The evening times., 1899-10-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

county, Cal, is made Of an old piano box.
On average every man, woman, and child
consumes about three bushels Of apples per year
and only few exported
The number paying subscriptions to the Zionist
cause exceeds 100 600. and 81 100000 has been
| subscribed toward the Colonial Bank.
In Mexico vanilla is much used as a heart tonic.
The plan is simply to take piece of vanilla such
as Is used in havoring, and TO chew it.
Verbatim reports seldom seen in French pa
pers, and the shorthand writer plays very in
significant part in Partisan journalism
In 800 Anglican Churches in England incense is
in ceremonial London tops the list with
46 churches and the diocese Of York comes next
with q.
has been sent to Stanley Little. of PeekskiIl. n.
y 1t weighed li9 81 pounds and raised IN
Atlanta.
Near Grobogana, Java, there Is a lake Of boiling
mud about two miles in circumference Immense
columns OF steaming mud constantly arising
and descending
The Bank of Spain now holds sl2. 100000 more
gold than it held year ago, and s41 100, 600
silver. Its note circulation meantime has in
creased s21, $4,000.
Badness is far less common among red-headed
people than among their darker haired neighbors.
The ordinary crop on the head Of red-haired
person is about 1920 hairs
Eight sections at the Paris Universal Exhibi-
tion Of 1900 viii be devoted 10 the history Of the
religions Of the world with the beliefs Of all the
known races OF men, past and present"
An enterprising liquor firm has engaged an
aeronaut 10 give series Of balloon ascensions in
Ceylon, and while ascending to drop small
sample bottles of WHISKY attached to miniature
pzrachutes
There are peroxide horses as well as wo-
men in old New York Horses Just suitable for
carriage work, that they do not quite match
in color. are now chemically biOndned'' to the
tint desired in very few minutes
A school for backward children will be es-
tablished this fall in Chicago, in utilization with
the department of pedagogy of the University Of
Chicago. There is only school OF the kind in
the country Ii is located in New York. and is
known as the Physiological School
An English chemist recently examined 3I65
samples of beer, OF which i21 found u
have been adulterated. and the fact was also dis
covered that the aduiterafion OF beer IS almost
exclusively confined to London OF 157 samples
OF tobacco aEalyzed 26 were found to be adul-
terated.
Five hundred Lithuanian girls have petitioned
70 be allowed 10 form the sole guard of honor
of the German Emperor during the hunting sea-
this year. These girls all skilled horse
under the Jagellons- Their offer provision
ally accepted
Medical journals are calling attention to the
fact that unimpaired hearing in railroad empIeyes
Is essential to the safety Of the travelling public
a5 normal eyesight. recent examination IN Eu-
rope developed the fact that out OF eighty two
tremen and engine drivers only three possessed
perfectly normal hearing.
A OF perfect figure should weigh ISs
pounds and be 5 feet inches tall She should
measure feet inches from the Zip Of enc midi
die finger 10 the Zip OF the other when the arms
extended. The length Of the hand ought TO
be Just sne-tenth Of this and ons-seventh should
be the length Of the foot
During the year ls0s the copper production Of
Montana Is officially given at sO6. .17s l57 pounds
against 230 Dps I4I pounds for 1857 decline Of
26.ll4.9S4 pounds, equivalent 10 about 10 per
cent. During the same period the product OF
the United States increased from 49i,O5s.27f
pounds 10 526,5l2I9s7 pounds
The Santa Gertrude ranch. owned and managed
by Mrs Richard King. is vast pasture Of
a million and quarter acres, with the girdle
Of a single fence long enough 10 reach from L0a-
don 10 Edinburgh Ii Is estimated that this tract
would hoid all OF the live stock IN Great Britain
and half the worlds population
The society of total ahstainers just formed in
Vienna is the first ever established in Austria
Everybody drinks in Austria An Austrian baby
begins to sip beer at the age Of three months,
and il grows up. learns 10 consume the hqnOr
in eyer-increasing quantity until, when full
grown man, he can drink il by the gallon.
The Korean woman is 50 little esteemed that
she has not a name. In childhood she has
4 nickname bestowed upon her, by which she II
known 10 her family and intimate friends. but
after she arrives at maturity she is called thus
only by her parents To the rest Of the world
she Is simply ''the daughter" or The sister OF
So-gnd-So-
A British officer who recently visited Menelek,
of Abyssinia was able to count $40 men in his
army and thinks that the 10000 assigned TO the
Abyssinian army in reports Is an eXaggeratlon-
The men he saw, however. were all armed with
modern rifles and they had Maxim guns and
mitrailleuses we'll They have also shown that
they can stand up against civilized troops
Prof DIR. Emmanuel Hermann has proposed the
introduction of a telegram card, which will IN
doubtedjy be used by the Austrian pOstofhce. The
idea of Privy Councillor Hermann l. 10 cheaper
rapid communication by combination letter and
telegram and special cards are 10 be used for
the purpose. These cards 10 be sent at half
the price Of the ordinary telegram
The number of soldiers slain in battle depents
a great deal on the color of their uniform The
more hashy and conspicuous the helmet and jacket
the better the target and consequently the great
er the mortality. Red attracts the eye most read
ily. and twelve men wearing that color are
killed 10 seven in rife green. six in blue. or
five in either brown. blue grey. or grey
There are $4,000 men in the world who gain a
livelihood chiefly by fishing. making an annual
catch OF s225 worth of fish for each The
fisheries Of the United States supply 100000 pounds
annually and those of Europe I-s00,0O0 pounds
The American citizen eats about % pounds OF fish
and 40 pounds Of meat year. while the Euro
pean eats "a pounds Of meat and IL PouAds OF
fish annually.
According to a Berlin man, the German post
master general has had TO entrust the business Of
designing the new serial of imperial stamps for
the beginning of the century to Engiishman-
Moreover. the remuneration is substantial g 900.
The stamps said to be very beautiful, oblong
in shape, like the American Columbus stamps
and at the desire Of the Emperor. they illustrate
the history of the Hohenzollern family.
An automobile street sweeper the invention OF
NM Thomas and Leroeher. has recently been ap-
proved BY the head OF the street cleaning service
of Paris. and will DOUBTLESS be in general use be-
fore the end of the present summer. The propeH-
ing machinery of the new automobile is placed
in front, while underneath and behind is a tank
and the sprinkling Devices for The wagon sprink-
les the streets as well as sweeps them The
brushes come in the Pear, and be raised clear
of the while il is being sprinkled- The de
sign Is to the the street TO be cleanad
first sprinkliHg it. and then passing over il again
to sweep the dust into small piles 1t is the in
tention OF the Paris authorities TO also have
| electric wagons TO remove the dust after it has
been gathered into the heaps.
The newest fashionable fad in London is the
Kitchener mustache. Hairdressers are pushing IT.
You cannot go into of the irst-class hair
dressers' establishments now, correspondent,
but what upon the wall, right in front OF your
chair where you sit to be clipped and combed,
hangs portrait of the Sirdar. showing 10 the best
advantage his handsome. well-groomed, expansive
mustache BARRIERS proclaim IL model Of what a
mustache should be. They are devoting them
selves to training it their customers with more