The evening times., 1900-05-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Two rivers Up Yukon nay have the names of
Mckinley and Bryan. respectively.
The Chinese engaged in the manufacture Of
PORCELAIN long before the Christian era
France exports 25o.ooO.0o oysters each year.
They green in color and brassy in favor.
The mortality in Rome has been reduced with
in few years from 25 per l,OoO to Is per 1000.
The Des Moines Council has passed an ordinance
forbidding free lunches to be passed IN liquor
looms
The Russian Government proposes 10 carry on ex-
tensive dredging operations On the AmoOr Rives
during the sFrng and summer
General Cronie' IS 10 be presented with a sword
of solid gold euSt =, ,O00 Its model in wax mas
already been completed by leading French
sculptor
1t has been decided 70 open permanent In
ternational Motor Car Exhibition in Berlin where
complete vehicles and ali their parts and acces-
sOries VIII be sh,wn-
According TO the street Railway Revie-s.'' ths
Tokyo Tram Company Of Tokyo. Japan, has de-
elared dividend of over 30 per cent On its bust
ness for the last year,
In a poll of New YORK Presbyterian ministers
taken BY Neu2 YORK paper over % per cent
favored a revision VI the creed and about Is per
cent were non-couunIttaL
Paris Womsn's Psper. ia FroDde" which
boasts that al is work IS done by women. has
run foul Of the law. which does not permit
women to set type at night.
Twenty-four million people attend church in the
United states every SUNDAY. according TO statis-
tics recently presented There IS one church for
every go people in the country
George CroaT, Of Il London Street. Edinburgh.
is the oiIy survivor o. the theatrical funs ain
neT OF ls2T, whereat Sir Walter Scott proclaimed
himself the author Of ''Eaverley''
The German and Austrian Alpine Soeiety, which
now numbers over 5000 members, intends to o.
ganize special branch which is 70 take measures
Tor the protection Of the Alpine piant&
1t is proposed to establish Chinese commercial
schools in England which would be assisted by
the Government and which would train Young
men for service in the Chinese export trade.
The German peasant et a century ago-the pc
nod OF tke Nspoleonic wars-ate little except
black bread and potatoes, and in many cases he
had barely sufficient Of them 10 as.Ain life.
Verified sgJres show that a city Of 10000 in
hahltants could be built from the annual output
Of stone. clay. hme. and gravel. found within a
dozen miles Of the City Hail. in PHILADELPHIA.
North Carolina. South Carolina Georgia. and
other southern States are turning out a large part
Of their cotton products in finished goods FactO-
res for this purpose arising I'll the South.
Imitation maple is made by reducing ordinary
sugar to syrup and boiling hickory chips in il.
The hickory. it Is alleged. imparts a favor that
easily deceives people who are not maple experts.
Recently the Russian Agricultural Department
has discovered in Kirghiz steppe on the eastern
shore Of the Caspian Sea immense nsphtha springs
of a quality which is said 10 be equal to the best
American naphtha-
Running at right angles with the Orange River
(SOuth Africa) are mighty downs of red sand.
which extend for miles into the vast desert of
the kalahari There few wells and some pro-
duee horse sickness
A resolution to submit a woman suffrage con-
stiiutional amendment received twenty-four af-
firnative votes in the Iowa Senate against twen-
ty-twO negative. Two more votes would have
given it a constitutional majority.
Japan last year had ifty-eight railway com
panies, with a combiaed capital of Sis, 500 $50
and mileage of s.7s7 miles. They carried 3d.
OIL. $50 passengers and 9.916.l26 tons of freight
The aggregate profits were s.. $40.
Following the lead Of Liverpool, shefieId Brad
ford. Glasgow, Manchester, and other cities Of
Great Britain. it is promised that an electric
street railway service will superseds the
present horse tramways in Nottingham.
In Guatemala resident has patented an ap-
paratus to prevent ships from sinking. having
folded air reservoirs from the ceiling of the diff
ferent compartments, TO be unfolded and inflated
to I'LL the compartment when the ship leaks.
Monsignor Crostaraosa, Secretary to the Com
missione di Archeologia Sacra. has issued from
Rome an appeal to arehaeologists and to all
those who interested in Christian antiquities
to subscribe toward the further exploration OF the
Catacombs
Late German papers report an order of 56,OO0
overcoats, jackets and Trousers for mems wear
given by agents from the TTansvaal to Hamburg
and Berlin clothing manufacturers At the same
time heavy orders for cassimeres were received
for the Beers use.
There is not 4 United States dry goods estab-
ishment either wholesale OF retail in Venezuela
This branch of business Is generally controlled
by Germans. French, or yenezuelans, and the
Europeans naturally import most OF the dry goods
from their native countries.
The electrical energy required for the many uses
Of the Paris Exposition SiI be produced by con-
densed steam engines directly coupled to a com
mon shaft. There thirty-eight groups Of cleo
trio generators nineteen belonging to the French
! section and the rest in the foreign sAntsan