The evening times., 1899-10-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

earn 81 l,250.O00 this season.
You can expect shower at Panama about
o'clock every afternoon during the rainy season.
The household staff Of servants attached to the
Castelane Palace in Paris numbers thirty five per-
sons.
Sheep and goats when numerous are liable to
cause widespread injury, particularly in iorested
regions.
1t requires IO,soo. 600 pounds of meat a week to
feed the inhabitants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and
jersey City.
Over $4,000 photographs of Dewey are now
ready for sale and more are being turned cut as
fast they can be printed
The new Mauser pistol used by the German cav
airy il a very formidable weapon. II viii XII
up to distance Of 500 yards.
Madrid has at present tbirty-six daily papers
and 123 weeklies. Two Of the daily papers have
eircuiatiors Of over 100000 copies
C-afinda, Iowa. has an insane asylum which cost
S1,9Oj,009 II Is said by experts to be the finest
building Of the kind in the country
German army officer estimates that in the
century lust closing no less than 30.OOO,00O men
have been killed in war in civilized countries
Saturn is The sixth planet reckoning outward
from the sun. the next beyond Jupiter. Its ay-
erage distance ffcm us nearly 100000, OO) miles
The Argentine locust has habit Of moving for
ward like army in line, and gathering TO-
gether in bunchos, instead Of scattering like true
gTasshoppers-
In eight OF the contrasting States the esti-
mate OF the corn crop this year is l.I25,009,0B
bushels Fer the whole country the estimate L
1000, 900 bushels
The ladies Of Darrstadt are collecting contri-
buttons for monument TO be erected in ther
town to the memory of the late Grand Duchess
of Hesse. Princess Alice CT Great Britain
Seventy five per cent Of the population Of Man
itou, Col, are iEya,ids and exiles from THEN
homes Nearly every State and Territory ano
civilized country in the world Is represented
Los Ange,es. Cal. is distinguished for the mum.
Der OF petroleum oil wells il possesses. The out
put for 1S9S appToximdted 10000 barrels. anc
that for ls59 i estimated 10 be about the same
On a marble slab in the parish church OF Tet
bury. Worcestershire, Is inscribed: 'In a vsul
underneath lie several of the Saunderses late
this parish Particulars the last day will dis
close Amen
An insect census has Just been taken by sci
entife Englishman purely scientific lines. witt
view 10 determine as far as it is possible which
insects boon and a blessing 70 mankind
and which the reverse.
Ardmore. /. T., Is the greatest inland cotton
market in the world. over $1,000 bales of eottOr
marketed each year there, which brought
into town by wagons. This is exclusive OF the
product shipped by railroads.
relic especially interesting TO English Free
Churchmen Is at present in England in the
shape cf Oliver CTomwelTs watch. Il Is the
shape and size Of a small hers egg. with en-
craving of Worcester en- the dial
When burglar wants to break into a Peru
Wan house he takes sponge and bucket OF
water and mCistens the walls. which are COW
cred with only thin coating OF mud. and easily
dissolves upon the application Of moisture.
Big Ben" the huge clock which strikes the
hours for the British House Of Commons, was
stopped rot long ago for time. beeause its pom
deTous notes greatly disturbed woman who
lying Ill IL the vicinity. People in the Heishbor
hood were 50 delighted al the silence that several
Of them have asked that the giant clocks striking
be always stopped At hight.
Before the end of the year four new torpedo
boats OF great speed will be added TO the United
States Navy Zach of the four will have a speed
Of thirty knots an hcrI. The Dahyren and T. \
NJ, Craven are twin beats IL feet long. while the
Bailey, which i really a torpedo boat destroyer.
l. zO5 feet long. and the StrIn-ham. which has
already been launched, measures 70 feet over al.
Seven printers formerly employed by the 81.
