The evening times., 1900-04-30
NOTES OF THE DAY.


THREE turpentine plant&tioEs Of Io,oc0 aerea
each VIII soon be started in the South
San Francisco lady who oKns a hotel in tat
elty bas been joined IN sa4trimony 10 her eieTas
tor boy
In salt Lake county, Utah. over 50 per cent o.
me oomesticsted bees have been killed b tns
smoke from the suselters.
senatOr P:att, Of New York Is a Ecsz=ed pha-
maeist and can put up doctors prescription a
~eI as any drug eierk in town
Table Mountain AZ Cape Town. South Africa
Is nearly 1000 feet high and has leVel JoI
about three square miles IL area
Russian count and French prince are among
the Prisoners captured by the British and noa
enjoying the SEA AIR Of st. Helena
Car conductors in Hamburg Germany. are hnec
? cents each time they admit @ their cars 2
single passenger more than the law allows
All the large rivers of-South Africa take theh
rlse in tract Of fat treeless tableland IN the
transsaal, about $500 feet above sea level
1t cost Japan S7y.OoO.OOo to whip China Thr
seems mere bagatelle In comparison with the
expenses England already faces IN the war With
the Boers.
The Government owns many thousands Of acre.
OF lsne IN New Mexico that have never been
taken up Il Z the finest country in the Worlc
for stock raising.
South CaroIina is now manufacturing al The
cOttGn she produces. North Carolina. Georgia an6
other States are also turning out . large part Of
tbeir cotton in finished goods.
AmeTics sold nearly quarter Of a million
dollGrs worth Of hcsr 70 Turkey lat year. and
England bought s525.OO9 worth Of shoes from this
country during the same period
The borough officials Of PhoenixviIle. Pa. re,
Gently impounded the towns solitary trolley car.
and held II until the railroad company replaced .
hat-sided wheel With nov one.
Sir WHlism Csrstin. Inspector CeneraI Of Int
gatlon IN Egypt. i about 70 make scientific
expedition 10 the white Nile Tor the purpose Oi
reporting on the supply Of water.
The Duke Of Counaught il today. nezt To the
eOeen. the nosS popular meIHbeT Of the royal
family His popularity among the soldiers IS
only efuaied By that oi Lord Roberts
Th0nas Poe Of RusilviIle Ind has lust becu
renoinihated for justice Of the peace, and if he
ser-es out the term he Win have occupied thu
oihee forty years He IS eighty nine years old
Shamrock VIII be planted on thr graves Of tbs
Irish sol1ie1s IN South Africa The Duke Of York
has accepted thousand packet of seed and has
Forwarded them 70 tie Officers Oi the Irish Brig.
sde.
In Brazil parents and guardian may, befors
coHseutiRs 10 the marriage oi their charges, re-
quire medical certificate from THE bride OF BRIDE
groom certifying Ihat he or she has been yacs
ciuateG
In Cairo. Egypt, When folks get married. the
Erdding ceremony IS followed b. tirrr days Of
feasting and ioiIifcation. d j. not considered
good form Tor guests 10 leave while the festival
continues.
Wo0d is very scarce in south Afriea Sometime
ago IL Wss proposed 10 import from Western aus
trala bOeks of eucalyptus diVeTsieolor for paving
The streets VI Johannesburg bur the cost WAS
proLibifiye-
Only one nan who served in the Confederate
Senste during the var IS nos to be f9,=nd in the
JHiteG osztes Senate. That Is Vest oi Missouri.
v hen he fetires the last Of the Coufedcrate Sen-
ators Wiu have passed from public life
Eiglrteen months ago the town Of Ensley Ala.
the population q which Is now 5.g9G. had only
80 Inhabitants The increase has been due %
The demand for labor created by the operation q
sieei rill, rod niu, and other indcs.ries.
