The evening times., 1899-11-05
NOTES OF The DAY.

their native provinces
A fund recently started in San Francisco for
the erection of a monument to commemorate the
victory Of Manila Bay has already reached 1885,
600 and is still being added to.
The catalogue Of the 1900 Paris Exhibition will
consist Of eighteen volumes. one for each of the
groups. into which the general classification is
divided. Each will include historical sketch
OF the industries dealt with.
From 1888 to the present year the number of
steam boilers in the Transvaai has increased from
1-0I1 TO 2,2s2, three of the gold fields alone
pioying no fewer than $50 dynamos supplying
LOO motors and 3009 Lamps
A German psychologist attacks the prevalent no.
ton that sugar is injurious to the stomach. He
considers it OF the most wholesome ard
nourishing foods, admitting, however, that dys-
peptics should rot sweet dishes in the even
Ing
Scotland seems a strange place to find q sta
tue of Abraham Lincoln. and yet there is one
there. 1t adorns a monument erected in old
Calton burying ground. Edinburgh. to the men,
ory OF the Scottish Americans VINO fought in the
American civil war.
circular has been issued by the French
minister Of public works to the railway
panies Of France informing them that unless their
trains Keep better time the government will en-
force the full penalties ordained by law for rail-
way misrnanagement.
The Pixies Peak Power Company proposs to
develop 800 horse power for distribution for
mines in the neighborhood OF Cripple Greek, Col
The source of the water supply L. Beaver Canyon
and a steel and rock dam will be built having a
storage capacity Of go cubic feet.
A church in which only two services are held
during the year is surely curiosity, yet you Will
find such one in the middle of large fed
near the village of Towtcn, England II WAS
originally erected memorial to Lord de Ciif-
ford. who fell in the battle of Towton in 1i6l-
Pigs were imported in New Zealand by Captain
Cook about lI10, and, soon becoming yilds in
creased to a remarkable degree. A century later
wild pigs were so abundant in the fax thickets
of the province OF Tarnaki, en- the North Island,
that hunter could shoot fifty in single-sss.
1t is reported that the wireless telegraph, ap-
paratus Of young Swedish engineer named Or
ling will be tested by Lord Armstrong. He will
get some of the Atlantic liners TO Use the trans
mjtters and receivers while crossing the ocean,
and thus try to communicate with them at 4
land station
Two-thirds of the qunine consumed is pro-
duced in fe Island of Java from cultivated trees.
the Young plants having been procured by the
Dutch Government from Peru in 1852. The Eng
lish Government also started einehona planta-
tions in India. which now produce large quan-
tities Of qfinine.'
The reported offer by the Colombian Govern
ment to lease, to any one who wants to work
them. the famous emerald mines at Nzo at
yearly rental of 900 is the kind of ne<s that
generally precedes q revolution in the country
from which it comes, il the country hsppens 10 be
in South America
The Kashmir Railway is 10 be constructed
over ls5 miles in the most mountainous part OF
India Ii will be operated by electricity. water
power being used. This permits OF much lighter
motor for drawing the same load and also permits
Of grades which steam engine could not cllmD
without recourse 10 the rack - STEM
Manila correspondent of the Chicago
Record" speaking of the departure of the Kan
sas Twentieth Regiment. notes the curious thing
that when the men turned in their arms most OF
them turned in Mausers, when they were charged
with Springfield rifles on the books of the regi-
ment They had captured the Mausers from the
Filipinos
The sock social epidemic says the kansas
CITY Journal sis spreading throughout Missouri,
aesthetic Carthage being one of the most recent
ly infected localities. Despite its name there Is
nothing SiuIpsonian, 80 TO SPEAK. IN Inc stse oi
provided. the characteristic feature
being a requirement that each one who ATTENDS
shall contribute in pennies sim at least equal to
the figure represented IN the size OF the hosiefy
worn.
A large panel in white marble was uncovered
the other day in the parish church at Bryatysilio,
near Llangollen. TO the memory Of Lady Martin
Helen Faucit), says the ''We-tmnster Gazette"
The memorial is beautiful altc-reIievo designed
by Foley Of the celebrated actress, seated with
a volume of Shakespeare on her knee, and 1t has
medallion of Shakespeare AZ the base. Ihe me
moral bears the following inscription: IN
memory of Helen Faucit Lady Martin. who died
at Bryntysilio, 2lst October. ls9s. Her gracious
genius belonged to the world The charm oil het
goodness was for her home and for those VINO
loved her" These words are by Mrs Richmond
Ritchie and are taken from one Of her intro
ductions 10 the biographical edition OF the WorSs
of her father, ". n Thackeray-
A queer case is being tried in Peterson, N
j. in which Joseph Williamson is suing Dr. C.
Eugene MacChesney, principal of Naecheshey
Business and Classical College Williamson want
ei - 600 for alleged breach Of contract. Fred b.
Williamson son of the plaintiff, was twelve years
old in 1894 when his father sent him TO mac
Chesuey's College with the UNDERSTANDING that ne
was to be given good comrnerc1al estiestion'
with particular attention to bookkeeping lie
nay 800 wear for four years course At the
end Of that time Mr.. Williamson ASKED the boy
to figure out the discount on bill OF goocs. Inc
boy was unable TO do so and the father reluctantly
naid the last $50 due and took the boy from Mac
Chesney's. The suit for breach Of contract was
based on the alleged lack of attention given the
boy al school. Young Williamson testified that
the teachers were always too busy to explain any
thing and that they simply allowed the pupils
to copy lessons from textbooks
DIR. Newell Dwight Hills writes in the Ladies
Home Journal And yet this King (Solomon).
with his magnfcence and unrivaled power, this
shrewd judge, this sklful statesman. this scholar
with his wide culture, became pessimist- and
stands forth one of the saddest figures in all the
history Of melancholy. But if we analyze his
misery we find that he was pe>sImist, not be-
cause men are disciplined by conflict and trouble,
but because he wAs confirmed egotist- Had men
used printing presses in those far-oh days the
first letter TO be exhausted in setting up Solo
mons copy would have been the capital letter
a." ''T' buided me houses. ''T got me sol
diers ..T' wrote proverbs, 'i'' had man servants.
'.I'' had maid servants. Through insatiabie
egotism Solomon lifted up this .'f' columnar
hitohing post. and asked all creation TO stand
around ard admire him But simplicity is to a
great man what sweetness Is to rose A bioated
and overwrought egotism makes happiness impos-
sible.
In the hallway of a Philadelphia doctors house
stands fine example of a grandiather's clock.
the POSSESSION of which the medical man owes en-
tirely to pinch Of snuff. says the philadelphia
Record" Some years ago the doctor iRsauestion
set his heart upon such timepece, and ueysted
two of his vacations 10 clock hunting-i He visited
rnany New England farmhouses without success,
as old furniture has been pretty well gathered up
by the dealers .-down East. and theHs carfied
his quest into Delaware and Marylands pdBers he
found many old clocks but none Of them Or Bale.
He was about 10 return home disconsss1fe when
he was called into consultation over p7tienttdy-
ing of ouinsv The resources of medicine had been
exhausted, when the Quacker City doctor be.
thought himself Of an old snufbox he had picked
IN during his wanderings in which still fingered
a modicum of snuff, pungent Of yore. With
this powdered tobacco the doctor assailed the
nostril5 of the sick man. who. sneezing violently,
broke the ahscess in his throat that WAS choking
him to death. Stimuants were administered and
the sick man recovered. The Philadelphia doctor
left the place the morning after this remarkable
hut be had matt horn