The evening times., 1899-01-06
NOTES OF THE DAY.

! anon, Ind. spoiled the fist sCool OF
/ thread in the frst mill on this side OF the
Atlantic.
| custom peculiar to BuddEists is that
OF wandering about the country with ham
mer and chisel and carving holy cymt oil )
upon rocks by the wayside.
Edible sEails flourish in Wurtamburg
One town. Gutenberg. received the CtLe-
day an order from Paris for /, $50, 600 OF
them The price paid was 81 per thCu-
| sand.
The late Mr. William Black. the novel
Isl. leaves widow. son snd two dsugh-
ters. All the family are vel! provided
| for Mrs Black had d large income out
OF ais many novels.
| The shoes worn by CSC ge " at his
/ coronation. a breakfast cup and saucer
from which he was accus toned 70 DR. nA.
and lock of Wellingtea's haif weIe
| among collection cf eurios recently so.i
in London auction room.
| The TyrOl had an extraoT dinGriIy mrd
| Autumn. On November 10 flowers were
! blooming. end ripe Strawberries wee
/ picked, some at an elevation CT 3.e0G fe t.
Inere were alpine roses in bloom and
plenty of-JUne bugs.
| Soap has been in use for 3.CG3 years
and is twice mentioned in the Bib e. y
iew years ago soap boilers shop was DIS
| Nof0ieu III Fo4npel- Inc soap ioind IN
| the shop had not lost all its eficacy, al
though it had been buried 1850 years
] Russia has been pleasantly surprised b.
| a ukase of the Gar ordering the Acad-
| eIny OF Science to make prepars ticns for
tttlng celebration OF the hundrS tn an
| nlyersary OF the poet Ponshkin's birth.
| The University of Moscow is arranging
for POnshkin exhibition next year.
OF the 1,272 steam and sailing craft from
foreign and domestic ports which entered
| New York Harb0r in November there was
not single Spanish vessel or the 37S yes
sells from foreign ports. 2SS were steam
shlps. 10 ships, barks, brigs and e2
sehooners- The English flag hoated over
IA vessels. the American flag over 52 the
| German over % and the Norwegian over -.
! 1t is said that several members of the
Yale faculty. including Profs- Theodore
Wooisey and Walter L. Phelps. are consid-
erlng the advisability Of introducing golf
/ matches next year between faculty teams
OF some of the more important Eastern col
leges. The New England papers are trying
10 decide whether this would be eIevating
college athletics or depressing the faeul-
/ ties
An old woman stopped a retired bust
I ness man of Edensburg. Pa a few DAYS ago
on the street and handed him 81. so which
| she said she owed him. The man protested
I
man insisted that il was correct and he
took the money. He afterward hunted uU
i MS books and found il was for a pair OF
shoes sold over forty years ago. when the
woman was girl living in Edensburg.
! In Prestbury churchyard in Cheshire.
/ there is gravestone which records the fact
| of woman having died bachelor The
| inscription reads as follows: Here Lyeth
! Inferred the body of James Pickford of
Mottram. who departed this life the first
day OF January. 1881 Also Sarah Pickford
Sister TO the above said James Pickford
was here inferred August We 18th. 1T05. and
died Bachelour in the 18th yeare of her
| age
The following incident is related in the
Life OF Henry Morley On a railway
| journey Morley had for companion an
| old gentleman who had been trying to
| make himself more comfori able with the
! aid OF somewhat debated air cushion.
Professor Morley was going TO blow il up
for him. but his action was arrested b.
| the exclamation: stop, sir. stop. That
cushion contains my deceased wife's
| breath"
Much favorable comment is being made
7 upon the accommodation of Secretary
Long that the vessels 10 be added 10 our
naval force in the future are to be sheathed
and coppered- In this way the ships We
send abroad can be maintained for an in
definite period at sea without the necessity
OF searching a dockyard at frequent in
teryals- \ modern cruiser provided with
sheathed bottom and eoppered surface can
be kept at sea for whole cruise without
danger 70 her safety or efficiency.
The latest novelty in portieres-said to
be in existence in a London club house-is
formed OF hundreds of champagne eorkS
each Of which bears the Tin top which
adorned it when in its parent bottle The
corhs are made into strings. there being
sixty of them 10 each string Between
every two corks there are three big Chi
nese beads in turquoise blue Altogether
there are twenty-four strings. which at
from twelve TO sixteen shillings q cork,
represent pretty considerable sum
A Lewiston man is advancing unique
idea for the next state fair He SAYS: Il
would build pens fer the Wild animals of
Maine and would offer prizes for the D ST
looking foxes. the finest WoodchC5 ks. the
best looking sl1unks, the most vicious bob
cat the fattest Maine black bear the big
gest moose, the sleeksst deer and the most
active cOons. l would have every animal
that is TO be found IN the State CT Maine
well represented there. I would have a
family OF hedgehOgs, Of Wo,ves of rabb. Is.
OF caribou
There are. it is claimed, 800 500. 900 old
style copper pennies sOneWh here. Nobody
knows what has become CT them, except
that cnce in a while a single specimen
turns up in change. few years ago
4.500, eco bronze 2-cent pieces we're set
aficat. Three millions OF them are still
outstanding. but are never seen. y million
OF 3-cent silver pieces are scattered oTsr
the United States. but il Is very rarely that
one comes across any Of them. Ot the
SOC. coo 1-2-cent pieces not one has been re-
turned to the Government for coinage or is
held by the Treasury
The Princess Beatrice is known TO be an
excellent pianist. she volunteered to play
the accompaniments at : private vocal re-
cital given by Nine Blanche Marchesi be
fore the queen at BaImoFaI The accom-
piished vocalist had already a few days
earlier sung before her majesty IA fact
duly noted in the Court Circular. and she
had afterward been the guest OF Lady Car
riugton of Abergeldie Castle. a telegram
came from Balmo-al asking Nine. Mar
chest TO give another recital. and as Mr.
Bird. the ace0mpanist. had returned 10
London the Princess Beatrice agreed TO
take his place.
a French agricultural journal gives the
method by which a vine grower OF TOu-
raine is said to produce magnificent grapes
He dissolTes two Kilograms of sulphate of
iron in leo litres of water and sprinkles
it on the leaves and punches Of the vines
The first application is made when the
grapes are about one-third their full size,
the second about a month alter and the
third about twenty days before they are
cut 1t is asserted that corresponding re-
suits are obtained with pears. apples and
cherries. The method is inexpensive. and
the journal quoted recommends a trial
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