The evening times., 1899-08-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

A Paris journal declares that petroleum
drinkers becoming plentiful in the Bastile
quarter.
In Chicago ss 900 dog licenses have-been issued
for this year. and 7.OOe-or 5000 more are ex-
pected 10 be taken out.
The odor of musk which was mixed with the
mortar when the Sophia Church IN Constantine
pie built is stiff perceptible-
A movement has been started in Texas to bring
about the incorporation of manual training in the
curriculum Of the public schools Of that State
The people of Kansas are preparing TO pay all
the expenses of transporting the Twentieth Kan
sls Volunteers from San Francisco to their homes
Russia's Asiatie possessions are three times the
size of England's, but hold only 23.000000 in
habitants, compared with England's 297 Co.,
600 subjects
Hanover Pa, has distinguished itself by run
ming out OF town the iust-eleeted superintendent
of schools because il was found that he was a
Roman Catholic.
Successful experiments have been made in Paris
with automobile watering cart, and 800 Of
these will be put in service, replacing 500 h0 Sc
power carts now in
In Kansas. since 1859, every year ending with
the figure o has been a great corn year, while
every year ending with cipher has shown a
failure of the corn crop
The Spanish are among the most charitable
people earth Without poor tax Spanish
communities Of 5000 self-aIpporters feed pau
per population Of 5000 or more
A Democratic club. recently organized in New
Haven, is TO be run. partly at least, on pubic
/ funds Ii has voted 10 public Cfticehoiders
who are members Of the club per cent of their
salaries.
According TO George F. Kunz. special agent
Of the United States Geological Survey, the val
ue Of all the precious stones found in the United
States in 1sos $1G0.J20, compared with
Sl36,67j in 1897.
At recent wedding in Atehison, Kan. the
Congregational minister OF that city refused 10
perform the ceremony, though the bride was
member OF his church, for the reason that she
divorced woman.
The kissing bug was invented by band OF
Washington correspondents, 10 give them sen
sation for the dull season. They even invented
its alleged scientific name. Engomoloslsts say
such insect does not exist
From Denver Genes complaint against
too-wise public impoundeT- The dog catcher
stands on corner and loudly calls: Here, Dew
ey, Here. Dewey" and then gathers in the
luckless and tagless Jhat answer 10 their name
Names adjutant general Is about to organize
her naval reserve. I;sanucleus will be taken from
men IRON Portland who served on the Montauk
during the war with Spain IL IS hoped 10 get
the organization in working condition by January
| The kansas City Journal SAYS: "A 'careful
summing up of the accounts Of Fourth Of July
celebr4Ets. - given in the Kansas pres, shows
that more people were dangerously burt than the
entire number Of wounded N the twentieth Nan
| SAL"
Miss Nora Abbey, 4 nurse az Bellevue Hospital,
New York, who badly burned her hands in Tes-
| cuirg babies from The fle in the infants pavil
iJn has blen dismissed f-Gui her place II L
| said. because she gave information Of the hre
to reporters
The first cotton mill in Kansas VIII soon com
menee operations in independence The mil
building Is 200 by 60 feet in dimensions. anG
was donated by the citizens The plant will
manufacture thread and yarn Cloth factories are
expected 10 follow.
According TO a New York physician, women
who enter hospitals there 10 learn the profession
Of nurses look upon the hospital matrimonial
hunting ground. where Young physicians are the
quarry; that flirting with the doctors comes first,
and taking Of the patients second
There are 1000 locomotives in use on American
railroads, representing investment Of Sj9,Gf).-
900. All points of excellence and dement's CON
sidered the American locomotives are the best
in the world, and. besides are the standard OF
construction for most OF the other countries
negro community in Alabama. containing 400
negroes and but two white persons, is about to
De incorporated me Le-IpS- F-+'A'l'>c - L4A'C
strict negro town and negro government All
the otficials VIII be negroes IL VIII doubtless be
the only municipality OF the kind IN the nlted
States.
The educational census which has just been
| taken OF the French universities shows that out
OF PSI students under the various faculties only
| sl7 are women In Paris the proportion is
| " 30 high. for there but 30 women among
| the Ils27 sludlnts. ard Of these I'D are for
| eiGners.
NuttalI has determined that the smell Of fresh
| " turned earth is due 10 the growth of hae-
teriurr the Cladothrix Odifera. which multiplies
in decomposing vegetable matter. and more rap
idly in the presence of heat and moisture Hence
| the odor IS especially marked after Shower,
| o. when moist earth Is disturbed
! The most northern newspaper in the world il
| published at Hammerstein, Russia The editorial
| work is done in small wooden house, rooted
| with turf The paper Is called the ''Sordkap,
| and Is published weekly The news Is frequently
a fortnight old before II reaches the subscribers
| Most subscriptions are paid IN fish
| Probably the meanest deception in the world
| is that of advertising railway excursions with
enlarged pictures OF seaside bathing scenes, such
| a. are used 10 write society jokes under IN the
| New York illustrated papers The nyTph5 OF
the seashore simply the winter fashion plates
ladies taking their summer outing in the papers
| At a meeting OF the Prussian Academy Of Sci
| ences on July 80 Prof Dills delivered an ad-
dress en- the need of universal language for
msn Of science, in order that articles and books
| may be intelligible to all. He considered VIOLA
puk an artificial product OF little use, and adj
vocated the adoption of English the. world
| language
| Few Of the million passengers CT more who
make their daily journey in a London bus OF
| street car know that the horses which draw them
are nearly always American Canadian. Great
| Britain. the ''ilorsiest' country in the world
buys more than 20.OO0 horses from tke United
States every yeaE Nearly all OF these are heavy
| dFaught horses.
\ London capitalist has offered to construct al
Southsrd a huge-sca wall, at cost OF $SOe9. 900
and asks in return permission TO the tida
| force for working Il generating pant 10 supply
| LondOn with electricity. He guarantees there
shall never be less than three and tsle-half feet
OF water on the beach; in fact, it will be
huge marine lake
Belgium is the most confused little nationality
on earth. In the great cities the population i
made up Of nextricab,e mixtures of FIemist
races and the WalloOEs. pure French, and Ger
mans. Add to this broad spiaShes of the Spanish
blood that came in with the princes OF the last
| century, and you have a curious coBglomerzte
man-the brave little Belgian
The largest item of increase in Great Britain:
exports during June. compared with 1895 was
| raw materials. where the gam WAS SS.l1O,OJ0
! Mcst OF this increase, however, in COAL which
! England has been exporting in enormous quan
| tity. Its coal exports for June rose in volume
3Sh per cent over lS3S; shipments for the 81,
months increased SG5s per cent.
Some plants go TO sleep every night. The mi
mGsa, or sensitive plant, in daylight opens it
fragile leaves which are hard at work eating
absorbing the earhOnie acid of the air into plan
| food. At night the mimosa sleeps and digest.
| what il has eaten, and the leaves fold up doubl,
against each other, the stem droops and III,