The evening times., 1900-03-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

/
London spends s140 year on the education Of
| each child in the public schools.
/ The total number of sheep in the STATE oi West
/ virginia IL 1s7,7e3, valued az Sl4,326,'lJ.
| Brooklyn viii spend s80OOO0 on ncw wing for
| the Brooklyn Institute u Arts and sciences.
Motber-ofpesrI articles should be cleaned with
Whiting and cold water. soap discoioes them.
/ The number OF deaths in BROOKLYN for the month
OF February vas 2,009. which Is unusually large
| In blowing a candle. hold II alolt and then
blow upward. THIS viii prevent scattering Of the
! grease.
In the Danish high schools the cost of edueatiu:
| students. including everything except clothing.
| Is scj year.
year aggregated slee. .isj so surprising all pre-
| YfOUs records
Merchandise exports tom France in January ia
creased s5,G0O.00O over ls1g; MERCHANDISE imports
| increased sl,00O,000
Massachusetts, imposes a tax Of ; per cent on
| bequests coming to unigersities and colleges from
outside the state limits.
Canon Gore complains Of the poverty among
many Of the clergy in England, and lays it % the
charge OF lukewarnne=s among the laity.
In the university library At ithaca. \. y. there
has been placed a memorial tablet 70 Clifton y.
! Brown, student VINO felt in the charge of San
| JuaE.
Wesleyan University. at Midlle;own, Conn.
! may found an annex for women students ;hs
! plan now in vogue At Harvard and Brown JHl-
! veTsitics.
| While a LorGon church was fre a bridal
| party entered and insisted upon being wed. 20
| that the parvon tied the Knot while the ediiice
was in tarnss.
| Glyngsrth, marsion on the Angiesay side ct
| the Mena Straits. has jI-t been acquired BY the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners paLce for tue
/ Bishop ct Bangor.
J Catholic MISSIONARY uork has been resumed on
| the suppression of Nahdi-rn in Outurrulu and
Khsrtm. ard schools for the natives wilI shortly
| be erected in both cities
Reports ssy that little wii be ief, Of Dawson
City. the kloBdike metropolis, after tir home
! rush IN Nay and June. Merchants are closing QUO
their stocks, and TO renl" signs are frequent
b new process Of rolling q Ma.-sehuset,s
genius has succeeded in attaining results t1st, 80
far a. sheet metal work is concerned. almost
| equal 10 what he would be able to accomplish
it he had rediscovercd tie secret of temperinS
copper.
At Denver a demand for higher wages nom
nearly all lines of workmanship ha- been granted
pelceabIy In tine building trades especially the
demand for labor j. urgent riiaJ atvaEces we're
granted readily and tine Cpst Ji houses raised PsO-
portionateiy.
Tue prize offered by the late Alfred Ncbai. the
! inventor vino made a fortune by tire manufacture
Of dynamite. j. awarded by an International COM
. mttee for the most iupalt4ut invention IN
science Or iusbistrid! art. ID is open 10 all the
world and embraces all subjects Of human en-
q'iirg.
The citizens Of Lagrange. Ind. have presented
rcrcou-trsroc 20 the town board rhst . ou, ID trr
ordinary. skunk farm started within the
corporate limits of that city and the scent was
more than the Heighbor- could stand Tie f.-
rnonstrance = drawn up in legal form and :
/ signed By tventy-niEe ft>it.FrtS-
Servant girl in Boston Vlo read Homer. Golrfe,
and schiller are spoken Of in tine l5hoJ bulletins
/ OF Massachusetts, just issued. Boston ktelrus
( showed that while cook books - various maSe
are the mo-t common. good books e other sinds
were rot 90 al unusual. ln twe of t1re- rt-ss
/ history either Of the United >tIj,s 0r EHg'JrG,
. seemed to be preferred.
Especially in Old Japan tHc u-e- Co gsi-r's pa
: per Is put are iunUIrerabl.- T1p1S,i all the pa
psr4 are pist'e the same way they have diTc H-
. names. depending IN she Use, to w.Iich they sr,
put. Partitions between r0Om@ and window light,
are Of paper. In- Partitions are paper or slio-
. ing frames something On t1e principle oi t'ldl-%
of sliding doors L.trterrs ard umbrella coverings
are made Of u.
