The evening times., 1900-10-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

week to run the railways of the world.
The total number of deserters from the French
army since January amounts to nearly 1000.
The British succession duties brought reve-
nue. OF nearly eco in the last fiscal year.
A nursery near Mexico, Mo-, contains 25OoOl
Young fruit trees pruned and cultivated TO per-
feetion.
One Of the tasks of Chinese children beginning
their education is that of learning the A g
at three years old.
chameleon. when blindfolded loses the power
to change its hues. and the entire body remains
OF uniform color.
Mormon emissaries are at work all over the
world; Their creed IS making great inIcads among
the Maofies III New Zealand.
An Egyptian newspaper says: Our whole island
Is now girdled with golf All the world is
no longer stage, but golf link.
Newspaper publishers in Prussia. in consequence
OF the high price of coal have resolved 10 in
crease the prices OF their news journals
The School Board of El Paso Tex. has is-
sued an order that a sanitary measure fem1c
teachers wear short skirts while duty.
Philip Ashley. a discharged soldier. was the
originator Of the modem circus. He gave ex-
hibltions OF riding in a ring at Lambeth in 1z7d.
man working l4-inch radius crank eight
hours day, whose wage is 20 cents per dsy can
produce horsepower hour at 4 cost OF s.
cents.
which has been sold to Sir r. Williams BuIke-
ley, has record which has never been equaled by
aay yacht.
Legislation against drunkenness in Belgium
oates from 1887. 1t deals with the drunk and
disorderly, supplying liquor to a drunken person
or to child under sixteen.
floating dry dock of 1850 tons capacity Is to
be built by Swan Hunter of New Castle-or-
Tyre for the British Government. The new docsz
Is 10 be located III bermuda.
GuaTds snail have band 1t will be entitled TO
forty-two musicians. The band will be localized
Ia Dublin and not IN London
4 hotclkeeper in Germany who pays his wait
ers 20 month declares that he would have to
give them $50 month were he TO give them
what they receive In fees too.
While the French population Is stationary. there
Is steady progress in prosperity, which Is in
dieated by the increasing consumption Of meat
and the decreasing consumption of bread.
The telegraph line which France has been
erecting from Lorango, on the coast Of tbe
french Congo region. TO Brazzavile is COM
pitied- 1t docs net touch any foreign terminus
Henry Graham gives the following dates regard
nag the introduction OF trees into Scotland: The
iiIne 1864 the silver fir. I65; the maple and the
walnut i'so' the iAburnuin, 1Ioii the Iarch, 172z
The Cunard Company has received the thanks
Of the British Admiralty for the invaluable as-
sistaDce rendered during the fitting out OF trans
posts and the embarkation of troops at Liver
pool.
French writer describes Nine. Botila. wife
OF the Boer general. "a slender, elegant fair
haired woman OF thirty. dressed in q wel-cut
violet costume relieved by a little bunch of
carnations. -
Freneh hatred Of Great britain has taken a
strange method of manitesting Itself in Pans,
where some of the more rabd b0uleyardiers are
eIitivatinE boards = la Kruger compliment
TO the Beers
On the first Of January, 1899, there were S8I
golf clubs in the United States, I54 of tacm
UeSt OF the Mississippi River \ fair estimate
places the number q members Of these clubs at
about II5oG0.
There about seventy towns in England
with q population OF 10000 and upward. in which
Presbyterianism is entirely unFep5esented Fif-
teen OF these towns contain each population ex-
ceediGg 5000.
1t is estimated that stratford-on-Avon reaps
e2,eoo year in fees alone from visitors u
SfakeSpeare's home. kenilworth takes s75I
a year from visitors fees, apart from WHIT ti4.y
Iaay spend otherwise in the latter town.
Shipping firms at Portland and Bath. Ne are
unable TO find crews for their vessels a number
OF which are lying at the vharves unable to leave
Tor the reason given The cause OF the scarcity
Is that great number ef men have strippetf- on
transports for Manila and China
The bolivian Government has appropriated abost
$4,000 for the preliminary sruny of three rail-
way lines, from oruso TO La Paz and Lake IL
tcaca frcm 0rlIro 10 C0chahdmba, and from
h9llapata to CoIquesch2ca. Another road Is
10 run from Potosi 10 the Argentine boundary
There is good chance Tor Iove-lorn women
,Sho want husbands 10 get them by emigTating to
Kansas. Farmers along the green belt in that
country are becoming prosperous and while they
would like to he married haven lime to visit
the big cities and take their chances at c0urtiag
a sculptor and carpenter of Berlin recently
volunteered for the German force recruited fo-
service in China. and, upon being refused he
cause physically deficient started to ride across
Europe and Asia 10 China bicycles To p owe
their powers Of endurance. When they arrive
they hope to enlist
A deve coiorcd mouse wandered into trap
belonging to Mrs.. NJ. Z. Marshall, of Brownwooi
Tex. Just as she was about to drown the cap
i've It began to sing ike canary Now ihc
singing mouse has i neat brass cage ard IT,
He5shbo=S frequently call to hear if sing v-.I,a
1t does hour after hour
National prosperity is thus defined by an Al
Gent Chinese authority: -'When the sword is
rusty. the plow bright, the prisons empty, the
granarics full. the steps of the temple
down, and those of the law-courts grass-grOwn.
when doctors go afoot, the bakers on hos, back,
and the men of letters drive in their
riages. then the empire is well governed"
A recent statement by an English Admiral, that
q spirit made in Switzerland. from the European
ash. rowan berry, has the power TO
destroy the memory, and that Jelly made from
the same fruit has a similar effect. suggests
origin for the Old superstition that the rowan
tree has the power evil spirits But
liquors and preserves were long ago made ON
the red rowan berry. and in parts of the
world the fruit Is dried and ground into -four
for bread.
Charles Steinbrink, who was convicted at st.
john Kan, on forty-nine counts of selling whisky
in violation OF the prohibitory law, was fned
81, 900 and sentenced to forty-nine months in
jail As he cannot pay his fine. he will. under
the law, have to serve it out in jail At the
of 80 cents day, making his total jail sentence
practically thirty years and nine months. The
probability is however, that after year or so tne
county will tire of feeding him and the countg
commission Will release him.
The old proverb that there is honor aIaoas
thieves finds an illustration in the fact tha,
nearly third OF q century ago Jonas Silvermla.
a farmer living near Springfield, Ohio. swim
died out of 81 500 by sharpers while a train
near Valparaiso, Inc. The criminals escaped and
ere long one OF the three died The other two
drifted 10 the KlonCike year two ago, be-
came rich and have just returned to the States.
They hunted up Mr. Siyerman, paid him the
81 800 and gave him 81 900 more by way of in
terest on the forced loan.
An interesting addition has been made to the
Roman remains which have leng given fame to
the ancient city of Chester. The latest discovery
is piece OF lead piping supposed to have been
laid about the year A D. 70. when Agricoia
governed the Province of Britain. and used for
water to the Roman camp. Last year
some similar lead piping une2rthed at this
spot, but special interest attaches to that now