The evening times., 1900-09-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

! ti1re muscles than the human hand.
i German physician has succeeded in making
model Of the human heart which works in iic,
pumping blood through artificial arteries
When taken young the hedgehog may lie com
pleteiy tanned and familiar, allowing itself to be
handled, and as5ociating with the dog and cat
upon terms OF perfect concord
A police judge in Missouri town recently lee
IiTed the police for permitting gambling, and
they promptly captured thirty slot gambling ma
chimes belonging to his brother.
An attempt TO remove the Illinois battleAags
from their cases in the capitol, to carry them in
a parade. abandoned, as the flags tell to
pieces when exposed TO the air.
There Is some doubt as to the fight of the
eagle being rapid many would make it, but
it is yet known that the swiftest hare has no
chance with II in regard TO speed.
The Sultan of Johore has adopted a new and
very modern method OF tiger hunting. Some
time back he shot tiger, which WAS driven out
OF the jungle by the aid OF cyclist trackers-
The female red grouse is said TO vary its dress
according 10 surroundings IL is fact worth
remembering that the red grouse occurs in no
other part OF the world but the British Isles.
On a recent morning an English farmer cut
small field of red wheat, thfashed it in the after
noon and sold it that day to a milling firm which
ground it that evening and delivered the -four in
the morning.
No one has been able TO give a satisfactory
son for the formation adopted by the wild duck
mallard in flight The birds arrange themselves
III two convsrging lines Ike a huge Y, the leader
occupying the point
The PrIIssian minister Of railways received pc
tition in July from telegraph operators, who
wanted their salaries raised The result was that
he engaged in their places i large number Of
women at 30 cents day.
In special report Uganda. recently issued
Sir II. H. Johnston gays that tine Bantu-speaking
people little for beads and not overrnuch for
wire. but they are greedy for cloth and for almost
every manufactured article.
The Pope does his private writing with gold
pen, but his pontifcaI signature Is always given
with white -feathered quill, which is believed
to come from the wing Of dove. The same quit
has been in use for many years.
Hydraulic buffer stops for stopping trains at the
end of line have been tried successfully at A,
tOna b. the engineers Of the German state Iaii-
ways They withztood the shock Of a train Of
2de tons at L speed OF eleven miles an hour.
a falcon, which strsyed from Fontaineb,esu.
near Pals. in pursuit of some other bird.
found next day at Malta. IN the Mediterranean
Another falcon Is said to have returned from
Andalusia, Spain, 20 the peak Of TeRerifTe in six
hours.
a glacier flows like any other river of water,
but Al a much slower rate. The veiocity OF the
Muir River mas beea reckoned al twenty seven 1eer
day for the middle pant OF it, but this II
thought BY some authorities 10 be an excessive
estimate.
The soil Of Peru contains large number of
mineral species At the present time the number
Of mines in exploitation IS 800, employing % 600
workmen- The value Of ore has increased by
more than 20 per cent within the last two years
that IN lsgs-
After keeping cylinder OF gold and one of lead
together for four years at about Gj degrees Fab
renheit-tlrat is. a comparatively cool tempera-
tErc-Sir " Roberts-Austen found that the gold
mad slowly, but surely made It's way into, or
naked with tie lead
Cast steel was manufactured in India before The
birth of Chriss- There are also examples Of
wrought iron work reafly as old. Near ReIhi
close TO kubUh. there Is an enormous wrought
iron pillar which weighs Ten tons and Is thought
TO be nearly 2,Oo0 years old
4 crow hatchery, the only one IL the world, has
been established IN Rockville Pa The crows
eggs are Matched IL an incubator and when the
birds are eight weeks old they are. guillotiued.
the hezd~ sell for y cents each, and are used
as adornmcHts for bonFsets.
During the last three years Russia has been
eoloniziIg Siberia as far as possible. At least
200.o90 coionists have been sent into the country
over the Trans-S Siberian Railway Most of these
people have settled in Eastern Siberia, more par
tcllarly in the Anur Valley.
People in the country districts of Missouri are
complaining OF ilkirs who driving through the
prosperous rural districts selling soap at - per
box whicl includes forty yards Of carpet They
leave the soap aud promise to send the carpet,
which, OF course never comes-
In an ascension made recently by Nessrs- Val
lot and Jean and Louis Lecarme 1t Was found that
it Is possible Z, communicate bv wireless teIeg-
raphy between the earth and freeIy-riSing bal
loon at great distances without any conductor
from the balloon to The ground.
The feetcst quadruped known does not ap-
proaeh the speed Of certain birds, while 1t soon
succunhs to the fatigue they hardly seem 10 ex-
pericnCe at all. Three are four hundred miles
in fight Is nothing extraordinary Tor the
artltcially-hred carrier or passage pigeon
The velocity of propagation OF eiect-e-mag-
netic wIves through space IS about that Of light
have ! greatly diminished speed. due 10 static
capacity and selfiRduction. test between
Washington and ST. Louis showed rate Of 1000
miles per second.
Canton, China, possesses the queereSt street
ii the world, It Is rooted in with glazed
paper fastened on bamboo. and contains more
signboards TO the square foot than any street IN
any other country. II contains other shops
but those OF apotheearies and dentists Physic
Street is its appropriate name
One OF the surprises CT the centennial census
IS the progress of educational facilities in the
Western States. Kafsas. with 271a per cent Of
school children. outranks Massachusetts, and New
York. but is riyaIed by Utah and West Virginia
Oregon. too, ranks very high. while Louisana
claim only a percentage Of 49,
While land is passing out of cultivation in
England ireland has the good fortune yjel3
a contrary record According to the figures Tor
1900, Just issued by ". P Coyne. the superin-
tende1t of the statistical branch Of the Depart
nlent OF Agriculture il Ireland. the total
under crops shows this year an incsease of $1,000
aCTeS.
Every servant in foreign establishment in
Pekin is i spy and iniormer of some degree: es-
pion2ge Is regular business; and the table talk,
visiting list, card tray, and scrap basket, with
and doings, Of any envoy Or foreigner in Pekin,
are regularly offered for purchase by recognized
purveyors of such news.
It has been discovered that thousands Of ia
panese have been frauduentIy converted iE;o
British subjects in Vancouver through the con-
niyauce of greedy uotaries They have taken up
"a Irnon fishing and the fishermen union is Urg-
ing action on the part Of the authorities. Just
what the latter do in regard TO the matter
: not very clear 50 far.
The pressure OF trade competition during the
last decade has prompted Great Britain to utilize
an extraordinary method of inpre>ziug foreign
traders with their superiority. The new s-he1ne
IS TO scatter broadcast the commercial world
British experts in the matters OF trade to lecture
British manufactures in every important COM
merclal center OF the globe.
The Houston (Tex) Post notes that a .trarge
feature of the Galveston calamity Is the absolute
disappearance OF the natural scayeugor 90 the
ccuutty-the bUzza-d-iust when ne l. mast ell
ed. Not IS to be seen aHywhere though it
would he natural TO suppose that the bodies oi 50
mar bad amin nails and. he