The evening times., 1900-03-21
NOTES OF The DAY.

lies, and '.oceasionsls''
During the second week Of February exchange.
at the London Bankers Clearing House decreased
E50.S96.0Co from the corresponding week in 1sgJ
"A decline Of 2G per cent
The Victoria Gross measures one inch snG two
fiiths square. The actual weight of the metal is
434 grains, just 2H grains less than An ounce H.
intrinsic value is penny farthing.
The Missouri. Kansas. and Texas earned gross in
February SS29. .s94, against 1922 .6Sf in lslJ and
sS4G479 in 1893. For the fourth week il earned
szSl ,S57, against s2l1. SOS last year.
By the repeal Of the newspaper tax in Alstro-
Hungary the imperial treasury will annually los.
a million dollars or but this loss may be re-
couped BY increased postal revenues
/ The bloodiest battle Of the century was that OF
Borodlno. a Russian village. where Napoleon
/ fought the Russians on September . 1872. Nearly
$1,000 men were placed hors du combat
Oregon has three forest reseryes-the Cascade
Range Reserve. 4 4.492 500 acres; the Bull Run
area 4Z.0sO acres. and the Ashland. area 800
acres. or an aggregate area Of 4.C55.4i0 acres.
As a result Of an investigation BY court Of
enquiry held at Omdurman in connection with
the recent insubordinstion Of two battaliors Of
SoUdaHese troop. five Egyptian Oficer- have been
cashiered and sent prisoners to Cairo.
Eighty thousand elephants are required annu-
ally to supply the world with ivory, and most Of
shipped lions from the TransYaal TO all lands.
and he has killed 700 OF the beasts within is
borders.
The FiIst Baptist Church N DoSer. Pa. has
converted a building heretofore used for church
social affairs into shirt factory in which church
metnbers given preference in employment Five
per cent Of the wages Is to revert 20 church work
i'll the town.
German authority estimates that almost third
Of humanity speak the Chinese language, that the
Hindu language j. spoken b. more thar 100 OOO.-
00o. the Russian BY SG.G0O.OGO. while the German
is spoken by J5o00,OO) tongues, and the Spanish
by si.0C8.0CO-
In Brussels the game Of English and Beers
is favorite Out-of-door sport with the children.
according 10 the London Naif'' The contests
are carried on with such spirit that Boer had
bis eye knocked out recently gy Ju Enslishman
with stick.
Lake TdngaHJias. in Africa. oI.ts a unique
field for scicutife exploration. Tais region. like
Australia. is one Ct The few locaI;tie- where ami
mails sfill live that have become extinct else
where, certain Nhelk-ike n0llisLs Ci thc lake ap-
pesring 70 have been driven from the ocean and
70 be identified with fossil iJIHs Vi old JuTlssic
seas IN Europe.
Lie and property are a. safe IN Mexico as In the
United Stales. IL j.. moi difficult 90 End a per.
feet climate ranging nom 90 to ~ degrees in the
shade the year round. nighl ard day. where good
railroads, water and market at hand. Those
who have never enjoyed tie luxury Of seven
months Of bright sunshine without one dgelry day
cannot realize what 70 means
Chicago IS preparing to use the drainage canal
a source Of clCCtri8I power. II is though. thai
The power can be used with profit as a motive
power on the canal Tire German Government i
ahead OF other countries ia This respect. 4ej l4s
recently constructed an electrical Laul8ge ~est-rt
en- the Dortmund Fms Csrsi. Estimates by Ger
man officials indicate that iu e traffic of between
100000 aud 5.g1.GlJ tons Tie prIce by w8tc--
wy viii BE- cheaper thJu hv rail- from % t1 -
pet cent. and uiF5 traffic sf IJ"r1 .19J tens tHs
docrea-e in cost viii amount Co - rer cent
\ Ch.,4go HauuiaetrITer oi mining In1tl..ras-
saws .Werc IL ror for the boom in ninlag "a
other pCgtiors ci tae world t-e usr III >rUss
Africa would lave tera qHige serious blys 90
mining machinery weH. A lu,H expensive mn
ing machinery has been sent o. this section
any place ia the aoFid American fIctOsIe, ilf-
nish most q il. But Just this n4rks- was
c.osed we bad Gle demand lH British Columbia
an increased dcfe.rd ia the United states. and sr
impetus In mining IN other places in the wslit-
Our buslEC~~ Is booming. NEfu t.E Tfr is over
an the mining engineers and machinery n3rulas-
tursTS iH the world saEEcl supply tIe demands.
