The evening times., 1899-12-15
SAMUEL FRIEDLANDER & CO., 4l6 9TH St.
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Wisconsin tobacco crop for Is99 is valued st
s5,0OU,000.
The Beers speak of their fag as the ''vicrkIeur.-
the four ooler. Just the French call their a4s
the ''tricolor.''
Seven Congregational churches are pledged to
contribute 5000 each to the twentieth century
missionary fund.
In Ahyssinia the coffee plant grows wild in great
pTofusion. and derives its name from kafis, dis
trict Of that country.
The British authorities have opened a war en-
ployment bureau to find situations for the wives
and families of reserves.
An English authority asserts that the shooting
in the French navy, disclosed in target prac-
tice, is superior TO the British.
A peculiar clock of the time of Charles I, was
the lantern, or birdcage style. which hung from
the walls high up, with it's works exposed
With the close Of the nineteenth century there
has sprung up in the whole civilized world q
desire TO study the history OF the Hebrew.
Rapid progress is reported on two formidable
battleships. the Duncan and CORVALLIS. for the
British, at the Thames Iron Works, London
The latest thing in company promoting comes
from Paris, where a dogs cemeteIy has been
foated with capital of $4,000 The promoters
ladies.
Whales teeth form the coinage OF the Fiji
Islands. They are painted white and red. the
red teeth being worth about twenty times
much as the white.
The American Board OF Missions of the Con-
gregstionsl Churches offers $3.50 in prizes TO past
ors and SUNDAY school scholars for the best
essays on foreign mission topics
In all these years of tea drinking, tea has not
been drunk at meals in China The water from
which it is made is always freshly boiled and used
as soon as it reaches the boiling point.
That wood will stand the passing OF centuries
as well as re'al is proved by the unesrthirg near
the Nile of some Egyptian boats nearly 5000
years old, which are in good condition.
Six brotherhood banks under the auspices
of the salvation Army have recently been opened
in India for the purpose of lending money 10
poor villagers at low rate Of interest.
Excluding $3.50 Indians in New York and g.
500 indians embraced in the Five Civilized Tribes
IN Indian Territory. the Indians number appro<i
mstely 1sl.5s6. against ls0 l32 reported the
previous year.
The American city which during the first six
months of 1888 showed the largest gain in the
number and estimated cost of projected buildings
was Cleveland. Ohio; New York came second, and
Kansas City third
An eminent naturalist tells how blackbird
will stand at the side Of hanging wasp's nest
and deliberately tear it to pieces in order to get
at the larvae, apparently undisturbed by the
swarm OF angry insects
Sedalia No., has a negro restaurant keeper who
paid s., ,2o0 for himself and agreed to pay 81 600
for his wife and children, all of which, with the
exception of 81 200. was paid when the erlanciil-
tion proclamation was issued.
One of natures occasional out of the-conmon
arrangements is three Johnathan apples growing
on the same twig, their stems starting together
at its apex. They came from the town OF Green
port, Columbia county, y. v
The Empress CT Germany possesses a curious
little tea service. The tray is made OF an old
Persian haifpenny. The teapot was once Ger
man farthing, and all the tiny cups are made
from coins of different German principalities-
In Northern Minnesota an army of 1900 men
will attack the standing pine this winter. assisted
by thousands of horses and oxen. These men will
receive aggregate monthly wage OF about
800 00O and they viii be employed till the spring
breakup.
There is movement on foot among bcss bar
bers of Hamilton to have an act passed by the
Ontario Legislature providing for the licensing
OF BARRIERS. They think three years apprentice
ship should be compulsory, before a barber can
open shop.
"a notable sign of the advance OF opinion"
SAYS the '.New York Evening POST ''is found in
the fact that Padre Agostino. the most popular
preacher today in Italy (where cruelty to ami
mails is still often excused on the plea that
dumb things have snuls). is now advocating tho
rights Of animals from the pulpit.
Rev. s. W. Dickinson. an agent for the Ameri-
can Bible Society, has just brought the interest
ing fact to light that the first book printed in
Minnesota was Bible. 1t was printed in 1885.
about thirty years before the first is=uc Of .
newspaper in 81. Paul. The Bible was in the
Ojibway language, and was printed on the mis-
s;oa pres 1t Lake Pokegama, Pine county. under
tlie snpesvision Of Rev. Mr.. Aver. who hkeWiee
had charge Of the mission farm At that point