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

/ lies. and s ''oceasionals"
During the second week Of Febr,rr, evclsprs.
AZ the Londnn Bankers Clearing House d-,feas.I
@o0-S4oiyO nom tle corresponding week in l.9.
/ "A decline Of 2C per cent
! The Victoria Gross measures ono --,,. .,.- .,,,
hitls square. The actual weight cf tE. r7ef,f I.
90 grains Just @3z grains less tIau an ounce us
I intrinsic value 's penny iarthing.
The Missouri. Kansas, and Texas canned gross in
ebIu9Ty 7sSs.s9i, against $50. 63f in fs6, aad
so4J.4iy n les. For the fourth week II elrned
s-Sl ,5'l, as al S2ll,s9S last year
By the repcyi Of the newspaper tax in A,.s.rs-
i0n@ary the imperial treasury win annually les.
million dollars or 80. but this los. ilay b. p
eouped By increased p0stal revenues
/ The bloodiest battle of the century was that o.
bolgaino i5,,. Russian village. where Napoleon
/ soVyo men were placed hors du combat
1 Oregon has three forest reseryez-the Cascade
Range Reserve, area .f92. so acres: the Bull Run
area liZoeJ acres. and the Ashland. area I55U
acres or an aggregate area Of 4,C5S.4l0 acres.
As result Of an investigation by court Of
enquiry held at Omdtrrnau IN connection with
+ the recent iHsubordination Of two b4ttsIious Of
NoGoane-e troop, hFe Egyptian officer have been
cashiered and sent prs0ners e. Cairo.
Eighty thousand elephants are required aunu-
ally to supply the world with ivory. and most Of
them come from south Africa. The B5zr has
shipped hons irou the TIausFa4l D. Al lands.
and he has killed 200 oi tie beasts Uitlia lis
bordcT--
The FiIs- Baptist Church IN Doyer Pa. has
converted d buildilr heretofore used for church
social anairs into shirt factory. in which church
members arc gIver preference iu employment Five
per cent of the ~ages IS 10 revert ~ clcr-L work
ia the town.
German authority estimates ii.4t almost tbfrs
OF humanity speak Che Chinese language, dat the
ltincu language i- spoken D. more than Io0. .OOJ.-
eoo. the knssiaI by s3C0J.OlJ. while the German
IS spoken 3. 5s,9oo0)) te1sues, and TIE spanish
by si,CJ5Go0-
In Brussels Che game % .-EuSIish and Boers''
Is iavorite out-li-door sport uIth She chidrel,
T according 10 the "Loudan Nau." The contests
are carried or with such spirit t-lt q Boer had
. u', eye hEGs"eo out recently 10 su Eusli>hman
I Lake Tlng4H5iis. ia Africa, oI-ls unique
field for scieutnc exploration Tais region. Ike
Australia. IS ore ct The ieu ioca'ite- uaere ami
mals sfiI live rhI- have hegdm. extinct else
where, certain sIelz-IiLe ulJIs-s 81 ..r lake an
pe1rlus 20 have been driven fram tEr ocean and
10 be identified with fossil iJIus Oi old JlTlssic
seas lH Europe.
Lie and property are q, -ase in Mezieo as i1 the
United staie.- d j. not GifHclIt 90 end a per-
feet climate ranging nom cd 10 50 degrees in the
shade tine year round. uigul and dav where good
T-ilfc4o-, water and market are q hand Those
who have ntyer eajoyed tie luxury Of seven
months oi bright sunshine without one d-ezrv dsr
cannot realize what 20 means.
! Chicag. IS p-cTaIiuS t0 use tle drainage canal
a. source Of elCCtr.ll power u is thought rE1z
/ -he p0Uey can b. used with u-1dr a. q motive
/ power on the canal Tire German CJs-raueat is
| ahead oi other countries ia Ea.s respect 4-d hls
recently constructed an electrical lsu.asC -g-i-=i
( On the DJrturndEu- Canal Estimates bg G,T-
man officials indicate that iU traffic % ha-Ereu
a-eoplJ and 5Fl.Ca7 tons tal price hy wlrr--
a#s I'D d.
