The evening times., 1899-03-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Only one man in 2oa is over six feet in heig


There ia '.ready- made tailor in Sheffield
who has this advertisement outside his shop:
Wear our 2Is suits, and you viii have a fit
1t Is calculated that 10. 900 900 photographs Of
the Queen and the Prince and Princess Of Wales
are produced annually, and find ready sale all
over the world.
India is like no other colony over which Brit
ain holds sway. IL is a vast empire. with p, a.
ulation OF more than 20o,OOO.0OO of people. y
alien race and religion
An ingenious mechanical device pastes paper
labels on 10000 cans in ten hours. Down
shoot rolls eeaseies5 procession Of and each
can picks up label as it passes
Wheat is now grown farther north than ever
before. At Fort Providence. on the Mckenzie
River. 200 miles farther north than Sitsa Alaska.
splendid wheat crop was grown last season.
The Duchess OF Cleveland i the only one Of
Queen Vctoria's bridesmaids who j. still living
She had the double honor of assisting train
bearer at the coronation we'll as aC the we'd
ding.
coroner's jury in rural district Of Georgia
returned the following verdict recently: That
the deceased to his death by tryin' light
his pipe with an electric light, which can't be
done successfully
Newton's law of gravitation viii have 20 be
modified NJ Maurain. IN the Journal de Ply
sique, asserts that careful measurements show
that the intensity of gravirat0n in Islands -
greater than continents.
A section hand living in Princeton, Ind, is
utilizing a piano box for a stable, and says
the COW. which is a Jersey. has plenty of room.
! The of the COW has COHtrived a means OF
/ heating the box by the use Of . lantern. placed
( in such way TO be free from danger Of fire
/ The increasing number OF mdwinter bathers
along the Jersey coast IS calling attention to the
| fact that the sea there in winter IS only a little
! colder. ii any. than in summer. and the feat
/ while not 10 be recommended as a health meas
ure, especially for people who are not robust, IS
nevertheless not 50 wonderful a II sounds
The bronze statue Of Lafayette to be erected in
Philadelphia represents him as a slender Young
man of twenty. In the right hand i a drawn
sword and the left Is placed over his heart. The
right foot rests on "A broken cannon, the other
on ths ground 4 bronze medallion Of Nine de
Lafayette viii be placed in the granite pedestal.
How the late war affected invention Is shown
Ly Commissioner cf Patents DueIl. who sdys in
report that on December - 1871, there were
II,3s2 applications awaiting action. This num-
Der increased until March -. ISIS. when i was
14.s27- On June y. the number vas decreased
to Il, 1s7, while on December y, 1Sss, the num-
Der then awaiting action was only 5,iti-
Old-Ige pensions or other relief viii become
necessary il the limitation 10 the age ot work
ingnen is carried much further in England one
Of the largest chemical manufactures announces
that il viii engage men above thirty
YEAR nt age turalcS complain lhdi lhe+ Hiii =
difficult to obtain employment if above ihirty.
and almost impossible if above forty years Of age
\ company organized in Montana has written
70 the New York Board Of Health asking permits
sion To sell horse meat in that city, promising
that tire animals 10 be slaughtered for the mar
ket would be horses that had never been IN hal-
ness-young stock, as well fed Montana cat
tie and superior TO beef" Il is believed trst
many purchasers would be found in the foreign
quarters Of the city
Literature states that the finest known coIie5-
tion OF chained books i that in Hereford Ca
thedrsl. II includes about 2,DJl volumes. az
T ranged in five bookcases Or which not less than
1.5t0 are secured BY chains three four feet
long, each with a swivel in the center small
collection Of chained books. long forgotten. haI
Just come to light in the ve-rry Of the church az
SjeafJrd. Lincolnshire.
