The evening times., 1899-01-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Duke of York has the right 30 hfty
uniforms.
Spain has I.Oz7 iron mines, 461 coal and 81
lead and silver mines
Secretary Hay owns copy OF the famous Get
tysburg speech. written in LineolE's own hand
Emperor William has donated 10 the @.Protes-
tation Church at Speyer. Palatinste 10000 kiio-
grams of the metal from the captured French
cannon for the purpose OF casting an lRiInefses
imperial bell
Henry o. Tanners -AnnuReiatisn, shown last
spring at the Paris Salon. Is 10 he exhibited al
the Pennsylvania Academy exhibition this win
ter. Mr. Tanner is now in Jerusalem. engaged
on a Biblical subject
Falconry. once the fashionable sport Of the ar
istocracy in England, Is again becoming Popu-
lar. and the demand for the birds necessary for
this sport is greater just ROW than il has bern
during the last two centuries
The annual held naneuvers of the British reg
ulsr and volunteer forces much hampered by
restrictions growing out of laws forhidding tres
passing game preserves Enclosed woods AMI
plantations cannot be entered by troops do
spite the fact that IN war woods and planta-
! tions'' are frequently the keys OF positions
The estimated value OF the sutan's Jewels IS
S400OO.O00 Ii his majesty has any hobby al al
il may be said 10 be the purchasing Of jewels and
witnessing private thestricsls. No professional
Oi nOte-be he actor. singer or eoniurer-paSSes
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from the Sultan He always pays for these per
formances in Bank of England notes. --
In the bedroom of William ", at Hampton
Court Palace. Is clock OF the ''grandfarher''
pattern which goes for twelve months without
winding. IL was constructed about 1853 hy Dan
tuaTe, and i such splendid umekeeper ttaS &c
does not vary second IN a month it does not
record the hours only. but also the seconds, DAYS
and months. and even the times Of sunrise iGd
sunset.
1t is generally understood that, matter how
! much real estate the Astors buy, they never sell
any believing that investments of this Kind pay
better than anv other. Last week circumstances
/ forced a break in the rule William Waldorf A.
! tor sold TO Charles Broadway Rouss .25N2OD feet
al 55J Broadway. New York city. Tor $liJ-0b3
Mr. Astor desired to purchase the adjoining iois,
| intending 10 put up business block but the
/ owners would not sell Hence the transfer nlen-
toned
The fame OF the German Emperor has pene-
! trated without diminution to say the least, to
! his African possessions In the German colony %
I CAMERON, in West Africa, the natives not long
since held festival in honor OF the monarch over
sea The principal speech was made by a Negro
/ named Abel and this is the way he sounded the
praises OF the white chief:' The German Em-
! peror is the mightIest and cleverest man ia she
/ world. He sees treasures in the inside OF the
/ earth and has them brought TO light. He has
iron thread spun the earth. and ls soon as
he touches them his words travel in all dITec-
tlOnS lie has steamships WlIlCn move about on
dry land II a mountain stands IN his way he
| has hole bored through it; ii river stops hIm
| he has a road built through the air. Though he
| Is richer than all other men put together. he has
only one wife; and although she IS the most beau
| tiful of all women, yet she cost him nothing
In a New York police court the other day lit
| tie girl of seven years came in with the simple
demand: Il want my mamma Where is she:'
asked the house sergeant. "a policeman took her
and locked her up. He told me the Judge fined
| her 81 I've got cents Will that doE The
mother. Lena Cireenwald. OF No. IS Ludlow street,
I it appeared. had been arrested for peddling ap-
pies in Hester Street. which is crowded with ped
dleTs every day. She had two children. OF whom
the little reScuer was the elder. A Gerry So
siety agent took the child before the terrible
Magistrate Pool. PLEASE. mister, let my MANI
ma go.'' lisped Fannie ''She Is so good / ain Z
got no papa to take Of her, and only have
. cents Il don't want your pennies. said the
magistrate II want my mamma, said the lit
tie girl holding her doh tightly. ''Well, YOU
shall have her schwartz; get the papers on this
case. There's little girl wants her mother, and
| want to give her up to her
A welI-known professor OF hytlrostatics. writing
in the Golden Penny says: Il assure YOU, il Is a
simple sober fact, which I have tested myself,
that in all the deeper artesian bores there Is a
distinct tide. corresponding exactly with the
ocean tides, except that the process is reversed.
I and causing the water TO vary very greatly in
height in the bore at food and ebb The time
OF greatest flow in artesan well corresponds
with full ebb in the ocean nearest. This Is how
| account for the phenomenon: When the moon Is
at its height the moon is exerting Its pull not
only the sea but on the land. This naturally
tends TO take the pressure of the sand well,
which lies at one to two thousand feet below the
surface. and at the bottom of which the water
lies. Thus the pressure the water IS lessened
and the flow slackens. On the other hand. AT
low tide in the ocean. the moons pull Is relax
ed and the earth settles back, and by producing
greater pressure on the water-bearing strata
down below. squeezes the water up exactly as
you might squeeze sponge.
Queen Victoria has Just turned the tables on
! certain artists and picture publishers in London
and the "hupper circle is enjoying a qniet
laugh over it. Some time ago some one with ar
| unusual amount of self-conhdence going sFel
| the old Schloss Rosenau, in Saxony. thu
2 property of the Duke OF Saxe-Coburg, and on tl'
5 top floor, in the room which had been used by
| the Prince COnsort a study when he
boy was found painting. which declaret
to be the Princess Victoria at the age OF T. From
| some one-no one knows who-permission wa
? had to copy it, and in a short time the pictur'
L stores had likeness OF her majesty
represented a child, exceedingly pretty dTessea
{ in white gown. with sleeves rolled up. ON he
| head was a small cap and cuddling in her arm
! was a small Pomeranan dog The reproduction
! went like hot cakes. and her majesty beard aheu
il Victoria has a good memory and she ha
herself declared that incidents which happene'
: | when she was twelve months old are fresh in he
| mind still, but she could not for the life OF he
D recall any picture Of her fondling dog. To set
tie the matter she sent to her for t6e- pc int
I ing in question, and when it was unpaeked tn
= bered it very well. 1t was done by the aFtis
e Greuze. who died in 1905, fourteen years befpr
her maiesty's own birth.