The evening times., 1899-07-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Ten per cent OF the Hawaiian natives are Iepers
Wales has eighty clergymen Of the name -of
Evans
The Greenland whale has heart yard in di-
ameter.
A Yonkers, " v, man dsIocated his shoulder
by sneezing.
The Monadnoek block. Caleago, is said to have
daily population OF 5000.
Philadelphia collected SlO2. .OO0 as taxes on
trolley company dividends last year.
The teaching OF English is to be made obIiga-
tory in the Russian commercial schools.
The Emperor of China has to fast sixty-sour
days in each year for the sake of religion.
A Methodist Episcopal Church building in Bal
timore has been converted into synagogue.
Algeria and Argentina are the only eoun-
tries in the world where the horses outnumber
the human beings.
=, Georgia has a woman mail carrier; she trav
young woman also manages farm.
George Gould finds relaxation in golf, and
Howard Gould in yachting. Frank Gould, like
j. r. Morgan, is great dog faneier.
A sign hung out in Canal Street. near the
Union station, Boston, reads as follows: La
dies shoes shned by lady attendant"
twenty-five eggs have been taken from a fe-
male eopperiead snake. killed on the grounds Of
Rev. DR.. Darlington, Of Christ Church, Brook
lyn who has his summer-house in that place.
The eggs filed quart measure.
Topeka is ready TO greet the Twentieth Kan
sas with boundless hospitality" remarks a news
paper OF that city. This announcement might be
enthusiastically received by the volunteers but
for the fact that the preceding day the
paper had said; "0uT dream OF luxury is OF a
drink of pure, cold water, and a breath of fresh
air"
The editor Of the American Journal of Phar-
macy" remarking upon the immunity Of certain
domestic animals against particular posons sug-
gests that medicinal roots fruits and seeds. be-
ing rich in nutritive materials, may economically
be turned TO account as food for animals instead
OF being thrown away as being Of value after
their medicinal constituents have been extracted
According 10 the official statistics the state
Of Massachusetts last year supported entirely
1885 paupers, and partially supported 1902
Of the latter .. 400 were undcr sixteen years of
age; 4I,974 had fixed residences in towns and
cities. l0,s.s had fixed residences in the
try. 20,2l4 had no fixed residence. In addition
to these GIG persons reported as
grants.
During the last term a Centralia No. school,
boy, levin Tomlinson. aged sixteen years. was
tardy and never missed a day. His home
is seven miles from the schoolhouse, and coming
and going he travelled fourteen miles each day,
which, during the school term, makes 200 miles
Travelled. During the winter he arose at $3.50
every morning, fed the stock, and performed the
chores, then started for school.
The ''Easton Cid-) Ledger tells of an old
Mr. Peter Tarr, OF that place. who clerk
when young man in liquor dealers store
my employer a religious man., said Mr..
Tarr, "a regular protracred meeting singer.
Sometimes Sunday mornings negro called
Uncle Jack would try 10 bug pint Of liquor,
and the dealer would sing with tune and fervor:
9 4 don't sell no rum on sunday,
Glory, halIclujah.
Turn the spigot and help yourself,
And put the money the shelf.
Glory, hAlie.ujah,' "
Mr.. Tarr himself a local preacher. WHO'S
going preach at the M5thodists this mOrning?''
was once asked old Nr. BulIitt, the president of
the Easton bank 'Ptter Tarr.'' was the reply.
''Petah Tah.' exclaimed the old gentleman in
amazement; ''Petah Tah, Where in the HI
did Petah Tah get anything 10 preach?' He
doubted the validity Of that Peters orders.
Mexican silver dollars the only currency
in the Philippines. says the New York COM
mercial Advertiser" and as they are inconvenient
to carry about in the light cotton clothes which
are your only wear beneath that torrid sun. na-
tive ingenuity has invented way TO utilize and
leave them at home In shopping or marketing
you pay for anything. but sign a slip
of paper with the amount OF your indebtedness
written on II I1lS Is called chitO. and aS
the end of the month the trader sallies forth
with boy and wheelbarrow, or a twO-horse
wagon, IL his trade is extensive. calls all his
patrons and collects his solid cash, ties II up
in canvas bags. and tolls hOmewaTd A good,
large vault in every house would be comfCrtI-
bic. but earthquakes are always lying around
ready 10 shake them down Probably the banks
have to send out drays the FIRST OF the month 20
supply the needed currency fer this neat financial
system There is one drawback To its perfect
working. Transient residents Of snail PRINCIPLES
and other unprincipled persons sign ehitos with
alacrity, live like fighting cocks for three weeks
and then skip in light marching order, encuTr-
bered by Mexican dollars The trader loses,
but then-he has the poor mans currency, and
is oppressed by To bloated bondholder.
By the aid Of improved machinery, that which
at the beginning OF the century was the luxury Of
the rich is row the comfort of the poor. Mate
rial and labor are no longer the sole factors Of
production, says the Engineering Magazine" ="
Assisted by machinery and tools, mans labor now
converts the raw materials of nature into the
useful necessary, and, in some cases, even the
artistic paraphernalia OF civilization, with one
third OF the exsTtion formerly necessary Even
Russia the latest competitor in the industrial
field, has, with the aid OF machinery. more than
doubled since 1861. the individual output Of
those employed in her manufactures In the
course Of twenty years tls70-LS90) the number OF
persons employed in the American manufactures
has more than doubled and the value OF their
10 show the important part that machinery
PLAYS in modern warfare. Few realize or stop
to think how much are indebted 70 the in
ventor and machine designer for the comforts,
luxuTies. and necessities Of our daily life The
loom which weaves silks. cottons, and wool
ems; the harvesting machines. which reap our
corn; the machinery which forms bricks and
mixes mortar; the printing machine, which
makes the penny daily possible Our food. cloth
ing, furniture, literature, all produced
machinery which il is practically impossible to
make maintain without the modern machine
tool
Ponce claims by her last census population of
1900 people in. her urban and rural districts
of the province. SAYS ''Harper's Weekly" In
the town proper. however, the population IS
Ii eco or little over, though, by including the
villages of Cantera Canas, and Playa which are
closely connected together, and lie on the high
way leading to the water front two miles away,
the number may be raised to 24.5OO, or quite
many people as in San Juan proper. An I'M
portant factor to men contemplating perrua-
nent residence in some town on the island IS
the possibility of extension of the corporate linn
its. Ponce has of the natural barriers 10
expansion existing at San Juan, as il is built
upon a level surface, under the edges of the
rolling foothills. and at a considerable eleva-
tion above the 1t grow readily in al
most any direction with equal facility. and it
has not at its threshold any of the miasmatic,
fetid marshes so common 10 the coast. There
are three hospitals. including the military; a
home for the INDECENT poOr few fair schools;
several clubs. at which Americans very gTa-
eiously received: very pretty little theatre; sew
eral hotels and cafes. which the best the
island; library with few books and
many worthless ones; gas, electric light, and ice
plantS-all too small and defective; waterworkS,
supplying an abundance Of good, potable water;