The evening times., 1900-06-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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OneeT British ruie the cotton crop Of EG,ypt has
e9-s-so, and nos ass0uats 10 over 53l.08.050
pounds year
The Newfoundland sesIiHs season has bs-n the
arc ii tae past twenty iVe years. SO 0oo seas
having been caPtuTcd.
Residents of Atlanta hope that e:r,r.ss viii
come there. nov that the license has been reduced
from sl.0eJ Day - s5e0
Soldiers boots soon rez- out IN south africa.
TIE intense dT5ress 4 the ar ID that REGION =
very destructive o. leather
An osie;al return tom the British War Oaiee
(: shows That the distinctly Scottish regiments II
the wrr CUntaiB E3.t5J men
According % report Of the Labor Comu.is-
sioHer or New Hampshire the shoe output OF tl4r
safe last year was %. .900,Cc
Native hers II Sew Zealand IN addition ID
. supplying tie coumuitics with eggs make them
se-ves additionally useiul By catching rats
Nethodises have Is2 American missionaries IN
China Prusby tcIisns 20. and the Ancric1n Boa-d
q tcuuissll ncss for Foreign Missions 10
The North German lloyd is about 70 start
steamship iIIe On TIE iaug-tse-ilisug River. N
China. 70 cOHrcct al Shanghai With the ocean
shifs
The manufacture Of dolls did not basin until
LITTLE giTls played mann they PE1ttied % babies
made OF TaEs
Long before school boards we're established IN
England Canadian chiidTen we're Instructed irle Of
cost between the ages OF seven and twelve This
ecscation Is compulsory
The Government u Greece IS now more liberal
with mining concessions. aad as result TInes
being worked IL tie provinces Of Attic4, Thes-
saly, Milo. and Boe0tia-
Pine and henalcek stumps and old logs that
we're supposed 70 have become worthless years
be manufactured into lath-
An eHteEFTiasu= London Yankee has gone to
South Airica with lGlGd0 pocket handkerchieis
which he EePes to sell TO British soIGiers At
I pTGft Of about 800 Per cent
The Naoris Of New Zsal2ad attach the highest
Z value 10 the greensboro They are sending very
I handsome one present 10 Lord Roberts IN
Z token Of admiration fer his proves
! Ia the Adirondack Mountains there are over 500
/ hotels and camps provided FOR sumner visitors
TRe landlords and farmers expect = heavy In1sEx
! Of visitors during the prsseHf summer
There are nine branches u New York state of
the YoEen's intern5fsonzl Labor Le1goe. EiIcse
object Is % persuade working men and
10 buy oEly goods bearing the union lsae.,
There are thirty-three jute mills in India. en-
PioyiHg $3.50 persons The mills eontain f3-Ss1
I looms ard over 2s1 coo spindles Nearly al 0f
! the mills are IN the neiEhborhood Of Calcutta
/ Recent explorations show tlat Brazil could Z
pushed furnish 50 per cent more raw rubber thzn
AZ present, and that The Possibilities Of Af-ics
A. rubber exporting contIaent are lsEItiess-
A rug-et of gold WAS recently picked Up IN
the klluclkC- Il Is probably the greatest md 50
far discovered IT that field Il Weighed
seventy seven OGnces and w4s valued az Sl2-Sssl
" hat is commonly known the measuring
OF span" WORN has made its appearance IN the
section Of country surrounding Richmond. lad,
and IS dong vast damage to Young fruit frees
- =
scientific individual who has given this peculiar
ity some study says that beg pipe playing in the
vicinity Of A COW st1br cguscs the cOUs % yield
more milk.
There is an umbrella in Butler. Pa. supposed
70 De over 30 yezrs old Il was brought from
Scotland and Las been used IN B1tIer county over
1GJ years A. present II Is az CrUzElCut in hard-
ware store
! Duzssl6o-f firm Is making air pipzs for venti-
.s;ins mines OF strong saI cloth iup-egHated
With iIdisrub5Cr. 50 IS 10 b air and water
tight They are kept open BY galvanized iron
rings At intervals.
