The evening times., 1899-11-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

RUSSIA mas toO,nO princes and other herecttafy
mobiles.
London would erect a monument to Dickens, but
the novelist's will prevents it.
In mine near Butte Mont. live hundreds Of
cats that have never seen the light OF day.
Vienna will soon celebrate the 5OOth anniver-
sary of the foundation of its medical school
AT meetings of the British cabinet official
record of any kind is kept Of the proceedings.
Russia could put in the field lJ5. 0o0 cavalry to
the III, go of Germany and Aust-il- Hungary COM
biDed.
On sunday. during church hours Toronto street
carz must not past churches at speed ex-
ceedirs four miles per hour.
Csrlisie's Indian School is twenty years old.
II has musicians. bieyclists, blacksmiths taiiors.
carpenters. and football players.
Huddersfeid. England. furnishes its residents
with transportation, gas electricity, stoves, fuel.
houses, and with beef from its own abat-
toirs
Russia is a country extremely rich in horses. the
number Of which has been estimated at 20.eo1.OJo.
Of which at least i.D01.0SD saddle horses nj for
the purposes of war.
Today, according to the estimate Of the Japa-
consul at San Francisco. there are no less
than 20.0o -Japs in this country. most of them
on the Pacific Coast.
A school girl in Wabash, Ind, is suffering from
paralysis of the muscles of the mouth, caused by
too persiatently chewing gum. As a result the
left side O; her mouth Is drawing up toward the
ear.
In Germany the question Of insurance against
storms. inundations and other forces Of nature is
being considered and the principal companies have
been requested to report their views to the gov
eminent.
A number of young men returned to Yale Col
lege the other day who have spent their summer
vacation acting as motoImen on the New Haven
street railways. All are poor men who are helping
themselves through college
firm of fish dealers in Mobile. Ala, Is eN-
perimenting with railroad tank in which.
if successful. they will transport Spanish mack
crel. pompano. Gulf biuehsh. and other southern
fishes alive to Northern cities.
Whenever enough men from an American MAN.
of-war get shore leave, matter in what for
eien port they may be lying. they are almost GER
tain to start tail game. In the English navy
cricket is even played on board ship,
4 good giraffe skin is worth from SO to so
in South Africa today and much more in Europe
On their hunting trips ten fifteen years ago
II was common matter for one hunter to Kill
forty nifty of these graceful animals in one d.
At the recent congress OF veterinary physicians
at Baden Baden, DIR. Hecker. OF Halle. maintained
that the foot and mouth disease be trans
ferTed 10 healthy animals by birds, dies, ETC.; a
fact which. if sui,stantisted. will call for modi
fcaton of legislation.
To take the place of phosphorus in the manu-
facture Of matches, Giovanni CraveTi of Burnos
Ayres suggests the Use of perthiocyIuic acid.
claiming that matches made of this material are
not poisonous. explosive. strike any surface,
and burn brightly The perthiocyanic acid is
made from the b, products of several industrial
processes. among which the publication OF
coal gas and the Leblanc soda manufacture, and
its cost il less than that Of phosphorus
Golf enthusiasts will be glad to learn Of the
invention of a new machine which will enable
them to keep their skill in driving up to the
top notch during the winter. The dcvice
consists Of a bail II the end OF arm, attached
to an upright. When the ball. when, when in its
normal position rests inches above the surface
Of the hoor, i struck. il flies around at the end
of the arm and registers the number Of hundreds
Of yards it would have gone If il had been driven
from Tee TIE linz In this WY one may
even improve in driving during the winter months
and 90 out next spring ready 10 surprise the eN-
pcTts.
When Mis- Sarah Norlin Of Topeka, Kan. en-
tered the house OF Charles Eck.trom. a friend. to
attend a reception. he met her az the door and
so vigorously shooS her hand that Sarah fell and
broke her leg Eekstrom. who is welltodo.
paid her doctors BILL and thought the matter was
settled finally until he got notice that Miss,No
lin had entered suit for :. 900 damages. When
the ease called Eekstrom testified that his
preston Of his JOY at seeing Mis- Norlin again and
that he her harm. The jury thought
that Eckstrom had done about the right thing
when he paid ghe girls doctors bill, and
defed Judgment in his favor
A despatch dated Geneva, y. Y. October a.
say: Forest fires have been burning alon. the
west bank of West River in the town of italy,
twenty miles southwest Of Geneva. for several
day.. The point where the fire. were burning is
in valley where there Ii hut little breeze. The
smoke hangs over the river and lies close TO
the surface Of the water. The water in the river
is unusually low. The overhauging smoke pre-
vents the contact of fresh air with the water sur
face. The fish are being gradually smnthcred.
They rise gaspine TO the surface in great NUM-
bers and are easily captured by farmers along the
east bank The farmers remove their shoes and
stockings roll up their Trousers wade in and
catch the f-h by hand. In this way George Tru-
man. farm laborer. caught fifty pickerel yester-
day. the smallest OF which weighed twelve pounds
Fcrdon Brist0w caught 2o0 pounds et pgTch
today. Black bass in great numbers. eels buli-
l,ead-. and pike aisp caught. The dead t>
lie in heaps along the river banks.
Ii has been found that il an exposed photo
grapic plate is subjected to the action OF ,zune
for few minutes, it is not possible to develop
the image. but the plate so treated can be Used
for another exposure. Some recent experiments
have been undertaken to determine the feasibility
it Is possible that the ozone treatment may in
time become useful 10 photographers. The ex-
PLANTATION given of this phenomenon is that the
ozone oNidizss tine silver compounds which hae,
been reduced by the action of light. In the *
permenis referred To Two dry plates were wrapped
one-half Of each in tin foil and then exposed 10
brilliant sunlight for iva s-c1Ld-- Thy ver. next
carried 10 the darS room and subjected 10 oznu.
iOr four four minutI>. and afterwards emp.oy. d
with the tin-foil removed to make Ron gem
ray photographs. The experiment successful IN
so far the image visible over the entire
surface Of the plate. hut the two halves of the
plate wtre not equally transparent.
The NEST ancient copper mines nt which '.e
have any record are thoSe of Sinai which were
1900 4. D., the reason for their abandonment being
the poor quality OF the ore. From these mines.
the possession of which the occasion Of say-
eral wars, was obtained the copper used in max
ing the sceptre of Pepi |, King of the sixth dS
nasty. which is now preserved in the Brii-h
Museum. Certain portions OF the mines including
the ruins OF the furnaces the huts of the miners,
crucibles and fragments OF tools are still extant
and form relics Of considerable archaeological and
interest. The in this locality
occurs in specimens turquoise and in
others copper -hydrosiiicate sandstone im-
pregnated with copper. In some of the fragments
II tools arsenic Is found, a matter of interest.
ts use for hardening copper feature Of the
work OF Greek and Egyptian alchemists TiIt
PROCESSES similar TO those employed by modern
made of is shown BY tie
leyiecs used and the finished product.
4 Young American her way iomc
rom service in the hospitals in and near Maniia