The evening times., 1900-10-13
NOTES OF THE DAY

Two men Ni0GEcSboSO, ny. one 9ufptfS t}e
right foot and the other the left, economize
By buying ono pair OF Shoes
Dresden is to have. in 1903 tfcity exiiiki-
tioh.' at which all German towns OF over 900
i9habitants-are TO be represented
Prof. Emil Yung. of Geneva, Switzerland has
counted the ants in fve nests Their numbers
were aS,0is $40, 1908, 1884, 47,see
In the Republic of Mexico there are printed at
present 5Ss periodical publications, OF which 55
are daiiies Eighteen are published in English.
The population of China used 10 be estimated
at 400, 900 and upward. Estimates made by
careful travellers in late years put it much
lower
Forrest and the elder Booth is dying at Belle
vue Hospital, destitute and frendless. He IS
seFenty-one years old.
Although within eight years the sum OF $12,-
100000 has been expended in reducing the num-
Der Of Chieago's grade crossings, that city lost
twenty-three citizens last month in grade cross
ing accidents
At Menominee, Mich. Game Warden WiIkin-
son opened box marked '.Glass'' and found it
alled with partridges-iust as he thought lie
would The boz was consigned to a commission
house in Chicago.
Queen Isabella, seventy years cid and sadly
broken in health and spirit. desires to end her
days in Spain, from which she has been banished
foE twenty-tLree years. and there is good pros
peer iIiat Asf WISH VIII be gratiaed.
4 banquet in honor Of Prof. Hadey, OF Yale
IS to be given by the school teachers Of Con-
neeticut next month. Prot. Hadley long ago
made himself popular with the teachers by
tablshing a course lnr them at Yale.
Prof. Frank X Sanders who has just been
elected president of Grinnen College Iowa. MAJ
born in India where his parents were mission
aries They died when .he boy was four years
old lie atteFward graduated from Ripon College,
Iowa.
DR.. Johannes Bresler in Freiburg. silesia, Is
about to open a museum OF a novel kind. 1t
viii be devoted TO the study of psychiatry and
viii contain models OF various luHatic asylUris
and samples OF every appliance in use III such
institutions.
John Burt Of Central Village. Mass, completed
his ninefy-frsf year last Friday. He took his
usual daily walk too. 1T isn't often" ne said
TO d reporter THAT a man uinety-one wears old
Is able 10 walk around and show his picture to
people personally.
Soldiers viii have the footiacfle occasionally
and the ordinary surgeon IS about as able To
extract their mo31rs as BARRIERS woiid in the
days before dentistry became an acknowledged
scIence For this reason several dentists were
German army 10 China.
Miss Nee Bana CNorthefa Light is an Indian
girl who lives island near Old Town, Ne
She is expert swimmer and canoe navigator,
has saved life at the risk of her own. reads
books. dances bewitchingly, and is very good
locking The City National Bank of Kankakee
has the privilege OF engraving her pretty face
on its checks.
Years ago Miss Z. J. Norris taught school IN
Watertowu. n Y Frederick Seymour was one
Of her pupils He grew up and became school
superintendent. Attempts were made 10 put
younger teacher IN Miss Norris place. He de-
feated them She died Il few years ago, and he
has been EOtiHEd that under her will he n
herits her real estate.
There still exists On the British coasts a class
of known as -'hovelIers,'' OF swipeT@a
modernized survival OF the old wrecker fraternity
that earns livelihood by the recovery of
wreckage- During the summer months of last
year upward Of 40 tons Of anchors and chains
were dragged from the bed OF the sea In the
Downs and Yarmouth roads alone.
Upon the accession of James VI of Scotland
to the throne OF England in 1905 the crowns
OF England and Scotland were united, and the
support Of the royal arms have since been The
British lion and the Scotch unicorn. There was
always before lion, but the left ami
nal from the family badge As that OF the Stuart
family, was that Of lion and greyhound.
Prof Baldwin Spencer. who hIz the chair of
biology in the University Of Melbourne has at
the request oi the Royal Geographical Society
and other scientific bodies. received twelve
months leave OF absence TO enable him 70 PUr-
his valuable f-zt-haHd researches into the
customs and beliefs OF the surviving tribes Of
blacks in the lar interior OF South Australia
In the Chateau de Luynes. the beautiful resi-
dence of the family Of the Due dues since the
reign OF Henry ", there was some line carved
woodwork. beautiful painted staircase and sorne
chimney pieces of marble with Gauthiere mount
ings- These have been purchased by Frederick
Litchfield during his recent visit to Paris, and
will be removed the Sinclair GALLERIES, Len
don.
a correspondent sends 'sNarure'' from TaSr1aaia,
the photograph OF a crab which weighed thirty
pounds, stating that it IS -'one OF the largest
which have been caught in these waters . He
adds that there IN the Tasnlaaian Museum
several specimens weighing from sixteen 10
twenty-five pounds These monster crabs
caught in water from fifteen TO thirty fathonIs
deep.
At present the greatest distance over which
electrical power is being transmitted by wire Is
eighty-fve miles. being carried from water
fall at RedIands, Cal, to the City of Los An
eeleS to run a street railway. TO light the city,
and to furnish power for several municipal
dertakings. The plant was set up in 1897 It
has Il capacity OF 4cG-horSe power and ECO
volts
To be frst-class gardener is an honor by no
means to be despiSed. In times gone by the word
implied much mere than it does today. Young
men paid heavy premiums TO get IN as appren-
tees under learned gardeners, and when at the
end of the term they We're invested with the
blue apron most OF Ihen NOuIC compare IA
vorabiy. in general intelligence, with the gradU-
ates OF cur modern universities
There is ore pane of glass at Marlborough
house. in England that has peculiar sort Of
history. and Is most carefully guarded, The
late Duke of Clarence once entered the sitting
room of of his sisters and scratched with
q diamond the window his name, Eddy
Soon after the present Emperor of Russia entered
the room. and, noticing the handiwork of his
cousin. scratched ''Nicky'' beneath it.
One of the Berlin reviews publishes a calcula-
ton on the number of letters distributed an
nually throughout the world. It gives the total
as II 900 millions OF these, it says 5000 mil
lions are in English, 1900 millions in German,
LOCO millions in French. 220 millions in Italian.
l20 millions IN Spanish, 100 millions in Dutch,
SO millions in Russian, and "A millions in Portu-
guese. The Anglo-Saxon is for the present very
well III front.
On the brow of lofty peak of the Sierra Ne
vada Mountains is Il signal station in which, day
after day, woman sits with field glass in hand
She is watching for fires that might break out in
the snowsheds that skirt the railroad through the
rocky wilds- BY day Mrs. Paul Reicke is
guard, and at night her husband watches Should
a small fame pass unnoted foT hour the whole
chain of sheds might be consumed and the
tracks endangered.
a Glasgow man has in his garden yvh4t he calls
a tree clock" Fir trees are planted in such
positions that one OF them viii shade portion
of the house at every hour of sunlight. For ex-
ample, at . O'Clock in the morning the .
o'clock tree shades the dining-r while rs
the sunlight changes the 10 o'clock tree
shades the room above or the room adjoining it.
and so on through the day. On sunny day
this tree clock lnsuTes a succession of shady