The evening times., 1900-01-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.


The arrests for drunkenness in Boston last Jeir
averaged siXty-fve per day, or pr cent Of tns
population.
More interest than ever before is being aroused
in New YoTS in the question Of The Prc5erv1tIOa
Of tie Hudson Palisades
The AHgemeine Deutsehe sprachgerein has Of.
fered a prz- Of 1000 marks for Tho best stud
Of the slang used by seamen-
The Canadian government has fua... completed
the great shin canal between Lax EIe and NON
trcal at a cost Of S700O0.0O0
During last year !. i65 person. were inoculsicd
for hydrophObia 81 the P4s,euF h,tj,ute in Paris
and OF these only three died
Coal mining is developing rapidly in CanadI.
In Nova Scotia both the areas worked ana Tn.
number Of mines show great increase
The Austrian Emperor's crown. which is re-
.3ried as one OF the finest works OF European
sodsmirhs, contains over sJ09.O00 worth Of mt
tcrisl.
The Supreme Court Of Connecticut has de-
cded that 4 furnace is personal property. and
m1y he removed from building by due pro-
cess Of law.
The horses Of the Scots Creys. now at the seat
Of war in South Africa, have been died khaki
color in order to render them less visible 70 tie
enemy.
city square a LaLdsome monument % the mem
orv Of Nelson KHesss, who composed the music
70 Ben Bolt"
virnua's great municipal street railway sys-
TEN is now in perfect running order lt cost
so Oc0. .OO0 and it is estimated that it VIII p-y
for itself within ten years
New York's fashionable society has been en-
riched several hundred million dollars within
the last five years BY rich men who have gone
from the West TO reside there.
Cora REYNOLDS. Of Fort Edward y. y. has fled
against the state claim for $1,000 for personal
injuries received by a fall from bicycle on a
| bridge over the ChaHplain Canal.
Three Plrisiaa women. Nine. CuStlye P1raf.
NINE. George Ostheimer. and Nine. GuStIre Rirhc-
lot have offered prize Of s20.0oo 70 the inventor
| Of the best device for saving Ete at sea.
The athletes Of Greece in ancient times. wheu
training for physical contests, were fed on nv
cheese fgz. and boiled grain T,,eir drink was
| warm water, and they were MT allowed % e1i
| meat.
There is tie very closest connection between
local political affairs and national politics in the
Argentine Republic The local adraiHis,rtrioUs
are. in fact. party str0ngh0ids and used slcH
in securing political influence
The native commissioners at Sebungwe. Africa
reports that the white Ihinoceroz is still t9 b
seen on the veldt in the districts between the
Sdny2ti and Z8mbesj rivers Il was generally
thought that the gigantic animal was extinct
From June 4 TO December &. 900 eases Of ne
plague and 1O1 deaths are reported 70 have occur
red in Portugal and Of these 2g$ cases and 10
death, happened in the Opor-0 district, which
includes the town and the adjoining country
Il is suggested that the real reason why Eng
lands War Office declines to use officers on the re-.
serve list is that il would be necessary to pro-
vide every man with an outfit 5t a cost u some
thing like 81 900, upon calling him 0ut for serSs
ice.
one Of rhc most important eprcas in the rs.
tory OF terInan Jurisprudence began on TIE Let DAY
of January. 1901. when the new German law vent
into effect. ndsr this new system Germany Ed8
a uniform legal procedure applicable TO tHe v5E.-
oJu- states comprising tle empire.
VIA, is known to geogrsphers as t1r Co-d1lcris
De- los Andes is the longest and the hfgEc-t r1ugs
Of mountains in the world u ey-frd- from Terrs
del Fueg0 10 the I-thurls It Pan1ril1, ard a.
though some If the peaks et the Hi14Ll,as Irs
higher they are not 50 numerous
Recently @ motor carriIge has been introduced
iu France. which combines many novel features.
