The evening times., 1899-01-30
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| typewriters, Miss MeNaughton and Miss Atkinson
receive the highest salary paid by the Govern
ment to women. the Of =, 500 year.
The inhabitants Of the Andaman Islands are
said to be the smallest of people in the
world The average height OF a full grown Anda-
man is less than four feet, and the anthropoiogi
| cal experts who recently visited them found but
| few that weighed over seventy five pounds.
| China is the first nation to give practical e.
feet to the Cars rescript Her battalions hence
forth to be trained in agriculture arsl manu-
| facture. In the art OF the Chinese soldier
| has been failure, but the campaigns Of peace
are well suited to his temperament
The expense of the Inauguration Of CoIorado's
new governor, which ceremony cost tine State but
Slo5, was divided follows: Decorations of
house chamber, where the reception was held S73;
flowers, $50; printing souvenir invitation tickets
| Sl2 Governor Thomas personal expenses were
| nothing.
Officials in Cumberland County Pa, find
| tramp-iaTming profitable The sheriff receives 4
/ fee of cents per day for boarding each tramp.
/ The constable Is paid 81 rs for each arrest and
/ the magistrate sl50 for the commitment The
| tramPs committed for thirty days and are
| promptly rearrested upon their discharge
Boston woman recently wrote to the agent OF
the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory
| for bali dozen Indian names. which she wished
! to bestOw upon her household pets The agent
| sent her the names of Dennis p. OFlannagan
| John ". Brown, Silas Smith. ]. q. Scott. samuel
1 > Benton and Asa p Longfeliow- AL prominent
/ Indians OF the region.
| France has paid its last pension to Napoleon
/ Is soldiers. In 1863 law was passed granting
| $50 year to all non-eommissioned officers and
pTivates who had served ten years in the armies
| Of the First Republic, OF the First Empire.
and had received wound For the frst year the
payments amounted to S6DOO0O; last year the sum
was $50, and the last recipient i new dead at
/ the age Of l05 years
| The veterans who followed Gen Joe Wheeler
/ during the civil talking Of forming a
| permanent organization, to be known Wheel
I er's Cavalry Society IL Is proposed 70 eonine
| the membership 10 those who We're IN active cav
! airy service in some company. regiment bat
1 talon composing a part Of the generals COM
mand, and to have no honorary meubers save
! the four daughters Of Fighting JUe.
! Ii the thefts are committed by the men sent by
/ employer 10 the premises 81 a customer. 10
\ there do some work, is the employer responsible
/ \ London court held that if the employer had
used due diligence and prudence in hiring. his
! workmen, he was not responsible for their di~-
honesty. On the other hand. II he had careieS-ly
/ sent a man Of thieyish propensitics- me would
! have been held liable for the LOSES Of the cts
! toner.
I An extraordinary scheme has been rnootcd in
1 India, namely, one for the construction Of a
/ pneumatic tube line 400 miles in length, be-
I tween London and Bombay, for the transportation
/ OF mails The theory IS that these could thus be
conveyed from city to city within twenty -iOur
I hours. The engineering difficulties include th,.
/ great height OF Of the mountains 70 Be
I crossed in Asia Minor and the maintenance q
: power houses in remote places The air pipe pro
/ ject Is still very much IN the air
/ Tests with liquid fuel are now being carried on
( in the British navy. and the experiments appear
/ 70 be very encouraging. Trials are 70 be mad
with different kinds OF oils, and in the tor
I pedo boat destroyers that are being built the
question Of adapting the boilers for the Use oi
liquid fuel i being seriously considered The
! trials 80 far made have been in a torpedo boat
I and il has been found that there Is but little
change Cf structural conditions necessary. in
the boat l. to burn oil or coal, and the few minor
notifications essential can he made without llg-
| ing the boat up for any length Of time
shoplfter caught stealing an
umbrella the other day in Philadelphia dry
goods stare But it decided not TO prosecute
| her if she would pay TOR the umbrella. valued
/ Al $50. which she did. The next day she IT,
turned and requested to the manager When
that surprised person could recover himself Sufi-
ciently 10 ask her business, the woman told hiui
I that she had been pricing umbrellas in other
! stores and found that she could purchase one
like her for =. and she wanted know II
! he wouldn't refund her 20 cents. As tribute a.
her monumental nerve the ~ eeHtS vas handel
5 her in silence.
