The evening times., 1899-02-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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The armchair in which Burns wrote 1.-The Cot
ter's Saturday Night is in the Beckington Free
Library in Cheshire. The founder, Joseph Mayer
bought it OF the poets
Hail. Columbia" was written in I79s by Jo-
seph Hopkinson GTT0-IsI2), Vice President of the
American Philosophical Society and President OF
the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts.
An exhibition of recent California studies made
BY Alexander Harrison will shortly be held in
Chicago. The artist has returned to France.
where the pictures viii follow him later and
will be shown.
In ISIS there We're loss debtors imprisoned in
Philadelphia, their debts amounting TO SIS, 400;
the expense Of keeping them was SOP G75. paid
by the city, the amount Of debts recovered BY
this process was 800
The Princess of Wales never carries any money
about with her. 1t was not 50 long ago that the
princess, on attempting 10 enter an entertain
ment incOgnito found herself without the shil-
lings required to pay the entrance fee.
Bavarian travelling theatre manager adver-
tised that pig would be raffied Tor as a prize
after the performance, every purchaser OF
ticket having free coupon peasant won th..
prize and was greatly eiated. until the manager
opened box and gave him-a guinea pig
A Kansas City grocer who lost 81, 800 by the
failure of bank decided to be his own banker
In the ground, six feet below the floor of his
store. he buried an iron box. lie ran two
inch iron tube from the floor through the top ~
the top Of the box, and through this tube h,
drops his profits Of SO dsy. The top Of ths
tube he plugs with a wooden cork. which looks
like an ordinary knob
''The Briars" near SnllwOod Clarke county,
Va. the old home Of John Esten Cooke, the
Southern novelist. has quite fallen into ruin. and
the rain has poured in through the byoken panes
OF the study windows, has destroyed quantities
OF the writer's correspondence with famous men.
ami all ms literary remains y traveller who Wis
tied the place some little time ago rescued val
usle autograph letters from ''Jeb'' Stuart Viii
liam G. simms, and Paul H. Hayne.
The japanese torpedo boats have received
names entirely out of keeping with their modern
style and destructive purposes These names are
very poetical and picturesque, and belong to tina
vocabulary OF pure old Japanese words which
rapidly passing out Of common use. The follow
ing examples: Dragon Fly. Full Moon. Mooa
in Clouds. Sea Beach, Peewit. Lightning, ThuE-
der, Dawn OF Day. Clustering CIOusls, Daybreak,
Ripples, Evening Mist, Dragon Lamp, Falcon.
Magpie, White-Naped Crane, and White Hawk
The guardians Of ST Olaye's, Southwark, pro-
vided each workhouse in the union with piano
forte Christmas. This was decided upon in
spite OF the protests OF Mr. EcrDyd. a guardian
who said it q,fite unnecessary 10 purchase
pianos at go each. rs the workhouses already
Tseembled harmonic clubs, the nurses and other
officials being well provided with viOIinS banjo~,
guitars. flutes, cUGceTtiuaS. and Iewsharps. He
supposed that the neXt proposition would he thls
an orchestral band should accompany the work.
house dinner.
Lieut. Col =. ". Kitchener, brother Of ths
SirGdr has been appointed governor OF Khar-
uiti. l. Ia
centre of the Nile traffic and capital of the
Sudan civilized government. He served in ths
Afghan war OF 1850 as transport Sfheer 10 th-
Cabul field force and WAS present in the advancs
on Cabul under General Roberts He also served
with the DoRzola expedition, under Sir Herbert
Kitchener, in lst6, director 0f transport iIt-
Guiding the engagement at Firket and the opera
| tions at Hahr.
\ Philadelphia dealer in birds. dogs and gold
fish has a species Of the hnny tribe imported
from Japan. which swims with the bead down
! in nearly perpendicular position. \ woman
stopped before the aq,larium the other Clay. and
after viewing the new variety went into the store
/ and ordered the dealer To- make the R.les SWIM
with IheiF heads eleFated. The dealer bec.ru
/ angry over her interference with his business,
/ and ordered her from the store. She informed
] the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty 10
/ Animals officials. and officer sent to in
| yestigate- The fish still swim perpendlculIriy.
| Plants sleep at various hours and not always az
night. The duration OF plant sleep varies from
/ ten To eighteen hours. Light and heat have lit
tie do with plants sleeping. different species
| go to sleep at different hours Of the day Thus
| the common morning glory (ConvolvuIzs purpr,-
| reuS) opens At dawn. the Star OF Bethlehem about
| 10 o'clock. the ice plant at noon The goat
| beard. which opens at sunrise, closes at n;d-
! day, and for this Is called ''go 10 bed at
T.F I'll.
| OF the thorn apule open al sunset and those Of
| the night towering cereus when 1t is dark-
Here IS an item from the American Soldier "
the first American paper published in Manila
! ..Tondo the suburb beyond Binondo, Is the dwell
ing place Of the poorer class Of the natives as IL
this quarter the erection OF huts OF 'nipa' an,
| bamboo Is permitted. The ground Is perfectly
| fiat and Is there i 10 system OF drainage. al
| the flth from the houses aceunulaJes, and pool
| Of water form in the hollows dUTing the wei
season. The result i that when the dy season
| comes the fever makes fearful ravIges among
| these people The average death rate in MInil.
! il under ordinary conditions from eighteen q
thirty 4 day which for city Of this size, nearly
100000. is very moderate. Under the present
conditions Of sanitation the wonder Is not that
the people die here. but that they live at all Il
seems 10 prove that the climate IS not Of itSel
very UnhealtIiul-
WhfIe-ft i true that 4 great many Japanes.
especially in the upper and middle classes, have
become so accustomed to Occidental ways tina
they seem s.to the manner born" and the Jap
| anese as whole seem to adapt themselves :,
| easily to new and strange surroundings. vet it j
| evident that even among such a ceremoniou
! and polite people there Snobs Just as in othe
| countries. One OF the vernacuiar papers has re
Gently ridiculed tue Snobbish japanese in tn
| following strong language: There are balls an,
| garden PARTIES in accordance with Western fash
ion but the spectacle they present IL very gro
tesdue Men with muddy boots stand on tn
chairs They think nothing OF smoking in tn
| presence Of ladies. Their conduct IN the sIppe
| room makes il a vertable 'shurajO' Tone Of tn
Buddhist hells filled with fighting and Slaughter)
| They struggle for food as though they We're fam
iShed ghouIs. They stuff cakes into their rockets
| They run about brandishing knives and forks
The noise Of their eating is like the ''snoodling
of a pig. rs for their costumes. thev are full O
! incongruities, and some Of them do not eve
! take the trouble to brush their hair.
During the hurricane that prevailed at SeattI
recently the steamer Wildwood, lying at her doc;
went to the bottom of the hay. The cause q
the sinking is thought to have been the resul
of a drifting log striking her. which. with III
| force Of a high running stove hole in hel
| At the time OF sinking one man was aboard an
asleep The boats eat, when TIE water nearl
reached the sleeper's bunk, scratched the ma
in the face and was knocked into the water
the cabin for her pains. The cat again got q
the bunk and again scratched the in N
face and at the same time howled 50 ygOrOusl
as to thoroughly awaken the sleeper who star
ell To get mp To put the cat on deck when
discovered that the boat was sinking. He made
| rush Tor the deck lust as the vessel goir
| to the bottom and succeeded in reaching y
| mast on which he climbed and saved hraS'
from drowning. Tie yelled lustilv and succeeds
| in awakening Catain Fife. OF the steamer Al
| .eIes who rescued him. His face showed sever
| severe scratches inflicted by the cat. and he sal