The evening times., 1899-01-12
NOTES OF THE DAY.


and then the city. the street and number
and the name last OF alb
In Emperor Williams breakfast m nl
salt bun is a standing order IL IS !
small, white loaf Of bread, the top OF
which is covered witb sat
According TO Paris Figaro. SaiIt-Ssens.
the composer. is nesIeeting earthly music
for the music Of the spheres lie has an
astronomical observatory ca one oil the
Canary Islands.
An elaborate electrical exposition IS 70
be held next year in Como. italy. as a COM
memoration Of the centennial Of the inve-l-
tion OF the yoltaic pile AlessaEdro Volta.
its discoverer. was born in Como
Mrs Mary Mapes Eodge ld-tor Of 81.
Nicholas, who has Just recovered from
severe Illness, has sailed %. Eu- ops BY
advice OF her physician. Ars. DoGs= a.
tends TO spend the Winter IN Egypt ami
Italy.
Lionel E g. Garden. the Bc.tish c ns;d
at the City OF Mexico who has been az
| pointed consul general o. Great Brtsi at
Havana. occupied the same post in CIb1
about fifteen years ago. where he mariieI
| an American woman.
Debtors in Siam. with three months IN
arrears, can be seized BY the creditors and
compelled TO work Out their indebtedness.
oi4Ouli 81 GCDtOi run dN AALS ActA4EA ta4S
wife or his children may be held III slavery
| until the debt is Cancelled.
One Of the largest Iorests in the world
stands on ice IL is situated between CTal
and the OkhOtsk Sea. = well was recently
dug in that regiCu and at depth Of 80
! feet the ground was still flOzen-
fy so minute as to be invisible ran
three inches in naif a second and was cal
cuIated to make no less than $40 steps in
| the time a healthy man would breathe
once. \ man with propOrtiOnaJe agility
| could run twentyfOur miles in a minute.
DIR. Dvorak. the composer has just re-
! ceiyed from the Austro- Hungarian EEpe-
! ror, on the occasion of the Royal Jubilee.
| the decoration. For Arts and Sciences
! This order. it seems. is very rarely be-
! slowed, the last musician who received IL
/ being Brahms.
\ former master of Ely workhOuse. in
/ England. has just been admitted as u
pauper Inmate 10 the institution O.er which
4 he once presided Such an incident is said
+ 10 be without precedent although Dickens
/ anticipated it in oliver Twist, in the
/ fate which he provided for Mr.. Bumble.
4 Along The Adriatic sea swallows and 9th
/ er migratory birds are caught every year
! b. the hundreds OF thousands and eaten
! b. the Italians, who spread nets, IN wHic1
/ as Elany as coo TO u4 Cf n tired birds
are caught at once. IL IS GiiEJu.t 70 stol
this wholesale murder bec8Us- on sight
OF an official the hunters spies give q
shriH whistle and the nets disappear
/ In the bedroom of William II al Hamp-
( ton Court palace is a clock OF the grand
/ father" pattern which goes for twelve
months without winding. II was construct
ed about 1869 by Dan Quare. and is such
q splendid tine keeper that it does not
vary second in a month. It does not re-
I cord the hours only bat also the seconds.
I days and months and even the times OF
sunrise and sunset
I American capital is about to seek an en-
trance into Haiti to develop its resources
\ company is being formed under a charter
of the State of New Jersey. to construct
artesian wells and supply water in various
localities. Another company proposes 20
utilize the native cabinet woods. which are
susceptible of very high polish, in eypor-
tatiOn TO the United States aad in IL .
manufacture OF furniture
\ stray bullet cut many caPers in 4
boarding house in NUncie, Ind, the other
night The shot first went through the
sleeve OF a coat worn By Peter MCCoTdei.
! then plowed a furrow through Michael
/ HagerJy's side and struck John Riley who
was standing near. in one leg. infiCting a
slight wound The shot was heard by the
/ three men. Bat the shooter could not b.
located. The three men are iron workers.
One Of the most peculiar freaks that the
wind played recently was on the Presby-
terian Church at New Hartford, y. Y. It
blew the steeple above the belfry out OF
plumb about - degrees. so that the splre
pointed in a northwesteTly direction AMI
il was feared it might fall. Men were put
at work Strengthening it the next morning.
when The wind veered around and blew it
back almost TO the original position. The
men inside made a lively run 10 get cut of
the place
The latest craze in ambitious circles IS
20 have the walls in one room Of the house
given over entirely tC bidck-and- white
drawings. The wall is first painted white
/ and the sketches are pasted or. Very
! amusing would be room papered with
Caricatures. Il is said that the Car and
Czarina have started such 4 Cne The
Gar has sent for every paper CT every
nation containing absurd caricarures Of
himself. and ne and the Czarfna have cur
the figures out and pasted them upon the
walls.
: Kirkcaldy tScctlanD paper recenrl7
! / printed an account Gf an accident Wi d
befsH two wcIl-known temperance men
ON their way home from p ohibiticu
/ meeting and facetiCusly stated hat for
the time. This remark mad, the victims
OF the accident indignant. aand they d.
! maadei public apology from ,he ed tor
In the next issue Of the paper apPeare
this notice ''MessTs- - and --
demand an apology for cur having state,
that at the time of their accident tn,
were both sober We have pleasure il
Withdrawing our observation.
One by one the so-called waste PROD
ucts" of manufacture are being turned {,
! a profitable use. new industry Ia
sprung up lately in the Northwest in III,
utilization of the elevator .'oifaI I'-screen
! ings, sbrunken kernels. broken grains an,
!. weed seed that come from wheat wheI
t cleaned Up 70 a year OF SO ago this va
I , worth practically nothing. Now II bring
I s. ton. and many thousands of tons O
the refuse are being shipped this fall I,
t | Minneapolis. where it is converted inti
n feed for sheep and cattle. 1t is elaine,
thai the sale of this waste material is net
| ding the elevator companies at Duluth an
| Superior enough to pay the running eX
Pensss Of all their shipping and eleanin
; | warehouses.
= II is proposed to remove the fimou
= | Ponte Vecchio. or old bridge of Florence
! the only one now left of any Importance
+ | with its mediaeval houses lining e.tne
. side Of it. and the scheme is creating
s great stir in the artistic world both Il
j Italy and the rest of Europe. com
mittee has been formed foT the ''prOtsc
t:Cn OF old Florence" which include
among its members the most ilIustriou
Florentine names, and circular has bee
sent out TO all parts of Europe s1'ic til
signatures against this act of desecTatior
| which is the greater inasmuch as it
contemplated to substitute for this his
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