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

In 1872 the first Boston stage coach started Tor
New York, and now 100 railway trains are sent
out Of the city daily.
Five hundred volunteer labor organizers are
at work in the United States in the inferestoi
the American Federation.
J. Pierpont Morgan is expert pool player.
and an evening rarely passesSwhen he does not
enjoy an after-dinner game.
The medical directory gives the names of 81.
99a physicians in England. This is nearly twice
the number that France boosts-17.135
book published in japan 1000 years ago
notes that at that time good silk already
produced in twenty-five provinces of that country
According to the latest census Amsterdam, the
capital of Holland. has $4,000 inhabitants, of
whom nearly $1,000 Catholcs-not quite
fifth.
Col. Thomas Fletcher and John ID. Braddock,
Of Arkansas will donate to that State all the
granite needed to construct the new capitol
building.
The first Strawberries of the season come to
Pennsylvania from Florida and South Carolina.
Florida also sends the earliest peas, beans, and
cucumbers.
A society has been formed in Vienna for the
purpoSe Of testing inventions and providing means
to those who have them not for applying them
practically.
All the Australian banks, except in Victoria
and South Australia. have adopted a resolution
charging shillings per halfyear on each cur
rent account
In Lower Austria the weather was cold dur
ing the last week OF March that thousands OF
song birds persisted. Deer were emboidened by
hunger to approach farm houses.
A circus elephant needing surgical treatment
was recently choroformed in Peru. Ind. The
anesthetic was given through the trunk ty mean.
of trouser leg slipped around it and packed
with cotton.
Dr. o. p wolcott, Of Milwaukee. is prae-
ticing physician at the age of ninety-seven- His
first vote was cast for John Quincy Adams, and
me expects to be hand at the next Presiden-
tial election.
In answer to enquiry sent out by the Brit
ish Admiralty a few years ago. TO ascertain the
warship- building facilities of Great Britain, it
was found that the whole British navy, about l.
500, 900 tons, could be duplicated in two years
time.
'You may talk all you please about expan-
sion," writes an lola. Kan, boy, ''but for my
part | am a contra. ZIONIST. In fact. contraction
is our chief aim out here in the trenches can
swear that man may contract until he can hide
behind straw.
More ships sail the Detroit River than enter
Liverpool or London The Suez Canal. which
carries the commerce OF the world. passed last
wear $500 900 tonnage. while there were floating
through the locks of Slults Ste. Marie l6.5Jo,ep0
in eight months
The late Mr.. Leans bequest of f5o.0o0 to the
British Museum will enable the authorities to
provide adequate room for the files of neSspa
pers of which there about 5000 volumes al
ready in the Museum while the yearly accession;
amount to something like l.sG volumes
The Gordon Highlanders. at Edinburgh on Apri
o. appeared for the first time in Draw Highland
laaI Is.a,, p,t.f
| abroad since 1881, when the old Seventy-hfth Wa
merged into the Gordon Highlanders. that u''
| tropical helmet had been their regular wear.
A French naturalist says that il the woriC
| were 10 become birdess man could not inhabi
| it after nine years. time time. In spite OF al
| the sprays and poisons that could be nianuiac
tured for the destruction OF insects, the bugs an
| slugs would simply eat up orchards and crops
| generation ago there only two college
| in the United States drawing interest on fund
| reaching slOoOOOO. Harvard's interest -bearinl
funds last year were sssso so9s; iaie $. 4,Sn'v y,
| CoIumba's S9.500.0JO; Cornell's, S5.i6 SIS; Gi
| rards. sl5.0is li6, and Leland stanford. Jr.'s
| -, 800, coo.
| The Kentucky Law under which 50 many ne
| groes in the last twenty years have been sold oil
/ the block for a term of years. in punishment 10
/ vagrancy. has at last been declared unconstitu
| tional The decision was made by Judge Scott
| at Richmond, NY, IN the case OF Den puitOh
| colored. charged with vasrancy
L. T. Letter, John R. Walsh Victor F. Lawson
| s. W Alerton, F. G. Logan. and many othe
prominent citizens Of Chicago are petitioning tn
! Treasury Department that the iiuge advertising
| signs be removed from the big board fence sur
| rounding the site Of the po=tofsce. Senate
| william F. Mason's law firm is said to be inter
| ested in the signboardS
| Coincidence noted BY the New York Corn
merciaI Advertiser Two bright-taced messenge
| bows. sitting side by side at the edge OF tn
pavement in Central Park west, with their Zee
in the gutter. absorbed in one copy OF thriil
! ingly illustrated penny dreadful In front o
| them in the roadway. the message they wer
| delivering push cart containing large am
beautiful pillow of lilies and hylclnths, belrh'
the device in red carnations: AT Rest funera
or no funeral, the combination provoked smiles.
That baseball Is civiiizing and less bruta
| than bull fighting has generally been taken 10
| granted but in the of Havana and the "a
| bans the question is in doubt A BASEBALL gam
| was played in the island metropolis the othe
| dsy of which the Times" OF Cuba- referrln
| to a crisis caused by close decision by the un
| pire in the eighth inning. says: The poiice TOO
| a hand in the affair. revolvers were drawn, an
| murder would have been done had not 4 dt
| tachment of the Seventh Cavalry appeared on tn
| scene with loaded guns to quell the disturb
, ance." :
| In letter to an Ottawa county. Kan. pape
one of the members of General MacArthur's br
gade writes from Manila: Might before last
was on picket duty all night. and yesterds
morning I found that the nigger picket WI
within 100 yards of me. After little taik
laid down our guns and met between the line
and had a little visit. He said the people l
| their army did not want to fight US, but the
J had to- or their officers would Kill them II
1 also said that he had not had bite 10 eat it
| barI tanET has
| me- and il did me more good to see him eat
| than if had eaten it myself When We parte
we shook hands. and he cried like baby.
Chinese customs and comestibles are 50 yer
queer that We fail to find a Chinese bill-of-ai
! an interesting document. Three cyclists In II
Land Of the Dragon Fly recently attended full
dress Chinese dinner. with chop-sticks in plaS
i of forks and spoons. festive Chinamen clad
| purple blue. and green jackets over their gal
| est frocks. and menu OF which they nave give
| the benefit to the public in Travel! II
| meal wa, of the usual Chinese topsy turvy orde
| First there was served liquid like warm che
~, together with little jam dumplngs and
| yermicelli concoction called almond tea Then v
| sat down to twelve dishes arranged on the tabi
| -s,rarcanp. cherries shrimps, dates, cuttie-fs
| oranges slices of preserved duck. preserved wa
| nuts and on, everyone helping himseh
l means Of chopsticks, and washing all down WI
| draurhts of hot wine. Then we came TO the mo
| serious part of the entertainment-sharks mn
| iellyfish sea slugs, wild ducks, mushrooms, lotu
nuts, picked pigeons eggs, duck and pork. ri
| floating in canded water, and bird'snest sou
when we had rested ten minutes from our !
| bors a bucket Of hot. plain rice was placed in Il
| centre Of the table. and everybody filled himss
| up according to individual capacity. 1t was
nice evening"
One cable-cutting incident Of the late wa
about which almost nothing has been said. "
| that which took place Manila, and by whit
Admiral Dewey deprived the beleagured Spaniar