The evening times., 1899-08-09
NOTES OF The DAY.


The Sahara Desert is three tires as large as
the Mediterranean.
The tax on coffee in France is II cents
pound In England it IS cents
The British Archaeological School in Greece
has resumed the work Of excavation in Milo
In the British navy there are $50 vessels that
have been in service at least quarter of a cen
tury.
A number Of German iron mills are reported
20 have shut down because OF shortage OF raw
material.
The Lutheran Church in Iceland numbers about
2,000 baptized members, which is about the
total population.
The United States Coast and Geodetie Survey
has sounded and prepared charts of $4,000
square miles Of sea.
Switzerland has 10Ol Aormons. besides q mis-
sionaTies who last year visited l2,9I4 houses and
distributed 26,000 tracts.
Mahogany is said to have been brought to
England by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1885. but not
to have come into general use till II20.
The use Of metal trading checks has become 50
general IN some Of the country districts in Mime
| sofa as to almost supplaHt the of Govern
ment coin
The old schoohouse in E1st Haddam Conn.
in which Nathan Hale taught the year after his
graduation at Yale, is 10 be preserved by a pa
triotic society
United States during the ten months ending
with April increased in number 7Gs,2j3 over the
same period in 1sGs.
A reasonably active nan walks about 297 200
| miles-mOre than ten times the earths eirc'm-
ference-n eighty-four years, Just trotting about
| his house and Office.
| The strongest sentiment OF the Turk is his
erence for his mother. He always stands in her
presence until invited to sit down-a compliment
he pays 10 no one else
| The area of the Pretoria diamond fields contin-
ues to be increased by discoveries in almost every
| direction, and the yield from the extensive wash
is reported as highly satisfactory.
| Today there are represented directly by
porters in the gallery of the House Of Commons
about twenty daily London newspapers. and the
| total number Of journalists who have entrance to
| the gallery is about 80.
The number of visitors to the London Zoologi-
cal Gardens last year 7l0.9is. The number
| Of animals living in the gardens az the end of
| the year was 2,656, Of which SIS were mammals
| 1853 birds and 475 reptiles and batrachians
The most continental region On the globe
farthest removed from ocean-les in Cen
| traI Asia, south of Tsan-Shan. II lies below
the level of the ocean, and the Russian govern
| ment has established meteorological station
there.
The spring salmon fishing in Scotland IS
thing of the past. 1t has been dead failure
From Tay to Thurso the cry Of poor returns
| and light results Is the same. Not for forty
years have the Moray Firth stations fshed 80
| badly
Sand stored in a tank that il be sifted
automatically to all parts Of the building is be
used instead Of water for FIRE purposes in a tele-
/ phone cOmpany's exchange in indianapolis
Sand Is less injurious than water to electrical
apparatus
Painted coffee beans are among the latest Curl
! osities of the adulterated food market Inferior
beans are colored with burnt umber and made
i to look like the finest Mocha They are ds-
scribed ''shiny-brown outside, yellow inside,
and tasteless."
A Bath. Ne, man is the proud possessOr OF
mueh-torn flag. which he claims few from the
launch in which Ensign Powell and his COM
rades waited at the entrance OF Santiago har-
Dor for the return of HObson and the who
sunk the Merrimac-
A chemical and Pharmaceutical laboratory has
been established at Rajkote, Western India It's
object is to improve the practice Of native medi-
cine, and to make known to Western science Tie
valuable Indian remedies, well the posi-
| bilties of Yet unfamiliar native herbs
| Peggy Pendergras of Admission, Ala. who was
baptized by immersion in the Oxanva Baptist
I Church last week, Is lO3 years old and has been
I bedridden for some time. She was placed IN a
| chair for the ceremony and immersed iE-tbzr
way She stood it well, and as yet shows no
| ill-efects-
Chicago seems to he nursery Of bishops"
saws the .'Des Moines Leader" Within a
year from that city Bishop Eds-n iIs bern con-
/ secTated to the See OF North Dakotl; Bishop
I Morrison TO that of Iowa. and Tor coadiujor Of
| Nebraska the Rev. Arthur l. Williams, also of
| Chicago, has been chosen
I The Holy Synod of Russia has decreed that
| the insurance companies not obliged 10 pay
/ losses incurred during anti-Semitic riots. They
/ did not say the companies not pay 10
/ Jews, but it is well known that in these riots
/ the Jews enly suffer loss. and. so, by this
, measure Jews alone afflicted.
/ The French match factories are now turning
| out friction matches which will ignite on any
surface. but which free from the objections
I raised against white sulphur. No smoke or
odor Is perceptible in the factories The niaTh-
| mable ingredients OF the paste sesIuisilphide
| Of phOsphorOus and chlOTate of potash.
An eccentric Michigan man. who died a few
days ago. buried in a coffin painted bright
red. which for two years ne had kept in his
| dooTyard. marking the spot where he wished to
be buried. He also had headstone prepared,
| on which was inscribed the following: '-IIfTe
lies the body Of William Decker, who always
| paid 100 cents on the dollar.
! A writer in s.Uhlaud's Wochcnshrift'' savs:
Perhaps the first industrial exposition on record
was held in IJS9 in the Ratshaus of Nuremberg
! A catalogue published a. the time tins states
! the purpose Of the exposition 1T shall bring
before the public all innov56it..s in the trade
! OF the whole world in m0dc-r tines, together
| with domestic art produc tions.
The coniraternitY Of the Holy FANNY Of Lon
don recently issued a number Of circulars and
! in the hurry OF sending them out une was ad-
| dressed as follows: The Holy Family, Grosve-
| nor Square, The posJman. unable to find anv
family of that character in his route. solemnly
wrote on the envelope: NO such family in Gros-
venor Square," and referred it To his superiors.
In Austin county, Texas, there is a remarkable
German family, consisting of ffty-six people
Caspar schmidt and his wife, the founders of
the family, are still alive. Mr.. Schmidt went
to Texas and settled in very early times Strange
ly enough, he had but This son. how
ever, whose name is John Schmidt, married when
teen boys and girls. Five of these have married,
but not has vet left the parental roof.
These five married sons and daughters have
| twenty-five children. and there six great
grandchildren Of Caspar Schmidt in the family.
| The Jewish Messenger of NewvYork. wants
to see a Jewish university in America. Not TO
teach theology, says the Messenger but '.the
gift of the Jews of America 10 the nation 20 rep
resent the intellectual bent of the Jews as
other universities represent other religious bod
| les. I'VE ITaelites wish 10 be known for other
traits than those Of the successful fnancier and
merchant. We wish to be identified more vigor-
Ously with the development Of American life in
its higher relations, and do share IN the
| problem untrammeled. There is nothing IN
| American in founding general university under
| Jewish auspices, although it is surely un-Jewish
| TO fail to impress our young people with a
| Jewish atmosphere and to train the Jewish
| scholar as worshiper in its highest sense"