The evening times., 1900-04-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

adept in taking exterior or interier views u
houses, tcgs, and horses.'
BY the eaving in Of wine vaults at fpeF1ay.
France. 1500.oo0 bottles and so barrels Ct cham
| payne were destroyed recently
There is marked tendency in Australia toward
| the formation Of trusts out Of industries com
Peting n the same Lire Of products.
The earnings Of one German line between Ham,
burg and New York in 1890 exceeded the earnings
| Of the previous year BY 100000 marks.
Pretoria j. 200 miles north o. Lord Roberts
present lines, and for much Of the way the e0un-
/ try is as easy to defend switzerland
Tie Hebrew population o. London has more
than doubled during the last twenty years. Il
Is now estimated at between 10000 and 120.0o9.
The yieeroy Of India reports tha; the number
! o. persons On relief works j. increasing every
where and that the total now reached is az
Donald Fraser & Sons will cut at their fred
| erictOn and TeIniscouata mills in New Bruins
wick this year 90.O00 000 feet Of long lumber and
GOO00.0oo shingles.
| The next Vermont Legislature will probably ap-
/ pr0priate money for a statue Of Justin : Morrill,
| 20 be placed in the StatGary Hall Of the
| Capitol at Washington.
Cambridge University may lose its river. q
water company proposes 10 tap the sources OF the
Cam. The graduates are getting up petition Q"
Parliament against the scheme.
Nfftt Ibt tdNlift- pl hh4-u pt'pte -diiF't il'hi
Liverpool not long ago to seek homes in Canada
This makes over 500 Films carried % Canada By
one steamship line within ten months.
Comparatively few people know that the hum
bic and modest penny j. legal TO the amount %
- cents. That however. l. the limit Of their
standing between debtor and creditor.
The British Government offers 70 re-cnlist OK
soldiers not over forts five wears for years
hOtne service. giving free kit. former rank. El3
bounty ar enlistment and SO discharge
A Mis- Lumgarteu. oi New Milford Conn. pro-
poses as method % reforming saloons 20 have
the best eijizsrs witt the banoons not 10 drink
but 10 form social surrounding Of a high order
Tie bubonie plague us primarily due to
specific organism or microbe Of inhnitesimal size
so small that probably 80 millions of them
! would be requIrcd to coyer splare inch OF
/ surface.
Notaiil,tsudia@ the disaster 10 las met in
South Africa General Butler has ilst been hon
ored by the Canadian postal authorities BY hav-
ing postOftce in North Victoria county named
after him.
ID Is announced yEat the Government Of the
Congo Free state. which has its headquarters in
Brussels has decided to adopt wireless teIcgr4phy
for the Transmission Of official Dispatches N the
/ Upper Congo regions.
The great increase in commerce and in naval
armamenls has placed the services Of experienced
sesmen at a premium. The scarcity Of sailors j.
felt in al navies and even the great steamship
lHcs are inc0Hyenienced.
H. New York city The Metropolitan Street Rail
, way Company ha- 81 miles Of track and last
year carried on them 9J5.s35 900 passengers. Or
about half tire number carried on an 0f the
steam railroads OF fie United States.
Women a. pharmacists are engaging in business
in Russia. NAM Of the drug stores favor them
as clerks. and tEeir iidiness. as vel as devotion
70 their responsible Offices. make them Spe'latlf
favored hy physicians as well as the general pub
lie
Rau.1, s o. have o cucumber farm eu 'lrze
sale The project E., to secure LOO lcrc- reIr
Lawrence on the me or Ibe proposed eicaue
railroad. The cUoUmbeg crop natures just a. the
SCHOOL term ends, when p.escr= can BE- easily Sc
cured
some ri tic wooden churches Of Norway arr
fully 20 yeaIz OLD. ard are sin in excellent
state OF preservation. Tusis timbers have Sfc-
ce-sfullv resisted the frosty and almost Arctic
winter because tiey have been repeatedly coated
with tar
LirarpooI is the creates, foreign distributing
point for American apPle>. ard high loJ.
coo barrels Of our apples have been sold there in
one week az r=muEsrstIge prices. London tiI>-
gow. and Hall also receive immense cargoes u
American apples.
