The evening times., 1899-06-19
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| three feet wide.
Mime. Camille Fiammarion. wife OF the as
| trononer. is heading a popular movement among
French women for general disarmament.
Since the war of 1894 the Chinese population Of
Shanghai has grown from 10000 to 100.00o. The
attraction lies in the many new industrial esta1-
| lishmcnts.
| William u. Evaris. though by no means in
4 physical good health. is sound OF mind as ever,
and his friends ridicuie the report that me was
losing his
| A new electric organ, placed in ar English
church. possesses cl.5e0 miles OF wire The ac-
ton OF the organ is so rapid that it would .'re-
PEAT, II necessary, sixty times per second.
| The official statistics of mines and quarries of
| Great Britain for ls9s have been published The
number OF persons employed in and about all the
| mines in the tnitsd Kingdom 74l. l2j men.
Last year the people of the United States used
about d1,OoJ. 900 pounds OF tea. which cost 49,.
OoJOU. The Secretary Of Agriculture fayors
other attempt at raising this commodity in this
country.
For some liver troubles German physician
has discovered and simple remedy. which
consists in massage Of the liver by holding the
breath at the height OF inspiration and breath
ing GU; slowly.
vineyard the Moseile which contained
only one acre OF ground. recently sold for sso.-
Gloo00. which is the highest price ever paid for
vine land in the sloselle territory, probably in
the whole Rhine district.
Lord Chief Justice Russell was obliged to
take part in coroner's inquest at his own
house recently. one of his guests having died
suddenly in an epieptic hf. As Lord Chief
Justice of England he is the chief coroner OF
the kingdom.
The seahoIse alone. with other existing
fish, the gar pile of our Western rivers, possesses
~,
older fishes. that Of turning it, head independ
emily Of its body. The seahorse also turn its
eyes in almost any direction.
Conte Cassini. the Russian Ambassador and
Nile. Cassini. his niece. will leave Washington
about June 20 for Carlsbad. Germany. where
they will visit relatives. The ambassador will re-
turn about August /. The report tina; he Is in
poor health Is euphaticaly denied.
Boston is going to give its citizens chance
to patronize home pedd!ers by the way it
bers licenses issued. Those for Eo>ton peddlers
will be even numbers and those for non-residents
odd 1t is odd. too, that Boston should thus
place herself second instead OF first.
number Of farmers in Sumner county. Kan.
have filed with the County Commissioners a pro-
test against the continuance of the bounty on
wolf scalps. They claim that the wolves are
OF great benefit to the country rabbit
terninators, and that they do little, if any,
harm.
J. A. MacNei Whistler. the artist and epi-
crammaist, told the other day of the recent
report to the effect that he aging rapidly
His reply was Characteristic: 1T is my enemies
who say that. they have retained. unt1Tnisted
through years, the ingenious faults of extreme
youth"
Among number OF Americans whom the Royal
Institution of Great Britain has elected as hon
pha :. r. Langley. Of Washington: \ A. Mich
elson. OF Chicago: Prof. Thurston. OF Cornell
University. and j. = Ames, of Johns Hopkins
University.
The Queen Regent of Spain carries crows
eye in her bosom. A. it is not mounted and
rests directly on her heart. its sharp edges caus,
her many a pFickin.. Iii it ceases 10 prick.
then Spain will be once more happy and pra--
perous;' this according to prophecy by Marie
Christmas grandmother.
The Porto Ricuns are struggling heroically
with the intEicacie- Of English, various adyer-
tisaments in san Juan newspapers testify. The
appeared for several days in I'll Pai-.''
Of that city; Wanted, ffs Glass silver smith.
with best Reference at the american Jewellery
stGre.-S. L. Giushurg-S3 Cruss."
For the first time since the qualifications have
been open to women period O; about FIVE years
"A female student at Durham (r.nSiand) Uui-
versity has just taken houorS in the final ex-
animation .Dr bachelor ot medicine. Thi- lady.
Miss SaIia Fitzherbert Fox. headed tine list of
who, with the exception Of herself.
were all men.
The ''Me-iicaI Record gives The following
more or les good advice to dootors''-snd it
sounds as though il might also be good for their
patients: Drink les, breathe more; eat les,
chew more: ride less. walk more; oiothe les.
bathe more; worry les. WORK noIe; waste less,
give mOie: write les, read more; preach les,
practice more.
Mrs Nellie Grant Sartori-. the first ''hride Of
the White House. i visiting in Boston. She
tells a friend there a story OF how some years
ago She had her boy Al.ernon at 4 band con-
cert at Brighton. and asked him ii he would
like TO hear God save the Queen played
Tell 'em To play the star Spsngled Banner
said the youth.
Anthony Nicholas Bradv. who has been men
tened as the probable successor OF Roswell p.
Flower as director of the numerous Flower prop
critics and enterprises. i, reputed be worth
sl5. .0O0OO0. His first regular employment was Us
cashier in the barber shop Of the Delavan House.
!; Albany. He was already a rich man when
he went into gas.
Elcanora Duse is at Naples. where sine has pro-
iuced d.Aunuuzio's one-act play, La Gloria
in which she i said to hare surpassed herself.
The piece is highly poetical and original. and is
based upon the text preached by solomon. that
al is vanity, even eloTs. signoTa Dusc Was cali
ed no fewer than thirteen times at TIE end Of
he performance. and there was i loud call Tor
the author. who, however. was not present.
Tie "Greenup (ky) Democrat" observes that
there's no Place like home. and in proof Of
the statement il relates story shout man in
Ifonton. Ohio. who bought COW in kentucky.
For a few DAYS the stabbed, bsiCwins
lie s,A fsDst-
inement. Now every morning -le walks down To
hte feEryb0at, takes passage. and crosses the
river; when arrived on the KENTUCKY shore she
goes down to the waters sd"e 10 take drink,
md then feasts all day on kentucky's green
pastures. returning TO Ohio in the ferryhoat in
he evening.
Interesting statistics of chd-growth pre-
ented in the annual report OF the New York
ruvenile Asylt.m. in an extensive c.:thropoiocical
etter OF the philadelphia Ledger OF chill
iren with incorporate, criminal, insane, and dis
olute parents. 50 per cent were inferior in their
and they are hurdenSd with nu-
nerous and physical ahnormalitiIs While chill
iren of this elias, usually committed At an
,arly age for destitution, they show the largest
,srcertage of persistent bad character. Out Ot
.GgI children examined, l05 were without blesn-
sh. 50 presented excess OF abnOrInali;ies-thlt
: the physical condition was bad; in SIS. me-
lium. Among the more frequently occurring Sc
n,Is abnormalities may be mentioned irreyrlarly
.,aped head. low forehead pigeon breast and
.ernia. Abnornaiitics found to be more
numerous in males than females. especially those
hnormaities acquired by habit. White children
,osses< larger number of inborn irregularities,
While in colored children those acquired predom-
nate. In general. the Irregularities the re-
uit of neglect and ma,nutTitcn. OF the parents
# these I05 perfect children, only two persons
we're incorporate. two persons insane, and two
desert 81 he