The evening times., 1900-02-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Out Of i.5is.654 votes polled in tie recent elec-
tion IN Mexico, only -. .I72 against Diaz.
The cemeteries around London cover 900 acres.
and the land they occupy represents a capital
| Of E2O.OOO,0O0
I Omaha restaurant men and walters have pet,-
TONED thc city council to pass an ordinance pro-
/ hibitive Oi lunch wagons.
For finger nail to reach its full length. an
average Of seven tweliths Of an inch rom i21 10
10 days Of growth necessary
The bacill are found in the Sputa, and il is se.-
tied by repeated researches that Tuberculosis Is
spread nearly exclusively by died sputum.
Nashville. Tenn. has no public park because
The law creating a park commission held 20
be unconstitutional new law viii be framed.
An Egyptian Who has just arrived in New York
TO JOIN a dime museum exhibition IL seven feet
eleven inches tall. He Is only twenty three years
President Anderson Of the Southern Mormon
mission field says that there 1900 AormOns
IN South Carolina and 10000 in eleven southern
States.
Russil's tSatc possessions three times On"
size OF Great Britains. but hold only 23.00O.0O
inhabitants. compared with EnglaHd's 2J1 O0o.
go subjects.
troop Of Boer h0rsemen who perform nightly
in German circus have been forbidden that part
OF their pr gramme which represents victory over
British redcCats.
The attempt 10 ostracize and Isolate the cor
Sumptive has extended 10 school teachers. \
movement mas been made further to exclude all
infectious cbildIen.
The success Of the Germans in the war Of 1870
had been attributed by experts To the cOuVer-
iently carried prepared food supplied BY the
sausage makers OF Berlin.
Il will cost $1,000 to put the Exposition build
ing at philadelphia in shape 70 seat the I5.Oo1
Ue8Ui4 cd % bss n th4. hall drriUr
the Republican Convention
There are over 100 gold mines in the immediate
Heighb0rhood Of Johannesburg stretching out Ca
all sides Of tine city. The monthly output Of the
mines was fifteen tons Of gold
The Hir,us. Who are largely vegetarjlus. have
been and the chief sufferers from the plague.
doubtless owing TO a diminished power of re-
slStdHCe well as 10 their uus5nitlry surorut-
iBgs.
Tho condition of the m5uutJiHeeIs 10 Ken
tucky ard Tennessee has long been depior5blc.
They are many years behind the times. Their
education has been neglected, and their morals
have sadly deteriorated-
The irst electric l3urch 10 be used on tire
canals of Venice. Itliv has been delivered from
England The launch which has been called Jre
Aie--sndro Volta. viii accommodate fifty p@~Sau-
gers. It. length is about hfry-siX feet aud width
ten fsef.
\ significant sign Of the par, Japan hopes 70
play IN the future IN China is that the J1pInsse
Government has definitely offered 20 establish a
uiiitdr. asiderry at Pekin 90 educate Cuife-e
under JIpsEc~e Officers. lt IS believed Chiua IS
flyoIabiy disposed toward this proposition.
There vii be over 7.1Og exhibitors At tie Par.
Exposition. and tho United states Is in the dr.t
rank Of Tie exhibitors. The display wi'I De
strictly representative and viii snow IN 8de-
Gua5e manner tle excellence Of our DrodIstl@H~-
Ia is55 We had le-s than seventh as many ev-
Libtlt~.
Indiana ls- total militia strength Of So Off
GERS and men cad 1u available force Of 500 COZ;
Ioga. 50; mcu under arms and al3.2si .y5.iablc,
k11~J-. llN3 iu service and 10000 5vIil1ble,
Michigan. =. So enlisted lla I7j.Guu available;
Minnesota. s.i,I officers and men uoH lu service
and $4,000 available
\ uer currency Ess been Introduced into A.
.ri1-Iruu.It. TIE Austrian FORM hl- disappeared.
Iud with it also the srezer, Of alic. tacre
were 100 il 3 fGrin. The usu unit is elIi.i t..
krone tCra~uJ, and ir equals bali tofiu- our
crown confirms 100 heller sLd h latter therefore,
equals .sii kJeuzsr.
d &, noted a.. an Interesting ilor tl4t '.r la-
G,, time IN more tlsu Psarrer Of century
ra European mail lett Nex York or ans other
port ot the ujtcd states on SATURDAY. Jlaua +
80 The discovery tLat the mail steamer EtgUIIt
WIS disabled befpr" leaving p0IJ is said iH have
been responsible tor this particular omission.
