The evening times., 1900-10-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Hedgekogs when they are young can be eas
tanned and made to be household pets.

Hedgehogs when they young be easily
tanned and made to be household pets.
Peanut parties are said to be becoming popular
Small potato parties may be in order later
Criminal statistics show that Italy furnishes
more political assassiHs than all other countries
combined
Fearing a plague of rats. Antwerp has ozganize-
an official rat hunt, penny being given by the
authorities for every animal killed
In Turkey amber s supposed TO be specific
against the evil effects of nicotine and that Is
why all Turkish pipes have amber nlouthpieces
Slips of tarred pastehoard are used for ahingling
roofs in Japan They said to be satisfae-
tory as wooden shingles and are much cheaper.
The baseball has ended and universal
thanks are IN order. Sporting say it was
the worst season of bali playing known in tn.
country.
The good roads movement is doing things in
New jersey, in which State. during the last eight
years 900 miles of highway have been built by
State and county appropriations.
The Kansas wheat crop this year is larger than
was ever before grown in one State in single
year The crop win aggregate rs 0O0,00O bushels,
ahG Is worth on the farms not less than S39, ,000,
w.
in spring Chinese peasants build dikes OF mud
three to six feet high. to keep the rain water in
the rice fields. Most Of their time in summer u
spent IN pumping or bringing water into shsse
fields
There are exhibition in the British Museum
moths with male wings on one eide and female
wings on the other, butterflies with no forexines.
and insects with an abnormal number Of aptennae
or of legs
During the eight months ending with August
this country sent to England this year 81. .733 G5s
more silver than in 1899. Shipments to Hongkong
China. increased s2, leo 420, and shipments to the
rest OF China s., 80.
The production of aluminium for commercial
uses began in 1889 with a total output of Il 463
pounds. In 1898 it had reached $4,000 pounds
and at present the rate OF production is over
',tS9,o9o pounds year.
In China criminals and political prisoners are
beheaded. Some of the executioners are so ex-
pert that they arrange and behead a rnar
IN eighteen seconds, which is about the shortest
cut man can take into the hereafter.
just as the United States gets through count
ing votes on November Canada will begin to
vote. Thr7 within forty-eight hours all of the
Engiish-speskiug people Of the North American
continent VIII have exercised the right of suffrage
Emperor William has presented Bible to Rev.
F. NiscIau. pastor OF St PauI's German Lutheran
Church, in Philadelphia in recognition OF the
slxtIeth anniversary of the church and Of Mr.
lschau's thirty years Of service in the congre-
cation.
Miss Ellen Monabwee. full-biood Greek Indian
girl has been selected BY ballot To represent the
Creek nation at the Fort Smith (Arkansas1 Street
falr She Is HHeal descendant OF old Chief
Monahwee, and IS said to be beautiful and lc-
ccHpliShed
new silver medal Is to be issued to all ranks
OF all the British service actively employed dur
ing the operations in South Africa The medal
VIII be attached to ribbon with an orange cor
ire. having narrow navy-bIue stripes on each side
slightly wider, and deep outside stripes Of red
The remains of an ancient gallery have been
found SIX feet below the surface at Tottenham
marshes during tie excavations for the rez reser
FeiTs Of the East London Water Company 1t il
supposed to have belonged TO the Dams Who We.
defeated in Lea Valley b. King Alfred in 81
Getting ready for a trip TO the end OF the earth
Is no mornings work. Time and money are bota
required for the enterprise Capt Scott who is
organizing the British antatctic eyIeiftion
watch 5 10 set out IN september 1901 announced
that the fund for the expedition has nov reached
10000.
Comfort powders beautiful little staRzas
or verses Of courage ard good cheer. written on
small papers and rolled up like powdered i1ladi-
cines- One IS 10 be unroiled read and eaiceef
each morning. Each one Is a mystery mil
turn comes And the surprise is a part OF the
pleasure
CheboFgan, Mica, elaiTrs to have the youngest
grandmother in America. She married al l. AMI
gave birth daughter year later Tie child
foitoWIng her mothers example, married Young
and lately when sixteen years Old gave birth to a
enid, whose grandmother Is now little over
twenty nine years old.
Moy jug, l Celestial nabob, who resides IN
Chicago. married recently and not content with
celebrating the event with one dinner gave six
IN honor Of The occasion lie Is an aristoc.ai Of
the Chinese section in the Windy City and has
cash enough TO have given dozen weddin, ban
qGeJs had he 50 desired
In RueEos Ayres when citizen with p!et:io l.
purse goes to market he buys his vegeta}Ges II
piles without regard to quantity or quality No;l-
ing Is Bought BY weight Ii costs mG6h
trouble II , man wants roast of beef he simply
tells the butcher he wants some meat and he gets
a chunk; pays the price and goes home satisfied.
Bishop Il B. WhippIe CEpiscopaD OF Minnesota.
the venerable Apostle TO the Indians - is II it
ing his daughter IN Cleveland. and in an inter
view IN thaI city said that the prospect OF the
AGeIican Indian was much brighter than of old
and that the asxt generation would probably Dc
composed OF industrious and Intelligent citzeas
\ jury at Harrisburg, Pa, found verdict of
murder in the first degree against Elmer Z Ear
ner, who killed his brother-in-iaw. Isaac Ni.-er
be5ofe takiIg vote on The prisoners guilt o. y
nootnce Cns OF the jury Offered up prayer, aI.,r
winch hymn was sang Then having wur ii
themselves into ! 10 frame OF mind, N uaaai-
moUsly voted the accused guilty
The curious Aiuu race which originally ocel-
pied the whole Of the island of Yezo. Is rapidy
vanishing before the influx OF Japanese emigration
According TO recent Investigations, they only
number some I60G0, and III q few more tle-4aes
they VIII probably be totally absorbed. They
worship bears and snakes. and in some cases i've
IN caves like the trosiodytes Of tie Red Sea
For a great many years scientists denied 10
the sponge the honor Of being eiassed among
those things in nature which posses anin.al life
but the spoI4SsS have been placed above the
protozoa in a sub-kiugdorn Of their own with the
individual scientific Cognenen OF P0rifeTa, prob
ably on account of the multitude of pores Other
scientists class the sponge with tirr corais. sea-
feathers, and jelly-fshes-
To live in house famous for its association
with great Is not without its inconven-
iencies, and can appreciate the feelings which
have led the present tenant Of Gad's Hill to ad-
vertise in the London Times that visito-s
Wednesday afternoons The tourist Is so OiIni-
present nowadays that he has to be dealt with
in somewhat wholesale manner
Watch glasses ought not to be expensive, and
are not In the production of common watch
glasses the glass is blown into a sphere about
metre in diameter. sufficient material being taken
Discs are then cut oil; from the sphere with the
aid of a pair OF compasses having a diamond
the extremity CT one leg. There Is 4 knack N
detaching the disc after 1t has been cut \ good
workman will it is said, cut g. 900 glasses in
day
The three great Injuries in Siberia are churches
theatres and museums. Even the smaller villages
can usually be sighted from afar by means OF the
white walls and the towering dome-shaped oBpo as
OF their churches. These are all amply supplied
with bells, whose rich tones roll in majestic lIar
mony over distant hill and vale, and break the
mouotony OF the peasants daily toll. The chureIes
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