The evening times., 1899-11-22
NOTE, OF THE DAY.

Nearly 300 claims for pensions made by soldiers
who served in the Spanish American war hasessi-
eady been allowed By the United states GoverI-
meDt.
A recent discovery in the Vatican Library.
among some eleventh-eentury manuscripts, was a
set Of maps of the time of Ptoiemy, the geo.
grsEher.
An imperial institute for 'oceanography il
Planned for KEEL and the German oYer.iilent s u.
will be asked for the funds at the next session OF
the Recfstag.
NATURAL gas found at Heathfed. Sussex i being
used TO light the railroad station there. This Is
said to he the fIst practical 10 which natural
gas hts been put in Europe
The little town of Meorehtad. Nan. has CO..
operative hotel Laundry. hall, creamery. and can
ming factory and a cooperative dining hall, with
several cooperative farms nearby.
The two zebras sent by the Emperor Of Abyssinia
to Queen Victoria. have reached England to the
climate and fare of which the geological garden Is
now doing its best to acctstom them
-Four million women OF the United States work.
In this number teachers, professors, lawyers.
clergymen, journalists, chemists assayerS, detec-
tives, postmen guides, and veterinary surgeons
The London authorities have decided upon the
novel municipal step of devoting f1000o TO the
erection OF building to shelter families. whose
houses are in progress of disinfection after out
breais OF infectious disease.
The men employed by the Cardiff tWales) Rail.
way Company have protested against excessive
hours of labcr The petition sets forth that they
are on duty on specified dates from twenty-four
to tIirty-seven consecutive hours. without meal
resting hours.
In Bohemia when geese are TO be driven long
distances to market. they are made TO walk
repeatedly over patches Of tar mixed with sand
This forms hard crust on their ieet. which
enables them to travel great distances without
becoming sOTs-footed.
Tie next great celebration in New York is
likely to be held in September 1909, and it will
he the 3gOth anniversary of the discovery Of the
Island of Manhattan by Henry Hudson The 2ooth
anniversary. in September. ls5e was modestiy eel.
ebrateh by dinner. held under the auspices of
the New York Historical scciety.
Defective fues are responsible for II per
cent OF the fires. and incendiarism is next as
cause Last year 6.sgI ineendiary fires occurred.
Lightning caused 3.I59. spOntaneOus combustion
+ Liz. friction in machinery 2D5, natural gas %,
dust explosions IL. and ) were caused by the suns
rays passing through window glass.
A yeritAble fortune. it is said. il gathered for
the Sultan from the wrecks OF the battle of
SMYRNA. Since 100 number of Russian and
Turkish ships have rested at the bottom of the
SEA. These are being Investigated and the
ship Of tine Russian admiral alone has yielded
ss50.O1o in coin, besides silverware and
jewels
Nentz is to have an important celebration next
of John Gutenberg. the inventor Of printing with
movable types who was horn in or that city.
The imperial chancellor has lent his name 10 the
movement and il is intended that the memorial
ceremonies shall be a grand scale IL IS a
VERY odd fact, considering the career Of the man
ubose memory Is to be celebrated that the COM
niittee OF management does not Include any niein-
Der of the pres
Vice Consul General Hanauer writes from Frank
fort, July -. 1s9o. that the total length OF the
street railway system in Frankfort at the end
of the year 1897 thirty and half kilometers
nse miles) The gross receipts during the year
were 65j tls5 marks tSt52, ,O00). Of which 2ss,fz2
marks tsss Gyp we're paid to the city treasury
according to the contract. There were Isl horses
and 1877 cars in use and %. l7 iS Passengers were
carried during the year The net proceeds AMOUNT
ed to $50. igi nlarks tslp2, io'.)
Massachusetts, has paid out seo.GoO for the sole
purpose of getting rid OF 4 certain family OF
moths. The .'GyIsy" moth Is the very destruc-
tive insect which the State board seeks TO drive
out The little creatures have proved such pest
that IT has been found necessary TO employ hun
dreds of to do nothing but destroy them
Indeed the abqye Is not all that Will be re-
quired to accomplish the work. for Il l. estimated
that fully ten times that amount must be spent
before they are finally extermlnated-
Another effort Is TO he made To erec; statue
10 Cromwell in his own county The appeals
made by the Huntingdon Grammar School, at
which he was educated, and by the HUNTINGTON
Town Council this summer both failed The
corporation only obtained very small sum to-
ward the statue and the fund collected by the
grammar school Inadequate 70 pay tor any
extension of that institution. \ tEiTa attempt Is
now being made by the Town Council of ST ives.
where Cromwell had his farm. where he lived Tor
some wears and where lie held the office of chair
man of the wsy"ardens
MANY people in Denmark prefer horseAesh 10
beef In Germany and Austria business Is brisk
in horse meat preparations and Is becoming more
so every year England is still reluctant about
accepting the new alimenf and classes that kind
Of food alongside snails and frogs The FIRST horse
butchers in Paris were only established IN 1870,
that specia trade Is now legally carried on. and
is considerably increasing, demonstrated by
ulirnicipal statistics-so much 50 that today over
$3.50 tons OF horsefiesh consumed annually IN
Paris. sold by sixty licensed horse butchers. who
receive supplies from two special nipple
slaughterhouses, both outside the city proper.
Members of the Franklin Institute listened with
close attention last evening to description Of an
apparatus for erlbossing printing for the blind by
the inventor. supt. William b. Wait, of the New
York Institution for the Blind, says the "Phila-
delpliia Ledger" Mr. Wait pictured on black
board the various sphabets in use for the sense
of touch. and showed his invention the typo
graph. in operation. In appearance and opera
iion the machine follows typewriter. with the
difference that it be controlled entirely by one
hand. while the other i used IN reading or foi-
lowing copy aud that two letters can be struck
AZ once IL prints raised letters Somewhat SIM
liar Is the stereograph. which punches the letters
with brass plate. from which. on an ordinary
prjuting press circulars leaflets in raised let.
teTs can be produced.
A glance at the financial administration of the
Transvaal is not without interest. Mr.. Chamber
lain draws attention TO this matter in despatch
sen TO the high commissioner last May. After
pointing out that the Uiilanders have to bear
burden OF taxation exceeding so per head-nearly
$50 .OeG per annum is raised from fewer than
25D per.ore-the colonial secretary goes 10
show how part of this revenue is spent. Between
IsSS and March, ls9s a of S1l-g90.DD0 had
been advanced TO officials and was unsccounted
ior But perhaps the most startling item con
c.rns the secret-seryice money TN TINS point
Mr. Chamberlain saws: The secret-service fund
anpears in the current estimates at SlS1.G35- but
even this sIm-inore than the amount of the
secret service money voted in the British imperial
: sirnates-appears 10 be habituaily exceeded. In
1888, S2l2,520 was spent and IN ls.b no ttss than
1853 ls5'' The general belief in England IS that
the money is largely spent in anti British pro-
pagandism in Cape Colony and Natal.
As one result of the Spanish-American war Aus
tralia proposed to supply herself with quite for
midable naval reserve. There has recently been
a conference of naval officers in Melbourne for
the purpose of discussing the mos. suitable basis
of a colonial naval reserve. at which communi-
cation was read from Lord Brassey, governor OF
Victoria. in which he stated his opinion that.
taking into consideration the character Of the Aus
tralisn population, il would he dtbcult if not I'M
pa,sible to secure a sufficiently large force con-
sisiing of seafaring men only. tie therefore s'r
gested that the system Of the Ameriean naval au-
thorities during the war should be adopted. This
WAS the navigation by their own crews Of Iner-
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