The evening times., 1899-03-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

OF land IN ScOtland.
There are only seven and half miles Of horse
railway remaining in Massachusetts
Among the Phoenicians, in ancient days. the
wearing OF earrings badge Of servitus.e
The Congo River has at one place aIout eighty
two waterfalls within distance Of I5f miles.
The flesh of aIligators tastes VERY like veal, and
IS regarded as delicacy by many people in In
d:l
Japan has a new lighthouse. made of hamteo.
which is said to resist the waves better than any
kind OF wood.
Governors will he elected this year in Rhode
Island Massachusetts,. Ohio. Io%a, M.Ey,a Ken
tucky. and Mississippi.
Joseph Jefferson is firm believer that ran
must be sick once in ten years. Since lsG9 he
has been i'll every tenth year
The upper portion OF the monument for the
Rockefeiler Harsoleum, which has arrived in
Cleveland, Ohio. is 81 feet long and weighs 81
tons
The sparrow exterminators in Boston have de-
stroyed Loo nests on the Common in two days.
The nublic garden and small parks next to
be attae.ed
Theodore HsveIneyer, the New York sugar
/ king, who has spent a good deal Of time in the
East has had fitted up in his Madison Avenue
house Chinese room.
The Lalande prize of the French Academy Of
Science has been conferred upon Prof A. c.
Chandler, of Cambridge. Mass, in recognition of
1.-THE splendor. the Importance, and the variety
OF his astronomical work.
signor Mareoni reports that he has succeeded
/ in telegraphing without wires from Alum Bay
to Bournemouth, distance of fifteen miles. at
the rate OF fifteen words a minute. He sent
thousand words day. and the messages were
/ easily read.
Miss Kingsley. the explorer, was once the re.
| cipient Of uncomfortable present. II consist
( ed of consignment of 800 husbands. the gift of
/ a savage chief To refuse such delicate atten-
/ ti0n without giving offence Of the most
embarrassing problems Hiss Kingsley has
| been called upon to solve
In the Paris papers reports comes from Berlin
| city with more waxwOrks exhibits than any
other-that in these places the images Of the late
French President FaGre and the French fags
rounding them have been draped ia black, and
| that the spectators they pass by them give 4
respectful salute to the dead mans memory.
! In her book, la Feminisme.'' Nile Sehir-
| macher declares that in France the cause Of
mans advancement has been cultivated princi-
| pally by the men, not the women; that in Swed-
| en- very few women interested in il, though
the king favOrs it, and that IN England " -
opposed by the learned institutions, while in Rus
| sia they all favor it.
The English sparrow (pas=cr dome5ticus- or
common house SPARROW Is the champion light
weight Of the feathered species. Indeed Professor
Palmer says: We DO Rot know any bird or AM
| NAL enemy which will do the English sparrow
any real hurt They also the champion
breeders. a single pair being able 70 rear twenty
four Young N one year
/ The Mayor Of Atchison haS ofiei4Iy notified
the citizens that he wants everybody To take
/ course vi the tider-yinegar treatment Tor the
Z prevention Gf smallpox. This treatment extends
! over a week and The patient ) expected % take
I 4 tablespoonful ot vinegar three times "A DAY
I The mayor ! backed by the city physician, who
/ declares that it i the best preventive known
I The English House OF Commons has fuur
I Americans among It's members They are
/ Henry NJ Stanley. who brought up in New
I OrIesn~: r Y Claiming. of Rev y u.
: Claiming Of Boston, and nephew 0f the famous
J preacher; Sir Ellis A,hBead Bartlett. bern M
I brooklyn, in ISip, and his brother tine poet W
\ r. Bmdett QUITS. who vas born II Ply-
. mouth. Mas. in lo5l
/ A certified centenarian named Kohn died re-
Gently in Vienna. aged II2 His age i at
I tested by the public rotary and by the Secrc-
tary OF the Jewish community at FragT'lllr'k Ken,
I in Hungary, where he Wa born He acted a.
! a guide Tor the French staff on is way 90 the
I Rive Raab in NAPOLEON l. time lie was twice
married and only twice III. once when l0D wears
! old and gain when lTi- Tie retained hiS sight.
hclrin. and appetite L" the end bot Wa weak
IN tbs les.
! \ Kansas boy at N,nill says he went into
( too. down everything in the shop before be
| could be made TO understand what the cIsSJosHcr
/ wanted After the brush had been found the
| hoy learned that itS native name WIS tap"knts
| tamuul>s. and now he i afraid 10 uSe Il t"F
I fear IL will break hiS teeth. This same boy lis
! pelS the notion that the EilipIno~ have cor
] ception Of gratitude He pulled = ChInanrIn OF
: native dIy- when the Chlnamdn was trlin=
I to do murdrr- lid since the native has been
/ bringing him fruit, cleaning his gun. and serV-
/ ing fCT him generally
/ The New York EyengeIist'' says. The dep
/ uty superintendent public Instruction in Por-
I To Rico Victor Selden Clark. has written u Mr.
I Hooper. the superintendent oi the BrooHlyn in
I s;itute, asking for lis catalogue and ProspectuSs
OF lectures f". the present wear with an idea ot
organizing institute somewhat similar lines
/ in Porto Rico. We learn that American H.
/ brary j. 10 he established at San Juan from
which bs"kS will be distributed shs island
/ On the plan ot the New Nork State Library
/ There ! also to be reading room for citizens
ana soldiers IN >aE JUsD. and all books and pr
I radicals will he gratefully received. They
\ be sent To Cen Guy y. Henry General EItog.
! care Of Col y ;. kImtali. quartern.lsteT. Nesc
/ York city. who viii that they are forwarded
I free un Government Jrnaps0itS
/ Rudyard Kipling may be expected To write
| book with trained nurse - IT. heroine.
one oi IT. leading figures. ii of the stories
| told about his illness j. true. SAYS the Ne.
York sun When Mr. KirlinG irsl became i'll
! and his condition had not taken serious turn
he amused himself constantly by questioning
the trained nurse about her profession. He
! scented never TO weary of what she told him
| about its responsibilities and variety Uis con-
veIsatiUns with her this subject puI him uta
possession Of ali the information concerning. the
case and he write a stoTy about the
| profession II he cares 10. The Young woman
/ attending him engaged n nursing the great
est ~t1Ty-tgilcT in the world But il the nurse
| who called Tpou To tell of her profession Tor
his entertainment and presumably for the prdhI
of him and the pebble if he puts his informal
tion into a story
I All sorts OF trick icwelTy are 10 he found both
! Tor and for women. says the New York
! Times. = \ sporting man has i representation of
iavoritc racer in pin, and by pressing a tiny
button it i set in motion and gtIops along -
| natural life; Il humorous lawyer has watch
| with concealed reservoir of periumery. which
| can be sprayed into the face OF a friend when it
| is being wound. if the owner 50 desires and 4
| WOMAN with heavy bracelet can give too in
| quistiye friends electric shock. The up-t0-
| date bracelet Is quite heavy enough to allow the
| insertion Of battery. But all these things
| as nothing to the trick ornaments that can be
found on Fourteenth Street. They have the
| over tooth, and the great delight of ii IS.
the vendor SAYS thar it can be slipped and
off hundred times day.
\ Chicago dispatch says: The finest gun cam
era ever built Is being constructed in Chicago by
| at Washington. The specifications Tor this sp!en-
did instrument require that it shall be capable
! of making a successful exposure in one siA-hua-
| dredth of a second. and il is hoped that this
| speed will be greatly increased that a good