The evening times., 1899-01-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The screw was one of the mechanical powers
known 10 the Greeks.
OF the thirfy-fve churches built by S'r Christie
pher Wren IN London nearly one-lait have dissi'-
peared.
Dried bananas are now being exported from
Queensland They are intended a. "a substitute ios
raisiHs in British puddings-
The rivers in Northern Russia frozen this
wear before the end OF October.
Emile Zola i, in London. where he registered at
the Crosyeuor Hotel under the name Of one OF h1=
best-knOwn characters, Dr. Pascal
Cardinal Mertel i 20 year, old, and Is % active
that he bids fair to reach 10 years He ! one OF
the few surviving cardinals created by Pla' ~
In the eating Of meat the United states heads
all nations Not Iess than 1l,0o00l6,00O pounds
of meat is used here every year, or ~ pounds 20
each person Five thousand million poun.is a., =,
beef, 4OOO, CO., ,oOO pounds Is pork and >",v'l"s
mutton.
Jasper smith. one of the wellthiest citizens Of
Atlanta. celebrated his sixty-fJh birthday last
evening in a novel fashion His guests were one
hundred we'll known Young Ot the CITY, and
were served with twenty nine different klBst> 81
meats and ffty-seven different drinks
Col Charles Marshall, the eminent lawyer Of
Baltimore. i writing life of Gen r. T. Lee.
upon whose staff he served during tine whole civil
war. Colonel Marshall wrote all the official re
ports Of the Amy Of Northern Virginia. and with
Cen Horace Porter arranged the terms OF sur
render at Appomattox-
1t has been decided 10 establish. IN connection
with the Midland University. Birmingham Eng
land, school Of brewing. There viii be a chair
for a prOfesS1r OF brewing and the training VIII
be of the fullest, both for malsters and brewers.
A special brewery laboratory viii be established
contiguous 10 the university buildings
The Oldest Christian structure in Ireland Is
remarkable building. evidently very ancient, bat
wonderfully preserved, at Dingle. in County her
~. 1t Is popularity known aS the 'oTatory OF
GaIlerus-" Who Gsller1Is was history does not
say. but the Oratory has stood practically IN
injured ior more than 1850 years. ne was prob
ably one of the converts Of =. Patrick.
1t viii surprise many of the Christmas buyers
10 learn that much OF the so-called ivory which
they purchased is made from skinned milk aEd
borax. Take the ivory rartle-boxe~. for m
stance-the pretty white and colored One~ which
please the babies so; also many OF the combs
billiard balls. back OF brushes. looking glasses
etc.-tEey are usually cut from what L called
artificial ivory.
For upward Of 1000 years continuous attempts
have been made TO eIucidate the phenomenon OF
sleep without success; many theories have been
promulgated, bat they have fallen short Of ex-
n1aiuine II We know that sleep rests the mind
more than the body; TO puJ 1t IN another way
the mere physical aS apart from the nervous I'F-
tion Of the organism can be rested without SieeF
Negatively the effects OF steellt~~>e>> IIoFt> 'Ee
value and necessity Of sleep
There are the gravest fears as TO the safety Of
the Belgian Antarctic expe.lition- under the COM
mand OF Lieutenant de Geriaehe. which sailed
| from Antwerp in August 1877. on the Belgiea-
/ No news whatever has rom them since
| February last. The Belgica was a tTail, oldiaSh-
| iOned whaer, filter up Tor the expedition. and II
| is feared that II has not been able to withstand
/ the storms OF the Antarctic regions, or the grind
ing OF the ice foes, which may have crushed her
-Four prisoners broke out Of the county Jail at
! Eureka Springs Ark, the other day to attend a
dance given bv some Of their friends The iIiler
spent the night in frIitless search for his miss
ing charges and upon returning to the prison at
| day break found them waiting to get in He was
| ready, and told them that after the way they
had acted they could stay ont Then the Jdllcr
went inside and locked the door, whereupon the
prisoners forced their way INTO the Jail and re-
| turned to their cells
| The French government is being urged 10 give
| practical test TO plan for having immense
Ife-rafts built on the new trans Atlantic liners
being built for the line running between Eavre
and New York. 1t IS proposed to use these rats
as sun shades for the decks. ana 70 construct them
so that it viii be impossible to submeree them
thus insuring a safe passage for the passengers
when the vessel sinks over 1.CO0 lives have
been lost in great disasters this year. ans
governments cannot give too much attention tc
the question OF hfe-saving appliances
At last Fourier's Utopian boast that eiviliza
tion could easily make the pestiIentiaI Pontin6
marshes of Latium Italy, fertile ground, seem:
on the eve of fulfllment. German, Major Vol
Donat has conceived scheme for efecting thI
highly desirable end and his plan IS approved
by experts in engineering. and is backed BY
German capitalists. Count Hutten- Czapski anC
DIR. Shelta Douglas, the latter son OF COun
Douglas Ralswid. have gone TO Rome 10 open ne
gotiatiOns with the Italian government Th'
| marshes extend thirty-one miles from TerracIni
to near Velletri.
cable dispatch from London, says the Dali.
Mail, announces that the chief benefciaries unde
the will of the late Baron Ferdinand de RotIs
child are his brother, Baron Albert, and his sis
| ter Miss Alice. The latter gets the mansion a
No. l43 PiccadilIy. Waddeson Manor remains in
| tact in the possession of the family. Mr. Alfre'
| Charles de ROthschild gets a large money legacy
The Earl of Rosebery is bequeathed several yalua
Bile pictures, and his sons-reeeive legaeies thir
| brother, Mr.. Nathaniel de RothSchild OF Vienna
benefits under the will, which also makes Severa
small legacies to personal friends.
The recent reconciliation between the Poles an
Czechs of Galicia seems to have been very unsta
bie Complaints have already been made on bot
sides, but the Czechs particularly are accused c
intolerance toward the Polish language in Silesia
This is a province which formerly belonged t
Poland but the Polish population is largely d
|. luted with Germans and Czechs- IL IS said tina
in some of the Silesian towns the Czechs how
in church when Polish hymns sung, and othe
charges OF intolerance preferred against th
Bohemians This diseord seems ridiculous whe
one considers that the difference between the tx
languages is hardly greater than between Englis
and Lowland Scotch, Pole often speaking
Czech meetings in his language and Gee
at Polish meetings likewise. But then both n;
tions hold to their own language with the san
intensity Of patriotic feeling that has enable
I then, to resist absorption by the Germans, al
neither is likely to admit that the other Ia,
guage is ON higher level. II the squabblc a
sumes greater proportions it viii be all to the a.
! vantcgc of the Germans