The evening times., 1899-08-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

the fibre of the pineapple leaf. The cloth is
very expensive.
In Mexico the school children are allowed TO
smoke in school hours when their lessons
well prepared
Congressman Reyburn of Philadelphia has
collection OF American flags which includes over
200 specimens of all types.
Chicago folk chew two and one-half carloads
of gum every week That means 5,O09050 sticks.
costing $4,000, says Chicago wholesaler.
A vacant church in Philadelphia which pays
its pastor salary Of =, 200 a year has the
names of 100 candidates under consideration
Lizards crawl along the walls of the habitations
in the Philippines. disregaried by the. human
occupants, and make themselves useful BY catch
ing flies and mosquitoes.
Statistics published in Montreal show that
10000 people have left the Province OF Quebec
for the States this year. Most of the emigrants
have gone TO manufacturing centres
The first silk hat was worn in the streets of
London by John Hetherington. haberdasher,
January ). 1877. He arrested for melting
not, but was dismissed with a reprimand-
The German government is preparing for ex-
petition to 90 to the Antarctic Continent in
1901, and spend two years there in the study
of meteorology, magnetic currents, oeeanograpty,
and biology.
Several stageIoads of Readville, Mass, people
who thought they were having free ride from
real estate sale in a neighboring town. gave
up a total of so TO Il footpad masquerading
fare collector
The "Bellefonte CPa.) watcI,man'' reports a
remarkable death-dealing bolt of lightning which
killed thirty sheep that were lying under a
tree near Potter's Mills, Centre county. Pew Of
the flock escaped.
Although North Carolina is Democratic State.
and has been carried by the Democratic party
in every Presidential election since 1872. by a
paradox Of fusion not Of the State officers
there is Democrat.
A Berlin physician has. written an article On
the dangers resulting from what are considered
insignificant wounds For instance, of thirteen
injuries to the thumb, permanent disability fol-
lowed in 90 per cent.
machine, capableuof eaneeIing from
400 to 600 postage stamps a minute, is now
being tried in Chicago postofices 1t has four
feed pockets in which letters may be placed
either slngly or in punches.
Scientists have discovered that the memory is
stronger in summer than in winter. Among the
worst foes of the memory are too much food.
too much physical exercise and, strangely
enough, too much education.
The Territory of Oklahoma has an acreage in
wheat equal to two-thirds of the area planted
10 that crop in the United Kingdom Of Great
Britain, and some time viii have a greater wheat
area than all Of England has.
Along the Adria,ic Sea swallows and other mi
gratory birds caught every wear BY the hun
dreds Of thousands and eaten by the Italians
who spread nets in which many as 800 u 500
of the tired birds are caught at once
The Government of Victoria has jus; published
the returns Of wheat for the year IS9s-'g9. There
are about 2,15o,oo0 acres under wheat, and the
yield amounts 19,500O00 bushels or a little
over nine and half bushels TO the acre.
Eighty-iour per cent Of the entire State Of
idaho Is stiH public land. amounting 10 more
than A.. 100000 acres OF this area il has been
estimated by the Government Geological St-rvey
that 100000 acres can be irrigated successfully.
A Randolph Ne, woman who had waited
three weeks for carpenter took affairs into her
own hands and built fence and a piece Of
sidewalk She wanted herself and did il well. tco;
20 say those who have seen the result Of her
labors.
A new system Of advertising is in vogue in
San Francisco. 4 poultry dealer has an intslH-
gent rooster. which parades up and down the
street before the market with its owners bust
ness card displayed in It's bill, and commands
attention by frequently growing.
The pension list Of the United States has ap-
parentIy reached the high-watcr mark and IS
falling. On June 81. ls9S. there were 993,-
IA names on the list. Now there are huI Er2.-
GA. The largest number OF naules ever on the
pension rolls was 994.Os1, in August. ISIS.
The Commissioner of Pensions has rendered 4
decision that the receipt Of a municipal pension
By widows OF fremen, policemen. and other uu-
nicipaI employees does not vitiare their right TO
a Federal pension. The ground taken Is that
the municipal pension is a gratuity and /
vested right
The smallest watch in the world was undouht-
edly that exhibited in Berlin at the watch ex-
hi5ition. 1t was Of fine gold, the size Of a pea,
namely, 6i2 millimetres in diameter, OF Rot
quite 4 quarter Of inch, and its weight. III
Guiding the case. was only % CentigramS. OF not
quite the one-twO hUndredth and fiftieth part II
a pound. The price Of this curiosity : $500.
In the quarter sessions court Of Delaware coun-
~ last week 4 respectable woman OF Clifton
Heights had TO undergo the ordeal OF a trial
because she failed to return 4 neghbOr's pocket
book which She had found. IL cost the uni0rIu-
nate old lady over so in costs and lawyers fess
10 learn that the owner Of any piece of per
sCnal property does not lose title 70 1t by losing
the article
During the last fifteen months the entire ex-
pense of maintaining the army aud navy OF the
United States has been SS65.OOOO10. OF this
amount the army mas absorbed S959OG90OO, and
the navy S9I ,c0u,OtO. In times Qf peace the
cost Of The army and navy is approximately S112,-
O0OGO0. Since September, lsss. the expense OF
the naval and military establishment has grown
steadily smaller.
One of Boston's municipal officials, who is es-
peciaIIy interested in the establishment of free
ice water fountains in that city, hired a man
TO watch one Of the drinking places the other
day from a. m. to 10 p m, for the purpose
Of asceTtaining whether not it was well pat
ronized. Between the hours named exactly $3.50
persons drank at the city's expense, The fOun-
tain has four faucets.
liz,
have passed since Walton lived and wrote ''The
Complete Angler it has not, like many works,
been forgotten and consigned 10 the shades Of
Oblivion. On the contrary. editions have been
issued repeatedly. In the authors time, between
1858 and 1876. four appeared many followed,
and during the last ten years no less than SIX
have been published.
In prowling through some obsolete Territorial
statutes the other day Assistant Attorney Cen
eral West, Of Kansas, came across i law which
required that whenever a public thoroughfare
crossed stream the township overseeT should TX
a gauge showing the high-water mark. The law
provided that on top of each such gauge should
be sign reading: when this is under water
the ford is dangerous.
study of partially incubated eggs with
double yolks has been made by French exper-
imenter. The result disproves the general notion
that double chickens produced from two
yolks under pressure, as in the two cases OBJ
served of double embryo the nlonstrosity came
from Of the yOlks quite independently sof
the other. In Of these cases the second
yolk produced single chick, thus illustrating in
egg two kinds of twins-twO young ones
produced together, and from a single egg-cen
series of experiments by DR.. Loesener on
the buried bodies of animals tends to show that
the permanence of disease germs in the soil
and in the coffin after burial varies greatly with
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