The evening times., 1899-08-12
NOTES OF THE DAY.


is expected in Iowa this year.
The Hfeboats around the British coast dur
ing the last year rescued $50 people
Projectiles for modern big and rapid-are guns
require about half their weight in powder to fire
them.
Thirty years ago there were only two dozen ex-
pioSiye compounds known to chemists; now there
are 1000
OF the worlds annual yield of petroleum.
amounting to 5.ooo.Oo0,0Oo gallons, the United
States produces half.
In st. Paul recently boy fell from a wall
sixty feet to a railroad track below, and es-
capped without serious injury
Baltimore has the largest negro population of
any city in Christendom. The census IS ex-
pected to show at least l25,0eO.
India imported 2,ss5 29s gallons Of beer in
Is9T-'9s. and the product Of the breweres in that
country amounted to 5,s96,594 gallons
The coal production of Great Britain amounts
to l9o,eoo0Oo tons year; OF Germany to ioo,-
0Oo,OOO tons, and France to q, 100000 tons
The Oklahoma wheat harvest, which began last
week. promises TO yield Is. 900 bushels The
Territory viii have its greatest crop Of corn this
year.
In six OF the largest cities Of Switzerland for
eigners make up 40 per cent OF the population;
but OF these all but 10 per cent were born in
Switzerland
1t is calculated that during the London season
the average amount OF money spent daily in
flowers is $4,000, most Of which goes TO foreign
flower growers
At the Imperial Court Of Austria the chef OF
Emperor Francis Joseph estimates that OF $3.50,
900 expended the tables every year, the ''un-
used represents about 800 GOO
toboggan slide in St. Moritz Switzerland.
extends three-quarters of a mile, and is said to
be the longest in the world The descent has
been made in seVenty-one seconds.
Dr. John G.. Pstton's reports for the last year
tell of 1,1O2 South Sea Islanders from esnni-
balisn to Christianity, missionary alone re-
eeiyng 200 adults into church membership
The Populist State bank examiner Of Kansas
says that in the last seven years the Kansas
farms have produced crops. live stock. ETC., of
aggregate value greater than the national debt
that is, nearly 81, 100000.
The secretary of the Massachusetts, board Of
health has issued the statement that Goldfish Is
nutritious as surloin steak or oleomargarine.
1t is plain that locality sometimes influences
even the scientific judgment
An expert has arisen to explain that stage
fright really comes from 4 diSDrdered stomach
He argues from this that persons meditatiDg pub
lie appearance should be careful OF their diet
and adhere TO regular habits.
The British army on January 1 numbered 49,
$50, Of whom l07, 900 were stationed at home;
1850 in India, 1900 in the colonies, 1.soo in
Crete. There 1900 cavalry. Last year the
desertions in round numbers were 1000.
The law OF leze majesty has been applied by
the Berlin courts TO the verses .'Me und Gott,"
recited by Captain Coghlan at New York re-
Gently, and the edition that had been published
for sale in Germany has been confseated.
England is rejoicing in the prospect Of fresh
apples all the year round, shipments ire be-
ginning 10 arrive from the Cape Of Good Hope.
These reach England just when the Northern
Hemisphere apples become poor, and are
perior 10 those preserved in cold storage.
VI. Secretan, Of Paris the owner of the IA
nous Secretan collection. which was dispersed
some years ago, is dead. After having made
large fortune in copper he lost his fOrtuEe, and
his collection sold He the owner OF
Miilets ''AngeIus,'' which sold for SlIO,000-
At Asti, in California. last year. eistern IOs
feet long by "a feet wide and p feet deep was
formed in a hillside for the storage of wine The
immense tank was lined with concrete two feet
thick, and coated inside with glaze imper-
meabe as glass. The capacity Of the tank Is
10000 gallons.
An association Of London women conducts The
congeniaI business of caring for window boxes
and growing flowers for balconies and small gar
dens- 1t VIII take the contract OF filing bow
kiHdow, a conservatory little or big, or viii look
after the hait-dozen or more drawing plants
that one may possess
Thomas Carleton. Of WaterviIle Ne, has de-
cided novelty for this section in the shape of
shamrock which he raised himself 1t IS thought
4, to be the only ever cultivated in the State
of Maine lie started 10 grow IL last December,
and his efforts had such success that he now has
full-fedged shamrock
4 despatch 10 the -'London Graphic from Sc
bastopoI says that Cossaek ex-oficer, who has
Just returned from TeheIan. Persia, declares that
the Shah IS mentally and physically lncapaeltated
and that he suffers Authorizations He finds his
chief amusement with the telephone, which IS
elaborately installed throughout the palace
There is no part of the world which has such
4 black record for wrecks as the narrow Black
Sea. The number in years has averaged
more than one day., the greatest number OF
wrecks recorded in year being 425. and the
smallest ISi About 80 per cent Of these vessels
became total wrecks, all the crews being lost
Minnesota man captured 4 kingfsher when
the bird quite young and made pet 81 him,
and trained the bird to capture fish and lay them
at his masters feet. In summer the bird Is
taken to the river, where fish known to
abound and set at liberty. The bird poises high
I in the air, and suddenly dropping, graSps his
victim and promptly delivers the fish to his mas
| ter.
| A Russian inventor utilities coal dust by mix
ing it with a coarse molasses and little rosin,
! and working the mixture into bricks Thee arti-
I fciaI humps burn well. and are being made IN
/ increasing quantities The "br1nette' industry
/ Is carried en- TO some extent IN Western Europe
/ also, the eheapuess Of the coal dust enabling
| makers to sell their product in competition with
| the natural lump coal
/ When the Twentieth Regiment left Topeka it
was presented with beautiful silk flag. known
I technically as the regimental colors. This flag
| is said to be a sight to behold at the present
| time-ragged and dirty and riven with bullets
/ On the end Of the flagstaff IS bronze eagle,
and at the battle of Baqueri this eagle was struck
| with a NauseT bullet IN such fashion that the
| od bird is cooked over TO ene side in a tipsy but
belligerent sort of an attitude, which makes
! everybody laugh.
Lastsycar it was proposed that section Of the
] trunk of the mpundu- tree. under which Living
stones heart lies buried, should be removed and
| brought 10 London for preservation in the rooms
/ of the Royal Geographical Society. This course
| was suggested ds the only means OF saving from
destruction the original inscription carved on the
| tree and row an attempt is being made 70 raise
5000 for the purpose OF providing substantial
/ and elaborate monument in bronze, which Is 10
| be taken out to Central Africa in sections and
! erected there.
The Hon. George Coppin. the Father OF the
Australian stage and the managing editor OF
the Melbourne Theatre Royal, has just celebrated
his eightieth birthday. Mr.. Coppin. whose pa
| rents belonged TO travelling theatrical COM
pany, had travelled all over England. and even
| p;ayed in LOndcn, before he emigrated TO Aus
t-alia nearly sixty years ago He established
himself in Melbourne in 1913, and has ever since
been one Of the institutions Of that city, pro-
vidiDg it with half dozen theatres. playing most
| Of the parts associated In England with the
| name of J. L. Toole. and representing it in Par
| liaIEent for many years
Japanese engineers seldom specfy 4 machine Ia