The evening times., 1900-01-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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Last wear the income t3x yielded Gle4t BriiIin
a revenue Of e4.59QOc1
As much as e2. 500. 10000 has been lent 90
other nations By the British
league has been formed in Maine for the
purpose of enforcing the Prohibition law-
France has more person. over sixty yelrs Of age
| than any other country; Ireland comes ueNt.
Dealers estimate that more than $4,000 Christ
mas trees were sold in New Nork before Christ
mas.
The widening Of the east end o. the strand in
London, 70 long debated, is To be proceeded with
90 once.
| 1893 in the tree planting bounty. receiving 500
acre.
Great Britsin's volunteer force Of 10000 is
maintained at a cost of under ts00GDo a year
| less than - head
II is said that the latest portrait Of tbe
Queen brings out in a striking way Hef Tesem-
blance 10 the Stuarts-
The wild white sheep i. found nowhere in the
world bur Alaska and few specimens ior mounting
whole have been obtained.
| The average age 0f the British soldier now at
the front is nearly wears higher than thai of
/ the soldier who fought al Waterloo.
Years ago the word idiot meant simply a
| private person distinguished from a public
/ Official A clown was only a farmer.
The Liverpool City Council has decided 90 con
vert lay down during 1900 hfty-siS miles Il
electric tramsays st cost OF E350.D@
Norway supplied Great Britain with taice aS
much ground wood pulp last year the { nited
States. Canada. sweden, and Holland combined.
Up to 1872 the 25th cf March was the begin
airy was universally recognized ls New lear
Day.
Mao the Scotch prefs means son. so Mao
pherson means '.son Of PIrsnu, and Macdonald
j. the same as Donaldson fairfaA means 'iair
, % ifce-
Adviees from Cape Town state that the British
volunteer soldiers show capabilities suitable for
work at the front in much quicker time than
perts expected.
The statistics Of the Connections railroads frr
the last fiscal year show that 5J.2GJ. iGs pss,sU-
gers were carried on thcse roads and no, pas
sengCr was killed.
J,r,isaIem Is now holding but q shadow Of the
magnificent city Of ancient times It Is about
thfte mile, ia eiFcumfcreusc and is -.tUa,ed en-
/ rocky mountain.
I Tests of oil a. fuel. made "a tLe British navy.
3 have not proved sati,fIetory- Patent fuel mad-
I Of tC3I dust and t3r. found Jl gield nearly
7 as good results coal
/ The first constitutional convention iu Ohio con
/ tanned delegates five ubu 1ftcrUaT] were elect
ed Governor of the state and four uh. became
HItCd states senator
a tcnemsu,-h house Cru-us fr Brooklyn shows
Sits1 tenement h6uses--11 aytIsge Of eighteen
persons To each house.
French women have tHa privilege of bein. ar-
rolled o. Freemd-eE- and. indeed b. obey choose
can join lodge open 90 J0tI -aye- vI5e. las fer
grand mistress a lady.
. \ preliminary statement Of tie Board OF Ssr5.
culture estimates Great Bu-alH- wheat Weld iur
l-g9 ar E} 80. .J2j bushels compared with -;.-
B2s SO bushels last year.
TIE horse that sleeps .r standing position
rests one leg az slime. dtn0rdIHg .n the other
three ta sustain the weight o- his body. The
habit j. a dangerous -ur.
The English War Office has decided fa grant fbe
family of every re-eryist in government employ
half the wages he was di1viHg iu addition 10
their separation allowances.
British soldiers on leave Of absence arc obliged
TO pay iuu fare when travelling by ,si unless
the leave Is beyond SIX ddy-, when Ja- J-te +
-,ugle fare for the round trip
From C5rie Castle to Bourn,mouta We, CII
English military men hsvc passed aeetyiaae gls
signals distance OF twelve miles, the ue--tg's
being clear 20 the naked eye
An English authority has discovered that the
average aee az which Engii>lpeH m1ry d, twenty
eight years and five months. and that 90 Vsiueu
tWeufy-siX Years ard rw" mont'-
L. German citie- merchants are n0- allowed
to put mp selling Out ~igu- unless they af'
honest In N5yeHce a hus of 59a marks l- De-
ticted Tor every trsn>sress.ou Of this laF.
