The evening times., 1900-09-25
NOTES OF THE DAY.

jtt on tue iFcts
\ new invention for the inaiction Of cruelty to
animals Is an electrical horsewhiP, which gives
the horse shock instead OF cut. 4 small bat
tefy in the device Is controlled BY push bait.
ton.
1t is noted in newspapers Of tle sonfii that
during the FIVE years the Presbyterian Church
in the South has gained about I50J9 coinnluni-
cdnts, while the annual contributions have r
creased nearly $4,000
An enormous mushroom Was found in the neisir
borhood OF Rickmansworth England 1t was per-
fectly round in shape and measured nine inches
across and twenty-seven inches IN circumference
and weighed without the stem, ten ounces.
Godbeaters. by hanEneriEg, rednce gold
leaves so thin that 2s2 600 be laid upon each
other to produce the thickness OF an inch. They
are so thin that, if formed into book, l.Sa
would only occupy the space OF Il single Leaf oi
common paper
The Rev Dr. Parker The famous preacher Of
the City Temple, London. has again announced
his intention TO retire next year, at the age oi
seventy. II IS added that Dr. Parker has been
contemplating retirement ever since the death Oh
his third wife
The intense heat in England has caused pros
tration and death rot only among men and ami
mails, but also among birds. A BuckingbaHE5hire
farmer had fifty strong, healthy turkeys and only
ten are left Of 300 pheasants another farm,
Iss had died in two weeks.
MaterIink says: What distinguishes US from
ono another Is our varying relations with infn-
ity.'' The variations numberless, for no two
humans are. ever have been, exactly alike
They talk OF doubles but that i suPerhelal-
There is always wide difference
Until the time OF Charles X1 Of Sweden the
artillery was not considered part of the arny'
the serving in it not soldiers, but re-
gar6ed a mechanics; the officers had TO army
rank Charles XII gave artillery officers a rank,
and regularly organized the artillery into coLt-
panies.
The battle of Pavia demonstrated the superiority
of the gun in the hands of the Spanish Infantry.
The musket carried a two-ounce ball, and some
times brought down at fire two or thTea
mailed knights. The French sent flag OF truce
to demonstrate against the Use of such bafbsroa
weapons
There ia movement in Greece in favor cf ths
Swiss military systen in place Of the German.
The latter absofbs three entire years OF the life oi
young men, whereas the Swiss system calls ioI
only 100 days Of drilling in the first year ali
20 days every second year thereafter, until the 5s
OF thirty 1.-Two J. reached
To all parties alike 10 Tories. TnioHists, ! ~
erals, and Nationalists among the members Of the
House of Commons themselves, except one mSu,
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain Is invariably Known
as joe and Is never heard Of by his full nane.
The one man Who breaks this rule speaks ot the
colonial secretary "a joey
People in the thick forest regions Of the West
sre looking forward with some dread 10 the sea-
son of forest fires near at hand The not
aud exceptionally dry summer has made the com
bustible material in the woods almost Ike tlTder.
A spark from 4 locomotive at any tine Iiishs
lead disastrous confagration
The new CIzucer memorial window in the Col
legiate Church. OF st. Saviour. Southwark, Is to
be dedicated with special ceremonies on October
25. This window viii commemorate the fact ttaf
the scene of the Canterbury Tales was lad IN
the parish of -. Saviour. II is the gilt OF an
anonymous lover OF Chaucer's great verse
4 German Government expert, DR.. Lt=bberti az
ter a "Trip through German West Africa, Ras come
to the conclusion that not only Is the mosquito
malaria theory endorsed by Koch. correct,
but that there IS close connection between ma ma
Iaria in human beings and the diseases which
carry of so many horses in those regions
citizen OF Hartford, Conn, arrested for
catching frogs in a public reservoir. He vas
fined and appealed the case. The superior court
has just decided that frogs are fish within ths
meaning of the statutes and that he accused was;
therefore liable under ths The citizen had
pleaded that the statute did not refer TO frogs
The raising Of water-soaked logs from the bot
tom OF the Kennebec River is ! thriving business
in Maine b. the use Of wide fiat boats the logs
are drawn to the surface, towed 10 landings and
! split into cordwood- In this manner hundFtd
cords of wood are annually reclaimed from the
river bed between NestbF0ok and MalIson Falld
alone
Iondon's Lord Mayor has received over $780,
oao in public subscriptions in the nine months Of
! his tenure of office The contributions are: For
the TrgnSvaaI war fund. $4,000; for the South
African refugees Ss59,011; for the City ef Lon
don Imperial Volunteers, S5S599: for the Indian
famine fund 81 .130, ,053, and Tor the Ottawa hre
fund, $4,000.
People in Paris succeed in consuming = one
way or another about one hundred thousand
pounds of sr,ais per day The business of cuti-
aan hA a
call them such--is u very profitable one ShaIi
diet is cultivated taste, but hardly more 50
than that OF frogs, which are now IN laNor Az
over the world.
People in Honolulu indulge in a beverage
known as '.swipes" 1t is the native beer OF
Hawaii and is 4 dangerous concoction. The
principal articles used in its manufacture are
sugar corn, pineappieroot, and Chinese ginger,
bran. Irish potatoes, and sliced PiReapples It
Is fernented and strained after standlIS iouI OK
five days and is then ready IoT use.
For three centuries men have been endeavoring
| to reach the North Pole Henry Hudson, in his
atrempt got within e5i miles OF the coveted point
/ in l6g7. Since then the distance has been mar
! rowed down by other explorers N2nsen IN MS
trip made five years ago got within $50 mites ana
! Captain Cogni. Of the Duke of Abruzzl e1peui-
! ton lowered the record TO 30 miles
There Is pet cat in Marietta Ga, which has
4 record As fighter OF snakes. She tackles them
fearIesslr though, even big lat moecasin snakes,
when they come upon the premises; cuffs them
| with her paw = bites them if che gets chance;
| and keeIls them IN play until somebody IN the
house hears the racket, comes out and Kills Them
| for her
The tea used in the Immediate household OF the
Furerer of China is treated with the utmost
! 1t is raised in garden surrounded by wall. so
| that neither man beast can set anywhere near
! The plants At the time OF the harvest those
| collecting these leaves must abstain from eating
| fish that their breath NAV not spoil the aroma
| of the tea; they must bathe three times day,
| and in addition. must wear gloves.
In Korea visiting carGz foot square. The
savages of Dahomey announce their visits to each
other by 4 wooden board the branch OF 4 tres
| aytisticalIv carved. This is sent III advance,
and the visitor on taking his leave pockets his
| card which probably him for many years
| The natives Of Sumatra also have = visiting card
consisting OF piece of wood about & foot IoIS
and decorated with bunch OF straw ana khiiF-
Paris has gone into ecstacos over new fower
recently produced at the horticultural section ot
the Exposition. The flower is called La Gene
reuse and is a species OF China aster, CT Reine
| Marguerite resembling 3 small chTysInthCT mum.
| but shaped Ike ostrich feather II has great
variety OF color Of the howe.S being white.
Others rich purple, delicate mauye, Old rose, Eais
| blue ard golden yellow. IT Yields no scent, bat
| has become the fashionable lad OF the hour
| Mr. Treves TIE great surgeon, in his lecture to
medical students at the opening Of tie new cub
rooms in the London Hospital, is reported to have
said that genius. he took it. was some form If
| neurosis an untabulated nervous disease The
few persons OF genius he had known had been
exceedingly impossible persons. and II there MS
| TJTofe where It