average cost 10
| to the user by half. In Switzerland the sub
| seriber pays $50 the first year. 81 the second.
| and after that IS a wear. The charge for calls
is a cent a call. subscribers and the public pay
| ing the same fixed toll. which is charged to thc
| caller, and not to the person called. Messages
| can he sent by non-subscribers and delivered 10
| non-subsciibers by express messengers
The coro,et Of a duke consists of alternate
crosses and leaves, the leaves being Representa-
tion of the leaves of the parsley pant Ths