The authorities in Algeria gave $4,000 toward
fighting u asShoppefs ln one section $50 cam
c, are employed 70 carry the material for burning
tine places where egg had been deposited
The senior class at Emory College. OSiogd, C1..
ha- formed itself into q society i1I the purpose
Of compiling bibH1gTlphy Of Georeia authors
from the earliest colonial DAYS O. tle present
time.
reE sanit5rium tor The "opsH air treat
meut ot phthi>- ua- inst been opened Hesf Ham
r#
site and win pay part Of the expenses fof nys
years.
The common ba,.-s mouse. vince it has once
been caught ia q trap and escaped cannot
BE- cssigbt again hF any tr-p ever invented by
man. Rats axe less careful aad sometimes tall
a second Tins
Indiana has % counties. IN these sre Inl5
townships Of this number g. were named after
jackson f6 after Washington. 20 after Harrison
aud jefferson, Wayne and CLAY each were bon
oIed l. times.
German authorities made test OF rhe uutr-
tive value Of bread tar soldiers. using twenty
four different kinds from fine Hour Co COARSE
meal sHd found the coar~eT bread much M
ieriOr in results
The age Of the dcccIsc ci p-ilo-opher- was.
Spincza, a.; DcscsrJc~. %, Hrgri Ol. Aristotle,
-: Socrates -. LsibuitI. 30; Linnaeu-. .1'
Cepernicu-. 30. Caliifo. g. ksHt, ~ Piai'. -
Newton. - hVHtD'iN'. y
Durham j. the nearest port ta Johannesburg and
Pretoria. being only 4S1 miles from r1" gold
mines. From EsSt London 90 Jeb1unr-hHrg =
66j miles; iroH Port Elizabeth. 'il ml-'-- difi
from Cape T7Wr. Lnia miles
Girl- working IN the match factories oi Eng.
land become ptrmeacrd with t.e chemicals and
minerals used TEr >u,Fbur sometime eJt- t,IzIr
laws fn She most painful and Disgusting way
Their wages avcIase $50 a week
Il used To- be the custom &C. cIl % Industrious
peasant u '-villeiu." and q ''su1ve Hs- sunpF
a boy silly meant blessed in old Crrman
and the old SAXON mean, nothing out 90 OBJ. Wa,
when they called q man ''cHuri-
ycry valuablr book is q Hebrew Bible iu the
Vatican. IN 1872 the hebrews tried tr bul 10 of
Pope Julius II for i,s weight IN gold i' Is 50
large and heavy that two mcu can hardly I't %.
and d would have EroC-ht Sioo-t7"l
An atten,p, =, being u1l6y Co arouse p1bl.. .-n-
timcnt regarding the tramp ,DipS Between
the 18th and 27th Of Jsuulf, I5-r yeir tom of
B these steamers, starting ttrul Nm'He' i.' '''
/ British Islands or western Earupc were IoS;
Thee are htty-uiue route< for rural irrc mai'
delivery in Indians. These routes have total
E largtb of 1 t7I mics or twenty -hvc uiiic> each,
. md the elrrierS who make the tlips >lN days Qua
Of every week are serving Jo.ljG country people.
/ 4 correspondent points ort tudt S,ott~ ODD
arm chair in the library at Abbot-i'fd was made
. about ia, beginning of the century of bJc, oak
taken from the rJitcF~ Of thC house 90 Rohrivstor.
where Sir William Wallace vJs betrayed by 'the
base MaHteith.
soap enough 90 supply l5oco0 persons fas one
wear recently arrived IN Denver iu one load. tt
was carried in a special train % forts five car
leads. and ii stacked up one bar or cop af su-
other. this soap would make F,'" over laj
miles high.