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

matches annually
Twenty varieties of goldenrod we're shown at
recent flower show in Boston.
Lansing. Mich. has the widest driveway bridge
in the United States, if not in the world
The experiment is being tried in Detroit Of al
lowing the iremen one day cf'' in FIVE
London policemen have been forbidden to veal
tan shoes on the ground that they are too
stylish"
There are four large rabbit farms in Indiana
The largest one is located at Wabash and covers
sixty acres
Millions Of dollars are to be expended on devel
oping the proved value of Niagara as
water power.
The total quantity of diamonds found in Isos ir
the Transyaal was %, sl3 earats. valued at fE,
go (s2l2, l2.04)-
carload of dried canned potatoes contains
1900 bushels. but would bold only 500 bushels II
their natural state.
Never in the history of the Big SANDY Valley
market at this season.
The foreign commerce OF the United States dur
ing the month Of August was the most profitable
in the history of the country.
An Indiana man planted twenty Of former
marsh land in cabbage. and ar present market
rates he viii receive 5000 for his crop.
An engineer in Tunis has invented a deep-sea
diving apparatus which has been tried without ac
cident at depth of la feet near CherbOuTg-
steamer trunk has been patented. which, be-
ing air tight, may be attached to the waist belt
in an emergency and used as life preserver
The minister Of foreign afTaires at Rome has
recently sent instructions to prevent the immgra-
tiOn Of Italians TO a Central American republic
For many years the farmers thought pepper
mint weed obnoxious and grubbed them out. To-
day there are three big peppermint farms in
Indiana.
Evaporated vegetables were first put up for the
Alaskan market, but the business Is being devel
oped more largely for export 10 other parts OF
the world
On many of the church doors in London are no.
tices tackled up telling when and where the excise
board will meet 10 grant licenses 10 sell intoxi-
eating liquors
Winning race horses are generally bays, chest
nuts, browns, and for every leo bays among
them there are so chestnuts ard 30 browns. There
Is TO record Of Important being Won By
a piebald-
In the year IsOG the approximate area Of the
British Empire was 2,0I2. .1s2 square miles, In 1875
the approximate area OF the empire had grown &c
6,G0s square miles, and the population ta
ni, 5000.
The French statisticizn. >c. Livrier, says thai
half Of all human beings die before seventeen that
only one person in 10000 lives TO be 100 years old
and that only one person out OF every 1000 lives
to be sixty.
The largest unbroken area Of grain in the world
Is now being harvested. II l. in MADEIRA and Frcs-
no counties. Cal. and extends over p, coo acres.
or about foTtv miles, nearly one
fourth that of Chicago.
Authentic history and biography in China en-
braces period from the year I22 Of our era back
10 the remote period cf 2Gg7 years before Christ.
The historians Of China embrace a succession OF
uninterrupted series Of more Jhan 200 years
The faculty Of Elc University Of Pesin consists
of two presidents. eight foreign and eight Chi
nese professors sixteen assistants. thrty-two sec
retaries and baout 100 minor officers Of -
students Of modern language 100 are learning Eng
lish.
II Is a curious property Of the compounds d
teIIurium that they have Putrid and unbeaTable
odor. London physicians have taken advantage Of
this fact in prescribing il Ter feminine patient,
whom they wish II temporarily Isolate from 80
eiety.
White diamonds, the most popular among buy
ers. are seldom what they pretend. 70 be. for
stone clear ard transparent Is more rare than one
thinks There are red. blue. brown. yellow, green.
and pink diamonds; heat alsO often changes The
color Of a stone.
Packages cannot BE- mailed to the Yukon eoun-
try. according 10 an a1der recently issued by the
Pcs,ofice Department. Letters and postal clrd-
can lie sent TO the Yukon territory, but there l.
no way in which parcels OF third or fouEtl-cl-~-
mltteF car be forwarded.
In future Oil Russian studcn.s who create or ~
s;isate disorder. whether in the university out
viii be sent into the army TO serve from one 70
three years. The regulation applies also To those
who per~i-teuty refuse 20 continue their studies
Another regulation ordsIs The removal nom the
Isis Of ell married students. as lmproylcen- mar-
Tilg,s a cause cf p1uperlsm-
General Boulanger's famous black horse Tuai'
has met an igncminioUs death After The fight
Of R,ulancer the animal passed from hand ID
hand .and finally dezcended the inglorioJS serv-
ice Of drawing a cab through the streets II Paris
This proved TOO much for Tuni-. and be was sold
To Armand Bclosue. wsl-known dealer in horse
flesh. BY whom he duly slaughtered, cut up
and SOid FOR sJewiag purposes IN the market pace
Cf ST Anne.
on one of hiz Italian journeys Goethe stopped
day al Tor5cIs, on the Lake Of Garda The IA
tives oi that town feel 20 proud Of that circum-
stance that they sert. nos long ago, for 4 Goethe
expert in Vienna 10 help them find out in which
house Goethe had roomcd- The expert satisfied
them that it must have been in the house Of the
A'beTti brothers. and the natives have ROW order
ed 1 tablet with the inscription: In quesJI casa
dimora Goe,he il L. Sattembre I7S6"
PoIizeiwidrieeSvergeh hon Is word that Is used t.
describe the latest offence for which person may
be arrested in Austria I, l. used refer 10 any
act that meets with the 6islppr0val Of the pa
lice yet it & not forbidden by municipal orii-
nences or national statutes. The Austrian police
have the authority "a arrest anyone guilty % an
act Of which they mas di>appToye. Ii the police
inspectors choose the latter may impriSon the Of
fender without tror5Iing either Judge or Jury
y strange story comes from New Guinea oY the
less ard recovery of gold worth 81. l09. 4 party
Of miners returning from the N2nhare gold field
in 4 cutter accidentally allowed three bags Of
gold to fall overheard when thirty miles from
pert On their arrival at Samarai reward Of
$50 offered. and a lugger and cutter went
in search Of the lost gold. After diving for some
time in four fathCm> without result, the owner
OF The cutter gave orders to heave Up the anchor,
and when the anchor came up one OF the bags q
gold was found stuck in the flukes- The other
bags we're then soon located and recovered.
Doubtless many people have wondered how elec-
tric cables strung through underground con-
iuits the openings into which are otter half 4
block apart The latest device for doing this work
is the mechanical rat. 1t consists Of a spiral
syriug held between two side frames and geared
To two driving wheels in such a way that the
the spring unwinGs The power Is sufficient TO
carry the rat from one manhole 10 the next.
where an attendant catches il and winds up the
spring The ''Tat'' carries with il through the
conduit a string To the end OF which il attached
4 strong wire, and 10 the end Of that the cable
An Indiana warden has decided to abolish the
locistep in the State penitentiaEy saws the ssNev.
York Evening Post" The reason for the change
IS because the Iccsstep is supposed to leave m,
men with gait by which they afterwards nav
be recognized As former convicts Anything