The evening times., 1900-10-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Kan, would not give each resident more than
J, 1888 bushels
Chinamen plow with crooked stick with
steel point fastened TO it. The locom1tiye power
Is water buffalo.
The JuEgfrau Railway has been abandoned be-
cause the cost turned out to be heavier than the
engineers expected.
Flowers which are kept in water in which
little saltpetre has been dissolved will remain
fresh for couple OF weeks.
1t is said that this years cotton crop viii pay
for the cost OF production and enrich the South
With profit OF S209. 009, 900.
Wolf River. Bumblebee Lane, Turkey Ridge,
Northern Lights, BeanviIIe and Idle Hour are
communities in Doniphau county, Kan
The natives OF Hawaii. be they so poor,
never steal or beg These offences are confined al
most exclusively to the Portuguese residents of
the island
The convicts in the Texas penitentisry contrib
uted literally to tine Galveston fund This epi-
sode illustrates the fact that is wholly
and utterly bad
The public library OF Chicago has 100000 vol
umcs The number of books circulated during tie
year ended May 81, 1906 was l,T49,775. The IL
brary has sixty branch stations.
Goshen. small city in Indiana, has lower
water rate than any other city in the United
States. The plant owned by the municipality.
as Is also the electric light plant.
cargo of fresh meat from the River Platte,
preserved on the passage by a new process, has
been landed at Liverpool. 1t IS believed that the
experiment has been entirely successful
One OF the new things in the ieweiry line tieis
SEASON is the introduction of delieately carved
ivory into the bits of fiiigree work with which
women delight to adorn their costumes.
In Paris there is a small army of workers pre-
pairing human hair for the market. It is much
in demand by women than it Is by the
msie population Of the great city OF fashion and
iriyolity.
About the best possession a man III desert
have is a frst-class camel. 4 good, honest
dromedary viii travel 100 miles a day for ten
days and can get along without anything to
drink much better than his master
warsas makes textiles, sugar, cement, iron,
leather. The manufacture of sugar for export Is
increasing rapidly There now. altogether,
forty-six sugar factories IN the Kingdom OF Pc
land, twenty OF which are in Warsaw
Some Of the more recently erected houses IL th~
German cities have steps made of artificial stone
and design initiating staircase carpet. OF any
desired color. is pressed into the steps when the
material OF which they made Is still soft.
In the islsnds of the Pacific Ocean fish diet IS
as common as beef and pork in this country
There ordinarily from thirty forty varieties
OF fish In the Honolulu market A large percent
age 0. the natives make their living by fishing.
The organists in the Roman Catholic churches
in New York say they attach little credence to
the report that the Prefect of The Sacred Congre-
CATION Of the Index at Rome IS going TO under
take reforms in church music in Europe and the
United States.
Dean Farrar viii deliver the address on Michael
mas Day at the dedication OF the john BuHyan
memorial window in the Collegiate Church of ST.
Mary, Southwark, London The window was
bought with money contributed by, OF in mem
ory OF, children.
Russia is primarily agricultural country, and
must always be such Grain, vegetables, timber,
and cattle raising with their closely allied prod
uets, the mainstay Of the Russian workman
But manufactures have increased OF late years to
almost marvellous degree. H.v
The Bolivian Government has appropriated
about S50, 900 for the preliminary study of three
railway lines from Oruro to La Paz and Lake
Titicaca, from 0rBro TO COchabanba and from
Chaliapsta TO Coiqueehaca. Another road is
run from Potosi to the Argentine boundary.
Ornamental telegraph poles VIII long be
visible in Georgia On the line Of the Stateboro
Railroad the poles are made OF cypress, and must
Hsve been planted with the Tools They are eer-
tainly sprouting at the top, and viii scon serve
as shade trees. besides supporting the wires
As the result OF twenty years OF experiments at
Rothamsted II IL shown that in the winter
months more than half CT the amount OF rain that
falls penetrates into the soil and becomes avail
able for the supply OF springs. while in summer
only one-quarter OF the rainfall Is absorbed By the
soil
4 new substance OF industrial value IS being
made OF wood pulp. According to ia Revue
de ProduIs ChiHiques,'' the new material Il
made simply by prolonged beating Of pulp such
as paper IS made of. Continued beating converts
the pulp into transparent and elastic mixture,
which hardenS on drying and strengthens paper
Great expectations are entertained and many
plans beiTt; formed in Porto Rico for the in
stallation Of short inland electric railways frOTa
the central range to the coast. The power IS
IL. tbA ~ mar
to be met with in every part OF tue mountsia
range, which traverses the island from end 10
end
While working on the highways at MeIIe, near
Chent Belgium, last week, the I2borers employed
in improving the road unearthed quantity of
human bones, and bones Of horses, together with
ancient arms and cannon balls There was q
battle at Melle IN 1745. between the French and
English and it il supposed that the relics found
there are OF that date.
Attempts to express the meaning OF slang
phrases in nse in this country have produced two
amusinsIy curious words in Enrope, one in Ger
man and the other in French The German word
Is 'tspredeegIisrne,'' 'sPreadeagleisn" " and
Is used for the Emperor's policy The French
word is the verb -tomateT, which means to
stone fellow with tomatoes
Criminal statistics Just published IN Germany
reveal the fact that the most marked increase
in crime is shown by the agricultural provinces
rather than those containing the industrial cen
II
the eastern frontier which is the most crIni-
nal The statistics. it IS claimed also show an
increasing tendency TO crime IN the empire As
whole.
Navassa Island-whicl lies south OF Haiti in the
Caribbean Sea- and can be sighted from the decks
OF vessels passing from New York to the isthmus-
was the only outlying possession OF the United
States until we acquired Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines II is covered with phosphates, but was
uuinhabited until Baltimore company discov-
cred its riches and sent gang of men 10 work
the mines-
4 prophet has arisen in Israel, the Rev. J. H
Humphrey 4 negro preacher of Brooklyn, who
declares that the Galveston aood is '-the begin
ming of Gods verFgeance the white race for
their unjust treatment OF the black He predicts
that the whole South. together with New York
and Massachusetts. will be laid desOlate in 1902
Boston, teo,' he says, shall become Is
dunghiil and wall with woe
Over the greater part CT the New England coast
the supply of CLAIMS has suddenly diminished TO
an extent which has become alarming. Extensive
areas which four or five years ago produced great
numbers of CLAIMS are practically iETeIl-
The explanation IS simply that the demand has
increased at such a rate that too large d number
of the natural 'seed'' CLAIMS have been removed,
and extinction suddenly follows
Nearly twenty years ago Congress passed 4
special act donating aa $50 pound cannon 20
Grand Army post at atteIboro Mass, and tue
piece was mounted on a tall granite shaft
soldiers monument Recently 4 gang of during
thieves carried the cannon away in broad day
light and parts of it have Just been recovered
from junk dealer who lnnocentty purchased the
same. Most Of the metal has been melted UP
into, tf-4ds oS ,zalrJTa