The evening times., 1899-10-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

London hotelkeepers say they have not had 50
good an American season for years
The original cost of caviar has risen from 50
keg in 1880 to 800 keg this year.
million dollars were spent in stipends TO
Presbyterian ministers in Canada last year
The black jaguar Of Central America will attack
any man by day or night whom he hnds lying
down.
The Government Bureau of Ethnology has the
services Of two women OF recognized reputation in
ethnology.
tree have fertiized the flowers Of another five
miles away.
Maryland law prohibits Baltimore policemen
from doing mechanical work for the department.
or for hire.
Rats recently operated the striking mechanism
OF the disaised finishing (L- ID town clock for
several hours
The total value of sea fish landed in Ireland in
1885 was 81. 962. S35, increase of over $1,000
on the previous year.
The average duration Of yellow fever is week.
but in graver the attack may be precipitated
and prove speedily fatal.
Santa Cruz, Cal. is perhaps the only munich
pality in which paper Is furnished free to inhabi-
tants for domestic purposes
Among the peculiar attractions at the Paris Ex
position will be a great machine for making
clouds of all varieties at will
Belgium has the largest amount of railroad in
comparison with its total area, the amount being
S22 miles to each square mile Of area
While Liverpool has grsatiy increased in in
portance shipping port, il has for yeas
steadily declined shipbuilding centre.
One of New Yerk's yellow journals is re-
ferred to by Philadelphia contemporary hav-
ing published more exclusive Tuinors than any
other paper in the country
Since the opening Of the free employment bu-
reaus in Chicago six weeks ago 1865 persons have
applied for employment. and Of this number work
for 1892 has been secured During the same
time 6-o5S people have endesvOred TO employ labor
through the Offices. and 3.075 Of the applications
have been filed
Officials Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Con-
psny say they have been robbed of nearly s50,-
coo in the last six weeks by the new conductors
who have taken the place of the strikers of last
knocking down fares industriousiy, but the
leakage has st last been stopped
Over 79.O00.000 pounds Of poultry and nearly
SC, 900, 900 dozen of eggs. produced in Missouri.
were handled by transportation companies last
year. the aggregate cash returns for which were
IS .29s .232. The gross vaiue of the shipments
ceeded the value of the combined shipments OF
wheat, corn. oats, and hay. and the combined
value OF the shipment OF lumber logs, cross ties,
pIling. cooperaEe, and eordwood-
Two Belgian Roman Cath-Iic priests recently
decided TO visit some friends in England. But
being diligCnt students of the English press they
conceived the idea that 10 pass through any part
CT England during these anti-ritualistic days
would be perilous 10 life and Limb. They there
fore disguised Themselves as laymen, with straw
hats and light check tweed suits, and IN this
gsrb presented themselves TO their astonished
hosts
An authority states that there are s7s savings
banks in The United States having depo=itors 10
the number of 5,3s5 coo and total deposits
amounting to 81 O55. OOo. .O00 Great Britain's
savings banks have on deposit S7sO 900 frances
s652 900 go RussiaS SI9- .e1o. O00 ltaiy's 81
Oo0,O00. Thus it Is seen that the savings banks
OF the United States exceed the combined de-
posts of Great Britain, France, Rsssia, and
Italy ~ sS6s, ,0oo, COO
Hans LawtEer, a wealthy resident ei Fulton.
Mo-. has been made the defendant in a remark
abe lawsuit Several years ago Lawther took
Miss Ethel Lynch from orphans school under
the conditions that she skJU-d be educated and
brought up as one Of the family. The young
woman new alleges thar instead OF complying
with his agreement he gave her such limited
education that she only secure WORK Is =
servant. Because Of this she asks 400 as wages
and $, 600 dsmsges-
century ago Grimm and CSndclle. the former
a German and the latter Frenehman. declared
that the language Of Shakespeare would ultimately
become the universal tongue A similar Judg-
ment has Just been passed meeting OF the
Berlin Academy Of Sciences BY Professor Dleis.
a well-known German linguist- he declared that
independently Of the poiltieaI influence Nhch
the United States Great Britain, and the British
colonies were having on the world, the simplicity
Of structure Of the English language gaze II the
promise OF universal use
John Lynch, a desperate thug, arrested BY the
New York police resisted the officers while In the
patrol wagon on his way TO the station and was
beaten into what appeared TO be insenslbliity.
Sergeant Bell. thinking he might be shammins
as he lay on the floor of the stationhouse, applied
strong ammonia TO his nostrliS Lynch thereupoa
kicked the sergeant in the stomach and punched
him in the face The sergeant. enraged. threw
the ammonia into the mans face The doetors
al Bellevue Hospital. where Lynch was taken for
treatment say he viii lose both his eyes
Schweinfurth, the African traveller. describes
an insect organ builder In the country Of the
Shilooks, he says, acacia groves extend over an
area of a hundred square miles. From the attacks
of insects which have worked 10 the inside their
ivory white shoots are often swollen At their base
with globular blaGders measuring about inch
in diameter. After the insect has managed to
glide out OF its circular hole tins shoot becomes
a sort Of musical instrument upon which the WIND
produces hute-lIke sounds On this account the
natives Of the SouGan have named Il the whistling
tree.
Returning soiouTners along the Jersey coast tell
Of an annoying epidemic of a sort OF summer
grip that has been prevalent from Long Branch
down Its characteristics have been sore throats,
head and back aches bilious symptoms fever, and
extreme prostration- The victims were usually
affected for two three days. On its first ap-
pearaRce il thought 10 be only form O'
the ordinary cold that changeable and unsea-
sonably cold weather might occasion. but the
number Of those affected and the wide i
which it extended indicated It's serious as
pect.
An amusing paper entitled Shakespeare ard
Sanitation was read at the recent provincial
meeting Of the Incorporated Society OF Medical
Officers of Health, Strstford-on-AvGn- Among
other things the author related the following: IN
IS interesting to find that the name OF Johr
Shakespeare, the father of the poet. first appear
in the records OF the municipality as owing i
fine of two-pence for having made dirt heaf
with his neighbors Adrisn Quincy and Henry Rey
nOlds in Henly Street, and another occasi0r
he stood smereef in four-pence for failing tC
keep his gutter clean
| The other day Sir James Blythe, one Of tn,
best-known men in London, invited Patti 10 din
ner TO meet forty other great men and women o
the art world. She wrote: MY ar Sir James
am in mourning. and / feel a hesitancy about
attending a dinner to meet people Of my ewr
profession, but ii YOU will give another dinner
and ask only your friends shall be pleased tc
come Sir James, being Il most ariilble per
son. gave dinner minus the entree Of Patti
and on the following week Issued cards to al
his titled friends to meet the diva at aaoth-l
dinner. To this one she came in the fu,I 81 ,es
dor OF her Diamonds and Turquoise, looking fix
a bird OF paradise that had erept into the gilGe5
aviary of the kind Lady Warwick tho Duke ans
Duchess of Devonshire, Lord RosS 5ery-ali III,
big people were there and the diva was delighted
The Railroad Gazette has an article in whicI
il Is contended that railways will in the nea
future rigid foundation for their rails, EN-
ploying 70 this end metal cressties Heavier ans