The evening times., 1900-10-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

iite H4inIactufe OF ScB0ol ttAt-oOohS.
The thrty-three largest towns of England ami
Wales have total population Of nearly lz,do3oo5.
In England and Wales there are 7.STf fishing
boats and 4o,003 fishermen engaged in the sea
fishery.
The eineiona tree, from which we get quinine.
only grows at an elevation OF 700 feet 10 1000
feet in the Andes.
japanese workmen bathe the whole body once
day, and some of them twice. Public baths
provided in every street.
Emigration in Hungary has assumed unusual
dimensions lately. During month 1851 passes
were issued to emigrants.
Some statiztieian looking aftev queer facts Dis
covers that the average carries forty to
sixty miles of hair upon her head
A New York miser recently starved 10 death in
miserable gar.et guarding all the while a trunk
which contained 10000 in gold coin.
The aew dietary scheme for British warehouses;
provides far extra meal-probabiy in the torn
OF a iuneheon-ior those inmates who do work.
Missouri farmer has gone into the business o.
raising quail He says the birds are more easily
handled than chickens and far more profitable
Ebony is always soaked for six to eighteea
months as soon as cut. 1t comes chiefly from
Mauritius and from Ceyicn and the East Indies
The most expensive dog in the world is
Scotch collie recently Btn chased by Mr. Pierpous
Morgan, for which he is said TO have paid SS,51U.
A woman in Chicago who possesses the REQUESTS
cash is about 10 build thirtystoFy Office building
in that city, the highest edifcc ever attempted
taeFe-
In Woolwieh Arsenal just now CHEF attention IL
being devoted to the manufacture Of naval guns.
the production of which is greatly exceeding that
of field ordnance.
Postmaster Albert Barnes OF Kearsarge, \. H..
is believed to be the only now surviving
whose father fought at Bunker Hill. de is eighty
| three years OF age
Sc pe9r is the spelling in some of the Chicags
schools that a return to the spelling methods of
/ The country schools OF two decades ago IS
| nestly advocated in that city.
The youngest OF all professors at the univeTsS-
| ties of Germany is DIR. Siegfried Rietsehe!, whs
was recently appointed TO chair in the law de-
partGnent OF TubinseH. He IS only nineteen years
! old
/ In spring Chinese peasants build dikes Of mud.
| three to six feet high, keep the rain water is
| the rice fields. Most Of their time in summer =
| spent in pumping OF hringing water into thejs
| fields.
The cucumbcr-one OF the curious jeIIy!iks
bodies that inIistt the occan-ean practically eff
face itself wien in danger By squeezing the wates
of its body and forcing itself into any narrow
| crack
Lsborers in the rubber forests Of Peru receive
very fair stipend for their work. One
dispose Of fco trees in about six months, tisus
| securing from 800 70 $50 Kilograms of rubber. OF
! which he gets half from his employer.
Dickens Avenue is suggested as the name TO-
The new broad street that IS being cut between
HoIborn and the stTald in London It
| through part OF the town IN which Dickens
/ pi.. ed episodes OF Eaany Of his stories
Bug eccentricities being brought into 4 spc-
ciaI collection by the British Museum. Ii has
| moths with male wings side and feElale
| wings the other, butterflies with 10 foFewiigs,
ard insects with abnormal number Of antcEI.ac
! oT OF legs.
An implement to be added 10 the soldiers kit,
| shieh be used 4 spade, pickax, saw,
and also IS shield for protection from bullets.
! has been invented by the Earl cf Nomyss. 1t is
sa;d that the Continuance Is 10 be adopted b tie
/ British Amy.
4 witty and cynical Frenchman sdvertises as
follows in Partisan paper: a young man OF
agreeable presence and desirous Of getting narrisi
| would like TO make the acquaintance OF an aged
| and experienced gentleman who could 0iazGiad.
him from taking the fatal step
The Chinese are very mindful OF the homage
required 10 be paid 10 their idols. When repairing
4 temple tie CelestiaIs cover up the eyes OF
these wooden, stone, or uen gods, as the case
may be- in order that the deities may not be Of
iended at the sight of the disorder.
The Bureau OF American Ethnoiogy is about to
publish an extensive vocabulary of the Natick In
dian language Of Massachusetts, compiled b. the
late James Hammond Trumbuli, the original man
uscript Of which has been for some time among
the archives OF the American Antiquarian S9IietE-
i wedding ct Tuscuubia Ala. has been post
poned fer a novel reason The groom retired On
: the Wedding exc and fell into sound sleep, from
which the r.ast strenuous efforts failed
him Over week has passed and the young mar
still slInbers. while his bride-to-he Is dseoIso-
late.
The remains OF an ancient galley have been
! found six feet below the surface at Tottenham
marshes during the excavations for the reser-
| yoiEs of the last London Water Company 1t IS
I.aIDy md 10 fEa vim.
! were defeated in Lea Valley by King Alfred ia
s94 \. d.
IS an evidence that the drinking habit IS
decreasing in this country it is noted that ia
the New York Central service twenty yeas
ago the aggregate proportion OF men 's-
charged for drunkenness was ~ per cent bat Es''
with 5000 men in the railway company 'Iti-
picv less than per cent Is o2ped from Ia 90 >
tor HAT cause
one evening last week vast flock Of chicken
hawks forming line loo yards wide and ov,F
2 mile long, passed over the village OF Galloway,
Neh They settled in nearby grove enc night,
Ia a great many killed before the hock
made its escape. Not over half dozen q such
birds had ever been seen in that neighboIhGod
before at one time
; The roar Of lion can be heard farther than the
sound of any other living creature. Next CORES
, the CIV Of a lyena and then the hoot OF the owl
! After these the panther and the iackaL The den
: key can he heard hfty times farther than the
D horse, and the cat ten tunes as tar as lne uoS
Strange as it may seem. the cry Of hare can be
heard farther than that of either the cat or dog
The term '.halcyon days. is derived from a
pretty little fable of TIE SiciliaRs, who believed
that during the seven days preceding and follow
ing the winter sostice, December y, the haicyoT
or kingf=her loated the water in a nest II
which her young deposited, and that durin.
a this time of her brooding the seas were cain
Our Indian summer corresponds to the hdicyen o
the SiciilaDs
{ Mere herring are eaten than any ether kind 0
r fish This may be due to the fact that there al
more herring than any other sort OF fish IL sh
waters OF the unieerse-if such Is a fact At tn
same time it may be said that a fine smoked fe
taInac herring properly cooked and basted vii
good butter accompanied by enticing OLD
fashioned Virginia pone, with coffee III I2T
sultan to offer his guests. is 4 dish never 10 b
despised, no matter where 1t IS offered
Queen Victoria is always provided with chair
rising a certain height from the ground and eve
\ discrepancy of half an inch either way cause
her much discomfort. Once, when visiting
Scottish duke she was given splendid Armchair
which as she herself remarked, must have bee
e made for the King of the Begians. OF course He
Majesty made complaint at the time but eve
since then she has taken her own chair with heI
And as with chairs, so with beds, sofas, and SCI
tees.
+, The Chicago Tribune has compiled tabl
showing the character of the weapons used b
women in several hundred cases OF assault an
n battery which were brought to the attention
the magistrates during the past year. The bTool
handle seems to have been the fGyorite weapon
offence said instrument having been welded b