The evening times., 1900-09-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The n4nasless graves Of the rank and aIc in
battlefield
The best lands of Germany are now devoted 70
the culture OF beet sugar. the greater Portion of
which IS exported
For the third time in twenty years Great Brit
am has general election on hand at the same
time as the United States.
Since 1874 nearly so men living in Brerncr-
haven: Germany, have lost their lives by the
"reckIng or burning Of ships
Michael T Farrelly former legal adviser to
Faut Kruger. Is an ITishnEan, who graduated with
ho:S9r from Iriiaty College, Dublin.
~ At H., kyak Alaska, are great fishing grounds
ccd u pounds, and salmon IS pounds
Dead ancestors are said to OCCUPY too much nj
the arabic land il China. Fanlines would be les
frequent ii the country was not one vast ceme-
teTy.
Electricity as motor for regular railway trains
has been found i5 per cent cheaper than steam
IN the experiments recently made Berlin on ti.-
M4nSee-Bahn.
The eucalyptus trees in Australia penetrate
from $50 TO 20 feet into the soil with their roots
which absorbs all moisture within 4 radius of
thirty TO sixty feet
German cheInis. has analyzed the artificial
nutinegs tlast are made in Belgium in large oman
titles. They inclEtie various vegetables and 20
per cent OF mineral substances
There are now on the reservations in Seyv Y,rI,
state 4,o5G Indians, and missionary saws at
least fve-eighths OF them adhere to the old pagan
lth9ion, rites, and supastitions
The first swarm from beehive Is aIwsvs led
by an old queen, the second bv the oldesf min
cess, who Is obliged to 90 in I hurry OWN,
10 LfeF younger sisters emerging IRON their cells
boy in Hoboken, \. j.. put a piece OF pios-
Pho'ns, that be thought was wax in his pocket
The friction caused by the rubbing of his ,,aut,
1s the phosphorus set hun on FIRE and iU1ne,t hin,
lady '-''
\ goose that Is nearly City years old belong.
to Yorkshire woman. This old goose has lad
foE nearly forty years. and each wear since 1874
up 10 two years ago, she has matched and raj Ell
goslings
The Philadelphia Directory shows nine ra,, ,r5,
bear the name OF Thomas Thomas and eleven
known as Robert Roberts But William, Williams
outnuin6crs them both, as there are rigl,tg-s5y
citizens THIS nanled
Plow eattlc being exterminated in Tp.fi, an
ingenious famine official has relieved the GoveTn
nient OF a sllINeFhurIa difficulty By inventiue, 1
hidh-pIow. The unprecedented spectacle is now
witnessed OF men yoksd TO this implement
The son OF wealthy Breckenridge, Mo. stork-
man, who becauh tired of the rsonotono.Is ror-
tine OF farm life, decided to become brakeman.
lie secured a position, and the poor fellow vas
killed st Chillieothe while making his first trD
in each beehive are a number OF nursing ;ees,
who do net go out 10 gather honey but Jock after
the eggs and young, and certain number are
aiNays told of 10 veHtilate hive These sfluI
close 10 the entrance and fan strongly with thsi
wings.
glacier flows Ike any other river of water, but
at much slower rate. The velocity Of the wu;r
ice river has been reckoned at twenty-zeysu fe,t
a day for the middle part OF it, but this Is
thought by some authorities to be an excessive
estimate.
The order OF POS guns and two deztroyers for
the Turkish navy has been placed with Messrs.
krupP of Essen. notwithstanding that the tender
OF hessrs. Armstrong Ehitworth & Co. of Great
Britain was over COO less than that OF tn.
German firm.