The evening times., 1899-07-28
NOTES OF THE DAY.

One hundred and nine thousand locomotives
are at present running in various countries.
English locomotive exports last year amounted
to s7,4oa,ooo, against s5,eoo.o9o in 1871
1t has been decided by a Paris court that the
term '.Freemason'' is ian insulting and out
rageous one"
The Republic Of yenezueia contains 5os,i59
square miles 1t is larger than any country in
Europe except Russia.
It is calculated that the shareholders of the
United Kingdom outnumber the railway
p!oyss by about 10000
There is a universal wall over the great di-
intuition Of the numbers OF salmon in both Eng
Esh and Scottish rivers.
large trust is being formed at ST. JONAS
for the development of the iron, coal, and steel
industries of Newfoundland
The income Of the principal charitable institu-
tious having their headquarters in London.
amounts to over s7,0oo.O00 per annum-
There more wrecks in the Baltic Sea than
in any other place in the world The average
IS one wreck day throughout the year.
Prof Darwin. Of Cambridge prophesies that
the moon Will ultimately return 10 the earth.
whence it was cast off in the remote past
German journal is authority for the state
ment that two-thirds of the trained nurses
lively engaged acquire and die of tuberculosis
Consul Aacrum pretoria. Transvaal RepubIic1,
writes that the average export of gold from
the ports Of South Africa amount now to about
s, or, 595 each week.
Southern California has ''left handel club,
with a membership Of nearly 1000. scattered
through all the principal towns. To be left
handed is the only qualification for member
ship.
Fitting work for women ID scarce in Cuba.
Cooking and washing IS monopolized by men,
postofice has been received with disapprcyal by
the men.
A Swiss recruit was asked the other day who
William Tell was. and could not say. Another.
on being asked who Bismarck was, replied: "a
preacher" and a third said he was Emperor
OF France"
Our Government has decided TO encourage the
culture OF the tea plant, and tea farms will
soon be heard Of. Cur tea imports cost sI0.-
G0. 900, which the farm advocates say can most
ly be kept at home.
Just before ". V. Smith. Of Florence. Kan.
goes 10 bed be carefully places his beard in
muslin bag After he has entered the bed he
puts the bag under his pillow His beard Is
nearly eight feet long
Most of the monks at King Williams Town,
Cape Colony. are tradeSmen and do their own
carpentering. briekIaying. bIacksmthing. ETC..
occupy were erected by themselves.
Electricity has supplanted steam on the rail-
road from Milan to Monzz, the oldest railroad in
Italy. opened for traffic in 1870. Storage hat
teries used. the electricity being obtained
from the turbines the Adda at Paderno-
Sir Thomas O'Connor Moore Bart. has been
elected from the room he lived in with his fam
lily al Cork because he was unable 10 pay the
rent OF % cents a week He Is the eleventh
holder Of the title, which dates back 10 l6sI-
The Russian Government has decided 10 pay
the dues for passing the Suez Canal on all
Russian merchant steamers for the next ten
years The object Of the government is@to in
crease Russian trade and navigation IN the Pa
cifc.
A Tallahassee. Fla, paper says that while two
acres OF land in that vicinity planted tss-cotton
yield crop worth but s29 at prevailing prices.
the same space planted 10 cabbage wo,ld. at
the present price OF cabbage. bring from $40
to $40.
Cen Wesley Merritt brought back with him
from the Pacific a large parrot which had been
the property Of a Spanish sailor The bird
speaks huenily the language of its former mas
ter. but yet has learned only few words
Of English.
In the famine of 1872 $50 100 was devoted
by Russia for relief. but in 1896 the whole
peBditure on agriculture. upon which S. per
cent of the Russian people depend. was only
s227500, 0oo. In the same year the army and navy
cost s25o. 900. 90.
An Anderson, Ind. man is suing for divorce
from his wife on peculiar grounds Ne AYERS
that he not only maintained good home and
provided wei for his wife, but in spite of that
She forced him 10 pay board and eomPeaed him
10 pay room rent in addition :.
pet thrush owned by New York nan sang
50 long and loudly in the early morning that
formal complaint entered before "a magis-
trate. The latter ordered the bird to be kept
indoors and the cage covered with dark clOln
until reasonable hour in the morning
At the great competition at Cassel of the Ger
man choral societies the imperial prize, con
sisting of a large golden necklace filed with jew
e,s. awarded to the Cologne Male Choral
Society The German Empress herself hung the
chain about the neck Of the conductor OF the
society
France employs over 5000 women in her civil
| service. telephone and telegraph Offices The
municipality OF Paris alone gives work to 900
women while the Bank of France pays salaries
| to 409 more Two hundred women have perIna-
nent positions in the Credit Foncier, wlth
| earnings varying from S175 to $3.50 and Ss75 a
year.
| Evidence of the increase of birds formerly
L
In Richmond PARK. for instance. Penn ponds
| hold more waterfowl than have been seen there
! for twenty years There were counted on the
upner pond at one time recently five brocds Of
/ wild ducks. the largest Numbering eleven duck
| linss two pairs of dabchicks ton the lower
/ pont) and nearly twenty wateTkers Gus on tho
| open water. Besides these there were two pain
i OF coots- As coots very shy birds. and,
unlike the waterhen, dislike human society then
! return is somewhat remarkable Green wood
/ peckers are numerous. and the heroRs have haC
a good hatch. One OF these was fishing OF
| Chiswick Eyot carly as I:45 one evening re
| Gently. pair of kinsfsheEs have again uestet
/! in the grounds OF ChiSwick House. and pan
| of golden eyes have arrived on the lake Thes
| are doubtless tame birds which have come from
elsewhere.
l. INVESTIGATIONS carried on at the London "Zoo'
have disclosed the fact that the percentage o
tubercrlar diseases IS far greater among gran
ivorous and heTbivorous than among Carnivorou
animals, says the Philadelphia Record" \
a whole, beasts suffer nearly 80 per cent NOR
severely from tuberculosis than birds; but tn
4 mcst noticeable difference IS that between In
meat-eaters and vegetable feeders Thus. amon9
cert of all the deaths caused by tuberculosis
| Whereas, among lions, wolves and the felida
| in general. the disease carries away barely
per cent. 0f the SranivorOus birds. such a
| pheagants grouse. peafcwi, and eostriches, tn
J proportion of deaths from tubercie amounts u
| 80 per cent while only IL per cent OF the flesh
| eaters as vultures, eagles, and owls, suecum
| TO the disease. To lower the risk OF being at
| tackled by this malady men should. therefore
| eat beefsteak and cschew beans. Seriously speak
| ing however, the observations made at tn
London 200 appear to confirm the belief tha
meat diet and oren-air lie are the best pro
| tectiors against consumption
1 The circus has come to town; one Of thos