The evening times., 1899-09-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Iowa prisons
The salary Of the mayor OF Heidelberg has been
increased from s, so year to $500
The Penn Forest Trout Hatchery, near Hsuch
Chunk Pa, Is said 20 be the most complete
propagation plant of the kind in the world
More than three -iourths Of the coffee imported
by the, United States comes from Brazil Mexico
supplied more than 3,OOO,OO0 pounds in January
of this year.
During one of the hot days of last week
Dover Me- coatmaker working on a garment
cut BY MIR. Frost for Mr.. Freese, and yet she
complained of the heat
The French authorities have decided to grant
reduction of 30 per cent in freight rates on
railways for all goods sent by other European
countries TO the exhibition next year.
Reports from all sections Of Pennsylvania show
that snakes are more plentiful than they have
been for many years. and quite number of per-
sons have been attacked by the serPents-
The Netherlands government proposes 10 adopt
Mareoni's system Of wireless telegraphy on its
coast line fer defensive purposes and as a means
OF communication between lghtships and the
shore.
Scientists have discovered that the memory is
stronger in summer than in winter Among the
worst foes of the memory are too much food. too
much physical exercise. and, strangely enough,
too much education.
Compared with the enormous capital OF some
Of the English banks the largest American insti-
tutiors twindle into insguifcance- The National
Provincial Bank of England has s79OG0.0o0; Bank
of England s73. 900 900; London and Westminster
Bank, S90,00O,O O0l
Lewis Brothers. Of New York, are opening some
fine antimony mines about twenty miles north
west of Santa Ana, Sonora They have already
extracted about 100 tons OF ore. which will 20
direct to New York. The property includes forty
| eight perteneneias-
| The x.ray, besides being used as a detective
| for living smuggIers, is coming into play as
mummy iuminator. and viii prevent the Arabs
| from palming off pIebeian clay as the genuine
| if only, daughter of the Pharaohs even the
| amulet5 on the breast being plainly visible
| soap factory at Acapulco. Mexico. has an
output Of 10000 pounds month. and inds II
difficult to supply the demand Toilet soap l. IN
| large quantities imported from France. and re-
! tails az 3 a pound Laundry soap sells for is
cents a pound al retail, and $50 : cargo OF SJ9
! pounds-
| N. Janet, a Frenchrnan OF Beauvais. finds that
| TOW india rubber balloons attached TO yard
| Of whipcord make a swimming belt or lie
| b,;oy The balloons should be only half tuil IN
| order 10 resist the waves better. This lie belt
1 can easily be carried in the pocket and Inia'eu
| at need
| pr,z-ian military experiments show that Sc
I muscular eNeTti0n Iti4utA1 tAIt S+SN~ -
Door in sugar and that sugar renders tired mus
| cIes eapable of renewed exertion, while saceha-
/ riua is far les beneficial. similar impression
prevails in Kentucky. whore the sugar IS mingled
with mint ard other ingredients
| \ Russian physician announces that he has DIS
| covered a mierobe fatal to rats An epidemic
| having broken out among Fats kept for expert
mental purposes in the government agricultural
| laboratory. bacih were Isolated from the H'eI
and spleen Of the affected animals ana thtS
/ proved very effective in killing of rats and nice
| Caterpillars are driving loiterers from the Bos-
! ton Common, and are becoming more and more
! of pest every day. To women and children es-
/ n.cisIly the enforced tanishment from the Popu-
I ular little para brings much regret for lae time
being. and rhev are banning those who DESTROYED
/ the English 5ws last spring for the inIiic-
| tiOn.
/ There Is urgent need in the City of Mexico FOR
more foun6ries and machine shops. capable Of
doing frst-class work in reasonably prompt time
! The great amount OF building and improvement
\ going on and the number Of establishments AESe
| and snail. now using machinery frequently with
| inexperienced labor. makes = supply anu repair
| business Of great proportions.
Fifteen cents seems to be pretty steep price
| 10 paw for one banana. vet that Is the p-Ice
| charged in Boston for bananas of the red color
Of the first quality, while those Of the second
quality are sold for cents The reason gwen for
The high urices for the red bananas IS that great
| Isr,aqq was done to the crops in Cuba by the
war. and that the banana output has suffered
like everything else.
Caviare is made from surgeons eggs. salted n
brine. Ii is the most costly product OF the FISH
cries of this country, and while largely Feli7hed
| by epicurcs a taste for it must usually be az
quired Until recently its manufacture was mo-
ropOlized By the Russians, most CT II being pr
ar1 tsrs..sr 80 II
~ the present time about S.gO900J pounds OF It
are exported annually from the doniinions OF the
Gar
| In these days of advanced sanitary science It IS
not only necessary that the patrons Of a barber
shop should have individual soap and brush and
clean towels but it is now proposed to give
each patron an individual hsad-reSt a. ne re-
| poses in the chair. This notion has been pat
| ented in this country by Herman T. WlndTath-
!, | Of a-Chapelle, Germany. It consists OF a
pad of clean paper napkins, fresh sheet being
tonr for each patron.
Pref Hafkine. whose method Of treating case:
OF the plague has aroused the interest Of physi
| clans in an address before the Royal Society o
London stated that the principle Of p-ophylaeti'
| treatment which he followed wGs first introduce,
| BY Turkish physicians, and Developed afterwarc
by Jenner and Pas5eur. incubation against chol
era was accomplished by means Of cholera mi
crobeS and producing rs effect within about i0u
days. during which period difference in sus
I ceDtibiIity in favor Of the patient Is observed
> | and for fourteen months a high degree Of re
sistanee Is noticed. In the anti-plague inCculI
) tion an attempt made to create in the -
! tem by a combination Of microbes and thei
| products both a bacteriCiddl power and n pOWg
to resist the symptoms Of disease In the cas-
OF the plague and cholera, Dr. HaffKine spok
: | Of the urdoubtsd protection afforded to IN
inoculated. and said that incubation again~
typhoid fever was likely 10 produce i similar ei
feet incubation prevention could not b
. | substituted for sanitary precautions and goo
water supply. but the experience already game
: | in India showed its Importance in pr0visiin
D | against epidemiCS in that country. Opinion
r favoring Prof Hdif6ins'S Investigations eS
5 pressed at the conclusion Of the lecture by Lor
{ | Lister, Prof. Wright, Dr.. Harvey, and Prot
q Simpson
The earth on which we stand Is no doubt.
e mighty globe, measuring il DOES 5000 mile
e in diameter, yet what its dimensions
comparison with those of the sun? says "Peal
I sons Weekly" If the earth be represented by
{ | grain of mustard seed, then on the same seal
: the sun should be represented by a cocoanu
: Of the dimensions Of the great orb of day ma
be obtained in this way: Think Of the moor
{ the queen of the night, which circles MONTH
4 around our heavens. pursuing she does
i majestic track, at distance OF 100000 mile
: from the earth. Yet the is vast that
: | il were a hollow ball the NOON could rey0iye j
the orbit which it now follows and still be cT
: tirely enclosed within the suns interior Ft
: every acre ON the surface Of our globe there al
i mere than 10000 en- the surface Of III
d great lrminary- Every portion OF this illimit.
. 1 hia desert pf fame i forth torrents