The evening times., 1900-03-29
NOTES OF THEDAY.

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| IN the House Of Keys, Isle Of Man.
| California has a prime known as the Cold,
whIeh Is said 20 be twice prolific and double
! the size OF the ordinary French -prune.
The. directors Of the Paris Exposition have
eeived l6OO0 requests for permission to erect re-
neshment and newspaper booths on the grounds
Apothecary shops, with women clerks are not
| only becoming more common in Russia bur they
the public
vine barrel weighing seventy tons has iust
been built at Nanay, France, at a cost of $50 0CH
IL IS to be placed On exhibition at the Paris
( Exposition.
| new theatre. with a seating capacity of 1000
| persons. Is 70 be built in Mcntevideo. and a col
osseum. with a seating capacity Of 1900, is also
| 10 be ere-ted-
/ There il income tax in the city oi Bremen
! on all salaries above $40 year There is meas
/ ure pending. however. to raise the limit 10 in
| comes over SIS year.
Loyds Register estimates Great Britains
output Of new merchant vessels in 1899 as l4lS.-
ISl tons, an increase Of 1900 tons over 1895 and
| the largest tonnage record.
Great Britain's export Of gold to Germany in
1899 was nearly $40 0OO 900 less than in lses rs
export to that market in December alone was
| SIS. 800, ,0O0 less than in the preceding year.
The Bank OF the Netherlands the Bank Of Bel
| gium. the Bank Of Italy, the Bank OF Austria
! Hungary. and the imperial Bank Of Russia all
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! The percentage Of deaths by mining accidents 10
| much less than it some wears ago, al
| though at the present time there two and
! half times as many people employed underground
Berlin has 2,233 MEDICAL men; Munich. So;
| Hamburg, 5S3; Bressu, SO; Leipsic, al; Dres-
den. 4Os; Cologne. 322; Frankfort. 312: Chariot
/ tenburg, POS; KOnigsbeTg 80; Hanover, 234 and
Straasburg. 24
Paris proposes to have a bicycle police forcs
numbering go men. They will be armed With
sabres in the day time the weapons being attached
TO the handles Of their bicycles. At night they
will carry revolyers.
Three German steamship lines touch at Moroc.
CO hsrbors, and nearly all the export business i4
1 done by them. Some German newspapers are al.
ready locking forward 10 a future partition u
that country b. European governments.
| Phiadelphi8n who is much afraid Of draught,
| has a feather suspended frcm the ceiling BIZ
light. silken thread. Should the feather move in
\ the slightest degree he doesn't rest content until
/ he 6nds cot whSre the drsught comes from.
! Left-handed parties are a lad in New York.
| Guests are requested to come with their rigid
hands securely bound up. They must registeJ
/ their names. play the piano. make all gestures
and eat with the assistance OF the left hand
10 provide drinking water on locomotives 0
/ Southern has designed 4 tank 70 hJ iu one
/ side Of the large water tank the tender. tns
/ body Of the small tank being surrounded by the
water in the large tank to keep the dr.lki1s
I water cold
Eight lads are gathered in one group IN ths
/ English Army and Navy Illustrated an q
whom were schoomates in little English village
All joined the navy and were widely Separated,
and all have finally come together on the s1ms
ship and in the same mes on the CanoPis-
The bub0nic plague bacillus resembles niuutS
cocoon, slightly rounded at both ends and ribbed
Iengthvise. Unlike the Asatic cholera bacillus.
which Is a distinct comma bacillus. sometimes
varied by the spiral form, that of plague almost
uniformly straight, and Of iEfuiles.n.a! -.ze-
The appearance Of the automobile in B15nl4
Ayres has been the signal for good read, agit4
( tion throughout the Argentine Republic. The A.
gentine Touring Club has been organzed. and
roads exclusively used for bicyclp~ and figh au-
tOm0biles ore already N course II construction
/ There * society with over go members il
Riga, Russia, each Of whom PAYS three rIb,st
every time child Is born % one @ the other
members. while the one who has the child ge+f
. from three hundred 70 seven hundred and ffty
I rubles. according TO the uumbeI 81 payments hs
has made
[ Several soap bubbles can be blown At once .i-b
/ = toy, which ras reservoir fog soapF water.
