The evening times., 1899-12-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Inc expenses OF the queens NJ ,tRhoid are -
timated at e172,ooo year.
quart Of milk contains the same nourishment
as threequarters Of a pound of beef.
vanilla bean kept in the sugar box fmparts
delicious favor to sugar. The French know this
In Norway the average length Of life is said to
globe.
Al Cornell University the percentage OF college
graduates in the professional schools is the largest
in their history.
At recent auction sale at Zurich more than
1000 gold and silver Swiss coins of the fifteenth
to the nineteenth centuries were disposed Of.
The Argentine Republic and Uruguay are among
the few Countries in the world where the number
Of sheep raised today is larger than year ago.
The State of New York will send to the Paris
Exposition of 1900 forestry exhibit Of thirty
four specimens Of wood all native to the State.
Owing to the risk of fire from leakage of cleo
trlcity the insurance companies warning their
patrons not to use incandescent lights in their
windows for holiday displays.
In Sweden street rarely stop to pick up or
set down passengers and tie natives Of both sexes
are wonderfully expert in jumping on and Of,
while the cars are in motion.
Since the beginning Of the ce..sury no fewer
than ffty-two volcanic islands have risen out Of
the sea. Nineteen Of that number have since dis
appeared, and ten are now inhabited
A manufacturer of certain machinery in Eng
land inserts an advertisement in some of the
technical periodicals in which he uses French,
Spanish, German, and japanese side by side.
Through the efforts of the Audubon Society, Q
law was passed by the Illinois Legislature which
makes the possession of any harmless bird, liv-
ing or dead, an offence punishable by a fine.
There are seventy-eight hardroek, high
grade phosphate mines in operation in Florida, be-
sides those producing low wgrade or soft-rock, and
the pebble mines In the southern part of the
State.
Jewellers say that turquoise will be the fash
ionable precious stone this winter, and everything
that is made up in brooches, rings, pins and
charms has from to a dozen of the pretty blue
stones worked into it somehow.
The Gar has revoked the law which since 1865
has forbidden Poles to acquire real estate except
by inheritance. They will still be restricted, how
ever, both in Poland and in Western Russia, TO
sixty five hectares for one family.
A great many people who live in the country or
who spend their summers there busy al this
season getting flower seeds together and labelling
them. As fast the flowers fade and the seed
bulbs appear 1T is time to collect.
Teaching boys and girls how to swim is the
newest subject TO be taken up in our grammar
schools. The matter was frst suggested by
philsnthropic society of New York city, who will
endeavor TO have the subject adopted
By the simple trick Of cutting the wood across
the grain or of cutting it with the grain at such
angle that 1t will split almost lengthwise when
friction is applied, it is asserted that the match
trust Is adding to its profits by enormous yearly
sums.
According to Dr. Schierning, there were only
$50 Of tuberculosis last year in force Of
81. $50 men. The number Of deaths from this
disease in The army has been gradually decreasing
from .le per thousand in lsse to "a per thousand
in 1897.
One Of the strSngest streams in the world is in
East africa. 1t flows in the direction of the -ea,
but never reaches it. Just north OF the Equator,
and when only few miles from the Indian Ocean,
il hows'into desert, when II suddenly and COM
pletely disappears.
Under the Belgian law unmarried men over
twenty five have one vote, married men and wild
overs with families have two votes, and priests
and other persons Of position and education have
three votes. Severe penalties are imposed On
those who fail TO vote.
With all his inventive genius and perfect ma
chinery, man move in a train at an outside
speed Of sixty miles hour, and that he cannot
Keep up for great distances. Yet the swallow
flies so, the duck 100. the srey crow (when MI
grating) los; the swift l50.
Reindeer meat as an ordinary and inexpensive
feature of the menu in Europe is about 10 be-
come an accomplished fact. Some enterprising
Norvegians have undertaken, under very favorable
to raise the animals in large num-
bers for slaughtering purposes
Cooperage woods have advanced 20 per cent,
largely caused by the enormous demand from the
whisky combine. Experimenters trying to
make cloth and soap out of wood pulp. Sawdust
and wood waste have almost great a value as
the clean plank ten years ago.
The London poor suffer terribly from over
crowding. According the Sanitary Record
l5 $50 persons lived in 4.05T tenenents with one
room in the Parish Of St. Mary's, Newington;
10 lsi persons in 1850 two-rcOmed tenements, and
9, !42 persons in !. a52 three-roomed tenements-
An old authority gives directions for the most
restful position to assume after great weariness
Il very tired lie on the back with the knees drawn
up. the hands cIssped above the head or resting
On the elbows. the forearm at right angles. and
he hands hanging over by the bend of the wrists.
French officer invented an army bicycle which
promises TO do good service. 1t folds. At the
word OF command the soldier riding the bicycle
iismounts, folds the machine in two. whips out
he bandlebars. attaches two broad straps, sings
il over his back, and walks of with no more in
convenience than if he is carrying his pack.
Trade ingenuity is never at fault. Some dis
tiller in Berlin has, writes Augsburg eorre-
spondent. invented liquor which he calls
'Dreyfus' tears" He calls it the most in
bottles he will grant you "eNtenuaiing cir
consisting of 10 per cent dis
count.
recent issue of the ''Transvaal Critic con-
aimed this suggestive bit of news: The MAJ
rys who thrashed two native servant girls to
ieath in the Wakkerstroom district some months
lgo has been sentenced TO two years hard labor
Mild as the sentence will appear 10 those who
Correctly estimate the value Of human life, ii has
Lstounded the relatives and friends OF the ac-
used. 1t says good deal for the jury that they
lid not decide acquittsl, seeing that the
tate attorney stated in the Rsad not so long ago
hat to thrash native servant TO death was nos
dishonoring crime
An English clergyman publishes the following
iotice in the parish paper: The vicar earnestly
equests the parishioners to put their family
raves in order. He would also remind the mey
who smoke cigarettes and whistle tunes on the
yraves that the churchyard is not the parish
.ustbin. II, therefore, they unable to get rid
# the paper packets in which they purchase their
Of fags other than by depositin0
hem in the chuTchyard. will they be so kind y
ct him have them Sunday mornings after
ce? He will also gladly receive any other litter
uch as tin cans and paper bags. which have hith-
rto been so lavishly deposited upon Gods
Gre"
Most people seem to think" says a maker Of
that secret drawers and hidden
eptacles in furniture only exist in novels and
lays but this is by so. I very fire.
uently take orders for such items, and /
10y q clever woman designer, who shows positive
enius in planninspplaees of concealment, which
10 amount of tapping measuring could reveal
most cases. even were the hollow receptacle dis.
oyered the woodwork around would have TO be
ut away, complex the fastenings. Most
the orders come from women-and rich people.
course-and have no doubt that desire to
ide articles from too curious servants dictates the
rders."