An interesting subject OF di-e-i-sion in the
mining press OF Europe T. as 20 the location Of
the oldest coal mine iu Europe According 90
Har- F4artz BuetteHb8eh. cp8I ras mined be-
fare ilfs. and Do has been Thought t1Jt coal vas
tr-J found in the Leg, bl-rric;-
The peculiar conditions q navigation on the
English Channel make IL seem probable that
vireles. relegsphy viii first b. actually placed
in practical operation in connection with the
passenger boats sailing between Dover 2nd "a
lars and B0ulogBc and Folkestone-
r. af--
sgmpli,Hsd the telt Of hauling 4 train consisting
- ,.reI cars Of 10000 pounds capacity and 81
wooden cars oi >o0S1 pounds eap1clJy- saeh
fully Eoaded with anthracite coal. lac total
weight OF thc 20 cars wSs i.J6' tone
\ large icicic .el from the roof OF 4 mill in
Wiroo-ki Vt. % a rOoi underneath. and went
through to the hooT. smashing everyJ HJng in its
path. II took several hours 90 clear away the
debris and repair the root The lcicie was ABOUT
yeven iset long. ami veIv large in proportion.
The Re-. M Lafayette Gordon NJ. d.. mis-
/ siouarv Of the American Beard. Uow on fu-
oueh from Kio5o. Japan. has been invited by
tn, Hawaiian Evangelical Association % take
chs-rf cf the work carried on in Honolulu tor
the more than iA.O00 japanese now IN the ssllIdS
II Il proposed to construct an electrically work
ed aerial bridge crossing the Usk. says the Eng
I Ii,b Electrical Review The width Of the river
AT this point i 30 yards and the time occupied
/ by the carrier going from one BANK 70 smother
/ is eztinsat-t at about minute HE 0ridse W'ii
cost SS25.000-
/ After three months Of trial the municipal pawn
| ,bop in Chicago Is pronounced a success by is
I 4dvocstes Not ouiy does it yie'd iair reJHTH
| uDou the Investment. but il = reaching eS8ctiy
the class of persons it intended 70 henent. As
/ shown by the fact tEat large number OF ine
/ loans sre for small amounts
/ Most Of the fruit brought 10 New York 50 far
I this season has been exceptionally good The
| California oranges in particular have uCver been
/ 50 FIRE nor 50 plentiful. the falling on Il tue
sunDIv from Florida and sicily having been taken
advantage of by grove sr- on the Pacific Coast, u1p
/ are getting good prices Tor theH goous-
J Several important charges VIII be made in h.
/ Harvard University SUMMER school courses tci4
v,qr A course in reading and speaking will b.
( affcred for the first time. II is intended i"r
] feacherS who make s5Ich training an accessory u
tho IL regular CLASSES There Viii also De Z re"
! laboratory courSe in HinelalogS ara htHoios5-
Tie eishtieth birthdsv q the Rev. Dg. Henry
I a. Weston. President for quarter Of a ocH5rFy
NJ Crozler Theological Seminary. at Jplaad- Pa
I Is to be appropriately eeiehr'toI @ @HcNl Sei,el.-
4 usry .iuee its inception. lt WIS be Who organ
Z - tae Leulty ard put IN On a SOLID ioulda-
/ ton.
. T. Jsplurse cedar 50 common in Japarcse
..-r.r4 las never been found in a Wild stats.
=. IN the case Of 90 m8Hy Of our garden ever
I g1e.us brought from japan under botanical
I uamcs u ) -uspeCted Of beng torn OF some
| thing else There l. q striking resemblance be-
/ tween tine seeds and those Of oUF mammoth Sc
/ q1oil-
/ Current through the iron gate OF the Danube
i. stiu tr too rapid. owing to the sharp incline.
and the work Of excavation does not suffice 10
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