The evening times., 1899-09-06
NOTES OF TIE DAY.


trade reach billions.
1t will surprise many TO learn that diseases
were studied some s,ieO years ago.
Contrary 10 popular belief. excitement causes
much less insanity than monotony-
Diamonds are formed in nature at enormous
temperature and under immense pressure
The summer of 1890 will be historical in Italy
for its tale of victims 70 lightning stroke
A Duquesne Iowa. man has dog which was
sent to him by express all the way from Manila.
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There are many muscles in the human body
control of which has been lost through ages Of
disllse.
\ cat in Strand tavern in London has become
incorporate through drinking wine spilled by
walters.
Forty live sea lions were captured at the Santa
Barbara Islands recently for the Zoo ar Antwerp.
Belgium
An eminent American scientist claims to have
made the discovery that the earth is 509,OOO,Oo0
years old.
Milan intends to have Worlds Fair in 1904
by way Of celebrating the completion Of the Sim
plon Tunnel
Members of Parliament are required TO raise
their hats when alluded to in the speeches Of
fellow-members.
An old man named Anton Kain. who died re-
worth s5,O6O.0O0.
London capitalists are interested in the pro-
posal TO lay a cable from Vancouver. B C.. to
Sksguay, Alaska
There in Europe seventy reigning prin-
eesses Of manageable age, and only forty-seven
corresponding princes
The tobacco crop in South Carolina this year
is estimated at 20,ooo,O0O pounds, worth from
to 26 cents pound
years brought her of seventy-two 10 the Be
| neyolent Asylum To be looked after
The Gersoppa Falls, on the sharavatti River.
| in South Kanara, India are larger and more mag
| nificent than Niagara. The water makes clear
| drop of s30 feet.
Horses tails are protected from mud and rain
! in wet weather by a newly-designed cover, con-
ssting of tubular sack of rubber or other water
| proof material.
Two hundred and forty-eight people have been
killed by trolley cars within the limits of the
old city Of Brooklyn since the introduction OK
the electric cars
child was lost in the Blue Ridge Mountains
and three months Later its dead body and that
of the dog who was with II were found Both
had starved to death
France has 2Oe.96o square miles in Europe. sOe.-
eos in Asia, 3,TO6.752 in Africa (including the
| zone of French infuence), 7s,3c2 in America,
| and l4,05s in Oceanica-
In the centre of the plaza in Lima is pretty
bronze fountain that erected II 157s gilt
] from noble Spaniard, and Is PROBABLY the
| oldest fountain in America
| Stockholm. Sweden, has prrtaly the largest
number of telephones for Its pcpI'tti7n OF any
/ city in Europe There are 23.OoG telephones %
| less than 100000 inhabitants.
| The number of failures from all causes n at
tomato block signals as compared with the total
! number Of movements of e4ea signal docs no.
| exceed more than one IN $1,000
The great army of smiths in the United States
! is well represented in the peerage of England
| Ne less than six earls' daughters have acquired
| the surname OF Smith by marriage
| Wireless telegraphy ought 10 have a future in
| Spain Both the telegraphic and telephone sys-
1 tens suffer greatly from thieves. who cut and
| carry of the wire, often in broad daylight
The green goods men operating in Cuba are
| conducting their business such an extensive
scale as TO send genuine 81 bills with their cir
/ culars as samples Of the counterfeit money they
/ have for sale.
The terrible results OF low-fash, or Standard
| Oil Company's oil. pointed out by London
| paper The years record for that city, it says,
shows S0i petroleum lamp accidents, . OF which
! had fatal results
1 An ln0ldHaptil> etOIthteRSis WIN SC4A7
shoes, SAYS that this style of footwear is exten-
siyelv used by people who work in canneries,
! where hot solder, acid, ETC., on the floors would
| ruin shoe leather.
| The British Empire has a population OF 4O6,-
900 600 people; of this number 40, ,405.00O are in
Europe; 30s 800. 600 in Asia; 100000 in Africa,
1 including Egypt; 100000 in American colonies,
/ and 5,50O0OO in Oceanca-
| The Belgians are eminently commercial Peo-
pie In Antwerp ten travelling commercial schol-
arships. of three years duration. with an annual
/ income Of $1,000, are given 10 students who most
| deserve such opportunities
'.Barsa Ike satta'' is a peculiar game. which is
much played in East India. but has recently been
prohibited by the government. The game con-
| ssts in bets being made rainy days As TO
! whether little much rain viii fall
New Jersey man has patented hitchins
post which will accommodate bicycles as well
as horses the portion of the post nearest the
! pavement being provided with slots of sufficient
| width to admit the wheel OF the machine.
Lobster Matching by means of floating ineuba-
tors. which were invented by Mr.. Nelson, is
carried on to very great extent in NewfOund-
land. these ingenious contrivances being placed
in nearly all the large bays of the island
In Madrid few days ago the remains of Spain:
famous poet, Bernardo Lopez Garcia, who diet
in Is7O was removed from their temporary rest
ing place in a monks cemetery and shipped Il
Jaen where they to be placed in beauti
ful national mausoleum-
In France the officer wears his uniform OF
every possible occasion Here in the United
States he takes it off whenever he is not on duty
and in Washington army uniforms are seldom
seen, even in the War Department, while the!
are. indeed, on the streets.
< TIa n,p,ad bo,or - al,
typical gossiping barber. petit Journal mean
little journal and has no connection witt
lie Journal THE Gaulois'' is the ''Gaul.'
.'Libre Parole means ''free Speech 'L'In
strsnsigeant, Henri Rochefort's paper, is 'the il
| reconcilahle."
In Russia a sentence not exceeding one month
arrest or payment up to 100 roubles will be i'm
posed upon those who sell, prepare, store IA
for commercial purposes which may contain for
| eign matters and a fine not exceeding loo rouble
will be imposed on such as contravene the othe
| rules and regulations
Cigarettes can be rapidly made by a new hand
operated machine. which has cylinder closed a
both ends but open side for the insertion
of the paper and tobacco, one edge of tn
paper being held in clamp until tn
| other edge has encased the tobacco, when the wv
| edges can be pasted
They say that on Moosehead Lake Me- an ang
Ter was recently fishing with a steel rod durnl
a thunderstorm and struck a trout at the sam
instant that a thunderbolt daIlied with his rod
The cork handle prevented the angler feeling any
| thing more than a slight shock hut when h
hauled ii in he found the trout stone dead
Some ingenious man has devised new style
magic clock in France-the kind of a clock whie
| goes without showing the mechanism that make
| il 90 The hands traverse n trausnarent dia