The evening times., 1900-01-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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japanese florists have succeeded in cultiyating a
rose which looks red in the sunlight and @bi;e
in the shade.
The fret German steamer for laying cables was
recently launched at Glasgow. II has a crew Of
eighty-One men.
Among the NohaHunedans Of Calcutta the infant
mortality reaches the enormous figure Of 634-J
per lOO0 biTths
While cents is the lowest price at which one
car get shaved in New York. the lowest price for
hair cut IS cents.
Natural gas Is unknown in New York. but ar
tteial gas u much used for cooking and heating
as well as Illuminating.
Biefeld. in westphalia has special institu-
tion for epieptics. founded in 1865. which now
has about l.5OO patients
Brazilian coffee growers are now experimenting
in shipping coffee in casks instead of bags %
better preserve color and aroma
4 Milwaukee florist thinks he has succeeded n
producing green carnations BY the use Of oheni-
Gals while the plants are growing.
In Germany forestry is reduced to an exact
science. Trees are never ruthlessly destroyed and
reproduction Is constantly going
The French peasants. who live near the sew
age farms Of Paris have entered protest because
Of the contamination Of their wells.
Electrically operated dredges are now used on
rivers and harbors where immense quantities Il
material have to be handled quickly.
London is twelve miles broad one way and sew
enteen miles long the other. and every year sees
about twenty miles Of new streets added 20 it.
Mexican capitalists are about 20 erect four or
five large cotton factories in that country. Inc
principal ones viii be at AtatanicO, san Martin,
and TorreOD.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has purchased
500. 900 feet Of heart long leaf pine and 40
sticks for piings to build wharves, sheds and
tracks at Galveston.
Asses are becoming more and more plentiful in
Berlin. Some just nOw employed 70 draw
sleighs. novelty that has proved attractive 70
the people Of Berlin.
The Distilling Company q America will abandon
good many OF Its smaller plants and apply the
money to the better equipment Of the larger and
more modern plants
The municipality of Pasadena. Cal, owns a
sixty -two-acre grove o. English wanuts. This
wear it yielded $1,000 pounds Of nuts. for which
the city received 50, 023- 80.
A copy Of Queen victoria's 'Leayes from tie
Journal Of Our Life in the Highlands" presented
by Her Majesty 10 Charles Dickens. was sold az
auction in London the other day for 500.
Almost all the corn which Europe takes Is con-
sulned by animals II Is The increasing animal
deficiency II feeding stufs abroad that explains
the large purchases Of corn by Europeans.
There is also the dentists FOOT A New YORK
dentist says that almost al dentists have trouble
with one foot owing to their standing leaning
habituslly the foot while at work.
The popularity Of golf in England is proving
godSend % the flTmeTs and landlords in the near
vicinity of the large towns. u many cases fabI-
lous prices have been paid FOR club grounds.
Chicago has a versatile woman who TO- ten years
a drug store and later At tie home of ,ls
Young Nomon's Christian A sociation served
expert plumber professional nurse. and Ilnitor.
There are about 1000 postorfaes in the United
states, Of which 20,OCO are money order Offices.
In 1897 these 20.gGJ Offices reported 81 600. 20
financial Transactions and handled over 500 OJJ.-
CO.,
The athletes Of Greece in ancient times when
training for physical contests. were fed On new
cheese. fgS. and boiled grain. Their drink vas
warm water. and they were not allowed % s@t
meat.
The London Standard SAYS that after lie
completion Of the Suburban Railway the Russian
Government viii build a line tom Tifis TO
ladjk srsas in the Caucasus 81 eOst IT i5 0O0O00
r0ubles-
4 regular business. carried On in France BY Ia
dies Of the highest standing, l. to secure rich.
American brides for penniless men Of title. These
agents receive iAs when they are
successful
The P4ussian income tax returns Of Is9s-o9 show
an increase o. s250OJ000 over those Of four years
ago. The ..Frsnkfurter Zeimng e-timates the
increase for all Germany IN the same period st
sS75 100000
The tide is very high and strong in the second
Vancouver Narrovs. and the tidal power is 10
be used by she ex Premier Of Prince Edward 81
and who proposes % build large electric power
house there.
BROOKLYN spends annually 81 5g2. 30 for kindlinE
wood In addition 20 this sl55.00O Is expended each
rear for cak and hickory stove wood. making ;a5
total annual expenditure for this oid-f4shioned
ucl Sl.72slJG
Sixty-four boxes q Chinese bones viii be snip
ped to China from Chicago in few days The
bones have been disuterred from RosehiH and
,raceIlud Cemeteries for iGtgmcut IN the sacred
.oil of China.
A circular has according % the "Eveuement'
PsriSl been addressed 10 all uaulsen1rian-. So
letting their signatures 10 an address o. homage
which. with an album, VIII te offered To- ,-e
Pope next year.
New Yors has its first -earchlisht Gre engine IL
5 the frst machine of is kind ever consJE1c,-l-
md its great advantage is that it viii enable fr.-
men % overcome the difficulty 81 aS-ilis Hi,S
n dark interiors.
The sum Of 5000 has been contributed by the
Queensland Government 60 the funds Of the MT
,rctic expedition which Is being organized ur.'.
he auspices cf tie x I1d4 >9e-e.! anu lie h'--1
;eograp phital Society.
IN 1897 the herring fisheries Of Germany yield
ri o. G53 tons. but under the encouragement q
he government. in 1SgS l2s.75s tons were gath
zred = sailing and : steam vessels beng e--
gagged IN the Industry
Gernauy's army Is to have. shortly. q number
IF automobiles ths; are TO be used not only ..r
the transportation Of the haggisc. provisions, 414
ammunition. bug also for the rapid udi-p' l-'.-i
NJ D. taChments ot soldiers
Australian olives will probably soon abound 10
he markets The tree. which elsewhere Is slow
in maturing. grows in Queensland. almost with
The astonishing rapidi-y q the cuelIt pt-s, ~-I
needs no more care than Willow
The native commissioner at Sebungwe Aire3,
-erorts that the white Ihinoceros is -til 20 be
seen on the veldt in the districts between the
Sdnyat and Zam5esi rivers. u was eeAria-J
thought that the gigantic animal was eN'lnet
Al Rio de Janeiro a famous italian faster has
been umuasled physician found that 1e
used 6I,rnt.s meat compressed into the smallest
size and this in connection with small quantity
Of mineral water. Was enough O. prevent s'aE'1-
tion.
Exports Of cereals from New lofe last year az
cregat,d l.g2g. .J2S bushels. against +2-5's'''-
bushels the previous yelr-thc banner year. LN-
1lr-s of uetroIeum during the past year dESre-
gated S47,9'2,loo gaiioIS' against '''''''5'' '''
1905
If IS said that 4 new industry IS that Of lullaby
SINGERS Young women who studying vocal
music often turn their growing talent 20 small
recount az least by going to nurseries two or three
lines a week TO sing 10 the children at bedtlme
hour, soft. grooming lullabies.
Aluminium has Just been used for the constTuc-
ion OF a new frcproof curtain TO be used in ;ne
,pera house Of Besancon The curtain IS si15y
eet wide by ffty-f0ur feet high and its total
weight composed Of alumnum u Sets one-tweltth
II an inch thick, viii be 1000 pounds.