The evening times., 1900-05-15
NOTES OF THE DAY.

SIeets- blankets. pillows. and coverIets or coun-
terp2nes we're frequent subjects Ui btqIest in the
middle ages
The London Times" advocates reimposition by
all countries OF the stringent regulations Of lsJs
against Anarchists.
Niagara Falls has rival in the Cersoppa Falls
IA south hanara. India. The water there makes a
clear drop Of $50 feet.
Veal outlets are not on tine menu in Morocco
hotels. There Is a popular notion in that couu-
Try that COWS deprived Of their calves would
TO give milk.
Il has been found out that these tall buildings
with roofs in the clouds no longer the pay
ing investments they once were. The business he
been overdona-
PeJrihcd Arizona wood is said 10 make bean
tIful mantels and hreplacss- The material "a
yeined and colored like sienna marble. nd IS as
highly polished.
There are eight inches more rainfall annually
on the south shore OF Lake superior than on the
north shore. and three inches in the cases Of
Erie and Ontario.
All sorts Of animals are vain. German natural
ist declares Long observation. he says shows
tLat monkeys. dogs cats. and b-ds like to look
al themselves in mirrors.
In his state clothes including the crown. the
Sultan OF lahore wears diamonds worth sl2. O00.-
600. His collar, his epaUets. HE girdle. his cuffs
sparkle with precious stones.
Horses. girafes and ostriches have the largest
eyes Of all terrestrial animals, but among marine
animals there cephaiopOds or ink fishes which
have eyes as large as plate.
A new educational plan is being tried in Copen-
hagen No books are used, but the boys are in
structcd orally when they perform - the same
time some light manual labor.
Half-b breed Frenchmen form considerable quota
in the population of Maine. They live com
fortsbly. II somewhat secluded. on the profits OF
their farm lands in that state.
IuDrovod unctbods Of crlfsy-atfpor .,-,, av.7 -
fectiOn Of the machinery used in extracting the
sugar promise TO increase largely taa output of
sugar from the Hawaiian Islands
Drybreld 4 Casebeer is the name OF 4 business
& N at Hutchinson, Kan, and the town Of Inrnan
boasts Of a citizen named Hairof. who is the
baldest-headed man in the State
The pie bak,rs of New YORK attribute the great
demand lately for their product % a disappear
ance Of the belief that pics are iudige>tibIe Even
athletes now ca pies in training
It is estimated that during the past fourteen
months upward Of 1900 wolves have been killed
IN Wyoming. in addition TO mountain lions
Wildcats lynx, bear, and coyotes.
There are about 10000 locomotive engineers. or
engine drivers, as they are called. in the United
Kingdom. The average distance travelled by them
Is from $4,000 20 5000 miles every year.
Bankers estimate that American visitors to
the Paris Exposition will spend abroad this year
$40 ZOO, 900 more than Is usually spent by Ameri-
cans in Europe during the vocation season
Logs are the cheapest thing in Siberia; but IL
the forests cut rapidly for the next century
they have been Of late years. reforestation will
become as pressing question As il is in America
The hrst letter written by Abraham Lincoln was
when he was ten years cd II was adf-, ssed
to a preacher that the Lincoln family wanted
to preside at the funeral OF the mother OF the
martyred President.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cogiey, of Harrisburg Pa, after
having been forty-fOur years in the service OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. as telegraph
operator, has been placed the retired list Of
that great corporation.
recent ordinance Of the Butte. county. Cal.
council provides that anyone riding a wheel on a
sidewalk in any incorporated town Of Butte. on
at rest while such pedestrian passes.
The next time the hospital ship goes to South
Africa she win carry males as nurses Men trainra
in hospital schools viii take the place OF young
women, who Likely to become scasick mr.
vOus, and hysterical, all at the same time
A church bell cracked in ringing at the village
Of sehleithein, near Sohafhausen Germany, few
days ago. When tskenNd il was found TO be
of the year li52. Accordingly it Is older than the
Sehanhausen bell which inspired SehiIler's poem
eornstalk recently grown On a farm near
owensboro. Hy.. : seventeen feet four iEehes
long and has twenty-seven joints Two feet and
six inches OF the stalk have been cut on, tn.
stalk being originally nineteen feet ten inches in
length.