The evening times., 1900-03-06
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Music is being printed in one-l,slf the time on
aluminium plates as against stones
4 Austria had 255 strikes in 1898. involving ssj
| establishments, with 80, 0C0 laborers.
referendum Of the labor unions in Colorado
decided TO nominate a State ticket
The House Of Rothschild has five great centres
| I-Lohdon, Parls, Vienna. Frankfort. and Naples.
IN Nebraska there are TAI log schooIhouses. 5l7
built Of sod, one Of baled straw and one Of steel
new fashion is coming in Of coating stove,
with aluminium. The material Is practically in
| destructible.
The copper production Of the United states i
about % per cert Of the total copper production
| OF the world
Official superstition in China has been broken
! down, and a trolley line runs 10 the south
gate OF Pekin
| news yender in North London was sentenced
70 seven-day term in jail for crying falze
| news the streets
! 1t costs SI4O0.OOO year to mant,i in the twenty
/ four royal palaces Of Emperor William through
ogt the German Empire
| The state immigration agent Of Washington
estimates that 3GO0O persons have moved into th4r
state during the past year.
| Shipping tolls at the Suez Canal in January
WELDED Sl.364. 400 against sl,4lG,OCO in January
1899, and 81. 10000 in 1sgS
Cheaper acetylene gas il coming through in
Armour Institute Of Technology.
One thing favorable to the electric locomotive j.,
that il can climb hills and turn curves that tha
ste IN locomotive cannot touch.
A plant has recently been Installed az Roueu n
which viii be made Of the csrbonic gas given
on during fermentation in breweries and distil-
leries.
DIR. Mach Of Berlin. has made a new ALLOW q
magnesium and aluminium. producing a compound
like brass, white a. silver, and can be turned and
bored.
The Bi.hop Of London. speaking az the RovsI
Society Club. defined a club a, q place where the
women ceased from troubling and the wicked were
al rest.
Milan newspapers report that the unusual cold
in the mountains is driving many wolves into th.
valleys 10 the great damage Of sheep and goat
owners.
Three clergymen in Virginia have declared them
selves in favor Of law requiring separate cD8ches
for negroes IN railways, in the Interest Of law
and order
Oak Wood Cemetery. in Chicago. cout4ins the
remains Of 4.9S9 Confederate soldiers. The s0i-
diers buried there those who died at Camp
Douglas during the war.
The London County Council has passed a by-
law prohibiting newSboys shouting in any street
% the annoyance Of people IN the neighbarhoad
the penalty being so fine
The hing Of the Hcllenes delights in taking
recreation in the fields He can plow. out. and
bind corn. milk COWS. and Ia short. IL ueces-art.
keep farm going siBgle-handed.
Russia j. probably the only country that could
raise regiment composed entirely Of generals.
who number .24s. They receive ia Saiarie, an
aggregate Of 7,OJn0OJ rubles a wear.
The CongregationsIi-ts. in discussing apathy
IN church business, expresses the belief that -
per cent of church members are delinquent iu
attending business meetings of the church.
novel scheme has been adopted By the Sharon
Pa liquor dealers. Each week thev secure from
the local magistrates list Of persons arrested for
drunkenness, and then refuse such ones drink az
he bar
'"The Battle Of the Baltic eve Mariner, Of
England and .-fIoheuiadan'' are three Of the
pest martial poems ever written A. sir Philip
sidney said of the ballad of Chevy Chase. hey
stir the heart like "A trumpet
For the term Of four wears just past the total
aIes of the Western branch Of the Methodist
Episcopal Book Committee amounted % sis2..-
f12 %. which figure exceeds by almost SSf1.1J0
he sales Il the preceding term Of four years.
There is Kansas City in Missouri and a Kansas
-ity in Kansas. The towns merge in what was
crmeTIy 4 cottonwood bottom. TWENTY-FIVE wears
go a man not acquainted with the cowpsths and
log runs was liable 70 get lost in this bottom.
Seventeen members Of the sweden RiksIaz have
Introduced bin recommending the aboiishing
4 the import duty on pork. They point out the
act that during the wear lS9Q the import 20 pork
Xceeded the export by 20.77s..,Jj pounds for
-hich an import duty Of about $4,000 la~ been
aid
In olden DAYS when tea was and precious
lxury, silver strIiners we're used. into which the
Exhausted leaves were put when they had been
-en watered and drained. They were aftcrward
ven"
4 Pennsylvania travelling maz laid his pocket.
o1k on a shelf in the toilet room Of the Planters
House at Oveusboro. Rv and walked away AMI
afy 1t. When he thought about it some hours
4ter he returned To md that $40 had been
akeH from it. 4 check for $3.50 left in the
9cketbo0k.
Parts Of London are afflicted at present with
lsgue of rats, similar to that IRON which Paris
. suffering. and from Ike cause. IN Paris it
the excavations for the Exposition buildings,
nd IN London the destruction Ci the cid rock
ries in the Strand which has turned an army Of
1dents loose UpOn the hIpleSs residents
A the congregation was assembling the other
ly at Broughton Ashley Church near Leicester.
nglaud. where a daily service is held during the
ar. fox and the whole 81 the ArherstOuc pack
hounds ran into the sacred edifce. where the
* WAS qnickly despatched by the hounds >'m-.
ljnutes elapsed before they could be cleared ous
the church.
speaking q cavalry, SAYS a veteran officer.
probably the hardest and most effective cavalry
,rces Of the world ever saw we're some Of the Con-
derate sguadrons in the civil The English
Ounted forces are calling for more horses, aud
Is estimated each cIvarymJn viii need taur
mounts during the wear Forests troop. har-
sing sherman 20 the sea, used mp horses IJ the
tie Of eleven per man in tweivemonth."
There is plan on foot among the eoorcd pco-
e Of Omaha to restore the Lincoln car. built lt
e opening Of the civil war. to its original con-
tion and place it in a public building. where
Will he kept permanently. The Union Pacific
,mpany bought the car soon after the war and
ed IL in the far West as a pay car. it being
peCially desirable for this purpose. Sc hId
ithin its sides, concealed BY upholsterinS and
ahoEany. hIlt-InCh boiler plates They were
lced there a a protection to prevent President
rColn from being shot while at the front, where
frequently went IN his armored car.
A dispatch from Hsgers;ovn. Ind says. some
,cellentlv preserved nastodon bones have been
scovered in this vicinity Several years ago
orkmen digging q ditch found the remains q
maStodon. but the nature Of the animal was not
lown to them. The only reason they were in
rested was because 0f the great size Of the bones
] that found divided among the party
workmen. who took them 70 their homes 3cd
We since permitted nearly all Of them 10 be-
me lost destroyed Henry Gwinn a farmer
ar here, made a circular opening in a vertcbrI
d placed therein clock with a face eight
hes across The clock needed repairing and ne
ought IL t1 town. where the uniVie frame lt-
cted much attention. The vertcbra is one OF
largest specimens ever discovered. 70 IS eight
inches from the spInoUs process TO ths lower
Se OF the centrum and sixteen inches between
P transverse processes. Mr. Cwinn also has
from the same animal more than four feet
~. Parts Of two other mastodon skeletons
We been found within a few miles % this place.