The evening times., 1899-04-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| 600 for State mission work last year.
The teaching Of English is to be madc obga-
tory in the Russian commercial schools.
Thursday Island. in the Torres Straits exports
annually mother-Of-pearl worth s5o0,oo0.
The Cathedral of Mexico City was commenced
in 1913 and completed in l73l. at cost OF g.
00O.0o0.
Hawaii's foreign trade last year amounted to
s2g. 600. an increase Of s52O1.OU that OF
the year before. The gain in population was
9,9iG.
The lower house Of the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture'has passed bill to appropriate sI70.0o3 for
the destruction of the gypsy moth in the agrieul-
turai districts of the State.
Dr. Julius Dewey. father Of the Admiral earn
ed the means to pay for his professional tTainin.
by teaching a country school near Burlington,
Vt. deroting the holidays to medical study.
Marriage in Spain taxes place by day or at
night. according TO the fortune Of the young peo-
pie or their staten in life. II well-to-do the
ceremony comes of in the early part of the
morning.
There will soon be brought into Massachusetts
fifty dozen quail from the Indian Territory. and
they to he turned Loose in protected locali-
ties to furnish sport when they have sufficiently
multiplied.
Brooklyn pastor has declared against shut
ting children up in stuffy classroom. SundIy
afternoons. telling his congregation to teach
their children week days, ard take them walking
Sunday afternoons.
The export trade of England with Australasia.
where there are but i.0oD.Gp white people. Is
large as the export trade of the same country
with India. where there supposed to be 800.
100000 people of all kind.
'.The New York Home Joisnal saws that the
family of William Penn has not died out. of
his descendants by the closest collateral branch
being s. Cameron Harriet. OF New York. mem
ber of the United States Commission to the Pa-is
Exposition who is the great great great nephew
of the first Pennsylvania.
4 horned rabbit was killed by George W. Ter
rli. OF Jewell county, Kan, the other day. and
is exhibition at the postofhce at Robin.
SON. The horns grew on top OF the animals head.
between the ears. and three inches in length.
While not considered rarity in that section.
| this species of rabbit is by no means common.
The finest lace handkerchief in the world be-
longs to Queen Margarita. 1t is said to be val
ued at $3D.0l0. 4 not exorbitant sum when
considers that three artists have worked at it
for about twenty years II is so delicate that it
can be folded up and placed in gold sheath
Of the size of white bean.
The highest price ever paid for horse was
sIJO,OD0 which sum Mr. Macdcnough Califcr-
MIA millionaire. gave for Ormonde. triple
crowned hero Of the English turf This splendid
animal originally belonged To the Duke of West
minister. who so,d him to a South American for
the former sum from the Californian.
In the first four weeks after the opeuin. of
the electric railroad Cairo. Egypt. it i said
that no less than eighty person, were killed. and
since that time the weekly average of victims
has been seven or eight. Thi. very high rate al
casualties j. supposed Ia he due in pIrt To the
imperfect sight Of MANY NATIVES, in consequence
OF the prevalent eve dis-i-e~. but fully much
to the fact that they are unfamiliar with such
swiftly moving vehicles.
\ curious marriage ha- taken place at New
castle. England For the third time a lady named
uakines has been before the altar in the charac-
ter of a bride. and there has been something
remarkable in each Of her three engagements.
Her first husband Quaker. her second q
Roman Catholic. and her present j. a Protestant.
Each husband was twice her age M sixteen ,he
married a gentleman at thiTty-iwo; at thirty -l.r
took at sixty. and now. at f0fty-two -li- is
united to gentleman OF eighty four
The Metropolitan Railway % Paris i about TO
begin the construction OF ti.iry-three and on
half miles ot underground electric reads. CON
,i,ting of two lires east and west and lines
north and south. With circular line through
several of thc principal houlcvar,ls. 1t j,
pec,ed thar part OF this will be completed he
fore the Exposition Gf II01. Seventeenth, Of the
work will lie underground and the remainder
about cgulll: divided between yiaduct> and open
trenches iEr eI1tc- Itath per ttHt- ann
some Of the curves bIye radius oi 2i5 feet.
1t j. hoped to complete the first three lines by
the yeaT HrJ. and the remainder FIVE ye1r- later.
Tie expense will be abou, sioo16.e".
The church authorities in wuriemberg have
decided that at funerals where the body OF the
deceased i cf,matcd. the clergy in their official
capacity can hold services 81 the house. but not
in the cemetery where the ashes laid away.
This decision is found to he very embarrassing
hy ministers, writes: We follow the body
OF 4 suicide dressed in nur robe and offer ~
least a PRAYER. S1inctime- delivering. address
by request OF Friends but man wH'.
through aesthetic sanitary consideration. wi-h-
Is his body burned, the pastor dare not show as
much respect over that of a murderer.
During the course Of the tri4l in Boston The
other day uf a woman rc-tluIant keeper. who
WAS charged with selling milk ''below standard
The fact was developed that NJ Bo-;caan di,-a'-
i-ficd with his milbnan change. unle-' the
new miikrnan bc ready to submit a hnc ui
S50 from the Milk Dealers Association. The d
icndant testified that upon finding that the milk
she was getting poor. she tried in vain To
buy from othci mikmen. but they feared the So
fine of the trust and refused 10 sell 10 her- She
finally s,lccccted in getting better mlk b. pur-
chasing from another dealer in the name ot beT
iani;or,
According To a paper communicated 10 thc
Academic de- Sciences. the cathode ray, which
in striking On the walls Of the vacuum tub,.
gives rise to iluore>oencc and Rorntgen ray-. j.
ci material nature, since ii coats the inside
of the tube with the metal forming the anod,.
li-chIreng point opposite To the cathode. The
eject i like what III the ordinary clec-
tric are lamp. where particles OF the carbon point
foimin. the auode. positive pole OF the are.
are tom of by the electric discharge and car
rice! over To the cathode negative point It
seems probable. Therefore. that an electric are
might produce Roentgen ray~-
The De RoIan-. whose name has figured ot
late in Parisian dispatcic-. 4 family of coz
siderable fame in France. says th" '-Phiiadeiplta
Pres Among the least enyied OF their dis
tnctions i that OF producing the thsvaiier d.
Rohan. who was the only nobleman who died
upon the soalfold during the long reign OF Loui,
Mn This gentleman was convicted ct con-pir-
acy To betgay to the Dutch one of the French
strongholds, and. together with his accomplioe>,
the Marqu-t de Villrs. the thevalicr de PreauN,
and Dutch sghoolma>tsr. Van de Enden. was
executed in November. lG.i. De Rohan was not
heroc he seemed To be half dead. his hpi
blue his face pale and disiisurcd Ike Il dead
visage. The Marquise prayed her fellows Ia
nut a good face on it, and bore herself with
courage Three were belieided. The sehoolmlS
ter. being ..rotIrier.'' was hanged. Martin oh
serves: There still existed arisocratc disiinc-
tons in face OF the executioncr
Emery comes from the i.land of Naxos. in the
Eastern Mediterranean, whence it has been cx-
ported for the last two centuries or more. The
bed. are in the northeast of the island, the
deJ,osits descending into some OF the neighhorins
isl.nds. the emery being found in lenticnaf
masees resting on LAYERS oi srhst in limestone,
almost identical with PiTian marble. the finest
mathle known. which comes fiom the Island ct
Paros close by. There about 800 men en-