The evening times., 1900-09-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

WIN COdts anu DoOi- t1tisN WIN N<''N'-
An anatonnst says: There not ten men
IN every thousand 50 built that they can go with
out stlspenders.'
! Andrew Carnegie bas promised to the 6recnock
! town council the sum OF sz5 OO9 for founding
/ public library in Greenock. Scotland
| Dallas, Tex, has foated loan of $150,O00 at (
/ per cent interest, The lowest rate ever obtaiRei
/ by any southern city Of the second class
The FIRST snow Of the season fell on Mount
! Washington last Monday night. an adnlontiou Of
the winter that Is only just little ahead Of IL.
! Chicago people facing au advance in the
price of milk. and they nearly as hostile about
! 1t as they would be il the p.iee OF beer was
raised.
In the land of the dragon princes arc plentiful
and. according to the Chinese equivalent of De
+! brett, there fewer than e,000 princes of
1 the blood
| Buckles chapter the Decline Of SPAIN
spty illustrates the part education and ignorance
/ play IN The fate of nations. Without education
nations step backward.
/ The late Lord Russell was fond of whist At
cdFeis however, as elsewhere. he quick Of
temper. and the partner who satisfied hini had to
I be very good player, indeed
ZachaFiah Robinson, a life prisoner incsree-
! rated at the Columbus, (Ohio) penitentiary i
! doing risky piece Of work He is painting
standpipe which rises 10 height OF $50 feet
| The residents Of Meniek. near Springfield.
Mass, being annoyed by screams thai seem
/ al
locate the source of the screams have been fgtie.
Only one pensoner wLo served in the war Of
1872 is left. His name i Hiram Cronk. He Is
100 years old, and lives in Oneida county, y I.
About 2,OG6 widows OF 1872 are left on the rolls:
They say that the late drought has been
! paraileled IN New England for thirty years, ard
not surpassed since 1856 This covers period
almost as long the memory Of the Oldest ia
habitant.
Mr. Alfred T. Turner. tie city treasurer %
Boston, has Just passed his eightieth birthday.
In the seventeen yeas in which he mas held the
Office he has handled over billion and a qaarter
of dollars.
t The police 4 apartment in Berlin. Germany. has
+ Undertaken ! thorough revision OF the bakeshops
{ much TO the astonishment Of the Master Bakers
Association there, which had begun 10 ridicisIe
the hakeshop law.
At san Francisco the Board of Supervisors has
passed an ordnahes reducing the hours that
laundries may be in operation eaei, day, which i
designed 10 reduce the hours Of labor Of the over
worked employees of these concerns from fifteen
& TO twelve hours.
An trishnan of BROOKLYN named Joseph Lesvey
has been given perInir rsion 10 change his name TO
/ Joseph Emmet He saws he has been mistaken for
{ jew. on account Of the likeness of his Name
g Leayey to Levy. which has been a great aHEoE-
. anee To his family and him9elf
The bubonic plague. identified with the 'Black
bfatH "a Ait hi'bF| ->-'~r mas 4t'NN sliItao -
fouT Of the five continents. ard may any day make
its appearance in Australia, Il Is true that the
eastern ISLANDS OF kle Sundl Archipelago
swarning with indian refugees
) The enormous increase in the supply Of TODD
sent into Paris owing the Exhibition, i shown
I by the octroi statistics just published. The in
/ crease III 1EeSe taxes during August amounted u
eeS,clo while the total inefe4SA since the begin
/ ming Of the year Is upward Of s32o.090.