J9mts Gazette were summoned At the Mansion
House recently on behalf OF Mr. Edward stein
kept, the proprietor. who claimed from each OF
them a sum equal 10 4 weeks wages on account
of their quitting their employment without giving
notice. says the London Nail Al the men
employed in the machine and stereotyPing
departments Of the paper. ard they lett without
notice on july 4. The result was. j. was stated,
that the first edition Cf the paper could rot be
brought out at all, and it only by. IN extra
ordinary effort. the maEager himself turning 70
the machine. that the seeCrd edition appeared
Much annoyance, inconvenience. anu day result
ed Airerward the union pieket-d ihe offices Of
the paper, ard it very difficult o. get fres>
hands. The alderman fined zach defendant
weeks wages and iHe cost Il tie =tImmons-
technical commission appointed some time
ago in France has lately made favorable
port upon tho sohtme for the construction of 4
mountain railway 20 the top Of Mont Blanc. aud
1t Is not improbable that the remarkable pr ject
viii be carried cut according to the p.an pro-
posed, the various rack hines uP che Swiss
peaks have hsea successful! frJm a-moSI every
point Of view. The most dIthcalt point. the
Mechanical EEEIcseI TeH.aTfS would De the
three and i quarter mics from Aigui.le de- Glaze
to the summit but here tbs line would be
ried ON special gallery, which, though iEy0lv-
ing !abcricJss det4Is l. deemed the most praCti-
Cal of the different methods considered The diisi
calJies resulting from Scth an altitude. in the
matter Of air, e. etc, viii. il IL believed, be
overcome after some time Of residence there. The
intention l. 10 have the line start from Chamou-
nix and extend almost 10 the apex ii the great
mountain. the length being SIX and q;ia-tzr
mills
\ despatch dated Laramie. wyo-, August ..
says: DR. W J. Holland Of the Carnegie Nu-
scum. PittsbuTg. Pa. who has large force Of
scientific people working in the great fossil quar-
ry Etas Laramie, Wyo-, stated toGay that DIT. J.
l. Workman, and Lr Coggshail. formerly of the
American Nrs-uEl Of Natural History who have
charge cf the work IN the Carnegie fossil quar- Y
l.. wyoming, a1ve discovered and exhGmed 4
nsttr i,sil ciUU>aUr IN a nearly perfect state
lnis animal Lad d ioEs neck, tail. and hind legs,
and short trent legs. the whole length Of the an
icIai being sixty feet. and il stood twenty faer
1t the hips, tEe thigh bones or femur being SIX
Iset long anu sixteen inches in diam,te ter. We
I,',Ed tine se~Sil the surface Z said DR.. Hol-
LAID, and we already have tIe vertebral CO..
ufap, the centrum Of the largest yertebrae be-
il- twelve iIc,Ws ii diameter; eighteen ribs.
which lre about six -r-J long: the entire pelvic
eird:e, vlI-sh > US5h.IZ very few persons have
-Jt EcrsptCt-, most q TIE hcucs II the legs anI
f-rf, ard believe We VIII get them all. Ne also
A4=e- EtsFly all she eeryiCal vertebrae and are
i-lo.,iH5 them into the bluff, and hope to get
the bones of the bead
James EaGs How Is grandson Of the fanors
engineer who haiit the Mississippi River iettics
and bridges His father was president Of the
! Wabash Railroad. His own personal fortune
| amounts 10 abcut 81 ,O09,O00 He Is a graduate vi
Harvard and was famous athlete during his col
| lege Gays. Now he has renounced his fortune. is
earning his living day Iaborer. and announces
| that he will spend his life in promoting ths in
! terestS of a monastic order, TO be called
the Brotherhood nf Daily Life. Mr.. How started
his work by walking into the Cfiiea OF the mayor
Of St. Louis and handing him check for every
cent he possessed. with the request that he get
the check cashed and spend the money for the
benefit OF the poor The mayor thought him in
sane, and refused to take the money. Now he is
in New York, walking about the streets with a
Tin bucket looking for work His new order the