The evening times., 1900-01-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

henent to the oyster farmers.
There was less poultry buying in London at
Christmas than for many years.
The salesgirls in a New Jersey town have started
| crusade against the use Of slang
Cape Town Is ordinarily calculated as twenty.
| TWO days distant from Southampton.
One wears sweeping OF the British mint yielded
over $1,000 I'D particles Of gold and silver.
The last was the greatest year for pears that he
| New Jersey farmers have had for a decade.
There are thirty-eight Yeornsury regiments IN
| England. with a muster excec ding IO.O0O men.
1t Is -uppossd that the average depth Of sand
| IN the deserts in Africa Is from thirty 70 forty
feet
The largest eity in the country in Washington's
zine was Philadelphia. 1t had 6g.OOO inh4bi-
| tants.
There seems to be a veritsbIe craze for some
| sort Of physical culture" in New York tnis
| winter
The Manufacture Of quinine vas begun in Phi:-
5deiDhIa by John tarr in lseO. the year Of IA
| discovery.
The Congregational churches Of South Carolina.
composed Of coored people. have formed STATE
association
The former military camp at Montsuk Point.
| which few months ago alive with American
soldiers Is now only wild waste.
Potterymakers in Great Britain and the United
| States Of America are drawing up IUice liSt
| 70 govern prices in both countries
The African Methodist Episcopal Church viii
endeav0r to raise SG00,OO0 Tor its twentieth cen
tury thank offering by January I.l9Ol-
In Deyonshire the cycle has been applied 10
buttermaking. man sits his bicycle. pedals,
and by means Of chain turns the churn-
Cripple Greek produced more gold in 1880 than
California, Montana, and New Mexico. combined,
and ali in a space Of ground six miles square.
The postal money order service in New York
for 1895 amounted to SoOOsl. .7s2 For 1900 IL
amounted to SIl5, ass O2s-a gain Of SIS. 407. .146
The celebrated Boer ponies have the blood "
the BaSuto pony in them, and the Bssuto pony ia
| a Dure-bred ScotchmSn- He is not even a half
| caste
There were 50 emigr4nts for every loo persons
| IN Germany last year, against g in 1896 and ~
| in 1891 Bremen aud Hamburg furnished most Of
these
Boston's police made 80 go arrests last year. a.
compared with n.s16 in 1s9s. The records show
slight increase in the crimes in which violence
is employed.
The principal undertaken OF Creenville. C..
says that in the Dsst SIX years he hs, buried
that town the bodies Of seventy three persons Who
met death by violence.
The Michigan supreme court has decided that
jury has the right 10 refuse 60 follow the drec-
tioH Of a trial Judge and n find a verdict Of a.
quittal when verdict u guilty has been directed.
The new house scrubber is eantfv4ues that
moves rubber tired wheels. Carrying d number
Of brushes which ret on and move back and forth
over the floor. IL does ,h" work a two or three
women.
After Eve wears q strenuous effort % e,tibLish
the lyceum system iH The southern states gr4i-
tying success, has Jern attained. The larger and
many Of the smaller cities OF The south nov have
their lyceums.
The British EXchequer budget q March 81, es.i-
mated S14.1D).00O increase m public revenue for
the ensuing twelve months. The increase to date.
with three mCnths 90 spare. is S7.7G0GO1 greater
than the estimated gain f1r the full fiscal wear
The leyees on both sides Of the Mississippi are
Of sufficient extent that ii tie. were built in a
single straight lire they would be about I.30o
miles long. or long enough TO stretch the greater
part Of the distance between New Orleans and New
York
During the third quarter Of 1s99 the rainfall IN
England % inches below the average for tie
preceding eighty -four years. and the temperature.
which was excessive dunng all the three months
Of the quarter, was 3.3 degrees Fahrenheit above
the average for the previous l2S wears.
The walking fish OF santa Catalina Channel.
California. j. member Of the pediculati tribe
and has congeners among the gulf weed q the
Mexican coast lis Pectoral rms are shaped so
a. TO serve i0T leg and II can rest on them 50
- % snap Us pr II JULIUS a nest u -raAGtA-
It seems positively wicked to eat the turkeys
in Spain. Near Seville this winter travellers met
a couple Of peasant women going TO market with
poultry. They were driving great Aocks Of tu--
KEYS which vcrp beautiful birds. Some weTs
snowy white with heads and necks Of a
derfuI iridc-ccrt pale blue and rose color.
Apfop0s Of The u-e of the Nar,oni system Of
wireless tsieg1aply in the war in South Africa.
it l. interesting to note that ir has been proved
Jhac cEun0nsdiug does not interfere with Che
Transmission ut messages. The apparatus "a7
been worked successfully and lCe~ sent while
the largest guns IN the British uSvy wele beng
fired
Among the ,r.rfos which form 1u interesting
feature Il the Manchester q. I'D poultry show
i q twin hen and rooster that were hJtched frFn
a double-voked egg. April H. l>s9- The PAR
is Of buff BrahmJ breed and the hrcs are 3S
wei formed and strong as ls the ordinary fowl
This is the first instance 50 far known. hat twins
80 hatched ever lived.
Egypt'- climate is magnificent and there IRE
few. winter resorts that are preferable. mctcoro-
logically speaking. The air j. fine and dry and
the sunshine Is perfect. while with c4u1biC gentle
bTeezes there i little to be desired nfoTtu-
natelv the sanitary arrangements m Egypt are
Door and most of the hotels, even ia Cairo. are
built on contaminated sites.
In a number Of automobile vehicles iu $.
and Moscow. the motors are supplied
with alcohol a. a fuel, and it has been found 10
work most satisfactory. II is stated that su'u
fuel can be manufactured at a cost as low a.
cents a gallon. This at present = ont ~ the
question in the United States. IS the internal
revenue tax upon such alcohol would amount 20
about % cents gallon
Storekeepers in several Western citic-uotab'y
Denver and Kansas City-have been greatly au-
moved Of late by the activity Of clever feminine
shoplifter who PHYS her vocation with the aid q
a false arm She long cape the front II
which hanging open. diSClOSes to the unSuSpeclnS
salesman two hands clasped; but the left hand
is Of wax Under cover Of the folds Of the gar
ment the real left hand seizes upon small arti-
cles displayed the store counters.
The increased price Of Manila hemp-the price
now being three times what it was year OF ,vo
ago-has led 10 the present resort 70 substitutes.
the latter however, being by no means nun-
crous The substitute generally resorted to
is the Sisal HuCatan hemp. which Is not :"
good As the Manila article, lacking nearly ali Ie
strength aad fneness Of the latter, though useful
for biniing twine and similar purposes EVen
This substitute mas advanced in price, the reason
such a product with the hemp market and the
increased demand for IL by reason Of the decline
in the use of hemp. There Is also an American
l,emp which is being used TO a considerable ex-
tent in the making of binding tw1ne.
Science has lately made it possible to obtain
good wine from the apple which has always been
devoted to sparkling cider says an exchange. TX
lerts have been deceived in sherry. madeira and
auternc which came from apple juice instead of
grapes. Juice from the apple is fermented with
relSts Of different kinds brought from the grape
growing districts Of Europe to this country. For
instance the flavor Of sherry Is due not to the
grape but to the infntesimal fungus germs thdt
7l1lSe its fermentation. The American companies
import these germs from the district in Spain
where they flourish. inocuate the apple juice