The evening times., 1899-07-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

I NAu7aNC seaAfsk ouA0at ICE cream
and soda water.
Berlin letters in the London financial press cay
that Dusseldorf iron-makers are refusing to take
orders for the first half OF 1909.
In 1850 our production Of cheese WIS los. 900
pounds. In 1890 il was 256. .T50.00O At present
It IS estimated TO be about 2s0, ,0cO, 90 pounds
In FIVE months fifty new cotton mills have
been built or projected in the South, and thirty
nine mills IN that section are 10 be enlarged.
clock is being constructed for Liverpool
Street Station in London. The interior Of its
! case could allow FIVE persons to dine comfortably
The total number Of women over eighteen years
old employed in the factories and workshops Of
the British Islands is about 500,O00 of whom IL
per cent belong 10 trades unions.
BY the will of Henry Shaw. of ST Louis, the
Hover gardens which he owned in that city are
open TO the public the first Sunday IL June
and the fiTst Sunday in September each year.
A candidate for Office in Kentucky writes a
card in the ''Grayson Bugle'' to deny the charge
ot the Methodist church, but modestly adds that
ne Goes not claim TO be immaculate.
hy 50 minute tc be almost invisible ran
three inches in half second, and was eaIeu-
lated TO make less than so steps in the time
a healthy man would breathe once man with
proportionate agility could twenty-four miles
in minute.
Barcelona is to have national exhibition OF
coal and its products 1t appears that Spain
imported last year 1os6 900 tons Of coal although
the native product amounted to 3.3]900O tons
IL is believed that in a few years there will be
no more importations-
Portland, Ore, claims TO have the fastest stern
wheel steamboat in the world The Hsssalo re-
Gently completed for the Columbia River trade
has made spurts OF 26 2-3 miles an hour She is
ls6 feet long, with a tubed boiler feet IN
Cf1R1 aRrr1rns 1t
horsepower.
The grip ia generally supposed to be a mod
ern disease, but the British Medical Jourrai'
shows that epidemies of the disease not only
broke out so long fifty years ago, but that
they occurred at least 100 years ago. the Hand
book OF Hirsch' listing the epidemics from I173
to 1874 in ten pages.
An interesting memento of the charge of the
Light Brigade at BaIaklava IS to be sold in Lon
don shortly-the trumpet Of Trumpet Major Gray.
who was an orderly 10 Lord Cardigan. and with
him headed the charge Of The Six Hundred
His medals and the cross Of the French Legion
Of Honor viii also be auetioned.
1t is claimed now that Strawberries as a beau-
tifying tonic cannot be equaled. Skin specialists
advocate their invariably. A dish OF them
for breakfast every morning and another at
luncheon the directions They contain more
iron than any other fruit. and particularly
good for anyone suffering from nervousness
On July Will occur the tercentenary Of the
Lodge of scotland Olary's ChapeD, No 1. Of
Edinburgh, which claims to be the first and
principal Masonic lodge in Scotland and the
Oldest in the world And the event viii be ceie-
brated by a banquet, at which viii be present
the Prince Of Wales and many other distinguish
ed personaSes.
Wall paper does not hang, and yet the person
whose business it is to paste it up is called
a paper 'hanser. The reason is simple Long
before the introduction OF wall papers Arr1s. a
town in France, famous for its tapestries,
called 'arras-" These were used - wall cover
ings, and the men who were employed TO put
them up were called hangers
\. H. Nattox, Of the Bureau of Publicity OF
the American Commission for the Paris Exposi-
ton. says it is more than likely horse traction
VIII disappear IN Paris during the Exposition
year IN the way OF omnibuses, tramways. cabs.
and carriages, electric motors taking the places
Of the horses II is estimated that more than
10000 horseleSs vehicles viii be used in Paris
in 1900
NJ Berthelot has examined many classical spec
linens OF ancient mirrors in different localities.
They seeTa to have been made By blowin-: thin
walled bulb of glass and pouring melted lead
into watch-glass shaped portion OF the thin
bulb. and manipulating IL so as TO spread the
metal into lining layer about one-tenth Of a
mIlllnetre thick The glass had to be made
very thin. 50 as not 10 crack contact with
the melted lead.
colony the Tolstoy plan has been founded
by some OF the NetherIandish disciples of the
Russian teacher at Ape!doorn, in Holland, where
William III had his favorite hunting seat before
he became King OF England. Three professional
men have renouneed their positions and have
joined as agricultural lGborers. One Is PROT
Van Ries; the other two are Protestant clergy
men, Each is 10 be paid a yearly wage OF 100
hcTiBS for his labor.
Il is said that automobile vehicles are 10 be
used by the Pittsburg Express Company in con-
neetion with its trolley express cars. This COM
pany will do business on all the traction lines
in the vicinity Of Pittsburg. IL expects to op-
crate eleven baggage and a large number
of automobile delivery Wagons. The baggage
viii have six-foOr sliding doors On either
side. The baggage can be taken up at any
point along the line
Henry Norman, the London correspondent Of
the '-New York Times says of Esterhazy that
his dismissal from the army involved the loss
of his pension of 6,OOO francs year, and that
he refrained for so long from confessing 10 writ
ing the bordereau in the hope that his pension
might be granted to him again as the price OF
his silence Nevertheless, he refused offer
for the confession OF annuity which would
have paid him 1900 francs a year for life. Il
made him this offer myself, says Mr.. Norman.
80 know
A very eccentric old man was buried at Pere
Ia Chaise the other day. He was known to a.
most every celebrsted painter in Paris during
the last half-century as Pere Jacquette For
many years ke had kept small bric-a-bTac shop
in the Rue du Sentisr, where he had anassed
considerable wealth by rather singular means
He had somehow or other coutTived TO form the
acquaintance of Corot, Jonkind, BouSIin Forta-
ny, and many others equally famous. when they
were quite unknown, and obtained from them
in return for small loans of money great num-
Der OF their early works. which he subsequently
sold for immense prices
1t is said of the late George du Maurier that
he so moved with compassion at the
miserable appearance of a pavement artist that
he told him TO go and get some hot soup. prom
ising 10 look after the pitch in the mean
time As scOn the gone du Maurier
rubbed out the conventional landscape. and the
soldiers and sailors, and drew a set Of society
pictures in white chalk The money came in
at great rate, and when the man returned
he had nearly hatful. He was grateful, but his
professional pride touched. Its all very
WE'LL" he said. .'but you don't call this kind
Of thing art. do your? And with filthy rag
he obliterated the mastery drawings in line.
When the British steamer Camperdown, which
has just reached Baltimore. was eighty miles of
the coast, her lookout sighted man in an open
boat, and. naturally enough preparations were at
once made for rescue as heroic as the calm
state OF the would permit, says the New
York Times. As the Camperdown approached
the boat, however, it was seen that the lonely
voyager was content with his surroundings. and
az the steamers captain well up in his
kipling, he did not do anything rash. When the
big and little vessels close together CONVEX
satiou ensued. and the man in the boat revealed
that he Capt William A. Andrews, who had
sailed from Atlantic City two days before, bound
for England. He said he wanted nothing. as