Tic Bg5Ts viii hia- up Iue mines and destroy
the nfllhiu,ly J- fast tines have TO abandon
tneIa. II tHer, = surrender before the ing
this. hut t'ic men iu our business who are very
we'll posted sre not looking fer tui- it viii
qGira millions st dollars worth Of machinery -
replace HAT destroyed anu - be Destroyed
Tie "Hagcss-ovr Cld.) C's5e'' prints a letter
81 uica William !. ll,ta1ger, Of >isrp~hUg. Nd,
received nom Corporal JOHN iL Need Thirty FIRST
Ragimcut UuI,-d states Nc'Gnte,f~. camp Pa
r4Eg. Philippine Islands, dated Jaruss- ?. Cor
poral Need says. among other .hiug-. "Tac sui
tan Of tine MoIoS hes seventy wives add the dato.
or chief l> five % ~lX. tle others have from tN9
TO three. Their religion y the N0hsmmed4u-
They belong o. thc NaIa. JJrr- Whatever the
sultan OF dJto iell- them ,hcr d". When they
travel from or" place O" another Trey 20 hF
water ia ,auoe~. which are made from trunks Ot
tuH tl4Fir canoes. Nheu rrc sultan travels he
gees in style lie Las q large canoe with the
stars ard stripes and lots of -trolIuers attached
II J. 700 feet long II te-I wide and has Ifty row
err. He takes with him zoo warrior, his body
gtard who are in canoes al around him. Five Or
zix Il his wives 20 with him wherever He goes-
lie has tie best looking or tae EoUln-nI1stiy
Young gIrs - OF IL yeals oid
Rev. d. Euga Macmillan. in an article entitled
The Geometry Of Cod and published in the
"Quver" thus illustrates ths interesting subiec-;
Tie beautiful coIors Of natGre caused hy vibr5-
tions OF wavo- Of light. which nave been counted
and are always exactly the same for the same
color.
the sefiss,ion oI scd a. they break upon tie eye
must be 59GGl in an inca ard az million Uiilioas
in a second The number OF waves required 20
produce yellow must he +.@0 in ar inch aEd
$50 million million in a second. And 80 with ara
the other coloIs. To enable You to see red rr--
or z red ribbon less than 80 million mliii'aS
Of ether waves must break upon your eye every
second The stSls. also are arranged in the n@s'-
ers NOT bv chance but according % nNed ~
rem In tire solar system. TOT example, i-l- H.
tervals between the orbits a. the planets 2" on
dos,bIinO rs We recede nom tire SUB. TnUS euJs
il twice as far from Mercury ss Ncrourf . if5m
tho SIM: the earth j. twice f1f from Venus "a
Venus is from Mercury; Wars i7 twice ss iiF iront
the earth a. the earth \ nom Venus, and 80 or.
In his wsv the planets arranged III ere sk1'
around the sun in the same numerical c-cef A. the
leaves are arranred around piUe cone. or tne
teeth around tnc edge Of the seed vessel OF
microscopic moss. And that universal law, the
most universal of ali laws. which Cvrr1 thing
tb,o,0b0ut me universe obeys the law Of grsvi't-
thor -is also cyprpx~ed b. q NUMERICAL fOTIHUid
The force does not decisISe Just IN pFoPoIti'h
As the distance Is increased; t decreases ac'Iulh
2, the square Of the number expressing lii' ol'-
80. -, thsf at twice the di-tancc thr force q
or4,-it,tiou is not twice les but four times ic-s
al thrice the GiStarCe. nlhe times. %i'i :" 'A-
Tnus eyefythng in the universe from tac riot'i'~
,.s "a he rer,,oest star, Is constructed ahh AZ
r,rr,,d according q fixed numbers. There "a
nothing left to chance. There il not an atom "ul
obsys it, law not q leai but appears m us proper
place. sublinhe order Is present tI3Nneit'
nreying that the universe Is tie product Ot one
Infinite mind.
Under the heading oi Honesty rs a Policy
,ne Of the convict contributors to the 'Star Oi
Hope" the paper Published ia sing sing prison,
.ompar.s the respective earnings oi the unsSjll-
d laborer ard. the skilled burglar. and from the
statistics he has c9mpii,d-og inTented-drdws
lie astonishing daGu, tor ;haJ crime. even when
-cca-ded quite apart iTCn morality, IS misefaLiy
,ocr business The writer. whose signature IS
Auburn. 2J,56i, first pre~cntS-iro1 inaglna-
lion. obviously the picture of an honest toiicr