The evening times., 1899-12-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

! India has 6.O0O.0o0 girl wives who's ages
range from five to nine years; 10000 widows not
\ yet nine years Of age.
| cigarette smoker sends into the air abont
s0o0,00O,0o0 particles of dust at every pull. ac-
eording to Dr. Atkins Investigations.
] Passaic. n, j., has succeeded in locating
other big industry, the Gera Mil. OF Gera, Gd
| many. for the manufacture Of casiimeres.
At Beliville, Kan, circus changed it, line Of
parade in order that two sick boys might look
The supreme court Of Tennessee has decided
that no workhousc. city, COUNTY, or State
prisonkesper has right to whip prisoner there
in
Sixty delegates all the way from Montreal to
New Orleans. met in Boston recently in the first
convention ever held to discuss wcrk among
men.
10 he likely to be somewhat less than IL was in
s9s, when it reached the large figure of 200 COO
cases
The Premier of New Zealand has offered 10
find employment for any in that territory
who will bind himself to marry inside OF six
months
The French Postofice Department has excluded
mourning envelopes from the mails for the reason
that they can be opened without much chance OF
detection.
The eighty-third annual report of the American
Bible Society makes the statement that g. 9f2 5J5
copies Of the Bible have been issued since its es-
tablishment.
railroad paid. when ordered by Jury, 5000
for the finger OF eight -year-old boy that had
been amputated after having been crushed in a
crossing gate.
The Prince Albert coast defence ship and
the cruisers Acorn. Azov. Carysfoot, Constance.
Conquest, and Shannon to be sold out of the
English navy.
OF the Goooo population Of Palestine. 5000 are
Hebrews 300 are Christians. and 5000 arr
Aohammedans, who, although numerically in the
minority, are in authority.
The tenor of the letters in British religious
journals from Presbyterian, Methodist. and Con-
gregational elergymen in South Africa il de-
cidedly adverse TO the Beers
Through the work OF the Colored Women's
League OF Washington six kindergartens have
been started in the negro public schools a normal
kindergarten and day nursery.
The Roman Catholic population of the United
States was o,sJ7 $50 in iss0 and 9.s56s22 in 1897
an increase Of 81 per cent. In the same period
the growth Of Prote tanti.m was from osss, ,s3i
IN lssO TO l6.OSZ.0s in ls91, an increase Of
% per cent.
An enormous megsphone has been erected at
Faulkner'n Island, Conn. on the Government
lighthouse reservation. for testing new system
OF fog signals. The megaphone is IL feet long
and . feet in diameter at the mouth. Attached
to It is llz-inch steam siren.
Many OF the of India. and especially
those of Cashmere. beautiful In a typical
HindOO beauty the skin is Just dark enough to
gise reh. soft appearance to the complexion.
the features are regular. the eyes mild and black
and shaded by long silken lsshes, the hands and
feet are small and elegantly formed.
The Massachusetts, State Board Of Health has
expended about sleo.OOO during the past sixteen
years, during which time it has collected and ex-
amired about 10000 specimens samples of
food and drugs. has conducted about l. 500 prose-
cutions against offenders. and secured the in
nieiion OF fines amounting TO $1,000.
When Brazil quietly got rid of its old En-
peror, Dom Pedro II, and set up a republic the
was addition TO the list OF
Fourth of JuIy'' Independence DAYS The
Brazilian hrecracker anniversary is November Is,
and the tenth liberty day has Just been cele-
brated with pomp and ceremony at Rio Janeiro.
In the ssvannahs of South America there grows
tree called by the natives chapsrro, which not
,nly is not injured but actually benefited BY
prairie fires. The thick bark ressfs the action Of
The flames. aud the hard seeds are supplied with
4 kind Of wings owing to which they are scat
ered broadcast by the strong wind which accom-
panies ire.
one OF the most wonderful farms in the world
: situated in Canada. Its peculiarity lies in the
act that everything Is worked by electricity. Two
sstertalls within the bounds Of the farm. some
y feet and lsg feet high. furnish the motive
'oweT, central powerhouse being erected near
hd current Is transmitted by 20 yer
variable place on the farm
A the French Government will not provide
odgings for any OF the sovereigns who may witt
he great exhibition Of 1890 arrangements to that
nd are being made by the representatives of the
afious countries interested. II i not vet de
niteiy known whether the Gar and Czlrina will
make the journey TO Paris, but house has al
eady been purchased for them in the Champs
,lysees.
Among he md ofGa ~ 81,
nous castles in Europe none will attract more
ttenton than that of the Castle of Cauossa at
'eggio. This will be put up at auction next
riday- IL Is To be sold for non payment of taxes
to Just SfO-,hough that is almost
nouch to make Pope Gregory VII King Henry
'. and Countess Matilda come back to earth and
nin forces to protect the castle that had so i'm
ortant place in the history of Germany and
tally.
The parson OF the parish church of Penn in
uekinghamshire, England has surely an ire
ressible desire TO trade. since he has jrist sold
ne ancestral pew OF the Penn family the church
ulpit, altar cloth worked By Martha Penn.
n old tombstone, and similar odds and end.
hich are supposed TO have an historic value be-
ause the great William Penn sometimes visited
he church and sat in the family pew These
siics in the hands of dealer in an
quities, who may have hopes of puI-
hasers from PittSburg
Quite apart from the great Siberian Railroad.
he longes; in the world, there are some railroad
ps in Europe of a length by no means despics-
le, even to an American, says exchange.
he Orient express. leaving Paris twice a weet,
oes to Constantinople by way OF Munich. Vi
ma, Budapest. Belgrade. and Sofia. covering
32l miles in siNty-four ond one-half hours
,eed of nearly thirty miles hour. You may
, from London TO Constantinople via 0stend.
sienra, and Co>tanzz, y.052 miles. in seventy
zee and one-half hours. Between St Petersburg
I'd Ostend. l.591 miles. the time is forty-three
,urs. and London is six hours farther of The
MINER trains froom ST. Petersburg to Cannes
a Vienna. travesse I.9lG miles in sixty-fye hours
hile the Peninsula express. from Calais to Brn-
81. gets over l.353 miles in thirty-nine and one
llf hours. These would be fair in the
nited States. but not remarkable.
Some Paris newspapers lately started the story
at compromising letter from General De
iilifet to the French pretender was included in
e evidence Of an Orleanist plot in the hands of
e high commission. The French war minister
ITS end to the story in letter addressed to
e editor of lie Figaro. Il admit that l have
rittcn a letter to the Duke of Orleans and to
old all misunderstanding ! insist on stating the
act facts. In the month of November or De-
mber of lsss the Duke OF Orleans did the
nor of writing an invitation to me to hunt at
ood- Norton. l replied to the Duke of Orleans
at l was not rich enough to accept his
ry kind invitation. few days later, through
Y friend the Marquis du Lau. the Duke of Or
ms made the ofier to pay the expenses of
c trip. l replied. verbally this time. that
$ not poor enough to accept his gracious offer.
nee that moment have written no letter what
er TO the Duke Of Orleans
big shalt OF granite will soon be erected by
E Government of the United States at North