The evening times., 1899-09-05
NOTES OF TIE DAY.

There are 1000 acres OF sugar beets in Oucndaga
county, y. Y.
The Smithsonian Institution has a woman ex-
pert on HOLSTERS. and crabs
In Manitoba there are 2.500.0OO acres under
crops, of which 100000 is wheat.
The Argentine Republic imported machinery
last year to the value Of S3,00o,G00-
Two divinity students are working their way
through Yale by doing job printing.
Not drop Of intoxicating liquor is allowed
to be sold at the military camps Of Canada
Ben Clenoh the highest mountain in Scotland
will have electric read 10 its summit and a
sanitarium.
During the tremendous excitement Of gold dis
covery IN California the greatest production in
the United States was s65, 000, 600 per annum-
Whales from 900 to 400 years old are sometimes
met with. The age is aseertained by the size and
number OF the whaleboue, which increases yearly.
For the last year our exports of railroad iron
Of all sorts were 619,213 tons, against AZ 662
tons for lsJ6, 558,375 for 1893 asd 1895 fsl tons
for 1890.
Passenger trains from Boston to Plymouth are
hauled as far as BFaintree. and then divided into
two parts and drawn to Plymouth by a third
rail motor.
Married people live longer than the unmarried
the temperate and Industrious longer than the
gtuttGnous and Idle. and civilized nations longer
than the uneiviIzed.
The number OF cases of rabies has been lecreas-
ing each year In London, for instance there
were only II. none fatal. in ISIS, while in ISo7
there were 15I cases.
Women do the mining in Colombia. No man
with any se!t-resPect can be induced 10 engage
in that occupation. because in Spanish times it
was the WORK of slaves.
Charles p Jones and Charles Virgin, two ANA
teur divers. OF Astoria, Ore, have found $4,000
in the hulk of steamer that was sunk of Port
land more than thirty years ago.
Kanaka children, with their parents, spend
many hours a day resetling driftyxood from the
surf. The scarcity Of timber near the Hawaiian
coast makes the business profitable.
A New Orleans man is said TO have invented
sugar cane Planter in the form Of a wagon that
with three men and four mules will do the work
heretofore done by nine men and nine mules.
The House of Commons has met on Sunday
e-even times on various occasions. when urgency
demanded it. The first time was in the reign OF
Edward iii, the last at the death OF George H.
The military household CT the Gar is composed
Of Is officers of various ranks. So Of whom belong
TO the army. and Is to the navy. Nineteen mem
bers of the royal family Included in this list.
statue of St. Bernard de Mention is to be
raised on the Great St. Bernard. The corpmittee
appointed to carry out the idea is naturally in
ternational, for the monks from all parts OF
the world
The bee of Mexico does not Improve each
shining hour As there is very little cold wealth
er there no necessity exists for l1yiug in winter
stores OF honey, and the bee IS therefore lazy
eOekrOach-
4 published statement that Roman Catholics
can hold office under the Transyaal government
is inaccurate. provision of that character did
exist. but at the request Of President Kruger il
repealed in 1s96.
\ statement prepared at the Navy Department
shows that during the fiscal year Just closed 16.-
I23 men enlisted in the navy. OF whom ,
Ia enlisted for only There were T93
boys under Instruction
A Syracuse. y. Y. reformer, who recently adj
dressed the Mothers Club Of chat city has dis
covered that the Mother Goose rhymes are but
''sens.less iangle;" that there is wit in them.
and often bad grammar.
The young man vino won in the competitive
examination Of thirty aspirants for the West
Point cadetship from Congressman Joys Tenth
district Of Illinois. bears the somewhat appropri-
ate name of James 4. Mars.
\ statistical EngIishman estimates that fac
tory hand earning, say, s6-25 week, expends
out of it for food So -iG of which SI-O6 is for
meat. bacon, and FISH. and an equal amount for
hUtteer. cheese. lard, and eggs
The official records of Kansas show that there
are sixty-one counties in that State where there
is not a single bicycle Ii follows without say
ing that in 81 CT the 115 counties of Kansas the
roads practically unfit for travel
The South Carolina dispensary, which was de-
signed to check drunkenness and furnish to an
appreeiative public only chemically pure hsv-
erages, is accused of selling ''enlbaimed beer
otherwise beer treated with salicylie acid
crank in Brooklyn recently went over the
route of century and sprinkled it freely
with tacks. OF the eighty that finished the run
more than half had collapsed tires The tacks
remained in most OF the tires until pulled out.
Ears OF corn can be rapidly husked by a Kan
sas mans patent glove the palm being covered
with series of interlaced rings of wire. which
form a surface Of sufficient HexibilIty and rough
ness to engage the huSEs and strip them from the
ear.
The British government keeps eleven vessels at
work sounding and eharting the beds, TO
and out where dangers lurk Last wear 1000
square miles were carefully charted in differ
ent parts Of the wor,d-Asia. Africa, and the
South Pacific
oxford, Ne, has a cuztard pie association.
which meets annually in a hemlock grove on the
margin OF Swan Pond and gorgss itself with Gus
taTd pie It grew out OF a cJlstard pie eating
contest between two residents Of the town thirty
nine years ago
With refrigerator in every house. cold storage
warehouses in every city. and refrigerator cars
on every railroad. it is a little difficult TO realize
that the process Of freezing articles of food 10
prevent decomposition was not perfected until
little less than twenty wears ago
The management of the Hutchinson. Kan. Re-
formatcTy has determined to henceforth designate
the 22l inmates of the Institution as students"
The kansas City Journal observes that this
terminology viii probably Induce the gentlemen
down at the State penitentiary to speak of them
selves as alumni.
The most accommodating peop'e in the world
live at Hutchinson, Nan. \ Young couple down
there got up at midnight ard were married
week ahead Of the announced time in order to
accommodate some friends who had been s-.,f-
denly called away. ard who didn't want to miss
seeing the wedding.
The largest stamp mill in the world Just start
ed up at the old TreadweTI gold mine. on Doug
las Island Alaska. has sixty batteries, each Of
five stamps. and each having a crushing capacity
OF four tons daily. The Treadweu mines now
operate $50 stamps. and crush $3.50 tOEs Of ore
daily, representing $4,000.
Some large English timbermen. who have been
making tour through the lumber regions Of the
United States. were struck with the enormous
waste of timber due to the stave industry, which
slaughtered the trees, taking only the best with
out regard to other uses which might be sih-
served BY Il conservative method OF opera
tion-
-Four agents of the Nashville. Chattanooga and
st. Louis Railroad measure in height respectively.
feet inches. 6 feet inches. feet !, inch.
and feet 3i5 inches, and their aggregate weight
is LOIS pounds. They have been photographed
together, and would like TO hear from any other
railroad that furnish group Of four their
equals in feet and pounds.