The evening times., 1900-03-09
NOTES OF THE DAY


The Bank Of France last year discounted n
Paris 2.lGl.S5 separate bills for less than 10
| francs each.
Roumanis is to have three new railway Ins5
| rolling stock
; India rubber heels on shoes, decreasing the f.
7 .suS o. marching. will be adopted. il is said by
Travellers in the East have never failed 10 com
\ ment on the great amount Of eve disel.e winch
Is prevalent in Egypt.
A British division on the march along an or
dirdry main road without sn advdrce guard ,.0nlI
| be Ave miles in length.
In New South Wales the government has fxed
the minimum wages Of railway laborers at
Shillinss, or about Sl.15 a DAY
-, The Car is an accomplished whistler and some-
Times Performs variations on national airs for fh.
| entertainment Of bis intimate friends.
Chicago school teachers having had their saiI
rles reduced are insttutiHg a movement % COM
/ peI tax dodgers 10 pay ther just tax
Il Il announced that over 10000 Molmons will
| leave Itch for Wyoming. where a tract oi -Ji-
% acres Of land Is being selected for them.
/ This winter has beaten the record within the
/ memory Cf the oldest inh5hitInt q Dublin, fJr
I persistent fog, damp. and absence Of sunlight.
| The first dukcdom created in Scotland was that
| Of R0thes9y Il is 80 years old, and the title
| II Duke Of Rgthesay belongs u tAe Prince q
Wales
a sandal society has been started in Berlin. and
on sunday uOt long ago forty men and women.
wearing sandals, marched through the muddy
streets.
Brooklyn wants the Tissot pictures Illustrating
the life Of Christ Tire sum % s2j.3l6 has al
ready been subscribed The amount needed Is
5000
The German admiralty has decided 10 con.truc-
a military h5rbor st Emden the Weser strongly
ior'ined "lth view 10 defending the Elbe and
the Baltic Canal
For the first time in the history Of the British
Army there i actually desire among officers
that commissions should be given 10 men who
have served in the ranks.
great msn does not always attain ripe cd
| age; IN fact hardly half Of the greatest men %
modern and ancient times had reached that l.mft
OF age sst BY the Bible seventy.
The German Government is making vizorou,
eforts 70 suppress the slave trade in the Ger
man African colony, and for this purpose tire p,.-
lice force there has been considerably augmented.
The League o. New Zealand WheeImsu intend
seEGing a representative to Europe TO compete in
the worlds championships vii be run az Paris
TINS year l.. Reynolds, Auckland, has been
iected.
Tie Manila OP L. Times" state. that the at.
tendance Of children at the Manila schools vis
i.si9 for tine month of November last a E4iu n
y girls and 81 boys compared wilh the Brl-
yious month.
The coal fields in Pennsylvania are re8-,- 90
taken up Coal land in the C5aneli-vf-.e Dis
trirt is selling for about $1,000 an acre Ta.
ron, sfeel. and coal men turning % the West
Virginia fields.
While Britain is passing through a period q
exceptional anxiety IT. is also passing through 4
period cf exceptional prosperity. n eyery branch
OF uaie There ls the same report OF fIil work
AID high wages.
English insurance societies are badly divided
over the question Of w4r risks. some refuse To-
rave the volunteers at any price. while orher,
thuk the safe iu south africa As Al EJ!s-.
-atchlHg IniiEeuzI.
When the New York Third Avenue Railroad
has completed work On the big power house tA4.
VIII supply power for al its lines there uiH b-
Installed there machinery th4t VIII produce over
i""S Aorse power.
The aH,if'reign attitude Of the Governments OF
China grows more pronounced. and Is extremely
menacins to foreiga enterprise. Never IN the last
forty years has the central Government been 80
intensely auti-;oIeign.
Sled- can be steered without wearing out tie
boots Ly d new apparatus patented by a Rhode
Island man, comprising lever mounted on either
side "a the sled, with handles on the long end of
the levers AID flat blocks on the short ends which
are t0rled against the ground hy lifting the Ieg-
eIs.
In Oiden days when tea was rare and precious
luxury silver strainers were used. into which the
exhausted leaves were put when they had been
NeI watered and drained. They were aftcrNIrd
eaten with sugar on bread and butter. Thi, ilcL
Is recorded by Sir Walter scott in st Romans
v ell
IN Idaho tramp Who was injured on a r4ifold
train, while stealing q ride, has brought srt for
darIase~, alleging that his mistap was due u
the negligence Of the company employees. He
says that although they knew where he wa. and
trdt he ought to BE- put off, they did not puI
him of.
Japan has reason to be alarmed as to the SICK
ness and death toll which epidemic dy-euterv has
reported cases numbered LIS and the deaths 2J5;
in 1893 there were IS 800 casts. with a -
deaths. and last year Gs2aj I25.gsg eases, win
y. 100 deaths.
In India the military authorities have just is-
sued interesting order. In future mounted eff
GERS travelling by rail on temporary duty may, il
they prefer it, take a bicycle with them at gov
sTEmeEt expense. IA lien Oi a charger, when the
iuty icr which they are detailed viii admit oi
iCCh course.
Enlightened Is the japanese are 10 many WAYS.
{ stiu happens that in eases Of sudden outl15sk
II disease religious festivals are organized with
view to propitiating the supreme Power. and
Eese functions have the effect OF gathering To-
-ethgr the people nom infected as wel a. healthy
localities, and spread infection.
Persia's army On paper numbers sevsnty-sev-1
OF infantry forming a total force of
ii. 80 men. More than hall Of the whole army
IS constantly away on leave without pay as
measure Of economy. while the remainder :
equipped with old-tShioucd weapons. a large
lumbe. Of which are dint-loCk,. The artillery is
ia such a rudimcntIry state that it is not llISsed
Is a separate service.
An aunt Of the Princes Of Wales. the Duchess
}i AHhalt BeIuburg. recently completed Der eighty
eighth year. She is she senior member OF tie
royal houses Of Europe. She vas married when
luite young 70 the late Duke Of Anla,t- -BernburE.
who was known TO be weak mentally. Tie
Princess Of Wales and her sister. ile D1W5-er
Empress Of Russia. have always been very fond u
their aunt. and old she Is. sIe sJii retains tie
Use % her mental faculties Her hi-hEeSs is s-v-
en- wears Older than her brother, the mig Qt Den
mark.
Mountain rats in the mines in Colorado are
about as big as a whl.f rat but they have a bushy
tail like a squirrel. and pets Of the miners.
Whenever the luncheon hour comes You viii see
The fellows come from their holes or nests or
wherever they live in the intervals between meals
qu5t their launches, and sit there Euti. on.
Il The miners shares his dinner with them. What
yer they get Of the scraps Of thdt meal they sit
p ard eat just as sqIirrel does. The miner
1es not exist that would not share his meal
.ith tECm.
The prize offered by the late Alfred Nobel. the
rventor who made a io tune by the manu:Ir t;Ir.
I dynamite, Is awarded by an International con-
nittee Tor the most important invention 10 scsuce
2 industrial ant Il is open 10 all the world and
embraces all subjects ui human enquiry ia.
ime for receiving applications tI last year closed
January l. and the committee Of award IS now
n session az Stockholm. Ii is expected that the