The evening times., 1900-09-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There are la4 cotton NILS II OPERATION III SAeA-
leo.
White blackberries and green roses have been
propsgated in Louisiana this year
All the conductors of fhe Brookfed (iass)
s.ztley line have been appointed speeiai officers
The fastest flowing river III the world is the
sutlei, in India lis decent Il 1900 feet IN I'D
miles.
The great and straight shooting rife was in,
trodueed into the Britis; army about hundred
years ago.
The Jungfrau railway has been abandoned be-
cause the cost turned to be heavier than the
engineers expected
Max o'Ren has been Ill in Paris and has been
forced to cancel many OF his engagements for
lectures and addresses.
The Church Missionary Society of England
ceived contributions during the year just closed
OF more than 100000
company was recently organized to establish
automobile repair and supply stations IN every
| t5wn in Westchester county, New York
A new electric motor for automobiles has been
devised which restores energy TO the storage pal
| tegy when the vehicle is running down hill.
| twenty of the largest cotton mills of the Pied
mont district CT South Carolina have gone on
half time because of the high price OF cotton
| The Christian wonan's Board of Missions has
| opened an orphanage at Balamon, Porto Rico
! The town council gave the building and five
| Of land
The Salvation Army has received gold medal
at the Paris Exposition for its American exhibit.
showing the .nethoGr il reciaimins TIE fallen and
| outcas'-
Electricity as motor for regular railway trains
| has been found 10 per cent cheaper than steam
| IN the experiments recently made at Berlin on
| the Nansee-Bsbn.
| Women have the advantage of men in working
! for English tobacco traders There are III ie-
males employed in that industry IN Great BRIAN
to every 100 males.
One of the best classical scholars in England
| IS the Bishop OF London 1t is doubtful il his
superior in that respect can be found among the
clergy in any country.
New surgical instruments operated by electric
motors are coming into use The most wonderful
IS electric saw. which cuts through bone and
tissue with lightning speed
| The last census Of Roumania shows that in a
| population OF about 6,0eo,0DO nearly 4,OO1.O0a
can neither read write. and that only little
over 100000 have any education at all
London's domestic servants are about 10 form
an organization Ike those existing in other trades.
The principal objects will be TO extend the hours
of recreation ard 10 amend the law IL regard
70 giving characters.
The annual report of the Union Traction Com
pany of Philadelphia shows that during the past
year it carried 100000 passengers more than It
did the year before. and earned a profit o.
million dollars on its business
y Scotch collie dog fell from bridge al the
Chicago water works into the pumps and passed
almost dead when be came ont, but vas re-
| yiYed by The employees OF tie works.
New York eity has growing number Of tropi-
cal plantations well within the limits OF the city.
In both Central and Riverside ParSs there have
/ been cultivated during the summer large num-
/ Der OF e9ftOG. tobacco, and coffee plants.
Last year the yield of wine in France was in
round numbers 100000 heetoliters (the heeto-
liter Is % IL gaors) This year it VIII be larger
than al any time for over thirty years. or since
the phioxera destroyed the old grapevines.
Houghton county. Mich, which is in the heart
OF the Lake Superior copper mining region, has
the. highest assessed valuation Of property per
| capita OF any county IN the United States The
total valuation for the county IS Sl2o,9J00J0.
4 reward OF 600 rupees { s40) has been placed
by the British authorities the head Of the man
eating tfgTess in the Scani district Central Prov
nceS India. -Four persons reported by the
police to have been killed By il in the month Of
July last
After keeping cylinder of gold and one OF lead
together for four years at about 50 degrees Fab
, reIheit-that i, j comparatively cold telnpera-
tuse-Sir W. Roberts-Alsten found that ths geld
had slowly. but surely. made lie Way iuJe oF
mixed with the lead
, The Divine Sarah BerDhsrdt, who recently
! attended a japanese theatrical performance ia
, Paris lett before the show hall over The
great French tragediennc declared that the JaPa-
nese acted like monkeys The play was given ier
her special delectation-
1t is generally stipulated in France when wire
is sold That the purchaser shall return the barrel
at his own expegse, and the cry send back
my barrel is going out from every wine dealers
house. 1t i calculated that one barrel VIII serve
seren years II properly cared for.
, Probably forty shots 4 minute Is the average
maximum OF modern service rifles. but there arc
automatic rifles, in principle similar to the
Maxim which fire ten shots a second the
difficulty being To supply the ammunition quickly
enough for minutes continuous firing.
1t is the opinion of a German oculist that the
use OF the ordinary states by school children
tends to produce shortsightedncss- As snbst tIte
= he recommends pen and ink or an artiilciai wlsie
slate with black pencil The latter have been
c iitoduced in some Of the German schools
L L George D'yys, the last surviving member ct the
u u Government relief expedition which rescued Dr.
3 Kane the American explorer, in 1858, died at
= Worcester Mass, last week OF pneumonia, after
u an illness Of only four days He was a native Of
Baltimore. having been born IN that city u years
Q ago.
) Perhans one of the most conscientious of royal
Il diary keepers is the Empress OF Germany whose
= daily record no sees not even the En-
Il peror himself Each year new dairy IS begun
IL and the old with It's locked clasp, Is put
Y away with the preceding One III an lion safe,
: which is kept locked
e The undercrust OF the earth in Japan is COM
paratively ve.y slight and there is fire going OF
% | all the time This accounts Tor the great NUN
y her OF earthquakes IN that country They have
Y not so far done much harm. but no knows
l., what may happen at any time from these stb
% terrsnean disturbances.
IN Canton, China, possesses the queerest street
< in the world. 1t IS rooted in with glazed paper
a. fastened on bamboo. and contains more sigu-
boards to the square foot than any street IN ans
II other country Il contains other shops but
. these OF apothecaTies ard dentists. Physic Street
! Is its appropriate name.
: The German cxchequer sEould be in fairl!
,r good condition. The Government has not had t
/ make any extraordinary expenses on account 0
n the army since her last struggle with France, til
. result of which brought her, in addition to tn
., province OF Alsace and Lorraine, the eHormoa
vi SUM of =, Gao 003, ,999 IN e2Sh-
=, The demand for apartment houses IS inereasin
in New York. People of fairly good means fn
that they can be much comfortable and en-
iov equally as many conyenience5 and the sam
indenendencc IN these high-toned tenemen
| houses as they in single establishments, par
tc,IlarIy~if they have to suh-let i room OF tw
to cke their rental expenses
In London, although street accidents are ra=e
than in New York, the great English cit
De has dead mans Curve" just as weIl tn
American metropolis. In London the d5nEer0u
crossing is Chatham place, situated to the nsrt
of B,ackfriaIs Bridge and at the junction Gf TN
EI,ibank1nent, Bjdsc Street and Queen FictoEi
ks Street This IS by far, the most dangerous cross
ing in London
le, An Audrain county No. man foi:rd taat Il