Tie water supply Of Porto Rico, because OF Is
abundance and FRESHNESS i.om the mOWta
streams. ought 90 be pure and good for use Bo5
it j. FAR otherwise. 4 tl.i,k bed 9t rank vscc-
tstion Is ever decay ing beneath the growth
rising above iJ. ard tire wafer hitr-Iug through
the rotten mas becomes rot only stepped wlth
tine iye Cf decsyir- reltS leaves and grasses, bu-
T. fu!, % insects and worms.
Th~ most rccra, pfapo.-- iH the a-Telopment
oi africa Is a railway across the dc-cll Of Sahara
! extending FROM AIgi,7- e tie Niger River. The
plan * Under discussion b. eHE5aS"fs Of the
Frerch Government. who rsva in ,Hea possession
data obtained on preliminary swv@ys, The prof.
ected route OF The railway j. from Bis&7ra IN
/ NIgtriI lo TUgurr ard WsrSl5, and then running
due south the desert and the UmmO Houn-
tanS rr the group % G4-eS al All al Agades- The
lire here would divide. enc branch extending 20
Lake TSChad in 4 SeUtEeastery direction, whlie
7 the other would southwest -1 the Upper
/ Niger VALLEY. which iS French territory. There
world be about 30 miles 7i railway 10 be con-
Structcd IN the desert, ard The expense - est
| mated at s60.0090f0. as there are neither trees
nor water On the arid piaiHs There = already
/ in the Upper Niger region a railway, Whl'iI eN-
tends from Kaves. at rhe head "t rat slrfon. %
Diuvba thirty miles beyond the mou-h II tae
Being River.
'.The Scotch Canadians oi tao present day.'
saws a Montreal correspondent OF the Catholic
Standard and Times. belong to Clan Prosperous.
In actuaI numbers they form hut oLe-twent'erH
! of th, rorulztian Of Montreal. Vet tl.y oHn one
fourth Of the wealth OF the eiiv- Their castles
I on thr mountain and their ulnsi7as The Rue
Sberbrooke are sights tn sec TUdg,g. irJm the
business signs might fancy thls the city -
within mile O. FdirboI1 Gown. Tive dead practical
nraUpu Cf the trdeilc race certainly h1s lfousit
share of the prosperity 70 which il has contributed
its quota. The long headed. iir-sighted Scotch
| make solid citizens wherever they q, and they
[ have helped 70 make Montreal a solid commercial
| citv Tie business relations Of SCot-men anil
/ Freuchuleu arr wonderfully s1nicahle. the Freu, e
have forgiven and the Scotch have forgotten the
. sins Of either days O,tside 0f commercial part
, nsrShiBs raeiII lines are clearly defined. ant
oddly CROUCH. IL j. tbe French VINO are socially
| claErisil IntermsIEisges- a. remarked IN a
| previous letter. simpiy add 20 t7e strength OK
! the French 4 Iuadisr i1Fn'iy
4 lew btisinsss men whc are old-L-HieHed. A.
| well a. elderly. -ays tac New &ogk Tmes. sttl
! r.esx the typewritiug u4eiai,c CHetrsive ir-
unyation but in tire vast majority Ct comuler-i It
/ transactions the pen is used only Tor Ire
production Of sigrlturts. and enormous has tc 7
the aIert eCouOrry 81 lime. temper, and c'r--
In private currrSpOrdcnc-. however. tine pes 81
pretertis 70 scorn the competition ot the mach1r.
: | and snvboFy who ventures t1 break the gsners
rule nuist he prepared Tor cold dlSsain or angry
I expostul,ti.n The reason f''r this. probably, g.,
! the fact thar it could idiTty NJ dSsii'ii Z
| that every typewriter letter was d'etatf't
| Icrter ard OF course ever body wants tie tan
! mission ef his or her friends thoughts 20 De- -
! direct a. possible. Bat nowadays large Ltiiao'r
. ! Of people hC-ideS Professors SecretlrifS h2's
learned the mystery Of typewIrfIrg Sud Tor theri
p it would be huge convenience n the last IN
uortaut preiudice agIiu=t typewTlttsn letters. -
| sleb could be dissip5ted Would It not be po--
sible IN rtfcc: tlc desired change by invCnting .
word to he used a. '-DictIted' Is by the business
| worId3 ''Aut0tvpeG'' would 90 II it had not al
/ ready been huFdeued with several other signi-
and '.J-nassisted'' would b. too vague. Some one
of eur ingenious correspondents can doubtless
solve the problem. and win the gratitude Of folks
n who have come to find the pen nuisance. but