The evening times., 1899-11-27
NOTES OF THE DAY

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| approximately sl5,000,0Oo
The average duration of strikes in Germany is
| between and weeks.
| OF the 600 clerks employed in Cuba by the POST
| Office department fully $40 are Cu5ans.
| The Burlington Railroad is talking Of conduct
| ing special chicken train > month.
Nearly all the omnibus horses in London i'm
| ported from the United States and Canada
Eneland's- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children examined 5000 cases last year.
Female bootblacks are increasing rapidly in
France They wear costume not unlike that Of
the nuns.
Austria las gold production in the last half
si00. 0.OJ1Gi
Windmills. though only becoming popular
for pumping water, known in Europe
FAR back nos.
London has 1864 policemen. or n TO every 1
OF its oo> square miles. Sixty per cent of them
are on night duty.
hne farms owned and operated by Kansas women
without the aid OF men.
growing Vermont industry i the canning of
corn this seasons output in the southeastern part
OF the State being S,00G,0CO cans.
Inc Social Democrats in Germany boast
seveniy-three Newspaper organs. Tie largest,
NCrwarts, has circulation OF 81, ,ODJ copies
Twenty-Five English railways paid in wages to
empoyes during the first half Of 1879 eBii. 900
more than was paid in the same period of Is9s-
an increase Of 81. per cent.
Gard playing has increased Of late in Britain.
The number Uf packs brought into Use last
year exceeded 2.2j0OBI. an increase Of 10000 on
the year before and of 100000 on 1896.
The consumption Of alcoholic drinks in France
SEEMS 10 be greatly on the increase. in spite OF
the fact that her population, if not stationary,
shows hut an almost imperceptible increase.
Australia offered a prize OF s25,000 to anyone
who would rid the country of rabbits; bu; after
several people had tried their hands no more
isfactory solution found than that of eating
them
The ClydebInk shipbuilding Company l. about
to build an Atlantic steamship fifteen feet longer
than the Oceanic. She Will be completed by the
spring of 1901 and will be i yertitlbie worlds
wonder.
As dieting is considered one Of the most efficient
aid- in modern medical practice. the University
Of Berlin has made arrangements with two schools
where medical students take lessons il the
culinary art.
A Natal man has attracted some attention by his
discovery that the dreaded ocast can be got rid Of
by smcaring few of the insects with iufee-
tious preparation and libCraing them to communi-
cate their fatal message TO the swarm.
The increase in the number OF medical women
in Great Britain is held by the medical men TO
be astonishing. In London alone there are now
eighiy-ive registered and qualified medical wo-
men, almost all OF whom are in practice.
1t Paris there viii be 80 barrels Of choice
American apples in cold storage small lots being
taken from the supply from time to time As
needed to keep up continuous fresh fruit eN-
hibit. ofangc> viii he treated in TIE same
ner
What is the average age Al which Engiishmen
marryg Twenty-eight ycars five months. Mr.
Harold Macfarlane answers in the '-Lady's
Realm And the average age Of English women
at the time Of marriage i twCnty--iX years two
months.
\ German has patented a process for the pre-
seryaiion OF eggs. consisting in immer,ing them
in an acid solution Of proto-sulphste of iron
tanning tsnnin, thus closing up the pore in the
shell and preventing the action of air on the
contents.
The Kafirs live in peculiar balloonsliaped huts.
made by planting long, slim branches or trunks
u trees in a circle and bending their tOIr the
centre. where they are fastened. Native fat
srlssts then in and OUT between these
branches.
The cost Of rubber i le~senod by a new French
process consisting Of mixing with wood oil an
1ther oil having greater density. lighter color and
cheaper price. the two oil being heated until
sodhed. when the mas i powdered and mixed
with india rubber.
Ii i asserted that no two countries in the world
make and eat the same kind of bread. In Eng
and and America there il the rrsstest similarity
in this respect. but the Engli-hman never eats
bread hot from th. oven nor doe ne usc biscuits
made with shortening.
Corrugated. galvanized -hr.tiron i the IL
most universal building material OF South Africa.
Il i used in the immense buildings at the Kimber-
ey mincs. and in the buildings of Johannesburg,
l. wtil in thousands OF dwelling houses. hsrn-,
sarehOuszS, fences. etc.
The deposit al vapor and hoar trosI on window
,anos is prevented by coating the window with
composition recently patented hy Belgian. con-
isting OF water. glycerine. sugar and eonarn. the
su!ting compound being transparent and render
- the window clear at all tiuie>
The average daily advance Of the simPlou tun-
lel is about thirty feet. but the contractors will
ave To- average forty-two to forty-siX feet per
lay in order to meet their engagements. About
.011 men are at work with twelve drills. The
alculated length between the two head of the
unnel i twelve and one-haf miles.
Arrangements are being made for the Inter.
lational Ethical Congress in London next year.
There are seven OF these associations in London
Olding meetings in various parts of the capital,
nd having for their object tine clucdation. app'i-
alton, ard promotion of moral principles and the
'rowth of character apart from supernatural
motives.
Appointed by the superior Council of Public
to the chair Of comparative anatomy
n the University OF Pavia. j. one of the most
earned and famous of Italian women She Is
OctoT Of medicine. and has written several books
N subjects relating TO comparative ANATOMY. She
IA, been !0nored by several learned societies for
Ter services to the cause Of >cienc-
The English friends OF Dr. Donaldson Smith. the
relknoun American explorer, who LETT Berbera,
n the Somali coast about two months ago. with
he object of leading an expedition across So
laliland TO Lake Rudolph. and thence To the
ile. are anxious for his safety. lie had set his
cart upon getting successfully through to the
ilc ard had taken great pains in fitting cut
Is expedition with every requisite in quiet,
nobtru>ive manner To avoid publicity. But he
lly have encountered unexpected difficulties ow-
NJ to the native rising. and news Of hiS well-bc-
lg Will be welcomed by his friends.
Judging from a recent report of the registrar
enersl of New Zealand. that fine martial race.
he Maeris, is going the way OF all aborigines
hose country has been cnlonzcd the whites.
hey may not become absolutely extinct for a
w more decades, but their doom is sealed.
mOng the CAUSES officially assigned for the thin
ing of their numbers the high nfantie NOR
ity resulting from improper food. exposure and
ne want of ordinary care, constitutions debili-
lted by past debauchery, the belief in native
octors and the neglect of the sick. and the
ioption of European habits and costumes. lead
" 10 diseases of the respiratory organs 4.
aori VI 4. Mr. Ne"ata. in addressing a recent
Inference of his countrymen. said that drini;
rs pauperizng them and sapping their vitality.
Many physicists, says .he american Chemical
,urnsl.'' have regarded the blue color OF the SEA
ID lakes not belonging to the water itself but
being produced by the reflection of the sunlight
ON invisible particles which the water always
ntains in suspension. This idea was suggested