The evening times., 1900-01-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Oriental physicians have praeticed vaccination
Tor over 1000 years.
During her entire reign Queen Victoria has not
worn her crown twenty times.
In Montana women who pay taxes vote on all
questions submitted 20 taxpayers
The largest theatre in the world is the Paris
Opera House. u covers three acres
The outlook for British Methodism is reported
brighter than for a number Of years.
The Christian Endeavor Society is now repre-
sented in every country in the world
kentucky was the first state to give school
suffrage to widows granting it in ISIS.
The four great wheat elevator centres-are Min.
neapolis. Duluth. Chicago. and Buffalo.
The total distance q the projected Cape to
Cairo railroad in Africa is 1904 miles.
More mushrooms are raised in the vicinity of
Fdfis than in any other place in the world.
The salvation Army has opened a new food and
shelter depot at Wellington. New Zealand.
A niiner's lamp. using acctylene gas has been
introduced into the seibeek mines Of Germany.
St Louis woman lost her baby in depart
ment store waste basket while making purchases.
Every circular printed in Magdeburg. Germany.
must be approved BY the police before distribu-
1 tiOn.
| At Ahmedabad Guyarat. India. there are 1000
! Christians alone who suffering acutely from
famine.
I England has the greatest number Of lighthouses
and ightships-oue for every fourteen miles Of its
coastline
/ The grandson Of the first woman to become a
Christian in ZuluInd was recently ordained 4
missionary.
/ Competent judges have estimated the number
Of deer slain by sportsanen in Maine in one sea-
/ son 20 be 10000
/ While cents is the lowest price at which one
get shaved in New York the lowest price for
a hair cut Is } cents.
hunter las been employed BY the Canadian
: Government 10 lill Wild animals for its exhibit
at the Paris Exposition
II is estimated that greater quantities Of gold
and silver have been SINK in the than are
now IN circulation on earth
Texas is the greatest pecan nut growing state
/ in the Union Il produces tvo-thirds Of The
Z pecan nuts that are marketed.
The Woman's West side Republican Club. q
New York has undertaken % see that the Raines
+ liquor law IS enforced sunday
\ Chicago Company proposes TO furnish electric
hgnt and trolley power for san Juan. Porto Rico,
and all the country for miles around
lake shipping furnishes the cheapest transporta-
ton IN the world. the rate being approximately
three-qi3Tters ot a mill per ton per mile
Eighteen thousands bills and joint resolutions
were presented by members iu the last Congress,
l2.6oe in the House and j,sjj IN the Senate
The year the United States viii export about
V-@0 81 which viii be in the form 1f -four
TIE Salvation ARMY has taken a hsH in Paris
close % the Exposition buildings. where services
will be conducted daily for the benefit q visit
ors.
New York State has 10000 more bachelors
than spias;a-. Only one State in che Union Las
more female celibates than male, and that is Cali
fOrnis.
In Chicago there is a woman in charge Of one
u the street cleaning districts and ar Youkers.
v Y woman has just been appointed sanitary
inspector.
The annual sales Of German toys in Great Brit
ain amount to over s2 100000. the greater por-
ton Of which might easily be made by British
manufacturers.
Africa Is the last Of the 1--WE great continents to
be opened up modern civilization. It lies at
the doors Of Europe and claims the oldest ciyili-
zation known
The latest bangle charm worn in Paris is a
mans little bstteredin tall hst-s not particu-
lsriy creditable souvenir Of the LonGchampS-
Loubet incident
yienna's great municipal street railway system
Is now In perfect running order II cost $4,000
COO and il is estimated that 10 viii pay for it.
self in ten years
A series Of measurements made az Wellesley By
a Yale scientist shows that Western Young women
have larger heads and greater lung capacity han
their Eastern sisters.
The chamber of deputies ~ the Grand DUchy
Of Baden has by large majority. asked the
government not 10 make contracts with printing
irrns not paying the recognized scale.
A doctor in Albany has Withdrawn his chill
ireu from one of the public schools in con-
sequence Of the defective ventilation Of the build
ing aud the board ot health will make an Iuves-
lgaticr-
An accommodating trsdeSmau in Clrnarvon,
Wales. announces that he sells wines and spirits
IF all classes supplies patent medicines for head
sche. and has in his stock Bibles and commoR
pray erbooss.
n all the developments Of the petroleum IN
hstry in the Raku fields it has not proved pos
ble to make any considerable use of the natural
,as, which j. produced in large quantities in the
dme region
Bla, spool. Er2I5rd. city Of 4o0G0 population.
,vns and operates her street railways. II trans
,orts passengers for 3 l-3 cents per fare. LAYS by
sinking fund. paws Interest and taxes. and
makes profit.
For fancy dress Eayetjes I'm England Young wo-
neu adopting novelties III honor of soldiers
It the front. what are known as Khaki and
Mon Jack costumes. which are said 90 be
picturesque. II not graceful.
Connecticut received from the inheritance tax
uriug the wear ended september 80. 1sgg Sl15.-
$3.50. while the wear before the receipts from
his source were S135. .0S7. 81. The treasurer SAYS
his decrease Is only temporary
A three-mile liquor law forbids all ruin selling
within that distance Of the Iowa state Agrieul-
ursI college az Ames and at the next legisla-
ure an attempt viii he made 10 afford the Sama
rotectiOn TO the state uiveTSitY, at Iowa City.
The supply Of oranges this Christmas in Eng
and vas much below that Of the Christmas of
SOS The custom house statistical returns show
hat in the week ending December % the imports
we're 81. $50 bushels; in the same period last
ear. J45.7l2 bushels arrived
The rush OF new poStofhces % secure the name
4 Dewey is still going and dttests in sons
MEASURE TO the continued popularity Of the Nd-
niraI 4 Dewey postofice established the
ther day in Wisconsin and ON the heels ot IT
ame an application from North Dakota.
\ novelty has just been introduced hy the
laterworks Company in Dawson. It consists Of
wooden house 6N6N6 which Is placed over each
vibrant IN the ritv- Each Of these houses con-
aims small stove. in which fire II kept day and
hight Bv the payment Of y week patrons can
ecure water at any time-
D,p Carlos. the King OF Portugal. has am IN
ortance jIst now out Of all proportion with the
over Of his state. The Kings title is almost as
ig as his domain j. snail tie IS ..king Of Por-
lgaI and the Algarves, Within and Beyond tGe
sas in Africa: Lord Of Guinea and Of the Navi-
ttion and Commerce Of Ethiopia, Arabia. Persia,
ld the indies Don Carlos owes his succession
the wholesale poisoning which carried ~ 50
any members Of the royal house OF BrI-auZl
ithin the present generation. He himself was
lrn in 1853 and succeeded 90 the throne Iu DC
,ber. 1850. In 1856 he married Mario Amcre,
Iughter Of Philippe Due dOFledus. q jmts de
aris.
General Manager Turner. Of the vaadsla Line,
as issued a circular announcing that there has
zen issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad plsses
a.