The people OF the western cca,t OF North Wales
are asking the Government 10 contribute e20.U9l
-one-thrd OF the estimated cost-ior harbor or
! refuge IN Pwllheli Bay. The corporation pro
/ poses 10 contribute another 620.GGa. and the
! CaInbfian Railway Company ike amount. .-
Wide and I,opuious are the domains of the ruler
of England. 1t is not generally known that Queen
! Victoria rules over more Nofammedans than the
! Sultan OF Turkey, more Hebrews than there
are IN Palestine. and over more negroes than ans
other sovereign VINO Il not native Of Africa
An automobile accident insurance association
is about to be formed in New York city. Its OH
jeets viii be to insure its policy holders against
accidents and TO defend the innlmeF4be lawsuits
which have been brought against motorists ali
over the country, often on very slight proyota-
! ton
Miss Eonia Ivan Roe, twenty-four wears old
daughter OF c. C. Roe, wealthy citizen Of But
falo. \. Y, has been granted steamboat pilots
/ IiceIsc having passed the rigid examination be
fore the examiners at Norfolk. Va Miss Roe Is
the first woman ever granted = pilots license IL
Virginia.
Mr.. Barney johnson. who resides near Bedford,
/ KY lives in house that vas built in 1888 1t
! Is log dwelling aud the logs. blue ash, about
eight inches square, as sound q dollar /;
/ was built by Col Daniel Johnson. grandfather 81
the present owner 1t Is the oldest house In
| Trimbe county.
Platinum Is peculiarly The eleetrician-s metal.
Its quality of resisting oxidation Indefinitely and
is ability 10 make tight joint with glass. whcn
fused into the body OF thar material even
through the thin wall OF N-rsy tube. make il
absolutely invaluable, and Ro other material can
take its place for these uses.
The Russian General kryanovsky is endeavoriug
to carry out 4 novel idea IN connection with the
Tbilty-fonrth division of infantry which Is under
his command. He has ordered that each company
shall learn separate song, TO be sung wheF
making IN attack that the general may know
at 3 distance which company l. attacking
Thomas Peterson. OF Perth Amboy, was the ir-t
negro 10 exercise the right OF suffrage under the
Fifteenth Amendment. Petersen wears 4 gold
medal given him by the people OF Perth Auhoy
to commemorate the fact that ne was the hISJ
negro to The vote was cast at special
city election ten days after the amendment was
passed
The machine which ptrfOIates the sheets OF
stamps was invented in 1880 by Henry Archer,
! and sold 10 the British Government fer $30,O3t
The penny post 80 dear institution To al
| Englisameu was started 4 private sTeculat ON
| by Robert Murray and sold by him in 1851 for q
handsome fortune. Eleven years later It's revenues
were annexed TO the Crown.
An Austrian inventor has just patented a SPEAK
ing clock which ne claims VIII be OF the creates
value To persons OF torgetfuI and irregular habits
II consists OF i clock phonograph combination
In place of the regular striking attachment i
phonograph. which be set to speak a sentence
at any time desired. thus becoming uniailinE
reminder 10 its owner OF the duties Of each sue
cessiye hour.
Ali Bey. the second son OF Arabi Pacha. i
soon 10 be married in Handy to the daughter O
the late Jacob Samy Pacha, who died last YEA
! in Kandy The bride-elect is said TO be an IntGi
ligent young and 10 speak English fluent
" Arahi Pacha intends making the wedding
: big social function and in view Of that the pres
| eIIts already very numerous The honeymo":
Will be spent in Egypt
| Australian rabbit exporters dissatisfied VII!
the methods of the Colonial Government towaIt
externnipating rabbits. An expensive department
il is said is maintained Tor the purpose OF poi
snniug The animals, whereas trapping would b,
equally eticacjous and would bring IN revenu,
OF eleo.G00 There Is now large trade il
frozen rabbits and exporters would be willing I,
t pay reasonable prices for them
1t is somewhat remarkable fact. says th
London Express that the hop, although onl,
cultivated in few districts in a few EngliSi
counties. yet grows freely in wild condition il
| many places. It l. a perennial Towering IN JUL
| and August and TO be found in hedges and thick
in the northeastern portions Of Hampshire, AM
about Pctersfeld, and even there it does not cove
5000 acres in all. 1t grows and foursheS. how
ever, in a wild state all over the county, includ