The evening times., 1899-08-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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| they were twenty years ago.
The poorhouses in forty five Kansas counties are
empty. and in thirty-seven counties there Is not
a case on the criminal doeketSs
Kansas City has established an institution par
tieularly for substitute teachers in order that
| they may be kept up to the modern METHODS OF
| teaching.
| The trip from st. Petersburg to the eastern
/ boundary of the Russian Empire can now be
ulIde. partly by rail- partly with csmeis, for
about sl60.
/ II is likely that the Russian expedition to
| Spitzbergen will have to be postponed year on
| account OF unusual accumulation of ice around
| the islands.
| The German army includes more than 1000
the Continent employ rather less numbers in
military bands.
| The enrolment Of the second term of the
! summer school of the Missouri State University
has reached $50, increase of 40 over the total
| attendance of last year.
Aunt Betsy Lawrence. who lives at Chester
| heid, Ind. claims to be LOG years old Unlike
many old people, most of her stories of the
| past are of life among the Indians.
| The construction Of cigar box may seem to
J be very simple matter to the novice, but the
/ box passes through nineteen different processes
! before il is ready to receive the cigars
The rainy season in the Philippines is not the
! deadly thing that il is down in the Antilles
There is some fever Of course but nothing Ike
there is in Cuba under similar conditions The
season is more uncomfortable than anything else
A poor woman with seven children advertised
in New York paper for a temporary loan of
$50 She must have been a very deserving old
lady, for she announced her willingness to per-
nit the money-lender to keep the children as
security"
| Paris fashions in buttonhole flowers for this
year demand. according to the Westminster Ca
zette.' for early walk. Russian violets; for
afternoon calls. red carnations; for the theatre.
white carnations; for dinner parties. Orchids and
| for balls, gardenias.
Salmon, when in perfection, is one of the most
delicious and nutritive of FISH. The oil is dis
| tributed Though the fish, and for this reason
| il proves rather hard OF digestion for some peo-
| pie. The richness however. can always be
| rected by the use Of an acid or piquant sauce.
Frank VIM, of Worcester. Mass. has invented
| a typewriter that prints music, the lines Of the
staff. notes and all. and makes clear copy
as if it came from a lthogrsphic stone The
machine is like a typewriter in appearance IL
has "a keys, 35 for notes. and for the Arabic
numerals
One OF the oldest bridges in Europe is soon
to disappear. under the demand for better nayi-
/ CATION Of the river it spans This is the stone
| bridge, with fifteen arches. and total length
OF 994 feet built across the Danube at Regens-
/ burg (Ratisbon). in Bavaria. by Duke Henry the
Superb. in l135-46
American wheat it is said. is not sIited to
the making of yermicelli maearoni ard the
| like. These require 4 hard wheat. containing
much gluten and but little starch. best grown
in the neighborhood of Taganrog. Russia. Algeria
and in Clermont Ferraud. France. Quick grow tn
and ripening Of importance.
has developed in New York 1t
is what the steamship officials call the Seeing
friends of 10 Europe craze. The departure Of
the St Louis brought out one of the erzze's
most attractive devotees in the person Of a
young woman with fiery red hair. She came in
hanson, cab, and made somewhat of a fuss upon
her arrival, giving out the impression that she
was there 10 bid friends hon voyage. Stiu, she
greeted no one. and was the last person TO come
down the gangplank. For the last fortnight she
has gone through the same sort of performance
at the departure Of all the big liners.
Over the line. in Ohio county says an ex-
change, a man named Miller married widow
who had grown-up daughter His father fell
in love with the stepdaughter. The father be-
came the sons son-in-Iaw, and the stepdaughtsr
became his mother. Recently the sons wife
had child The child Niller's fathers
brother-ir-Iaw and Miller's own uncle, for he was
a brother of his stepdaughter- MiIer's fathers
wife-his stepmOther-aso had son, who was,
of course. MillerS brother and incidentally NIL
ler's grandchild, for he the of Niller's
daughter. Thus Miller's wife his moth
er's mother and Miller became his wife's grand
child the time. And then. 10 top the
whole thing off, a. the husband Of MS grandmoth-
er, he was his own grandfather
despatch from ParkerSburg W Va. SAYS:
About three months ago at Harmon, W Va,
Jay Lentz, foreman in the mines of The Great
Western Company, caught under fall OF
slate in the mines. His skull was crushed, and
DR.. E. c. Harman and other surgeons gave
him up die. \ piece Of his brain broken
away from the main body of the brain sfruet-
ure. and the skull covering il was broken away
After few days the doctors decided 10 take
heroic measures The shattered brain cut
away neatly and dressed 4 healthy yearling
calf was tied down. her skull cut aw2y. and
| lobe of brain removed and fitted into the cavity
| in Lentz's head The wound was dressed and
| trephined and the results awaited The calFs
| head fixed up with half brain in IT. Both
the miner and the calf have progressed satisfac-
/ torily, and the man Is nearly well before
| the operation. though his mental yigOr IS not
| entirely restored. The cali stands as though
asleep till startled, when it moves till inter
| rupted. iT i direct line. IL viii not eat till its
| jaws are started then its jaws must be step
| ped by force. it continues chewing when
4 food Is removed.
| Milton RathhuTn achieved forty-two-pound
victory of mind over matter. saws the New York
/ Journal That is what his total loss in weight
! amounted TO after a continuous fast of twenty
| eight days, during which time he not only suc-
| eessfulIy resisted the cravings of hunger and
| protests of anxious friends. but continued his
| daily routine of life, and regularly TRANSACTED
| his business. though nothing unusual WAS
| happening. Mr.. Rathburn is not a man seeking
| notoriety. On the contrary, he is man Of
wealth. dealer in hay and grain. at No. 453
! Fourth Avenue. with home in Mount Vernon.
4 To reduce his weight. which at the time he be-
| gan his fast. April 24. was 2l0 pounds. and
build up his general health. was the sole mo-
tive which aCtuated this extraordinary feat Of
perseverance and self-denial- What made hss.
record the more remarkable was that during the
/ entire time. unlike Dr. Tanner. Succi and other
professional fasterS. who while fasting did moth
| ing else. he did not for a moment relax his ac-,
| cIIstonied occupations. When seen by reporter
from the journal Yesterday he said: The sys-
| TEN of banting and going without the morning
meal | introduced among my family some wears
ago with marked success The idea of con-
| tinued and absolute fast I got from Dr. Edward
! Hooker, physician of MeadvilIe. Pa, who firmly
believes in fasting for many ailments.
At several times during my fast, at the solicita-
tion of my friends and family, examined
| by different physicians. who each time pronounce
ed me to be in thoroughly healthy condition,
| suffering no apparent ill-effects from my fast.
/ After the first day / suffered very little rom
hunger; in fact the craving for food rarely sug-
| gested itself to me. Had ! only denied myself
| more water, say, two-thirds Of the amount which
\ l drank. / believe | could have averaged a loss
| of three pounds day
| Many young business man in New York would
| appreciate the advantages OF what is called the
| cash credit of Scotch banks which enables
\ young man Of honor and industry to have
! bank account. although he may not in reality
| possess any means beyond his capital of honesty
| and a capacity for work. SAYS the New York
Sun" The scheme is so far confined only TO
Scotland, although il has been praised uniyer-