The evening times., 1899-01-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

the water lower than at any time since IsGI
An English vicar, just To jail Tor forgery
h1d published book entitled Resist Nj Evil -
The State historian OF south Carolina estimates
That hat State furnished 1000 the serv-
zee u the ConiederaCy.
The manufacture Of rattIesnake oil : said 70
be growing and profitable industry 81 valley
Centre. >an Diego County, Cal
In an account Of a recent theft OF books a
Western paper explained that many OF the stolen
volumes we're written by named De Luv
\ combination rat trap and can for holding
grain viii be d surprise a number Of rats when
they attempt 10 reach its contents by burglary
In Switzerland they are making clock, which
do hot need hands and faces. The clock merely
stands in the hall and YOU press button. when.
by means OF phonographie internal arrangements
II calls out the time.
There j. still living in England a woman who
danced at the famous Richmond ball. given in
Brus=el, on the eve OF Waterloo She : Lady
Carew. and has Just entered her IOIst wear Al
the time Of the ball she Wa the pretty Mis-
'hfe, ard Vas dressed in pale pink
The French Electrician reports that the town
OF BlaIhenheFshe II supplied with water in
which all germs have been killed by means oi
ozone generated by an electric current Tn.
same principle viii be applied to the dan
Ger"uS SEINE water at St NaUre. Paris.
\ stsiedrt Young fellow in a theatre at Ar
maeh. Ireland intoxicated by nelotiraula and
probably something beside sprang on Tn, stae.r
knocked down the principal villain of the pIav
and dragged the heroine from sIiIIotine. H..
lad Ia he removed by policemen before Tie per
formance could 60 on.
Recent shipments of American corn TO Den
mark have caused complaint. Our consul at Co
penlIIgtn has investigated the complaints and
>ays they well founded. He discovered from
:. =" > pt~ cert of sand and dust in three shin
nent~ from New York. Philadelphia and Ba,ti-
more houses
curious point in >,vc,Ii-,, criminal law is
that confession IS necessary before 4 capital scn-
teucc can bc carried out. L. however. the ,-I-
prit persists in protesting his innocence in th.
face ot ovcTpowering evidence. the prison di-cip-
line + made extremely strict and severe until r.-
desired confession i obtained.
Marie BashkirtsefT. the remarkable gornr Rus
sian woman. who died Al the early age Of twenty
six. has Just had singular memorial erected To
her in Paris. 1t takes the form Of q hotel built
in the Rue de Prony. and a veritable marvel oi
taste and comf0rt- II Y. formally opened and
occupied the other day. II contains. among its
atTrao tiOI~. 4 number cf paintings, the work OF
this precoci"Us Young woman. taken from the
walls OF the superb studio. which size founded
Tor herself the Quai Nalaquais-
We are selling both steel rails and locomotives
10 England. The Great Midland Railway of
England has placed an or,ler for twenty freight
locomotives with Two firms in this country
There Was for a long ti:se a dispute to the
relative merits Of English and American loco
motives Both were exhibited in great variety
at the Columbian Exposition. and effort
made % arrange race between the famous Brit
iSh engine Empress and the 9g' Of she New
York Central Railroad. The parties, however.
could not agree upon terms
| At the dedication OF Kar~l, Ciry', new public
building, the Convention Hall. the other day
1000 presents were distributed the holders o'
lucky numbers in a mammoth prize drawing The
gigantic ralHe was gotten mp to help pay for the
Convention Hal. and l60,Ot0 tickets bad been
sold NJ p cents each. The prizes ranged in value
from 1o-Ceut sheet Of music to 4 Si.eOh house
and lot. More money was raised by the sale at
81 each OF thousands OF Convention Hall buttons.
each of which entitlc the holder to one share q
stock in the building company
\ sweeping press law has been proclaimed for
| China l,y the Dowager Empress since the
papers only serve to stir ND the Masses she d.
clIres, and to overthrow the existing. order ct
things: and since newspaper writers are the dregS
OF the literary class. the continuance of such
! dangerous implements can result in no good We
hereby order therefore the complete stppTesScn
and cessation OF all newspapers tnat have hither-
TO appeared in the empire all publishers ard cd
itors will be arrested and punished with the ut
most severity OF the law. The decree affects
| ifty-siX Chinese newspapers
! The presents that Abdul Hamid made to thc
! German Emperor aud Empress have Just arrived
burg, and occupied the whole of a railway com
psrtment in the train TO Pot.,lan Among them
were CmbruiderieS the richest Turkey carpcts
wonderful SilECn StuiiS and brOCadeS from the I'M
periaI factory Herekc. pictures. jewels and OBJ
Jets dart Among other things two CcdiTS
OF Lebanon, a small coffee tree that the Emperor
had admired very much in the Sultans garden ar
ConStautin0ple, and seventy fowls of the rareSt
kinds for the Empress poultry yard
Frank NJ. Archer, of New YORK city. has
found another for electricity in the household
and III such 4 way. says the Electrical Engineer.
that the present and future generation must look
upon his with gratitude and reverence. The
appliance is described in United States patent
No. $1,000, bearing the title, Electrical Bed
bug EXteTminatOr. IL comprises pairs OF con-
facts in electrical circuit, arranged upon
the frame of the betstedd that any insect prom
enadins theTeupOn in longitudinal direction will
meet with horrible end. The inventor doe.
not diclosc what would happen to latitudirarIa
bugs
The Bangkok Depccheche Colonial says: ..Whcu
Frenchman leaves his country for Tonkia his
nerves are irritated and his eyes offended TIN,
whole way out by that hateful fag OF England
which seems to give laws to the entire globe You
hardly meet with any other flag on the So, Ya.,
find it at Alexandria and Port said, in this
land OF Egypt, which lies under that hypocritieal
protectorate which the English foreign Ofc, j.
about to transform into definite conquest. Then
again, YOU come IT at Perrin. in the Resl
Sea, and at Alden, which commands the entranc,.
OF the Indian Ocean. Colombo comes into view.
and. heavenSi it Is the old rag over again
At Singapore you have come to regard the Union
Jack as matter OF course. and yOu begin to
speculate on how long it will take to fy from
Singapore to Bangkok One hardly imagine
till he has experienced it, the relief felt by tha
| arrival at Saigon, and by the sound of French
busles and the sight OF our beloved tEieolor.