The evening times., 1899-12-26
NOTES oF THE DAY.

| NO person IN norway may Spend more tfmn v
cents at one visit to a. drinking place.
| In the best Of years Europe never produces
enough wheat to supply her own needs
During the last year Missouri sold =, 900, 900
worth of mules, chiefly for war purposes.
Potatoes in Greenland are always very small.
frequently they grow no larger than marbles.
| The rice-eating Chinaman could consume the
present worlds crop OF wheat and sill go husi-
CRY.
| 1t is estimated that about 100000 turkeys
| were eaten in the United States Thanksgiving
Day.
| The Lancet says the climate Of Egypt, may,
without exaggeration. be described magnih-
cent.
Military experts now nx the date Of the ocenpa-
! tion Of Pretoria somewhere about the middle q
| February.
| Siberia. opened by the Russians. may yet be
one OF the greatest wheat-producins Countries OF
| the world.
A public school in ST. Louis is to be
ed in honor of the late Eugene Feld who was
native OF that city.
Five countries in Europe produce more wheat
| than they can use-Russia Hungary, Servia, Bull
garia, and Roumsnia.
st. Paul's Cathedral is the most heavily insured
building in Great Britain- 1t is insured for
$4,000 in ten Offices
1t has been computed that f7O.ODO eco per an
riage between ocean ports.
There are at present about 81. 10000 bread
eaters in the world, nearly eight times the popu-
latson of the United States.
The sault de sainfe Marie Canal passes two and
half times much tonnage in eight months as
the suez Canal passes in a full year.
Since the beginning Of the year 149 tests have
been made CT gas supplied to London. The result
shows that s0lz' per cent were below sixteen
candles.
During the year ended September 30 last there
were only five deaths among the l.2l7 inmates
of the eight children's temporary homes in Con-
necticut.
Missouri has passed law requiring every bar
Der who does business in the state TO pay 81 TO
board Of examiners for a certificate certifying to
his competency.
In of the great railroad stations in Buda-
pest artists have been engaged to decorate the
walls with views of the principal Hungarian
bathing resorts.
The British Government is Discussing the feasi-
biity of building national granaIies and storing
vast quantities Of wheat against the emergencies
Of famine.
Foreign trade Of the Argentine Republic for
the first nine months Of 1899 showed an excess OF
merchandise exports over imports amounting, gold
value, TO S30,0o0,000.
Cauada's export of cheese to England has grown
from $500 600 in 1ses to ST. so 600 in 1855 where
the United States exported only s3,2s 600
The foreign sale of American -four is increasing
enorInously-from about 4.0O0.OO0 barrels IN 1875,
TO 1900, 900 barrels in 1855. and s,O10, 900
barrels in the present year.
A consignment of ffty-one Angora cats
Gently received at John Wanamaker's Philsdel-
phia store. They came from Maine, and their
prices ranged from $40 TO so.
In former years New York had the Hons share
Of the wheat export business, but atttrly Boston,
Baltimore. Philadelphia, New Orleans and Calves
ton have been large exporters.
There is railroad that by its own mo-
tion eompresses ammonia gas 10 liquid, which
in going through the pipes expands and produces
the necesssry coldness in the air.
Two troopers Of the Fourth Husssrs and two
men of the West Riding Regiment in India have
purchased their discharges and Joined the Roman
Catholic Brotherhood in Bungalore
milk dealers association in Springfield, Mass,
has decided TO coupon milk tickets. believing
that the continuous Of tickets may be
mears of spreading contagious disease
A black Iioness has been added to the collec-
tion of animals in the Jardin des Pllntes in Paris
Lions of this color found only in the interior
OF the Sahara, and are scarce even there
The American consuls at all foreign ports have
the lawful right to examine intending emigrants
for the United States for the purpose of aseeI-
country.
this winter in New York 1t is believed that salt
will prevent the top soil from freezing, thus
bviafing the mud which invariable comes from
the thax.
The correspond nj of the London Graphic
writes from S.evss opol that much comment and
surprise have arisen in naval circles by the un-
usual order for rhe Russian Baltic squadron to
make winter quarters at Libau.
The Russian armored cruiser GrOmoboy. built
four guns OF all descriptions including four s.
inch sixteen s-inCh. twenty 3neh. twenty 8
FOUNDERS and four machine guns. all being quick
hreTs.
writer in the Nineteenth Century" having
visited the largest hospital in Vienna. was shock
ed hy the total OF regard for patients feel
ngs TIE low class of women employed as nurses,
and the dependence Of nursing upon the patients
eadiness to tip his nurse.
There are in Michigan. fiity-fve concerns
gagged in the manufacture Of vehicles, light and
heavy including cutters and seds. The aggre-
gate amount of capital employed lie >S.6'2,aOO.
Tie aggregate number Of vehicles manufactured
in lssis 31l,I69: the total valne s9,20e,ii
With the Hirdoos al today the ruby is esteem
ed as a talisnan which is never shown willingly
to friends, and is considered ominous OF the worst
possible fortune if il should happen to contain
black spots The lucisnts accredited II with
the power Of restraining passion, and regard it as
a safeguard against ilchining.
One result Of the war in tine Transvaal Is that
al leaves Of absence nom the English army
m 90 o,,t Of the country in India has been stop
ned hui privilege and general leave inside the
country subject 10 short call, may be granted TO
all officers This decision appears TO the "sima
News 10 point toward further Indian assistance
in the Transvaaai
The enormous destruction OF birds 10 supply
for vomen's hats clearly shown
At the fire recently in factory at Wautsgh. L. l.,
when amFng the property DESTROYED were lo.pp
stuffed seagus 20 900 wings OF other birds, and
TO- 600 heads OF birds representing varieties from
the plumed birds of the South to the ordinary
Long lelsnd crow
In China when an honor rs conferred fam
who share the glory Ii Chinaman, for his
merits, receives title of nobility his son can
never inherit it or have the right 10 use any bat
ln inferior title Thus the nobility in the family
goes diminishing from generation TO generation
ill il finally becomes extinct
Maternal instinct was curiously exhibited the
other day by cat Some of the officials of the
Norfolk county asylum. England, caught young
rabbit which they gave TO the cat. thinking that
.he w.,uld kill and cat it. To their asion>hn mt
n,lss did nothing Of the kind she adopted il and
reared 1t with her offspring. Both the rab-
bit and iia foster mother seemed TO be perfectly
happy together.
Prof Marks who has Just entered on his eighty
ninth year, is the doyen of British Hebrew min
st.rs For no less than fifty eight years OF his
ife he has been in the service of the West London
synagogue of British Jews and for considerable
Dcriod of that time has held the position Ut
enior minister. The professor takes. notwttn-