Recent foods in Upper. central. and southern
Italy. which threatened the lines e railway. have
served 70 bring cnce again iato tae foreground
that most pressing Of Italian problems-the re2f-
foEestinS Of the denuced hillsides-
In China. twelve and hzif rniIes from thu
village OF Lion-Chek there Is mouHtlia Of alum,
y
Is q source oi wealth for the Inhabitants % thu
I country, who dig non it yearly tons Of alum
/ n Germany the niuety-tllree cavalry regiments
are al armed with saber. c1rbine, and lance
IL Austria the ic-ty-tzvO cavalry regiments carry
saber and csrbine; The eleven regiments % h4n=.
, who used 20 carry lance have ceased 20 DO So
! Aberdeen (Scotland) has become the g.oat cen
tre Of the Scotch fishing industry No fewer than
10 stream trzwers . steam liners. and s. other
10 rTsT n a.
/ average something Ike so tols u fish every
week
General Otis Is said 10 have lost fifty pounds Of
flesh during MS administration IN the Philippines
He vas never invariably PorlsH1ous IA weight,
aud VIII his friends think. soon b. able. While he
Is enjoying the beae6rial tnoSpheEe Of bis native
I soil, 10 regain what be has lost
The Scotchnan Who invented the Mafekins
blend Of porridge received Jcnus Of s. from the
Government so invaluable was 1t 10 The garrisOn's
| ratiolls supp.y-it beng equal u SIX weeks
ad5it -0nal prOyis:oEs- Inc natives prefer Il %
| any other focd-
The uniforms Of English prirates cost the tax
payer as follows; Line infantry, g is. artil-
1 lery cf los; husslrs. 81 los, kiited Highland
ers. IS is. unm3unted engineers Al Is: mount
/ Cd engineers. E5 Is life guards. & IS Our
I authority Is The Regiment"
AT London sale CT books there was an inter
esting Scottish item in the third book printed at
\ ST Andrews by Edward Rsban in l620- TAis Is
/ the edisjo Trinc-Ts of the ''PaTssg gEla Per
4 theuse' fhe Latin poem IT the end being by
/ Andrew Melville. Il brought e3 is
] TIE CITY Of New York takes care OF its hlisd
/ resi6unts who are also Peor. Every year SO or
/ thereabouts Is given 70 each INDECENT blind per-
son who applies for assistance. provided the ap-
/ plicanI is round 10 be IN need Of assistance.
/ This year nearly 100 applications have been made.
Ouiors have long heen regarded as 4 cure for
/ insomnia and many persons think that il Is nee
/ essary 10 cat them 70 cure that evil. This. how
| ever. Is not necessary To mash good strong
onion and inkale its fragrance. # II czn b. called
] fragrance. before retiring Viii put any one &c
| sleep.
! The strongest men Of the three manli-st raees
! in the present world arc non-hcsh-eatiHg-ths
| Tursnian rnountsineers. the Maudinco tribes Of
| Seuegarnhia and the Schle-wig- -H0lstein B1uerns
| vho furnish The hc1vicss soldiers for the German
| army and the ahlcst seamcn for the Hamburg
| navy
| English death duties were nearly Sl5.O30.ooo
! I,rr-cr in the Govrru-1ent's escal year ending
March 81 than in the previous year Almost the
4 whole OF this tremendous increase was MADE IN
! tributed the fatal eject Of i1huenzs among
| elderly people
There Is a big contingent in the English army
! now fighting in South Africa who are t0,al 2b-
| stainers from drink In three rCgimentz-tha
Black Match. the Argyli, and Sutherland HSSh-
| lanters and the Quesn's Royal West Surryy Reci-
/ mont-ovcr % per cent Of the uIen never eIiEk
| liquor OF any kind
| Experiments have for some time boer made in
England with smoksless coal This peculiar fuel
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