The evening times., 1899-03-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Australian rabbit skins are being converted
into seaiskins for the American market.
Since ISL the cultivated area of ireland has
dwindied from about i,O00,000 acres to 2.00O000-
The per capita money circulation of the United
States IS s25i2 the highest in the history Of the
nation.
Twin brothers in Newburyport Mass. have re-
Gently been ordained to the Roman Catholic
priesthood.
appearance Of Metis Island, which, As late
1880, projected 80 feet above the ocean,
The London county council has proposed that
reward OF 5000 be offered for the discovery
OF u solution OF the London smoke question.
Fumigation OF fruit trees injected with the
San jose scale by the use Of the gas OF prySsic
acid is remedy which is said to be
tainly effective
Though the first tank steamer was built only
thirteen years ago, there Is6 tank
seis IN existence, nearly ali steamers, with a
register OF i0l,024 tons
An ingenious mechanical device pastes paper
labels 10000 cans in ten hours Down 4
shoot rolls the ceaseesss procession OF cans, and
each can picks up label it passes
officials in Cumberland county. Pa, find tramp
farming profitable: The sheriff receives a fee
OF per day for boarding each tramp.
The constable is paid SI75 for each arrest, and
the magistrate $50 for the commitment. The
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promptly Te-arrested upon their discharge.
The cows in Belgium wear earrings This IS
| in accordance with law. which DEGREES that every
animal of the bovine species, when il has at
| tanned the age of three months, must have in
its a ring, TO which Is attached metal tag
bearing number The object il 10 preserve
exact record Of the number OF animals raised
each year.
Ships anchors cost from 5 to cents pound.
so that a 6,OO0-pound anchor, which would be Il
| very large one, would cost, at the lowest
| price. about $780, and the big ship that required
\ anchor OF that size would carry two OF them
/ The two big anchors carried by strip of, say
| 1000 tons. would weigh from $50 10 sea
! pounds each
! The official census statistics for Japan, exciu-
siye of FoFmo>a. have just been published, show
! ing a total population exceeding l3.GO).G01 That
| oi Toxic is 2,O0O, 900. and two other cities
| Kobe ard Osaka, each exceed million. The
! increas- since 1895 Is about hall million There
! were 5000 marriages IN the same period, and
/ 12i,GJ1 divorces.
All code books carried on wsrships have leaden
backs. To make them sink II lost overheard
The letters in the book. moreover, are printed
/ with peculiar ink, which fades away when t
comes in contact with the water To make
things still safe the letters changed every
few months By the Navy Department Even on
| warships few Officers know their vessels osiciaI
signal code.
The British Home Office report for lsg7 Shows
that while serious crimes tend to diminish in
| England, there Is 4 great increase Of minor Of
! fences. By far the larger number Of criminals
convicted during thc wear have heeu convicted
| Of s0nIe crime before fact THAT led tie Home
Office TO conclude that neither penal servItIdr
nor imprisonment serves to deter the hsbitual
offender from rey~rtiEE % crime. and IL : the
hdbuIsl offender vho iosm the bulk Of ia
prison population"
The customs inspectors at New YORK had
casion. in tie c5rr-e o.; tEsir regular duties the
/ other dag. 20 open box containing i suit Il
/ clothes. tine package being addressed to a man
. who u described Is "a clergyman in a nearby
I State In Of the pockets OF the suit
/ found a note. which read follows. Dear
! Brother: NOH viii see that ! have worn y9ur
! suit, il will be exempt from duty. Hope sou
I will receive il all right. NOfIE sffectionate
| brother notwithstanding this assurance, the
| customs officials assessed d duty Of SIS the
| suit
Tie Chilean mines. opened in IsJ5. seem
10 he nice places 10 work in. The seams of
coal run from the shore under the waters Of the
| Pacific Ocean and the tunnels clean
J that you could walk through thcn in dress
suit without making yourself dirty. They are
/ lighted by electricity. and YOU can have ride
/ for mile ULder the ocean electric gr
speeed Of twenty miles hour. The mines
form quite a eatacomb of well-Iighted passages
1000 tons day, and 30 miners employed
| in thcm.
Eight Of the fifteen brightest stars ever seen
in these ATTITUDES are visible on the Feb-ga.y
! evenings They are. in the order Of brightness,
Cirrus. Clpella. Rigcl. Procyon. Betelseusc. A.
detaran PoIluz. and ReguIus Add 70 this li~t
the planet Mars. also visible now which i in ra-
| wise dimmcd by su,h illustriouS company. and
I IL will be seen that February j. a yerv i.lpug-
ant ~ rns - UT FTsrrr
/ troEOmeF. Mars and IT, eight stellar rittS
are easily located The planets ru'i'ie light and
steady glow make II the most noticeable oAlr,C
high IN the northeast after HightfJN-
touching love story has been t-lrg-lnled
from romantic RounaniI TO the English papers.
1t all happened in the little village Of yaerg-ri de
| Ra-lvaca- near Bucharest. \ young peasant.
Dam;ln YdidI. loved i beautiful young person
whose parents. at least did not --reci2raca,e
his Affection VJlda denied the house. but
| he remembered that the little god laughs 5t
bolts and bars. and took comfort The girl ap-
proved OF a plan which h. devised. He pro-
cured covered wagon and dozen friends,
drove up night. and rushed the house.
The girl. already muriied. brought out, and
DamiIn iudUstriCusly plying the whip away
they tore 10 his home tie lifted down his
precious burden, and gently drew the veil from
her face The features were those of his m5tE-r-
| in-lIw
The pictorial postal cards of Germany Viii, 4
furnish the imperial mail department with an
eveF-inereasing amount OF revenue, have for some
| time becen assuming J decidedly artistic char
acter 1t now appears that even the masters ot
German art do not disdain to take a hand in this
direction. Berlin paper warns the collectors
| OF picturesque ''AUSichts- KaTtens'' 10 look out
| for q new one, which is be issued BY the COM
mittee of the .Internationalc PosJSaTseu GeselIi-
| chaft. The artist n-this Is other than
AdOlph Won Nenzel, the president Of the Berlin
| AGAR nVr1V- of Arr nr.l =
members Of the British academy Of Arts The
subject Of the picture is a night scene in Berlin
| cafe; and the number of copies viii be linl-
Ited. II is quite certain that the card Is destined
| 10 command in time a very high price. II seems
| rather strange that this feature of mail devices
| has not vet been introduced in the United States
| Even the Kai~sr's pilgrimage TO Palestine has
been used as the subject of pictorial cards tor
| every effort il being made 10 keep the famous
| journey before the German mind Palestine
thalers have beeen coined with the figures OF the
imperial couple the face ard guard ar angel
distributing wreathS with both hands God the
Almighty gave his guidance, is the inscription
! on these memorial coins.
consulting electrical engineer. who vas
asked by the "Pittsbug Dispatch to put ona
of the less common electrical terms in nllin In
guage, said: Il frequently resoFted to ior
| Just such explanations. and nothing SURPRISES me
more than the hlziness which still exists in the
minds Of intelligent folks in regard 10
the simplest electrical terms saws the st.
Louis Globe Democrat" To most pcople In.
electrical units still more Greek. and COM
| paratIvely few go to the trouble to take hold
| of the more common of them such as svolr >
/ ampere resistance and electro motive force
| and nix their meaning. for all in the mind