The evening times., 1900-10-20
iFaRs OF THE DAY.

| IN England. and Wales there are f,SfI nSIiiAS
boats and $1,000 fishermen engaged IN TIE sea
| fishery.
| In a, state Of nature tea trees grow to height
Of forty feet; in cultivation they dwarfed by
| pruning to not more than three.
| Paper money is at a premium at Nome, Min
ers find it convenient than gold and pay as
much as per cent IN excess OF its value for IT.
The reign Of Queen Victoria is now four years
| longer than that Of George III, whose occupancy
Of the throne had previously been the longest in
| English history.
| Yu King is China's richest foreign representa-
| tive He Is Minister to France and his home
near the Are de Triomphe is one of the most
| luxurious in Paris.
| In some Italian towns, instead of giving books
! as prizes in public schools, they give savings
] 9ankbooks, with small sum entered TO the cred
| It OF the pFize-winner.
An enterprising shoemaker near Brockton,
Aass. has this unique offer to customers; Every
| lady who has her shoes tapped here viii receive
| irSe 2cent postage stamp.
The Dominion OF Canada Labor Gazette is is
| sued from the Ottawa Government Printing Bu-
| reau 1t appears in the English and French
| languages, and viii be published monthly
The ground ON which Georgia based
a plea for divorce was the allegation that her
Tie Bible every morning before breakfast.
BY assessments ar i donations the trades unions
of San Francisco have raised nearly $4,000 70
| maintain the striking planning mill in their
contest for the eight hour day in California
| The population of the Berlin suburb CharlottcB
burg is in a curiousiy unstable condition Last
| year 44516 OF the population of 174,550 left the
| city and 81, IA from elsewhere took their place
The Forth Bridge, in Scotland. is constantly
| being repainted So vast is the structure that it
takes fifty tors CT paint to give it coat, and
| the area dealt with is something like l20 acres.
Blind mans buff is probably the oldest game
in the world. 1t played by adults long be-
xK-as he of Ir
| court game in France than thousand years
ago.
''Eueaine'' is newly discovered anesthetic by
injection of which pain in deadened to a de-
gree that greatly promotes the work OF surgeons.
| Its successful use in Philadelphia hospitals is
reported
Those interested in the Pennsylvania coal trade
figure that the strike in the anthracite region
has cost thus far about s13 5e00 00o s. 958 900 be-
ing the loss in wages sustained by the stlikers
themselves.
Although within eight years the sum of sI2-
0,GG0 has been expended in reducing the mum
Der Of Chicago's grade crossings, that city lost
tsenty-three citizens last month in grade cross
ing accidents
The wheat crop 81 Pawnee county, Kan, Is said
to be greater this year than the entire crop Of
Indiana Hundreds Of machines are thrashing
but the job Is not likely to be finished before the
middle of December
During the year ended on September 80 last
the number OF cases brought before the Boston
Criminal Court about 5000 less than IN the
| previous year. There was an increase however
IN the number OF grave crimes.
Over the greater part OF the New England coast
the supply of clans has suddenly diminished to
an extent which has become alarming Extensive
areas which four OF five years ago produced great
numbers Of CLAIMS are nov practically barren
At Chicago, when member of the Bridgemen's
Union is killed injured while work, all other
members the same structure quit for tie day.
| This IS not due 10 any superstition, but out of
respect for the dead or injured. It is the rule
| Of the union.
| The Lunenburg Public Library has unknown
| benefactor who annually contributes $50 TO its
income for the purehase OF books which the trus-
| tees would net feel authorized to buy with money
| raised by taxation account of cost other
| prudential reasons
Probably at 10 time since the civil war has
| there been so few regular soldiers stationed in
| the United States as there are today. OF the
10000 officers and men constituting onr present
army all but about 7.0o5 are serving abroad,
mostly in the Philippines
Folks in Boston insist that their city now con
tains the most beautiful and altogether admir-
| able music hall in America. Few people WHO
| have had the opportunity to see the handsome
| edifee are disposed TO dispute this point with
| the denizenE OF the Hub.
The remains of an ancient galley have been
| found six feet below the surface at Totteuharn
marshes during the excavations for the res
crvoirs OF the East London Water Company 1t IS
| supposed to have belonged to the Danes, who
were defeated in Lea Valley by King Alfred in
S94 A. D.
Although the Indian races becoming fast
merged in the whites relies of the Aborigines are
constantly being discovered. There Is no danger
OF the trinkets giving out as there are plenty oi
reiicm2ksTs in the " est who have secret process
by which ancient appearance Is impaired to
bones, pots, aFrowhe2ds. etc.
There is 4 street in Chicago called Fake
STREET. This peculiar nomenclature is not due
to any charac-eristic OF the residents OF the
thcroughfare but because OF its stratum of stone-
The people who live on II however. are not PFC
l possessed in favor of the name. and have pstf-
toned the city Government to change II 10 some
sounding less offensive
! waulesha, VS., man fell into four-soor
ssWer trench vhile intoxicated and was partially
stunned Two bulldogs jumped in'after him and
pulled him around until he got mp. Assisted ny
: the animals he managed to scramble out He
| probably his life TO the dogs As the trench
| was full of poisonous gas from ssak and
| there Is little doubt that ii left alone he would
| have suffocated-
An cnterprisfng farmer in the Erumeuthal. Swift
zcriand. has broken away from all the old c;ss-
toms that have dominated Swiss farming He
has turned the force of convenient stream into
e | enough 10 planning machine. iTuit cTisher,
| i tfrashiHg machine, and pump. The p aSants
| cene ON miles around to gaze in aStonishment
n farmhouse and si~i,e hrllii2Et-y Ii;nltalted
with electric lamps
TIE young gentleman wbQ has been chosen by
! the Queen Of Holland for her husband IS not
about 10 wed a pS)r girl in any sense Of the
/ word She is rich in all rszpscts inc.u6iEz that
OF beauty ard IS described as having :reIi-
| formed. if rather sturdy figure, Intelligent.
lrigit face. lovely complexion and llght-hToUn
hair. SIZE also enjoys civil lst of over $1jo})--
900 year besides immense private fortune in
; | kerited from her father Happy Duke Henryt IL.
| should when the twain become one, MAKE I
~, bridal tour to America, and sea ter some Of 5Ee
wealth around.
An American WHO visited the Paris Exp .$isior
thinks its failure to realize expectations was dn
to two thirgs- 1t was rot sufficiently 'rc5lized
and its magnificent distances mzde Pc = cary
i The ether trouble was disapp5in,n.er ( - VIA
had been announced sGI1e OF TIE -lst feat
| u eS ike the telescope that WAS 70 bring tbs
| image of the moon within: iew miles. The vJSI
tor SAYS t4st tie show rec we'd Itself into Sun
| day afternoon parade H believes that it NO Id
e have been great success il more compact ard i
4 all the great thiTss promised had been IN fl e
d | or, better still, surpassed
Perry made the first steel pens at Birmingham
. England, in 1921, selling them At 90 cents apiece
The weekly eslipat of that city just IS 90.
! ooa. .0o0 and some are sold for cents 4 gross
After pens come pins iron and steel wire, me
" taIic strings for pianos. One hluS2 alone maEe:
eight tons of these week. Fifty thousand Wad
:, din. rings made there every year Al IA
. eanaries in England live in cages made ii Br