Ii : normally propelled solely by an oil engine.
but oa LIIy ground is helped by an electric
motor The oil engine works al constd1r sped,
and when the vehicle does aot absoEb al tie
engine power the excess drives the motor As a
d;uamo md charges the accumul lstO-a
IL wsukegsu. Wis. is An old chu.l v-f.h
a9s no -,eep'c. because Of court Hsaldaie io,-
bidding such a construction Ia 1872 severe
storm swept over the town. hurting the 5f'zilG
spire agains. the house next door and ureyainc
IT, The owner JI the house got alt I- .u'iur-
lion r-,; ssinias The trustees Of the church tam
building another sulrc, aud this order has Hrd
for thirjy-eight years.
J. c. >haher. Of Evanston. IT,, rccanls be-
came the pos-e~s0t Of d very interesting -eilr oi
sla7er5-rbe Original bin Of sale which conveyed
Frederick Douglass from ono master o. an9Jhe-.
The consideration named 10 the bills is SiJo.
The document was written eleven years after
Douglass escaped from slavery. and in reality
represents penalty eNacted By Thomas Auii.
,sHa had owned the slave. from his hrothec, Hugh
Auld. from whose custody Douglas had fla
away.
Upward Of 500 in % cent subscriptions has
been raised in Cleveland. Ohio. iog the purpose
ii beautityiug the grave q Moses Cleveland, tie
founder Of the city The plan is 10 buy tie
property in which the Cleveland family is buried.
and to place ar iron railing around i and plan.
flower. in the plot The grave is In an abandoned
cemetery in Canterbury. Conn. which is "--
elected 10 such an extent that sheep craze among
lie tombstones and cattle wander about The
place unmolested.
II the British army officers know IS little 1bout
the lav q the land in South Africa as some OF
the Lgcdon newspaper writers seem TO Sn"w
about the geography Of America &c is no 81 Iarr
tbat the campaign against the Dutch republics
has been marked by 50 many serious ItNsr-''7-
, ,,sek or 80 ago the London Daily Mail. refer
.;,c, 20 The nprsormance n motor car IN tnc
t,s1ai service alluded 70 "a long route % NcS
Ysr- eight miles beyond Bostou!
The american Society Of Civil Engineers has
beep discussing the 9dvi-abJity Of the general
,doption of the tren y-iour-hou clock, 5nd
Cbarr.s n NiSer. = member Of he society who
IS a manufacture in Maine, said in a r-cens
sreech that he had been uSlnS a. twenty foUr
system fqI sa-a----tirc and al his woIkUen Ike tt
-5,,II understand it, What seems really ucedrd
for both social ard business purposes IN these
davs of rushing prosperity. howe-sr. iS t"'1
with about tv,nty-Siy hours on IT.
\ wonderful, old Bible has just been discovered
in Venice. the fortunate finder being Leo : ~.
schki. weILknovn autiqsry Of Florence. SAYS
the Boston Transcript r IS in nv large
v,run,ss and WAS printed in Rome in the print
ir,, hons. Of Don Pietro Ns--imo. IN I4'i ami
~ soon si,rr It came from the press it vas
purchased by a patrician iam'N or venice, -II
= ,,3s in the archives of this family that olseist
tis,-,vered IT, The edition of which it forms a
mart is exceedingly and very large SUMS
have been paid for imperfect copies ot the Bible
Ctobki paid .. 200 lire ten years ago Tor "a copy
of which two volumes are missing. and O. library
in Berlin recently asked 1908 lire for mutt
lated copy. The copy Just discovered j. prob
ably the finest IN the world, and 800" Ire wlS
readily paid Tor it by a buyer who i> supposed
90 represent a wealthy American.
Gen Dabnev Hcradon Nlury, whose death "1S
announced q few DAYS ago. was nephew OF 'iat-
thew Fontains Maury, whose study OF ocean cur
rents opened up 4 new realm Of scientific i1ve-tl-
catien and made him the most distinguished mem
Der OF a Virginia family. few members 6i which