The evening times., 1899-11-04
NOTES OF The DAY.

pCpuiar urinh IN fdrf--
About 5000 miles of railway must be Construct
ed to complete the lire from Cape to Cairo
Discomfort is increasing in the ranks of til,
Spanish army, and the present dynasty Is un-
popular with the troops.
Ether drinking has become so prevalent in
northeast Germany that the authorities takin.
steps TO suppress the habit
During the first six months Of the year a million
English workers secured an increase of wages,
while only 2,2eo suffered decreases.
The Presbyterian Synod Of Minnesota asss 20
cents from each Presbyterian in the Stat- to
relieve Manchester and Albert Lea Colleges from
debt.
The automobile industry in France is making
astonishing progress There are GOO con-
Germs making automobiles who have turntd cut
$3.50.
way Is not over II per cent it rises in the German
eninire to g. and in tine Bayari1n highlands to
i5 per cent.
TIE number of Italian laborers in Swiss cities.
notably Bern, is growing large that serious
conflicts with the native workmen are feared in
the not-distant future
West Virginia has become the first State for oil
and lumber. the second for coke. and the third
for coal. 1t has thrty-six railroads projected,
eight Of which are Hnder construction
newspaper printed en- the excursion steamer
ophir, published cne number in 50 degrees min
published farthest north of any record
Already a haif dozen American engineering
plants have been established in Europe, and SOM
twenty American firms have the matter Of
building European plants under consideration.
In South Africa the warmest month is February
and the coldest is July. The temperature is not
trying that Of Central Europe. The rain
fall for the year is light, varying from > to 20
inches.
chi H- .Ia oyti ti,a
ment the mortality in Prussia from diphiheFia
has been reduced from Iste of I5j per 1000 in
the years Issj-ls9i, TO ..6 and G.2 in the years
ls96 and 1891.
Mississippi is without bureau Of statistics
any board Of the kind, and consequently the State
officers Hneh harapered in their efforts to
give adequate replies to persons wishing to sat-
tie or make investments in the state.
To this day it Is a very common sigh; in South
America, in Brazil especially. to see children
sInrk king their cigarettes. AT school the teacher
will occasionally intercept the session for a
smoke, his pupils putting away to keep him
COMPANY.
An improved feed blg for feeding horses on the
streets is attached the collar instead OF TO the
bride. allowing the animal to move his head
freely the hoop which carries the bag having an
extension at the rear which can be secured to the
collar for use.
all the electricity made by cleaning win
dows in London alone, by rubbing the glass
with a cloth, could be collected and stored, it
would at cnce 7olve the smoke difficulty of the
Metropolitan railway BIS allowing the trains TO
run by electric motors
Brakesmen will appreciate a attach
ment TO aid them in passing from one car to
another comprising a sliding extension secured by
springs To the end Of the running board. with
lever on top OF the 10 extend the board
across the space between the ears.
4 ring case has been patented by d Michigan
man for the storage Of finger rings. cleaning
them automatically D. they slipped into
Place. the round standard and Screw-cap having
surfaces OF abradins and polishing material which
act on the two sdes of the ring As the case Is
closed.
At Yetholm, in Scotland. man named Faa
was crowned King OF the Gypsies in succession to
his late mother who w. known as Queen Es-
ther. The crown of tin and tin-el was placed
Dn his head By the village blacksmith. witose
amiIy Is sid To posses the hereditary right Of
crowning the gypsy soveIeiens
Evaporsted bananas will soon be common a
in the United States as evsporated
peaches or apples. corporation liqs been tornsed.
backed by American capital, shich vii! bay and
dry the fruit where il gfUSs and ship tia ptodact
to this country. EYsp..attd bananas can b. made
the basis Of rrany delicious di-hes. and in
high favor with nIkefs, ccn.cctioEeTs and others
/, is said that the hoJciinks which rear th-ir
Young on the shores Of Lake Winnipeg. Canada,
and go to Crha and Porto Rico to spend the
winter twice traverse q distance exceeding $50
miles mare thsn a hith Of the cireUn,faTenee
nj uUr earth. eaeh wear The EiHEhiri lays its
eggs tar north the 9th degree OF Btitrde.
lGd j. found In thg winter in south America
The bienaisl pilgrim gcs af tEr iitte reti-tar *
cced 800 miles, and the tiny hlInminEbirt 2-Jo-
Colorado has added another uame to It's list Of
harvest festival days Beginning with Water
melon Day at Rccsy FoEd. which has been
great holiday for several year-, There have been
Day Corn Roast Dav'' -Potstc Day and the
interesting FESTIVAL Mountain and Plain The
addition thi5 wear To- the Iisj i Game and Fish
Day" which WAS put in operation at Steamboat
Springs on September :, and was an uHdoubted
success
The lieutenant governor of BurInah has ordered
the renovation of Mindoon Min's N.usoleum. at
,landalay. the work TO be done by the public
works department a. the maintenance Of 4 his
t0rical structure. SAYS the Upper Burmah' Ga
sette.' This Is the tomb. which some few years
lgo WAS desecTatcd by some Burmih budmlshss,
who believed that they would come upon the
gold coffin in which the King Is sad to have been
buried, hut were frustrated IN The attempt.
The coffin is said to be entirely surrounded by
huge bowlders which only be removed by
German philolosist has prepared statistics
lpon the comparative richness of all the spoken
languages of the world. English figures at ths
head of the list with an enormous vocabulary of
80 600 words Next comes German. with 5000
WORDS: Italian has 5000; French. $4,000; the
Turkish language -. 600. and the Spanish tongue
lnly boasts of 20.CJ0 words. 1t is not. however,
" the number Of words that measure the value
Il literature. The great French writers of
he seventeenth century for their chef d'oeuvres
we're content with vocabulary which anly con-
aimed 5000 words.
A London paper tells story of the enthusiastic
'egetarian who carries out hi, principles so far
is TO wear vegetable boots. One day recently he
With a vague idea OF vampires about to discover
hat two sheep were hard at work en- the boots,
md had already polished off abou; half the up-
,ers. The viper which bit the hand thai fed it
vas pattern Of gratitude in comparison. There
: Just a hope. of course. that the boots disagreed
With the sheep; still. that would he depior-
bile. tending to disgust the sheep themselves
With vegetarilusm. But what has become of the
est of the boots? Patrons of vegetarian restau-
ants must beware of steak for day or two."
The of Dawson City makes the popula-
ion less than third Of what it was commonly
imposed to be. there being less than 5000
and OF these about three-fourths are
americans SAYS the Commercial Advertiser -
n month nearly 1.sO0 have left for the Cape
some diggings in Alaska. This is significant in
lew of the international dispute about the hound
ry line. Ii the exodus from Dawson CITY TO
ape Nome continues there will soon be little
rgency in the Canadian contention for such an
dirstment of the boundary difficulty as would
i've them access 10 Dawson through British ter
ltory. The rise of Dawson City created that
ifiiculty. and the decline of the diggings there
Iay solve it.
The est Louis Globe Democrat SAYS: Twenty