Tic Havana newspaper La Lu,ha' is now
printed partly in English. and it is having a
struggle 10 set il up There appears 90 be no
Wv IN lis cases. and the expedieut i adopted
Of putting two vs. in it, place The effect u
this i rather picturesque. A. Tor instance when
We find the name OF the Father of His Country
spelled Washington Ia Luchl' advises the
American soldiers nos to pay the nc"sboyS more
than cents for the paper, that being the reSi-
lar prize.
Nearly 1.600.050 yards Of ribbon Of al shldes
and colors are consumed by the fair sex in gen
! esai oi the Continent Of Europe every year OF
, this huge amount France alone takes oue-third.
: il being reu-estlbIished fact that French wom-
en- lrc particularly prone to anything Of a SNOWY
r I color. Britain comes next. hUt a very long way
behind with 3J,01l,GG0 yards. and the rest Is dI-
70 v-d-d principally between spain, lt3ly. Germany,
/ and Belgium and smaller p-incipalitlss Blue
= and Jls" higher pinkS and scarlet the fIvor,e
shades.
An International congress on tuberculosis viii
, be held in Berlin from May % to ., next year-
! under the presidency OF the Imperial Chancellor
Prince IIoheuIohc. and supported by an infucn
- tiaI committee. The subject viii be- divided int.
4, 1--WE departments: CD Propagation, t2f ctlo.ogy
t3) prophylaxis. tiB therapeutics. t5l -anItosit
/ in each Of which there viii b. short addrrS
and extensive discussion and debates. 1t j. pro
posed that all the governments Of the world shat
be informed Of this congress and ufhCifi repre-
I seEt8tiveS invited.
\ correspondent. SAYS the British Medica
e Journal" has sent Us extract from letts
? received from his brother. medical missionary
= in Sechuan. one Of the inland provinces Of Chi
u ua. Il had" he writes "a very distinguished
=. | patient this afternoon. She was the wife OF III
It Sao-tai Of Tientsin. in Chih-H province, MAJ
y who governs an probably equal 20 half
e dozen English counties. She brought her fee Wit
IS heF-a fowl. a duck. sixty eggs. two pounds Q
h cakes. and Il leg OF mutton. Last time she cam
/ ,l. brought not quite much. but since the
she has -enr over eight stocks OF beautiful chry:
f., aRthemums.
ii An English paper tells this story illu7tFat
m the rsnacity with which Lord Kitchener carrie
5s out his purpose: During his recent sojourn j
e England he entered into personal communicate
ii with most Of the great firms engaged in tn
II manufacture OF railway plants. with view {
> securing the construction Immediately OF tn
'd bridge which i 10 span the Atbara- The ar
swer given him by ali the firms was pretty mue
ir the sane-they were full of orders. and cOul
s guarantee delivery before July. at the earl
:. est To an ordinary official this would have bee
conclusive evidence that the plan would have
be abandoned But the organizer OF the COZ
quest in the SCudan * not ordinary Ofticia
Finding himself baked in his project in Eni
land, he Immediately his arrival at tIn
cast about for a means OF overcoming the diff
Guilty. He found there IN process of dismantliu
an iron bridge which had done duty on q
Egyptian Railway for some score Of years
more. and finding this still Seryiceable,
| promptly annexed Il. and il is already on I
way to Atbara. to be erected over the river
Where is the poet Nilton's staircase asI
ie- the Philadelphia Record. This stairea
.ar was brought from London by Richard Rush. al
built into his country home. named Sydenhan
which was located at what Is now Column
Avenue and Sixteenth Street. small street
the same name, Sydenham. marks the plac
'er Mr.. Rush United States Minister TO En-
sh land when Millions house torn down 10 maj
! way for modern improvements. Being an a
I'D | mirer Of Paradise Lost Mr. Rush bought q
= | old-time staircase and had il erected in
home and inscribed with a silver plate settiI
forth the dates and facts. Upon the death
Mr.. Rush his estate divided among his ch
sb ! dren. and the real estate soon came into q
ad / market for building lots. Sydenham House "
~ I torn down. and the antique Milton stairca
1 fan ft1S NJ upIvS v~uff