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


Game cocks in Ponce. Porto Rico, bring as
high a. Slo9 each.
smoking long common among Burmese chill
dren. is the Increase
Bsnares India. was an ancient capital before
Babylon Nineveh were founded
There i an Ecelandie superstition that smhi-
deNtrous people are born to good iuck.
NiIkweed. commonly believed to be poisonous.
i used as iuod IN some parts o. the fyFoL
It cost the state ss.alI .0sI. II 30 operate the
governmental machinery q Michigan last year.
An apparatus has been devised for automatically
photographing people a. they enter shops and
other places
4 Belleville m man recently added SESSION.
70 his tax returns because his conscience com
manded it,
\ community in Alabama containing 40 eol-
orcd people and but two white per=ons is about
10 be incorporated.
Six companies have been formed in Baltimore
Ger manufacturing automobiles. Two Of these AZ
ready are in operation
TIE Hebrew community OF AthCns. Greece. con
siStng Ct eighty families has taken steps for the
erection OF a synagogue
After August % anyone in Missouri found guilty
Of placing arsenic calouIei- bisuuth, ammonia,
or alum in any kind Of food may be fned nos
less than S100.
suit OF recent investigations il estimated ,h1t
the earth had been the abode Of life for about
S0,0o0-ooo years.
A Port Angeles. Wash. man took 80 chickens
in TO Dawson last summer. During the trip they
averaged three dozen eggs a day. and the eggs
we're sold for - dozen.
The United states turn oat annually Is. CO.
900 pounds OF plug tobacco. Il, 0e0.000 pounds cf
fine cut, l4.eoo.00o pounds Of snuH 4,0oa.e0o.e 90
cigars. and 5,oo0. 100000 cigarettes
Notwithstanding the fact that there Is notiI-
ing under the sun. the United states Patent
Office granted nearly 5000 patents last year 10
people who had hit upon idea
The Government Is paying from SRA $500
day for each vessel CARRYING horses, supplies.
and army baggage 70 the Philippines and sI,Ooa
a day to each vessel that carries troops.
The msn-of-war Of the Romans had a crew af
about 22j men. of which f7i oarsmen work
ing three decks. The speed ct these vssss.s
was about six miles an hour in fair weather.
Although one-half Of the rubber product Of the
forests sleng the ..mIzon gees 20 the United
States. most Of The steamers, wharves. ard bank
ing houses in the region belong to the English.
Rubens received for his painting Of the grand
ceiling at the banquetins house. Whitehall, the
sgm Of S20,G00 The space covered BY this paint
ing i about 900 yards. thar he was paid
nearly so yard
Fifty thousand empty bottles we're picked up
at Old Trafcrd Park on the morning following
the first day OF the great match between the
Australian and English cricket teams. Al but j..
900 had held ginger beer
Ladies who kiss their pet dogs warned by
no less an authority than Dr. Magniu Of the
Paris Academy Of Sciences. that the little pets
are one 0f the great agencies III spreading dis
ease, especially consumption
The military household Of the Gar IS com
,ff f4sv afs.fr offfo Of
eighty three of whom belong TO the army and hf-
teen to the navy Nineteen members Of the royal
family are Included in this list.
During the international exposition, soon to be
held at Buffalo. the Niagam Falls VIII be ilh
minated by huge electric Searehlights, equipped
with muiti-col0red glasses. and are lights viii be
operated in the Cave Cf the Winds
Pots and kettles are easily cleaned with
Pennsylvania wsman's patent utensil. which has
several cup-shaped disks united to 4 common
base with dOwnwardIy projecting hIEgeS having
erimped rims to form scraping surfaces
For accurately tsuing the pulleys OF machinery
a newly patented machine has shaft on which
the pulley is mounted with friction wheel set
in a fraIne. 10 be reyolved by contact with the
pulley driving a grinding wheel to act on is
surface and edges
Telephones are to be 6tssd wirh sanitary
guard to protect the user from iRhaiing microbes
from the mouthpieee, the guard being Of the
proper shape TO ft the interior of the transmit
ter and lap over the edges. making it easily re-
movable for cleansing.
homins pigeon owned at Church, in Lam
cashire, has been returned to lis lott after
markabe adventure. 1t was caught by one Of
the crew Of the Cunard liner. Lueania. on tine
Newfoundland coast taken TO 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 culriyates thirty acres
without employing help. his wife lending him as
sistance in harvest time.
According to tables made by sporting men. over
$3.50, ,eOo.O0O Is lost on the turf every year. OF
this $4,000 900 Is lost on English race courses.
ard. strange TO say. about 800. 000.009 on AUS
tralian eouIses- The remainder is chiefly dis1rib-
utcd between France. the United States, and
British colonies
A process has been invented and patented in
Brazil for preparing coffee in tabIoids by a sys-
TEN Of compression. It 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 Tor his the pure,
unadulteratcd article.
Many cities in Europe are solving the problem
Of the destruction OF iron gas and water pipes
By clectrolysis BY substituting fer them pipes
made Of glass. As glass IS aimost perfect nom
conductor Of electricity there Is. Of course, no
eiectroiysiS- Further advantages are the saving
of electricity and The absence OF danger Of shocz
from wandering currents
Belgium Is the most confused little nationality
on earth. In the great cities the population IS
made up Of inextricable mixtures OF Flemish
races and the Wailoous, pure French. and Ger
mans Add to this broad splashes Of the spanish
blood that came in with the princes OF the last
century. and You have curious conglome5ate
mantle brave little Belgian
The new street cars to be used on the inter
urban line between st. Paul and saltwater viii
be unique in their equipment They VIII have
compressed air brakes and whistles. 10 be sun
piled by small motor operating an air pump.
The air whistle VIII bc used in the country
where the cars viii be at a high rate ot
speed Each car also VIII be equipped with a
telephone, with fifty feet Of wire and a switch
plug.
Al 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 aud whale
tain small apes and singing birds have heavier
brains in proportion 70 the weight OF the bedv
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.
\ despatch dated KewaRee. M July 25. saws:
'The bottom Of the Hennepin Canal in Henry
and Bureau counties has fallen oct and the
Cincinnati firm which has the contract for the
construction this section IS puzzled and in
| disTnay- Near Sheffield. in Bureau county. the
big steam shove.s were busy yesterday scooDiug
out the earth. Below the soft srperstrltl ~
aurfE IafI 81 L.