The evening times., 1899-09-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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Game cocks in Ponce, Porto Rico. bring as
high as 800 each
Smoking. long common among Burmese chill
dren, is on the increase.
Benares, India, was an ancient capital before
Babylon or Nineveh founded
There is an IceIandic superstition that ambi-
dextrous people are born to good luck
Milkweed. commonly believed to be poisonous.
is used food in parts Of the Tyrol.
1t cost the State "a, ,39l. .Osl71 to operate the
governmental machinery ef Michigan last year.
An apparatus has been devised for automatically
photograpbing people they enter shops and
other places.
4 Beleville, H., man recently added $4,000
to bis tax returns because his conscience COM
mandsd it,
community in Alabama containing 400 col
ored people and but two white persons is about
to be incorporated.
Six companies have been formed in Baltimore
for manufacturing automobiles. Two Of these al
ready are IN operation
The Hebrew community OF Athens, Greece.
ssting of eighty families, has taken steps for the
erection of a synagogue
After August 20 anyone in Missouri found guilty
OF placing arsenic. ealomel, bismuth, ammonia,
or alum in any kind Of food may be fined not
less than 800.
Lord Kelvin in lecture stated that re-
suit of investigations it estimated that
the earth had been the abode OF life for about
80, 0,000, 900 years
Port Angeles, Wash man took 300 chickens
in to Dawson last summer During the trip they
averaged three dozen eggs day, and the eggs
sold for "a a Dozen
The United States turn out annually 1s5. .Oe0,
900 pounds OF plug tobacco, II, 900 600 pounds OF
fine cut, 14,0o0,00e pounds Of snuff 1000, ooo go
cigars, and 5000. 100000 cigarettes
notwithstanding the fact that there Is moth
ing under the sun. the United States Patent
Office granted nearly 25,0oO patents last year TO
people who had hit upon new idea
The Government is paying from 500 to $500
day for each vessel carrying horses, supplies.
and army baggage 10 the Philippines, and $1,000
a day to each vessel that carries troops.
The rnen-of-war Of the Romans had a crew Of
about 225 men, OF which Ia were oarSmen work
ing on three decks. The speed Of these vessels
was about six miles hour in fair weather.
Although one-half of the rubber product Of the
forests along the Amazon gees 10 the United
States, most OF the steamers. whaTyes. and bank
ing houses in the region belong TO the English
Rubens received for his painting OF the grand
ceiling at the banqueting house, Whitehall, the
sum of $4,000. The space covered by this paint
ing Is about 400 yards, that he was paid
nearly $50 yard.
Fifty thousand empty bottles were picked up
at Old TraIord Park the morning following
the first day Of the great match between the
Australian and English cricket teams All but s.,
900 had held ginger beer.
Ladies who kiss their pet dogs are warned by
no less an authority than Dr. Magnin. Of the
Paris Academy Of Sciences. that the little pets
are one Of the great agencies IN spreading DIS
ease, especially consumption
The military household OF the Gar is COM
posed of ninety-eight officers of various ranks.
eighty-three of whom belong TO the army and ff-
teen 10 the navy. Nineteen members OF the royal
family included in this list
During the international exposition, soon to be
held at Buffalo, the Niagara Falls viii De illu-
minated by huge electric ssarehlights. equipped
with muIti-eolored glasses, and are lights will be
operated in the Cave Of the Wines
Pots and kettles are easily cleaned with
Pennsylvania woman's patent utensil, which has
several cup-shaped disks united TO a common
base. with downwardly projecting fanges having
crimped rims to form scraping surfaces
For accurately truing the pulleys Of machinery
4 newly-patented machine has a shaft on which
the pulley is mounted, with friction wheel set
in frame, TO be regOived BY contact with the
pulley. driving a grinding wheel 70 act on its
surface and edges
guard to protect the user from inhaling microbes
proper shape 10 fit the interior OF the transmit
ter and lap over the edges, making il easily re-
movable for cleansing
horning pigeon owned at Church, in Ian
cashire has been returned TO It's loft after
markable adventure. II was caught by OF
the crew OF the CunaFd liner, Lueania, of the
Newfoundland coast. taken 10 Liverpool, and then
despatched home by rail-
Anthony Hudson. the first white settler in
Pierce county Wis, is still living. having just
passed his Tooth milestone in life He is actively
engaged in farming, and culrivates thirty acres
without employing help, his wife lending him as
sistance in harvest time
According TO tables made by sporting men, over
S250, 100000 IS lest the turf every year. OF
this S50OOO 1000 is lost on English race courses,
and. strange TO say. about S100O01,000 on Aus
traiian courses. The remainder is chiefly distrib-
uted between France, the United States, and
British colonies
process has been invented and patented in
Brazil for preparing coffee in tabloids by q sys-
TEN of compression Ii is argued that not only
viii there be less expense in exporting coffee
in this form. but that the customer viii be more
certain Of thus receiving for his the pure,
unadulteratcd article
Many cities in Europe solving the problem
of the destruction of iron gas and water pipes
b. electrolysis By substituting for them pipes
made OF glass. As glass is almost perfect non
conductor Of electricity there is, of course no
electrolySis- Further advantages are the saving
of electricity ard the absence of danger of shock
from wanderirS currents
Belgium is the most confused little nationality
earth- In the great cities the population IS
made up of inextrieable mixtures of Flemish
races and the Walioons. pure French and Ger
mans Add 10 this broad splaSheS of the Spanish
blood that came in with the princes Of the last
century. and YOU have a curious congIomerate
man-the brave little Belgian.
The new street cars to be used on the inter
urban line between ST. Paul and saltwater will
be unique in their equipment They viii have
compressed air brakes and whistles, to be sup
piled by a small motor operating an air pump
The air whistle will he used in the country
where the cars will be run at Il high rate of
speed Each car also viii be equipped with
telephone, with fifty feet OF wire and a switch
plug
At a recent meeting Of the German Anthropo
logical Society Prof Ranke read a paper on the
relative weights Of the brain and spinal cord in
man and the monkey The elephant and whale
have heavier brains than man; the mole and GER
tain snail apes and singing birds have heavier
brains in proportion to the weight OF the body
than man But, according to Ranke the weight
Of the brain in proportion to the weight of the
spinal cord is greater in than in any other
animal.
A despatch dated Kewanee. ILL.,, July 25. saws.
THE bottom of the Hennepin Canal. in Henry
and Bureau counties. has fallen out. and the
Cincinnati firm which has the contract for the
construction en- this section is puzzled and in
dismay. Near Sheffield, in Bureau county. the
big steam shOyeis were busy yesterday seoopinr
out the Garth Below the soft sIperstrata ~