Au agricultural expert ventures To- pror.-s-s
that before th- tsea5iet.s century reIche> middle
age isrniu. % England viii be mostly carried 11
by slric8t,~ His conclusion is that the Ihorel
dislike % the sill &, rooted and permanent. AID
tla- the only way Co. get oH Viii De by cub waiting
large areas and making nee use oi machinery.
Al obsolete festival called the Boui de- Tt1.
Was obyiol'-I, survival gi sH ancient customs.
CreJt frz, were Siudlsd on certain spo,>. ard
tre old ,r4i yd~ burned before the HlH year WIS
welcomed The crSroau survives I'm GUafHS-.-
where an efii.y called the houdeIov IS burned
every year. not on the last night Of the year. 5,
or GHy ftakf-' day.
\ cuI ir Germantown. Pl.. has a1 -iHlua>y
rc.rr.-- No egr can enter ir UirGcJt Walking
uula. q small ladder. Tle mirror Is cracked lud
pal,ars feathers ars s.Tewu about lu pigiu-fou-
Direr-lv over the girls he'd Is suspended su uT'-
brrII which Is never closed. There are thirteen
articles Cf furniture IN Jie roaw- and on rar sails
are hung thirteen pi,tHlss- The gul WEAR To Ist-
eiry except opJiS.
There j. a remarkable healer IN Missouri Who
for tine sum OF - proia--e, To- cure poverty hy
absent treatment" Vt given haui tie healer
concentrates hi- best thought on the patient,
Who Ids -impIy 10 Keep his mind Iu passive
or rc.eutivs state and abstain from lending
nome. \ scPpJicll patient paid the dollar aEt
tried the cure. hUt felt none ot Che promised
the healer ia yiudicJte his system. one reuldrsd-
bic cure was that oi poor Young Nah Who S1ts
tIar thc professors treatment changed lHe W.
hrari0u- uj uy mind permanently. / snail H"'rf
again be satisfied with small weekly salary.
Fsmr and i0stuue are NY great desire now.
Tire Russian adm m.ui-trltion in Finland h1S ia~r
introduced further restrictive and repre---s,
measure, tog dealing with the Finnish press.
frc OF -oo usrk, Is 20 BE- imposed for any J,-
tempt to eude a prohibition TO publish Ia itru,
and fr yleH cI-e the governor general has been
given trc right 90 demand change ot tho re-
>pou-;hje Publishers. on pain 90 tire Suppression 'i
ti,a offending journal. Moreover, the FINNISH
journals may not publish imperial decisions u0t,
he latter shall have appeared in the government
orgarS: aud public speeches and the deir-S 20
scientific societies aGd conferences are not t1 'r
printed without having first received IRE approval
0f the governor general.
Tic town of NcNcs,er, in the Indian Tcrlilrr~.
Ia. p, population Of u.ote JhtH 5.G00 all ot tI'1U
,ou5t,er-. vh. hope that eventually the Fcd'i"
Government VIII Iatiy their title TO the pror"'t
of which they have taken possession. SAYS 'fe
..Ner York Tribune" Tbey nave no msyer. no
town MARSHAL no aldermen. no police Iher"
revcr IN, a survey OF tire ground m4de Tor i0H Il
uurpo-cs Vet they have huiit up tne residence.
icr frontier settlement; the hou>ese are buit tt
FcV-s that leave wide and fairly regular streets
tho pe0pIp lead moral lives and are law abiding ,p
,ufTif though there no particular laws for
then. TO abide by. 4 stranger in the city Worid
never suspect that tire place was not fully CTgdr-
ized and furnished with al thc modern municipal
machinery.
The steamship fIigbdeld, which recently sailed
from Philadelphia for Havana, took out part Of
a brewing plant. which is TO be erected in tie
Cuban capital by an cuterprisinS American ffin.
Cublns are said 90 be very fond OF beer preferiing
il even to champagne. whisky. and other h'Sa.f
priced liquors. because oi its soporihc erec, o"
th.,., In tha MLIm cLimAts 81 tMeIr l-L1nn y