The evening times., 1899-05-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

As Goliath was slain, so was S H. Ruhlen, o.
| Marysyillc, Ohio. who was killed by pebble
from small boys sling.
| In Indiana the other day a man tried to thaw
can Of nitro-glycerin by placing it in stove.
| He succeeded. but hasn't found 1t out yet.
! There has been an increase of sl.76 per capita
! in the circulation of the country IN the past
| twelve months II now amounts to S2oi5
| President Barrows, Of Oberlin College. has just
announced a gift Of $50,000 to that institution.
The giver's name he withholds, by request.
II took three twelve hours to fell tree in
| of the new lumber camps opened up near
Madison. W. Va The tree was eight feet through
A school girl of Elzabethport. n. j.. died from
blood poisoning, resulting from blows her
arm playfuily inflicted by her sehoolmate on her
birthday.
Neba. the prima donna. is an excellent whist
Ter. and is reported as saying that she always
whistles the music Of "a new part before trying
to sing it.
A lion hunter, who has made study Of that
animals pecuiiarities, that all lions left
handed When strikes forcible blow it al
ways uses its left paw.
A Sheridan. Mo-. photographer says he has
discovered process by means Of which a proof
Of photograph may be takeI within few mo-.
ments after the sitting.
The Presbytery Of Boston has just refused to
make total abstinence from tobacco condition
precedent Of ordination in the Gaze OF the young
licentiates under its care and OF elders-eiect.
Spanish author has written FIVE novels OF a
unique description. The first is without the letter
4, the second without L. the third without l,
the fourth without o. and the fifth without L.
Like many articles of the feminine toilet the
muf first the property of the women Of the
nobility in the middle Of the seventeenth
tury. Every woman Of fashion carried one to be
in style
The. lata 1tpaat AM aft apta fha
Countess Gozzandini, has just died at Bologna.
She chiidless, and left her large fortune to
charity. Her mother the Countess Maria
Teresa d. 'Aliyhieri.
In 1850 this country's imports Of iron and steel
manufactures amounted to s7I. I.250,0OO. and ex.
ports sli750.Doo. In 1888 the Imports were
si2. 5olooO, and the exports $40 900, the H..
being reversed
With a population Of 500. .OOg London harbors
every day 120.ooo strangers. Some may remain
a week, some a month. but all the year around
there Is average Of 10000 visitors who
within the metropolitan boundaries.
A novel will by E. T.~Clemmons, of Forsyth
county, \. G., just approved by the courts, be-
queatlls sl00,OgD to the Moravian Church in that
county, TO build church building and school
and to give each member OF the congregation
acre of land
According to the New YORK Press" a Bing-
hamton, y. V, physician attributes several
of appendicitis which have developed in the lat
ter city to the drinking of muddy water. He be-
lieves that the hne PARTICLES of earth suspended
in the water enter the appendix, causing the ill.,
famHsItion.
Frank Grifen. editor of the '.Marysville (Mo)
Daily Review shot dead last week by
whom he had attacked in his paper. He
had three daughters, all OF them under twenty,
and since hi, death they have taken charge Of
lac prrftf .,lfg fxre f-U and
printing il themselves.
Honolulu has one theatre. ramshItkle build
ing. in which various crude performances are
given by natives. Once in q long while drI-
matte company makes the trip from san Fran
cisco, the latest doing last summer without
pecuniary profit Single entertainers stop there
the way to Australia.
A mysterious disappearance now exciting Lon
don is that of Lady Sophie Beatrix Mary Cado-
gan, daughter of the Earl Of Cadogan, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. and wife Of Sir Samuel
Scott. Her ladyship went shopping April l..
dismissed her coacinIn in Bond Street, and has
not been heard of since She is twenty-five years
old. and was married three years ago.
The absence OF child from school in Switzer-
land. unless in case of illness, is punishable by
a fne the amount Of which is daily increased
Il it is suspected that the cliilds illness is sham
med, doctor Is sent by the school authorities.
and when he is convinced that the suspicion is
correct, the parents have To pay his fec
The largest room in the world under one roof
and unbroken by pillars is at ST. Petersburg. 1t
is go feet long 10y $50 feet in breadth b. day
light il is used for military displays. and
whole battalion completely maneuyer IN IT.
b. night 20.O00 tlpers give il beautiful
appearance. Tie roof is single arch of iron
Naryland's peach crop used to be i thing Of
which to hosst. but it Is no longer. The San
Jose scale and other enemies in the form of
Parasites and disease have reduced the number
of orchards. until the yield in the best sea
Is small, compared with the prolific crops
of fifteen twenty years ago.-Baltimore Herald
Dr. II. schlicbter. in paper read before the
ROYAL Geographical Society of Great Britain
Rhodesia announces his belief in the great
.tiquity Of the Zinibsbye ruins He puts their
date at 100 h. G.. and asserts that 50 early the
Semitic of the Red Sea- Jews. PhoeuicIns.
and Western Arabs had coloniZed Rhodesi1 and
worked the gold.
In recen; lecture. delivered at Liverpool. Dr.
William Carter pointed out that the deaths di-
rcctIy attributed to intemperlnce in 1876 were
gI per Iooo.oo0 among males, and 52 per I,apD.-
900 among females. that the rate is constantly
increasing. and that the deaths increasing
among women far rapidly and in far
greater ratio than among men.
In the House of Commons at Montreal the other
day Premier Laurier stated that the lease OF the
Plans OF ABRAHAM. QncDec. Wou!d expire On
the Ist OF Nay. 1901. and the property would
vert to tire ladies Of the Urs,iline Convent. The
government, however. WIS willing. if the prop
erty could he acquired at a reasonable figure.
10 take into consideration the question Of it,
purchase.
The commissioners of water supply Of the city
of New York figure that the maximum daily sup
ply of the system in Manhattan and the Bronx
is 100. 900 900 gallons The reserve held in stor-
10 IA vail uh at tba
ent rate of consumption would be sufficient for
the two boroughs for Is2 days, without the
ural flow of the rivers from which the supply Is
drawn. During lsss the average daily coislImp-
tion Of the old city of New York vas 2l5, O,DJJ
gallons, 12I gallons per capita.
General Fred Funston, of the Twentieth Kan
s,s Whose gallant conduct in the Philippines
has won him enduring fame. has displayed his
beiiigcrent tendencies in times of peace well
As in the thick of the battle. Something
than ten wears ago" says the "Emporia (kan.l
Gazptte' Funston was train collector on the
Santa Fe. Once he took "A cowboys gun from
him. pounded him with it, put him of the
stopped the train and chased the cowboy for
half a mile down the track, throwing rock bal
last at him.
Realization Of the rate a. which trolley lines
are spreading this part of the country
be gained from the fact that Boston Herald
reporter has just made trip from close TO his
office door to the Brooklyn Bridge. and used
electric cars almost exclusively in doing it. lie
started last Friday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock.
and reached Worcester at TO- After passing the
night at hotel he proceeded TO West Warren.
There he bad TO resort to the steam railway to
Indian Orchard. There second break be-