The evening times., 1899-07-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

IL is estimated that one crow will destroy
100000 insects every year.
recently built organ run by electricity con-
tains 6i.500 miles Of wire.
Dough is the latest aduterant of coffee, msidp
ed IN the shape OF coffee beaHs-
To clean asphalt pavements in Utica last year
cost about eents running foot.
Covent Garden, London, has been in the pos
session Of the Bedford family for 800 years.
Clarence MeGowan. a Santa Fe brakeman, can
read seven languages, of which is Sanscrit.
No picture is hung on the walls Of the Louvre
in Paris until the artist has beer dead ten years.
The salt product of the Bachmut district, Rus
sla increases yearly, last years output being
306.G00 TONS
The working classes form 60 per cent, the mid
die class Is per cent, and the upper class per
cent OF the population OF this country
The rule of New York bankers to charge for
collecting on out-Oftown checks has already re-
suited in increase Of nearly 1000 money or
ders day at the New York postoffee.
Notwithstanding the extremely hot weather.
| F. o. aerriield, of Brookline, VT, had ice ON
the north side of his barn last week, near the
| road. This ice accumulated last winter, and has
not melted.
The new Third Avenue bridge. New York,
across the Harlem, opened 10 the public on
August l. 1898. carries $1,000 passengers day
on an average20,00 foot Il 900 in cars,
10000 in vehicles, and 5000 on bicycles
James Lutkins, New York broker, has
brought suit against Kenyon & Co., the Brook
lyn clothing manufacturers, for $4,000, which
he alleges TO be due him as agent in securing
Government contracts for the firm during the
war.
Potatoes food vary in value according to
the way they cooked Roasted they are in
the best form for eating. Peasants eat potatoes
| together with milk, and correct in principle,
as the milk furnishes the elements lacking in
| the tubers.
In a Chicago court when a lawyer won
a case from an assistant prosecuting attorney the
latter is said TO have Immediately proposed mar
/ riage TO her and was promptly refused 1t IS
improbable that she told him she would be
| a sister-in-law 10 him
The area in reserved forests in Burmah was
last year II, 707 miles. and projects are pending
| for additional reservations Of 1900 miles The
| government derives a large income from its teak
J forests and sold last year 10000 tons Of
teak, the total quantity extracted being 259,-
| 000 tons
The diary of Andrew Walker, railroad engi-
neer, who died recently at Terre Haute, shows
l that during his fifty years Of active service he
| guided his engine l.O60.9ls miles of track.
/ and that during all that time train OF which
/ ne Was pllOl met Win an acClucul OI a SeIlOuS
| character.
| Bourbon. Ind, man is peculiarly afflicted,
/ his disease battling the skill of physicians lie is
| compelled to walk entirely on his toes being
\ unable to place his heels the floor As soon
as locomotion ceases he is able 70 stand squarely
! his feet. but resIming his walk ne Is as
apt to start of backward forward
Students can become expert typewriter opera
tors without the expense Of buying or renting
machine by the use OF New Workers. invention.
consisting Of frame carrying a series OF keys
which can be arranged 70 correspond with the
keyboard is desired learn. the keys having
springs to return them after each stroke
One of the highest prices ever given for a min
iature was realized the other day in Paris al the
Muhlbacher sale. This was $1,000, which was
paid by VI. Widerstein for beautiful miniature
on ivory by Hall. 1t represents young woman
seated on balustrade in park with two chill
dren. while in the background is a lake with
dolphin.
A Cincinnati physician has been making praeti-
cal tests in cigar factories the eye Of the
ployes The test is TO discover the effect upon
the eyes of persons addicted to excessive smoking.
/ also TO see what effect the fumes of tobacco in
factories have ON the sight. He also intends 10
examine the eyes Of letter carriers and Others with
reference to the effect of smoking on the eyes
During transshipment Of the parts of Athara
bridge on its way to Egypt, portion of one
! span was lost \ cablegram announcing the fact
was received at the works OF the builders. the
Pencoyd Iron Works. At O'Clock in the afternoon
OF one day. Two hours later the material
laid out and by O'Clock the next morning
the duplicate parts steaminG away from
Pencoyd railway train. finished and painted
/ A CINCINNATI gentleman advertised his desire TO
sell valuable secret for 80 cents. He stated
that he would tell how he was cured Of drinking
smoking, swearing, STAYING out at night, going
to the races, camhling. and how ne gained twenty
pounds in weight in two years Several persons
! sent him 30 cents each, and here is the secret
/ they received Just cured Of all the bad hahifs
named by an enforced residence for two years
/ in the Ohio State prison"
The increase in the export of American manu-
| iactured goods during May. for which the figures
have Just been completed by Chief Austin. Of the
f, Bureau of Statistics. puts that month third in
! rank among all the records Of the Americau~e.I-
| port trade in finished goods Never until March
| last the volume of exports of manufacturers
| equIl 10 $50 100000 per month. The figures then
rose at bound 10 SS6. 49, in April they were
s 015. so and in May $50. .s16.3l4. The increase
| over May of last year about s., ,S00,000
blind beggar in front of one of the big
State Street department stores caused momen-
| tary blockade in the crowd of shoppers yester-
day by pulling out an old clay pipe and calmly
! beginning 10 smoke. says the Chicago News -
| Several people stopped 10 gaze at the unusual
| spectacle. but gave him any coin or
| seemed in any way moved 10 pity. Noticing
| this a kindly looking man. rather hashily dress
ed, stepped up 10 the beggar and whispered 4
few words in his car. The beggar Immediately
| knocked the ashes out OF his pipe, and with a
rather shamefaced air slowed IL away in his tat
! tered coat One curious person asked the stfan-
/ ger what he had said 10 the blind man 10 cause
| the sudden disappearance of the pipe. '.Why,
everybody thinks that really blind people dog
smoke, because 1t is claimed that you have %
see the smoke in order 10 enjoy it | used 20
| do the blind act myself before I got better
| graft and YOU can't be too particular in the
details of any business if you want to succeed. .
CAS- one progresses further and further into
the heart of Cuba" says a correspondent of the
philadelphia Record" ''the nineteenth cen
tury, with all its strife and turmoil, falls be,
hind and is forgotten. Each traw-thatehed vii
lage encountered en- route-and they we're very
numerouS-seemS given to perpetual som
MIA. The railway stations not thronged witt
the idle and curious, as in other rural parts
but the people sit in the doors dreamily watch
ing the train from afar. too lazy for active Gu
| riosity. Occasionally a more enteTprising eiti
zen, black as the hackneyed of spades, ol
| with the lean, brown profile of Rameses III
| saunters through the cars. offering some triHI
| for sale, and ragged children extend their hand
for aims and laughingly greet the travellers will
the English phrases they have picked MP, such
as Gimme a penny All right 'Geod-by.' Al
! one station a small girl. patched fore and aft
but with the face of angel. lifted timiC
| eyes in response 10 salutatiOn. and murmursC
| God damn without idea of the meaning O
the word she had heard the Yankee soldier
| use."
The British artillery had an opportunity for
| thorough test of their 5-inch hOwitzers at Om
durham, and it was by these guns that the Nah
dis tomb completely wrecked. shell wa'