To give The idea how industrious the color
chemists we're and in just what lines Of work
they 1Ie Iaost Interested. there were produced
last wear % tilrcCt substantive color - NOR
can't eolofs, - seld eolors and basic c0lors-
IN France the reveaae derived from the taxa
tion Of inieritsnees for the year Isa9 amounted
10 2u0-060-6lO 1rzncs CS-.s- -G01 0l0- The reTrnue
from the S5me source during the month OF Jan
'iry. 1870. amounted % J. s,0006s iraECs ( ISL
O00)
The little city Of Orea. in Sweden, owns and
oPerdte= nursery jhst brings il an annual IL
come Of sl10000 that pays all the expenses
oi me nrlIilcIF'aiIy- including Tree schools for
the children and free telephone system for the
people
Tire -.Neue Zuricher Zeiruns'' profess against
the idea that the ssmpathies for the Boer rrpub-
Tie that exist among the Swiss Indicate hatred
for England and the English Il insists that the
Swiss admire England and her institutions IS
much ever.
Ea a Eewiy-iesigned folding bicyc,e.1he front
f0Tk and bottom rear braces are pivotcd 10 fO!d
up against the main frame. while The rods COR
ueltilg the seat post with rhe rear hub are hing
cd. the wheels being removed and the projecting
parts beut sgaIust the main frame
An Old Bible was bought for triae at Lon
don b0osstaH Tie purchaser, an elderly lady,
found pasted between the leaves four fve-pound
notes. with written statement 10 the effect that
the lcs1atOr had no heirs. and left the $50 70
the person who foand them IN the BIble-''
IN At least one respect General Cronie. the new
Napoleon At -. HeIrga. VIII be better OF thaa
5he one whose f0rtunr Was finally oTerthroEn az
Waterloo. The island has just been connected by
cable Wilh England Bnd the Cape % thar the
exiled Boer leader may keep in touch with
rent events
The British ironelad Warrior. which Is the old
ct warship OF its kind in Her NsjeSty's navy,
has iEst been stricken from the roil OF vessels n
active service. The Warrior was launched IN IS59
and completed the next year She- has displaee-
Het 81 9,2i9 tons, and Der iron 2rmer is tour aud
one-hah inches thick.
Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson states that she has
intention Of allowing her husbands grave in
SamOa 10 be disturbed lie lies among those WhO
loved him. and who love him NAV reject
that his lofty tomb receives, no less than II il
were ragged Scottish moor. --the incom-
parable poIup OF eve
4 heroic husband SaVrd his wife from death on
q railway bridge On 2 Long Island road day or
TWO ago by throwing her into creek adi0ia,a
she track The woman hurled into about two
feet OF water covering mire bottom Her hUs-
band not q1ick enough 10 escape ;he rush-
ing ears and WIS crushed 20 death
At Neuport News the British steamer Saaoa Is
being loaded with 200 tons Of steel rails for ;he
great Siberian railway now under construction by
the Russian Government The rails come from
Birmingham. Ala. and VIII be carried through
the Saez Canal 16.o00 mics to Hladivos.0k. s.
beria, the Eastern terminus Of the road
The venerable Baroness Burd-tt- -Coutts has iu-t
celebrated her eighty y-siNth birthday. This di,;ir-
guishod lady : in 4 coudi, on Of health thar bids
fair for continuance Of many years 20 cam,.
HcT husband William Lehman Asisfnead Bart est.
WLo Is thirty yeGrs her junior has sIUCe tlc.T
marriage aged relatively than the haroless.
To SHOW how Ettle Germany knows Of thu way
Americans have Of settling affairs o: honor IL q
mentioned that students have instituted what they
call the American suel' The parties 20 a eilgr-
rel draw lots and the loser Is in honor bound -
commit suicide. Scme one with grudge against
this country must have invented this idea OF the
code CT honor
The number ai pupils enrolled in the sch3oIs
Of Oklahoma Is sees. OF whom 81. .7O6 are whites
uro 80. ...r,--F p, -. 80 Ill -.