The evening times., 1900-10-04
NOTES OF THE DAY

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| 1t is just about two-thirds of century ago that
the Chinese began the cultivation of opium.
| The per capita tax in Kansas for pablic chari-
ties is estimated by the Labor Bureau OF the
| State to be less than S5 cents.
Until the boundaries of the United States are
changed the geographical centre will remain in
Northwestern Kansas, near Hill CITY
| A Pasteur Institute has just been opened at
| Kassauli. hill station the Punjab district,
| about thirty miles nom Simla. India.
Geological surveyors appointed by the British
| Government declare that reefs have been discover
| ed in two localities in Burmah containing paya-
Bile gold
| England no longer furnishes the largest con
/ tingent OF tourists to Switzerland. The Ger
mans and French both surpass the English in
| numbers.
| After suffering for long time from the nhgra-
tory rats, the Inhabitants Of Copenagen organized
war against them, and in eighteen weeks ,oo9
| were killed.
The most costly leather in the world is known
| TO the trade piano leather. The secret Of
tanning this leather is known only TO family OF
tanners in Germany.
| The ants in one nest are not all of the same
| size. Swiss professor has found them as differ
/ ent as so many human beings, with dwaris,
| giants, cr1ppies, etc.
A brisk trade in fox skins IS springing up be-
| tween France and Italy The latter last year ex-
| ported go, mostly from round Rome. Foxes
| are plentiful in Italy.
| In the rubber forests of Para one Iaborer dis
poses OF 100 trees in seven months, securing from
| 100 to coo kilogrammes of rubber of which no
| gets half from his employer.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, at
| its recent session in Richmond Va. rejected a
! proposition for the admission of Indians having
one-eighth or less Of red blood in their veins
Robert Hoe. the manufacturer of printing
| presses has a medal designed to commemorate
| the five hundredth anniversary Of the birth of
yf fTnF yxrn HEaa
| born at MaiHz in 100.
/ There is extra profusion of quails in Colora-
do. These birds are destroying the crops of farm
i ers and have been officially declared nuisanecs.
! Quail on toast is not an expensive esculent
! that deleetable region
Travellers on Italian railways, when going
through swaupy regions are protected from mos
| quitoes, which only attack them when the trains
/ stop. by the stations being covered with net
| tiBgs TO keep the pests out.
! In the New York Central service twenty years
! ago the aggregate proportion OF men discharged
/ for drunkenness was 20 per cent but now with
$1,000 men in the employ OF the company less
than per cent is dropped from the rolls for that
/ cause
The order of 2Os guns and two destroyers for
the Turkish navy has been placed with Messrs.
| Krupp, Of Essen. notwithstanding that the tender
OF Messrs. Armstrong. Whitworth s Co, of Great
! Britain, was over 100000 less than that OF the
! German firm.
In Jamaica there is mountain, between King
ston and St. Thomas in the east the south side
! of the island which bears the name of Judgment
Mountain, SIT. Sinai, because Of the awful
catastrophe which occurred there, il 1892, by
ali earthquake.
One Of the requisites for London footnan is
the dimensions Of his leg His neither extrenites
| must be sof good form and size, and those who
are unfortunate in that respect have them pro-
vided for by artificial calves, which pad out the
| leg TO the regulation size
/ BerIin's highest building, apart from the
: churches, is the 3I5-foot high chimney of the
electric elevated road power house. Only two
church steeples surpass it. that Of the cathe-
! dTa}, $50 feet, and that OF the Kaiser Wilhelm
! Memorial Church, $40 feet.
The town council of Bayamon, Porto Rico,
has donated TO the Christian Woman's Board Of
Missions the use of the Old municipal building for
| orphanage purposes. In accepting the property
the board agrees TO maintain twenty Ave orphans
! and TO assume entire control OF them.
| Minnesota has law for the prevention and sup
preston of forest and prairie fires has regular
| fire wardens,'' and, a result, the chief fire
warden Is able to report that there We're only
forest fires in 1899 These burned over 1885 acres
! and damaged timber 10 the extent OF only Si,54I-
In his annual report the British acting consul at
Zanzibar mentions the sale of pair OF elephant
| tusks I0iz feet from base TO tip and weighing
239 and 224 pounds respectively. He describes
| them as probably larger than any Others hitherto
found II any part OF the world The purchaser
gave 5000 for the pair.
The Workingmen's Education Society, repre-
senting about 100 unions. has made the h-s: pay
ment OF Sl4.275 for building site for labor
temple on the ground occupied by three houses
| East Eighty fourth Street. New York The cost
Of the site, including the buildings, which viii
be tora down, viii be $4,000.
| The present coinage of Spain is under the re-
form law of IS6S which took effect the 3lst Of
| December 1870. The law OF 1858 created the
monetary unit Of pesetA C19-3 eents) in place Of
| the old unit OF 3 real (about cents, and made
weights and fineness of gold and silver to conform
with those oi the Latin unioIs
There is a big field for missionary work in
| Wyoming. Out Of population of about IS, coo
in large district, it is estimated that less than
5000 evangelical Christians, aLd they
widely scattered the 81 600 miles OF coun-
try, in which the centres of population from
fifty 10 seventy y-dYe miles apart.
Twenty years ago the city of Toronto. Ontario,
began the erection Of city hall, which to
cost 100000 by the original estimate. The out
yet finished. Meanwhile the architects fees, it
is said have exceeded s600o0 and an effort in ths
city council to dismiss him has failed
A Scottish Highlander who owns a sheep farm in
mountainous district of California IS in the
habit almost daily Of playing his bagpipes all
the ground The skiriine has had the happy effect
| of soaring eagles out of the locality. in which
| birds of prey had formerly Cone considerable
| damage by carrying of lambs and had even at
tackled grown sheep.
BY order of the London School Board tho
teachers in all its schools nave tested the sight
of the children under their care. The result il
that 2SS per cent found to have defective
vision. These children were given notices to take
to their parents announcing that they were SUI
ferng from serious defective vision and advised to
consult an 0cullst without delay.
sl.,E;,Jo,- RooseysIt ATF,rach+ yon Par,eLo,r -
the name given to baby boy of about
months age who enjoys the distinction Of having
the President of this country as sponsor. The
baby boy is the seventh child born in the family
OF Hans Won Barnekow, a resident OF NaUwatOsa,
a suburb Of Milwaukee. At last account the child
was surviving the intiction placed upon him.
Berlin last year, for the first time, registered
over 1909 90 strangers who had visited the city.
| Vienna which formerly had visitors than
Berlin, counted only few over 10000 IN 1889.
| ard was surpassed by Munich with Go30O0. DTeS-
den had over hall a million visitors; Hamburg,
CART, Basel. and Dusseldorf each over quarter OF
a million
The pine industry of Cadillac. Mich, once SO
| vastly important in that vicinity, has disappear
| ed entirely the last pine tree in Wexford
| county having lust been cut down at camp
| northwest Of the city named. This one tree was
graphs of il might be taken. There large
crowd in attendance upon the ceremonies incl
dent 10 its destruction.
There is movement in Liverpool in favor OF
employing church women supplementary