The evening times., 1899-11-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| Bees raised in Texas shipped to all parts Of
| the world.
Eggs without shells shipped from Russia
to England.
Mexico sold the United States g 600, 900, worth
! of hides last year.
Meal made OF corn cob<. ground, is used to
aduiterate many food products
Women employed on japanese tea farms work
twelve hours and are paid Is cents a day.
Sebastian. big back cat owned by Cum
beriand (Md.) woman. wears a diamond earring
in each ear.
Twelve black cats were put in New York cold
storage warehouse. At the end of six months
their hair had turned white.
The Chicago, Milwaukee. and st. Paul annual
statement shows that SCI, ls2 was expended in
internal revenue stamp taxes during the year
Since the sale Of alcoholic liquors in France
| has been unrestricted the Number of drinking
places has increased until there is one saloon
for 50 inhabitants.
Only 2l per cent Of the population Of Bavaria
are entitled to vote. and Of these Il per cent oHy
80 per cent took the trouble TO vote at the last
elections for the Land;ag.
The construction of cigar box may seem 4
very simple matter TO the novice, but the box
passes through nineteen different processes before
1t Is ready to receive the cigars-
The American Board Of Japanese Missions re-
ports that the chief opposition 10 Christian mis-
priests, but from the Japanese agnostics.
St Helena is one of the places where the
weather fails as topic oi conversation. For 332
days last year the southeast trade wind blew
steadily and there were only nine days Of calm.
Within few months the Pulp Barrel Com
pany Of Cincinnati, will begin operations for the
construction CT plant for the manufacture OF
barrels from wood or paper pulp by compression
The Ossges are probably the richest people per
capita in the world Each OF them, man.
woman, and child has 900 acres of good land
ard receives $50 from the Government four times
year.
William Owen Smith, who Is to represent Ia
waii at Washington during the coming session OF
Congress, was born in Hawaii about fifty years
ago. lie is Of the rnost prominent and in
fiuential ren in the islands
An aquarium will be one Of the attractions at
the Paris Exposition. dark incline will lead
visitors to it, and suddenly they will feel as if
transported to the very bottom OF the sea, in
the midst OF marine landscapes and inhabitants OF
the ocean. Immense glass tanks VIII form the
aquarium proper; the buftreses- plllars, and gird
ers which viii form the frames of the tanks and
hold the glass together viii be entirely concealed
under rocks
A ranch or plantation in Peru is 4 hacienda. in
Venezuela it is hatos, in the Argentine Republic
an estancia, in Chile rancho, in Uruguay finea'
and the proprietors called haciendados, ha-
tords. cStanciarnS. rancheroS- ana HilciFos, ~
spectiveIy. In Peru there are volunteer fre COM
panies in nearly all the cities similar to these
We used 10 have in the United states before the
days Of paid organizations and they are calico
.'bombard.ros.
In a Strand tavern, London, there is cat which
is habitually in a state Of intoxication. For some
time past this strange cat has watched the filing
Of the wine decanters at the bar, in order TO Sc
cure. any of the wine which might be spilled rs
thai ieuIo Of win l. lf-t
thus in the coure OF the day, 1t Is quite usual "r
pussy TO be unable to walk straight when even
ing comes The taste for strong drink mas grown
in this perverted animal TO such an extent thar
il she cannot get wine, which she still prefers
she satisfes her craving with sips OF whtszy, or
any other spirits she is able to obtain
The laughing plant, 50 named from its effects
upon man, grows in Arabia 1t is of moderate
size, and bears brilliant yellow flowers. and soft.
yelvety seed pods, each Of which contains two or
three seeds which look like little black beans The
natives of the district where the plant grows
gather the seeds and after CRYING them reduce
them 10 powder small dose Of the powder has
the effect of Causing the most leyel-headed ard
sober person 10 dance, shout, and laugh IN
the unresrrained fashion os lunatic, ana 10 rush
about and cut the widest capers for almost IN
hour. By that time he Is thoroughly exhausted
and falls asleep. to wake after several hours with
out the least recollection Of his previous e1taie-
nent and antics
An interesting tthts mum t'iN
ress Theatre London One evening the leader of
the pack of hounds that appears in Going the
Pace found his way to the royal box, where he
vas regaled with chocolate and biscuit The fol-
owing evening, at the Close Of the iuating scene.
the whole pack broke away and, running up the
back staircase leading to the royal box, to tue
great consternation of the occupants, burst open
he door and rushed in The spectacle aroased the
audience who saw 4 hitherto setfate compartment
The scene Of canine raid and, taking 1t TO be
part of the performance. greeted II with a round
Il applause. TO which the dogs responded Win
rantic barks After an interval OF confusion.
hring which the orchestra struggled IN VAN 10
make itself heard while the hounds with their
orepaws on the front of the box yelped approval
he huntsrnen arrived and order was restored
Physical geocraphers not always such
,omfort as they might be. One hears from time
o time that our coal supply is vanishing. that
he suns heat is the wane, or that various
-aCrant comets arc about to collide with Us and
hiver Us to fragments. But 4 more definite
nostication of disaster has Just been made
which will come home with much greater direct
,ess to the inhabitants of large section Of thls
'ountry. Owing to tilt IN the land, ChicaSo
nav expect to be flooded By the waters OF the
.reat lake near which she Is built, IN 4 time
short that clear indications OF
he coming deiuge already be observed The
anne subsidenee OF land in one direction and
mersence in another viii entirely wreck the
Niagara Falls. because the difference in levels Will
.radually disappear. 1t will be rather hard TO
ind that Just the motive energy CT those
nOrmolIs cataracts will haze been fully developed
heir practically illimitab!e strength Will dlsap-
,sar.
The population of the United States in June,
900, will be, according to the estimate of the
treasury department, about a, I,616.0o0- This hg
ire. according to an article by Henry FirFnhar
n the NATIONAL Geographic Magazines'' is too
lrye. The population at the time named, he
links will be over I5 coo, 900 and under 76. .oo10t
Attention is called to the decline of imuigTa-
ION in recent years. affecting tine estimates ot
population. In 1851 many Jls-532 Im;Iii-
rants were recorded and in ls92 the number
use to s.. .0S4. but with 1898 decided decline
ct in and in 1875 there about e29.2Je imni-
rants. In the decade lsIo-'So the aggregate If
immigrants WAS 2.Sl2, l9l; in 1s.'0-'9O there was
IN increase to 5.ei6, COO; in the nine years ended
une 50. 1893. the total was g. $1,000. Il L as
,imed that the immigration during the current
seal wear will reach 3ji. .0OO-an excessive figure
t seems Mr.. Farquhar does not think the
aturai rate Of increase Of the population has
ecliEed.
While the peculiar pacing gait of a moose viii
lot carry him over the ground as rapidly as the
eer or caribou. his endurance far srTpases that
4 either of those animals says the Lewiston
Me) Journal" For short spurt or in very
eep snow the caribou can easily discount tie
,oose, but for an all days jaunt where the course
) fairly open, the moose has no rival Many
esrs ago, when Sir Edmund Head was governor
the province he owned 4 taned moose that
erformed remark able feats ci sped and endIr-
nee. On one occasion the governor wageTed $3.50
nat his moose could travel from fredericktoa 10
I John over the ice a distance OF efghty-four