The evening times., 1900-09-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Maxim gun. which fire 600 shots per
minute. ia far ahead of the Gatling or Hotchkiss
gun for rapidity of ire-
Upon being searched. Springfield, No. burg
lar was for4d to possess twenty five cent bill or
| shfnplast:'T~' of the iseue OF 1870.
Sir Charles Upper. the "Grand Old Man. of
Canada thinks the Conservative element is largely
in the ascendency in the Dominion of Canada.
In various parts of Ireland branches of CO.
operative creameres where capable women, IS
nanageresses, are paid as high as 2os- week
Twenty-seven japanese and seventeen Chinese
officers attached TO the German army for in
struction. besides representatives of other for
eign armies
The AngOra goat is 50 highly valued in South
| Africa that the Government of Cape Colony has
levied an export duty of $500 per head on each
goat exported
''BilIy'' Pagan, the most noted gambler of the
West, recently cashed in or the great game OF
/ life and has departed to that bourne wherefrom
no e'er returns.
funny looking mottled old stone jug
sold at auction in London recently for about 5000
Its antiquity was its value, the date the old
| drinking vessel 1856.
The largest painting in the world. exclusive of
the panorama and cyclorama. is in the grand
salon OF the Doge's Palace at Venice This paint
ing is 81 feet wide by "a feet high
The theatrical managers of London had an in
undaflon OF applications for places in the Choir
uses from the wives and other dependents of sol
dIers who were killed in South Africa.
Dealers note the passing of the tall piano lamp
Blessings do not come singly. Soon the tall UNI
brella-crowned affair that would adorn any
paFior and give it air. will be thing of the
past
The great rush of population from the United
States to Cuba that confidently predicted
never about Now it is said there not
half as many Americans in Cuba there
one year ago.
John Mitchell, who is leading the strike in the
anthracite coal regions, is a native of Braidwood
H., and is Of English ancestry He is thirty-one
years old and has worked in the coal mines since
he was thirteen years old
The reign of the two-step dance is reported to
be over a New York society note announces that
smart people this year viii not dance the two
step They viii return to the simple, rhythmic,
l beautiful waltz with renewed appreciation
Dwellers in apartment houses in New York are
feeling very comfortable as they view the rent
, problem Il has been announced that in that
, city, on the first OF October, rents generally IN
apartment houses viii be lowered 80 per cent
Another interesting Elizabethan relic to be
seen at Hatfield House, in England, is the bTozd-
bEimned nat said TO have been worn by the
Princess Elizabeth when the messengers bore 10
her the news OF her sisters decease and summoned
her to the throne.
The dime novel may be in retirement, but the
material for its structure still exists An ex-
, change says: The California higbwaymen are
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ought TO rejoice that the age Of romance has not
| quite passed away
The most idiotic election-bet fad is one Just
in vogue in certain Western localities that the
loser of the bet shall wear Grape for 4 certain
time 1t Is hardly necessary that losers wear any
other sign OF than that which Will be shown
IN their elongated countensnces-
There is big field for missionary work in
Wyoming. Out Of a population of about 75 90
in large district it is estimated that less than
5000 evangelical Christians, and they are
widely scattered over the 1909 miles Of country
IN which the centres OF population are from 30
10 10 miles apart
The present area of the United States. incIud-
ing Alaska and our three new island colonies is
S.s46,I40 square miles So large portion Of the
/ worlds surface not be accurately conceived
without the use OF comparisons The extent Of
/ our country Is nineteen times that of European
France, or thirty-two times that OF Great Britain
Great expectations are entertained and many
plans are being formed IN Porto Rico for the in
staIiation OF short inland electric railways from
the central range to the coast. The power Is 20
/ be developed through the agency OF many streams
/ 10 be met with in every part OF the mountain
range. which tTaTeFSes the island from end TO
end.
It is not generally known that the Pope, in
name at least, Is a most successful vine grower
and wine maker. In the Vatican gardens Is a
| large vineyard and from the fruit grown there
very delicious vine Is made. The Pope takes per-
sonal interest IN the work. and often on fine days
/ in the autumn he goes there to see the peasants
gathering the grapes.
Attempts TO express the meaning of slang
phrases in use in this country have produced two
aHusingly curious words in Europe one IN Ger
man and the other IL French The German word
Is ''spredeegllslne,' our ''spreadeagleiSm' and
IS used Tor the EmpeToT's policy. The French
word is the verb ''tomater'' which means 10
stone a fellow with tomatoes"
The United States is known in China as NaG
kwo, the beautiful country though the
Chinese masses today always call an American
hwa hee hWoh Yui, which may be translated as
"couEtrym2n OF the flower flag The reason Of
this Is that when first the Stars and Stripes wSs
, seen IN Canton harbor the Eatives fooked TO the
shore, LalilHg il the kWa kee CheuR, the
Towering ship
An austrian inventor has Just patented speak
ing clock, which he claims VIII be of the great
est value to persons of forgetful and Irregular
/ habits. 1t consists OF a ck-phonograph com
bination. In place OF the regular striking
tachIneGt Is a phonograph, which be set 10
/ speak sentence any time desired thus be-
I coming uBiailing reminder TO its owner OF the
! duties Of each successive hour.
At last a practical use has been discovered in
the playing of that most aaguish-naking music
the bagpipe. A Scottish Highlander who owns
sheep farm N mountainous district Of California
Is IN the habit almost daily OF playing his bag
pipes all the ground. The skirling has had
the happy effect of soaring eagles out of the To-
eaiity, which birds had done considerable damage
by carrying of lambs, and had even attacked
grown sheep.
Among the smaller animals several so
sitiEe TO changes from heat to cold from d-y to
moist, that they foretel these changes some time
in advance. One of these, the tree frog. is used
at this day in Germany a barometer. II is
placed in tail bottle with little wooden lad
der The steps of the ladder mark, it were
the degrees. The frog always goes up toward the
top in fine weather and lower down at the ap-
proach of bad weather
| The prospects for the hunting season in Michi-
gan better than they have been for years. The
} reports state that deer are mere plentiful than
ever; that grouse numerous from Lake Su-
perior TO the Ohio line: in the Upper Peninsula
there are wolves. which the State pays a
!, bounty Of IS each, and a few caribou. Bear are
found on both Upper and Lower Peninsulas. duck
may be killed wheE passing southwaEd, and rab-
bits are to be found everywhere
The State Supreme Court of Michigan is called
upon to settle curious case One Thompson WIS
sent to the penitentiary at Jackson and was put
l to work for the Bronx Burlington Shirt Company,
as a leased convict. Alter working 56T DAYS he
discharged a wit Of hGbeas corpus Tor
the reason that his sentence clearly Illegal.
Now he claims that the shirt company refuses TO
pay wages for the time ne was in prison and
forced 10 work for the contractors.
Naval authorities throughout the world have not
given up confidence in the submarine boat The
impression is that it is as certain to succeed as
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