The evening times., 1900-10-19
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The frst typewriter patsnt was taken out in
17l4.
There are sixty-two miles of tunnels in the for
tifed rock of Gibraltar.
England gathers in about s2oooo.9oo year
Proht on her postal service
Tod Sloan has been having trouble with French
customs officers over to1 many saddles
Eyeglasses are made ;rom Brazilian pebble,
which is very transparent rock crystal.
A small portable steSIn boiler burning coal,
produces a horse power hour at a cost OF cents
Tibet is a country forbidden TO European eyes.
and no Barbarian has yet set foot in th1 cap
Ital, Lh'asa.
The cincaona tree, from which get quinine,
only grows at elevation of 1909 to le,00o
feet IN the Andes.
Mistaking in the dnderbrush for deer is
contributing the usual number OF tragedies to
the deer hunting
A Suffolk, England man has sent to a local
hospital $780, saved in twelve years by travelling
third instead OF Grst-elass
Before the end Of August the London Salvation
Army had collected among its adherents $4,000
for the sufferers from the famine in India
The first elevator was made at seh1enbrunn.
then the summer residence Of the Austrian En-
peror, iu I76O. 1t called the .-hying chair
In ruling paper the worker using quill and
ruler, seventy years ago, took 4,S00 hours to do
the work done by machine in two and three
quarter hours
The colossal memorial to King Alfred the
Great, in course OF preparation, which is
to be erected in Winchester, England, viii prob.
ably be OF the most remarkable pieces OF
sculpture in the kingdom.
THIS is one OF the kinds of sport they have down
in Oklahoma: large coyote was caught in the
town of Jennings lately. The people had a long
chase lasting four hours, before they caught the
animal, the entire town turning out
At Poplar Bluffs physician and his Patient
quarreled over bill for medical services and
fought a duel, with knives for weapons. Natur
ally, the physician drew first blood, and now his
patient has two bills TO pay instead of one.
The rafting season along the river shore in
North St. Louis will close in about two weeks,
when large number of pliers, puIlers and team
sters viii be Of employment About 60, &C.,,
90 feet of lumber have been handled this season.
Socialism is making strides in France. Though
the machinations not in any way obtrusiVe
they are sufficiently above the surface TO be
recognized. In Paris the dcvotees to the cause
have organized bureau to spread their doctrines
The I:.vaI cadets on board the Massachusetts,
training ship Enterprise had taste OF fine cd
fashioned sea service when their craft was caught
in the big storm OF October s. and WAS IN the
midst of hurricane for TIVE days. But ship and
crew came through II all right
The compulsory service act is expected to be-
come faw in a few days in Chile BY this act
the distinction between the regular army and the
national guard is abolished and a short service
conseript army established with permanent IN
structors. About 5000 men VIII be under arms
at all times.
Most ef the I,277 claims paid By accident
company for the month Of June last were caused
by the use OF tools or machinery. FOrty-one per-
thrown from vehicles and the same
number from bicycles Thirteen We're injured BY
animals, twenty-four by street cars, and On4y
three by electricity.
Germany is getting nervous the spread of
leprosy in the empire. The imperial board OF
health has just reported that there twenty
two known cases OF lepIosy In Prussia last year.
There were also six cases which are suspected
ana gre sill under observation and probably some
which have not been-rep6rted.
Sarah Bernhart's bed IN her Paris home is
most elaborate bit of furniture 1t cost the
sam Of $1,000 1t is questionable to whether
the great actress enjoys >sweeter siuInber IN IT
than she would in an old fashioned lavender
scented couch in any fragrant and clean English
or American country homestead
Facilities rapidly being provided by the
New Zealand education department for the train
ing of Maori children. There are now eighty
four Maori school II the colony, and number Of
scholarships provided for Maori children to
enable them to proceed 10 the higher schools or
to undergo = course CT technical training.
The condition OF grapevines throughout the
Rhine Valley has been satisfactory this year.
Stems ard leaves have remained healthy Al
though the blossoms were injured somewhat in
the beginning OF the season b. frosts, the sue
ccediag favorable weather hurried the fruit along
to successful TiPening, necessary for the good
quality Of wins-
Extending from north 10 south, Indo-China
covers fourteen degrees. necessarily including
variety Of climate In the southern provinces the
year Is divided into two seasons wet and dry
n nd he
prevail, with the difference that the heat attains
an Intensity unknown IN Europe, and the climate
Is 50 debiht2ting as 10 unfit Europeans for manual
labor
The term ''haIcyon days is derived from
pretty little fable OF the Sicilfans, who believed
that during the sevsn days preceding and follow
ing the winter solstice, December 81, the haleyon
or kingfsheT hoated the water in a nest in
whch her young were deposited, and that dur
ing this time OF her broodIng the seas were cain.
Our Indian summer corresponds TO the halCyon
Of the Sicilisns.
In England a lamppost has been introduced
which combines fire hydraut, tap, and fre-RlarTn
box The hydrant be used for FIRE alarm pur-
poses. filing water carts and for street flushing,
while the small tap be used by individual
for domestic water supply. There is a water
metre and sphon at the bottom, by which the
water is shut of from the hydrant, thus prevent
ing it from freezing
An Onset, Mass, lost his supper in
funny and unexpected way recently. He drove
home embarrassed the horse rolled the wagon
into the shed, and then went into the house to
find that he had unlocked for guest in his
horse. The animal had walked III md eaten
ham, potatoes bread, butter, bananas and mus,l-
melons, and gazing pensively at himself in
a glass when his owner arrived.
Many patriotic and far-zeeing Chinese officials
at first bitterly opposed TO foreigners One
of these was Chang Chi Tung. lieutenant gov
ernor of the two kwang provinces. This man
DARN presented remarkable memorial to the
throne, advocating the opening OF railways and
the establishment OF great iron works and ar
senals, so as to secure the means of making
China practically independent OF the outer world.
A species of grasShopper, hitherto unknown to
the Danish West Indies has made its appearance
in st. Croix, and the planters complain OF the
damage done to the canes This insect is from
one to one and half inches long; OF light
brown color. and, contrary to the habits of the
known species 1t Is able TO fly. 1t is feared 1t IS
similar to that which made its appearance some
time ago in Cuba and supposed to have beer
brought over in hay imported from the United
States
In a life of j. Il. Barrie, which has just been
published in England, the novelist tells how III
rash moment he promised 10 talk to some wo-
men students at college. He had prepared some
nice frivolous things to say, things adapted the
female intellect. when of the young women
raising her saucer eyes, asked him eagerly whether
he did not think that Bsrkeley's inrnateriaiisn
founded ontologicaI misconception- -
He managed to whisper that such had always been
his secret impression and then he tainted
changes in he railway line sa,a-aJ