The evening times., 1899-06-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Governor Roosevelt has suggested that 4 monp
ment to Captain Capron be erected ir ,he public
square at Santiago
The number Of ciriIren and you'll in the United
states is q I,0s2.472. Of these. 9.7is,s3
| rolled In Sunday schools.
Secretary Asers timber land. from which he
made his fortune, lies along Lake Huron, and Is
100 square miles in extent.
j. A. MacNe Whistler is TO visit the United
States, his native country, next fall. This will
be his first trip here in many years.
Henry Clews. the New York millionaire. began
life as messenger in English wooden fac
tory He is now worth about S5,Oo0.0O9
Last year tourists from the United Stats and
elsewhere left over s5OO.Ooo in Nova Scotia. and
great increase is fully expected this year
| NiTvann. the Name of recent anodyne, has
received in Germany the chemical name Of
dyathigiy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| ExQuecn Natalie. Of SeTvia. is writing an
autobiosTaphical novel, in which her family
| 1ies are to be given 10 the world in the guise OF
| f.tion.
The strongest sentiment Of the Turk is his
| reverence for his mothar. He always stands in
her presence until invited to sit down-a
| piiment he pays to else.
toboggan slide in st. Moritz, Switzerland.
extends three-qlarters Of mile, and is said
| 10 be the longest in the world. TIE descent has
| been made in seyenty-one seconds.
The total number Of Queens jubilee bonfires
was about go England had l,osl, Scotland 315
tof which IS were in Orkney and Shetland), wale,
| iS.. the Channel isles 6 and France l.
| The first silk hat was worn in the streets Of
| London BY John Hetherington, haberdasher.
| January ., 1881 He arrested for melting L
| not, but was dismissed with reprimaBd
| On December /. 1s9s, there were enrolled in
all the public schools in Philadelphia Ii5 ,30l
scholars There expended on the sebonls for
| that city during ls3s the sum Of s3,..s.O5o.si.
| Russia has four universities at Kharkof. Jury
| eff. Warsaw, and Heisingfoers, each attended by
more than 1000 students. The University at
| kief has 2. .26D students; that at ST. Petersburg
| 900, and that at Moscow, 800.
| The French have laid claim to Dewey on the
| ground that he descen1s from a IiuguenOt family
named DE Huoy. and the Belgians have put in 4
| plea for him as he Wey. The Spaniards the
Buffalo Commercial observes, have not yet
I fled their claim.
One of the results Of rural mail distribution
will be the elimination Of large number of small
postoffices. In counties in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia. continuing 2G. pos;ofiees. more
than 100 viii be abandoned when the delivery Is
in full operation.
Princess Angelina, the youngest daughter Of
the old chief, Seattle. for whom the city Of
Seattle, Wash. is named is said to be q great
favorte with children. who listen eagerly to her
stories of her once-famous The Princes
is now nearly 100 years old
Since April / Nonconformists in England have
been able for the first time to be married by
ministers of their faith without the regis
trar's presence being required The law thus
Acknowledges that such marriages religious
and longer civil I rcmonies.
1t is settled that Lord Kitchener is to remain
at ondurman until the end Of this year. As soon
he returns from his present tour of inspection
he will set about his plans for further operations
against the khaiifa. who by that time will doubt
less have indicated by means what his fu-
ture policy is likely to be-
American trade with Gibraltar has been excep-
tionaiiy heavy during the last year. especially in
four petroleum. lard tobacco. saited pork ha-
con. cheese, and canned goods. But for the
heavy Spanish duties -four it is believed that
Important distributing point could be
tablisiicd there.
DR.. Temple. Archbishop of Canterbury. is much
opposed to the Sunday papers which have Just
made their appearance in London. The arch
bishop rather runs to hobbies and is famous
advocate of total abstinence in which he does
find many followers among the English
clergy. His sermons hard and cold, but full
Of logic.
The organisms OF hailstones have been investi-
gated on two occasions by +. c. Harrison.
Canadian bactcrioiogist. who has found numerous
bacteria and nlod, including a bacillus and
coccus hitherto unde>cribed. The character Of
the germs COrnTfu EuINi1> tncoiN tg1t surface
waite. il carried up by storms and frozen. pro-
ducins hail.
Cardinal Rampolla has informed Archbishop
Charellc that the Very Rev. +. Barnada.
Of ~lntiago Cathedral. has been appointed arch
bishop OF Santiago He is native Of that city.
educated at salamanca, and is considered the
most distinguished native clergyman of Cuba
lie speaks English we'll, and is great admiEer
OF American Institutions
The japanese lave a unique way of solving
tine sanitary problem. While it may not be pos
,ible to follow thcir methods. there i
why they should not be duly admired. They are
dcporting in Tormosa the entire population Of 4
city from place 10 another. on the ground
that il : easier to build entire city
thIn 10 reconstIuc; the old one on heathful
principles-
The new wolf scalp bounty law of Kansas
giving the CLERKS @: the various counties consid
erahle trouble account OF its ambiguity Tne
law offers bounty OF q for all wolf scaip'
except those Of '-lobo species whose scalps are
worth - each. The county clerks don't know
what The ''Iobu'' is. and have been unable tn
obtain any information that will enable them
to distinguish them from the ordinary wolf
The SANITARY Record calls attention to the
fact that Hezekiah. King of Judah (71.-ess b
e. was pioneer in the construction Of water
works having built n system to bring wafer into
the City of JrrusIlsnI. The Bible says: He
made the pool and the conduit, and brought the
water into the CITY. stopping the upper part of
Ciho and brought il straight down To the west
side Of the City Of David. And Hezckilh pros
psred in all his works 1t i worthy of note
that Hszeiinh believed in municipal control OF
the water supply. and did not put the cOnstruc-
ticn of the system into the hands of gang of
promoters.
Another instance of the rapidly with which
American methods are taking hold in Havana is
cited by the .Times'' of Cula. which says:
Colonel Black who j. charged with the tas. Of
cleaning Havana and keeping it clean. few
days ago saw something suspicious in the pay
roll of foreman OF his department. called Limo
Coca Yesterday the colonel had this person
spotted. and when the mCn were paid II was
found that Coca had thIty-two names his
pay roll and had only twenty mon 10 pay. II
was case of stuffed pas roll. and the result
OF the matter was that Police Sergeant Penichef.
assisted by Officers Cuesta. Gonzales, and Perez
Cantilo. arrested the foreman and rounded up
the twenty Witness.
Hundreds Of Dctroitcrs who visited the old
town of Amherts5urg and Bois Blanc Island Park
last summer SAYS the Detroit Tribune brought
home with them glass jars. tin cups, pals. in
fact innumerabic receptaclss. which contained
one or more goldfish. Their home and breeding
place was in the old Anderdon stone quarry. For
years they have been there. and as tho quarry
has been only partially worked for time
past they were practically unmoles,cd. But to-
tiay immense steam pumps are hard at work. and
the water is being forced from the quarry into
the Detroit River and Lake Erie. These gold
fish arc prolific breeders. and it they thrive in
these waters it would require only Few years
for them to spread from Lake Superior to the
very ocean.
". II. W. Moran. of Manassas. Va. will begin