/ pct cent. and ssrs iIaiHe e. Il.e9lll iClz tls
| decrease in cost 0lil amount r1 20 T.sr cent
y Ci.elgo maHuiattu tuser % mining Ilr.ss
-sys- "Wers t ror for ,le Boon iu uiutus sa
other portions oi lls world. t-e Usr In S1ut.
| Africa would a-ve been gH5te d serious I-5a 90
| mining u-sela-f. rr-a- A. uu,l expensive mn
j Ius machinery has been sent 90 ,lis see.iou A.
suE place Ia tle alf'l. American Ect01ia- .lr-
Hish most % IT, But iusy ss This m4rk1- was
I closed UC bad t-C LrU1Id lu British Columbia
al IucIaa-rc demand iT fre iEirrI States. and a-
-u-potu, DOB mining Iu Other places -l rle uG-lL
/ ulr hT5lHC-- b. na.mlr1- NE.u t-. WAT is over
All iue ElirIi- elslree7, sHa machinery Il1rI-ag-
rurfrs DOB ta- World cannot supply The demands.
TIE E..r- wsH h.au mp iHe mines and destroy
t.a machinery a- fast 1- lErt have TO abandon
tuela. Il tasr, F, surrender beiere the En1-
llzl rtaea lHl-auIg~nfrE Gle Estr- may not 90
this hut t1s wel IH yur business who are Ncy
Nch posted sie NOT looking icr tai- lJ ULl re-
gsira WiIisr- ot 5allar-' worth of machinery -
IT,. "Hse5.-savr DId) Globe prints d letter
which William =. H5bl-gsr- os ~.srp-'.urs, Nd,
received -lam Corporal John d. NcCf. ElIrJy first
RgSirrat, Jgi,-d state, NeaHte,r-. camp Pa
r-lc. Philippine l-lll5- dated Ja-ua=. . Cor
porai Need s5E- suarg other .liug-- .-Tac sui
tan oi the M0Io- ls- seventy u5y7s and the Gl.O
e-iei- l~ hvC -fN- Che others have from two
/ r0 three. Their religion Is Jle N0h1mmedaa-
They belong tg Gre N-l.s race Whatever the
Sultan ,r lll1 tells them GE.g dH When they
travel from ore place jo smother tiey 20 hv
water iU ealne-- which are made -rau trunks of
ue,s followed ogt. Nuu o1Elf t0 sce rrc natives
I IHH taC.r canoes. When rrc sultan travels he
gees iu style he las large canoe with the
stars ard stripes E-d Tots of -treIIrrr attached.
I, b IO3 feet long. l. feet wide and has ATTY
er- he takes with h.m 200 Warriors AS bis body
g-4rd. who are iu canoes sL around him. Five or
-1N 90 his wives 20 with him wherever lc goe~-
lie has tire best looking 0i ,ae Ugmln-u1s-is
young glr's l5 ar j. yesrs u.d-"
Rev. Dr. Hugh Macmillan. In an article entitled
..Ihe Geometry of Cod and published iu the
"Quvsr," thus Illustrates this interesting subicc--
The beauJiiul eolors OF u4tre caused by vibrI-
tions OF wave. OF light which have bee1 counted
and are always ,zartly the same ior the same
color. The number 5i waves required 90 produce
she seIsstion oI rcd 5s they break un1a the eye
.uust DE sa0e1 in su iucH ard az million rsillols
in second The number Of waves required 10
produce yellow must be 4f.Ot0 iu az inch ard
$50 million million Ia a second And with a't
the other uoloI-. To enable you to see red rr--
OF 2 red ribbon uo les than So million milIir1s
Of ether waves WJ,~t hrcsk upon your eye every
sel0nG- The stsrs. also are arranged In the H-st-
cus moi bF chance but according % uzea Sy--
lem. IN Ia. solar system Tor cAlinple- ll- lis-
terysls between the orbits 40 lIc planets 20 on
doubling as ne Tecfde nom IRE sun fnuS Venus
ia twice Is far tran Mercury MCrgUrr Is irom
the sun; THE earth iS twice as iaT from Ncuu- ss
Venus Is from Mercury; Mars Is twice o. Gar tr1nI
the earth as the earth Is from Venus, and 30 or.