/ from which small Quantity OF liquid Is forced
I into narrow neck, air being blown through the
4 tube into the neck 10 force the bubbles oCt
between a series Of metallic disks Jt he end Of
the neck.
At the electric cab station In Boston, where
there are over 100 automobiles. arrangements are
provided for working the carriages after the bat
reTies have been removed. An electric cable -
suspended from the roof. and this transmit, the
power 20 the carriages BY the aid of plug
that the carriages can be Fuu around Jae tGOr
with its aid.
Speaking q British aTmorcd cruisers. the '.f5n-
don Gr7phc'' says: 1T Is painful 60 md >Ueh
vessels as the Nelson. NorthgElherlaDd. AgiEc1mi
Achilles. AiBos tur, Black Prince, and Harrl"- hg
urng in our LIST under this head None o.: the
seven ycssss IS f. crlI.se. and Tie admiral yl"
would send them IN their present state OPP SEQ ia
would be committing murder
Russian women when in their youth. ara among
the most interesting and beautiful women in ,Ie
world. In society there is no woman w., can BE-
more charming or 80 C0mpanioua1.e A. Neil-1red
Russian She Is always good i-ugui>J. las seen
a great deal Of the world. L. d rule. witty good
tempereG-at least oUtwaFdly -eNqui>ltely goTncd,
and with great powers Of fascination
CIinker from the refuse destruct0r- at Brad
ford England which IN 1894 cox nearly $500
for cartiug and dumping. IS now turned t1 prot
table purpose in mortar and concrete making
Ground and mixed with cement has been found
10 give excellent results Tor the formation OF res
eryoirs and inverts. During the winter months
screened cIinker has FUND favor for sVrUaliHg ca
roads made slippery Gy the frost
There is rabbit craze in southern Cs.ii1rn.a-
The people around Los Angeles have taken to
breeding Belgian harcs. and it is expected that
big fortunes viii De made. Rabbit is to De- can
ned and itI Juicy meat Othsrwis. disposed Of, it,
pet i 10 be made into sealsSlu s5cgue- IFS fur
into hats. and other things are TO be done with
it There are GOO '.rabbitrie> around Los An
gres already and over $4,000 high-grlde rabbits.
srm in Vienna has receItIy patented an sp-
psratus to be used for the purpose Of rescue ia
coal mines II consists Of an India rubber cigiH
receptacle made in the form Of a collar and closely
I surrounding the wearer's neck which serves as
breathing bag and contains supply ct Tiieklima
/ for absorbing carbOnic acid and water Yapor.
mask Is woTn over the face tightly enclosing it
and oxygen for breathing Is carried IN cuutainer
80 that man possessed OF TINS apparatus can re-
main in place which is filed with irr,spiraO-e
/ gases.
1 People unfamiliar with London have some diff
/ cuItv in realizing the very serious oyercrowdinS
which exists in the poorer districts i'm the metrup-
I oils The medical ofHcer of Is.iugt0n has just
( made a return which brings home IN striking
/ force the terrible density Of the poorer Popdia-
/ ton In that parish there are ESQ one-Toalnel
{ tenements occupide by 2S.lys persons io.Io
/ in them: IL 500 threeroomcd tenemcntS. with ~
4 762 occupants. and S.0l5 fctr-rooned h9use''
/ sheltering n.740 people
! The relief Of Kimberley. the ''NeT York Tri-
| bune'' saws. may exert an important influence
on the diamond trade. though what II IS to be
cannot be exactly fOreseen- The mines now viii
be restored 10 their normal pyoIctiyenesS. which
i far above the worlds normal demand for di3-
uords The market Is only fed with what 10 Viii
take. prices are not allowed TO tall OF Fuinously
though they have huctuated through deeper and
deeDer stages Of decline since the Abundance %
the Kimberley supply was made manifest. u ls
NOT known how many barrels Of diImaads The
I.T.T t. fra4.