The evening times., 1899-10-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Toys are the most profitable inventions.

Fifty years ago six-Ye1r-old chfidren were EN-
ployed in New England mills
MalIesble glass was made in the Vile Valley
years ago and the process lost.
Russian peasants are agitated over .umor that
the world is soon coming TO an end
Electricians claim that the human body
become more or less Injured TO shocks from live
wires.
A native Maori chief the descendant Of cannibal
kings is now completing his medical education In
Chicago
A swarm of bees recently took possession Of
house at TeddingtOH, England, after driving the
occupants out
Newfoundland dog guarding a warehouse in
Boston had to be elubbed into submission by the
fremen before they could enter the building to
extinguish a fire.
The Staten leland Rapid Transit road has spe-
cial car for hoodluTns Saturday nights They
are locked in and not allowed to disturb the
peace OF respectable people,
The scale upon which the Paris Exposition 10
70 be constructed is indicated in the fact that
the catalogue will cost 500. 600 to print and viii
contain about 10000 names.
A Gulmarg correspondent writes to the "DeIhi
dndia) Post that little swear wheels. in form
not unlike the Burlington prayer wheels, now
in use on the golf links in Kashmir-
An Italian paper. which purports to give sta
hstics of all eanoHizatiens and beaticatons since
the year 15O9. shows that there have been
date.
In dark corner near the west entrance TO
Winchester Cathedral is door composed of four
pieces of iron grill-work which have the distinc-
tiOn OF being the oldest specimens Of their kind
in England.
About ls,009,GO0 tons Of iron ore will make up
the shipments from the Lake Superior region this
year. as compared with Il, 800 600 tons last year.
and yet there will be scarcity Of ore for the
winters
In spite of British rule India is still virtually
soapIess country. Throughout the villages of Hin
dustan soap Is indeed regarded as a natural curl
csity, and is rarely, if ever, kept in stock by the
native shopaeeper-
With population of exactly 2O6 servia, a vii
Iage in Indiana the line of the Chicago and
Erie Railway, has II men who weigh more than
200 pounds each, and some OF them tip the beam
at very nearly 300.
The Outlook" gives as one reason for over
supply Of clergymen in any church that many
theological students are too lazy or too unwilling
to undertake any kind Of work, and that some are
unfit for most work
Electricity for application 70 the muscles Is
generated by exercising apparatus, which
has msgneto-electric generator attached to the
opposite end OF the wire, spring being pro-
vided to rewind the wire.
The people of Tyre were such experts in dye
ing that Tyrian purple remains unexeelled to this
day. The Egyptians also wonderful dyers.
and could produce colors durable that they
may be called imperishable
Major Narchand Is occupying his leisure time
in writing the story Of his journey across Africa
lie kept throughout weItposted diary. but he
does not intend merely TO reproduce the entries
made IN it-he viii develop thein-
Some l30 of the London county councils tram
horses have been registered by the war Office for
use for military purposes IN time of war, X
needed. The council submitted 400 horses Tor the
inspection of the army authorities 1or thls pur-
pose.
Packages cannot be mailed TO the Yukon coun-
try, according to an order recently issued by the
Postpffiee Department. Letters and postal cards
can be sent to the Yukon territory, but there Is
10 way in which parcels, or third or fourth-ciAss
matter, can be forwarded
In an improved electric hair brush the battery
and induction coil are mounted on. the back OF
tine brush. and number OF contact plates are ar
tached by wires to term a CIRCUIT through % Lne
BODY the current flowing through the netaiic
bristies into the head and thence 10 the Plates
Pigs were imported into New Zealand by Cap
tain Cook about 177D. and. soon becoming wild.
increased to a remarkable degree century
later wild pigs were 50 abundant IN the Hax
thiekets of the Province OF Taranaki on the North
Island that hunter could shoot nifty IN "A single
day
No. Johnson Court Fleet Street, where the
worthy DR. johnson wrote the prologue to his
frierd Oliver Gnidsnith's Good SaEured Man,
and where ne lived from l'65- 60 Is now IN course
of demolition. For many months numbers OF
rats have been in sole possession OF the dlaPt-
dated old structure
1t is estimated that the enquiry into the pro-
posed arralsamation of irish railways, which came
to a conclusion in the British House Of Commons
recently. cost no less than . guineas minute
This fional rate of expenditure, the author
rl5 Nr O.. 4. l.
out parallel in the history OF parliamentary eoh-
riitte6s-
1t has been stated that If the hairs the head
Of Q fair-haired person could be plated together
they would make a rope strong enough 10 support
= weight Of something ike - TONS or OF 501
people. This sounds rather a big statement, oUe
the strength even of single ha!r IS quite sur
prising when it, fineness Is considered, as any
one can test for himself by seeing the force that
must be expended IN bTeaklnS IL
The opal mines in New Mexico and the United
States have been about exhausted, gems OF
much value being extracted from them, though az
one time large sums were made out Of these
mines Orals Occur IN veins IN the same manner
as silver or gold These coming rom below the
level OF water IN mine are not considered de-
s.rable They HGay lose their color or crack after
being exposed 10 the sunlight, as soon as n
mine reaches water level it Is abandoned
\ recent Cairo CEgypO despatch says: Latest
indications point to 4 bad Nile this year, and it
IS even feared that it may be very bad one
The natives have been warned to their crops
earlv a. there IS no fsar of an lnundatlon- The
amount II water viii be sufficient IN Lower Egypt
but the highlands in Upper Egypt viii suffer
The loss of revenue viii be considerable The rise
of the Nile 10 date Is the worst record There
WILL however, probably be considerable cotton
crop.
Verbatim reports are seldom seen in French pa
pers and the shorthand writer plays 4 very insiss
niicant part in Partisan journalism These cir
euStances lend peculiar interest to the fact that
the Figaro had staff Of eleven stenographers
az the ksnnes trial. With them type
writer's and four sUb-editOrs. special Serviee
was also set on foot to insure rapid transmission
OF the copy to the telegraph office and between
the central telegraph bareau in Paris and Fl
garo's' priutlns-house.
Japanese statistical tables indicate that there
are little more than 10,Oe0 foreign residents in
| the empire, nearly one-half of them being Chi
| nese There are 2,IIS English, 1.075 Americans,
5s3 Germans 49I French, 2J7 Russians, the re-
/ nainder being represented by small groups OF
| different uationahtieS. On the other hand. the
number of Japanese living abroad Is not tar from
| 60 oo0 the largest share in Hawaii and Korea
| OF japanese students abroad. numbering $500,
| the United States receives 2,1Is-
| In an English churchyard the following epitapb
\ is on the tombstone OF named More:
| HE iaeet plus,
| Plus facet hic;
| Plus ct non plus
| Quo modo ie2
Which NAV be rranSlated.