The evening times., 1900-09-28
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| ffsd 4 S99def, OF Washington
monument is TO be erected on Swiss emf,
| nenee in memory OF Barry, famous St Bernard
| dog, who il his time saved forty lives.
| A forest fire at Colebrook mountain hamlet
near New Haven. Conn.,, has driven hundreds OF
| mathematics down into the lowlands and they
| are biting and poisoning cattle
lightning has killed so many cattle while they
standing wire fences that it is pro-
posed TO diminish the danger by of ground
wires which viii conduct the electricity into tie
| earth
The smallpox scare at Logansport. Ind. has
resulted in something very like quarantine Of
| the place, and merchants are complaining that
the State Board of Health has adopted altogether
| tco stringent measures.
New York's costliest small building will be
the $4,000 laboratory, 20 by 50 feet. which the
board Of health is erecting for meteorological
] experiments. 1t IS to be steel ''bombproof,
! With solid asphalt walls
China claims, through Confucius, to have first
announced the Golden Rule, but the nation has
| not been living up to it for centuries The idea
| OF confucius was not to do that unto others that
one would not be willing to have done unto HIM
self.
| 4 German syndicate has Just made arrange
! ments whereby it secures all the timber a
an;e strip of land in The mountains in eastern
| Kentucky 1t is estimated that the strip
raiG5 about 10000 OF the finest specimens OF oak
| trees.
Gold mines at johannesburg are not in as bad
| condition anticipated. As d rule there
| has not been much if any destruction of property
! and in nearly all cases The mines could be put
| into producing condition within a month after
| work is fairly resumed
| It has Just been discovered that horse chestnut
| shells can be made into very good pipes. They
ean at least contend in point of sweetness and
| purity With some Of the cheap alleged bricr
| Ssood pipes the human family is struggling with
| every day in the year.
President Loubet, Of France. and Queen Vie
toFia, OF England both mueh interested in
| autographs. The French President has Of
the best private collections in that country He
gave, the other day large sum OF money for a
| letter written by Baisac.
Sir Francis Piunkett the new British Anbas-
sador to the Ai=tTieG court, is the first English
| diplomat of the Roman Catholic faith for many
years accredited to that post He Is the young
est son of the ninth earl Of KingaI. He has been
| IN the service since 1855.
Sir Henry Campbell Bannernlan the leader Of
the English opposition, is said TO be able To-
sleep in standing posture well as he can
lying down The Duke OF Devonshire once said to
him: You are ike a policeman, B2nnermaE:
you can always sleep standing up.
Emily Forrest, an old negro woman Of Macon
Ga, has a queer haIluciHation She thinks that
a rooster is following her all the time and con-
stantly Growing. She has killed and dsgo1Eed the
/ fowl every day for months but the next day he
would again appear on her doorstep and crow at
her.
A Haekensaca, y j, jury has decided that
the automobile Is not a nuisance The decision
was given in a damage suit where an automobile
owner was sued because horse was frightened
when at distance Of 275 feet from the auto
mobile I'D away, throwing lady cut of
carriage.
The new transatlantic liner that is being built
fer one of the rival German steamship companies
viii be 80 feet long After z passenger gets his
sea legs on he can by pacing twice around the
decks OF this great ship have pedestrian exercise
sufficient 10 get up frst-class appetite for
breakfast.
President Eliot. OF Harvard is not afflicted with
what the students Of that place call the Harvard
handvritins'' On the contrary, in spite Of the
vast amount OF writing he does. his copy is
/ always clear and even. with few erasJTes- There
is a tradition to the effect that lie yet
received j query On it from printer
Recently new fruit was exhibited to tie
fellows OF the Royal Horticultural Society N
London. The plant bearing II is 4 hybrid be
! tween the raspbsrry and the common blackberry
The taste af the fruit combines the favor o. the
/ dewberry with that OF the raspberry, and it
comes into perfection the raspberrie6 are fall
ing.
Though separated by the storm and washed in
different directions, all the members Of the
stubbs family were reunited Father, mother
and two children floating roof that
broke in pieces. The father, with child,
went ore way The mother vert another, and
| the remaining child went In still a third GI-
rection, but all four were rescued
Many years ago Congress passed a special act
doHatiug an SS0-Pound cannon to a Grand Army
post at AttIehoro Mass, and the pisce mount
ed oH the top OF 4 tail granite shaft as 4 soldiers
monument. Recently gang Of caring thieves
| carted the cannon away in broad DAYLIGHT AID
parts Of il have Just been recovered from i junk
dealer who inn0cently purchased ii.
The pressure Of trade competition during the
last decade has pro,apted Great Britain 10 utilize
an extraordinary method Of inlpressing fc-stsn
traders with their superiority. TIE SCENE
. Is scatter broadcast the commercial
world British experts in the matter af trade to
: lecture On British manufactures IN every In
poItant ccnmercial centre Of the globe
new submarine cable Is about TO be laid ha-
tween England and Germany. This is the fl; i
cable, and a comprehensive idea OF the increase
in the cable traffic between the two countries
may be gathered from the fact that, whereas IN
1856, when the fourth cable VAS lad, tIe aHniai
number OF eablegraH5 was l,S61,s6s per annunl,
no fewer than 2,465, ,6I5 cablegrams are nov an
. nually transmitted.
IL all the political turmoil and the wreck OF
: matter and crush Of worlds that concerns the
universe At the present period the Belgian hare
j. about forgotten The truth seems TO be,
however that like TIE EjgliSh sparrow the hare
: has obtained a lodgTaent on the soil OF liberty
/ | loving America with the prospect OF making
= himself equally much Of nuisance rs his
featheTed European brother as the years roll on
Some wrought iron gfrders in a building n
| Chicago had to be cut during repairs to make
room for steel column, and twas decided to
use electricity instead OF the old method OF saw
ing. The girders to be cut were six in number
p and fourteen inches deep, with one-ineh Wen
To accomplish the work 1t necessary to melt
about 225 holes in the girdeTs, and the actual
time spent in cutting all three and one-ha
hours.
In the face of the clock OF the parish church
OF St Matthew Bethnal Green. London. are tive
II small holes. which from the pavement do moi
appear large enough TO admit even tiny bid
= Yet these apertures have been chosen by spar
rows as nesting places, and the birds be
frequently flying to and from their strange
abetie. The operations Of the sparrows do not an
pear to have affected the time-keeping accsirae,
OF the clock.
The new tendency in railroadng is to lengtheI
O the rail The present standard length is thirty
feet, and sixty-foot rail has been tried in l.
stead This length showed good results, but s:i(
not afford spaces enough for expansion in ho
~ | weather The longer the rail, the fewer joint
in the track and the fewer iolts But the matte
= of expansion in hot weather Is troublesome, anc
it Is believed that the standard length will bt
| forty five feet.
The chief characteristic OF tropical hurri
l.. canes is the high wind velocity. No storm o
~ temperate latitudes ever develops such appalling
fury There are few places in the interior OF tn
United States where the wind ever blows nor
than forty or fifty miles hour; but in a Wes
| I,di vefAPifiEs Of eighty