/ Once every year or TWO the attention of thc
country l. called to the condition ot the Lincoln
monument Springfield. H. 1t i being done
/ now. with the added information that the -,rUcI-
uTc il in such a dilaPidated state that il Is ius-
/ possible to repair it, and that the only timing e.
+ be done i TO pull it down entirely and rebuild
+ II from foundation 10 top stone II = alme~-
thirty-fOar wears since the assassination OF Abr
+ ham Lincoln, and il i little over twenty -four
Years since the dedication of the monument which
marks his resting place IN Springfield This 1Ji-sr
{ to have been time enough his CaflH
/ 4 memorial which would have endured for age.
But this las not been done. The plans for thc
nj .aEruu- rrN
pieces. were Inadequate, even If they had been
[ honestly carried out
/ in the Baltic the Danish Island BornholEl.
! which l. situated about twenty-four miles east
by south. from the nearest point Of sweden. mJy
be regarded 4 huge magnet. Although IA,
power OF this magnetic island i great thar
! il can draw the nails out Of ships ~ was told of
the legendary magnetic hills, the magnetism 81
Z the rocks the Island OF B0TnhOlm and
does cause a good deal of trouble 10 ships IN
quite another way, for the island exerts such
/ influence over the magnetic needle that II Gauss
vessel TO turn peTCeptibly aside from its course
The effect Of the island magnetism i felt Al
distance Of about nine and q hall miles. ON Jhc
Island OF Gamma Zone of the Argyllshire Hebrie~i.
I situate about three miles northwest OF KUN,
| there is hill which has magnetic power sJJt
Ciently strong To affect the cempaS>cS Of vessels
1 passing II. The island j. a mile in breadth
by four and half miles IN length
An alligator Is not IN attractive creature Il.
ha~ not a single virtue that be named ~.
is eOwlrdly. treache-ous hideous. Tie i neither
graceful nor even respectable in appearance. IL.
i not even amusing srotcS.Fie in his UnG.tiE-
liueSS for as a brute-a brute unquIiiedh lie :
always 20 intensely real thIt one ShriBkS from
him with oathing: and 4 laugh his eVpeu>-'
| while in his presence would seem CIriOu>ly out yt
place. His personality. too. i StrcHg- oaCe
/ catch the sTeadfaSJ gaze Ct free. adult g.liZJ-
tors wicked eyes. with their odd vertical pupils
| fixed full upon your own. and the Significance e-
the expression evil eve and the mysteries OI
snake charming, hypn0tism. and hO0dooiSm VII!
be readily understood for his british. mercilfsS,
unfinehing stare is simply blood-ehilling ZoOlog
icaly. the alligator belongs 10 the genus cruco-
dilUs. and he has all the hideoGsnesS OF that fal
| lily, lacking somewhat in blOodthiTssIueSs, al
though the American alligator is Carniveroy> BY
nature and occasionally cannibali>Jc- Strictly
! speaking, however. the true alligator j. much
less dangerous than his relatives Of the Old World,
and ne is eorrespondingly les courageous
Capt. \. c. Clarke. OF the Lawrence Company,
in Manila, describes the police court which the
Americans have set up in the city, and declares
that it Is a revelation 10 the islanders. When
man Was fined for striking Chindman the people
were much surprised. but when another man
| was sent 10 prison for beating his horse amaze
! ment took possession Of the populace. and they
wondered in dazed sort of way what manner Of
| thing it was that had come among them. The
| captain discourses follows over the confusion
| arising from the Use of the different kinds Of
money: But when il 10 paving for the din
! ner where my troubles began. ! gave the
| waiter a SO gold piece; after detlucting his 81.
, | he gave in return nineteen fUll-sized silver
| dollars. Unfortunately. 1 had vhccibaTTOw,
so | had TO carry the stuff as best | could, part
in each pocket. and hatful besides But this
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